Folding emerged as an architectural discourse aspiring to become the new architecture of the end of the 20th century. Folding philosophy was introduced by passed French philosopher Gilles Deleuze for the first time. He is one of the philosophers of post construction ideology like Jacques Derrida.Folding philosophy also call Aristotelian logic into question. According to (his philosophy) there is no preference in the superstructure. Folding is looking for diversity and wants seeks eliminate the discrimination. Folding would fail vertical method, classification and hierarchy, and instead of that arises horizontals. According to Folding everything is at the same surfaces. Folding architecture has been in France and America. Flexible forms are neither in a shape of geometric completely nor desirable one. In city standard these folded and flexible layers in relation to the nearby context neither have difference nor harmony but they utilize environmental circumstances and replace them in their curved and twisted logic.Max Bense who is one of the founders of informative aesthetic believes that, order has three degrees: chaos, being structured and being shaped. When we consider complete chaos that there are no regulations for connection between different components. In this case the possibility of prediction equals zero and innovation in maximum. Definition of being structured is one organized order with a structure that might have different forms. Bense calls the third part of order as a "chaos or disorganize order".In all three factors above replacement of components affected by a general organization whatever the rate of order is more and this order is more complicated, the informative content is less. In this paper first we have introduced this style briefly , we described order and disorder in the architecture and we have analyzed Evidences of order and disorder in this style.


Levetiracetam is a well-tolerated anticonvulsant drug, but associated with some adverse effects. To date, there is no report of hypoglycemia associated with levetiracetam. We report the case of a 6-year-old female patient who developed symptomatic hypoglycemia after initiation of treatment with levetiracetam for her refractory status epilepticus and we review the literature to identify other reports of hypoglycemia. Associated with levetiracetam in children in order to highlight this rare adverse effect and a possible dose effect. Hypoglycemia is a rare and underestimated adverse effect of Levetiracetam and which must be taken into account and treated appropriately, in particular when high doses are given; allowing a saving of a multiple of unnecessary additional examinations.


Introduction: Discectomy is a common procedure carried out for treatment of lumbar disc prolapse. In lumbar disc surgery pain is the most important indication, but neurologic symptoms and signs are also considered, although they are usually of far less functional consequence. Perhaps because they appear to be more objective than the pain related signs. We have evaluated the results of Micro-Endoscopic discectomy (MED) utilizing tubular retractors in terms of safety and efficacy of the technique. MicroEndoscopic discectomy (MED) is term used interchangeably for describing the discectomy procedure utilizing tubular retractors either with an endoscope or a microscope and it directly deals with offending prolapsed or extruded disc fragment and decompresses the nerve root. In addition lateral and foraminal stenosis can also be tackled. Methods and Materials: This study is a prospectively conducted study of 25 patients operated by a single surgeon with the METRx system (Medtronic, Sofamor-Danek, Memphis, TN) using 22mm port for lumbar disc herniation during the period between June 2015 and December 2016. Proforma was made in form of questionnaire and filled preoperatively or when they came for follow up while for others it was completed via telephonic conversation. The results were evaluated using ODI (Oswestry Disability Index) and VAS (Visual Analogue Scale 0-10) for back pain and leg pain. Results: This study consists of 25 cases of lumbar disc prolapse treated by Micro-Endoscopic discectomy between the months of June 2015December 2016. Average follow-up was 22.12±4.255 months (Range 13-29 months). 7 patients (28%) out of 25 patients turned out to be laborers. This bodes well with the incidence of lumbar disc prolapse in heavy weight lifters. Other occupations include housewife (16%), driver (12%), carpenter (8%), mason (4%) etc. Discussion: MED introduced by Foley et al. . combines standard lumbar microsurgical techniques with an endoscope, enabling surgeons to successfully address free-fragment disc pathologic factors and lateral recess stenosis. The endoscopic approach allows even smaller incision and less tissue trauma. Conclusion: By limiting the tissue manipulation via small incisions and minimal muscle dissection, this technique has purported to have better perioperative outcomes, including shorter hospital stays, less blood loss, less pain medicine requirement, decreased surgical site infection (SSI) rate, and quicker return to activities, than conventional open approaches.


Using function instead of fault probabilities for candidate discrimination during model based diagnosis has the advantages that function is more readily available, and facilitates explanation generation. However, current representations of function have been context dependent and state based, making them inefficient and time consuming. We propose classes as a scheme of representation of function for diagnosis based on component ontology principles, i.e., we define component functions (called classes) with respect to their ports. The scheme is space and time-wise linear in complexity, and hence, efficient. It is also domain-independent and scalable to representation of complex devices. We demonstrate the utility of the representation for the diagnosis of a printer buffer board.<<ETX>>


The availability of material for experimental studies is a key constraint in the development of full‐scale bioprocesses. This is especially true for the later stages in a bioprocess sequence such as purification and formulation, where the product is at a relatively high concentration and traditional scale‐down models can require significant volumes. Using a combination of critical flow regime analysis, bioprocess modelling, and experimentation, ultra scale‐down (USD) methods can yield bioprocess information using only millilitre quantities before embarking on highly demanding full‐scale studies. In this study the performance of a pilot‐scale tangential flow filtration (TFF) system based on a membrane flat‐sheet cassette using pumped flow was predicted by devising an USD device comprising a stirred cell using a rotating disc. The USD device operates with just 2.1 cm2 of membrane area and, for example, just 1.7 mL of feed for diafiltration studies. The novel features of the design involve optimisation of the disc location and the membrane configuration to yield an approximately uniform shear rate. This is characterised using computational fluid dynamics for a defined layer above the membrane surface. A pilot‐scale TFF device operating at ~500‐fold larger feed volume and membrane area was characterised in terms of the shear rate derived from flow rate‐pressure drop relationships for the cassette. Good agreement was achieved between the USD and TFF devices for the flux and resistance values at equivalent average shear rates for a monoclonal antibody diafiltration stage.


The development of general purpose expert system tools has led to a decrease in the development time of application oriented expert systems. Recently, the need for communicating expert systems has spurred interest in the blackboard architecture. Until blackboard systems are relatively easy to implement; however, their use will be restricted to knowledge engineers willing to write their system from the ground up. This paper describes the development of a blackboard architecture in the Generic Expert System Tool (GEST) developed by the Artificial Intelligence Branch of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. GEST has been developed as a general purpose tool applicable to a wide variety of application domains. Recently, GEST has been enhanced by incorporating a blackboard architecture which allows several GEST expert systems to cooperate with one another. This paper outlines GEST's _software architecture, including its knowledge representation schemes, control sturctures, and blackboard.


This qualitative study tries to revisit the concept of ESP in VHS under the latest curriculum applied in Indonesia; curriculum 2013 or K-13.  The researcher discovers current issues and several suggestions of ESP in Indonesian VHS context. Theoretically, English in VHS should employ ESP approach, but practically, it tends to be more general. The vague concept of ESP in the Indonesian VHS is one of the reasons in developing this study. On the other hand, government with its purpose of AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) eagers to make VHS students ready to work to compete with the foreign workers. However, since the implementation of K-13, English in VHS tends to have more general topics rather than in the previous curriculum (KTSP; curriculum 2006). As a result, it makes the concept of ESP in VHS more vague. The result of document analysis and observation, the researcher found several issues dealing with ESP. They are issues in course design, ESP teachers, ESP objectives, approach, and materials, and also learning assessment. Considering the major issues dealing with ESP in VHS, several countermeasures about redesign of ESP teaching in Indonesian VHS were suggested by the researcher.


This study used online survey data from May–June 2020 and a regression tree to show that during the COVID-19 lockdown, consumers bought more semi-perishables with longer shelf lives, reduced consumption of non-vegetarian items, and stocked up. Food intake varied due to job loss, infection concerns, supply chain disruption, and mobility restrictions. Google mobility studies demonstrated that travel habits changed significantly. In India, travel to stores and entertainment (62.94 per cent), parks (53.16 per cent), public transportation (40.42 per cent), workplaces (31.71 per cent), supermarkets and pharmacies (6.03 per cent), and other places had gone down, but travel within residential areas had gone up (15.71 per cent). It suggested that consumers stop panic purchases along the food supply chain, set up social safety nets, and promote online shopping.


The effect of Tangmoning on the expression of nerve growth factor (NGF) mRNA of sciatic nerve was observed by RT-PCR in diabetic rats. The result shows that Tangmoning appears to up-regulate the expression of NGF mRNA of sciatic nerve in diabetic rats.


Vonnegut's ideas of peace-keeping,nihilism and determinism permeate every scene of Slaughterhouse-Five,making inveigh upon the cruelty,avarice and selfishness of human kinds.Through the depiction of wars,interpersonal relations,time travel and the adventures in the outer space,Vonnegut illustrates the relations between war and justice,materials and love,extraterrestrial vision and human dilemma,enlightens us on our life,and offers us a chance to reexamine our modern society and human world.If the past tragedies of the same sort mentioned in his novel are still repeated again and again,the warning of Vonnegut's messages against the human world would never be out-dated.


The study is devoted to the theoretical and applied organizational bases for substantiation of indicators and indicators for assessing the competitiveness of transformation processes in the regions. The main purpose of the article is the process of conducting a competitive analysis of the effectiveness of transformation processes in the regions of Ukraine. The article tests the authors' hypothesis on certain indicators for assessing the competitiveness of transformation processes in the region, as well as using them to study the main trends in the regional operating system in dynamics, which is an important step for strategic decisions in the context of competitiveness. The dependence of the calculations on the multicriteria analysis of the competitiveness of the regions on the principle of the process approach showed that each region of Ukraine has its competitive advantages and disadvantages, which must be taken into account when formulating regional development strategies. The results of the study can be used as an information basis for further prospective research to develop recommendations for optimizing business processes in the regions to increase their competitiveness, and the proposed methodological approaches can be used to assess the competitiveness of local operating systems, including at the local level to determine their investment attractiveness and optimize individual business processes or their components.


