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SP-to-SP service ordering specification and its implementation (2002)

Network Management Forum (NMF) has defined a set of basic business processes dealing with major TMN service management functions such as performance management, fault management, billing and service provisioning. In addition to these, a service ordering process is defined as an important interaction with the end customers requiring services. The service order process provides an integration point for all major TMN functions and business processes. This paper presents an overview analysis for the service ordering process including the process definition, object modelling and process interaction. To verify the process definition and object modelling, we built a proof of concept implementation of the Ordering specification discussed here. The focus of this implementation is to demonstrate the interface defined between different service providers in a transaction of service ordering. It implements the major concepts of the NMF Ordering process such as pre-order, negotiation, order options and service level agreements. The implementation uses the same interface specification for the two interactions in a service ordering scenario: the customer-SP interaction, the main service provider (MSP) and sub-contracted service providers (SSP) interaction. The latter interaction can be propagated in a recursive manner when a supplier requires further order from other service providers as part of the original order. The prototype is built using Java.
Vasoconstrictor effects of insulin in skeletal muscle arterioles are mediated by ERK1/2 activation in endothelium (2004)

Insulin exerts both NO-dependent vasodilator and endothelin-dependent vasoconstrictor effects on skeletal muscle arterioles. The intracellular enzymes 1-phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) and Akt have been shown to mediate the vasodilator effects of insulin, but the signaling molecules involved in the vasoconstrictor effects of insulin in these arterioles are unknown. Our objective was to identify intracellular mediators of acute vasoconstrictor effects of insulin on skeletal muscle arterioles. Rat cremaster first-order arterioles (n=40) were isolated, and vasoreactivity to insulin was studied using a pressure myograph. Insulin induced dose-dependent vasoconstriction of skeletal muscle arterioles (up to -22 +/- 3% of basal diameter; P <0.05) during PI3-kinase inhibition with wortmannin (50 nmol/l). Insulin-induced vasoconstriction was abolished by inhibition of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) with PD-98059 (40 micromol/l). In addition, inhibition of ERK1/2 without PI3-kinase inhibition uncovered insulin-mediated vasodilatation in skeletal muscle arterioles (up to 37 +/- 10% of baseline diameter; P <0.05). Effects of insulin on ERK1/2 activation in arterioles were then investigated by Western blot analysis. Insulin induced a transient 2.4-fold increase in ERK1/2 phosphorylation (maximal at approximately 15 min) in skeletal muscle arterioles (P <0.05). Removal of the arteriolar endothelium abolished insulin-induced vasoconstriction, which suggests that activation of ERK1/2 in endothelial cells is involved in acute insulin-mediated vasoconstriction. To investigate this, acute effects of insulin on ERK1/2 phosphorylation were studied in human microvascular endothelial cells. In support of the findings in skeletal muscle arterioles, insulin induced a 1.9-fold increase in ERK1/2 phosphorylation (maximal at approximately 15 min) in microvascular endothelial cells (P <0.05). We conclude that acute vasoconstrictor effects of insulin in skeletal muscle arterioles are mediated by activation of ERK1/2 in endothelium. This ERK1/2-mediated vasoconstrictor effect antagonizes insulin-induced, PI3-kinase-dependent vasodilatation in skeletal muscle arterioles. These findings provide a novel mechanism by which insulin may determine blood flow and glucose disposal in skeletal muscle.
[Simultaneous detection of human parainfluenza viruses 1, 2, 3 by multiplex real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction with LNA probes]. (2012)

The assays demonstrates an improved sensitivity and scope of detecting HPIV1, 2, 3 viruses relative to routine antigen detection assays while the quantitative utility may facilitate investigation of the pre-diagnosis and respiratory virus pathogenesis.
Laboratory and field assessment of cyantraniliprole relative to existing fly baits (2014)

Behavioral resistance of M. domestica to imidacloprid and methomyl persists. Spinosad and cyantraniliprole baits (delayed mortality) performed best. Speed of action may be a factor in use and misuse of baits.
Absolute Raman cross sections for cyclohexane, acetonitrile, and water in the far-ultraviolet region (1990)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTAbsolute Raman cross sections for cyclohexane, acetonitrile, and water in the far-ultraviolet regionBulang. Li and Anne B. MyersCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1990, 94, 10, 4051–4054Publication Date (Print):May 1, 1990Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 May 1990https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/j100373a031https://doi.org/10.1021/j100373a031research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views1309Altmetric-Citations61LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access options Get e-Alerts
Breast feeding and maternal and child health. (1975)

