Objective: Main purpose of this paper was to report the occurrence of chronic non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption and roadside injuries and its impact on the Saskatchewan healthcare system. Methods: We searched the Public Health Agency of Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information website, electronic databases including Medline, Scopus, PubMed, and CINAHL to review published literature in this area. Electronic searches were limited to Health care, Diabetes, Obesity, Alcohol and Roadside injuries in Saskatchewan. Results: Obesity is associated with diabetes and hyperlipidemia. Insufficient fruit and vegetable intake may be associated with obesity but still there is a dire need of more research to understand of obesity. Smoking leads to chronic respiratory diseases, coronary artery disease and cancer, making it the leading cause of death. Impaired driving related injuries are the leading consequences of alcohol which is burdening the nation with millions of dollars annually. There is a need for an effective mass media campaign to develop awareness. Overall hospitalization due to traffic-accidents is on the decline nationally due to effective safety measures and enhancement of quality care. However, traffic accidents are still the leading cause of admission due to unintentional injuries. Conclusions: The key issues that needs to be addressed as a priority are those related to diabetes, obesity, alcohol and respiratory diseases that result in serious threat to the public health of Saskatchewan residents. Finally, promoting healthy living and positive behaviour can prevent incidence of these chronic conditions.


The present stage of world economic development is characterized by an accelerated rate of technological progress and the increasing intellectualization of the main factors of production. Intensive research and development of additional new technologies, go with them to the world markets and the deployment of international integration in the field of research and production in the emerging global economy, in fact, already have strategic model of economic growth for the postindustrial countries.


Upon the front surface of an n+-semiconductor substrate (1) comprising a wide band gap semiconductor, an n--drift region (2) is provided. On the surface layer of the n--drift region (2), p-channel regions (3) are selectively provided. In the interior of the n--drift region (2), high-concentration p+-base regions (4) are provided so as to be in contact with the lower portions of the p-channel regions (3). In the interior of the high-concentration p+-base regions (4), n+-high-concentration regions (11) are selectively provided on the n+-semiconductor substrate (1) side. The n+-high-concentration regions (11) have a striped planar layout extending in the direction in which the high-concentration p+-base regions (4) are aligned. The n+-high-concentration regions (11) are in contact with a JFET region in one end portion of the stripe-longitudinal direction. In addition, the n+-semiconductor substrate (1)-sides of the n+-high-concentration regions (11) are in contact with a portion sandwiched between the high-concentration p+-base regions (4) and the n+-semiconductor substrate (1) among the n--drift regions (2).


The increasingly grim global ecological crisis,many scholars analyze the root of ecological crisis from different angles.David Pepper analyses the root of ecological crisis from a historical point of view,oppose the idealistic method of ecology,establishes the ecological socialism of harmonious society between human and nature.The eco-socialism persists in anthropocentric,attach importance to social justice,advocates economic rational increase,hopes to "red" transform ecological movement,in order to form the "Red-Green Alliance".But Pepper's ideas,which is radical seemingly,still owns utopian color.


Three new species of the genus Saussurea from Honshu, Japan are described. Saussurea (subg. Theodorea) nakagawae Kadota from Sado Island, Niigata Pref. is distinguished from S. pulchella (Fisch. ex Hornem.) Fisch. by having longer involucres with more or longer bracts, 11–12-seriate involucral phyllaries and narrowly ovate outer phyllaries. Saussurea nakagawae is the fourth species of subsect. Theodorea-vera sect. Theodorea of subg. Theodorea (Cass.) Lipsch. The name, subsect. Theodoreavera is validated here. Saussurea mihokokawakamiana Kadota from Mt. Kagonotoyama, the Asama Mountains, Nagano Pref. differs from S. triptera Maxim. by having almost wingless stem, narrowly triangular-ovate cauline leaves, loose racemose synflorescence, larger cylindrical to campanulate involucres and 8–9-seriate involucral phyllaries with caudate tips. Saussurea mihokokawakamiana is similar to S. kimbuensis Nakai in involucral phyllaries with caudate tips and narrowly ovate-triangular leaves but differs from it by larger involucres and 8–9-seriate involucral phyllaries. Saussurea yamagataensis Kadota from the Murayama area, Yamagata Pref. is different from S. sendaica (Franch.) Franch. ex Koidz. by having horizontal rhizomes with longer internodes, narrowly ovate cauline leaves, stem pubescent with pale greenish, long multicellular hairs, longer cylindrical involucres and 11–12-seriate involucral phyllaries. (Continued from J. Jpn. Bot. 90: 158–178, 2015)


Objective: Our objective was to analyze patterns of treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) (no treatment (NT), cytoreductive nephrectomy only (CN), systemic therapy only (ST), and both systemic and cytoreductive (ST+CN)), and correlate them with racial or socioeconomic factors. Materials and Methods: Cases of mRCC from 2004–2015 were selected from the National Cancer Database. Our primary outcome was the temporal trend of treatment types. Secondary outcomes included the association of treatment with racial and socioeconomic factors. Logistical regression was performed. Results: In total, 40,372 patients with mRCC were identified. Treatment modalities included 37.0% NT, 13.9% CN only, 31.6% ST only and 17.5% ST+CN. From 2004–2015, NT decreased (53.4 vs. 32.1%, p < 0.001), CN alone decreased (18.1 vs. 12.1%, p < 0.001), ST alone increased (18.1 vs. 36.7%, p < 0.001) and ST+CN increased (10.3 vs. 19.1%, p < 0.001). On logistical regression, we found non-white races (odds ratio 1.29–1.73, p < 0.001), low-volume centers (hazard ratio (HR) 1.18, p < 0.001), no insurance (HR 2.29, p < 0.001) and low income (HR 1.24, p < 0.001) increased the likelihood of receiving NT. Conclusion: More patients are receiving ST and ST+CN; however, racial and socioeconomic factors may affect the treatment patterns for mRCC, and the underlying cause of these health disparities is unknown. Level of Evidence: 2c6


Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's conception of physics and of the nature of the physical world is explored here through a preliminary survey of a number of his early and late works. Al-Razi defines the three grades of meanings of the term "nature". His definition is similar to the general consensus in Ash arite kalam which rejects the Avicennan notion of tabi ah as an effective causal principle inherent in natural phenomenal processes. He also explores the notion of the existence of a multiverse in the context of his commentary on the Qur'anic verse, All praise belongs to God, Lord of the Worlds. He raises the interesting question of whether the term "worlds" in this verse refers to multiple worlds within this single universe or cosmos, or to many other universes or a multiverse beyond this known universe. Based on primary classical Islamic source texts, this survey provides an insight into the classical Islamic view of nature as expressed by one of its most important representatives. Keywords: Universe and multiverse; cosmic structure of the world; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi; al-mawjudat; al- ilm al-tabi i; tabi ah; alam; falsafah, hikmah; al-Razi's concept of nature; physics; nature; falak; harakah; sukun; jism; jawhar; arad. Introduction As D. E. Pingree and S. Nomanul Haq have shown in their learned article, "al-tabi a", the original Aristotelian term [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] in the literal sense of "nature" and in its functional Arabic equivalents of tabi ah, tiba and tab, has accumulated complex, diverse, even mutually incompatible meanings in its long journey through the labyrinthal history of Islamic scientific, philosophical, and theological thought. (1) With the rise and dominance of peripatetic natural philosophy as represented by Ibn Sina (d. 1037 CE) and the philosophico-theological reactions it provoked, it was the Avicennan definition of the term that most attracted the critical attention of the mutakallimun, including Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (2) (d. 1209 CE) in a number of his works. Here we shall first explore his conception of tabi ah in his late work Sharh Uyun al-hikmah (SUH) (3), his critical commentary on Ibn Sina's 'Uyun al-hikmah (UH), (4) and then go on to some of his other early, middle-period and late works. The Science of Physics (ilm al-tabi ah) Defined Following the UH, the SUH is divided into three parts: logic (mantiq), which includes a long discussion of the ten Aristotelian categories of being; physics (tabi iyyat), which covers the traditional ground from space, bodies, time, and motion to meteorology and psychology; and metaphysics (ilahiyyat), which includes discussion of matter and form, substance and accidents, and theology and eschatology. The physics part begins with a long introduction to philosophy (al-hikmah), its meaning and its division into the theoretical and the practical sciences. The latter (al-hikmah al- amaliyyah) includes the three basic sciences of politics (hikmah madaniyyah), household management (hikmah manziliyyah), and ethics (hikmah khuluqiyyah). The former (al-hikmah al-nazariyyah) includes the three basic sciences of physics (hikmah tabi'iyyah), mathematics (hikmah riyadiyyah), and metaphysics (falsafah ilahiyyah). (5) In commenting on this tripartite division of theorectical philosophy, al-Razi clarifies further the relation of physics (i.e., natural sciences or sciences of nature) to mathematics and metaphysics: If the quiddity of a thing (al-mahiyyah) is in need of matter (al-maddah) for [realising] its external (al-khariji) and mental (fi al-dhihn) existence, then it is [included in] the science of physics (al- ilm al-tabi i), which is the lowest science (al-'ilm al-asfal). If the quiddity [of a thing] is in need of matter for [realising] its external existence, but is independent of matter for its mental existence in the sense that the mind can grasp it without considering its materiality (maddatiha), then it is [included] in the science of mathematics (al- ilm al-riyadi), which is the intermediate science (al- ilm al-awsat). …


Now the reform of the Chinese higher education and development has already turned into a new important history stage,there are more and more challenges and pressures to manage and run a school.The science development conception which means human-oriented and keeping on an all-round,coordinated,sustainable development is also the concentrated embodyment of the worldview and methodology which guides the higher education development."Quality Engineering" of the Ministry of Education is a great action with respond to the scientific development conception.


