Telavancin is a newer once-daily lipoglycopeptide with activity against Gram-positive bacteria, including those that are resistant to conventional antibiotics like beta-lactams. The results of recent clinical trials led to registration of telavancin for use in skin and skin structure infections in the US and Canada and for nosocomial pneumonia in Europe, based primarily on the favorable results of clinical trials. We review the evidence for use of telavancin in Gram-positive intravascular infections, focusing on bacteremic subpopulations in the large clinical trials as well as anecdotal evidence for use of the drug in the setting of infective endocarditis.


Northern East Cree has several /+h/ morphemes, which, when suffixed onto a word, add meanings such as inanimate plurality or animate obviation. Literature on these morphemes has yet to describe the impressionistic accent shift that accompanies /+h/ suffixation onto a word. In this article findings are presented from an exploratory descriptive study in which citation forms with and without the /+h/ morphemes are compared, examining how accent shift is acoustically realized, as well as the relevance of pitch slope and modal voicing. The results do not align with previous analyses of the /+h/ morphemes' properties. Rather, it is possible that words without /+h/ have a falling tone pattern, whereas words with /+h/ have a level tone pattern, suggesting that pitch slope, in combination with modal voice, may be the best diagnostic of the presence of /+h/ morphemes.


A method for speciation of monomethyltin (MMT), dimethyltin (DMT) and trimethyltin (TMT) in sediments based on the coupling between a pervaporation module, a preconcentration system and a gas chromatograph coupled with a pulsed flame photometric detector is reported. All the species are derivatized using sodium tetraethylborate as an appropriate reagent in order to produce volatile compounds. The experimental approach consists of a high-pressure injection valve. In one of the valve positions, the volatile tin species are driven to an appropriate minicolumn as a sorptive trap placed at the valve loop to preconcentrate the analytes. After a fixed time, the current valve position is changed for the injection mode and desorption of the preconcentrated analytes are obtained by heating in a furnace. Estimated detection limits (of tin) for MMT, DMT and TMT using 500 mg of sample are in all cases lower than 21 ng g -1 . Excellent recoveries (between 90 and 98%) for tin species were obtained by this extremely simple and easily automated setup.


Tc-99m HMPAO brain perfusion SPECT was performed in a 10-month-old patient with postepileptic transient left hemiplegia using a dual-headed gamma camera. Decreased perfusion to the right basal ganglia and thalamus was shown. Diagnostic information could be obtained on such a small patient with Todd's paralysis by conventional brain perfusion SPECT.


Abstract There is a growing body of evidence that reliance on rice cultivation emerged gradually in the Lower and Middle Yangtze river basin during the mid-Holocene amongst societies that had a heavy emphasis on the seasonal collecting and storage of acorns (Cyclobalanopsis, Lithocarpus and/or Quercus) and aquatic nuts (Trapa, Euryale). Recent archaeobotanical research, like that at Tianluoshan, provides evidence for the emergence of cultivation and the decrease in importance of gathered plant foods, and this paper situates these changes in relation to environmental, including climatically driven, changes especially in the Hangzhou Bay (Lower Yangtze) region. A growing number of pollen and other palaecological studies have become available in recent years, and here they will be reviewed to test the hypothesis that regional declines in nut-bearing trees (especially oaks, but also possibly Castanea/Castanopsis chestnuts) was one of the factors that favoured the increasing reliance on rice, which in turn drove the evolution, expansion and intensification of cultivation and the evolution of morphologically domesticated rice. Another factor, however, that also needs to be considered is the evidence for the emergence of social hierarchy and specialised craft production which may have concurrently pushed for an increasingly socially controlled and reliable staple food source in the form of rice. In this regard, it is important to note that intensification of rice use required increasing degrees of labour mobilisation, and landscape transformation, which could provide returns on labour investment to a degree that was not possible with oak groves. Current evidence indicates that both climate-driven environmental changes and social motivations correlate with the shift to domesticated rice and rice agriculture over the latter part of the Neolithic (6000–3000 BC). The earlier beginnings of rice cultivation, the first steps along this pathway, remain obscure although some earlier Holocene climatic events appear correlated.


ABSTRACT Purpose: This research aimed to check the curtailment of depersonalization among the staff nurses in Malaysia in terms of the quality of work-life at the workplace provided by the healthcare organizations. Methods: This research used the self-reported adopted scales to collect data from 432 respondents before analysing the data with PLS-SEM. Results: The results showed that safe and healthy working condition, social integration at work, and the social relevance of work could significantly reduce the impact of depersonalization among the nurses in Malaysia. The effect of the constitution at work organization and work and life span had insignificantly affected the curtailment of the effects of depersonalization. The results of the PLS-SEM IPMA revealed that the most essential three dimensions of QWL that impacted depersonalization were safe and healthy working conditions, social relevance of work, and constitution at work organization. Implications: The managers of the healthcare industry must provide the necessary quality of work-life attributes to address the depersonalization of the nursing staff. The approach would make the nursing staff own the work responsibilities and improve their work performance at global level. The managerial implications and study limitation reported for future managerial and scholarly engagements.


According to the characteristics of the water provision system,we designed a kind of distributing network for surveying and controling water provision with the utilization of modern technology of computer.Through the communicational management of waterwork and mornitoring the concret parameters in the process of its circulating,the triditional supervisional and managerial model can be radically changed,so as to make the modern water provision system more adaptable in utilization and stronger in capacity of monitoring in real time.


Autonomist parties have been described as having shifted from 'niche to normal'. Governmental participation has further compounded this process and led to these parties facing the same 'hard choices' as other parties in government. However, the assumption that autonomist parties can now be described as 'normal' fails to address the residual 'niche' characteristics which will have an effect on the party's governmental participation due to the existence of important 'primary goals'. Taking a qualitative, comparative case study approach using semi-structured interview and documentary data, this paper will examine Plaid Cymru and the SNP in government. This paper argues that, although both parties can indeed be described as 'normal', the degree to which their 'niche' characteristics affect the interaction between policy, office and vote-seeking behaviour varies. Indeed, while the SNP were able to somewhat 'detach' their 'primary goals' from their government profile, Plaid Cymru's ability to formulate an effective vote-seeking strategy was severely hampered by policy-seeking considerations. The paper concludes by suggesting that the 'niche to normal' framework requires two additional qualifications. Firstly, the idea that autonomist parties shift from 'niche' to 'normal' is too simplistic and that it is more helpful to examine how 'niche' characteristics interact with and affect 'normal' party status. Secondly, appreciating factors such as the 'rules of the game', the party system and the legislative strength that an autonomist party possesses, as well as an understanding of the party itself, are necessary for understanding what being 'normal' actually means.


disease progression. Endosomal TLR4 recycling perpetuates liver inflammation and liver disease progression. Tmbim1 functions as a regulator of the multivesicular body lysosomal pathway and as a key suppressor of steatohepatitis by facilitating the lysosomal degradation of Tlr4.


In this paper, in order to approach this problem, specimens of pure titanium were treated with WCP, and the subsequent changes in microstructure, residual stress, and surface morphologies were investigated as a function of WCP duration. The influence of water cavitation peening (WCP) treatment on the microstructure of pure titanium was investigated. A novel combined finite element and dislocation density method (FEM/DDM), proposed for predicting macro and micro residual stresses induced on the material subsurface treated with water cavitation peening, is also presented. A bilinear elastic-plastic finite element method was conducted to predict macro-residual stresses and a dislocation density method was conducted to predict micro-residual stresses. These approaches made possible the prediction of the magnitude and depth of residual stress fields in pure titanium. The effect of applied impact pressures on the residual stresses was also presented. The results of the FEM/DDM modeling were in good agreement with those of the experimental measurements.


This book introduces and abridges the syntactical practice of biblical Hebrew. The authors, both of Asbury Theological Seminary, seek to bridge the gap between the scholarly advances in the study of Hebrew syntax during recent decades and the level normally reached by students of biblical Hebrew. The result is a user-friendly volume which should go some way towards helping students venture into the labyrinthine ways of Hebrew grammar and syntax. The volume divides Hebrew syntax and morphology into four parts. The first three cover individual words with the goal of helping the student move from morphological and syntactical observations to meaning and significance. The fourth section moves beyond phrase-level phenomena and considers the larger relationship of clauses and sentences. Each syntactical category begins with at least one paragraph, giving definition to that grammatical category. This is followed by a list of the most common exegetical possibilities for that particular phenomenon. All examples are taken directly from biblical Hebrew. There is a subject index and a very helpful ten-page glossary of (usually unexplained) terms used by grammarians. The 'Sources Consulted' is also helpful, though there are some surprising omissions, namely S.R. Driver, Hebrew Tenses, G. Khan, Studies in Semitic Syntax, J.C.L. Gibson, Davidson's Introductory Hebrew Grammar; Syntax. R.B. SALTERS


