In order to satisfy a satellite horizontality requirement in an experiment, it is indispensable to monitor and adjust the horizontality of a large platform loading the satellite under the condition of ultra-low temperature with real time. So the control system design and control strategy are described in detail to accomplish the horizontality monitoring and adjusting. The system adopts the industry control computer as the upper computer and the SIEMENS S7-300 PLC as the lower computer. The upper computer that bases on industry configuration software IFIX takes charge of monitoring the platform and puts forward the control strategy. PLC takes charge of receiving the adjusting instructions and controlling the legs moving to accomplish the horizontality adjusting. The horizontality adjusting strategy is emphasized and the concept of grads is introduced to establish a mathematics model of the platform inclined state, so the adjusting method is obtained. Accordingly the key question of the automatic horizontality adjusting is solved in this control system.


Skeleton-based gesture recognition is very challenging, as the high-level information in gesture is expressed by a sequence of complexly composite motions. Previous works often learn all the motions with a single model. In this paper, we propose to decouple the gesture into hand posture variations and hand movements, which are then modeled separately. For the former, the skeleton sequence is embedded into a 3D hand posture evolution volume (HPEV) to represent fine-grained posture variations. For the latter, the shifts of hand center and fingertips are arranged as a 2D hand movement map (HMM) to capture holistic movements. To learn from the two inhomogeneous representations for gesture recognition, we propose an end-to-end two-stream network. The HPEV stream integrates both spatial layout and temporal evolution information of hand postures by a dedicated 3D CNN, while the HMM stream develops an efficient 2D CNN to extract hand movement features. Eventually, the predictions of the two streams are aggregated with high efficiency. Extensive experiments on SHREC'17 Track, DHG-14/28 and FPHA datasets demonstrate that our method is competitive with the state-of-the-art.


In recognition of the varying levels of laboratory activity in different localities around the world, we have defined three types of laboratories associated with haemophilia care. Each type is defined in terms of the various levels of the laboratory expertise as identified by a list of recommended assays. Although we have listed the tests which we believe should be performed in each type of laboratory, the lists are not meant to be exclusive. Comprehensive methodologies are not provided, but the importance of quality control and standards is stressed in relation to standard procedures. For each test we offer comment and advice which is intended to assist in the establishment of the assays and tests and in the interpretation of the results obtained. We do stress the importance of close collaboration, and, indeed, interdependence between each type of laboratory, both in the referral of patients and in the final diagnosis of disease. The role of reference coagulation laboratories in fostering these connections and in providing sufficient opportunities for advice and training at all levels is a very important aspect of the proposed system.


Abstract This study provided the data for the planning of knit apparel by analyzing structural effects of intarsiaand jacquard knit on mechanical properties, subjective hand measurements, and preference. Intarsia and 7types of color jacquard (floating jacquard, normal jacquard, bird's eye jacquard, tubular jacquard, ladder'sback jacquard, blister jacquard, and transfer jacquard) were used. The samples (with a gauge of 14) wereknitted using 100% wool 2/48's yarn by a Shima Seiki SIG computer knitting machine. Mechanical prop-erties and hand values were measured by a KES-FB system. Subjective hand and favorable images weresurveyed based on women in their 20s and 30s. The data were analyzed by a factor analysis, ANOVA andcorrelation analysis using SPSS 12.0. The subjective hand of intarsia and jacquard knits was categorizedinto 'thermofeeling', 'weight/flexibility', and 'durability'. The results of the favorable image survey for F/Wouter knitwear showed that tubular jacquard was most favorable; however, the transfer jacquard was leastfavorable. Among the three factors that explain the subjective hand, thermofeeling had a strong influenceon the favorable image of consumers. Bird's eye jacquard and tubular jacquard turned out to be mostsuitable for suits, intarsia and floating jacquard were suitable for cardigans and sweaters, ladder's backjacquard was suitable for hats or mufflers, and transfer jacquard was suitable for home fashion rather thangarments.Key words: Inatarsia, Color jacquard, Objective hand, Subjective hand, Favorable image; 인타샤, 칼라자카드, 객관적 태, 주관적 태, 호감도


The steady three-dimensional rotating flow past a stretching/shrinking surface in water and kerosene-based nanofluids containing single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is investigated. The governing equations are converted to similarity equations, and then numerically solved using MATLAB software. The impacts of rotational, suction, and nanoparticle volume fraction on the flow and the thermal fields, as well as velocity and temperature gradients at the surface, are represented graphically and are analyzed. Further, the friction factor and the heat transfer rate for different parameters are presented in tables. It is found that the heat transfer rate increases with increasing nanoparticle volume fraction as well as suction parameter in water and kerosene-based nanofluids of single and multi-walled CNTs. However, the increment in the rotating flow parameter decreases the rate of heat transfer. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes and kerosene-based nanofluid contribute to heat transfer rates better than single-walled carbon nanotubes and water-based nanofluid, respectively. A unique solution exists for the stretching surface, while two solutions are obtained for the shrinking surface. Further analysis of their stabilities shows that only one of them is stable over time.


This paper discusses the additional design assurance strategies stated in RTCA/DO-254, Appendix B - "Design assurance considerations for level A and level B functions." In particular, we address the use of formal specification languages such as the property specification language (PSL) in combination with dynamic (simulation) and static (formal) verification methods for programmed logic devices. Using these methods, we suggest a design assurance strategy for complex programmable airborne electronics compliant with the guidelines of RTCA/DO-254. The strategy is a semi-formal solution, a hybrid of static and dynamic assertion based verification.


Transition of thin film memory element based on tellurium in a metastable state with quasimetallic conductivity is followed by structural transformations, which leads to a charge ordering of electron density as a result of reallocation of atoms with different valences. The memory effects in these structures are conditioned by cooperative effects of interacting dipole complexes.


Research is yet to address market mavenism and knowledge sharing in the age of new media. Firms' exploitation of social media to connect with consumers is becoming the norm. Hinging on product imagery, and led by such platforms as Pinterest, Wanelo, and WeHeartIt, a breed of social media is gaining ground by attracting female consumers. Accordingly, there is a need to (1) conceptualize social media mavenism in a way that deliberates the specificities of these media, (2) theorize about its relationship with the social commerce-related behaviors consumers conduct on these networks, and (3) investigate its attitudinal and experiential determinants. With Pinterest as a case in point, this research fills these gaps by conceptualizing social media mavenism and placing it in nomological network using interviews and data from 528 consumers. The results supported our thesis that the social network's utilitarian attitude, role in decision making, and digital virtual consumption generate maven-like behavior by fueling three social commerce-related behaviors (network expansion, social privatization, and knowledge creation). The maven-like behavior, which amounts to knowledge dissemination on the social network, strongly predicts the network's opinion leadership and account attachment. Post-hoc analysis reveals that individual factors help discriminate social media mavens, showing predictive validity and drawing parallel with market mavenism. The results thus lay the groundwork for a measure (the SMM metric) that reflects knowledge dissemination on a social network, enticing the practitioners eager to capture the potential of a network's influencers to not only target mavens but also discern the social commerce-related behaviors the members conduct, which can be nurtured by enhancing the network's attitudinal and experiential factors.


The advancement from new-born to old-age results in physical and psychological growth of human-being. The number of neurons also begins to die or become impaired with advancing age. These dying or impaired neurons result in declination for the generation of dopamine which is the prime reason for Parkinson's disease (PD). Though PD is incurable, early detection, proper diagnosis, and timely medication may help PD patients to perform their routine tasks. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are one such medium for automatic detection of PD. But the nature of EEG signals is complex, non-linear, and non-stationary making its analysis difficult. Therefore, this paper presents a computer-aided clinical decision support system (CACDSS). The CACDSS consists of automatic signal analysis and classification techniques combining automated variational mode decomposition (AOVMD) and automated extreme learning machine (AOELM) classifier. AOVMD selects the decomposition parameters adaptively using the arithmetic optimization algorithm by extracting representative modes and minimizing reconstruction error. The modes are further used to compute features which are fed to AOELM classifier to classify normal controls (NC) versus off medication PD EEG records (SFPD) and NC versus on medication PD EEG records (SOPD). The highest accuracy of 98.91% and 98.55% is obtained in classifying NC versus SOPD and NC versus SFPD, respectively.