The aim of this research was to know the the effect of the problem based learning model in Curriculum 2013 towards the students` learning outcomes in topic Uniform Linear Motion in Grade X SMAN 2 Kisaran. The research method was quasi experiment. The population were all of students in grade X MIA SMAN 2 Kisaran, that consist of 7 classes. The sample of this research was taken by purposive sampling technique, class X MIA-4 was experimental class used problem based learning model that consist of 36 students, and class X MIA-5 as control class used conventional learning, consist 33 students. Instruments that used in this research were non-test(questioner) and instrument test. The data was got from the test was analyzed by statistical analysis t-test. Based on research result by using Problem based-learning model that focus on planning, learning process and evaluation designing shown that there was significant increasing on experimental class. So, can be conclude that the student`s learning outcomes using problem based learning model greater than conventional learning on Uniform Linear Motion topic in grade X SMA N 2 Kisaran.


The aqueduct structures of S-N Water Diversion Project of Taocha to Lushan section are characterized by large construction volume and high safety reliability demand,and the structure form and span of aqueducts have been studied for a long time.We briefly introduce the study contents including influence of aqueducts' span to flood control and engineering investment,stress analysis results of different span schemes,and the comparative results of construction and engineering investments of two span schemes.After comprehensive analysis of different calculative cases,we suggest that aqueduct type as rectangular,simple-supported beam type should be adopted,and the most optimized aqueduct span is 40 m.


Blood‐brain barrier disruption during the earliest phases of lesion formation in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients is commonly ascribed to perivenular inflammatory activity and is usually accompanied by increased diffusivity. Reduced diffusivity has also been shown in active lesions, albeit less frequently. This study aimed to characterize the development and natural history of contrast‐enhanced lesions by weekly following five relapsing remitting (RR) MS patients.


The authors proved that there is no histidine in the urine of pregnant animals, and the Zondek-Aschheim's reaction is also negative.


Concerning the high time complexity of inference and parameter estimation in graph model,the concept of superpixel was introduced into the Conditional Random Field(CRF),and a superpixel-based CRF image classification method was proposed.This method first over segmented the image into small homogeneous regions which were called superpixels by using mean shift method.Then the graphical model was constructed with superpixels as nodes and the neighboring nodes as edges.The corresponding definition of CRF and the methods for parameter estimation and labeling inference were proposed and implemented.The experimental results show that better classification results are obtained by the superpixel-based CRF model.At the same time,running time is largely reduced.


It is shown that the atomic operators characteristic of the split components in the resonance fluorescence produced by a two-level atom obtained earlier (J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 47 (1979) 903) are essentially the transition operators for the composite atom-applied-field system. The exact relationship between these two sets of operators is determined.


Arc-anode attachment in a DC plasma arc stabilized by water vortex and argon, influences power distribution in the plasma, lifetime of the anode and also flow structure of the plasma jet. A movement of the attachment and the surrounding plasma has been directly observed by using a high-speed camera (max. 1,080,000 fps). The observations were compared with cathode–anode voltage measurements (sample rate 80 MHz). More than one attachment was observed in one frame with exposure time 0.25 μs or 0.29 μs. We have directly measured average velocities of the attachments and hydrodynamic waves above them, as well as the characteristic dwell times and dwell frequencies of the attachments.


This paper presents a reduction method of the start-up time after the switch-on of the D.C. power supply of a crystal oscillator circuit. It is shown that a fast start-up crystal oscillator can easily be obtained by changing only the circuit connection of the crystal resonator. The new scheme can be applied to the usual Colpitts crystal oscillator circuits, to the cascode crystal oscillator circuits, and also to the overtone crystal oscillator circuits.


The article, on the example of pipeline insulation systems, outlines the fundamentals of the concept of environmentally sustainable construction, including requirements for materials, constructional systems in which these materials are used, engineering systems and work technologies. Insulation based on polyethylene foam technology of its installation meets the requirements of EcoMaterial Basis or EcoMaterial Green. Polyethylene is absolutely safe for humans and its base is polyethylene, which used in the food industry (packaging or boxing) and in medicine (prosthetics). A specific feature of polyethylene foam, like most types of foamed (gas-filled) plastic materials, is combustibility, expressed depending on the consumption and effectiveness of flame retardants, to one degree or another. During operation in the temperature range from -60 to +90 °C, the properties of materials are stable and no harmful emissions occur. The installation of the insulating sheath fixed by an glue method and is not associated with processes that are dangerous for humans and harmful to the environment. The article presents the main provisions of methods for calculating insulation systems based on polyethylene by measure of energy efficiency, which is defining, including the environmental assessment of insulation systems. The optimum thickness of polyethylene foam has been determined, as well as the recommended insulation thicknesses to ensure a given (safe for humans) temperature; to prevent moisture condensation on the surface of the insulating layer. An calculated time has been established during which thermal insulation prevents cold water from freezing when at an emergency stop of its movement in pipelines in the winter.


The basis principle of conservation about deterioration and corrosion of cultural assets building is the archetype maintenance, and should not make a factitious damage mistake by repair. Accordingly, conservation processing method using synthetic resins is embossed. The purpose of this paper is about flexural capacity of rectangular section wood using synthetic resins, the 11 specimens are manufactured and made an experiment about reinforcement length, ratio, material strength, direction of synthetic resins as variable. The results of this paper has shown that flexural reinforcement of wood by synthetic resins are efficient and found the possibility of using.


Abstract : The treatment of input/output (IO) is critically important in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for scalable high-performance computing (HPC) and overall data longevity. The Battlefield Environment Division Modeling Framework (BMF) v0.90 was developed for the purpose of reducing source code complexity and development time by reducing repetitive, error prone or tedious operations in source code through the use of object-oriented program (OOP) design. Here we extend BMF to include IO functionality for serial and distributed compute configurations. The Atmospheric Boundary Layer Environment (ABLE) model has been built using BMF, and ABLE now uses the IO enhancements to BMF to enable serial and parallel output, and an output buffering mechanism using dedicated output processes. Using the parallel, buffered output features, ABLE performed lid-driven cavity flow simulations and shear instability simulations saving approximately 1 GB of model state and analysis data every output time step. There was no appreciable delay when comparing these output time steps to time steps with no output.


Teaching assessment is an important part of foreign language education,and teacher assessment literacy can affect the diagnostic function and students' achievement. This paper reviewed the issues of teacher assessment literacy in foreign language teaching,analyzed the reasons which caused those problems,and provided some suggestions on how to advance teacher assessment literacy.


The following work presents an educational game created with the Scratch programming language, which includes part of the teaching material on the subject Man and Nature for the 4th grade. The aim is to help the activity of the primary teacher by providing additional learning resources, which it could use when it necessary. An alternative way of organizing the educational process in the form of a game is presented – more interesting, more attractive and more dynamic (if we compare it with traditional methods). The game is titled "The Treasure of Anubis" and the story revolves around a hero who is searching for a long buried treasure. Arriving at the pyramids, the hero understands that in order to get inside and find the treasure, he must answer several questions. There are five questions and they include specific material, but if the teacher decides to change the questions from another educational material, the structure of the game allows it. Only the questions and their answers need to be changed, which does not require digital competence related to the Scratch programming language. The game could be used as a template and modified a lot of times by including material from other subjects.


BACKGROUND
We compared our initial experience in terms of visual outcomes, operation time and complications from two different intrascleral intraocular lens (IOL) fixation techniques: T-fixation; and flanged IOL fixation.

METHODS
Patients who underwent scleral fixation of an IOL between October 2017 and December 2018 were examined retrospectively. Intraoperative time for fixation steps, corneal endothelial cell density (ECD) reduction rate and intraoperative/postoperative complications were compared between T-fixation (Group T, n = 4) and flanged IOL fixation (Group F, n = 6).

RESULTS
Patients ranged in age from 73.7 ± 13.0 years. Intraoperative time was significantly longer for Group T (27.5 ± 9.7 min) than for Group F (13.0 ± 3.8 min; P=0.03, Mann-Whitney U-test). Intraoperative complications included iris damage from the 30-G needle in 2 eyes in Group F. Postoperative complications included iris capture by the IOL in 1 eye in Group F. No incidents of postoperative retinal detachment or IOL dislocation were identified. The ECD reduction rate showed no significant difference between the two groups.

CONCLUSIONS
Both techniques showed favorable surgical outcomes. Flanged IOL fixation might be superior because of the shorter intraoperative time, but might initially be technically difficult because of the need to perform angled sclerotomy with a 30-G needle to avoid iris injury.


We show that accretion disks with relativisticly hot electrons which are coupled to cold ions is subject to inertial-type instability in which kinematic drag between electrons and ions produces radial acceleration of electrons.


The numerical analysis using finite difference method to study static and dynamic performance of embankment dams is a complex process, in which the materials behavior, soil-dam foundation interaction, hydraulic conditions and saturation effects, should be taken into account. In this study, static and dynamic analysis of Keddara earth dam, located in Boumerdes region (Algeria), is conducted by a numerical analysis using finite difference method (FLAC 3D), with the objective to define its behavior in terms of settlement, strain and pore pressure variation, during its construction and operation. Two stages are considered; the dam construction stage and water filling stage. In this way, two mathematical models are considered for the static analysis; the elastic model and Mohr-Coulomb model. To conduct a coupled dynamic analysis a real earthquake record is used and the interaction between the fluid and solid phases is taken into account.


We present a hypothetical quantum scattering model to propose a novel electroluminescence device. Adoping with features of solid state semiconductor LED and exciplex laser, the cathode (electrol incoming potential) and anode(electron outgoing potential) are made to correspond to two 1-dimensional resonance supporting potentials, and the light emitting part to an interaction potential in the intermediate region. When an external voltage is applied, the electron flows into the cathode having small work function. Subsequently in flows via LUMO of the " electron incoming potential" loses kinetic energy emitting a photon, then continues to flow via LUMO of the "electron outgoing potential" unlike the conventional LUMO to HOMO transitions occurring in solid state semiconductor LED. In this model, the photon frequency can be controlled by adijusting the applied voltage. The model hopefully could be realized as partially conjugated hydrocarbon chains.


