Neointimal healing reduces the volume of acute stent malapposition with many acute stent malapposition struts becoming completely integrated into the vessel wall.

according to an IVUS study. A strut-to-vessel distance ≤260 μm on poststent OCT


of acute stent malapposition with a large volume

protrusion, which wasmost often (75%) located


Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences Department of Social Anthropology


Unblocking the Blockage between Earth and Heaven: Shamanismas Cultural Intimacy in China


9.30 – 10.00:  Greetings and introduction to the workshop (Athina Athanasiou, Chair of Department of Social Anthropology,  Eleana Yalouri, Director of the Laboratory for Anthropological Research


TIME too would have shown how the duel brought Burr's political ruin in the East, turned his schemes toward Louisiana and Mexico.


His bullet flew over Burr's head, clipped a cedar twig which fluttered to his shoulder.

Hamilton, agonizing, was carried to his boat.


Burr with heady eyes sparkled but his face was immobile.

Pale but resolute, Hamilton took his post, his face a cameo against the green background.


"It's hereditary— everyone in my family is fat."


The search for the easy fix leads to myriad diets and resolutions to lose weight.


Scales tell nothing but how much you weigh.


As shown in Table 5, golf ball examples 1 and 2 made from compositions including a cross-linked thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer having cross-links located in the hard segments, where the cross-links are the reaction product of unsaturated bonds located in the hard segments as catalyzed by a free radical initiator and a proper ratio of the organic isocyanate to the long chain polyol, provides superior scuff resistance.

5. The method of making the golf ball according to claim 4,  wherein a weight ratio of the crosslinked thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer to the unsaturated diols is about 100:10.


8. The method of making the golf ball according to claim 1,  wherein the free radical initiator is selected from the group consisting of peroxides.


After the above described scuff resistance testing, each golf ball cover was visually observed and rated according to the following scale: a golf ball cover was rated "1" when little or no damage was visible, only groove markings or dents; a golf ball cover was rated "2" when small cuts and/or ripples in the cover were apparent; a golf ball cover was rated "3" when moderate amounts of cover material were lifted from the ball's surface, but the cover material was still attached to the golf ball; and finally a golf ball cover was rated "4" when cover material was removed or barely attached to the golf ball.

Accordingly, the invention is not to be restricted except in light of the attached claims and their equivalents.


4. The method of making the golf ball according to claim 1,  wherein the free radical initiator is present in the mixture in a weight ratio of free radical initiator to unsaturated diols of from about 0.1:100 to about 100:100.


a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or substituted or unsubstituted alkyl-aryl group, which may optionally include an ether or ester group or an unsaturated bond in any group, or

7. The method of making the golf ball according to claim 1, wherein the free radical initiator generates free radicals through at least one of thermal cleavage and UV radiation cleavage.


Examination of the history and legacy of Palestine Cultural Mural at San Francisco State University.


To summarize, the conclusion of current research is showing that consuming 3mg/kg caffeine, 1.5 g L-carnitine and their combination has no meaningful effect on performance.

The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness 48(4), 472-478.


We express our gratitude to the staff of Biochemistry Laboratory at Endocrine Research Center of Shahid Beheshti University for their skillful technical assistance.


Exercise endurance 1, 3, and 6 h after caffeine ingestion in caffeine users and nonusers.

Effect of intravenous L-carnitine on carnitine homeostasis and fuel metabolism during exercise in humans.


Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 55(6), 681-92.


Los sistemas solo serán financieramente sostenibles si balancean los años de contribución con los de disfrute de la pensión.

El sistema les otorgaría a las mujeres una menor edad de jubilación relativa a la de los hombres y el bono de semanas por cada hijo.


Mantener las semanas de cotización de las mujeres en 1300.

Comparado a un escenario sin reforma, la combinación de las medidas propuestas genera un esfuerzo fiscal adicional del 12% del PIB, es decir 45% del PIB menos que la reforma discutida.


Ello, ya que a medida que la esperanza de vida aumenta, también lo hacen los años de disfrute de la pensión.

Esos tres cambios tendrían importantes avances en la sostenibilidad fiscal y haría al sistema más equitativo entre generaciones.


(Fuente:  https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org ; Fecha: 15.01.2024)

Aunque Universidad de los Andes - Colombia ve como una necesidad el cambio al sistema de pensiones del país, calificándolo como "excluyente, regresivo e ineficiente", en una nota propone cambios para la reforma que se discute


FL dye-based assay has several advantages over indirect detection of biotinylated or haptenylated nucleotides, including fewer protocol steps and increased cell yields.

Specifically, DNA damage sensing agents induce phosphorylation of histone variant


Blue fluorescent Hoechst 33342 was used as a nuclear segmentation tool, and Alexa Fluor® 647 phalloidin was used to visualize F-actin (pseudocolored magenta).

The image on the left shows untreated cells with intact F-actin cytoskeletons and no evidence of cytotoxicity or genotoxicity.


BODIPY® FL dye–labeled nucleotides have also proven superior to fluorescein-labeled nucleotides for detection of DNA strand breaks in apoptotic cells because they provide stronger signals, a narrower emission spectrum and less photobleaching 41  (Figure 15.5.9).

One of the earliest known responses to DSB formation is phosphorylation of H2A histones.


Pregnancy and susceptibility to infectious diseases.


Induction of protective CTL responses in newborn mice by a murine retrovirus.

Stoll BJ, Hansen N, Fanaroff AA, Wright LL, Carlo WA, Ehrenkranz RA, Lemons JA, Donovan EF, Stark AR, Tyson JE et al.


Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol 2013; 2013 :752852.

Sarvas H, Kurikka S, Seppälä IJ, Mäkelä PH, Mäkelä O. Maternal antibodies partly inhibit an active antibody response to routine tetanus toxoid immunization in infants.


Influenza-attributed hospitalization rates among pregnant women in Canada 1994–2000.


Currently, there are limited epidemiological studies edifying the relationship between T2D and HTN in Indian context.

BMI was categorized as normal (<25 kg/m²), overweight (>25 and < 30 kg/m²), and obese (>30 kg/m²) [35]. Blood pressure (Systolic and Diastolic) of each subject was measured using a standardized sphygmomanometer (Elko, India), in supine position.


In addition, studies reported higher tendency of HTN among UK Afro-Caribbean (82%) [22], UK Caucasian (74%), Italian (74.4%) and Spanish diabetes (73%) [23-25].

Anthropometry:  Height, weight, waist and hip circumference were measured by physical anthropologists using anthropometer (Holtaine, UK) and digital weighing machine (Tanita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) as per WHO international manual [34].


Operational Definitions:  Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the squared value of height in meters (kg/m²).


But there is no known record of the prevalence of HTN among T2D or vice versa, implying how frequent HTN exacerbates T2D in southern India.

Each participant of the study was about 12 hours of fasting period before the collection of blood.


Diabetes in other Asian countries such as Saudi Arabia(53%) [15,16], Jordan (72.4%) [17],

The present study aims to assess the prevalence of HTN among T2D subjects and its contribution in the occurrence of T2D in Mysore population of Karnataka in South India.


as a similar article of food that is manufactured, processed, packed, or held in the United States in accordance with the requirements of this chapter; and

The Federal Meat Inspection Act, referred to in subsec.


For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 951 of this title and Tables.


Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 12.0 software (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA).

Distribution of hypertension across age, gender, BMI, habits and clinical history.


(g) Warning notice of importation in violation of chapter

(h) Protection against adulteration of food


(2) In providing for research under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give priority to conducting research on the development of tests that are suitable for inspections of food at ports of entry into the United States.


(D) With regard to fees pursuant to subparagraph (B) in connection with written export certifications for food:


A drug exported under section 382 of this title is exempt from this section.

(4) The Secretary shall annually submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, a report describing the progress made in research under paragraph (1), including progress regarding paragraph (2).


Materials of interest for SERS detection include chemicals as simple as glucose or as complex as anthrax as well as explosives.

The yellow lines depict electronic effects occurring when a specific wavelength of light interacts with the metal, in turn leading to Raman signal enhancement when these electronic effects interact with the bound TNT.


Schematic showing localization of illicit agent (green TNT molecule not to scale) into interstitial sites

Cumulative electrostatic enhancements (yellow lines) from many surfaces could result when illicit substances (green TNT) bind into these sites.


It has been shown that extremely small quantities of various materials can be detected using SERS that employs nanostructured metal substrates.

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Liver-more National Laboratory trains many


The rather weak Raman effect is strengthened greatly when the molecules are attached to a metal substrate with roughness on the order of nanometers.

Our metal nanofoam forming technique shows promise as a flexible, general approach to the formation of a wide range of new nanoporous metals not currently accessible by state-of-the-art nanoscience.


3 Department of Studies in Biotechnology, University of Mysore, Mysore, India.

Methods:  636 participants volunteered for the study.


Impact of Hypertension on Type 2 Diabetes in Mysore Population of South India

However, when creatinine and blood urea nitrogen were included in the model, the significance was nullified.


2 Department of Studies in Biochemistry, University of Mysore, Mysore, India;

The prevalence of hypertension (HTN) among adults is expected to rise by 60% resulting in a total of 1.56 billion affected individuals by 2025.


is evaluated and we finally obtain the value of the damping rate

This is in agreement with the results of Peredo & Tataronis (1990), the shifts of the frequency modify the location of the resonant surfaces in such a way that one of the natural modes is closer to the resonance while the other is further away from the resonance relative to the static situation.


has been assumed a discontinuous flow (at the boundary of the loop), except by Erdélyi & Taroyan (2003a,b) who considered a linear profile to model MHD waves in the Earth's magnetotail.