Efficacy of five water based insecticides on Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal), Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus), and multiple grasshoppers species applied as low volume (LV) and Ultralow volume (ULV) were tested. Obtained data indicated that descending order of insecticides efficacy were as follow: chlorpyrifos, thiamethoxam + chlorantraniliprole, spinetoram + methoxyfenozide, chlorantraniliprole then pyridalyl, in case of S. gregaria both spinetoram + methoxyfenozide and chlorantraniliprole were quite similar. Concerning spray characteristics, the effectiveness of spraying tested water based pesticides diluted with 30% Propylene glycol water mixture as ULV spray technique was obvious, where the droplets size, relative span, and number of droplets per cm were suitable for locust control.


Stevens Institute of Technology has conducted extensive long-term testing of acoustic systems designed to track low-flying small aircraft in remote location and recorded over 2 years of data. The system consisted of 4 nodes placed in difficult remote terrain with separation ranging 1–4 km, each node comprising a pyramid-shaped volumetric cluster of 5 microphones an embedded computer, and a pan-tilt-zoom camera steered to detected targets in real time. and communication device. Each nodes' computer performed direction of arrival finding communicated to a central computer collected that data and processed it to generate tracks and classify targets. The duration and the scale of the deployment allowed to identify and solve many problems, including the effects of propagation delays between station and on cooperative localization and tracking, the seasonal changes in environmental noise, persistent and transient noise sources, and the diversity of targets of opportunity and their signatures. The propagation de...


As many as 119 pancreatoduodenal resections are analyzed. The specific complications of the pancreatoduodenal resections are the postoperative pancreatitis development and incompetence of the pancreatojejunal anastomosis sutures. The introduction of the new treatment method of the pancreas and formation of the intussucceptional pancreatojejunal anastomosis made it possible to decrease the rate of the postoperative pancreatitis and incompetence of the pancreatojejunal anastomosis sutures up to 0,7% and the postoperative mortality up to 3,1%.


Dominant technical solution for oncological hyperthermia devices is capacitive-coupling. However, it has the challenge of overheating the surface of adipose layers and burning cutaneous structures. The main technical solution of this is the intensive cooling of the surface. Our objective is studying the physiology and effect of the active cooling of the skin in capacitive-coupled hyperthermia technologies.


This is the slide show which accompanied the presentation of the results of the study, Buffalo Child Care Means Business. The presentation was given on November 16, 2006.


Objectives: This invitro study was carried out to evaluate the effect of Nisin against Enterococcus faecalis in solution and also to evaluate and compare the effect of Nisin and Calcium hydroxide against E.faecalis in root canal system. Methodology: Minimum Bactericidal Concentration and Minimum Inhibitory Concentration of Nisin against E.faecalis were determined. Root canal specimens were inoculated with E.faecalis and incubated for 14 days. Specimens were subjected to intracanal medicaments: Calcium hydroxide and Nisin and incubated for 7days. Bacterial samples were then obtained with paper points, inoculated onto BHI broth and incubated at 37 0 C for 24hrs. Dentine fillings from each canal were obtained and placed in Eppindorf tubes containing BHI broth. After 24hrs incubation, bacterial samples were inoculated onto TSY-Blood agar plates to obtain bacterial CFU. The results were subjected to Mann-Whitney "U" statistical test. Results: Nisin group showed significantly lower bacterial Colony Forming Units obtained from dentinal shavings than Calcium hydroxide and control groups. Conclusion: that Nisin was effective at eradicating E.faecalis in pure culture and was more effective when compared to Calcium hydroxide in the elimination of this species with in the root canal system.


The study aimed at evaluating if the training of hens at their arrival in the production farm affected the distribution of animals in the aviary. Training consisted in raising by hand animals found on litter after turning off the light during the first two weeks. A total of 1,800 hens, aged 17 weeks, were allocated in 8 pens of the aviary and assigned to the trained or untrained groups. From 18 to 26 weeks of age, two operators recorded the number of animals on the different parts of the aviary at two observation hours (morning and afternoon). The training decreased the rate of hens on the floor (23.5% vs. 24.5%; P<0.05) and increased the rate of those on the third level (9.26% vs. 8.73%). The rate of animals on the floor (24.4% vs. 23.6%; P=0.05) and on the second tiers (36.9% vs. 33.2%; P<0.001) was significantly higher at morning hours compared to afternoon, whereas the rate of animals on the first tiers (29.6% to 33.7%; P<0.001) and on the perches of the third level (8.84% to 9.25%; P<0.05) was lower. As the age advanced, the rate of hens on the floor significantly increased (21% to 25% from week 18 to 26); animals at the first tiers decreased from week 18 (35.3%) to weeks 20-25 to reach the minimum value at week 26 (27.9%); differences in animals on the second tiers were erratic; rate of animals on the third level was the lowest (7.13%) at week 18 and the highest (11.7%) at week 26.


Bathroom graffiti, in both its text and pictorial form, represent viable means for strangers to communicate with each other. The text or drawings in the bathroom stalls, while written or drawn in a private space and presumably during a very private moment, are meant to be public, as they transmit ideas, images, and even responses. Using data collected in 10 bathroom stalls at a university (five men's bathrooms and five women's bathrooms), this study examines differences in communication patterns in women's and men's bathroom stalls through an analysis of graffiti content and style. Findings reveal that while communication patterns tend to be supportive and relationship-focused in women's bathrooms, the graffiti in men's bathroom walls are replete with sexual content and insults, in the course of the construction of hegemonic masculinity. In addition, an analysis of the response-and-reply chains suggests that, in the bathroom stalls, hierarchies of power are established and reinforced even in anonymous, unmoderated spaces, and even when no humans are physically present.


Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/ PD) modelling plays more and more important role in the study of pharmacology. This paper recommends some new research progress including PK models, PD models, four basic attributes of PK/PD model, population PK/PD model , physiological PK/PD model, and some questions aboututilization of Sheiner effect compartment model.


There is abundant in mineral resources in Heilongjiang province.In the process of mineral development,it happens many environmental geology problems and has a great influence to groundwater systems to be polluted.The article carried on a statistics for the exploitation quantity of groundwater in mineral area of this province and analyzes the variation of supplement and drainage of groundwater,it also describes the dynamic changes of groundwater and discusses the damage to the aquifer of groundwater due to mineral development.


Introduction. The evaluation of the shape of the left atrial appendage into interconnection with the internal relief of its wall is of an importance for discovering anatomical patterns of the left atrium, which appears to be the most thrombogenic and are associated with a high thromboembolic risk from this chamber.The objective was to study features of the internal relief of the walls of the left atrial appendage of the adult heart and to find the dependence of these features on the size and shape of the appendage.Methods and material. We studied 68 left atrial silicone casts prepared from the hearts of 35–89 years men and women died from non-cardiac causes. By means a caliper, we measured the length and width of the cavity of the left atrial appendage, determined the shape, the number of lobes and intertrabecular spaces. With Image J program, we estimated the proportion of the area occupied by these spaces and pectinate muscles in pixels from photographs of the anterosuperior surface of the appendage. We used correlation analysis, Mann–Whitney U-test.Results. We found two-lobed appendages commonly than single-lobed and three-lobed. The number of intertrabecular spaces was 4–41 (median 21), with one-lobed appendages having fewer than twoand three-lobed. The same parameter was higher in the «chicken wing» than in the «arrowhead» specimens (23 vs 18, p=0.004). The proportion of the area occupied by the pectinate muscles and intertrabecular spaces in the left atrial appendage was 47 % (16–83 %) and showed none association with the shape of the cavity and the number of lobes.Conclusion. The number of intertrabecular spaces in the walls of the left atrial appendage correlated with its length and width and was the smallest in single-lobed specimens and in the appendages of the «arrowhead» shape. The abundant intertrabecular spaces were common for «chicken wing» variant of the left atrial appendage.


This document specifies a MIME type for launching a Jabber client as a helper application from most modern web browsers, and for completing basic use cases once the client is launched.


This paper presents an exact Navier-type analytical solution to bending problems of a transversely isotropic piezoelectric thick square plate constructed with three laminas, piezoelectric-elastic-piezoelectric layer. The first-order shear deformation theory is extended to include the piezoelectric response of laminated plate structures. The analytic solutions of deflection and electric potential of the simply-supported smart plate are all obtained by means of the Fourier's series. The electric boundary conditions are being grounded along four vertical edges. The external voltage or non-external voltage on the surfaces of piezoelectric layers is considered. The convergence of the present approach is studied. The electric potential and displacement distribution diagrams of the piezoelectric layers and matrix are also provided. The numerical results show that the moderately thick piezoelectric plate is sensitive to shear deformation.


The purpose was to determine if DWPF glass in geologic groundwaters would immobilize Tc-99 as well as it does other elements. A previous study (using a borosilicate glass of a very different composition from DWPF glass) indicated that Tc-99 leached rapidly from the glass suggesting that glass may not be a good matrix for immobilizing Tc-99. It was suggested that the Tc-99 had migrated to vesicles in the glass while the glass was still molten. To determine if borosilicate glass was a good immobilizing matrix for Tc-99, this study was performed using DWPF glass. The leaching of Tc-99 was compared to other elements in the glass. It was shown that rapid leaching will not occur with SRP glass. The leach rate for Tc-99 was nearly identical to that for B, a matrix element in the glass. Another objective was to compare the release of Tc-99 under oxidizing and reducing conditions with other elements in the glass. In the tests described here, even though the glass was dissolving more under reducing conditions as a result of abnormally high pH values, less Tc-99 appeared in solution.


Winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is an important annual crop in many parts of the world. Investigation of structural and developmental branching patterns could lead to improvements in rape breeding and cultivation, and furthermore could lead to improved methods to investigate tree branching patterns. We carried out two-year experiments with two rape plant cultivars for each year. The branches and pods of more than 50 rape plants were counted for each cultivar of each year. Additionally, 3D coordinates of plant structural elements were measured and modeled for four representative rape plants near the maturation phase of growth. For each cultivar, we found the mean number of primary lateral branches per plant was significantly different between different years, but within each year there were no significant differences in the distribution of primary branch number between the two cultivars. Results were different for the total number of all primary and secondary lateral branches per plant and the total number of pods on the main stem per plant. Their frequency distributions changed a lot between different years, cultivars and locations, although the mean values were not significantly different. The 3D measurements showed that azimuth angles of pods and branches were uniformly distributed over 360 degrees, and the inclination angles of pods were centered closely about zero degrees (horizontal). There are challenging aspects of plant structural measurement methodology and structural modeling that have yet to be resolved.


This study examined the network of relationships between spor t ability beliefs, achievement goals, self-determination and female students' enjoyment in school physical education (PE). Female secondar y students (n = 343) from a single-sex secondar y school in Singapore par ticipated in the survey. They were assessed on spor t ability beliefs, goal orientations, relative autonomy, perceived competence and enjoyment in PE. The findings established that incremental belief predicted task orientation. In addition, relative autonomy, task orientation and perceived competence had strong and direct impact on enjoyment. Overall, the present study offers some insightful thoughts for promoting enjoyment for girls in PE and physical activity.


The main objective of the study was to qualify the existing equipment at Kozloduy NPP for seismic event, corresponding to the Revue Level Earthquake (RLE) for the site. This paper is devoted to the Seismic Qualification tests of selected ten types of relays. The seismic qualification process comprised the following steps: 1. Review of the safety related relays and selection of the types to be qualified; 2. Development of specification for the Seismic Qualification procedures, including functional tests of the relays before, during and after the seismic excitation; 3. Performance of the specified Seismic Qualification; 4. Analyses of the results, conclusions and proposals. Basic activities in step one included the minimization of the list of the relays to be qualified, considering their safety functions. Various type relays as a function have been selected and included in the test program. The Required Response Spectra (RRS) were developed on the bases of the RLE for the site of the NPP. The Amplified Response Spectra (ARS) included the effects of amplification of the motion by the response of the structure, as well as the amplification due to the supporting conditions inside the cabinet or equipment. The functional performance of the relays during the seismic excitation was monitored for the following modes: non-operating, operating and transition. The results of the tests have shown that some certain types of the tested relays are not properly designed from earthquake engineering point of view and should not be used in the safety systems.


Recently, deep learning-based crowd counting methods have achieved promising performance on test data with the same distribution as training set, while performance degradation usually occurs when testing on other or unseen domains. Due to the variations in scene contexts, crowd densities and head scales, it is a very challenging issue to tackle multi-domain crowd counting using one deep model. In this work, we propose a domain-guided channel attention network (DCANet) towards learning multi-domain crowd counting. In particular, our DCANet consists of feature extraction module, channel attention-guided multi-dilation (CAMD) module and density map prediction module. Given a testing image from a certain domain, channel attention is adopted to guide the extraction of domain-specific feature representation, and thus our DCANet can adaptively handle images from multiple domains. We further propose two domain-guided learning strategies, i.e., dataset-level domain kernel (DDK) supervision and image-level domain kernel (IDK) supervision, by which channel attention in CAMD can be explicitly optimized to emphasize the channels corresponding to the domain of an input image. Furthermore, IDK can be adaptively updated when training DCANet, thereby improving the generalization ability to unseen scenes. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that our DCANet performs favorably for handling multi-domain datasets using one single model. Moreover, our IDK training strategy can be applied to boost state-of-the-art methods on single domain dataset.


This research study examines application of the consensual assessment technique (CAT) as a way of assessing creativity and innovativeness in 21 st century technology-pervasive learning environments. Combining the emerging technology of ambient intelligence (AmI) with the next generation technology of wireless grids, an ambient and emergent 21 st century learning environment is generated, experienced, and imagined. Using a case study approach, research is conducted with students and faculty in a postsecondary, virtual distributed educational environment. Quantitative and qualitative data are gathered based on the use experience of study participants with WeJay social radio, an early stage pre-standards wireless grid software application. Multiple methods of data collection are used to gather information from participants on their use experience. Content analysis and descriptive statistics are used for the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, respectively, contributing to emergent insights. Through content analysis, idea artifacts are extracted contributing to development of a glossary of terms and definitions. The CAT is employed as a way of assessing the creativity and innovativeness of ideas generated during the use experience; and extending the assessment to four other dimensions of the creativity construct ‐ meaning, value, transformativeness, and satisfaction. This research adheres to CAT processes and procedures, with the use of two or more judges and Cronbach's coefficient alpha for reliability. This empirical study makes a contribution to the research literature in demonstrating the potential for application of the CAT in a number of domains including: AmI, wireless grids, digital learning environments, and emerging technologies. Further, a key contribution to the literature is made through recommendations for adaptation of the CAT to emerging technologypervasive learning environments which are characterized by awareness, autonomy, collaboration, and real time data analytics potential. Finally, this study invites use of the consensual assessment technique in future, larger studies with wireless grids, emerging technologies, and autonomy and awareness-based learning environments.


Congenital hepatic arteriovenous malformations (AVM) are extremely rare, with an incidence of less than 1 in 1 hundred thousand, and the literature is limited to only a few case reports. They are characterised by an abnormal arterial connection to a fistulous venous connection within the liver. This results in high flow, low resistance circulation that causes high output cardiac failure. We report a late-preterm male newborn who presented with respiratory distress and signs of cardiac failure on day 1 of life. The newborn is diagnosed with hepatic AVM as the cause of severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and cardiac failure. This case report, along with the literature review, emphasises the need for a high index of suspicion to look for hepatic AVM in a newborn presenting with unexplained PAH and cardiac failure and also discusses different management strategies for hepatic AVM.


An n-dimensional Riemannian space is said to be of embedding class m if n+m is the lowest dimension of the flat space in which the given space can be embedded. A spherically symmetric spacetime of class two can be reduced to class one by a suitable transformation of coordinates. Applied to wormholes, given a well-defined shape function b = b(r), the resulting wormhole has an event horizon and is therefore nontraversable. On a macroscopic scale, b(r) can be replaced by m(r), the effective mass of a spherical star of radius r with m(0) = 0, to yield a valid solution. Spacetimes of embedding class one have been used successfully for modeling compact stellar objects. On a microscopic scale, one can invoke noncommutative geometry to obtain a charged nontraversable wormhole, i.e., an Einstein-Rosen bridge, and hence a model for a charged particle.


In order to fabricate a nanoscale three-dimensional (3D) structure by using the ion-beam lithography (IBL), we tried to control the etching rate and the etching depth by means of the charge state, the beam energy, and the fluence of the ion beam. Ar-ion beams with E=90keV and 80–400keV were irradiated onto spin on glass (SOG) and Si, respectively. The Ar ions were prepared by a facility built at the Kochi University of Technology, which included an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (NANOGAN, 10GHz). It was found that the irradiation of highly charged ions (HCIs) enhanced the etching rate of SOG. The etching rate and etching depth of Si were controlled by the beam energy and the fluence of Ar4+ ions. The present results show the effectiveness of IBL with HCIs to fabricate a nanoscale 3D structure.


Infrared observations of (Ne II) 12.81 ..mu..m, (S IV) 10.51 ..mu..m, and (Ar III) 8.99 ..mu..m in the Orion Nebula are presented. These measurements are combined with new optical observations of (Ne III), (S II), (S III), (O II), and (O III) to derive total elemental abundances of neon, sulfur, and oxygen, (Ne/H)= 7.91, (S/H)= 7.34, and (O/H)= 8.60, which are very similar to solar abundances. While the commonly employed ionization correction formula scheme is found to work satisfactorily for neon, the method overcompensates for the abundances of S/sup + + +/ and leads to a higher sulfur abundance than is actually present, though the net discrepancy in the elemental abundance of sulfur in Orion is small.


Sudden sensorineural hearing loss may be defined as a severe loss of hearing occurring within a short space of time without any obvious cause. Its etiology is not verified yet, treatment and prognosis are uncertain. Objectives: We reviewed 6 cases of patients who hospitalized in Kyunghee Oriental Medical Center Dept. of Otolaryngology. Using the criteria of Siegel and Research Team of the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan, We are to evaluate the effect of Herb medication, Acupuncture therapy, and Negative therapy. We also attempted to search effective methods of therapy of sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Methods: We treated them with Oyaksunki-san(烏藥順氣散) for softening qi-stagnation and supressing 'Wind'(順氣治風), Chungsimjihwang-tang(淸心地黃湯) for strengthening 'Heart' and 'Kidney'(補心益腎), Boikyangwi-tang(補益養胃湯) for strengthening 'Wi-qi' and 'Stomach'(補衛(胃)氣). We also used acupuncture therapy and negative therapy based on the textbook of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Results: One patient recovered completely after 5 days therapy, two patient markedly, another two patient slightly and one patient had no improvement. Conclusions: To treat sudden hearing loss, we can use Oyaksunki-san(烏藥順氣散) in the early stage of the disease. We can treat with Chungsimjihwang-tang(淸心地黃湯) and Boikyangwi-tang(補益養胃湯) in the late period of the disease, and administer Jaeumgenby-tang(滋蔭健脾湯) for suppressing tinnitus. If there is evidence of viral infection and the patient have too severe hearing loss, We can also use steroid in combination with Herb medication in the early stage of the disease. The Western medicine demonstrated that the start time of treatment had influence on recovery. If we started Oriental medical treatment within a week from the onset of sudden deafness. we will obtain the desired results. As the Western medical treatment does, Oriental medical therapy may have no effect after one month from onset of the disease.


