Stress in one's imagination is a characteristic of modern living. Every individual experiences stress in one form or another; be it in our personal relationship, at school, at work or in just trying to make ends meet, stress has remain with us. It is not an understatement to say that stress is a predominant phenomenon of the media organizations. Perhaps nowhere else has it been so glaring, more diffused and better reinforced as in the media houses. In the day-to-day dissemination of news and information, the media practitioners are confronted with stressful situations which often times result in bodily harms hence the need to contribute towards managing the unfortunate development. This paper discusses causes of stress, types of stress, signs and symptoms, stress and health, coping with stress, stress and job performance, among others. It concludes with methods of managing stress as a solution towards preventing health-related illnesses like cardio-vascular disorders, stroke and ulcer. Recommendations on how to control and manage stressful conditions were advanced in order to avail journalists, broadcasters etc. the knowledge to combat the menace. It is hoped other professionals will find the contents of this research work useful as well.


FIELD: information technology. SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a method of coding video data, where a video signal consisting of two components is to be coded, and said method involving: an operation for setting the downsampling coefficient which is set for a specific signal component in a frame according to characteristics in the frame, and an operation for generating a video signal to be coded via downsampling of a specific signal component in a frame according to the set downsampling coefficient. A frame can be divided into partial regions according to localised characteristics in the frame, and the downsampling coefficient for a specific signal component in these partial regions can be set according to characteristics in each partial region. EFFECT: low code volume during coding owing to introduction of processing, where adaptive downsampling is performed for each frame or for each region inside each frame. 17 cl, 18 dwg


Aiming at the problem of deconvolution which is easy to appear in traditional iterative blind deconvolution algorithm, an improved iterative blind deconvolution algorithm is proposed. The information entropy algorithm is used to calculate the limited support domain of the image, and the iterative replacement of the space and the frequency domain is performed in the support domain, thereby effectively solving the fuzzy problem. The simulation results show that compared with the original iterative blind deconvolution algorithm, the image has higher peak signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), faster convergence and better recovery.


Traumatic brain injury (TBI) often happens when the brain tissue undergoes a high rate mechanical load. Although numerous research works have been carried out to study the mechanical characterization of brain matter under quasi-static (strain rate ≤ 100 S−1) loading but a limited amount of experimental studies are available for brain tissue behavior under dynamic strain rates (strain rate ≥ 100 S−1). In this paper, the results of a study on mechanical properties of ovine brain tissue under unconfined compression tests are to be presented. The samples were compressed under uniaxial strain rates of 0.0667, 3.33, 6.667, 33.33, 66.667 and 200 S−1. The brain tissue presents a stiffer response with increasing strain rate, showing a time-dependent behavior. So the hyperelastic-only models are not adequate to exhibit the brain viscoelasticity. Therefore, two hyper-viscoelastic constitutive equations based on power function model and Mooney-Rivlin energy function are applied to the results with quasi-static strain rate (≤ 100 S−1). Good agreement of experimental and theoretical has been achieved for results of the low strain rates. It is concluded that the obtained material parameters from quasi-static tests are not appropriate enough to fit the result with the high strain rate of 200 S−1. The study will further provide new insight into a better understanding of the rate-dependency behavior of the brain tissue under dynamic conditions. This is essential in the development of constitutive material characteristics for an efficient human brain finite element models to predict TBI under impact condition or high motion.© 2017 ASME


According to the actual circumstance of SichuanShaanxi Soviet Area,the business of medicine and health with the explicit characteristics of warring time and the region were carried out in order to adapt the warring situation.The scale,depth,achievements and influence of the business were the most representative in all the Soviet Areas.And the experiences of the business still have benefited the construction of our well-off society in these days.


Exoskeleton device comprises two torque generators, and two thigh link, a support body for rotatably coupled to the thigh link. It crouched forward in wearer the sagittal plane, when the support body has spread beyond the predetermined angle A with respect to the vertical, at least one of the torque generator resistance torque between the thigh link and the corresponding support body by imposing, impose a force on the body and thighs of the wearer, to assist in're in a position where she bent down by the wearer. Exoskeleton device may comprise active or passive means to operate the generator. When the support body is not spread beyond a predetermined angle, torque generator, over all operating ranges of the thigh link and does not impose resistance torque between the support body and the thigh links, the wearer in upright position no walk in without restraint, run, can sit. .FIELD 1


As part of a book on black's and mulatto's daily lifes in XVIIIth Century Minas Gerais, this article treats the nutritional aspects of that period of time. Corn, widelly used in the area, was the main crop, followed by manioc. Even though both were American products, corn and manioc were convenient for the system because, well liked by the slaves, they did not require the use of silverware or good teeth. Additional products, like pork meat, were found in the leading group's diets. Such products were imported.


One of the key elements of a reliable CMOS process is a robust, defect free gate oxide. The formation of such layers on bulk substrates is a topic that has been studied for many years and has reached an advanced state of understanding. In contrast the growth of reliable gate oxides on either thick or thin film SOI substrates is considerably less well understood.This paper discusses the formation of gate oxides on thick film SOI substrates. Two topics have been covered in this study, long term reliability of the oxide and early life failure rate of the oxide.<<ETX>>


James M. Wood, M. Teresa Nezworski, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Howard N. Garb in What's Wrong with the Rorschach? provide a collection and rehashing of their critiques. Although their zeal for protecting the public is undeniable, several critical caveats are necessary to interpret the information presented in What's Wrong with the Rorschach? First, similar to interpreting Rorschach results, the experienced Rorschach practitioner (those thoroughly familiar with the administration, interpretation, and relevant research have conducted their own research— as labeled by Wood et al. [2002, p. 80], Klopfer's "limited number"—those truly proficient with the test) will gain the most from this text. This level of sophistication is necessary to separate scientific fact from Wood et al.'s frequent forays into fiction. Second, when reading case or clinical examples or other testimonials offered in this text, it is essential for the reader to differentiate between inherent structural weaknesses in the Rorschach and poor clinical practice (understand how tests are actually used in clinical practice, i.e., the problem of using one source of information for generating hypothesis, which should never be used in isolation). This essential differentiation is conspicuously missing from Wood et al.'s text. Consequently, examples of poor or even unethical clinical practice are used to denounce weaknesses in the psychometrics of the Rorschach, leaving the critical reader perplexed about why such obvious distinctions are not noted (Gacono, 2002). Third, and related to clinical and forensic practice, an understanding of how personality tests (not just the Rorschach) are used is necessary to assess the Wood et al. critique. Specifically, it is well known among competent practitioners that personality tests, although relevant to forming clinical and forensic opinions, never answer the ultimate clinical (suicidality, diagnosis) or forensic questions (competency, insanity, and so on) by themselves. As stated by Gacono, Loving, and Bodholdt (2001), "Psychological testing is helpful in formulating diagnosis and assessing dimensional aspects of syndromes but is seldom used as the sole measure for making a diagnosis" (p. 24). The competent assessment psychologist understands that psychological assessment and the role of individual methods within it entails the use of a comprehensive and carefully chosen battery of psychological tests, interviews, collateral information, and so on. Yet for example,


The interest of the researchers in investigating the amount of physical activity best suited to provide health benefits is not recent, but the type and amount (duration and intensity) of physical activity more adequate to protect health problems still needs to be better studied. The purpose of this point of view is to suggest the type and quantity (duration and intensity) of physical activity most adequate for the prevention of cardiometabolic disorders in adults. The evidences that will be presented are part of publications about the type and quantity (duration and intensity) of physical activity necessary or sufficient for the prevention of cardiometabolic disorders produced by a group of Brazilian researchers, as well as longitudinal publications on the dose-response effect of the physical activity for mortality prevention found in the international literature.


Long neglected by scientists and mostly excluded from their phylogenetic trees, the variants at positions 00514-00524 in mitochondrial DNA were investigated to determine their usefulness within mtDNA haplogroup K and in the full mtDNA tree. The complex and diverse nomenclature for these variants had to be collected. The percentages of these heteroplasmic variants in the haplogroup K subclades were determined. An attempt was made to establish what, if any, inheritance patterns could be found for these variants in K. How they differ from other mtDNA mutations and how they compare with Y-DNA mutations was investigated. The primary databases used were the mtDNA Haplogroup K Project and the federal GenBank. The few scientific papers on the variants were examined. A less detailed study was made of the variants as they appear in other mtDNA haplogroups. Rules which the variants appear to be following in K were matched against the conclusions of the scientific papers and the observations from the other haplogroups. Finally, areas for further research concerning these variants and other mtDNA mutations were presented.


The temperature distribution in semiconductors is usually calculated by means of the indirect Liebmann's method since its absolute stability permits the choice of relatively long time and space steps. It is shown that under dynamic conditions this method is no longer better because of the requirement of a given accuracy. A method of improving the accuracy without undesired increase of the number of division points has been proposed.


Single crystals of sodium nitrite were irradiated with Co60 gamma rays of about 109 R at room temperature and studied by ESR method. The spectrum consists of a triplet and a quintet associated with different paramagnetic species; the former is believed to be NO2 and the latter N2O4—. From the analysis of the anisotropy of the hyperfine tensor the molecular plane of NO2 lies in the crystal ac plane, being different from the result obtained with irradiation at 77°K by Zeldes and Livingston. Molecular orbital of the unpaired electron of N2O4— was also calculated.


