Prediction of Estimated Times of Arrival (ETA) is a challenging problem for the aviation industry. Flights recurrently deviate from their scheduled time of arrival, which has negative downstream consequences that affect the efficiency of operations. Therefore, accurate and up-to-date ETA estimations prior to its landing can help in optimizing the actions to be taken by the different air transportation agents whenever schedule deviations are incurred, and thus reduce the economic, logistic and environmental impact that they cause. This presentation exposes an infrastructure for high-fidelity computation of accurate ETA in real-time, based on a data-driven approach that leverages the use of recorded aircraft trajectories. This infrastructure is composed of different elements: (1) a live ADS-B tracks gathering system embedded in a lambda-architecture cluster, with capabilities for real-time distribution and data lake storage (2) an ETA prediction machine learning model, employing the actual 4D aircraft position as input; and (3) a hybrid cloud architecture to support real-time visualization and distributions of ETA predictions. The proposed infrastructure has been successfully validated in a real environment (Transforming Transport, an European Commission funded project). This infrastructure enables real-time computation and distribution of accurate ETA for any arrival operation of interest. Results supported the envisioned benefits of getting such accurate ETA, which basically turn into a reduction of associated costs for airport authorities and airlines.


With long term convicts, the clinician is confronted with major difficulties characterised by a refusal to be committed in a process of psychic working. This item describes how imprisonment turns out to reinforce the defensive process of denial triggering of the repression of affects. So obtained by these specific processes, the erasing of the patient subjectivity cuts him off from the part of his self, which is at the root of thought. Consequently, the major psychological problem does not belong to the diagnosis, but is located in the research of the adequate conditions of the unfolding of the patient subjectivity. And thus, any therapeutic approach is to go through a deep rooted alteration of the effect of the splitting ego. To do so, we should inject some dynamism in the corporal sensitivity thanks to a pattern of creative activities.


Gender sensitive language as a part of non-discriminatory speaking and writing is an important aspect of language planning. There is no such official policy of language planning in Serbia, and the whole process in public goes with resistance and disputes of individuals or groups. At the same time, the argumentation and importance of language planning are not considered when it comes to its gender dimension. Given the strong media influence on public opinion, speaking and writing, I decided to research proofreaders' attitudes to the use of gender sensitive language in Serbian daily newspapers. The proofreaders have a power of linguistic knowledge to direct language policy in media, but their professional power could be reduced by the attitudes of editors and authors. On the other hand, given the relation between the prescriptive norm and the language practice, proofreaders are often influenced by individual attitudes of Serbian philologists who prescribe that norm. The attention here is to show an interdependence of professional power and linguistic knowledge in the processes of standardisation of the Serbian language in the case of proofreading services in daily newspapers in Belgrade and Novi Sad printed in 2016.


Leg 21 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project consisted of operations around Australia in some of the marginal basins of the Pacific. Leg 22 was also largely a southern hemisphere operation, but followed Ninetyeast Ridge to almost 10°N latitude before turning west to end in Colombo, Ceylon. These legs were conducted in late 1971 and early 1972, but the pore waters sent to Texas A&M were not analyzed until June 1973. This long storage could have adversely affected the pore water chemistry, especially for such constituents as silicon and ammonia, but we have no evidence that such is the case, and no unexpected values or trends that might be attributed to storage are evident. We intend to compare our data with that of the Woods Hole group when their report is received, and this should shed some light on storage effects that will be useful to future investigations. The samples we received consisted of 2-3 ml aliquots of membrane-filtered water that had been heat sealed into short sections of polyethylene tubing. They were kept refrigerated at all times between collection and analysis, except for transit by air mail. The analytical procedures used are essentially the same as those described in an earlier DSDP report (Presley, 1971). We have, as usual, analyzed all samples for major cations and are including the Leg 21 data in this report. The Woods Hole group is reporting major cation data on the Leg 22 samples, as they have on all previous legs; therefore, our data have been omitted from the report.


This paper presents a new modeling method that generates a full 3D mesh based on a view with a single depth image. The front of the object is modeled using the depth image and the backside is approximated by trilinear interpolation and distance transform based on the 2.5D silhouette contour that is extracted from the depth image. Then the front and the back are merged and smoothened to generate a smooth 3D mesh.


Both a sense of belonging and a belief in their own competency seem to be missing from the school experiences of disengaged, underachieving students. Building students' developmental assets is a promising practice for reconnecting students and supporting achievement. Looking at schools through an assets lens can promote concrete changes in school organization, curriculum and instruction, cocurricular programs, support services, and community partnerships that make the whole environment more conducive to great teaching and learning.


The traditional conception of art is about sensual beauty and refined taste; modern art on the other hand has introduced an entirely unexpected dimension to the visual arts, namely that of 'revelatory narrative'. Classical art aspires to present works which can be appreciated as sensually beautiful; modern art, when it succeeds, presents us instead with the unsettling narrative. This radical difference in artistic purpose is something relatively new, and not yet fully appreciated or understood. What is art ? Art is popularly believed to be any example of 'creative crafting', from flower arranging in the home, to classical oil paintings in museums. Anything crafted with a touch of creative flair is considered 'art', and this is contrasted with mere skilled technique and mere practiced craftsmanship. For 'art' to lift itself above mere 'craft' – in an everyday sense – the crafting has to be flavoured with something like a dash of stylish magic. Though when it comes to classical artworks – of the sort we encounter in museums – we are not so much looking for creative flair as for evidence of classical technique, meaning the kind of fine workmanship possessed only by those of exceptional talent. And the more we are in awe of the technique on display, the more we believe we are in the presence of real 'art'. So our everyday concept of 'art' combines the idea of creativity with a respect for classical technique, though it's not quite clear from these two slightly differing concepts exactly what it is that the concept of art is trying to tell us; and for that we have to turn to a more encompassing idea, that of representing 'beauty'. 'Beauty' – in artistic terms – is all about sensual attractiveness; in other words, it is about the attempt, using the possibilities afforded by a particular art form, at realising something sensorially 'beautiful', whether in visual or auditory form. We experience the beauty of art through our senses, even when that beauty is supposedly linked to lofty ideals and spiritual musings; if you took away the sensual aspect of classical art, nothing would remain. And in this way 'art' – as a sensual experience – can usefully and illuminatingly be equated with 'taste' – meaning one's ability to appreciate the nuances of sensual experiences afforded by presentational material. 'Taste' is of course also about food; and the refinements involved in the preparation and presentation of food offer us yet another means of understanding the essential sensuality underpinning a traditional conception of 'art'. We educate and refine our experience of food in exactly the same way we educate and refine our experience of classical artworks; that is, by isolating and exploring their constituent elements, and learning optimal and ever more subtle ways of engaging with them. And the logic of beauty and taste – the logic of sensual experience relating to presentational material – can in turn usefully be categorised under the label 'aesthetics'. Restricting beauty and taste to the category of 'aesthetics' allows us to introduce a quite separate category into the realm of presentational material, namely that of narrative, and specifically that of the revelatory or unsettling narrative. This is the realm of 'art proper', and its logic and general direction is quite distinct from that of aesthetics, and other forms of sensuality. Now the truth is that the conceptual logic of 'sensual aesthetics' is wholly unable to explain modern art in any meaningful way, leaving us with an unhappy choice: either that modern art is essentially rubbish, or that the critical apparatus being applied to explain it is not up to the job. A popular alternative to the judgement that 'modern art is rubbish' is to propose instead that it's about 'interesting ideas' and helping us to 'see things in a different way'; and this allows critics to engage in freewheeling, plucking so-called 'resonances' from all over the place to 'explain', or at least to give some kind of interpretation to, a seemingly slapdash modern artwork. But 'interesting ideas' is a subset of popular discourse and reflective philosophical chatter – not art and modern art becomes even worse than rubbish if we are reduced to getting our 'interesting ideas' from the sight of unmade beds, and shark tanks, and readymade urinals. Presumably the 'interesting idea' is that any old junk can be made to qualify as classical art, and so be exhibited in the same buildings, but there's something vacuous and disheartening about this whole line of thought, and it makes art out to be an astonishingly trivial affair, a kind of classroom 'show and tell' for adults with nothing better to do. A convincing solution is that modern art is not about the aesthetics of beauty, or about interesting ideas, or getting us to see things differently, but is instead a form of narrative, in the same way that an object in everyday life can present a narrative of varying degrees of complexity and fascination. For example, if you live in a building full of different types of people, you very soon come to learn how simple objects, positioned in certain locations, like on the front steps, or on a hall table, can come to represent a whole world of experience, and a whole way of thinking, and even a whole outlook. The object could be a pair of gloves, or a set of keys, or a scribbled note, or a package of some kind, and depending on our engagement with them, they can have a compelling story to tell us, involving mentalities, and intentions, and intersecting histories. This has nothing to do with the aesthetics of the object – its physical beauty or lack of it – but with its narrative value: lumps of fat and felt, for example, have no classical aesthetic merit, and make no sense as attempts at classical beauty, but they have massive currency as narrative items in the world of Joseph Beuys. Modern art therefore becomes a matter of connecting with the narrative represented by the modern artwork. The aesthetic features of a modern artwork are irrelevant: it is all about the type of story it can tell. And in artistic terms, there are two major categories of narrative; the ordinary and reassuring on the one hand, and the disturbing and revelatory on the other; ordinary narratives leave us exactly where we started; revelatory stories unsettle us and show us something with which we are unfamiliar. Narrative arcs of the sort we find in films and novels are, for the most part, restricted by the limits of the form they are presented in, and so tend to be somewhat self-contained: a film ends with its credits, and a book ends with its last words. But a modern artwork can be part of a much larger, ongoing narrative – something like an evolving performance – in which the entire life of the artist gets incorporated into their art, as is the case with the art of Andy Warhol. To understand his art, you have to connect with the narrative of his entire artistic life, not just with the aesthetics of a single Brillo box, or a Marilyn poster. Of course it needs to be emphasised that not every presentational object has a valid artistic story to tell. An unmade bed, unless it can tell us something we don't already know, is just an unmade bed; it may well be a glorious instance of self-aggrandisement, and an iconic symbolic referent, but it has no artistic narrative value. Likewise a shark in a tank. What about a giant metal balloon dog ? Jeff Koons is orchestrating an utterly fascinating world of banality and emptiness and absurdity – and perhaps even hopelessness the like of which Samuel Beckett could only dream of. Koons's art is post-Godot, if you forget the aesthetics and follow the story. Some of these artistic narratives may well take an effort on the part of the viewer to latch on to, but once reached, have a compelling luminance of their own, infinitely more substantial and interesting than the camp swoonings of the aesthetes.