Recently, we have developed multiphoton excitation-induced photoacoustic imaging for thick tissues employing a 1064-nm nanosecond pulsed laser. The combination of multiphoton excitation and photoacoustic imaging improves the depth resolution. To apply the multiphoton-photoacoustic imaging for precise investigation in living tissues, it is important to enhance only the photoacoustic signals induced by multiphoton excitation, because the generation of multiphotonphotoacoustic signals is less efficient than that of one-photon photoacoustic signals. In this study, we investigated the relation between the signal intensity and the thermophysical properties of various solutions of fluorescent dyes in multiphoton-photoacoustic imaging. We found that the signal intensity is proportional to the coefficient of thermal expansion divided by the specific heat of the solvent. Thus thermophysical properties are also important, together with absorption properties, in enhancing the multiphoton-photoacoustic signal. Based on our findings, we propose the use of gold nanoparticles surrounded by fluorescent dyes as contrast agents. Rhodamine B, which is employed in fluorescent dyes, selectively evokes the two-photon absorption. In addition, because gold nanoparticles have a small specific heat, the multiphoton-photoacoustic signal generated is strong due to effective photon-to-heat conversion. We conclude that this combination allows deeper observation in living tissues by multiphoton-photoacoustic imaging.


Metaheuristics for the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRP-TW) In this work, 7 techniques based on four metaheuristics and two exact methods are presented, which are: Ant System (AS), Harmonic Search (HS), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Iterated Local Search (ILS), Primal-Dual Algorithm (PDA) and Dual Simplex Method (DSM) to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRP-TW), emphasizing the hybrid algorithms between these techniques, which are called AS-GA, AS-HS and DSM-AS-PDA; where, with the exception of DSM-AS-PDA, these work in an interlaced way. In order to analyze and characterize the behavior of the developed techniques, used a set of test instances for the VRP-TW. In AS-GA, the GA is used to find a better solution with the population generated by one cycle of n ants within AS, with which the level of the pheromone matrix for the next cycle of ants is updated. With this it is possible to guide the construction of a more effective way, and the GA helps to avoid the premature converge way, but due to the codification it diversifies the space of search. Within AS-HS, the HS technique is used to guide the behavior of AS through the changes in the pheromone matrix, since it takes advantage of the information of m executions of the HS stored in the harmonic memory (HM). In the proposed procedure, the best solutions for the updating of the pheromone level are taken up. Finally, in DSM-AS-PDA is used the optimizer called Gurobi executing the dual simplex method to solve two linear relaxations of the original problem. With the solutions returned by Gurobi the pheromone level for AS are initialized and once the execution of AS is terminated, based on the best solution delivered, the PDA is used to check if this solution is optimal. The results show that the hybrid algorithms developed have a more robust behavior than the techniques reported in the literature and, are able to generate better solutions with a smaller number of calls to the objective function in large instances using less computational resources.


Introducing a method which utilizes the technology on ASP and database to make a management system for students' affairs embodying exchanging and remote controlling functions and proposing the structure model and function model for system.


This paper will analyze variation in negation and disagreement strategies and how that variation reflects speakers' footing vis a vis their coparticipants in a given interaction. Given that speakers' strategies for negative placement and prosody are determined by their dialect and other factors, as well as by the social situation, the ideal corpus for analysis of disagreement/negation strategies should permit analysis of the same speaker(s) in different unscripted interactive social situations, at least one of which would be adversarial. Given that most adults would not be happy to have their adversarial interactions [family fights, academic brawls?] transcribed, much less taped for posterity, there is a limited availability of appropriate data. Fortunately, the digital divide has now been breached, and presidential libraries are coming 'online' with transcription and sound files which permit a comparative analysis of any given [recent] president as he interacts with friends and family members as well as with political adversaries and in news broadcasts. The present study will make use of a small segment of such a corpus, to analyze the negation strategies of recent presidents. In particular, it will compare how


Sjenica cheese is one of our best types of cheese from the group of white cheese in brine. It is produced by indigenous technology in the area of Sjenica-Pešter plateau. The process of production takes place at individual farms, among which larger manufacturers exist. The raw material for the production of cheese is fresh, whole sheep and cow milk, which process of making cheese starts immediately after milking, without thermal treatment. Studies were performed over a wide area of Sjenica-Pešter plateau, by a method of survey. The survey was conducted in forty households, and it included questions related to raw materials, the very method of making cheese and process of production. Special emphasis is given to the conditions of storage, ripening and to the system of preserving cheese. The results showed that microclimate conditions have an important role in the system of storage and preserving cheese in the places for storing and ripening. This is especially important during the summer months, when high temperatures can cause serious defects and deficiencies of cheese, such as increased acidity, porosity, poor structure and rheological properties of cheese. Sjenica cheese is kept in a salt-brine whey which is released by the cheese, or it can be added. Brine provides the anaerobic conditions of storage and ripening, and also serves as a preservative. Taking care of cheese is consisted of regular cleaning of cheese surface and the inner walls of tubs, control of levels of brine and regular replacement of the same. Critical period of preservation are the first 15-20 days after the process of production, and its washing and cleaning is done twice a week. If necessary, regular process and control of level of brine and its replacement, are done twice of week, too.


Results of 2D numerical simulation of the magnetorotational mechanism of a supernova explo sion are presented. Simulation has been done for the real equations of state and neutrino energy losses have been taken into account. Simulation has been done on the basis of an Implicit Lagrangian scheme on a triangular grid with grid reconstructuring. It is shown that, due to differential rotation of the star, a toroidal component of the magnetic field appears and grows with time. Rotational momentum transfers outwards as the toroidal component grows with time. With the evolution of the process, part of the envelope of the star is ejected. The amounts of the thrown-off mass and energy are estimated. The results of the simulation could be used as a possible explanation for the supernova explosion picture.


The packaging film (1) comprises an aluminum film base support film and a fixing layer suitable for being secured to a support, and is characterized in that: 1) said carrier film consists of two aluminum foils, an outer film (10) and an inner film (12), connected to one another by an intermediate layer (11) of plastic material, 2) said aluminum films (1 ) have a thickness ranging from 8 m to 40 m, said thickness ranging for example from 8 m to 25 m in the case where said film (1) is intended to form a seal or a sealing material (3, 51), said thickness ranging for example from 20 m to 40 m in the case where said film is intended to form a tray (8), such as a sterilizable container, 3) said fixing layer is an extrusion layer or coextrusion (13) of plastic material.


Consider Dirichlet boundary value problem of the perturbation of Poisson e quation-Δu=g(x)+λh(x, u, Du)\ \ \ x∈Ω(1) u|\-\{Ω\}=0(2)\%where\% λ∈R, Ω (R\+n)\% is a bounded domain with\% C\+\{2,α\} \%boundary , n∈N, α∈ ]0, 1[. With the cut function method and Schauder's fixed point theorem, th e following theorem is proved.\;Theorem\ Assume that\% g∈C\+2() and h∈C\+2(×R×R\+n)\%. The n there es ists \%δ\%0 such that for every \%|λ|δ, \%problem (1), (2) has at least one solution in\% C\+\{2,α\}().\%\%


. The present work is an attempt to assess the effect of biostimulants derived from various materials on the yield and selected organic components in Italian rye grass against the background of nitrogen regime. A field experiment was arranged as a randomized subblock design (split-plot) in Poland in August 2013. The following factors were examined: type of biostimulant: Algex, Tytanit, Asahi SL and a control (no biostimulant addition); and nitrogen application rate: 0 (control); 120 and 180 kg ha -1 . The results reported here indicate that biostimulants applied in the study contributed to similar yield performance to plants fertilised with a 60 kg ha -1 lower nitrogen rate, the highest increase in yield (42.2%) being recorded for Algex-treated grass. An application of biostimulants beneficially affected Italian rye grass yield quality as it was followed by a significant increase in chlorophyll content in leaves as well as protein compounds and soluble carbohydrates in the dry matter of the test grass. The nitrogen rate of 120 and 180 kg ha -1 significantly increased Italian rye grass yields, chlorophyll content in plant leaves and protein compounds, the concentration of soluble carbohydrates being significantly lower in the dry matter of test plants.


Today, high accuracy of character recognition is attainable using a neural network for problems with a relatively small number of categories. But for large categories, like Chinese characters, it is difficult to reach the neural network convergence because of the "local minima problem" and a large number of calculations. Studies are being done to solve the problem by splitting the neural network into some small modules. The effectiveness of the combination of learning vector quantization (LVQ) and back propagation (BP) has been reported. LVQ is used for rough classification and BP is used for fine recognition. It is difficult to obtain high accuracy for rough classification by LVQ itself. To deal with this problem, we propose hierarchical learning vector quantization (HLVQ). HLVQ divides categories in feature space hierarchically in the learning procedure. The adjacent feature spaces overlap each other near the borders. HLVQ possesses both classification speed and accuracy due to the hierarchical architecture and the overlapping technique. In the experiment using ETL9B, the largest database of handwritten characters in Japan, (includes 3036 categories, 607,200 samples), the effectiveness of HLVQ was verified.


