Psychiatria Danubina, 2022; Vol. 34, Suppl. 4, pp 29-877 S600 and after the experiment, semi-structured interviews should be conducted with all the subjects to understand the current mental health level of students. According to the interview results, the students' mental health level is divided into five categories: very unhealthy, unhealthy, uncertain, healthy and very healthy, and five integers of 0,1,2,3 and 4 are given to realize numerical value in order to improve the accuracy of statistical results. Results: The scores of mental health level of students in each group before and after the party construction education intervention experiment are counted, and Table 1. Table 1. Score statistics of mental health level of three groups of students before and after the experiment Interview time Immersive party building education group Traditional party building education group Education group without party building P Before experiment 1.85±0.24 1.83±0.36 1.85±0.27 1.316 After experiment 2.86±0.17 2.30±0.23 1.86±0.21 0.019 It can be seen from Table 1 that before the party building education intervention experiment, the P value of F test for the mental health level score of the three groups of students was 1.316, which was significantly greater than the difference significance level of 0.05. It is considered that the data difference is not significant, that is, the mental health level of the research objects in each group before the experiment can be considered to be generally consistent, and the data after the experiment are sufficiently comparable. After the intervention experiment, there was a significant difference in the scores of students' mental health level in each group. Specifically, after the experiment, the overall mental health scores of the two groups of students who carried out party-building education were higher than those of the non-party-building education group, and the average mental health score of the immersive party-building education group was 2.86, 0.56 higher than that of the traditional party-building education group, which was the highest of the three groups. Conclusions: In view of the increasingly serious situation of college students' mental health, this research attempts to use the immersive party-building education to improve college students' mental health, and designs and carries out a teaching experiment based on semi-structured interviews. The results showed that there was no significant difference among the three groups before the party-building education intervention experiment. After the intervention experiment, there were significant differences in the scores of students' mental health level in each group. The overall mental health scores of the two groups of students who carried out party-building education were higher than those of the non-party-building education group, and the average mental health score of the immersive party-building education group was 2.86, 0.56 higher than that of the traditional party-building education group. This is because the immersive party-building education can give students a stronger sensory impact, and make students more deeply understand the struggle history of the Communist Party to build a prosperous and powerful new China, so as to greatly stimulate their own positive psychology and combat negative and negative psychological problems.


Among the main biogeographical hypotheses explaining the remarkable diversity of fishes in the Neotropics is the "palaeogeographical hypothesis", focusing on vicariance, and the "hydrogeological hypothesis", focusing on geodispersal. Yet while reflecting different processes, they may result in similar biogeographical patterns. We employed a model‐based Bayesian approach to test these alternative hypotheses and determine which shaped the phylogeographical patterns observed in a group of Neotropical fishes.


Terms like sustainability, transparent management, respect for the environment, and social responsibility are concepts that each day gain more importance in the business scenario, which is becoming not anymore just about financial aspects. The business of the healthcare organizations generates a large impact on the society by three dimensions: economical, environmental, and social. Sustainability and these three dimensions must be defined in the organization's policy and its strategic planning; the senior managers should be directly involved in the processes. These processes should be worked during the day to day actions and not just be a matter of marketing. The organization should clearly define how this policy will direct the processes guidelines, and actions for that. From this perspective the objective of this research is to analyze the amount of Brazilian healthcare organizations that have defined the three guidelines of sustainability in their policies and their strategic planning. The methodology used is descriptive. In the main results from the data collected from the websites, few health organizations mentioned the term sustainability and, when they mentioned the term, they mentioned it in a superficial way, which does not focus on the triple bottom line.


PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs have been analysed in soil samples where waste electrical equipment has been burned directly on the ground in three locations of Burgos (Spain). High levels of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs were detected in the centre of combustion sites. The results show PCB levels between 0.824 and 1.240 μg/g, and PCDDs and PCDFs levels between 8.73–36.37 ng/g and 12.79–50.95 ng/g. The I‐TEF values between 2.96–9.15 for dioxins and furans indicate that these soils are heavily polluted and may represent a risk for human and animal health.


Objective To evaluate the clinical value of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia treated by loop elec-trosurgical excision procedure. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed in 192 patients with CIN which were diagnosed after LCT, oolpoccopy and multiple cervical biopsies. Results The satisfactory rate was 99. 5% (191/192) ,the LCT and digital colposcopy were all negative after operation 4 -6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months. Conclusion LEEP is an effective treatment for CIN, with the advantages of easy, safe and quick procedure, minimal damage and blood loss. LEEP helps to avoid misdiagnosis of earlier cervical cancer.

Key words:
Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia;  Conization;  Electrocoagulation


This paper and the accompanying presentation has been prepared to present the subject of why more End of Trip Facilities (EOTF) are required. An end of trip facility is a fancy term for a place to lock bikes, store items in lockers and have a shower and are generally used by people who cycle or run to work. They are usually located at the workplace and generally speaking, are retrofitted into the basement car park. The topic of this paper is related to several considerations, including the need for more EOTFs, which is driven by demand, and also the need for safe and good design practice to encourage use, and thereby drives demand (hopefully). The paper explores the growth in demand in Australia, what drives this growth and how we compare to other global cities.


ObjectivesThe purpose of the study was to evaluate color changes during dark storage of ground pork following application with one of three different antimicrobial interventions to pork trim.Materials and MethodsTreatments included a control (no antimicrobial), lactic acid (LA; 3%), PAA+Titon [sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate (pH 1.3) combined with peracetic acid (350 ppm)], PAA+Acetic [peracetic acid (400 ppm) with 2% acetic acid]. Four 22.7-kg batches of pork trim were treated with one intervention, ground [coarse (3/16'') followed by a fine (1/8") grind] and packaged in 454-g rollstock vacuum packaging (n = 40/treatment). After random assignment to an aging time (0, 7, 14, 21, or 28 d), product was held under dark storage at 2–4°C. On each storage day, samples (n = 8/treatment) were opened and L*, a*, and b* values were taken using a HunterLab Miniscan XE spectrophotometer at 0 min, 10 min, and 20 min for bloom color analysis, with hue angle [arctangent (b*/a*)] and chroma [ (a* + b*)1/2 ] calculated from a* and b* values. For pH, 5 g of sample and 90 mL of distillated water were homogenized and analyzed with a bench top pH probe. Finally, fat, moisture, and protein percentage were determined using a FOSS FoodScan. Statistical analysis was conducted using the GLM procedure of SAS with a means separation using the Tukey adjustment and significance set at P < 0.05.ResultsProximate analysis of the ground pork in this study showed 20.04 ± 1.13% for fat, 61.15 ± 1.11% for moisture, and 16.83 ± 0.39% for protein content. For initial pork color, at 0 min, LA had greater L* values compared to PAA+Titon at 0d, 7d and 14d (P < 0.05), but no treatment differences were detected in L* values at 21d and 28d (P > 0.05). After 10 min of bloom time, PAA+Titon maintained the highest chroma value throughout all aging days (P < 0.05) demonstrating the most color intensity. At 21d PAA+Titon increased blooming properties through 20min (P < 0.05), based on a*, while control samples had no bloom development (P > 0.05). At 21d and 28d aging LA hue angle was highest (P < 0.05) indicating more potential metmyoglobin discoloration. PAA+Titon presented the highest pH values compared to all the other treatments for each day during the storage period except for Day 14, while LA presented lower values compared to all the other treatments for each day (P < 0.05).ConclusionAs an organic acid application on pork trim prior to grinding, PAA+Titon demonstrates positive effects on color of ground pork based on color and pH values, after post-grinding storage.


For an effective process of distance learning it is necessary to assist teachers during the design of instructional material, helping them designing the material structure, navigation, organization and layout and considering pedagogical aspects that facilitate the student knowledge building. We consider usability as the needed effort to use the software and the material as an interface to students. In this context, if the material is made easier to be understood, teachers are reducing the students' effort and increasing the material usability. The main goal of this work was to evaluate the use of a group of Cognitive Strategies as an aid for structuring and organizing the instructional material content delivered through the interface, aiming to increase the hyper document usability and consequently its quality. It is intended to write and document these principles in a Pattern format.


Speech originally published in the Rangoon Gazette and Weekly Budget 26 October 1888, edited by Michael Charney for the SBBR.


The spatial characteristics of landslide and dewatered body of drainage tunnel are analyzed with GIS.Firstly,calculation of landslide volume is discussed by use of the triangular prism model.And then a method for determining the intersecting curve between the rough topographic and dewatered boundary of drainage tunnel is proposed.Using such method,the spatial features and volume of dewatered body can be estimated accurately.Taking the Miyi landslide along Xichang-Panzhihua freeway as an example,both the spatial features and volume of the landslide and dewatered boundary of drainage tunnel are analyzed.


A stereo teleconferencing system provides greater presence in teleconferencing compared with a monaural system. It helps listeners distinguish who is talking at the other end by means of spatial information. The most important problem in stereo echo cancellation is that the adaptive filter often misconverges or, if not, its convergence speed is very slow because of the crosscorrelation between stereo signals. A new stereo echo cancellation algorithm using imaginary input-output relationships is proposed. This algorithm is based on the idea of approximating the input-output relationships for the reversed stereo signals. Unlike conventional methods, which use the input-output relationships in only one situation, our algorithm uses the simultaneous equations for the input-output relationships under two different conditions. Consequently, convergence to the unique steady-state solution is faster than with the conventional algorithm. Computer simulations using data recorded in a conference room demonstrate the effectiveness of this algorithm.