Present study is to examine the effect of the family atmosphere, deviant sibling and association with delinquent peers on teenagers' delinquency. By virtue of survey method and random sampling, 381 ones (students from Shiraz) were selected based on Cochran formula; also Sutherland's differential association theory and Hirschi's social control theory were used to formulate the theoretical framework and the study model was designed on the same basis. The study findings indicated that there was a negative and significant relation between the positive atmosphere of family and the teenagers' association with deviant peers, sibling and the teenagers' delinquency. In addition, there was positive and significant relation between association with deviant peers, deviant sibling and teenagers' delinquency. The Lisrel software was used to examine the direct and indirect effects of family atmosphere on the teenagers' offence in order to test the study model. The findings show that by virtue of direct and indirect effects (Through association elements with the deviant peers, sibling); positive family atmosphere determined about 35 percent of the teenagers' delinquency changes studied in Shiraz (a city in south Iran).


Nowadays, the Web is a common tool for students searching information about the subjects taught in the different university courses. Although this is a good tool for the first rapid knowledge, a deeper study is usually demanded.


OBJECTIVE
To examine a biopsychosocial model (decision-making, trait impulsivity, social cognition) of risky sexual behavior (RSB) in men.

METHOD
Using cross-sectional and non-clinical data, 145 (66% White) single men (Mage = 22.0 y, SD = 1.7) were recruited from a research platform and subject pool. Outcomes were RSB (continuous), condom use (binary), and number of partners (count) in 6 months. We assessed the effects of decision-making (Balloon Analogue Risk Task), trait impulsivity (UPPS-P), and social cognition (Theory of Planned Behavior-Condom Use Questionnaire) on RSB. We present reduced models with 95% confidence intervals adjusted for age, sexual orientation, and pre-exposure prophylaxis use.

RESULTS
Trait impulsivity was associated with RSB in all three regression models. Positive Urgency (B = 9.16 [5.18, 13.14]) and Perseverance were associated (B = -8.61 [-12.93, -4.30]) with overall RSB. Premeditation (OR = 4.50 [1.63, 12.39] and Perseverance (OR = 0.25 [0.10, 0.61]) were associated with condomless intercourse. Finally, Positive Urgency (IRR = 2.11 [1.50, 2.96]) and Perseverance (IRR = 0.29 [0.19, 0.46]) were associated with partner count. Decision-making and social cognition were non-significant.

CONCLUSION
This study underscores the importance of trait impulsivity in risky sex-beyond demographics, decision-making, and social cognition. Men with poorer consideration of consequences and those who take risks during positive mood engaged in greater RSB. In contrast, individuals with a propensity toward boredom might not delay gratification long enough when pursuing a partner to engage in RSB. Therefore, trait impulsivity is a critical area for future research to develop screening and intervention to promote sexual health.


Everyone knows that Jews are liberal. Everyone knows that good American Jews fast on Yom Kippur, eat Chinese food on Christmas, and vote Democratic on election day. And everyone knows this liberalism springs straight from the Bible to the pages of the New York Times—or does it? Kenneth Wald is one of those annoying academics who questions our defining clichés. He confirms that Jews are two to three times more likely than other Americans to vote Democratic. But he challenges this commonplace, selfcongratulatory, "Judaic" explanation for American Jewish liberalism. Claims that Jewish liberalism reflects Jewish values, historical experiences of emancipation, the natural reaction to being a persecuted minority, or an ongoing sense of "social insecurity" do not apply over time or over space to other polities. Orthodox American Jews and Israelis are passionately Jewish, but often less liberal. Perhaps, Wald suggests, the story of American Jewish liberalism is an American one. Wald is also a rare modern academic who sees methodology as a tool, not as handcuffs. A veteran political scientist at the University of Florida, the author of the now-standard textbook Religion and Politics in the United States, Wald mixes sophisticated data analysis with good political history. The result is an illuminating explanation of American Jewish liberalism. Wald offers ten chapters organized in three parts. Part I, "The Problem(s) of American Jewish Liberalism," explains "Why American Jewish Politics Is Puzzling," while starting to develop the argument, in chapter 3, by asking "How Is America Different?"Having framed an intriguing question, Wald offers his fascinating history of American Jewish politics in part II, "Development of the American Jewish Political Culture." Rather than starting with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, or mass eastern European migration in the 1880s, Wald begins at the very beginning. This broader perspective traces "How Jews Fell in Love with the American Regime," from 1776 onward in chapter 4. The next three chapters offer a nice capsule history of Jewish politics, American style, from George Washington's day to the mid-twentieth century. Book Reviews


The present invention relates to a combined steel-frame member and building method using said steel-frame member, in which the vertical components, horizontal components and support are assembled into lattice form so as to can more quickly and more conveniently retain the frame structure and implement assembling construction of the frame members, so that when using said combined steel-frame members, it can simaltaneously implement construction of insulation boards and internal and external materials and pouring construction of concrete so as to can greatly dshorten construction period, reducelabour cost and auxiliary material cost, therefore it can greatly reduce construction cost.


A new approach to the construction of a volume swept by the cutting tool is proposed for modeling multi-axis milling on milling robots or CNC machines. A tool is considered to take the form of an arbitrary body of revolution. The main difference of the proposed approach is to provide the possibility of direct construction of the BSP-dexel model, which, in turn, provides an effective modeling of the cutting process. Thus, it was possible to expand the scope of the BSP-dexel model by including the possibility to simulate arbitrary multi-axis machinning. To confirm the correctness of the proposed approach, a program implementation of the corresponding algorithms has been performed. Examples of modeling of multi-axis milling processing of real parts and data on time costs for such modeling are given. The results of the experiments prove the high efficiency of the proposed approach.


Among urological tumors, renal carcinoma (CRP) is one of the most frequent. Unlike other cancers, clear therapeutic and prognostic progress has not yet been made. We are looking for adjuvant therapy to surgery, the latter giving the only real possibility of cure although strictly tied to a confined disease.


The Federal Government of Canada established a $1.1 billion compensation programme in 1999 to support individuals who acquired hepatitis C virus (HCV) through blood products between January 1986 and July 1990. We aimed to describe the morbidity and mortality of this unique post‐transfusion cohort (n = 4550) followed for over 15 years from 2000 to 2016. The age‐standardized mortality rates were compared with that of the Canadian general population and HCV cohorts from other countries. We evaluated all‐cause mortality using Kaplan‐Meier survival curves and HCV‐related and unrelated mortality using competing risk models. The age‐standardized all‐cause and HCV‐related mortality rates per 10 000 person‐years were 127 (95% CI: 117‐138) and 76 (95% CI: 69‐85) for males, and 77 (95% CI: 69‐87) and 43 (95% CI: 37‐51) for females, respectively. The risk of death of the post‐transfusion cohort was almost twice as high as the Canadian general population (rate ratio = 1.8; 95% CI: 1.7‐1.9). All‐cause, HCV‐related and HCV‐unrelated mortality were 20%, 12% and 8%, respectively at 15 years of follow‐up. By comparison, HCV‐related mortality rates per 10 000 person‐years for population‐based HCV cohorts varied from 18 and 11 in Australia to 65 and 43 in Scotland for males and females, respectively. We reported long‐term follow‐up data for the largest post‐transfusion cohort in the literature. The all‐cause mortality rates were markedly higher than that of the Canadian general population. We also showed that HCV‐related mortality were greater compared to other HCV cohorts. This suggests that continued efforts to identify and treat post‐transfusion HCV are warranted.


The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of litter system and interaction of both different level of cage density grower arab chicken. The material used were 48 arabic chicken at grower period which the age 2 months and the average weight 701.7±94.37 g  and the value SD 13.45%. The method used in this study was experimented with completely randomized design (CRD) factorial patterns. First factor was litter system  dan  second factor was the level of cage density. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance (ANOVA) , if there was different followed by duncan multiple range test. The results showed that litter system of cage was not showed any significant effect (P>0.05) on feed consumption, weight growth and  feed conversion. The level of cage density was gave significant different (P 0.05). The conclusion of this study there was not interaction between factor litter system and the level of cage density.


Objective:To find an ideal reconstruction method after total gastrectomy for gastric cancer.Methods:From 1998-2007,152 patients underwent total gastrectomy,whose clinical data were analyzed.The five procedures are Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy,Roux-en-Y reversed peristalsis esophagojejunostomy,Lahey esophagojejunostomy,Rantolan esophagojejunostomy and esophagus P-type jejunal pouch Roux-en-Y anastomosis.Results:Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy have superiority in anti-esophagus reflux than the others.patients with Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy reconstruction have better food intake and improve their nrtritional status significantly.Conclusions:The Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy can reduce the postoperative complications and improve the quality of life because of its controling effectively biliary reflux esophagitis,and it is one of the reasonable reconstructive procedures.


This paper introduced the International Consultation for the Conceptual Planning of Central Park,Guangming New Town,Shenzhen and summarized the procedure of the technique support for the international consultation of conceptual planning of this kind.With the presentation of the winner and finalists,it explored their significance to the practice of landscape architecture in China in terms of agriculture landscape,environmental ethics,traditional culture and green space.


(A) PRINCIPLES & STATISTICAL METHODS IN CLINICAL TRIALS CLINICAL TRIALS The drug characteristics are generally assessed through animal experiments or laboratory tests before they are recommended for use . But, however successful these experiments may turn to be ,the drug ultimately has to be tried on human beings to assess their efficacy as compared to the existing lines of treatment ,their side effects and dosages. Such trials are called CLINICAL TRIALS.In a clinical trial the effect of exposure / intervention on the outcome on a group of subjects is studied :


Background  Harlequin ichthyosis (HI) is a severe and usually fatal congenital skin disorder with autosomal recessive inheritance. Several cases of HI prenatal diagnosis have been performed using fetal skin biopsy, mainly at around 23 weeks estimated gestational age (EGA), and reported in the literature. However, prenatal testing must be done earlier than 21 weeks EGA in several countries including Japan where the present HI families live, because termination is legally allowed only until 22 weeks EGA.