PAI-1 inhibits conversion of the proenzyme plasminogen to the active protease plasmin and modulates proteolytic processes associated with pathophysiological conditions such as prethrombotic events, hemorrhage and thrombus formations which are positively correlated with increased PAI-1 plasma levels and hypoxic conditions. Insulin-resistant states are characterized by enhanced PAI-1 levels. We investigated the mechanisms that mediate IGF-1- and insulin-dependent induction of PAI-1 transcription in human HepG2 hepatoma cells. Treatment of HepG2 cells with IGF-1 and insulin enhanced PAI-1 mRNA, protein expression and PAI-1 promoter-Luc reporter activity. We found that mutation of the hypoxia-responsive element (HRE), a target for HIF-1, nearly abolished the IGF-1- and insulin-dependent PAI-1 promoter activity. Mutation of E4 and E5 did not affect the IGF-1-dependent induction of PAI-1 promoter constructs under normoxia but abolished the effect of IGF-1 under hypoxia. We found that IGF-1-induced up-regulation of PAI-1 expression was associated with activation of HIF-1 alpha. IGF-1 enhanced HIF-1 alpha protein levels and HIF-1 DNA-binding to each HRE, and E-boxes E4 and E5 as shown by EMSAs. Inhibition of either PI(3)K by LY294002 or ERK1/2 by U0126 reduced HIF-1 alpha protein levels while both inhibitors together completely abolished the IGF-1 effect on HIF-alpha. Expression of a dominant-negative Raf inhibited the IGF-1 effect on HIF-1-alpha while no effect was observed by using dominant-negative PDK1, or TRB3 which inhibits Akt/PKB activation. Thus, IGF-1 activates human PAI-1 expression through activation of the PI(3)K and ERK1/2. The insulin-induced enhancement of HIF-1 alpha protein levels by specific PI(3)K inhibitors was inhibited under normoxia and only slightly reduced under hypoxia. The overexpression of dominant negative PDK1 as well as TRB3 reduced the basal HIF-1 alpha protein levels but did not influence the insulin-induced HIF-1 alpha protein levels. Thus, in the case of insulin, activation of PAI-1 expression occurred mainly via the MAPK pathway. In addition to HIF-1, USF-2 can induce human PAI-1 gene expression as well via HRE, E4 and E5. EMSAs showed that E5 and E4 bound USFs and although the HRE contributed to the USF-dependent regulation of the human PAI-1 gene, it did not bind them. By contrast, USF-2 inhibited PAI-1 promoter activity in primary rat hepatocytes suggesting that PAI-1 expression depends on either the promoter context or the activity of USF which might be cell-type specific. We found that the different effects of USF on PAI-1 expression depend on the cell-type rather than the promoter context and that the USR domain of USF accounts for the observed effects. Together, we have shown that IGF-1, insulin and even hypoxia activate human PAI-1 expression through activation of the PI(3)Kinase and MAPK signaling cascade via HIF-1 binding to HRE. We described a different USF-mediated regulation of the PAI-1 gene in hepatoma cells and primary rat hepatocytes showing a cell-type-dependent regulation.


The invention further provides a sleep mode control method for an air conditioner. The sleep mode control method comprises the following steps: extracting human body feature information from an acquired monitoring image; judging whether a human body is in a sleep state according to the human body feature information; and when the human body is judged to be in the sleep state, controlling the air conditioner to be switched from the current operating mode into a sleep mode, and controlling the air conditioner to operate at preset target sleep temperature. Furthermore, the invention further provides a sleep mode control system for the air conditioner. According to the sleep mode control method and the sleep mode control system for the air conditioner, the accuracy for controlling the sleep mode of the air conditioner is improved, the misjudgment rate is reduced, and the aim of saving the power can be fulfilled; and meanwhile, a user does not need to manually switch on or switch off the sleep mode, so that the air conditioner is convenient to use.


Optimal estimation of signal parameters and system models is often required to formalize a posteriori knowledge about undergoing processes in the presence of noise. Therefore, filtering, smoothing, and prediction have become key tools of statistical signal, image, and speech processing and found applications in algorithms of various electronic systems. Very often, estimation is provided using methods of linear optimal filtering employing either finite impulse response (FIR) or infinite impulse response (IIR) structures. First fundamental works on discrete-time optimal linear filtering of stationary random processes were published in 1939-1941 by Kolmogorov as mathematicallyoriented. Soon after, Wiener solved the problem for engineering applications in continuous-time and Levinson used the Wiener error criterion in filter design and prediction. The solutions by Wiener were all in the frequency domain, presuming IIR solutions. A FIR modification to the Wiener filter was made by Zadeh and Ragazzini. Thereafter, Johnson extended Zadeh-Ragazzini's results to discrete time. The roots of optimal FIR filtering can be found namely in these basic works. Despite the inherent bounded input/bounded output stability and robustness against temporary model uncertainties and round-off errors, practical interest to FIR filtering weakened after Kalman and Bucy presented in 1960-1961 complete results on the theory of linear filtering of nonstationary Gaussian processes. In contrast to the FIR solutions implying large computational burden and memory, the recursive IIR Kalman-Bucy algorithm has appeared to be simple, accurate, and fast. That has generated an enormous number of papers devoted to the investigation and application of this filter. It then has been shown that the Kalman filter is a nice solution if the model is distinct, there are no uncertainties, and noise sources are all white sequences. Otherwise, the algorithm may become unstable and its estimate may diverge. An interest to FIR structures has grown in recent decades owing to a dramatic development in computational resources. In receding horizon predictive control, significant results on optimal linear FIR filtering of Gaussian processes have been achieved by Jazwinski, Liu and Liu, Ling and Lim, and Kwon et al. For image processing, predictive FIR filtering has been proposed by Heinonen and Neuvo and thereafter developed by many authors. For polynomial models, FIR structures were used by Wang to design a nonlinear filter, by Zhou and Wang in the FIR-median hybrid filters, and a number of publications keep growing.

In this presentation, we show that the general theory of the p-shift optimal linear FIR estimator follows straightforwardly from the real-time state space model (from n and n-1 to n) used in signal processing, rather than from the prediction model (from n to n+1) used in control. This model allows for a universal estimator intended for solving the problems of filtering (p = 0), prediction (p > 0), and smoothing (p 0), etc. We show that the optimal FIR estimator gain is a product of the unbiased gain and the noise-dependent function composed with the covariance functions and the initial state function. An important point is that the optimal and unbiased estimates converge either when the convolution length is large, N ≫ 1, or if the initial state error dominates the noise components. The unbiased (near optimal) FIR estimate associated with the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) is considered in detail as having strong engineering features. Along with the noise power gain (NPG), this estimate can be represented in batch and recursive Kalman-like forms. A special attention is paid to the polynomial state space models as being basic for many applications. For this model, the unique low-degree polynomial gains are derived and investigated in detail. Applications are given for polynomial state space modeling, clock state estimation and synchronization, and image processing. The trade-off with the Kalman algorithm is also discussed and supported with experimental results.


A new inhibitor of dopamine β-hydroxylase, dopastin, has been isolated. The dopastinproducing strain was found in a mushroom culture, and after being separated, it was confirmed to be a member of Pseudomonas. Dopastin was obtained as colorless needles, mp 116_??_119°C, [α]21D-246° (c=0.5, C2H5OH), C9H17N3O3. The catalytic hydrogenation afforded dihydrodopastin which also inhibits dopamine β-hydroxylase.


Epistatic interactions can play an important role in the genetic mechanisms that control phenotypic variation. However, identifying these interactions in high dimensional genomic data can be very challenging due to the large computational burden induced by the high volume of combinatorial tests that have to be performed to explore the entire search space. Random Forests Decision Trees are widely used in a variety of disciplines and are often said to detect interactions. However, Random Forests models do not explicitly detect variable interactions. Most Random Forests based methods that claim to detect interactions rely on different forms of variable importance measures that suffer when the interacting variables have very small or no marginal effects. The proposed Random Forests based method detects interactions using a two-stage approach and is computationally efficient. The approach is demonstrated and validated through its application on several simulated datasets representing different data structures with respect to genomic data and trait heritabilities. The method is also applied to two high dimensional genomics data sets to validate the approach. In both cases, the method results were used to identify several genes closely positioned to the interacting markers that showed strong biological potential for contributing to the genetic control for the respective traits tested. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com


: Rolling Element Bearing fault characteristic information is within the second order cyclic stationary signal. But it is susceptible to noise interference. The method of cyclic periodogram based on the short-time Fourier transform used on the cyclic stationary signal analysis can improve the recognition ability of cyclic failure. But it is not good for weak fault characteristic identification and its results affected by the size of the window function. The method of optimal wavelet scales cyclic spectrum is proposed for detection of rolling element bearing early faults. The continuous wavelet transform is carried on vibration signal processing to obtain the wavelet coefficients firstly. Then, the optimal scale is selected by correlated kurtosis values. And then, the wavelet coefficients in this scale range are analyzed by using cyclic spectra along the time axis. At last, the average value of the cyclic spectra under the optimal scales is calculated for feature extraction. Comparison with the result of cyclic periodogram, it can be concluded that the proposed method has good performance for rolling element incipient fault feature extraction.


Vibration analysis is often carried out to determine the structural dynamic properties or also known as modal parameters. Element of the modal parameters are natural frequency, mode shapes and damping. However, only mode shapes and natural frequencies are being focus in this research. Modal parameters can be determined either theoretically (Finite Element Analysis) or by experimental modal analysis. FEA is the easiest and fastest method to determine modal parameters with the assistance of FEA software. In experiment approach, frequency response measurement was carried out. Results from different methods were compared and discussed.


A 69-year-old woman, who had been treated with an acupuncture needle in the past, had been diag-nosed with an abdominal foreign body, which was characterized by pieces of metal on radiographic exami-nation. The metallic foreign body had been present for a few years, with no intervention, until X-ray ex-aminations performed at a local clinic showed that the foreign material had migrated. On review of the migration of the foreign material, the patient was referred to our hospital. Abdominal X-rays showed fragmented, radiopaque, slender objects located on the left side of the abdomen. Computed tomography showed high-density, small pieces of the foreign object, located in the left paracolic gutter, as well as gall-bladder stones. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and extirpation of the foreign body were performed using the same four ports via fluoroscopy. The foreign bodies were easy to break into multiple fragments ; therefore, they were removed in seven pieces. No remnant foreign material remained ; this was confirmed using fluoroscopy. Since metallic foreign bodies may migrate and lead to injury of abdominal organs, or become corroded, early surgical intervention is recommended.


