Teacher Education institutions primarily aim of producing competent and highly qualified graduates employable here and abroad. Tracer studies on graduates can appropriately provide valuable information for evaluating the results of the education and training of a specific institution of higher education. It collects essential information concerning the employment profile of graduates, their undergraduate experience, the first and current jobs of graduates and the relevance of their educational background and skills required in their job. The main objective of this study was to trace the employment profile of the graduates after they obtained their teacher education degree. The descriptive survey method of research was applied to this research with a survey questionnaire as the main data gathering instrument. It analyzed data from 129 respondents characterized by a preponderance of females over male as females and unmarried or single graduates as opposed to those who were married. The study found that there were more respondents who finished Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSED) over Bachelor of Elementary Education. They obtained this degree as they believed that teaching is a rewarding and challenging profession, Majority are Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) passers and are employed in public schools at the time of the study. Their present job, mostly professional in nature, was also their first job and relevant to their degree. It took only a moderate period of time for most graduates to land a job. Most stay in their job for economic reason, finding communication skills and human relation skills as part of their teacher education preparation very relevant to their jobs.


The potential of laser Doppler velocimetry as a technique for use in mapping flows in the several fluid systems under development for doing research on low-gravity processes, is investigated. Laser Doppler velocimetry techniques, equipment, and applications are summarized.


The thesis comprises the characterization and genetic engineering of the non-conventional, oleaginous yeast Cutaneotrichosporon oleaginosus as well as the optimization of harvest by flocculation of the microalgae Scenedesmus obtusiusculus. In the first part, the screening of oleaginous yeast, overexpression of two genes of enzymatic bottlenecks for triglyceride synthesis and the effect of target-of-rapamycin 1 (TORC1) inhibition are described. In the second part, effects and relationships in the process of algae harvest by flocculation as well as the complexity of their interactions are explored.


Unilateral twin ectopic is a rare condition. Only 100 cases reported till date in the literature. A 34-year-old woman having secondary infertilityreported to emergency with amenorrhea of one and half months and pain in abdomen. Her urine pregnancy test was positive andultrasonography showed multiple (twin) ectopic gestational sacs in left adenexa. Color Doppler showed ring of fire sign encircling both thegestational sacs suggestive of twin ectopic pregnancy (diamniotic-dichorionic) in left adenexa. Exploratory laparotomy confirmed thediagnosis.


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In their interesting study, Decensi et al1 demonstrated that oral conjugated equine estrogen caused an increase in plasma C-reactive protein (CRP), whereas transdermal estradiol (E2) did not elevate CRP levels. The Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) and Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trials demonstrated that oral hormone replacement therapy (HRT) did not reduce the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) in postmenopausal women with or without coronary disease. Because elevated CRP is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, a proinflammatory effect of oral estrogen might explain the increased risk of CAD during the first year of these recent trials. Accordingly, neutral effect of transdermal E2 on CRP might possibly be associated with a safer profile on early CAD risk. However, it is not clear whether oral estrogen stimulates systemic inflammatory responses or whether it simply stimulates hepatic synthesis of …


If H is a bialgebra, B is a left H-module algebra and a left H-comodule coalgebra, the smash product algebra structure and the smash coproduct coalgebra [1]structure over BH can form a bialgebra in certain conditions [2],called biproduct and denoted by B★H.We present the formulas of quasitrangular structure of biproduct if it contains a quasitrangular structure.We obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for such that it becomes a quasitriangular bialgebra.


Considering the effect caused by the spindle angle and friction force of roll gap on the main drive system of rolling mill, the nonlinear torsional vibration dynamical equation of rolling mill's drive system is established, which contains parametrical stiffness and nonlinear friction damping. The amplitude-frequency characteristic equation and bifurcation response equation are obtained by solving the dynamical equation using the multi-scale method. The example analysis was carried out on the 1780 rolling mill of Chengde Steel Group. It is shown that the increase of motor's disturbance torque will aggravate the vibration of rolling mill's drive system; the motor's disturbance will enlarge when the angle is too large or too small. Then the reasonable control range of spindle angle is determined. It is best to keep spindle angle between degree of 2 and 5.


63 Utilizing a suite of computer programs, the influence of the slide valve on compressor efficiency and bearing forces is examined. A design procedure for choosing optimal volume ratlos for discharge ports and for choosing the optimal slide stop is presented. The possibility that bearing forces peak at a certain part Ioad condition is discussed. The results suggest that the addition of a slide valve to a compressor results in a decrease in the indicated efficiency at the full Ioad condition. For a particular minimum part Ioad condition the volume ratio fixed by the axial discharge port should not be over high. lf it is, a decrease in the indicated efficiency atthe low Ioad rangewill result. However, the volume ratio for the radial discharge port should be chosen so as to obtain the highest indicated efficiency at full Ioad. The slide stop must be optimized to avoid the occurrence of the maximum bearing forces at certain part Ioad conditions.


Background : Peristomal infection can sometimes complicate percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement. Antibiotic prophylaxis has, in some studies, been shown to reduce the incidence. However, the use of prophylaxis varies widely, possibly because the design and findings of the studies have differed, making their relevance to clinical practice difficult to interpret.


ABSTRACT Dielectric relaxation study on dimethylacetamide with ethanolamine and dimethylaminoethanol binary mixtures has been carried out at eleven concentrations over the frequency range of 10 MHz to 20 GHz at 30°C using TDR technique. The least squares fit method has been used to obtain the static dielectric constant (ϵ0) and relaxation time (τ). By using these dielectric parameters, the excess permittivity (ϵE), excess inverse relaxation time (1/τ)E and Kirkwood correlation factor (geff) are also obtained for investigating the intermolecular interaction. Conformational analysis of the intermolecular interaction between DMA-ETA and DMA-DMAE systems is supported by the FTIR spectra.


Abstract : Quasars are the most energetic objects in the universe. They are thought to be powered by the accretion of gas onto super-massive black holes at the centers of galaxies. The structure of these exotic objects is poorly understood because their central engines cannot be resolved with ordinary telescopes. Gravitational telescopes, however, provide the necessary resolution to study the structure of quasar central engines. This project analyzed the microlensing variability in five gravitationally lensed quasar systems to probe the structure of the continuum emission regions at optical and X-ray wavelengths and make time delay estimates in the systems in which sufficient data were available. The flux of each component of the multiply-imaged quasars was measured in many seasons of ground-based optical imagery. Lightcurves were constructed from the flux measurements, and Monte Carlo methods were used to analyze the microlensing variability in the lightcurves. The results of the Monte Carlo routine were analyzed with Bayesian methods, yielding estimates of the time delays and the sizes of the quasar accretion disks in QJ0158 4325 and HE1104 1805.


In considering the prevailing theoretical representation of personal relationships as interpersonal states (and development of relationships as movement between states or levels of intimacy), we identify four erroneous assumptions of previous approaches These are the tendency to treat relationships as the products of the partners' responses to each other, or of the mixing of partners' attributes, the tendency to assume that people do very little processing of their interactions with other people; the view that relationships can be objectively defined, and the view that people conduct relationships with ubiquitous self-awareness and intentionality In rejecting these errors, we propose instead that relationships are processes, and that a full understanding of them requires study of the behavioral consequences of negotiating a suitable role relationship between partners, of the adverbial properties of relationships, of the existence and amount of discrepancy among various observers' views of the relationship...


Understanding entropic contributions to ordering transitions is essential for the design of self-assembling systems with tunable hierarchical structures. Herein, we report entropy-mediated precise interfacial organization of Janus nanoparticles in the flexible–semiflexible block copolymers and the resulted optical properties of this heterogeneous material by combining coarse-grained molecular dynamics and a finite difference time domain technique. We find that the stiffness of the semiflexible block can regulate the off-center distribution of symmetric Janus nanoparticles with respect to phase interfaces, featured by a roughly 35% deviation from the interface to the utmost extent. Our simulations reveal how entropic and enthalpic effects in this multiphase media contribute to the self-assembled morphologies and, in particular, can lead to novel chain stiffness-induced entropy effects that can be harnessed to tailor the interfacial organization of Janus nanoparticles in the scaffold of block copolymers. Fu...


A wireless sensor network (WSN) works continuously to gather information from sensors that generate large volumes of data to be handled and processed by applications. Current efforts in sensor networks focus more on networking and development services for a variety of applications and less on processing and integrating data from heterogeneous sensors. There is an increased need for information to become shareable across different sensors, database platforms, and applications that are not easily implemented in traditional database systems. To solve the issue of these large amounts of data from different servers and database platforms (including sensor data), a semantic sensor web service platform is needed to enable a machine to extract meaningful information from the sensor's raw data. This additionally helps to minimize and simplify data processing and to deduce new information from existing data. This paper implements a semantic web data platform (SWDP) to manage the distribution of data sensors based on the semantic database system. SWDP uses sensors for temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, luminosity, and noise. The system uses the Sesame semantic web database for data processing and a WSN to distribute, minimize, and simplify information processing. The sensor nodes are distributed in different places to collect sensor data. The SWDP generates context information in the form of a resource description framework. The experiment results demonstrate that the SWDP is more efficient than the traditional database system in terms of memory usage and processing time.