Method of production of an equidum comprising the steps of: a. determining an estimated estrus time of a female equine, said female equid having two uterine horns, each uterine horn having a tip and a follicle, and having a vagina, a uterus and a rectum; b. collect equine sperm cells from a male equid; C. establishing an equine insemination sample containing at least some of said equine sperm cells of said male equid; d. establish a flexible probe that has a sperm container; and. placing said flexible probe in the vagina of said female equid; F. manipulating said flexible probe in said uterus of said female equid; g. guiding said flexible probe into a uterine horn of said female equid; and h. gently manipulate said flexible probe through the rectum as it is guided deeply into said uterine horn of said female equid until a deep location in said uterine horn of said female equid near the tip of said uterine horn; i. artificially inseminate said female equid; j. fertilize at least one equine ovule in said female equid; and k. produce a breeding equidae.


Critical strains are one of the most reliable mechanistic parameters representing the structural capacity of flexible pavements. However, critical strains are currently not considered in pavement management systems (PMS) because of a lack of methodology for measuring critical strains in in-service pavements. Recently, critical strain prediction models have been developed by the Indiana Department of Transportation and Purdue University research team to estimate the critical strains of existing full-depth asphalt pavements using falling weight deflectometer (FWD) data. Even though the accuracy of these models was verified with finite element (FE) analyses, additional field validation is needed before incorporating the model results into PMS. This study focuses on validation of these previously developed critical strain prediction models using field-measured strains. Nine field sections, representing typical full-depth asphalt pavements in Indiana, were selected for study inclusion. FWD testing was conducted on the field sections and field cores were collected. Field strains were measured by a strain gauge or were determined by FE analysis using the material properties obtained from the field cores. Based on the comparative analysis, the critical strain prediction models were successfully validated with strains measured from the field. The coefficients of determination were up to 0.98 for the transverse tensile strain at the bottom of the asphalt layer and 0.93 for the vertical compressive strain at the top of the subgrade. Therefore, it is concluded that the critical strain prediction models can be used to estimate critical strains of in-service full-depth asphalt pavements for structural evaluation of PMS.


The distribution of biodiversity across ecosystems has proved to be difficult to describe and predict, and typically a proper characterisation of the biodiversity of multiple taxonomic groups requires much effort, expertise, and money. Therefore, biodiversity assessment and identification of priority areas for conservation nowadays relies on surrogate data. Surrogates are easier to analyse than species, and less time consuming. One approach using such surrogates is the higher taxa, which substitute information on species by that of higher taxonomic levels (i.e. genera and families). In this thesis, two studies exploring the higher taxa approach are presented. In the first study, genera were tested as surrogates for species richness and composition of bryophytes, in two different habitats (rock exposed outcrops and watercourses), and across two scales (localand micro-scale), in north and centre of Portugal. Moreover, we tested if environmental variables could influence the species and genera richness and composition. Our results showed strong correlations between species and genera, for both richness and composition, in both habitats and across the two scales analysed. In the second study, we tested if genera could be used in prioritization of important areas for bryophyte conservation in Peneda-Gerês National Park, using three different approaches: Scoring, Important Plant Areas (IPA), and Complementarity-based approaches. Our results showed that all three approaches tested for prioritization of important areas ranked localities in a similar way using species or genera data . In conclusion, genus-level information could be used as surrogates of bryophyte species richness and composition. Moreover, it could be used in the selection of important areas for bryophyte conservation. This thesis contributes for the knowledge of genera as surrogates of bryophyte richness and composition, and could be used as a tool for rapid assessment and monitoring of this taxonomic group.


The purpose of this study is researchers want to know and empirically test differences in student adjustment according to the coping strategy. In addition to the adaptability needed, the right choice of coping strategies can also help students to adapt to the new environment, rules and various activities at the university where they continue their studies. Researchers used a purposive sampling technique, which is a sampling technique with certain considerations applied based on the objectives of the study. The subjects in this study were all first year active students of the Faculty of Economics and Social at Jenderal Achmad Yani University, Yogyakarta. The results of data collection from a total population of 127 students, successfully collected research data totaling 65 sample data subjects. Analysis of the data used in this study was the One Way Anova. Based on data analysis, it is known that the calculated F value of 4.662 with a significance (p) of 0.035 (p <0.05). This can be interpreted that there are differences in the adjustment of students in terms of stress coping strategies they have.


Critical thinking, as the highest expression of thought, has become a subject of major concern in recent years in the Georgian educational field. Although advanced technologies are replacing humans in many spheres of life, people still possess the skills which can never be substituted by machines. One such skill is critical thinking. Therefore, the main purpose of education is to develop and advance this ability. Within the frames of the presented study, we aimed to investigate students' perception of their critical thinking at Tbilisi Open Teaching University. We also aimed to determine if students saw the necessity of mastering critical thinking skills and which teaching methods they considered as more effective. Up to 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students completed the survey. Findings indicate that students perceive critical thinking skills as the most significant and essential component in their education, but see different barriers while acquiring them. It is also noteworthy to note that students' awareness of critical thinking skills and methods has considerably increased recently.


Modern technologies make it relatively easy and inexpensive to collect a large amount of personal information. Several organizations are asked, for very different reasons, to release the personal data they have acquired. While in some cases it is acceptable to release information in a statistical form, hence easily avoiding privacy violation, in many others it is really necessary to release specific data (also called microdata). In recent years, anonymization techniques have received great attention as a tool to distribute microdata without endangering users' privacy. In particular, k-anonymization is a technique introduced in [6, 7] to protect the anonymity of data from so called external linking attacks. Indeed, it is not sufficient to hide data that explicitly identifies an individual, but attention should be paid to release values of attributes that could be found in external sources associated with other data that could lead to the identification. As an example, it is not sufficient to hide name and address of a person if we are also releasing her phone number and the number could actually appear in a public listing. Hence, the technique is based on the generalization of the values of the attributes that may be used to perform external linking, guaranteeing that in the released dataset each combination of values of these attributes appears associated to at least k individuals. In our research we focus on the privacy issues that arise when spatio-temporal data is part of the collected information, and needs to be released. Spatio-temporal data is frequently collected; for example, each time an ATM machine is used or a payment is performed by a credit card, the time and the location associated with the transaction are recorded. The collection of spatio-temporal data will become more frequent in the next years as a consequence of the diffusion of location-based services, i.e., services that, based on the user current position, can provide location-aware information. Typical examples are map and navigation services, services that provide information on close-by public re-well as more personalized services like proximity marketing or friend-finder. We aim to extend existing anonymization techniques in order to apply them to the case where spatio-temporal information is part of the data to be released. The challenge is to guarantee the anonymity of the released information while


Primary law of the European Union demands that the allocation of the seats of the European Parliament between the Member States must obey the principle of degressive proportionality. The principle embodies the political aim that the more populous states agree to be underrepresented in order to allow the less populous states to be better represented. This paper reviews four allocation methods achieving this goal: the Cambridge Compromise, the Power Compromise, the Modified Cambridge Compromise, and the 0.5-DPL Method. After a year of committee deliberations, Parliament decreed on 7 February 2018 an allocation of seats for the 2019 elections that realises degressive proportionality, but otherwise lacks methodological grounding. The allocation emerged from haggling and bargaining behind closed doors.


. We study Gauss quadrature for Freud weights and derive worst case error estimates for functions in a family of associated Sobolev spaces. For the Gaussian weight e − πx 2 these spaces coincide with a class of modulation spaces which are well-known in (time-frequency) analysis and also appear under the name of Hermite spaces. Extensions are given to more general sets of nodes that are derived from Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities. This generalization can be interpreted as a stability result for Gauss quadrature.


Edgar Wideman, and David Bradley. Most critics who have tried to account for Charles W. Chesnutt's failure to publish any novels after 1905 have argued that two pressures combined to make him give up his writing career and return full time to his business. With the relative critical and c mmercial failure of The Marrow of Tra dition (1900)2 and the complete failure of The Colonels Dream (1905), Chesnutt realized that he could neither make a living through his writing nor achieve the kind of critical respect and relative commercial success with which he began his career. In this essay I would like to explore a less pragmatic explanation for his failure to continue to publish, an explanation that will attempt to untangle Chesnutt's dilem ma both as a writer and as an African-American public intellectual. Chesnutt's dilemma was that he based his sense of self as a writer on the Euro-American intellectual tradition, on what Brook Thomas has characterized as an "eigh teenth-century vision of a morally principled world" (1997, 161), and that he continued to hold a fundamental belief in Enlightenment ideals of the public sphere, of an arena of uncoerced civic debate. The exemplars, in his view of this tradition, were two white writers on race issues in the United States, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Albion Tourgee, both of


Rare-earth transition metal silicides of the composition RE2TMSi3 (RE... rare earth,TM... transition metal) have been the subject of intensive studies for multiple decades and exhibit not only long-range magnetic ordering, but also short-range correl ations. Some of the more complex investigated magnetic properties could not be explained, consider ing the simple crystal structure assumed in the literature so far. From neutron diffraction measurem ents the existence of a 2a × 2a × 8c superstructure was proposed [1]. Using single crystal x-ra y diffraction experiments we could identify and solve the commensuratly modulated crystal structu re of Ho2PdSi 3 [2]. The structure can be described in the superspace group P6/mmm(00 8 )0000, utilizing the incommensurate crystallography. Nevertheless, a certain amount of atomic disorde r was found. It is not yet clear if this is inherent in this system or is a result of a mainfold twinned cr ystal structure. Moreover, the structure refinement indicated that a certain ordering of specific type s of lattice planes are favored. To investigate the local structure of the Pd atoms lattice pl ane-selective we employed Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure (DAFS) and Extended X-ray Absorpt i n Fine Structure (EXAFS) experiments at the PdK absorption edge. The measurements were performed at beamli n E2 (R̈OMO) usingσ-polarized radiation monochromatized by a Si (111) double c rystal monochromator. A NaI scintillation detector was used to measure the diffraction intensity, while an energy dispersive detector (EDD) situated perpendicular to the plane of diffractio n was measuring the fluorescent intensity and an ionization chamber between monochromator and sample was recording the primary beam intensity. The Bragg reflections investigated were 001 and002 of a Ho2PdSi 3 single crystal so far. An energy range of 24.2...25.0 keV was chosen with variable step size ( ∆E = 10 eV for E in [24200, 24300], ∆E = 2 eV for E in [24302, 24450], ∆E = 3 eV for E in [24453, 24600] and ∆E = 4 eV for E in [24604, 25000]). Afore the EDD was calibrated to record the emitted Pd Kα andKβ radiation. For each energy step we recorded a rocking curve (continuous ω-scan) like shown in Fig. 1 and simultaneously the scan time using a frequency synthesizer , which was about 2.8 s and1.3 s for the001 and002 reflection, respectively.


