Abstract Studies have been performed which demonstrate the influence of several anions on the removal of nickel cations from aqueous solutions by means of natural clinoptilolite. The experimental work performed showed that the ion exchange process is a fast process for both the ammonium and sodium converted clinoptilolite.The actual exchange capacity of sodium clinoptilolite was found lower compared to that of the ammonium clinoptilolite. Nickel removal was higher in the presence of nitrate anions followed by sulfate and chloride anions. For the Watt type electroplating solution the nickel was effectively removed by combining precipitation and ion exchange, the best results obtained with ammonium clinoptilolite.


The compressive properties of aluminium foams have been shown to be affected by the oxide content in aluminium powders. An increase in the oxide content results in increasing compressive strength and energy absorption of the foams. Oxides were found to form a network of crumpled films which retards the drainage of aluminium melt during foaming. The presence of larger oxide network in foam structure due to higher oxide content in aluminium powders can effectively strengthen the Plateau borders and cell walls of the foams.


We investigate the dynamical system derived from the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory with sphaleron solution for the case of spatial homogeneity. Numerical studies of the Poincare surface of section and the Lyapunov characteristic exponents show that this system exhibits an order-to-chaos transition similar to one found in the SU(2) magnetic monopole solution, which strongly suggests that such a transition is characteristic of the non-Abelian field theories with non-trivially topological solitons.


Today, with the development of urbanization, the trend of consumer culture becomes an important topic in Chinese metropolises and changes our social relationship and life style. Correspondingly, visual form of Chinese cities also changes with urbanization. This article chooses some species of architecture form which are comparativelysensitive in consumer culture, and looks for its apocalypse to our architecture.


Abstract Investigation of the Fezouata Shale has added to our knowledge on the initial diversification of metazoans. These Lower Ordovician deposits yielded abundant and diverse remains of cuticularized to lightly sclerotized organisms, in addition to numerous soft tissues. Described fossilized soft parts recovered from the Fezouata Shale belong mainly to arthropods. Soft tissues in echinoderms, a main component of the Fezouata Biota, remain largely unexplored. Here, we show that soft tissue-like impressions previously reported in eocrinoid and somasteroid echinoderms from this formation, are the results of modern weathering and fossil preparation that involved the use of latex molds: they do not reflect any original (soft) anatomical features of these organisms. These two examples suggest that reports of putative soft parts, especially in taxa with no current representatives, need to be thoroughly and critically evaluated.


Poverty is a central concept in many fields of psychology, yet poorly designed activities regarding wealth inequality may backfire or cause students to become defensive. Many students hold misperceptions about class mobility and lack an understanding of how systemic barriers perpetuate poverty across the lifespan. The activity described demonstrates how access to resources is often not sufficient to reduce wealth inequality over time. Wealth inequity in America has worsened since the 1970s. Subjective perceptions of income are often predictive of well-being above and beyond objective measures. Students' misperceptions of social class mobility may be changed through activities that elucidate privilege and oppression across different groups. The activity included opportunities for hands-on learning as well as critical reflection in small groups and with the larger class. Students reported the activity was engaging, emotional, and connected to real-life contexts. Activities that ask students to confront their misperceptions about class mobility and personal understanding of privilege and oppression in a non-threatening way may facilitate greater understanding and empathy towards low-income groups.


The Cabibbo-allowed two-body nonleptonic decays of charmed baryons to a SU(3)-octet (or -decuplet) baryon and a pseudoscalar meson are examined on the basis of the quark-diagram scheme. Some relations among the decay amplitudes or rates of various decay modes are derived. The decays of ${\ensuremath{\Xi}}_{c}^{+}$ to a decuplet baryon are forbidden.


This article through to the Chinese characters structure and stroke characteristics analysis and comparison,the Chinese characters into the character,and the character and reasonable distribution to the small keyboard of the 0-9 key,using the small keyboard to input Chinese character ideas and methods;particularly applicable to general not learned Pinyin,don't understand the Arabia letter in old friends or one hand entry of financial personnel Chinese input;at the same time this paper can also be applied to most of the equipment with digi tal keyboard input of Chinese characters.


Communication between the deaf and non-deaf has always been a very cumbersome task. This paper aims to cover the various prevailing methods of deaf-mute communication interpreter system. The two broad classification of the communication methodologies used by the deaf –mute people are Wearable Communication Device and Online Learning System. Under Wearable communication method, there are Glove based system, Keypad method and Handicom Touchscreen. All the above mentioned three sub-divided methods make use of various sensors, accelerometer, a suitable microcontroller, a text to speech conversion module, a keypad and a touch-screen. The need for an external device to interpret the message between a deaf –mute and non-deaf-mute people can be overcome by the second method i.e online learning system. The Online Learning System has different methods under it, five of which are explained in this paper. The five sub-divided methods areSLIM module, TESSA, Wi-See Technology, SWI_PELE System and Web-Sign Technology. The working of the individual components used and the operation of the whole system for the communication purpose has been explained in detail in this paper.


BACKGROUND
Multiple sclerosis (MS), one of the main neurological causes of disability seen at young ages, affects the quality of life of patients. Studies on which dietary pattern or consumption of food groups may have an impact on quality of life for MS patients are insufficient. The study was conducted to determine the relationship between adherence to Mediterranean diet and consumption levels of food groups on quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients.

METHODS
This study was conducted with 95 patients, 76 females and 19 males, aged 18-65 years, who had been diagnosed with MS for at least 2 years and did not have any other chronic disease. Food Frequency Questionnaire, Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS), Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life-54 Instrument (MS-QoL-54) used as tools. Data were analyzed by SPSS 25.0.

RESULTS
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with EDSS and physical and mental quality of life parameters (CPH and CMH), independent of progression. It was associated with EDSS and CMH in progressive MS. A statistically significant negative weak correlation was found between daily milk and oilseed consumption and EDSS. Daily fruit consumption was associated with CMH, and vegetable consumption was associated with both CPH and CMH.

CONCLUSIONS
The Mediterranean diet may be an effective nutritional model in MS patients and may be related to the disability level and quality of life of the patients. Some food groups can be associated with the quality of life and disability level of MS patients.


In this article,the calculation of parameters of onsite heat treatment for large vertical equipment-vacuum distillation tower,the selection of heat treatment device and what need to be noticed in onsite heat treatment were introduced.


This is a retrospective study regarding five patients [threewomen, twomen] ranging inage from 37 to 61 years. Out of a group of 45 patients with sarcoidosis, these five patients were chosen. Muscle involvement was the initial feature of sarcoidosis in two patients. Three patients had the nodular type and two had the myositic type. Prednisone was used to treat the muscle problems with a starting dose of 0.3 to 1.0 mg per kg per day. The prednisone was progressively tapered. Two patients used hydroxychloriquin as well. Of the five patients treated, one patient remained symptom free after steroid discontinuation, and one patient was described as "poorly compliant." The other three patients had muscle relapses, which seemed to resolve after the re-administration of corticosteroids or an increase in some dosage. Ten mg per day of prednisone seemed to be the dose that held most patients from getting persistent myalgias. The authors concluded that symptomatic muscle involvement might be an initial feature of chronic, usually the systemic form, sarcoidosis. Although the muscle problems tend to respond to corticosteroid therapy, relapses were commonplace.


In Schwinger effect, quantum vacuum instability under the influence of an electric field leads to decay of vacuum into pairs of charged particles. We consider the entanglement of pair produced particles. We will show that the measure of entanglement depends on the geometry of space–time. Using the Schwinger pair production in curved space–time, dS2 and AdS2, we propose and demonstrate that the electric field can generate entanglement. In dS2 space–time, we study entanglement for scalar particles with zero spin in the absence and presence of a constant electric field. We show that the entanglement entropy depends on the choice of the α-vacua. But, for some values of the related parameters (mass, charge, scalar curvature, electric field), the entanglement entropy is independent of α. Also, we consider the generation of entanglement in the presence of a constant electric field for anti-de Sitter space–time. We will show that the positive (negative) curvature of space–time upgrades (degrades) the generated entanglement.


Genotoxic effects of agricultural chemicals are of special concern because of their generally irreversible effects and the long latency associated with their manifestation. These effects include heritable genetic diseases, carcinogenesis, reproductive dysfunction and birth defects. The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of the organophosphorous insecticide "profenofos" on white albino rats. The rats were treated for 28 days with three different doses of profenofos (1/20 LD50, 1/40 LD50, and 1/80 LD50). Then the animals were left without treatments for 14 days for possible recovery. The genotoxic effect of the pesticide was evaluated by using the micronucleus assay in the bone marrow and polymorphism of glutathione S-transferase (GST) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The results demonstrated that the treatment with profenofos caused a significant increase in the frequencies of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes. Results of polymorphism of both GSTM1 and GSTT1 showed positive genotype in the control group. While the results of GSTT1 polymorphism in the treated rats showed positive genotype in all doses of profenofos. The GSTM1 polymorphism showed positive genotype in the high and medium doses (1/20 LD50 and 1/40 LD50) but not in the low dose (1/80 LD50), where the GSTM1 was null (negative) genotype. After the recovery period the polymorphism of GSTM1 and GSTT1 was found to be positive genotype, except with the low dose (1/80 LD50) showed null genotype for GSTM1 gene. The histopathological data showed that profenofos exhibited histopathological changes in liver, kidney, spleen and tests. Liver showed hepatic cell damage with degenerative changes. The kidney showed heamorrhages, edema, necrosis and glomeruli shrinkage. The spleen showed slight deplesion of the lymphocytes of the white pulp. The tests showed interstitial edema and severe necrosis of spermatogenesis. From these results we concluded that the profenofos exert genotoxic and histopathological effects on albino white rats.