Previously, we reported that ondansetron reduced the use of intravenous fluids in children with gastroenteritis in the emergency department (ED; JW


Flexible pipes take advantage of their ability to move, or deflect, under loads without structural damage. Common types of flexible pipes are manufactured from polyethylene (PE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), steel, glass fiber reinforced thermosetting polymer plastic (GFRP), and aluminum. In this paper, we present the result of an investigation pertaining to the short-term behavior of buried polyethylene pipe. The mechanical properties of the polyethylene pipe produced in the domestic manufacturer are determined and the results are reported in this paper. In addition, vertical ring deflection is measured by the laboratory model test and the finite element analysis (FEA) is also conducted to simulate the short-term behavior of polyethylene pipe buried underground. Based on results from soil-pipe interaction finite element analyses of polyethylene pipe is used to predict the vertical ring deflection and maximum bending strain of polyethylene pipe.


In recent years a lot of research has been carried out on Geopolymer concrete (GPC). The reaction mechanism of Portland cement concrete and GPC are completely different. The performance of GPC mainly depends upon the quality of the geopolymeric source materials (GSMs), type of activator solutions used and rate of Geopolymerisation etc. This paper reports an experimental study carried out to investigate the specimen size effect of Ultra High Strength Geopolymer concrete (UHSGC) produced under ambient temperature conditions. Ground Granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) and silica fume (SF) was used as GSMs and a combination of potassium hydroxide and potassium silicate solution was used as alkali activator solutions. The ratio of silicate to hydroxide was 3 and the molarity of the potassium hydroxide solution used was 10. Cubes of different size has been cast to determine the specimen size effect on compressive strength of concrete at the ages of 28 days. Cubes of size 50 mm, 70 mm, 100 mm of 10 numbers each were cast. To determine the relation between cylinders to cube strength, cylinders of size 100 x 200 mm cylinders (10 nos) were also cast. Micro steel fibers with a diameter of 0.14mm and aspect ratio of 85 was used. The relation between compressive strength of 50 mm cube (fc, 50), 70 mm cube (fc, 70), 100 mm cube (fc, 100) and cylinder -100x 200 mm, (fcy, 100) were determined. As expected when the size of the specimen decreased the compressive strength increased. The highest average compressive strength obtained for 50 mm cube at the age of 28 days was 143 N/mm. The compressive strength of 70 mm cube, fc, 70= 0.98 fc,50= 1.04 fc, 100. The ratio of cylinder to cube compressive strength (fcy, 100/ fc, 100) was 0.67.


Madida north hill gold-copper deposit originated in the one side of contact zone between Lower Paleozoic Wudaogou Group stratum and Yanshanian tonalite.The mineralization type belongs to Silicified alteration rock type.Main orebody was located in the NW strike fracture and fissure structure,the deposit is subvolcanic.type in genesis.


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By the research of the creative cities in developed countries and regions, the paper has analysed the environment which Shanghai enforce and proposed that Shanghai must transit to a creative city by the core of creative talents and industry for leading Chinese economy's sustainable development.Shanghai must develop re- searched-style university,and provide an environment of opening tolerance and undi- videdly for creative class to promote the urban development and prosperity,It is the core value of shanghai's development.


The Visegrad Group gained a new neighbour in the European Union on 1 July 2013. Given the
geographic proximity, similar level of development and a number of shared interests, Croatia
could become a valuable partner in Central European regional co-operation. Co-operation in
the "V4+" format is possible in most of the Visegrad Group's priorities, primarily in: energy security,
transport, neighbourhood policy and EU enlargement. V4 could be attractive for Croatia
as a grouping which forms broader coalitions within the EU and is helpful in solving regional
problems. However, making use of this potential in practice will depend on the determination
to enhance co-operation, and its success may be thwarted by temporary bilateral issues.


Based on the LabVIEW platform, Constitution of an automatic calibration system for the electricity parameters by GPIB as its interface, instrument controlled form and system characteristics are presented.


This is a brief review of recent lattice calculations of D semileptonic decays. This presentation includes only calculations that do not use the quenched approximation. A new state-of-the-art calculation from the HPQCD collaboration is discussed and compared with other calculations and experimental measurements.


Abstract As school psychologists, we have an ethical responsibility to engage in social justice and antiracist action. School psychology organizations and graduate education programs play an important role in shaping future generations of school psychologists to lead the mental health, educational and research, and advocacy initiatives that promote equity for school personnel, students, families and communities they serve. This is only possible if our field acknowledges, evaluates, and works to reconstruct existing systems, structures, and policies that lead to inequitable outcomes for some groups and not others. "How can the school psychology community serve the diverse society in which we live without explicit and intentional education and growth in this area?" To help answer this question, APA Division 16, Trainers of School Psychologists, Council of Directors of School Psychology Programs, Society for the Study of School Psychology, the American Board of School Psychology, and the National Association of School Psychologists have come together to reaffirm our commitment to ensure current and future school psychologists are empowered to be antiracist agents of change. Impact Statement School Psychology's commitment and mission to advance research, practice, policy and advocacy for education continues. In light of this tragedy, we have a sharpened focus to reduce systemic racism and inequities in schools and communities across our nation. We must take affirmative action through active antiracist work.


Abstract This paper takes stock of a recent but growing movement within the field of deliberative democracy, which normatively argues for the epistemic dimension of democratic authority and positively defends the truth-tracking properties of democratic procedures. Authors within that movement call themselves epistemic democrats, hence the recognition by many of an 'epistemic turn' in democratic theory. The paper argues that this turn is a desirable direction in which the field ought to evolve, taking it beyond the 'fact of disagreement' that had previously blocked the conceptual road to acknowledging more than intrinsic properties to democratic decision procedures. The paper shows how two authors in particular – Joshua Cohen and David Estlund – have successfully lifted the Rawlsian requirement of epistemic abstinence and defends epistemic democrats and the implications of the epistemic turn in democratic theory against various misconceptions.


We present information on the use of sporomes of  Tremelloscypha gelatinosa  as a food source among native people from Nandayalu ,  a locality situated SE of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. The fungus is locally named "nanganana" and its fruit bodies are collected during part of the rainy season (June-August) and are used for familiar consumption. Their methods of collecting and preparation are described and photographs of the basidiomes and habit are provided.  Tremelloscypha gelatinosa  was found growing below trees of  Gymnopodium floribundum  in the tropical deciduous forest of the Central Chiapas basin. It is a heterobasidiomycete belonging to the order Sebacinales and its phylogenetic placement among proven ectomycorrhizal sebacinoid species suggests its probable ectomycorrhizal symbiosis with plant roots, thus playing a relevant ecological role in tropical ecosytems where it occurs.  Tremelloscypha gelatinosa  is an infrequently encountered fungus, currently known from Jamaica (type locality), Florida (USA), Yucatan and Quintana Roo (Mexico) and until now unreported as a wild edible fungus.


: Different Industrial applications required high heat removal rats in order to provide efficient cooling for reliable working and its operational life. There are different ways to achieve uniform cooling .1.Microchanel Cooling, 2. Jet impingement cooling, 3. Spray impingement cooling. Out of these three methods Spray cooling have some advantages like low fluid inventory, Compact in size, light weight with few moving components, uniformity of cooling and isothermally. Due to the above mentioned advantages spray finds their use for cooling in number of industrial applications for example: HVAC, Laser guided weapons, Supersonic Flights, Agriculture, Cooling of super computers and many others. In the spray cooling properties under consideration are the different nozzle operating pressure, effect of mass flux, effect of surface enhancement, cooling effect, optimisation of various enhance surface with respect to nozzle diameter fluid properties under consideration and experimental investigations are thermal conductivity of liquid, surface tension of liquid, specific heat of liquid, latent heat of vaporization and lastly Calorimeter design properties are: super heat of heater, surface wet ability surface size, thermal diffusivity of subtract. It can be concluded that parameter which are the most significant parameter and sub significant parameters further used to these parameters to optimize and the considered parameters on heat transfer coefficient (HTC) using impingement spray cooling.


A method for control of a process for sterilizing a load in a sterilization chamber according to specific characteristics of the load without direct measurement of the load conditions. The method preferably includes admitting sterilant gas into the sterilization chamber under vacuum; during admission of the sterilant gas, monitoring a sterilant condensation related parameter or data in the sterilization chamber; detecting the occurrence of condensation and determining a value of the condensation related parameter while detecting condensation; selecting a sterilization cycle among a plurality of predetermined sterilization cycles according to the condensation related data; and performing the selected sterilization cycle for sterilizing the load. The condensation related data may be the sterilant dew point, a degree of condensation, or an amount of condensation which may be determined in monitoring the chamber pressure during sterilant gas admission. The sterilization process may be controlled dynamically according to the determined condensation related data.


This is a big fall on campus by many different measures. We welcomed an impressive group of new faculty to the College of Arts and Sciences, in fields ranging from theoretical physics to developmental writing. We also welcomed our largest freshman class ever – 600 students – and I am proud to note that this year's class has grown not only in quantity but also in quality, as gauged by their high school achievement metrics.


