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The impact of the new alternative work schedule on dental offices.

Wage Orders 2000 and 2001 substantially changed the way the alternate work schedules used in many dental offices may be structured to avoid the payment of daily overtime.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/85ca291008ed3df9a717283a8b671017fb1ee27d

Journal of the California Dental Association

Journal of the California Dental Association

29 4

289, 292-4

11346999

be13b12206900c40a9a78593e71a6b6a5d95e174

Women's Rights

Women's rights are politically valuable to critique abuses of power, to construct boundaries for the protection of women's bodies, and to outline responsibilities. Claims for women's rights have proliferated since their emergence in the late eighteenth century. Since rights are part of a modern language of resistance to abuses by the powerful, it is not surprising that feminist authors would use the language of rights to challenge the injustices women face when they are not seen as moral, political, or social equals to men. We should think of women's rights as a conceptual tool to transform who the subject of rights is and as a way to challenge existing structures of gendered power. Demanding justice for one half of humanity through the concept of women's rights means transforming who counts as human entitled to rights. Women's rights have proven to be a powerful but contested political language for seeking gendered political equality. Keywords: feminism; gender; human rights; women's rights

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/be13b12206900c40a9a78593e71a6b6a5d95e174

10.1002/9781118474396.wbept1057

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118474396.wbept1057

1494020435

32980a0ac45c466f3402e826876c6b4ebb5a7831

Discrimination, discounting and impulsivity: a role for an informational constraint.

Feeding animals often prefer small, quickly delivered rewards over larger, more delayed rewards. Students of feeding behaviour typically explain this behaviour by saying that animals discount delayed benefits. Temporal discounting implies that delayed benefits are worth less than immediate benefits. This paper presents a new explanation of short-sighted decision-making called the discrimination advantage model that does not rely on discounting. A new model that includes several possible causes of discounting is developed. This model has many interesting features, but it cannot account for two empirical results: the strength of the 'discounting' effect and the fact that the time between choice presentations (the intertrial interval or ITI) has no effect. This leads to the conclusion that although discounting may be important it is probably not a complete explanation of the experimental facts. In the discrimination advantage model the observation that the ITI does not affect choice is seen as a strategy to make a cleaner discrimination between delayed alternatives in a noisy world. A simple example shows that when discrimination is imperfect a short-sighted choice rule can, in some situations, lead to a higher long-term rate than a rule that actually compares long-term rates. This idea is developed and extended in several ways.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/32980a0ac45c466f3402e826876c6b4ebb5a7831

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

357 1427

1527-37

10.1098/RSTB.2002.1062

https://doi.org/10.1098/RSTB.2002.1062

12495510

2122675110

b0010e33d2c21f7c81b93a4f0576a90ebf8c2e10

Child maltreatment: pathway to chronic and long-term conditions?

The manifesto Start Well, Live Better by the UK Faculty of Public Health (Start Well, Live Better-A Manifesto for the Public's Health. London: UK Faculty of Public Health, 2014) sets out 12 compelling priorities for the protection of people's health. The focus of this document is preventative, calling for a comprehensive strategy to target a wide-ranging set of challenges to public health; however, it fails to mention child maltreatment and its negative impact on long-term health outcomes. In this article, we explore the long-term negative consequences of child maltreatment and how these can be conceptually aligned with four different characteristics of long-term health conditions. We suggest that situating child maltreatment within a long-term conditions framework could have significant advantages and implications for practice, policy and research, by strengthening a commitment across disciplines to apply evidence-based principles linked with policy and evaluation and recognizing the chronic effects of maltreatment to concentrate public, professional and government awareness of the extent and impact of the issue. We argue that a public health approach is the most effective way of focusing preventative efforts on the long-term sequelae of child maltreatment and to foster cooperation in promoting children's rights to grow and develop in a safe and caring environment free from violence and abuse.

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Journal of public health

Journal of public health

38 3

426-431

10.1093/PUBMED/FDV117

https://doi.org/10.1093/PUBMED%2FFDV117

26319933

2285400336

1fa1138bde7bcef3515c28180eaf612b63678bc0

Factors affecting the release of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) from the heart of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), released fiom the heart of most vertebrates, has hypotensive, natriuretic and diuretic effects. In mammals, the primary stimulus for ANF release is atrial detension, but in fish the mechanisms mediating ANF release from the heart are unknown. Furthermore, it is unclear how much the atrium and the ventricle contribute to total ANF release. Therefore, the objectives of this thesis were to: 1) quantitatively describe the location of ANF in the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) heart; and 2) investigate the mechanistic factors influencing its release fiom the in situ trout heart. In addition, as ionic regulation differs between freshwater (FW) and seawater (SW) fish, and ANF is involved in sodium regulation, the factors mediating ANF release fiom the trout heart were investigated in both FW and SW fish. Using imrnunogold labeling, dense ANF secretary granules were identified in both the atrial and ventricular myocardium. However, these secretory granules were considerably more numerous in the atrium than in the ventricle. To quantify the absolute amount of ANF in the trout atrium and ventricle, ANF was assayed using a radioimmunoassay (RIA) specific for human ANF-(99-126). Preliminary studies using Western blot analysis had confirmed that human ANF effectively cross-reacts with trout ANF. Immunoreactive ANF (ir-ANF) content in the atrium and ventricle was 3.10 & 0.24 ngeg-l wet tissue weight and 0.04 k 0.01 ngWg-l wet tissue weight, respectively (N = 7). Thus, the atrium contained 92% of the total ir-ANF stored in the heart. The results fiom the imrnunogold labeling, when combined with those fiom the direct measurement of irANF in atrial and ventricular extracts, strongly suggest that the atrium is the primary source of ANF in rainbow trout. In the FW perfused trout hearts, ANF secretion at basal filling pressures was unaffected by increases in afterload. This suggests that stretch of the atrium and not the

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174899214

1ed409d6084a47265ce69615b53e13c87f6c48ec

Perceived value and trustworthiness of a multi-mechanism promotion

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of monetary multi-mechanism promotions. These promotions include in the same communication several techniques offered either by the retailer or by the producer. The conceptual framework relies on prospect theory, already used in marketing literature to study the effects of price and promotional techniques (Gupta and Cooper, 1992). It also integrates the perceived trustworthiness of the offer, a key variable for the evaluation of advertising messages (Goldsmith and al., 2000).

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/1ed409d6084a47265ce69615b53e13c87f6c48ec

1605131795

95f90bce53dd94c1301720fdcfda8a7ecefedbd0

[Pattern reversal visual evoked potentials analysis in patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus].

OBJECTIVE To explore the alteration of pattern reversal visual evoked potentials (PVEPs) in patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and its values in clinical application. METHODS PVEPs were recorded in 30 cases with NIDDM and 30 cases of normal individuals. RESULTS The abnormal rate of PVEPs in patients with NIDDM was 58.33%, and the latency of P100 was markedly prolonged. The wave-forms were poor-differentiated, and the amplitudes of waves were low. CONCLUSION Abnormal PVEPs can be regarded as one of the index of visual function in patients with NIDDM. The abnormality of PVEPs is related to blood sugar in empty stomach, course of NIDDM. peripheral nerve lesions and diabetic retinopathy.

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Hunan yi ke da xue xue bao = Hunan yike daxue xuebao = Bulletin of Hunan Medical University

Hunan yi ke da xue xue bao = Hunan yike daxue xuebao = Bulletin of Hunan Medical University

26 3

283-4

12536710

2378677828

007e8499da71e7c01dc7bbc32e75c51b9477133d

Haematology of cultured Murray cod

Murray cod are Australia's largest freshwater fish: endangered in the wild, but supporting a boutique industry. This project studied the blood cells of Murray cod and those affected by the disfiguring chronic erosive dermatopathy. This has provided insight into the factors affecting Murray cod health.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/007e8499da71e7c01dc7bbc32e75c51b9477133d

34167734

432924605e7770dd074b050d1350176f6afe6eed

Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and αKlotho in Acute Kidney Injury: Current Status in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications.

Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 23 and αKlotho are circulating mineral regulatory substances that also have a very diverse range of actions. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a state of high FGF23 and low αKlotho. Clinical association data for FGF23 are strong, but the basic pathobiology of FGF23 in AKI is rather sparse. Conversely, preclinical data supporting a pathogenic role of αKlotho in AKI are strong, but the human data are still being generated. This pair of substances can potentially serve as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. FGF23 blockade and αKlotho restoration can have prophylactic and therapeutic utility in AKI. The literature to date is briefly reviewed in this article.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/432924605e7770dd074b050d1350176f6afe6eed

Nephron

Nephron

1-8

10.1159/000509856

https://doi.org/10.1159/000509856

32841947

3081419896

4508facbf795365b228baf89004d251676332601

Effect of bentonites on fluorometric selenium determination.

Bentonites in feeds cause error in the analysis for Se by the AOAC (3.097-3.101) fluorometric method for Se in plants. The error apparently results from the binding of the piazselenol by insoluble residue from the bentonite. This effect is avoided by diluting digests to volume after reduction with HCl, centrifuging or allowing to stand, and analyzing a portion of the clear supernatant liquid. Insoluble residues present after digestion of plant materials do not appear to cause a similar error.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4508facbf795365b228baf89004d251676332601

Journal - Association of Official Analytical Chemists

Journal - Association of Official Analytical Chemists

64 5

1088-91

10.1093/jaoac/64.5.1088

https://doi.org/10.1093/jaoac%2F64.5.1088

7287605

172261387

c7b5acf4baad70a36320b17fd7c74766f4fcc71e

Notarization notification about the merchandise building mortgage loan contract

With the keeping on heating of the consumption of the merchandise building,the merchandise building mortgage loan business increases quickly.At the same time of obtaining the profits,banks face larger risk.In order to reduce the risk and cost,the merchandise building mortgage loan is now popularized to be notarized with executive forcible effect.Notifying each party in merchandise building mortgage loan notarization has important significance in guaranteeing each party's concerned rights,and clarifying each party's concerned duty.

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2348054669

2f5a43257eb0a0ca47ebcb1663585e6b993f13cf

Punishment and Democratic Rights: A Case Study in Non-ideal Penal Theory

In the United States, convicted offenders frequently lose the right to vote, at least temporarily. Drawing on the common observation that citizens of color lose democratic rights at disproportionately high rates, this chapter argues that this punishment is problematic in non-ideal societies because of the way in which it diminishes the political power of marginalized groups and threatens to reproduce patterns of domination and subordination, when they occur. This chapter then uses the case of penal disenfranchisement to illustrate how idealized discussions of deterrence, rehabilitation, and retribution often ignore the relationship between punishment and social/political power, and thus systematically obscure morally significant aspects of our broader penal practices.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2f5a43257eb0a0ca47ebcb1663585e6b993f13cf

7-37

10.1007/978-3-319-97770-6_2

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97770-6_2

2892871272

a8e64794321ff0a7fa348604436179fda5a234c2

A survey of the economically valued forest plant species at the proposed site for airport in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria

This study assessed the economically valued forest plant species at the proposed site for airport in Asaba, Delta State Nigeria in 2006. 25 20m x 20m quadrants were laid randomly along five 1km line transect and accordingly assessed. Thirty tree species producing various economically valued products were assessed and trees 30cmlong and above were counted as present. Tree species 10 out of the 33 were observed to be rare while 23 were abundant. Fifteen species of shrubs were assessed out of which, 8 were identified as abundant and rare (3). Products collected from theses plants have varying use categories as leafy vegetables, edible and medicinal fruits, leaves, seeds barks, fodder, poles, timber, stakes and chew sticks. The study established that over exploitation, exploration and conversion of forest ecosystems result in the area has brought about decimation of biodiversity as well as extinction of many valuable plant and animal species. It is strongly recommended that domestication of indigenous tree and shrub species should be encouraged and supported.. Conservation efforts through the establishment of nature reserves, botanical gardens, sacred grooves, sanctuaries, rare breed centers, game banks and on-site gene banks should be supported to enhance sustainability.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a8e64794321ff0a7fa348604436179fda5a234c2

Agriculture and Biology Journal of North America

2

143-149

10.5251/ABJNA.2011.2.1.143.149

https://doi.org/10.5251/ABJNA.2011.2.1.143.149

2318579388

7e63fa38719677eac7e7e34cbcf2986875adb637

Access to the Most Selective Private Colleges by High-Ability, Low-Income Students: Are They Out There? Discussion Paper No. 69.

With only a small number of their students coming from families with the lowest incomes (10% from the bottom two family income quintiles), the nation's most selective private colleges and universities need to know why. Two ready ideological answers are (1) that low-income high-ability students are being excluded in order to favor the children of society's most advantaged or (2) that very few low-income high-ability students exist - that by college age, low-income students have been so damaged by education, nutrition, neighborhoods, and families that few can qualify in a perfectly fair admissions process. This paper uses the national population of high school test-takers in 2003 to examine the national distribution over family incomes of high-ability students (variously defined). With these data, two questions can be addressed. What would be the target share of low-income students at these schools if their student bodies were to mirror the national high-ability population? And, are they out there - do there exist enough such low- income, high-ability students to meet those targets? It is shown that they are out there - that a somewhat larger share of the test-taking population is made up of high-ability, low-income students than are found in these schools and that their numbers make it feasible for the schools to increase their enrollments to target that national share. Because much depends on the definition of "high-ability" used, we consider alternative definitions but reach the same conclusion at any reasonable level (like a minimum combined SAT of 1300 or even 1420).