In this study, a program based on the P-M interaction curve is developed to calculate the nominal strength of concrete pole. Using this, it is verified to compare with previous studies and the nominal strength of concrete pole is calculated. It is less than the rupture strength of the design standard. Thus, to increase nominal strength, several parameters are selected like as size of tension and reinforced bars, position of those, number of reinforcement bars, thickness of concrete pole, and diameter of it. The effects of those are analysed in the study. It is supposed that section of concrete pole are satisfied rupture strength.


We consider the plant location decision of a multinational, which can invest in a more or a less technologically advanced country. We find that in the absence of exporting by the local firms, the multinational will invest in the country lagging behind, unless the firm in that country is unable to compete in the product market. Exporting by the local firms reduces (increases) the multinational's incentive to invest in the country lagging behind if the technological gap between the two is small (large). Our model's predictions are consistent with the trends of FDI inflows observed over the last two decades in Europe.


The advantages, and possible benefits of a valid, reliable animal model for nausea are discussed, and difficulties inherent to the development of a model are considered. A principle problem for developing models arises because nausea is a subjective sensation that can be identified only in humans. Several putative measures of nausea in animals are considered, with more detailed consideration directed to variation in cardiac rate, levels of vasopressin, and conditioned taste aversion. Demonstration that putative measures are associated with reported nausea in humans is proposed as a requirement for validating measures to be used in animal models. The necessity for a 'real-time' measure of nausea is proposed as an important factor for future research; and the need for improved understanding of the neuroanatomy underlying the emetic syndrome is discussed.


EMIR, currently entering into its fabrication and AIV phase, will be one of the first common user instruments for the GTC, the 10 meter telescope under construction by GRANTECAN at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Canary Islands, Spain). EMIR is being built by a Consortium of Spanish and French institutes led by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC). EMIR is designed to realize one of the central goals of 10m class telescopes, allowing observers to obtain spectra for large numbers of faint sources in an time-efficient manner. EMIR is primarily designed to be operated as a MOS in the K band, but offers a wide range of observing modes, including imaging and spectroscopy, both long slit and multiobject, in the wavelength range 0.9 to 2.5 μm. It is equipped with two innovative subsystems: a robotic reconfigurable multislit mask and disperssive elements formed by the combination of high quality diffraction grating and conventional prisms, both at the heart of the instrument. The present status of development, expected performances, schedule and plans for scientific exploitation are described and discussed. The development and fabrication of EMIR is funded by GRANTECAN and the Plan Nacional de Astronomia y Astrofisica (National Plan for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spain).


Figure 2. Coronal magnetic resonance cisternography (negative mode) demonstrates CSF intensity (black signal) in the left side oj the sphenoid sinus that extends into the left lateral recess (arrows) and which contains meninges. Also note some distortion o] the adjacent brain, suggesting traction. Figure 1. Axial Tl -weighted MR1 shows the nonspecific f luid intensity ill the lateral recess ofthe spheudoid sinus (arrow). ,


hemodynamics. Methods: We analyzed 12 patients with severe carotid disease who underwent CT perfusion and cerebral angiography. We also evaluated the collateral supply to the territory ipsilateral to the ICA stenosis from angiographic findings. Results: 3 patients had normal TTP values and the other 9 patients had delayed TTP. The perfusion values of CBF and CBV maps were variable. The degree (>90% of carotid stenosis or carotid occlusion with contralateral carotid stenosis) of stenosis and collateral supply were import ant factors that decided hemodynamic states of severe ICA disease. Conclusions: TTP may be sensitive maps for the identification of hemodynamic compromise and cerebral perfusion may be influenced by the state of collaterals and other related artery. J Korean Neurol Assoc 25(4):469-474, 2007


Many naturally occurring mineralisation processes yield hydroxyapatite (HA) or related salts, but biological routes to calcification have not generally been exploited for production of hydroxyapatite for clinical and industrial applications. Serratia sp. NCIMB 40259 is a non-pathogenic Gram-negative bacterium which is capable of growing as a biofilm on many surfaces and can be used to form HA coatings on a variety of polymeric and metallic materials, including titanium. Here we review previous work and report the results of more recent studies on the influence of titanium compositional and surface properties on Serratia adherence and proliferation and biomineralisation on commercially pure titanium (cp Ti) discs and a Ti mesh. Bacterial adherence was equivalent on cpTi and Ti6Al4V, and biofilms formed on both rough and mirror-polished cpTi surfaces. Embedded alumina particles and alkali treatment did not noticeably alter the precipitation of Serratia HA, nor the structure of the coating in comparison with non-treated substrates. Coatings were retained after sintering at 800°C in argon, although the original curved plate-like crystals changed to nano-scale β-tricalcium phosphate particles. A phosphorous-rich diffusion zone formed at the coating-titanium interface. Bacterial mineralisation may have applications as a method for producing coatings on implants in non load-bearing sites, and non-clinical applications where a high surface area is the major concern.


This gracefully written book is an ethnohistorical study of community formation and survival. The period that it covers is one marked by dramatic events in the history of the southern frontier. The colony of East Florida, ceded by Spain to Great Britain in 1763, sought population with large land grants to slave-owning planters. In 1768 Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish physician with an aristocratic Greek wife, varied the formula to bring in Mediterranean farm families under contracts of indenture-some 1,400 Roman Catholic emigrants, 80 percent of whom were from the island of Minorca (p. 13) and the rest mostly Greeks and Italians. Years of high mortality rates, abusive overseers, and cultural repression on the indigo plantation of New Smyrna led to the flight of some 600 of Turnbull's colonists in 1777, an exodus encouraged, for political or security reasons, by Governor Patrick Tonyn.


In many investment projects, the controlling parameters and events may be uncertain, making the investment project associated with risk. In present context, the investment is defined as acquiring an asset for the purpose of obtaining commercial sustainability, where commercial sustainability aims to achieve the balance between economic, environmental and social impacts through the effective management of resources whilst maximizing organizational profitability. The variability of input parameters will be characterized by stochastic distributions, and the probabilistic simulation can predict the financial model behaviors under uncertainties by an output probability distribution. With sensitivity analysis, the system complexity can be reduced and the cause-and-effect relationship can be explained, for example, which model parameters contribute the most to output variability, which parameters are in-significant and can be eliminated from model and which parameters interact with each other. In a traditional investment analysis method, the effect of sensitivity in input variables, is often based on only one variable considered at a time, whereas a probabilistic simulation approach considers the impact of many variables changing at the same time. The uncertainty is incorporated by specifying inputs as probability distributions and specifying any random events that could affect the project. The simulation process consists of successively generating random numbers, used to select from the probability distribution of each uncertain input parameter. In this paper, a financial evaluation model is developed using a probabilistic simulation approach. The asset investment project discussed, is categorized into asset management and capital expenditure (CAPEX) projects. It accounts for variability, uncertainty and risk, both in the costs and benefits associated with the investment opportunity. Investment planning, approval workflow and management method, is only included as necessary for the context, or applicable. Please note, the financial evaluation method, although it is very important, is only one aspect affecting the investment decisions. In the investment planning and capital budgeting process, it consists of complex aspects in the organizational setting, where it become identified, developed, justified and finally approved.


Abstract One of the basic aids in the preparation of extended forecasts is a 5-day mean mid-tropospheric chart centered on the day of the forecast, with associated instantaneous height tendencies, the unknown data being computed by autocorrelation techniques. Substitution of values from the barotropic 24-hour and 48-hour numerical prognoses for these unknowns objectively incorporated recent gains in short-period prognoses. Comparison of the statistically and physically computed mean charts and their tendencies suggests superiority of the latter over North America and the Atlantic, but not over the Pacific where errors in the barotropic prognoses, which are probably due to improper boundary assumptions and omitted physical processes, play an important role. Dynamic considerations can be applied to the new mean chart to suggest subsequent changes which may not be indicated kinematically.


On the basis of explaining the principles of wavelet transform, neural network, and wavelet neural network, the paper examines two methods of face recognition: one is based on neural network, the other is based on wavelet neural network. The paper also offers the features and differences based on algorithmic simulation. The result of the stimulation reveals that face recognition using wavelet neural network can largely increase the accuracy rate.