This section of the book Terres cuites et culte domestique: Bestiaire de l'E greco-romaine, contains inventory and catalog of Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Museum of Art and History in Geneva and Petrie Museum in London. In this book, Celine Boutantin provides a synthesis of the production workshop figurines and studies personal beliefs and practices in Greco-Roman Egypt. The original text of the chapter is in French.Keywords: Celine Boutantin; Greco-Roman Egypt; personal beliefs; practices; production workshops figurines


The climate behaviour suffers important changes as result of the impact with a rapid extension of the anthropic space. The abrupt modification of season temperature and severe wind storms are put in evidence now all over the world. Simulation of the dynamic effects of wind action upon the built environment in laboratory is a process of scaling at reduced dimensions of a complex combination of factors insuring similarity between the natural phenomenon and the one artificially reproduced. Usually, the design wind dynamic action on structures is identified with the so-called extra-tropical depressions, specific for middle global latitudes; the atmosphere is considered neutrally stratified, the vertical profile is in equilibrium with the terrain roughness in A.B.L. The simulations of wind speeds and pressures in the boundary layer of the air moving at the surface of the earth are based on vertical profile of the mean speeds, turbulence intensity, spectral power and histograms of the recorded values. The analysis of data is based on the model of the wind speed in A.B.L. fairly considered as a random, stationary, Gaussian process. Lately, the observations put in evidence the fact that it is the strong winds associated with thunder storms along with the so called gust fronts that affect the built environment and that they are not stationary and Gaussian processes. The paper presents the analysis of series of measured speeds in the wind tunnel SECO 2 at different time intervals, different sampling rates in different types of boundary layers, analyzing the possibility of reproducing some of the characteristics of the wind speed in a non-neutrally stratified boundary layer.


Multivariable, asymptotically time-invariant systems are dealt with in the Laplace-domain. The frozen transfer matrix approximates the well-known parametric transfer matrix of linear time-varying systems. Using a time-varying controller in standard configuration, a time-invariant model transfer behaviour is realized approximately. As mathematical tool one takes Laplace-domain collocation, a principle already used with time-invariant systems


Terms of Trade is inextricably linked to the export performance of countries like Bangladesh that have heavily banked on their respective export sector. This paper empirically examines the nexus between terms of trade improvement and possible inflationary pressures associated using annual time series data over 1980 to 2014. This study is especially important in the context of LDC graduation of Bangladesh and loss of preferential market treatment in important markets. As a result, better terms of trade can play a key role in strengthening export competiveness and raising export volumes. In light of the estimated results in this study, an inverted-U shaped non-linear association between terms of trade improvement and inflation is unearthed. The finding can be a starting point for Bangladesh to adopt relevant export- boosting policies via terms of trade enhancement without the fear of triggering inflationary pressures.

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Objective: The clinical characteristics, management, and prognostic indicators of penoscrotal extramammary Paget's disease are not clearly defined. Surgical excision is often an effective treatment modality but results in a large wound after resection of all involved tissues. Methods: Reconstruction of large penoscrotal soft-tissue defects after wide local excision remains a challenge to the reconstructive surgeon. The use of the anterolateral thigh flap for penoscrotal reconstruction after resection of extramammary Paget's disease is infrequent as a reconstruction tool throughout the literature. Results: We discuss a case where the anterolateral thigh flap was effectively used for reconstruction of a large penoscrotal defect after wide local excision of penoscrotal extramammary Paget's disease and present a comprehensive literature review of extramammary Paget's disease key features, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Conclusions: The anterolateral thigh flap is a useful tool for penoscrotal defect reconstruction.


Norwegian is considered an exotic language in Romania. However, starting with the 1990s it has been a constant interest in studying this Scandinavian language, be it for a future career, for further studies in Norway, for finding a better paid job or simply as a hobby. At the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iaşi, the first Norwegian courses started in the academic year 2005-2006 when a language course was included in the Master's program "German Culture in a European Context" and when Norwegian also started to be taught at the Centre of Foreign Languages of the university for anyone interested. Afterwards, the first elective courses of Norwegian were introduced for all the students of the university in 2011. Therefore, the present article is meant to show the development of Norwegian studies at the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iaşi starting with the academic year 2011-2012 and up to 2017.


The research objective is to analyze effect of advertising, product price, and discount on consumer purchase decision in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic at PT Map Aktif Adiperkasa, Tbk. This type of research is a type of quantitative research. The population in this study were online shoppers PT Map Aktif Adiperkasa, Tbk. which is located in Medan City and Central Jakarta during the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic 2020-2021. For this reason, samples taken from the population must be truly representative. So the sample in this study was 100 respondents. The method of analysis in this study using multiple linear regression analysis. Multiple linear regression analysis consists of partial hypothesis testing (t test), simultaneous (F test), and coefficient of determination (R2). The results showed that partially advertising has no significant effect on consumer purchase decision in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic at PT Map Aktif Adiperkasa, Tbk. Product price has significant effect on consumer purchase decision in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic at PT Map Aktif Adiperkasa, Tbk. Discount has significant effect on consumer purchase decision in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic at PT Map Aktif Adiperkasa, Tbk. Simultaneously, advertising, product price, and discount have significant effect on consumer purchase decision in online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic at PT Map Aktif Adiperkasa, Tbk. The coefficient of determination found that 13.6% of consumer purchase decision could be explained by the relationship between advertising, product price, and discount, while the other 86.4% were not explained by the variables studied in this study.

Keywords: Advertising, Product Price, Discount, Consumer Purchase Decision.


Objective To observe the efficacy and safety of clomiphene citrate combined with estradiol valerate in the treatment of anovulatory infertility. Methods 110 patients w ith anovulatory infertility w ere randomly divided into tw o groups using envelope method,55 cases in each group. Patients in control group w ere treated w ith clomiphene citrate at the 5th day in menstrual cycle,the patients w ere treated continuously for 5 d. Patients in observation group w ere treated w ith basic treatment of control group combined w ith estradiol valerate at the 8th day in the menstrual cycle until the vaginal B ultrasound examination show ed follicular maturation and ovulation success so far. The patients w ere follow ed up at one year after treatment,the periodic vaginal ultrasound B w as checked,and the adverse events and the pregnancy situation in the one-year follow-up w ere recorded. The efficacy w as evaluated according to pregnant situation. Results The curative rate of control group and observation group w ere 72. 73% and 45. 45%,there w ere significant differences betw een the tw o groups( P 0. 05). No obvious serious adverse reaction w as found in the tw o groups.There w ere 5 cases( 9. 09%) of headache,abdominal pain and nausea in observation group,and 3 cases( 5. 45%) of gastrointestinal discomfort in control group,there w as no significant difference in the incidences of adverse reactions betw een the tw o groups( P 0. 05). Conclusion Clomiphene combined w ith estradiol valerate therapy in patients w ith anovulatory infertility,can effectively promote ovulation,improve the conception rates,and the efficacy w as better than that of the patients treated w ith clomiphene alone w ith few er adverse reactions,it is ideal for the treatment of ovulatory infertility.


As the interaction of light with the Earth surface is very complex, spectral pixels are composed of sophisticated mixtures of distinct substances. The parameters of the estimated models are difficult to set. In this paper, we first propose a spatial-spectral conditional generative adversarial networks (scGANs) method to solve this problem, based on the following assumptions: the unmixing process from pixels to abundance can be viewed as a transformation of two modalities with an intrinsic specific relationship. The method learns the manifold structure of the hyperspectral data using an adversarial strategy, inputting pixels blocks with spatial information to generate the abundance of the central pixels. Then, we proposed superpixel segmentation and random splitting method to synthesize data with spatial structure. Finally, the proposed scGANs method is evaluated using synthetic data and real hyperspectral data, and compared to several state-of-the-art methods. The proposed method outperforms all the comparison methods in the experiments.


The simulation calculation for the cumene oxidation processing with Yu Xuemin′s dynamic equation was adopted the mathematics model of mixed tank.The calculation results showed that the model selected was reasonable,the inlet oxygen concentration of the reactor in present industrial production was lower.It′s necessary to improve process condution and reactor in order to rise the conversion rate of cumene.