Design of a small scale wave energy converter (WEC) based on linear hydraulic system is considered in this paper. The prototype consists of low speed rotary permanent magnet generator, hydraulic motor, accumulator, valves and pistons. It is incorporated with sensors, data acquisition and monitoring devices, and various mechanical components to create a WEC system and conduct the experiment (dry test). The test is conducted to show the performance and efficiency of the designed system. Additionally, another experiment is performed to check the conversion efficiency of the machine.


The main objective of the study is to assess the cost to replace the traditional illumination by LED and analyze the impact on reduction CO2 emissions and the fuel consumption.


It is a simple and easy way to create a double eyelid while removing the drooping part of the eyelid skin and making it look younger [1]. In the original article, the author used a 6-0 black nylon to penetrate the OOM muscle vertically into the conjunctiva and penetrate into the OOM muscle to knot the knot. In the same way, 8 points were performed at 4 mm intervals in the medial pupil. The authors have fixed the knot at the 8 point with the idea that the knot at the 8 point is held 6-7 knots even if one knot is released, maintaining the shape of the double eyelid. However, this method has a disadvantage of making the double eyelid deep because it has many fixing points. Thus, the depth of the double eyelids could be controlled by adjusting the strength of the knot. In addition, 5 point knots were made in patients who prefer shallow double skin depth. And 5 points at 6 mm intervals in the medial pupil region (Figure 1). Thus, the shape of the shallow eyelid could be made sufficient in two ways [2].


In this paper we present a novel approach to automatically re-structuring HTML documents by extracting semantic structures from their header and body, The body of a web page is generally software generated via template and it's layout has a physical schema. Our approach is to extract trees that are based on hierarchical relations in HTML documents, for this task we used two algorithms, first is Header extraction Algorithm which extracts header trees from head of HTML document and second is an algorithm for automatically partitioning HTML documents into tree like semantic structures from body part of web pages. Then we use an application called layout changer which changes a layout of one web page to another by aligning extracted header trees and partition trees.


A simple and accurate method for the determination of the ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\sigma}}}^{\mathrm{*}}$ optical cross section governing the EL2\ensuremath{\rightarrow}EL${2}^{\mathrm{*}}$ transformation kinetics in GaAs is proposed. Previously reported ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\sigma}}}^{\mathrm{*}}$ values are critically examined and corrected properly. The obtained absolute values of ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\sigma}}}^{\mathrm{*}}$ in the 0.9\char21{}1.35-eV photon energy range all falling onto the same universal curve are presented. The ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\sigma}}}^{\mathrm{*}}$(${\mathit{E}}_{\mathrm{ph}}$) curve exhibits a maximum amounting to \ensuremath{\sim}4\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}${10}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}17}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$ at 1.18 eV, and it drops below ${10}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}20}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$ for photon energies less than 0.95 eV.


What are the characteristics and what implications do the different frameworks of the migration-development nexus have in relation to the problem of migration-related conditionality? What framework of the migration-development nexus does the 2030 Agenda offer?
With this contribution we intend to reflect on the problem of migration-related conditionality. To do this, we analyze the political frameworks that support the different approaches to the so-called migration-development nexus. Our objective is to place this reflection in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to find out what vision of the migration-development nexus it formulates and, therefore, about the problem of migration-related conditionality.
The aid conditionality aid has been present since the origins of development policy. There are several types of conditionality, among which economic and political must be highlighted. As of September 11, the securitization of aid development was reinforced. Subsequently, the phenomenon of international migration became involved in that process. In this way the so-called migration-related conditionality arises. Firstly, we briefly expose the historical evolution of conditionality. Secondly, we explain the two theoretical-conceptual approaches to the migration-development nexus, which offer conflicting views: one approach states that migration positively impacts on development, while the other understands that the impact is negative. Finally, we offer a better understanding of the framing of migration and the conceptualization of the migration-development nexus carried out by 2030 Agenda. In this wat we can conclude whether this initiative seek to reduce or increase the migration-related conditionality.


An approach for mapping applications represented as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) on platforms consisting of heterogeneous cores considering the communication overhead between the cores is introduced. The approach is based on the Benders decomposition principle and integrates Integer Linear and Constraint Programming formulations. Both formulations take into account the communication delay between dependent tasks that are assigned to different cores trying to optimize the application's execution time. The proposed approach succeeds to provide the optimal solution in all cases of synthetic and real-application DAGs, while the pure ILP model fails more than half of them. Also, the average solution time of the proposed method is about 1 minute, whereas for instances solved by both models, the speedup equals to 11× over the ILP model.


• The Inner Detector is the main tracking system of ATLAS. It comprises 3 subsystems embedded in a 2T axial field • Pixel & IBL (4 measurements/track) • SCT (8 measurements/track) • TRT (~30 measurements/track) • Each subsystem is composed of a barrel & 2 end-caps • Sensor dimension and resolution (100M readout channels) The ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) tracking system • The goal of the detector alignment is to provide an accurate description of its geometry, to allow for: • Precise determination of track parameters • Bias free • Algorithm is based on track-hit residual minimization:


In this paper equations for the transmission parameters of a periodically loaded line are derived in closed form with no restriction on the size, type or number of discontinuities. The equations also take into consideration any attenuation that may exist on the line. Several plots of the input reflection coefficient are presented and compared with experimental results. The agreement is very good.


Due to their large dynamical mass-to-light ratios, dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are promising targets for the indirect detection of dark matter (DM) in γ-rays. We examine their detectability by present and future γ-ray observatories. The key innovative features of our analysis are: (i) We take into account the angular size of the dSphs; while nearby objects have higher γ ray flux, their larger angular extent can make them less attra ctive targets for background-dominated instruments. (ii) We derive DM profil es and the astrophysical J -factor (which parameterises the expected γ-ray flux, independently of the choice of DM particle model) for the classical dSphs directly from photometric and kinematic data. We assume very little about the DM profile, modelling this as a smooth split- power law distribution, with and without sub-clumps. (iii) We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique to marginalise over unknown parameters and determine the sensitivity of our derived J -factors to both model and measurement uncertainties. (iv) We use simulated DM profiles to demonstrate that our J -factor determinations recover the correct solution withi n our quoted uncertainties. Our key findings are: (i) Sub-clumps in the dSphs do not usefully boost the signal; (ii) The sensitivity of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to dSphs within � 20 kpc with cored halos can be up to �50 times worse than when estimated assuming them to be point-like. Even for the satellite-borne Fermi-LAT the sensitivity is significa ntly degraded on the relevant angular scales for long exposures, hence it is vital to consider the a ngular extent of the dSphs when selecting targets; (iii) No DM profile has been ruled out by current data, but using a prior on the inner dark matter cusp slope 0 6 γprior 6 1 provides J -factor estimates accurate to a factor of a few if an appropriate angular scale is chosen; (iv ) The J -factor is best constrained at a critical integration angle αc = 2rhalf/d (where rhalf is the half light radius and d is the distance to the dwarf) and we estimate the corresponding sensitivity of γ-ray observatories; (v) The 'classical' dSphs can be grouped into three categori es: well-constrained and promising (Ursa Minor, Sculptor, and Draco), well-constrained but less promising (Carina, Fornax, and Leo I), and poorly constrained (Sextans and Leo II); (vi) Observations of classical dSphs with Fermi-LAT integrated over the mission lifetime are more promising than observations with the planned Cherenkov Telescope Array for DM particle mass . 700 GeV. However, even Fermi-LAT will not have sufficient integrated signal from the classical dwarfs to detect DM in the 'vanilla' Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Bo th the Galactic centre and the 'ultra-faint' dwarfs are likely to be better targets and wil l be considered in future work.


As of now, the state of Tamil Nadu has been on the verge of making a comprehensive survey on Load demand. This survey includes fields like commercial, agriculture, domestic and industries. This survey will pave a way for designing an action plan based on Demand Side Management (DSM), so that the energy utilization can be formulated. In this regard, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation TANGEDCO will propose a set of schemes for these fields of power consumption. However, the schemes will get into action, based on the monetary allocation by the Government. The main objective focused in this paper lays stress on DSM scheme through peak shifting method.


The present paper gives a theoretical solution for an infinite plate containing a pair of circular holes, which are filled with elastic inclusions of another material, and subjected to uniform tension in the direction of the x- and y-axes. The analysis is developed on the basis of the Airy's stress function in the generalized plane stress and by applying the bipolar coordinates. A method of perturbation is adopted for the determination of unknown coefficients in the solution. The maximum stresses on the common boundaries are calculated and compared with the results available.


A water temperature control system for applications of magnetostrictive material is introduced,based on the logic rule control algorithm.The duty ratio of PWM pulses is adjusted according to a series of rules based on error and the error change rate.The actual testing shows that the overshoot of temperature control system is smaller,and the control precision reaches to 0.1℃.


The diagnosis of acromegaly requires a glucose-suppressed growth hormone (GH) nadir greater than 1 microg/l associated with clinical symptoms and signs. Here, we present a patient who has acromegalic clinical findings associated with a nadir GH level < 1 microg/l during an oral glucose tolerance test.


A new method for identification of normal modes of oscillation of the earth yielded unambiguous determinations of many overtones never before identified. This method consists of the superposition of spectra observed at many stations over the earth, after a correction for the phase determined from the known earthquake source mechanism.