This paper contains results of the EU funded project EquiMar (Equitable Testing and Evaluation of Marine Energy Extraction Devices in terms of Performance, Cost and Environmental Impact) on the Environmental Impact Assessment work package and aims to be one of the products of its dissemination. This work concerns the summary of the development of one of the most important end products of the Equimar project, which is the protocol on environmental assessment for ocean energy projects (wave and tidal). Previous to the full detailed protocol a high level document was developed in order to provide a consistent and clear approach to the development of each detailed protocol. These initial documents explain the objectives, strategic needs and principles relevant to each protocol and form the foundation from which the full protocols are being developed within the project. The High Level document is presented herein taking into account the objectives, the reporting of the activity, the contents of the detailed protocol and the principles that contribute to the development of a guidance or best practice. The protocol on environmental assessment is intended to be a balanced approach between scientific, legislative and industry interests in order to


Gravitational Lensing in an Exact Locally Inhomogeneous Cosmology Allen Attard Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Toronto 2005 A Recursive Swiss-Cheese (RSC) cosmological model is an exact solution to Einstein's general relativistic field equations allowing for dramatic local density inhomogeneities while maintaining global homogeneity and isotropy. It is constructed by replacing spherical regions of an FRW background with higher density cores placed at the centre of a Schwarzschild vacuum, with each core itself potentially being given the same treatment and the process repeated to generate a range of multifractal structures. Code was developed to tightly pack spheres into spaces of constant curvature in an efficient manner, and was used to develop libraries of packings with positive, negative, and zero curvature. Various projections are used to illustrate their structure, and means of measuring its dimensionality are discussed. A method by which these packings can be used as building blocks of an RSC model, along with a way of selecting parameters to define the model, is described, and a coordinate system allowing a relativistically consistent means of synchronizing its various components is developed. Formulations of the optical scalar equations for the expansion and shear rates of a beam are considered, and a set suitable for numerical integration selected. The forms of the null geodesic beam trajectories in each region of the model are computed, and a parallel propagated shadow plane basis that can be consistently followed between the various model sections is established. This allowed the development of code using a fourth order, variable step size Runge-Kutta integration routine to compute the gravitational


Two kinds of different size calcium carbonates are blended and filled into polypropylene in 30 wt%. The melting viscosity of PP composites samples is measured by capillary extrusion rheometer at 230°C. The results show that the melt viscosity of PP composites evidently decreased when that was filled with the blending 325 and 1,500 mesh CaCO3 and the 1,500 mesh proportion in fillers was from 20 to 60 wt%. The viscosity in the low shear velocity decreased more than that in the high shear velocity. The shear viscosity of single filler and filler samples with the size distribution at the different temperature was studied by capillary extrusion rheometer. The results show that the flow activation energy and the flow activation entropy of composites filled with the size distribution filler increased. The change of the flow activation entropy and the model of the efficient arrangement of the structure are used to explain the phenomenon in melting viscosity decrease of PP filled with the size distribution fillers. A structural model of composites that filled with the size distribution fillers was set up. POLYM. COMPOS., 2011. © 2011 Society of Plastics Engineers


Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a prominence issue that will challenge the public relations industry in the era of the fourth industrial revolution or commonly called as the industry 4.0. AI is predicted to change the landscape of the public relations sphere because there is some concern that AI will take over the job of the public relations practitioners. This article discusses what public relations practitioners think about it. Study shows that although PR practitioners believe that AI could do some PR tasks at the low level, they have tendency to be sceptical about AI capabilities to accomplished a more complex of PR tasks that require certain types of intelligence.


In acid medium, o-phenanthroline foruns complexes with divalent cations of Cd, Zn, Co, Ni, and Mn stronger than those with EDTA. But o-phenanthroline almost does not react with cations of some trivalent elements, the rare earths, and the Pb/sup 2+/ ion. This behavior was used for a highly selective complexometric determination of Pb and an indirect determination of Al in the presence of the above elements. (tr-auth)


The Arbuckle Group of the midcontinent comprises the mid-southern part of the great American carbonate bank (GACB) and consists mostly of carbonates with a few laterally consistent sandstones. The Arbuckle Group is found in the Anadarko, Ardmore, and Arkoma Basins and surrounding environs in the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. These basins represented a significant downwarp associated with early rifting in the area now located in the southern one half of both the states of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Similar to other parts of the GACB, the thick widespread Cambrian–Ordovician Arbuckle Group was deposited as mostly restricted shallow-water marine carbonates. The Arbuckle is a cyclic carbonate dominated by intertidal and shallow subtidal facies. In some areas, supratidal or deeper subtidal facies are observed. The depositional model is represented by an extensive, dominantly regressive, tidal flat with persistent peritidal facies across much of the GACB. These peritidal cycles shallow upward with significant variation in thickness from as thin as 4 ft (1.2 m) to more than 110 ft (33.5 m) thick. Large-scale regional changes in relative sea level may have had a large influence on the type of cycles and sequences that formed during Arbuckle deposition. Arbuckle strata, especially within third-order sequence boundaries, are correlatable across the basin. Within the sequence boundaries, cycles can be further grouped into packages of sequences that are composed mostly of either intertidally or subtidally dominated cycles. Detailed local to regional correlation of the facies bundles can be made with gamma-ray and resistivity logs; however, facies are commonly obscured by a strong diagenetic overprint that makes detailed correlation difficult. Reservoirs in the Arbuckle are complex, and porosity is controlled by original depositional fabric, diagenesis, paleokarst, and fracture overprint. Upper subtidal and lower intertidal facies typically have the depositional fabric most conducive to reservoir development. Diagenetic changes are a continuum that begins with early diagenesis, including hypersaline or evaporative conditions as well as vadose and phreatic conditions, and followed by deep phreatic to late thermal diagenesis. Evidence that porosity formed during multiple diagenetic phases exists. Dolomitization and precipitation events are also evidenced at various levels of the profile. Dolomite is the most abundant mineral and can be subdivided into early (syngenetic to penecontemporaneous) hypersaline dolomite, shallow burial mixed-water (phreatic) dolomite, and deeper burial to thermal (baroque and xenotopic) dolomite. The super-Sauk unconformity is recognized as evidence of a eustatic sea level drop and has been used to mark the boundary between the Sauk and Tippecanoe depositional megasequences. The Arbuckle Group contains multiple unconformities at major sequence boundaries. Paleokarst is especially prevalent beneath the super-Sauk unconformity, especially along major sequence boundaries with related unconformity surfaces. Paleokarstic features in the Arbuckle Group have been identified in outcrop in the Arbuckle Mountains of southern Oklahoma and in the southern Ozark uplift in northeastern Oklahoma. Numerous cores and logs indicate collapse breccias that are interpreted to have formed in response to karst conditions. The Arbuckle Group is an important petroleum reservoir in the midcontinent, and has great potential especially for natural gas. Exploration is enhanced by understanding the complex relationships of depositional processes, stratigraphic relationships, paragenesis, and structural overprints. Reservoir development is typically along sequence boundaries, especially where facies have strong diagenetic overprints from dolomitization and dissolution associated with paleokarstic events. No major source rocks exist below or within the Arbuckle Group, so the best reservoirs are structurally related with strong fracture overprints and juxtaposed with source rocks or are along migration pathways.


The widely use transport protocol on the Internet is TCP/IP and its usage is mainly based on its high dynamic nature of adaptability to any kind of network capacity. The Internet technology today runs over large different link technologies with vastly different characteristics. In spite of the recent sudden increase in accessibility of broadband Internet access to improve the transport protocols communication, business organization, computer laboratory in learning environment, and public organization have fairly small-bandwidth links compare to the network environment that host the requested content. With the explosive growth of the Internet application traffics, the network traffic congestion grows and available limited resources becomes a bottleneck. The performance of the network eventually decline because of traffic congestion among other challenging issues, bringing the need for outstanding means of improving the TCP performance. Therefore, it becomes necessarily for any kind of network environment, to carry out a TCP performance analysis and identify the possible means of obtaining an optimal performance. This paper seeks to reflect the performance analysis of TCP in a network environment of multiple reliable connections with UDP traffic flows.


Abstract
 A rare basidiomycete, Flagelloscypha faginea, is presented from Greece with a detailed description, taxonomic notes and a discussion on related taxa. This is the first report of the genus for Greece.


In the present paper,a new multi-stage temperature refrigeration cycle basing on ejecting fluid gear compressor is studied theoretically.The performance of the new cycle is compared with the traditional cycle which based on pressure regulator valve.The results show that the work consumption and the condensation load of the new cycle are decreased significantly.the refrigeration efficiency of the new cycle is increased by 10% than the traditional cycle.


Limitations This was a single center study and was limited in follow-up. This study may have been underpowered to detect a difference in follow-up rates across all patients, such that a true difference between groups may not have been detected. Moreover, the generalizability to non-Veteran patient populations may be limited, given the homogeneous nature of this patient population and unique structure of the VHA compared with other health care systems in the United States. In addition, our intervention took place after the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas the retrospective control patients were seen before the pandemic. As such, the pandemic may have affected patient behavior; however, our clinic volumes had returned to prepandemic levels at the time of onset of this study. There is a skew in the cohort size of patients assessed in the control compared with the study group, which may have been due to the effect of COVID-19 pandemic, other unaccounted for scheduling issues, or random chance. Future study designs may minimize this potential confounder by comparing cohorts recruited prospectively through a randomized protocol. References 1. Powers JG, Patel NA, Powers EM, Mayer JE, et al. Skin cancer risk factors and preventative behaviors amongUnited Statesmilitary veterans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. J Invest Dermatol 2015;135:2871–3. 2. Riemenschneider K, Liu J, Powers JG. Skin cancer in the military: a systematic review of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer incidence, prevention, and screening among active duty and veteran personnel. J Am Acad Dermatol 2018;78:1185–92. 3. Network NCC. Basal Cell Skin Cancer (Version: 2.2022). Available at: https://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/nmsc.pdf. Accessed June 19, 2022. 4. Network NCC. Squamous Cell Skin Cancer (Version: 2.2022). Available at: https://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/ squamous.pdf. Accessed June 19, 2022. 5. Network NCC. Melanoma: Cutaneous. Available at: https://www. nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/cutaneous_melanoma.pdf. Accessed June 19, 2022.


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metal enolato complex synthesis;
synthesis from ketones, aldehydes and esters;
deprotonation and transmetalation reactions;
monoketone enolates - reagents in organic processes, aldol and Michael additions, alkylations, acylations;
enolato complexes from diketones and their derivatives;
oxidation of deprotonated diketoamines;
insertion/migration/cleavage reactions;
amidoenolato complexes


Human face detection and recognition are still challenging questions in pattern recognition field. The facial features such as eyes, nose and mouth are detected in an image which contains a face and the rectangular area surrounding facial features is obtained. To achieve this, Gabor wavelet is the field of interest for many face/object recognition researchers. In this paper, we proposed the adjustable Malsburg Gabor kernel for mouth feature of face image. Mouth feature of face is under the prone effect of facial expression due to variation (noise) and largely affects face recognition system. We improve the Gabor wavelet Kernel for robust face recognition to be adaptable to the mouth. We enlarged the rate of the length to the edge of the kernel because the teeth become interference (noise) for the face recognition. We have designed, implemented and demonstrated our proposed approach addressing this issue. FERET'face image dataset have been chosen for training and testing and we have achieved a very good success.