With continuous of the wars and the rise of the killings, taking place in the world it was necessary for us as engineers and researchers that we step even slightest to reduction in killings, and the current research is an attempt in this direction. Composite ballistic body armor materials have become a better body armor protection when contrasted with conventional steel body armor as far as its diminishment in weight and a perfection in ballistic resistance. The current research attempted to design and manufacture a novel body armor from cheap and available materials. In this study, alternative materials were proposed to develop an armor consisting of modified rubber and ebonite, as well as pieces of ceramic from alumina as hexagons shape, Kevlar and Carbon woven, and modern technologies shear thickening fluids. The armor was numerically evaluated using (ANSYS) commercial software using different bullet velocities ranging from (740 to 940) m/s and different numbers of carbon and Kevlar woven soaking shear thickening fluids to reach the best arrangement of layers with the best performance and compare them in the experimental data. The numerical results showed the best performance for plate armor consisting of 23-layers, which were then experimentally tested using a weapon type (AK-47) rifle with bullet 7.62*39 mm. The experimental test showed no complete penetration, with a back deformation of 7.5 mm. When the shock of the double bullet into the plate at the same location showed no complete penetration with a back deformation of 11.3 mm. The experimental data confirmed well with the numerical results and the body armor exhibited superior protective performance and was compatible with standard NIJ Standard-0101.03.


The gene for RNA polymerase subunit alpha is a co-transcribed with several ribosomal protein genes (Jaskunas, S.R., Burgess, R.R., and Nomura, M. (1975) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 72, 5036-5040). The DNA sequence whicch codes for the COOH-terminal amino acids of S4 and the NH2-terminal amino acids of alpha, and the 25 nucleotide intercistronic sequence have been determined. This short distance supports the idea that some post-transcriptional regulation determines the differential synthesis of alpha and ribosomal proteins.


The quick suppression of the structural vibrations excited by bang-bang (BB) type time-optional slew maneuvers via modal-dashpot design of velocity output feedback control was investigated. Simulation studies were conducted, and modal dashpots were designed for the SCOLE flexible body dynamics. A two-stage approach was proposed for rapid slewing and precision pointing/retargeting of large, flexible space systems: (1) slew the whole system like a rigid body in a minimum time under specified limits on the control moments and forces, and (2) damp out the excited structural vibrations afterwards. This approach was found promising. High-power modal/dashpots can suppress very large vibrations, and can add a desirable amount of active damping to modeled modes. Unmodeled modes can also receive some concomitant active damping, as a benefit of spillover. Results also show that not all BB type rapid pointing maneuvers will excite large structural vibrations. When properly selected small forces (e.g., vernier thrusters) are used to complete the specified slew maneuver in the shortest time, even BB-type maneuvers will excite only small vibrations (e.g., 0.3 ft peak deflection for a 130 ft beam).


Frederick Douglass appeals to Acts 17:26 in his famous letter, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" Douglass intends to gain legitimacy to his argument by conjuring the beliefs of his opponents, when he says, "You profess to believe 'that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth.'" While Acts certainly relies on political theology to legitimize "men" in the face of "all nations," this paper will concern itself with recent invocations of this form of legitimization of the human, one which is made up of different races. In particular, I want to look at the series of essays from The Gospel Coalition's Tim Keller and his treatment of race. This paper will analyze uses of Acts 17:26 in so-called "multiculturalist" discourses and Tim Keller's work on The Gospel Coalition. Through this analysis, this paper will consider race, like Kotsko's neoliberalism, as its own legitimizing political theology. Race legitimates all into a sameness that erases difference.


N-Acylethylurethans reacted with phenyl glycidyl ether to produce 3-acyl-5-phenoxymethyl-2-oxazolidones, 5-phenoxymethyl-2-oxazolidone and N-(2-acyloxy-3-phenoxypropyl)ethylurethans. The reaction mechanism involving acyl migration was discussed.


Undifferentiated carcinoma of the parotid gland is a relatively rare malignant tumor. A 65-year-old male was referred to our hospital with a mass in the left parotid region and the left upper neck. The superficial lobe of the left parotid gland was resected and modified neck dissection was performed on clinical suspicion of malignancy. Pathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of undifferentiated carcinoma with cervical lymph node metastasis.Postoperative radiation therapy was performed immediately, but lymph node metastasis on the left side of the neck was detected 2 months later. The patient then underwent additional radiation therapy and chemotherapy (CBDCA+PEP). One year later, regional lymph node recurrence was confirmed, and additional chemotherapy (CDDP+THP-ADM+PEP) was administered. There has been no evidence of recurrence since the last treatment.


Neuro-Inspired Vision approach, based on models from biology, allows to reduce the computational complexity. One of these models - The Hmax model - shows that the recognition of an object in the visual cortex mobilizes V1, V2 and V4 areas. From the computational point of view, V1 corresponds to the area of the directional filters (for example Gabor filters or wavelet filters). This information is then processed in the area V2 in order to obtain local maxima. This new information is then sent to an artificial neural network. This neural processing module corresponds to area V4 of the visual cortex and is intended to categorize objects present in the scene. In order to realize autonomous vision systems (low-power consumption) with such treatments inside, we studied a new architeure of a Neural Processor named NeuroDSP. We describe in this paper an optimized Hmax model implementation on this Neural Processor for a face detection application.


The Comprehension of Adjective Metaphors Is Selectively Affected By Negative Meanings Associated With Adjectives As Vehicles Maki Sakamoto (firstname.lastname@example.com) Department of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofushi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan Miho Sumihisa (email@example.com) Department of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofushi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan Takuya Matsumoto (email@example.com) Department of Human Communication, The University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofushi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan Akira Utsumi (firstname.lastname@example.com) Department of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofushi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan Abstract Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors and little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. The most adjective metaphor studies have only examined how the acceptability of adjective metaphors can be explained by the pairing of adjective modifier's and head noun's modalities. Sakamoto & Utsumi (2009) showed that adjective metaphors, especially those modified by color adjectives, tend to evoke negative meanings. Sumihisa et al (2011) examined whether evoking negative meanings is the unique feature of adjective metaphors through comparison among nominal metaphors and predicative metaphors for the Japanese language and revealed that meanings of metaphors are basically affected by meanings of vehicles, but when vehicles themselves had neutral meanings, negative meanings were evoked more frequently for adjective metaphors among the other types of metaphors. The purpose of this study, therefore, explores the reason why adjective metaphors evoke negative meanings more frequently than the other types of metaphors. For this purpose, we examined what kind of meanings associated with topics or vehicles affect the comprehension of metaphors. Our psychological experiments revealed that meanings associated from vehicles affect the comprehension of metaphors. And when metaphorical expressions have vehicles with positive or negative meanings, metaphorical expressions show the same meanings as the vehicles. On the other hand, when metaphorical expressions have vehicles with neutral meaning, only adjective metaphors evoke negative meanings. Our results suggest that the comprehension of adjective metaphors is selectively affected by the negative meanings associated with adjectives as vehicles. Keywords: adjective metaphors; nominal metaphors; predicative metaphors; Japanese language; negative meanings. Introduction Metaphor studies in the domain of cognitive science have paid much attention to nominal metaphors such as "My job is a jail" (e.g., Bowdle & Gentner, 2005; Glucksberg, 2001) and predicative metaphors such as "He shot down all of my arguments" (e.g., Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). Previous metaphor studies, however, have paid little attention to adjective metaphors such as "sweet touch" and how they are comprehended. Some models have been proposed to explain the mechanism of metaphor comprehension in cognitive science. Glucksberg and his colleagues (Glucksberg & Keysar, 1990) propose categorization theory. This theory addresses mainly nominal metaphors and argues that people understand nominal metaphors by seeing the target concept as belonging to the superordinate metaphorical category exemplified by the source concept. As for the mechanism of adjective metaphors, Utsumi & Sakamoto (2007) propose a two-stage categorization theory and argue that the comprehension process of adjective metaphors could be explained as a two-stage categorization process. Many studies focusing on adjective metaphors have examined how the acceptability of adjective metaphors can be explained by the pairing of adjective modifier's and head noun's modalities. Ullmann (1951), in a very early study on adjective metaphors, proposes a certain hierarchy of lower and higher perceptual modalities. His thesis of directionality asserts that a metaphor with a source domain lower in the hierarchy of sense modalities than the target domain should tend to be cognitively more accessible than a metaphor with the reverse direction of domains. Williams (1976) makes a more differentiated claim of directionality, in which a similar order of sense modalities is proposed. Recently, Yu (2003) highlights cross-linguistic differences when he makes different directionality claims for different languages (English as compared to Chinese). Werning, Fleischhauer, & Beseoglu (2006) explore the factors that enhance the cognitive accessibility of adjective metaphors for German. Very few studies, however, have attempted to explore meanings evoked by adjective metaphors. Sakamoto & Utsumi (2009) is one of the few studies which have explored meanings evoked by adjective metaphors. They compare the actual semantic changes observed through their psychological experiments with the semantic changes predicted by Abstract Performance Grammar (APG) model. APG proposed by Osgood (1980) states the crucial rules to evoke semantic changes through fine semantic interactions in the processing of linguistic expressions. 158 Japanese adjective metaphors were used for their psychological experiment. Participants were asked to rate


Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effects of Anterior-only decompression and stabilization for thoracolumbar fracture.Methods From 2002-2009,42 patients(36 males and 6 females,average 38.6 years old) with thoracolumbar fracture were treated by Anterior-only decompression and stabilization,iliac bone graft or titanium mesh fixation Denis classification involving the anterior,middle column thoracolumbar burst fracture with incomplete paraplegia.Results All patients were successfully operated,Cobb's angle was 19.2±6.2 degrees before and after 4.2 ±2.3 degrees Anterior vertebral height was 43.2±1.8mm before and after 69.3±1.9mm.After 6-12 months follow-up,no fixation failure,no significant loss of correction,both for good fusion.Last follow up of patients in this group have a more neurological improvement.Conclusion According to Denis classification,fractures involved only the anterior and middle column in patients with incomplete paralysis,anterior treatment is an effective,safety and reliable fixation.