The sources of the allegorical religious trilogy of the Cistercian monk and prior, Guillaume de Deguileville, have not been thoroughly investigated until comparatively recent years. In 1896, Tobler, reporting on Stürzinger's edition of the Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, stated that Deguileville's characteristics as a poet must be compared to those of Jean de Meun and Daute, and that Deguileville's powers of description did not approach those of Dante. Gröber gives it as his opinion that Deguileville's trilogy was composed without any knowledge of the Divina Commedia, though there are analogies between the two. He cites St. Bernard, Aristotle, the Book of Daniel, the Apocalypse, Dionysius Areopagita, and ms. illustrations, as sources of certain features of Ame. J. E. Hultman, in an excellent study of the poet's life and works, brings to light the sources of a large part of the three poems. His is the first serious attempt to discover the literary antecedents of Deguileville, and is a thorough, though inevitably not an exhaustive, treatment of the subject. Farinelli points out additional analogies between Dante and Deguileville, at the same time denying the possibility of any direct influence.


A pterosaur wing phalange from the Kimmeridgian of Eathie (Ross and Cromarty) is identified as the first pterosaur to have been collected in Scotland. The specimen was acquired by the British Museum (Natural History) in 1888, but an old collector's label gives the date of collection as 1850. The handwriting matches that of Charles W. Peach (1800–1886), who later became better known for his fossil fish and plant collections, which still exist in the Natural History Museum, London, and other museums. Peach collected this pterosaur specimen during his first year of working in Scotland, and it was probably one of his earliest finds of north of the border. Pterosaur remains are exceptionally rare in Scotland and otherwise unknown from this particular site, so this newly recognised specimen is a significant addition to the Scottish fossil record. It is also among the earliest UK pterosaur finds, post-dating Mary Anning's discovery of Dimorphodon by just over two decades.


Face image captured under uncontrolled illumination conditions is one of the most significant challenges for real-world human face recognition systems. To overcome this problem, we proposed a novel method called adaptive multiple-layer retinex-based color face enhancement (AMRF) to enhance the face images. Firstly, we use an associative filter to decompose a color face image into illumination and reflectance components at multiple layers. Then, the illumination components in each layer are adjusted automatically by multiplying with corresponded illumination compensation coefficients calculated through a referenced Gaussian template. The enhanced color face image is finally obtained by composing the compensated illumination components with the integrated reflectance component based on the Retinex theory. The experiment was performed on four popular color face datasets: LFW, IJB-C, CMU Multi-PIE, and CMU-PIE. Our proposed method makes face images more precise, natural, and smooth. The experiment results show that AMRF's image quality assessment scores are significantly better than the original and other enhanced methods' images. Furthermore, AMRF considerably improves the recognition accuracy of deep learning-based face recognition models, such as FaceNet, and ArcFace. Finally, our proposed method also saves computational time comparing the other techniques.


'The legislation enacted in 1951 applied to all counties except Allegheny and Philadelphia, with a jurisdictional maximum of $1,000. Pa. Laws 1951, No. 590. In 1957 the statute was amended, raising the jurisdictional amount to $2,000 and extending the option to adopt the procedure to Philadelphia County. The option was granted to Allegheny County in 1959. PA. STAT. ANN. tit. 5, § 30 (1963). 21964 Compulsory Arbitration Div., Philadelphia County Court, Ann. Statistical Rep., exhibit IV [hereinafter cited as 1964 Statistical Rep.]. 3 PA. STAT. ANN. tit. 5, § 30 (1963). 4 PA. STAT. ANN. tit. 5, § 31(VII) (1963). 5 In Philadelphia County there is the further requirement that the case be neither an action in equity nor one for the assessment of damages after judgment is entered. PHILADELPHIA MUNIC. CT. ARBITRATION R. I(A). 6 LEviN & WOOLLEY, DISPATCH AND DELAY, A FIELD STUDY OF JUDICIAL ADmINIsTRATION Ix PENNSYLVANIA 44 n.1 8 (1961). 7 PA. STAT. ANN. tit. 5, § 71(V) (1963). 8 See Rosenberg & Schubin, Trial by Lawyer: Compulsory Arbitration of Small Clains in Pennsylvania, 74 HARv. L. REV. 448, 453 (1961). 9 See, e.g., Elsbree, The Case for More Arbitration, 30 PA. B.A.J. 335 (1959); Address by Chief Justice Bell, Philadelphia Bar Association Quarterly Meeting, March 14, 1963, in 1963 Compulsory Arbitration Div., Philadelphia County Court, Ann. Statistical Rep. 1 [hereinafter cited as 1963 Statistical Rep.]; Special Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, Report, in 1963 Statistical Rep. 2. See also S. 2415, 86th Cong., 1st Sess. (1959), introduced by Senator Scott of Pennsylvania, authorizing arbitration of "certain automobile cases coming before the District Courts of the United States." 1o Pa. H.B. No. 665, March 19, 1963.


In the course of the last years Judita Cofman has conducted mathematical activities for pupils aged 9 to 18, in various circumstances: during normal teaching lessons, in school clubs, at week-end courses, through competitions of home work projects, on residential courses, and through correspondence as editor of "Hypotenuse", a mathematics journal for secondary school students. In this article she describes some of her experiences at work.


With the expanding options in diabetes clinical care, the diabetes educator role has expanded to help people with diabetes (PWd) navigate the complicated clinical landscape. This complicated landscape of connected health and precision medicine is advancing care and self-management for PWd and offering so many more tailored options for care. Yet there are also times when getting back to the basics and focusing on small simple changes can have huge returns. This is what came to mind when i read the AAde Practice Paper, Teaching Injection Technique to People With Diabetes. As educators, many of the basic injection techniques are second nature to us. engaging both new and experienced people with diabetes in best practices for injection techniques can go a long way to increasing comfort and safety and proper rotation for absorption. Throughout the care continuum, there will be moments where lifestyles adjust for PWd under our care, and implementing a systematic needs assessment to identify emerging barriers to selfcare, including insulin injections, is imperative. The paper provides a list of recommended topics to use as a guide in completing assessments (see sidebar). With the complication rate of lipohypertrophy so high (reported in the paper as nearly 50% of PWd using insulin), it is important to periodically discuss injection site selection and rotation at visits. Keeping an eye out for inflammation, hardened areas, or scar tissue and avoiding those areas will improve insulin absorption and reduce irritation and bruising. remind PWd that the most desirable injection site is the abdomen because it allows for the most predictable insulin absorption. other reminders include:


Active queue management (AQM) is an effective method to enhance congestion control, and to achieve tradeoff between link utilization and delay. The de facto standard, random early detection (RED), and most of its variants use queue length as a congestion indicator to trigger packet dropping. The proportional-integral (PI), use both queue length and traffic input rate as congestion indicators; effective stability model and practical design rules built on the TCP control model and abstracted AQM model reveal that such schemes enhance the stability of a system. In this paper, we propose an AQM scheme with fast response time, yet good robustness. The scheme, called loss ratio based RED (LRED), measures the latest packet loss ratio, and uses it as a complement to queue length in order to dynamically adjust packet drop probability. Employing the closed-form relationship between packet loss ratio and the number of TCP flows, this scheme is responsive even if the number of TCP flows varies significantly. We also provide the design rules for this scheme based on the well-known TCP control model. This scheme's performance is examined under various network configurations, and compared to existing AQM schemes, including PI, random exponentially marking (REM), and adaptive virtual queue (AVQ). Our simulation results show that, with comparable complexity', this scheme has short response time, better robustness, and more desirable tradeoff than PI, REM, and AQV, especially under highly dynamic network and heavy traffic load.


The 2013 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task looked to tackling the problem of search result diversication of Flickr results sets formed from queries about geographic places and landmarks. In this paper we describe our approach of using a min-max similarity diversier coupled with pre-lters and a reranker. We also demonstrate a number of novel features for measuring similarity to use in the diversication step.


Editor,—Sarcoidosis, a multisystem granulomatous disease, involves the eye in approximately 25% to 50% of patients1 2 and produces numerous ocular findings.3 Definitive diagnosis requires a non-caseating granuloma in the absence of mycobacterial infection on biopsy. Although most patients have abnormal chest x rays, ocular sarcoidosis can precede pulmonary involvement, making diagnosis difficult. The following patient with ocular sarcoidosis—unresponsive to corticosteroids and cyclosporine—was diagnosed only after chorioretinal biopsy; she responded to azathioprine therapy.

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A 32 year old white woman had a 12 year history of granulomatous uveitis in both eyes, resistant to treatment with topical, periocular, and systemic corticosteroids, as well as systemic cyclosporine. The patient presented …


This paper reports the reaearch result concerning the fingering rearing tech nique of Bostrichthys sinensis. The research was conducted in the low salinity area at the Mouth of the Peal River in west Shenzhen during the period from April to August, 1998. In total, three hatches breeding were smoothly taken. As a result, 800,00 larvae were hatched and 400, 000 fingerlings were reared. The hightest survival rate reach 60%.