Armed with the explicit computation of Schur multipliers, we offer a classification of SU(n) orbifolds for n = 2,3,4 which permit the turning on of discrete torsion. This is in response to the host of activity lately in vogue on the application of discrete torsion to D-brane orbifold theories. As a by-product, we find a hitherto unknown class of N = 1 orbifolds with non-cyclic discrete torsion group. Furthermore, we supplement the status quo ante by investigating a first example of a non-abelian orbifold admitting discrete torsion, namely the ordinary dihedral group as a subgroup of SU(3). A comparison of the quiver theory thereof with that of its covering group, the binary dihedral group, without discrete torsion, is also performed.


In order to get some ideas about the order of magnitude of fluvio-thermal recession rate, a mathematical thermal model for Martian outflow channels is proposed. This model corresponds to a system undergoing a permanent thermal regime where the surface temperature is constant and equal to the phase change temperature (due to the immediate removal of melted materials). This is an ablation model. For its application, estimations of the heat transfer coefficient h and thermal flux q are necessary. Determination of these coefficients needs the calculation of dimensionless numbers (Reynolds, Prandtl, and Nusselt), and the consideration of turbulent regime of the flow.


The purpose of this study is to understand the characteristics of cityscape of Jinhae city. Developed as a military city, Jinhae wad designed by Japanese Colonialism and thus imposed various restrictions like building height regulation thereafter. Recently as the restrictions became relaxed, high-rise apartments buildings have become outstanding elements of cityscape.


The major topics of this paper are the CRM (Customer
 Relationship Management) and the organizational processes. The main
 purpose is to analyze how the CRM adoption influences the
 management of the processes in a company. We used the El Sawy
 (2001) framework to analyze of the impact of the redesign of
 processes. This paper consists of two main parts: the theoretical
 part and the empirical part which constitutes a case study,
 featuring a qualitative research. This research aims at helping
 companies to gain a better insight into the redesign of the
 processes focused on the customer. The main result obtained in this
 research was a critical analysis, which raised the main issues
 related to the way the redesign of organizational processes was
 conducted. It mainly emphasized the company's inexperience in
 managing the redesign of processes and highlighted people's
 resistance with regard to an organization change.


Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen that causes a wide range of clinical syndromes. S. aureus colonizes 30% - 60% of the population. Methicillin resistant strains (MRSA) pose a threat to public health and they are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. MRSA cause Hospital-Associated Infections (HAI), Community-Associated Infections (CAI) and Livestock-Associated Infections (LAI).
Purpose: Study of infections by S. aureus in UGHP during 2013-2016.
Methodology: A. Recording of patients, (N = 1726), with clinical specimens positive for S. aureus from the Microbiology Laboratory records to assess the infectivity and the bacterium course during 2013-2016.
B. Recording of data from (N = 298) deep-seated infections to correlate MRSA and MSSA strains with parameters such as gender, age, duration of treatment, treatment, laboratory findings and outcomes of the disease .
Results: In our sample, (N = 1728), 472 MRSA and 1256 MSSA were recovered, whereas, in hospitalized patients suffering from invasive infections (N = 298), 106 MRSA and 192 MSSA were recorded. Higher MRSA rates were observed in patients older than 60 years, whereas, no gender differences were found. The incidence of MRSA during the period 2013-2016 decreased (34.2%, 35.8%, 27.9% and 16.7% respectively), whereas, MSSA patients increased (from 65.8% to 83.3%). In total, 452 multi-resistant MRSA and 237 multi-resistant MSSA were identified. High MRSA resistance levels were observed for kanamycin (> 80%) and fusidic acid (> 68%), while one linezolid-resistant (MIC = 256 μg / ml) and one teicoplanin-resistant (MIC = 8 μg / ml) isolates were detected. High level resistance was identified for mupirocin (MIC ≥1024 μg/ml). No vancomycin-resistant strains were observed. As it emerged from the case tests, MRSA in relation to MSSA did not significantly affect hospitalization time, disease outcomes and laboratory findings. However, MRSA affected the treatment of patients. During summer months, S. aureus infections are more common while there was no statistically significant difference during winter.
Conclusions: Our research showed that MRSA infections have decreased significantly over the years 2013-2016, while infections from MSSA have increased.


Citation: Wang X, Wang G, Kunte M, Shinde V, Gorbatyuk M. Modulation of angiogenesis by genetic manipulation of ATF4 in a mouse model of oxygeninduced retinopathy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2013;54:5995–6002. DOI:10.1167/iovs.13-12117 PURPOSE. The activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) and an increase in activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) has been previously reported in the diabetic retina. Despite this, a direct link between ATF4 and the degree of proliferative retinopathy has not been demonstrated to date. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine whether ATF4 deficiency could reduce neovascularization in mice with oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR). METHODS. We induced OIR in C57BL/6, ATF4þ/ , and endoplasmic reticulum stress–activated indicator (ERAI) mice and used quantitative RT-PCR and Western blot analysis to evaluate relative gene and protein expression. Histology and microscopy were used to calculate the extent of neovascularization in flat-mounted retinas.


The care programme approach (CPA) has become an accepted part of clinical practice, despite the continuing lack of strong direct evidence of its value. Guidance from the Department of Health has refined the original requirements, which were to ensure health and social care assessment, discharge from hospital to appropriate accommodation with necessary support, appointment of a mental health professional to draw up a care plan, and coordination of its implementation with necessary follow-up. The CPA now specifies that care plans include provision, as necessary, for risk assessment and management, employment, leisure, accommodation and plans to meet carers' needs. Levels of care have been simplified to 'standard' and 'enhanced'. In future it will need to incorporate issues arising from the development of specialist teams as part of the National Health Service Plan, concern about the physical healthcare of those subject to it and the continuing development of psychosocial interventions.


The U.S. Treasury debt market is not only the largest and most widely tracked "commodity" market, it also provides a basis against which almost all other "rates" in the world are measured. The past decade has witnessed rate shocks of previously unexperienced magnitudes; and these have been met with newly envisioned and implemented government policy responses to both private and public sector financial market participants. What follows is a simplified depiction of the history of interest rates, to highlight periods of large movements, associated government actions, and implications for borrowing spreads for the agricultural sector. As the topics just listed could easily fill a four-year undergraduate curriculum with interesting and challenging courses, the version provided herein is cast with a nod to Hawking, as a brief history of interest rates – or the cost of time through time. It is long on pictures, and brief on details at some points, but hopefully provides an interesting presentation of interest rate markets over one of the most interesting periods in recent history.


Switched Capacitor (SC) converters have been used for several years in low-power, power electronic energy conversion systems. However, because of their attractive features such as low-weight and high-density energy conversion and with the emergence of new circuit topologies and SiC switching devices, these circuits have recently been proposed for higher power applications. The resonant switched capacitor topology is a good candidate for high-power due to its very low-switching loss, but circuit parasitic inductance and resistance can have a significant effect on the resonant frequency of each cell. This paper discusses the influence of these parasitics on the performance of the converter and proposes a method by which these parasitics can be estimated. Simulation results and measurements from a hardware prototype are used to validate the technique.


A cooling assembly, the cooling assembly comprising: a chamber device (2), the device chamber (2) receiving device chamber cooling medium; means a heat exchanger, the heat exchanger device comprises at least one cooling surface in contact with the cooling medium chamber device (35, 15); control means (6), the control means (6) is adapted to control the heat exchanger means; a humidity sensor (61), that a humidity sensor (61) adapted to detect humidity level equipment chamber (2) ; and receiving means (9), the control means (6) is adapted as a humidity chamber device exceeds a predetermined threshold level in response to (2) to the dehumidification operation. Dehumidifying operation includes: reducing the temperature of the at least one cooling surface (35, 15) so as to condense water from the equipment cooling medium chamber in at least one cooling surface (35, 15), at least one cooling surface 9 adapted to receive from the receiving means (35, 15) dripping water.


Within the development of property in Indonesia, Makassar is one of the city with the fastest development in property. This development in property make a great support for the economical growth in Makassar for the recent years. The development property in Makassar increase significantly, one of the development that could be seen are the multi storey building like Apartment and hotel combined with shopping centre and restaurant. Also, this development are supported by the lifestyle change from the citizen that tend to follow the lifestyle of the citizen in the other big cities such as Jakarta and Surabaya. Royal Apartment is the first apartment in Makassar that is located in Topaz Raya, Panakukang Block where Panakukang Mas Block is one of the commercial area because Panakukang Mas is one of the elite area in Makassar and have easy access to the shopping centre and housing. Royal Apartment is the first apartment in Makassar with so much facility to offer like restaurant and fitness centre. For designing the public facilities of Royal Apartment, the concept offered are dynamic and fun. In line with the design's characteristi, geometeric shapes is applied as to create a dynamic design of public facilities, while graphics is applied as to give the impression of fun design.


Technologies of smearing glue on decomposable honeycombshape plastic film seedlingpropagating container is studied ,involved the analysis and calculation of designfinalizing of construction,selection of spare,technological parameter etc.