In today's rapidly changing world, the content of education, expected results and learning tech- nologies are being constantly improved. In accordance with this process, there is a need of teachers for change. The Article examines the essence of a learning organization as a factor for preparation of teachers of changes. The update content and the new results requires teachers to be ready to implement new ap- proaches in pedagogical activity. Teachers need to constantly learn, improve teamwork, learn from each other, develop critical thinking skills, over-subject skills. The creation of a self-learning organization in the structure of the teachers of the place of work require certain organizational measures in management activities. The methodological foundations of research are systemic, activity and research approaches, methods of analysis of scientific and theoretical literature, methods of experiments, generalization and comparison of experimental results were used, experience was used, so the recommendations for the development of teachers' readiness for changing. The theoretical foundations, approaches and principles of a self-learning organization have been determined, a model for preparing the teachers for changes, content, structure and teaching methods have been developed, criteria and indicators of teachers' readi- ness to change have been determined. Of practical importance is the development of a methodology for preparing teachers for changes through self-learning organizations.
In conclusion, the effectiveness of self-learning organizations in preparing the teachers for changes is noted.
Key words: learning organization, changes, updated educational content, teacher communities.


Seromonitoring for antibodies against especially dangerous viral infections in small ruminants in the Republic of Tajikistan was conducted. Antibodies to sheep pox and PPR viruses were detected in blood sera of small ruminants.

 Key words: Virus, antigen, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, sheep pox, peste des petits ruminants.


This paper examines one aspect of turn-taking organization in institutional interactions: the use of first names and their prosodic marking for next-speaker selection. Institutional interaction is characterized by asymmetrical rights to talk and pre-allocation of action. This involves the restriction of one party to asking questions and the other to responding to them. The analysis focuses on two of these multiparty formal situations: co-present classroom participants and live interactive television broadcast with remote participants. In each context, turn allocation is determined by one party: the teacher or TV host. After asking a question as a sequence-initiating action, the teacher or host designates the next speaker by name. The use of first names is situatedly examined in terms of turn-taking organization and prosodic characteristics. The study examines how the prosodic marking is context-sensitive: do the participants have visual access to each other's actions and how is a name used to attract attention? This paper analyses the formation and maintaining of a mutual orientation towards a single conversational action: selecting and giving the floor to a co-participant of the conversation in an institutional framework. These detailed descriptions of the sequential order are based on ethnomethodologically-informed conversation analysis. The objective is to compare four "single cases", preserving the specificities and "whatness" of each excerpt.


Objective: To investigate the the therapeutic effect and possible mechanism of self-made Yishen Qingjiang decoction for treatment of chronic renal failure(CRF).Methods: 36 patients with CRF was treated by Yishen Qingjiang decoction, meanwhile Uremic Clearance Granule was used to another 36 patients. Observing the change of renal function before and after treatment, the changes in clinical symptoms, signs, 30 days are 1 treatment course, once a 3 treatment and compared the clinical curative effect of both groups. Results: The curative effect in treatment group was significantly better than the control group. Conclusion: Self-made Yishen Qingjiang decoction can obviously improve the renal Function and delay the progress of chronic renal failure.


Three Co(II) complexes with the formulas: {[Co2(Bib)3Cl2]Cl(CH3COO)}.CH3OH.H2O (1), [Co2(Bib)3Cl2]Cl2.(CH3OH)2.H2O, (2) and [Co3K1(Tib)2(CH3COO)6]PF6 (3), were obtained by self-assembly of a cobalt(II) salt with Bib and Tib (Bib = 1,3-bis(4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)benzene; Tib = 1,3,5-tris(4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-2-yl)benzene) and were structurally and magnetically characterized. X-Ray single-crystal diffraction showed that each Co(II) ion was in a highly distorted tetrahedral coordination geometry with a cis-trans ratio of 1 : 2 from the Bib ligand, which functioned in a bidentate fashion in the binuclear triple-helical [Co2(Bib)3Cl2]2+ cations in 1 and 2. In the [Co3K1(Tib)2(CH3COO)6]- anions in 3, each Co(II) ion was also in a highly distorted tetrahedral coordination geometry and the Tib ligands acted in an offset fashion in C, C, C and A, A, A coordination to the Co(II) ions with pi-pi stacking interactions between two benzene rings from the Tib ligand in the cluster cation. Each Tib ligand in a cluster unit acted as a tridentate entity to coordinate three Co(II) ions resulting in a cylinder-like cluster structure. The intermolecular hydrogen bonds in the solid-state resulted in the well-shaped 2D layer network which formed a honeycomb in 1, the 3D supramolecular architecture which was connected to the 2D sheet into 3D in 2 and the 3D supramolecular architecture, which was extended into a well-shaped 2D honeycomb layer network in 3. The results from magnetic data, in the high-temperature region, showed that 1 and 2 obeyed the Curie-Weiss law with a Weiss constants theta = -12.3, and -9.8 K and a Curie constants C = 5.31 and 5.32 cm3 K mo1(-1), respectively, indicating antiferromagnetic interactions between adjacent cobalt(II) ions. Both complex 1 and 2 showed magnetic ordering at low temperature due to the canting effect. The zero-field AC magnetic susceptibility measurements for 1 and 2 displayed a maximum which was frequency dependent owing to a slow relaxation process, which could be caused by either domain wall movements or spin-glass behaviours.


Abstract. Recently, it is reported that primary vehicular NO2/NOx ratio to be 10–30% and primary vehicular NO2 has raised much interest and concern in the control of NO2 in urban areas. In this study, primary vehicular NO2/NOx ratio in Hong Kong was investigated based on intensive long tunnel (3.7–4 km in length) experiments where concentration profiles of air pollutants along the entire lengths of the tunnels were obtained. Long tunnels were selected because of the inherent low O3 concentrations in the partially enclosed environment. In addition the concentrations of pollutants from vehicles are high. Thus, the NO2 measured inside long tunnels would be more representative of the primary NO2 emitted by vehicles and contribution due to atmospheric transformation would be limited. This dataset was supported by a long-term on-road air quality dataset (June 2002–August 2003). Both datasets were obtained using the Mobile Real-time Air Monitoring Platform (MAP). The primary on-road vehicular NO2/NOx ratio was less than 2%, detected in the mid sections of tunnels investigated, where O3 concentration was at a minimum. In sections of the tunnels (entrance and exit) where O3 concentrations were relatively high, the NO2/NOx ratio could be as high as 19%. Long-term (annual average) on-road air quality data in open air yielded NO2/NOx ratios up to 28%. Thus, it is apparent that directly emitted NO2 from vehicles is not significant in atmospheric NO2 concentration. A simple model was used to segregate the contribution of background NO2 and transformed NO2 measured in vehicle plumes.


The concentration effects of amino-acid fertilizer Legumier on 'Red Globe' grape photosynthetic characteristics and fruit quality were studied under delayed cultivation in greenhouse.The results showed that the suitable concentration of Legumier enhanced grape photosynthetic capacity of plants,increased single fruit size and weight and the grape spike weight,improved soluble solids content of fruit,reduced titration acid content,and improved grape quality.Legumier at 600 times had the most significant effects in all treatments,and which increased single grape size and weight,grape spike weight and soluble solids content by 12.09%,24.09%,23.99% and 7.08% respectively than control,however,titration acid content reduced 37.68%.Photosynthetic lunch break was mainly caused by stomatal limitation in fruit expands period and maturity period.But in fruit coloring period,it was due to both stomatal limitation and other factors.


Morphological analysis of the water lily (Nymphaea) was carried out to verify distribution of two closely related species Nymphaea alba and N. candida in the large swampy area in Eastern Poland, Polesie Zachodnie. A total of 25 lakes were investigated across the region. Data were collected from 20 lakes of different origin. Based on morphological characters of flowers and leaves the specimens varied continuously from "pure" N. candida to N. alba with high number of plants with mixed morphology, commonly known as N. × borealis. The intermediate morphotypes were common in all over the study area, whereas plants with exact morphology of N. candida were found mostly in humic lakes, in the eastern part of the region. The results provide evidences that N. candida occurs beyond formerly recognized southern border of its range in the country.


Mantegani, et al., "Synthesis and AntihyperSensitive Activity of 2,4Dioxoimidazolidin-1-yl and Perhydro-2,4-Dioxopyrimidin-1-yl Ergoline Derivatives", IL Farmaco, 53 (4): 293-304 (1998).* Albericio, et al., "Synthesis of a Sulfahydantoin Library". J. Comb. Chem. 2, 290-300 (May 2001).* Lee, et al., "Intraand Intermolecular O. Sulfamidoalkylation Reac tions". J. Org. Chem. 55(25): 6098-6104 (1990).* Bright, et al., Journal of Immunological Methods, "Competitive par ticle concentration fluorescence immunoassays for measuring anti diabetic drug levels in mouse plasma', vol. 207 (1), pp. 23-31. (1997).* Mantegani et al., "Synthesis And Antihypertensive Activity Of 2,4Dioxoimidazolidin-1-yl And Perhydro-2,4-Dioxopyrimidin-1-yl Ergoline Derivatives", IL Farmaco, 53 (4): 293-304 (1998). Bright et al., "Competitive Particle Concentration Fluorescence Immunoassays For Measuring Anti-Diabetic Drug Levels In Mouse Plasma'. Journal of Immunological Methods, 207 (1): 23-31 (1997). Albericio et al., "Synthesis of a Sulfahydantoin Library". J. Comb. Chem. 3, 290-300 (2001). Kuang et al., "A General Inhibitor Scaffold for Serine Proteases with a (Chymo)trypsin-Like Fold: Solution-Phase Construction and Evaluation of the First Series of Libraries of Mechanism-Based Inhibitors", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121 (35): 8128-8129 (1999). Groutas et al. Potent and Specific Inhibition of Human Leukocyte Elastase, Cathepsin G and Proteinase 3 by Sulfone Derivatives Employing the 1,2,5-Thiadiazolidin-3-one 1.1 Dioxide Scaffold, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 6 (6): 661-671 (1998). Groutas et al. "Structure-Based Design of a General Class of Mecha nism-Based Inhibitors of the Serine Proteinases Employing a Novel Amino Acid-Derived Heterocyclic Scaffold' Biochemistry, 36(16): 4739-4750 (1997). Dewynter et al. "Synthesis of Pseudonucleosides Containing Chiral Sulfahydantoins as Aglycone (II)", Tetrahedron, 52 (3): 993-1004 (1996). Muller et al., "A General Synthesis of 4-Substituted 1, 1-Dioxo 1,2,5-thiadiazolidin-3-ones Derived from alpha Amino Acids". J. Org. Chem. 54 (18): 4471-4473 (1989). Lee et al., "3-Oxo and 3-Imino-4-substituted-1,2,5-thiadiazolidine 1,1-Dioxides: Synthesis, Spectral Properties, and Selected Chemis try". J. Org. Chem, 54 (13): 3077-3083 (1989).


