Sample records for saaremets aka ajukaja
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-23
... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 7464] In the Matter of the Designation of Army of Islam, aka Jaish al- Islam, aka Jaysh al-Islam, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Pursuant to Section 219 of the... respect to Army of Islam, also known as Jaish al-Islam, also known as Jaysh al-Islam. Therefore, I hereby...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-05-23
... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 7463] In the Matter of the Designation of Army of Islam, aka Jaish al- Islam, aka Jaysh al-Islam; as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Pursuant to Section 1(b... of Islam, also known as Jaish al-Islam, also known as Jaysh al-Islam, has committed, or poses a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-01-05
... Lives aka Kahane Tzadak aka Kahane.org aka Kahanetzadak.com aka Kfar Tapuah Fund aka KOACH aka Meir's Youth aka New Kach Movement aka newkach.org aka No'ar Meir aka Repression of Traitors aka State of Judea...
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Cultural variation in the use of overimitation by the Aka and Ngandu of the Congo Basin.
Berl, Richard E W; Hewlett, Barry S
2015-01-01
Studies in Western cultures have observed that both children and adults tend to overimitate, copying causally irrelevant actions in the presence of clear causal information. Investigation of this feature in non-Western groups has found little difference cross-culturally in the frequency or manner with which individuals overimitate. However, each of the non-Western populations studied thus far has a history of close interaction with Western cultures, such that they are now far removed from life in a hunter-gatherer or other small-scale culture. To investigate overimitation in a context of limited Western cultural influences, we conducted a study with the Aka hunter-gatherers and neighboring Ngandu horticulturalists of the Congo Basin rainforest in the southern Central African Republic. Aka children, Ngandu children, and Aka adults were presented with a reward retrieval task similar to those performed in previous studies, involving a demonstrated sequence of causally relevant and irrelevant actions. Aka children were found not to overimitate as expected, instead displaying one of the lowest rates of overimitation seen under similar conditions. Aka children copied fewer irrelevant actions than Aka adults, used a lower proportion of irrelevant actions than Ngandu children and Aka adults, and had less copying fidelity than Aka adults. Measures from Ngandu children were intermediate between the two Aka groups. Of the participants that succeeded in retrieving the reward, 60% of Aka children used emulation rather than imitation, compared to 15% of Ngandu children, 11% of Aka adults, and 0% of Western children of similar age. From these results, we conclude that cross-cultural variation exists in the use of overimitation during childhood. Further study is needed under a more diverse representation of cultural and socioeconomic groups in order to investigate the cognitive underpinnings of overimitation and its possible influences on social learning and the biological and
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2012-12-11
...'ida in Iraq, aka Jam'at al Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, aka The Monotheism and Jihad Group, aka The al-Zarqawi Network, aka al-Tawhid, aka Tanzim Qa`idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, aka The Organization of al-Jihad... Rivers, aka al-Qaida of Jihad Organization in the Land of the Two Rivers, aka al- Qaida Group of Jihad in...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-12-11
...-Qa'ida in Iraq, aka Jam'at al Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, aka The Monotheism and Jihad Group, aka The al-Zarqawi Network, aka al-Tawhid, aka Tanzim Qa`idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, aka The Organization of... Group of Jihad in Iraq, aka al-Qaida Group of Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers, aka The Organization...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-10-13
... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice: 7643] In the Matter of the Designation of Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, aka Conspiracy of the Nuclei of Fire, aka Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, aka Synomosia of Pyrinon Tis Fotias, aka Thessaloniki-Athens Fire Nuclei Conspiracy, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist...
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2013-12-16
... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Bureau of Industry and Security Donald V. Bernardo, a/k/a Don Bernarndo... the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, Donald V. Bernardo, a/k/a Don Bernardo.... Accordingly, it is hereby ordered I. Until November 16, 2016, Donald V. Bernardo, a/k/a Don Bernardo, with a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-05
... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 8054] The Amendment of the Designation of Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula, aka Al-Qa'ida of Jihad Organization in the Arabian Peninsula, aka Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Jazirat al-Arab, aka Al- Qa'ida in Yemen, aka Al-Qa'ida in the South Arabian Peninsula, as a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-05
... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 8055] The Review and Amendment of the Designation of Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula, aka Al-Qa'ida of Jihad Organization in the Arabian Peninsula, aka Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Jazirat al-Arab, aka Al- Qa'ida in Yemen, aka Al-Qa'ida in the South Arabian Peninsula...