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/7e63fa38719677eac7e7e34cbcf2986875adb637

1526919577

b6fabb5ccafd6434d742205132530b3cc7785c0c

Understanding the transfer student experience using design thinking

Purpose This paper aims to discuss a 2015-2016 University of Washington Libraries project focused on understanding the needs and challenges of transfer students on the Seattle campus and developing innovative ways to support transfer student success. Design/methodology/approach The study uses design thinking methods, including interviews and rapid iterative prototyping and feedback, to understand and emphasize the user experience. Findings Transfer students at the Seattle campus identify themselves as a unique group separate from other undergraduates because of their prior experience, shortened timeline at the university and their need to balance academic, work and family commitments. Because transfer students often have little time to learn about and effectively use campus resources, the authors found that working with campus partners to enrich transfer-specific student orientations and events with educational and practical content was the most effective means of supporting new students. Research limitations/implications This pilot study was conducted over an 11-month period with a small number of participants, but the iterative nature of design thinking allowed the authors to gather new feedback from a variety of students and staff at each phase. Originality/value This study showcases how design thinking methods can increase understanding of transfer student and other user needs. The design thinking approach can also enable the rapid development of library and campus services, as well as outreach efforts, to meet user needs.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/b6fabb5ccafd6434d742205132530b3cc7785c0c

Reference Services Review

45

298-313

10.1108/RSR-10-2016-0073

https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-10-2016-0073

2609694769

10587f5512e28c39d3e642cdbb205374543249cb

Sterile neutrino in a minimal three-generation see-saw model

We investigate symmetries in Dirac and Majorana mass matrices of neutrinos in a three-generation scenario. We show that if we invokeLe +Lμ-LτxS2R symmetry, one combination of right-handed neutrino states remains massless which can be interpreted as a sterile neutrino. Next we consider a SU2Lx U(1)yx U(l)R gauge model and show how higher-dimensional operators can induce mixing between left- and right-handed states which explains solar, atmospheric and LSND experimental results.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/10587f5512e28c39d3e642cdbb205374543249cb

Pramana

60

377-381

10.1007/BF02706417

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02706417

2005911422

79a21b76c04bf69b6b20bbf345e0cb5baffac590

Improving nutritional status of children with Cerebral palsy: a qualitative study of caregiver experiences and community‐based training in Ghana

Abstract Background Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common childhood disability worldwide, and evidence shows that children with CP are at an increased risk of malnutrition due to feeding difficulties. This qualitative study explores caregiver experiences of feeding before and after a community‐based training program in Ghana. Methods Thirteen caregivers of children with CP, who were severely undernourished, were interviewed at the start of the training program. Eleven of these were interviewed again after a year of monthly group trainings and home visits, which included guidance on feeding. Four additional caregivers were interviewed at end line. Interviews explored caregivers’ mealtime experiences, as well as a 24‐hr dietary recall and a structured feeding observation checklist. Children's nutritional status was assessed by anthropometry. Results Caregivers found mealtimes stressful due to time demands, messiness, and the pressure of providing enough quality food. They felt that the training program had helped reduced this stress and dietary recall data suggested some improved dietary quality. However, there was neither improvement nor deterioration in anthropometric status of the children. Conclusion Group trainings were welcomed by caregivers and notably reduced stress around feeding times. However, future work is needed in order to improve anthropometric outcomes, including, but not limited to, greater focus on nutritional requirements during caregiver training interventions. Therapeutic feeding programs must also be better utilized and need to be better equipped to care for this group of children, including deviating from standard admission and treatment protocols.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/79a21b76c04bf69b6b20bbf345e0cb5baffac590

Food science & nutrition

Food Science & Nutrition

7

35 - 43

10.1002/fsn3.788

https://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.788

30680157

2901342998

6f26f6c122100a167f2c5f64ccde93a70a35aad0

Metapopulation dynamicswith quas i-local competition

Stepping-stone models for the ecological dynamics of metapopulations are often used to address general questions about the effects of spatial structure on the nature and complexity of population fluctuations. Such models describe an ensemble of local and spatially isolated habitat patches that are connected through dispersal. Reproduction and hence the dynamics in a given local population depend on the density of that local population, and a fraction of every local population disperses to neighboring patches. In such models, interesting dynamic phenomena, e.g. the persistence of locally unstable predator–prey interactions, are only observed if the local dynamics in an isolated patch exhibit non-equilibrium behavior. Therefore, the scope of these models is limited. Here we extend these models by making the biologically plausible assumption that reproductive success in a given local habitat not only depends on the density of the local population living in that habitat, but also on the densities of neighboring local populations. This would occur if competition for resources occurs between neighboring populations, e.g. due to foraging in neighboring habitats. With this assumption of quasi-local competition the dynamics of the model change completely. The main difference is that even if the dynamics of the local populations have a stable equilibrium in isolation, the spatially uniform equilibrium in which all local populations are at their carrying capacity becomes unstable if the strength of quasi-local competition reaches a critical level, which can be calculated analytically. In this case the metapopulation reaches a new stable state, which is, however, not spatially uniform anymore and instead results in an irregular spatial pattern of local population abundance. For large metapopulations, a huge number of different, spatially non-uniform equilibrium states coexist as attractors of the metapopulation dynamics, so that the final state of the system depends critically on the initial conditions. The existence of a large number of attractors has important consequences when environmental noise is introduced into the model. Then the metapopulation performs a random walk in the space of all attractors. This leads to large and complicated population fluctuations whose power spectrum obeys a red-shifted power law. Our theory reiterates the potential importance of spatial structure for ecological processes and proposes new mechanisms for the emergence of non-uniform spatial patterns of abundance and for the persistence of complicated temporal population fluctuations.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/6f26f6c122100a167f2c5f64ccde93a70a35aad0

2183454190

3360828651c607534edbedefbd910bfcd1bcb382

Comparison between differential evolution algorithms and response surface methodology in ethylene plant optimization based on an extended combined energy - exergy analysis

Abstract This paper applies an extend energy - exergy analysis as a strategy for evaluating the performance of different types of distillation columns in ethylene production process by using industrial data. Regarding to the limitation and deficiency of energy – exergy combination, a new method named exergy destruction level (EDL) and conceptual diagram based on equipment target value is proposed for process equipment with pressure and chemical composition changes. The effects of different operational parameters on the component separation are evaluated by sensitivity analysis. Eventually response surface methodology (RSM) and artificial intelligence (DE) method are developed for optimization of the chemical plant. Comparing obtained results from ethylene plant optimization by using RSM and DE, it was found that annual profit percentage with DE method is 61.6% more than RSM method. Also, results of optimization showed that the most effective operating parameters consist of feed stream temperature, boil-up ratio, reflux ratio, column pressure and feed stage. It was observed that utilities and refrigeration cycle consumption work have been declined significantly by using DE optimizer and EDL analysis (12.6% and 11.6%) compared to RSM optimizer and exergy analysis (11.9% and 4.8%). It is obvious that, EDL analysis and DE method expedite process optimization and provide more precise analysis than conventional energy-exergy analysis.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/3360828651c607534edbedefbd910bfcd1bcb382

Energy

164

1114-1134

10.1016/J.ENERGY.2018.09.059

https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENERGY.2018.09.059

2891857814

2deb791fca77a251f5658eabdf65efbb56d233e8

G8 and VES-13 scores predict chemotherapy toxicity in older patients with cancer

Purpose of the study: Assessing fitness in older cancer patients for further treatment is complicated by other co-morbid conditions. Extracting co-morbidity scores using the Charlson Co-Morbidity Index (CCI) and ACE-27, and also using further accessible data with Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) has been proposed by the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) to help to determine fitness for ageing cancer patients. However, re-cording co-morbidity has limitations. This prospective cohort study was carried out to measure co-morbidity with differing methodology to validate the use of different source data and recorder analysis and to try and predict how well patients tolerated chemotherapy according to their comorbidity scores. Methods/Summarised description of the project: Between August 2009 and August 2011, patients aged 18 and over undergoing a new course of cytotoxic chemotherapy, independent of setting and intent, were approached. Following consent, standard demographic variables, tumour type/stage, chemotherapy regimen and doses were recorded. Regarding co-morbidity scores, hospital notes and General Practitioner (GP)/Primary Physician summaries were accessed, and CCI and ACE-27 scores generated. The scoring was carried out both by a physician and a health care assistant independently, in order to look at the correlation of scores. HES data was also accessed, and CCI scores were generated from this. Severe chemotherapy toxicity was defined as grade III/IV toxicity, dose reduction, unplanned hospitalisation, treatment discontinuation, or death within 30 days of treatment. A total of 507 patients were recruited, 185 of which were over the age of 65. Correlation of co-morbidity scoring, between physician and health care assistant, was analysed with Cohen's kappa and stated as substantial if 0.61≤kappa≤0.80 and good if kappaN0.80. Implementation with Chi-squared statistics was recorded to assess significance of co-morbidity scores and prediction of severe chemotherapy toxicity. Results: For the over 65 age group, the kappa score between physician and health care assistant CCI score using hospital notes and GP summaries were 0.467 (±0.056 SE) and 0.434 (±0.064 SE) respectively. The kappa score between physician and health care assistant ACE-27 score using hospital notes and GP summaries were 0.374 (±0.054 SE) and 0.155 (±0.069 SE) respectively. Regarding prediction of tolerance to chemotherapy and co-morbidity, there was no significant correlation found both with CCI (Score 0–1 vs. ≥2, χ=0.164, p=0.685) and ACE-27 (Score 0–1 vs. ≥2, χ=1.090, p=0.296) and severe chemotherapy toxicity. Data regarding correlation of HES-derived score (undergoing process), will be presented at SIOG 2012. Conclusions: There appeared to be no substantial correlation between scoring of co-morbidity between physician and health care assistant. There was no significant correlation that higher comorbidity scores were predictive of severe chemotherapy toxicity.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2deb791fca77a251f5658eabdf65efbb56d233e8

Journal of Geriatric Oncology

3

10.1016/J.JGO.2012.10.096

https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JGO.2012.10.096

1983020936

3628610870eb21d1c5810b8074fdf264170ab432

Reply

We read with interest comments from Spacek and Solga regarding our work on regret-based decision making for intermediate hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We thank them for the opportunity to further elucidate our approach. First, we described that clinicians “can be aggressive” recommending resection to all patients with intermediate HCCs. This statement should be viewed in light of international Eauropean Association for the Study of the Liver and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases guidelines that recommend only transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in all patients with intermediate HCC. In this regard, surgery can be described as more aggressive and the nonparallel construction of the regret decision curve analysis (DCA) is forced by the avoidance of guidelines in recommending resection for intermediate HCC. Second, when stating that “. . .surgeons were more prone to experience the regret of omission,” we refer to the observation (Table 5) that median values of regret of omission were significantly higher for the two clinical cases where surgery can be considered reasonably applicable (P< 0.05). Table 4 reports the results of clinical decision making according to regret DCA; thus, as stated in the article, we confirm that virtually all physicians can act according to the regret DCA model given that, as outlined by Spacek and Solga, this approach can lead to similar decisions regarding which treatment to adopt. The visual analog scale (VAS) has long been used in medicine for assessment of patients’ emotions, such as distress, pain, and so on. When applying DVAS, we proposed to physicians a continuous range of values ranging from 0 (no regret) to 100 (maximum regret). We feel that there should be no reason to think that clinicians may have a different zero reference value, given that it was clearly explained in Fig. 1 that zero refers to the absence of regret. Finally, physicians involved in the survey had long expertise in the field of HCC. It is obvious that the final response of each of the 40 physicians involved was the end result of personal experience, feeling, intuition, as well as logical analysis and agreement with guidelines recommendations. This is what regretbased DVAS was designed to asses: holistic evaluation of pros and cons of alternative strategies. In conducting the survey, we only sent the three clinical vignettes described in the Method section and the DVAS depicted in Fig. 1. We did not show the regret DCA model. Both vignettes and DVAS were related to the case, and not to the model itself. Thus, Spacek and Solga’s observation regarding a possible influence by the attitude conveyed by our language in the article to the model is not supported. In addition, because holistic characteristics of regret DCA includes both emotional (as weighted through regret elicitation of DVAS survey) and analytical (as analyzed through Cox’s regression model) aspects, we believe that type 1 and 2 cognitive aspects of decision making were fulfilled. In conclusion, current available surgical and nonsurgical literature suggests that, in clinical practice, there is a considerable disagreement regarding surgery for intermediate HCC, and that a multidisciplinary approach, and regret-based approach, can help physicians select the most optimal treatment for each patient.

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Hepatology

Hepatology

63

10.1002/hep.27897

https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.27897

25976950

0cc70299e810f35a29822ca6675b8eee6df21be0

Effective space-vector modulation algorithm for multilevel converters

This paper presents an effective modulation algorithm for voltage source multilevel converters. This method permits the on-line computation of the switching sequence and the on-state durations of the respective switching state vectors corresponding to the modulation of multilevel inverter drastically reducing the computational load. Therefore a stored information from a memory or a table is not necessary in this algorithm. This modulation technique permits an economic and simply electronic implementation. The simulation results show an excellent performance of the proposed modulation technique. It has been developed to be programmed in very low-cost microcontrollers and it could be implemented as a hardware module inside the microcontroller in order to increase its efficiency and performance.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0cc70299e810f35a29822ca6675b8eee6df21be0

IEEE 2002 28th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society. IECON 02

IEEE 2002 28th Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society. IECON 02

4

3129-3133 vol.4

10.1109/IECON.2002.1182897

https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2002.1182897

2533249727

ee297d5b95308e344476428e6f08018c2b1e94df

Results and Data Analysis

Policy analysis involves looking at why a policy is introduced and how its associated issues evolve (Taylor in Educational policy and the politics of change, Routledge, London and New York, 1997). Having introduced the background of Liberal Studies and MNE and explained our research design in previous chapters, in this chapter, we begin to present our findings and elucidate the issues suggested by them. In accordance with the design discussed in Chap. 3, we answer each research question with empirical and textual references elicited from the data sources. For greater clarity, the analyses of Liberal Studies and MNE are presented in separate sections with reference to their differing policy contexts.

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45-60

10.1007/978-981-10-2610-2_4

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2610-2_4

2522375676

495af38fdaf36dda2344db741f1dc52351d75ceb

Asking Questions: Cultivating the Habit of Inquiry.

good question today? " Rabi's mother indirectly initiated him into the habit of inquiry that nurtured his scientific journey because she understood that the roots of learning are cultivated by a mindset that emphasizes the active process of questioning rather than the passive recitation of facts. This is consistent with the literal meaning of any transformation that is " radical, " a word grounded in the Latin 'radix' meaning root or base. The " radical transformation " that higher education accomplishes transforms one's mind from a passive receptacle to an active participant in the process of deliberation. Initiation into the practice of inquiry conditions one to judge critically, whether as a scientist, scholar, or as a citizen at large. It levels the playing field and transcends economic, social, and ethnic divisions. Critical inquiry enables one to distinguish between fact and fiction, the pivotal skill required of any participant in the democratic process. Training to judge for oneself, rather than simply memorizing facts, outlives economic and technological variables. Learning how to think critically is a slow, painstaking process but one well worth cultivating. Some students never realize that questioning matters. Their smug mockery of any reflective endeavor threatens their comfort W hen asked why he became a scientist, the story goes, the physicist and Nobel laureate, Isidor Isaac Rabi, speaks about his childhood on the streets of New York City at the beginning of the last century. He grew up in a devoutly Jewish home, the son of impoverished immigrant parents. Steeped in a religious tradition that values learning, his mother, who had little formal education, would inquire about his school day. Yet contrary to many parents who might try to discern what a child did or learned that day in school, Rabi's mother would inquire: " Did you ask a

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Thought and Action

346765141

c41c6c3a342df5ecf5d72152fe8e40a896cb753d

Mimicry of appendicitis

inflamed and contained a mixture of seroma, very liquid silicone gel and fragments of disintegrated implant envelope. The left implant was intact, weighed 230 g and the manufacturer’s imprint was noted but was not considered significant. The left capsule histologically showed less fibrosis and inflammation than the right, although there were large spaces within the fat representing silicone gel which had ‘bled’ from the implant (Fig. 1). When seen in July 2012, the patient reported improved energy levels. For two years, she was fatigued with a poor sense of wellbeing. The then reviewed operation report recorded the manufacturer as ‘PIP’. In late 2011, there was intense publicity about Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) implants. Studies show higher levels of low molecular weight cyclic silicones (siloxanes) in PIP implants compared to medical-grade silicone. This patient thought her implants were saline until 2011. A few months after the implant exchange, she concluded that they had been impairing her health and well-being. She later discovered the implants manufactured by PIP.