ABET's new criteria, "EC 2000," has brought assessment and evaluation to the forefront of engineering education. Concomitantly, the focus of ABET's program evaluation has shifted from "what are you [the program] doing?" to "how is what you're doing achieving the desired outcomes [what are your students doing]? ." In short, accreditation will be concerned as much or more with outcomes rather than inputs or processes. More important, accreditors will be looking at how problems are identified and improvements are made in order to affect the program's outcomes. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation system should not only accurately measure student outcomes, through proper instrument development and administration, but also possess a well-designed feedback mechanism that allows for the tracking of these outcomes over time. By appropriately tracking outcomes, engineering educators should be able to identify areas for improvement, as well as monitor the effectiveness of programmatic interventions.


Background . Child upbringing comprehends every care which take place in the different children steps of childhood, which are intended to enhance their development and adequate growth. This mission is given to parents who, at the same time, must start the children's socialization. In this space, where children recibe discipline by means of normativity so that they assure themselves that children obey the society values. Objetive . Describing parents' attitudes and practice regarding discipline related to their pre-school children attending a kindergarten in Bogota. Materials and methods . This was a cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative study which involved using data from semi-structured interviews with parents of pre-school children attending the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's kindergarten. The study sought to describe the families' socioeconomic profile, consult relevant information regarding risk patterns and background and the parents' attitude concerning 4 hypothetical situations which might have triggered abuse. Results . The study involved 49 families and 27 boys and 22 girls aged 4- to 5-years-old (average 4.8 years old); 49% of them were an only child. There was a 61% precedent of mothers acknowledging physical punishment during their own infancy; 25% of the women were currently being mistreated and 51% claimed that their pregnancies had not been planned. It was found that 36% of them used physical punishment in disciplining their own children, whereas 26% used psychological punishment, 44% restricted their children's freedom and 46% made them make amends. All single-parent families headed by mothers (4/5) admitted using physical punishment and had been mistreated during their infancy. Conclusions . Physical punishment was frequently used in the group being studied. A family's situation must be explored in depth during consultation, focusing on and evaluating potential events of violence against females. Presenting hypothetical situations is a useful tool for evaluating discipline guidelines in any family.


Using the characterization of the segments in the max-min semimodule Bn, provided by Nitica and Singer in Contributions to max-min convex geometry. I: Segments. Linear Algebra and its Applications 428, (2008), 1439–1459, we find a class of metrics on the Bn. One of them is given by the Euclidean length of the max-min segment connecting two points. The max-min segments are complicated and consist of several Euclidean segments pointing in a finite number of fixed directions. The number of directions increases with the dimension of the semimodule. Each metric in our class is associated with a weighting function, for which we give some characterization. None of these metrics is a quasiconvex metric. Nevertheless, a somehow weaker condition always holds.


Abstract Subjects read texts describing pairs of individuals sentence by sentence in a self-paced reading time task and then answered questions about the individuals and recalled them. The task is designed to explore how people represent the binding of attributes to individuals. The reading time data show that the construction of representations is organised around what is known about the currently referenced individual. The more that is known the more slowly subjects read. This slowing is not due to articulatory rehearsal. A regression model of reading times describes the partitioning of working memory resources across the semantic structures being processed. The construction processes yield redundant representations consisting of sets of feature values encoding aspects of the information in the text and contributing independently to memory performance. Modelling in terms of feature representations enables prediction of the patterns of error in recall. The reading time and recall error models are interpr...


both staff and patients. They are visible, concentrated, and organised interest groups. They can bring out their supporters. In contrast, the beneficiaries of change may be diffuse, ill organised, and often difficult to identify.5 The argument can be simply illustrated. Any attempt to shift resources from curative to preventive services inevitably means antagonising those who either provide or benefit from curative services in order to benefit future generations: the future has no constituency that can be mobilised as a counterweight to existing interests threatened by change. In this sense there is a built in asymmetry or imbalance that loads the dice against reformers. There is a further asymmetry special to the NHS. This is the asymmetry between London and the rest of the country. The concentration of teaching hospitals in London and the resultant disproportionate share of resources that has gone to the capital's health services have been a matter of concern throughout this century.6 The NHS reforms have, in this as in other respects, simply given new visibility-and added edge -to an old issue. This stems from the division between purchasers and providers (whether or not they are trusts). It is for the purchasers to buy the services required by their populations; it is for the providers to provide them to the right standard, at the right price. In other words, the emphasis has switched from the maintenance of institutions to the provision of services. Hence the dilemma of London teaching hospitals, and others. The logic of the new system is that if they can provide the appropriate services at the appropriate price they will survive. If not, they may have to adjust the scale and scope of their activities: a process that, clearly, has already begun -so setting off the latest political explosion. It is precisely the distinction between services and institutions that may, furthermore, provide the key for any attempt to disentangle the political and substantive impact of the NHS reforms. Institutions matter in the new system, it may be argued, only to the extent that they are required to provide specific services, although health authorities would obviously be very unwise to ignore the effects of damaged morale on the provision of those services. It follows, then, that the real test of what is happening in the NHS now must surely be the way in which the purchasing authorities are commissioning services and monitoring their delivery. And if this is so, attention should shift to the purchasing agreements and contracts that have been issued by the health authorities. As far as services to patients are concerned, these are the crucial documents rather than the business plans of trusts (though that should be no reason for frustrating public accountability by making such trust documents inaccessible to parliamentary scrutiny). It is the purchasing agreements and contracts that should answer the question of what is being provided to whom and provide information about changes in levels of service, access, availability, and standards over time. For it is these that should specify the quantity and quality of services being delivered to a particular population. The first batch of agreements and contracts, drawn up in a rush and designed to minimise turbulence, probably fail to specify precise enough benchmarks against which to measure change-whether for better or worse. But ifwe are to start making sense ofwhat the reforms are doing to the NHS, cutting through the political noise, then clearly there must be an intensive and urgent push in this direction. If the government wants its record to be judged at the next general election not by the input of resources into the NHS but by the output of services it is clearly essential to have more information about the adequacy, quality, and scope of what is being provided by individual health authorities. In the absence of such information it is impossible to come to any conclusive judgment about either the total budget or the significance of cutbacks in individual hospitals. RUDOLF KLEIN Professor of Social Policy, Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, School of Social Sciences, University of Bath BA2 7AY


Objective To evaluate the results of surgical treatment of complicated distal humeral fractures in adults.Methods Thirty-two patients with complicated distal humeral fractures were treated with open reduction and interal fixation.AO classifications were type C1 in 8 cases,type C2 in 19 cases and type C3 in 5 cases. Results The patients were followed up for 12 months in average.According to the modified Broberg-Morrey scoring,9 cases were excellent,15 good,4 fair and 4 poor.The mean time of bone union was 10 weeks.Conclusion Treatment of complicated distal humeral fractures with open reduction and interal fixation in adults can get good clinical results.


Based on the data of tropical cyclones(TCs) that occurred or moved into the South China Sea(SCS) from June to October in the 10-year period 1982—2012, a prediction scheme is developed which forecasts TC intensity in 12- to 72-h period with the methods of linear regression and nonlinear artificial neural network. Under the condition of identical TC sample cases and predictors, we compared the genetic neural network(GNN) prediction model with the stepwise regression prediction model and the BP neural network(BPNN) prediction model. The result showed that the nonlinear neural network models are more accurate than the linear regression model. In the nonlinear models, the GNN model has better prediction capacity than the BPNN model.


Aiming at the robust attitude control issue on reentry vehicle subject to uncertainties and disturbances. A novel optimal predictive attitude control method integrating with a high order sliding mode observer is proposed in this paper. On the one hand, the proposed optimal one-step predictive control approach can guarantee good dynamic performance of the control system, on the other hand, a high order sliding mode observer is applied to estimating the uncertainties and disturbances exactly, which can strengthen the robustness of the control system. System stability is strictly proved by Lyapunov theory and the domains of convergence are given exactly with/without the observer. Finally, an attitude predictive control law is presented for a reentry vehicle with dynamic characteristic of the actuators. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control law.


This paper presents an overview of power system fault classification methods and challenges. It also contains some ideas about structured testing.


Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima (syn. R. bicolor, R. serotina),commonly known as "black-eyed Susan", is a flowering plantbelonging to the Asteraceae. The plant is native to North Americaand was introduced to Korea for ornamental purposesin t he 1950s; itis now naturalized and can be found growing wild here. InSeptember 2009, occurrence of a previously unknown powderymildew was observed on the plants in a public park and also in aprivate garden in Ganghwa, Korea. The leaf surfaces of affectedplants were covered with white mycelia and conidia, occasionallyhaving a necrotic center. Leaf distortions, which often result fromthese infections, reduce the ornamental value of this plant.Symptoms were also observed on stems and flower petals (Fig. 1A& B). Around 30% of the plants surveyed were affected by thedisease. In November 2009, plants with symptoms were also foundin Namyangju and Jeju, Korea. Representative samples (KUS-F24604, F24863, F24869) were deposited in Korea University. Detailed microscopic examination of a representative sample(KUS-F24869) was made to identify the pathogen. Conidiophoreswere unbranched, cylindrical, 80−180×9−11(−13) µm, composedof a basal cell with a slightly constricted base and three to eightbarrel-shaped conidia formed in chains (Fig. 1C). Appressoria werepoorly developed, indistinct and nipple-shaped. Conidia were ellipsoidor doliiform, 24−36×15−20 µm, containing distinct fibrosin bodies(Fig. 1D). No chasmothecia were found but the above characteri-stics are still consistent with Podosphaera fusca (Fr.) U. Braun &Shishkoff [syn. Sphaerotheca fusca (Fr.) S. Blumer] (Braun, 1987).To confirm the identity of the causal fungus, the complete ITSregion of rDNA from KUS-F24869 was amplified with primersITS5 and P3, as described by Takamatsu et al. (2009), and directlysequenced. The resulting sequence, of 477 bp, was deposited inGenBank, with the accession number of HM004615. MEGA4 withneighbor-joining method (using Tajima-Nei model) was used toperform phylogenetic analysis. In the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 2), theITS sequence of the fungus infecting R. hirta var. pulcherrima wasgrouped with those of three isolates of P. fusca retrieved fromGenBank. The present isolate shared 100% sequence similarity withthose of P. fusca from Lactuca indica and Tussilago farfara, and99% (1 bp substitution and 2 bp insertion) with a Japanese isolatefrom R. hirta var. pulcherrima. Powdery mildew infections with Golovinomyces cichoracearum(syn. Erysiphe cichoracearum) have been recorded on severalspecies of Rudbeckia from many countries (Farr and Rossman,2010). However, powdery mildew infections with P. fusca (syn. P.fuliginea) were recorded on R. laciniata var. hortensis from Japanand on R. amplexicaulis from Romania (Farr and Rossman, 2010).Hirata et al. (2000) provided the first evidence that P. fusca isassociated with R. hirta var. pulcherrima, by analyzing the ITSsequence of a Japanese isolate. The present work confirms this host-parasite combination, by providing consistent morphological andmolecular data.


All guidelines for exercise during pregnancy are based on the concern that the cardiovascular, metabolic, thermal, endocrine, and musculoskeletal stresses associated with sustained high-intensity exercise may have adverse effects on the fetus or the mother. Thus, the guidelines advise that strenuous, prolonged, physical activity should be curtailed during pregnancy and recommend that this be accomplished by limiting the duration, intensity, and type of exercise, which should minimize these potential stresses. However, the data currently available do not indicate that this approach is necessary in healthy, wellconditioned, active women, and the interesting question is why. Prospective data from more than 200 recreational athletes indicate that women who continue a regular (3 or more times a week) program of endurance exercise (30 minutes or more of running, biking, aerobics, swimming, cross-country skiing, or stair stepping per session) at or above a conditioning intensity (>50% Vo2 max ) do not experience any greater difficulty than matched controls in their ability to conceive and carry an uncomplicated pregnancy to term. The incidence of women unable to conceive within 6 months of attempting conception is 5% in both groups, as is the incidence of congenital malformations of all types (3%). The incidence of spontaneous abortion is 15% in women who continue vigorous exercise and 17% in the controls. The incidence of preterm labor is similar (7% compared with 8%, respectively), as is spontaneous rupture of the membranes before the onset of labor at term (18% compared with 21%, respectively). Women who continue regular exercise throughout pregnancy and deliver at term deliver 5 days earlier on aver-


Using a Green type viscometer the change of viscosity with time under constant shearing force was observed for the purpose of measureing the extent thixotropic break down of the clay suspensions.The results may be summarized as follows:(1) When the amount of electrolyte (sodium silicate) is less than 2 milli equivalents/100g clay the viscosity increase with time. The addition of a little more electrolyte, i.e. 3m. eq/100g clay., affects the progress in such a way that the viscosity decreases at the beginning until it reaches the minimum, from then gradually increases with time. With the addition of more than 5m. eq./100g clay the viscosity decreases linearly with time and the slip shows thixotropy.(2) Clay slip containing NaO·SiO2 or NH4OH shows the thixotropic breakdown to a small extent, which increases remarkably by the additional of sodium carbonate (0, 25g/100g clay).The authors have reached to the conclusion that a clay slip suitable for solid casting may be prepared by adding sodium silicate for decreasing the viscosity and also sodium carbonate in order to give the thixotropic property.


Objectives: The objectives of the present research were: (i) to analyse the dynamics of total distance and mean velocity in relation to the utilised tracking technology (Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS; and Ultra-Wide Band, UWB) and (ii) to describe the physical demands performed during the small-sided games (SSG). Methods: Sixteen semi-professional national-level football players (Age: 23.6 ± 3.3 years; Body mass: 78.1 ± 5.2 kg; Height: 1.8 ± 0.1 m) performed 4 SSG with different aims: (a) maintain the ball; (b) maintain and progress; (c) maintain, progress and ending in mini-goals and (d) maintain, progress and ending in a goal with a goalkeeper. To data acquisition, a WIMU PROTM inertial device with dual tracking technology (GNSS and UWB) was used. Results: The main results were: (1) a nearly perfect correlation in the values obtained by both technologies (total distance: r2=.987; mean velocity: r2=.994) and (2) statistical differences between the 4 SSGs in total distance, relative distance, high intensity distance (>16 km/h), sprint distance (>21 km/h), mean velocity and High Metabolic Load Distance per min (p<0.01; F=34.33-4.57; d=2.13-0.80). No statistical differences were found in accelerations/min and decelerations/min (p=0.27-0.08; F=1.31-2.30; d=0.31-0.45). Conclusions: Both tracking technologies could be used to quantify the physical demands. In relation to the aim of small-sided games, this was determinant in the physical demands. Thus, the analysis of game-based tasks is very important to control their effects for a correct application during the training sessions.


Purpose Long noncoding RNA 00703 (LINC00703) was found originating from a region downstream of Kruppel-like factor 6 (KLF6) gene, having 2 binding sites for miR-181a. Since KLF6 has been reported as a target of miR-181a in gastric cancer (GC), this study aims to investigate whether LINC00703 regulates the miR-181a/KLF6 axis and plays a functional role in GC pathogenesis. Materials and Methods GC tissues, cell lines, and nude mice were included in this study. RNA binding protein immunoprecipitation (RIP) and pull-down assays were used to evaluate interaction between LINC00703 and miR-181a. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and western blot were applied for analysis of gene expression at the transcriptional and protein levels. A nude xenograft mouse model was used to determine LINC00703 function in vivo. Results We revealed that LINC00703 competitively interacts with miR-181a to regulate KLF6. Overexpression of LINC00703 inhibited cell proliferation, migration/invasion, but promoted apoptosis in vitro, and arrested tumor growth in vivo. LINC00703 expression was found to be decreased in GC tissues, which was positively correlated with KLF6, but negatively with the miR-181a levels. Conclusions LINC00703 may have an anti-cancer function via modulation of the miR-181a/KLF6 axis. This study also provides a new potential diagnostic marker and therapeutic target for GC treatment.


Objective To compare cardiovascular risk among womenwith high normal blood pressure (130-9/85-9mm Hg) against those with normal blood pressure (120-9/ 75-84 mm Hg) and those with baseline hypertension. Design Prospective cohort study. SettingWomen's health study, United States. Participants 39322 initially healthy women classified into four categories according to self reported baseline blood pressure and followed for a median of 10.2 years. Main outcome measures Time to cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke (major cardiovascular event—primary end point); progression to hypertension. Results 982 (2.5%) women developed a major cardiovascular event, and 8686 (30.1%) women without baseline hypertension progressed to hypertension. The age adjusted event rate for the primary end point was 1.6/1000 person years among women with normal blood pressure, 2.9/1000 person years among those with high normal blood pressure, and 4.3/1000 person years among those with baseline hypertension. Compared with women with high normal blood pressure (reference group), those with normal blood pressure had a lower risk of a major cardiovascular event (adjusted hazard ratio 0.61, 95% confidence interval 0.48 to 0.76) and of incident hypertension (0.42, 0.40 to 0.44). The hazard ratio for a major cardiovascular event in women with baseline hypertension was 1.30 (1.08 to 1.57). Women who progressed to hypertension (reference group) during the first 48 months of the study had a higher cardiovascular risk than those who remained normotensive (adjusted hazard ratio 0.64, 0.50 to 0.81). Women with high normal blood pressure at baseline who progressed to hypertension (reference group) had similar outcome rates to women with baseline hypertension (adjusted hazard ratio 1.17, 0.88 to 1.55). Conclusion The cardiovascular risk of women with high normal blood pressure is higher than that of women with normal blood pressure. The cardiovascular risk of women who progress to hypertension is increased shortly after a diagnosis of hypertension has been made. Trial registration Clinical trials NCT00000479. INTRODUCTION Hypertension is defined as a systolic blood pressure of at least 140 mm Hg or a diastolic blood pressure of at least 90 mm Hg. However, cardiovascular risk is directly associated with blood pressure across a much wider spectrum of blood pressure levels, and no evidence of a threshold exists down to at least 115/ 75 mm Hg. Although this relation is firmly established, little evidence is available about the risk of cardiovascular events in people whose blood pressure levels progress and who newly develop hypertension. This question is important because people with blood pressure levels in the normal and high normal range have a substantial risk of developing hypertension over a short term period of four years. The cumulative lifetime risk of developing hypertension approaches 90% in a Western population, and the high global prevalence of hypertension further underscores the importance of the problem. Strategies to prevent or postpone hypertension in people with normal blood pressure could thus have a substantial impact on public health. Unfortunately, published guidelines for the management of people with hypertension have adopted different classification schemes for patients with blood pressure levels considered to be normal. 7 The Joint National Committee 7 guidelines from the United States introduced a category designated "prehypertension" for people with blood pressure levels from 120 to 139 mmHg for systolic pressureor 80 to89mmHg fordiastolic pressure. On the other hand, the European guidelines partition these people into two groups: those with systolic blood pressure between 120 and 129 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure between 80 and 84 mm Hg are classified as normal, whereas those with systolic blood pressure between 130 and 139 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure between 85 and 89 mm Hg are classified as high normal. Evidence for a different clinical course among people in these two groups would support the relevance of this distinction. We therefore determined the long term outcome with regard to cardiovascular disease and progression to hypertension in a large cohort of initially healthy women with a wide range of blood pressures.We then evaluated in greater detail Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 900 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Correspondence to: D Conen email@example.com doi:10.1136/bmj.39269.672188.AE BMJ | ONLINE FIRST | bmj.com page 1 of 9 on 5 September 2007 bmj.com Downloaded from


In this paper, soft switching boost converter with ZVT (Zero Voltage Transition) method was proposed. Each switch of the proposed ZVT converter is operated under soft switching condition through using auxiliary resonant circuit such as resonant inductor, two resonant capacitors and auxiliary switches. Using the resonant device, the proposed converter is operated by zero-current switching and zero voltage switching. It can reduce the switching losses. Moreover, proposed circuit added an additional auxiliary switch compared to conventional converter, so that it is able to increase efficiency. In this paper, the ZVT converter is verified through operational mode analysis and simulation.