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2012-06-11
... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Bureau of Industry and Security Yufeng Wei, a/k/a Annie Wei, 165 Beech... Court, District of Massachusetts, Yufeng Wei, a/k/a Annie Wei (``Wei'') was convicted of violating the.... Until January 28, 2021, Yufeng Wei, a/k/a Annie Wei, with a last known address at: 165 Beech Street...
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2013-12-19
..., a/k/a Mohammad Soroush, a/k/a Mike Soroush, 18 Clinton Lane, Jericho, NY 11753; Order Denying Export..., license, or order issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706); 18 U..., a/k/a Mike Soroush, with a last known address at: 18 Clinton Lane, Jericho, NY 11753, and when...
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2010-02-09
.../k/a IFS S.A, its Agents, Affiliated, Related and Partner Companies, and International First Service Argentina a/k/a AR-IFS, its Agents, Affiliated, Related and Partner Companies, and International First Service USA, Inc. a/k/a IFS USA, Inc. d/b/a Global Wine Logistics USA Inc. a/k/a GWL USA, Inc., and Global...
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2012-11-05
... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [FRL-9748-6] Proposed CERCLA Settlement Relating to the Digital Equipment Corp. Site a/k/a the PCB Horizon Site in San German, PR AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency... Digital Equipment Corp. Superfund Site, a/k/a the PCB Horizon Site (``Site''), located in San German...
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Ultra-fast outflows (aka UFOs) from AGNs and QSOs
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Cappi, M.; Tombesi, F.; Giustini, M.
During the last decade, strong observational evidence has been accumulated for the existence of massive, high velocity winds/outflows (aka Ultra Fast Outflows, UFOs) in nearby AGNs and in more distant quasars. Here we briefly review some of the most recent developments in this field and discuss the relevance of UFOs for both understanding the physics of accretion disk winds in AGNs, and for quantifying the global amount of AGN feedback on the surrounding medium.
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Adding Four- Dimensional Data Assimilation (a.k.a. grid nudging) to MPAS
Adding four-dimensional data assimilation (a.k.a. grid nudging) to MPAS.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the use of MPAS as the meteorological driver for its next-generation air quality model. To function as such, MPAS needs to operate in a diagnostic mod...
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2011-09-01
... FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION [Docket No. 11-14] Petra Pet, Inc. (a/k/a Petrapport) v. Panda Logistics Limited; Panda Logistics Co., Ltd. (f/k/a panda Int'l Transportation Co., Ltd.); and RDM Solutions... with the Federal Maritime Commission (Commission) by Petra Pet, Inc. (a/k/a Petrapport), hereinafter...
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Roulette, Casey J; Kazanji, Mirdad; Breurec, Sébastien; Hagen, Edward H
2016-01-01
Little is known about cannabis use in hunter-gatherers. Therefore, we investigated cannabis use in the Aka, a population of foragers of the Congo Basin. Because cannabis contains anthelminthic compounds, and the Aka have a high prevalence of helminthiasis, we also tested the hypothesis that cannabis use might be an unconscious form of self-medication against helminths. We collected self- and peer-reports of cannabis use from all adult Aka in the Lobaye district of the Central African Republic (n = 379). Because female cannabis use was low, we restricted sample collection to men. Using an immunoassay for Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol-11-oic acid (THCA), a urinary biomarker of recent cannabis consumption, we validated cannabis use in men currently residing in camps near a logging road (n = 62). We also collected stool samples to assay worm burden. A longitudinal reinfection study was conducted among a subsample of the male participants (n = 23) who had been treated with a commercial anthelmintic 1 year ago. The prevalence of self- and peer-reported cannabis use was 70.9% among men and 6.1% among women, for a total prevalence of 38.6%. Using a 50 ng/ml threshold for THCA, 67.7% of men used cannabis. Cannabis users were significantly younger and had less material wealth than the non-cannabis users. There were significant negative associations between THCA levels and worm burden, and reinfection with helminths 1 year after treatment with a commercial anthelmintic. The prevalence of cannabis use among adult Aka men was high when compared to most global populations. THCA levels were negatively correlated with parasite infection and reinfection, supporting the self-medication hypothesis. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Ultra-fast outflows (aka UFOs) in AGNs and their relevance for feedback
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Cappi, Massimo; Tombesi, F.; Giustini, M.; Dadina, M.; Braito, V.; Kaastra, J.; Reeves, J.; Chartas, G.; Gaspari, M.; Vignali, C.; Gofford, J.; Lanzuisi, G.