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ANZ journal of surgery

ANZ Journal of Surgery

83

10.1111/ans.12075

https://doi.org/10.1111/ans.12075

23465216

1905332543

663eacacb18f1716d6ee6572e0b9fec672164d74

Editorial – Special Issue on Fuel Efficiency: Part 2

This second special issue follows Part 1 (published in June 2011) and documents recent efforts to improve the understanding of factors that limit internal combustion (IC) engine fuel efficiency. As was pointed out in Part 1, IC engines are among the most efficient power generation devices known to man. Indeed, IC engine efficiency can be comparable to that of advanced electricity power generation plants. In particular, diesel engine thermal efficiencies exceed 50% for large marine engines, and advanced low temperature combustion concepts have been demonstrated that provide similar or even higher efficiencies in both lightand heavy-duty engines. The high efficiency of compression ignition engines explains why they are widely used commercially, especially for heavy-duty applications and transportation. However, measures introduced to meet emissions mandates tend to reduce fuel efficiencies and also to increase engine expense. Thus, it is of much interest to explore new concepts and advanced combustion systems. The papers in this special issue describe new concepts, including hybrid technologies optimized for practical drive cycles. In addition, fuel effects, use of high compression ratios, optimized exhaust valve timings, partially premixed combustion, and dual fuel – diesel and gasoline – RCCI (reactivity controlled compression ignition) strategies are explored. As can be seen from these papers, even after being in existence for more than a century, the internal combustion engine still has considerable potential for improvement. Indeed, the technologies described in Part 2 of the special issue on fuel efficiency demonstrate that exciting prospects for further improvement of IC engines are within reach down the road.

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International Journal of Engine Research

13

187 - 187

10.1177/1468087412448703

https://doi.org/10.1177/1468087412448703

2070911099

e8a8094fe1dfe8e356c1f9153562ed07ccf43b15

Advances in advertising research (Vol. VII): bridging the gap between advertising academia and practice

Book synopsis: Focusing on a range of advertising formats, this book provides international state-of-the-art research inter alia on the fast evolving and increasingly complex advertising landscape that raises a number of challenges for advertisers. Further research is needed to guide choices regarding ad content and execution, media placement, social networks, and campaign effectiveness. Advances in Advertising Research are published by the European Advertising Academy (EAA). This volume is a selective collection of research presented at the 14th International Conference in Advertising (ICORIA), which was held in London (UK) in July 2015. The conference gathered more than 150 participants from various countries from nearly all continents, including Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia.

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6e3f3708e1c225e2ea3baacd667979be5ea68c27

Relationships among physiological and self-report responses produced by cocaine-related cues.

In response to cocaine cues, 150 subjects with a history of cocaine abuse showed decreases in skin temperature and skin resistance and increases in heart rate and reported craving, high, and withdrawal responses. These responses were consistent across four years of data collection. Craving reports were not consistently associated with either high or withdrawal responses, and many subjects endorsed increases in both high and withdrawal states. Correlations revealed no pattern of association among physiological variables and responding did not differ between subjects who did and those who did not report increases in each of the drug states. Finally, physiological variables did not predict reported drug states in discriminant analyses. Cocaine cue reactivity cannot be easily related to a unitary state of high, withdrawal, or craving. It is suggested that future studies focus more on the prediction and measurement of treatment outcome than on the form of cue responses.

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Addictive behaviors

Addictive behaviors

22 2

157-67

10.1016/S0306-4603(96)00007-X

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4603%2896%2900007-X

9113211

2094337655

189777273fb20ffa3fce6f02f75c0c40f0027bc3

New diodes for high frequency power supplies

Developments in high frequency switching power supplies will follow three main axis: 3.3 volt output voltage for ULSI signal and processing ICs, high efficiency in terms of Watt/unit of volume, and virtually 'noiseless switchers. Rectifier technology holds the most promising potential toward addressing those objectives: major portions of losses in today SMPS are in the output and snubber rectifiers, most of EMI and switching noise to the network are due to high voltage diodes. This paper will present some of the latest developments in p-n epitaxial and Schottky barrier rectifier technologies which address the main issues and provide guidelines for selecting rectifiers in future high frequency applications. >

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1829649901

2572ee07802c45cf9dfa103352d738bf54a5a80e

Generating Practice Questions as a Preparation Strategy for Introductory Programming Exams

Written exams are a common form of assessment in introductory programming courses. Creating exam questions is normally the responsibility of the course instructor, however the process of authoring such questions may be a useful learning activity in itself. We explored this idea with a randomized controlled experiment (n > 700) in which a group of first-year programming students generated practice questions prior to an exam. Even though all questions were available to every student in the course for practice, the group that generated the questions performed significantly better on the exam. The effects were most pronounced when students answered exam questions on topics that were targeted by questions they had generated. We suggest that some existing tools for computer science education may benefit from incorporating related activities.

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SIGCSE

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

10.1145/2676723.2677253

https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677253

2048361073

493897f923462d0f8dfb2930358a984b4a595fd3

Clinical features of skin lesions in rabbit syphilis: a retrospective study of 63 cases (1999-2003).

Skin lesions in rabbit syphilis are usually diagnostic, but it is occasionally difficult to differentiate these lesions from those of other skin diseases. Skin lesions in 63 cases of rabbit syphilis were analyzed for early and accurate diagnosis. Lesions were found most frequently around the nose (55 cases) followed by the genitalia (22), lips (20), eyelids (12), and anus (10). Sneezing was observed in 33% of cases with nasal lesions. In cases of maternally acquired infection, lesions could be initially found mainly on the face. Rabbits should be examined carefully not only for facial lesions, but also for lesions of the genitalia and anus, locations easily overlooked.

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The Journal of veterinary medical science

The Journal of veterinary medical science

66 10

1247-9

10.1292/JVMS.66.1247

https://doi.org/10.1292/JVMS.66.1247

15528857

2066341538

8a43ad54825332813ee2cd1ceeae368a323eaebd

Chemical Factors Importantto Calcium Nephrolithiasis : Evidencefor Impaired HydroxycarboxylicAcid AbsorptionCausing Hyperoxaluria 0

An investigation of variables important to calcium stone formation in urine indicated significantly increased daily excretion of calcium and oxalate and decreased excretion of ascorbate and citrate by recurrent calcium stone formers. In addition, urine volume, sodium, mucopolysacchande, and protein were also significantly increased. We compared the uptake of citrate and ascorbate from the gut into the blood in normal controls and stone formers. These studies indicated significantly depressed absorption of both these hydroxycarboxyiic acids in recurrent calcium stone formers. We also found that concurrent administration of citrate inhibited ascorbate absorption and increased urinary oxalate excretion after an ascorbate load in normal subjects and stone formers. These findings suggest a mechanism that explains hyperoxaluria in stone patients on the basis of a malabsorption of citrate, ascorbate, and possibly other hydroxycarboxyIic acids.

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75d38179988e26cc69a1a78435301474ce0c72dc

Annotate documents in these applications work together in disparate information systems

1. readable media device, the coded instructions executable by a device to perform the steps comprising: identification of the document being processed jointly running application; ! creating a link corresponding to this document; ! selection item from a data store associated with the another application; ! Due to a comparison of said selected element; ! extraction of data associated with the selected element from the data warehouse and! annotation of the document using the extracted data. ! 2. The information storage medium of claim 1, further comprising: removal of the modified data associated with the selected element from the data warehouse and! updated annotation data associated with the document using the modified data. ! 3. The information storage medium of claim 1, further comprising: identifying a plurality of fields associated with the element; ! adoption of selecting at least one of the fields, and! display of data in the chosen field as a summary of the document. ! 4. The information storage medium of claim 1, wherein the shared application is running in conjunction running application. ! 5. A computing device configured to read the device-readable information storage medium and performing the steps of claim 1. ! 6. A method of interaction with co-operating user applications, comprising: providing a user interface associated with the running application jointly; ! displaying information associated with a document provided by the running application jointly; ! security

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2934775703

0ab38b90ba4de56fa692e7af32e8e67887619699

Highly Efficient and Visible Light Responsive Heterojunction Composites as Dual Photoelectrodes for Photocatalytic Fuel Cell

In the present work, a novel photocatalytic fuel cell (PFC) system involving a dual heterojunction photoelectrodes, viz. polyaniline/TiO2 nanotubes (PANI/TiO2 NTs) photoanode and CuO/Co3O4 nanorods (CuO/Co3O4 NRs) photocathode, has been designed. Compared to TiO2 NTs electrode of PFC, the present heterojunction design not only enhances the visible light absorption but also offers the higher efficiency in degrading Rhodamine B–a model organic pollutant. The study includes an evaluation of the dual performance of the photoelectrodes as well. Under visible-light irradiation of 3 mW cm−2, the cell composed of the photoanode PANI/TiO2 NTs and CuO/Co3O4 NRs photocathode forms an interior bias of +0.24 V within the PFC system. This interior bias facilitated the transfer of electrons from the photoanode to photocathode across the external circuit and combined with the holes generated therein along with a simultaneous power production. In this manner, the separation of electron/hole pair was achieved in the photoelectrodes by releasing the holes and electrons of PANI/TiO2 NTs photoanode and CuO/Co3O4 NRs photocathode, respectively. Using this PFC system, the degradation of Rhodamine B in aqueous media was achieved to an extent of 68.5% within a reaction duration of a four-hour period besides a simultaneous power generation of 85 μA cm−2.

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Catalysts

8

30

10.3390/CATAL8010030

https://doi.org/10.3390/CATAL8010030

2787997913

9de2261f2398cb3b73c2553e8a99862fe18c4c5e

Thesaurus-aided approach for image browsing and retrieval

The current trend of image retrieval is to incorporate image semantics with visual features to enhance retrieval performance. Although many approaches annotate images with keywords and process query at the semantic level, they fail to explore the full potentials of semantics. This paper proposes thesaurus-aided approaches to facilitate semantics-based access to images. The contribution of our work are two-fold: constructing a dynamic semantic hierarchy (DSH) which supports flexible image browsing by semantic subjects, as well as formulating a semantic similarity metric to get incorporated with visual similarity to improve the accuracy of image retrieval Experiments conducted on the real-world images demonstrates the effectiveness of our approaches.

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IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2001. ICME 2001.

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2001. ICME 2001.

1135-1138

10.1109/ICME.2001.1237927

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2001.1237927

2148433556

416c145a67d10155a3d1cc0c5846bb3cffdf2718

Analgesia: effects on the first and second stages of labor.

BACKGROUND This controlled observational study aimed at evaluating the effects of epidural analgesia on the first and second stages of delivery in nulliparous women, referred to the birth centers of the Sant'Omero "Val Vibrata" Hospital and the "San Salvatore" Hospital in L'Aquila, selected in accordance with specific inclusion criteria. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between May Ws, 2012 and April 3 1s, 2013, 363 patients were enrolled at the birth centres of the "Val Vibrata" Hospital in Sant'Omero (TE) and of the "San Salvatore" Hospital in L'Aquila. 139 patients received epidural analgesia during labor at the "Val Vibrata" Hospital; 224 patients constituted the control group and went through natural delivery without analgesia at the "Val Vibrata" and "San Salvatore" hospitals. RESULTS Dilation time was different in the two groups: in the group with analgesia, the median was 2.30 and 3.35 in the control group. The median expulsion time was 2.05 in the analgesia group and 0.40 in the control group. DISCUSSION The statistical analysis of the study has highlighted the fact the analgesia influences the dilation and expulsion time of labor, confirming on the one hand the clinical evidence, and on the other, adding important results that have not been analyzed by other scientific studies. The results have shown that in nulliparous women, with spontaneous onset of labor, analgesia causes a major reduction in the dilation time of the cervical canal with respect to the control group.

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Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology

43 5

718-722

30074325

3024732407

3c665cd60c7b9f41e06dacc08e2dbeda502be6e6

Poor person and areal socioeconomic status is associated with increased diabetic retinopathy and visual impairment incidence and progression.

BACKGROUND To investigate the longitudinal associations between person-level and area-level socioeconomic status (PLSES and ALSES, respectively) with diabetic retinopathy (DR) and visual impairment (VI) in Asians with diabetes mellitus (DM). METHODS In this population-based cohort study, we included 468 (39.4%) Malays and 721 (60.6%) Indians with DM, with a mean age (SD) of 58.9 (9.1) years; 50.6% were female and the mean follow-up duration was 6.2 (0.9) years. Individual PLSES parameters (education, monthly income and housing type) were quantified using questionnaires. ALSES was assessed using the Socioeconomic Disadvantage Index derived from Singapore's 2010 areal census (higher scores indicate greater disadvantage). Incident DR and VI were defined as absent at baseline but present at follow-up, while DR and VI progression were defined as a ≥1 step increase in severity category at follow-up. Modified Poisson regression analysis was used to determine the associations of PLSES and ALSES with incidence and progression of DR and VI, adjusting for relevant confounders. RESULTS In multivariable models, per SD increase in ALSES score was associated with greater DR incidence (risk ratio (95% CI) 1.27 (1.13 to 1.44)), DR progression (1.10 (1.00 to 1.20)) and VI incidence (1.10 (1.04 to 1.16)), while lower PLSES variables were associated with increased DR (low income: 1.68 (1.21 to 2.34)) and VI (low income: 1.44 (1.13 to 1.83); ≤4 room housing: 2.00 (1.57 to 2.54)) incidence. CONCLUSIONS We found that both PLSES and ALSES variables were independently associated with DR incidence, progression and associated vision loss in Asians. Novel intervention strategies targeted at low socioeconomic status communities to decrease rates of DR and VI are warranted.