The factors underlying the change in infant feeding practices the medical advantages of breast milk demands of lactation on nutrition of nursing mothers and the need for postpartum contraception are reviewed. Social norms which identify artificial feeding with sophistication convenience and esthetics and economic pressures leading to womens employment contribute to the trend towards artificial feeding. Human breast milk has an important role in physiological balance and nutrition of infants and in prevention of infection. Lactation makes demands upon maternal nutrition which may in turn affect quality and quantity of milk. Breast-feeding women should be considered a high-priority group for additional nutritional care. The contraceptive effect of lactation is only partial and diminishes; postpartum contraception is important. Adverse effects of combined oral contraceptives appear to be related to the estrogen but studies of women using the IUD continuous oral progestagens or injections of long-acting progestagens have shown good results with no deleterious effects. Nonestrogen-containing contraceptives should be the method of choice for breast-feeding mothers.
Video Surveillance using Dynamic Configuration of Mutiple Active Cameras (2006)

In this paper, we present a coordinated video surveillance system that can minimize the spatial limitation and can precisely extract the 3D position of objects. To do this, our system used an agent based system and also tracked the normalized object using active wide-baseline stereo method. The system is composed of two parts: multiple camera agents (CAs) and a support module (SM). Each CA treats image processing and camera controlling. A SM performs a role that manages communication between CAs. Our proposed system extracts object positions independent of environment via the collaboration of CAs and a SM. Finally, through experimental results we show that the proposed system successfully tracks an object on real-time.
Encrypted Database Design: Specialized Approaches (1986)

This paper presents two specialized approaches to the design of a database incorporating cryptography in a fundamental way. Most processing is carried out on the encrypted version of the database at an insecure central site. Query initiation and final query interpretation occur at a secure local workstation. The first approach implements a text file with searches based on keywords. The second approach uses subfields and homophonic representations to create a secure database with fairly broad capabilities.
First class: Union to ensure early childhood teachers armed and ready for accreditation (2015)

With accreditation of early childhood teachers commencing in 2016, the Union is preparing to help members. Our intention is to arm Union members with enough information to complete BOSTES accreditation requirements well, but without unnecessary additional work.
Off-line handwritten word recognition (HWR) using a single contextual hidden Markov model (2003)

A complete scheme for totally unconstrained handwritten word recognition based on a single contextual hidden Markov model (HMM) is proposed. The scheme includes a morphology- and heuristics-based segmentation algorithm and a modified Viterbi algorithm that searches the (l+1)st globally best path based on the previous l best paths. The results of detailed experiments for which the overall recognition rate is up to 89.4% are reported.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
The Nature of D-region Scattering of Vertical Incidence Radio Waves. II. Experimental Observations Using Spaced Antenna Reception (1975)

Statistical properties of the ground diffraction pattern formed by ionospherically reflected radio waves are used to examine models of the angular spectra of reflections from the ionospheric D-region. In the daytime two distinct height regions characterized by differing reflection mechanisms are identified within the D-region. Below 85 km the angular spectrum of reflected waves frequently contains coherent components, whereas a spectrum of incoherent or randomly phased components is characteristic of reflections from the region above 85 km. There is evidence which suggests the presence on many occasions of isolated moving reflectors in the reflecting 'ionospheric screen' . . Both the mean angular spread and the fading speed of waves partially reflected from the D-region show an increase with increasing height of reflection.
Core Web Programming (2001)

Introduction. Acknowledgments. I. THE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE. 1. Designing Web Pages with HTML 4.0. 2. Block-Level Elements in HTML 4.0. 3. Text-Level Elements in HTML 4.0. 4. Frames. 5. Cascading Style Sheets. II. JAVA PROGRAMMING. 6. Getting Started with Java. 7. Object-Oriented Programming in Java. 8. Basic Java Syntax. 9. Applets and Basic Graphics. 10. Java 2D: Graphics in Java 2. 11. Handling Mouse and Keyboard Events. 12. Layout Managers. 13. AWT Components. 14. Basic Swing. 15. Advanced Swing. 16. Concurrent Programming with Java Threads. 17. Network Programming. III. SERVER-SIDE PROGRAMMING. 18. HTML Forms. 19. Server-Side Java Servlets. 20. Javaserver Pages. 21. Using Applets as Front Ends to Server-Side Programs. 22. JDBC. 23. XML Processing with Java. IV. JAVASCRIPT. 24. JavaScript: Adding Dynamic Content to Web Pages. 25. JavaScript Quick Reference. Index.
Three challenges of China's population in the 1990s. (1991)

