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Bone Marrow Morphology in Geriatric Patients with Anemia

Background Anemia is a common hematological problem in the geriatric age group and its incidence increases with increasing age. Anemia in old age has unique causes, adverse effects and functional outcome. The etiology is often multi-factorial, the most common causes being Anemia of Chronic disease, Nutritional deficiencies, followed by unexplained anemia. Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) is more common in older adults and accounts for a significant number of unexplained anemias in elderly. Bone Marrow Morphology remains the cornerstone in its diagnosis and is an important tool that complements cytogenetic finings for diagnostic and prognostic discrimination in MDS. The present study evaluated the Bone Marrow morphology in Geriatric patients with Anemia and emphasises Myelodysplastic syndrome as one of the important causes of geriatric anemia. Study Design: prospective descriptive study. Aim: 1.To evaluate the clinical presenting features and the basic, hematological parameters in Geriatric patients with Anemia. 2. To evaluate the morphological alterations of Bone marrow aspirates in these Geriatric patients with Anemia. 3. To correlate these morphological alterations of Bone marrow aspirates with the clinical and basic hematological parameters in these patients. Materials and Methods: This prospective study was conducted over a period of two years from September 2010-2012 in a tertiary health care hospital. Geriatric patients of age more than 60 years who are presenting with anemia, fulfilling the WHO criteria of anemia were enrolled in the study. Bone marrow was aspirated from the sternum or the posterior superior iliac crest, using a Salah needle. Results: The anemia was of severe degree in most patients as per WHO criteria. It was often multifactorial. Bone marrow examination showed a Reactive Erythroid Hyperplasia of marrow with micronormoblastic maturation suggestive of a probable Iron deficiency in 41.54% of patients. The present study identified Myelodysplastic syndrome as a possible cause of Geriatric Anemia in 9.23% of patients. Conclusion Anemia in elderly patients should never be regarded as a normal physiological response to aging. All Elderly patients with Anemia should always be evaluated for an underlying cause and treated accordingly. Hence a Bone marrow examination is often necessary in all cases of geriatric anemia for establishing a diagnosis, particularly in MDS.
Restructuring of the Belgian banking sector and fínancial stability

As the single currency will compel the Belgian banking sector to fit into a larger whole, it seemed appropriate to compare, as far as possible, this sector's position with that of four neighbouring countries Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and the average for these countries. These countries are in any case some of Belgium's main commercial and financial partners. It turns out that the balance-sheet and trading structure of Belgian credit institutions is markedly different from that of the four neighbouring countries (Table 1).
Characterizing Earthquake Rupture Models for the Prediction of Strong Ground Motion

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The deep seismic structure of Precambrian terranes within the West Australian Craton and implications for crustal formation and evolution

The deep crustal structure across the West Australian Craton has been determined using receiver function analysis of broadband records from temporary seismic stations. These stations were deployed in a series of experiments using both widely-spaced station configurations and denser coverage in the form of lines/groups of stations. Data from the permanent stations, MBWA and NWAO, were also included. The improved coverage that is obtained from the combined deployments allows investigation of deep seismic structure over the whole craton at a resolution greater than the scale of the main terrane groups. We are thus able to investigate the variations in structure across the West Australian Craton in terms of craton assembly and crustal evolution. We find remarkable consistency of structure within several of the individual Precambrian terranes, most notably the Pilbara, Murchison and Southern Cross. These terranes are underlain by a sharp seismic Moho. We also find significant contrasts in structure between neighbouring terranes, such that several of the major tectonic units have a velocity profile that is a signature of that terrane or terrane group. The structure beneath orogenic belts is often less characteristic and shows a less pronounced seismic Moho. It has been suggested that a very high degree of crustal reworking will produce a felsic lower crust, with a reduced seismic velocity. This increases the velocity contrast across the Moho, producing a very sharp discontinuity. These findings suggest that the seismic structure of Precambrian crust is fixed early in tectonic history, before craton assembly, and preserved through terrane accretion and the subsequent collision of the elements forming the West Australian Craton. We confirm that receiver function methods can be used to delineate the extent of Precambrian terranes in regions where geological exposure of the surface is limited and provide an effective alternative to active source seismic techniques for deep crustal targets.
DETECTION AND ISOLATION OF SENSOR FAULTS IN NONLINEAR SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY

In control systems, the most natural way to model failures of hardware components is introducing additional inputs (fault inputs) that equal the difference between actual and assumed values of the ‘faulty’ quantities. However, when applied to faults affecting the measure of the state of a nonlinear system, this natural modeling procedure results, in general, in non-standard models that are nonlinear in the fault inputs, whereas an affine dependence is desired to exploit the available fault detection and isolation techniques. Through the analysis of a case study (the IFATIS Heating System Benchmark), we illustrate how to alternatively model the failure of a sensor, in particular, by a set of (always concurrent) fault inputs, so that the standard, affine in the inputs, form of nonlinear systems is kept. With the model in this form, the recently developed idea of Fault Set Detection and Isolation (FSDI, (Mattone and De Luca, 2003b)) can be applied to detect sensor failures under the hypothesis of their non-concurrency.
OPTIMIZATION OF LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS VIABILITY DURING FREEZE-DRYING BY BOX-BEHNKEN DESIGN

Freeze drying is the most extensively used preparation and preservation technology for the cells. However, the freeze-dried cells may be injured during this process and can cause significant cell death. In this work, we aimed to optimize hydroxyproline, sucrose and isomaltooligosaccharide concentrations in order to maximize the survival rate of Lactobacillus rhamnosus during freeze drying, using response surface methodology (RSM). A Box-Behnken design was used to evaluate the effects of these cryoprotectants on the Lactobacillus rhamnosus cells in terms of viability. The optimal concentrations of the added compounds in the medium were experimentally studied and they were found to be (w/w): 12.11 % for hydroxyproline, 9.67 % for sucrose and 2.56 % for isomaltooligosaccharide. When Lactobacillus rhamnosus cells were dried by using the cryoprotectants found in the optimum concentration, a rate of 67.78±0.26 % cells survived and the cell viability reached the value of 1.79±0.05×1011 CFU/g.
TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 Distribution Characteristics in the Thermal Power Plants in Korea

In this study, the emission characteristics and heavy metal contents of TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 pollutants from three thermal power plants in Korea were investigated and compared to the electric production capacity, type of fuel and sort of air-pollution-control device. For the measurement and analysis, Korean standard test method US EPA method were used. The average concentration of TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 emitted from Plant A were 7.39, 6.16, 4.83 mg/Sm3, Plant B was 5.82, 4.87, 2.35 mg/Sm3 and Plant C was 1.54, 1.40, 10.02 mg/Sm3, respectively. Plant A that uses heavy oil as the main fuel showed higher TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 than Plant B that uses mostly anthracite coal, and plant B showed higher TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 than Plant C that mainly uses bituminous coal. The concentration of fine particles decreased as electricity-production capacity increased. The fractions of PM10 and PM2.5 in TSP were relatively high in tested plants; this result means that more fine particles than coarse particles were emitted from all stacks. The distribution of heavy metals by particle size showed similar trends in all plants. The concentration of Zn and Mn in TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 showed higher than the others in all plants. These results confirm that the content of heavy metals in the particulate matter is influenced by the fuel that the plant uses.
Suggestions for COBRA-TF Parallelization and Optimization

This document details the suggestions for further improving the execution time of Coolant Boiling in Rod Arrays—Two Fluids (COBRA-TF). Strategies for making these improvements include running several sections of the code in parallel as well as restructuring large arrays, restructuring loops, and changing how the superheated vapor temperature and specific heat are calculated. This document provides COBRA-TF profiling results, points out specific code sections that would be candidates for performing in parallel, describes an MPI-based SPMD approach to parallelizing the entire COBRA-TF code, and offers strategies to remedy inefficient por-
Synthesis of Aircraft Flyover Noise for Target Sound Design

This paper presents a model-based sound synthesis approach for aircraft flyover noise. The sound synthesis approach helps to better understand sound quality differences among various types of aircrafts in both landing and take-off conditions and forms an excellent basis to design target sounds with improved noise signature. The presented research is one of our core activities in the EU project “SEFA” (Sound Engineering for Aircraft; coordinator: Dornier GmbH, Germany). This project aims at developing technology design criteria to make aircrafts more acceptable from a noise signature point of view.
FACTORS AFFECTING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER READINESS ON IMPLEMENTING CURRICULUM IN WEST