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The British journal of ophthalmology

The British journal of ophthalmology

10.1136/bjophthalmol-2020-316430

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2020-316430

32430341

3026586658

9e4ef4f6e5d3f43abe5cb9ad09a72d90a3fdf9b0

Public and Private Emotions

Mainstream sociological analysis deals mainly with collective emotions. In this perspective, “individual,” “personal,” “partia,” or “private” emotions are devoid of social significance. This paper argues that such a conception misses the sociological relevance of these phenomena. Differentiating emotions along the collective/individual continuum, seeing the former as socially meaningful and the latter as “particular,” “private,” or “personal” can also be understood as a product of power relationships. An alternative ? feminist and gendered ? analysis of emotions could be developed, shedding light on a political dimension of emotional phenomena, and the complex morality of emotions.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9e4ef4f6e5d3f43abe5cb9ad09a72d90a3fdf9b0

2742622793

e20fae27e3308d97a7d3ca6a3f00ef698504c473

Predicting pregnancy outcome by Doppler study evaluation of fetal middle cerebral artery, umbilical artery and ductus venosus

Objective: To investigate the sensitivity and specify of MCA, UA  and DV Doppler pulsatility index as a diagnostic value for antepartum assessment of fetal wellbeing and prediction of adverse perinatal out come in both low and high-risk pregnancies. Patients and methods: Aprospective observational case control study conducted at Mansoura university hospitals from February 2018 through march 2019 and involved 100 pregnant ladies with a singleton pregnan- cy divided into two equal groups, G1 cases with high risk pregnancy, and G2 cases with low risk pregnancy as a control group. Both groups were matched for age, parity and gestational age. Results: The basic socio-demographic characteristics of the studied cases and controls were similar in age, gravidity, parity and body mass index (p> 0.05) but in G1 cases had significantly higher frequencies  of mean systolic blood pressure, gestational hypertension, gestational DM, mild or severe PET, oligo- hydraminions, IUGR (p <0.001). De- spite there was no significant difference among cases and control as regard mean (SD) of gestational age in weeks, BPD (mm), UA PI (p >0.05), but there is a highly significant difference as regard FL (mm), AC (mm), MCA PI, DV PI (p values < 0.05). Also; there is a signif- icant difference regarding the reactivity of NST being more reactive  in control than cases (35 vs 2, p <0.001). Again; there is a significant difference between cases and control regarding mean (SD) of gestation- al age at delivery (34±2 vs 39±1 in G2, p <0.001), Fetal weight (gm) (2255±1047 vs 2944±976, p <0.001), Agar score at 5 minutes (4.9±1.1 vs 8.3±1.4, p <0.001), occurrence of hypoxia (68% vs 2%, p <0.001), need for NICU admission (66% vs 2% p <0.001) and acidotic cord blood with PH < 7.2 (33 cases vs 1 case only, p <0.001). Logistic re- gression analysis revealed the cut off value MCA PI (1.62) had high sensitivity (82%), specificity (78%), PV(79%), NPV (81%) and a diag- nostic accuracy of (80%). Also, UA PI cut off value was found (1.12) with sensitivity (60%), specificity (68%), PPV(65%), NPV (63%) with a diagnostic accuracy of (64%). Regarding the best cut off value of DV study by the same method, DVPI cut off value was(0.77), with sensi- tivity (84%), specificity (80%), PPV(80%), NPV(83%) with diagnostic accuracy (82%). Conclusions: Doppler velocimetry studies of placental and fetal circu- lation can provide important information regarding fetal well-being thus yielding an opportunity to improve fetal and neonatal outcome

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43-48

10.21608/egyfs.2020.105468

https://doi.org/10.21608/egyfs.2020.105468

3046725431

f9412cce346f3f14efc1cae483b531c8623371ef

Инвестиции в образование как элемент человеческого капитала индивида: на примере молодёжи Волгоградской области

The authors examine еру education as an element of human capital. The directions and investment volumes in education of modern Russian youth at the individual level are analyzed. Some results of a sample survey of Volgograd and Volgograd region population aged 16-30 years related to investments of the respondents in their education are presented. The costs on learning, residence and the additional costs (purchase of a computer, books, payment of tutors, etc., including the corruption component) were taken into account, and lost incomes as full-time students of the university, as a rule, do not work. It was found that the average member of the Russian youth laid on higher education at least 800 thousand rubles. It is assumed that at a high level of laying on education for the recognition of high or at least average efficiency of such investments the incomes for workers with higher education should be higher. It is noted that in reality situation is quite different today. The authors conclude that the volume of investments in the education of young people at the individual level is excess, and their efficiency low.

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1131706350

31a0696e473d8f190f7f2f7567920d278056ab83

DRIVERLESS OPERATION OF FREIGHT TRAINS. CONCEPT AND ARCHITECTURE

The Institut fuer Schienenfahrzeuge IFS at Aachen Technical University, the Deutsche Bahn AG and Alcatel SEL AG started the first pilot project for automated driverless freight trains in Europe. The project named SST (automatic signal controlled rolling stock) aims at flexible and economic transportation of goods on public railway lines. This new concept for railway transportation allows dispatching of complete wagon loads to a destination without formation, coupling and decoupling with driverless operation. SST is compatible with conventional signalling and permits therefore mixed traffic between manually and automatically driven trains. Alcatel SEL's EUROLOOP system provides the necessary speed supervision, direction of travel and signal observation for automatic train protection. (A) For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.

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630792871

b9eac5bba4ccc1ded65fd3633068527e31ecacae

[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy--accessory bile ducts].

INTRODUCTION Modern medical technology (ultrasonography, intraoperative radiologic contrast methods, ERC, CT and NMR) help in performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy and operative procedures on bile ducts. The safe performance of these operative procedures requires good knowledge of clinical anatomy. In spite of excellent laparoscopic visualization, perioperative lesions of vascular structures or extrahepatic (especially accessory) bile ducts during laparoscopic cholecystectomy are a frequent cause of intra- and postoperative complications. Therefore, we wish to point to the potential risk of running into accessory bile ducts on dissection within or around the cystohepatic triangle, which may entail some overlooked and untreated lesions. PATIENTS AND METHOD Accessory bile ducts originate from the liver parenchyma and may enter a large bile duct or gallbladder at any location, or can directly enter the intestine. The accessory bile ducts encountered on cholecystectomy or bile duct procedure call for special attention. We found accessory bile ducts in 13 (0.52%) patients during the procedure of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. There are three groups of 'risky' accessory bile ducts that can be encountered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Group I includes accessory bile ducts encountered on gallbladder removal from its support: 1) Luschka's subvesical accessory bile duct was found in six (46.1%) patients. A lesion to these ducts was intraoperatively observed in three (23.1%) patients, whereas in another three (23.1%) patients it was only detected and treated on reoperation; 2) the hepatocystic bile duct enters gallbladder directly from liver parenchyma, in the area of the gallbladder lobe. A hepatocystic accessory bile duct was identified during one (7.7%) laparoscopic cholecystectomy, when the duct lumen was observed on the gallbladder removal from the lobe, and another one (7.7%) was only identified on reoperation. Group II comprises accessory bile ducts encountered during dissection in the cystohepatic triangle, between the two hepatovesical plicae: 1) the hepatocystic accessory bile duct runs from liver parenchyma into the cystic duct within the cystohepatic triangle. Bile leak from a bile duct approaching the cystic duct immediately below the clip was observed on reoperation in one (7.7%) patient; 2) the hepatohepatic accessory bile duct drains a part of the liver and runs into the common hepatic duct within the cystohepatic triangle. During one (7.7%) dissection, another delicate bile duct originating from liver parenchyma was detected upon cystic duct clipping. Bile leak from a bile duct running into the common bile duct before entering the properly occluded cystic duct was observed on one (7.7%) reoperation; 3) anastomotic accessory bile ducts connect cystic duct with the common hepatic duct, or connect gallbladder, which has its own cystic duct, with the common hepatic duct or right hepatic duct. In our laparoscopic practice, we did not encounter this type of accessory bile ducts. Group III includes accessory bile ducts observed in the laparoscopic operative field, beyond the cystohepatic triangle, during cholecystectomy and bile duct procedures: 1) the hepatocystic accessory bile duct leaves liver parenchyma and enters the gallbladder at various sites. Stumps of two such accessory bile ducts (15.4%) were detected on reoperation. One entered the gallbladder below the cystic duct entry, and the other approached the gallbladder from above. RESULTS Reoperation following laparoscopic cholecystectomy was required in 15 (0.6%) patients. In eight (53.3%) of these, the reason for reoperation was untreated lesion of accessory bile duct in eight (53.3%), other untreated minor lesions of the cystic duct in five (33.3%), and lesions of the hepatocystic duct in two (13.3%) patients. Out of the eight patients reoperated on for untreated lesion of accessory bile duct, reoperation was indicated by external biliary secretion by drain for more than 7 days in three (37.5%), and by the development of biliary peritonitis with the symptom of pain in five (62.5%) patients. Right-sided shoulder pain and elevated body temperature were recorded in two (40.0%) patients each, whereas abdominal distension with pronounced local defense and hyperbilirubinemia were observed in four (80.0%) patients each. A combination of these symptoms was present in the majority of patients. The prevalence of symptoms was consistent with literature reports. Of the eight patients reoperated on for lesions of accessory bile ducts, the lesion was managed by repeat laparoscopy procedure in five (62.5%) and by laparotomy in three (37.5%) patients. There was no mortality. CONCLUSION Besides technical skill and experience, good knowledge of the clinical anatomy of accessory bile ducts is required to reduce the incidence of postoperative biliary secretion. Based on our own experience, lesions to accessory bile ducts are the most common cause of postoperative complications.

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Acta medica Croatica : casopis Hravatske akademije medicinskih znanosti

Acta medica Croatica : casopis Hravatske akademije medicinskih znanosti

57 2

105-9

12879689

14059558

0543051a1b3700b93ed0d2dc86e34c33f2324304

Abstract 12622: The Modeling of Werner Syndrome by Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Backgrounds: Werner syndrome (WS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by premature onset of several aging-associated diseases, such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, cancer, and early death. The aging phenotypes of WS is resembling to those of normal aging. To uncover the mechanism of aging, we tried to model WS by patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). WS is caused by mutations in WRN gene belonging to the RecQ DNA helicase family which plays a role in genomic stability. But some of WS phenotypes are hardly explained by genomic instability. Thus, we aimed to model WS by patient-specific iPSCs to elucidate the mechanisms. Methods and Results: We sampled T lymphocytes from a patient with WS. Then we transduced with Yamanaka factors (OCT4, SOX2, KLF4, and MYC) by sendai virus, and iPSC colonies were derived. We confirmed that WS-iPSCs expressed pluripotent markers, could differentiate into all three germ-layer derived tissues, and retained a normal karyotype. We could culture ...

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Circulation

2886597185

e2782e74c17f0afc20684e829125461d6f016965

High performance computing of the Darmstadt stratified burner by means of large eddy simulation and a joint ATF-FGM approach

Current trend in design and operation of industrial gas turbines or internal combustion engines implies using the lean-fuel and stratified conditions aiming at the reduction of the harmful emissions and efficiency improvement. This has led to an increasing use of computational methodology, which allows detailed insight into combustion physics and processes controlling the emission formation. In the present work, the Darmstadt stratified burner is investigated by means of Large Eddy Simulation, implemented into the in-house, finite-volume-based numerical code FASTEST. The code solves the incompressible, variable-density Navier–Stokes equations coupled with the species transport equations. It is parallelized via domain decomposition technique using message passing interface (MPI). The complex chemical mechanisms are described by tabulated detailed chemistry utilizing the Flamelet Generated Manifolds (FGM) approach combined with the Artificially Thickened Flame model (ATF). The results obtained are comparatively assessed along with the complementary measurements. In-depth analysis of the flow field is conducted based on numerical simulations. Further studies have been carried out with respect to grid resolution and scalability.

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Comput. Vis. Sci.

Computing and Visualization in Science

16

77-88

10.1007/s00791-014-0225-8

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-014-0225-8

2085810455

45bcc334f549fa67358796c397f8e9222cc3c40d

First clinical tests using a liquid-filled electronic portal imaging device and a convolution model for the verification of the midplane dose.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recently, algorithms have been developed to derive the patient dose from portal dose measurements using a liquid-filled electronic portal imaging device. These algorithms have already been validated for several phantom geometries irradiated under clinical conditions. It is the aim of the present study to investigate the applicability of a liquid-filled electronic portal imaging device in combination with these algorithms for two-dimensional midplane dose verification in clinical practice. MEASUREMENTS AND METHODS Portal dose images were obtained during several patient treatments under routine clinical conditions. Measurements were performed to verify the midplane dose during radiotherapy of larynx cancer with 4 MV beams, breast and lung cancer with 8 MV beams and prostate cancer with both 8 and 18 MV beams. Midplane doses, determined from portal dose measurements and analyzed with our algorithms, were compared with midplane doses calculated with our three-dimensional (3D) treatment planning system (TPS). RESULTS For the larynx treatment the measured 2D midplane dose agreed within 2.0% with TPS calculations in most parts of the field. Larger differences were found in a small region below the skin due to the absence of electron equilibrium, which is not taken into account in our portal dose analysis. For breast irradiations the measured midplane dose showed a homogeneous distribution in the AP direction in the axial plane, while high dose regions were observed in the cranial and caudal part of the breast. Portal dose measurements and TPS calculations agreed within 2.5% for most of the prostate and lung irradiations. For a few of the prostate and lung treatments larger local differences were found due to differences between the actual patient anatomy and the planning CT data, e.g. as a result of variable gas filling in the rectum and anatomical changes in the lung. CONCLUSIONS Portal dose measurements with a liquid-filled electronic portal imaging device can be used to determine the 2D midplane dose for various treatment sites in clinical practice. Portal in vivo dosimetry has proven to be important in detecting changes in the patient's anatomy and its influence on the dose delivery. It is concluded that portal dosimetry is an excellent tool for accurate and independent verification of the dose in the entire (2D) midplane during patient treatment. However, a limited number of patients were involved in this study and the results are therefore preliminary. More research is needed to fully assess the clinical value of portal dose measurements.

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Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

47 3

303-12

10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00008-5

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8140%2898%2900008-5

9681895

2003863763

1c5b9b2e5b5c7ecbd985d948ff4c882be041ffd0

Ethnic Conflict and State Control:Take the Three Civil Commotions of Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty for Example

It continued civil unrest in Taiwan during the Qing Dynasty,what lasted the longest and the most widely spread were the so-called"Three Civil Commotions".In the three civil commotions,there were mixture of complex ethnic relations.The heads of the civil commotions were Fulao who were from Quanzhou or Zhangzhou.And Hakka stood in the opposite,they often acted as Yimin.Whether the Qing government or the civil commotion heads,they had gone through a process to understand the ethnic conflict in the civil commotions,they had tried to eliminate the conflict between the different ethnic groups,and they hoped to built a pan-ethnic federation.But neither of them could reach the intended purpose,ethnic conflict did not disappeare,instead,it gave birth to new conflicts.

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Journal of Gannan Normal University

2383120122

1e43e6374c899654a04081c09ab147f938229bc7

Estimating regression coefficients by W-based and latent variables spatial autoregressive models in the presence of spillovers from hotspots: evidence from Monte Carlo simulations

The paper evaluates by means of Monte Carlo simulations the estimators of regression coefficients in the presence of spillover effects from one or more hotspots by the classical W-based spatial autoregressive model and the structural equation model with latent variables (SEM). The estimators are evaluated in terms of bias and root mean squared error (RMSE) for different values of the spatial autoregressive coefficient, different sample sizes and different specifications of weight matrices. The simulation results show that both approaches perform better for smaller values of the spatial autoregressive coefficient and larger sample sizes. SEM tends to outperform the classical approach in term of bias but the classical model based on first-order contiguity matrix has lowest RMSE in most cases. Furthermore, SEM provides a more stable performance in terms of variations of bias and RMSE with respect to changes in the value of autoregressive coefficient, sample size and number of hotspots. It follows that compared to the classical approach, SEM does not only have favorable behavioral properties in that it straightforwardly allows inclusion of different types of spatial dependence in one model framework and of testing distance decay, but also favorable econometric properties.

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Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences

4

71-80

10.1007/S12076-010-0047-3

https://doi.org/10.1007/S12076-010-0047-3

2091543755

1aecc4ee8f782132fb328318e82f9800ca56743a

Malted sorghum-soy composite flour: preparation, chemical and physico-chemical properties.

In the present study, the effect of soy flour fortification on the chemical and physico-chemical properties of malted sorghum flour for probable industrial uses was investigated. Malted sorghum-soy composite flour was prepared by mixing malted-sorghum flour with soy flour at varying proportions (0-40%). The composite flour mixes were evaluated for proximate and mineral composition, anti-nutritional factors and functional properties. Reconstituted thick paste “amala” prepared from all the samples were evaluated for consumer acceptability. The results showed increment in the proximate content of the composite flour as the ratio of the soy flour in the mixes increases. The protein content of the flour mixes increased from 7.3% to 19.2%. The blend containing 40% soy flour substitution had the highest protein, fat, ash and fiber content. The mineral content increased while the anti-nutritional factors decreased as the soy flour substitution increases in the mixes. The functional properties of the flour decreased while the pasting viscosity and pH increased. Reconstituted thick paste produced from 10% soy flour substitution was most acceptable in terms of the sensory properties. The results obtained in this study indicated that highly nutritious flour can be produced from malted sorghum-soy composite flour.