Problem Statement: The literature has analyzed the new curriculum from different perspectives, and both the positive and negative sides have been taken into account. In this context, education supervisors' views of the curriculum have been a topic of curiosity. It is expected that the analysis on of the primary schools curriculum from the angle of this research will make a great contribution. Purpose of Study: The purpose of this research is to examine the curriculum in primary schools, instructional methods and techniques, instructional evaluation, extracurricular activities and the education of first literacy according to the views of the education supervisors. Methods: Research data was obtained using a qualitative research method. Open-ended questions were answered by education supervisors. The study's population was composed of education supervisors and the sample was composed of 50 supervisors. The research participants were chosen via purposive sampling and taken from different religions and cities to strengthen the representativeness of the sample. In addition, maximum variety sampling was used to ease the research. Data were interpreted and evaluated with content analysis. The item agreement percentage of the scale was 0.88. Findings and Results: According to the research results, the majority of supervisors said teachers are deficient in applying the curriculum. The teachers do not know how to use instructional technologies and methods and that they do not use them even if they know how to use them. Other important problems are that the physical problems at schools and the inadequacy of technology and materials are other problems that need attention. Other problems with the programme are the teaching *Assoc. Prof.Dr. Dokuz Eylul University, Buca Education Faculty, Izmir-Turkey, E-mail: semiha.sahin @deu.edu.tr


This paper examines the problem around whether judge elects of the Mexican Court of Justice should be awarded advance payments on their salaries in order to meet the expenses incurred in travelling to their new destinations and in subsequently setting home elsewhere, not any home, but one appropriate to the social and professional rank of the dweller.


In order to effectively reduce the contents of chloride and nitrate in paper-making process reconstituted tobacco and improve the utilization efficiency of raw material,twelve kinds of anion exchange resins were tested to investigate the effects of temperature,processing duration,p H value,concentration,and the addition rate of anion exchange resin on the removal of chloride ions(Cl-) and nitrate ions(NO3-) from tobacco stem extracts,and the reclaim and recycling of selected resins were studied. The results showed that: 1) Macroporous resin D202 was most effective in removal of Cl-and NO3-. 2) When D202 was added into the tobacco stem extracts with the solid content of 8% at 40-45 Ⅴ for 5-7 minutes where the mass ratio of tobacco extracts to resin ranged from 0.8 to 1.0,the relative removal rates of Cl-and NO3-reached more than 60% and 95%,respectively. Moreover,the application of treated tobacco extracts had no adverse effects on the sensory quality of reconstituted tobacco products. 3) After recycling for 10 times,the capacity of dechlorination and denitration of D202 basically unchanged.


We understand that the first four nurses have been selected to work under the Indian Nursing Association as organised by the Countess of Minto, and will start for India on the 28th inst. It is a guarantee of their capacity and character that they were chosen after much careful consideration by Miss Sidney Browne, R.R.C., late Matron-inChief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, assisted by Mrs. Shepherd, whose name is so well known in connection with the Upcountry Nursing Association, now merged in the


Eight dinucleotide microsatellite markers were developed on Hymeniacidon sinapium (Porifera: Demospongiae), common littoral sponge around Japan, to investigate population genetic structure. Two to 10 alleles were identified in an analysis of 24 individuals of H. sinapium, with observed heterozygosity ranging from 0.04 to 0.83. All loci did not deviate from the Hardy–Weinberg expectations; however, significant linkage disequilibrium between Sinp126 and Sinp142 was found.


By combining linear quadratic optimal control and iterative learning control(ILC),a new hybrid control strategy named linear quadratic optimal iterative learning control is obtained.The optimal control force is determined according to quadratic performance function minimization in the process of ILC to reduce the earthquake displacement response of engineering structures.Effectiveness of the control is studied.The model of a typical seismically excited building in the second generation benchmark vibration control for buildings is studied using the new hybrid control strategy to calculate seismic displacement response of the building. Simulation results show that the new control strategy can effectively control earthquake displacement response with improved effectiveness.


The present invention provides a thermally stable free radical-curable silicone composition comprising (I) has a group selected from acrylate esters and methacrylate groups of tufts or more free radical curable groups bonding functional poly organopolysiloxane; (II) polymer and a reactive resin; (III) a free radical initiator; (Iv and) moisture curing initiator; and (V) a crosslinking agent. The reactive resin and the polymer comprising (a) organopolysiloxane polymer and (b) an alkoxy-functional organopolysiloxane resin. The alkoxy-functional organopolysiloxane resin comprising (i) alkenyl functional silicone resin, (ii) an alkoxysilane-functional organosiloxane and (iii) capping agent (iv) the reaction product of the reaction in the presence of a hydrosilylation catalyst. The thermal stability of the free radical-curable silicone composition can be used in electronic device applications.


Background. Many protocols regarding the ex vivo generation of dendritic cells (DCs) in culture medium with dif− ferent protein supplementation have been described. Objectives. This study attempted to generate autologous DCs from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of multiple myeloma (MM) patients and compare different culture conditions of DC generation. Material and Methods. PBMCs from MM patients were cultured in medium supplemented with 2% human albu− min, 10% autologous serum, or 10% allogenic serum from healthy donors in the presence of IL−4 and GM−CSF to generate immature dendritic cells. Maturation of the generated cells was induced by addition of TNF−α. After− wards, the course of apoptosis, phagocytic ability, and the immunophenotype of the generated autologous DCs we− re analyzed. The concentrations of tumor−derived factors such as IL−6, TGF−β, VEGF, and IL−10 in serum from the MM patients were also determined. Results. There was a significantly higher percentage of CD1a + /CD14 – cells in the culture with human albumin than in the cultures with addition of autologous or allogenic serum. Moreover, the percentage of Annexin V−positive (AV+) cells in the populations of CD1a + /CD14 + cells and CD1a + /CD14 – cells was significantly higher in human al− bumin−supplemented culture. Significantly lower percentages of AV + /propidium iodide − (AV + /PI – ), AV + /PI + , and AV – /PI + cells were found in the culture supplemented with autologous serum than with human albumin. The pha− gocytosis of FITC−dextran particles by DCs was higher in the cultures supplemented with autologous or allogenic serum than with human albumin. The percentages of CD83 + /CD1a + /HLA−DR + and CD83 + /CD1a – /HLA−DR + cells were lower in human albumin−supplemented than in allogenic serum−supplemented culture. Conclusions. These data suggest the possibility of generating autologous DCs from PBMCs of MM patients in me− dium supplemented with different kinds of serum supplementation. Of note, DC generation progressed in different ways in the examined microenvironments, but supplementation of the cultures with human albumin resulted in the highest percentage of apoptotic cells (Adv Clin Exp Med 2009, 18, 3, 249–259).


In order to combine the association rules mining technique with the query expansion,a new algorithm of item-all-weighted association rules mining for query expansion was presented based on multiplicate pruning.This method could tremendously enhance the mining efficiency.And a novel query expansion algorithm of local feedback was proposed based on item-all-weighted association rules mining.The algorithm could automatically mine those all-weighted association rules related to original query in the top-ranked retrieved documents,to construct an association rules-based database,and extract expansion terms related to original query from the database for query expansion.At the same time,a new computing method for weights of expansion terms was given.It makes the weighted value of an expansion term more reasonable.Experimental results show that our method is better than traditional ones in average precision.


[1] The 2010 April 03 solar event was studied using observations from STEREO SECCHI, SOHO LASCO, and Wind kilometric Type II data (kmTII) combined with WSA-Cone-ENLIL model simulations performed at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC). In particular, we identified the origin of the coronal mass ejection (CME) using STEREO EUVI and SOHO EIT images. A flux-rope model was fit to the SECCHI A and B, and LASCO images to determine the CME's direction, size, and actual speed. J-maps from STEREO COR2/HI-1/HI-2 and simulations from CCMC were used to study the formation and evolution of the shock in the inner heliosphere. In addition, we also studied the time-distance profile of the shock propagation from kmTII radio burst observations. The J-maps together with in-situ data from the Wind spacecraft provided an opportunity to validate the simulation results and the kmTII prediction. Here we report on a comparison of two methods of predicting interplanetary shock arrival time: the ENLIL model and the kmTII method; and investigate whether or not using the ENLIL model density improves the kmTII prediction. We found that the ENLIL model predicted the kinematics of shock evolution well. The shock arrival times (SAT) and linear-fit shock velocities in the ENLIL model agreed well with those measurements in the J-maps along both the CME leading edge and the Sun-Earth line. The ENLIL model also reproduced most of the large scale structures of the shock propagation and gave the SAT prediction at Earth with an error of ∼1 ± 7 hours. The kmTII method predicted the SAT at Earth with an error of ∼15 hours when using n0 = 4.16 cm−3, the ENLIL model plasma density near Earth; but it improved to ∼2 hours when using n0 = 6.64 cm−3, the model density near the CME leading edge at 1 AU.