Abstract This paper presents the results of a survey carried out to investigate the severity index in terms of impact level and occurrence frequency of operational delay factors for high-rise building construction in Thailand. The construction phase is divided into five major stages namely piling, structural, architectural, electrical and mechanical (E&M), and sanitary stages. A process for factor identification was rigorously designed to ensure the comprehensiveness and reliability of the factors in each stage. Respondents were carefully selected from Construction Management (CM) consultants and general contractors with a minimum working experience of ten (10) years in the building construction sector. The delay factors were analysed and ranked according to their severity index. This facilitated the comparison of perceptions of the CM consultants and general contractors on delay factors at each construction stage. The factors were also thoroughly examined to determine the critical factors at each stage. It is expected that the critical factors identified in this survey would serve as a warning light to prevent operational delay factors in the building construction sector in the future.


Foaming technology is promising in producing foamed materials which can offer benefits such as lowering the cost and weight of materials as well as their utility in many applications. In this study, the thermoplastic blend of recycled high density polyethylene and recycled polyethylene terephthalate was foamed with azodicarbonamide chemical foaming agent (CFA) at 0.5-2.0 phr. The blending of thermoplastic was carried out via extrusion and the foaming process occurred during hot/cold pressing. The cell morphology, density and mechanical properties were examined. Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) micrograph showed that the thermoplastic blend foamed with 1.5 phr CFA had the cellular morphology structure with non-collapsed cells and better cell distribution. As the CFA content increased, the density of blend foams decreased accordingly. The minimum density was achieved at 1.00 g/cm3 for 2.0 phr ADC. Tensile and bending properties generally decreased with the content of CFA added. The impact strength of blend foams increased when the CFA added up to 1.0 phr and then reduced with further CFA content. It can be concluded that the fabricated foamed blend can give value added to the recycled polymers.


During angiogenesis, new blood vessels headed by a migrating endothelial tip cell sprout from pre-existing ones. This process is known to be regulated by two signaling pathways concurrently, vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) and Notch-Delta. Extracellular VEGFA activates the intracellular Notch-Delta pathway in nearby endothelial cells which results in endothelial (stalk, tip) differentiation. Retinal astrocytes appear to play a crucial role in polarizing new sprouts by secreting VEGFA. \emph{In vivo} retinal angiogenesis experiments in neonatal mouse generated quantitative data on daily cell counts and morphological data of vascular network expanding over fibronectin-rich matrix. Based on this set of data and other existing ones, we developed a cell-based, multiscale mathematical model using the cellular Potts model framework to investigate the sprout evolution by integrating the VEGFA and Notch-Delta signaling pathways. The model incorporates three levels of description: intracellular, intercellular, and extracellular. Starting with a single astrocyte embedded in a fibronectin-rich matrix, we use the model to assess different scenarios regarding VEGFA levels and its interaction with matrix proteins. Simulation results suggest that astrocyte-derived VEGFA gradients along with heterogeneous ECM reproduces sprouting morphology, and the extension speed is in agreement with experimental data in 7 days postnatal mouse retina. Results also reproduce empirical observations in sprouting angiogenesis, including anastomosis, dynamic tip cell competition, and sprout regression as a result of Notch blockade.


Abstract Accounting for tangible fixed assets is a very important part of the accounting of public institutions, because these types of assets have a very large share and come in a variety of forms in public entities of different sizes and profiles, without which they would not could fulfil the missions for which they were created. The issue of accounting for these assets according to national regulations has been proposed to highlight it by comparison with international regulations represented by accounting standards for the public sector. In addition to the significant progress made since 2005 in aligning public accounting in the area of tangible fixed assets with that of the international standard (IPSAS – 17), we have found that there are provisions that have not been implemented for various reasons. Therefore, based on the research of the specialized literature, personal experiences and a survey conducted by us among professional accountants in the army, we have identified some possible solutions to continue the process of implementing this international standard, opinions and solutions that we present at the end of this article.


Aims: Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rarely seen pregnancy-related myocardial disorder. The diagnosis is usually challenging and is made by exclusion. We aimed to present the recovery of a patient with peripartum cardiomyopathy as a result of a successful treatment plan. Case Report: A 26-year-old female patient with type-2 diabetes mellitus presented to the cardiology department of Trakya University School of Medicine. The patient experienced dyspnea and edema after delivery at 37 weeks of gestation. After the results of the blood tests, further cardiac examinations were deemed necessary. The echocardiogram revealed a low ejection fraction, indicating heart failure. The patient was recommended to halt breastfeeding and bromocriptine treatment was started. The patient was discharged one week later and kept under follow-up. Conclusion: Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare disease and therefore not easy to diagnose, but with appropriate treatment plans and frequent follow-ups, patients have high chances of full recovery.


Bearings have a vital role in nearly all rotating machines. Making adequate bearings is very important that satisfy all needs which emerge both in manufacturing and during operation. In former times bearings were examined by only humans, however human inspection is instable and time consuming. In this article, we are investigating a machine learning system that could make more accurate measurements regarding geometry, shape, color, surface defects, deformations and other failures by image acquisition. To achive higher resolution, magnifying of the surface with optical microscopes and scanning electron microscope (SEM) is inevitable. With these methods even tiny failures can be detected. Machine learning methods have beeen developed such as artificial neural networks (ANN) and support vector machines (SVM). Bearing manufacturing failures, image processing techniques are presented in this article besides artificial neural network system that can percieve manufacturing defects approximately 90% eciency according to our experiments. Recent research is connected to a manufacturing of bearings in a real company in Hungary.


Palatini $f(R)$ gravity is probably the simplest extension of general relativity (GR) and the simplest realization of a metric-affine theory. It has the same number of degrees of freedom as GR and, in vacuum, it is straightforwardly mapped into GR with a cosmological constant. The mapping between GR and Palatini $f(R)$ inside matter is possible but at the expense of reinterpreting the meaning of the matter fields. The physical meaning and consequences of such mapping will depend on the physical context. Here we consider three such cases within the weak field limit: Solar System dynamics, planetary internal dynamics (seismology), and galaxies. After revising our previous results on the Solar System and Earth's seismology, we consider here the possibility of $f(R)$ Palatini as a dark matter candidate. For any $f(R)$ that admits a polynomial approximation in the weak field limit, we show here, using SPARC data and a recent method that we proposed, that the theory cannot be used to replace dark matter in galaxies. We also show that the same result applies to the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. Differently from the metric $f(R)$ case, the rotation curve data are sufficient for this conclusion. This result does not exclude a combination of modified gravity and dark matter.


Title : Study of Mass Movement And Critical Landslide On Purworejo District. The objective of the research is to study of mass movement and critical landslide area and also agricultural area degradation in Purworejo. Research method use in the cheking the real condition and also deviation occuring in the field. The research result was the critical area of mass movement and landslide concentrated hilly and mountainous area spreading the nortern and eastern area at 9 Sub District Bruno, Kaligesing, Bagelen and some part of Bener, loano, Pituruh, kemiri and somepart of Purworejo City Sub District. The cause of the mass movement and critical landslide area is the very steep topography used for mixed agriculture area and high intensity rain. The protection conducted is by guidance for society to implement concervation and replanting and also to relocated the resettlement to a safety area.


The establishment of teacher leadership teams creates new roles and relationships for teachers and principals within schools and between the school and district. Drawing on video, interview, survey and observational data, we analyze four major School Leadership Team (SLT) actions (role episodes) to explore how the team worked to define its role. Using event mapping, open systems and role theory, we highlight the complex interactions that emerged as teachers and principal implemented bottom up reforms that challenge traditional patterns of interaction. We examine how relationships among the superintendent, principal and SLT contributed to role conflict and role ambiguity. Several implications are presented. First, systems thinking is critical when implementing a major innovation such as site-based management. Schools are complex systems that need to encompass environmental, organizational and intergroup factors, and teachers cannot be empowered without concomitant changes in the district. Relationships with the district are a key factor in a team's ability to assume new responsibilities, implement change, and successfully accomplish goals. Second, enacting a policy to empower teachers and include them in decision making does not predetermine how teachers will interpret and take up the new roles. Finally, roles, responsibilities and relationships need to be specific and coupled with opportunities for on-going negotiation and refinement to overcome inconsistencies between beliefs and practices in ways that can impact student learning.