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Journal of Food Processing and Technology

6

1-7

10.4172/2157-7110.1000467

https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7110.1000467

2404049333

d41e38b5b4cf4162705fb06971338c96d949808a

IMMOBILIZATION OF ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS ON MONOLITHIC PACKING FOR BIOOXIDATION OF FERROUS IRON

The oxidation of ferrous iron (Fe2+) in solution using Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans has industrial applications exclusively in the regeneration of ferric iron (Fe 3+ ) as an oxidizing agent for the removal of hydrogen sulfide from waste gases, desulfurization of coal, leaching of non-ferrous metallic sulfides and treatment of acid mine drainage. The aim of this investigation was to increase the bio-oxidation rate of ferrous sulfate by using immobilized cells. Rate of Fe2+ oxidation was determined in a packed-bed bioreactor configuration with monolithic particles being used as support material. Biooxidation of ferrous iron by immobilized cells was investigated in repeated batch culture and continuous operation using a laboratory scale packed-bed bioreactor. On this account, effects of process variables such as dilution rate and initial concentrations of Fe2+ on oxidation of ferrous sulfate were consequently investigated. During repeated batch culture, the immobilized-cells were stable and showed high constant iron-oxidizing activities. A maximum Fe 2+ oxidation rate of 6.7 g/l/h was achieved at the dilution rate of 2 h -1 , while no obvious precipitate was detected in the

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Iranian Journal of Biotechnology

6

137-143

2262810826

896b4254b31531e2d74065310e7a4dfc28e3f45b

Social rank affects the haematologic profile in red deer hinds

We studied the effects of social rank on the haematologic profile in a herd of 24 female Iberian red deer hinds. Social rank hierarchy was determined and blood samples were taken and analysed. After adjusting for age and body mass, dominance ranking showed a significant negative effect (ie, lower values in dominant hinds) on white blood cell (WBC) count, haemoglobin and haematocrit. Our results are similar to those reported for stressed individuals due to physical immobilisation, but do not support the predicted enhanced erythropoiesis due to higher levels of androgens. The results for WBC numbers may also reflect that subordinate hinds must allocate a higher amount of resources to immunity as a result of injuries incurred from dominant hinds, while simultaneously facing restricted access to food sources. For red blood cell (RBC) counts, the results may be due to subordinate hinds likely needing increased haematocrit and haemoglobin levels for fast flight responses. Our data show that social rank influences haematologic profile, and thus it should be considered when correctly interpreting blood analyses in social cervid species.

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Veterinary Record

Veterinary Record

182

436 - 436

10.1136/vr.104629

https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.104629

29374098

2784650606

dcfcb753425b39b9e56f2350748f98dbcc9a46ce

Balancing the bioeconomy: supporting biofuels and bio-based materials in public policy

Key objectives for a bioeconomy are now embedded in the strategic activities of more than 30 countries, with an increasing number developing a national bioeconomy strategy. In a bioeconomy, fossil-based commodities and electricity start to be replaced by bio-based. This is meant to address some of the so-called ‘grand challenges’ being faced by society, but especially energy security (by reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels) and climate change (by reducing greenhouse gas emissions). However, in the vast majority of countries that have bioenergy and biofuels policies, there is either no policy support for bio-based materials (especially chemicals and plastics) or it is limited to R&D subsidy. And yet, studies repeatedly show that higher added value and job creation are to be found in materials production. This paper suggests a cost-effective public policy strategy to redress this balance. The strategy also addresses a weakness of bio-based production – low efficiency – by creating stimulus for companies to innovate their biocatalysts and bioprocesses.

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Energy and Environmental Science

8

3063-3068

10.1039/C5EE01864A

https://doi.org/10.1039/C5EE01864A

1845878034

62a6bf26b605e94dd5208bf98cc0200775ea1ad9

The Joint and Survivorship Bank Account--A Concept without a Name

T HE OWNER of a chose in action desiring to give away his property may effectuate the donation during his lifetime through a gift or he may provide for a gratuitous transfer effective upon his death. If he pursues the former course the donor must relinquish all dominion over the subject matter of his benefaction. If he follows the latter he retains control but at the expense of complying with the technicalities involved in the law of wills, and at the cost of subjecting the beneficiary to the delay and inconvenience of probate. To avoid the above mentioned disadvantages donors have seized upon the device of transferring property through the medium of joint and survivorship bank accounts. The account is opened in the name of the depositor and the donee and according to the terms of the deposit is payable to either or the survivor. During his lifetime the donor uses any of the funds that he may need. Upon the depositor's death the donee withdraws the balance which he keeps for his own use free from the claims of the depositor's estate. By this technique the depositor is able to do what heretofore the law never permitted; namely, make a gift without relinquishing control of the subject matter of the benefaction. If considered in the light of the technical law of gifts the power of the donor to withdraw all of the funds invalidates the entire gift. While it is true that a testator may revoke a will during his lifetime, and while in many instances a settlor may terminate a trust, the right to revoke a gift is not accorded to the donor who makes an inter vivos gratuitous transfer of his property. There are rather obvious reasons why a donor may want to retain control of the subject matter of the gift. In the first instance he may not desire to surrender all control over the deposit because misfortune may make it necessary that he use the funds for his own maintenance, or because a change in circumstances may make it desirable that he change beneficiaries. Secondly, he may avoid disposing of all of his property by will not only because of the initial formalities but also because he cannot change the will without duplicating the formalities that he found inconvenient in the first

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California Law Review

41

596

10.15779/Z38DR3R

https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38DR3R

1575921566

8ca9ff3af2501da1e9775f77ba1a4fed83715cc0

Bioactivity-guided isolation of cytotoxic and antioxidant phytochemicals from four Cousinia species from stenocephala bunge section

Background: Asteraceae family contains several cytotoxic compounds bearing genus. Cousinia genus is included in the Asteraceae; it has not been studied phytochemically in detail. Objective: In this study, chemical compositions of four Cousinia species (Cousinia davisiana [CD], Cousinia foliosa, Cousinia ramosissima, and Cousinia stenocephala [CS]) were evaluated according to their cytotoxic and antioxidant effects using bioactivity-guided isolation. Materials and Methods: The cytotoxic effect was investigated with Sulphorhodamine B method against Colo205 (human colon carcinoma), A549 (human non-small cell lung cancer) cell lines, and antioxidant activity tested with 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl, 2,2'-azino-bis 3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid scavenging tests, and β-carotene/linoleic acid co-oxidation test. Purified compounds were elucidated by one-dimensional and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopic techniques. The quantitative and qualitative determination of unpurified compounds within the extracts was carried out by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry. Results: CS methanol extract, dichloromethane subextract, and FR-3 showed more cytotoxicity; isolated compound (ψ-taraxasterol) showed no cytotoxic activity. CD methanol extract and n-butanol subextract showed significant antioxidant activity. Conclusion: This is the first report that these phytochemical compounds were identified in Cousinia genus, and it is thought that these compounds could contribute to the chemotaxonomy of the genus.

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Pharmacognosy Magazine

15

682 - 692

10.4103/pm.pm_487_18

https://doi.org/10.4103/pm.pm_487_18

2973829901

120ac5ed500b57530e89c11ef22e02f7636a9b40

The Politics of Economic Liberalization

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries – Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. It provides systematic empirical evidence that policy-related discourses are much more than noise; rather, they are detailed expressions of institutional complementarities and political struggles. The author posits that the more open a discourse, the broader the range of perceived interests, which, in turn, increases the intensity of conflicts. Similarly, the more public discourse centres on coordination, the more intense actors need to engage with opposite interests, which most probably intensifies political disputes as well. Moreover, Wueest argues that the formation of a consensus within the political mainstream has left a vacuum for outsider parties such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain to feed on the contentiousness of economic liberalization policies.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/120ac5ed500b57530e89c11ef22e02f7636a9b40

10.1007/978-3-319-62322-1

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62322-1

2763110633

cb1fb2beeda37deaee179cceb302d47b07e3ec1c

TYPES OF COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED IN INTERLANGUAGE TEXTBOOK FOR GRADE TWELFTH OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

This article is based on a study which aims at the finding out components of commmunicaton stratedies   and sufficiency of strategic competence in Interlanguage textbook. The data analyzed are the models of speaking text taken from Interlanguage textbook. There are 5 texts in the textbook. The finding of the study reveals the communication strategies used are fillers. Another finding is 100% commmunication strategies found in Interlanguage textbook are well implemented

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1

2470357385

cdf0299f38f3d8d81705922a1021e889f1410017

Nonlinear optical properties of GaN/AlN constant total effective radius multi-wells quantum rings

In this study, we investigate the effect of the number of wells and ring thickness on the third-order absorption coefficient as well as figure dipole matrix elements and oscillator strength of multi-wells GaN/AlN constant total effective radius multi-wells quantum rings (CTER-MWQRs). We show that order of the nonlinearity decreases by increasing of the number of wells by going from 1 to 2 numbers of wells and increases by going from 2 to 10 numbers of wells. This is just against the effect of the inner quantum ring radius R0 values, since order of the nonlinearity increases by increasing of the R0 value by going from 0 nm to 5 nm and decreases by going from 5 nm to 30 nm for an eight wells CTER-MWQRs. Finally, we prove that, if we want to construct a system which has a special peak position, changing of the R0 values is more efficient than changing of the number of wells.

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Modern Physics Letters B

28

1450214

10.1142/S0217984914502145

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984914502145

2100964154

29df079dfab6d7a1e296c0b7a61398f45eb904c5

Managing ocular surface neoplasia without biopsy: The end of pathology as we know it?

Ocular surface squamous neoplasia encompasses a wide variety of lesions with very different biological behaviours and prognoses. This umbrella term incorporates benign papillomas, intraepithelial neoplasias, and invasive carcinoma, including those with high risk histology (adenosquamous, spindle cell/sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma). For this reason, the eighth edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer recommends limiting the term “OSSN” to clinical usage only. In this issue, Polski et al describe a retrospective case series of 41 eyes of ocular surface neoplasia that compares biopsied tumours with known depth invasion with those staged clinically without biopsies. The authors conclude that, because there were no significant differences in outcomes between invasive and non-invasive tumours, treatment (with topical therapy) can be undertaken without histological assessment and with clinical staging alone. Certainly provocative, this conclusion requires considerable further validation and research in properly designed prospective multi-institutional studies. The small sample size and smaller number of recurrences make it impossible to make meaningful clinical recommendations. In addition, there are several other weaknesses with the data presented. First, follow-up period is not defined. Patients with in situ vs invasive disease are not separately analysed; the term OSSN is used both histologically and clinically. All cases in the series had multiple structure involvement, yet it is not clear whether they represented recurrences (in which a previous biopsy was performed) or primary lesions. Regarding the value of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the clinical staging of OSSN, data presented in the current study are also limited. However, this is a promising area warranting further investigation, with a larger prospective study examining the correlation between specific OCT parameters and histopathology. While all data on this much neglected group of diseases are welcome, we caution that there are important principles of current best practice cancer care that need to be considered. Australian and international cancer guidelines increasingly promote a multidisciplinary model in which management decisions are rarely made without tissue diagnosis. There are sound reasons for this. First, amelanotic or minimally pigmented conjunctival melanoma, which is clinically indistinguishable from OSSN and estimated to occur in up to 30% of cases in some series, requires a tissue diagnosis.3–6 A number of studies have highlighted the very poor outcomes in conjunctival melanoma patients in which the diagnosis is unsuspected and the treatment is unplanned.6–8 Second, some ocular surface carcinomas are associated with more aggressive behaviour (eg, perineural invasion, multifocal disease and orbital invasion) and poorer prognosis; these include poorly differentiated and spindle cell squamous cell carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma, Merkel cell carcinoma and sebaceous carcinoma. Such cases perform poorly in the experience of ourselves and others when the diagnosis is unsuspected, and a recurrence is eventually biopsied.6–8 In addition, there is the risk of overtreatment, when benign conditions mimicking a neoplastic process are subjected to ongoing topical drug treatment. While a conservative approach to treatment is always a goal, topical therapy, like surgery, is not without morbidity and cost to the patient. With rare exceptions such as retinoblastoma (where biopsy is potentially hazardous), it is difficult to justify bypassing biopsy in the era of precision and personalized cancer medicine, where management is increasingly based on specific biomolecular tumour pathways that require tissue sampling. A case in point is the trend we are currently seeing for the management of uveal melanoma, where tissue sampling is increasingly being undertaken to guide the management of these patients. While this does not apply to OSSN now, it may be that strategies in the future will require more, not less, intimate knowledge of tumour genomics and immune microenvironment, as has occurred for many other cancers. The understanding of the natural history of ocular surface neoplasia is evolving, and this article can be seen as a call for more international collaboration on the diagnosis, classification and outcomes of OSSN. As OSSN lesions are relatively rare, large multi-site collaborative registries are one approach to collect sufficient data for evidence-based changes to management in the absence of prospective trials. A similar approach is currently being undertaken in ocular naevi and melanoma. It is overdue that this rigour be incorporated into DOI: 10.1111/ceo.13475

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Clinical & experimental ophthalmology

Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology

47

10.1111/ceo.13475

https://doi.org/10.1111/ceo.13475

30892791

2923832799

8841e457cf8e3c13c29e57a2a69166ffa9875448

Tibetan Officials in the 8th-Century South-eastern Part of the Empire

Old Tibetan Studies, edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is an inquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The volume is written with the intent to confront facts and textualization and contribute to the clarification of particular aspects of the administrative and legislative organization, the ecclesiastical institution, and the religious, monastic, intellectual and material culture of Old Tibet and its borderlands. The material is critically examined from different perspectives, focusing on classical disciplines (history, linguistics, lexicography, philology, codicology and diplomatics).

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/8841e457cf8e3c13c29e57a2a69166ffa9875448

10.1163/9789004233485_006

https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004233485_006

2495886166

9415c6e8e6f2c9c6076852848e1be11006c21cff

Influence of postpartum onset on the course of mood disorders

BackgroundTo ascertain the impact of postpartum onset (PPO) on the subsequent time course of mood disorders.MethodsThis retrospective study compared per year rates of excited (manic or mixed) and depressive episodes between fifty-five women with bipolar (N = 22) or major depressive (N = 33) disorders with first episode occurring postpartum (within four weeks after childbirth according to DSM-IV definition) and 218 non-postpartum onset (NPPO) controls. Such patients had a traceable illness course consisting of one or more episodes alternating with complete symptom remission and no additional diagnoses of axis I disorders, mental retardation or brain organic diseases. A number of variables reported to influence the course of mood disorders were controlled for as possible confounding factorsResultsBipolar women with postpartum onset disorder had fewer excited episodes (p = 0.005) and fewer episodes of both polarities (p = 0.005) compared to non-postpartum onset subjects. No differences emerged in the rates of depressive episodes. All patients who met criteria for rapid cycling bipolar disorder (7 out of 123) were in the NPPO group. Among major depressives, PPO patients experienced fewer episodes (p = 0.016). With respect to clinical and treatment features, PPO-MDD subjects had less personality disorder comorbidity (p = 0.023) and were less likely to be on maintenance treatment compared to NPPO comparison subjects (p = 0.002)ConclusionSuch preliminary findings suggest that PPO mood disorders may be characterized by a less recurrent time course. Future research in this field should elucidate the role of comorbid personality disorders and treatment. Moreover it should clarify whether PPO disorders are also associated with a more positive outcome in terms of social functioning and quality of life.