The utility model relates to a drilling device of a motor end cover, which is characterized in that the drilling device of a motor end cover comprises a base frame part, a location pressing part and an upper, lower, right and left moving part; the base frame part is connected with a side plate by a base through inner hexagon screws, and strengthening ribs are welded on the base; the location pressing part is arranged in a location hole of the side plate by using a location shaft, and is tightly pressed and fixed by a double threaded screw rod; a shaft sleeve is sheathed in the location shaft, and is fixed by holding screws; a pressing plate is arranged on the double threaded screw rod; the upper, lower, right and left moving part is inserted into the side plate by using a slide block through a dovetail groove, and the slide block is fastened by the inner hexagon screws; a passing groove of a moving drill plate moves right and left on the slide block, and is fastened by the inner hexagon screws; and a drill sleeve is put into a moving drill plate hole. The utility model has the advantages of that the working efficiency can be improved; the production cost of technological equipment can be saved; the production period of equipment can be shortened; and a wind shield hole of the motor end cover is qualified the requirement of quality.


A study was carried out on a silty clay loam soil (Typic Haplustept) to evaluate the effect of farmyard manure (FYM) vis-a-vis fertilizer and irrigation application on the soil organic C content and soil structure. The fertilizer treatments comprised of eight different combinations of N and FYM and three water regimes. The results indicated that the application of FYM and increasing N rate increased soil organic carbon (SOC) content. Addition of FYM also increased the percentage of large sized water stable aggregates (> 5 mm) and reduced the percentage of smaller size aggregates. This was reflected in an increase in the mean weight diameter (MWD) and improved soil structure. The organic carbon content in macroaggregates (> 1 mm) was greater compared to microaggregates, and it declined with decrease in size of microaggregates. This difference in organic C content between macro- and microaggregates was more with higher N dose and FYM treated plots. The effect of residual FYM on MWD and organic C content of the soil after wheat harvest was not significant. The effect was less in deeper layers compared to surface layers of the soil. MWD was significantly correlated with the SOC content for the top two layers.


D medicine is similar to sports medicine, treats the specialized needs of dancers. The art of dance parallels sport with the human body as the vehicle for performance. While the aesthetic of dance differs from sport, dancers train differently than athletes and often periodization is not implemented in dance training. As the performances near, rehearsals often increase at full speed. Overtraining becomes a common cause of dance injuries, but the choreography makes dance ever so risky. The choreography of today places new demands on the dancers. The inclusion of aerial maneuvers, acrobatic work, and elaborate set designs raise both the risk for injury and the nature of those injuries. Aerial work and acrobatic maneuvers are included in both concert and commercial performance. The dance environments have become spectacular from Las Vegas stages, film special effects and the raked stages of opera houses. Similar to athletes, dancers are not at risk for traumatic injuries. At the Dance Medicine Center, we have seen traumatic injuries resulting from both choreography and the dance environment. The needs of the dancer are different than the athlete. It is critical for the medical community to understand dancers especially in care, diagnosis and treatment. This presentation will feature a case study of a traumatic dance injury documented from onset to recovery. In addition, video links of current choreography will provide orthopedic surgeons an insight into the world of dance today.


PURPOSE: A variety of clinical trials with various lifestyle intervention programs are available to address pediatric obesity and chronic diseases. Yet, no known research has used network meta-analysis to synthesize the findings simultaneously. In response, this network meta-analysis aimed to compare the effectiveness of multiple lifestyle interventions on children's body composition and blood pressure changes. METHODS: A total of 312 published studies on lifestyle intervention programs were retrieved with 37 studies meeting the following inclusion criteria: (1) data-based articles published in English between 2009 and 2019; (2) used randomized controlled trial design; (3) subjects aged between 1 to 12 years old and did not suffer from any physical or mental illness; and (4) investigated some type of intervention on body mass index (BMI), BMI z-score (BMIz), body fat percentage, systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) among children. Data extraction for comparisons was completed for 10 intervention categories: (1) control (T1; no intervention); (2) physical activity (PA)/exercise only (T2); (3) knowledge education in various dimensions (T3); (4) nutrition (T4); (5) environment changes (T5); (6) PA plus education (T6); (7) nutrition plus education (T7); (8) environment changes plus education (T8); (9) PA with nutrition and education (T9); and (10) PA with environment changes and education (T10). Package ―pcnetmeta‖ in R software was mainly used to carry out the analysis. RESULTS: Based on mean difference (MD) comparison, nutrition plus education and physical activity (PA)/exercise only appeared to be two most effective ways in reducing children's body fat percentage compared with treatments 3, 5, 6 and 10 (Effect Size(ES) = -2.33, 95%CI: (-4.17, -0.44); ES = -1.61, 95% CI: (-2.47, -0.68) respectively). For children's BMI, T9 was the most effective approach compared with seven other treatments. T2 demonstrated the best scores in both BMIz and SBP (ES = -5.57, 95%CI: (-8.37, -2.64)) in final estimation. CONCLUSIONS: PA intervention ranked top two of the most effective approaches among 9 types of lifestyle interventions in all 5 MD comparisons, suggesting that promoting PA participation is crucial in childhood obesity control.


We demonstrate the trapping and sympathetic cooling of B$^{+}$ ions in a Coulomb crystal of laser-cooled Ca$^{+}$, We non-destructively confirm the presence of the both B$^+$ isotopes by resonant excitation of the secular motion. The B$^{+}$ ions are loaded by ablation of boron and the secular excitation spectrum also reveals features consistent with ions of the form B$_{n}^{+}$.


This study reports on an investigation of teacher interventions in students? collaborative work in an educational makerspace. We draw on a qualitative analysis of video data on teacher?student interaction derived from 94 students (aged 9?12) and their teachers in a Finnish school. The results show that the teacher interventions were both student- and teacher-initiated. Three leading teacher intervention strategies were identified, namely authoritative, orchestrating and unleashing which emerged in teacher?student interactions dealing with conceptual, procedural, technological, behavioural and motivational issues. The study demonstrates the demands makerspaces pose for teacher?student interaction, and how moving from authoritative to collaborative interaction requires collective efforts and cultural change.


Water for the construction of ecological environment impact assessment can not easily determine the scope of the problem,the use of remote sensing and fractal methods,building the basis for the construction characteristics of ecological systems,quantitative evaluation model,the number of ecological landscape patch fractal dimension calculation range of the basic framework for evaluation.Guanyintang Hydropower Project,the application LANDSAT7TM/ETM + remote sensing data are explained,classified by various types of built-up areas of mold in the ecological environment,the value of ecological dominance,dominance pieces forest 92.37%,through a high degree of(Td=86.62%,Tf=92.32%),is the controlling ecological quality of the affected components of absolute advantage.The results show that the shape of the construction activities on pieces simple,little difference in complexity,building a regional forest laws of the fractal fractal as a sign of the ecosystem is to determine the scope of the evaluation to reservoir inundation zone for the axis,east and west side of the 1,500 meters upstream to Zoumaling "V" type on both sides of 900 m deep valley and is relatively isolated ecosystems and regions,an area of about 67.4km2.


Arhangel'skii (Sci. Math. Jpn. 55 (2002), 153-201) defined notions of relative paracompactness in terms of locally finite open partial refinement and asked if one can generalize the notions above to the well known Michael's criteria of paracompactness in (17) and (18). In this paper, we consider some versions of relative paracompactness defined by locally finite (not necessarily open) partial refinement or locally finite closed partial refinement, and also consider closure-preserving cases, such as 1-lf -, 1-cp-, �-lf , �-cp-paracompactness and so on. Moreover, on their absolute embeddings, we have the following results. Theorem 1. A Tychonoff space Y is 1-lf - (or equivalently, 1-cp-) paracompact in every larger Tychonoff space if and only if Y is Lindelof. Theorem 2. A Tychonoff space Y is �-lf - (or equivalently, �-cp-) paracompact in every larger Tychonoff space if and only if Y is compact. We also show that in Theorem 1, "every larger Tychonoff space" can be replaced by "every larger Tychonoff space containing Y as a closed subspace". But, this replacement is not available for Theorem 2.


The author of this article used sport sociology and sport comparative methods to study the difference " of mass sport between China and Japan. The author considers that, in the development of mass sports, China and Japan once jiontly built the oriental system of health culture by way of mutual learning and communication. After the World WarⅡ, physical culture in Japan made progress both with great rapidity and in wide scope. In the nineties, China has ushered in a new period of reform and opening to the outside and worked out "Programme for National Physical Training" (PFNPT). Japan pushes forward its mass sports through legislation, while China position its PFNPT in activities of "engineering moden".Japan has had Sufficient funds,sport fields and other facilities available which China could not afford.


Engineering cartography is a specialty characteristic of practice.It is important for creative talents of pharmaceutical engineering.This paper suggests that we should reform method of teaching the subject,training students' ability of ideation and the ability to draw pictures with hands and computers.From the development of communication technology,to discuss the necessity and possibility of engineering cartography teaching reform.Several measures for referrence of increasing students' ability are also pointed out.


Obesity is increasing worldwide and has become a major health problem. It not only increases the incidence of colon cancer
but also leads to poorer prognosis. The mechanisms could be the activation of multiple signaling pathways including PI3K/
Akt, MAPK and STAT3 that are induced by increased levels of cancer risk factors in obesity. Activation of these signaling
pathways can cause drug resistance to chemotherapeutic agents, leading to poorer treatment outcome. Thus, inhibition of
these pathways may increase the therapeutic efficacy of obesity-associated colon cancer. Many small molecule inhibitors
have been developed for selection. Inhibition of a single signaling molecule may be not sufficient to reverse the activation
of signals in obesity. Dual inhibitors for PI3K and mTOR or dual inhibitors for Akt and MAPK may be more effective.
Combinational use of inhibitors could also increase treatment efficacy.


Despite the widespread belief that volunteer work enhances an individual's employment prospects, the hypothesis that volunteer work increases one's earnings has never been empirically verified. Using a recent Canadian data set, the authors test this hypothesis by estimating human capital earnings equations that include dummy variables representing to distinguish volunteers from nonvolunteers. The results suggest that the return to volunteering amounts to 6-7 percent of annual earnings.