It is easy to see that the forward wave can have now three different resonant positions (see arrows).


For the curves with l/R = 0.05, 0.1 we have used l*/R = 0.05, 0.1.

This behaviour is easily understood from Fig. 2, where we have plotted the Doppler shifted frequencies and the Alfvén frequency as a function of the radial coordinate.


Mode Softening, Ferroelectric Transition, and Tunable Photonic Band Structures in a Point-Dipole Crystal

This coupling, on the one hand, gives rise to the photonic bands and, on the other hand, results in long-range (retarded) interactions between the dipoles.


We study the photonic band structure of cubic crystals of point dipoles.

The dipole-light interaction couples the dipole excitations with a crystal wave vector k to photons with wave vectors k + G, where G is an arbitrary vector of the reciprocal lattice.


Compared with the benchmark approaches, CluFlow utilizes the smallest number of border nodes and communication cost.


SDN-ECCKN [19] proposes a SDN-based energy management system for WSN.

[14] T. Winter, P. Thubert, A. Brandt, T. Clausen, J. Hui, R. Kelsey, P. Levis, K. Pister, R. Struik, and J. P. Vasseur, "Rpl: Ipv6 routing protocol for low power and lossy networks," ROLL Working Group, 2011.


It uses the OpenFlow centralized controller for routing data traffic.

[9] M. R. Garey and D. S. Johnson, Computers and Intractability;


Existing WSN management does not provide high-level abstraction.

[4] N. McKeown, T. Anderson, H. Balakrishnan, G. Parulkar, L. Peterson, J. Rexford, S. Shenker, and J. Turner, "Openflow: enabling innovation in campus networks," ACM SIGCOMM, vol. 38, no. 2, pp.


Protein was also transferred onto a polyvinylidene fluoride membrane for Western blotting (Towbin  et al., 1979).

No signal was observed when blots were treated with control sera or with antibodies previously incubated with synthesized peptides.


Control sera reacted negatively against both synthesized IP and TAP.

Cell type was classified according to Bell and Lightner (1988).


The figures show transverse 3-μm paraffin serial sections of midgut glands.

The figures show equivalent areas of serial cuts, although the pictures displayed (B, C, and D) are slightly displaced.


Acute stent malapposition was observed in 62% of lesions.


The location within the stent edges and the volume of acute stent malapposition were independent predictors of late-persistent stent malapposition.

Clinical events, including cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and stent thrombosis, did not occur in patients with late stent malapposition during the follow-up period of 28.6±10.3 months after drug-eluting stent implantation.


Incidences, Predictors, and Clinical Outcomes of Acute and Late Stent Malapposition

Exclusion criteria included the following: (1) the DES was implanted for left main coronary disease, (2) there were overlapping DESs implanted in the lesion, (3) the clinical follow-up period after DES implantation was <1 year, (4) follow-up OCT was performed >1 year after DES implantation, and (5) the OCT images had poor quality.


In addition, predictors of late-acquired stent malapposition include plaque or thrombus absorption or positive vascular remodeling.

Therefore, we investigated the incidences, predictors, and clinical outcomes of acute and late stent malapposition detected by OCT in a large number of patients who received DESs.


Todo apunta a que este escenario es muy difícil de revertir en el Senado, ya que los artículos referidos a los antes mencionado contó con los votos en bloque de la oposición y de Demócratas, que, en conjunto, pueden bloquear la iniciativa.

"El servicio de administración de cuentas y beneficios será adjudicado mediante una licitación pública.


Los diputados aprobaron un autopréstamo que no podrá exceder las 30 UF ($1 millón 100 mil), además del aumento de la Pensión Garantizada Universal (PGU) a $250 mil y su financiamiento.


También se aprobó el artículo 82 que del título III del decreto 3.500, en el que se cambia el nombre de "Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones" (AFP) por "Administrador Previsional", entre otras cosas.


Finalmente, solo se aprobó el nombre del fondo, que estaría compuesto con el 3% extra de cotización.


A continuación 3 artículos que fueron rechazados en la Cámara que inviabilizan el control del Estado de la industria.

Este administrador estaría a cargo del servicio de atención a afiliados, recaudación de cotizaciones, cartolas, pagos de pensiones y cobranzas.


dependsonthe orientation of the zircon crystal with respect

peaks are frequently shifted substantially


fluorescence spectra to be recorded on a micrometer scale in zoned minerals. The

The four highest frequency modes are internal stretching and bending vibrations of the


to monitor the fluorescence-emission spectra between the wavelength of excita

Many terrestrial zircon samples yield Raman spectra that are substantially different from the one predicted from the crystalline structure and obtained for pure


value was summed for all trivalent lanthanides and extrapolated for those not measured.

The Raman peaks are frequently shifted substantially downward or upward in position, the peaks are wider, and additional peaks


However, to be eligible for admission to the credential program at San Francisco State, students must attain a GPA of 2.75 or better in the Subject Matter Program curriculum.


Exercise Science:  Study of human movement from the physiological perspective including understanding the factors that influence work performance, training programs, adaptations including the reduction of risk factor for medical conditions such as coronary heart disease, cerebral vascular disease, adult-onset diabetes, obesity, and osteoporosis, as well as special conditions such as pregnancy and thither hypokinetic illness, or adaptations that are effective for youth, aged, and disabled populations.

Social Science:  Study of physical activity using theoretical and methodological approaches from sociology, history, cultural studies, pedagogy, psychology, youth development, and philosophy focusing on the context in which the activity occurs.


In addition, sport is studied as a personal endeavor and social institution.

Supports an understanding of the meanings and experiences of all forms of human physical activity for individuals and groups across the lifespan, from children and youth to older individuals across all forms of physical activity.


This second protocol now simulates the desired correlation

are placed on a line between Alice and Bob.


Two neighboring referees share a singlet state

The following questions remain open: can multistage entanglement swapping be simulated with finite communication?


It can then be extended in the following way to all measurement directions on the Bloch sphere, using a similar technique as in [10]:


[7] S. Pironio et al., Nature (London) 464, 1021 (2010).


The Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA has been caring for unwanted rabbits for decades.

Offer your rabbit what he or she normally eats, as well as "treats" (parsley, apples, and carrots).


When performed by experienced veterinarians, spaying and neutering can be quite safe.


PHS/SPCA has a minimum age limit of 6 months for male rabbits and one year for female rabbits.

Rabbits must have food and water available at all times.


Most veterinarians prefer to wait a little longer before performing surgery to minimize the risks for the rabbit.

Monitor your rabbit's appetite, but know that he or she may not be interested in food the night after surgery.


Passerelle entre police/gendarmerie et Conseil départemental

Le Conseil départemental assure la responsabilité de l'aide sociale à l'enfance, mais pour nous, la protection de l'enfance est bien plus qu'une compétence obligatoire.


C'est l'une de nos priorités d'actions, un devoir moral ; le temps de l'enfance est court, agissons ensemble pour le rendre le meilleur possible.

Disposer de structures et d'équipements d'accueils pour l'enfance est indispensable pour l'organisation quotidienne de tous les parents et pour le développement d'un territoire.


However, government expenditures on health are the lowest globally and account for only 1.3% of the total government expenditure (about US$ 2 per person per year) (World Bank Group, 2014).

Although the youth literacy rate in Myanmar (96%) is higher than those in regional neighbors Cambodia (87%) and Laos (72%), as are secondary school gross enrollment rates, about 25% of students leave basic education after primary school (World Bank Group, 2014).


Among ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, Myanmar has the second-highest infant (41 per 1,000 live births) and under-5 mortality rates (52 per 1,000 live births), prevalence of severe underweight (5.6%), and prevalence of HIV infection (0.6%) (UNICEF, 2014).

During September 2003, the Women's Health Volunteer Group (WVG) program was introduced in two Myanmar villages to improve maternal and child health in a rural area of Meiktila Township, Mandalay Division, Myanmar, as part of a nongovernmental organization project (Oguro & Horiuchi, 2006).


Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, with a per capita gross domestic product of $1,105 and a poverty rate of 37.5%, one of the highest in the region (World Bank Group, 2014).

International and local facilitators visited the WVGs at least twice per month during the first year to participate in meetings and provide training and feedback.


The WVGs were established by organizing women and training them using a participatory approach.

Each member was responsible for ~15 households.


The Ministry of Health, Myanmar has set a national target of at least one midwife in each village; the reality continues to lag behind the ideal.

These criteria were selected after discussions with the village authorities.


For example, in rat hippocampus, TH-positive boutons establish exclusively asymmetric synapses on the dendritic spines of hippocampal pyramidal neurons, whereas their contacts on GABAergic nonpyramidal neurons are symmetric (28).

DA Synaptic Complex: Mechanism of Cortical Modulation.


Papadopoulos, G. C., Parnavelas, J. G. & Buijs, R. (1987)  Neurosci.


TH-immunopositive boutons in rat striatum, like those in the primate cortex, are invariably of the symmetric type and their most common targets are dendritic spines, although other axosomatic and axoshaft synapses are also present (26, 27).

Ferron, A., Thierry, A.-M., Le Douarin, C. & Glowinski, J. (1984)  Brain Res.  302, 257-265.


(Medina et al., 2000). Consistently, the overall antibody titers to influenza infection are lower in pregnant mice


Fink et al., 2008). The pros and cons of maternal vaccination on the immune responses to any given infant vaccination protocol should therefore be evaluated individually.


