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The volatile constituents in banana flowers and banana bracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, coupled with headspace solid-phase microextraction. A quantitative analysis in percent was performed by peak area normalization measurements. 31 compounds were identified in banana flowers...

Nitrogen-footprint is a new method developed in recent years to measure the impact of reactive nitrogen produced by human activities on the environment. Livestock-product nitrogen-footprint, which is based on life cycle assessment theory (LCA) and nitrogen footprint, is used to define and measure the...

This paper aims at maximizing system throughput by making use of multiple radios and multiple channels. This paper designs and implements a centralized channel assignment algorithm (IACA algorithm) in our Wireless Mesh Network test bed. This paper finds that IACA can improve system throughput by 5 to...

The aim of the article is to comprehensively test and explore the running performance of a new type of radiant air conditioning combined with fresh air system by simulating the climate that summer is hot and winter is warm, which is developed by the laboratory research group. The test results show that,...

This paper discuss the smoke sensor and the relay control in the smart home.STM32 is used as the central part of the whole system and LwIP protocol is also applied to transfer data. The system uses the MQ-2 smoke sensor detect the concentration of combustible gases in air, and uses the SRD-05VDC-SL-C...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is still worldwide health problems. Sputum is contaminated by normal flora, that make its should be decontaminated prior to culture. Bleach known as a potent disinfectant, easy to access because it is commercially available, could be the alternative solution as decontaminant...

Body has a great immune system among others of lymphocytes population. The biggest parts are T (timus) cell, B (bone) cell and Natural Killer cell (NK). T CD8+ cell is destroying cell infected by virus and tumor cell, while NK cell is natural killer cell in mechanism of inflammatory responses. Cupping...

Tea drinks are often used daily, and good for health because they contain antioxidants. This drink is often mixed with milk, and tastes so delicious, but the levels of tea antioxidants are reduced. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of additional skim milk on tea antioxidant activity....

Dengue hemorrhagic fever is an infectious disease caused by dengue virus has become one of the most important viral disease worldwide. DHF is re-emerging arboviral disease of great public heath importance, and it has spread to all tropical countries in the world. Pattern of dengue virus are serotypes...

Delta-Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) is an enzyme that catalyzes the condensation of two mollecules Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) to form Monopyrrole phorpobilinogen (PBG) in the pathway for heme synthesis. ALAD gene polymorphism is important for Lead (Pb) metabolism in blood. Recent studies indicated...

Self-directed learning (SDL) emphasized the students to be responsible in their learning process. SDL capabilities need to be owned by physicians, so physicians will be able to face the continuous scientific changes and they can develop the lifelong learning capabilities. This study aimed to explore...

Oxidative stress plays pivotal roles in heightening the pathology of diabetic nephropathy. Widely known free radical scavenger, edaravone (3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-pyrazoline-5-one), has been proven to give benefits in cardiovascular and brain diseases by attenuating oxidative stress. Additionally, whether...

Nowadays, distributed systems have been used everywhere, some for online applications, such as Apache HBase [1] and Cassandra [2], and some for offline applications, such as HDFS [3] and GFS. These systems achieve good result and largely reduce the cost. Due to the fact that distributed system is generally...

It is a useful way to gain ocean wave information using X-band nautical radar images. In this paper, an algorithm of 2-D CWT in spatial domain and 1-D FFT in time domain is presented for extracting the wave information. Firstly, the basic theory of 2-D continuous wavelet transform for space domain and...

This paper presents an approach for the estimation of two-directional (2D)direction-of-arrival (DOA) using Acoustic Vector Sensor array based on greedy block coordinate descent(GBCD) algorithm, which can achieve faster convergence rate and better estimation accuracy. Moreover, a weighted form of block...

This paper designs a novel 3D SRAM soft error analysis platform. It is used for studying the soft error characteristic of 3D SRAM stacked by multi dies and guiding the radiation hardened design for 3D SRAM. This platform integrates simulation tools including Geant4, TCAD and Nanosim, data recording and...