Objective: To observe the effect of local pain blockage on preventing flexor tendon anastomosis analgesia after the surgery and to evaluate the impact of early rehabilitation training. Methods: 62 cases of flexor tendon anastomosis, between January 2010 and January 2015, were collected and divided into two groups according to admission order: 31 cases of local block group treated with postoperative local block analgesia, 31 cases of postoperative intravenous analgesia group treated with patient-controlled intravenous analgesia. Compare two groups of postoperative VAS pain score, the incidence of adverse reactions at different time points, postoperative tendon function evaluation, high-frequency ultrasound tendons function after surgery for histologic evaluation. Results: Postoperative results in patients with local anesthesia group 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, 96 h VAS score were significantly lower than those in intravenous analgesia group (P < 0.05), lower incidence of adverse reactions, the incidence of postoperative tendon adhesion between the two groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05), high frequency ultrasound evaluation confirmed the lighter degree of tendon adhesion in local block group. Conclusion: Postoperative local analgesic effect on tendon anastomosis is good, which is not only helpful for patients with early functional exercise, but also reduces tendon adhesion complications.


Abstract : A rigid (micro) robot mounted serially to the tip of a long, flexible (macro) robot is often used to increase reach capability, but flexibility in the macromanipulator can make it susceptible to vibration. A rigid manipulator attached to a flexible but unactuated base was used to study a scheme to achieve micromanipulator positioning combined with vibration damping of the base. Inertial interaction forces and torques acting at the base of the rigid robot were studied to determine how to use them to damp the base vibration.


The design of high performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Processors for Software Defined Radio (SDR) with high degree of flexibility and low power consumption has been a major challenge to the scientific community ever since its conception. The basic philosophy of SDR is to implement different modulation or demodulation schemes on the same underlying hardware. Currently available high performance DSP processors, optimized with 'Very Large Instruction Word (VLIW)' architecture and multiply and accumulate (MAC) units, are unable to meet the near real time speed requirements of Software Defined Radios (SDR) due to their inherent sequential execution of compute intensive signal processing algorithms. Moreover, their power dissipation is considerably high. Even though, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) exhibit high performance, they are also not suitable because of their lack of flexibility. Various references on FPGA based implementations of reconfigurable architectures for SDRs are also available. However, the Look-up Table (LUT) based implementations of FPGAs are not optimum and therefore, cannot offer highest performance at low silicon cost. Keeping this view, this paper presents the design of a configurable communication processor for Software Defined Radio. The proposed scheme features the performance of an ASIC based design combined with the flexibility of software. Experimental results reveal that the proposed architecture has minimum hardware requirement, improved silicon area utilization and low power dissipation.


The lipophilic acyclic polyether carboxylic acid bls-l,8(2 -carboxy-3-naphthoxy)-3,6-dioxaoctane exhibits selectivity for Ra2+ over Ba2+ in competitive extractions into chloroform. Solubility characteristics of the compound suggest that the addition of branched alkyl substituents would be required to make it a practical separation agent.


Aluminide coatings are great importance in protecting hot-section gas turbine components. Study the effects of pre-diffused layer on the final microstructure and properties of coating is useful in better exploiting of aluminide coatings potential. In this investigation the results of microstructural studies of modified aluminide coatings with pre-diffused titanium or silicon layers was presented and compared with a co-deposited titanium-modified aluminide coating and simple aluminide coating. It was found that silicon diffusion layer grows inwardly and increases the final aluminide coating thickness more than twice of the simple aluminide coating. About half of the silicon-modified aluminide coatings consisted the brittle Ni2Al3 phase. In contrast, titanium diffusion layer grew outwardly and didn't have a considerable effect on the final thickness, but dilutes the areas close to the coating surface from alloying elements. This effect may be considered beneficial to the hot corrosion behavior of the coating via the basic fluxing mechanism.


The article gives the results of phytopathological evaluation of different grades of grain crops on resistance to mushrooms diseases in the Central Amur.


Stator indexing to alter and/or control the unsteady heat transfer of closely spaced airfoil rows in turbomachinery was studied experimentally in a two-stage low-speed research turbine. With the second vane row fixed, the inlet vane row was indexed to six positions over one vane-pitch cycle at design and high stage loadings. The aerodynamic forcing functions to the first- and second-stage rotors were measured in the rotating reference frame, with the resulting rotor blade unsteady heat transfer response quantified by an electrically heated rotor blade instrumented with thin platinum-film heat gages. The level of attenuation of unsteady heat transfer coefficient due to stator indexing was found to be both location and blade loading dependent, ranging from 10% to 80% of the maximum. Because of the attenuation's location dependence, stator indexing is therefore best suited to minimize unsteady heat transfer in local hot spots on the blade.Copyright © 1999 by ASME


Objective To explore the method of medical treatment in neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and analysis of its associated risk factors.Methods Reviewed the 45 cases of neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis clinical data from December 2006 to December 2010 in our hospital.Results Cured 36 cases,5 cases because of economic reasons to give up treatment,4 cases deaths,and neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis,the total effective rate was 80%,a high incidence of premature children in full-term children,the incidence rate of less than non-breastfeeding breastfeeding,and the difference was statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusion Rational use of antibiotics the key of reduce preterm children,promotion of breastfeeding,is to reduce neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis.


In the past decade, franchising has become a well-known platform for business expansion. Various strategies have been employed by franchisors in expanding their business into the global market. However, few studies have assessed the determinants that can be adopted by the franchisors in bringing value as well as opening up opportunities for global market expansion. This study aims to explore the determinants of global expansion based on Malaysian franchisors' experience. A qualitative research approach was adopted through various case studies with ten franchisors from the food and beverage industry in Malaysia. In-depth interviews were carried out to explore this topic. Thematic analysis was performed through the "Atlas.ti" software package version 9.0, which was also used in analyzing the data. The findings indicated that there are four themes, and nine sub-themes were discovered from the grounded data. The franchisors agreed that franchise brand, business location, product, advertising, and promotion were able to influence franchisors in designing strategies for global expansion. The data were also able to provide an in-depth understanding of the determinants for global expansion that can be undertaken as a guide to prospective franchisors who want to start exploring the global market. These results are expected to assist the government as well as the agencies involved with franchising in improving related policies, strategies and programmes. Thus, it is important to understand these determinants in order to survive in a competitive global market.


Benchmarking has been a credible approach to quality improvement and program evaluation for more than 30 years. However, the term has been used and abused so much since the 1970s that now an author might be describing anything from the establishment of performance indicators, to competitor ranking, or gap analysis, through to a continuous quality improvement process. Equally confusing is the plethora of different benchmarking models published. A literature review was conducted in which 65 publications from 1998-2008 were analysed and synthesised in order to untangle the confusion surrounding the contemporary theory and practice of benchmarking. This article clarifies the terminology and concepts of benchmarking, attempts a concise practical definition, examines various approaches in the current theory and application of benchmarking, and explicates the features most consistent with the goal of continuous quality improvement and organisational learning.


Abstract : This thesis extends the research found in Storm, Bauer, and Oxley, 2003. Data correlation effects and sample size effects on three classifier fusion techniques and one data fusion technique were investigated. Identification System Operating Characteristic Fusion (Haspert, 2000), the Receiver Operating Characteristic Within Fusion method (Oxley and Bauer, 2002), and a Probabilistic Neural Network were the three classifier fusion techniques; a Generalized Regression Neural Network was the data fusion technique. Correlation was injected into the data set both within a feature set (autocorrelation) and across feature sets for a variety of classification problems, and sample size was varied throughout. Total Probability of Misclassification (TPM) was calculated for some problems to show the effect of correlation on TPM. Feature selection was performed in some experiments to show the effects of selecting only certain features. Finally, experiments were designed and analyzed using analysis of variance to identify what factors had the most significant impact on fusion algorithm performance.


This paper summarizes the results of tests conducted on four full-size composite beams and two full-size push-off specimens which are companions of the first two beams. In these specimens, the ribbed metal deck was placed perpendicular to the beam span. Concrete pull-out was the principal mode of failure. The ultimate horizontal shear loads observed in the push-off specimens agreed reasonably well with those predicted using an empirical equation proposed by the authors. The predicted values of flexural capacity, calculated indirectly using the same equation, were in good agreement with those observed in the four beam specimens. Key words: composite beam, headed shear stud, stud shear capacity, stud pull-out failure, full-size tests, perpendicular ribbed metal deck.


In Reply.— We appreciate Dr Gall's thoughtful letter in which he highlights our major point that insufficient data exist to draw definitive conclusions about the relations between OCs, Chlamydia trachomatis , and PID. Regarding his specific comments, first, we agree that certain variables cannot be eliminated as possible confounding factors because of limitation in the information available in many studies of OCs and chlamydial infection. However, at least one study 1 we cited, and another 2 completed since our report that controlled for these variables (sexual activity, marital status, parity, and exposure to nongonococcal urethritis) found a statistically significant association between OC use and C trachomatis infection. Second, we agree that the possible effect of OCs on severity of acute PID and subsequent fertility prognosis should not be trivialized. This finding, however, does not address the effects of contraceptive method on the incidence of PID, particularly protection against chlamydial PID, or


This study investigated the circumstances of the transformation from a policy for new construction to a policy for housing renovation in France and verified the present trends in the policy for stimulating housing renovation. For achieving these goals, this study investigated the history of housing renovation from the Second World War to the present time in a political flow and clarified that what does it let the position in the regions of housing policies and urban plans, what does it play the role, and how does it change the role in the flow of a time series. In addition, this study represented that the housing renovation policy in France has been developed in the flow of the satisfaction of quantity, housing renovation, estate & area renewal, and social cohesion and added a prospect of the housing renovation policy.