Objective To explore the effect of insulin and selenium in combination on blood glucose and blood lipid metabolism and glucose transporter 4(GLUT4) level in skeletal muscle of streptozotocin(STZ)-induced diabetic rats.Methods Diabetic animal models were established by intraperitoneal injection of STZ into the rats.The diabetic rats were treated with insulin [1U/(kg·day)],selenium [180μg/kg·day)],and insulin combined with selenium for 4 weeks.The levels of blood glucose,hemoglobin A1c and blood lipid were determined and the level of GLUT4 expression in skeletal muscle was examined.Results Insulin in combination with selenium could significantly lower blood glucose,HbA1c and blood lipid levels(P0.01).Western blotting and immunohistological results showed that insulin in combination with selenium could significantly restore the disturbance in GLUT4 levels in skeletal muscle(P0.01).Conclusion There is a synergetic effect between insulin and selenium,and treatment of diabetic rats with combined doses of insulin and selenium is effective in normalizing blood glucose and blood lipid,and correcting altered GLUT4 distribution in skeletal muscle of diabetic rats.The two in combination can increase insulin signal transduction by upregulating GLUT4 in skeletal muscle,eventually improving glucose and lipid metabolism disorder.


This study attempts to predict energy intensity interactions between China, the United States, Japan and EU by developing a restricted VARX model by proposing energy intensities of the countries interact with each others, and gross domestic product (GDP) levels per capita and Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil-based current energy prices affect energy intensities of the countries based upon the direction of group causalities. There exist significant causal interactions between energy intensities of the countries up to lag five either increasing efficiency or not. China's current GDP level affects its own energy use and EU's energy intensity positively, on the other way; EU's current GDP level affects only China's energy intensity while Japan's current GDP level only affects its own energy intensity negatively, ceteris paribus. It is found that OPEC oil-based current energy prices only affect the United States' energy intensity but not others' energy intensity, ceteris paribus, for the period of 1971–2009. Evaluating cumulative effects of energy intensities of all countries, it is found that each country has experienced higher energy intensity and consumed energy less efficiently even there have been existing new technology-embodied equipments used and alternative energy sources developed in energy consumption for the years.


RESISTIVITY MICROLOGGING OF CHANGES IN MOISTURE ABSORPTION OF ROCKS

Summary
The so far applied geophysical methods do not resolve the problem of detecting pay horizons in the Miocene formations, mainly due to small thicknesses of the individual beds and because of low differentiation between pay and watered horizons.
The Petroleum Institute is now elaborating a technique of testing the Miocene oil-gas horizons by means of resistivity micrologging of changes in moisture absorption of rocks.
The present paper gives a description of this method.


The hygroscopicity parameter (κ) has been widely used in studies of aerosol hygroscopic growth and cloud condensation nucleus activation, but the effect of relative humidity (RH) variations on ambient aerosol hygroscopicity is rarely discussed and is often ignored in the application of κ‐Köhler theory. In this study, an improved humidified nephelometer system was used to measure the scattering enhancement (f(RH)) of bulk aerosols and the RH‐dependent κ was derived. It was found that the κ of both pure inorganic water‐soluble electrolytes and ambient aerosols is significantly RH‐dependent. The particle size had a great influence on f(RH), but κ had no obvious size dependence. Compared with using the RH‐dependent κ, the scattering coefficient of ambient aerosols with the fixed κ value would produce a relative error of −10%–25%. Parameterization schemes of RH‐dependent κ of ambient aerosols were established, which could serve as a reference for the future research.


This work briefly defines the meaning of the 4th Industrial Revolution, and explains that the three problems produced by the Revolution are the need to redefine the meaning of humanity, to reframe the social structure, and to elevate the level of people's lifetime job competences. Next, this work strongly argues that what is needed most in finding a solution for the three problems is creativity based on the convergence and integration among the so-called 4Cs or 6Cs. In addition, from drawing on a variety of data and previous research results, this work also clearly shows that liberal education is much more useful than major/concentration education when it comes to solving these three problems. Lastly, this work also points out that the reform of the liberal education curriculum in general, and its distribution system in particular, is necessary for the sake of heightening the level of creativity based on convergence and integration, and then suggests several ways of reforming these areas. With these kinds of reforms, liberal education could heighten the level of creativity based on convergence and integration and the possibility of solving the aforementioned three problems would be promoted.


Detection of the two-dimension(2D) acceleration signals plays an important role in bearing condition monitoring and fault diagnosis.A new structure of strain 2D acceleration sensor is proposed,which uses the cylindrical uniform cross section beam as the elastic element and based on 2D strain measurement method.The influence of structural parameters on the sensitivity and natural frequency of the sensor is analyzed based on the acceleration equation,and the dynamic response and the measurement precision of the sensor are analyzed by finite element method(FEM).The results show the proposed sensor has high precision,low frequency characteristics.Also it benefits a lot from its characteristics of uncoupling between the dimensions,low cost,easy to manufacture and assemble.


Numerous tectonic shifts have occurred during the last few years in numerous spheres of life. Working from home and teaching in a remote environment has become the new normal for many educators, and while many have adapted to their home workspaces and Zoom sessions, the situation is becoming tiresome for all parties involved. It acts as a virtual reminder of the internet's inability to facilitate the in-person connections that people need. Traditional video meetings and conferences are transformed by the new technology into something that more closely resembles in-person conversations. The authors will demonstrate an example and a method for increasing student participation and creating a more engaging environment through the use of a free virtual world application while boosting the social components of an online event. Gather Town will be introduced, and its ability to bridge gaps between in-person and virtual socialization will be demonstrated. Individuals can now inhabit a universe that is not just inclusive, but also interactive, in ways that Zoom and other platforms are not. The findings of a study comparing the levels of involvement across multiple web-conferencing tools and this one will be presented, as well as an experience report.


It is important to predict the dynamic behavior of a fishing boat moored in harbor. Because, the extraordinary mooring line forces and ship motions cause damage e. g. break of mooring lines or collision with a quay. These dynamic behavior differs from that of a large ship in harbor or a moored offshore structure. That is, a fishing boat is usually moored perpendicular to a straight quay in longitudinal waves. Further, her mooring lines have completely non-linear characteristics.Then the authors carried out the numerical simulation in time domain ; in which wave forces and mooring forces were evaluated by theories and viscous damping coefficients were derived from free decay tests. We got the stochastic values of surging motion and mooring line forces in irregular waves.Moreover, we conducted model experiments in a tank. A model ship was moored in front of a model quay. Its motions and mooring line forces in irregular waves were measured by means of an optical tracking system and ring-type strain-gauge transducers, respectively.As a result, the values computed by our numerical simulation procedure were in good agreement with the experimental values. Then it is shown that our proposed simulation procedure is effective to predict the safety of a fishing boat moored in harbor. In particular, we found that wave exciting surge force can be estimated by Froude-Krylov hypothesis and mooring forces can be estimated by the static mooring characteristics and the surging motion of a ship. Furthermore, we discussed the effect of waves, mooring systems and quay structures on the dynamic behavior of a fishing boat.


Multinucleate giant cells (MGCs), appearing as a pathological reaction to stimulation by foreign bodies, have been reported1-6). There are two theories regarding the origin of MGCs: one is cell fusion and the other is mitosis without cell division11). Numerous reports supporting the former theory have demonstrated that MGCs originate by fusion of specialized macrophages known as epithelioid cells12-18). However, morphological evidence of fusion in vivo has not yet been demonstrated. Recently, pieces of coral have been used as the bone graft substitutes instead of porous hydroxyapatites. In the present study, pieces of coral (Porites cylindrica, 200•`300ƒÊm thick, 3•`5 mm wide) were implanted into the dorsal subcutaneous tissue of rats to clarify the fundamental tissue reaction. In some areas, many MGCs attached to the coral surface were observed 3 and 4 weeks after implantation. These cells were morphologically similar to those reported after subcutaneous implantation of bone, suture and cellophane foil7-10). The purpose of this study is to discuss the formation of MGCs.


Purpose: The purpose of this article is to assess the existence of logistics performance gaps in the dyadic order fulfillment process.Methodology/approach: A literature review on service quality, l ...


An electronically powered watch is disclosed which has an audible signal producing alarm system incorporated into the watch structure. The audible signal is produced by a vibrating membrane located laterally adjacent to the watch battery within the watch case. The audible signal emanates from the case by radial sound discharging openings provided through the watch case. The structure minimizes the overall height of the watch structure. Access to the battery is provided by a removable battery cover over an opening in the rear cover of the watch. The battery may be removed and a new battery installed by merely removing the battery cover without disturbing the vibrating membrane or removing the entire rear cover of the watch.


This paper proposes a new investigation on Gaussian mixture model (GMM) by comparing it with some preliminary experiments on multilayered perceptron network (MLP) with backpropagation learning algorithm (BKP) and dynamic time warping (DTW) techniques on Thai text-dependent speaker identification system. Three major identification engines are conducted on 50 speakers with isolated digits 0-9. Training and testing utterances were recorded over a five week duration. Furthermore, three well-known speech features, namely linear predictive coding derived cepstrum (LPCC), postfiltered ceptrum (PFL), and Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) were evaluated. From our previous experiments, the MFCC has given the highest identification rates on DTW and MLP. Therefore, GMM with MFCC feature was experimented and attained 87.54% average identification accuracy, as opposed to 86.74% of DTW and 82.34% of MLP. The results are the same with top-3 concatenated digits, the average identification rates are 99%, 98.70 %, and 97.30% for GMM, DTW, and MLP, respectively.