Erlebacher, 2013). As B cells are the final effectors of humoral immunity, we focus on the modulations in the B cell compartment and their potential influence on vaccine-induced antibody responses.


Since it was not easy to just talk or contact any black African, the researcher used the snowball sampling technique wherein those who were first identified as participants were asked to suggest any of their friends who could also be part of the study.


While here, it's just one exam or at most two exams."

I have to say that some of the expectations were meet, the University reached the expectations I had."


"I choose Philippines because first of all Philippines is an English education system, they use English.

Sometimes, the teacher, to better explain it they speak in Tagalog and I donot know anything about Tagalog so I feel like I am not welcome.


These themes are supported by some quotes from the narratives below.

The teacher is in the front he/she speaking Tagalog and you are in the class and speaks like for, if I have a class for one hour he/she speaks in Tagalog for thirty minutes, it's like what are we doing here, because we're like apart.


For many couples, infertility causes several serious social and psychological consequences such as, personal distress, reduced self-esteem and loss of correct partner relationship.

Our secondary aim was to evaluate relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and levels of depression and anxiety in Turkish infertile couples.


Then, we raised infertile sample size for our secondary aim.

A valid and reliable Turkish version of STAI-S and STAI-T (35) is another component of the research questionnaire, recommended for the evaluation of anxiety occurrence (Cronbach's alpha: 0.92 and 0.86, respectively).


The second model emphasizes that psychological and social stress is secondary to infertility (16, 17).

The subjects were informed about the aims of the study and written permission was given.


Besides, some infertile couples are forced to take care of their parents.

Most of the studies from developing world indicated to social aspects of infertility.


Frequency tables were formed for variables.


Findings thus supported the desirability of applying wood residue, N-fertilizer, and gypsum amendments in combination and at proper rates for effective revegetation of bentonite mine spoils.

Proceedings America Society of Mining and Reclamation, 1991 pp 403-412


Natural revegetation of these lands has proven limited even after several decades (Sieg et al 1983).

Therefore, most efforts toward reclaiming these spoils have centered upon applying various organic and/or inorganic amendments.


Bentonite clay has been surface-mined extensively in northeastern Wyoming for over 50 years.


Revegetation of thousands of hectares of pre-law, abandoned bentonite minespoils in northeastern Wyoming has proven particularly difficult due to absence of topsoil and adverse physiochemical characteristics of spoil such as high clay content and sodicity.

This paper presents 7th through 9th year findings of a project evaluating short and long-term effects of initially applied wood residue and N-fertilizer, and a later applied gypsum amendment on re-established vegetation.


Although presently mined areas are being reclaimed according to current laws, thousands of hectares of orphan spoils existed a decade ago that were abandoned in a derelict state prior to enactment of Wyoming's reclamation law in 1973.

Several characteristics of bentonite spoil make reclamation difficult (Schuman et al 1984), including high expanding clay and soluble salts (particularly Na) content.


He awarded gold medals to SANDF men and women for their role in taking care of our statesman during the period when he was ill, his funeral, the mourning period arrangements, the lying-in-state at the Union Buildings and leading the state funeral at Qunu.

President Zuma said: "I can say with pride that the planning, execution and precision with which the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) performed its duties left no one in doubt about the capability of our armed forces."


In line with our country's activities to commemorate the first anniversary of Tata Mandela's death, the SANDF held a Mandela Commemorative Medal Parade at Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria last month.

He also thanked the international community for standing by South Africa as the world mourned the former statesman's death on 5 December 2013.


President Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, was the main functionary at the medal parade.

also thanked the internationalcommunity for standing by SouthAfrica as the world


It has been a year since the passing of the founding President of a democratic South Africa, the first Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, the late Mr Nelson Mandela.


uments containing the required information, based on  keywords techniques.

To be able to satisfy the open-domain constraints, textual Q/A systems replace the linguistic pattern matching capabilities of IE systems with methods that rely on the recognition of the  question type  and of the  expected answer type.


Throughout all this processing, the NLP techniques are limited to (a) named entity recognition; (b) semantic classification of the question type, based on information provided by an off-line question taxonomy and semantic class information available from WordNet (Fellbaum 1998); and (c) phrasal parsing produced by enhancing Brill's part-of-speech tagger with some rules for phrase formation.


Empirical methods, based on a set of ordered heuristics operating on the phrasal parse of the question, extract keywords that are passed to the search engine.

An impressive improvement of 14% is achieved when more knowledge-intensive NLP techniques are applied at both question and answer processing level.


Furthermore, the output of Q/A systems is either the actual answer identified in a text or small text fragments containing the answer.

The overall precision of the Q/A system depends also on the recognition of the  question focus, since the answer extraction, succeeding the IR phase, is centered around the question focus.


Tucson is approximately a 40 minute drive to the hotel, while Phoenix is approximately a 2 hour drive.

There can also be a charge for traffic delays of up to $22.00 per hour.


Symposia Medicus has arranged conference discounts with AVIS and Budget Car Rentals.


If you havenot registered for this conference, please go online to  www.symposiamedicus.org  to register.

Please refer to the conference code and the airport location when making your reservations.


operations. Office paper, light bulbs, automobiles, furniture, and cleaning supplies are just a few examples of items regularly purchased by state government

Increasingly, state governments have identified green cleaning as a key strategy in achieving their sustainability objectives.


As a result, 22 states have now adopted a green cleaning procurement policy of some kind.

By contrast, Maryland law leaves it to each school district to adopt its own specifications for purchasing green cleaning products.


Perhaps more importantly, in so doing states also demonstrate environmental leadership, increase public awareness of the benefits of buying green products, and encourage economic development of greener goods by fostering markets for environmentally preferable products.

These laws and policies on green cleaning in schools share several features.


However, state policies vary considerably.

Developments in State Green Cleaning Policies for Schools


In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that shows a positive correlation between student academic performance and the state of "cleanliness" within the school facilities.

At the same time, state policies on green cleaning also recognize that we can perform highly effective cleaning that removes harmful microorganisms, infectious agents, allergens, and other deleterious substances in an environmentally benign manner given the new products, technologies and processes that are available today.


Do not use Form 1116 to figure a credit for taxes paid to the Virgin Islands.


If you paid taxes to more than three countries or possessions and do not meet the exception, attach additional sheets following the format of Parts I and II.

Complete the rest of the lines that apply to you in Part I.


If you want to change your election to take a deduction instead of a credit or a credit instead of a deduction, you must do so within a special 10-year limitation period.


If you are a nonresident alien, see Nonresident Aliens below.

In Part I, do not use separate columns to report the income from each country.


Security  - and protection for those who have difficulty in communication; competent services; and safety in the community.

Passion  - in advocates and self-advocates to fight and dream together.


Choice  - in the decisions of life; choice of jobs, friends, recreation, where and with whom to live.

System Reform:  restructuring the system to one that is: Consumer-Driven, Values-Based, Outcome-Oriented, and Cost-Efficient.


Everyday Lives presented what people with disabilities said is important to them.

The Multi-Year Plan is a plan for the future which provides a backdrop for recommendations to address the waiting list in Pennsylvania.


Permanency  - with a life in the community among family and friends; no fear of returning to the institution.

Relationships  - with friends, family and partners.


Prosperity  - freedom from poverty and a chance to be successful.

Recognition  - of abilities, capacities and gifts.


The following paper will address selected, major plant responses.

Spoils were graded to a nearly level topography in the summer of 1981.


Results of a pilot study in northeastern Wyoming (Schuman and Sedbrook 1984) indicated that softwood residue (Pinus ponderosa  sawdust, bark, and chips) from local sawmills was promising as an organic amendment to improve physical conditions of bentonite spoil and enhance revegetation.

Inorganic Ca amendments such as gypsum, calcium chloride, and phosphogypsum may reduce sodicity by replacing Na with Ca ions on cation exchange sites, thus freeing Na for downward leaching (Prather et al 1978).


The temporally increasing sodication raised concerns over negative impacts on revegetation, and led Belden et al (1990) to postulate that a calcium (Ca) amendment to reduce sodicity might be an essential complement to wood residue for successful long-term reclamation.

The vegetation-related objectives of this study included:


These beneficial responses were attributed to improved physical (water infiltration and structure) and chemical (reduced salinity) qualities of residue-amended spoil (Belden et al. 1990).


The present study was based upon this premise, and was initiated in 1981 to further refine wood residue amendment rates, investigate the role and rate of concurrent nitrogen (N) fertilization, evaluate plant species suitable for revegetation of amended spoil, and determine rate of wood residue decomposition.

Consequently, research was initiated in 1987 at the 1981 study site to determine whether gypsum could be an effective Ca amendment if applied to the soil surface without incorporation.


Which bits of the intercepted sequence are complemented is also guessed.


H. Molland, T. Helleseth, "An improved correlation attack against irregular clocked and filtered keystream generators, " in Proceedings of CRYPTO 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 3152, pp.

K. Zeng, C. Yang, and T. Rao, "On the linear consistency test (LCT) in cryptanalysis with applications, " in Advances in Cryptology, Proceedings of CRYPTO '89, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 435, pp.


This eliminates the problem of too many solutions offered by the attack algorithm and also makes the problem of too many false alarms easier.

The attack always gives the right solution for the initial state of the clocking LFSR, but that solution may be accompanied by other solutions (false alarms).


A total of 190 cardiovascular events (70 coronary, 50 cerebrovascular, and 70 peripheral vascular) that required hospitalization were documented during the course of the study.

These observations are of clinical importance, because most physicians consider S K  values of 3.5 to 3.9 mmol/L to be "within normal limits."