Heavy fermion systems contain not only strong electron correlations, which promote a rich set of quantum phases, but also a large spin-orbit coupling, which tends to endow the electronic states a topological character. Kondo insulators are understood in terms of a lattice of local moments coupled to conduction electrons in a half-filled band, i.e., with a dense population of about one electron per unit cell. Here, we propose that a new class of Kondo insulator arises when the conduction-electron band is nearly empty ( or, equivalently, full ) . We demonstrated the effect through a honeycomb Anderson lattice model. In the empty carrier limit, spin-orbit coupling produces a gap in the hybridized heavy fermion band, thereby generating a topological Kondo insulator. This state can be understood in terms of a nearby phase in the overall phase diagram, a Dirac-Kondo semimetal whose quasiparticle excitations exhibit a non-trivial Berry phase. Our results point to the dilute carrier limit of the heavy-fermion systems as a new setting to study strongly correlated insulating and topological states.


This document describes the requirements of distributing intent
information in an autonomic network. Ideally, the intent may be
generated/injected at an arbitrary autonomic node and be distributed
among the whole autonomic domain. Then this document resolves the
distribution requirements into protocol design requirements.
Specifically, this document introduces a solution which is some
extension based on the Anima signalling protocol (GDNP, Generic
Discovery and Negotiation Protocol).


The terminology polarization tensor (PT) has many useful practical applications especially in electrics and electromagnetics. In this case, it must be firstly determined by some appropriate methods. Besides, understanding some properties of the PT might also be very useful in order to apply it. In this study, we investigate the first order PT for ellipsoids to determine its material and type based on the PT. First of all, we show that the first order PT for ellipsoid is a nonzero matrix. After that, we prove that, instead of classifying the first order PT for ellipsoid by the material of the ellipsoid, we can also classify the conductivity and the material of the ellipsoid by determining whether the first order PT for ellipsoid is either positive or negative definite matrix. After that, by further investigating the first order PT for the ellipsoid, we can classify the semi principal axes of the ellipsoid according to the elements of its first order PT.


Ensuring agreement between the subject and the main verb is crucial for the correctness of the information that a sentence conveys. While generating correct subject-verb agreement
is relatively straightforward in rule-based approaches to Machine Translation (RBMT), today's
leading statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems often fail to generate correct subject-verb
agreements, especially when the target language is morphologically richer than the source language. The main problem is that one surface verb form in the source language corresponds to
many surface verb forms in the target language. To deal with subject-verb agreement we built a
hybrid SMT system that augments source verbs with extra linguistic information drawn from their
source-language context. This information, in the form of labels attached to verbs that indicate
person and number, creates a closer association between a verb from the source and a verb in the
target language. We used our preprocessing approach on English as source language and built an
SMT system for translation to French. In a range of experiments, the results show improvements
in translation quality for our augmented SMT system over a Moses baseline engine, on both automatic and manual evaluations, for the majority of cases where the subject-verb agreement was
previously incorrectly translated.


Problems of implementation of industrial incentives in a backward region/state and those of a developed region/state differ significantly. The industries attracted to a backward region face the main problem of the backwardness' of the region/ state. Industrially developed areas usually form the first locational preference because of the assured availability of a combination of factors such as skilled manpower, good transport and communications and access to raw materials and markets. among others. However, backward areas have often been selected as the second best locations for several reasons among which are the attractive incentives tagged to them. However. the package of incentives and concessions formulated to stimulate industrialisation of backward areas should include among other things a high level of infrastructure development. support services such as techno-managerial consultancy and human resource development and high degree of co-ordination among government agencies. The paper reviews central incentives and subsidies and presents the feedback on implementation of incentives schemes from a sample of small scale units in Marathwada region of Maharashtra.


Human Rights are a universal phenomenon because rights have been imbibed in our society over the years. It has been realized that without human rights we cannot live as human beings. These rights are necessary to ensure the dignity of every person as a human being irrespective of one's race, religion, nationality, language, sex or any other factor. The concept of Human Rights is based on the assumption that human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. It was after the two world wars that the necessity for promoting and promoting human rights was felt seriously, and the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 th December 1948. This declaration provides that all men and women are entitled to civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights without any discrimination. Human rights education is not something like consideration of abstract ideas reflecting certain generous ideas. It is naturally to be adapted to the specific needs of every human being by providing one with norms, values and criteria to which one can refer to in the course of daily life. This paper tries to present Human Rights Education as a means of ensuring the observance of human rights and at the same time UGC's approach towards human rights.


Certain textures and materials are appealing to the human sense of touch in daily life. Well-polished metal surfaces and finely woven clothes may be examples of such materials. What types of texture properties appeal to human touch? What makes us intuitively feel like touching these? Haptic invitations of such materials have rarely been investigated. In this study, we identify the properties of materials that appeal to human touch and investigate the extent to which the linear combination of these properties can describe haptic invitations of certain textures. The findings of this study can be applied, for example, to commercial products in stores in order to improve their appeal to human touch. Such products potentially garner consumers' attention. Furthermore, in public places such as train stations or commercial facilities, poster and flyer advertisements with such textures could be used in order to attract the attentions of passersby. Peck and Wiggins suggested that textures had positive affective influences on human attitude or behavior to brochures [1]. Their study represents an availability of textures that invite human touch. The use of appealing textures would be great applications of human factors research. This study is a first step in identifying properties of such appealing textures. Textures can induce haptic invitations through appearance alone. The visual factors of textures, which include surface colors, gloss patterns and surface roughness may directly induce haptic invitations. Moreover, haptic invitations of textures might be determined via human sensory processing. For example, perceived roughness or glossiness may influence haptic invitations of textures. Such factors are acquired through sensory evaluation of textures. This study began with the hypothesis that haptic invitations of textures were related to the visual and sensory properties of textures. Participants did not touch textures. They only looked at textures and judged their haptic invitation. We investigated general trends in the haptic invitation of textures. These avenues of investigation were grounded in the authors' pilot researches with a small number of participants [2, 3]. The present article is a report of complete experiments with a sufficient number of participants and a newly designed experiment to test the impact of surface colors that generally influence human affections. Pursuing the effects of colors is significant because the color is one of the most common factors available for package designs.


Is the American electorate ideologically polarized as its representatives are polarized in Congress? How ordinary citizens have responded to growing elite polarization? The goal of this dissertation project is to answer these two questions. I conceptualize polarization here as having multi-dimensional characteristics and distinguish between polarization as a state and polarization as a process. Based on the conceptualization of polarization, I argue here that most existing literature has not only focused on polarization as a presence, but the empirical strategies adopted by previous research are more appropriate for assessing the existence rather than gradual polarization as a process. I assume that the degree of ideological polarization among the mass public would not be dramatic, thus scholars are more likely to be divided regarding the existence of popular polarization due to the less apparent changes in public opinion distribution. Therefore, I propose here using relative distribution method to evaluate a level of opinion polarization developed in the other field of social science. Using the alternative method, we can assess how a comparison cohort of a recent period is more or less polarized compared to a reference cohort of a previous period. I first apply the relative distribution method to congressional roll-call data (DW-NOMINATE) to demonstrate the distributional comparison analysis on quantile bases. Then I analyze the cumulative American National Election Study (ANES) 1948-2008 survey to assess the relative degree of mass ideological polarization. As I analyze ideological preference of individuals, I construct the two ideological measures based on a factor analysis, rather than using a combined single indicator. In addition to the analysis of mass opinion polarization as a whole, this dissertation also examines some political consequences of ideological polarization both at elite and mass levels focusing on mass political awareness and engagement. In particular, I also test if heterogeneous effects of polarized political environment exist on citizens conditional on their existing levels of political resources such as political knowledge or formal education. Just as many detailed characteristics of distribution might be untapped by summary measures (e.g., mean), behavior of extremists might not be explained properly by the conventional regression analysis based on conditional mean effect. While the ordinary regression analysis focuses on the representative characteristics of a majority in the sample, in polarization analysis we are more often interested in the behavior of extremists placed far from the mean. So I adopt a qunatile regression to account for potentially differential responses of the mass public to polarized politics depending on their positions in the distribution of a dependent variable. Empirical evidence suggests that polarizing political environment has brought about many significant changes in mass political attitudes and behavior. I demonstrate that the distributional…


A spectrophotometric study of stannous sulphate powders has enabled the mechanism of the yellow coloration of these powders to be defined. It is shown that the yellow coloration results from the fo...


Objective To study the protective effect of shuganjianpifang( SGJP) on carbon tetrachloride- induced chemical liver injury. Methods The mice are randomly divided into six groups: The Control,The model,The SGJP( 7. 8,15. 6,31. 2 g/kg),The BP. The SGJP were given by avage,1 times a day for 10 days. After being given drug for 8 hours,the Model were induced by injection of carbon 0. 1% tetrachloride- olive oil solution( 0. 1 mL /10 g) by intraperitoneal injection. After being given drug for 10 days,the ALT and the AST were assayed by spectrophotometry. The SOD,MDA,GSH were examined by Colorimetric methods. The liver index were also examined. The histopathologic changes of the hepatic tissues were observed by the HE stained method. Results The liver index,the ALT level,the AST level and the MDA level were decreased by SGJP( 15. 6,31. 2 g / kg). The SOD level and the GSH level were increased by SGJP. Moreover,the degree of the liver injury were also inhibited by SGJP. Conclusions SGJP is a significantly protective drug in chemical liver injury mice.


Method for separating and / or detecting and / or identifying and / or quantifying in a biological material of at least one prion protein PrP, characterized in that it comprises a step of separating and / or detecting and / or identifying and / or quantification of PrP / a2GPI complex formed of at least one protein linked to at least one form of a2-glycoprotein I designated by abbreviation a2GPI prion.