The paper presents a new method of a continuous isolation and determination of volatile organic halogens (VOX) in drinking waters based on so-called thin layer headspace (TLHS) isolation technique. The liberated volatile compounds are mineralized in an empty quartz tube at 850 ° C and absorbed in a buffered washing solution. After separation of air the halogen ions are determined potentiometrically in a flow-through cell using a silver/silver choride indicating electrode. The potential of the electrode is a linear function of the halogen ion concentration in the washing solution within the VOX concentration range usually encountered in drinking waters. The estimated detection limit of the method is ca. 0.1 Ixg/1 VOX and can be further improved by increasing the concentration factor. The theory of the TLHS isolation method has been further developed and verified. The derived dependences enable a simultaneous determination of the effective partition coefficients in the system, thus enabling calculation of the optimal gas flow rate.


The contents of bioactive components such as flavonoids, phenolics, oleanolic acid (OA), ursolic acid (UA), amygdalin, chlorophylls and carotenoids in loquat (Eriobotrya japonicaLindl.) flower with different drying methods were investigated. Results showed that freeze drying can effectively keep the bioactive components, but the drying rate is slow. The microwave drying is rapid, especially at the high power, and the drying effect was better compared with oven drying. The contents of bioactive components varied greatly with drying temperature of oven-dried samples and decreased sharply when the temperature reached 100°C except OA and UA. The effect of natural convective drying was similar to oven drying at 60 and 80°C but with longer time. All the results suggested that microwave drying is more efficient and low-cost, and 60 to 80°C oven drying is recommended to be used under the circumstance of no microwave drying equipment.

 Key words: Eriobotrya japonica, flower, drying methods, bioactive component.


The effects of obstructing coronary artery lesions upon regional left ventricular contractility were studied angiographically in 200 patients with significant coronary artery disease. The arteries were graded according to degree of obstruction and adequacy of distal runoff flow beyond the lesion. The corresponding regional myocardial contractility was evaluated by ventriculography.Left ventricular contractility was found to be determined not primarily by the degree of arterial obstruction but rather by the adequacy of runoff flow in the distal segment of the diseased vessel. In cases of complete occlusion, the adequacy of distal runoff flow is determined directly by the degree of development of collateral circulation. Normal or mildly impaired contractility was present in most instances where distal runoff was adequate; regional akinesia or dyskinesia occurred in most instances where distal runoff was inadequate.Collateral circulation and distal coronary runoff are thus felt to be the key factors in prese...


The cases presented describe two levels of struggle. One level identifies two student teachers (ST) and their mentors failing to meet one another's expectations. Another level presents school administration as it seeks to find ways of meeting STs' needs while maintaining a positive and productive school climate. Relevant research is presented to help guide possible explanations for how these issues can be ameliorated for STs, mentors, and school administrators.


Objective:To observe the effect of long acting release octreotide(sandostatin LAR)on hepatic fibrosis in rats by CCl4.Methods:Forty SD rats were assigned randomly into 3 groups,i.e.normal control group(n=8),hepatic fibrosis group(n=16)and long acting octreotide group(n=16).Apart from normal control group,the rats in other two groups were subcutaneously injected with 40%CCl4(3 ml/kg)for induction of hepatic fibrosis.The rats in the long acting octreotide group were treated additionally with long acting octreotide(0.8 mg/kg)intramuscularly once per 28 days.After 8 weeks,observed macroscopic features of the liver,measured weight ratio of liver to body,and the serum hyaluronic acid(HA),aminoterminal propeptide of type III procollagen(PⅢNP)were detected with ELISA.Results:There was neither macroscopic nor microscopic abnormalities demonstrated in the liver in normal control group.However,in the latter two groups,the liver got hard,blunting and nodosity-like,but significantly lessened juries,including fatty degeneration and necrosis,fibroplasias,deformed structures and formation of pseudo-lobule,shown in long acting octreotide group,compared with hepatic fibrosis group.The ratio of liver to bodyweight was higher in hepatic fibrosis group than in long acting octreotide group(P0.05),and the weight ratios of liver to body in both groups were significantly higher than in normal control group(P0.01)The serum HA and PⅢNP in normal control group were(18.5±3.8)ng/ml,(8.2±3.4)ng/ml,respectively,the serum HA and PⅢNP in hepatic fibrosis group were(179.3±33.5)ng/ml,(59.6±15.6)ng/ml,and(152.4±36.1)ng/ml and(41.2±13.4)ng/ml respectively in long acting octreotide group,both significantly higher than in the controls(P0.01).However,the parameters detected in long acting octreotide group were significantly lower than in hepatic fibrosis group(HA P0.05;PⅢNP P0.01).Conclusion:Long acting octreotide can reduce liver fibrosis,and decreased serum glucagon and endothelin on hepatic fibrosis in rats by CCl4.


Digital holographic data storage using a 4f configuration enables high areal densities when spatial light modulator (SLM) pixels are large. The holographic recording material, placed at the Fourier plane of the 4f configuration gives large densities because stacks of holograms can be placed closer together. To minimize interstack cross talk and optimize stack sizes for interpixel cross talk, it is useful to place an aperture at the Fourier plane. We have developed a numerical algorithm based on scalar drift action theory, to investigate this interplay and predict an optimum set of system design parameters.


Bistable equation serves as a simple model of phase transition at an appropriate critical temperature. The structure of its stationary solutions determines the dynamics of the evolutionary model. The norm of a stationary solution depending on the diffusion coefficient is usually depicted in a solution diagram. As far as we know, the qualitative properties of such diagram like continuity and differentiability have not been proved rigorously yet. The purpose of our paper is to fill in this gap.


Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection occurs worldwide but the transmission of this human gastric pathogen remains poorly understood. Risk factors are sociodemographic- and hygiene-related with faecal-oral and oral-oral routes as likely modes of transmission. Based on epidemiological studies, water supplies have been identified as possible reservoirs to acquire the bacterium. Our laboratory has conducted H. pylori studies, including a microbiological examination of untreated well water. This study investigated the possible transmission of H. pylori among asymptomatic individuals using/drinking these well waters. The study consisted of a self-administered or parent-completed questionnaire (age-dependent), eliciting information on lifestyle habits and their use/drinking the well water as well as the H. pylori [ 13 C]urea breath test. Applying household cluster sampling, a total of 91 subjects (44 users of H. pylori positively and 47 negatively tested wells) were screened for their H. pylori status. The group was comprised of 42 males and 49 females, i.e., 73 adults and 19 children under the age of 18 (mean age 39.5 years with a range between 3-80 years). Logistic regression analyses identified the drinking of well water as the significant risk factor for a positive colonisation status [Odds Ratio (OR)=8.3; 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 2.4-29.0; p<0.001]. The acquisition of the H. pylori pathogen from well water appears to be age-dependent (Chi 2 27.7,


The authors report /sup 13/C NMR studies of /sup 13/Co adsorbed on small Pt particles and show that the data yield quantitative information about the CO-Pt bond. They find that the /sup 13/C resonance position is shifted 200 ppm to higher frequency than in CO gas. They prove that the shift arises from polarization of the electron spins in the bond (a Knight shift) by showing that the spin-lattice relaxation obeys the Korringa law. Using ESR results from CO radicals, they deduce the local density of states of the CO 5sigma orbital on the carbon atom at the Fermi energy. The NMR also reveals diffusion of CO on the Pt surface.


Abstract Background: Gender-based differences among cardiology professionals have been reported in North America and Europe. However, the perspective of Latin American cardiologists remains unexplored. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to analyze the gender gap perspective among cardiologists from Latin America. Methods: A cross-sectional study using an online survey directed to Latin American cardiologists from five different cardiology societies. The survey included questions on demographic data, professional development in the field of cardiology, and perceived barriers in clinical practice. Results: A total of 240 professionals were surveyed, of which 41.7% were women (100) and 58.3% were men (140). The majority of women tend to work in the subfields of clinical cardiology and cardiovascular imaging. Women were underrepresented as heads of departments, earn less, and report less work satisfaction than men. The barriers that female cardiologists face at their workplace include labor discrimination, sexual harassment, family-related concerns, and lack of career development. Conclusions: The survey points toward the prevalence of a gender gap among cardiologists in Latin America, which is primarily driven by labor discrimination, sexual harassment, family-related concerns, and lack of career development among female cardiologists. Actions aimed at addressing this issue should be considered by different parties.


This essay analyzes two new Swedish movies: The Reunion (Atertraffen, 2013) and Something Must Break (Nanting maste ga sonder, 2014). How do the female leading characters in these movies relate to the patriarchal conventions described by Laura Mulvey nearly 40 years ago? Based on Mulveys theories, and supplemented by american as well as swedish scholars, the depiction, hierarchy and object/subject position are discussed from a feminist and intersectional perspective.


Francesco Profumo (M'88-SM'90) was born in Savona, Italy, in 1953. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1977. Since 1978 to 1984, he worked as Senior Engineer for the R&D Ansaldo Group in Genova (Italy). In 1984 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino, where he was Associate Professor till 1995. He is Professor of Electrical Machines and Drives at Politecnico di Torino and Adjunct Professor at University of Bologna. Since September 2003, Dr. Profumo was the Dean of the Engineering Faculty at the Politecnico di Torino and since October 2005 he is the Rector of the Politecnico di Torino. Since August 2011 he has been appointed as President of CNR (National Research Council), from November 16 Prof.