2012-09-01
During the last decade, several observational evidences have been accumulated for the existence of massive, high velocity winds/outflows (aka UFOs) in nearby AGNs and, possibly, distant quasars. I will review here such evidences, present some of the latest results in this field, and discuss the relevance of UFOs for both understanding the physics of accretion/ejection flows on supermassive black holes, and for quantifying the amount of AGN feedback.
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2013-07-25
... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 8390] Designation of Bulut Yayla, AKA: Samet Ince as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Pursuant to Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as Amended Acting under the authority of and in accordance with section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224 of September 23...
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Examining short-term nutritional status among BaAka foragers in transitional economies.
Remis, Melissa J; Jost Robinson, Carolyn A
2014-07-01
Foragers in transitioning economies are at an increased risk of negative health outcomes as they undergo changes in subsistence patterns and diet. Here, we provide anthropometric data and examine the nutrition and health of adult BaAka foragers in relationship to declining wildlife and economic change in the Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas (APDS), Central African Republic. From June to August 2012, we collected biological data and dietary recall surveys from individuals in Mossapoula (MS) and Yandoumbé (YDBE) villages using standard anthropometric techniques and a single capillary blood finger prick. In our analysis, we identified variation in anthropometric measurements and hemoglobin levels by village (MS = 66, YDBE = 75) and gender (64 men, 77 women). Immigration, increased gun hunting and wildlife trades have reduced forager reliance on forest resources. These changes are evidenced in the marginal health of contemporary BaAka foragers of APDS. Although anthropometric measures of nutritional status do not significantly differ between communities, hemoglobin data highlight inequities in access to forest products between villages with different proximity to community hunting zones. Further, poor dietary diversity and low frequency of purchased foods in the diet indicate that the transition to a market economy has not been fully realized and diets are impoverished. Economic changes appear to have had the most impact at MS village, where forest use is most restricted and consumption of meat and forest products was reduced. This work highlights the nutritional and health needs of foragers in rapidly transitioning economies; especially those impacted by conservation management and zoning policies. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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2011-09-29
... Settlement; IUNA, Inc. aka IU North America, Inc., Mine 2028 Site, Brazil, IN, SF Site B5KK AGENCY... of past response costs concerning the Mine 2028 site in Brazil, Clay County, Indiana with the... reference the Mine 2028 Site in Brazil, Indiana and EPA Docket No. V-W-11-C-977 and should be addressed to...
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2013-09-09
... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [File No. 500-1] Anhui Taiyang Poultry Co., Inc.; a/k/a The Parkview Group, Inc.; Business Development Solutions, Inc., and Tsingyuan Brewery Ltd.; Order of Suspension of Trading September 5, 2013. It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is a...
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Adding Four- Dimensional Data Assimilation (aka grid ...
Adding four-dimensional data assimilation (a.k.a. grid nudging) to MPAS.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the use of MPAS as the meteorological driver for its next-generation air quality model. To function as such, MPAS needs to operate in a diagnostic mode in much the same manner as the current meteorological driver, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The WRF operates in diagnostic mode using Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation, also known as "grid nudging". MPAS version 4.0 has been modified with the addition of an FDDA routine to the standard physics drivers to nudge the state variables for wind, temperature and water vapor towards MPAS initialization fields defined at 6-hour intervals from GFS-derived data. The results to be shown demonstrate the ability to constrain MPAS simulations to known historical conditions and thus provide the U.S. EPA with a practical meteorological driver for global-scale air quality simulations. The National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) Computational Exposure Division (CED) develops and evaluates data, decision-support tools, and models to be applied to media-specific or receptor-specific problem areas. CED uses modeling-based approaches to characterize exposures, evaluate fate and transport, and support environmental diagnostics/forensics with input from multiple data sources. It also develops media- and receptor-specific models, process models, and decision support tools for use bo
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Autonomy, Equality, and Teaching among Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of the Congo Basin.
Boyette, Adam H; Hewlett, Barry S
2017-09-01
The significance of teaching to the evolution of human culture is under debate. We contribute to the discussion by using a quantitative, cross-cultural comparative approach to investigate the role of teaching in the lives of children in two small-scale societies: Aka foragers and Ngandu farmers of the Central African Republic. Focal follows with behavior coding were used to record social learning experiences of children aged 4 to 16 during daily life. "Teaching" was coded based on a functional definition from evolutionary biology. Frequencies, contexts, and subtypes of teaching as well as the identity of teachers were analyzed. Teaching was rare compared to observational learning, although both forms of social learning were negatively correlated with age. Children received teaching from a variety of individuals, and they also engaged in teaching. Several teaching types were observed, including instruction, negative feedback, and commands. Statistical differences in the distribution of teaching types and the identity of teachers corresponded with contrasting forager vs. farmer foundational cultural schema. For example, Aka children received less instruction, which empirically limits autonomous learning, and were as likely to receive instruction and negative feedback from other children as they were from adults. Commands, however, exhibited a different pattern suggesting a more complex role for this teaching type. Although consistent with claims that teaching is relatively rare in small-scale societies, this evidence supports the conclusion that teaching is a universal, early emerging cognitive ability in humans. However, culture (e.g., values for autonomy and egalitarianism) structures the nature of teaching.