It is well known that, for the purpose of researching non-smoothness partial differential equation, mathematicians pay more attention to the singular integrals with rough kernel. Moreover, the fractional type operators and their weighted boundedness theory play important roles in harmonic analysis and other fields, and the multilinear operators arise in numerous situations involving product-like operations, see [6, 7, 8, 10, 11] for instance. Let R be the n-dimensional Euclidean space of points x = (x1, ..., xn) with


In this thesis we study the finite quotients of 3-manifold groups, concerning both residual properties of the groups and the properties of the 3-manifolds that can be detected using finite quotients of the fundamental group. A key theme is the analysis of when two 3-manifold groups can have the same families of finite quotients. We make a detailed study of this 'profinite rigidity' problem for Seifert fibre spaces and prove complete classification results for these manifolds. From Seifert fibre spaces we continue on this trajectory and extend our classification results to all graph manifolds. We illustrate this classification with examples and several consequences, including for graph knots and for mapping class groups. The third part of the thesis concerns the behaviour of the finite p-group quotients of 3-manifold groups. In general these quotients may be scarce and poorly behaved. We give results showing that some of these issues may be resolved by passing to finite-sheeted covers of the manifold involved. We also prove theorems concerning the p-conjugacy separability of certain graph manifold groups. The concluding chapter of the thesis collects other results linking low-dimensional topology and finite quotients of groups. In particular we prove that finite quotients of a right-angled Artin group distinguish it from other right-angled Artin groups, and we give an argument detecting the prime decomposition of certain 3-manifold groups from the finite p-group quotients.


We theoretically examine the structure effects (cross-section shape, channel orientation and the size of nanowires) of the gate-all-around silicon nanowire metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect- transistors (MOSFETs) on their ultimate performance. Among these different types of silicon nanowire MOSFETs, the rectangular nanowire MOSFETs present the best device performance in terms of the ON-state currents with the consideration of the fixed nanowire size. However, the triangular nanowire MOSFETs show the largest bandgap change caused by the quantum confinement effects, indicating the largest VT variations. As the size of the nanowire decreases, the quantum effects play the more important role in the device performance, for example, the significant performance enhancements in the P-type MOSFETs due to carrier effective mass changes in P-type Si nanowire MOSFETs.


The newer modalities of GBM treatment on the horizon are targeted therapy utilizing precision medicine, immunotherapy, Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), ChemoID, CAR-T cell therapy, etc. There is always dilemma about referring a patient to the clinical trials which restrict the patient to one therapeutic agent Vs using a multi-disciplinary approach to improve patient's survival. We present a single- institution retrospective data of the multidisciplinary management of our high grade glioma patients and their outcome. A chart review is being performed on high grade glioma patients (GBM, Gliosarcoma, Anaplastic Astrocytomas and Anaplastic Oligodendrogliomas) who had genomic alterations identified by commercial next generation sequencing. Thus far 100 patients had molecular profiling done at our institution and precision medicine was implemented in >50 patients along with other treatments. Of 100 patients 82 were GBM and 18 were Anaplastic gliomas. There were 61 males and 39 females. MGMT methylation was seen in 36 patients and 12 patients had IDH1 mutation. The actionable mutations seen EGFR, EGFRvIII, TERT, PDGFR, CDKN2A-20, BRAF, PTEN, NF1- PD/PD-L1. The targeted therapy used were imatinib, sirolimus, afinotor, debrfenib, pembrolizumab, EGFR vIII vaccine. The chemotherapies utilized were BCNU,CCNU, CPT-11, Etoposide, carboplatin. Of 100 high grade glioma patients 8 patients underwent LITT, 24 patients received SRS, 58 patients received Avastin. All patients are being followed for overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS-6) at this point. Of the 82 GBM patients 35 are still alive at a median 21 months. The median overall survival of the 47 dead GBM patients was 24 months. CONCLUSION: In high grade Glioma patients a multi-disciplinary approach may prolong the survival and the genomic analysis does impact the outcome of these patients. When we implement more than one therapy at the same time overall survival can't be credited to one specific mode of therapy.


According to the WHO's data for 2018, the global cancer burden was estimated to have risen to 18.1 million new cases and which alone accounted for 9.6 million deaths. Cancer is a group of diseases known as tumors that often spreads throughout the body, and may cause harm to multiple organs in the body. The global pharmaceutical spending is around 19% of the R&D cost annually to discover new and potent therapeutic agents. The major problems associated with currently available anticancer drugs are drug resistance and their side effects. They are the most widely explored groups of drugs either using instrumental or bioanalytical methods. In this review, we have compiled and reviewed the analytical and bio-analytical methods of some anticancer drugs developed by different authors. The review also briefly discusses the broad categories of cytotoxic drugs and targeted-based anticancer drugs. The analytical and bioanalytical methods of cytotoxic drugs such as alkylating agents, antimetabolites, hormones, and targeted-based drugs reported earlier and in recent research, articles are discussed in detail. These analytical methods are prerequisites for both the pharmaceutical industry and academics for their impurities profiling and qualitative as well as quantitative estimation. The accuracy, precision, LOD, and LOQ studies by UV-HPLC, LC-MS, and fluorometry HPLC are discussed. Some of the advanced methods developed, in the case of ifosfamide using Au/Pd@rGO@p(L-Cys) and the production of vincristine by endophytic fungi, are also included. This will further embolden the efforts of different researchers working in this field and ease the challenges they face through the analytical development of these drugs.


This research has presented two cases of clinically silent perforation of the large intestine. The first symptoms were the following: subcutaneous emphysema of the neck, nasal speech, and extensive phlegmon of a lower limb. In both cases diagnoses were difficult and the treatment was delayed due to intestine perforation into the retroperitoneal space and lack of acute abdominal symptoms. This article explains the anatomical base of spreading infection from the retroperitoneal space to distant areas. The possibility of such uncommon complications reminds of holistic approach to every patient and thorough physical examination.


3,5-Dimethoxyphenol (2) was glycosylated with O-(2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzyl-α-D-glucopyranosyl) trichloroacetimidate (1) and trimethylsilyl triflate (TMSOTf) as the promoter to yield the aryl C-glycoside 3 via an O-glycoside intermediate and subsequent Fries rearrangement. After formylation, the coumarin C-glycoside 7 was synthesized either by Perkin reaction with acetic anhydride or by Wittig reaction followed by cyclization at 150°C. Deprotonation yielded the coumarin 8-C-glycoside 8, a dimethyl ether of an isomer of naturally occurring coumarin 6-C-glycosides.


A molecular dynamics simulation study has been performed to investigate the solidification and remelting of aluminum using Sutton-Chen many body potential. Different numbers of atoms from 108 to 2048 atoms were considered to find an adequate size for the system. Three different cooling and heating rates, i.e. 10 K/s, 10 K/s and 10 K/s, were used. The structure of the system was examined using radial distribution function. The melting and crystallization temperatures of aluminum were evaluated by calculating the variation of heat capacity during the phase transformation. Additionally, Wendt–Abraham parameters were calculated to determine the glass transition temperature. It is shown that the melting temperature of aluminum increases as the heating rate increases. During solidification, a crystalline or amorphous-like structure is formed depending on the cooling rate. Remelting of the amorphous solidified material is accompanied by crystallization before melting at heating rates <10 K/s. The melting temperature also depends on the degree of structural crystallinity before remelting. Keywords– Molecular dynamics, rapid solidification, remelting, metallic glasses, aluminum


A polarographic procedure for the direct determination of tin in Zircaloy-2 was developed. The alloy is dissolved in a mixture of hydrobromic acid and hydrofluoric acid, or alternatively the hydrofluoric acid may be replaced with fluoborie acid. Potassium bromide is added as supporting electrolyte and Triton X-l00 as maximum suppressor. The polarogram is recorded without further treatment of the solution. (auth)


There is a need to migrate to a new productivity suite within the primary education of Lilla Edet. The license fees for productivity suites are sky high and the administration seeks for a cheaper productivity suite of equal or greater quality as the current. In this paper, we show that OpenOffice.org would fill the shoes of Microsoft Office within the primary education.


"We called for Gastarbeiter, but human beings arrived." Historical network analysis on the media discourse on Gastarbeiter in Austrian newspapers 1973 The following seminar paper analyses the media discourses about so-called Gastarbeiter in Austrian newspapers in 1973. As a methodological basis, the historical network analysis is applied, whereby all relevant newspaper article of the "Presse", "Kurier" and "Arbeiter-Zeitung" will be examined and evaluated. The conclusion that emerges from the analysis is that, starting in September 1973, a media discourse developed in which the whereabouts and reduction of Gastarbeiter were discussed and Gastarbeiter became a political issue for the first time. However, the focus was never on the Gastarbeiter as people and individuals, with problems, fears and a self-determined future, but only on economic and social advantages or disadvantages for "Austrians".