Biblical theology has always been essentially a theology of salvation history, because salvation history is what the Scriptures present. The urgent task of theology is to formulate a concept of history that is appropriate to its canon.


580 www.anesthesia-analgesia.org anesthesia & anaLgesia sevoflurane in the exhaust port and the SPC was r = −0.044 (P = 0.530) in our study.2,6,7 Besides, if such a correlation existed, we would expect a reasonable correlation between sevoflurane concentration in the exhaust port and the parallel-derived bispectral index as well. However, we could not find any relevant correlation between the sevoflurane concentration measured in the exhaust port and the bispectral index values in our study sample (r = −0.13, P = 0.071).2 A possible explanation is that the gas exhaust of the oxygenator was connected to an anesthetic gas scavenging system with pressure-limited suction, which might have facilitated room-air admixture (Fig. 1). The results of other publications with good correlations might have been found without a scavenging system and a suction connected to the exhaust port. However, because of occupational medical reasons, we find a scavenging system necessary to minimize the workplace exposure to volatile anesthetics. This substantiates our conclusion that the concentration of volatile anesthetics measured in the exhaust port must be cautiously handled when dosing volatile anesthetics during CPB.


The auditor's judgment is the basis for public confidence in the financial information. Therefore the process of its formation and justification can be recognized as the leading mechanisms of ensure the objectives of the audit. Therefore we can determine the current research aimed at improving theoretical and practical support of events that promote for understanding of meaningful of auditor's judgment, its role in the implementation of tasks of audit. As a result the auditor's judgment create preconditions for the proper quality of auditor's work and to realize the expectations of users of financial information. The substantive response of auditor's judgment is investigated according to the purposes of the content management planning and execution of audit. The possibility is based on assumptions about the role of professional judgment in the implementation of tasks of audit of financial information. The model of the implementation of tasks of audit of financial information, may be used to determine the sequence of the planning and implementation of


Abstract Physical inactivity measured during late-life is a modifiable risk factor for dementia, but many studies use concurrent assessments with limited longitudinal follow-up. Less is known regarding life course exposure to physical inactivity. Physical activity patterns at different ages may make independent contributions to dementia risk, which would point to multiple critical periods for intervention. Using Health and Retirement Study Life History Mail Survey data (N=4,396), latent growth curves tested whether retrospectively-reported activity in early (18-29 years) and middle (40-49 years) adulthood predicted later-life memory trajectories over 18 years (mean age at study entry = 60.56 ± 5.44; mean follow-up = 13.27 ± 4.03 years). Total metabolic equivalents were computed from reports of moderate and vigorous physical activity. Biennial memory performance was modeled from study entry (between 1996 and 2014) to 2014. Self-reported physical and mental health at study entry were modeled as independent mediators. Models were adjusted for age at study entry, sex, education, race, ethnicity, childhood socio-economic status, year of study entry, and year of mail survey enrollment. More physical activity at ages 18-29 and 40-49 were independently associated with better initial memory, but not subsequent memory change. The association between physical activity at ages 40-49 and initial memory was partially mediated by better mental and physical health. These observational results support the possibility that physical activity interventions during multiple stages of the adult life course might be effective at lowering dementia risk. In particular, mid-life physical activity may have broad effects on later mental, physical, and cognitive health.


Abstract We investigated trajectories of depressive symptoms over 10 years following a marital transition (widowed or divorced) using data from the Health and Retirement Study (N = 377, mean age = 67.55 years; years 2006-2016). Piecewise growth curve models were estimated to investigate whether social support and strain from one's spouse, measured prior to transition, predicted depressive symptom trajectories following the transition. Covariates included sex, age, education, race/ethnicity, wealth, and chronic conditions. Overall, trajectories of depressive symptoms after a marital transition were significantly negative, indicating a decrease in depressive symptoms over time. Findings did not differ significantly between participants who were widowed and those who were divorced. Spousal social support was associated with an increase in depressive symptoms and spousal social strain was associated with a decrease in depressive symptoms following a marital transition in separate models: support: b = .250, SE = .062, p <.001; strain: b = -.209, SE = .095, p <.05. However, social strain was not significant when examined jointly with social support. Depressive symptoms declined significantly for low (b = -.370, SE = .100, p <.001) and average levels of social support (b = -.113, SE = .037, p <.01), but not for high levels of spouse social support (b = .143, SE = .109, p = .188). These results suggest those with the highest levels of spousal support prior to the transition, whether divorced or widowed, experienced a more difficult recovery and may be targets for additional mental health support following a marital transition.


Semi-empirical methods for calculating D/sub 2/ lattices are described and compared. Included are the French, Swedish, Canadian, and Savannah River methods. These methods require different degrees of experimental support for their development; the resonance escape probability, p, is the most empirical parameter in every case. Results of calculations using French, Swedish, and Canadian methods on experimental lattices indicate good agreement with the most precise data. Extrapolation of these methods, as well as the other methods, beyond the experimental range is of questionable value. (auth)


This paper puts forward the indexes to estimate optimal electricity power allocation for a distribution company,because it is difficult to deal with the relationship among risk,incomeand power supply reliability when purchasing electricity power.The proposed model considers subjective and objective analysis for evaluation index,decision effect of power purchase,and real time dynamic risk.Indexproportion of power allocation is given by AHP,entropy-weighing method,and Bayesian method.Income and power supply reliability under the proposed index are delt with by Liter semi-trapezoidal,and risk by lower semi-trapezoidal.Thus the interaction and reciprocity relationship among risk,incomeand power supply reliability can be handled scientifically in distribution company.


The present invention relates to a thrombosis prevention pharmaceutical compositions and functional foods for containing Salvia miltiorrhiza extract, Salvianolic acid B (salvianolic acid B) and rojeumarinsan thrombosis prevention functional foods and pharmaceutical for containing (rosmarinic acid) as an active ingredient It provides a composition.


In the view of the fact that the west delta economic cycle plays a special status in the western development and becomes a new economic growth pole with gap between good foundation and backward reality,the central government should integrate it into the national strategic plan for medium-and long-term development as soon as possible.In this paper,we devise a integration framework,which includes 'a center,dual cores and multi-axis' of the urban agglomeration,three-dimensional integrated channel network system,strategical industry development and docking,information sharing and collaboration platform and the others.Then we propose several strategies to promote regional integration,which speak from the following aspects:Take the Chengdu-Chongqin economic zone and Guanzhong-Tianshui economic zone as a new stress point of growth pole,take major transport infrastructure inside and outside the circle as a support to build a comprehensive channel network,take the developing of science,education and other social services to support economic and social development,enhance the status of Chongqing to build a city group system with 'a center,dual cores and multi-axis',take ecological protection and food security as foundation to ensure the sustainable development and take the expanding area of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone as the joint belt.


Aim: This study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge and level of awareness about Burning mouth syndrome among dental students. Method: The study was carried out among the dental students.A self-constructed questionnaire was made and given to a total of 100 students. The answers were recorded and converted into numbers and percentages.Results: The results of the study reveal that undergraduate dental students have a fair knowledge about burning mouth syndrome.Conclusion: There is an increased need for comprehensive educational programmes and clinical exposure for students to be aware about burning mouth syndrome.


Simulation models can benefit from the latest 3D laser scanning technology, as showed in the current projects SUMMIT and ECOPRODIGI. Using point cloud data of the physical environment generated from 3D laser scanning, we can emulate a spot welding process as-is in an immersive virtual reality environment that looks like the real facility. Point cloud data can also be used to evaluate volumetric filling of cargo space, as visualized in this demo using a 3D laser scanned RoRo ferry. The point cloud data can also help generate accurate models of the hulls for larger ships that can be used to simulate the flow of water, allowing engineers to predict the effect of changes to the hull and traveling conditions to reduce emissions and fuel consumption.


A large number of texts use misleading terminology in dealing with the forces operating in the system discussed in this paper.


Part 1 FOREWORD: The Correctional Dilemma: Employment and Social Integration Part 2 PREFACE Part 3 SECTION 1: PRE-IMPRISONMENT EMPLOYMENT Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 1: Prosecutors, Jobs and Crime Chapter 6 Chapter 2: The Employment Status Dichotomy: Understanding What This Means and Using it for Your Advantage in Program Development Chapter 7 Chapter 3: Economic Rehabilitation: A Reassessment of the Link Between Employment and Crime Part 8 SECTION 2: PRISON INDUSTRIES Chapter 9 Introduction Chapter 10 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 4: Something to Lose: A Balance and Reality-Based Rationale for Institutional Programming Chapter 11 Chapter 5: The Effect of Prison Industry and Vocational Training on Post Release Outcome: Does Race Matter? Chapter 12 Chapter 6: Employment and Crime: What is the Problem and What Can Be Done About it From the Inmate's Perspective? Part 13 SECTION 3: EX-OFFENDERS Chapter 14 Introduction Chapter 16 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 7: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Chapter 17 Chapter 8: Jabbing Blow, Pitching Rocks, and Stacking Paper: How Drug-Selling Street Gangs Organize the Reentry of Male Ex-Convicts into the Community Chapter 18 Chapter 9: Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders Part 19 SECTION 4: IN THE COMMUNITY Chapter 20 Introduction Chapter 21 Behind the Practitioner's Desk - Chapter 10: Opportunity Provision in the Context of Merging Science and Community-Based Best Practice Chapter 22 Chapter 11: Finding Ways to Get Paid: Social Networks and Illegitimate Work Chapter 23 Chapter 12: Drug Selling: A Rational Choice