Several different Li+-imprinted gels were prepared by different precursors. And the gels were characterized by textual properties and point of zero charges (PZCs). The adsorption of Li+ from their aqueous solutions by the gels was investigated. The surface areas of the gels were found to range from 60...

This paper presents an integrated passive sensor tag for intelligent concrete temperature control. The sensor tag is based on EPC Generation-2 UHF communication protocol and operates in passive node. Except the antenna and matching network, the other blocks including RF/analog frontend, digital baseband,...

After analyzing the superiority and the deficiency of K-means clustering algorithm, the author put forwards the IDS based on the 2-SVM, according to the research achievement on SVM in the field of IDS. The result shows that this algorithm can avoid the problem of decreasing detection rate by local optimum...

A four-way micro-strip power divider is proposed in this paper, which has compact structure. During the operation frequency band (2-4GHz), the designed power divider has good performance of impedance matching at five ports and the measured VSWR of each output port are all less than 1.25. The isolation...

This template explains and demonstrates how to prepare your camera-ready paper for Trans Tech Publications. The best is to read these instructions and follow the outline of this text. Please make the page settings of your word processor to A4 format (21 x 29,7 cm or 8 x 11 inches); with the margins:...

In this paper, steel slag powder, slag powder and fly ash mixed with different proportions, equivalent replacement of cement, as concrete admixture, study the effect of the admixture on the performance and mechanical properties of concrete, and through the XRD, SEM, differential thermal and other micro...

Advanced greenhouse technology determines the pace of development in agriculture. However, because of differences in the region, our country is still a higher operating cost in the agriculture field, personnel technical ability is not higher factors and the popularity of intelligent greenhouse is not...

Exception Handling in Java and other languages make it possible to raise exception and attaching exception handlers to particular blocks of code. In most research, more people focus on testing of exception handling of programs, Alexandre L. Martins [1] force the execution of exceptional path to improve...

The fetal heart rate (FHR) is a significant indicator of whether the fetus in the mother's womb is healthy. Ultrasonic Doppler detection is extensively used in the detection of FHR due to its high sensitivity, good directivity, and non-invasiveness. However, analog multiplier demodulation is usually...

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines with machine eligibility restrictions so as to balance the workload among machines. A weighted bipartite graph model G=[J M,E,W] is used to formulate the studied problem. We propose a two-phase algorithm to find the optimal solution....

Based on the background of a double line shield tunnel in Shenyang metro, the construction process of double line shield is simulated by using the finite element analysis software of GTS Midas. The change course of ground surface settlement during construction and the influence of the physical and mechanical...

A new copper(I) complex, [Cu( Flu-imPhen)(POP)]PF6, where -Flu-imPhen = 1-(9H-fluoren-2-yl)-1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline , POP=bis(2-diphenylphosphanyl)ether, was synthesized and characterized. The corresponding photophysical properties were investigated using UV-vis and emission spectrometry....

The similarity between different subcategories and scarce training data due to the difficulties of Fine-grained recognition. Even in the same subcategories, there can be some differences due to the distinct color and pose of objects. We propose some models for fine-grained plant recognition by taking...

This paper sets the three bilateral trade flows (1999-2014) as the basis of analysis and adds trade system arrangement policy variable within the classical trade gravity model. It also constructs the panel data model of three bilateral trade between China,Russia and Mongolia. The empirical results show...

Ever since practicing the policy of reformation and opening, the economic development of Guangdong province has roughly experienced the three stages: the take-off stage (1979-1991),the accelerating development stage (1992-2002) and the scientific development stage (2003-now). Guangdong Province has made...

As the end of 2015, there are 25 cities having finished urban rail transit construction in China, and the total length is 3293 kilometers. There are 40 cities building the urban rail transit, and the length will be more than 4000 kilometers. It is estimated that the total investment of urban rail transit...

This paper inspects the effects of structural reforms of the mainland on the cross-strait economic and trade exchanges between 1995 and 2014. The research focuses on four fields: the institutional reform, the reform of the financial sector, the reform of the labor market, and the reform of the trading...

The development of HIV/AIDS is not only caused by virus, but also by the low health literacy. The low health literacy can also lead to various social problems including impeding the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) social relationship. This study aims to describe 1) The cause of low health literacy...