The assignment was to produce activated Carbon (AC) using chemical activation and determine how the reaction conditions affect its quality. The parameters were: temperature 400, 450 and 500(°C), the impregnation base KOH and NaCO3 as well as the impregnation ratio of these bases in relation to the biomass 1, 1.5 and 2 *mbio. Mbio is the weight of the biomass and thus the weight relationship was 1:1-, 1:1,5- and 1:2 (mbio : msolution). The concentration of the solution was 20 % by weight.In Cuba 2007-2010, the biggest environmental problems were identified by CITMA, an organization working to prevent and neutralize environmental threats. Among these problems were pollution of water, air and land and the shortage of water owing to salt infringement and other contaminations.AC is a porous material used to separate hydrophobic molecules from liquid- or gaseous flows in order to purify these or to reuse the adsorbate.AC is used in kitchen fans, in the food industry, for water treatment, medicine and much more. AC's ability to adsorb is due to the porosity of the material in combination with the hydrophobicity of its surface. Like a sponge, AC has many pores and canals running through the material and the sum of all the walls within the canals has an incredible surface area; 800-1500 m2/g. The pores are divided into three groups based on their diameter. These are, in order from smallest to biggest: micropores, mesopores and macropores. The ratio of these pores can be adjusted to fit the purpose of the AC.AC gets its porosity from the activation during which the biomass is reacting with chemicals in high temperatures. The two methods for producing AC are physical/thermal activation and chemical activation of which the former needs higher a temperature and uses gaseous impregnation agents in a two-step mechanism. The chemical activation however uses lower temperatures, liquid impregnation agents (such as an acid or base) and uses only a one-step mechanism.During the project chemical activation was used to produce 18 samples, all using different parameters. The parameters adjusted were the temperature, the choice of chemical and the impregnation ration of that chemical. After producing the samples three tests were conducted in terms of adsorption of gaseous ammonia, gaseous gasoline and dissolved iodine to confirm the quality of adsorption of both gases and liquids. The gaseous adsorptions were weighed before and after adsorption to get the weight-% of the AC. Using the equation for the iodine number the capacity of liquid adsorption was assured.To obtain AC with good gas adsorption capacity low levels of temperature and impregnation ratio were preferred. The best result was reached with T = 400°C and 1*(mbio) KOH (20 weight-%) and that meant a gas adsorption of 45 weight-% ammonia and 63 weight-% gasoline. The best liquid adsorption was reached with an activated carbon produced with T = 450°C and an impregnation ratio mKOH-solution/ biomass = 1.5. This activated carbon gave an iodine number of 241 mg/g. The distribution was not investigated and thus the result may not be repeatable.


Quality management has been introduced at the Laboratory for Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of the Interfaculty Reactor Institute at the Delft University of Technology. The laboratory has received accreditation for its quality system for compliance with the accreditation criteria of EN45001 closely following the ISO-25 guide. The laboratory's motivation for introducing quality management is given with emphasis on the aspects of a university environment. These motives include the need for a system of documentation, prevention of repetition of work, thorough traceability of experimental conditions, increased respect for and therefore, trustworthiness of the laboratory and improved chances for acquiring third party contracts. The route to accreditation is described briefly. The experience with the quality system is illustrated with examples of the consequences for research and routine operations, e.g., related to technical competence of personnel, non-conformance management, audits and analytical quality. Unexpected spin-offs are presented and an outlook on the future is also given.


An f-plane quasi-geostrophic barotropic vorticity equation model of high resolution is designed in this paper in order to investigate the characters of vorticity propagation and the effect of nonlinearity on the propagation within a typhoon circulation,wherein two mesoscale vortices coexist at different radial positions.The results of 10 sets of experiments suggest that in comparison with only one vortex,the intensity of the inward propagations of vorticity strengthens distinctly,vorticity detains in the inner region of typhoon circulation for a longer time,and the local maximum wind speed in the inner region increases clearly.The introduction of nonlinear advection into the model weakens the intensity of both inward and outward propagations of vorticity,but makes the inward propagation up to a position closer to the center of typhoon.


This paper analyzes the vibration problem of No.2 135 MW turbogenerator unit in a power plant,and find that the vibration is mainly due to the first-order unbalance and thermal deformation of the rotor.After dynamic balance of the rotor,the vibration fault of the generating unit is eliminated with a better vibration grade to achieve safe operation of the generating unit.


5 levels of white noise (22 to 72 dB) introduced during the performance of a short-term memory task (repeating 4-digit numbers) did not differentiate scores of 10 normally achieving 9- to 11-yr.-old boys from 10 boys with learning disabilities. For all boys together increasing noise levels decreased performance of younger children relative to that of older Ss.


The human ability to infer others' intent is innate and crucial to development. Machines ought to acquire this ability for seamless interaction with humans. In this article, we propose an agent model for predicting the intent of actors in human–human interactions. This requires simultaneous generation and recognition of an interaction at any time, for which end-to-end models are scarce. The proposed agent actively samples its environment via a sequence of glimpses. At each sampling instant, the model infers the observation class and completes the partially observed body motion. It learns the sequence of body locations to sample by jointly minimizing the classification and generation errors. The model is evaluated on videos of two-skeleton interactions under two settings: (first person) one skeleton is the modeled agent and the other skeleton's joint movements constitute its visual observation, and (third person) an audience is the modeled agent and the two interacting skeletons' joint movements constitute its visual observation. Three methods for implementing the attention mechanism are analyzed using benchmark datasets. One of them, where attention is driven by sensory prediction error, achieves the highest classification accuracy in both settings by sampling less than 50% of the skeleton joints, while also being the most efficient in terms of model size. This is the first known attention-based agent to learn end-to-end from two-person interactions for intent prediction, with high accuracy and efficiency.


Throughout this paper α denotes a number larger than 1 and C denotes the complex plane. Pó1ya(15),(16) (see also Hardy(10) and Landau(13)) proved the following results.


The modal parameter of transformer winding, as direct reflections of mechanical performance, is an important theoretical foundation in the field of transformer manufacturing and detection of winding condition based on vibration. To identify the modal parameters accurately, a modal experiment on a 10 kV transformer winding was conducted in this paper. A PolyMAX method to identify winding natural frequency and damping ratio was proposed using the experiment to identify transformer winding modal parameters. And it uses modal confidence criterion to verify. The first four order modal parameters, including natural frequency, damping ratio were extracted from the vibration signal. The results demonstrate that all the natural frequencies are far from two times of exciting frequency, which indicates that the design is appropriate. The parameters verifies by MAC, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method in identifying modal parameters of transformer windings.


It is indeed an honor to be the Editor of the Journal of Biomehanical Engineering JBME . In looking through the list of preious Editors e.g. Yin, Diller, Nerem, Fung , one feels the weight f the responsibility of JBME's legacy. One of the greatest trengths of JBME is its unifying concept of biomechanics in the roadest sense: kinematics, biological and bio-materials, heat ransfer, modeling/simulation, all over the complete range of ength scales. The ability for bioengineers to present cutting edge esearch in all areas of biomechanical engineering, coupled with a ong, rich history of technical excellence makes JBME a unique enue in the bioengineering literature. While many authors coninue the tradition of excellent work at the body, organ, and tissue cales, others are increasingly focused at the cellular and molecuar scales. Still others are concentrating their efforts on translaional approaches to move their studies from the benchtop to the edside. Thus, a challenge for any bioengineering journal, includng JBME, is how to encourage such amazing diversity while imultaneously maintaining a unique professional identity. To achieve this, my goal for the JBME is straightforward: To ake the JBME a more widely read, higher impact journal in the iomechanics, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, and related iomedical/life science communities. Yet, in planning any changes ne should be careful not to focus entirely on impact factors. hile bioengineering journals generally cannot compete with maor life science journals, we can certainly improve. I have seen our ister disciplines e.g., biomaterials, tissue engineering, cellular hysiology, and molecular biophysics excel in their ability to ttract biomechanical engineers into their disciplines. Yet, while BME continues to provide an excellent venue for the traditional iomechanical engineering areas, it could be more successful in ecruiting authors from our sister engineering and scientific discilines to publish quality biomechanical engineering related work


An analytical method based on high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry(HPLC-MS/MS) has been developed for the determination of florfenicol residues in aquiculture seawater.The separation was performed on a Shiseido C18 column with gradient elution using methanol and water(containing 0.1% acetic acid and 10 mmol·L-1 ammonium acetate).The spectral acquisition was done in the negative electron spray ionization utilizing multiple reaction monitoring of three parent-daughter ion pairs: m/z 356/185,356/219 and 356/336.The ion pair of m/z 356/336 was used for quantitation.Linear plots were obtained between 0.1 μg·L-1 and 100 μg·L-1,with linear correlation coefficient of 0.997.The limit of detection was 0.01 μg·L-1.The method is quick,sensitive,reliable and applicable to environmental monitoring program.


Nanocrystalline tetragonal-BaTiO 3 powder was prepared using a hydrothermal method, under moderate conditions, and with a high precursor concentration. Characterization via X-ray diffractometry and differential scanning calorimetry confirmed that the average particle size and tetragonal content of the prepared powder were 70 nm and 80%, respectively. The sintered sample made from the prepared powder had a room-temperature dielectric constant of 6900, which was high for BaTiO 3 .


With the Sinopec's project of Yong-Hu-Ning long pipeline digitization as the background,the role and tasks of ArcGIS Engine in the pipeline digitization is introduced.Based on COM components,the ArcGIS Engine secondary development technology in the.net framework is analyzed.The architecture of the digitized pipeline system built by ArcGIS Engine is expounded and the implementation of the digitized Yong-Hu-Ning pipeline system is described.


Fordism refers to the twentieth-century phase of capitalism (c.1918–1978), characterized by the centrality of bureaucratized firms, an interventionist state, national unions, and the coordination of mass production and mass consumption. This system reached its peak in the first two post–World War II decades, and entered its final crisis in the 1970s. By the 1980s, pertinent literature described the contemporary socio-economic conditions as post-Fordist.

Keywords:

capitalism;
commodity;
industrialization;
labor;
labor supply;
manufacturing;
productivity


In this paper, we explore the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the image classification and image captioning problems. These tasks are extremely important in modern computer vision and have numerous applications. We explore the performance of several deep learning models on the image classification problem. We then use a CNN trained for the image classification problem as a feature extractor to describe a simple CNN–RNN architecture that achieves near state-of-the-art performance on the image captioning task.