Considering the excessively high temperature of exhaust gas from #1 boiler in a power plant,the solution was determined based on the comparison of two schemes,in which the Low Pressure Economizer(LPE) was installed.Several important techniques are adopted to improve the reliability of LPE,such as soot self-blowing,leaking monitoring,protective measure for wear and low temperature corrosion.Automatic logic and commissioning scheme of baffle are improved and optimized.The results show that the newly-operated low pressure economizer reduces the consumption of standard coal by 1.51g/kWh and saving water by 9.76t/h.Furthermore,the gross investment is relative less than the other scheme.And the capital pay-off time is about 2.5 years.


By building the environment of the protocol analysis, this paper analyses the protocol of the Fetion Instant Messenger(IM) of China Mobile and summarizes the protocol formats of the text information and file transmission. Based on the protocol analysis, it designs and implements the monitoring system of the Fetion IM of China Mobile with Network Driver Interface Specification(NDIS) technology, which can supervise the text information and file transmission effectively and intercept the deleterious information in real time.


Mergers and acquisitions are corporate actions carried out by companies which can affect the price of securities, such as shares, or bonds issued by that company. This study aims to analyze differences in stock returns, stock abnormal returns, and trading volume activity before and after mergers and acquisitions. The sample of this study amounted to 3 companies after applying purposive sampling technique. The approach in this research is through event study analysis with an observation period of five days before and five days after the merger and acquisition event. Data management in this study was carried out using the paired sample t test which aims to determine whether there is a difference in average between two groups of samples that are interconnected with the help of SPSS 26.The results of this study found that there was a market reaction as evidenced by the significant difference between stock returns, stock abnormal returns, and trading volume activity before and after the merger and acquisition event. The results of the paired sample t test show the stock return value with sig (0.000) <0.05, abnormal stock return with sig (0.001) <0.05 and trading volume activity with sig value. (0.008) <0.05.


A series of laboratory tests was performed to evaluate the effect of clay fabric, altered due to the addition of hydrated lime into slurry, on the primary and secondary consolidation behavior of dredged mud samples. In this research, the seepage-induced consolidation test is proposed as a technique to determine the threshold value of lime, below which maximum flocculation of the clay particles takes place. A series of oedometer tests was conducted on lime treated samples in both normally consolidated (NC) and artificially over- consolidated (OC) states. The results obtained in NC range showed that both the coefficient of consolidation and compression index increased as the lime content increased. Under the same value of effective stress, with varying the amount of lime, the compression index increased and secondary compression index reduced, resulting in a gradual reduction of Calpha/Cc value. The laboratory results show that in the OC state and with surcharging, both the secondary compression index and recompression index reduced when the percentage of lime increased. However, it was observed that the surcharging effort has less impact on secondary compression as the percentage of lime increased. This study may encourage an innovative ground improvement technique, in which dredged mud slurry can be mixed with lime prior to discharging into a containment pond in order to optimize the effectiveness of preloading on the dredged mud layer.


Inga-Britt Krause has challenged thinking
and practice around issues of race, ethnicity
and culture in systemic psychotherapy and
has persistently, passionately supported their
development. We were delighted to meet with
her to share ideas, experiences and hopes


This paper investigates the peristaltic motion of magneto hydrodynamic(MHD) non-Newtonian fluid in an inclined asymmetric channel with porous medium. Constitutive equations obeying the walter , s B fluid model are employed. Mathematical modeling is developed in the presence of a constant inclined magnetic field making an angle with the vertical axis. Assumptions of  long wave length approximation and low  Reynolds number  are used in flow analysis.  Closed form expressions for the stream  function and mechanical  efficient are developed. Pressure rise per wave length and frictional force on the channel walls  have been computed numerically. Effect of Hartman number, Froud number, Reynold number, permeability parameter , viscoelastic parameter and  inclination of magnetic field on the axial velocity. Pumping and trapping are discussed in detail and shown graphically. Keywords : Peristaltic Transport, Walter , s B, Inclined Magnetic Field, Porous Medium, Inclined a symmetric channel, pimping ,trapping.


Background: Suicide risk evaluation is a public health priority in Taiwan. In this preliminary study, we intended to do a correlation study between 13 individual items derived from the Modified SAD PERSONS scale and the SAD PERSONS scale relative to suicide among ethnic Chinese subjects. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 210 inpatient medical records and classified patients' suicidal severity into three groups: (A) non-suicide group, (B) suicidal ideation group, and (C) attempted suicide group for analysis. Results: Seven items-age (p<0.01), depression (p<0.001), previous attempt (p<0.001), rational thought loss (p<0.001), organized plan (p<0.001), stated future intent (p<0.001), and current life stressor (p<0.001) were significant, indicating that these seven risk factors are distinctly important among these groups. Further group-to-group relationships showed that the "the proportion of the suicidal ideation group or attempted suicide group was always significantly greater than that of the non-suicide group" in most factors, except those correlated to "age" and "rational thought loss" factors. Conclusion: Five factors-depression (p<0.05), previous attempt (p<0.01), organized plan (p<0.01), stated future intent (p<0.01), and current life stressor (p<0.01) were significantly to be strongly associated with suicide in our study. Among the factors, "organized plan" and "previous attempt" were strongest significant predictors.


The work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) affect a large number of nurses decreasing their life quality and are considered a true public health issue. In this context, the main goal of the study is to identify which are the most effective strategies to prevent the work-related musculoskeletal in nurses in a hospital context. We chose to create a secondary and retrospective study, following the methodology of a systematic review of the literature proposed by the Cochrane Handbook. The research of corpus studies was carried out in the databases of PubMed, B-On, Scielo e Medline Complete, in the period between 2005-2016. In compliance with the validation criteria, 6 primary studies were selected and analysed. The results revealed that multifactorial intervention programs, with a systemic and integrated approach to work situations, are the most beneficial, both in terms of their implementation and in terms of costbenefits. This type of program combines ergonomic solutions with organizational policies and training sessions and specific training in order to enable nurses to provide better healthcare with less risk. However, it has been verified that this type of programs only succeeds depending on the involvement of the professionals, the managers, the adopted policy, the type of leadership and the continuous monitoring. The results obtained evidenced the need for an early implementation of this type of WMSDs prevention programs, where the intervention of the rehabilitation nurse, with the multidisciplinary teams, will certainly play a fundamental role. © 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK


Background The advancement in genome wide association studies (GWAS) has brought the number of non-HLA loci associated with RA to 31. There is now the requirement to develop this genetic knowledge and translate it into clinical utility. One of the first steps towards this goal is to fine map these loci to better understand the genetic structure that underpins risk of developing disease. A major finding in the GWAS era has been the overlap of susceptibility loci in autoimmune diseases. This finding, coupled to the requirement to genetically fine map these loci in a wide range of autoimmune diseases, led to a pooling of resources and the development of a custom Illumina array by the Immunochip consortium. Objectives Fine map the 31 loci already associated with the RA at a genome-wide significance level, as well as investigate whether other novel associations to autoimmune loci on the immunochip array, or with SNPs included as a deep replication of RA GWAS results. Methods RA and control cohorts were available from 5 countries (UK, USA, Sweden, Spain and The Netherlands).We had 11,475 cases, of which 7,222 were ACPA positive (63%) and 3,339 were ACPA negative, and 15,870 controls for 163,081 polymorphic markers.Results of this analysis were added to non-overlapping samples of the previously best powered RA meta analysis to maximise the possibility of revealing novel loci associated with RA (1). Results We discovered a total of 14 novel RA loci confirmed at genome-wide significance (p<5×10-8), 7 with immunochip data alone and a 7 when the additional GWAS meta analysis was added (Table 1), bringing the total of confirmed RA genetic susceptibility loci to 45. Genome-wide significance was also obtained, for the first time, for 2 loci in the ACPA negative analysis, those at HLA (P=2.92×10-15) and ANKRD55 (p=5.18×10-12). Gene Ch MAF P OR TYK2 19 0.04 2.3×10-14 0.62 IRAK1 X 0.12 1.2×10-12 1.27 TLE3 15 0.29 1.4×10-10 1.17 RASGRP1 15 0.25 1.4×10-10 1.17 PADI4 1 0.42 5.9×10-09 0.88 IL6R 1 0.42 1.3×10-08 0.9 IRF8 16 0.22 4.0×10-08 1.15 ARID5B 10 0.23 4.5×10-10 1.14 RUNX1 21 0.36 5.0×10-10 0.9 IKZF3 17 0.47 2.8×10-09 1.1 POU3F1 1 0.26 2.1×10-08 0.89 RCAN1 21 0.12 2.1×10-08 0.86 CD5 11 0.49 3.4×10-08 1.09 GATA3 10 0.41 4.6×10-08 1.11 Conclusions Of the 39 confirmed RA loci densely mapped in this study, in more precisely mapping the association signal, we have localised to one gene in the LD defined region for 21 loci and discovered 18 SNPs within exonic regions that are in tight LD with the most associated signal.We present evidence for 14 new loci associated with the susceptibility to RA. These loci continue the theme of RA loci being strongly linked to immune function, and associated with other autoimmune loci. References Stahl EA, et al. Nat Genet 2010;42:508-14. Disclosure of Interest None Declared