From 1 July there will be a changing of the guard. A new editorial team starts and the editorial office moves from Nottingham to Nijmegen. The new crew takes up a considerable challenge. Mike Doherty and his team have done an excellent job in making the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases a leading journal in its field: a recognisable, readable journal of high scientific and educational standard. It also is an amazingly efficient journal with a rapid …


A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study has been carried out con a GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As multiple-quantum-well sample, containing two-dimensional (2D) electron layers, in the quantum Hall regime. The spin polarization To of 2D electrons is determined from the hyperfine shift of Ga-69,Ga-71 nuclei, measured by standard pulsed NMR. We have used the tilted-magnetic field technique to investigate the effect of an increasing Zeeman energy on To around Landau level filling factor nu =1. Mostly on the basis of measurements performed at B = 17 T and T = 1.5 K, we conjecture that in the high-B and low-T limit, P(nu) follows the predictions of the noninteracting-electron model. The low-temperature P(nu =1) is found to be far below the expected full polarization, and the observed nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate is not reduced, in contrast to the observations by optically pumped NMR. The two techniques obtain different results only close to nu =1, and the reason why remains unclear; simple explanation in terms of the nonuniform electron density does not seem satisfactory.


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There is a vast literature on the health and social harms of alcohol. The extent of global alcohol problems has been widely reported, and all countries have some form of legislation to address alcohol-related behaviours that are likely to cause harm [1]. A recent major review published in the Lancet [2] found that "Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for death and disability", "Globally, alcohol use was the seventh leading risk factor for both deaths and DALYs in 2016", and "In 2016, 2·8 million deaths were attributed to alcohol use". There is further concern about the extent of alcohol use among children and adolescents. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed recommendations for governments concerned to reduce alcohol problems, and a wide range of approaches have been recommended by medical associations and other health authorities. The WHO Global Strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol comprises ten key areas for national action and four for global action [3]. At the national level, the following are recommended:


Aims Photorespiration and non-photochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence in photosystem II (PSII) were studied in bracts and leaves of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) plants, in order to investigate the photoprotective mechanisms and drought tolerance in cotton bracts under field conditions of water-saving drip irrigations. Methods Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters of PSII were analyzed in bracts and leaves of cotton plants after anthesis. The study was conducted with two treatments comprising normal drip irrigation (5 228.5 m 3 ·hm -2 ) and water-saving drip irrigation (3 874.1 m 3 ·hm -2 ) under field conditions. Important findings The actual photochemical efficiency of PSII (ΦPSII) decreased in both bracts and leaves of cotton plants after anthesis under water-saving drip irrigation, but the magnitude of decrease was less in bracts than in leaves. Results showed the bracts experienced less severe photoinhibition than leaves. The rate of net pho- tosynthesis (Pn), ΦPSII, net photorespiration (Pr), photochemical quenching (qP), and non-photochemical quench- ing (NPQ) decreased in the leaves of cotton plants under water-saving drip irrigation, but no significant difference was observed in the bracts. With decreasing water supply, the Pr/Pn in bracts was much higher than that in leaves and water deficit had no significant effect on the Pr/Pn in bracts. The results of chlorophyll fluorescence parame- ters showed that the quantum yield of regulated energy dissipation (Y(NPQ)) was higher in bracts than in leaves under high irradiance and temperature conditions, and that the thermal dissipation in bracts was not susceptible to water deficit, thus protecting the photosynthetic apparatus against photodamage. Overall, both photorespiration and energy dissipation in bracts were found to alleviate photoinhibition and played important roles in protecting


A systematic review was undertaken to assess the evidence for effects of soy products on blood cholesterol. Peer‐reviewed studies were included if they described intervention or observational (cohort and nested case‐control) studies; included a non‐soy protein control; quantified soy protein intake; included generally healthy or mildly hypercholesterolemic adults (蠅18 y) not taking lipid level‐altering medications, not dieting; lasted 蠅 3 weeks; and reported changes in serum triglycerides, total, LDL‐, and/or HDL‐cholesterol.


OZET Sol kolon ve ust rektum kanserlerinde t›kanma seyrek olmayarak gorulur. Bu durumlarda palyatif veya ameliyata kopru amacl› kendili¤inden geniflleyen metalik stent (self-expandable metallic stents = SEMS) uygulamalar› %80-95 klinik baflar› sa¤layacak oranda uygulanabilmektedir. Yap›lan retrospektif yay›nlar genel durum bozuklu¤u ve kuratif tedavi alamayacak olgularda palyatif amacl› SEMS uygulamas›n›n morbiditeyi ve stoma olas›l›¤›n› azaltt›¤›n› ve yat›fl suresini k›saltt›¤›n› gostermektedir, ancak uygulama s›ras›nda ve hasta kemoterapi alt›ndayken oluflacak perforasyon olas›l›¤›na dikkat cekilmektedir. Ameliyata kopru amac›yla yap›lan SEMS uygulamalar›nda olgu k›yaslamal› ve randomize olmayan cal›flmalar benzer avantajlar gostermifltir. Prospektif randomize cal›flmalar ise morbidite ve stoma olas›l›¤› hakk›nda celiflkili sonuclar vermektedir. Ustelik ABSTRACT Obstruction is not rare in patients with a left colon or upper rectal cancer. In this case, the application of selfexpandable metallic stens (SEMS) can resolve symptoms in 80 to 95% of the patients. Retrospective studies have revealed that SEMS can be used for palliation in severely ill patients and for those who are not candidates for curative resections, and this technique has been shown to decrease morbidity, the possibility of a stoma and length of stay, but there is a certain risk of perforation during application or later when the patient is under chemotherapy. Similar advantages have been shown in case match and non-randomized studies, when SEMS are used as bridge-to-surgery. However, prospective randomized trials revealed controversial results. In addition, considering the fact that the largest prospective randomized trial was prematurely terminated because


This paper presents a multi Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) implementation of a 2D shallow water equations solver which is able to exploit the computational power of modern HPC clusters equipped with several GPUs on different nodes. The domain has been discretized by means of a Block Uniform Quadtree (BUQ) grid which allows to efficiently introduce variable resolution in a GPU-accelerated finite value code. In the present work the BUQ grid is decomposed into different partitions, and each partition is assigned to a dedicated GPU. Communications between different partitions are then handled by means of a Message Passing Interface (MPI) protocol. Computations and communications have been overlapped to reduce the overheads of the multi-GPU implementation. The strong scalability test shows an efficiency dropdown better than linear in the number of GPUs adopted by the simulation, and the weak scalability test shows that network overheads caused by border communication are completely maskable by GPU calculations.


Learn how to perform basic audio editing tasks with the user friendly program Audacity. How to import files into Tracktion 5 for editing.


As the only physician in a practice of 40 full- and part-time employees, dermatologist Charles E. Crutchfield, M.D., of Eagan, Minn., says staff support is key to the smooth running and success of his business.


Sichuan Aba Tibetan Area is an area with rich national characteristics and unique geographical environment. It keeps its full-bodied local characteristics in this accelerated development of urbanization society. Aba Tibetan architecture has local characteristics, which is caused by topography and geomorphology in Aba Tibetan Area. The Tibetan people has the infinite wisdom.. In this article, it is analyzed the buildings with unique charm in Aba Tibetan Area and made understood the tranditional residential building in this area from the aspect of natural geographical factor.


This study introduces cases of individual feeding systems for sow and the sow sorters which are the subparts of an eco-friendly feeding and management system based on a u-IT program using the hog feeding and management information system. The purpose of this study is to conduct an analysis of economic feasibility on cases of the improvement of the system using the u-IT and to provide information on the positive effects of an introduction of an eco-friendly pigsty and hog feeding and management system to hog raisers and government officials. The literature review and background section examine the effects of the introduction of u-IT technology into the field of livestock raising, hog feeding and management information system, and the eco-friendly feeding and management system based on the u-IT. This paper will present the results of the analysis on the effects and the economic feasibility of the individual feeding system for sow and the sow sorter utilizing the u-IT technology and information systems. The results of this study will contribute to the sustainable develI. H. Jang · S. H. Park · Y. C. Choi College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Seoul National University, South Korea I. H. Jang( ) e-mail : firstname.lastname@example.com S. H. Park e-mail : firstname.lastname@example.com Y. C. Choi e-mail : email@example.com Y. H. Kim Researcher at Swine Science Division at Department of Animal Resources Development of National Institute of Animal Science e-mail : firstname.lastname@example.com opment of the hog raising industry by showing that the new feeding and management system utilizing the u-IT can not only increase the efficiency and productivity of farm management but also contribute to efficient, eco-friendly hog feeding and management.


3 areas were mark off according to sugar beet heat adaptability in Xinjiang,Its ranges between 3400~3700℃,3100~3400℃,and 2700~3100℃ respectively.1999~2005 Data showed a significantly variation in sugar content in different heat regins and sugar content is higher in lower heat regions than in higher ones.


Systems thinking helps facilitate the understanding of systems, their structure, and important interrelationships with their environments. As such, systems thinking is an important aspect of systems engineering and other related fields. However, certain large‐scale, complex systems can thwart systems thinking due to their vast size and morass of interactions.


The full annealing AA6061 aluminum alloy was subjected to severe plastic deformation via the combination of equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) and cold rolling (CR) in order to refine its microstructure and to improve its mechanical properties. According to the results of hot and cold tensile tests, the combination of ECAP and CR significantly affected the final strength and ductility of studied AA6061. Four passes of ECAP followed by 90% reduction in rolling led to about 5.4 and 3.15 times increase in the yield and ultimate tensile strengths, respectively. In addition, the hot ductility and strain rate sensitivity were increased by applying ECAP plus CR. The changes in mechanical properties were attributed to the enhanced dislocation density and to the reduced grain size. The results show that a decrease in grains/subgrains size (0.37 µm) and an increase in the fraction of high angle grain boundaries, exhibited significant effect on the hot ductility of higher severe plastic deformed sample.