Here we look at the existence of solution flows of stochastic differential equations on noncompact manifolds and the properties of the solutions in terms of the geometry and topology of the underlying manifold itself. We obtain some results on "strong p-completeness" given conditions on the derivative flow, and thus given suitable conditions on the coefficients of the stochastic differential equations. In particular a smooth flow of Brownian motion exists on submanifolds of R whose second fundamental forms are bounded. Another class of results we obtain is on homotopy vanishing given strong moment stability. We also have results on obstructions to moment stability by cohomology. Also we obtain formulae for d(e 1 2 t4hφ) for differential form φ in terms of a martingale and the form itself, not just its derivative, extending Bismut's formula.


For a farmer, it would be beneficial to know the prices of agricultural commodities in a particular Mandi or in a set of Mandis. Such information helps in trading, negotiation and to maximize the profits. There have been efforts such as Agmarket (http://agmarknet.nic.in/), which provides the price information on the Internet. However, the farmers are expected to be literate and well versed with Internet technologies to make use of such solutions. Efforts are on to provide a helpline (Kissan call centre), but it requires a sufficient amount of manpower to handle the inquiries 24 × 7. In this context, information and communication technology using speech based artificial conversational agents plays an important role. A naturally speaking artificial conversational agent can crawl the information on Agmarket, on a daily basis and provide voice based services to the farmers. Both literate and illiterate will benefit from such a service. Initiated by Ministry of Communication Technology, a pilot project referred to as Mandi Information System is being developed at IIIT-Hyderabad. Mandi Information System (MIS) is a speech-based conversational system for obtaining price information of agricultural commodities like vegetables, fruits, pulses, spices, etc. MIS is a telephone-based system designed to facilitate the farmers, traders and other consumers in rural and semi-urban areas to obtain the prices of commodities that are being sold in the markets across Andhra Pradesh. This work has been published in [1, 2], and as a part of this conference, we will demonstrate the current system.


The invention provides a data processing method and device. The method comprises the steps of receiving data updating requests and data processing requests synchronously, wherein the data updating requests are used for replacing data to be deleted with data to be written, and the data processing requests are used for processing the data to be deleted correspondingly; storing the data to be written in a first storage space; storing the data to be deleted in a second storage space; judging whether all the data processing requests meeting releasing conditions are executed; releasing the data to be deleted in the second storage space if all the data processing requests meeting releasing conditions are executed. The data processing method and device are capable of achieving synchronization of thread updating and thread reading and writing in the mode that the memory is released in a delayed mode, small in occupied memory, and high in processing efficiency.


Nonlinear absorption of laser radiation focused on a volume of a highly absorbing thermal medium creates a temperature difference and induces a refractive index change inside the medium. It has been shown that gas bubbles can be generated by increasing the focused laser power due to thermal blooming. In our previous work, all possible forces acting on a microbubble which is confined within a horizontally oriented thin glass container have been incorporated in the force model. The thermo-capillary force is the dominant attractive force, while the optical force is repulsive. It is experimentally shown that the microbubble can thus be trapped by a focused laser beam and they can be manipulated by steering the laser beam. In this work, the 2D trapping is extended to 3D by generating a microbubble inside a vertical thick glass cuvette. A 514.5 𝑛𝑚, Ar-ion laser beam, tightly focused using a microscope objective, is used to generate and trap the microbubble. Once again, the force model is developed: unlike the 2D case, there are no contributions from surface tension and friction.


Bioadhesive hydrogels have attracted considerable attention as innovative materials in medical interventions and human-machine interface engineering. Despite significant advances in their application, it remains critical to develop adhesive hydrogels that meet the requirements for biocompatibility, biodegradability, long-term strong adhesion and efficient drug delivery vehicles in moist condition. We propose a biocompatible, biodegradable, soft and stretchable hydrogel made from a combination of a biopolymer (unmodified natural gelatin) and stretchable biodegradable poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) to achieve durable and tough adhesion, and explore its use for convenient and effective intranasal hemostasis and drug administration. Desirable hemostasis efficacy and enhanced therapeutic outcomes for allergic rhinitis are accomplished. Biodegradation enables spontaneous removal of materials without causing secondary damage and minimize medical waste. Preliminary trials on human subjects provide an essential foundation for practical applications. This work elucidates material strategies for biodegradable adhesive hydrogels, which are critical to achieve robust material interfaces and advanced drug delivery platforms for novel clinical treatments. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.


This study investigates both fully and nonfully developed speckle models for wavelength-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The resolution of the wavelength-resolution SAR systems is on the order of wavelengths of the radar signal. Therefore, the equivalent number of independent scatterers per resolution cell is so small that the speckle is not fully developed. Based on the central limit theorem, the relationship between the number of scatterers and the nonfully developed speckle is first clarified in detail by using a characteristic function and moment generating function. Considering the surface scattering and volume scattering for the radar observations, both fully and nonfully developed speckles are demonstrated in wavelength-resolution SAR images by testing three probability density functions (pdfs), namely, K-distribution, Rayleigh, log-normal, and Weibull distributions. The use of airborne coherent all radio band sensing II (CARABAS-II) very high frequency (VHF) (20–90 MHz) SAR data for the nonfully developed speckle has been investigated. This study discovers that the speckle is not fully developed when the equivalent number of independent scatterers is less than eight. Wavelength-resolution SAR data exhibit nonfully developed speckles on regions of interest in heterogeneous surface scattering and volume scattering. In contrast, for homogeneous surfaces with specular scattering on lakes and some roads, the data follow a Rayleigh distribution due to systematic background thermal noise and very little reflected received signal. In this case, it corresponds to the absence of effective independent scatterers within the resolution cell.


ABSTRACT Remote sensing has evolved as an alternative to traditional techniques in the spatio-temporal monitoring of the Antarctic ecosystem, especially with the rapid expansion of the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), providing a centimeter-scale spatial resolution. In this study, the potential of a high-spatial resolution multispectral sensor embedded in a UAV is compared to medium resolution satellite remote sensing (Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8) to monitor the characteristics of the Vapor Col Chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis antarcticus) colony ecosystem (Deception Island, South Shetlands Islands, Antarctica). Our main objective is to generate precise thematic maps of the typical ecosystem of penguin colonies derived from the supervised analysis of the spectral information obtained with these remote sensors. For this, two parametric classification algorithms (Maximum Likelihood, MLC, and Spectral Angle, SAC) and two non-parametric machine learning classifiers (Support Vector Machine, SVM, and Random Forest, RFC) are tested with UAV imagery, obtaining the best results with the SVM classifier (93.19% OA). Our study shows that the use of UAV outperforms satellite imagery (87.26% OA with Sentinel-2 Level 2 (S2L2) and 70.77% OA with Landsat 8 Level 2 (L8L2) in SVM classification) in the characterization of the substrate due to a higher spatial resolution, although differences between UAV and S2L2 are minimal. Thus, both sensors used in tandem could provide a broader and more precise view of how the area covered by the different elements of these ecosystems can change over time in a global climate change scenario. In addition, this study represents a precise UAV monitoring that takes place in this Chinstrap penguin colony, estimating a total coverage of approximately 20,000 m2 of guano areas in the study period.


Through the analysis of factors affecting the durability of concrete,technique measures to improve the durability of concret are given,it is shown that application of high,strength concrete is promising trend for solve the problem.


This research was conducted in Riau Province, aims to look at the influence of foreign investment, economic growth, the provincial minimum wage, and the average length of the school either simultaneously or partially to labor absorption in Riau province. Economic growth is always directed to improve the lives and well-being of society. Expansion of labor absorption needed to keep pace with the growth of young people who enter the labor market. The imbalance between labor force growth and job creation will lead to high unemployment. This research uses secondary data types. The method of analysis used in this research is descriptive quantitative method, as a simultaneously and partially analysis (multiple linear regression analysis using SPSS version 18.0). The results of the testing that has been done, simultaneous regression (F test) showed that all the independent variables have a significant effect on the dependent variable. The results of the partial regression test (t test) showed that only variable Average Length of School who have a significant effect on labor absorption in Riau province. While the variable Foreign Investment, Economic Growth and Provincial Minimum Wage has no significant effect on labor absorption in Riau province. The magnitude of the effect caused by the four independent variables together on the dependent variable was 82,9%, while the remaining 17,1% is influenced by other variables not examined in this research. Keywords : Foreign Investment, Economic Growth, The Provincial Minimum Wage, Average Length of The School, and Labor Absorption


Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and safety of fluoroscopic guidance bronchoscopy biopsy,for peripheral lung lesions in patients where standard techniques were nondiagnostic.Methods The records of 88 patients with peripheral lung lesions undergoing FB were retrospectively reviewed and factors affecting the diagnostic yield of fiberoptic bronchoscopy(FB) for solitary pulmonary nodules and masses were analyzed.Results Diagnosis was established by FB in 52 patients,59.1%(52/88).The diagnostic yields of FB in malignant and benign lesions were 65.3%(49/75) and23.1%(3/13),respectively.The diagnostic yield of FB was directly related to the size and location of lesions.Conclusions Fluoroscopic guidance bronchoscopy has the potential to improve the diagnostic yield,and may be useful in the early diagnosis of lung cancer,particularly in small peripheral lung lesions.


Summary The aim of this article is to present the findings of studies conducted on the activity of scientific research staff in the scope of marketing communication conducted by the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing (IL&W). The author presents the activities of scientific research staff at the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing in the field of marketing communication. They serve to propagate information on the competencies of the research institute among potential business partners, solicit new projects and maintain good relationships with present clients. The studies presented in this paper were conducted on selected managers of one of the product lines (electromagnetic compatibility) and one of several dozen products (EPC/RFID technology deployment). Particular attention has been paid to two topics of the 5th European Forum for Marketing of Scientific and Research Organizations: • The intellectual capital of staff/students as the source of the competitive advantage of the institution, • Studies on the efficiency and the effectiveness of marketing communication.


After the cold war,tremendous changes have taken place in the world.These changes have produced superficial and deep influences on the international security.Traditional security concept is being challenged.Accordig to the changes of home and international situations,Chinese government adjusts her international security strategy in order to adapt herself to the new situation.