We write with regards to the recently published consensus paper on antinuclear antibody (ANA) staining patterns by Damoiseaux et al which was most informative.1 We were surprised, however, that there was no mention or discussion of the HEp-2000 substrate (Immunoconcepts, Sacremento, California, USA) despite the acknowledgement that anti-SS-A/Ro60 is frequently missed on indirect immunofluorescence assay (IIFA).1 The HEp-2000 substrate is a modified HEp-2 substrate that is transfected with Ro60 cDNA …


Objective To introduce a new method to reconstruct posterior crucial ligament(PCL) by arthroscopy,and evaluate clinical effects of the operation. Methods From January 1999 to January 2003, 9 patients' injuried PCL were reconstructed with the bone-patellar tendon -bone which was dealed with deep hypothermia and radiation by arthroscopy. At the same time, 2 patients were dealed with lateral collateral ligament (LCL)reconstruction, 3 with meniscus partial resection. Results All patients were followed up with 12~21 months,and the average time was 14.5 months. To evaluate the knee function according to the Lysholm score method, the average score was 46.5 preoperatively and 89.8 postoperatively. The objective examination showed posterior drawer test(PDT) positive in 9 patients preoperatively and 2 (feeble positive) postoperatively; There were 1 with tolerable knee pain after sports and no one with limitation of extending knee, all patients'activity of flecting knee exceeded 120°. Conclusion The complication caused by the autograft can be avoided by using allogenic achilles bone-patellar tendon -bone to reconstruct PCL by arthroscopy, and the function of knee can be restored effectively.


Language has been a topic of great interest at least since the Greek philosophers. Clearly speech is one of the most sophisticated and complex of human capabilities and has remained a major puzzle through the centuries. Complex systems promise to provide analytical tools that will help break through some of the mystery. From this perspective, it appears that there are three complex systems relevant to speech. The first is natural selection, the slow influences on the gene pool of the species that give us whatever innate skills we need to learn at least one language. However, we will have nothing further to say about this issue here since the time scale involved is so long relative to human history. The remaining two complex systems are highly relevant. They are, first, the language itself, viewed here as a particular type of social institution, a set of cultural practices that present the language learner with a broad range of linguistic materials with which to communicate with others. This system clearly evolves as history and the cultural practices of the community change. It sometimes requires only a couple hundred years (a dozen or so generations) for a language to split into mutually incomprehensible dialects. The final complex system is the one that the individual speaker develops as he/she gradually becomes competent in the use of the language. This system begins before birth and continues to learn and adapt right up until death as the language environment of an individual changes. It involves controlling the many muscle systems of the vocal tract and respiratory system as well as specializations of the auditory system that customize it for hearing and understanding speech in the ambient language or languages.


This paper provides event study window analysis of pre- and post-merger bank performance in Singapore by employing Financial Ratio Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. The findings from financial ratio analysis suggests that the merger has not resulted in a higher profitability of Singaporean banking groups post-merger, which could be attributed to the higher costs incurred. However, the merger has resulted in higher Singaporean banking groups' mean overall efficiency. In most cases, the acquiring banks mean overall efficiency improved (deteriorates) post-merger resulting from merger with a more (less) efficient bank. Further, Tobit regression analysis is employed to explain changes in the efficiencies with the finding shows that, more efficient banks tend to maintain higher degree of capitalization, post higher profits and incur higher overhead costs.


Adsorption of radionuclides onto mineral and bacterial surfaces can control the speciation, and hence the mobility, of these elements in the subsurface. Considerable attention has been paid to mineral surface adsorption. However, relatively little research has focused on radionuclide adsorption onto bacteria. In this talk, we present results from recent studies of Np(V) and U(VI) adsorption onto a common Gram-positive soil bacterium, Bacillus subtilis. In the Np study, we performed batch adsorption experiments as functions of pH, total Np concentration, and ionic strength. Under most pH conditions, Np adsorption is reversible and exhibits an inverse relationship with ionic strength, with adsorption increasing with increasing pH. At low pH in the 0.1 M ionic strength systems, we observed irreversible adsorption which is consistent with reduction of Np(V) to Np(IV). We model the adsorption reaction using a non-electrostatic surface complexation approach to yield ionic strength dependent NpO2-bacterial surface stability constants. In oxygenated, CO2-rich systems, negatively charged uranyl complexes dominate the aqueous uranium speciation, and it is commonly assumed that these complexes exhibit negligible adsorption onto negatively charged surfaces such as bacteria. We measured aqueous uranium adsorption onto Bacillus subtilis as functions of pH, solid:solute ratio, and dissolved CO2 and Ca concentrations. We observed extensive uranium adsorption onto the bacterial surface under all conditions, results that could dramatically alter predictions of uranium mobility in near-surface environments. Thermodynamic modeling of the data suggests that uranylhydroxide, uranyl-carbonate and calcium-uranyl-carbonate species each can form stable surface complexes on the bacterial cell wall. The influence of metal reducing bacteria on plutonium speciation G.A. ICOPINI, J.G. LACK, L.E. HERSMAN AND M.P. NEU Chemistry and Biosciences Divisions, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com)


framework for critical research and development issues . Group 4, Language Environments, was to consider developmen t environments built around and in support of a programming language . Dr . Marvin Zelkowitz chaired Group 4 . The personalities an d interests of the participants and the group interaction caused a somewhat different path to be taken in some of the groups . Group 1 focused clearly on the near-terns and set forth concrete recommendations while Group 2 concentrated on short-term researc h questions . Group 4 considered language issues, while Group 3 addressed itself to the farthest reaches of the research tim e continuum .


BACKGROUND
MicroRNAs are noncoding RNAs which play critical roles in response to anti-cancer agents. Let-7a and miR-21 are well-known tumor-suppressor and oncomiR miRNAs, respectively. They are involved in tumorigenesis of gastric cancer and have potential to be used as markers for response to the therapy.

OBJECTIVE
We aimed to study alterations in the expression of let-7a and miR-21 and their targets in gastric cancer cell lines after treatment with docetaxel.

METHODS
GC cell lines were cultured and MTT assay was conducted to determine IC50 of docetaxel. After RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis, the expression level of miR-21 and let-7a and their targets, PDCD4 and HMGA2, were determined by quantitative real-time PCR for both treated and untreated cell lines.

RESULTS
Statistical analysis showed that the expression level of let-7a was significantly increased after treatment in AGS (p =0.004) and MKN45 (p = 0.001), while decreased in KATO III (p =0.01). On the other hand, expression level of miR-21 in treated AGS (p <0.0001), MKN45 (p= 0.006) and KATO III (p =0.01) was increased significantly. Altered expression of HMGA2 and PDCD4 genes showed different pattern in KATO III in comparison with AGS and MKN45.

CONCLUSION
Alterations in the expression level of let-7a, but not miR-21, and also its target, HMGA2, showed consistent results regarding to the more resistance of KATO III cell line with the highest IC50 concentration. Let-7a could be a novel marker for drug resistance in gastric cancer.


The water resources in the basin is a kind of public resources,and also a kind of typical public property.The characteristic of public property often demonstrates that the ownership is uncertain.It is difficult for each group of the basin or the individual to have a clear responsibility to maintain basin water environment.The basin water environmental pollution is commonly a kind of tragedy.The game theory is used in analyzing basin water environmental pollution under two kinds of situations of the market mechanism and government control.Implementing the trading of the right to discharge polluted water will be a good trend in the future.The trading of the right to discharge polluted water makes polluters become the actual entity when they carefully consider the choices between buying the right of discharging polluted water and constraining the drainage.The need of the government in coordinating,organizing and restricting water environmental management is emphasized at the same time.The government should establish a basket of feasible and efficient managerial measures and relevant policies,which meet the characteristics of market-oriented economy.


Previous observations of the coarticulatory spread of nasality from a nasal consonant to adjacent vowels have yielded some contradictory evidence and two contradictory hypotheses: (a) coarticulatory timing is determined by segmental content and (hi coarticulation is coordinated in time with a particular articulatory gesture. Using transillumination of the velopharyngeal port, the timing patterns of velum opening were investigated in (C)VN, (C)VVN, and (C)VVVN sequences in languages lacking contrastively nasalized vowels. It was found that all speakers used two distinct patterns of velum opening, though with different frequencies of occurrence: first, a single opening gesture of smoothly increasing amplitude, its onset aligned with the first vowel onset irrespective of intervening boundaries; and second, a two‐stage opening gesture whose absolute onset was aligned as previously but whose higher‐velocity second stage was coordinated with the oral closing gesture for the nasal consonant. Thus we may have to ...


This paper examines the economic growth prospects of the People's Republic of China (PRC). To increase potential growth, it suggests reforms in four areas—labor, education and training, capital, and productivity. Economic growth in the PRC has moderated over the past decade, a trend exacerbated by the pandemic. This paper estimates the level of economic growth to which the country should be able to return after the pandemic. More broadly, it looks at the PRC's long-term growth prospects given its rapidly aging society, a high dependence of growth on investment, and a changed international environment.


transplants from males less well than males tolerate them from females, even when the tissues are closely matched. Recent research (Science 1995;269:1515) has identified the responsible factor-a peptide encoded by a segment of a gene called SMCY found on the Y chromosome. This antigen, known as H-Y, is found in mice and men and must have some function other than graft rejection, and the hunt is now on to discover this.


The main goal of this study is to identifiy the role of climate and tectonics phenomena's on the triggering of giant-landslides in Peruvian western Andes. We realized a multidisciplinary study on the Aricota landslide by using high-resolution DEM derived from Pléiades satellite image (Lacroix et al, 2016. Zerathe et al, 2016.) and coupled with cosmogenic nuclide methodology, We realize dating on the main body of landslides and main scarps in order to obtain chronological constraints of the gravitational destabilization events.