It only seems natural, considering the tortured experience she reports with language, that even in an age noted for the stylistic selfconsciousness of its writers, Maxine Hong Kingston should turn out to be one of the most self-reflexive, most language conscious writers. She is preoccupied on almost every page of her books with some little peculiarity of usage or pronunciation, with some little worry about verbal propriety, some discrepancy in tone or texture between different languages. Because it has been uprooted from where it belongs "by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection," Salman Rushdie argues, the "migrant intellect" always tends to "[root] itself in itself" rather than in some objective reality (Homelands 280), to regard the world more as a construct or artifact than as the objective point of reference postulated by critics Wendell Berry or Yvor Winters. Whether it is true of every displaced writer that his main interest is in "the making of a word-world in which his word-self may be at home" (Standing 7), it certainly seems to be the case with Kingston that the emphasis in her books falls primarily on "the process of filtration itself" (Homelands 24), on the cultural or linguistic codes by which experience is mediated in a particular culture. More than any other writer (except perhaps Rushdie himself), Kingston seems to reflect the self-referential literary techniques characteristic of what Linda Hutcheon refers to as "historiographic metafiction" (105-23). Specifically, it is cultural and linguistic differences that seem to pre


Using sup(113m)indium chloride and an Anger scintillation camera, flow rates were measured and recorded in defined distal parts of the hand. The method is a useful complement to previous diagnostic techniques and provides information regarding flow through end-arteries which cannot otherwise be obtained. Because of the low risk, even of intra-arterial injection of the tracer substance, isotope angiography can be used as a means of controlling operative and conservative treatment. (orig.)


SUMMARY
As part of a study of the flavor constituents of orange oil, 13 terpenes and 11 sesquiterpene hydrocarbons were isolated and identified. The terpene hydrocarbons were identified as α-thujene, α-pinene, camphene, 2,4-p-mentbadiene, sabinene, myrcene, Δ-3-carene, α-phellandrene, α-terpinene, limonene, Δ-3-terpinene, p-cymene, and terpinolene. The sesquiterpene hydrocarbons were identified as α-copaene, α-ylangene, β-copaene, β-elemene, caryophyllene, β-ylangene, farnesene, α- and β-humulene, valencene, and Δ-cadinene.


Variable magnification optical system, reduce the load of the lens driving device to reduce the lens weight movable lens groups, to achieve compactness. Therefore, in order from the object side, it has a first to third lens groups having an optical power of the negative-positive-positive, the second lens unit moves during zooming. The first lens group is composed of a negative lens and a positive lens, the lenses are made of plastic lenses. Then, the focal length of the first lens group f1, the focal length of the second lens group f2, a combined focal length of the entire optical system at the wide angle end fw, the β2t the imaging magnification of the second lens group 12 at the telephoto end when conditional expression 0.5 <| f1 / f2 | <1.4,0.5


[Objective] To select excellent pioneer species of better ecological and economical comprehensive benefits from the common rock hill plants in Karst area in northwestern Guangxi Province.[Method] Determine the contents of malondialdehyde and proline in leaves of 65 strains of plants by thiobarbituric acid method and sultosalicylic acid method,analyze the relevance of the contents of malondialdehyde and proline by mathematics statistics and analyze the 65 kinds of rock hill plants by clustering [Result] The contents of malondialdehyde and proline are 0.005 2-0.038 1 μmol/g.There are comparably significant differences in the contents of malondialdehyde in different plants;The determination of proline contents in plant's leaves are 4.347-374.956 μg/ml.There are also significant differences in proline of different leaves of rock hill plants.The contents of malondialdehyde and proline can be used as a reference point in selecting pioneer plants in Karst area.But when we select the pioneer plants,not only the biological characters of the species themselves should be taken into consideration,but also the differences of Karst area environment,ecological and biological benefits and the reasonable distribution of species.[Conclusion] Pistacia chinensis,Zenia insignis,Acacia confusa,Itoa orientalis and Sophora japonica can be used as the first choices of excellent pioneer plants in Karst area in northwestern area which comparably consists with the real situation of afforestation of rock hills and recovery of plants in Guangxi.


Previews researches on quality of life have highlighted the factors associating with quality of life for residents of urban neighborhoods. This research aims on providing a holistic overview on literatures regarding the importance of quality of life and its associated factors. To do so, 17 research articles relating to quality of life's research area are undertook and reviewed. Despite of inconstancy of the results, the significance of neighborhood's quality of life and factors associating to it is revealed. Most of the researches in diverse contexts undertaking statistical designs, validated and reliable quality of life, standardized and investigation on possible moderating of effects are absolutely considered and warranted.


Domiciliary care for the elderly sick J C Brocklehurst, FRCPED; G H Mooney, MA, and others ........................... 374 Methadone: evidence of accumulation S T Leslie, MPS, and others ..... ......... 375 Future of child health services J S Robertson, FFCM; J B Wilson, FRCPED .... 375 Rarity of non-accidental penetrating injury in child abuse J M Thomas, FRCS, and A E P Cameron, BM. 375 Surgery for Meniere's disease A W Morrison, FRCS, and J B Booth, FRCS; A G Kerr, FRCS, and G D L Smyth, FRCS; T J Wilmot, FRCS ........ .............. 376 Intranasal beclomethasone H M Brown, FRCPED; S S Chatterjee, FRCP, and others ............................ 376 Postcoital contraception H C McLaren, FRCOG .................... 377 "Locate" and "localise" P J E Wilson, FRCS ...................... 377 Hip fractures up to date E H J Smyth, FRCSED; J R Loudon, FRCSGLAS, and G McGarrity, FRCGLAS .............. 377 Chemotherapy for varicella-zoster infections P A M Walden, MRCP, and others ..... ..... 378 Low-dose progestogens and ectopic pregnancy R Corcoran, MRCOG, and M W Rizk, MB; P Liukko, MD, and R Erkkola, MD ..... ..... 378 SI: two years on A L Latner, FRCP ...................... 379 Leprosy in Northern Nigeria H Scarborough, FRCP ........ ............ 379 Hepatitis B in general practice Constance A C Ross, FRCPATH ..... ....... 379 Blood: breath partition coefficient of alcohol D N Slater, MB; J P Payne, FFARCS ........ 379 Smallpox vaccination for students? G D Smith, MB ........................ 380 Haematemesis and melaena P F Jones, FRCSED ...................... 380 Renal arterial disease and accelerated hypertension E Montuschi, FRCP ......... ............. 380 Need for improvement in dermatology services R Howell, FRCP ........... ............. 380 Neonatal respiratory intensive care at local level J A Davis, FRCP, and M L Chiswick, MD .... 380 Intensive investigation in management of Hodgkin's disease B W Hancock, MRCP, and others.......... 381 Dangers of corticosteroids in phaeochromocytoma J A J H Critchley, FBSC, and others. 381 Student health M S Bourne,MB .381 Erythromycin-resistant Clostridium welchii J G Wallace, MRCPATH .381 Safety of children in cars C J Tierney .382 Dysphagia W D Park, FRCS .382 Effect of intralipid on colour of blood HGR Balmer,MD .382 The reprint game E Elkan,MD .382 Training role of the non-teaching hospital J V Parkin, FRCSED .383 Points from letters Recruitment in geriatrics (W Fine); Kidneys from cadavers (W F Jackson); Self-poisoning with drugs (M A Harper) ;Words (D L Gullick); Iodine content of bread (N Fisher); An IUCD record? (A M Smith); Is golf enough ? (S B Ballantine; I SM Smart) 383


Summary The tumor necrosis factor (TNF) c~ gene lies within the class III region of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), telomeric to the class II and centromeric to the class I region. We have recently described the first polymorphism within the human TNF-ct locus. This is biallelic and lies within the promoter region. Frequency analysis of the TNF-o~ polymorphism, using the polymerase chain reaction and single-stranded conformational polymorphism, in HLAtyped individuals, reveals a very strong association between the uncommon TNF allele and HLA A1, B8, and DR3 alleles. This is the first association between TNF-ct and other MHC alleles and raises the possibility that the uncommon TNF-ct allele may contribute to the many autoimmune associations of the A1,B8,DR3 haplotype.


y y Increasing number of Web Databases are available on the Web. The query for such databases is not just a keyword but a complex query and that search results are not a listing of general Web pages but a listing of records generated dynamically from the database behind the Web interface. This paper is a survey of 2,880 Web databases listed in Dnavi (Japanese National Diet Library). The first part analyses the form components TextInputFields, SelectMenu, RadioButtons and CheckBoxes for 880 "book search" DBs in Dnavi. The second part reports a strong connection between the input form and output data by analyzing the attribute names for 100 Web DBs chosen randomly from 1,541 DBs which accepts complex query.


Aim:  We performed experiments to isolate DNA topoisomerase II gene from Pleurotus ostereatus and to discuss its application as a feasible and credible molecular maker in phylogenitic analysis.


Synchrotron‐radiation photoemission experiments directly demonstrate that the creation of an inversion layer is a common feature of the PbTe‐Al, PbTe‐In, and PbTe‐Ge interface formation processes. This phenomenon is interpreted in terms of the experimentally observed adatom‐Pb exchange reactions.