When the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was reauthorized in 2004, one of the significant amendments concerned Individual Education Program (IEP) team attendance. A member of an IEP team may be excused if "the member's area of the curriculum or related services is not being modified or discussed in the meeting." The purpose in this article is to examine the excusal provision and its potential for streamlining compliance or prejudicing a child's right to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) guaranteed by the IDEA. The author also proposes guidelines for school personnel constituting IEP teams.


Their value systems lead them in this direction, and nowhere is the power of neoliberal ideology more apparent than in their interpretation of local participation in decision-making as the power to effect locally desired change. Although the authors have added a segment called 'the role of the state', where students unaware of the language of theories of the state expect to find a functional description of government instruments, the state emerges in this segment as a nonentity or a liability in the development process. This leaves the development struggle between the local poor and powerful global institutions, an appealing picture to those who would hollow out the state, but an inaccurate one that confuses the direction of global institutional policy with local reality. The book's treatment of the evolving role of NGOs and social movements in the ensuing segment has greater depth, but misses the opportunity to raise questions about the homogeneity of local interests or the possibility of conflicting interests at the regional scale. Oddly, in this discussion of development actors and institutions the insights of geographic analysis are absent. I doubt if this incompleteness was intentional. Rather, the mass of material that the authors have included in this edition overran their ability to plan content or gauge the book's effects. My students felt the first edition of Geographies of development was 'spinach' (i.e., something that had to be consumed for its nutrition, if not for fun), but recognized its contribution to their management of substantive issues. The second edition is a good reference text but awkward to assign in its entirety.


The paper looks at constraints on non-wh relatives in Sorani Kurdish (Iranian) and English (Germanic). We argue that some of them are grammatical, whereas others introduce social meaning. We present a basic, lexicalist syntactic analysis and expand it with social meaning constraints. We propose that classical sociolinguistic variables have the status of conventional implicatures and the overall assessment of a style is treated as a particularized conversational implicature.


The 35 Cl nuclear quadrupole resonance frequencies and relaxation times in ammonium hydrogen bis (chloroacetate) were measured in the ferro- and the paraelectric phases. The splitting of the resonance line in the ferroelectric phase shows the temperature dependence in the form of Δ ν=( T c - T ) 1/3 near the transition point T c . Sharp decrease of T 1 has been observed in the critical region and it was attributed to the critical slowing down of the electric dipolar interactions. Two kinds of relaxation mechanisms were examined: The order-disorder type of mechanism can explain the T 1 data of the paraelectric phase but it fails to explain the different temperature dependence of T 1 of ν 1 and ν 2 in the ferroelectric phase. The other mechanism, the displacive-mode transition is plausible because it gives a reasonable description of the T 1 anomaly both in the ferro- and paraelectric phases. This mechanism is also consistent with the structural evidences.


This paper presents a system for automated driving cycle simulation and measurement for electric vehicles. The system is a part of a laboratory located in VTP Roztoky and is used for electric vehicle powertrain testing. The main part of the control system is dSpace DS1103.


Results of the conducted research aiming to demonstrate the methodology of optimization of dam monolith length (distance between contraction joints), through monitoring the thermal tensile stresses during construction and service life of a concrete gravity dam that is built using the block method, are presented in this paper. A 3D space–time numerical model for phased thermal stress analysis is employed in a large concrete gravity dam case study. For the adopted block dimensions, schedule, and dynamics of construction and material parameters, the thermal stress analysis is conducted, taking into account the following: thermal physical properties of the material, the cement hydration process, heat exchange with the external environment and the reservoir, and self-weight of the structure. The main advantage of the proposed methodology is the possibility of controlling the cracks resulting from thermal tensile stresses in the monolith of a concrete gravity dam, by optimizing the monolith's length to minimize the zones in which the tensile capacity of concrete is exceeded. The results obtained from the temperature field analysis show that the maximum temperature increase in the dam's body results from the cement hydration process in combination with summer air temperatures in the construction phase. The aforementioned factors account for the increase in temperature of up to 45.0 °C, while during winter cooling of the structure occurs due to lower temperatures, especially in the surface zones. The results of the stress field analysis show that the extreme values of thermal tensile stresses are present in the process of a sudden or gradual cooling of the concrete when shrinkage occurs. Finally, it is shown that the reduction of the monolith length by 5.0 m (from 20.0 m to 15.0 m) results in a decrease in the extreme thermal tensile stress values by an average of 0.70 MPa (up to 12.0%) in winter and an average of 1.10 MPa (up to 20.0%) in summer; while for the entirety of the analyzed time period, results in a decrease in the extreme thermal tensile stress values by an average of 16.0% (0.93 MPa).


Although persistence is essential to overcoming challenges and making new discoveries, continued effort can be costly. Even very young learners must make decisions about when to invest effort and when to abandon a task. In the current study, we explore whether children's decisions about when to exert effort are influenced by the information they stand to gain in a particular learning situation. That is, we examine whether providing children with solutions after they attempt to complete a challenging task reduces their persistence. Sixty 4and 5-year-old children completed a series of iSpy puzzles and then attempted to activate a novel toy. Children were either presented with the solutions after attempting each task or given no information about the answers. Our results demonstrate that children persisted longer at attempting to activate a novel toy when their effort was more likely to be the only source of information: children who expected to be provided with the solution gave up faster than those who did not. We discuss the implications of these findings on children's rational decisions about when effort is worthwhile, and consider how providing answers might impact motivation and curiosity more broadly.


Objective To explore the amounts of atrial natriuretic peptide,SIgA,ferritin,DNA-pol,vascular endothelial growth factor in lung cancer tissue and normal lung tissue besides lung cancer.Method 5 kinds of tumour markers were determined with radio-immune method:atrial natriuretic peptide,SIgA,ferritin,DNA-pol,vascular endothelial growth factor in lung cancer of 39 patients.Result All of these tumour markers in lung cancer tissue were remarkably higher than that in normal tissue besides lung cancer(P0.001).Conclisoin It indicates that the cancer cells can produce these kinds of tumour markers.


Plasma disruptions are an ever present danger to the plasma-facing components in today's tokamak fusion reactors. This threat results from our lack of understanding and limited ability to control this complex phenomenon. In particular, severe energy deposition occurs on the divertor component of the double-null configured tokamak reactor during such disruptions. A hybrid computational model developed to estimate and graphically illustrate global thermal effects of disruptions on the divertor plates is described in detail. The quasi-two-dimensional computer code, TADDPAK (Thermal Analysis Divertor during Disruptions PAcKage), is used to conduct parametric analysis for the TIBER II Tokamak Engineering Test Reactor Design. The dependence of these thermal effects on divertor material choice, disruption pulse length, disruption pulse shape, and the characteristic thickness of the plasma scrape-off layer is investigated for this reactor design. Results and conclusions from this analysis are presented. Improvements to this model and issues that require further investigation are discussed. Cursory analysis for ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is also presented in the appendix. 75 refs., 49 figs., 10 tabs.


The zinc concentrates were digested by alkali fusion.The SiO2 in zinc concentrates were determined by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry(ICP-AES) with adding Au as internal calibration.The matrix interference effect was studied in this article.The matrix interference effect and the stability of instrument were worse along with Na increasing,which reduced accuracy of determination.The matrix interference effect and the instrument fluctuation have been overcome by using internal calibration.The determination limit of SiO2 was 0.0063 mg/L,and the determination content range was of 0.02%-10%.The results were in good agreement with the certified value of reference materials and the RSD(n=5) was less than 2%.


This is a report that describes the entire process of design of a measuring station for rolling resistance. The report is structured with elements of Fredy Olsson's method.The report also i ...


Vapour phase tert-butylation of toluene with tert-butylalcohol was studied over ultra-stable Y zeolite (USY) catalyst. The effects of reaction temperature, toluene/TBA molar ratio and liquid space velocity on conversion of toluene and selectivity for 4-tert-butyltoluene were studied. The deactivation and regeneration of the catalyst was also investigated. The results showed that the USY zeolite catalyst offered better toluene conversion of about 30 % and 4-tert-butyltoluene selectivity of about 89 % at the suitable reaction condition as follows: reaction temperature of 120 oC, toluene/TBA ratio of 2:1 and liquid space velocity of 2 ml/g·h. The clogging of mocropores by the formed carbon or oligomers was the main reason for the deactivation of the catalyst. By combustion at 550 oC, the catalyst just lost about 5 % in toluene conversion and about 2 % in PTBT selectivity. © 2015 BCREC UNDIP. All rights reserved Received: 17th July 2014; Revised: 31st August 2014; Accepted: 3rd September 2014 How to Cite : Shen, Y.M., Yuan, S., Fan, L., Liu, D.B., Li, S.F. (2015). Synthesis of 4-tert-Butyltoluene by Vapor Phase tert-Butylation of Toluene with tert-Butylalcohol over USY Zeolite. Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis , 10 (1): 1-7. (doi:10.9767/bcrec.10.1.7140.1-7) Permalink/DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.10.1.7140.1-7


With the population growth,fast development of economic society and rapid increase of resources demand,the shortcoming of water resources has become the importment factor that restricts the econemy development of the Lunhe River basin.This paper briefly analyzes the problems in water resources development in the Lunhe River basin,and puts forward the countermeasures of water resources sustainable utilization from the aspects of improving water utilization efficiency,adjusting industry structure,enhancing hydraulic engineering construction and perfecting water resources management system.