The French Sign Language (LSF) was banned in 1880 from all teaching institutions. From then on, it continued expanding in an uncoordinated way throughout special schools. In 1991, a new French law allowed deaf people to choose a bilingual education (French and sign language), and since February 2005 each school is required to integrate every devoted child who wishes it, no matter his handicap . All public websites must also become accessible. With this new context, the LSF grows using regional differences, and users invent new signs to translate new concepts. However, the sign language cannot count on traditional media to spread out new expressions or words, since it is nor spoken nor written. Therefore the sign vocabulary differs depending on geographical and social situations, furthermore if the concept is specific and elaborate. The website LexiqueLSF wishes to propose users a contributing and efficient tool, allowing a large diffusion of new signs and concepts. A short analysis of the existing supports will lead us to present the main issues and to describe precisely the technical and linguistic solutions we chose, as well as some of the problems we met. Likewise, all the elements composing the website should be considered as a concept in order to imagine complete accessibility to deaf people, and not only to blind people. We do not wish to make a simple dictionary. Our aim is to allow exchanges between users, to encourage them to invent and spread neologisms, and to make sure that the represented concepts are clear and understandable. Publishing a new notion requires to create a number of descriptors (in French and in sign language, illustrations, examples... ) and to relate this notion to others already existing (opposite or similar concepts...). Each new sign proposed will be completely described, therefore it can easily be appropriated. Thanks to this organization, the same concept can be shown in different ways depending on the role it must play in context (classification, illustration, rendering, etc.). One of the most important design patterns is the possibility of dynamically changing the classification system. Users will be able to choose various descriptors to build a classification view. A reliable, but not compulsory, validation system will guarantee only serious suggestions. Three steps are needed: grammatical validation, sign validation (both require experts) and community validation. Our production is thus very different from already existing paper or digital dictionaries, containing only everyday life vocabulary and almost no definitions, nor use examples. The best ones sort words according to the space location and configuration of the sign, but do not recognise morphological variations. Let us also observe that these dictionaries are not "bilingual" since they are accessible only to French speakers. There are two discursive enunciation strategies according to (Cuxac, 2000). Signer may choose to show without saying, or to say in showing. In the future LexiqueLSF will try to manage both of this kind of signs: standards signs from dictionary and structures having a great iconic representation from morphemic elements. 1. Context presentation The French Sign Language (LSF) was banned in 1880 from all teaching institutions. From then on, it continued expanding in an uncoordinated way throughout special schools. In 1991, a new French law allowed deaf people to choose a bilingual education (French and sign language), and since February 2005 each school is required to integrate every devoted child who wishes it, no matter his handicap . All public websites must also become accessible. With this new context, the LSF grows using regional differences, and users invent new signs to translate new concepts. However, the sign language cannot count on traditional media to spread out new expressions or words, since it is nor spoken nor written. Therefore the sign vocabulary differs depending on geographical and social situations, furthermore if the concept is specific and elaborate.


Background Breastfeeding may lower chronic disease risk by long-term effects on hormonal status and adiposity, but the relations remain uncertain. Objective To prospectively investigate the association of breastfeeding with the growth hormone- (GH) insulin-like growth factor- (IGF) axis, insulin sensitivity, body composition and body fat distribution in younger adulthood (18–37 years). Design Data from 233 (54% female) participants of a German cohort, the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed (DONALD) Study, with prospective data on infant feeding were analyzed. Multivariable linear as well as quantile regression were performed with full breastfeeding (not: ≤2, short: 3–17, long: >17 weeks) as exposure and adult IGF-I, IGF binding proteins (IGFBP) -1, -2, -3, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), fat mass index, fat-free mass index, and waist circumference as outcomes. Results After adjustment for early life and socio-economic factors, women who had been breastfed longer displayed higher adult IGFBP-2 (ptrend = 0.02) and lower values of HOMA-IR (ptrend = 0.004). Furthermore, in women breastfeeding duration was associated with a lower mean fat mass index (ptrend = 0.01), fat-free mass index (ptrend = 0.02) and waist circumference (ptrend = 0.004) in young adulthood. However, there was no relation to IGF-I, IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-3 (all ptrend>0.05). Associations for IGFBP-2 and fat mass index were more pronounced at higher, for waist circumference at very low or high percentiles of the distribution. In men, there was no consistent relation of breastfeeding with any outcome. Conclusions Our data suggest that breastfeeding may have long-term, favorable effects on extremes of adiposity and insulin metabolism in women, but not in men. In both sexes, breastfeeding does not seem to induce programming of the GH-IGF-axis.


Solid state reactions in air between two oxide pieces of a single crystal or a polycrystal were conducted and observed; the couples were MgO and Al2O3,ZnO and Al2O3,MgO and Fe2O3,MgO and Cr2O3, MgO and SiO2, MgO and TiO2, and CoO and TiO2. In all the reactions except the MgO-Fe2O3 reaction, the two pieces were easily separated after the reaction. Moreover, in all the reactions except the MgO-SiO2 reaction, the reacted substances adhered selectively to one of those two pieces. The host crystals (to which the reacted substances adhered) were Al2O3 in the cases of MgO-Al2O3 and ZnO-Al2O3, Fe2O3 in the case of MgO-Fe2O3, MgO in the case of MgO-Cr2O3, and TiO2 in the cases of MgO-TiO2 and CoO-TiO2. In the reaction between MgO and SiO2, 2MgO·SiO2 adhered to MgO and MgO·SiO2 adhered to SiO2. In the reactions of MgO-TiO2 and CoO-TiO2, three layers of different compounds were formed, all adhering to TiO2. The mechanism of the diffusion of ions through the reacted layer was hard to determine in detail. It was point...


At present the developing tourism industry gradually becomes an energetic industry,and plays an important role in the overall promotion of the national economy and enhancement of the level of foreign currency and foreign exchange.Therefore,how to steer the smooth and healthy development of tourism industry towards a direction desired is a fundament of our research.This paper begins with the sensitivity one of the characteristics of the tourism industry,and probes the essence of sensitivity,proposing corresponding countermeasures to guide better the development of tourism.


The bean curd of glucose was produced by mixing soybean, soybean dregs and spinach, which bear abundant dietary fibre and good mouthfeel. The process and prescription were optimized by orthogonal experiment. The product perfected the nutrition of tofu and may be the ideal healthy food for old people.


ABSTRACT This study contributes to the limited research on emergent bilinguals, perspective taking, and second language reading of informative text. The explicit integration of Freire's (1993) notion of conscientizacao, or consciousness-raising, with the constructs of empathy and embodiment (Gee, 2001; Hurtado, 1996) and with translanguaging (García, 2009) represented conceptual frameworks that explicitly guided the pedagogical approaches implemented in the study. The findings indicated that the incorporation of the integrated conceptual frameworks with the prescribed fourth grade social studies curriculum enabled emergent bilinguals to generate their own perspectives concerning social justice and equity when studying about slavery in Texas.


After a long struggle with the Persian Safavid state, the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed from the weight of the various crises which had turned it into the sick man of Europe. Its collapse left in its wake heated sectarian conflict. Weighed down by this intra-sectarian fighting, stripped of its Islamic content and heritage, the Empire yielded the reins of power to the aggressive power of an expanding European colonialism.


The fast command tracking provided by the dual-loop fast finite-settling-step (FSS) control for a DC-to-DC converter has been shown to have more energy saving capability than using the conventional PID controller. FSS control is developed based on the accurate nonlinear converter modeling. Thus, circuit parameter mismatch can affect the performance of FSS control so that the loss minimization capability degrades. A model reference adaptive system (MRAS) is developed in this paper to provide real-time estimation of series inductance and output capacitance. The estimated parameters are updated for the dual-loop FSS control system in every switching period. This paper develops the theory and evaluates the loss minimization consistency achieved on an automotive traction drive DC-to-DC converter.


The research antiologically confirmed the presence of Riemerella anatipestifer in Hebei Province for the first time. Part of young ducks caught an infectious disease at some duck feed lots in the middle and southern part of Hebei at the end of 1999,which was diagnosed as Riemerella a natipestifer infection through epidemiological investigation,clinical observation, pathological analysis and isolation and identification .of Riemerella anatipestifer. The germ was confirmed as Serum I of Riemerella anatipestifer through agglutinate test and agar diffusion test,Typical case could be reproduced in inoculated susceptible ducks. The epidemic situation was effectively controlled by sensitive medicine selected by drug sensitive test.


The process of learning a first language is commonplace in one sense and deeply mysterious in another. It's commonplace because everyone does it. A newborn infant knows almost nothing about the language being spoken around her, but around the time of her first birthday she will start saying her first words. Somewhere between the ages of one and two she will start putting two words together, and sometime after her second birthday she will produce sentences of increasing complexity, all the while learning new words at an incredible rate. But learning a first language is mysterious because so much of it happens at such a young age.We don't remember doing it ourselves, and the children who are learning now can't tell us much about what they're doing. Researchers who study how children learn language have to come up with creative experimental techniques to explore what their young subjects know. Learning to talk does more than help young children express what they want (and respond to instructions); speaking is an important part of becoming a full member of the community. This may explain why many people have strong beliefs about first-language acquisition – how children do it, how adults can help, and what the process means for children's eventual place in the world. In this chapter, we'll see that these beliefs are highly culture-specific, and that some beliefs about language acquisition common in western cultures are either based on uncertain evidence or simply wrong. This chapter focuses especially on the idea that parents teach language to their children explicitly. Mainstream middle-class western parenting practices put a high value on the parent's role as a teacher, and this includes teaching language; parents are expected to train their children on words for colors, shapes, animal sounds, and so on. One question we will explore is whether the parent-as-language-teacher is a universal model of child-rearing: do all cultures include language teaching in a parent's duties? As it turns out, different societies have very different ideas about how children are supposed to learn language. Parents' role in child language acquisition isn't just theoretically interesting; it also has important real-world consequences. If language must be taught, then it's possible to teach it badly.