Much has been written on the fast-paced development of Dubai as a city and the favoring of car-oriented streets in the approach to road building. This paper offers a reading of the city using the most forward-driven technological approaches in urban and transport planning to derive patterns and insights into areas of critical concern for intervention. The approach stems from the idea of incremental retrofitting as opposed to toppling over the current infrastructure, as a way to significantly enhance the walkability and viability of Dubai's streets for its residents using minimal resources, while drastically enhancing their ability to utilize public space.
The focal element of this collection of studies is the street. In full, the extensive research traces the functional structure of 36 streets within the city, offering various insights into their potential to deliver better walkable environments. From observations of field surveys to progressive applied methods, this collection of studies offers taxonomic categorizations of Dubai's streets as well as possible concerted and planned retrofitting strategies designed to encourage safe and comfortable walking experiences in a timely manner, and reduce possibilities for contracting airborne diseases, such as the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
This paper focuses on how the interplay of various interdependent components of urban infrastructure creates the conditions for Dubai's street space to respond to walkability needs. Building on international practice and the latest disciplinary tools, this paper delves into the physical characteristics of Dubai's streets and interrogates some of the critical areas whereby minimal intervention is perceived to have a huge impact on spatio-temporal urban quality. In effect, the study highlights avenues for activating Dubai's most overlooked latent public spaces: its streets.


In the Paper,a study has been made on the sinking subgrade caused by underground cavity and river in Contract No.B2-1 of Changfu to Jingyushi Expressway.With similar model analog tests on the sinking section,the Paper analyzes the impact of underground river on the sinking and instability of subgrade by different width of river,and proposes suggestions for sinking treatment,which will provide reference for similar works.


The globalized world demands strategic action of people management in the work environment. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the perception of people management strategies on the perception of professional development. The sample (of convenience) included 562 professionals from different areas of activity in public and private organizations, with 15.4% in managerial positions. The questionnaire contained the Professional Evolution Evolutionary Perception Scale and the People Management Policy  Perception Scale. The results of the analysis by structural equations pointed to a model with good adjustment, in which the perception of policies that stimulate the involvement with the work and the training are predictors of the perception of professional development. The conclusions corroborate the literature of the area about the influence of the policies of people management on the perceptions of the workers and invite the reflection of those who research and work in the area.


To modernize the national governance system and increase its governance capacity, priority should be given to the reform of the government itself in order to make the market play a decisive role in resource allocation.The government should improve relationship between its structure and function,between the strengthening and weakening of its function,and between its conduct and performance based on a better definition of the boundary between the government and the market. Consequently,it is essential to optimize the national governance structure by conceptualizing "governance"in the general sense and Chinese context.


Up to now, transport systems have mainly been designed by considering time–efficiency, mobility and safety criteria. Today hard constraints on resources savings and environment preservation have to be taken into account at the different phases of design, maintenance and operation of these networks. This study, focused on the operation phase, aimed to provide a common framework for rail and roads energy consumption assessment. For that, the influence of infrastructure characteristics on energy consumption of vehicles was assessed, in an optimization perspective. A method for energy consumption evaluation by exploiting contact forces models was proposed. Two models were developed, for a road and for a railway, and validated with experimental data of a vehicle on a test track and full–scale measurement of a high speed train on a given line. At last, numerical simulations were worked out with the validated models to exhibit the influence of successions of uphill and downhill on energy consumption. These simple mechanical models pointed out the differences of the two transportation systems, in terms of developed contact forces and consumed energy.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of human resource development on employee performance. This research was conducted with the title "The Influence of Human Resource Development on Employee Performance at PT. Nusantara V Pekanbaru Plantation". The population of this study is only part of the data information that the average number of employees at PT. Perkebunan Nusantara V Pekanbaru about 153 people, the determination of the sample using the census technique method, namely the population was used as the research sample. Therefore, the sample used in this study were 42 respondents, drawn from the human resources, finance and accounting sections and the procurement and IT departments. Data collection techniques in this study used questionnaires and interviews. The data analysis in this study is descriptive analysis and simple linear regression analysis with SPSS version 25 application tools. The results show that partially human resource development variables have a positive and significant effect on employee performance at PT. Perkebunan Nusantara V Pekanbaru, and the results shown in simple linear regression show that the human resource development variable has a positive influence on employee performance at PT. Nusantara V Pekanbaru Plantation.


The invention discloses straw and pot ale mixed fermented feed and a production method thereof, and relates to the field of environmental science, in particular to the mixed fermented feed and the production method thereof. The production method comprises the following steps: (1) crushing straw, and then mixing pot ale; (2) preparing aerobic fermentation bacteria liquid, uniformly spraying the aerobic fermentation bacteria liquid into materials, adding compound trace elements, and fermenting; (3) preparing anaerobic fermentation bacteria liquid, appropriately adding according to the fermentation situation of the fermented materials, and fermenting; and (4) drying the fermented materials containing water, and then getting the straw and pot ale mixed feed. Aerobic bacteria used in the method are high-efficient cellulose and lignin degrading bacteria, thereby improving the degradation rate of cellulose and lignin, fully utilizing yeast and other microbes in the pot ale to produce single-cell proteins, improving the content of nutrition in the feed, enabling the protein content to be 13-20%, having certain bouquet and acid fragrance and improving the palatability of the feed. The fermentation process is simple to operate, the fermentation time is 7-9 days, and the production time of the feed is shortened.


This study compared two types of relationships commonly found in emerging adulthood. Thirty emerging adults who had both a roommate with whom they were friends prior to living together as well as one other close friend completed the Network of Relationships Inventory – Social Provisions Version (NRI-SPV). The NRI-SPV assesses levels of relationship quality and conflict by asking respondents to rate questions in these two domains. Results indicated that emerging adults experience significantly higher levels of conflict in their roommate relationship than in their other friendship. In addition, there was a trend for relationship quality to be lower in the roommate relationship. The findings demonstrate the need for further examination and understanding of the potential impact of the friendships during emerging adulthood. Implications and future research steps are discussed. Acknowledgements I would like to thank my thesis supervisor, Dr. Jacqueline Pei, for helping guide me through this process. Your support and encouragement were greatly appreciated. Thank you to my committee members, Dr. Christina Rinaldi and Dr. George Buck, for taking time out of their busy schedules to read and reflect on my thesis and share in my defense. I am also grateful to Dr. Rinaldi for serving as my second reader and sharing her expertise in my research area. I am thankful to the many friends and colleagues who shared this experience with me. Your unwavering encouragement and belief in me helped to get me through the ups and downs of this process. Thank you to my parents for instilling in me the belief that I could accomplish anything. I certainly would not be where I am today without you. Table of


Cable roof structures have only become widespread in large span structures in the latter part of the twentieth century. However, they still represent a relatively new form of roof construction, especially as in the present case of a small span innovative structural solution. The contribution of this text to the structural engineering community lies in the increased interest in building simple cable roof structures. Since its completion in September 1996, this small cable roof structure has been recognized as an interesting architectural and structural example. The text describes aspects of the design and construction of a small cable roof that was designed as a roof for an open-air theater stage for the city of Sao Jose do Rio Pardo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. A cable network, in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid surface, is anchored in a reinforced concrete edge ring. The projection of the ring's axis onto the ground plane is an ellipse. Workers with specialized training were employed in the various stages of the construction, which was completed in September 1996.


The photon diffusion approximation provides an accurate description for the propagation of light in a highly scattering medium such as most tissue. However, complications arise at the boundaries between such a highly scattering medium and a clear medium, as at the locations where the light enters and exits the medium. Several approximations have been developed to address the input of light from a laser through an optical fiber, and several others have been developed to address the collection of light by an optical fiber and detector. The principle of reciprocity suggests that source and detector fibers could be treated identically, resulting in a simplification of the diffusive optical model. Such a formulation agrees quite well with Monte-Carlo and other models. In the present work, we apply the technique to some different situations, including the important practical problem of source and detector fibers which are not aligned to be normal to the surface. Simple analytical results based on this model will be compared to Monte-Carlo results.


The granulosa and theca cells in developing follicles respond to endocrine stimulation of FSH and LH by producing steroid and nonsteroid regulatory factors. In turn, these regulatory factors affect paracrine and autocrine control of cell proliferation, differentiation, and migration in the maturing follicle. Androgenic steroid and inhibin produced by the theca and granulose cells, respectively play important roles in modifying cellular responses of FSH and LH which are crucial for follicular development and ovulation.


Objective: To study the methods and results for t reatment of unstable thoracolumber fractures with short segmentpedicle instrument.Methods: 206 cases of thoracolumber fractures were reduced and fixed with short sgement pedicle instrument,179cases among them were also fused with bone graft between lamina and transverse process.They were followed up for an average of 14 months.Results: For 134 patients of incomplete spinal cord injury,the ASIA classification was improved up for an average of 1-3 grades.For the rest patients of complete spinal cord injury,the spinal nerve root recovered partially.The rate of compressed vertebral bodies height and Cobb'angle were significantly improved by short segment pedicle instrument(except Dick).Conclusion: The treatment of unstable thoracolumber fracture with short segment pedicle instrument helps to recover spinal neurological function,improve the rate of compressed vertebral bodies height and physiological arc.The fusion with bone graft between lamina and transverse process is an important method to prevent implant failure,correction loss,following neurological deficit.