The Internet of Things (IoT) benefits from social networking platforms in establishing and enhancing social-oriented services, information, and autonomous social relationships. Social IoT (SIoT) systems can boost the user experience in the real world in several applications, including healthcare, transportation, and entertainment. However, the collected data from various interconnected SIoT systems is massive, demanding robust and efficient processing algorithms, feature extraction, selection, and inference. This work presents an enhanced Artificial Hummingbird algorithm (AHA) for feature selection (FS). The enhanced version of AHA is performed using the advantages of Quantum-based optimization. The main aim of using Quantum is to improve the population's exploration ability while discovering feasible regions. Extensive experiments utilizing eighteen UCI datasets were conducted to validate the developed FS method, QAHA. The QAHA is compared with other FS methods, and the experimental established its efficiency. Moreover, a set of four datasets from SIoT are used to evaluate the applicability of QAHA to the real-world setting. The results using these datasets indicate the high performance of QAHA to increase the accuracy by decreasing the number of features. In the case of UCI datasets, the average accuracy of the developed QAHA is 93% among the eighteen datasets. Whereas, In the case of the SIoT datasets, the developed QAHA has an accuracy of nearly 90.7%, 98.7%, 92.2%, and 84.6% for the Trajectory, GAS sensors, Hepatitis, and MovementAAL datasets, respectively.


Laboratory experiments on the production of chemical pulps from ringal ( Arundinaria sp.) for production of writing and printing papers by sulphate process are described. The average fibre length of pulp was 1.01 mm and average fibre diameter was 11 microns. Easy bleaching pulps in satisfactory yields could be prepared under suitable conditions of digestion.


In the past, it was not possible to update the underlying software in many industrial control devices. Engineering teams had to "rip and replace" obsolete components. However, the ability to make firmware updates has provided significant benefits to companies who use Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), switches, gateways and bridges, as well as an array of smart sensor/actuators. While these updates — which include security patches when vulnerabilities are identified in existing devices — can be distributed by physical media, they are increasingly downloaded over Internet connections. These mechanisms pose a growing threat to the cyber security of safety-critical applications, which is illustrated by recent attacks on safety-related infrastructures across the Ukraine. This paper explains how malware can be distributed within firmware updates. Even when attackers cannot reverse engineer the code necessary to disguise their attack, they can undermine a device by forcing it into a constant upload cycle in which the firmware installation never terminates. In this paper, we present means of mitigating the risks of firmware attacks on safety-critical systems as part of wider initiatives to secure national critical infrastructures. Technical solutions, including firmware hashing, must be augmented by organizational measures to secure the supply chain within individual plants, across companies and throughout safety-related industries.


It is often demonstrated that Brouwer's …xed point theorem can not be constructively or computably proved. Therefore, Tychono¤'s and Schauder's …xed point theorems also can not be constructively proved. On the other hand, however, Sperner's lemma which is used to prove Brouwer's theorem can be constructively proved. Some authors have presented a constructive (or an approximate) version of Brouwer's theorem using Sperner's lemma. We present a constructive version of Tychono¤'s …xed point theorem for a locally convex space using a constructive version of KKM (Knaster, Kuratowski and Mazurkiewicz) lemma, and a constructive version of Schauder's …xed point theorem for a Banach space as a corollary to that of Tychono¤'s theorem. We follow the Bishop style constructive mathematics according to Bishop and Bridges [1], Bridges and Richman [2], Bridges and Vi¸t¼ [3] and Troelstra and Dalen [10].


The decomposition of formic acid on a nickel surface was studied by volumetric measurement of the adsorption during the reaction and also by the infra-red technique. The chemisorbed species during the decomposition of formic acid were only formate ion and proton. The rate of the decomposition was proportional to the formic acid pressure and decreased markedly by the increasing amounts of formate ion on the surface. Accordingly, the decomposition proceeded on the surface not covered by the formate ion. The rate of the decomposition of the formate surface layers was expressed by the Zeldovich-Roginsky equation as a function of coverage. A part of the overall reaction proceeded via the formate ion, and the rest between the formic acid molecule and the surface not covered by the formate ion. The overall reaction rate was given by rate =kPHCOOHf(1–θ)+k′ exp [a(x–xo)]
 where (1–θ) is the fractional surface not covered by formate ion; the second term gave the rate via the formate ion in the surface. The exchange reaction of formate ion and proton in the surface with those in formic acid molecules in the ambient gas is a process independent of the decomposition reaction.


Simulation plays a big role in understanding the behavior of building envelopes. With the increasing availability of computational resources, it is feasible to conduct parametric simulations for applications such as software model calibration, building control optimization, or fault detection and diagnostics. In this paper, we present an uncertainty exploration of two types of buildings: a) of a building envelope's thermal conductivity properties for a heavily instrumented residential building involving more than 200 sensors, and b) a sensitivity analysis of a stand-alone retail building from the U.S. Department of Energy's reference model. A total of 156 input parameters were determined to be important by experts which were then varied using a Markov Order process for the residential building generating hundreds of GBs of data for tens of thousands of simulations. For the commercial building, 20 parameters were varied using a fractional factorial design requiring just 1024 simulations generating data in the order of a few hundred megabytes. These represent a wide variety and range of simulations from a few to tens of thousands of simulations in an ensemble. Depending on the number of simulations in an ensemble, the techniques employed to meaningfully make sense of the information can be very different, and potentially challenging. Additionally, the method of analysis almost always depends on the experimental design. The Markov Order sampling strategy and fractional factorials designs of sampling presented represent two approaches one could employ for large sensitivity analysis of buildings at two different scales of simulations. The paper presents the analysis using descriptive statistics as well as employing multiple analysis of variance techniques for comparison and contrast.


The invention discloses a paper feeder of a die-cutting machine. The paper feeder of the die-cutting machine comprises a driving motor and a guide groove casing, wherein a rotatable guide disc is arranged at the head part of the driving motor; a rotatable guide bracket is arranged at the bottom of the guide disc; a fixed pivot is arranged at the tail part of the guide bracket; a guide rubber wheel is arranged at the head part of the guide bracket; and a rotatable press bar is arranged on the guide disc further. According to the paper feeder of the die-cutting machine, a user can change the paper feeding angle according to the paper thickness by the aid of the rotatable guide bracket and the rotatable press bar on the guide disc, the operation is simple, the paper feeding efficiency of the die-cutting machine is greatly improved, the cost is low, and the practicability is high.


of a presentation at the 1 1 "' Spacecraft 'Thel-mal Control Workshop a t Aerospace Corporation. El Segundo, California, March 1-3. 2000 Novel Thermal Control Approaches for Mars 03/05 Athena Rover GaJ Birur" and Keith Novak Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California


Antigenic targets of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and multiple myeloma (MM) paraproteins have been suggested to play an important role as growth stimulators in the pathogenesis of these neoplasms. To identify such targets, we screened cDNA libraries from human testis, lung and breast cancer, bovine and porcine muscle and wheat germ for reactivity with paraproteins in the sera from 115 patients with MGUS and MM. Of >6 × 108 paraprotein–antigen interactions screened, an IgA paraprotein from a female patient bound to sperm‐specific cylicin‐2, and 3 IgG paraproteins bound to tripeptidyl‐peptidase‐II (TPP‐2), insulin‐like growth‐factor binding‐protein‐2 (IGFBP‐2) and porcine kinesin. Specificity was confirmed by reverse Western blots using recombinant antigens. The broad spectrum of auto‐, allo‐ and heteroantigens as targets of human paraproteins in patients without signs of chronic antigenic stimulation renders a causal role of the antigenic stimulus in the pathogenesis of MGUS and MM unlikely. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


We study the existence of solutions of a nonlinear Volterra integral equation in the space . With the help of Krasnoselskii's fixed point theorem and the theory of measure of weak noncompactness, we prove an existence result for a functional integral equation which includes several classes on nonlinear integral equations. Our results extend and generalize some previous works. An example is given to support our results.


In this paper, we address the problem of multiple frequency-hopping (FH) signal parameters estimation in the presence of random missing observations. A space-time matrix with random missing observations is acquired by a uniform linear array (ULA). We exploit the inherent incomplete data processing capability of atomic norm soft thresholding (AST) to analyze the space-time matrix and complete the accurate estimation of the hopping time and frequency of the received FH signals. The hopping time is obtained by the sudden changes of the spatial information, which is implemented as the boundary to divide the time domain signal so that each segment of the signal is a superposition of time-invariant multiple components. Then, the frequency of multiple signal components can be estimated precisely by AST within each segment. After obtaining the above two parameters of the hopping time and the frequency of signals, the direction of arrival (DOA) can be directly calculated by them, and the network sorting can be realized. Results of simulation show that the proposed method is superior to the existing technology. Even when a large portion of data observations is missing, as the number of array elements increases, the proposed method still achieves acceptable accuracy of multi-FH signal parameters estimation.


ABSTRACT Recent Kant scholarship has argued that sympathetic feeling is necessary for the fulfilment of duty (e.g. Fahmy, Sherman, Guyer, and others). This view rests on an incorrect understanding of Kant and the historical context in which he wrote. In this paper, I compare Kant's conception of sympathy with Hume's and Smith's, arguing that Kant adapts central features of Smithian sympathy. I then examine Kant's lectures on ethics and anthropology, arguing that in them we can distinguish between two types of sympathy: one that is instinctual or pre-reflective, which we might call empirical sympathy, and one that is reflective and properly moral, which we might call rational sympathy. On these grounds I reconstruct an account of Kantian sympathy as a cognitive virtue for which feeling may be useful but not necessary, since its primary purpose is to provide information about the well-being of others, leading to action which honours their worth.


Cloud computing provides a business model for the delivery of IT services with greater agility and efficiency as compared to traditional IT. Cloud technologies such as server virtualisation and automation are widely implemented by organisations to enable new business capabilities and optimise data centre and engineering resources. This article delves into concepts of cloud computing and describes DSTA's journey into private cloud computing, including some of the key lessons learned.