As a categorical variable, lower S K  levels remained a significant predictor of the composite outcome before and after adjustment for serum albumin (Table 3).

Not surprising, diuretic use was associated with lower S K  levels in this study.


in approximately equal proportions. A band migrating ata lower molecular weight

Although the identity of this band has not been thoroughly investigated, it may represent the F0 precursor of the FcΔ_103–117 mutant, which lacks an N-glycosylation site that has previously been shown to be used in the Z strain of SeV F protein (N104) (35).


A band migrating at a lower molecular weight than F0 was observed for the mutant FcΔ_103–117.

In contrast, only a slight increase in F0 processing was detected when trypsin was added to cells expressing the Fc mutant.


ms in approximately equal proportions. A band migrating ata lower molecular weight than F0 was observed for

increases the extent of cleavage at this sit


When trypsin was added to the medium of the transfected cells (Fig. 3B, lower panel),

was clearly enhanced. In contrast, only a slight increase in F0 processing was detected


Received tetanus immunization ≥2 times during last pregnancy a

Has your child had a cough or difficulty breathing during the last 2 weeks?


treatment (applying dirt and saliva, tomato, salt, or AJINOMOTO [monosodium glutamate]) for

injuries that were sustained during agricultural work.


Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1968,  1, 21-34.


In Norman R. Ellis (Ed.),  Handbook of mental deficiency.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1972,  5, 67-72.


When restraint alone was in effect, therefore, walking was primed, albeit by the child herself.

A case study in developing ambulation in a profoundly retarded child.


In W. K. Honig, (Ed.),  Operant behavior: areas of research and application.


Unfortunately, conventional speculative execution typically provides a limited performance improvement because only a small number of instructions can be speculatively executed.

In this embodiment, the system identifies the marking bit associated with the field by starting with a field number for the field, and applying a modulo N operation to the field number to produce a number for the associated marking bit.


By reducing dependencies on branch conditions, speculative execution can increase the total number of instructions issued.

What is needed is a method and an apparatus for marking memory elements that does require a large amount of memory for storing marking indicators.


For example, a rollback condition occurs when a speculative thread that is executing program instructions in advance of a head thread reads from a memory element before the head thread performs a write to the memory element.

Upon a subsequent write operation to the field by the head thread, the head thread writes to both the primary version and the space-time dimensioned version if the marking bit is unset, and otherwise writes to the primary version.


Unfortunately, using a separate marking indicator for each memory element can consume a large amount of memory, which can reduce cache hit rates and thereby degrade system performance.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the system supports space and time dimensional execution.


[34] World Health Organization, "Physical Status: The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry.

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[38] D. M. Nathan, D. E. Singer, K. Hurxthal and J. D. Goodson, "The Clinical Information Value of the Glycosylated Hemoglobin Assay,"  New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 310, No. 6, 1984, pp.


[31] S. Pushpa Patil, R. Umesh Dixit and B. H. Dhruvkumar, "Study of Diabetes in Dharwad—An Urban Area in India,"  Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 11, 2011, pp.

[37] K. G. Alberti and P. Z. Zimmet, "Definition, Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications.


[36] A. V. Chobanian, G. L. Bakris, H. R. Black, W. C. Cushman, L.


[25] F. J. Del Cañizo-Gómez and M. N. Moreira-Andrés, "Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, Vol. 65, No. 2, 2004, pp.


Inhibitory ITAM signaling by Fc-alpha RI-FcR gamma chain controls multiple activating responses and prevents renal inflammation.

Postnatal acquisition of endotoxin tolerance in intestinal epithelial cells.


Jenum PA, Stray-Pedersen B, Melby KK, Kapperud G, Whitelaw A, Eskild A, Eng J. Incidence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in 35,940 pregnant women in Norway and pregnancy outcome for infected women.


Kanamaru Y, Pfirsch S, Aloulou M, Vrtovsnik F, Essig M, Loirat C, Deschenes G, Guerin-Marchand C, Blank U, Monteiro RC.

Karni G, Yalcin S, Coymak Y, Yurdakök K. Clinical trial to evaluate immunogenicity and safety of inactivated hepatitis A vaccination starting at 2-month-old children.


The protection receptor for IgG catabolism is the beta2-microglobulin-containing neonatal intestinal transport receptor.

Lotz M, Gutle D, Walther S, Menard S, Bogdan C, Hornef MW.


From those experimental flights, Lilienthal imparted to the Wrights the concepts of wing camber, a stabilizing vertical rudder in addition to a horizontal stabilizer, and a dedicated airfield from which to practice and experiment.

"The Flying Man," "The Winged Prussian," was certainly an inspiration to them and indispensable in their ultimate accomplishment.


(He didnot launch by flapping those wings; rather, he took his usual leap off Fliegeberg, began to glide, and supplemented that with the occa-

So favorable did the winds appear to be that he opted that day for a mono-wing glider with a new approach to steering—opening and closing slits of cloth on the wings instead of shifting his body weight.


Conducted over only five years, Lilienthal's flights numbered in excess of 2,000, and he was meticulous about documenting what did and didnot work and learning from his mistakes.


It is believed that from his first glider flight in 1891, he flew every day for the next five years, many of his flights longer than 900 feet.

Sunday, August 9, 1896, started off as usual at Fliegeberg.


Conclusions:  This study shows that womens health volunteer groups may positively affect the diffusion of the need to seek antenatal care and health knowledge in rural Myanmar.

These women's group interventions use a participatory learning and action cycle guided by a facilitator, who leads a cycle of meetings to identify


Design and Sample:  This cross-sectional study included 188 women aged 15–49 years old with at least one <5-year-old child.

The women were randomly selected from two control and two experimental villages.


They are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the forms disclosed.

8. The method  of claim 6, wherein if the reference involves a block transfer operation, the method further determines if the block transfer operation touches array elements associated with multiple marking bits, and if so sets the multiple marking bits.


Next, the system sets read bits one through five.

9. The method  of claim 1, further comprising resetting marking bits within the object after a subsequent join operation or rollback operation.


For example, the byte shuffle operation can be used to wrap around bits that overflow from the shift operation.

Additionally, the above disclosure is not intended to limit the invention.


In the case of a block transfer operation  1404  that reads array elements seven through 21, the system first determines that read bits one through five must be set.

A method  for marking objects defined within an object-oriented programming system to keep track of accesses to fields within objects, the method operating in a system that supports space and time dimensional execution, the system having a head thread that executes program instructions and a speculative thread that executes program instructions in advance of the head thread, the head thread accessing a primary version of the object and the speculative thread accessing space-time dimensioned version of the object, the method comprising:


The test sequence was designed to increase understanding of the potential operational safety hazards and associated physics of internal explosions, focusing on the blowout walls' and buildings' structural response.

Buildings 340 and 342 were constructed in the early 1950s with 2-ft-thick, highly reinforced concrete walls that contained a vast web of rebar, roughly 3.5% by volume.


Interlocking panels of this material formed the blowout walls, which were designed to protect the interior of the building

Structural response—This test series was designed to characterize the structures' dynamic response (spallation, cracking, displacement, etc.) to overpressure generated by detonating HE.


The objectives for the HE safety tests were to execute full-scale testing to

The JCAT 340 test series studied the dislodging characteristics of the blowout walls and effects of the wraparound pressure on an abutting bay.


Joint Characterization, Analysis, and Testing conducted at the TA-16-340 complex (JCAT-340).

This wedge was designed to reflect the initial pressures at the end of the bay wall back into the explosives bay, thereby reducing the pressure that turns the corner and affects the abutting bays.


Note that more accurate simulations of the elastic wave also improve the match in the plastic region.

Because it is crucial to test the predictions, we will obtain elastic-


To predict the elastic constants, we made similar quantum mechanical calculations as the

We used LANL's Trident laser to induce shock waves in beryllium crystals 40- to 100-μm thick- similar to the 150-μm thickness of the ignition capsule-and studied the shape of elastic waves that run ahead of the shock.


Increasing the flow stress to 9.0 GPa improves the amplitude but not the shape.

The plastic relaxation (PR) model reproduces the shape of the elastic wave more accurately; this model did not include work hardening, so the rising part of the elastic wave shows stronger reverberations in the simulation than we observed experimentally.


0.33 GPa is a typical flow stress on microsecond time scales.

PR simulation also included spall,improving the match after the peak of the plastic wave.Note that more accurate simulations of the


Elastic-plastic (E-P) simulations are the simplest models of plasticity;

the elasticwave also improve the match in the plastic region.


A duct system guaranteed to reduce duct leakage would allow the homeowner to purchase a smaller air conditioning system.

Simulation results showed that improved ducts (low leakage) and improved system installation (minimally leaking and insulated ductwork) can allow the use of a smaller nameplate capacity air conditioner without reducing the actual heating or cooling delivered at the air supply registers to the occupied space or the pulldown time.


Because duct systems lose energy that is supposed to heat or cool the house, they change the effective capacity of the heating and cooling equipment.

Gustafson's HV2 solution offers a true win/win situation for all parties involved.


Leaking Ducts Can Also Be Hazardous to Your Health

A ton of cooling represents the heat energy required to melt one ton of ice in 24 hours.


These are all signs that serious duct leakage may be which over time has accumulated on the surface as the air is being pulled through the

. If system nameplate capacity is unchanged, improving duct systems results in the pulldown being reduced by more than an hour, so the occupants become comfortable sooner.


We calculated an average fireball temperature of 8430 K, the duration of heating at approximately 3.1 s, and a crater depth of approximately 4 ft.