Wind velocity closed to the earth surface is quite close to zero and it increases with increase in height. However, construction of tall buildings in a locality of low-rise buildings alters the street level wind environment. The wind which strikes tall building surface get deflected towards the ground causing high speed winds on the windward side as well as near the corners of the buildings at street / pedestrian level. This leads to discomfort to the pedestrian walking and also to the cyclists and two wheeler drivers. This paper describes the comfort criteria for pedestrians within a built environment and also enumerates the recent research work done in this area.


Critical Care Medicine • Volume 46 • Number 1 (Supplement) www.ccmjournal.org Learning Objectives: The State Behavioral Scale (SBS) is a validated tool in pediatrics and yields an objective measure for a mechanically ventilated patients' level of sedation. Goal-directed sedation could improve parental satisfaction as well as decrease morbidity and mortality by allowing for early mobility, decreased delirium and fewer ventilator days. The objective of this quality improvement initiative was to implement a streamlined process for daily sedation goalsetting during PICU rounds and evaluate the percentage of time that intubated patients are maintained within the ideal sedation range after implementation. Methods: This quality improvement (QI) project involved a usualcare phase with retrospective chart review and assessment of staff perceptions regarding goal-directed setting, followed by a quality improvement phase that implemented a change in the ICU Daily Goals Checklist, interdisciplinary education and post-implementation survey. Results: During the baseline period, 20 patients were intubated and sedated, and only 3 (15%) had an SBS goal documented in a prescriber note. Thirteen (65%) patients had SBS scores consistently (SBS charted at least 50% of time) by the nurse, with documentation rate at all eligible time points of 79% (512/642 scores). The pre-implementation survey revealed that there was a lack of knowledge among all interdisciplinary teams about use of SBS for daily sedation management. After implementation of targeted education about the SBS use for intubated children, 100% of intubated patients had SBS documentation, with 80% of all eligible SBS scores (1167/1464) being completed. Additionally, 100% of intubated and sedated patients received a goal SBS via the ICU checklist. Patients spent an average of 57% of time within the goal SBS range. Post-implementation survey revealed that goals are now consistently set and understood by the interdisciplinary team. Conclusions: Goal-directed sedation is a critical component of ICU liberation initiatives including early mobilization, and a targeted educational intervention to facilitate sedation goal-setting and consistent interdisciplinary communication was effective.


Abstract Advancements in prototyping technologies – haptics and extended reality – are creating exciting new environments to enhance stakeholder and user interaction with design concepts. These interactions can now occur earlier in the design process, transforming feedback mechanisms resulting in greater and faster iterations. This is essential for bringing right-first-time products to market as quickly as possible. While existing feedback tools, such as speak-aloud, surveys and/or questionnaires, are a useful means for capturing user feedback and reflections on interactions, there is a desire to explicitly map user feedback to their physical prototype interaction. Over the past decade, several hand-tracking tools have been developed that can, in principle, capture product user interaction. In this paper, we explore the capability of the LeapMotion Controller, MediaPipe and Manus Prime X Haptic gloves to capture user interaction with prototypes. A broad perspective of capability is adopted, including accuracy as well as the practical aspects of knowledge, skills, and ease of use. In this study, challenges in accuracy, occlusion and data processing were elicited in the capture and translation of user interaction into design insights.


Mobile Communication is rapidly changing the life styles of people. We have seen vast deployments of mobile/Wireless technologies such as GSM and UMTS in last decade. About 70% of Indians have a mobile phone, which serves as a medium to remain connected but also a powerful mechanism for empowerment especially for rural population. Government and Industry bodies are trying to encourage the use of mobile phones as tool for delivering various services like information, banking and government schemes. Digitisation of land records is taking place across country. Many central and state agencies are involved in this process. This sometimes creates discrepancies in land records and cause problems for land owners. This application provides land owner with tools that can help resolve some of discrepancies related to land boundaries Mobile Vendor's ecosystem is encouraging mobile applications. Earlier the applications of one mobile vendor were restricted on their mobile phones only (for example Nokia applications could run only on Nokia phones). To fully exploit widespread penetration of mobile phones, developers should be able to write applications based on local needs. For this purpose the mobile development platforms are being made more and more open. Such mobile platforms are symbian (nokia), android(google), iOS(Apple) etc. This project would make use of android as development environment to build application. This simple to use application allows land owner to quickly record boundary. Land owner simply has to run application on the mobile and encircle the land. This application captures the coordinates as user moves using GPS on phone. This application is integrated with google maps and can show the boundary using capture coordinates in google maps. These coordinates can be uploaded from mobile to websites and can be accessed remotely from any PC. A. About Android Android (3) is a mobile operating system and application development platform. Android Mobile Application Development allows developing applications in the Java language. Such applications can control mobile devices using Google-enabled Java libraries. Android is popular platform to develop mobile applications using the software stack provided in the Google Android SDK. Android mobile OS provides a flexible and user friendly environment for Android Mobile Application Development as the developers can not only make use of Android Java Libraries but it is also possible to use normal Java IDEs. Android Operating System has five important parts that are application, application framework, libraries, android run time, and Linux kernel. To develop android application one must have Android SDK, Eclipse, and ADT Plug in. The Android SDK provides you various tools, and API, which are necessary for developing any Android application on Android platform using Java programming language. The necessary tools and API required for the development of any Android application are provided by the Android SDK and the platform used is Android platform using Java programming language. 1. Android Emulator Android Emulator (5) is a software program that runs on PC (multiple operating systems) and emulates functionality of mobile phone. Emulator is useful in developing and testing the android application without using the actual device. When the emulator is running, it allows developer to interact with the emulated mobile device in similar way as an actual mobile device, with exception of mouse pointer being used in place of touchscreen and certain keyboard keys are used to invoke certain keys on the device. Android Emulator helped in making android popular among developers. Since a lot of debugging tools could be made available in PC environment, it helped debugging and testing android applications and resulted in short cycle for mobile application development.


Abstract We have developed a new numerical method for obtaining self-consistent structures of rapidly rotating stars. We obtained self-consistent equilibrium structures of rapidly rotating massive stars with shellular rotation by using the method. These equilibrium structures might be useful for both evolution of rapidly rotating massive stars and progenitor models of core-collapse supernovae simulations.


Nippon Kokan K.K. has developed a simulation system for the main engine coolant temperature control process.This simulation system consists of a process simulator and a control panel fitted with the process controllers, and has the functions which make it possible to operate them as the same condition as the cooling system runs actually.According to the functions, this simulation system can be used for the following purposes:(1) Training of unexperienced workers for the adjusting technique of the process controllers.(2) Pre-adjusting the process controllers for the building ships and the reduction in time for on-board tests.(3) Training of the ship operators.This system was set at Tsurumi Works in Nippon Kokan K.K. in August 1984 and sufficient results were obtained through the applications to several ships.


Under the perspective of globalization, college students' outlook on life, values and world outlook are affected, and corresponding changes have taken place. From the perspective of cultural self-confidence, explore the difficulties in integrating cultural self-confidence into ideological and political education in colleges and universities, clarify the significance of cultural self-confidence in ideological and political education in colleges and universities, and then discuss the way that cultural self-confidence and other traditional cultural spirits can be integrated into college ideological and political education, and expand ideological and political education. Educational methods and influence are expected to provide a more targeted and effective thinking path for the optimization of current ideological and political education in my country's colleges and universities.


Rhyme Table(韵图) is central to the research of Deng Yun Xue(等韵学), which itself is an important and integral part of Chinese phonology. This essay discusses some experience and insights derived from the computerization of middle Chinese rhyme table.


In this work, an overview of recent developments in materials characterization and performance assessment methods applied to corrosion is given. It is shown that 3D techniques represent a powerful tool to gain fundamental information on the relationship between alloy microstructure and corrosion initiation and propagation. Subsequently, taking as an example an aluminium alloy anodized at two different potentials, the use of image assisted electrochemical noise analysis for the assessment of the practical performance of protective treatments is illustrated.


Unimolecular decomposition by CH3 loss has been observed with a half-pressure for stabilization of about 75 Torr for the excited biradicals formed by the addition of triplet 3(14CH2) to both cis-and trans-but-2-ene; as much as 9% of the 14C activity is found in C8 compounds formed by radical combination reactions of 14C-labelled butenyl radicals.