A common figure of merit utilized for HPM sources is the instantaneous power efficiency at the time of peak output power. This conversion efficiency from the electron beam power to radiated microwave power disregards the overall energy efficiency of the system, which is vitally important in systems intended for practical application. Optimizing the overall system energy efficiency allows a reduction in volume, weight, and prime power requirements that makes for a much more practical and fieldable system. Texas Tech University has developed a vircator-based laboratory HPM system that has a high end-to-end energy efficiency relative to other HPM systems. The system utilizes a sealed-tube vircator source that requires no external vacuum pumping subsystem. For rep-rate use, the tube contains an integrated low-power sputter ion pump. The lack of need for an externally applied magnetic field saves complexity, weight, and potentially power. The vircator tube is simple and robust. The source is driven by a Marx generator utilizing pulse forming networks (PFNs) instead of lumped capacitors. Utilizing PFNs allows the driver to apply a more ideal pulse shape to the source than a traditional Marx, enhancing the performance of the source and reducing the amount of energy wasted in the rise and fall of the pulse. The system has demonstrated greater than 1% energy efficiency from the energy stored in the Marx to the radiated HPM, with potential for improvement. The peak total radiated output power of the system is between 50 and 100 MW.


The utility model relates to a strapdown multiposition gyro compass. A gyro is installed on a gyro pedestal which is installed on the principle shaft of a precision turnplate; the sensing shaft of the gyro is perpendicular to the rotor of the turnplate; the precision turnplate is composed of a torque motor, an angle measuring mechanism, a bearing and a bearing control motor, which are coaxially installed. Under the control of the servo motor of the turnplate, the precision turnplate precisely positions at multiple positions within the range of 360 degrees and modulates periodically and conducts least-squares estimation according to the outputs acquired by the gyro at different positions so as to realize high precision north direction identification. The strapdown multiposition gyro compass is applicable to self north direction identification under various conditions and transfers the result to a sight mechanism through a digital interface and an optical reference, thus realizing information transmission in all directions; under the condition that the precision of the gyro is constant, the strapdown multiposition gyro compass improves north direction identification precision by multiple times.


We hypothesized that cardioprotective compounds such as atorvastatin (ATO), melatonin, omega-3 FA and red palm oil (RPO) may protect from malignant arrhythmias via modulation of myocardial connexin-43 (Cx43) channels and. Experiments were conducted on male rats that were: 1/ spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) without or with intake of omega-3 FA (300mg/day/2month), melatonin (400μg/day/6 weeks) or RPO (200mg/day/6weeks); 2/ hereditary hypertriglyceridemic (HTG) without or with ATO (1.5mg/day/2mth) and omega-3 FA treatment; 3/ hyper- (TH) and hypo-thyroid (HY) without and with RPO intake, as well as age-matched Wistar rats. Results showed that compared to Wistar rats the incidence of sVF was significantly higher in SHR, HTG and TH rat hearts that exhibited abnormal distribution and down-regulation of Cx43, while sVF was not induced in HY rat hearts with up-regulation of Cx43. Treatment of SHR, HTG and TH rats with either compounds resulted in protection from sVF that was associated with attenuation of Cx43 abnormalities and improvement of integrity of cardiomyocytes. Results point out antiarrhythmic effect of atorvastatin, omega-3 FA, melatonin and red palm oil due to, at least in part, modulation of myocardial Cx43. Further studies should elucidate pathways involved in Cx43 modulation by these compounds.


What is environmental citizenship? How do we define an environmental citizen? These and other questions frame this article based on a review of findings from program evaluation projects conducted from 2003 to 2011 of environmental education programs associated with implementation of the Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (AuSSI). This article will discuss how AuSSI has integrated active citizenship education into education for sustainability (EfS) in order to build student capability towards environmental citizenship. Educational reforms such as Productive Pedagogies enabled environmental educators to finally achieve a more holistic curriculum integration of EfS and gain credibility for their work. There is some discussion of the use of program theory to inform how AuSSI achieves its holistic model of EfS. Data from successive evaluations is presented as evidence of insights regarding critical success factors in environmental citizenship education. This includes examples of two core elements of AuSSI, the ecological footprint and student ownership of activities which develop leadership. Future directions in research include: incorporating student voice and insights; longitudinal follow-up research of student environmental leaders; and relationships between wellbeing and EfS. Systemic support for expanding EfS implementation including teacher pre-service and in-service professional development is recommended.


In the mission of searching and rescuing, it is often faced with the situation that the area to be searched is large and the target to be searched is small. Combined with the object detection technology, this paper proposes a method for searching drowning people. At first, we make a dataset, which contains a large number of human targets at sea. Then, we improve the Yolov3 algorithm: In the feature extraction network, we use the residual module with channel attention mechanism. In the feature fusion network, we add a bottom-up structure to the FPN structure. Moreover, in terms of loss function, we use the CIoU loss function. Finally, on the settings of the anchor box, we use a linear transformation method to deal with the anchor boxes generated by clustering algorithm. The detection accuracy of the improved algorithm for human targets at sea is 72.17%, which has a good detection effect.


In this study, a drain current model of bilayer graphene field-effect transistor (GFET) has been developed. The Boltzmann transport approach is considered to develop this model including the scattering effects. The effects of optical phonon scattering, acoustic phonon scattering and carrier-carrier scattering have been included. The effective voltages at top and back gates induce net mobile sheet charge density in graphene channel. Mobile sheet charge density helps to determine the quantum capacitance. Channel potential is derived from equivalent circuit. The electronic transport phenomena of carriers in channel are explained for the contribution of both electron and hole charge density. Finally, the expression of drain current is determined using the Boltzmann transport equation under non-equilibrium condition. Contact resistances at source and drain regions are considered to determine the accurate drain current. The small signal parameters of GFET are determined from drain current and net charge density, and finally using these parameters the authors have calculated the cut-off frequency of the model. We validate the model with several contemporary experimental results. Utilising the model, we have also explored the impact of back-gate bias, top-gate bias and channel length on the device characteristics.


In this dissertation, a research on heart sound and respiratory sound distinction system by using body conduction sound sensor is presented. In order to separate heart sound and respiratory sound effectively, a new and fast method by using the Harmonic/Percussive Sound Separation measurement has been proposed and verified in this research. In this research, a body conduction sound sensor has been used to collect the mixed heart sound signal and respiratory sound signal from the human body. A simple and fast method based on harmonic percussive sound separation (HPSS) is applied on the mixed sound to be separated. The aim of this research is to study the effectiveness of HPSS measurement to separate a human heart sound and respiratory sound. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed measuring method, I conducted an experiment using the proposed method on several subjects. The experimental result showed that the proposed method is effective and can be used to monitor our heart sound and respiratory sound abnormalities in the future.


aNational Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Translational and Functional Genomics Branch, Microbial Genomics Section, Bethesda, Maryland, USA bSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA cNational Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, Maryland, USA dUniversity of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


Climate change is known to affect world's lakes in many ways. Lake warming is perhaps the most prominent impact of climate change but there is evidence that changes of precipitation and wind speed over the surface of the lakes may also have a significant effect on key limnological processes. With this study we explored the interannual trends of surface temperature, precipitation, and wind speed over 18 lakes of Greece using ERA5-Land data spanning over a period of almost four decades. We used generalized additive models (GAMs) to conduct time-series analysis in order to identify significant trends of change. Our results showed that surface temperature has significantly increased in all lakes with an average rate of change for annual temperature of 0.43 °C decade−1. With regard to precipitation, we identified significant trends for most lakes and particularly we found that precipitation decreased during the first two decades (1981–2000), but since 2000 it increased notably. Finally, wind speed did not show any significant change over the examined period with the exception for one lake. In summary, our work highlights the major climatic changes that have occurred in several freshwater bodies of Greece. Thus, it improves our understanding on how climate change may have impacted the ecology of these important ecosystems and may aid us to identify systems that are more vulnerable to future changes.


A new method of analysis of the structures of the five-co-ordinated copper(II) complexes is proposed, in order to place them along an ideal pathway for the isomerization reaction from the trigonal-bipyramidal geometry to the square-pyramidal one. The reliability of the method, which takes into account all the possible Berry mechanisms, has been verified by correlating it with some structural parameters independent of its formulation. The method has also been applied to the analysis of the structures of [Cu(bipy)2X] and [Cu(phen)2X] complexes (bipy = 2,2′-bipyridine, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, X = monodentate ligand).