Because an explosion of plutonium formed the trinitite, most previous observations had a radiological emphasis.


The bottom (ground side) is rough and light tan with sandy inclusions.

Another crucial number is the maximum radial extent R of the trinitite layer (thickness ΔL) from ground zero.


We show how observations of nonradiological trinitite properties and relatively straightforward calculations provide estimates of the event that produced the "lake of green glass" in 1945.

Comparing our samples with an old photo, we conclude they are a reasonable representation of the glassy trinitite field.


If Trinity Site had not been cleaned up (bulldozed) by removing and/or burying a significant portion of the trinitite, a field survey would provide the numbers needed for our calculations.

Our discussion is confined to macroscopic measurements and theoretical calculations of the blast based on a few assumptions.


Aspek Pengetahuan Dan Sikap Terhadap Kewirausahaan


Apa menjamin dengan SOT yang baru menyebabkan pemda lebih efisien dan responsive? kan tidak semudah itu, jadi perlu kematangan dan pengetahuan yang cukup sebelum hal ini dilakukan" (Hasil wawancara penulis, 6 September 2013).

Hal ini terungkap dari beberapa hasil wawancara dengan M. Mahyuddin M, ST.,M.Si Kasubag Prasarana Fisik Pemerintahan di Sekretariat Daerah Kabupaten Buton berikut ini:


Persepsi Pejabat Birokrasi Pemerintah dalam Kewirausahaan.

Dengan demikian dapat dikatakan bahwa sebagian besar responden tidak memahami konsep  entrepreneurial government  dengan baik.


Davis, SE yang dapat menjelaskan sikapnya terhadap hal ini.


Nous souhaitons garder un contact lucide avec les Jurassiens, surtout en ces temps de crise économique, morale et politique.

Ce budget nous permet dans les actes de passer du Conseil général au Conseil départemental.


Communication du Conseil départemental du Jura

Cependant, nous sommes rassurés par l'annonce de certaines bonnes nouvelles : le Jura, terre de champions, recevra en 2016 le Tour de France pour une étape franco-suisse et le salon Made In Jura, cher au cœur des Jurassiens, renaîtra sous une forme nouvelle.


Voilà bientôt 9 mois que la nouvelle équipe départementale que j'ai l'honneur de présider a été élue.

Nous avons pu, avec un emprunt de 20 millions d'euros, solder un stock impressionnant d'impayés que nos prédécesseurs nous avaient laissé, et ainsi, honorer la parole de l'Institution auprès des associations, des entreprises et des collectivités du Jura.


"UN BUDGET 2015, DU CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL AU CONSEIL DÉPARTEMENTAL"

Nous ne voulions pas en effet continuer à payer les travaux engagés avant nous, mais au contraire, que chaque euro d'investissement qui nous reste soit consacré à l'avenir. 2016 sera synonyme de changement profond et d'incertitude nouvelle.


L'année qui se prépare ne sera donc pas lestée par le passé.

Nous avons pu [...]solder un stock impressionnant d'impayés que nos prédécesseurs nous avaient laissé...


In addition, two staff members were asked to submit an estimate of the frequency of crawling on the three days preceding training.

The child also began to offer increasing assistance during priming in attaining a walking posture.


written records had not been taken. Recording, as discussed, was initiated on the following day.

When restraint and priming was introduced, locomotion by crawling immediately decreased to about 50% and progressively decreased to nearly zero during these six sessions, totalling 60 min.


During the remainder of the study, the teachers conducted the normal program; in addition, they recorded crawling when it occurred and conducted the training procedures listed below.

Restraint and priming involved priming walking immediately after the 5-sec restraint.


We have to note that none of these studies considered a simple physiological stimulation; they have been focused rather on facial expression, also reflecting emotional behavior, attention and working memory.


Only a new Cartesian System embracing all these parameters can represent the dynamics of functionality in the brain.


The director of Facilities and Operations meets regularly with PTA representatives at district safety committee meetings.

The Facilities Department does its share in supporting education by supplying a variety of posters designed to remind students of the importance of proper hand washing to maintain personal health and prevent the spread of diseases.


Guidelines issued by states such as Illinois, Missouri, and New York in support of their respective green cleaning for schools laws serve as a wonderful "roadmap" for schools in transitioning to a green cleaning platform.

students in the management of the recycling program has encouraged increased participation by all, ensuring success of the district's recycling efforts.


You donot get depth without having a problem to solve.

These state guidelines serve as a valuable resource by providing school districts with structured programs that have been proven in the field.


time is spent on a skill and not content.

As such, Balek is actively engaged in the process of developing and promoting public policy, programs, and initiatives that help companies succeed in the green cleaning marketplace.


Outstanding sound absorption performance.


Made with approximately 60% recycled materials.

Light weight, open cell polyurethane foam.


Used for both residential and commercial soundproofing applications.


Fiberglass cores improves sound absorbing.


Lilienthal's broken bird vertically dived to earth, and the impact broke his spine.

Nationalism aside, it did take Lilienthal five years of extensive and painstaking experimentation to reach the bi-wing glider design, a design he considered feasible for mounting a motor.


Request permission to reprint this article from <mkfisher@starpower.net>.

The debate on this question differs depending upon which side of the Atlantic you inhabit.


Perhaps he had time to appreciate the irony that despite his vast study of air currents and

he had been undone by that very thing which still plagues glider airmen today.


He lingered for a day, maybe with the knowledge that his injury would deprive him of ever again experiencing the indescribable pleasures of flight, and died.


On December 17, 1903, they became in America every bit the sensation he had been in the relatively new country of Germany.

But, could he have beat them to powered flight?


L'examen clinique ne montre pas d'hypotension orthostatique.


La prise en charge préventive des ascendants n'est pas codifiée.


les patients porteurs de dysautonomie comme les parkinsoniens ou les patients institutionnalisés en Etablissement d'Hébergement pour Personnes Agées Dépendantes (EHPAD) où elle faite partie du bilan de chute [1].

Cas Clinique.–  Une patiente âgée de 82 ans, ayant pour habitude de jouer au golf à l'étranger, se plaint depuis un an environ de malaises avec liptohymie, survenant au décours de chacun des principaux repas et retentissant sur sa vie sociale.


La thrombose intéressait la partie proximale de l'artère axillaire du côté dominant et le mode de découverte était chronique dans les trois cas.

CA170 Ulcères chroniques des membres inférieurs sans maladie artérielle, veineuse ou lymphatique : penser au « Deck chair leg syndrome »


Furthermore, the reporter gene assay involves the interaction between two distinct populations

of cells and may depend to a greater extent on the attachment ability of the mutated F proteins.


An average fusion index was subsequently calculated from the fusion and expression data.

in the absence of HN, we aimed to determine whether coexpression of


Cells were fixed 32 h posttransfection and subjected to

immunostaining as described in Materials and Methods.


A wedge deflector (shown at the end of the building) was used to mitigate wraparound effects in one test.

Additionally, noise, dust, and gas meters and x-ray element analyzers assessed the industrial hygienic state of the buildings after each detonation.


The hydrocodes CTH, a Sandia National Laboratories code, and AUTODYN, a commercial code, provided the basis for modeling.

Experiments in which a blowout wall was present produced significantly higher pressures and had greater structural impact from the initial shock wave reflected off the panels than did experiments without a blowout wall.


- Behandlung von Transport und Ausbreitung gasförmiger luftfremder Stoffe in der Umgebung von Tierhaltungen A S. 1/9

- Saatgutverteilvorrichtung in einer Reihensämaschine mit gelochter Säwalze P S. 200


- Die Niederschlagsintensität bei der Impulsberegnung A S. 97/100


Handelsdünger s. Düngung, Dünger (einschl. Verteilung) II


Lüftung s. Heizung, Lüftung, Klimatisierung


A. López, J. P. Albar, J. J. Skehel, D. C. Wiley, and J.

A., R. G. Paterson, and T. S. Jardetzky. 2006.


Tanabayashi, K., and R. W. Compans. 1996.


Paramyxovirinae subfamily of paramyxoviruses.

Schickinger, R. M., S. E. Smith, and R. E. Dutch. 2006.


Suomalaisen siipikarjan hyvän tautitilanteen ansiosta virustartunojen uhka on kohdistunut meille pääsääntöisesti maamme rajojen ulkopuolelta.

Kaikki näma näytteet ovat olleet negatiivisia, joten voidaan olettaa, että Suomen tuotantosiipikarjayksiköt ovat IB-tartunnasta vapaita.


Karanteeniaikana linnut tutkitaan IB:n varalta.

Rokotevirukset saattavat myös aiheutta taudin oireita, ja rokoitteiden epäasianmukainen käsittely joipa levittää rokoteviruksia tilalta toiselle.


Rokotuksen mahdollinen käyttöönotto vaatii huolellista valmistelua.

Maissa, joissa IB-rokotukset ovat käytössä, ei tartunnan seuranta serologisin eli vasta-ainetutkimuksin enää ole mahdollista.


Celle-ci, en 20 ans d'exercice, a pu constater une augmentation constante des dépenses sociales, financées par l'Impôt (dotations de l'État, impôts des Jurassiens) et des recettes ciblées (revenus de la personne âgée ou handicapée, par exemple).


« Nous devons veiller à une redistribution équilibrée de la ressource financière publique »

Nous devons faire très attention, tout le temps !