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BMC psychiatry

BMC Psychiatry

6

4 - 4

10.1186/1471-244X-6-4

https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-6-4

16438725

2126006401

600eb58dbcc49e8c0c44e669d4565f204b3f638b

Fine slag powder in high-performance concrete

The influences of fine slag powder to workability,compressive strength and durability of high-performance concrete were discussed.The results show that fine slag powder can improve the performance of concrete,and the method has comprehensive effectiveness.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/600eb58dbcc49e8c0c44e669d4565f204b3f638b

2389131371

c21e1012796a8b40a58c1ff7d68c31807c18b378

THE EFFECT OF COARSE-AGGREGATE TYPE ON CRCP THICKNESS

The effect of coarse-aggregate type on CRCP performance is analyzed in this report by using laboratory data and condition survey information in conjunction with design equations and a distress-prediction model for CRCP. Three different approaches were followed to estimate thickness equivalencies for continuously reinforced concrete pavements constructed with the two coarse aggregates most commonly available in Texas: crushed limestone and siliceous river gravel. The first approach is based on the AASHTO equation for design of rigid pavements, which can also be used for jointed concrete pavements. The second and third methods rely on models developed through statistical analyses of CRCP condition survey data collected in the State of Texas. Condition survey information shows that, for similar conditions, limestone CRC pavements exhibit less distress than CRCP pavements constructed with siliceous river gravel. A similar observation was made for thickness equivalencies obtained; i.e., less slab thickness than siliceous river gravel. Findings developed herein could be used to determine approximate equivalent thicknesses for the two aggregate types considered in this study if there is no need for a detailed analysis. Additionally, by using the recommended thickness equivalencies, the contractor could have enough information to estimate costs of construction of a CRCP section when he is allowed to employ either limestone or siliceous river gravel coarse aggregate. Examples for the application of equivalent thicknesses are provided in order to facilitate the implementation of the results of the various analyses carried out in this report. (FHWA)

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c21e1012796a8b40a58c1ff7d68c31807c18b378

575164743

ecedb561a414a3d29cc92c7b8ea7a2d2a0d4373b

Nigellic acid--an endogenous abscisic acid metabolite from Vicia faba leaves

Abstract Nigellic acid [(+)( S )-7′-hydroxy-ABA], previously isolated from cell suspension cultures of Nigella damascena fed ± abscisic acid was detected as an endogenous compound in leaves of Vicia faba using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.

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Phytochemistry

27

677-678

10.1016/0031-9422(88)84073-1

https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9422%2888%2984073-1

1997337520

a1d61d022d0a02327577ea46d781d2ac1ba06145

Inter- and intrachromosomal sub-telomeric rearrangements on 4q35: implications for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) aetiology and diagnosis.

The autosomal dominant myopathy facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is causally related to a short Eco RI fragment detected by probe p13E-11. This remnant fragment is the result of a deletion of an integral number of tandemly arrayed 3.3 kb repeat units (D4Z4) on 4q35. Despite intensive efforts, no transcribed sequences have been identified within this array. Previously, we have shown that these repeats on 4q35 have been exchanged for a similar highly homologous repeat locus on 10q26 in 20% of the population and that a short chromosome 10-like array on 4q35 also results in FSHD. Here, we describe the hybrid structure of some of these repeat arrays, reflecting additional sub-telomeric instability. In three healthy individuals carrying a 4-like repeat on chromosome 10 or vice versa, one repeat array was shown to consist of hybrid clusters of 4-derived and 10-derived repeat units. Moreover, employing pulsed field gel electrophoresis analysis, we identified two unrelated individuals carrying deletions of a chromosomal segment (p13E-11) proximal to the repeat locus. These deletions were not associated with FSHD. In one of these cases, however, an expansion of the deletion into the repeat array was observed in one of his children suffering from FSHD. These data provide additional evidence for instability of this sub-telomeric region and suggests that the length of the repeat, and not its intrinsic properties, is crucial to FSHD. Moreover, they are in agreement with the hypothesis that FSHD is caused by a position effect in which the repeat structure influences the expression of genes nearby. Therefore, the region deleted proximal to the repeat locus in healthy individuals can be instrumental to refine the critical region for FSHD1.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a1d61d022d0a02327577ea46d781d2ac1ba06145

Human molecular genetics

Human molecular genetics

7 8

1207-14

10.1093/HMG/7.8.1207

https://doi.org/10.1093/HMG%2F7.8.1207

9668160

2150199853

c6c82d8c344465c6034c362a3a6f164c6f96bc17

Use of hot-wire anemometry for measuring the nanopowder flow velocity

A new technique for measuring the flow velocity of nano-scale powders is used. The hot-wire anemometry method widely used in gas flows is employed for investigating nanopowder flows. By way of illustration, the flows of nanopowders of aluminum oxide C and silicon dioxide aerosil A-90 and A-380 in a vertical channel are studied. The results obtained show that nanoscale powder flow investigation by means of the hot-wire anemometry is promising.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c6c82d8c344465c6034c362a3a6f164c6f96bc17

Fluid Dynamics

47

281-287

10.1134/S0015462812020147

https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462812020147

2011079639

9fc2e387e88c8e671c5775f47c4e28d0cf5ae177

Dynamics of Supralittoral Freshwater Rock Pools in the Gulf of Maine

Appledore Island, located six miles off the coast of Portsmouth, NH, has over 500 freshwater peripheral pools situated above the intertidal zone and range in size from semi permanent pools measuring 15 centimeters across to larger permanent pools up to about 10m diameter. Seventy eight pools were physically monitored once every four days from June to August 2006 and have provided us with a deeper understanding on dynamics of pond community organization and how organisms cope with rapid and major physical changes. Pools were monitored for temperature, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, water color and clarity, and presence or absence of key macrofauna. The color and clarity of pools, which we used as a proxy for phytoplankton levels, varied throughout the summer and ranged between being always opaque to always clear, or cycling between these two states. Cycling of pools is important for the macrofauna because it indicates varying conditions that organisms must contend with. Clear pools had significantly lower dissolved oxygen levels, pH values and presumably, based on water clarity, lower phytoplankton stocks, while opaque pools had higher levels of both dissolved oxygen and pH and usually very high phytoplankton levels. Diel vertical migration by Daphnia. pulex was observed in these island pools which is interesting because of the lack of vertebrate predators. Significantly higher densities of D. pulex occurred in the top 10cm during the night than day. With the absence of significant predators, physical or genetic factors must explain the observed migration to the surface at night by D. pulex.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9fc2e387e88c8e671c5775f47c4e28d0cf5ae177

1806946689

92a616fa5f2ff083b526f04f75486bafbce369a1

6 Segmental variation in myocardial extracellular volume in healthy mid-life adults

Background Myocardial extracellular volume (ECV) can be estimated by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) using pre- and post-contrast T1 MOLLI maps. The age and sex associations with myocardial ECV in healthy mid-life adults are uncertain. Methods Healthy adults without any history of cardiovascular disease or treatment underwent contrast-enhanced CMR at 1.5 Tesla (Siemens MAGNETOM Avanto). T1 mapping with MOLLI was performed before and 15 min after contrast (0.15 mmol/kg gadoterate meglumine). ECV was estimated in regions (AHA 16-segment LV model) and for the whole left ventricular (LV) myocardium (all regions). ECV was calculated as the difference in relaxation rate (R1=1/T1) for myocardium and LV blood pool before vs. after gadolinium contrast administration, corrected for haematocrit (HCT). LV segments which were not evaluable due to artefact were excluded from analysis. Results 114 segments were assessed from 19 subjects (mean age 61 ± 12 years; 10 (53%) male). 21 (18%) segments were excluded due to blood pool artefact or signal drop-out in the pre-contrast T1 MOLLI scan. All segments were evaluable in the post-contrast T1 MOLLI scans. The remaining segments for each subject were averaged to give an overall ECV (global LV). The mean ECV for all subjects was 25.6 ± 2.9%. There was no overall segmental variation in ECV. ECV in females was higher than in males (27.6 ± 3.1% vs. 23.9 ± 1.3%; P = 0.003) The percentage difference was 14.5%. ECV was higher in septal segments in females (anteroseptal: 28.0 ± 3.3% vs. 24.2 ± 1.5%; P = 0.004; inferoseptal: 27.3 ± 3.8% vs. 23.5 ± 1.6%; P = 0.011), whereas no differences were observed for other segments (Table 1). Abstract 6 Table 1 Sex and segmental variation in ECV. ECV presented as Mean ± SD ECV (%) per Segment All subjects (n = 19) Male (n = 10) Female (n = 9) P Anteroseptal 26.0 ± 3.1 24.2 ± 1.5 28.0 ± 3.3 0.004 Anterior 24.5 ± 3.9 22.6 ± 1.6 26.0 ± 4.6 0.063 Anterolateral 24.8 ± 3.2 24.2 ± 1.8 25.7 ± 4.5 0.407 Inferolateral 26.0 ± 3.7 24.6 ± 1.9 27.6 ± 4.6 0.112 Inferior 25.5 ± 4.4 23.6 ± 2.4 27.4 ± 5.2 0.087 Inferoseptal 25.3 ± 3.4 23.5 ± 1.6 27.3 ± 3.8 0.011 Average 25.6 ± 2.9 23.9 ± 1.3 27.6 ± 3.1 0.003 Conclusion In this preliminary analysis, myocardial ECV was higher in women than in men, which was attributable to higher ECV in the septum in females. This sex difference merits further study. If these results are confirmed by other studies, then sex-specific reference ranges for ECV would seem appropriate.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/92a616fa5f2ff083b526f04f75486bafbce369a1

Heart

Heart

101

A4 - A4

10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307845.6

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2015-307845.6

2314265321

889cc5d80f05e49eeb3eb30deedf0f52d6ec18ae

Determination of quantum entanglement concurrence using multilayer perceptron neural networks.

Artificial Neural Networks, inspired by biological neural networks, have seen widespread implementations across all research areas in the past few years. This partly due to recent developments in the field and mostly due to the increased accessibility of hardware and cloud computing capable of realising artificial neural network models. As the implementation of neural networks and deep learning in general becomes more ubiquitous in everyday life, we seek to leverage this powerful tool to aid in furthering research in quantum information science. Concurrence is a measure of entanglement that quantifies the "amount" of entanglement contained within both pure and mixed state entangled systems [1]. In this thesis, artificial neural networks are used to determine models that predict concurrence, particularly, models are trained on mixed state inputs and used for pure state prediction. Conversely additional models are trained on pure state inputs and used for mixed state prediction. An overview of the prediction performance is presented along with analysis of the predictions.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/889cc5d80f05e49eeb3eb30deedf0f52d6ec18ae

2903868453

c56e4e459faafde6a9794801169f10d39e33863d

Caracterización experimental de losas compuestas naturales

This work of degree there proposes the production of compound agglomerates natives reinforced with fibers of bamboo aleatoriamente distributed in a natural counterfoil. For the elaboration of the slabs fibers will be used extracted of culmos of bamboo of the specie Guadua Angusstifolia Kunth, and resin from the higuerilla as counterfoil of the compound. For the analysis of the behavior of the slabs it proposes to adopt the foundations that govern the manufacture and performance of compound materials polimericos, due to the fact that to the date there does not exist a regulation or a specific theory that regulates the behavior of totally natural compounds.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c56e4e459faafde6a9794801169f10d39e33863d

2723349453

ba5349cd8fe96f3ddac2a719ff87270ddd0fa5e9

Effect of Hydrostatic Testing on Ductile Tearing of X-65 Line Pipe Steel with Stress Corrosion Cracks

Abstract Hydrostatic testing is one method to confirm the integrity of pipelines containing colonies of stress corrosion cracks. Although this technique is widely used, a concern of the pipeline industry is the potential for ductile tearing damage of subcritical flaws. Objectives of the current study were to evaluate the influence of hydrostatic testing on the crack tip morphology and to determine the amount of ductile tearing that may occur for different hydrostatic testing conditions. Stress corrosion cracks were grown in compact tension specimens of X-65 line pipe steel in a near-neutral-pH stress corrosion cracking (SCC) environment. Simulated hydrostatic tests were performed at loads that corresponded to hoop stresses at and above the specified minimum yield strength (SMYS), resulting in applied J-integral values near to and above the J(Q) fracture toughness value of the material. Some specimens ruptured; some did not fail. Crack tip blunting occurred and the tearing extent was small and proportional...

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Corrosion

56

1050-1058

10.5006/1.3294382

https://doi.org/10.5006/1.3294382

2030269241

4e902672ac42fe721d6f8fcea4678debd399d307

Chapter 10 Railway Megaprojects as Catalysts for the Re-Making of Post-Industrial Cities? The Case of Stuttgart 21 in Germany

The purpose of the chapter is twofold. First, it discusses the causes and characteristics of the current proliferation of rail station area redevelopment megaprojects around the globe, revealing them to be an important subset of the new generation of megaprojects discussed in this volume. Second, it offers a detailed and timely account of recent struggles surrounding “Stuttgart 21,” a massive, hugely controversial rail station redevelopment megaproject in Southern Germany, drawing lessons from the controversy over Stuttgart 21 for urban megaprojects more generally. This study is a qualitative case study analysis that involved interviews and document analysis. The experience of “Stuttgart 21” validates previous criticisms of megaprojects regarding transparency and public accountability in decision-making, environmental challenges, and cost-overruns. The political conflicts over “Stuttgart 21” are intimately tied to fundamental disagreements over future urban development and transportation policy, the costs and benefits of multibillion Euro megaprojects, and related democratic decision-making procedures. Rail stations emerge as an important, as-of-yet underexplored subset of urban megaprojects. Rail stations, especially those serving new high-speed rail corridors, are crucial development nodes within complex postindustrial urban–regional restructuring processes. But they also have a distinct character and historical identity. As the mass protests in Stuttgart show, they also clearly serve important identification functions in citizens’ lives.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/4e902672ac42fe721d6f8fcea4678debd399d307

13

10.1108/S1047-0042(2013)0000013015

https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-0042%282013%290000013015

2480839419

f0b374e4fe7f684940e2efc7fa492bfa77a1cf67

Large-scale, explicit wave simulations on the CRAY-2

Most time-domain, wave modeling problems in geophysics are intractable by classical analysis methods, due principally to nonseparability and to a lesser extent material nonlinearity. Therefore discrete numerical solutions are often necessary for the simulation of realistic models. Applications in 2-D and 3-D geophysical modeling are the subject of this paper, particularly as solved on a CRAY-2 supercomputer. Implementation and performance differences between earlier CRAYs and the CRAY-2 are described, including the discrepancy between scalar fetch and vector processing speeds. Explicit finite element solvers are applied to applications involving 2-D simulation of a seismic refraction experiment across the state of Maine, 3-D simulation of near-source scattering experiments, and both linear and nonlinear axisymmetric source simulation. Results show that the CRAY-2 allows cost-effective 2-D simulations of truly large-scale models, but only begins to be effective in 3-D for models of interest in geophysics. The large memory (256 megawords) is adequate but a speed increase of at least an order of magnitude is necessary for cost-effective 3-D. True multiprocessor capability (rather than ‘multicomputer’) provides an alternative to raw speed but involves another set of difficulties.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f0b374e4fe7f684940e2efc7fa492bfa77a1cf67

Applied Numerical Mathematics

4

47-70

10.1016/S0168-9274(88)80005-9

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9274%2888%2980005-9

2127781274

1b184f96343b67a3aefea36b5bf64630cd985591

Catalytic properties of eggshell Pd/δ-Al2O3 catalysts for isoprene-selective hydrogenation : Effects of water poisoning

The influences of water poisoning on isoprene-selective hydrogenation over δ-alumina-supported eggshell Pd catalysts were investigated by test reactions at 40 °C and 420 psig of total pressure. Both fresh and water-poisoned catalysts were characterized by fast Fourier transform infrared (FFT-IR) spectroscopy and temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) of hydrogen. The catalytic performance tests showed that water poisoning suppresses the hydrogenation of isoprene and the double-bond migration of 2-methyl-1-butene and 3-methyl-1-butene to 2-methyl-2-butene, whereas it slightly facilitates the selectivity to the formation of isopentenes. FFT-IR spectroscopy characterizing CO adsorbed on the fresh and water-poisoned catalysts indicated that the bond strength between CO and palladium was weakened by the adsorption of H2O on Pd, suggesting that the adsorbed water abstracts electrons from Pd clusters. The TPD results further indicated that the formation of β-hydride was inhibited by this water adsorption. Toget...