Competitiveness is the main driving force to the stable prosperity of a country and the increase of its citizens' welfare. Agriculture is an important part of the economy of any country. The processing industries are a powerful driving force for rural development. The necessary prerequisite to ensure food security of any country is the successful development of the food market. In Ukraine approximately 10 thousand companies are involved in the food production. The food industry is among the leaders in terms of foreign direct investment into the industry of Ukraine. Transnational corporations are actively operating in the field of food production in Ukraine. The agro-industrial complex in general and food industry in particular can guarantee a significant increase in GDP of a country and as a result improve its position in the world markets. Journal of agricultural sciences №15 (02): 166-172, 2015


This paper deals with use of manipulators and robots in the process of decommissioning of A-1 nuclear power plant in Jaslovske Bohunice, Slovak Republic. It describes current situation of the first stage of A-1 decommissioning and shortly lists advanced technologies used during this process. It describes in more detail the manipulators MT-15, MT-80, MT-80A, DENAR-41 and remotely controlled tool carrier, with focus on selected problems specific for robots working in radiation environment and solutions developed at VUJE, Inc


A set of high-pressure air compressor units with large-capacity is concerned.Its characteristics of structure and main parameters was introduced.Furthermore,development and test condition of the simple compressor is also introduced.There is much improvement in aspects of wearing part lifetime,unit vibration,noise and automatic control,compared with the traditional high-pressure air compressor.200 hours type test and high temperature test at 40℃ has been gone through for the simple compressor.


Komatiites are fascinating volcanic rocks. They are among the most ancient lavas of the Earth following the 3.8 Ga pillow basalts at Isua and they represent some of the oldest ultramafic magmatic rocks preserved in the Earth's crust at 3.5 Ga. This fact, linked to their particular features (high magnesium content, high melting temperatures, low dynamic viscosities, etc.), has attracted the community of geoscientists since their discovery in the early sixties, who have tried to determine their origin and understand their meaning in the context of the terrestrial mantle evolution. In addition, it has been proposed that komatiites are not restricted to our planet, but they could be found in other extraterrestrial setting in our Solar System (particularly in Mars and Io). It is important to note that komatiites may be extremely significant in the study of the origins and evolution of Life on Earth. They not only preserve essential geochemical clues of the interaction between the pristine Earth rocks and atmosphere, but also may have been potential suitable sites for biological processes to develop. Thus, besides reviewing the main geodynamic, petrological and geochemical characteristics of komatiites, this paper also aims to widen their investigation beyond the classical geological prospect, calling attention to them as attracting rocks for research in planetology and astrobiology.


ABSTRACT
 This work focus on the effect of different contents of Cu on microstructure and properties of Al–Zn composite coatings. The SEM and EDS were used to analyse the microstructure and composition of the coatings, and the deposition efficiency and porosity of the coating were calculated. The results show that the coatings have low porosity and uniform structure. The hardness, electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance of the coating were measured, and the results showed that the addition of Cu can improve the hardness, electrical conductivity and corrosion resistance of the coating but reduce the deposition efficiency of the powder.


It's a permanent subject for colleges and universities to improve teaching and students' qualities continuously. In this paper, the following two problems were discussed at the angle of university faculty members engaged in classroom teaching: what's an excellent course and how could a course be taught effectively. As for the question how a course could be taught effectively, some technique discussions of three stages were conducted in five processes.


The identification of equivalent linear model for power system is proposed based on Prony analysis.Signals are denoised by wavelet transform to improve the accuracy of identification and a multi-signal sample function matrix is then built to identify the oscillation characteristics.The system transfer function is obtained while the influence of input signal on output signal is the considered.Residue method is applied to coordinate the parameters of analog excitation regulator,based on which,an excitation regulator with PSS(Power System Stabilizer) is designed.Simulation with Matlab is carried out for one-machine infinity power system to verify its feasibility and effectiveness.Simulations for actual system with the designed analog excitation regulator show that,the performance of PSS designed with improved Prony algorithm is better than that by traditional linear mathematical model.


The acoustics of a mean flow boundary layer over an impedance surface or acoustic lining is considered. By considering a thick mean flow boundary layer (possibly due to turbulence), the boundary-layer structure is separated asymptotically into two decks, with a thin weakly viscous mean flow boundary layer and an even thinner strongly viscous acoustic sublayer, without requiring a high frequency. Using this, analytic solutions are found for the acoustic modes in a cylindrical lined duct. The mode shapes in each region compare well with numerical solutions of the linearized compressible Navier–Stokes equations, as does a uniform composite asymptotic solution. A closed-form effective impedance boundary condition is derived, which can be applied to acoustics in inviscid slipping flow to account for both shear and viscosity in the boundary layer. The importance of the boundary layer is demonstrated in the frequency domain, and the new boundary condition is found to correctly predict the attenuation of upstream-propagating cut-on modes, which are poorly predicted by existing inviscid boundary conditions. Stability is also investigated, and the new boundary condition is found to yield good results away from the critical layer. A time-domain formulation of a simplified version of the new impedance boundary condition is proposed.


Recently, predicting personality with the help of smartphone usage becomes very interesting and attention grabbing topic in the field of research. At present there are some approaches towards detecting a user's personality which uses the smartphones usage data, such as call detail records (CDRs), the usage of short message services (SMSs) and the usage of social networking services application. In this paper, we focus on the assessing the correlation between MBTI based user personality and the smartphone usage data. We used Naïve Bayes and SVM classifier for classifying user personalities by extracting some features from smartphone usage data. From analysis it is observed that, among all extracted features facebook usage log working as the best feature for classification of introverts and extraverts; and SVM classifier works well as compared to Naïve Bayes. ■ Keyword : User Personality, Smart Phone, MBTI, HCI, SVM 2015년 12월 14일 접수; 2016년 1월 7일 수정본 접수; 2016년 1월 14일 게재 확정. * 이 논문은 2015년 정부(교육부 또는 미래창조과학부)의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임(NRF-2014R1A1A1007734). †교신저자 email@example.com


This book presents a selection of opposing opinions on various population issues. These include the historical debate on whether there is a population problem; whether the rate of the world population growth is too high; if overpopulation is responsible for hunger poverty and environmental problems; what are the effects of immigration on the United States; and which population policies should be pursued. (ANNOTATION)


Objective  To investigate factors influencing expenditure levels and the use of potentially detrimental coping strategies among tuberculosis (TB) patients. For the purpose of the present study, potentially detrimental coping strategies included borrowing money and selling assets.


ABSTRACT To the Editor: —So much has appeared in The Journal during the past year regarding thallium poisoning, principally from the use of depilatory creams, that it may be of interest to note that probably the largest users of thallium are the state and federal governments in an effort to control wild rodents.In California, during 1928, 7,739,070 acres of land was treated for ground squirrels. More than 2,000,000 pounds of poisoned grain was used, of which 602,728 pounds was thallium treated (Linsdale, Jean M.: Facts Concerning the Use of Thallium in California to Poison Rodents—Its Destructiveness to Game Birds, Song Birds and Other Valuable Wild Life, Condor33:95 [May] 1931). The amount of thallium in this large amount of grain is not stated but it must be considerable. The other poison used is strychnine.As may be inferred from the title of Linsdale's article, naturalists are gravely concerned over


The invention relates to a formula of compound puffed feed for snakehead mullet and process for preparation, wherein the constituents in the formula comprise (by mass ratio): fish meal 35-50%, fermented soybean waste 10-20%, meat and bones meal 0-12%, silkworm chrysalis powder 0-5%, blood powder 0-5%, brewer's yeast 2-5%, shrimp grease 0-6%, fish oil 1.0-3%, high grade flour 10-20%, liquid phosphatide 1-2%, calcium dihydrogenphoshate 0.5-1.5%, composite vitamin 0.5-1%, compound minerals 0.5-1%, choline chloride 0.3-0.5%. The preparing process consists of proportioning constituents, mixing homogeneously, disintegrating, modulating, palletizing and drying.


Very small, cryptic specimens of a new species of sea anemone attach to shells of living gastropods that burrow in subtidal sand on the shores of Saipan and Tinian, Mariana Islands. We have found members of the new species, which we describe as Neoaiptasia morbilla, on the shells of eight species of snails that belong to five families. We modify slightly the definition of the genus Neoaiptasia (family Aiptasiidae) to accommodate this species. Neoaiptasia morbilla n. sp. is most easily distinguished when alive by its pale column with minute red spots and symbiosis with a living gastropod. In preservation, it is distinguished by its lack of cinclides, relatively weak musculature, bumps on its column, which is not divided into regions, and details of its cnidae. Specimens of N. morbilla n. sp. resemble those of Paraiptasia radiata in being symbiotic with snails and living in east Asia, but specimens of P. radiata are larger, have prominent longitudinal stripes, and have a column divided into scapus and scapulus. The animal now known as P. radiata was originally described as Actinia radiata, a name that has been applied to two species of sea anemones from eastern Asia.


The present invention discloses method for fabricating semiconductor photovoltaic element, comprising providing a first substrate, forming a first semiconductor epitaxial layer stack and the second semiconductor epitaxial layer stack on the first substrate, a second substrate, a second transfer to a second semiconductor epitaxial layer stack on the substrate, the first substrate to form a first cut optoelectronic device comprising the first semiconductor epitaxial layer stack, and cutting the second substrate to form a second semiconductor optoelectronic device including the second semiconductor epitaxial layer stack.