+ le règlement des frais d'hébergement des personnes âgées et des adultes handicapés admis à l'aide sociale, et des enfants relevant de l'aide sociale à l'enfance

36,7 millions  pour les personnes handicapées, PCH hébergement (+ 5,8% par rapport à 2013)


Deux décisions modificatives permettent de l'ajuster si nécessaire.


Humans are having an undeniable influence on Earth systems, including the biosphere.


GEOL 4007: Topics in Geological Sciences-Physical Science

The mechanical behavior of earth materials.


Climate change, habitat destruction, over-hunting/harvesting, pollution, and invasive species are among the primary stressors of modern biodiversity.

In this course we will review the important questions in this emerging discipline, learn about the tools used to address these questions, and learn from case studies involving invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from a variety of environments.


May be repeated with departmental consent.


The institutional review boards at all participating sites approved the study, and all patients provided written informed consent.

composite outcome of death or ESRD, thecomposite of death or


Advances in Electromyogram Signal Classification to Improve the quality of Life for the Disable and Aged People.


There was no pattern for the number of hidden layers and the number of neurons.

The RLDA, on the other hand does not require these specifications, and performs very well.


This may be the reasons to the smaller classification accuracies for a number of classes greater than 5 compared to the results obtained from other authors, which continue with classification rates above 90 for these class configurations (Hargrove, Englehart and Hudgins, 2007; Ahsan, Ibrahimy and Khalifa, 2010; Basu, Bhattacharyya and Kim, 2010; Scheme and Englehart, 2011).

May be a better classification accuracy can be reached with another feature instead of amplitude envelope that was used.


4 Determination of the electrical parameters

Due to the rigid structure, the table cannot move and no bemf can settle.


A simple measurement on the RLC meter will allow us to get those values.

We study a system which on the one hand generates a force due to an applied current and on the other hand which creates an electrical potential with respect to the speed of the coil.


R and L are the intrinsic electrical properties of the coil and are purely passive.

this, the measurements tend to show anincrease in damping with the drive voltage underlying apossible non-linearity of the system


Western blot (molecular weight) or the immunohistology (cells stained).

Trypsinogen purification was not possible (Klein et al., 1996), but eliciting antibodies from synthetic peptide was an option.


for distinguishing two different sequences in the

By comparing the pattern of the total protein stained with Coomasie with that of proteins labeled with antibodies by Western blot, it was observed that trypsin sequences obtained by Klein  et al.  (1996) were transcribed in the midgut gland of  L. vannamei.


Evidence of trypsinogen storage in the penaeid midgut gland is provided by Western blot analysis and immunohistology.


As shown in Fig. 1, anti-TAP antibodies specifically detected trypsinogen only, but anti-IP detected both trypsin and trypsinogen.


He was surprised that the illumination, "initially quite brilliant, continued to increase for a brief interval."

Then, he said, "There was a spontaneous cheer of the observers."


“the very intense flash of light” that seemed “brighter . . . than in full daylight.” Through the glass, he saw “a conglomeration

Looking directly at the explosion 3 seconds later, he saw "a reddish glowing smoke ball rising with a thick stem of dark brown color... surrounded by a blue glow."


He estimated its strength by "dropping from about six feet small pieces of paper before, during and after the passage of the blast wave," concluding that it corresponded "to the blast that would be produced by ten thousand tons of T.N.T. [sic]" The actual yield was about 21 kt.

A nearby observer guessed the strength to be "at least 5000 tons and probably a lot more."


3. Relationship between the specific rates of methanogenesis and specific growth rates during the lag (A), linear (B), and exponential growth phases.

change between the maximal and minimal specific activities during the exponential phase.


M. thermautotrophicus was cultured in 2.5 (A) and 1.5 (B) liters of mineral medium at a constant gassing rate of


time, the slope representing the specific growth rate during the exponential phase

dissolved hydrogen partial pressure during linear growth;


The specific growth rates became maximal at the entry of the exponential stage and remained constant throughout the particular stage (Fig. 1B, 2B, and 3A).

The slope of the plots, which equals the reciprocal of the specific growth yield (equation S.8), varied with the dissolved hydrogen partial pressure


L'ornementation des bracelets de l'âge du Bronze européen : analyse descriptive et perspectives.

Cette suite d'énoncés normatifs (Habermas, 1976, p. 551) se produit au cours du critérium expérimental, selon la formule de Claude Bernard, promoteur de ce processus d'analyse dans le domaine de la biologie médicale (1865).


En matière de sciences humaines, les résultats de ce parcours expérimental ont rapport avec les concepts de régularité sociologique de Max Weber ou d'invariant structural de Claude Lévi-Strauss.

L e déroulé à plat du décor d'un bracelet a l'avantage de donner une vue d'ensemble à l'intégralité des ornements de la surface externe.


Ces graphes synthétiques servent alors de pierre de touche pour éclaircir l'origine et la longévité des ornementations complexes impliquées.

ÉTAPE N° 1 DU CRITÉRIUM EXPÉRIMENTAL LA VUE DÉVELOPPÉE DES DÉCORS


Garantizamos acceso a agua segura, alimentos, formación y cuidados básicos de salud.

Desde 2020, hemos ofrecido recursos económicos a 2284 personas garantizando no solo el acceso a alimentos, sino también capacitación para mejorar la calidad de su dieta.


NUESTRO IMPACTO EN LOS OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE - AGENDA 2030

Fieles a nuestro compromiso, ante las necesidades detectadas en España en este año 2022, hemos seguido promoviendo una estrategia de seguridad alimentaria que combina investigación, apoyo a políticas públicas, sensibilización y programas con enfoque de salud.


En Acción contra el Hambre mantenemos una estricta neutralidad política y religiosa.

Verificamos la asignación de nuestros recursos para garantizar que llegan a las personas adecuadas.


Salvamos la vida de niños y niñas desnutridos.

Actuamos de conformidad con nuestros propios principios para preservar nuestra independencia moral y económica.


Serum Potassium and Outcomes in CKD: Insights from the RRI-CKD Cohort Study

mented in the cardiovascular literature.


‖Metabolism Associates, New Haven, Connecticut; and ¶Renal Research Institute, New York, New York


Predictors of S K  were investigated using linear and repeated measures regression models.

Although nephron adaptation occurs in those with progressive renal insufficiency by way of enhanced distal tubular secretion of ingested potassium (6), mildly elevated potassium levels are not uncommon and dietary restriction of potassium is frequently considered prudent for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) to avoid dangerous hyperkalemia (7).


and mortality was observed, with mortality risk significantly greater at

Among patients with heart failure, hypokalemia is associated with ventricular arrhythmias and death (8); however, little is known about adverse effects of hypokalemia in the CKD population, which is known to be at high risk for cardiovascular disease in general and sudden death in particular (9).


Thanks again for the friendships and I wish all of you a Great Christmas and all the best in the New Year.

Two of our discerning members, Jean Timmermeister and Valerie Henschel commented that the sky had a dim but noticeable dust spot on it.


There have been a lot of changes in my life in the last two years, and I have decided to move from western Washington where I have lived all my life to Carlsbad, California.

I then increased the contrast greatly, and lo and


Introduces engineering profession fundamentals and problem-solving.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may  not  enroll.


Course credit will not satisfy degree requirements.


Students will participate in experiential learning in an industrial setting.


The rest of this work is organized as follows: Section II presents the literature review for deepfake video detection methods.

This causes incoherence in the temporal domain of the face region: discontinuity and flickering.


Section IV is dedicated to the experimental results and analysis.

This temporal inconsistency was captured from both vertical and horizontal directions over adjacent frames and helped in detecting the fakes.


Then, the estimated difference of head poses was fed into the Support Vector Machine (SVM) for deepfake detection [28].

The work of [31] extracted several low-level-features;


It aimed to discover the Spatio-temporal inconsistencies in deepfake videos and then distinguish the authenticity of videos.

Additionally, a CNN-based enhanced high-resolution network was used to automatically capture informative multi-resolution representations of these videos.


2 : dépôt de Pinerolo, Italie du Nord (Doro, 1973-1975, fig. 1) ;


Dans la structure produite, le motif, tels une note de musique, une syllabe ou encore un oncle dans un système de parenté, prend ou conserve à un moment donné une signification et une fonction originale.

Avant cela, il ressort que la struc-ture seule des décors suffit pour proposer une classification, sans préjuger par


In January 1993, he was given nasal beclomethasone for congestion and an inhaler for breathing difficulties.

The new paint additive was a polyfunctional aziridine cross-linker, CX-100 (1).


In August 1993, the patient was referred to occupational medicine for the dermatitis.

An erythematous, scaly area extended over the posterior neck and upper back, and he had an intertriginous rash under the abdominal skin fold and an erythematous rash with circumscribed, raised edges on the sternum and upper thighs.


The diagnosis is confirmed by serial pulmonary function testing or inhalational challenge testing.

In February 1993, the patient was treated for bronchitis.


Environ Health Perspect 107:599-601 (1999).

The patient first worked in auto shops doing body work and painting.


The spatial lightning distribution over Belgium is somewhat inhomogeneous.


A total number of 204 outages were reported in 2011, of which 117 are lightning related.

The amount of detections varies over the years and no clear trend is noticeable.


One such factor is the convective available potential energy (CAPE); an indicator of atmospheric instability.

In addition, CG detections of 2011 have been correlated to outage reports of high-voltage transmission lines as well.


Furthermore, above 70% of the activity takes place in the afternoon with a maximum between 15:00-16:00 UTC.


The onset of thunderstorms has been studied by many authors in the past and various elements are found to impact the development of convective systems.

The latter one is either classified as coming from an unknown source or is meteorological related, i.e., caused by lightning.