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2010-05-24
... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice 7026] Review of the Designation of Ansar al-Islam (aka Ansar Al-Sunnah and Other Aliases) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as Amended Based upon a review of the Administrative Records assembled in these...
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Low frequency radio counterparts of HESS J1731-347 a.k.a SNR G353.6-0.7
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Nayana, A. J.; Chandra, Poonam
2017-02-01
HESS J1731-347 a.k.a. SNR G353.6-0.7 is one of the five known very high energy (VHE, Energy > 0.1 TeV) shell-type supernova remnants. We carried out Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observations of this TeV SNR in 1390, 610 and 325 MHz bands. We detected the 325 and 610 MHz radio counterparts of the SNR G353.6-0.7 (Nayana et al. 2017). We also determined the spectral indices of individual filaments and our values are consistent with the non-thermal radio emission. We compared the radio morphology with that of VHE emission. The peak in radio emission corresponds to the faintest feature in the VHE emission. We explain this anti-correlated emission in a possible leptonic origin of the VHE γ-rays.
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Robson, R
2008-10-14
This article, presented from a personal point of view, is concerned with the design of ligands intended to give specifically either binuclear or tetranuclear metal complexes or coordination polymers. No attempt is made to provide a comprehensive coverage of these topics, the focus being mainly upon results from our laboratory. Some emphasis is placed upon aspects of the historical development of the deliberate construction of coordination polymers (aka MOFs)--materials promising useful applications, the study of which continues to expand exponentially. Some of our recent research is described in which the carbonate ion and the tetracyanoquinodimethane dianion are used as bridging ligands to generate targeted coordination polymers. It is intended that Dalton Perspectives be easily comprehensible to non-specialists in the field; an average second year university chemistry student should be easily able to understand the present contribution.
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75 FR 56660 - Removal of an Alias of an Existing Specially Designated National Listing
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2010-09-16
... has been amended as: LAW, Steven (a.k.a. CHUNG, Lo Ping; a.k.a. LAW, Stephen; a.k.a. LO, Ping Han; a.k.a. LO, Ping Hau; a.k.a. LO, Ping Zhong; a.k.a. LO, Steven; a.k.a. NAING, Htun Myint; a.k.a. NAING...
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76 FR 20450 - Designation of Nine Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 13566
Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-04-12
...) [LIBYA2] 7. GADDAFI, Saif Al-Arab (a.k.a. AL-GADDAFI, Saif Al-Arab; a.k.a. AL- QADHAFI, Saif Al-Arab; a.k.a. ELKADDAFI, Saif Al-Arab; a.k.a. EL- QADDAFI, Saif Al-Arab; a.k.a. GADDAFI, Seif Al-Arab; a.k.a. GADHAFI, Saif Al-Arab; a.k.a. GHATHAFI, Saif Al-Arab; a.k.a. QADDAFI, Saif Al- Arab; a.k.a. QADHAFI, Saif...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-10-01
... 1. JIM'ALE, Ahmed Nur Ali (a.k.a. JIMALE, Ahmad Ali; a.k.a. JIM'ALE, Ahmad Nur Ali; a.k.a. JIMALE, Ahmed Ali; a.k.a. JIMALE, Shaykh Ahmed Nur; a.k.a. JIMALE, Sheikh Ahmed; a.k.a. JUMALE, Ahmed Ali; a.k.a. JUMALE, Ahmed Nur; a.k.a. JUMALI, Ahmed Ali), P.O. Box 3312, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Mogadishu...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2011-03-28
... circa 1975 (individual) [LIBYA2] QADHAFI, Saif al-Islam (a.k.a. AL-GADDAFI, Saif al-Islam; a.k.a. AL- QADHAFI, Saif al-Islam; a.k.a. ELKADDAFI, Saif al-Islam; a.k.a. EL- QADDAFI, Seif al-Islam; a.k.a. GADDAFI, Saif al-Islam; a.k.a. GADHAFI, Saif al-Islam; a.k.a. GHADAFFI, Saif al-Islam; a.k.a. GHATHAFI, Saif al...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-01-26
... Operations in Iraq, aka al-Qaida of Jihad in Iraq, aka al-Qaida in Iraq, aka al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, aka al... of al-Jihad's Base in the Land of the Two Rivers, aka The Organization Base of Jihad/Mesopotamia, aka...