This research aims to confirm and measuring four-factor model effects that predicting correlated to elementary school teachers readiness in implementing the curriculum. These four indicator factors are mindset transformation, the curriculum concepts comprehension, ability to analyzing subjects matter, and teaching design. These four factors designed as indicators variable to elementary school teachers readiness, as a latent variable. The quantitative data treated as interdependency relationship, analyzed by multiple correlation, partial correlation, and a confirmatory factor analysis techniques. Confirmatory factor analysis results indicated that only 47 of 53 research questions are appropriated for the four-factor model. The first factor, mindset transformation explained 29.44% of teacher readiness, Second-factor curriculum concepts comprehension explained 20.32%, Third factor, ability to analyzing subjects matter explained 12.63%, and the fourth factor, teaching design explained 8.43% variance of teacher readiness. Totally 70,82% variance of teacher readiness as a latent variable can be explained by the model. Partial correlation analysis finding that a very significance correlation among four-factor and elementary school teachers readiness: factor 1 (RX1Y,234 = 0,997: p<0,00 ), factor 2 (RX2Y,134 = 0,995: p<0,00), factor 3 (RX3Y,124 = 0.972: p<0,00), dan factor 4 (RX4Y,123 = 0.983: p<0,00). This research confirming that four-factor model as indicator variables are appropriate and very significantly correlated to elementary school teachers readiness in implementing the curriculum. This research confirming that mind set transformation, curriculum concepts comprehension, ability to analyzing subjects matter, and teaching design are significantly suitable and correlates to elementary school teachers readiness as a latent variable. Refers to norm reference the quality of elementary school teachers readiness should be improved. There are needs, consciousness, and climate to imply educational innovations, but it seems hard to change the mindsets, to maintain learning and research climate, and lack of curriculum concepts comprehension. Elementary school teachers capacity in information technology and applying authentic assessment also have to be improved.
Leadership Styles and War and Peace Policies in the Spanish – Basque Conflict : A Discourse Analysis of Jos

The purpose of this paper is to establish possible links between leadership styles and war and peace policies in the Spanish–Basque conflict. To this end, an analysis was performed of the styles of two Spanish premiers, José María Aznar (1996–2004) and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–2011), both of whom were involved in the same conflict with similar peace policies. The structure of the paper is as follows: an overview of the literature on leadership styles in armed conflict situations and the construction of a theoretical framework; a review of the historical and biographical context; a description of the interview content analysis methodology for measuring leadership styles; a classification of Aznar and Zapatero on the basis of their leadership styles and a comparative analysis of their policies and those enforced by other leaders in a context of internal armed conflict; and the conclusions.
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction and temperature dependent 57 Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy on the hedenbergite-aegirine ( Ca , Na ) ( Fe

Synthetic samples with different chemical compositions along the hedenbergiteaegirine (CaFeSi2O6NaFeSi2O6) solid-solution series have been investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. All compounds show C2/c symmetry, both at 298 K and at low temperature (100 K). The structural changes within the hedenbergiteaegirine series are dominated by the M1 site while the M2 site plays a minor role. Replacement of Fe by Fe increases the polyhedral distortion of the M1 site and causes an increased repulsion between neighboring M1 sites. The changes in M1-site geometry also induce distinct alterations within the kinking state of the tetrahedral chains, but the changes in tetrahedral bond lengths and angles are small. In addition to the single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments, a large number of synthetic samples were investigated by Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy at 298 K and, for three selected compositions, between 80 and 700 K. Here, substantial line broadening of the Fe resonance absorption was observed as an aegirine component is substituted. Two different groups of local distortion environments were observed for Fe within the solid-solution series, which change relative proportions and numeric value of the quadrupole splitting as a function of chemistry and temperature. This line broadening cannot be ascribed to discrete next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) conÞ gurations of Ca and Na as has been done in the literature. Above ~250 K, additional resonance absorption appears in the spectra of samples with aegirine components between 20 and 75 mol%. This absorption gains intensity with increasing temperature, while the Fe hyperÞ ne parameters approach values intermediate between Fe and Fe. This effect is ascribed to fast electron delocalization between Fe and Fe at elevated temperature.
eevaluating the Association Between Emergency epartment Heart Rate and the Development of osttraumatic Stress Disorder : A Public Health pproach