China will encounter 3 challenges of its population problem in the 1990s. The 1st is the huge number of people born or population increase each year. The 3rd baby boom, which started at the mid-1980s, will last until abound 1997. The women entering into the age of peak childbearing (23 years old) exceed 11 million each year with an upper range of about 13 million. IN 1992, the number of women of fecund ages (22-29) in the whole country will reach 124 million, the largest number of fertile women in history. The net increase of population will be from 15.5 to 17.0 million for each hear. What is more serious is that the momentum of population increase will continue, instead of being checked by the year 2000. The next are the continuous increase of the aged population of 65 and over and the growing tendency of population aging ahead of economic development. China is a developing socialist country, huge in population, weak in economic development, with less-developed science, culture, and education. However, as a result of the decline in the proportion of children to the total population due to the decline in the birth rate in the 1970s, China's population has become an adult population from a young one in terms of the age structure, and will be an aged one very soon. China is facing the challenge of aging under economically less developed conditions. For developed countries, it took 80 years for the proportion of the aged population of 65 and over to increase from 7% to 17%; for China, it has taken only 40 years. It will certainly bring about a series of problems and difficulties upon the society to cope with such a huge number of elderly in an underdeveloped economy. The 3rd challenge is the increasing pressure on employment due to the continuous growth of working-age population (15-64). It is estimated that the working-age population will increase to 858 million by 2000, 20 million more than the sum of working-age population in all of the developed countries; and to 977 million by 2020. Since in a short period of time it is difficult to change the situation of labor supply greater than demand, the pressure on employment will continue to increase, with more than 15 million people entering the labor force or waiting for jobs each year. In particular, the rural surplus labor force will reach 233 million by 2000. This is signaled by the huge number of farmers who have rushed into big cities for work in recent years. It is far beyond the capability of the government to employ such a huge number of laborers because it would require an investment of at least 3600 billion yuan for fixed assets. It seems to me that the 3 population challenges stated above are not isolated but interact to restrict the process of China's economic and social development. The way out lies in developing production and doing a better job of economic construction, while also adopting comprehensive measures to make further efforts in practicing family planning to better control the overrapid growth of population and improve the quality of human resources.
Early Permian granitic dykes of alkaline affinity in the Indian High Himalaya of Upper Lahul and SE Zanskar: geochemical characterization and geotectonic implications (1993)

Abstract In the Tethyan sedimentary series and the High-Himalayan ‘crystalline’ units of NW India, two generations of granite have previously been described. These rocks include large Cambro-Ordovician batholiths and small Tertiary bodies. A third type, the Yunam granite, has been discovered in the SE Zanskar — Upper Lahul region. It crops out as discordant dykes in the Ordovician Thaple Fm. Radiometric (U-Pb) measurements on zircons give an Early Permian crystallization age of 284 ± 1 Ma. Tertiary metamorphic cooling ages of 33.5, 20.8 ± 0.4, 22.8 ± 0.5 and 19.3 ± 0.2 Ma have been obtained by 40 Ar/ 39 Ar and K-Ar methods on amphiboles, muscovites and biotites of the granite and associated rocks. In contrast to the crustal affinity of the Cambro-Ordovician and Tertiary Himalayan granites, the Yunam granite is associated with an anorogenic, possibly thinned lithosphere context. This magmatic event is most probably related to the Permo-Mesozoic rifting of Neo-Tethys.
In-vitro and in-vivo studies of human axillary odour and the cutaneous microflora (1991)

The axillary microflora of 34 male subjects were studied in relation to their underarm odour intensity. The predominant groups of micro-organisms were aerobic coryneforms, Micrococcaceae and propionibacteria. There was no competition for habitat between these groups (Fisher's exact test P greater than 0.05). There was an association between the population density of aerobic coryneforms and the intensity of odour (Spearman, P = 0.001). Dominance of aerobic coryneforms within the axillary microflora was associated with high odour intensity (chi 2, P = 0.005). An in-vitro odour model was developed using a diethyl ether extract of axillary skin incubated with test bacteria. Underarm odour was produced exclusively by aerobic coryneform bacteria. Of aerobic coryneforms, 71.4% were odour producers and these were identified as Corynebacterium xerosis.
3D modelling of topographic objects by fusing 2D maps and LIDAR data (2006)