This research is conducted related to the tendency of society in understanding Islam in globalization era. With the many challenges faced in life, there is a change in understanding Islam from idealism-rationalism toward pragmatism-materialism. From the social phenomenon mentioned above, this research...

Alternative conception is students' conception of scientific concepts that are inconsistent with the conception of scientists. Various studies show that alternative conceptions of chemical concepts occur in students, including acid-base concepts. Various identification of alternative conception methods...

How urbanization affects the regional economic development. And it has been praised by educational world attention, especially the current unbalanced development. This is not fully the most outstanding performance as the gap between urban and rural areas, and the main performance in the income gap between...

To investigate the academic status of students and to analyze the trend of students' academic achievement in a new local college of medicine and probes into the key control factors that affect the students' academic failure. Academic cleaning, questionnaire investigation and interview were used to analyze...

China's social development has entered a new era. The main idea of "Some opinions on deepening to streamline government functions and administration, delegate powers while improving regulation for higher education " is consistent with the spirit of the Nineteenth National Congress in China. Guided by...

Recitation--the traditional teaching method should be taken seriously again in English teaching. This is a survey report on the role of recitation in college art students' English learning. The research questions are: (1) Do you think recitation is useful for improving English? (2) Which recitation materials...

4-Chloro-6-methoxy-2-methyl-3-nitroquinoline (1) was synthesized from 4-methoxyaniline through three steps including Cyclization, Nitrification and Chlorination. The structure of the target product (1) was confirmed by 1H NMR and MS. This method started with cheap raw materials was of simple experimental...

2-((4-substituted phenyl) amino) benzaldehyde, is an important intermediate for the synthesis of many biologically active intermediates of anticancer drugs. In this work, a rapid and high efficiency synthetic method for compound 1a-1b was established. Compound 1a-1b was synthesized from 2-chloronicotinic...

Thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine is a key intermediate in many biologically active compounds such as GDC-0941 and BKM 120. In this work, a rapid synthetic method for compound (4) was established. The compound (4) was synthesized from the commercially available methyl 2-aminothiophene-3-carboxylate and formimidamide...

4-(Thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)morpholine derivatives is an important intermediate which inhibited tumor necrosis factor alpha and nitric oxide. In this work, a rapid and green synthetic method for compound (5) was established. The compound (5) was synthesized from the commercially available methyl 3-aminothiophene-2-carboxylate...

1-(2-(piperidin-1-yl)ethyl)-1H-pyrrole-2-carbaldehyde 4a-b is a new aqueous solubility aldehyde as an important intermediates of small molecule anticancer drugs. In this work, a rapid synthetic method for target compounds 4a-b was established. The compound 4a-b was synthesized from the commercially available...

3-phenyl-1H-pyrazole (1) is an important intermediate for the synthesis of many biologically active compounds. It was synthesized from acetophenone (2) and hydrazine through two steps including Knoevenagel condensation, Cyclization reaction reaction. In this paper, three novel 3-phenyl-1H-pyrazole derivatives...

2-Chloronicotinic acid and its derivatives are important intermediates for the synthesis of medical antibiotics, anti-cardiovascular drugs, insecticides and herbicides, and they used in the synthesis pranoprofen and diflufenican. In this work, a rapid synthetic method for 2-morpholinonicotinic acid was...

Objective To investigate the expression of beta-adrenergic receptor( -AR) in glioma cells and the effect of blocking -adrenergic receptors on glioma cell proliferation. Methods: The expression of beta-adrenergic receptor in glioma LN229 and U251 cells were detected by real time PCR and Western Blotting....

The research on cost stickiness behavior is mainly about sales & administrative cost and manufacturing industry, lacking studies on particular niche business. Therefore, the real estate industry paid highly attention was chosen as the research object and an empirical analysis of cost stickiness behavior...

Use all A-share listed companies of main board market in 2012 as samples, this paper investigate the influence of environmental information disclosure behavior on the firm future market value and investors` confidence in capital market. The research conclusion indicate that: (1)The listed companies`...