The core discussion set out in this study is the lack of
attention/management towards the CSR. The company considers CSR as a
problem which will impact the value of the company itself. This study aims to
know: the effect of CSR on the value of the company, the effect of CSR parameter
environment on the value of the company, the effect of CSR parameter community
on the value of the company, the effect of CSR parameter employment on the
value of the company, the effect of CSR on the value of company with the
institutional ownership as a variable moderation, the effect of CSR on the value of
company with a management ownership as a variable moderating, and the effect
of CSR on the value of the company with size the company as a variable
moderating.
The method of the study used is causal associative method. The population
within the study involves 42 winning companies at ISRA, whereas the sample of
the study is 31 companies which have the complete data to be analyzed. The
technique of the analysis is the simple linear regression, moderated regression
analysis and multiple regression.
The result of this research shows that: CSR has a positive effect and is not
significant towards the value of the company. The CSR parameter environment
has a positive effect and is not significant towards the value of the company. The
CSR parameter community has a positive effect and is not significant towards the
value of the company. The CSR parameter employment has a positive effect and is
not significant towards the value of the company. The institutional ownership, the
management ownership and the company measurement as the variable
moderation are not able to moderate the effect of CSR on the value of the
company.
Keywords: CSR, value of company, environment, community, environment,


As Cloud services become more commonplace, recent works have uncovered vulnerabilities unique to such systems. Specifically, the paradigm promotes a risk of information leakage across virtual machine isolation via side-channels. Unlike conventional computing, the infrastructure supporting a Cloud environment allows mutually distrusting clients simultaneous access to the underlying hardware, a seldom met requirement for a side-channel attack. This thesis investigates the current state of side-channel vulnerabilities involving the CPU cache, and identifies the shortcomings of traditional defences in a Cloud environment. It explores why solutions to nonCloud cache-based side-channels cease to work in Cloud environments, and describes new mitigation techniques applicable for Cloud security. Specifically, it separates canonical cache-based side-channel attacks into two categories, Sequential and Parallel attacks, based on their implementation and devises a unique mitigation technique for each. Applying these solutions to a canonical Cloud environment, this thesis demonstrates the validity of these Cloud-specific, cache-based side-channel mitigation techniques. Furthermore, it shows that they can be implemented, together, as a server-side approach to improve security without inconveniencing the client. Finally, it conducts a comparison of our solutions to the current state-of-the-art.


We demonstrate a single-photon source based on a quantum dot in a micropost microcavity that exhibits a large Purcell factor together with a small multiphoton probability. For a quantum dot on resonance with the cavity, the spontaneous emission rate is increased by a factor of 5, while the probability to emit two or more photons in the same pulse is reduced to 2% compared to a Poisson-distributed source of the same intensity. In addition to the small multiphoton probability, such a strong Purcell effect is important in a single-photon source for improving the photon outcoupling efficiency and the single-photon generation rate, and for bringing the emitted photon pulses closer to the Fourier transform limit.


The filled tetrahedral semiconductor LiMgP(space group: F4̄3m) can be viewed as a hypothetical zinc-blende (MgP)- lattice partially filled with He-like Li+ interstitials, which has been found to be a direct wide-gap material with 2.43 eV at room temperature (2.535 eV at 15 K) using optical absorption and photoluminescence methods. In the present study the band gap of LiMgP was confirmed to be 2.41 eV by a photoacoustic spectroscopy. This value is close to the optical band gap.


The authors refer to the little-studied aspect in the work of Goncharov study comical aspect in a small prose. It is the aesthetic dominant of the artistic world of the writer. The object of the study was the early work by Goncharov "Happy mistake". The purpose of the article is to identify some of the artistic techniques that contribute to the creation of comic situations in the story. The ways to create the comical aspect are various, but one way or another, they help to create events that deviate from the standard rules. The article discusses the following methods of the comical: the effect of misunderstandings; deformation; exaggeration; surprise; inconsistency; violation of the rules of logic. Furthermore, the comical is created using different artistic means at both forms, and the content level. The important observation from the author of the article is that comical beginning of the "Happy mistake" interacts with the serious one. The authors conclude that the comic is not only the shaping factor, but also an important indicator of an aesthetically perfect prose. Specificity of the comical by Goncharov is that it is often difficult to distinguish between different types: humor, irony, satire. Due to comical the story becomes easy, laughter brings order in the artistic picture of the world and creates a unique author's narrative style.


A method is proposed to assess the dynamics of firm demography in the space by using micro-geographic data. The spatial distribution of economic activity is represented by a marked spatial point pattern of firms and their sizes (as measured in terms of number of employees). In such a framework, marked spatial point patterns can be considered as the result of a dynamic economic process that takes place over time and space. Following Rathbun and Cressie (1994) and Arbia (2001), t hese patterns can then be modelled as realizations of marked space-time survival point processes, where firms are born at some random location and point in time and then operate, grow, and attract or repulse the localization of other entrant firms. To illustrate the method, an attempt to model the spatial birth process of entrant small retail food stores in the city of Trento, Italy, during the period 2005-2007 is pursued.


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Wildlife conservancies across the globe are increasingly recognizing their need to support their surrounding communities to sustainably operate. Rapidly shifting environmental and sociopolitical climates increasingly stress existing resource and service provisions, forcing wildlife conservancies to co-manage with local communities shared resources like water, wildlife, soil, pollinators, and security. This work presents a case study in Laikipia, Kenya on Ol Pejeta Conservancy's use of text-based technologies to provide services and build relationships with the many widely-dispersed communities on its borders. Through technology deployments, staff interviews, and community focus groups, we investigate a potential role for basic mobile phone services, like SMS and USSD, to help conservancy personnel disseminate accurate and timely information, gather community feedback, address grievances, and improve accountability. Our findings show that communication with locals requires intense and ongoing effort from conservancy staff. Partially successful deployments of phone services provide a proof-of-concept for their utility in community relations but highlight particular design challenges for wildlife conservancies; having critical needs for broad inclusive engagement; clear, deliberate communication; and careful trust-building.


Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder, and diabetic complications lead to morbidity and death in diabetic patients. Hyperglycemia has been shown to be the most important risk factor in charge for the systemic complications. Various biochemical pathways have been proposed to explain the adverse effects of hyperglycemia. Potential cellular mechanisms of hyperglycemia-induced complications are the activation of diacylglycerol-protein kinase C, increased polyol pathway, enhanced reactive oxygen species production, nonenzymatic glycation and advanced glycation end products pathway (1-4).


The universal advice from dental care professionals is to brush twice daily with a fluoride dentifrice. It would be ideal to incorporate an effective antimicrobial agent such as chlorhexidine (CHX) in a dentifrice formulation. CHX dentifrice can be successfully formulated and will inhibit plaque growth to some degree but not to the same extent as a CHX mouthwash. A low-dosage 0.12% CHX dentifrice gel, which is available in Europe, was the subject of two clinical research projects. The dentifrice gel appeared to be as effective as a regular dentifrice in the prevention of plaque accumulation. However, it was considered as a poor alternative for a dentifrice because it is does not contain fluoride. Systematic evaluation of the available literature shows that when daily oral hygiene cannot be performed, CHX mouthwash is the first product of choice. When comparing 0.2% with 0.12% CHZ, a small but significant difference in plaque scores was observed in favor of the higher concentration. A CHX mouthwash can be used in conjunction with a regular fluoride toothpaste. Combining CHX mouthwash with an oxygenating agent mouthwash reduces teh well-known side effect of tooth discoloration.


The invention discloses a super strength silicate cement adhesive and a preparation method thereof. The adhesive is mainly prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 30 to 40 percent of cement, 25 to 43 percent of quartz sand, 9 to 24 percent of micro aggregates, 0.9 to 2 percent of water reducing agent and 11 to 14 percent of water. The preparation method comprises the following steps of firstly, uniformly mixing the cement, the micro aggregates, the water reducing agent and the quartz sand, then continuously stirring for 4 minutes and immediately forming after taking out the mixture; after the obtained product is formed, placing the obtained product into a curing box at the temperature of 35 DEG C to carry out steaming-curing under the humidity of not lower than 95 percent, demoulding after 4 to 12 hours, and placing a demoulding specimen into hot water at the temperature of 45 to 80 DEG C to carry out curing for 48 to 96 hours; and finally, testing the qualification of the product to obtain the cement adhesive. The cement adhesive disclosed by the invention has the excellent performances of excellent compaction, high strength, excellent durability and the like, is suitable for electrotechnical porcelain products such as a high-tonnage suspension type porcelain insulator and the like and has low cost.


Optically active 1-α-methylbenzyl-3-p-tolylurea (MBTU) shows diverse plant physiological properties. Gramineae plants exhibit enantioselective root growth inhibition by R/S-MBTU. In the present paper, the dose–growth response (DGR) towards the optically active MBTUs was examined in the tribe Triticeae plants, including Hordeum vulgare L., Secale cereale L., Triticum aestivum L. and Aegilops cylindrica Host., and compared with those of the genus Bromus (B. inermis Leyss), which is classified into the tribe Bromeae, and the genus Oryza. In spite of their phylogenetic difference, the Triticeae plants responded homogeneously in their chiral recognition. Of particular interest, is the result of the dichotomic enantioselective response of tested Gramineae plants. Only the genus Oryza responds to R-MBTU, and the tribes Triticeae (Triticum, Aegilops, Secale and Hordeum) and Bromeae (Bromus) preferentially respond to the S-enantiomer. The tetrazolium–phenazine methosulfate–formazan (TPF) assay was demonstrated to measure redox activity of root tips of the MBTU-treated Oryza sativa and T. aestivum, which are the typical dichotomic, enantioselective-responsive plants. In Oryza and Triticum root tips, enantioselective responses of reduction activity in TPF assays were strongly related to those of root growth inhibition in DGR assays, suggesting aggressive participation of the MBTU in the generation of the reducing mechanism in mitochondria.