In the past few years the number of applications that use 3D information of topographical objects increased rapidly. With the growing demand for 3D topographic data the need for automated 3D data acquisition also grows. Height information can be extracted from airborne or terrestrial acquisition methods, but can also be modelled as implicit semantic information. Adding height information to existing features is insufficient; additional features have to be acquired and existing features might get an extra dimension (surfaces can be converted to volumes, etc). The challenge is to produce semantical, geometrical and topological correct 3D topography. In this paper we describe the steps to acquire 3D topographic information. Special attention lies on the user requirements of 3D models. These requirements have been accomplished by information analysis at four major geo-information organizations in The Netherlands. The four cases describe the wishes and requirements for 3D data and modelling. The most important acquisition task is the modelling of 3D infrastructure and 3D building models. In this paper we will focus on the modelling of 3D infrastructure in general, and specially the reconstruction of hidden infrastructural object parts. The developed method will be demonstrated with a 3D reconstruction of the complex motorway interchange ‘Prins Claus Plein ’ near The Hague, The Netherlands, with multiple infrastructural objects crossing each other at different height levels. Although the focus in this paper will lie on the modelling of 3D infrastructure, the presented 3D map includes the modelling of topographic features completely covering the terrain.
Rethinking the design of distributed stream processing systems (2008)

In this paper, we present a novel architecture to support large scale stream processing services in a widely distributed environment. The proposed system, COSMOS, distinguishes itself by its loose coupling and communication efficiency. To exploit the sharing of data transfer incurred by different queries and to break the tight coupling of the distributed nodes, a new communication paradigm, content-based network, is employed. We discuss the design and the challenges of this system.
Moving from Cognitive Loyalty to Behavioral Loyalty through Brand Romance: Evidence from Hotel Industry of Iran (2018)

International online peer-reviewed open-access journal offers a possibility for the international community of professionals working in the fields of regional and rural development or tourism to exchange their ideas and research results or practical achievements as it publishes results of both theoretical and applied research in these fields.
Quality standards: the role of Software Process Assessments (2002)

Software Process Assessments (SPA) are used by organizations in AT&T to develop an organizational baseline and to drive continuous process improvement. They also play an important role in the establishment of quality standards for both the organization and AT&T. The paper describes the assessment process and discusses how the findings of an assessment support quality initiatives within the organizations, as well as across AT&T. The assessment findings provide a detailed evaluation of the software processes used by an organization and the effectiveness of those processes. While the primary purpose of an assessment is to drive process improvement, the findings can also be used to help establish quality standards and to prepare for a quality system audit.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Measurement of triglycerides using nonane extraction and colorimetry. (1973)

Triglycerides were extracted with a modi­ fied Dole’s mixture. This removed only tri­ glycerides and left behind phospholipids, glu­ cose, and bilirubin. No further processing was necessary. The nonane layer was saponified with alco­ holic sodium methylate. Glycerol was treated as in fluorometric procedures. The condensa­ tion product with acetylacetone was read colorimetrically at 410. Manual and automated procedures were given, were similar and were linear to 300 to 400 mg per 100 ml. Serum blanks were not needed. Glucose to 500 mg per dl and bilirubin to 17 mg per dl did not interfere. Phospholipids were effectively removed by thin layer chro­ matography. Sera as high as 1600 were diluted with good reproducibility. Triolein recoveries varied from 99 to 108 percent. Within day reproducibility was 1.7 to 2.4 percent, and day to day reproducibility was 2.7. Various control sera were analyzed up to 24 days with the coefficient of variation ranging from 2 to 11 percent. Results by this method agreed within 10 percent with fluorometric procedures in three other laboratories. The normal range for males, ages 21 to 39, was 78 ± 28 with 67 ± 33 for females in the same age group. For those aged 40 to 60, the mean was 111 ± 43. Triglycerides in serum are usually as­ sayed with the procedure of Kessler and 4 7 4 Lederer3 using isopropanol extraction in the presence of a mixture of zeolite, Lloyd’s reagent, copper sulfate, and calcium hy­ droxide which removes phospholipids, car­ bohydrates and bilirubin. The neutral lipids were saponified with alcoholic potassium hydroxide, and the glycerol produced was oxidized to formaldehyde. The formalde­ hyde was coupled with acetylacetone, and the resulting compound was determined fluorometrically. The method presented in this paper used a modified Dole2’5 extract consisting of nonane, isopropanol and dilute sulfuric acid. This mixture kept the extraction entirely liquid and made adsorption on solids un­ necessary. The interfering materials found in isopropanol extracts did not appear in the Dole extracts. Saponification was car­ ried out with sodium methylate in iso­ propanol which had been shown to be an efficient transesterification reagent in gas chromatography of lipids. The formaldehyde plus acetylacetone re­ action was also used in this method with the product being measured in the visible at 410 nm. Serum blanks were not neces­ sary. Solvents and reagents did not need to be specially processed, and any colorimeter was used. Procedures for automated and manual analysis are described. M EASUREM ENT OF TRIGLYCERIDES 475 Reagents* and Solutions