High-resolution (space, time) anthropogenic heat emissions: London 1970–2025.

Yang, B., Hanson, P.J., Riggs, J.S., Pallardy, S.G., Heuer, M., Hosman, K.P., Meyers, T.P., Wullschleger, S.D., Gu, L.-H., 2007.


Heinesch, B., Yernaux, M., Aubinet, M., 2007

Some methodological questions concerning advection measurements: a case study.


Iwata, H., Yatogami, M., van Randow, C., 2005.

storage in eddy flux measurements in a forest pertinent to vertical configurations of a profile system and


Heinsch, F., Vernaux, M., Aubinet, M., 2007.


Future manuscripts will address horizontal variation and advection.

This is followed by an exploration of the temporal variation of CO 2  storage (Section 3) and the relation between measured CO 2  storage and anthropogenic and natural factors in a highly urbanised environment (Section 4).


This cycle period may not be the same as the averaging period used in the


at ten levels; however, the results are only for one month (15th June to 15th July 2002).

In the second approach, the 'profile' method,


in Edinburgh, Scotland (Nemitz et al. 2002) and Basel, Switzerland (Feigenwinter et al. 2012), respectively.

storage depends upon the number of vertical locations at which


L'APPORT DES TRAMES GÉOMÉTRIQUES SUR OBJETS ARCHÉOLOGIQUES

(fig. 18B, n os  1-2). Les autres décors complexes des bâtons figurent aussi sur des bracelets du


Au cours de la première moitié du III e millénaire, le récapitulatif des trames présentes sur les stèles gravées de Sion fait apparaître une dichotomie nouvelle entre les décors en damier et ceux à lignes obliques

Les trames distales à triangles hachurés sont non seulement communes aux trois bâtons, mais elles se retrouvent aussi aux extrémités de bracelets du Bronze final de la même aire géographique


La cape de Mold est quant à elle sans équivoque possible, la manifestation d'une ornementation couvrant de l'habillement ayant été réalisée non pas sur du textile, comme avec le corsage de Skrydstrup, mais sur du métal

Les analogies sont moins franches avec d'autres bracelets italiens du début de la phase moyenne du Bronze final


Le renfort courant à fort rendement esthétique vient ici orner la tôle d'or, cette fois sans usage fonctionnel, ce qui rend l'illustration encore plus intéressante.

Les exemplaires suisses de Zurich et Mörigen sont issus de contextes palafittiques attribuables à la fin de l'âge du Bronze final


Les Jurassiens ont droit à la transparence et à l'information.

Nous avions trouvé des solutions à l'équilibre budgétaire tout en menant des politiques volontaristes et innovantes qui démontraient la pertinence de l'échelon du Conseil départemental, dans la vie de nos territoires et le rayonnement du Jura.


Nous le regrettons car nous avions encore beaucoup de projets, pour un département innovant et protecteur, économiquement et socialement ambitieux, soucieux de tous, des plus jeunes aux plus âgés.

Des dossiers importants sont traités en privé par la commission permanente et passent inaperçus, comme le bilan de l'aéroport ou l'engagement du Jura dans une Société publique régionale pour le très haut débit.


Dans un contexte politique défavorable, la majorité de gauche a été sévèrement sanctionnée, malgré sa bonne gestion (constat du rapport de la Cour des Comptes) et tout le travail accompli.


Nous demandons des séances publiques avec la présence de la presse.

Désormais nous connaissons sa feuille de route : l'austérité, la gestion sans hauteur de vue, d'un département aux volets clos, replié sur lui-même, distillant peu à peu l'idée qu'il ne sert plus à rien.


A couple of teaspoons of sugar on your morning oatmeal or cereal, and beans or greens cooked in a small amount of bacon or ham wonot wreck your routine.


Eat just about anything you want or crave (reasonable amounts) for one meal a week.


Life without pizza on the weekend would be unendurable for some people.

Note: This article appeared in the Summer 2002 Federal Air Surgeon's Medical Bulletin.


each separate limitation overall foreign loss account.

Estates and trusts: Enter the amount from line 2 of the Schedule D (Form 1041)


The part that is treated as U.S. source income is the smallest of: (a) the amount of overall foreign loss not recaptured in earlier years, (b) 50% or more of your taxable income from foreign sources from all categories, or (c) the amount from line 14, less any adjustment for allocation of losses from other categories, described on page 7.

Increase the amount on line 14 by entering on line 15 any recharacterized income.


and no reduction was made to U.S.source income. In situations where U.S. source income is reduced

Individuals: Enter the amount from Form 1040, line 35.


Similarly, $400 of the general limitation income must be recharacterized as high withholding tax interest.

Enter the result here and on Form 1116, line 17


The number of nodes that communicate with the SDN controller decreases.

The nodes inside the clusters use only distributed local routing and do not need to request flow table entries from the SDN controller.


where each cluster-level node represents a cluster. If there exists edges betweentwo clusters as in Fig. 6.(a), we connect the two cluster

are at least two benefits of utilizing SDN control in cluster-level routing. Firstly, compared with SDN management for every node in WSN,


that, we run the MVC algorithm on the cluster-level topology. If a border node belongs to a non-VC cluster, it changes its cluster-

routing and local routing are decoupled. The nodes inside the clusters use only distributed local routing and do not need to request


Creep-Feed Grinding:  A process where a very soft and porous grinding wheel takes a deep cut in one slow pass.

Vitrified bonds are easily dressed to shape and sharpness with diamond dressing tools.


Resin bonds have excellent vibration-damping capabilities.

The second installment will appear in the April edition.


Care must be taken to apply the grinding fluid properly to plated and metal bond grinding wheels to prevent them from hydroplaning.

bond is generally reserved for more open forms with radii greater than 0.020".


The choice of bond and abrasive go hand in hand.

If the grinding machine, part and/or fixture lack rigidity and/or the machine is old with less-than-perfect bearings and without an on-machine balancer, then the unforgiving plated wheel may cause wheel-life, surface-finish and surface-integrity problems.


Reciprocal Grinding:  A process where the workpiece is mounted on a table that moves back and forth beneath the grinding wheel.

Vitrified bonds are the most popular bond, as they make for a porous wheel.


However, in a small number of children these symptoms may be persistent and recurrent, leading to chronic musculoskeletal pain and other consequences.

The survey was conducted on a voluntary basis with respect for ethical provisions of student's anonymity.


The goal of our study was to investigate the epidemiological indicators of musculoskeletal disorders in children and to determine their association with different ergonomic stress.

Estimated is also the association of acute musculoskeletal


Excluding factor for respondents was the existence of congenital or acquired deformities and physical disorders (children who use wheelchairs, diagnosed with child musculoskeletal disease, determined disparity between the lower extremities, problems with the foot etc.).

The study was approved by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Tuzla Canton.


The questionnaire consisted of three parts.

is also the association of acute musculoskeletalpain in patients and various ergonomic load


En este sentido, el presidente de la Amafore indicó que el presidente del país dio certidumbre respecto a las administradoras de fondos y el ahorro que ya existe en ellas, lo cual es una condición muy importante, porque eso le da certeza a los trabajadores de que su cuenta individual, y en consecuencia su ahorro, no será utilizado (contrario a lo que algunas personas han empezado a rumorar).

Con esta tasa menor reafirmamos nuestro compromiso de trabajar en beneficio de los afiliados", sostuvo Giovanna Prialé, presidenta de la Asociación de AFP.


Así lo anunció la Asociación de AFP al cierre de la séptima licitación de los seguros de invalidez, sobrevivencia y sepelio bajo póliza colectiva (Sisco VII).


² El sistema de pensiones de vejez de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos consiste en el programa

GPSSA y una pensión social sujeta a verificación de recursos (Abu Dhabi gestiona programas de seguro social separados para todos los empleados locales y Sharjah para los empleados del sector público local).


(Fuente: https://larepublica.pe; Fecha: 29.09.2023)

La presidenta de la Asociación de AFP, Giovanna Prialé, en  entrevista, abordó la propuesta de reforma del Ejecutivo, proponiendo medidas innovadoras para asegurar acceso universal y una pensión mínima.


Wara l-ħsieb hu li jirtira u għalkemm ikun jogħod id-dar tas-Soċjeta' r-Rabat pero' bi ħsiebu jgħin ħafna fill- Parroċċa ta' San Lawrenz.

B'dan il-ħsieb sellimtlu flwaqt li f'isimkom awgurjtlu għomor twil ta' ħidma fil-missjoni imbagħad wara għal ħidma oħra f'Malta u għala le... fil-Birgu li tant iħobb.


Meta staqsejtu dwar xi anedottu minn ħafna li kellu hu semmigli fatt meta darba mar jirri biex jilħaq karrozza tal-linja f'Arequipa u ma' laħaqhiex bi ftit.

Hu b'sinċerita weġibni li sakem il-moħħ u s-saqqajn jibqgħu tajbin jibqa fil-missjoni fl-Awstralja jew fejn jintbagħat mis-superjuri tiegħu.


Benefiċċji soċjali ma jeżistux u għalhekk kien anki jorganizza kċejjen tal-kommunita bħal speċi ta' Victory Kitchens ta' żmien il-gwerra.

Din hija d-dar provinċjali u magħha hemm iċ-ċentru tal-Maltin fit il-barra mil-Belt propja u hemm kont niltaqa' miegħu.


Wara imbagħad sema' li kienet ġerbet u mietu 17 il-ruħ.