Gynecologic Cytopathology: A Color Atlas of Differential Diagnosis (Volker Schneider, trans), by Marie Luise Schneider and Hans-Joachim Staemmler, 187 pp, 154 illus, np, Philadelphia, Saunders, 1977. In recent cytopathologic literature the trend is toward the atlas, a useful form of text for the microscopist. Two new publications of this type seem designed to cover the field of cytology. The 173-page Gynecologic Cytopathology provides an introduction to the subject. Unfortunately, however, the illustrations provide no histopathologic correlation. When the authors use such terms as "superficial" and "deep" stromal cells of the endometrium, this lack of correlation is especially severe. The disadvantage becomes even more important in the section on dysplasia, as well as in the chapter on carcinoma in situ, which is subdivided into large, intermediate, and small cell types. The accompanying text is brief, as is the bibliography of 54 references. The majority of the color plates are of good


Shortening of behavioural despair in mice, test that Porsolt and coll. have proposed for the screening of anti-depressive drugs, is able to reveal thymoanaleptic and/or desinhibitory properties of several neuroleptic-desinhibiting substances such as thioproperazine, carpipramine and sulpiride.


Many people suffer from intolerance to milk sugar – lactose and can not eat foods containing milk, ie possess a lactase deficiency. To solve the problem, we propose the production of lactic acid foods low in lactose. Yeast, ferment lactose is widely used at creation of dietary and medical dairy drinks. The article presents the results of the isolation and identification of yeasts from different substrates for the development of the leaven with property disposal lactose. In general, yeast cultures were isolated from milk products homemade various regions of the country. Yeasts have characteristic morphological and cultural features. Identification of 19 yeasts held by biochemical method and genotyping by PCR analysis of ITS region. Yeast general represented Kluyveromyces, Candida, Saccharomyces, are promising as lactose utilization.


This paper considers that a legitimate UAV tracks suspicious UAVs' flight for preventing intended crimes and terror attacks. To enhance tracking accuracy, the legitimate UAV proactively eavesdrops suspicious UAVs' communication via sending jamming signals. A tracking algorithm is developed for the legitimate UAV to track the suspicious flight by comprehensively utilizing eavesdropped packets, angle-of-arrival and received signal strength of the suspicious transmitter's signal. A new co-simulation framework is implemented to combine the complementary features of optimization toolbox with channel modeling (in Matlab) and discrete event-driven mobility tracking (in NS3). Moreover, numerical results validate the proposed algorithms in terms of tracking accuracy of the suspicious UAVs' trajectory.


Low frequency oscillation (LFO) is harmful to power system security and stability. The traditional solutions for LFO are the power system stabilizer (PSS) with local or global signal implemented on the excitations. This paper explores the global governor-side damping controllers for LFO, i.e., controller with input from the wide area measurement system (WAMS). Design strategy of global governor-side damping controller with remote signal from WAMS is proposed, based on the partial state feedback theory. Simulation results in a 4-generator-2-area power system show the effectiveness of the proposed global governor-side damping controller.


The invention discloses a method and a piece of equipment for a follower of a telephone conference to classify speech content in the telephone conference. The method comprises the following steps: detecting a subject to which speech content belongs; determines the degree of correlation between a follower and the speech content at least according to the degree of correlation between the follower and the subject; and classifying the speech content according to the degree of correlation between the follower and the speech content. By adopting the method and the equipment, the degree of correlation between the speech content in a telephone conference and a follower of the telephone conference can be automatically determined, and the speech content can be classified according to the degree of correlation, so that the follower can selectively give attention to some speech content in the telephone conference, the burden on the follower is reduced, and the efficiency of the conference is improved.


It is clear that the flexible deformation of a flapping wing has strong influences on its aerodynamic performance.However,most of previous numerical studies focus on rigid flapping wings.In this paper,a numerical study on the effect of flexible deformation of a flapping wing on its aerodynamic performance is conducted.A simplified two-dimensional flexible flapping wing model is used.The fluid-structure interaction flow is simulated by solving the N-S equation using the finite volume method coupled with a solver to determine the deformation of the flapping wing with a finite element method.The results show that the flexible deformation of the flapping wing changes the vortex structure around the flapping wing significantly.Appropriate deformation can delay the shedding of the leading edge vortex,and hence improve the propulsive efficiency of the flapping wing,but the wake capture mechanism that leads to high lift force under low Reynolds number is weakened.


INTRODUCTION
Growing evidence has demonstrated that diastolic heart failure occurs in about half of heart failure (HF) patients. We investigated the effects of perindopril on echocardiographic parameters, New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class and serum N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels in patients with diastolic heart failure.

METHODS
In total, 108 diastolic heart failure patients aged ≥ 50 years, who had diastolic dysfunction with an ejection fraction ≥ 50%, were enrolled and randomised to one of the two study groups. Perindopril was initiated in the study group and the control group was given standard therapy. Echocardiographic parameters, NT-proBNP levels and NYHA classes were recorded. The patients were followed for 11 (three to 16) months. Eighty-eight patients completed the study.

RESULTS
Although diastolic parameters were not changed, A' (septal) velocity (10.8 vs 9.9 cm/s) and Sm (septal) velocity (8.5 vs 7.6 cm/s) were significantly increased in the perindopril compared to the control group. A significant increase in A' (septal) velocity (+0.61 vs -0.28 cm/s, p = 0.04) and a slight increase in Sm (septal) velocity (+0.99 vs 0.36 cm/s, p = 0.054) were noted in the perindopril group.

CONCLUSIONS
Tissue Doppler septal late diastolic velocities and septal systolic myocardial velocities increased in the perindopril group but NT-proBNP levels, and NYHA class was not changed in this study population.


Nowadays, socializing of humans with pet animals has increased. The pet animals are treated as a part of the family and the physical interaction has also improved owing to the fact that the infected animals are not easily identifiable at an early stage and children are more prone to get infected. This leads to the necessity for monitoring and analyzing the behavior of the pet animals. The current trend is moving toward smart homes as the cameras are getting cheaper and easily available. The vision-based approach is one of the solutions to identify the behavioral changes of the pet animals. In this paper, the study on behavioral analysis of dogs and cats as pet animals is reviewed.


In this paper, a theoretical study of the combined effects of surface roughness and the variation of viscosity with pressure on the squeeze film lubrication between sphere and a flat plate is presented. Based on the Christensen's stochastic theory for the hydrodynamic lubrication of rough surfaces, two types of one-dimensional surface roughness (radial and azimutal) patterns are considered. The generalized averaged Reynold's equation for Stokes couple stress fluids accounting for the pressure dependent viscosity is mathematically derived for the problem under consideration. The standard perturbation technique is used to solve the averaged nonlinear Reynold's equation and an approximate analytical solution for the fluid film mean pressure is obtained for the two types of one-dimensional roughness patterns. It is found that, the effects of couple stresses and pressure dependent viscosity variation are to improve the squeeze film characteristics.


Jay A. Jacobson, MD, is Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City. Evelyn M. Kasworm, BS, is Research Associate in the Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital. Margaret P. Battin, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital. Jeffrey R. Botkin, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital. Leslie P. Francis, PhD, JD, is Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy, and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital. David Green, MD, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics, University of Utah School of Medicine and LDS Hospital.


This paper puts forward a reasonable retrofit project for exhaust system in hotel guest room,namely changing the traditional type installing a fan in every lavatory of guest room into the assemble system of exhaust.Therefore,the noise in the guest room is removed,supplying noiseless and comfortable conditions.The method also cuts down maintenance expenses and saves electric energy.It is important to build the green hotel and raise economic benefit.


Many contributions have focused on the pitting analysis in gear transmissions. However, studies on pitting fatigue in spiral bevel gears are limited due to the complexity of tooth contact and lubrication analysis. This paper is to present a reasonable methodology to simulate the pitting crack nucleation of spiral bevel gears considering the real three‐dimensional (3D) rough surface contact where the intermittent asperity stress concentrations is prominent. The proposed model includes a loaded tooth contact analysis model, a mixed elastohydrodynamic lubrication model proposed previously, 3D stress filed formulation, and multi‐axial fatigue criterions. In order to determine an appropriate multi‐axial fatigue criterion for spiral bevel gear, a characteristic plane approach and a conventional critical plane approach are employed in this study. The predicted micro‐pitting lives are compared to published micro‐pitting investigations to assess the reliability of two fatigue criterions in simulation of the micro‐pitting failure. It is observed that the characteristic plane approach is better to reveal the failure mechanism in spiral bevel gears.


Aim. To compare the properties of active edible materials to active edible based on yam and cassava starch with the incorporation of essential oil of oregano (Origanum vulgare) (OEO) for application in grape coating. Materials and methods. The film-forming dispersions were obtained and the contact angle on different kinds of fruits and vegetables and the stability of the dispersions were determined. Subsequently, the films were obtained by casting, their physicochemical properties were evaluated, such as antioxidant capacity, antimicrobial capacity, among others. The grapes were covered with the best treatments and weight loss was traced and a visual inspection of their condition was carried out. Results. Remarkable differences were evident between the materials obtained from these two starch sources. The yam dispersions showed to be more stable, additionally, their films had higher moisture content, lower water absorption capacity, higher internal transmittance and slightly higher antimicrobial and antioxidant capacity. Conclusions. In the application as a coating, it was observed that the grapes coated with yam-based dispersions lost weight at a slower rate, maintaining them in good condition for a longer time, evidencing a greater potential in this type of applications compared to cassava starch.