Installing linepipe by reeling can have advantages when compared to installation by S or J-lay methods, depending on the specific project requirements. In this work, a qualification method was developed to determine the effects of reeling on the sour service performance of line pipe and associated girth welds by using full-pipe-body reeling simulations, followed by either full-pipe four point bend, or small scale four point bend sulfide stress cracking tests. It was found that large scale SSC tests and the 250 HV hardness criteria were better discriminators of sour service performance of reeled line pipe than small scale four point bend tests per NACE MR0175/ISO 15156-2.


Due to the deficiency in traditional GPS/SINS system information fusion technology,this paper proposes a BP network model for GPS/SINS integrated attitude measurement system to overcome it. Based on the BP Neural-Network theory,the ways such as limiting the initial weights and thresholds,dynamically deleting the number of hidden layer node and modifying the method of activation function are made use of to extend BP algorithm's function,and then get a high training speed and accuracy. The feasibility and effectiveness of the improved f BP Neural-Network algorithm is verified in the layout diagram.


PURPOSE: A strategic automatic sale method of stocks, futures, and options for protecting a small investor and a system thereof are provided to prevent an investment loss caused by wrong input. CONSTITUTION: A system comprises an investor terminal, a stock firm server, and a stock exchange server which are connected to each other with a wired/wireless network. A user downloads, installs, and executes an automatic sale program in the investor terminal(S101,S103). The user executes a settlement strategy sheet in the program and sets a sale item and an investment strategy corresponding to a plan. The user logs in the stock firm server and sells a possessed item based on the plan. [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) End; (S101) Download and store an automatic sale program; (S103) Execute the automatic sale program; (S105) Display a settlement strategy sheet; (S107) Select a purchase item; (S109) Set an investment strategy; (S111) Log in a stock firm server; (S113) Settle possessed items according to strategy


Determining where to stack the containers on the storage yard of a container terminal is an important problem, because it will make a great importance on the loading efficiency. In order to minimize the container relocation times and the average transportation distance of containers, we propose a penalty based strategy for real-time container allocation. When the sequence of containers arriving at the storage yard is uncertain, this strategy can allocate the location for a single container when it arrives, so as to minimize the container relocation times and transportation distance during shipment as a whole. Experiments show that this strategy can get a relatively good result.


Satellite servicing is in many ways analogous to subsea robotic servicing in the late 1970`s. A cost effective, reliable, telerobotic capability had to be demonstrated before the oil companies invested money in deep water robot serviceable production facilities. In the same sense, aeronautic engineers will not design satellites for telerobotic servicing until such a quantifiable capability has been demonstrated. New space servicing systems will be markedly different than existing space robot systems. Past space manipulator systems, including the Space Shuttle`s robot arm, have used master/slave technologies with poor fidelity, slow operating speeds and most importantly, in-orbit human operators. In contrast, new systems will be capable of precision operations, conducted at higher rates of speed, and be commanded via ground-control communication links. Challenges presented by this environment include achieving a mandated level of robustness and dependability, radiation hardening, minimum weight and power consumption, and a system which accommodates the inherent communication delay between the ground station and the satellite. There is also a need for a user interface which is easy to use, ensures collision free motions, and is capable of adjusting to an unknown workcell (for repair operations the condition of the satellite may not be known in advance). This more » paper describes the novel technologies required to deliver such a capability. « less


A cDNA containing the complete open-reading frame encod- ing rabbit antithrombin 111 (AT-Ill) was isolated from a rabbit liver cDNA expression library, using a specific antibody as a probe. Sequence analysis showed 84% identity between the deduced amino acid sequences of the rabbit and human proteins. A previously described cell-free expression system was used to verify the identity of the clone. The full-length cDNA was inserted into an expression vector, and messenger RNA (mRNA) transcripts generated. In vitro translation of these transcripts, in the presence of [35S]methionine, in an mRNA-dependent rabbit reticulocyte lysate system resulted in the synthesis of a 51-Kd polypeptide, as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS- PAGE). This nonglycosylated protein was capable of forming SDS-stable complexes with human orthrombin. Complex formation was significantly enhanced following the deletion of nucleotides encoding the signal peptide, and the resultant generation of a 47-Kd nonglycosylated mature protein prod-HE


Electronic component having a semiconductor chip (2) having an active front surface (3) with integrated circuits and a passive back with no integrated circuits in which the active front face (3) has contact pads (4) and with an elastic layer (10) covered is that, on its active front side (3) of the semiconductor chip (2) facing away from the surface with connection contacts (14) is provided and wherein one or more connection contacts (14) electrically conductively connected to at least one of the contact pads (4) is connected or are wherein an over the surface of the elastic layer (10) projecting arc portion (8) of at free ends with contact pads (4) connected to the arc-shaped electrical conductor (6) is removed, and one or independently two remaining of the conductor (6) wire sections (18) at the exit point from the elastic layer (10) through which a terminal contact (14) and is electrically connected thereto.


This article aims to reflect on the challenges of building a transmedia narrative from a participatory journalism proposed television, which includes developing project in Interdisciplinary Professional Master in Technology, Communication and Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU). It presents some notes about this new reality that has resignifying the eye of the viewer on the TV news. The reflection is based on bibliographical and documentary research on the topic, as well as proposed structure represented by flowchart, discussing the question of formatting a program in marked molds.


Major cloud providers such as Amazon [1], Google [2] and Microsoft [3] provide nowadays some form of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) which allows deploying services in the form of virtual machines [4], containers [5] or bare-metal [6] instances. Although software-based solutions like homomorphic encryption exit, privacy concerns [7] greatly hinder the deployment of such services over public clouds. It is particularly difficult for homomorphic encryption to match performance requirements of modern workloads [8]. Evaluating simple operations on basic data types with HElib [9], a homomorphic encryption library, against their unencrypted counter part reveals, that homomorphic encryption is still impractical under realistic workloads.


It is just fifty years since the distinguished legal historian, Adhémar Esmein, addressing an international conference in London, discussed the interpretation of the Roman law maxim Princeps legibus solutus est by the medieval glossators, and the influence of their teachings on the growth of French government. Esmein thought that the glossators had perverted a doctrine of classical constitutional law, which had merely exempted the emperor from the observance of certain legal rules, into a general principle of irresponsible absolutism. Certain French constitutional lawyers of the sixteenth century, he maintained, struggled stoutly against this doctrine but, none the less, its acceptance opened the way to various abuses in French public life ranging from the arbitrary decision of legal cases to the issuance of lettres de cachet. Esmein accordingly took advantage of the occasion to congratulate his English hosts on having escaped the glossators' baneful influence.


In the survey and design of mountain freeway,based on the characteristics of different mountain terrain,landforms,geology,vegetation and hydrology,three points including general principles of reasonable layout of the small bridge and culvert,methods and what should be noticed as collecting data are discussed,accumulates the design experience for small bridge and culverts on freeway.


With the increased popularity of online social networks, spammers find these platforms easily accessible to trap users in malicious activities by posting spam messages. In this work, Twitter platform is taken and spam tweets detection is performed. To stop spammers, semi supervised learning is used to detect spam tweets in twitter. Thus, industries and researchers have applied different approaches to make spam free social network platform. Some of them are only based on user-based features while others are based on tweet based features only. To solve this issue, a framework has been proposed which takes the user and tweet based features along with the tweet text feature to classify the tweets. The benefit of using tweet text feature is that the spam tweets can be identified even if the spammer creates a new account which was not possible only with the user and tweet based features. The work has been evaluated with three different machine learning algorithms namely Support Vector Machine, Neural Network, Random Forest. With Naive Bayes classifier, about 80% of accuracy is obtained.


In this paper, we analyzed the effects by multi-stacking superstrates over the circular-polarized patch antenna. The previous works considered a single-layered superstrate or a superstrate with multiple layers, and did not almost consider the axial ratio at the performance analysis. First, the effect of center frequency shift is analyzed by the variation of air-gap height between patch antenna and superstrate. The center frequency is down-shifted at the smaller air-gap height and has almost the same frequency as patch antenna at the air-gap height of 0.05 . Second, the antenna performance is analyzed by multi-stacking superstrates with the air-gap height of 0.05 . As the number of multi-stacked superstrates increase, antenna gain has a linear increase and axial ratio is exponentially deteriorated. In addition, it has also been observed that the antenna performance has the same trend with the number of multi-stacked superstrates as the thickness of superstrate increases. Finally, we confirmed that it is possible to design the CP patch antenna with the scalable gain and less than 3dB axial ratio by stacking the superstrate.


The unsteady flow and the flow force in the hydraulic ball valve with the moving ball was simulated by dynamic mesh technology.The ball laid in the hydraulic valve was taken as a movement entity.With the ball moving,the boundary of the corresponding flow field changed.The pressure distribution in different moments were obtained.Then the flow force of the hydraulic ball valve was analyzed when the ball was moving.The numerical results of the static fluid force are basically in accord with the theoretical results.The analysis results are helpful to the design and the optimization of the hydraulic ball.