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/1b184f96343b67a3aefea36b5bf64630cd985591

Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

36

4094-4099

10.1021/IE970256M

https://doi.org/10.1021/IE970256M

2095293029

a4fcbeb115ba83aa61416869445d2f8e05b36c31

Relevance of Filter Bank Common Spatial Patterns Using Multiple Kernel Learning in Motor Imagery

Brain-Computer Interfaces directly communicate the human brain and machines through the analysis of sensorimotor activity, relying on the Motor Imagery paradigm of cognitive neuroscience. Conventional BCI systems use electroencephalographic signals due to its high temporal resolution, portability, and easiness to implement, for which the filter-banked analysis works as the characterization baseline. Due to such analysis yields to highly dimensional representation spaces leading to overtrained systems, we propose to combine the multiple spectral bands into a single representation space through the maximization of the centered kernel alignment criterion. As a result, the similarity between the measured EEG data and the available label sets is maximized, with the additional benefit of enhancing the spectral interpretation of the subject performance. The proposed \(\upkappa \)-FB is evaluated in the dataset IIa of the BCI competition IV for a binary classification task. Attained accuracy proves that \(\upkappa \)-FB outperforms other filter-banked representations without compromising the system confidence.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a4fcbeb115ba83aa61416869445d2f8e05b36c31

IWAIPR

210-218

10.1007/978-3-030-01132-1_24

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01132-1_24

2892043632

b6f4d64ef176eff8e2a9aa16047183a0a6312be4

Scripting Human-Agent Interactions in a Generic ECA Framework

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are life-like CG characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conversations, ECA systems are sophisticated and are composed with assemblies of various functions. They are thus difficult for an individual research group to develop. To address this problem, we are developing a Generic ECA Framework to integrate those assemblies with each other seamlessly. It is composed with a low-level communication platform, a high-level protocol and a set of API libraries. With such a common framework, ECAs can be prototyped rapidly while research result sharing can be facilitated. This paper presents the_concepts of this framework, protocol, and a script language that defines the behaviours of an ECA.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/b6f4d64ef176eff8e2a9aa16047183a0a6312be4

103-115

10.1007/978-1-84800-086-5_8

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-086-5_8

2125553522

64918f905728d6df3841adc3524b6c55acaf4de2

Impact of Macroeconomic Fundamentals on Exchange Rates: Empirical Evidence from Developing Asian Countries

The existing literature on exchange rate fundamentals have either focused on the relationship between exchange rates and international trade or investigated the association between exchange rates and economic fundamentals for the developed countries. This study examines the impact of macroeconomic fundamentals on exchange rates of developing Asian countries. Two econometric approaches are applied to the pool and the panel data. For the pool sample, EGLS and the two-stage Least Square Method are applied. For the panel data, we have used the panel GMM and the OLS methods. Both approaches suggest that macroeconomic factors have a significant impact on exchange rates. Several specifications and estimation techniques confirm that our findings are robust. Furthermore, we have found that improvements in domestic economic and political systems are necessary for a successful exchange rate policy. Our study is unique as it focuses on the developing Asian countries, covers a period of more than three decades, and uses both pool and panel estimations.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/64918f905728d6df3841adc3524b6c55acaf4de2

International Political Economy: Monetary Relations eJournal

10.2139/ssrn.2707089

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2707089

2514239401

0a6bbe37f7c7cfacc41c5fd2df9dc01665b55516

Rast biomase rajčice pri različitoj gnojidbi dušikom i malčevima

The goal of this trial was to determine the effect of nitrogen rates and mulch types on growth and fructification of processing tomato during one year under pedoclimatic conditions of Istria. The mass of stem, leaf, and total above ground mass increased similarly regardless of N rate up to 13 weeks after planting when growth curves sharply decreased, with the highest slope found at 60 kg N ha -1 . No effect of N was found for fruit growth. The growth of stem, leaves, fruits and total above ground mass was higher for black PE mulch starting 9 weeks after planting. Compared to straw or bare soil, plants grown at black PE mulch achieved higher fruit yield during season. According to our results, fertirigation of N at 60 kg ha -1 and application of black PE mulch could be recommended for processing tomato production in Istria.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0a6bbe37f7c7cfacc41c5fd2df9dc01665b55516

571

2786422857

e443d29c0e2ac66c9da2ede2cd15e40de4c452e2

Perceptions of HIV Self-Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States: A Qualitative Analysis.

HIV testing is the gateway into both prevention and treatment services. It is important to understand how men who have sex with men (MSM) perceive HIV self-tests. We conducted focus groups and individual interviews to collect feedback on two HIV self-tests, and on a dried blood spot (DBS) specimen collection kit. Perceptions and attitudes around HIV self-testing (HIVST), and willingness to distribute HIV self-tests to others were assessed. MSM reported HIVST to be complementary to facility-based testing, and liked this approach because it offers privacy and convenience, does not require counseling, and could lead to linkage to care. However, they also had concerns around the accuracy of HIV self-tests, their cost, and receiving a positive test result without immediate access to follow-up services. Despite these issues, they perceived HIVST as a positive addition to their HIV prevention toolbox.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/e443d29c0e2ac66c9da2ede2cd15e40de4c452e2

AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education

AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education

30 1

47-62

10.1521/aeap.2018.30.1.47

https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2018.30.1.47

29481298

2791928635

965445e2971df5121e933be080d7024adcacfafb

Immunogold-Silver Staining (IGSS) for Immunoelectron Microscopy and in Multiple Detection Affinity Cytochemistry

Applications and optimal conditions of immunogold-silver staining (IGSS) as utilized in post-embedding ultrastructural single and double immunolabelling are reviewed. Light microscopic multiple antigen detection and in non-radioactive in situ hybridization, are discussed. In IGSS, the silver shell formed around the gold particles by an autometallographic process results in an electron-dense product with a particle size proportional to the duration of silver enhancement. Application of gold conjugates with the smallest particle size results in the highest reaction density, but electron microscopic visualization of non-amplified gold particles requires high instrumental magnification and weak tissue contrasting. Amplification of the gold particle diameters by silver precipitation can improve both the signal and, by permitting almost normal counterstaining, structural recognition. This may be of particular advantage when the antigens of interest are situated in electron-dense structures, such as dense-core granules of neuroendocrine cells, immunoglobulin deposits, or cytoskeletal filament clusters. At the light microscopic level, the dark-brown to jet-black product of IGSS contrasts well with the colors of most of the chromogens generally used in immunoenzyme techniques, and IGSS is, therefore, particularly useful in multiple immunostaining combinations. By covering the immunological sequences completely, the silver precipitate can prevent unwanted side-bindings. This offers the possibility of using two primary antibodies of the same animal species for double labeling. The principle of IGSS can be exploited to reveal gold particles adsorbed, not only to immunoglobulins, but also to protein A, lectins, RNAase or streptavidin, providing a general and more sensitive marker in affinity cytochemistry.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/965445e2971df5121e933be080d7024adcacfafb

225-251

10.1007/978-1-4615-2532-5_14

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2532-5_14

2134337789

80c8d207bddeef12f5d6c050e8c9855018d6d68f

The Role of Task-Related Learned Representations in Explaining Asymmetries in Task Switching

Task switch costs often show an asymmetry, with switch costs being larger when switching from a difficult task to an easier task. This asymmetry has been explained by difficult tasks being represented more strongly and consequently requiring more inhibition prior to switching to the easier task. The present study shows that switch cost asymmetries observed in arithmetic tasks (addition vs. subtraction) do not depend on task difficulty: Switch costs of similar magnitudes were obtained when participants were presented with unsolvable pseudo-equations that did not differ in task difficulty. Further experiments showed that neither task switch costs nor switch cost asymmetries were due to perceptual factors (e.g., perceptual priming effects). These findings suggest that asymmetrical switch costs can be brought about by the association of some tasks with greater difficulty than others. Moreover, the finding that asymmetrical switch costs were observed (1) in the absence of a task switch proper and (2) without differences in task difficulty, suggests that present theories of task switch costs and switch cost asymmetries are in important ways incomplete and need to be modified.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/80c8d207bddeef12f5d6c050e8c9855018d6d68f

PloS one

PLoS ONE

8

10.1371/journal.pone.0061729

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061729

23613919

2009128503

a52a31aa786f04526e0ac368f786ae9e83d8bdaa

Job Decentralization and Residential Location

How does the spatial distribution of employment opportunities influence residential location? We revisit this classic question in urban economics by exploiting a natural experiment generated by the history of state capitals. Many state employees in capital cities work in centrally located government buildings that were constructed in the nineteenth century, while state workers elsewhere mirror the decentralization of the private sector. We compare the work and residential locations of state workers in capital and non-capital cities relative to other workers in their metropolitan areas. Our results suggest that assigning 1,000 jobs to the central city would attract approximately 250 working residents to the city. Evidence from other industries with historically-determined locations, including the postal service and defense contractors, corroborates our basic finding.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a52a31aa786f04526e0ac368f786ae9e83d8bdaa

Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs

2009

1 - 31

1956201243

70dd4b71e700158ce60c0c7f554729a33a76e7d1

Numerical Prediction of Developing Turbulent Bubbly Two-Phase Flow in a Rotating Complicated Duct Based on Two-Fluid and .KAPPA.-.EPSILON. Models.

A fully three-dimensional numerical procedure based on the two-fluid model in a general curvilinear coordinate system is proposed for the prediction of developing turbulent bubbly two-phase flow in a rotating complicated duct. A Coriolis-modified turbulence model is extended to the two-phase flows to account for the rotational effect on the lateral phase distribution. The governing equations are solved using a finite volume technique with a nonstaggered variable arrangement. Comparisons of the predictions with measured pressure and void fractions show good agreement.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/70dd4b71e700158ce60c0c7f554729a33a76e7d1

Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. B

64

693-700

10.1299/KIKAIB.64.693

https://doi.org/10.1299/KIKAIB.64.693

2329669825

f2ba4176dd28c49f81097ca14e5d28547cddf13c

A simple procedure for estimating pseudo risk ratios from exposure to non-carcinogenic chemical mixtures

Non-cancer risk assessment traditionally assumes a threshold of effect, below which there is a negligible risk of an adverse effect. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry derives health-based guidance values known as Minimal Risk Levels (MRLs) as estimates of the toxicity threshold for non-carcinogens. Although the definition of an MRL, as well as EPA reference dose values (RfD and RfC), is a level that corresponds to “negligible risk,” they represent daily exposure doses or concentrations, not risks. We present a new approach to calculate the risk at exposure to specific doses for chemical mixtures, the assumption in this approach is to assign de minimis risk at the MRL. The assigned risk enables the estimation of parameters in an exponential model, providing a complete dose–response curve for each compound from the chosen point of departure to zero. We estimated parameters for 27 chemicals. The value of k, which determines the shape of the dose–response curve, was moderately insensitive to the choice of the risk at the MRL. The approach presented here allows for the calculation of a risk from a single substance or the combined risk from multiple chemical exposures in a community. The methodology is applicable from point of departure data derived from quantal data, such as data from benchmark dose analyses or from data that can be transformed into probabilities, such as lowest-observed-adverse-effect level. The individual risks are used to calculate risk ratios that can facilitate comparison and cost-benefit analyses of environmental contamination control strategies.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f2ba4176dd28c49f81097ca14e5d28547cddf13c

Archives of Toxicology

Archives of Toxicology

90

513-523

10.1007/s00204-015-1467-z

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-015-1467-z

25667015

2051070003

81f6ef3579187b2a605f5d7b1998ca8648d80588

Thinking about Evidence Regulation

After implementing Evidence Regulation, the necessity and possibility with perfect procedure has been analysed before examining, and proposed the imagination of perfecting; Restrain degree , evidence from exchanging new evidence systems etc. On the basis that the question existing in the course is analysed when to put the proof, offered suggestion of reforming, namely confirmed and put time limit , restriction to proof rationally that is postponed putting to the proof, do well the evidence to exchange.When the condition is fine, cancelling the new evidence system,reducing waste of judicial resources, guaranteeing that the lawsuit is high-efficient.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/81f6ef3579187b2a605f5d7b1998ca8648d80588

Journal of Henan Mechanic and Electric Engineering College

2389998357

7310da689084c38c75eb53f20d2075873e4bff35

Bio-molecular Event Extraction using A GA based Classifier Ensemble Technique

The main goal of Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) is to capture biomedical phenomena fro m textual data by extracting relevant entities, information and relations between biomedical entities (i.e. proteins and gens). In general, in most of the published papers, only binary relations were extracted. In a recent past, the focus is shifte d towards extracting more complex relations in the form of biomolecular events that may include several entities or other relations. In this paper we propose an approach that enables even t extraction (detection and classification) of relatively complex bio-molecular events. We approach this problem as a supervised classification problem and use the well-known algorit hms, namely Conditional Random Field (CRF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) as the underlying classifiers. These algorith ms make use of statistical and linguistic features those repre sent various morphological, syntactic and contextual information of the candidate bio-molecular trigger words. Here the output s of these classifiers are combined using a newly developed genetic ensemble technique. The genetic algorithm based ense mble technique will be able to automatically determine the appropriate weights of votes for each classifier for each outpu t class in order to combine the outputs of different classifier s using weighted voting. Experiments on the BioNLP 2009 shared task datasets yield the overall average recall, precision a nd Fmeasure values of 53.56%, 51.47%, and 52.50%, respectively , on development data.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/7310da689084c38c75eb53f20d2075873e4bff35