Accurate estimation of ultrasound Doppler spectrogram envelope is essential for clinical pathological diagnosis of various cardiovascular diseases. However, due to intrinsic spectral broadening in the power spectrum and speckle noise existing in ultrasound images, it is difficult to obtain the accurate maximum velocity. Each of the standard existing methods has their own limitations and does not work well in complicated recordings. This paper proposes a robust automatic spectral envelope estimation method that is more accurate in phantom recordings and various in-vivo recordings than the currently used methods. Comparisons were performed on phantom recordings of the carotid artery with varying noise and additional in-vivo recordings. The accuracy of the proposed method was on average 8% greater than the existing methods. The experimental results demonstrate the wide applicability under different blood conditions and the robustness of the proposed algorithm.


Current inference techniques for processing multi‐needle Langmuir probe (m‐NLP) data are often based on adaptations of the Orbital Motion‐Limited (OML) theory which relies on several simplifying assumptions. Some of these assumptions, however, are typically not well satisfied in actual experimental conditions, thus leading to uncontrolled uncertainties in inferred plasma parameters. In order to remedy this difficulty, three‐dimensional kinetic particle in cell simulations are used to construct a synthetic data set, which is used to compare and assess different m‐NLP inference techniques. Using a synthetic data set, regression‐based models capable of inferring electron density and satellite potentials from 4‐tuples of currents collected with fixed‐bias needle probes similar to those on the NorSat‐1 satellite, are trained and validated. The regression techniques presented show promising results for plasma density inferences with RMS relative errors less than 20%, and satellite potential inferences with RMS errors less than 0.2 V for potentials ranging from −6 to −1 V. The new inference approaches presented are applied to NorSat‐1 data, and compared with existing state‐of‐the‐art inference techniques.


Laricifomes officinalis
 is a wood-decay fungus that is closely associated with old individuals of
 Larix decidua
 . In the twentieth century,
 L. officinalis
 was over-harvested because of its medicinal properties; consequently, it has become very rare or almost extinct in the Alps. In this study, we investigated the population of
 L. officinalis
 in the Alpe Veglia–Alpe Devero Natural Park (Val d'Ossola, Italy) to assess a preliminary conservation strategy. Population consistency was estimated using field mapping, and spatial analysis was performed on host trees based on topographical and environmental variables. Mycelia were isolated from harvested basidiomata, and strain identity confirmed by molecular analysis of the ITS region. All isolated strains were tested for growth in Petri dishes containing different standard media to determine which strains had the highest growth rates; the fastest growing strains may be selected for future studies and applications.
 Compared to the control strains from Val Malenco and Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso, all strains from Alpe Veglia–Alpe Devero Natural Park had lower growth rates. There was no significant difference between the growth rates of strains from Alpe Veglia and those from Alpe Devero.
 The results suggest that the population consistency of
 L. officinalis
 in the Alpe Veglia–Alpe Devero Natural Park is related to two main factors: habitat preservation and harvesting prohibition. These results confirm the need to protect
 L. officinalis
 both inside and outside natural reserves, despite the apparent increase in local populations.


We assessed the effects of limited application of SNS during bladder filling on bladder capacity utilizing our previously published sacral neurostimulation (SNS) model in rats. Female Sprague-Dawley rats (n=24) were urethane-anesthetized (s.c. 1.2 g/kg) and implanted with jugular venous and transvesical bladder catheters. The L6/S1 nerve trunks were isolated bilaterally and two electrodes were placed on each exposed nerve. True bladder capacity (TBC) was determined using stable single-fill cystometrograms. In the first series of experiments, SNS was applied at the onset of bladder filling for 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of the previous control filling cycle duration (n=10). In the second series of experiments, SNS was applied during the first, second, third, and fourth 25% and the first and second 50% of control fill. In the first series, a significant increase in TBC was observed only when SNS was applied for 75% or 100% of control fill duration (30 and 35%, resp., p<0.05). In the second series, significant increases in TBC only occurred during the fourth 25% and second 50% periods (32 and 43%, resp., p<0.001). Results from the second series also revealed an increase in subsequent single-fill bladder capacities (TBC) only when SNS was applied during the 2nd 50% of the prior fill cycle. These data indicate that the application of SNS during the final 50% of the bladder fill cycle is necessary and sufficient for increasing bladder capacity.


A system is proposed for a fully automatized analysis and identification of a human face appearing in a picture. The system learns a face by analyzing it and storing the extracted features in a database. This analysis starts from a very robust detection of a face and its position scale and orientation based on the position of the eyes. The. four transformation parameters define the face-specific coordinates which are used during the entire analysis. In these coordinates some face features are detected and stored which belong roughly to three categories: geometrical proportions surface properties and iconic features. The identification of a person using a different picture of a known person also starts from a face analysis. Using the features the presented face is correlated with all faces present in the database. The correlation of the extracted features contains two steps: individual measures (correlating iconic features computing differences in geometrical proportions or surface properties) give the similarity between two faces for one feature while a global measure (a Euclidean norm for instance) combines these similarity values. The system is therefore able to identify a known person by finding the best match. The results of the system on real images are presented. It is shown that the identification is quite selective.


Laser printer attribution is an increasing problem with several applications, such as pointing out the ownership of crime proofs and authentication of printed documents. However, as commonly proposed methods for this task are based on custom-tailored features, they are limited by modeling assumptions about printing artifacts. In this paper, we explore solutions able to learn discriminant-printing patterns directly from the available data during an investigation, without any further feature engineering, proposing the first approach based on deep learning to laser printer attribution. This allows us to avoid any prior assumption about printing artifacts that characterize each printer, thus highlighting almost invisible and difficult printer footprints generated during the printing process. The proposed approach merges, in a synergistic fashion, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied on multiple representations of multiple data. Multiple representations, generated through different pre-processing operations, enable the use of the small and lightweight CNNs whilst the use of multiple data enable the use of aggregation procedures to better determine the provenance of a document. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to noisy data and outperforms existing counterparts in the literature for this problem.


The Raman Excitation + Laser Induced Electronic Fluorescence (RELIEF) velocity measurement method is based on vibrationally tagging oxygen molecules and observing their displacement after a short period of time. Two papers that discuss the use and implementation of the RELIEF technique are presented in this final report. Additionally, the end of the report contains a listing of the personnel involved and the reference documents used in the production of this final report.


Objectives Hair regeneration in scalp scars was performed via autogenous hair transplantation surgery. The characteristics and the outcomes of the surgery are reported. Methods 782 cases of hair transplantation in scalp were scars were fulfilled from 1998 to 2002.Results Transplanted hair in each case grew well, however, the growth speed and appearance depended on the thickness of scar and the blood supply of the scar.Conclusion Autogenous hair transplantation can be applied to treat scars-caused bald. Surgery performed on scars resulted from infectio, scalding, low or middle grade burn exhibited good result, but in case of the patients with peeled off scalp, electric shock injury or severe burn, the transplanted hair grew slower.


Abstract The scope of the research described in this paper is to develop, evaluate and propose a newempirical index, the so-called Index of Workplace Comfort (IWC), which quantifies the overallcomfort sensation of a user in an office building. The proposed Index of Workplace Comfort is calculated on the basis of both environmental and psychological properly weighted sensation votes of workplace occupants. The weight of 13 variables in the equation of IWC is determined through ordered probit regression in a dataset, using a background questionnaire completed by 238individuals working in 11 office buildings. The evaluation of the proposed index consisted of the implementation of the IWC model in a building (52 cases) and the comparison with data collected from thermal comfort measurements based on ISO 7730 (159 cases) and thermal sensation votes of the occupants (321 cases). The findings show, with statistical significance, that the IWC describes the overall comfort conditions better than the PMV-PPD model used in ISO 7730 andsupports the position that psychological variables affect the overall comfort sensation of individuals in a workplace.


EDITOR,--J E Charlton claims that closer monitoring, as well as routine oxygen, during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy would reduce morbidity related to this procedure.1 Charlton wonders whether it is safe to dismiss cardiographic abnormalities and low oxygen desaturation, since in a recent survey nearly all the complications were respiratory or cardiovascular.2 In the same survey 85% of upper gastrointestinal endoscopies were performed under sedation, a figure similar to that …


Making information literacy ubiquitous When I asked Briggs what her job entailed, she re plied, "I work at integrat ing information literacy into online courses at the University of Waterloo. I see myself as sort of an infiltrator, trying to get the library into as many online courses as possible. I'd love to reach every course. "The longer I'm in the job, the more sample mod ules we have to show," she continued. "That re ally helps because the faculty member can see a model for what could be offered in their course. I talk at departmental meetings and at the LT3 Task Users Group. It meets every semester, so faculty members can show what they're doing in their courses. I'll show what the library can do for them. The response has been kind of surprising. Traditionally, when you talk about the library people's eyes tend to glaze over. But at the Task Laura Briggs, liaison librarian for the Centre for Learn ing and Teaching through Technology (LT3) and Chem istry liaison at the University of Waterloo. Users Group, there's often a lot of excitement and faculty have a lot of questions." Briggs explained that LT3 has developed an instructional design model, called the T5 model, which she follows in designing the information lit eracy modules. "It's a way of structuring your class so that you actively engage your students with the subject matter in an online course environment. What that means is there's not just a topic. We always want students to have a task and feedback so that they have to engage with what they're learning."