We investigate the high performance of an apertureless near-field probe consisting of a tapered metal tip with periodic shallow surface grooves. The spontaneous emission of a single emitter near the apex is systematically analyzed for side-illumination tip enhanced spectroscopy scheme. In contrast to a conventional bare tapered tip, the corrugated probe not only strongly enhances the local excitation field, but also modulates the emission directivity, leading to high collection efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio. Specifically, we propose that an asymmetric tip enhanced spectroscopy probe containing two different length nanorods at the apex realizes unidirectional emissions. The radiation pattern is sensitive to the emission wavelengths and the emitter positions, which can increase the signal-to-noise ratio through suppression of the undesired signal. The proposed asymmetrical corrugated probe possesses a wide range of potential applications, including increasing the detection efficiency of tip enhanced spectroscopy at the single molecule level. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


This paper is devoted to the design, implementation, and test of a low cost, modular, and reliable pulsed high-voltage (HV) converter (dc chopper). The distinct characteristics of the present prototype refer to: adjustable voltage amplitude up to 7 kV, amplitude drop less than 4‰ for  $2 \times 10$  A output peak current at 5 kHz, adjustable pulse frequency up to 5 kHz, adjustable duty cycle between 1% and 10%, rising/falling time around 100 ns, and jitter about 10 ns. In principle, 1-kV modules based on a fast MOSFET each are combined in series to form a completely modular push–pull switch configuration. Contrary to sophisticated optical fiber-based insulation techniques, the driving low-voltage stage of the power supply is magnetically coupled to the HV stage. The low-voltage stage defines and schedules the HV pulses by means of a microcontroller. The 7 kV is equally distributed along MOSFETs due to balancing networks of passive components. Zener diodes in parallel with MOSFETs provide sufficient protection against overvoltages. The power supply has been successfully tested on dielectric-barrier discharge-based plasmas which have nowadays continuous technological interest.


It has been proposed that the azimuthal distributions of heavy flavor quark-antiquark pairs may be modified in the medium of a heavy-ion collision. This assumption was tested through next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations of the azimuthal distribution, dσ/dφ, including transverse momentum broadening, employing ⟨k T ⟩ and fragmentation in exclusive QQ pair production [1]. The results have been compared to p+ p and p+ p data onQQ azimuthal correlations [1] as well as bbmass, pair pT , rapidity, rapidity gap, pT asymmetry and azimuthal difference correlations in p+p collisions through their decays to J/ψJ/ψ, as measured by LHCb [2]. Agreement with the data was found to be excellent. Possible cold and hot matter effects on these correlations are investigated through the effects of nuclear modifications of the parton densities, enhanced kT broadening and energy loss. [1] R. Vogt, Phys. Rev. C {\bf 98} (2018) 034907. [2] R. Vogt, arXiv:1908.05320 [hep-ph], submitted to Phys. Rev. C. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics (Nuclear Theory) under contract number DE-SC-0004014.


For millennia, philosophers and academicians have understood that location and the properties of location - or geography - dictate the form and function of human activity. Every human activity happens somewhere and "somewhen". More recently, scientists and researches have increasing relied on geospatial information, including observations from static and dynamic sensing systems, to better understand and model the complex global dynamics of the earth's atmosphere and oceans. The volume of location based content collected is increasing exponentially. Given the environmental and political issues facing humanity, the ability to discover, access, filter, and integrate geospatial data using standard interfaces and content models in support of simulation and modeling systems is more critical than ever. At the same time, there is a tremendous need for the computing power necessary to properly use and reuse these data in decision support and modeling applications. It is at this juncture where the work of the OGC community on geospatial standards and the work of the GRID community intersect. This presentation will discuss the issues and potential solutions for the integration of geospatial content and services into the GRID infrastructure to create a geospatially enabled GRID. Topics such as federated catalogues and registries, content interoperability, the integration of real time sensor systems, and authentication will be addressed.


The utility model provides an automatic strip winding device. The automatic strip winding device comprises a fixing frame, a material placement device and a strip winding assembly, wherein the fixing frame comprises a bottom board and a vertical board arranged on the bottom board; the material placement device comprises material placement discs and a rolling mechanism; the material placement discs are arranged on the vertical board; the rolling mechanism comprises locating pin rollers and guide rollers; the strip winding assembly comprises a strip winding drive mechanism, a strip clamping mechanism and a strip winding locating mechanism all of which are arranged on the bottom board; the strip winding drive mechanism comprises a strip winding drive air cylinder arranged on the bottom board, a guide rail, a sliding board connected with the guide rail in a matched mode, and a strip clamping mechanism arranged on the sliding board; the strip clamping mechanism comprises a strip clamping air cylinder and a clip both of which are arranged on the sliding board; the strip winding locating mechanism comprises a strip winding locating air cylinder arranged on the bottom board and a locating mechanism connected to the strip winding locating air cylinder. The automatic strip winding device is high in efficiency, low in cost, and capable of achieving automatic winding of material strips, solving the problems caused by manual winding and achieving large-scale industrialization.


Objectives: The database on cadmium (Cd) concentration in children is limited, especially in China. The present study aimed at evaluating the body burden of Cd and to propose reference values for urine Cd in young children, who lived in areas with no point sources of metal exposure. Methods: Overall, 1170 children aged from 1 month to 17 years old were enrolled in the study. A questionnaire was used to obtain essential information about age, gender, etc. Urine samples were collected to determine urinary Cd and urine creatinine. Results: A total of 1070 children, 544 males and 526 females, were included in the analysis. Based upon their age, the population was divided to three age groups (0 to 5 years, 6 to 11 years, and 12 to 17 years). The reference value of urinary Cd for children without diseaseandCdexposurewasasfollows: 0to5years< 0.56 µ g/L,6to11years< 0.65 µ g/L,and12to17years< 0.74 µ g/L.Thereference value of urinary Cd adjusted by urine specific gravity was as follows: 0 to 5 years < 0.83 µ g/L, 6 to 11 years < 0.01 µ g/L, and 12 to 17 years< 1.15 µ g/L.Thereferencevalueof urinaryCdcorrectedbyurinarycreatininewasasfollows: 0to5years< 2.17 µ g/L,6to11years < 1.23 µ g/L, and 12 to 17 years < 1.25 µ g/L. Conclusions: Inthisstudy,wedeterminedurinecadmiumlevelsinchildrenfromnon-pollutedareasinchina. Thereferenceinter-vals could be used to offer recommendations for clinical work.


The idea of democracy demands that every form of law and various decisions be approved by the representatives of the people and perhaps consider the interests of the people. Authorization, a law is in the hands of the DPR together with the President and does not involve the holders of sovereignty, namely the people in the process of ordering it, but currently the role and the people in influencing policies to produce a law and to assess the validity of a law laws cannot be underestimated. The research aims to provide immunity rights for members of the DPR RI as public officials in carrying out their duties and authorities. The research method used in this research is normative juridical legal research using an invited approach and the doctrine applied to a legal problem and is prescriptive in nature which is expected to be applied in society. The results of the study concluded that in carrying out their duties and authorities, members of the DPR RI need to be properly and respectably protected with their level of honor as people's representatives who have been elected by the people and each member of the DPR RI must also reflect respectable and foremost personal and behavior in law enforcement


The primary D-serine deaminase (D-serine dehydratase, EC 184.108.40.206) of Escherichia coli K-12 is unstable within the cell. The protein, a single polypeptide chain, is cleaved at a lysine residue by a cellular proteolytic activity. Fragments containing the active site then aggregate into tetramers, which retain substrate affinity and show very low catalytic activity. Such degradations may represent an evolutionary mechanism for the generation of new enzymes.


The luxuriance of prose is rich and varied ,and its key content is manifestation of man's disposition. The luxuriance of prose is represented by splendid image of artistic form in appearance and in spirit,and its source lies in dignity of the author.


This study aims to analyze the level of student satisfaction with the services of the Denpasar Hindu Dharma Negeri Institute (IHDN Denpasar). The study's results are used to perform quality control as well as the development both in academic and non-academic. So that the quality of graduates increases. The rapid flow of globalization and the effects of the industrial revolution 4.0 forced each university to make various innovations so that service quality is maintained and improved. IHDN Denpasar, as a state religious college under the Ministry of Religion, is demanded to have quality service to remain in the people's choice. One of the evaluation tools to find out the level of service quality to students can be used survey. This study is survey-based research. The subjects in this study were active students of IHDN Denpasar in the even semester of the academic year 2018/2019. The aspects reviewed to determine the satisfaction of IHDN Denpasar services are based on five indicators established by the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education, namely; Reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and tangible. The sampling technique is done by proportionate stratified random sampling. The Data collection techniques using attitude scale. The data analysis technique was using trend test and the percentage of the frequency distribution for each aspect of satisfaction. Based on the results of the study found the number of students who feel less satisfied as much as 2%, 25% satisfied enough, 51% satisfied, and 22% very satisfied. The conclusion that can be drawn based on the percentage of the total respondents stated that most of them were pleased with the services provided by IHDN Denpasar.


PEEL, EVERSHED, Winn, Cantley, the Civil Justice Review, and now Woolf.2 The problems of the civil justice system seem unending. In almost 150 years to the present day, there have been some 60 official reports on civil procedure and on the organization of the civil and criminal courts; and a number of private reports such as those from Justice and more recently from the Heilbron Committee.3 Some reports have been effective; others less so; and many have simply been consigned to the dustbin of history. Perhaps the most disappointing report in recent years was the Civil Justice Review in 1988,4 well intentioned, but bland.