The photoionization and absorption cross sections of H2 and D2 have been measured in the 1000 to 580 A region with a resolution of 0.5 A. Simultaneous measurements of ion current and absolute photon flux were made in a chamber 40.6 cm long with a parallel-plate ion collector and a platinum photocathode or a sodium-salicylate-coated photomultiplier tube. The absolute yield of the photocathode was measured by calibrating the chamber with the rare-gas atoms A, Kr, and Xe.Weak band absorption with k ≤ 20 cm−1 was observed in the 1000 to 860 A region, followed by an increase of k to 320 cm−1 at 844.8 A. Between 844.8 and 803.7 A, an underlying continuum k about 150 cm−1, and broad predissociated D–X bands were evident. A maximum k value of 680 cm−1 was observed in the (3–0) band of D–X. The underlying ionization continuum reached a broad maximum at about 730 A with k = 300 cm−1. Band structure was superimposed on the continuum down to about 710 A. Coefficients for photoionization were less than those for absorption down to about 700 A, but, from 700 A to shorter wavelengths, the ionization efficiency approached 100%. Strong absorption in the D–X bands was observed to be less efficient in producing ionization than neighboring bands of weaker intensity. Ion current was detected at wavelengths longer than the ionization potential reported by Beutler and Junger at 803.7 A. The current is attributed to an appreciable population at room temperature of the lower rotational levels of the ground state. The absorption and photoionization spectra of D2 were similar to those of H2, except for the expected isotope shift of the bands. The experimental chamber was arranged for the observation of gas fluorescence. Although the fluorescent intensity was very weak, edges were observed at 850, 755, and 720 A.


by his sarcastic dismissal of a profoundly important observation which he quotes (p. 32), from the so-called Stigler Report. In that report the possibility of reciprocal trading by conglomerates—one of the anticompetitive practices often ascribed to conglomerate management—was considered not to be dangerous. If reciprocity "leads to efficiency," Winslow quotes with disdain from the Stigler Report, "there is no reason to stop it; if it leads to inefficiency there is no reason why the conglomerate should adopt it (since it would reduce its overall profits)." In fact, careful consideration of the conclusions implied by consistent profit-maximizing firm behavior leads Markham early in his book to the tentative suggestion (not subsequently overthrown by the book's empirical findings) of conglomerate "neutrality"—that is, that "conglomerateness" is irrelevant to the issue of possibly intolerable market power, as conventionally defined. Winslow's uncritical assumptions to the contrary appear not unrelated to his apparent lack of interest in economic reasoning.


Disturbances of renal medullary perfusion and metabolism have been implicated in the pathogenesis of kidney disease and hypertension. Furosemide, a loop diuretic, is widely used to prevent renal medullary hypoxia in acute kidney disease by uncoupling sodium metabolism, but its effects on medullary perfusion in humans are unknown. We performed quantitative imaging of both renal perfusion and oxygenation using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) before and during furosemide. Based on the literature, we hypothesized that furosemide would increase medullary oxygenation, decrease medullary perfusion, but cause minor changes (<10%) in renal artery flow (RAF).


Using data collected by the CLEO III detector at CESR, we report on measurements of {upsilon}(1S) decays to charmonium final states. The data sample used for this analysis consists of 21.2x10{sup 6} {upsilon}(1S) decays, representing about 35 times more data than previous CLEO {upsilon}(1S) data samples. We present substantially improved measurements of the branching fraction B({upsilon}(1S){yields}J/{psi}+X) using J/{psi}{yields}{mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} and J/{psi}{yields}e{sup +}e{sup -} decays. The branching fractions for these two modes are averaged, thereby obtaining: B({upsilon}(1S){yields}J/{psi}+X)=(6.4{+-}0.4(stat){+-}0.6(syst))x10{sup -4}. A greatly improved measurement of the J/{psi} momentum distribution is presented and indicates a spectrum which is much softer than predicted by the color-octet model and somewhat softer than the color-singlet model. First measurements of the J/{psi} polarization and production angle are also presented. In addition, we report on the first observation of {upsilon}(1S){yields}{psi}(2S)+X and evidence for {upsilon}(1S){yields}{chi}{sub cJ}+X. Their branching fractions are measured relative to B({upsilon}(1S){yields}J/{psi}+X) and are found to be {l_brace}[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}{psi}(2S)+X)]/[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}J/{psi}+ X)]{r_brace}=0.41{+-}0.11(stat){+-}0.08(syst), {l_brace}[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}{chi}{sub c1}+X)]/[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}J/{psi}+X)]{r_brace}=0.35{+-} 0.08(stat){+-}0.06(syst), {l_brace}[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}{chi}{sub c2}+X)]/[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}J/{psi}+X)]{r_brace}=0.52{+-}0.12(stat){+-}0.09(syst), and {l_brace}[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}{chi}{sub c0}+X)]/[B({upsilon}(1S){yields}J/{psi}+X)]{r_brace}<7.4 at 90% confidence level. The resulting feed-down contributions to J/{psi} are [24{+-}6(stat){+-}5(syst)]% for {psi}(2S), [11{+-}3(stat){+-}2(syst)]% for {chi}{sub c1}, [10{+-}2(stat){+-}2(syst)]% for {chi}{sub c2}, and <8.2% at 90% confidence level for {chi}{sub c0}. These measurements (apart from {chi}{sub c0}) are about amore » factor of 2 larger than expected based on the color-octet model.« less


Mini sling application is a new minimally invasive sling operation that is performed with a single incision, can be applied under local anesthesia, and takes a short time. With this method, it is aimed to avoid major complications that may occur in sling operations and to shorten the operation time. In this study, the effect of mini sling technique on perioperative complications, complaints and operation time was investigated. The major surgeries that are performed on the patient always have a risk of death if there is no knowledge of the science of anesthesia. It is the ability to make physiological changeswhich would reduce mortality in patients. In addition, many studies have shown that there isa serious tendency to find solutions for a decrease in the death rates associated with anesthesia, that one of the types of anesthesia isNeuro-anaesthesia (NA), which leads to the use of local and aesthesiaas well as anesthesia in the vicinity of the spinal cord in order to end the stage of pain that the patient is going through In general, there is alsoanesthesia (GA) which leads to the use of drugs that lead toLoss of consciousness of the patient, and thus toLoss of de-perception of painful stimulianesthesia techniques have not undergone the emergence of a new generationIn recent decades, except for the emergence of a new generation of drugsas well as the use of new treatment protocols for pain andcontrol of postoperative loss of consciousness and vomitingmodern papers are trying to collect bothPredefined inclusion criteria and processingthe reason for the lack of materials that prove the effectiveness andthe safety of neuroanaesthesia in general ingynecological surgeries, these papersrandomized clinical trials cases are treated in order to determine the efficacy and safety of NA compared to GA for women's surgeriesand assisting anesthesiologists in it, as well as choosing the latest technologies in this field.


The article deals with assertiveness as an integral personal quality, it mainly influences on the opportunity to be successful in life, the structural components of assertiveness: purposefulness, self-confidence, self-dependency, initiativeness, self-control, emotional stability, persistence, resoluteness, self-exactingness and exactingness to others, reflexiveness are defined, assertiveness The model of the development, including methods of development of assertiveness during the lessons of any subjects, technologies of development of personal qualities, psychological trainings determining assertiveness, is presented.


Nearly three quarters of junior doctors (72%) plan to leave the NHS if the government imposes a new contract in August 2016, a survey has found. The respondents were recruited from a closed junior doctors' forum on a social networking site.

Responses to the online survey from 4150 junior doctors—8% of the 53 000 doctors set to be affected by the new contract—also showed that 99% felt demoralised and devalued, did not support …


The Department of Energy (DOE), in its efforts to comply with the requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976, is concerned with hazardous waste which is also radioactively contaminated. There are no existing facilities to treat or dispose of these wastes. One such waste is lead, which is extensively used in the nuclear industry as shielding. This paper reports the results of leach testing of lead (both solid lead samples and lead shot) to resolve questions as to whether or not radioactively contaminated waste lead must be treated as a hazardous waste. The results of these tests showed that: some samples passed the leach test. Results of development efforts performed to date to recycle lead and those planned for the future are included in this report.


Shipbuilding is a complex production system characterised by a complicated work and organisation structure, prolonged production lead time, and heterogeneous resource requirements. Thus, effectively planning all involved activities presents a challenging task and requires the timely coordination between the successive production stages at the plant level and effective resource allocation at the workshop level. With the work breakdown structure of all projects and their corresponding building strategies, the aggregate production planning (APP) is to address two important issues, namely, workforce level and inventory usage so that the fluctuating demands from downstream processes can be satisfied in a cost-effective manner. To achieve this, a novel APP model is proposed for ship production to minimise the variation of aggregate man-hour over the planning horizon and simultaneously minimise the logistic demands of the interim products. In view of the combinatorial nature and computational complexity, a directed genetic algorithm based solver has been developed to solve the two-conflicting-objective optimisation problem. The proposed approach has been applied to a case study and preliminary results have shown certain effectiveness in handling various situations with different planning strategies.


An increasing amount of Human Factors (HF) Specialists are providing their services through matrix organizations. If the Human Factors Specialist is to be successful, an understanding of recent organizational research involving matrix organizations is important. This paper differentiates among three basic types of organizations: the Functional organization, the Product organization, and the Matrix organization and examines the organizational pressures that force organizations to turn to a matrix organization. The advantages and disadvantages are explored. As the matrix structure grows in popularity, Human Factors Specialists familiar with the principles of a matrix organization, will be better equipped to deliver their services in the most effective manner.


The main objective of this research is to study the collision of different cultures, especially early period of the spreading of spread Buddhism into China, especially
through documen Mouzi's Treatise on Dispelling Doubts (牟子理惑论). The emergence of Buddhism in India was triggered by dissatisfaction of Brahma in India. When Buddhism spread to China, it transformed to adapt the Chinese environment and culture. A lot of concepts that deemed were "common understanding" in India but were unfamiliar for Chinese. So, explanation was needed. For instance, the concept of "rebirth" which was not exist in Chinese culture. So that, the interpretation of Buddhism had modulated to adapt the existing culture and thought in China, and these was reflected in the text of Mouzi. The Mouzi's Treatise on Dispelling Doubts reflects three characteristics: Firstly, as a new religion in China, Buddhism adopted on open strategy to accommodate Chinese environment in order to spread its influences. Secondly, Buddhism had to integrate into the mainstream of Chinese studies to ensure its sustainable development in China. Thirdly, insisted on core value and independency of Buddhism in China.