Alterations in the generation of activated protein C (APC) as well as in the interactions of APC with the endothelial protein C receptor are present in severe sepsis and acute lung injury. Administration of recombinant human activated protein C (rhAPC) improves the survival of critically ill patients with sepsis, but the mechanisms by which rhAPC produces benefit are not well defined. Human models of systemic and pulmonary endotoxin exposure may provide important insights into the mechanisms of action of rhAPC in critical illness. In volunteers given systemic endotoxin, rhAPC had minimal effects on physiologic parameters, including blood pressure, markers of inflammation, and measures of sepsis-induced coagulopathy. In contrast, in the setting of pulmonary endotoxin exposure, rhAPC decreased neutrophil migration into the airspaces and also diminished neutrophil chemotaxis. Administration of rhAPC did not affect other parameters of neutrophil function, including kinase activation , production of proinflammatory cytokines, or apoptosis. Such results indicate that the effects of rhAPC in inhibiting the infiltration of neutrophils into the lungs and other inflammatory sites may contribute to its beneficial effects in sepsis. The recognition of activation of the coagulation system in most patients with sepsis, as well as growing appreciation of the procoag-ulant state in the lungs during acute lung injury, suggested that anticoagulant therapies, particularly those possessing profibrino-lytic activities might be effective in the treatment of sepsis (1–4). Several different anticoagulant approaches have been examined in large multicenter trials of sepsis (5–7), but only recombinant human activated protein C (rhAPC) was demonstrated to reduce mortality in this setting. The reasons that rhAPC was effective, whereas other therapies with potent anticoagulant effects, such as tissue factor pathway inhibitor or antithrombin, were ineffective , remain incompletely understood. Activated protein C (APC) is generated from the cleavage of protein C by thrombin coupled to thrombomodulin (3, 7–9). The anticoagulant effects of APC result primarily from its inhibition of activated factors V and VIII, with associated decreased generation of thrombin (10). APC also has profibrinolytic properties , by decreasing concentrations of plasminogen-activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1). In in vitro studies, APC can decrease cellular activation, including nuclear translocation of nuclear factor-␬B and production of proinflammatory cytokines (11, 12). Neutrophil adhesion to endothelial cells is inhibited by APC Supported by grants P01 HL68743 and M01 RR0051 from the National Institutes of Health and Eli Lilly and Company. (13). Recent studies show that neutrophils and monocytes have receptors that interact …


Background: The acromioclavicular joint dislocation is one of the most common joint injuries that despite different methods of repair in cases of dislocation of grade 3 to 6, there are still many conflicts regarding the efficacy of these methods in previous studies. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the patients' recovery and function after the fixation of the acromioclavicular joint with grade 3-6 using two surgical methods including pin and screw tools. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 34 patients with dislocation of acromioclavicular joint with grade 3 to 6 who were treated with pin (group 1) or screw (group 2) in two groups of 17 patients were studied. Satisfaction from surgery and functional recovery were assessed using the Shoulder score questionnaire. Results: Overall satisfaction rate was 88.2% in the group 1 and 82.4% in the group 2 (P>0.05). There was no significant difference in the range of motion in different motions of the joint (p>0.05). The score for the shoulder score questionnaire was 11.23 in the first group and 11.70 in the second group was, which did not show significant difference (P>0.05). Conclusion: Surgical treatment using pin and screw tools in cases of acromioclavicular joint dislocation with grade 3-6 can achieve the same therapeutic and functional results. However, more studies are needed to confirm the efficacy of these two tools in various cases of acromioclavicular joint dislocation. Keyword: Acromioclavicular Joint, Bone Screws, Bone Nails, Joint Dislocations How to cite this article: Akbari-Aghdam H, Bonakdar M H. [Short term comparison of surgery treatment with pin and screw tools in patients with acromioclavicular joint dislocation]. Med J Tabriz Uni Med Sciences Health Services. 2020 FebruaryMarch; 41(6):7-14. Persian. © 2020 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article published by Tabriz University of Medical Sciences under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 8 / ٌريد سیربت یوامرد ـ یتشادُب تامدخ ي یکشسپ مًلع ٌاگشواد یکشسپ ٍلجم 14 ٌرامش 6 همُب ي دىفسا 4938


The present investigation was carried out during 2009- 2010 to monitor the changes in maturity indices i.e total organic carbon, total nitrogen, C/N ratio, humic substances and humification index during conventional method of composting and vermicomposting of different organic residues i.e sugarcane trash, weeds, vegetable market waste and paddy straw. The results revealed that the total organic carbon and C/N ratio decreased while total nitrogen and humic substances increased with the passage of time during composting in all the organic residues. Vegetable market waste recorded narrow C/N ratio with high total nitrogen content in both the composting methods. Where paddy straw recorded less nitrogen with wide C/N ratio. The highest humic substances were observed in vegetable market waste vermicompost followed by weed vermicompost. Minimum per cent of humic substances were recorded with cane trash and rice straw. A well known index for humification is the HA/FA ratio, in both the composts paddy straw compost recorded low ratio and high ratio was recorded in vegetable market waste compost. Thus, vermicomposting offers a promising solution for the recycling of organic wastes into valuable organic manure within a short period of time over conventional composting.


ABSTRACT Learning human anatomy is key for health-related education and often requires expensive and time-consuming cadaver dissection courses. Augmented reality (AR) for the representation of spatially registered 3D models can be used as a low-cost and flexible alternative. However, suitable visualisation and interaction approaches are needed to display multilayered anatomy data. This paper features a spherical volumetric AR Magic Lens controlled by mid-air hand gestures to explore the human anatomy on a phantom. Defining how gestures control associated actions is important for intuitive interaction. Therefore, two gesture activation modes were investigated in a user study (n = 24). Performing the gestures once to toggle actions showed a higher interaction count since an additional stop gesture was used. Holding the gestures was favoured in the qualitative feedback. Both modes showed similar performance in terms of accuracy and task completion time. Overall, direct gesture manipulation of a magic lens for anatomy visualisation is, thus, recommended.


The study investigating the electrical properties of dense lead-free piezoelectric ceramics in the (1-x)Sr2NaNb5O15-xCa2NaNb5O15 (SCNN) system with x ranging from 0.05 to 0.35 is reported here. Materials were produced with Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) method. X-Ray diffraction patterns all showed a single tetragonal tungsten bronze phase, peak broadening being seen on increasing the Ca content. The lattice constant calculation indicated distortion and shrinkage of the crystal structure with Ca substitution. Ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of SCNN greatly depended on the Ca content. The composition with x =0.15 exhibited the greatest polarization with Pr =3.0 μC cm-2and piezoelectric constant of d33 =96 pC/ N, whereas the compositions with x =0.30 and 0.35 almost lost their ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity. Not only investigation of materials properties but also application possibility as a sensor is surveyed. The ultrasonic waves generated by SCNN material as a sensor are much clearer that that by commercially available PZT materials. This study apparently indicates that lead-free SCNN piezoelectric ceramics have potential for electromechanical application.


The lack of thoroughness that characterizes the anatomical description of pterygo-temporo-mandibular and interpterygoid fasciae is indisputable; this shortcoming is not only found in classical but also in contemporary bibliography. Likewise, these are not contemplated in International Anatomical Terminology. This paper aims to provide a detailed description of the aforementioned fasciae and the ligaments that depend of them, thus as the bony bridges. Similarly, a correlation among these anatomical structures and trigeminal neuralgia will be developed, placing particular emphasis on its role as the possible etiological agents. In the process of performing this task, skulls (n=200), cadavers without previous fixing (n=10) and cadavers fixed in a 5% aqueous formaldehyde solution (n=20) were used. Following a standardized procedure, using appropriate instrumental and magnifying devices, the dissections were performed. It should be stressed that both, conventional and unconventional approaches, were executed. During each stage of this research pertinent photographic recording was taken. The distinctive anatomical characteristics of these fasciae have been precisely exhibited, detailing its shapes, limits, insertions and relations within infratemporal fossa. A meticulous description of pterygoalar and pterygospinosous ligament was attained and its relations with the colateral branches of mandibular nerve bear special highlighting. Indeed, the role played by these ligaments in the constitution of bony bridges surrounding the oval foramen was widely analyzed. After profound reflexion on the obtained results, a thorough description of pterygo-temporo-mandibular and interpterygoid fasciae and its ligaments was achieved allowing to drawing a parallel between its disposition in the infratemporal fossa and its possible ossification and the compression the nervous branches might undergo so that a trigeminal neuralgia befalls.


Wealth inequality is not just how much a particular nation possesses rather it concerns how it is shared in the society. Every society has different things that make them unequal. Inequality, therefore, leads to troubles as various aspects of the society make life uneven because of views, attitudes, and beliefs. Financial inequality is the level in which wealth is shared unevenly to members of a particular group. Wealth is not only the resources received through pay, but all the resources gotten from employment, investments, state benefits, rent, and royalties. Economic inequality can be experienced in the pay, wealthy or income. Income is any pay received from investments, savings, employment, rent, etc. while pay inequality is the disparity between the pay gotten from employment only. When there is too much economic inequality, there are high levels of poverty and minimal opportunities for kids to overcome their parent's efforts. However, the levels of economic inequality are not the same in different societies. There is a big gap in wealth ownership in the society today. There have been a lot of misconceptions about wealth inequality, but the vicious cycle is a result the society itself. Moreover, despite the high levels of inequality, it is clear that it leads to recessions and the high levels of unemployment as far as making it impossible for many people to get jobs. The government should ensure economic equality among its citizen's failure to which there should be powerful activists to compel the state to enhance equal distribution of resources.