IFRS IN THE SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTITIES. DIFICULTIES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF THE IFRS FOR SMEs PhD Student Moț Ioana, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, România Doctoral programme - Accounting Scientific coordonator - Prof. Univ. Dr. Mateș Dorel


Sickle cell nephropathy is poorly understood and currently lacks any specific therapeutic options. Opioids are used to treat the pain associated with sickle cell disease. Interestingly, heroin (a metabolic precursor of morphine) is associated with glomerulosclerosis. Glomerulomegaly, an early sign of kidney damage, predicts the eventual severity of glomerulosclerosis. Using transgenic sickle mice as a disease model, we evaluated the effects of chronic opioid exposure on kidney pathology in the setting of sickle cell disease.

Transgenic sickle cell mice (carry a single copy of linked transgenes for human alpha and beta-S globins and are homozygous for deletion of murine beta major globin) were treated for three weeks with PBS, morphine (50–150mg/70kg human equivalent), naloxone (equimolar to morphine), or morphine and naloxone (n=6 per group). We evaluated the effects of morphine on kidney pathology by assessing kidney weight, glomerular volume (by the Weibel-Gomez method), and mesangial cell counts per glomerulus. Morphine stimulated kidney growth in transgenic sickle mice. Treatment with morphine significantly increased glomerular volume and mesangial cell counts per glomerulus compared to PBS. These effects were reversed with the addition of naloxone to morphine. (see Table)

Morphine-stimulated cultured mouse mesangial cells underwent proliferation, which was inhibited with the addition of naloxone (202% ±14.3 vs. 108% ±12.9 increase over control, p<0.01). Morphine-stimulated mesangial cells had increased expression of phosphorylated STAT-3 by western blot analysis. Blockade of STAT-3 with PpYLKTK-mts (0.2mM) resulted in inhibition of morphine-stimulated mesangial cell proliferation (202% ±14.3 vs.110±29, p<0.01).

In summary, morphine exposure markedly induced kidney growth in transgenic sickle mice, as evidenced by increased kidney size, glomerular volume, and glomerular cell counts. Furthermore, morphine stimulates a proliferative response in mesangial cells via STAT-3 signaling. These results suggest morphine may accelerate renal injury in sickle cell disease.

| Group | Kidney Weight (g) | Glomerular Volume (mm3) | #MC/glomerulus |
|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------- | -------------- |
| Results (mean ± SD): λ p<0.01 vs. Sickle PBS; π p=0.01 vs. Sickle MS; γ p<0.01 vs. Sickle MS. |
| Sickle PBS | 0.190 ± 0.02 | 133 ± 7 | 27 ± 0.5 |
| Sickle Naloxone | 0.176 ± 0.01 | 124 ± 13 | 26 ± 1.2 |
| Sickle Morphine | 0.251 ± 0.04 λ | 163 ± 14 λ | 37 ± 1.9 λ |
| Sickle MS+ Nal | 0.193 ± 0.01 π | 127 ± 12 π | 30 ± 1.5 γ |


The important thought of Three Represent's s ets a good example for taking correct attitude towards Marxism, for it not only adheres to the viewpoints and methods of Marxism and follows the basic principle s of Marxism, but also develops Marxism under the new historical conditions. The important thought of Three Represent's is the latest theoretic product of loca lized Marxism in China, which is of great and far-reaching significance for open ing up the new situation in the socialist construction with the Chinese characte ristics and achieving the great national rejuvenation.


A material receiving hopper of a multilayer crawler-type sorter comprises a hopper body, a finished product discharging channel, a waste product discharging channel and a reselection material channel, wherein the reselection material channel is positioned between the finished product discharging channel and the waste product discharging channel, and is used for leading a material to be reselected to a next-layer conveying crawler belt. The material receiving hopper also comprises a baffle mechanism, wherein the baffle mechanism is used for sealing a finished product discharging channel port and/or a waste product discharging channel port. The material receiving hopper can simultaneously achieve finished product reselection and waste product reselection functions, not only saves cost, but also avoids the working procedure that a sorting device needs machine halt when the material receiving hopper is replaced, and greatly improves the work efficiency.


Although industrial robotic arms are equipped with external cables to supply electricity, gases or other materials, cable path design is a difficult and demanding task. Herein, an efficient optimization method is proposed for automating cable path design under the assumption that the robot motion path is known. The contribution of this study was to reduce the considerable computation time required for the optimization, which was a concern in our previous work. The previous method represented candidates for cable paths as a set of parameter vectors (PVs) that included cable length and guide configurations, and then selected the optimal PV that satisfies stress constraints and provided the shortest cable path. The proposed method extracted critical poses, i.e., several static robot poses that are prone to applying stress to the cable, from the joint angle time series of the motion path, and then performed attachment and motion tests. The cable geometry for the static critical poses was simulated in the attachment test, while the geometry for dynamic robot motion was simulated in the motion test in an ascending order of the cable length among the PV candidates. Experimental results showed that the computation time for cable path optimization could be significantly reduced.


Patients associated with pulmonary hypertension are apt to develop respiratory failure after open heart surgery. Therefore, we performed pulmonary function tests before and after cardiac operation. In addition, during the postoperative period, the alveolar-arterial oxygen tension difference(A-aDo2) and pulmonary shunt ratio (Qs/Qt) were determined in 36 patients. The patients were divided to three groups, depending on preoperative pulmonary pressures. The group 1;9 patients with pulmonary hypertension. The group 2;18 patients without pulmonary hypertension. The group 3;9 patients with tetralogy of Fallot. The group 1 showed the lowest value of percent vital capacity, suggesting restrictive lesions. The lowest values of percent maximum minute breathing volume, air velocity index and forced vital capacity suggesting obstructive lesions were shown in the group 1. Paco2 were between 28 torr and 35.4 torr in the each group. Therefore, normal alveolar ventilation were observed in each group. Pao2 was lowest in group 1. However, both A-aDo and Qs/Qt were highest in the group 1. It was suggested that numerous scattered atelectasis or patch atelectasis played the whole or major roles in abnormality of the indices in the group 1. In the group 1, We could often observe atelectasis because of insufflation of dry gas due to non-rebreathing method. Preventing postoperative respiratory complications due to dried airway, a disposable condenser humidifier (artificial nose) was employed during operation. Animal experiments and clinical results showed that the preservation of respiratory function was attained by using the artificial nose in terms of A-aDo2 and Qs/Qt. In addition, electromicroscopic studies indicated better preservation of mucociliary epithelium of the bronchus in the group treated with DH. It was concluded that DH was effective for preservation of respiratory function during and after operation.


A series of technical measures were adopted in sansteel blast furnace for improving the technic and economic indexes according to actual circumstance and under different exterior conditions.The production practice is efficiently optimized.


Psoriasis is a chronic, immune-mediated inflammatory disease that significantly affects a patient's quality of life. Several systemic complications can influence disease progression and response to treatment. Biological therapy is considered the most effective therapeutic option in treating moderate to severe forms of psoriasis. The success of therapy may depend on its persistence, also known as drug survival. The dermatologist needs to be aware of comorbidities and factors that influence the persistence or discontinuation of biological treatment to make appropriate treatment decisions. We have identified several studies on the persistence of biologic therapy or drug survival in patients with psoriasis and summarized some of the most important issues known to date. In several recently published studies, the survival of ustekinumab is better than TNF‐α inhibitors but lower than ixekizumab. Notably, the studies were performed on a limited number of patients and follow-up time. Moreover, secukinumab appears to have a shorter drug survival than other biological agents, especially in patients with biological experience. A real indicator of therapeutic success could be a high quality of life. Female gender and obesity have been consistently highlighted among the predictors of treatment discontinuation, while psoriatic arthritis could be a predictor of persistence and maintenance of biological therapy. We are currently aiming to improve the therapy for patients treated with biological agents to reduce the pressure on the national public health system.


The socialist cause in the United States has been done in by push-buttons. Let us consider the theory before turning to the documentation. What makes a man rebel against the established order? Exploitation, starvation, privation, indignation, frustration, irritation, tribulation, desperation and the other ations are the reason why we go for the isms of the Left.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.


We examine the eects of small white Gaussian noise perturbations on a harmonically forced Dung oscillator. For specic values of the parameters, the noise-free system admits two coexisting steady-state attractors. The presence of noise induces transitions from one attractor to the other, however small the noise intensity may be. As a rst step, the equation of motion is transformed into a system of stochastic dierential equations for the slowly-varying van der Pol variables, by assuming that the predominant frequency of response is that of the forcing term. The condition for bistability, the stable xed points, and the separatrix dening the domains of attraction are then examined. In the second step, the eects of noise perturbations on the system are analyzed by determining the steady-state probability density of the uctuations of the response, as well as the probabilities of escape from one attractor to the other. The latter are found by determination of the expected times of rst-passage to the separatrix starting from a point in the domain of attraction of each stable state. This analysis is done in the limit of small damping and small noise intensity by use of an averaging scheme which reduces the dimensionality of the problem from two to one. This yields valuable information about the relative stability of the stable states. The obtained theoretical results are supported by digital simulation data. The analytical theory gives good agreement even for large noise.


Biogenic amines are a group of low molecular weight nitrogenous organic compounds that have an important physiological role in cell proliferation, differentiation, and signal transduction. Also, certain biogenic amines act as an important biomarker for the detection of neuroendocrine and cardiovascular disorders in humans. Besides this, the abundance of biogenic amines in food is recognized as a toxin and anti-nutritional element that have several health implications. This visual experiment demonstrates all the critical steps required for the extraction of biogenic amines followed by derivatization and high performance liquid chromatography analysis for the successive detection and quantification of biogenic amines such as histamine, cadaverine, tryptamine, agmatine, putrescine, 2-phenylethylamine, spermine, tyramine, and spermidine.