Overconfidence has been studied in 3 distinct ways. Overestimation is thinking that you are better than you are. Overplacement is the exaggerated belief that you are better than others. Overprecision is the excessive faith that you know the truth. These 3 forms of overconfidence manifest themselves under different conditions, have different causes, and have widely varying consequences. It is a mistake to treat them as if they were the same or to assume that they have the same psychological origins.


Alopecia areata is a condition involving hair loss from certain or all areas of the body. It has been considered as an immune‐mediated disease, characterized by the infiltration of CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes in the hair follicles.


A large number of low-level performance metrics include process, virtual and physical machine metrics that can be measured to identify a node or even a cluster health status. Traditionally, nodes in the cluster are monitored and managers need to analyze each metrics and alarming messages from monitoring tools to identify the health status of clusters. However, this process would cost too much time on some insignificant metrics and with less efficient because most clusters have more than hundreds nodes and it's impossible for one manager to check too much metrics in each nodes. In this work, we demonstrate that more time can be saved by simplify metrics set, scoring each nodes and diagnosis nodes health status by decision tree. Specially, this work first experimentally verifies and sorts the degree of relation between node health and different metrics. After that, we collect and score the training set by load increase testing. Thirdly, we construct a decision tree by training set. Finally, a health diagnosis module is composed by previous process, algorithm and decision tree. We evaluate the Health Diagnosis Module (HDM) on the Normal PC cluster. Experiments show that HDM can precise diagnose nodes and clusters' health status with more than 89% accuracy rate.


In commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Nils Rosen von Rosenstein's publication of his famous textbook Diseases of Children and Their Remedies, a medal was struck in I964 by the Swedish Paediatric Association. It was decided that this medal should be awarded every fifth year to distinguished paediatricians who had worked in the spirit of Rosen von Rosenstein and had contributed significantly to the development of paediatrics. In 1964 the medal was presented to Professors Charles Janeway, Boston, Guido Fanconi, Zurich, Arvid Wallgren, Stockholm, and Arvo Ylppo, Helsinki, and in 1969 to Professors Josef Houstek, Prague, Derrick Jelliffe, Kingston, and Alfred Sundal, Bergen.


Parathyroid hormone (PTH) has a significant role as an anabolic hormone in bone when administered by intermittent injection. Previous microarray studies in our laboratory have shown that the most highly regulated gene, monocyte chemoattractant protein‐1 (MCP‐1), is rapidly and transiently induced when hPTH(1‐34) is injected intermittently in rats. Through further in vivo studies, we found that rats treated with hPTH(1‐34) showed a significant increase in serum MCP‐1 levels 2 hours after PTH injection compared with basal levels. Using immunohistochemistry, increased MCP‐1 expression in osteoblasts and osteocytes is evident after PTH treatment. PTH also increased the number of marrow macrophages. MCP‐1 knockout mice injected daily with hPTH(1‐34) showed less trabecular bone mineral density and bone volume compared with wild‐type mice as measured by peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) and micro‐computed tomography (µCT). Histomorphometric analysis revealed that the increase in osteoclast surface and osteoclast number observed with intermittent PTH treatment in the wild‐type mice was completely eliminated in the MCP‐1 null mice, as well as much lower numbers of macrophages. Consequently, the lack of osteoclast and macrophage activity in the MCP‐1 null mice was paralleled by a reduction in bone formation. We conclude that osteoblast and osteocyte MCP‐1 expression is an important mediator for the anabolic effects of PTH on bone.


Osteoporosis is exceedingly costly, both for the patient and the health care system. Osteoporosis Canada estimates, based on CIHI data, that acute care for patients with hip fractures will cost Alberta over $62 million in 2020. This does not include increased costs of care post-discharge. Roughly a quarter of patients with hip fractures will require institutional care post-discharge. Mortality is increased post-vertebral and post-hip fracture approximately three-fold. One-year post-op mortality for hip fracture patients is 25-30%.


The virtual isolation of Islamic financial markets from 2008's financial crisis prompted a quest to find the underlying determinants that stabilise the market's liquidity. Utilising data from the Malaysian bond market, the paper first provides insight into the trend and liquidity of the sukuk market before analysing sukuk's liquidity level by using the latent liquidity measurement. This is followed by a random effect regression to determine the liquidity drivers for sukuk. Four variables (issuance amount, maturity, coupon rate and age) are found to be significant drivers of sukuk's liquidity level. The conclusions drawn from the regression results indicate that sukuk's investors favour to match long term sukuk with their long term liabilities. In addition they also like to keep their sukuk to amortise the return.


In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for reducing (102) an amount of peak power consumption in a device. In certain implementations, a first signal and a second signal (106) are received, wherein the first signal and the second signal are indicative of amounts of power consumption in a device (104). The first signal is combined (110) with the second signal to generate a combined signal, and at least a portion of the second signal is shifted in time (116) to cause a combination (118) of the first signal and the shifted portion to have a peak amplitude less than a peak amplitude of the combined signal.


Ten patients meeting DSM‐IV criteria for non‐comorbid panic disorder or panic disorder with agoraphobia were treated in a 12‐week open‐label, flexible dosage trial of nefazodone. Dosages ranged from 50 to 400 mg per day. Clinical assessment utilized several recently developed scales of panic disorder severity, as well as the clinical global impression scale. At the conclusion of the study, 9 out of 10 patients were rated much improved with 7 of the patients rated as panic free and in full remission. Significantly improved scores were reflected by all of the scales. Low sample size and absence of placebo control indicate the need for a large placebo‐controlled trial. The results of this pilot study suggest that nefazodone may be promising in the treatment of panic and justify further research. Depression and Anxiety 10:137–139, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Comparative Analysis of Home Ownership Loans (KPR) at PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk Palembang with PT. Bank Central Asia Syariah in Palembang / Accounting Information System The formulation of the problem is how the comparison of KPR loan interest rates at PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk Palembang with PT. Bank Central Asia Syariah Palembang. The goal is to find out the interest rates for conventional bank housing loans (KPR) at PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk Demang Branch Palembang and Sharia bank at PT. Bank Central Asia Syariah Palembang and know which mortgage interest rates are lower between conventional BCA and BCA Syariah. This study uses descriptive analysis to determine the mortgage interest rate (KPR) at PT. Bank Central Asia, Tbk Demang Branch Palembang with PT. Bank Central Asia Syariah Branch Office in Palembang for the period of 2019. The results of the research on the provision of credit at conventional BCA banks and BCA Syariah banks do not have much difference in the procedures and requirements file, it's just that the interest rate or the BCA Syariah bank called margin (interest rate) has a significant difference. The interest rate for conventional BCA is lower than for BCA Syariah.


The enormous amount of data is collected by the sensors from the end subsequently, this significantly big amount of data must be processed, scrutinized and stored in a cost effective ways. In this manner, an enormous group of computing resources and storage must be provided to calculate this huge amount of data. We focused on introducing the up-to-date tools such as sensors, IOT to radically revise approaches to agriculture by collecting the data about the various parameters of soil, analyzes the data and performed the computations, giving the best optimal solutions for the agriculture. The application of computing in agricultural frugality will open up a vast range of prospects, such as the unlimited storage of agriculture information, the cloud management of agricultural creation process, the storage of agricultural economy evidence, early-warning and policy-making based on the agricultural products market, the finding management of agricultural products quality.


A sensor for non-contact measurements of the thickness or mass per unit area of a dielectric layer has been developed. It has been constructed for measuring a cake of wooden particles on a steel band in the particle board industry. The sensor is suspended at a distance above the layer of particles to form a strip line resonator together with the steel band. The resonant frequency and the quality factor are measured. The resonant frequency correlates well with the mass per unit area and the quality factor can be used to deduce the mean wetness in the layer. The sensor is insensitive to moderate variations in the distance between the sensor and the steel band.


One approach to mitigate side-channel attacks (SCAs) is to use clockless, asynchronous digital logic. To simplify this process, we propose a unique asynchronous FPGA based on a new THx2 programmable threshold cell. At a minimum, FPGAs require a programmable logic cell that can implement a complete set of logic so that it can be connected through the programmable interconnect network to form any digital system. To meet that criteria, we take advantage of CMOS transistors to implement a programmable THx2 threshold cell capable of performing both TH12 and TH22 asynchronous operations. Our complete sixteen transistor FPGA cell includes eight transistors to implement the base THx2 threshold operation, three transistors to switch between the TH12 and TH22 modes, and five memory cell transistors for mode storage. Our unique minimal transistor, programmable THx2 implementation enables formation of a complete set of asynchronous threshold gates and a complete set of standard combinational logic functions. The symmetric nature of the FPGA cell, in regard to the number of transistors (eight NMOS and eight PMOS), makes it ideal for a four row by four column transistor grid with a nearly square, easily array-able layout. It should be noted our THx2 cell is highly compact and suitable for implementing a clockless, asynchronous FPGA.


The invention provides a poly(gamma-oligomerization ethylene glycol monomethyl ether-L-glutamic acid diethyl ester)-polyamino acid diblock copolymer and a preparation method thereof, and further expands the application of polyamino acid materials to the field of biological medicine. A structural general formula of the diblock polyamino acid is shown in the formula (I), wherein j is an integer from 1 to 10, m is an integer from 5 to 200, n is an integer from 5 to 200, R1 is an initiator end group, and R2 is an alpha-amino acid side chain group. The invention further provides a preparation method of poly (gamma-oligomerization ethylene glycol monomethyl ether-L-glutamic acid diethyl ester)-polyamino acid. The diblock copolymer not only is simple in preparation process and good in biocompatibility, but also has thermosensitive properties, and can be applied to the field of the biological medicine of targeted medicine delivery and the like.


The kinetic acceleration of deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT) of acetylene/oxygen mixtures at lean conditions in a 1  mm2 microchannel is investigated using ozone addition. Equivalence ra...