HAZARDS FROM AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS The use of pesticides in agriculture increases at this time of year. In May and June the most dangerous pesticides such as parathion and dinitro orthocresol (D.N.O.C.) are dispersed in the greatest quantities. But on a smaller scale many insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and rodenticides are applied for a much longer season in food stores, glasshouses, or in the open. The same pest may be successfully attacked by chemicals ranging in their toxicity to man from the very dangerous to the virtually harmless, though factors other than danger to the user must determine the choice of any particular material in agricultural work. As a result of a co-operative effort by many people, including the manufacturers, distributors, and officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, Great Britain has had in recent years a good record in the safe use of the more dangerous pesticides. Before jumping to the conclusion that the regulations controlling the use of these materials are superfluous, it is as well to consider what happens elsewhere. In Germany W. Reinll has assembled records of 28 cases of poisoning by organo-phosphorus insecticides among agricultural workers in 1950-S5. These included 1 fatal, 3 severe, 7 moderate, and 17 mild cases of poisoning. An analysis of the symptoms showed that headache, dizziness, weakness, nausea, and vomiting were most frequently seen. Though contraction of the pupil has often been cited as a characteristic sign of poisoning by organo-phosphorus insecticides, it was noted in less that a third of these cases. There is indeed a recent report' of two patients with severe parathion poisoning who had dilatation of the pupils when first seen, and this led to some hesitation in making a diagnosis. Full atropinization saved these cases, and atropine must be given in large doses to all suspected cases of poisoning by organo-phosphorus insecticides. If a mild case responds well to atropine the patient must be kept under observation for 12-24 hours, because a single dose of atropine may be of only temporary benefit. The chemicals that can reverse the inhibition of cholinesterase caused by these compounds are still being studied,3 but specific recommendations for their use have not yet been made. There is no specific treatment for D.N.O.C. poisoning. Cases are most likely to occur in hot weather when farm labourers are wprking long hours with weed-killing sprays on cereals. The chlorinated hydrocarbon group


Eri silk produced by Philosamia cynthia ricini silkworm is a fibre not well-known to the silk industry, in spite of the fact that Eri silk is finer, softer, and has better mechanical and thermal properties than most animal fibres. Eri silk has a high commercial potential, as the host plants of Eri silk worms are widespread in diverse geographical locations, and the worms also have a higher degree of disease resistance than most other silk worms. Mills are often not aware of the properties of Eri for designing appropriate end products. Thus, Eri silk yarn is traditionally produced by hand spinning, and Eri silk usually ends up as material for handwoven shawls. The potential for bulk fibre processing and the development of soft luxurious novel Eri silk products is yet to be discovered. To better understand the material and its processing behaviour, Eri silk was characterised and cocoons were processed into tops through degumming, opening, and cutting filaments into different lengths, followed by a worsted spun silk processing route. Fibre properties such as fineness, crimp, strength and length at different processing stages up to combed tops were measured. The results indicate that staple Eri silk can be processed via the worsted topmaking route, using a cut length of 200 mm or 150 mm for filament sheets prepared from degummed cocoons.


The decision of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) is the result of the assessment of the Commission Council read out in an open session to the public regarding whether a violation has occurred and the imposition of sanctions or the absence of a violation. The formulation of the KPPU's decision consists of the alleged violation, consideration and assessment of evidence submitted and/or obtained during the trial as well as an analysis of the application of the articles in the Antimonopoly Law which the Reported Party allegedly violated. The KPPU decision is declared to have permanent legal force, if there is no objection from the business actor, and then the KPPU decision must be implemented by the business actor and may be requested for execution at the District Court. Considering the nature and type of KPPU's decisions, when viewed from the types of decisions in civil procedural law, the KPPU's decisions are Condemnatoir decisions, namely decisions that contain punishments and can be implemented. However, the regulations regarding KPPU Decisions that have permanent legal force still do not fulfill the requirements as condemnatoir decisions because KPPU is not a judicial institution and these regulations are still multi-interpretative in nature, namely that legislators do not provide a clear interpretation of the meaning of permanent legal force in KPPU's decisions.


This paper studied a milk run based cross docking scheduling problem with uncertain transportation time.By describing problem formally,a mixed integer linear programming is built under uncertain situation.A two-stage heuristic and a tabu search algorithm are presented.Numerical experiments under small and large scale situations are given to verify efficiencies of the proposed heuristics.


In the domain of civil engineering it is often necessary to monitor constructions such as buildings or bridges to maintain safety conditions. Nondestructive test methods outmatch other methods, because they do not influence the constructions performance. One approach is based on the experimental determination of modal parameters (eigenvalues, damping, mode shapes). From the changes in modal data damage can be detected. By updating a reference finite-element model such that its numerical modal data correspond well with the experimental modal data of the damaged structure, the damage pattern can be identified. When applying this technique to prestressed concrete, the problem arises that, because of the prestressing, cracks close again. Therefore a research program was started to investigate the change of modal parameters of a gradually damaged prestressed concrete beam. Static loads with increasing amplitude were applied. In between each load step a dynamic measurement was performed. The results show that the damage detection remains difficult for prestressed concrete in the early damage state. However, a damage pattern could be identified, which corresponds to the locations of the final failure.


The osmotic threshold for vasopressin release was studied in normal patients (n = 7) and in patients with the chronic form o f Chagas'disease (n = 11). Positive correlation between osmotic threshold and plasma cortisol concentration was obtained for the Controls (y i = 273,30 + 0,75x{; r = 0,78;P < 0,05), suggesting a modulating effect o f cortisol on vasopressin release. The lack o f correlation between the two parameters for the chronic/ chagasic patients was interpreted, on the basis o f the general denervation associated with Chagas ' disease, to be the result o f neuronal destruction in hypothalamic and/or extrahypothalamic centers related to the secretory control o f vasopressin.


Orthodontics deals with the correction of skeletal anomalies of the face occurring in the form of jaw discrepancies. There is an abundance of findings in the literature that the development and growth of the cranial base influence facial shape and jaw discrepancies. Cranial base develops by the mechanism of endochondral ossification taking place at its midline axis, where all the synchondroses are located. Chondrogenesis is the initial and indispensable part of endochondral bone formation. In the light of evidence underlying the need of reactive oxygen species in the regulation of chondrogenesis, this study aimed to investigate the ubiquitously present antioxidant enzyme Gpx1 and its contribution to redox regulation in chondrogenesis.
Provided that the levels of oxidative stress were previously found to fluctuate according to the differentiation stage of chondrocytes, the gene expression of Gpx1 was measured with quantitative RT-PCR during chondrogenic differentiation. For this purpose, the chondrogenic cell line ATDC5 was utilized and cultured for 21 days. The time points of measurements were on days 0, 2, 6, 10, 14, and 21. The chondrogenic differentiation of the utilized cell line was determined with the stains Alcian blue and Alizarin red, and with the gene expression of chondrogenic biological markers Col2a1 and Col10a1. The present results suggest that the expression of Gpx1 is not of constitutive nature during chondrogenic differentiation.
Taking this as a starting point, the next step was to quantitatively assess the distribution pattern of Gpx1 at the different differentiation stages of chondrogenesis. To examine this, the spheno-occipital synchondrosis from eight newborn male Wistar rats was isolated and samples were processed for formaldehyde-fixed paraffin-embedded immunohistochemistry. Photographs of the immunostained sections were analysed by two independent observers and a five-grade semiquantitative scale was used to assess Gpx1 immunoreactivity at the synchondrosis. The present findings show that Gpx1 is expressed the most at the proliferative differentiation stage and the lowest at the hypertrophic differentiation stage. Existing literature reports that an increase in oxidative levels is needed for inhibition of proliferation and initiation of hypertrophy. Further, chondrocytes at the hypertrophic stage have the highest levels of ROS compared to other differentiation stages. In this context, the present results implied that Gpx1 is involved in redox regulation in chondrogenesis.
To pursue this further, the expression of Gpx1 was manipulated in ATDC5 chondrogenic cells and cells were then exposed to exogenous H2O2. The manipulation of Gpx1 expression included overexpression and silencing. A control group was also included. The apoptotic percentage of cells was measured flow cytometrically with FITC-labelled Annexin V in conjunction with PI dye. The highest apoptotic percentage was observed in Gpx1-depleted chondrocytes, followed by the control group. The lowest apoptotic percentage was presented in Gpx1-overexpressing cells. These results indicate that Gpx1 possesses an active role on the cellular enzymatic antioxidant system of chondrocytes and can regulate the cellular redox state by H2O2 scavenging. Furthermore, its presence in chondrocytes can prevent H2O2-induced apoptosis.
The contribution of cranial base growth to craniofacial morphology continues until adulthood, since spheno-occipital synchondrosis is the last of the synchondroses to ossify and is active until then. This study localizes the expression of Gpx1 at the spheno-occipital synchondrosis and documents the role of Gpx1 as a redox regulator in chondrocytes.


The basic fluid-solid interaction formulas for a shell in fluid are given using elasticity theory of thin shells and fundamental equations of fluid mechanics. The united Lagrangian-Eulerian method is proposed and used to form the equations for the small bending of a cylindrical shell with a surrounding transverse flow, and then the velocity potential of the fluid field as well as the deformation and the internal force distribution of the shell are obtained. Using a specific example, the fluid field figures are obtained, and the effects of parameters on the deformation of the shell and pressure coefficient of the shell surface are discussed.


INTRODUCTION: We recorded over a 9 month period the number of referrals made for specialist advice on how to treat a patient's psychiatric condition from those attending our neuro-oncology clinics. The patient's characteristics were reviewed to understand the causes, produce local referral guidelines, and identify at risk patients at the earliest opportunity. METHOD: We prospectively gathered names of patients referred as outpatients to our Psychological Medicine Department between 1st September 2011 and 31st May 2012. The notes were examined for patient characteristics, tumour biology, current treatment, psychiatric presentation, past psychiatric history, concurrent seizure medication, and psychiatric treatment recommended. RESULTS: During the monitored time we identified 74 patients, 11 of which had a past or current psychiatric history, 8 of which were referred to psychological medicine for specialist advice. Of the 3 not referred, 1 had mild dementia, and the remaining 2 had issues with alcoholism and were managed medically. Only 1 patient was referred having no previous psychiatric history. Most patients had Grade 4 tumours and were having chemo-radiotherapy, but some had chemotherapy only or surgery. Current psychiatric conditions expressed were similar to the patient's past psychiatric condition. Steroid-induced psychosis was not uncommon, and 3 patients benefited from the use of anti-psychotic therapy, or change of steroid. CONCLUSION: The response to diagnosis and treatment appeared to trigger most referrals, however, all the patients completed their treatment safely, and without any interruptions. We are introducing a screening tool used pre-treatment to identify at risk patients, and refer for advice early.