Abstract : Investigation of heat resistant organic and inorganic polymers potentially useful as metal coatings to 1000 F continued. Among the inorganics, interest centered on organo-silicon-oxygen, organo-silicon-nitrogen and organo-phosphorus polymers. Emphasis was placed on defining parameters which allow the preparation of white, integral, tightly adherent siliceous coatings stable at 1000 F in air. Polymers which degrade to stable inorganic residues offer promise as coatings for extended exposure at 1000 F in air than do organic polymers. A TiO2 pigmented silicon resin with optimum pigmentation and coating thickness gave a white, adherent, integral, stable coating after 1000 F in air. Aryloxysilane and aromatic phosphate polymers appear promising for utility in inert atmospheres at 1000 F. Silazane polymers showed some promise. (Author)


We address two properties for Abelian topological groups: ``every closed subgroup is dually closed'' and ``every closed subgroup is dually embedded.'' We exhibit a pair of topological groups such that each has both of the properties and the product has neither, which refutes a remark of N. Noble. These examples are the additive group of integers topologized with respect to a convergent sequence as investigated by E.G. Zelenyuk and I.V. Protasov. The proof for the product relies on a theorem on exponential Diophantine equations.


The external morphological characters of the nymphs at different ages were described with the light microscope and the scanning electron microscope The nymphs at different ages can be readily distinguished from each other by the following characters:①The body length and width ②The length number of the antenna and the number and place of sense pores on the antenna ③The size and shape of the wax-secreting cuticle


Input signal bandwidth based on the expression-enhanced signal representation generating unit bandwidth based on the input signal representation comprises a phase vocoder adapted to obtain the spectral domain representation value of the first patch of the expanded signal. The apparatus also there is includes a value replicator configured to replicate a set of values of the spectral domain representation of the first patch, the values provided in the phase vocoder, which obtains a series of values of the spectral domain representation of the second patch, a group in order, wherein the second patch is associated with a higher frequency than the first patch. The apparatus is configured to obtain the representation of the bandwidth extended signal using a spectral domain representation of the spectral domain values representing the values of the first patch and the second patch.


Given a percentage-threshold andreadings from a pair of consecutive upstream and downstream sensors, flow anomaly discovery identifiesdominant time intervalswhere the fraction of time instants of significantly mis-matched sensor readings exceed the given percentage-threshold. Discovering flow anomalies (FA) is an important problem due to applications such as environmental flow monitoring networks andearly warning detection systems for water quality problems. However, mining FAs is computationally expensive because of the large (potentially infinite) number of time instants of measurement and potentially long delays due to stagnant (e.g. lakes) or slow moving (e.g. wetland) water bodies between consecutive sensors. Traditional outlier detection methods (e.g. t-test) are suited for detecting transient FAs (i.e., time instants of significant mis-matches acrossconsecutivesensors) andcannot detect persistent FAs (i.e., longvariable time-windows with a high fraction of time instant transient FAs) due to a lack of a pre-defined window size. In contrast, we propose a Smart Window Enumeration andEvaluation of persistence-Thresholds (SWEET) method to efficiently explorethesearch spaceof all possiblewindow lengths. Computation overhead isbrought down significantly by restricting the start and end points of a window to coincide with transient FAs, using a smart counter andefficient pruning techniques. Analytical evaluation show that the proposed method is correct and complete. Experimental evaluation using synthetic and real datasets shows our proposed approach outperformsNaı̈vealternatives.


For a 10 MeV technological accelerator, a dipole magnet with a permanent magnetic field was created using the SmCo alloy. The maximum magnetic field in the magnet gap was 0.3 T. The magnet is designed to measure the energy of the beam and to adjust the accelerator for a given energy. For a linear accelerator with an energy of 23 MeV, a dipole magnet based on the Nd-Fe-B alloy was developed and fabricated. It was designed to rotate the electron beam at a 90 degrees. The magnetic field in the dipole magnet along the path of the beam was 0.5 T. The effective length of the magnet was 242 mm.


Recently there has been a growing interest in nanodroplet engineering and the dynamics of vaporization and condensation of fluids at the nanoscale. The applications of nanodroplet engineering is in the biomolecular field, physical chemistry, and engineering power production and storage devices technology.... other applications are in aerosols, fuels and turbulence in power source design. In this paper a theoretical model for multiphase nanofluids is derived from information theory and temperature dependent distributions are obtained for the Lennard-Jones potential interactions of the nanofluid droplets. The simple paradigm of a nanofluid is an inert material such as Argon, as a fluid at low temperatures, in a droplet of a diameter a few nano meters in scale. Such a nanodroplet contains from the tens to the hundreds of Argon atoms in a fluid phase. The kinematics of the fluid nanodroplet as it is accelerated and it interacts with other materials, gas, liquid, molecules or solid state materials is the dynamics we wish to address here. A simple example for what we will model by theory here is the nanodroplet of Argon, say containing a few hundred Argon atoms, moving at a uniform velocity towards a non chemically reactive solid surface that could represent in more complex experiments or applications a reactive or non reactive surface of a device for power production such as in fuel cell walls, a porous membrane in biological cellular reactions, or reactive chemistry analysis such as lab-on-a-chip. The medium here is a vacuum though more complex arrangements could be of secondary gases or liquids. At the nanoscale the aggregation of atoms and the screening effect that occurs as the number of atoms increases towards a size of the micron range


The success of Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly increased the volume of data generated by various smart applications. However, as many of these applications are characterized by strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, there is a growing need for accurately predicting typical performance parameters such as throughput. This prediction should be based on the applications' traffic profiles and at the same time reflect the network uncertainty that IoT access networks add to the overall communication. In this work, we deployed 6 different smart building applications in a real testbed while creating a considerable traffic contention in an IEEE 802.15.4 access network. After preprocessing the raw data and following a feature engineering mechanism, we apply five different regression learning approaches to each application and predict its throughput. By resorting to several prediction error metrics and time metrics such as training and inference time, we show that the multiple linear regression achieves high accuracy while outperforming other well known machine learning methods.


Nurses, like most people, need to feel respected for who and what they are: that they and their work 'matters', and their personal worth as human beings is recognised and acknowledged. Moreover, as research has shown, nurses want to work in environments 'where they are able to develop supportive and respectful relationships with co-workers' (Bournes and Milton 2009, p47). Unfortunately nurses do not always feel respected by others (including other nurses), and the environments in which they work are not always conducive to the development of supportive and respectful relationships with co-workers.


The temperature anisotropy of electrons and ions in the Solar Wind is a phenomenon that highlights the role of non-thermal processes occurring in the Sun-Solar Wind-Terrestrial Magnetosphere system (SSVM). Distributions with distinct velocity dispersions, both in the parallel and perpendicular directions relative to the ambient magnetic field, have free energy available to generate instabilities, which will transfer part of the free energy into waves, thereby relaxing the distribution towards the thermodynamic equilibrium. In order to investigate the marginal conditions for instability, the models of superthermal velocity distribution functions more frequently employed in the literature, which feature a powerlaw dependence on the high-energy particles, are the bi-kappa (BK) and product-bi-kappa (PBK) distributions. From a purely mathematical point of view, the calculation of the dielectric tensor is simpler with the PBK distribution, since its dependence on the v⊥ and v‖ velocity components is already factored, similar to what occurs with a bi-Maxwellian (BM) distribution. In this work we develop a general mathematical formalism that provides the analytical description of various phenomena present in superthermal plasmas described by bi-kappa distribution functions. We apply this mathematical formalism to the study of the propagation and amplification/damping of electromagnetic/electrostatic waves in superthermal plasmas and in the presence of temperature anisotropy.


The purpose of this study was to examine and determine the effect of self-concept and emotion regulation on assertiveness. The sample of this study amounted to 198 students from the Faculty of Psychology, University of Prima Indonesia with the method of proportionate stratified random sampling. Collecting data in this study used an assertiveness scale consisting of 25 items, a self-concept scale consisting of 24 items, and an emotional regulation scale consisting of 23 items. The results of this study indicate that there is an influence between self-concept and emotional regulation on assertiveness with the test value of F = 45,153 and sig = 0,000. The results showed that there was a positive influence between self-concept and assertiveness which was supported by the beta coefficient value of 0,446 and sig. 0,000 (p < 0,01), and there is a positive influence between emotion regulation on assertiveness with a beta coefficient of 0,196 and sig. 0,004 (p < 0,01). The research data were analyzed using the correlation method of multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that the effective contribution given by self-concept and emotional regulation to assertiveness was 31 percent and the remaining 69 percent was influenced by other factors not examined.


Introduction: Cutaneous blisters can occur in variety of conditions. They are broadly classified as immunobullous or non-immunobullous. Immunobullous blistering diseases can further classify as intraepidermal or subepidermal. Nonimmunobullous blistering disease are commonly due to infections, drugs among others. Some of the blistering disease carry significant mortality and morbidity. There are only limited data on blistering diseases from Nepal, so this study will provide details on the prevalence of this rare dermatological disease from one of the tertiary care referral hospital in the country. Objective: To assess the clinical pattern and prevalence of various blistering diseases in a tertiary care referral hospital. Materials and Methods: All of the data were obtained from the admission register maintained at department of dermatology and venereology, National Academy of Medical Sciences. All the patients admitted with blistering disease from year April 2008 till March 2018 were included. The details including age, sex, type of blistering disease and length of hospital stay were recorded. Results: A total of 710 patients were admitted in the dermatology ward over the period of 10 years. There were a total of 193 blistering disease admitted during this period. Autoimmune blistering disease was diagnosed in 59 patients whereas 100 patients had non-immunobullous disease. The age grouped range from 493 years with the mean age of 43± 19.71 years. The average number of hospital stay of all blistering diseases was 11.73±11.36 days. Conclusion: Blistering diseases are one of the most common conditions requiring admission in dermatology ward. Some of these diseases carry a significant morbidity and mortality. So, prompt diagnosis and treatment is of utmost importance.