ackground: Preliminary investigations in select samples of trauma survivors presenting to acute care settings suggest an association etween elevated emergency department heart rate (HR) and the subsequent development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ther studies suggest no association, however. ethod: In a prospective cohort study of a population-based sample of 161 acutely injured surgical inpatients, HR was assessed at nitial presentation to the emergency department. Symptoms of PTSD were assessed with the PTSD Checklist at the time of the surgical npatient hospitalization and 1, 4–6, and 12 months postinjury. esults: Emergency department HR 95 beats per minute (BPM) was a significant independent predictor of PTSD symptoms in nalyses that adjusted for relevant injury, clinical, and demographic characteristics. This HR cutoff demonstrated modest specificity range 60%–65%) and sensitivity (range 49%–63%) for the prediction of chronic PTSD. onclusions: We found an independent association between elevated emergency department HR 95 BPM and PTSD symptoms in representative sample of injured acute care inpatients. Future investigations that incorporate clinical epidemiologic methods in the tudy of acute care biological parameters have the potential to improve the quality of mental health care delivered to injured survivors f individual and mass trauma.
Disruption of Bacterial cell-to-cell Communication ( Quorum Sensing ) : A Promising Novel Way to Combat Bacteria-Mediated Diseases

Antibiyotikler bakteriyel enfeksiyonların tedavisinde yaygın bir şekilde kullanılmaktadırlar. İlaç tedavisinde antibiyotiklerin gereksiz ve rastgele kullanımları, bu ajanlara karşı yaygın direnç gelişmesine neden olmuştur. Çoklu antibiyotik direncine sahip bakterilerin ortaya çıkması ve hızla yayılması, halihazırda mevcut antibiyotiklerle bakteriyel infeksiyonların tedavisini giderek güçleştirmektedir. Dolayısıyla, bakterilerle savaş yeteneğimizin azaldığı post-antibiyotik bir dönemle karşı karşıyayız ve infeksiyöz hastalıklarla başa çıkmak için yeni stratejilere olan gereksinim gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. Patojenik bakterilerin patojenite ve virülans faktörlerinin üretimini bakteriler arası iletişim sistemini kullanarak düzenlendiklerinin keşfi, bakteriler arası iletişim sistemini antimikrobiyal tedavi için cazip bir hedef haline getirmiştir. Bakterileri öldürmek yerine patogenezi hedef almak, direnç gelişimi için daha az seçici baskı uygulayabilir, bu nedenle bakteriyel iletişim inhibitörleri kullanarak bakteriler arası iletişimin inaktive edilmesi, infeksiyöz hastalıkların tedavisi için büyük umut vaat etmektedir. Anahtar sözcükler: Hücreler arası iletişim, antibiyotik direnci, quorum sensing inhibitörleri ABS TRACT Disruption of bacterial cell-to-cell communication (Quorum Sensing): a promising novel way to combat bacteria-mediated diseases
Advanced low-SWAP lidar imager for degraded visual environments

Areté Associates has developed a low-SWAP 3D imaging lidar to enhance rotorcraft pilot situational awareness in degraded visual environments (DVE). The lidar incorporates full waveform processing with an agile scanning system and variable pulse repetition rate (PRF) laser into a purpose-built imaging system optimized for operations in DVE. Full waveform processing robustly eliminates false contacts from dust and other obscurants; the agile scanner provides a dense scan pattern over user-defined, mission-based field of regard (FOR); and the laser PRF can be adjusted to provide unambiguous imaging over long ranges. Areté’s DVE Lidar is the culmination of a multi-year development effort that included multiple ground and flight tests in DVE scenarios and a repackaging effort to miniaturize processing and support electronics so they could be integrated into the sensor head. We present here a system overview of the Areté DVE Lidar and highlight some of the unique capabilities that make it the system of choice for DVE operations.