Background: We analyze the functional evaluation, posterior stability after surgery of acute injuries in the femoral detachment and tibial avulsion fracture of posterior cruciate ligament. Materials and Methods: Twenty two patients who underwent primary repair were followed more than one year after operation (mean follow-up 33.7 months). The patients were evaluated with KT 2000 arthrometer and posterior stress test for posterior stability. Lysholm knee score was used for knee function. Results: Lysholm score revealed 85.3 in femoral detachment group and 91.1 in tibial avulsion fracture group (P


The article is devoted to criminal liability for violation of safety rules of movement and operation of vehicles by persons who are intoxicated. Taking into account statistical data on the state of accidents, the requirements for persons administering rail, air, sea, inland water transport, metro and other means of transportation; the recent changes in the criminal law, the authors proposes rule under 2632 of the criminal code with administrative prejudice.


This paper builds upon work first done in a joint project with Intel [1] on high frequency studies of buried silicon interfaces. That paper reported a study on experimentally determined resolution limits for a series of 230 MHz transducers of different focal lengths using specially designed resolution test targets. This paper takes the information learned from the previous study on test targets and applies it to "real world" applications. In addition further developments on higher frequency transducers to increase resolution needed for these applications will be presented. INTRODUCTION Recently microelectronics has been miniaturizing structures further and using thinner silicon wafers/die. This is driving AMI technology to develop higher frequency transducers to increase the available resolution in the spatial (x,y) dimension. Acoustic Micro Imaging has been used over the past years to successfully evaluate the quality of various microelectronic components. Acoustic micro imaging uses high frequency ultrasound (5 to 500 MHz) to image the internal features of samples. Ultrasound is sensitive to variations in the elastic properties of materials and is particularly sensitive to locating air gaps (delaminations and


The Education Departments of newly-established colleges are the products of a new round of educational reform.But the growing employment competition has placed their graduates in a more disadvantageous position than those from the Education Departments of long-established colleges.By analyzing the history of departments setting in China's colleges and their goal of professional personnel cultivation,this paper aims at discussing about the trend of the professional development of the students in education departments with the new course reform of primary education as the main background,and presenting some suggestions to improve students' professional development.


Technology poses a danger not merely because of its capacity to bring into existence potential dangers, but because it creates the illusions that future problems may be avoided. David M. Kaplan's Readings in the Philosophy of Technology critically examines the ways in which technologies change life and the environment. This book provides a more comprehensive range of philosophical inquires related to technology than previous books, such as Frederick Ferre's Philosophy of Technology and Don Ihde's Philosophy of Technology, in a way that stimulates and deepens the reader's understanding of technological development. Kaplan's superb book is divided into six parts containing 31 readings, most newly published, by some of the leading philosophers in the area of technology. The book begins with an introduction that defines philosophy of technology and provides a brief overview of the book. Before each part an introduction further details the readings. Following each essay useful and up-to-date notes provide additional study of the philosophy of technology. Part I, Early Philosophy of Technology, consists of readings from the 1940s to 1970s that provide the foundation for early philosophy of technology. These readings explore theories explaining the transcendent and the historical nature of technology in a way that shows it is an independent force. For example, Martin Heidegger's essay Question Concerning Technology argues that technology is a way of regarding humans and the environment as "standing reserve" or as resources for our use. As Heidgger sees it, humans must go beyond these technological confines to have another way of experiencing the world. Hubert Dreyfus's essay Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology argues that Heidegger's reading advocates a cultural paradigm based on aspects of life and the environment. According to Dreyfus, this does not require a negative attitude towards technological thinking, but does require a positive attitude that is a broader and more inclusive view of reality. Part II, Recent Philosophy of Technology, shows the shift of the philosophy of technology to a philosophy more willing to acknowledge the interdependence of technology and society. Andrew Light's essay Ecological Restoration and the Culture of Nature shows this shift, asserting that ecological restoration is an attempt to remedy environmental problems caused by humans. Light believes that ecological restoration is a vehicle to support the importance of working together to restore nature and humans' moral relationship with their environment. Taken together, the readings in Part I and II provide a paradigm for a philosophy of technology by examining the complex relationship between humans and technologies. In Part III, Technology and Ethics, the essays examine the moral issues related to technology. These essays focus on the moral issue of whether it is permissible to use technology when there are dangers inherent in that technology. To address this problem, Hans Jonas's essay Technology and Responsibility argues that a revision of Kant's categorical imperative is needed because technologies are surpassing codes of ethics. In Part IV, Technology and Politics, the inquiry turns from moral issues raised by technology to political issues concerning technology. Here, the readings analyze the nexus of technological development, production, and administration to political considerations and values. There is the underlying assumption made in each of these reading that no clear distinction can be formulated between political and technological considerations. Richard E. Sclove's essay Strong Democracy and Technology demonstrates this when he argues that in democracies, citizens have the right to participate fully in the decision-making process at the national and local levels. To Scolve, this implies the right to decide the use, the design, and management of technologies. Part V, Technology and Human Nature, analyzes how technology shapes human nature. Carl Elliot's essay What's Wrong with Enhancement Technologies analyzes the controversial issues created by medical treatment designed to advanced human capacities and characteristics, rather than to


Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate the appearance, sensory and physicochemical characteristics of muffin added glutinous(GSP) and non-glutinous sorghum powder(NGSP). As increasing the amounts of sorghum powder, proximate (moisture, ash and protein) and minerals composition(K, Ca, Mg and Na) of muffin were significant difference. The weight, volume, height, lightness(L-value) and yellowness(b-value) were decreased as increasing the amounts of sorghum powder. In the results of sensory evaluation, appearance, color, flavor, taste, texture and overall quality of untreated muffin were 1.4, 1.6, 1.4, 1.0, 1.1 and 0.9, and muffin added 10% GSP and NGSP were scored relatively high. Antioxidant compounds contents of muffin added sorghum powder were increased as increasing the amounts of sorghum powder. DPPH and ABTS free radical scavenging activities on methanolic extracts of untreated muffin were 0.74 and 1.31 ㎎ TE/g ER, respectively. DPPH and ABTS free radical scavenging activities of 100% GSP muffin were 9.40 and 19.14 ㎎ TE/g ER, and 100% NGSP muffin were 10.59 and 18.78 ㎎ TE/g ER, respectively. The results of this study show that notable antioxidant compounds and antioxidant activity on muffin added sorghum powder are considered to have significant health benefits.Key word: muffin, sorghum(Sorghum bicolor L. Moench), glutinous, non-glutinous, physicochemical characteristic


Scholars of the French couturier Christian Dior (1905–57) already will be familiar with Alexandra Palmer's work. She has written and lectured extensively on post-war haute couture and the House of Dior in particular. Her latest work adds more contextualization to the iconic designer's "golden age," the ten years between 1947, when he showed his first collection, and 1957, the year of his death. Central to Palmer's work is an ambitious foray into the construction of thirty-eight Dior garments in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) that reveal larger themes of the house and its designs. Palmer's understanding of the technical nuances of Dior's twice-yearly collections and special commissions gives depth and context to the designer's New Look (buzzwords for the house and its fans even today). She documents the designer's business and marketing acumen as well as the attention to detail in his highly aesthetic designs. She also traces Dior's dependence on France's luxury industries through fabric and embellishments. Illustrated with highly stylized, bold photography, Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957 is an important addition to fashion studies generally and post-war haute couture more specifically. Palmer's object-based research approach is in full force for the book, which in some ways acts as a post-exhibition catalogue for her recent 2017–2018 show at the ROM, Christian Dior. The dramatically lit and detailed photographs of the garments, augmented by archival images, further suggest a connection to Palmer's recent exhibition. While this reviewer did not have the opportunity to see that show in person, the book serves as a lasting record of the new ground her research broke. Palmer contributes nuanced information and perspectives on this already well-covered designer. The book is organized into two main sections, each anchored around the ROM garments. The first section possesses the same title as that of the book and consists of ten short essays or chapters. This section gives detailed information on characteristics of the house's garment construction and embellishments, historical influences, and references to earlier works in Dior's oeuvre (he previously worked at the houses of both Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong). The first essay, "Decoding Dior," is arguably one of the most important. Here, Palmer outlines her methodology. She underscores the goals and labor involved in writing the book and introduces key aspects of the French couture industry as they relate 1 See for example Christian Dior: A New Look, A New Enterprise (1947–1957) (London: V&A Publishing, 2009); "Inside Paris Haute Couture," in The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London, 1947–1957 (London: V&A Publications, 2007), 64–83; Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s (Toronto: UBC Press, 2001).


Introduction 1. The Sovereignty of Parliament 2. A Constitutional Turning Point: 1828-1836 3. 'Parliamentary Government' and its Critics: 1832-1867 4. Constituency Politics: 1832-1867 5. The Dynamics of Voting: 1832-1867 6. The Moral Climate of Reform: 1848-1867 7. 'Shooting Niagara': the 1867 Reform Acts 8. The Demise of 'Parliamentary Government': 1868-1884 9. Party, Society and the State: 1886-1905 10. Epilogue


The traditional medicinal plants still play a vital role to cover the basic health needs in the developing countries. Herbal remedies used in the traditional folk medicine provide an interesting and still largely an unexplored source for the creation and development of potential new drugs. Plant extracts represent a continuous effort to find new compounds with the potential to act against multi-resistant bacteria. The medicinal value of plants lies in some chemical substances that have biological activities; the most important of these bioactive compounds of plant are alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, essential oils, glycosides, saponins, steroids, phenylpropanoids and carbohydrates. In addition, interest in the antioxidant activity of plant extracts has become larger and very important due to the fact that free radicals, e.g. reactive oxygen species can be responsible for various diseases, including cancer, coronary heart diseases, inflammatory conditions, gastric ulcer, cirrhosis, diabetes and aging are associated with oxidative stress caused by an imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants in the body. So, the need for new sources of antioxidants is escalating to make life easier and health better. Many antioxidant compounds, naturally occurring from plant sources, have been identified as a free radical or active oxygen scavengers and Beta carotene bleaching assay.