A software demodulation method is developed and used to suppress noise in the fiber-optic Michelson interferometric weak magnetic sensor.Based on the analysis of system noise sources,an adaptive line enhancer(ALE) is introduced into the demodulation software to reduce the wide-band noise.The results show that this method is valid,and it can enhance the demodulation linearity.The minimum detectable magnetic field reaches about 20 nT.


Oak trees form the major elements of the Zagros forests at western part of Iran. The activity of cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) greatly affects survival and fertility of these trees, by inducing formation of various galls on a certain part of the oak trees (Quercus spp.). In this study, population fluctuation and spatial distribution of four common species, Andricus asetivalis (Giraud), Aphelonyx persica (Melika), Neuroterus lanuginosus (Giraud) and Neuroterus saliens (Kollar) were studied in Kermanshah province from the early February to the late December of 2011. The galls that formed on the 100 cm end of branches from the four cardinal directions were sampled in two different heights of 1.5 and 2.5 m on each tree every 7-10 days throughout the season. To estimate the spatial distribution patterns, data were analysed through regression models. According to the Taylor's power model, in the height of 1.5 m, the slope of regression line was not significantly different from 1, indicating a random pattern for all gall wasp species. Also the spatial distribution pattern of N. lanuginosus and N. saliens was determined as random in the height of 2.5 m. Using Iwao's patchiness regression, similar patterns were distinguished for all species in two different heights except for A. aestivalis and N. lanuginosus in the height of 1.5 m which regression between Lloyd's mean crowding and mean density was not significant. At early season, just sexual galls of A. aestivalis and A. persica were observed and the first asexual galls of N. lanuginosus and N. saliens were formed on the branches starting in early August. Combining data of both heights of 1.5 and 2.5, the peaks of gall density of A. aestivalis, A. persica, N. lanuginosus and N. saliens were observed on 23 May, 27 June, 4 September and 15 September as 2.85 ± 1.60, 34.40 ± 22.17, 159.27 ± 40.01 and 4.50 ± 1.38, respectively. Overall, the most observed galls belonged to N. lanuginosus. The activity period of N. saliens was clearly shorter than other species and lasted only less than two months.


Abstract : This thesis is a comparative case study comparing and contrasting the efforts of three countries (United Kingdom, France, Italy) in their fight to reduce copper wire theft incidents within their nations. The ultimate goal of the research is to highlight the significant threat posed to critical infrastructure from copper thieves and to offer best practice recommendations to policymakers within the United States in response, based on the experiences of the three targeted nations. An analysis of the data reveals that the United Kingdom has had the most success in the reduction of reported copper wire theft incidents primarily due to its multi-faceted approach to the problem, which includes heavy regulation of the scrap recycling industry, centralized law enforcement operations, and enhanced criminal statutes.


Were Africans in China in Early Times? There is a long history of China-Africa contact, illustrated by Chinese classics such as dynastic histories (2) and classics by Du Huan, Duan Chengshi, Zhou Qufei, Zhao Rukuo, Wang Dayuan, Fei Xin, Ma Huan, etc., and contemporary studies (Dart, 1925; Zhang, 1930, 1977 [1930]; Cen, 1935; Duyvendak, 1947; Filesi, 1972; Ma & Meng, 1987; Shen, 1989; Brunson, 1995; Li, 2006, 2012a; Wyatt, 2010). Yet whether Africans existed in early China is another question. Scholars have done studies on Black people in China since the 19th century (Lacouperie, 1887; Li, 1928; Weidenreich, 1939; Ling, 1956; Coon, 1963), yet the Black people mentioned in their works seem to be Pygmy, Negrito, or Oceanic Negroids of Melanesoin type (Yang, 1995). And it is also suggested that people of African heritage in early China were related to the Rouzhi (pronounced as Yuezhi, Yueshi) or the Persian (Chen, 1993; Schafer, 1991:46). Chinese historians generally agree that African people came to China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) (Zhang, 1928, 1930; Xu, 1984; Ai 1987; Jing, 1998). Yet, archaeological discoveries seem to challenge the view. Archeological evidence indicates the possibility of contact between China and Africa in an earlier time. An excavation report on the Shang Dynasty (17th-11th century B.C.) sites at Anyang, the capital of Shang, shows that there are similarities between the skull that was discovered and that of the Oceanic Negroids and people in Africa (Chang 1968; Yang 1969). Many Negroid images in stone, metal and jade were also found in Anyang. Sati burial existing in Nubia, Egypt and Mesopotamia, and thousands of cowrie shells used for money and more than five hundred of jade objects were also discovered in the tomb of Lady Fu Hao (14th century B.C.), who served as the principal consort and general to Shang King, Wu Ding, described as the "evidence of African participation in royalty" by Brunson, who concluded that "[I]t can be safely estimated that an African presence existed in China from a most remote period and an evolution of this physical type is an indigenous phenomenon." (Brunson, 1985). The estimation is rather bold. In Guangzhou, a city of south China, more than 1000 tombs of the Han Dynasty have been excavated since the 1950s, where 152 pottery figures were found, some looking like Black people (Qin 2010). Three explanations were offered for the Black origin, first, they were from islands near Indochina, and therefore the indigenous people of Indonesia, and people of West Asia or East Africa (Guangzhou Shi, 1981). Second, Qilin, an imagined fortunate animal in ancient China, appeared in a stone sculpture in the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.-220 A.D.), resembling a giraffe (Xuzhou Museum, 1980), as indicated in Picture 1. (3) [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Third, during the Han Dynasty, Ethiopia and Alexandria were mentioned in Shi Ji (Records of the Grand Historian, 104-91 B.C.), Han Shu (History of the Han, 80 A.D.) and Wei Lue (Brief Accounts on the Wei Kingdom), and next, the astronomer-geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria described China and the silk-road in his Geography in the 2nd century. The earliest indication of Black people (hei-se-ren) in China seems to be in Juyan Han Jian (4) Hence, sixty pieces of Juyan Han Jian recorded individuals with their identity, such as jun (as prefecture, unit above county), xian (county), li (grassroots unit), rank, age, height and skin color. With height and skin color as identity elements, it is possible to understand the physical features of individuals at the time. Two studies are particularly interesting. According to Zhang's study, 55 cases with skin color are identified among 60 individual cases, and 53 recorded as "black". (5) In addition, one was labeled "brown black" and another "yellow black". This is very impressive even considering that Han China was a multi-ethnic empire. Were the black-skinned people from a specific area? …


SKLAR, Martin J. The United States as a Developing Country Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920.


Summer and review the achievement and experience of Jiangxi meteorological department since "The Tenth Five", and dispose the future work of the year 2007 and then on. The report point out that the two documents of "Opinions of the State Council on Accelerating the development of meteorological enterprise" (No.[2006] 3 document by State Council) and "Opinions of Jiangxi provincial people's government on Accelerating the development of meteorological enterprise" (No.[2006] 26 document by Jiangxi provincial people's government) are the creed to develop Jiangxi meteorological enterprise fast and well. Jiangxi meteorological department should take the duty in hand, bring into main force play in carrying out No.3 document by State Council and No.26 document by Jiangxi provincial people's government, be solidarity around the party Hujintao as general secretary, hold high the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents, put into practice the guiding principles of scientific development, according to premier Wenjiabao's directions of "big-league equipment, big-league technology, big-league talent and big-league station", insist on the development direction of "public meteorology, safe meteorology", strengthen the foundation of meteorological observation, advance the level of forecasting, accelerate the innovation of science and technology, enrich the connotation of meteorological service, enhance the meteorological service ability to structure socialistic harmonious society, provide big-league service to implement Jiangxi's growing up from new jumping-off point, and then make new contribution to Jiangxi's growing up, setting up the condition of "Big Meteorology" and achieving the progress of great meteorological power from big one.


Developing mobile applications in general, and Android tourism applications in particular, is a laborious and challenging task. This problem has roots in 1) the required domain knowledge and 2) the diversity and fast emerging requirements of a tourism app. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose a novel approach based on model-driven engineering (MDE) principles. To make the approach practical, it is supported by three contributions: a domain-specific modeling language (DSML), a graphical editor, and a transformation engine. To build an app using our approach, the developer must first design the model of the app using the graphical editor, and then generate the app code, automatically using the transformation engine. To evaluate the proposed approach, we built a tourism app as a case study and showed that the proposed approach expedites the development process 8 times compared to the traditional programming.


We focus on the problem of partial queries on content-based image retrieval. We first address the problem of region of interest delimitation through image segmentation by color clustering. We present a robust agglomerating clustering algorithm based on cluster validity criteria derived from fuzzy partitions. We secondly address the problem of color similarity measurement between partial queries using the clustering information obtained from the segmentation stage. We present results to assess the effectiveness of both the segmentation algorithm and retrieval process on a large collection of real-world images.


We introduce an area/energy-efficient precision-scalable neural network accelerator architecture. Previous precision-scalable hardware accelerators have limitations such as the under-utilization of multipliers for low bit-width operations and the large area overhead to support various bit precisions. To mitigate the problems, we first propose a bitwise summation, which reduces the area overhead for the bit-width scaling. In addition, we present a channel-wise aligning scheme (CAS) to efficiently fetch inputs and weights from on-chip SRAM buffers and a channel-first and pixel-last tiling (CFPL) scheme to maximize the utilization of multipliers on various kernel sizes. A test chip was implemented in 28-nm CMOS technology, and the experimental results show that the throughput and energy efficiency of our chip are up to 7.7<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and 1.64<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> higher than those of the state-of-the-art designs, respectively. Moreover, additional 1.5–3.4<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> throughput gains can be achieved using the CFPL method compared to the CAS.