Cervical cancer (CC) is the leading second most common cancer in India in the past two decades. It has been seen that early detection of CC can lead to curing of diseases successfully. There is a pressing need to establish an effective biomarker that would precisely detect early CC. Recently lots of attention has been passed on Major histocompatibility complex class I related chain A and B (MICA/B) antigens. This molecule is stress-inducible ligand that is over expressed in several cancers. However presence of this antigen is not yet been studied in cervical cancer (CC) patients. The present research studies for the first time expression of MICA/B antigen on PAP smear samples of CC patients. The PAP smear samples of control and CC patients were analyzed by Haematoxylin and eosin staining (H&E), MICA/B Immunoflurocence staining and double-immunofluorescence staining with anti-MICA/B and NKG2D antibody. Our results are highly motivating and clearly suggest the increased presence of MICA/B and decreased NKG2D receptor expression molecules. This decreased NKG2D expression might result in immune escape and disease progression. So far there is no data is available of any such studies on relationship between expression : of MICA/B in PAP smear of cervical cancer patients. Introduction Cervical cancer (CC) is the leading second most common cancer in India in the past two decades. Its multiple causes, prevention potential make cervical cancer an important disease for in-depth studies [1,2]. High risk women such as multiple sexual partners, multiple pregnancies, poor genital hygiene, malnutrition, use of oral contraceptives, and lack of awareness, commercial sex workers, Specific types of oncogenic HPV-16, 18 and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) positive women are more prone [3]. Incidence of cervical cancer is more in 55-59 years and a considerable population report in the late stages of disease. Hence, there is a pressing need to establish an effective biomarker that would precisely detect early CC. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is a precancerous lesion if diagnosed, can be treated effectively to prevent progression to cervical cancer. It well understood that the cells under stress will over express Major histocompatibility complex class I related chain A and B (MICA/B) antigens [4,5]. MICA is a stressinducible ligands that bind to the immunoreceptor NKG2D and play an important role in mediating cytotoxicity of NK and T cells [6,7]. These are the molecules up regulated in response to various stimuli of cellular stress including heat shock, infection with viruses, malignant transformation and inflammation. Expression of MICA/B is increased in several malignancies such as Oral, Cervix, and Breast Cancer [8]. There is no data available on expression of MICA/B in Pap smear. In this study, we propose to study immunohistochemical expression of MICA/B as potential biomarkers for the detection of early stage of CC in Pap smear to indicate CC progression. MICA/B will be a biomarker for early detection or monitoring. Improvements in CC diagnosis, monitoring and response are immense need of CC research. New approach of diagnosing CC by Pap smear will be a non invasive technique that will help to decide the treatment outcome future direction. So far there is no data is available of any such studies on relationship between expression of MICA/B in pap smears of CC. This screening test will be a cheap, effective


District heating networks are commonly addressed in the literature as one of the most effective solutions for decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector. These systems require high investments which are returned through the heat sales. Due to the changed climate conditions and building renovation policies, heat demand in the future could decrease, prolonging the investment return period. The main scope of this paper is to assess the feasibility of using the heat demand – outdoor temperature function for heat demand forecast. The district of Alvalade, located in Lisbon (Portugal), was used as a case study. The district is consisted of 665 buildings that vary in both construction period and typology. Three weather scenarios (low, medium, high) and three district renovation scenarios were developed (shallow, intermediate, deep). To estimate the error, obtained heat demand values were compared with results from a dynamic heat demand model, previously developed and validated by the authors. The results showed that when only weather change is considered, the margin of error could be acceptable for some applications (the error in annual demand was lower than 20% for all weather scenarios considered). However, after introducing renovation scenarios, the error value increased up to 59.5% (depending on the weather and renovation scenarios combination considered). The value of slope coefficient increased on average within the range of 3.8% up to 8% per decade, that corresponds to the decrease in the number of heating hours of 22-139h during the heating season (depending on the combination of weather and renovation scenarios considered). On the other hand, function intercept increased for 7.8-12.7% per decade (depending on the coupled scenarios). The values suggested could be used to modify the function parameters for the scenarios considered, and improve the accuracy of heat demand estimations. Abstract Radiative heat transfer in participating medium finds applications in high temperature systems where the medium is not perfectly transparent. Examples are combustion chambers and layers of Earth's atmosphere. Presence of tiny particles (ranging from 500 nanometers to 10 micrometers in diameter) in a medium strongly affects the radiative heat transfer. The governing equations for solving the heat transfer in the medium are discretized using FT n finite volume method. The major step in simulating the radiative heat transfer in a particulate medium is finding the scattering phase function. The original Mie theory (without any approximation) is used to calculate scattering phase functions. Non-orthogonal mesh is applied to discretize the non-orthogonal computational domain. The intensities at cell faces are found by relating them to nodal values through the high resolution CLAM scheme. Cases of scattering in media with dielectric particles and absorbing particles are considered. Also, the influences of the particle density on the dimensionless radiative heat flux and direction-integrated intensity are studied. Copyright Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 10 th International Conference on Applied Energy Abstract Radiative heat transfer in participating medium finds applications in high temperature systems where the medium is not perfectly transparent. Examples are combustion chambers and layers of Earth's atmosphere. Presence of tiny particles (ranging from 500 nanometers to 10 micrometers in diameter) in a medium strongly affects the radiative heat transfer. The governing equations for solving the heat transfer in the medium are discretized using FT n finite volume method. The major step in simulating the radiative heat transfer in a particulate medium is finding the scattering phase function. The original Mie theory (without any approximation) is used to calculate scattering phase functions. Non-orthogonal mesh is applied to discretize the non-orthogonal computational domain. The intensities at cell faces are found by relating them to nodal values through the high resolution CLAM scheme. Cases of scattering in media with dielectric particles and absorbing particles are considered. Also, the influences of the particle density on the dimensionless radiative heat flux and direction-integrated intensity are studied.


The propynyl ligand of the trimethyl phosphite substituted tungsten complex [(η5-C5H5)W(CO)2{P(OMe)3}(CH2CCH)] is converted to an allenyl ligand at room temperature and the reaction of [(η5–C5H5)W(CO)3(CHCCH2)] with [H2Os3(CO)10] yields the coupling product [H2Os6(CO)20(C6H8)](4); the structure of (4), established by X-ray crystallography, confirms the presence of a hexa-1,5-diene ligand with two alkene groups bound to two triosmium clusters in a µ,η2-fashion.


The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of transformational leadership and human resource development on the performance of employees of the Public Works Office of Southeast Sulawesi Province. The design of this study is associative explanative research. The population of this study was a staff of the Public Works Agency of the Southeast Sulawesi Province. The study sample was selected by cluster random sampling according to the level of education using the Taro Yamane formula. Thus a sample of 88 people. Besides that, 8 informants were used. Data collection using questionnaires, interviews and documentation. Data analysis using multiple linear regression analysis followed by t-test (partial) and F test (simultaneous). The results of the study show that: (1) Transformational leadership has a significant effect on the performance of employees of the Public Works Office of Southeast Sulawesi Province. (2) The development of human resources observed through the dimensions of education and training has a significant effect on the performance of employees of the Public Works Office of Southeast Sulawesi Province. (3) Transformational leadership and human resource development simultaneously have a significant effect on the performance of employees of the Public Works Office of Southeast Sulawesi Province.


Chao-Zhong Chen et al. $[{Proc}.$ ${Amer. Math. Soc},2013],$ proved the upper estimate
$\frac{\lambda _{n}}{\lambda _{m}}\leq \frac{% n^{p}}{m^{p}}$ $ (n>m\geq 1) $ for Dirichlet Shr\"{o}dinger operators with nonnegative and single-well potentials. In this paper we discuss the case of nonpositive potentials $q(x)$ continuous on the interval $[ 0,1] $. We prove that if $q(x)\leq 0$ and single-barrier then $\frac{\lambda _{n}}{\lambda _{m}}\geq \frac{n^{p}% }{m^{p}}$ for $\lambda _{n}>\lambda _{m}\geq -2q^{\ast },$ where $q^{\ast}=\inf\{q(0), q(1)\}$. Furthermore, we show that there exists $\ell_{0}\in ( 0,1] $ such that for all $\ell\in(0,\ell_{0}],$ the associated eigenvalues $(\lambda _{n}(\ell)) _{n\geq 1}$ (of the problem defined on $[0,\ell]$) satisfy $ \lambda _{1}( \ell)>0$ and $\frac{\lambda _{n}( \ell)}{\lambda _{m}( \ell) }\geq \frac{n^{p}}{m^{p}}$ $n>m\geq 1$. The value $\ell _{0}$ satisfies the following estimate $0<\ell_{0}\leq \sqrt[p]{\frac{-p}{3q^{*}}}$.


We study the rare decay KL→π0νν¯ at the KOTO experiment at J-PARC. To detect two photons from the π 0, the KOTO detector consists of a cesium iodide (CsI) calorimeter and hermetical veto counters. The calorimeter is made of 50 cm-long CsI crystals stacked in a cylinder of 1.9 m diameter. Each crystal is read out with a PMT on its rear side. One of the major backgrounds is caused by a neutron generating two clusters in the calorimeter. To reject such events, we have upgraded the calorimeter to distinguish photon clusters from neutron clusters by measuring the time difference of the scintillation light at the front and rear ends of the crystals. We established the methods to install 4080 silicone photomultipliers on the front surface of crystals for this purpose.


Atypical of Prussian blue structured materials, Mn{sup II} and [NEt{sub 4}]CN react to form [NEt{sub 4}]{sub 2}Mn{sub 3}(CN){sub 8} possessing layers of octahedral [Mn{sup II}(CN){sub 6}]{sup 4-} bonded to two high-spin tetrahedral Mn{sup II} sites.


This study aimed at identifying the impact of subcortical stroke on the interaction of cortical motor areas within and across hemispheres during the generation of voluntary hand movements.

https://www.jsmf.org/meetings/2008/may/Grefkes et al cort conn after sub cort stroke Ann Neurol 2008.pdf


A medical appliance washing machine is provided, which comprises a washing unit and a cleaning agent preparation system; the medical appliance washing machine is characterized in: the cleaning agent preparation system has an electrolytic tank with a water inlet, an acid outlet and an alkali liquor outlet; the water inlet is connected to the water source via a water inlet valve, the liquor outlet is controlled with a valve and can be used to fill electrolyzed acid/alkali liquor into a storage tank and pumped to the washing apparatus when required to clean and sterilize the medical appliance in the washing tank. The utility model employs a sort of nontoxic, unharmful, and pollution-free acidic sterilizing solution as the sterilized agent. The preparation of cleaning agent and the sterilizing agent and the cleaning and sterilizing work are accomplished automatically. The utility model brings great convenience to the medical care personnel, alleviates the hazard level and working strength for the medical care personnel, and improves the sterilization effect for medical appliances.