4 Definitions 4 5 Rounding method 5 6 New section 12A inserted 10 7 Level 4 hospitals 15 8 Emergency departments 15 9 Rehabilitation and geriatric evaluation management 15 10 Section 27 substituted 16 11 Neonatal intensive care units 17 12 Antenatal and postnatal wards 18 13 Delivery suites 18 14 New section 31A inserted 20 15 Sections 33, 34 and 35 repealed 21 16 Local dispute resolution 21 17 New section 50 inserted 22 18 Level 1 hospitals 23 19 Level 2 hospitals 23 20 Schedule 2—Hospitals not restricted in use of enrolled nurses 24


Interaction between large blast and targets is of major interest to public authorities in order to provide protection of sensitive infrastructure. However, it can rarely be directly studied, due to cost and practical considerations for carrying out tests. Blast tests using reduced-scale high explosive charges are an attractive alternative. Since 2017, the French Institute for Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis (ISL) have been studying blast propagation in free-field and in front of a hemicylinder at two different reduced scales using high explosive charges (see figures (a)-(d) below). IRSN and ISL have built up a significant base of experiments of hemispherical blast effect assessment using Hexomax® explosive charges, detonated in contact with a planar surface supporting a semicylindrical obstacle, both equipped with pressure sensors.


A timing recovery algorithm has been proposed in this paper. Johnson proposed output power maximizing timing recovery algorithm which was applied to QPSK signal. The novel algorithm can be applied to QAM signal over AWGN and multipath fading channels. It is easily implemented as it requires only one sample per symbol for its operation. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm needs no training data with fast convergence.


In order to gain a better insight into the role of some main parameters of the Jet Erosion Test with a submerged impinging jet, and their effect on the erosion parameters kD and τc, a sensitivity study was funded by Electricité de France. The study was carried out on two soils: a natural clayey silt and a mixture of clay and sand. The results clearly highlight the importance of the test conditions such as the strength of the jet, the distance between the injection nozzle and the sample, the wetting time before the jet, etc. and show that these parameters must be carefully controlled to get reliable and reproducible values. Wetting tests carried out under the same conditions as the jet tests confirmed the link between wetting and erosion. Finally, the study leads to a better understanding of the influence of the various parameters on the results of the jet erosion test and may result in the future in some standardization of the conditions in which these tests are performed.


The invention discloses a self-adaptive correcting method for dynamic accelerating feedforward signals of a supercritical boiler. By adopting the method, the dynamic accelerating feedforward signals of the supercritical boiler during the load verifying process of the supercritical boiler can be intelligently and self-adaptively adjusted according to the real-time load deviation, the change rate of the temperature along with the load and time and the change rate of the pressure along with the load and the time, and the dynamic accelerating feedforward signals can be amplitude limited according to the safety allowance of the intermediate point temperature, as a result, the compensating precision of the dynamic accelerating feedforward signals is effectively improved, and overcompensation and boil overtemperature are avoided.


Based on measurement of human body and analysis of data,a prototype for women was developed to exhibit the character of human body.A comparative study focused on the aspects of enlargement-contraction rate,body size coverage rate and body fitness was conducted between new and old bunka prototype.The results indicated that compared to the old bunka prototype,the new bunka prototype optimizes the value and rate of enlargement-contraction in the main controlling section of women's apparel,which makes the new bunka prototype closer to the actual human body with wider body size coverage rate,and fits the human body better.


Utilities around the world are facing unprecedented levels of fire risk from routine electrical faults and failures in transmission and distribution lines and equipment. The risk is elevated by changing weather patterns that produce extreme drought conditions and violent storms. These utilities are confronting aging power apparatus and difficult-to-detect failure and arcing fault scenarios. Major fires in recent years have increased public awareness of the risk.


In the past 2 years, knowledge of the xystodesmid milliped fauna of Texas has increased dramatically. Before 1987, only two species were known from the state: Rhysodesmus texicolens (Chamberlin), in the lower Rio Grande Valley (records summarized by Hoffman (1970)) and Pachydesmus clarus (Chamberlin), in eastern counties near Louisiana (Hoffman, 1958; Stewart, 1969). The first xystodesmid from western Texas, Stenodesmus tuobitus (Chamberlin), discovered in McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Culberson Co., and additional sites for the previous species were reported in 1987 (Shelley, 1987). Rhysodesmus chisosi Shelley was described from the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co., Texas (Shelley, 1989). An unidentifiable juvenile with retrorse coxal spines was also recorded (Shelley, 1989), thus representing an additional genus and species, from Three Mile Cave, Williamson Co., Texas. A sixth xystodesmid can now be reported from Texas, as I recently discovered a male and female of Thrinaxoria lampra (Chamberlin) from Longview, Gregg Co., in the private collection of R. L. Hoffman. The specimens were collected by H. F. Loomis on 13 May 1931, and the gonopods agree closely with published illustrations (Shelley, 1984:Figs. 25 and 26), except for a shorter, stouter prefemoral process. This record, the westernmost for T. lampra and some 80 km from the closest known localities in western Louisiana, confirms statements that the milliped probably occurs in eastern Texas (Shelley, 1984, 1987), and, indeed, Wood (1864, 1865) reported its congener, Thrinaxoria bifida (Wood), from "Texas," although this species actually is found in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia (Shelley, 1984). At least one more xystodesmid is expected in eastern Texas, since Pleurolomaflavipes Rafinesque inhabits adjoining parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana (Shelley, 1980). Another recent discovery is that of a male of S. tuobitus from Edinburg, Hidalgo Co., Texas, at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH). The closest known locality, McKittrick Canyon, is about 936 km to the northwest. The new locality seems accurate because the specimen was mixed with eurymerodesmids known to occur in southern Texas and because it was collected by S. Mulaik in April 1935, a time when he sampled other millipeds in the Rio Grande Valley. The male from Hidalgo Co. is fragmented and unmeasurable but is larger than those from Culberson Co. and subequal to ones in Otero Co., New Mexico. The gonopods conform closely to published illustrations (Hoffman, 1966:Fig. 7; Shelley, 1987:Fig. 2b), and the only noteworthy variation concerns the sharply triangular sternal spines subtending the posterior leg coxae on segments 10 through 18, which are much sharper and more pronounced than the minute lobes on western males. Thus, S. tuobitus is now known from three allopatric populations, two relatively close ones in western Texas and southern New Mexico, and one far to the southeast in the lower Rio Grande Valley. This distribution reflects fragmentation of an ancestral range that probably covered much of southern, central, and western Texas. The milliped may also have extended south of the Rio Grande River and isolated pockets may survive today in remote corners of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas Provinces, Mexico. Figure 1 shows the known distributions of the six xystodesmids in Texas. I thank my colleagues R. L. Hoffman and J. A. Coddington for loaning the samples of T. lampra and S. tuobitus, respectively. The latter was located in 1986 while I was working at the NMNH on a Smithsonian Short-Term Visitor Award.


This is a spotlight on research story. To hasten the pace of discovery of molecular biomarkers for osteoarthritis (OA), the NIAMS has established the Osteoarthritis Biomarkers Network: five institutions in the United States and Sweden received grants totaling $4.6 million over 5 years.


This research examines the effects of relationship type (close vs. business), a personality variable (dispositional communal orientation), and the interaction of these two variables on individuals willingness to express emotions to relationship partners. Results supported our predictions that (a) people are willing to express more emotion in relationships likely to be high in communal strength than in relationships likely to be low in communal strength, (b) individuals high in communal orientation are willing to express more emotion than those who are low in communal orientation, and (c) relationship type and communal orientation interact to influence willingness to express two emotions that reveal weakness and vulnerability (fear and anxiety). Specifically, communal orientation had little effect on willingness to express fear and anxiety in business relationships, whereas high relative to low communal orientation was associated with willingness to express more fear and anxiety within close relationships.


Preface 1. Changing Times 2. On the Way to a Different Place 3. This Land Is Their Land 4. Their Name Is "Woman" 5. A Rightful Coming of Age 6. Not Without Struggle Afterword Notes Church Documents Cited Index


The article provides a comparative analysis of the current state of legal regulation of health care in Ukraine and Hungary. The importance of public health issues has led to their elevation to the level of one of the most important state tasks, an internal function of the modern state, and this requires not only effective public administration, but also the formation and implementation of state policy in this area. This article is devoted to the formation and implementation of the state policy of legal regulation of the healthcare sector in Ukraine and Hungary. In the process of writing it, the author studied the system of legal relations and state bodies that perform the relevant functions and tasks in the formation and implementation of state health policy, analyzed the system of legislation that regulates them and the practice of its application in both countries. The article defines the place and role of the Verkhovna Rada in relation to health policy in comparison with the role of the Hungarian State Assembly, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the system of executive authorities of both countries in its implementation.
The article, like most modern scientific developments in this field, covers the problems of three scientific disciplines - medicine, management and law. In the process of preparing this article, the author has processed a significant amount of medical literature, on social medicine and health care organization, and thoroughly researched their scientific issues both in Ukraine and Hungary. However, he tried to cover the issues and problems arising in this area from the standpoint of legal and administrative law. Therefore, in this work the main attention is focused not on the categories and concepts of social medicine and health care organization, but on the actual legal categories and concepts - legal mechanisms for the implementation of state medical and health programs, ensuring the human right to medical care, health care and health insurance guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine and the Basic Law of Hungary guaranteed level of free qualified medical care.