0543430a216fc3c440e8b4fe024e9c9f244c5eb8

Semantic technologies and e-business

In this chapter, we study what semantic technologies can bring to the e-business domain and how they can be applied to it. After an overview of the goals to be achieved by e-business applications we detail a large panel of existing e-business standards, with a specific focus on B2B (Business to Business) and their current modus operandi. Furthermore we also present some of the most relevant e-business ontologies. We then argue that the use of semantic technologies will simplify the automatic management of many e-business partnerships. However the construction of ontologies brings a new level of complexity that might be facilitated by automating the great part of the generation process. For this we have developed the Janus system, which is a prototype to help with the automatic derivation of ontologies from XML Schemas, the de-facto format adopted in e-business standard applications. Differently from existing systems it permits to retrieve automatically conceptual knowledge from large XML corpus sources and is based on the use of the Semantic Data Model for Ontology (SDMO) whose advantages are presented in this chapter.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0543430a216fc3c440e8b4fe024e9c9f244c5eb8

243-278

10.4018/978-1-60960-485-1.CH011

https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-485-1.CH011

2292240640

9603091da8892b777720d203e43d82d187062d29

The Reservoir Engineering Design of Combustion Drive in Sensitivity Heavy Oil Reservoirs——Taking Zheng 408 Block in Wangzhuang-Ninghai District as Example

Zheng 408 block is the first case of combustion drive in sensitivity heavy oil reservoirs at home and abroad. Through the comparison with the screening condition, study of physical simulation and numerical simulation of the oil reservoirs by combustion drive, the feasibility of combustion drive in sensitivity heavy oil reservoirs is discussed comprehensively. The influencing factors in the combustion drive are analyzed in detail. Reservoir engineering is designed in optimization. It has won initial success in the field and has provided guide for the same type of the oil reservoirs.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9603091da8892b777720d203e43d82d187062d29

offshore Oil

2358538894

a8bf3299606e6043e5589b5583e4d2f5aceeebad

A complete model for electrical behaviour of single carrier organic diodes in the presence of a field-dependent mobility

In this paper we propose a model to simulate electrical conduction of single carrier organic diodes in the presence of a barrier for carrier injection, and considering a field-dependent carrier mobility. An analytical expression for the internal electric field function, that simplifies operation with the resulting non-linear equation system, is provided. The results of the model are compared with those from other existing approaches that assume simplifications. Finally, the current density versus voltage curves predicted by this model for diodes with different active layer thicknesses show a good agreement with the experimental results.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a8bf3299606e6043e5589b5583e4d2f5aceeebad

2009 Spanish Conference on Electron Devices

2009 Spanish Conference on Electron Devices

188-191

10.1109/SCED.2009.4800462

https://doi.org/10.1109/SCED.2009.4800462

2038203414

0d2756ea1f2651c0441a8a6a1d9d4b849b0ff68f

RUNNING HEADER : Informational bases of empathic accuracy Unpacking the informational bases of empathic accuracy

Perceivers’ ability to correctly identify the internal states of social targets – known as “empathic accuracy” (EA) – is critical to social interactions, but little work has examined the specific types of information that support EA. In the current study, social targets varying in trait emotional expressivity were videotaped while discussing emotional autobiographical events. Perceivers watched these videos and inferred targets’ affect while having access to only visual or auditory information, or both. EA was assessed as the correlation of perceivers’ inference and targets’ self-ratings. Results suggest that auditory, and especially verbal information, is critical to EA. Furthermore, targets’ expressivity predicted both target behavior and EA, an effect influenced by the valence of the events they discussed. Specifically, expressive targets produced more nonverbal negative cues, and higher levels of EA when perceivers could only see them discussing negative events; expressive targets also produced more positive verbal cues, and higher levels of EA when perceivers could only hear them discussing positive events. These results are discussed in relation to social display rules and clinical disorders involving social deficits.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0d2756ea1f2651c0441a8a6a1d9d4b849b0ff68f

d6d25a868f6b0f8b288c96061ec0f15ee97a2975

Ending Our Oil Dependence

T. Boone Pickens, chairman of BP Capital Management, is promoting the use of natural gas vehicles since North America produces 98 percent of the world's supply. A company he co-founded supplies 20,000 vehicles each day with compressed and liquid natural gas (CNG and LNG). The method used to extract natural gas, fracking (hydraulic fracturing), raises environmental concerns which Pickens dismisses. The Pickens Plan calls for tax incentives to encourage the use of natural gas and to expand infrastructure. ATT better station design is needed. Buses can operate for an entire day on one fueling.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d6d25a868f6b0f8b288c96061ec0f15ee97a2975

649044782

bd8e5bf80ae682da562e1d97ebf8841b54762466

Temperature dependence of ’’magnetic anisotropy’’ in amorphous alloys

For the purpose of investigating the origin of the magnetic anisotropy in the Fe‐Ni based amorphous alloys, we studied the temperature dependence of the magnetic anisotropy, defined as the energy required to saturate the magnetization. It is concluded that the anisotropy of the as‐quenched alloy is most likely due to the internal stress field, and the field induced anisotropy is presumably due to short range atomic pair ordering.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/bd8e5bf80ae682da562e1d97ebf8841b54762466

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

29

220-221

10.1063/1.30593

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.30593

2596255711

525d304df04ec1ae9dc4ef12d1f58fe826e47e3c

The Annals of Surgery Goes On-line

manage manuscripts with the click of a computer keyboard, without having to handle voluminous paperfiles. The collective time savings should dramatically reduce the time from submission to editorial decision. Then, when a manuscript is accepted for publication, Editorial Manager will allow us to instantly place it on our website as a preprint publication, saving an additional 6 months or more before an accepted paper can be processed and printed in the paper copy of the Annals of Surgery. While this preprint publication will not be copy-edited or formatted, it will allow the author to cite his or her work as “published”, and to establish primacy with the research in question. We are enormously proud of the high standards the Annals of Surgery has established in surgical academic publication over the more than a century of the journal’s existence. With the advent of on-line technology, we feel confident that our submission and review process will now complement the excellence of our journal’s content. Please feel free to contact our editorial office with any questions you may have. We look forward to continuing to serve the surgery community.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/525d304df04ec1ae9dc4ef12d1f58fe826e47e3c

Annals of Surgery

240

737

10.1097/01.sla.0000145483.41573.8b

https://doi.org/10.1097/01.sla.0000145483.41573.8b

2010071376

c341ff79b897774475985beb20592601789c61bd

Yes, we complain … so what?

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theorize and test a model concerning the role of complaining behaviors in work teams. Despite the prevalence of workplace complaining, there is no consensus in the literature regarding the consequences of those behaviors and the extent to which they are harmful. Design/methodology/approach Using a multisource approach and a team-level design, the authors collected data from 82 teams (i.e. 394 members and their 82 immediate superiors) working in a Canadian public safety organization. Findings The results show that complaining behaviors are negatively related to two effectiveness outcomes (i.e. team performance and team process improvement) and that meaningfulness mediates these relationships. The results also reveal that task interdependence moderates the relationship between complaining behaviors and meaningfulness. More specifically, complaining behaviors have a stronger relationship with meaningfulness when the level of task interdependence is high. Originality/value The present study contributes to the literature on counterproductive behaviors by deepening the understanding of emergent states and outcomes stemming from workplace complaining, particularly in work teams. The findings of this study highlight the negative consequences that complaining behaviors may have in a team setting, the underlying mechanism involved in these relationships, and the moderating role of task interdependence.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c341ff79b897774475985beb20592601789c61bd

Journal of Managerial Psychology

31

1137-1151

10.1108/JMP-08-2015-0304

https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-08-2015-0304

2517774331

0ebda2b379b4435300c36ed144ec336d3fbdd0a0

ANALYSIS OF 256 CASES OF DSA CEREBROVASCULAR ANGIOGRAPHY

[Objective]To investigate the value of digital subtraction angiography(DSA)in diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.[Methods]256 cerebrovascular disease patients(hemorrhagic/ischemic)with angiography indictors were given with angiography;then analyzed the opacification consequence.[Results]In 197 ischemic disease patients,abnormal in 143 cases,masculine rate was 72.59%(143/197);in 12 hemorrhagic disease patients,12 SAH patients:abnormal in 7 cases,masculine rate was 58.33%(7/12).The total masculine rate was 74.16%(143+12/209).[Conclusion]DSA is gold standard in diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.Compared to MRA,it can identify the region,shape,character of disease and collateral circulation.It is the necessary method before interventional therapy.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0ebda2b379b4435300c36ed144ec336d3fbdd0a0

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d1815e6a85914bc628cda4a9d9714502cbce6589

Structural Analysis and Molecular Model of a Self-Incompatibility RNase from Wild Tomato 1

Self-incompatibility RNases (S-RNases) are an allelic series of style glycoproteins associated with rejection of self-pollen in solanaceous plants. The nucleotide sequences of S-RNase alleles from several genera have been determined, but the structure of the gene products has only been described for those from Nicotiana alata. We report on the N-glycan structures and the disulfide bonding of the S3-RNase from wild tomato (Lycopersicon peruvianum) and use this and other information to construct a model of this molecule. The S3-RNase has a single N-glycosylation site (Asn-28) to which one of three N-glycans is attached. S3-RNase has seven Cys residues; six are involved in disulfide linkages (Cys-16-Cys-21, Cys-46-Cys91, and Cys-166-Cys-177), and one has a free thiol group (Cys-150). The disulfide-bonding pattern is consistent with that observed in RNase Rh, a related RNase for which radiographic-crystallographic information is available. A molecular model of the S3-RNase shows that four of the most variable regions of the S-RNases are clustered on one surface of the molecule. This is discussed in the context of recent experiments that set out to determine the regions of the S-RNase important for recognition during the self-incompatibility response.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/d1815e6a85914bc628cda4a9d9714502cbce6589

f4e16418dc40df89d356b01545f36e2d5f022674

Oscillation and wandering characteristics of solutions of a linear differential system

We introduce new Lyapunov characteristics for the oscillation and wandering of solutions of linear differential equations or systems, namely, the frequency of a solution (the mean number of zeros on the time axis), of some coordinate of the solution, or of all possible linear combinations of these coordinates, and also the mean angular velocity of the rotation of a solution (about the origin in the phase space) and various wandering exponents (derived from the mean angular velocity). We shall show that the sets of values of all these quantities on the solutions of a linear autonomous system coincide with the set of absolute values of the imaginary parts of eigenvalues of the matrix of the system. We shall see that the frequencies of solutions are bounded above by their wandering exponents, and the frequencies and wandering exponents of all solutions of an arbitrary second-order equation coincide.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f4e16418dc40df89d356b01545f36e2d5f022674

Izvestiya: Mathematics

76

139-162

10.1070/IM2012V076N01ABEH002578

https://doi.org/10.1070/IM2012V076N01ABEH002578

2045078227

a867066d2e03a30d1d32d60ab8adccabfcebadd3

Genetics and molecular biology: fatty acids and endoplasmic reticulum stress.

Dyslipidemia, including an increase in circulating free fatty acids (FFAs), is one of the features of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Saturated FFAs, such as palmitate, are known to decrease the functionality of beta cells [1] and alter their survival [2,3]. The mechanisms of this toxicity are not completely characterized but may involve endoplasmic reticulum stress [3]. Stress induced by protein misfolding, protein retention, or protein overload in the endoplasmic reticulum results in the unfolded protein response (UPR), a physiological mechanism of endoplasmic reticulum adaptation that can lead to apoptosis if occurring for too long. This is apparently the case in pathological conditions such as diabetes or neurodegenerative diseases. The UPR is controlled by three key proteins (IRE1a, ATF6, PERK) that are activated when dissociating from chaperones such as BiP or via direct activation by unfolded proteins. In case of prolonged endoplasmic reticulum stress, mechanisms leading to apoptosis are activated (recently reviewed in [4]).

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a867066d2e03a30d1d32d60ab8adccabfcebadd3

Current opinion in lipidology

Current opinion in lipidology

22 4

315-6

10.1097/MOL.0b013e328348a4ff

https://doi.org/10.1097/MOL.0b013e328348a4ff

21743307

2033231256

28c7d5393c27b0f638a7403c7c1fe1ccba554753

Current Status and Technical Problems in the Research of Coal Mine Rescue Robot

With an introduction of the safety misadventure and heavy casualties occurred in coal mines of China in recent years,this paper points out the importance and urgency to research and develop coal mine rescue robots.The paper further proceeds to give an analysis of the research status of coal mine rescue robots worldwide,advance some research proposals,and point out some problems need to be solved.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/28c7d5393c27b0f638a7403c7c1fe1ccba554753

2373891822

2ae7900c49a506415e28fbacae7f8b5753f3d1f4

Nash Networks with Heterogeneous Agents 1

A non-cooperative model of network formation is developed. Agents form links with others based on the cost of the link and its assessed benefit. Link formation is one-sided, i.e., agents can initiate links with other agents without their consent, provided the agent forming the link makes the appropriate investment. Information flow is two-way. The model builds on the work of Bala and Goyal, but allows for agent heterogeneity. Whereas they permit links to fail with a certain common probability, in our model the probability of failure can be different for different links. We investigate Nash networks that exhibit connectedness and super-connectedness. An explicit characterization of certain star networks is provided. Efficiency, Pareto-optimality, and existence issues are discussed through examples. We explore four alternative model specifications to address potential shortcomings. JEL Classification: D82, D83

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2ae7900c49a506415e28fbacae7f8b5753f3d1f4

7be8a77970d26eb429ba8a01502ca3672aac58a7

Numerical Investigation of Bolted Hybrid Steel-Timber Connections

Hybrid steel to timber connections are found in many buildings and bridges. These connections offer several advantages such as ease of construction and energy dissipation. This research paper aims to study the mechanical behaviour of bolted hybrid connections that consists of a square hollow steel column (SHS) and a glulam timber beam. The connection between the two structural members is achieved by means of angles and preloaded bolts. A reference model is constructed and verified by comparison to experimental and numerical data from the international literature. Additionally, several parameters that affect the response of the connection are modified in order to investigate and quantify their effect, resulting in seven different case studies. These parameters are the size of the bolts, the thickness of the angles and the addition of stiffener. The moment- rotation curve of each case study is constructed and the results are commented. Finally, a proposed optimal configuration of the hybrid connection is presented.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/7be8a77970d26eb429ba8a01502ca3672aac58a7

Front. Built Environ.

Frontiers in Built Environment

4

10.3389/fbuil.2018.00048

https://doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2018.00048

2893044015

a0541cb4725e5e378d58bcbcfc61deddcbbd5e43

A counterexample to a conjecture of Wright on homogeneous polynomial maps associated with rooted trees

Abstract Let F=X−H : k n →k n be a polynomial map such that H is homogeneous of degree d ⩾3 and the Jacobian matrix of H is nilpotent. Homogeneous components of the formal inverse of F in the form given by Bass, Connell and Wright are linear combinations of polynomial maps σ ( T ) indexed by rooted trees. In later paper, Wright conjectures that σ ( T )=0 if T is a rooted tree whose leaves have height n −1. We show that conjecture is false if n ⩾5 and d ⩾3.

https://semanticscholar.org/paper/a0541cb4725e5e378d58bcbcfc61deddcbbd5e43

Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

181

291-296

10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00332-8

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-4049%2802%2900332-8

2006495582