Time series forecasting is one of the important problems in time series analysis. Many different approaches have been developed in this field. Unlike statistical methods, soft computing methods are more tolerant to imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation in time series. This chapter addresses two major aspects of time series forecasting: 1) how to identify time series variables including exogenous ones relevant to forecasting future values, and 2) how to build a better forecasting model to improve the forecasting accuracy. Two different models are developed in this research. First, we propose a soft computing based hybrid method to improve the accuracy of a neural network model. Then a sub-clustered rule-based forecasting method, called WEFuNN, is developed to group similar time series data together in order to reduce the computational time and to increase the accuracy of the forecasting method.


An apparatus, comprising: a housing (1100); a container (5100) of medicament disposed within the housing (1100), the container (5100) of medicamentoesta configured for containing a medicament; an activation mechanism (2000) configured to produce a force for delivering the medicament from Keepcontainer (5100) of medicine; and a base (1300) configured to activate the trigger mechanism (2000); characterized in that: the locking member (1200) is configured to engage a portion of the base to prevent the activation mechanism accionamientodel; and an electronic circuit configured to be coupled to the housing (1100), the system circuitoelectronico includes a switch provided where a portion of the base slides to activate the deactivation mechanism (2000) such that the switch is actuated when actuates the trigger mechanism (2000), the electronic circuitry is further configured to produce an output recorded alocucioncuando the switch is actuated, the trigger mechanism (2000) is configured to produce force regardless of electronic decircuito system.


A rotary machine comprises a body (211), a wheel (212) rotatably mounted in the body (211) about a wheel axis (A), the wheel (212) having a hub (2120), a set of blades (2121) fixed on the hub (2120), the body (211) having a peripheral opening (2111) disposed in periphery of the wheel (212) and an axial opening (2110) disposed opposite the hub (2120), the blades (2121) having a first edge (21,211) facing the axial opening (2110) and a second edge (21,212) facing the peripheral opening (2111) for a fluid flows from one opening to the other, the second edges (21,212) being located within a blade case cylinder (C) centered on the wheel axis (a). The wheel (212) includes a ring (21,201) which extends radially beyond the blade envelope cylinder (C) to form a peripheral wall of the opening (2111).


Recently,bilingual teaching has been a hot spot of the teaching reform of university.Many colleges and universities have carried out bilingual teaching reforming.Through the research and practice of bilingual teaching,the objective,current situation and problems existing in the popularization of bilingual teaching reforming in university were studied.It is suggested that the universities should face practice and carry out bilingual teaching with different levels.


Chromosome behavior, method of reproduction, fertility and morphological characteristics were studied in 48-chromosome plants derived from a 32-chromosome accession (PI 298996) of guineagrass (Panicum maximum Jacq.). Multivalent associations were found at diakinesis and metaphase I which resulted in 33% of the microsporocytes having one or more laggards at anaphase I. Pollen stainability in I2KI ranged from 65% to 85%. Embryo sac analyses indicated that plants reproduced by a high level of apomixis with some sexual embryo sac development which probably accounts for the occasional off-type plants produced. The 48-chromosome plants apparently originated from the fertilization of a 32-chromosome unreduced egg from an apomictic plant by a reduced 16-chromosome male gamete. The 32- and 48-chromosome plants were morphologically simlar. A 40-chromosome plant resulting from a reduced 24-chromosome egg fertilized by a 16-chromosome male gamete was also found among the open-pollinated offspring from a 48-chromosome plant. The discovery of a 48-chromosome plant in a 32-chromosome accession and a 40-chromosome plant in a 48-chromosome offspring are other examples of the influence of apomixis in formation and maintenance of new cytoypes in nature.


This research was conducted to gain understanding and provide empirical evidence regarding the effect of earnings management and audit committee effectiveness on firm value with the control variable firm size. This study uses earnings management as a variable as measured by discretionary accruals and audit committee effectiveness as measured by the number of audit committee meetings. The discretionary accrual model used in this study uses the modified Jones model. In terms of the dependent variable, firm value is measured using the Tobins'Q. Firm size control variable is measured using total assets. The research sample used in this study were 90 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The research data used the period from 2012 to 2016 and was processed using the SPSS program for Windows version 22.0. The results of this study indicate that earnings management and audit committee effectiveness have a positive effect on firm value. Meanwhile, firm size has a significant negative effect on firm value.


MgB2 samples prepared by solid-state reaction were investigated using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HREM), x-ray energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDX), electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), and energy-filtered imaging. Large amounts of coherent precipitates with a size range from about 5 nm up to about 100 nm were found in the MgB2 crystallite matrices. The precipitates are of different shapes including sphere, ellipsoid, and faceted polyhedron depending on the size of the precipitates. EDX and EELS analyses confirm that smaller precipitates contain magnesium, boron and oxygen while larger faceted precipitates contain mainly magnesium and oxygen, implying that the oxygen content increases with precipitate size. HREM and electron diffraction investigations found that the precipitates have the same crystal lattice structure as that of MgB2 but with various composition modulations depending on the composition of the precipitates. The precipitates transform to the MgO phase after long e...


Objective:To investigate the development of third molar embryo of ten years old teenagers through panoramic radiographs in Chengdu.Method:Randomly selected 426 panoramic radiographs between June 2009 and 2010 July from the database of West China Stomatology Hospital of Sichuan University,and then performed a cross-sectional study about the third molar development.All the data were statistically analysed.Result:The rate we cannot find the tooth germ or mineral was 32.57 % by teeth.The development of the third molar appeared earlier in girls than in boys,and earlier in the mandible than in the maxillary.There was no significant difference between the left and right side.Mesiodistal croun width of mandibular the third molar was(11.42±0.86)mm.The length of the mandibular the third molar through the long axis was(8.44±1.30)mm.There were no significant diferences in Mesiodistal croun width and the length between male and female and between the left and right side.The angle between the long axis of the third molar and the second molar was(30.79±13.82) degrees.There were significant diferences in the angle between the left and the right side,as the angle 28.34 degrees in left and 33.29 degrees in right.Conclusion:Most of the third molar of the ten years old teenagers were at the crown mineralizing stage.The angle between the long axis of the third molar and the second molar in right side was larger than that in the left.


The imperative for international education, in its content, scope, depth and pedagogy, is both an effect and cause of increasing globalization. International education is also used as a major instrument of 'soft power', in the projections of power and influence of the US Imperium. This paper explores, with concrete examples, some of the evolving, and increasingly sophisticated instruments, issues, approaches, techniques, players and intentions embodied in the uses of international education programs and approaches in the penetration, co-optation and control of targeted social formations by the US Imperium. New research in brain science in the West, coupled with research in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, political science, cognitive psychology, media studies, etc., have led to increasing use of more subtle, sophisticated, flexible, mobile, adaptive, culturally appropriate, and even subliminal, approaches to projections of political, economic, social, cultural and technological influence and control of targeted populations, as well as in identifying and cultivating students and faculty with potential for influence in their respective societies, and to become future instruments 'in place' to aid in the continuing expanded reproduction of the globalized system of the US Imperium.


Own and published data substantiate the direct effect of the allergen on smooth muscle cells due to its interaction with fixed IgE antibodies on type I Fcε receptors (FcεRI) expressed on these cells. The effects of Fcε RI-mediated stimulation of smooth muscle cells in the form of activation of the contractile mechanism, as well as the production and secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines, are considered. Establishing the value of FcεRI-mediated activation of smooth muscle cells in the allergic response remains the task of subsequent studies.


Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is non-invasive neuromodulation therapy which uses time-varying magnetic fields to induce electric fields within the patient's brain, thus allowing for neural stimulation of the targeted region. While past studies have used finite-element analysis (FEA) to model the effects of stimulation on brain tissue, there have been limited studies which analyze the effects of the same stimulation on the neuron responses. We use a python package called NEST to model the populations of neurons which are healthy as well as those that have diminished or absent myelin sheath. We model diminished myelin sheath by increasing the capacitance of the neuron. We study the effects of TMS on the synaptic activity of these populations by utilizing clinical parameters specific to TMS. Furthermore, we compare our results to the models of brain tissue stimulation using the FEA software Sim4Life. Our results indicate that all neuron populations, regardless of their myelination state, retain some stimulation threshold which increases discretely as the myelin sheath diminishes. Using tissue analysis, we also computed the range of TMS current necessary to reach these stimulation thresholds for demyelinated populations. Furthermore, we find that the maximum-induced E-field on the cortical surface does not exceed 220 V/m for stimulation of highly demyelinated neuron populations. Therefore our study finds that although demyelinated neurons exhibit much lower nominal synaptic activity than healthy neurons, they are nevertheless responsive to TMS, and these stimulation thresholds can be reached without inducing an unsafe maximum E-field on the cortex.


This article uses multidimensional scaling and correspondence analysis to explore how international airline passengers position various air carriers. The analysis has produced perceptual maps of relative positions of airlines and their service attributes. Empirical data were collected from Taiwanese air passengers who had flown from Taipei to Tokyo and to Singapore. Factor analysis was performed to reduce a large number of airline service attributes into a small set of underlying factors. The results of multidimensional scaling analyses reveal that some air carriers are closely competitive; this can be seen by their close proximity in the perceptual map. However, certain airlines possess a unique service quality profile and are not strongly associated with other airlines; such unique firms appear as isolated points on the perceptual map. Interestingly, both multidimensional scaling and correspondence analysis produce similar perceptual maps of the airlines' relative positions and service attributes. However, the advantage of correspondence analysis over multidimensional scaling is that data collection is relatively quick and easy because the analyst is not required to obtain respondents' ratings for each attribute. This study provides specific suggestions about how air carriers on each route can use the results to improve their performance or to build a differential edge.