The significance of Lord Woolf's Report for the advocate of ADR5 is that it is a primary and express theme of the proposed reforms to encourage and promote the settlement of disputes before litigation starts; and, if that is unsuccessful, to streamline procedures so as to facilitate the negotiation of settlements before the trial of the action. This is also the objective of ADR. It is the central theme of this paper to consider how and why ADR should be part of the litigation system and of arbitration as well.

The wish to promote and emphasize settlement and to streamline procedures which help bring it about, stems from me widespread and profound concern of judges, administrators, politicians, practitioners and litigants at the delays and appalling cost of civil litigation in this country. This results in a denial of access to justice. No democratic society can tolerate such a state of affairs, which the Master of the Rolls has trenchantly described as a cancer eating at the very vitals of our civil justice system.

In the Civil Justice Review, settlement of cases merited but a passing mention. Paragraph 259 referred to the possible …


The ferroelastic domain walls in NdP 5 O 14 crystals have been studied by means of X-ray fopography. It has been found that the ferroelastic domain walls appear to be black or white contrast in X-ray fopograph in the range of μt=0.6—7. The feature of the diffraction contrast of the ferroelastic domain walls is summarized as follows: (C 2 - C 1 = )△C//g contrast of the ferroelastic domain wall is strong △C⊥g contrast of the ferroelastic domain wall is invisible △C·g > 0 contrast of the ferroelastic domain wall appears to be black △C·g < 0 contrast of the ferroelastic domain wall appears to be white The diffraction contrast of the ferroelastic domain wall has been explained qualitatively by Penning-Polder's theory. According to the feature of the diffraction contrast, the structural characteristics of the ferroelastic domain wall has been discussed.


retrieval performance is reduced to 75 per cent once instrument noise is taken into account. Here, it is shown that simultaneously modelling the OT BM and the instrument errors is critical, as each effect induces different types of correlations between observations, and exclusively considering covariance information based on the sensor noise may degrade the solution. We further demonstrate that the additional benefit of incorporating OT error VCMs is primarily limited by the de-aliasing performance for non-tidal mass variations of atmosphere (A) and oceans (O). This emphasizes the necessity of best-possible AO-de-aliasing (e.g. through optimized processing techniques and/or improved BMs) in order to optimally exploit the OT BM weighting.


Posttraumatic stress disorder is a kind of anxiety disorder which developed after severe trauma. The key of treatment for this disorder is to extinct the conditioned fear memory acquired in trauma. But the most effective exposure therapy can't repress fear memory efficiently. Researches from animal model of fear conditioning showed that: enhancing effects of emotional arousal, secondary-order conditioning and reconsolidation of fear memory, deficient function of medial prefrontal cortex etc all are reasons block the extinction of fear memory. According to these reasons,corresponding treatment ways can be explored and developed.


Simulations of diamondlike amorphous carbon formed by quenching the liquid under high pressure indicate that two distinctly different dense phases exist. The «as-quenched» phase is metastable and mostly fourfold coordinated. Upon annealing, it converts into a more stable structure with the majority of atoms having threefold coordination. Both structures are consistent with experimental findings. The annealed phase is clearly distinguished from the low-coordinated network of evaporated a-C


Periodontitis is a chronic multifactorial inflammatory disease associated with a dysbiotic biofilm and characterized by progressive destruction of the tooth-supporting apparatus. This systematic review aimed to establish the quantitative association between dental plaque index and plaque-induced periodontal outcomes, as well as, clinical plaque index (PI) cut-off points. MEDLINE electronic searches were performed with at least two outcomes (healthy, G or P). 124 articles met the eligibility criteria and were included in meta‐analysis. Healthy (H) group had a PI three times lower than G group (ROM 3.21; 95% CI 2.35-4.39) and P group (ROM 3.34; 95% CI 2.97-3.76); P group had 32% higher PI than G group (ROM 1.32; 95% CI 1.15-1.50). The meta‐analyses of different PI (Silness and Löe, PI-SL; and percentage of faces, PI-%), PI-SL H group (MRAW 0.52) differed from G group (MRAW 1.58) and P group (MRAW 1.83) although it was not possible to distinguish the G group (95% CI 1.28-1.89) from the P group (95% CI 1.67-1.98). This was also observed in the PI-% (MRAW 22% H, MRAW 68% G and P group). PI was able to distinguish periodontal health individuals from whom with periodontal conditions associated with plaque. This systematic review proposes the following PI values cutoff points: H group lower than 0.7 (PI-SL), 30% (PI-%); G group 0.7 to 1.6 (PI-SL) or 31% to 60% (PI-%); and P group up to 1.6 (PI-SL) or 60% (PI-%). The results have clinical application on health promotion and disease prevention through population-based interventions.


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Objective To explore clinical effect of flupentixol in the treatment of superficial erosive gastritis with anxiety and depression.Methods One hundred thirty nine patients diagnosed as superficial erosive gastritis were collected and treated with standard therapy for 4 weeks.Patients with persistent symptoms were evaluated by Hamilton Depression Rating Table(HAMD) and Hamilton Anxiety table(HAMA).Patients who met the diagnostic criteria of the 3rd edition of Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders were allocated to two groups receiving proton pump inhibitor and flupentixol treatment for 4 and 8 weeks,respectively.Results In the 139 patients,clinical improvement was absent in the group treated with proton pump inhibitor after 8 weeks without improvement in the anxiety and depression score(P0.05).For patients treated with flupentixol,symptoms resolved after 8 weeks with marked improvement in the anxiety and depression score(P0.005).Conclusion Functional dyspepsia should be considered as a co-morbidity in refractory patients of superficial erosive gastritis after 4 weeks of standard therapy.Anxiety and depression evaluation is warranted in the patients group and psychotropic treatment is mandated when necessary.


In the road network, mix-zone is usually considered as an efficient application that provides a balance between privacy protection and service quality. At the same time, the mix-zone can also resist the attack of tracking without any affection in the quality of feedback result of navigation. However, just as the old adage goes, nobody is perfect, the mix-zone also has two non-negligible deficiencies. The first one is that the mix-zone is difficult to cloak or generalize all types of the attributes emitted by the user. The other one is that the mix-zone is difficult to resist the attack initials by the disguiser who participates in the process of constructing the anonymous group. In order to cope with above-mentioned two problems, this paper provides an uncorrelated mix-zone based on the conception of attribute generalization and homomorphic encryption. In this algorithm, the process of attribute generalization is executed by an agency who is the winner in the private bidding, and the value of generalized attributes value is calculated by the secure multi-party computation under the principle of homomorphic encryption. Accordingly, the private information of the user in the mix-zone is preserved and any entities, no matter the agency or other participants, are prevented from any information about the user as there is no information been exposed. Furthermore, as the attribute of each user is generalized, for the mix-zone leavers, their attributes emitted are similar to each other; it will be difficult for the adversary to correlate any user with the attribute grasped before the user enter the mix-zone. Therefore, the potential hazard of adversary tracking the user with attribute comparison is solved. At last, in order to demonstrate the performance of our proposed algorithm in theoretical and practical fields, several analyses of security and simulation experiments are proposed, and the verification of security as well as the results of simulations and comparisons can further demonstrate the priority.


We identify a particular mouse, $M^{\text{ld}}$, the minimal ladder mouse, that sits in the mouse order just past $M_n^{\sharp}$ for all $n$, and we show that $\mathbb{R}\cap M^{\text{ld}} = Q_{\omega+1}$, the set of reals that are $\Delta^1_{\omega+1}$ in a countable ordinal. Thus $Q_{\omega+1}$ is a mouse set. This is analogous to the fact that $\mathbb{R}\cap M^{\sharp}_1 = Q_3$ where $M^{\sharp}_1$ is the the sharp for the minimal inner model with a Woodin cardinal, and $Q_3$ is the set of reals that are $\Delta^1_3$ in a countable ordinal. More generally $\mathbb{R}\cap M^{\sharp}_{2n+1} = Q_{2n+3}$. The mouse $M^{\text{ld}}$ and the set $Q_{\omega+1}$ compose the next natural pair to consider in this series of results. Thus we are proving the mouse set theorem just past projective. Some of this is not new. $\mathbb{R}\cap M^{\text{ld}} \subseteq Q_{\omega+1}$ was known in the 1990's. But $Q_{\omega+1} \subseteq M^{\text{ld}}$ was open until Woodin found a proof in 2018. The main goal of this paper is to give Woodin's proof.


List of tables List of figures Abbreviations Notations CHAPTER 1GRINDING PROCESSAN OVERVIEW 1.1 Origin of grinding . 1.2 Abrasive materials 1.3 Abrasive grain size 1.4 Bond abrasive 1.5 Grinding wheel specifications 1.6 Mechanics of grinding 1.7 Grinding forces 1.8 Grinding temperature and its effects 1.9 Types of grinding process 1.9.1 Surface grinding and machines 1.9.2 Cylindrical grinding and machines 1.9.3 Internal grinding 1.9.4 Centreless grinding 1.10 Cutting fluids 1.10.


Abstract Of 15 patients with hepatic cirrhosis in whom renal acid excretion and potassium conservation were studied, urinary pH fell normally after acid loading in four, and the response was borderline in two and clearly abnormal in nine. Blood pH before acid loading and total hydrogen ion excretion after acidification were normal in most patients. However, titratable acidity of urine was reduced, and ammonium excretion increased. Two patients had a more severe defect with low rates of total hydrogen ion excretion and "spontaneous" metabolic acidosis. Impaired renal potassium conservation accompanied the acidification abnormality in six patients. Hypercalciuria was present in two, and renal glycosuria in one. The coexistence of renal tubular acidosis and cirrhosis may explain why some cirrhotic patients readily become hypokalemic and remain so despite treatment with potassium salts. Renal tubular acidosis, through its effects on ammonium metabolism, may also make some patients susceptible to recurrent epi...