Two studies have recently reported the discovery of pronounced halo substructure in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. Here we show that this halo substructure is, almost in its entirety, due to the expected tidal stream torn off the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy during the course of its many close encounters with the Milky Way. This interpretation makes strong predictions on the kinematics and distances of these stream stars. Comparison of the structure in old horizontal branch stars, detected by the SDSS team, with the carbon star structure discovered in our own survey, indicates that this halo stream is of comparable age to the Milky Way. It would appear that the Milky Way and the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy have been a strongly interacting system for most of their existence. Once complete, the SDSS will provide a unique data set with which to constrain the dynamical evolution of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy; it will also strongly constrain the mass distribution of the outer Milky Way.


The food habits of 214 specimens of C. hippocrepis were analyzed throughout the year in an extensive area (44000 km 2 ). This species mainly fed on vertebrates, especially mammals and reptiles which constituted more than 92% of its prey; other items included birds and invertebrates. Mammals represented more than 70% of the total prey mass. There was an ontogenetic shift in prey type; small snakes fed almost exclusively on small lizards, large snakes on rodents, although this change was gradual. There was not an ontogenetic shift in the percentage of snakes with gut contents, number of prey types or food diversity. C. hippocrepis captured relatively small prey. Most of them were taken head first, and those taken tail first were significantly smaller. We discuss the type of prey and the ontogenetic food shift in relation to the habits of this species in the south of Iberian Pcninsula.


Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 light absorber is deposited on the mesoporous TiO2 layer via one-step and two-step coating methods and their photovoltaic performances are compared. One-step coating using a solution containing CH3NH3I and PbI2 shows average power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.5%, while higher average PCE of 13.9% is obtained from two-step coating method, mainly due to higher voltage and fill factor. The coverage, pore-filling, and morphology of the deposited perovskite are found to be critical in photovoltaic performance of the mesoporous TiO2 based perovskite solar cells.


The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among social support, life satisfaction and health promotion behavior of leisure sport participants. This study consisted of 250 leisure sport participants selected by convenience sampling method. Researched material was analyzed using SPSS 17.0 and AMOS 7.0 program to draw exploratory-confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, reliability analysis using Cronbach's α and structure model analysis. The analyzed facts were as following. First, social support of leisure sport participants had not influence on life satisfaction. Second, social support of leisure sport participants had positive influence on health promotion behavior. Third, life satisfaction of leisure sport participants had not influence on health promo-


The possibility that a fundamental magnetic charge might exist has intrigued physicists over the years. After the quantum theory of the magnetic monopole was developed in 1931 by P. A. M. Dirac, experimenters began looking for them. They have searched in cosmic rays, at particle accelerators, in iron ore, ocean sediment, meteorites and lunar rock.


Abstract We consider left-invariant control affine systems on the matrix Lie group SO (2, 1)0. A classification, under state space equivalence, of all such full-rank control systems is obtained. First, we identify certain subsets on which the group of Lie algebra automorphisms act transitively. We then systematically identify equivalence class representatives (for single-input, two-input and three-input control systems). A brief comparison of these classification results with existing results concludes the paper.


........................................................................3 Introduction...........................................................................4 Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)..........................................7 Return Predictability and Trading Strategies Contrarian investing...........................................................11 Momentum investing...........................................................15 Overall......................................................................19 Factors Explaining Momentum and Contrarian Profitability...........20 The Athens Stock Exchange...................................................23 Data and Methodology.........................................................24 Results...............................................................................26 Conclusion..........................................................................44 Appendix...........................................................................45 References .......................................................................46 ΠΑ ΝΕ ΠΙ ΣΤ ΗΜ ΙΟ Π ΕΙ ΡΑ ΙΑ


Purification has an important role in obtaining protein with a high degree of purity, particularly for human therapeutic purposes. Purification of pharmaceutical proteins requires several unit operations, involving chromatographic separation techniques. To increase purification efficiency and shorten process development, it is necessary to examine the chromatography system in performing a capture and intermediate purification in a single step. We use one of the best Pichia pastoris clones obtained from previous studies to produce a human insulin precursor (HIP). To capture and purify HIP from the culture, we clarified the cells through centrifugation and filtration. The supernatant was then loaded into a cation exchange column. Purification was carried on by two-step elution and monitored based on UV absorbance. Effects of loading concentration, flow rate, and pH of samples were evaluated. Fractions of elution were collected and verified by SDS-PAGE. Concentrations of HIP protein were quantified by using ImageJ by incorporating lysozyme as standard and reversed phase HPLC. Loading concentration and pH of the sample have an impact on the recovery. In this study, the best HIP recovery at ∼ 47% resulted from purification with 10% volume of loading concentration and 500 ml loading volume.


Purpose: To study the long-term outcome of cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens (IOL) in children <2 years. Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis of bilateral cases that were operated before 2 years age for congenital cataract. All underwent primary posterior capsulotomy with anterior vitrectomy and primary IOL implantation. Only those with a follow-up of at least 8 years were evaluated. Results: Twenty-six eyes of 13 children with bilateral cataract met the inclusion criteria. Average age at surgery was 14.15 months with a mean follow-up of 102 months. Average preoperative axial length (AL) was 19.93 mm. There was a refractive shift from a mean spherical equivalent of 1.64 D at 2 weeks after surgery to -1.42 D measured at last follow-up. Twenty-four eyes out of 26 (92%) achieved final visual acuity (VA) of 6/18 or more at last follow-up with 19/26 (73%) having acuity of 6/12 or greater. Raised intraocular pressure was documented in one eye only. Average AL recorded at last follow-up was 22.21 mm. Conclusion: Primary IOL implantation in children <2 years is a safe surgical procedure with excellent long-term results. The myopic shift is well-controlled and final VA achieved is reasonably good.


With the development of Social Networking Services, users can publish and receive information expediently. Social marketing emerged at this circumstance with an important need to study the influence of marketing activities in network. Based on the research of user influence, choosing the most influential users can improve marketing effectiveness greatly. With the appearance of Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks, more and more scholars began to study user influence in such complex and huge network. In this paper, we make a quantitative analysis to evaluate user influence and classify users into different categories. We synthetically consider various user attributes, including the static social relationships and dynamic social activities. We add new components to improve PageRank algorithm and propose a behavior-based ranking(BBR) algorithm. Experiments show that the improved BBR algorithm has a satisfied performance.


This article is concerned with the empirical object or the empirical field of investigation, of Business Economics as a science, particularly in the context of on-going specialisation in the sciences. The Dutch business economists Limperg and Van der Schroeff advocate the concept of the so-called "business household" ("bedrijfshuishouding") as empirical object of Business Economics, where this concept carries different meanings and content. They abbreviate the concept "business household" to only "business" ("bedrijf"). According to Van der Schroeff the concept "business" can denote one or any of the following: either the private firm with the profit motive as goal, or the public utility industry, or semi-government institutions or a co-operative, or any establishment with a business purpose. In accordance with Limperg and Van der Schroeff any organization where factors of production are combined, can be identified as the empirical object of Business Economics. The term "business" (short for business household) is thus used in its widest sense to denote any business unit, irrespective of whether it is found in the business sector, farming sector, manufacturing sector or service sector of the economy.Another Dutch business economist, J.L. Meij, allocates a more limited content to the concept "business" by eliminating whose businesses which are not solely aimed at the generation of a cash flow. This more limited approach is acceptable because it leaves scope for the development of Public Administration as an independent science.The most important idea advanced in this article is the following: Due to tendency among certain (Afrikaansspeaking) business economists to pursue the ideas of Limperg and Van der Schroeff in an unmodified fashion by the use of the generic concept of business, danger exists that the vital role of private enterprise in a mixed economic society may be undervalued or even disregarded. The premise underlying the use of the generic concept of business can diminish the scientific character of Business Economics. The argument of the author is that the well-known and approved differences between the firm (enterprise or undertaking) and plant (or establishment) must also be maintained.


Ferric chloride hexahydrate was used as a recyclable homogeneous ca- talyst in aqueous media for the synthesis of 3-(indol-3-yl)-3-hydroxyindolin-2-ones under sonication. It was found that the employed conditions afford the products smoothly in good to excellent yields.


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This small series of three cases of lateral ureterovesical anastomosis is presented, not as suggesting that this operation offers an ideal solution of the problem of megalo-ureter, but as being an easy, simple procedure of low mortality (there was none in this series), and capable of prolonging life (when this is threatened, as by a tightening ureteric stricture of a solitary kidney), and, in any case, of giving the patient great relief from painful and pyrexial episodes.