The article suggests and describes a GMDH algorithm for the synthesis of co-operative immune network in the solution of tasks of forecasting of time series. Conducted comparative experiments have shown that the use of external criteria improves adaptability, robustness and accuracy of the obtained solutions.


Africa as a continent has had challenges in its social, economic and political setup. COVID -19 pandemic amplified some of the issues the continent is struggling to contain at various levels to ensure sustainability. In terms of Education, the continent is yet to come to terms in realizing universal literacy, career related skills development for 21st century, quality education, infrastructure among others. Achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is still a pipe dream. This chapter addresses issues that warrant discussion and raise concerns in education circles in developing continents. The disruptions that affected and impacted on the education sector during the corona pandemic from various standpoints need to be debated and addressed. The chapter will look at issues that impacted on education and how institutional mechanisms were put in place to ensure continuity in education upon World Health organization declaration of COVID -19 as a pandemic. Terms and concepts like online learning, Remote learning ,home schooling, distance learning and others which were not considered as crucial in education became the 'new normal 'This study highlights responses at various levels of education and in various geographical settings as to how various governments handled the pandemic. The chapter takes a look of the benefits of using technology during crisis and the value of innovation in continued learning. The role of technology in education and also how it changed and challenged the learning landscape is also highlighted. It also explores instances of equity, unpreparedness and access to quality education at all levels in education.


The present invention is a light device HVDC HVDC side capacitor charging method, a DC output side of the rectifier or an inverter by way of gradual starting, starting between each power cell rectifier cascaded delay time t, each a power unit output pulse width modulation PWM technology, the duty ratio is gradually increased from 0 to 1. When the high voltage direct current side can effectively reduce the impact of transient current, in particular equipment used in HVDC relatively harsh field conditions, or DC field is attached to the side of the lightning protection device, the DC-side short-circuit protection device HVDC equipment is necessary the present invention can be effectively HVDC failure when the DC output side or the input side of the DC current is turned off, to enhance the security and reliability of the whole system.


The fluorrocarbon acrylate emulsion was prepared using organofluorine monomers and acrylate as monomers.The influence of technical conditions such as cross-linking agent,emulsifier,initiator,organofluorine monomers on the properties of emulsion were discussed.The results of fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FT-IR) showed that the fluorrocarbon was bonded in the chain of copolymers.The emulsion had a high conversion(98.31%) and lower cohesion content(0.42%) while using divinylbenzene(DVB) as cross-linking agent and using R-A/R-D as composite emulsifier,n(R-A):n(R-D)= 0.5,w(initiator)=0.4%,w(organofluorine monomer)=20%.The membrane' s contact angle is 77° and the water-absorbent rate is 8.89%.


The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent material and an application thereof. The electroluminescent material has a molecular structure as shown in a formula (I), has relatively good thin film stability and suitable molecular energy level, can serve as a hole-transport material, and is applied to the field of organic electroluminescent.


Factors that influence gifted 17 years old students' attitude towards mathematics taught at school were analyzed. 30 students were selected based on their latest examination grades. Questionnaires of 18 questions were given out of which 13 were multiple-choice questions and five were free response questions. It is found that teachers' attitudes and personalities can influence the students to be more inclined towards mathematics, followed by exposure of application of mathematics in daily life and students' grades.


The transfer matrix method for linear multibody systems is capable of providing precise solutions for the dynamics of various mechanical systems, but it may also suffer from numerical instability in some cases, where serial chains with a large number of mechanical elements are involved or high-frequency harmonic responses are computed. Combining such a transfer strategy with the Riccati transformation yields the Riccati transfer matrix method (RTMM), which can help improve the numerical stability. According to the existing method, the conventional transfer matrices of all the mechanical elements should be obtained first; in other words, the existence of conventional transfer matrices is a prerequisite for the application of the RTMM. Thus, it seems that the RTMM is incapable of performing the dynamics analysis of linear multibody systems with indeterminate in-span conditions due to the nonexistence of the corresponding conventional transfer matrices. Observe that, for any state variables with indeterminate input–output relationships, the complementary state variables (the complementary state variable of a displacement is the corresponding internal force and vice versa) are identically equal to zero, and that the dimension of the Riccati transfer equation is only half of that of the conventional transfer equation. It reveals that the Riccati transfer equations for the connection points associated with indeterminate in-span conditions can be formulated directly, and that there is no need to rely on the conventional transfer equation. Two numerical examples are simulated and the computational results are compared with those obtained by the finite element method, which verifies the proposed method.


In view of the drawbacks of students' academic achievement evaluation in the traditional "Web Design" course, this paper applies the theory of diversity and development to the evaluation of students' academic achievement in the course of "Web Design", improving the traditional way in the evaluation concept, subject, mode and content, and initially constructing the evaluation scheme for students' academic achievement of "Web Design" course, which improves students' interest in learning and promotes students' development and professional development.


 Abstract— we find the problem of Privacy Preserving Back Propagation Algorithm for a Vertically Partitioned Dataset. To improve the learning, Enhanced data is more important to find the exact privacy concern of each data holder by extending the privacy preservation suggested to original learning algorithms. In this paper, we try to improve preserving the privacy in an important multilayer neural networks and learning model. We present a privacy preserving multiparty distributed algorithm of back propagation which allows a neural network to be trained without requiring either party to reveal her data to the others. We gave more correctness and security analysis of our algorithms. The effectiveness of our algorithms is checked and verified by experiments on various real world data sets. We address this open problem by incorporating the computing power of the cloud computing. The main idea of our paper can be summarized as follows: each participant first encrypts her/his private data with the system public key and then uploads the cipher texts to the cloud; cloud servers then execute most of the operations pertaining to the learning process over the cipher texts and return the encrypted results to the participants.


The new device is consisted of the plastic pallet,foam board with holes,transparent cylindrical tube and absorbent cotton. The application method is as follows. A foam board is put on a plastic pallet with some water. The diapausing larvae are individually placed in a cylindrical tube and the both ends of the cylindrical tube are plugged with absorbent cotton. Then,the cylindrical tubes are inserted to the holes of foam board. Finally,the devices are transferred to inducing-development conditions to observe the termination of diapause. This device finely simulates the external environment of diapause termination in the field and meets the water needs of the diapausing larvae. Using the new devices,the termination of diapause from six geographical populations originated from Huizhou,Yongxiu,Hefei,Taian,Langfang and Shenyang under L ∶ D = 18∶6 at 25 ℃and natural conditions was successfully observed. More than 85% diapausing larvae pupated at the two treatments. The experimental method is simple and can also be used to observe the course of pupation for overwintering larvae and forecast the date of adult emergence in the field.


The present investigation is an attempt to detection the effect of aflatoxin B1 on structural characteristic of DNA in different tissue, include liver, kidney, spleen and blood, in vivo by treated weight albino rate to AFB1 for 2 weeks as oral daily dose 1 ml/ kg. DNA fragmentation test was used to detect changes in DNA and micronuclei test in bone marrow cell. the results show that AFB1 causes lyses in DNA in all tissue and blood in variant level compare with negative control, liver show greater level than other organs 9660 pb, spleen was 9133 pb, kidney was 6166 pb and lower level in blood was 1366 pb. So it cause increased in micronuclei formation in bone marrow cell.


Somatic mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene in nonsmall‐cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may predict responsiveness to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. These mutations are commonly identified using DNA sequencing methods. Although considered the gold standard, this approach is time‐consuming. In addition, this approach requires large diagnostic specimens and a high ratio of tumor‐to‐normal‐tissue DNA for optimal results. The use of denaturing high‐performance liquid chromatography (dHPLC) as a method to screen for the 2 predominant EGFR mutations is reported.


The paper analyses experimental data obtained in studies of high-temperature treatment of softwood and hardwood in an environment of saturated water steam. Data were processed in the Curve Expert software for the purpose of statistical modelling of processes and phenomena occurring during this process. The multifactorial modelling resulted in the empirical dependences, allowing determining the main parameters of this type of hydrothermal treatment with high accuracy.


New techniques have been introduced by the authors and collaborators in the course of their studies on the state, transport and regulation of insulin in man. The discovery that a portion of insulin in blood circulates in a complex form extractable by cationic exchange resins (Nacycle) led to the development of a simple technique for the separation of this portion of insulin from whole serum. The observation that insulin in its complex form is devoid of insulin activity, when assayed in vitro under specified conditions, resulted in the finding that factors present in adipose tissue extracts could dissociate the blood insulin complex (es). Methods have been developed therefore for the extraction, storage, preservation and "standardization" of these factors from adipose tissue. Studies on the ratio of "free" and "bound" insulin-like activity in serum suggest that this ratio does not represent a purely physicochemical equilibrium between "bound" and "free" insulin. This ratio depends upon the metabolic state ...


Based on a case study of the course of Moral Culture,this paper summarize three fundamental experiences in the course development: stress the guiding and remedial roles of the course through an increase of professional knowledge in the instruction,apply facilities of modern technology in teaching and build teaching feedback and evaluating system.


We investigate the existence of black hole solutions of four dimensional su ( N ) EYM theory with a negative cosmological constant. Our analysis differs from previous works in that we generalise the field equations to certain non-spherically symmetric spacetimes. The work can be divided into two sections. In the first half, we use theorems of Wang's to derive a new topologically general su ( N ) -invariant one-form connection which may serve as the ansatz for our gauge potential. The second half is devoted to proving the existence of non-trivial solutions to the field equations for any integer N , with N − 1 gauge degrees of freedom. Specifically, we prove existence in two separate regimes: for fixed values of the initial parameters and as | Λ | → ∞ ; and for any Λ < 0, in some neighbourhood of existing trivial solutions. In both cases we can prove the existence of 'nodeless' solutions, i.e. such that all gauge field functions have no zeroes; this fact is of interest as we anticipate that some of them may be stable.