The head of Denmark's largest energy group, pondered how to use their limited resources to advance the delivery of clean and reliable energy. The Danish State owned DONG Energy had started life as a state owned importer and trader of gas and oil. Under the leadership of the current CEO, Anders Eldrup, the company had grown in an energy group, present in all steps of the gas and oil value chain and particular, in the EU market leader in offshore wind energy. In 2011, the company faced several strategic questions including if they should continue investing in offshore wind and had to identify the next key growth businesses of the future.Learning Objective: To examine the strategy and other key policies of a company that has succeeded with off-shore wind.


Background: Epidemiological and interventional studies suggest that omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids derived from fish oil can reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. Based on these observations,...


In this paper I argue against using the so-called 'principle of legality' to read down statutory powers to avoid infringing on liberty, in circumstances where the limit on liberty does not amount to an established common law wrong and is justified as a proportionate means for achieving a legitimate objective. I consider the arguments for and against following this approach in relation to emergency powers, and suggest that the strengths of the arguments for and against need to be balanced in the particular circumstances.


Magnetotelluric (MT) data from two sites 150 and 300 km southeast of San Francisco, California (geomagnetic dipole latitude: 43 degrees, L approximately 1.9) show that the usual MT assumption of spatially uniform external magnetic fields is violated to a significant degree in the period range 10–30 s. Inter‐station transfer functions exhibit large systematic temporal variations which are consistent with a combination of two distinct sources: electromagnetic noise due to the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) DC electric railway, and Pc3 geomagnetic pulsations. There is a suggestion in the data that some of the Pc activity may actually be excited by BART.


Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) must be recognized as a strategic and important force to accelerate regional development, because the growth of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises is increasing every year, where the number of MSMEs in Indonesia in 2020 is 64.2 million units, and proven contributes 61 percent to GDP (Gross Domestic Income) (Airangga, 2021). MSME problems include financial and non-financial problems. To overcome these MSME problems, supply chain management can be implemented by implementing several activities, namely (1) management of managerial aspects aimed at increasing productivity, marketing capabilities, and human resource development, (2) capital aspects by collaborating with banks, and (3) partnership program to increase cooperation with suppliers and consumers. MSMEs who are members of the Garudayaksa Nusantara Cooperative in dealing with MSME problems apply the concept of supply chain management by choosing a few suppliers and an efficient distribution channel model, namely supplier-UMKM-consumer.


A self-pressurizing hydrodynamic thrust bearing has been designed, fabricated and tested up to speeds of 450,000 rpm on a 4.2 mm diameter MEMS radial inflow turbine. This test device demonstrated the load bearing capability predicted by the macro-scale gas bearing theory derived from the literature. The design of the devices tested was compromised to fit an existing geometry and fabrication sequence. Given more design freedom, these bearings should be capable of operating at several million rpm. Compared to existing hydrostatic thrust bearings, a hydrodynamic approach offers significantly simplified fabrication and elimination of the need for a source of pressurized gas external to the bearing.


Circular economy is needed in the material closed loop liquidity economy and the construction of economical society. And it is also a specific step of carrying out the scientific concept of development. The development of circular economy needs abundant infrastructure investment. And it also needs people around the nation to work together. In the process of developing circular economy, the adjustment and corresponding support of fiscal and taxation policy is indispensable. In this paper, the author mainly discusses the main problems and countermeasures of fiscal and taxation policies in the process of supporting the development of circular economy.


We report on X-ray and gamma-ray observations of the millisecond pulsar (MSP) B1937+21 taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, and the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The pulsar X-ray emission shows a purely non-thermal spectrum with a hard photon index of 0.9 ± 0.1, and is nearly 100% pulsed. We found no evidence of varying pulse profile with energy as previously claimed. We also analyzed 5.5 yr of Fermi survey data and obtained much improved constraints on the pulsar's timing and spectral properties in gamma-rays. The pulsed spectrum is adequately fitted by a simple power-law with a photon index of 2.38 ± 0.07. Both the gamma-ray and X-ray pulse profiles show similar two-peak structure and generally align with the radio peaks. We found that the aligned profiles and the hard spectrum in X-rays seem to be common properties among MSPs with high magnetic fields at the light cylinder. We discuss a possible physical scenario that could give rise to these features.


As I expect that Mr. Bayfield's late article will call forth answers from others interested in the questions ho raises, I will be as brief as the case admits. 1. Conditioned Sentences. The main objection to my mind against the proposed abolition of the implication of a negative in certain Conditional Sentences is the insufficiency of what Mr. Bayfield proposes to put in its place. In the Class. Rev. for May 1890 he says that the hypothetical statement is merely put less positively: does he mean that when there is no av in the apodosis the Indicative of the protasis puts the hypothetical statement positively at all? I thought it was now generally admitted that no conditional sentence implies fact. In his Ion (1889), note on line 354, he says ' The Imperfects present the contingency less immediately, less directly and vividly than the Presents, but that is all.' These phrases have to me, I confess, little meaning, unless indeed I read into them a meaning similar to that which Mr. Bayfield's opponents maintain. The term ' vivid,' which is so hard worked now-a-days in various connexions, seems here specially inappropriate ; for if the opposite of ' vivid' is ' vague,' then ' If I had had the money, I should have given i t ' is not less but more vivid than ' If I had the money, I gave i t ' : for the former sentence expresses the conditional idea of the latter and something more. I have therefore an even stronger objection to ' vivid' in this connexion than I had {Class. Rev. June, 1887) and still have to Goodwin's use of it in Future Conditions, where he distinguishes three degrees of vividness.


Introduction. A sustainable system of risk management in construction is in great demand for both consumers and suppliers of construction products. As one of the main elements of such a system, probability calculations of loader-bearing structures provide a necessary level of reliability and optimality of construction solutions. At the same time, the transition towards risk-oriented design, including the assessment and management of risks, implies the presence of sufficient statistic data, along with the methods of data collection and probability modeling. This study is focused on the issues concerned with collecting data for probability calculations.Aim. To propose suggestions for improving the national regulatory framework as related to probability calculations of reinforced concrete structures and collecting the necessary data.Materials and methods. The main objectives of the study were to investigate and analyze Russian and foreign experience in the field of risk assessment and management in terms of building structures and facilities based on probability calculations. In order to achieve these objectives, an analysis of existing Russian and international documents was carried out. In the course of the study, national regulatory legal acts and standardization documents including codes of rules and GOSTs were considered. In addition, some national regulatory technical documents, which were not included in the lists of both obligatory and non-obligatory applications, were analyzed, as well as other specialized regulatory technical documents. An analysis of foreign regulatory technical documents was conducted, including those regulating the initial data characteristics to perform probability calculations (loads, materials, and calculation models). In general, the methodology for analyzing regulatory technical documents involved a detailed study of the selected documents, an analysis of their positions concerning the issue under consideration, as well as an assessment of the completeness and sufficiency of the positions of the documents concerning the methods for determining the initial data characteristics for probability calculations of reinforced concrete structures regarding loads, materials and calculation models.Conclusions. On the basis of the conducted analysis, specific subject areas for research works are formulated focusing on the development of probability calculations of reinforced concrete structures. A system of regulatory documents is proposed enabling an optimal risk-oriented design of reinforced concrete structures to be implemented.


Every summer the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York loses nearly onefourth of its faculty. While this turnover is intentional (returning our junior military officers to the Army), with such a high and constant turnover rate, we have had to figure out how to effectively teach teachers to teach in order to maintain the high quality education we provide for our cadets. Many of West Point's efforts can be successfully adopted at other universities and colleges who face the challenge of providing pedagogical instruction for graduate teaching assistants, new PhDs and adjunct instructors.


Baidehīśa Bilāsa is a seventeenth century Odiā erotic retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa. The work is particularly pertinent today, as the political right wing in India celebrates Rāma's abstinence and represses his conjugal life in public memory. Rāma's leaving of Sītā for his kingdom (read the Hindu nation) is further highlighted as his choosing of Dharma (duty) over Kāma (pleasure). This text reorders that binary and demonstrates how preoccupied Rāma was in fulfilling his duties as a husband. It contains multiple erotic encounters between the couple and some important (and subversive) instances of queer imagination and interaction. This article is an attempt to survey and decipher the same. And, in doing so, we intend to contribute to the scholarship on Rāmāyaṇa and the literary history of pre-modern Odisha, which has received relatively little scholarly attention.


The grammatical category of the form is a type of the Slavic language, which is used in an international terminology as an aspect, as form in the Slavic language, and in the Uzbek language as"tus". The form means completed / uncompleted action of the verb. This linguistic phenomenon in Turkic languages is somewhat different from the Slavic form category. In Turkic, such as in Uzbek, the verb meaning is expressed by the main and auxiliary verbs rather than with one independent verb.


We provide a statistically significant observation of the elusive Odderon exchange, based on novel and model-independent analysis of the scaling properties of the differential cross sections of elastic $pp$ and $p\bar p$ scattering in the TeV energy range. We report the statistical significance of the observed Odderon signal at the level of 6.26$\sigma$.


Knee MRI is the most common Musculo-skeletal MRI [1]. It is a non-invasive tool for the evaluation of disorders such as meniscal, ligamental, soft tissue, bone and bone marrow injuries and abnormalities. Acquisition of a high-resolution and high-quality MRI is key to boost the confidence of the radiologist in diagnosis. In this manuscript we have presented how radial MRI, commercially referred to as PROPELLER (GE)/ BLADE (Siemens)/ MULTIVANE (Philips) etc. parameters, patient positioning and immobilization can be adapted for the available hardware such as receiver coil to yield high-resolution and high-quality knee MRI.