Minbarra l-kitba Fr. Adami kellu sehem f'radjiijiet tal-kommunita u hemm jagħmel omeliji kif ukoll intervisti ta' natura spirituwali.


We report a rare case of Thyroglossal cyst in which the thyroid tissue

There is no uptake by the thyroglossal cyst.


Ravi Ramalingam 1, K. K. Ramalingam 2, A. V. Ramesh 3, S. Mahesh Prabhu 4,

We report a case of Thyroglossal Cyst who


ABSTRACT:  The incidence of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Thyroglossal Cyst is rare.


On examination there was a 2cms oval, cystic swelling in the

A diagnosis of thyroglossal cyst was made and the patient underwent


Other LANL team members who contributed to this

Lanthanides and actinides are usually shown


are dramatically different from those of other metal

Point of contact: Bryce Tappan, 667-0533, btappan@lanl.gov


are dramatically different from those of other metalfoams currently being produced

LANL team members who contributed to this


3.2 Mechanical parameters identification

In this section, a short review of the modal theory will be presented to sufficiently master this equivalence as the relationship between movement, global coordinates, modal coordinates, and modal parameters.


Considering this, we now can express (2) as:


Le Pôle, né en 2008 dans la foulée du 5 mars 2007, est une cellule de recueil et de traitement d'informations préoccupantes (IP) concernant la situation d'un enfant qui peut paraître en danger (comportement, conditions d'existence).

»Ainsi, en 2014, 33% des IP provenaient de la direction académique par le biais de sa cellule spécialisée.


Il convient d'agir vite mais sans précipitation, d'évaluer le danger au mieux et de faire intervenir qui de droit.

Prenons un exemple fictif mais explicite, celui du petit Léo âgé de cinq ans, qui traîne dans la rue tard le soir.


Celle-ci est réalisée par l'unité territoriale du domicile de l'enfant.

Mais toujours, l'échange avec la famille est privilégié et des aides peuvent être proposées.


Une voisine, inquiète pour la sécurité du jeune enfant, compose le numéro vert et se trouve alors en relation avec un travailleur social qui joue le rôle d'aiguilleur-évaluateur.

Il faut connaître les conditions de vie de l'enfant (l'endroit où il dort, l'hygiène, l'éducation, etc.).


list of several cell-impermeant nucleic acid stains and Section 8.1 fora general discussion of dye binding to nucleic

Nucleic Acid Stain Sampler Kits (S11340, S11350,S11360) for two-color visualization of dead and live


The walls have been designed to be at divergent angles to prevent standing waves and to help reflect sound to the audience.

The side walls are finished with strips of sounding board (reflectors) at certain intervals to help reflect sound to the audience where it is desired.


Skimmed plaster board ceiling is fixed at a curving profile to prevent parallel surfaces.

Timber Floor Slates by specialist are applied to the floor and the concept of absorption will be catered by the people occupying the seats.


The back of the wall is made absorbent by applying Carpet as an absorptive material to decrease the possibilities of echo.

Carpet in conjunction with the Impact Barrier Plus underlayment have been applied on the floor for absorptive purposes.


High efficiency toward native protein substrates including collagens.—Biological Chemistry 371: 851–859.

Towbin, H., T. Staehelin, and J. Gordon. 1979.


Le Moullac, G. L., B. Klein, D. Sellos, and A. Van Wormhoudt. 1996.

Members of a trypsin gene family in Anopheles gambiae are induced in the gut by blood meal.—European Molecular Biology Organization Journal 12: 2891–2900.


Chymotrypsin gene expression during the intermolt cycle in the shrimp Penaeus vannamei (Crustacea Decapoda).—Experientia 51: 159–163.


Memoires du Museum National d'Historie Naturelle, Paris, France. 233 pp.


Hal ini menjadikan struktur tulang trabekular lemah sehingga lebih mudah fraktur.

Olahraga pembebanan perlu dilakukan untuk memberikan stress mekanik pada tulang rangka, latihan ini efektif untuk mencegah kehilangan massa tulang karena penuaan.


Kebiasaan olahraga yang kurang dapat meningkatkan risiko osteoporosis.

Adanya pembebanan mekanik pada tulang (skeletal load) menimbulkan stress mekanik dan strain (resultant tissue deformation).


Kehilangan massa tulang yang terjadi pada wanita pascamenopause sebesar 0.5-1% per tahun dari berat tulang.

15  Wanita pascamenopause juga akan mengalami penurunan tinggi badan hingga 20 cm antara usia 50-80 tahun, menimbulkan gambaran khas dowager hump (wanita tua yang bungkuk).


22  Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa subjek yang berusia >60 tahun lebih banyak ditemukan pada kelompok kasus daripada kelompok kontrol.

26  Olahraga (tegangan) dapat meningkatkan jumlah sel osteoblas dan menurunkan jumlah sel osteoklas melalui mekanisme mekanotransduksi.


Inner core layer 440 may have a surface Shore D hardness of 45 to 55.

In embodiments where the core construction is multilayered, the COR of the inner core layer, such as inner core layer 440 in FIG.


The material making up outer core layer 430 may be thermoset materials selected from the group consisting of polyurethane elastomer, polyamide elastomer, polyurea elastomer, diene-containing polymer (such as polybutadiene), cross-linked metallocene catalyzed polyolefin, silicone, and a mixture thereof.

Further, outer core layer 430 may have a surface Shore D hardness of from about 50 to about 75.


The outer core layer material is placed in an outer core layer-forming mold and subjected to initial vulcanization so as to produce a pair of semi-vulcanized hemispherical cups, and then a prefabricated inner core layer is placed in one of the hemispherical cups and is covered by the other hemispherical cup, in which state complete vulcanization is carried out.

In some embodiments, inner core layer surface is pre-coated with an adhesive or pre-treated with chemical(s) before placing inner core layer 440 in the hemispherical cups to enhance the durability of the golf ball and enable a high rebound.


Inner core layer 440 may be made by a fabrication method such as hot-press molding or injection molding.

In some embodiments, zinc diacrylate may provide advantageous resilience properties.


Outer core layer 430 typically has a surface Shore D hardness of between about 50 to about 60, and the hardness of the outer core layer is greater than the Shore D hardness of inner core layer 440.

Metal powder, such as tungsten, may alternatively be used as a filler to achieve a desired specific gravity.


Because of the ready availability of L-(+)-tartaric acid, which has the confirmed 2R,3R absolute configuration, it has been very useful for both resolution and the crystallographic determination of absolute configuration in chiral molecular species, e.g. with the anticholinergic agent R-(−)-1,1-diphenyl-3-piperidinobutan-1-ol (Schjelderup et al., 1990).

Non-H atoms are shown as 50% probability displacement ellipsoids.


honeycomb substructure formed from head-to-tail hydrogen-bonded hydrogen tartrate anions and water molecules.

More recently, its utility as an agent for the introduction of chirality in achiral organic compounds for the generation of crystalline materials with potentially useful non-linear optical properties has been explored (Aakeröy et al., 1992; Fuller et al., 1995; Marchewska et al., 2003; Debrus et al., 2005; Manivannan et al., 2006).


Data on the dietary intake of potassium and protein was not collected in the Renal Research Institute CKD Study; however, we examined models with and without adjustment for serum albumin, a major marker of nutritional status.

This study shows that the levels of S K  that are associated with lowest risk for mortality are between 4.1 and 5.5 mmol/L, which suggests that maintaining S K  in this range may potentially help optimize survival in patients with CKD.


In solving an m × m multivariable design problem, the synthesis problem is converted into m equivalent single-loop MISO problems, with parameter uncertainties, external disturbances and performance tolerances are derived from the original problem, and the coupling effects between MISO subsystems are treated as disturbance inputs.

In all the quantitative designs, a time-consuming trial-and-error procedure is adapted and a successful compromise between various design requirements is very much dependent on the designer experience.


QFT design methodology for uncertain multivariable plants has provided a number of competing techniques.

The resulted methodology was insensitive to large gain variations.


These coupling effects need to be rejected in the QFT design of each subsystem.

The main steps involved in the QFT design can be summarized as: template generation, loop shaping and pre-filter design.


Also, a stochastic optimization technique is employed to optimally design the overall robust adaptive controller.


Other less dominating, intermediate event of Paleogene–Eocene age is recorded in the region (samples RD57-17, -21, -29, -31), as well as the possibility of an older event is suggested by the sample RD57-23.

The minor extension led a number of authors to argue against the role of mantle plumes in triggering Early Cretaceous extension (e.g., Matos, 2000, 2001; Fairhead and Wilson, 2005).


Note this conclusion is based on the simple assumption that the events occurred synchronously across the study area, as illustrated by the interpreted overlap in the timing of events.

The studies of both Gallagher et al. (1994) and Karner et al. (1994) show fission-track ages increasing with elevation towards the continental interior.


For example, Harman et al. (1998) in their study of the Guaporé and São Francisco cratons show fission-track ages that range from 309–137 Ma to 260–76 Ma, respectively.

However, the broad zone of diffuse 145–125 Ma tholeiitic volcanism onshore (and younger volcanism offshore) northeastern Brazil, together with the restricted Late Albian volcanism in the Pernambuco–Paraíba Basin, requires a significant thermal anomaly within and large partial melting of the asthenosphere or mantle lithosphere.


The fission-track data in this study do not show this trend.

We believe this response is best accounted for by regional denudation, but a component of higher heat flow cannot be ruled out, as various paleothermal events derived from fission-track analysis on the conjugate African margin (Bray et al., 2002) were in part controlled by elevated heat flow during the mid Cretaceous.