Comparison of radiolarian faunas in Late Neogene sediments from the Peru margin, the Oman margin and from beneath the Somalian gyres allowed definition of an assemblage characteristic of areas of upwelling. We describe the stratigraphic and geographic ranges of 12 previously studied and 10 new or newly described taxa. These forms fall into 3 categories: (1) endemic upwelling (14 species); (2) displaced temperate (3 species); and (3) enhanced tropical (5 species). Not all elements of the assemblage are present, or in like abundances, in each upwelling area studied, but there is sufficient matching to allow identification of the assemblage. Eight long ranging species exhibit diachronous first appearances up to 7 my older in the Oman material than in the Peru material.


Three cis-bis{5-[(E)-2-(2-carbomethoxyphenyl)-1-diazenyl]quinolinolato}-diorganotin(IV), R2Sn(L)2, complexes [R = Me (1), Ph (2) and Bz (3)] were synthesized and characterizedby 1H-, 13C-, 119Sn- NMR, IR, and 119Sn Mossbauer spectroscopic techniques in combination with elemental analysis. The structure of diphenyltin(IV) complex Ph2Sn(L)2 (2) was determined by single-crystal X-ray crystallography as its tri-benzene solvate. Each complex was found to adopt a distorted cis-R2 octahedral arrangement around the tin atom with the quinolinolato ligands being N,O-chelating; the oxygen atoms are trans to each other. The complexes retain their solid-state structure in non-coordinating solvents as evidenced by119Sn-NMR spectroscopy.


Unlike estrogen receptor (ER)–positive and HER2-positive breast cancer, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) lacks a repertoire of targeted therapies. Hence, chemotherapy is the only available systemic option in current clinical practice. In general, survival of patients with TNBC is worse than that for those with ER-positive and HER2-positive breast cancer, especially for advanced-stage disease. Thus, a great unmet need exists. Conventional chemotherapeutic agents such as platinumsalts have been examined for specific benefit in TNBC; however, no one agent has yet been shown to offer a differential incremental benefit in metastatic TNBC. The hope is that ongoing research in tar getable molecular pathways will lead to new therapeutic options for TNBC. Because these patients are likely to be increasingly subcategorized using potentially targetable molecular alterations, investigators will need to be mindful of the challenges in designing and conducting clinical trials in smaller subpopulations. The successful incorporation of targeted therapies in routine clinical practice for TNBC, which mirrors the success achieved by anti-HER2 and endocrine therapies, is awaited. (J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2015;13:(e8–e18) and rare types, such as adenoid cystic, metaplastic, apocrine, and neuroendocrine carcinoma. 3 Nevertheless, the clinical utility of this categorization has been robust as a prognostic and predictive biomarker. Patients with TNBC are more likely to have a poor prognosis than those with estrogen receptor (ER)/ progesterone receptor (PR)–positive and/or HER2-positive breast cancer. 4 This is likely partially attributable to a dearth of novel therapeutic options for TNBC, in contrast to the recent expansion of endocrine and antiHER2 therapies (eg, ado-trastuzumab-emtansine, pertuzumab, everolimus with exemestane). 5–7 Therefore, great interest has been shown in exploring potential biomarkers (prognostic and predictive) and developing new therapeutic options. This article reviews current treatment options ("where are we now?") and ongoing therapeutic research ("where are we going?") for TNBC.


The objective of this paper is to a nalyze the competitiveness of Brazil's corn crop of 2009/10, through the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) in the light of the New Institutional Economics (NIE). The method used was the instrument of Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM), developed by by Monke y Pearson (1989). The model is based on economic indicators, drawn from feed corn agribusiness in Brazil, with the following data: income, costs and revenues. To Develop the study, the data used corresponded to the 2009/10 crop year. The results indicate that there is private profitability in Brazil's region; however, the index of Rates of Subsidies to Producers (RSP) confirms that the agricultural corn production systems in Brazil were net taxed and private profits were reduced, compromising its production and commercialization. Finally, it is concluded that the distorting policies associated to market imperfections directly affected the corn production systems, according to the corn PAM in Brazil. Parallel to this, the literature of the New Institutional Economics explains that the state can act in this context, in order to establish harmony between the market behavior and its agents which are inserted in this setting.


Since problem-based learning (PBL) was first introduced into medical education in the year 1969,PBL has become popular throughout the world. There are many advantages for PBL compared to lecture-based learning (LBL),however,it still has some disadvantages to be improved. It is believed that modern medical teaching model suitable to Chinese realities will be found by analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of PBL,which is helpful to improve teaching quality and train medical innovative talents.


Ethiopian public universities are expected to employ experiential approaches to learning in pre-service secondary school teacher education. Accordingly, this study was carried out in three public universities to investigate participants' perception toward instructors' role in facilitating trainees' experiential learning. Parallel mixed methods design was employed in the research. Quantitative data were collected from 311 trainees using questionnaire. On the other hand, qualitative data were gathered from 9 instructors and 30 trainees employing interview and focus group discussion respectively. The t–test results uncovered that the instructor's support to the trainees' experiential learning was significantly less than the expected one. The t-test results also disclosed lack of significant difference in the instructors' support to the trainees' experiential learning across gender and teaching experience. Likewise, the one way ANOVA results uncovered the absence of significant difference in the instructors' support to the trainees' experiential learning across CGPA. The instructors' limitation in flexibly reorganizing the trainees' seating arrangement, utilizing learning activities that facilitate experiential learning, initiating and facilitating the trainees' classroom interaction and discussion, and providing the trainees with timely feedback and support in the instruction hampered the trainees' experiential learning. Thus, the instructors are required to take measures that improve these obstructive practices.


When we are reconciled, the risen Lord calls us to work with Him for peace and reconciliation in the world. We contemplate Jesus, gentle and humble in heart. We impregnate us with his way of being and doing. We seek together what he calls us to do. We specify how to respond very concretely to his call in the situation that is ours


Popular theater indicates a wide and contradictory range of theater activities and very different types of drama. Use of the term here will signify a theater through which intellectuals try to communicate with the people most disadvantaged in their society either by presenting plays to them in which the problems of society are articulated from the point of view of the people or by getting them to present plays to themselves which increasingly help them to analyze their society. The central problem in staging established and conventionally well made plays to popular audiences in Africa is that even when the play is appropriate and understood it is self-contained and rendered complete before ever being performed before these audiences and without reference to them. The spectators by virtue of the form of the drama and not because of the content are passive. Yet there are also problems with abandoning the well-made play as part of an effort to demystify the art of acting and to get those who are interested confident about becoming involved in performing plays through improvisation. The experience has been that people in rural African communities with no previous experience of contemporary theater and little formal artistic education who become interested in performing the drama themselves want to develop the skills of drama. State run public enlightenment and propagandist popular theater has serious and obvious disadvantages. Problems of social development frequently are naively assessed and within the context of political pragmatism short term solutions only are advocated. These actually solve nothing and usually create further and more intractable problems. A truly popular theater would presumably be one in which the people themselves despite the handicaps imposed by lack of formal education could initiate and develop theatrical explorations of their predicaments and by doing so engage in a continuous process of social self-education. The desire of catalyst groups in involve the spectators increasingly in an active collaboration in the making and performance of the play would thus have reached its logcal conclusion: the catalyst group itself would no longer be necessary since the spectators have themselves become the actors. This represents an ideal still to be worked for and the crucial question is what is the most effective way of working towards this ideal. To be effective catalyst groups must be able to perform 2 essential functions: they must be able to raise the consciousness of their target audiences by developing increasingly open and collaborative forms of dramatic presentation which actively engage the spectators: and they must be able to impart skills and an understanding of the relation between drama and social problem exploration to some of the spectators so they can execute this form of drama in their own community.


Abstract—PVThot components are as PVT cogeneration core equipment in the system, whose optical and thermal performance is an important factor affecting the system design and operation. Therefore, the paper innovatively presents the segmented PVThot water components based on the previous basic research work.This optimization design of the technology through the structure of absorber established a novel three-dimensional heat transfer model of segmented PVT components, and realized the system heat production control in the operation mode.According to different purposes a variety of refrigerant is achieved in the system running at the same time and different control.


In an immensely populated country like India, as the years pass by the population is showing an increasing trend, and also the numbers of aged persons has been increasing at a faster pace. Therefore this backdrop leads to the prominence of the social security pension schemes, and the magnitude of the fund invested to reform the India's pension system. Thus this paper tries to create a meta-analysis of the reasons and probable aspects behind the effectiveness of the pension schemes. The paper also provides an outline between the differences between organized and unorganized or informal sector as an important aspect to decipher the reason creating a backlog in the Indian pension system, this leads to the emergence of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI) as a sole proprietor to cover workers under the informal sector and private sector. Thus the core objective of the paper is to analyse the importance of LICI considering their pension schemes, and whether the effectiveness of the pension schemes (as operated by the central government) has a causal relation with the pension schemes run by LICI or not. Again, the a part of the paper provides a highlight on the active participation of government to create a structured pension scheme through Atal Pension Yojna, which was launched in the year 2015, during the budget planning of 2015-2016. The ideology of this paper starts with the existing features and details of Atal Pension Yojna. The motive of this scheme (as per the explanation provided by PFRDA) was to eradicate the old-age insecurity faced by individuals. The pension was designed in such a format that with an investment of only Rs 1000 (initial rate of premium, premium ranges from Rs 1000-Rs 5000) by individual within the age range of 18 years to 40 years, will lead to an accumulation of a lump-sum corpus that will be effective during old-age of the individuals. But there are few flaws that can be observed within the scheme, therefore, this paper also tries to create a meta-analysis about the structure of Atal Pension Yojna and also tries to provide a brief explanation on the probable flaws of the scheme.