This talk reviews three inputs important to neutrino-induced nucleosynthesis in a supernova: 1) "standard" properties of the supernova neutrino flux, 2) effects of phenomena like neutrino oscillations on that flux, and 3) nuclear structure issues in estimating cross sections for neutrino-nucleus interactions. The resulting possibilities for neutrino-induced nucleosynthesis -- the neutrino-process -- in massive stars are discussed. This includes two relatively recent extensions of neutrino-process calculations to heavier nuclei, one focused on understanding the origin of 138La and 180Ta and the second on the effects following r-process freezeout. From calculations of the neutrino post-processing of the r-process distribution, limits can be placed on the neutrino fluence after freezeout and thus on the dynamic timescale for the expansion of the "hot bubble."


[1] This paper describes how a statistical scale-space technique can be used for evaluating climate models. A difference image between model and validation data is used as input. Hypothesis testing is performed at each difference pixel for a broad range of image resolutions (or scales). This approach circumvents some of the classical problems of hypothesis testing. An area, at a particular scale, is claimed to be significant if it is sufficiently different from zero in the difference image. such differences are called features. As the scale gradually increases from fine to coarse, features are created, they grow and merge and may finally annihilate. The scale-space algorithm produces maps for statistical inference and the degree of significance at different locations. The adapted scale-space technique was applied for validation of ECHAM5 Global Circulation Model surface albedo against a remote sensing surface albedo climatology. Overall, the largest discrepancies were detected over snow and ice-covered areas, and ECHAM5 was found to overestimate the albedo compared to the albedo climatology for all scales in March. Successively coarser spatial scales resulted in more and larger significant areas in the difference image. At the finest scales (280 km) very few areas of significant albedo differences were detected because of relatively high interannual variability for the areas of largest difference. At 1100 km, significant albedo differences were found in the southern part of the Arctic Ocean adjacent to the ice edge, probably because of the different positions of the ice edge in the two data sets. A scale of 2500 km was found to be reasonable for validating albedo as the statistical significance agrees well with differences meaningful from a climatologist's point of view. At this scale most of the snow covered regions in Northern Eurasia with high positive differences and relatively low interannual variability were found to be significant.


Populus euphratica forests are the dominant ecosystems in Ejina Oasis,which play an important role in keeping the fragile ecological balance in the vast northwest areas of China.However,P.euphratica forests are undergoing severe degradation in recent years as a result of water shortage and pollution and human disturbance.Due to the failure of seed-originated seedlings,the regeneration of the forest mainly depends on the clonal growth of root suckers.In this study,we examined the relationship between the development and growth of root suckers and the environment factors in different forest gaps to gain a better understanding of the regeneration dynamics of this forest.The results of principal component analysis(PCA)indicate that environmental factors in the forest gaps can be classified into five components:the density of Sophara alopecuroides,soil moisture and compactness,size of forest gaps,human disturbance,and amount of P.euphratica adult individuals(DBH15cm)at the edge of the forest gaps.However,the result of Spearman Correlation Analysis shows that these environmental factors have no significant influence on the density of P.euphratica root suckers.Therefore it seems that the root suckers of P.euphratica sprout randomly.Meanwhile,results of another Spearman Correlation Analysis suggest that the density of Sophara alopecuroides and human disturbance and the amount of adult individuals of P.euphratica have significant influence on height and basal diameter of root suckers.Based on our observation,we put forward a hypothesis of randomicity and resource heterogeneity to explain the mechanism in developing of P.euphratica root suckers.At the same time,we think that enormous tending to root suckers is indispensable to improve regeneration of P.euphratica forests.


Abstract There is no difference of opinion about the idea that development of water and hydroelectric power resources in the Indo‐Nepal region would be of substantial mutual benefit to both countries. Any development in the region of Nepal and the Indian States of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar would be of considerable benefit to the people, as this region is one of the poorest in the world. Large projects have been discussed between the two countries for several decades. However, none of these projects has reached even the design stage. Consequently benefits from these projects will take at least two or more decades to reach the people. The present study was undertaken to understand the reasons for lack of progress in these projects. The problem is stated first, followed by a description of the physical features of the area under consideration. The water and power projects already undertaken and important projects which are being considered are discussed next. Several reasons for the lack of action, and the nee...


The issue this article addresses is how to improve the intelligence product. That is, how to make it more acceptable to those who use it as an input to the policy and decision-making process. The most senior officials responsible for making policy determine, to a large extent, what the priorities are. They have the responsibility and the power to insure that resources are applied to answering their questions. Thus, the central principle of intelligence as practiced today in the United States is that the president is the most senior policy maker and therefore the most important consumer of the intelligence product. The chief executive asks the questions that get the highest priority.


The invention discloses an ultra-shallow three-dimensional seismic reflection wave exploration method. The method comprises the following steps of: designing ultra-shallow three-dimensional seismic acquisition arrangement pieces; arranging a wave detector according to the design; exciting seismic waves by hammering a seismic source; sequentially rolling the three-dimensional seismic arrangement pieces along a longitudinal direction and a horizontal direction at intervals of 4 meters to complete the acquisition of three-dimensional seismic data; performing band-pass filtering, two-dimensional frequency space filtering and stacking on the acquired seismic data, and thus obtaining an ultra-shallow three-dimensional seismic reflection wave stacked data body, wherein a plane distribution rangeand the three-dimensional configuration of an underground detection target can be displayed according to the ultra-shallow three-dimensional seismic reflection wave data body. By the method, the problem of three-dimensional exploration of the ultra-shallow detection target in the field of engineering geological investigation is solved, the plane distribution condition and the three-dimensional configuration of the detection target can be clearly seen according to exploration results, and the detection capability of seismic exploration in the field of engineering investigation is improved.


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The implementation of the communication between WINCC and Mitsubishi PLC by the OPC interface in the design of Motor SCADA(Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system has been introduced in this paper.The problem of exchange information among the different industry-product has been solved successfully by using the OPC(OLE for Process Control) interface,which made the design of Supervisory systems more conveniently.The concrete steps and program are offered in detail in the paper as well,the stability and effectiveness of the communication has been proved by the result of implementation.


THE promise of religious freedom and economic opportunity attracted many sectarian groups to America in the eighteenth century and gave rise to a considerable number of experiments in religious communitarianismn. Most of these communities were shortlived, a handful have persisted to this day. Although a few of these, notably those of the Hutterites and the Mennonites have been studied in some detail, little is known about many of the others.1 The Moravians who arrived on these shores in the first half of the eighteenth century founded a number of religious settlements in Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. The most prominent of these was Bethlehem, in eastern Pennsylvania, a community which preserved its religious character for almost a century. This Moravian experiment in religious commlunitarianism has received comparatively scant attention from social scielntists, due in large measure to the fact that the relevant documentary materials were written in eighteenth century German script and form part of a poorly and only partially catalogued collection of manuscripts. 2 Yet, the diligence of the Moravians in keeping and preserving letters, personal and communal diaries, autobiographical sketches, statements of accounts, deeds of propcrty and maps, provide an unusual opportunity to study in detail


This paper presents findings on using crowdsourcing via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to obtain Arabic nicknames as a contribution to exiting Named Entity (NE) lexicons. It demonstrates a strategy for increasing MTurk participation from Arab countries. The researchers validate the nicknames using experts, MTurk workers, and Google search and then compare them against the Database of Arabic Names (DAN). Additionally, the experiment looks at the effect of pay rate on speed of nickname collection and documents an advertising effect where MTurk workers respond to existing work batches, called Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs), more quickly once similar higher paying HITs are posted.


In this paper the authors summarize the activities at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in modifying the structural mathematical model to correlate with its modal test results. In addition to the results from the Viking and Galileo spacecrafts, developments in the parameter estimation of structural mathematical models of large flexible structures using Multiple Boundary Condition Tests (MBCT) are presented.


Identification of genetic diversity and their relationships among breeding materials is crucial in crop improvement strategies. In this study, 38 sesame genotypes were characterized for their genetic diversity. The results revealed significant variations among various traits such as plant height, maturity, capsule plant-1 and seeds capsule-1. The number of capsule plant-1 showed significant positive correlation with seeds capsule-1. The highest heritability was found for the numbers of capsules plant-1 (98.67%). The 38 genotypes were separated into six distinct clusters. Comparison within the populations of the cluster IV and those of cluster VI had the highest capsules plant-1, seeds capsule-1 with enormous genetic diversity. For molecular characterization, 7 microsatellite markers and 5 SSR primers with polymorphism were finally chosen for genetic diversity analysis. Altogether, 19 alleles were identified among the 38 genotypes, and the average number of alleles per locus was 3.80. The lowest and the highest numbers of alleles were 3 and 5, respectively. The polymorphism information content (PIC) ranged from 0.3201 to 0.5934 and SI-ssr30 showed to be highest at 0.5934. The UPGMA based clustering depicted a significant variation at molecular level among the sesame genotypes, having a coefficient of similarity between 0.29 and 1.00. The present study confirmed that extensive genetic diversity existed among the sesame genotypes and valuable agronomic traits may result in the development of high yielding genotypes.