In this paper, we borrowed some ideas from general relativity and find a Robinson-type identity for the overdetermined system of partial differential equations in the Fischer-Marsden conjecture. We proved that if there is a nontrivial solution for such an overdetermined system on a 3-dimensional, closed manifold with positive scalar curvature, then the manifold contains a totally geodesic 2-sphere. Let M denote the set of smooth Riemannian metrics on an n-dimensional closed manifold M whose derivatives are L2-integrable. Then for any g E M, its scalar curvature Rg is an element in the space WV of C? functions. From the formula for Rg in local coordinates, we see that the scalar curvature map from M to WV defines a quasi-linear differential operator of second order. The derivative R' at g E M is given by (1) RI (h) =-A9 (tr9h) + 686g (h) -g(Ricg, h) where 6 is the divergence operator on the symmetric p-tensor on M, Ricg is the Ricci curvature tensor of g, A is the Laplacian, and 6* is the formal adjoint of 8. In the Riemannian case, if {ei}in=1 is a local orthonormal basis of vector fields, then


The work reported in this text describes the development of an advanced method for the aerodynamic testing of model propellers. The technique involves the measurement of the time averaged surface pressure distributions on rotating model propeller blades, thereby giving access to more detailed information than was previously possible. This information may be used both to improve the fundamental understanding of propeller aerodynamics, and to provide high quality detailed validation data for theoretical predictive techniques. The experimental system is described, and results showing the effects of changes in advance ratio, blade setting angle, number of blades and nacelle geometry are discussed. Flow phenomena unrepresentative of full scale flight conditions were identified and removed, thus ensuring the realistic testing of propellers at model scale. In addition, the development of a potential flow theoretical method for the prediction of the flowfield around propeller/axisymmetric nacelle combinations is described. The technique uses a vortex lattice representation for the propeller blades, together with a surface source distribution for the non-lifting surfaces (spinner, hub and nacelle). The method is found to predict all the trends experimentally observed and to give good numerical agreement for the blade surface pressures over the outboard half of the propeller radius


The effect of annealing on the structure and electronic properties has been systematically investigated using the melt-spun Mg 39.5 (Ga 1-x Al x ) 20.5 Zn 40.0 quasicrystals with 0≤x≤1. upon heating, the quasicrystalline phase improved its quasicrystallinity and then transformed into one of the three approximant phases (3/2-2/1-2/1), (2/1-2/1-2/1) and (1/1-1/1-1/1), depending on the alloy compositions. A, improvement in quasicrystallinity has caused a drastic devrease in the Hall coefficient and an enhancement in its temperature dependence as well as en increase in electrical resistivity


This paper proposes a novel protection scheme based on the cyclic property of an array waveguide grating (AWG) and neighboring connection pattern between two adjacent optical network units (ONUs) for the hybrid WDM/TDM passive optical networks (PONs). Our scheme uses 50% fewer wavelengths while offering one order of magnitude better connection availability than the existing scheme.


To truly understand a society's culture, study their language. The history of how the Russian language developed mirrors how Russian society evolved and changed. The written record of how the orthography changed and what influenced it sheds light on milestones within the language and, thus, its cultural as well. This paper takes a historical analysis of the Russian language from the early beginnings of the Glagolitic alphabet to modern Russian Cyrillic. This paper shows that Russian leadership in the past not only knew that language was key to a unified society, but manipulated it in such a way that would prevent any diversion from their attempts to control orthographic development and thus control an increasingly literate society. The paper will conclude with the most recent official changes to the modern Russian alphabet, but with a greater understanding and appreciation for how it was forged in Russian society.


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3 Background: This multicenter, randomized, phase III study compared B-R and CHOP-R as first-line treatment in indolent lymphoma and MCL and was presented at ASH 2009 including a comprehensive safety analysis. Here we present an updated analysis with a cut-off date for 31 Oct 2011.

METHODS
549 patients (pts) with indolent or MCL were randomized to receive B-R or CHOP-R for a max of 6 cycles. The primary endpoint was PFS.

RESULTS
514 pts randomized pts were evaluable (261 B-R; 253 CHOP-R). Patient characteristics were well balanced between arms; median age was 64 years. At a median follow-up of 45 months, PFS was significantly prolonged with B-R compared with CHOP-R (HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.44-0.74; P<0.001). Median PFS was 69.5 versus 31.2 months, respectively. The PFS benefit with B-R was maintained in all histological subtypes except marginal zone lymphoma. The PFS benefit with B-R was independent of age; HR 0.52 (P=0.002) in pts ≤60 years (n=199), and HR 0.62 (P=0.002) in pts >60 years (n=315). In pts with normal LDH (62%), PFS was significantly prolonged with B-R compared with CHOP-R (P<0.001), while in the elevated LDH group (38%) PFS was numerically, but not significantly increased with B-R compared with CHOP-R (P=0.118). In patients with follicular lymphoma, FLIPI subgroups defined by 0-2 factors (favorable) and 3-5 factors (unfavorable) had a longer PFS with B-R than with CHOP-R (P=0.043 and P=0.068 for the favorable and unfavorable FLIPI subgroups, respectively). Seventy four salvage treatments had been initiated in the B-R group; compared with 116 in the CHOP-R group, of those in the CHOP-R group 52 pts received B-R as salvage regimen. Overall survival did not differ between the treatment arms, with 43 and 45 deaths in the B-R and CHOP-R arms, respectively. Twenty secondary malignancies were observed in the B-R group compared with 23 in the CHOP-R group, with 1 hematological malignancy in each group (1 MDS in B-R, 1 AML in CHOP-R).

CONCLUSIONS
In patients with previously untreated indolent lymphoma, and elderly patients with MCL, B-R demonstrates a PFS benefit and improved tolerability compared with CHOP-R.


In the marine Diesel engine, there still remains problems about the relation between thermal loads of engines and the indicated values of thermometer. Therefore, the exact measurement of exhaust gas temperature has expected up to the present. The indicated value is mainly affected by two factors which are the measurement factors of exhaust gas temperature and the gas flow in the exhaust pipe, and it is still not clear how these two factors affect the indicated value.In this study the measurement factors affecting on the indicated value were examined, using two kinds of steady state exhaust gases in the duct and the thermometer well which was filled several thermocouples up the axial surface. Owing to the results, the temperature of the tip of well usually is different from gas temperature, even if the longitudinal length of well takes enough. Therefore, it seems that it is not suitable to make the reading gas temperature, the correcting of the reading is necessary to take account thermal characteristics of well in the duct.


DAVID E. ZITARELLI retired as professor of mathematics at Temple University in December 2012 after 42 years. He has devoted the last 25 years to the study of the history of mathematics, with an emphasis on the United States and Canada. He hopes to write a tome on that topic while books are still being printed. He and his wife Anita moved from Philadelphia to Minneapolis to be closer to grandchildren; their own children, Paul and Nicole, studied mathematics at Harvard (BS, applied math) and Cornell (BS, MS, operations research and information engineering). Hopefully, this tradition will continue with the three offspring (so far). 3441 St. Louis Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55416 firstname.lastname@example.com


The utility model discloses a three-band branch line coupler, which comprises a dual-band branch line coupler. Four ports of the dual-band branch line coupler are respectively provided with an impedance transformer composed of a dual-band resonator and a transmission line, wherein the dual-band branch line coupler is connected with the dual-band resonator through the transmission line. The three-band branch line coupler is capable of realizing exact matching of the coupler ports, extract isolation among output ports and exact 90-degree phase difference of output signals under three frequency bands, and has the advantages of low production cost, wide adjustment range of frequency ratio and the like.


Dear Richard, Thank you for agreeing to take our debate about the New Testament and violence one stage further. I do think that there's scope for shedding more exact light on our disagreement. Let me begin with your largest objection to my critique: namely, that I failed to engage with hermeneutical issues—in particular the synthetic role of your three focal images of community, cross, and new creation—and that I therefore avoided coming to grips with 'the deepest christological, ecclesiological, and eschatological warrants' for your position. You're quite correct that I didn't do this; but I don't think that my omission is as important as you suppose. Let me explain. I entirely recognise the need to construct coherent ethical sense out of the diversity of New Testament texts, by deciding to foreground certain elements and marginalize others. I agree that the foundation of this construction should be the story of God's saving work, as it finds its definitive expression in Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. I also agree that Jesus' death and its circumstances epitomise his life. Where I disagree is over your summary of the story of his death as that of 'a Messiah who refuses the defence of the sword and dies at the hands of a pagan state that bears the power of the sword'. To me this seems excessively simplified and wrongly focused. As I read the story, Jesus refused to identify God's salvation with the expectations of religious nationalism, concentrated his fiercest criticism on the oppressive use of religion, and sought to woo wrongdoers to repentance by displaying compassion toward them, with the result that he was eventually hounded to his death by Jewish religious authorities, who managed to manipulate a weak Roman governor into executing him. One of the striking (and anti-nationalist) features of the story is that the main villains are the pious Jews, not the pagan Romans. Yes, the story presents