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2013-06-17
... as follows: Individuals 1. AL-WATFA, Ali Ibrahim (a.k.a. AL-WAFA, Ali Ibrahim; a.k.a. AL-WAFA, Alie..., Sierra Leone; DOB 1969; POB Al Qalamun, Lebanon (individual) [SDGT]. 2. CHEHADE, Ali Ahmad (a.k.a. CHEADE, Ali; a.k.a. CHEHADE, Abou Hassan Ali; a.k.a. JAWAD, Abou Hassan; a.k.a. JAWAD, Abu Hassan; a.k.a...
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78 FR 24468 - Unblocking of 1 Individual Designated Pursuant to Executive Order 13572
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2013-04-25
... is removed from the SDN List: Individual AL-KUZBARI, Nabil Rafik (a.k.a. AL-KOUZBARI, Nabil; a.k.a. AL- KUZBARI, Nabil; a.k.a. AL-KUZBARI, Nabil Rafiq; a.k.a. KUSBARI, Nabil; a.k.a. KUZBARI, Ahmad; a.k.a. KUZBARI, Ahmad Nabil; a.k.a. KUZBARI, Nabil R.); DOB 20 Sep 1936; POB Damascus, Syria; citizen...
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76 FR 22167 - Additional Designation of Entities Pursuant to Executive Order 13382
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2011-04-20
...]. 3. MACPAR MAKINA SAN VE TIC A.S. (a.k.a. MACPAR MAKINA; a.k.a. ``MAKPA''), Sehidler Caddesi No: 79/2... COMPANY; a.k.a. STANDART TEKNIK PARCA SAN VE TIC A.S.; a.k.a. STEP ISTANBUL; a.k.a. STEP S.A.; a.k.a. STEP...
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2012-01-26
... Iraq, aka al-Qaida in Iraq, aka al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, aka al-Qaida in the Land of the Two Rivers... the Two Rivers, aka The Organization Base of Jihad/Mesopotamia, aka The Organization of al-Jihad's...
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2012-07-10
... Blocked Persons appear as follows: Individual 1. SALEH, Ali Mohamad (a.k.a. SALAH, Ali Mohammad; a.k.a. SALEH, Ali Mohamed; a.k.a. SALEH, Ali Mohammad; a.k.a. SALIH, Ali Abd-Al-Amir Muhammad; a.k.a. SALIH, Ali Muhammad; a.k.a. SALIH, Ali Muhammad Abd- Al-Amir); DOB 01 Jan 1974; POB Adchit, Lebanon; Cedula...
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2011-12-22
... SUWAYWIN, 'Ali 'Abd Al-Rahman; a.k.a. ABU- GHAZALAH, Muhammad Hisham Isma'il; a.k.a. ABU-GHAZALAH, Muhammad Hisham Muhammad; a.k.a. AL-FILISTINI, Abu Layth; a.k.a. ISMA'IL, 'Ali 'Abd Al- Rahman; a.k.a. ``ABU...
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2011-05-05
... SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY (a.k.a. ECONOMIC SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENT FUND; a.k.a. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC.... BREGA PETROLEUM MARKETING COMPANY (a.k.a. BPMC; a.k.a. BREGA MARKETING COMPANY), P.O. Box 402, Tripoli...
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2012-11-26
... follows: Individual 1. AL-MUSAWI, Ali Mussa Daqduq (a.k.a. 'ABD AL-YUNIS, Hamid Majid; a.k.a. AL-LAMI.... AL-MUSAWI, Hamid Muhammad Jabur; a.k.a. AL-MUSUI, Hamid Muhammad Jabur; a.k.a. DAQDUQ, Ali Mussa; a.k...
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75 FR 47899 - Designation of Two Entities and Seven Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 13224
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2010-08-09
...; Passport A0023862 (Iran) (individual) [SDGT] 5. MORTEZAVI, Hasan (a.k.a. MORTEZAVI, Ali Hassan; a.k.a. MORTEZAVI, Majid; a.k.a. MORTEZAVI, Majid Mirali; a.k.a. ``ALI, Hassan''); DOB 28 Apr 1961; POB Ghazvin.... ZAHEDI, Ali Reza), Beirut, Lebanon; DOB 1944; POB Esfahan, Iran; nationality Iran (individual) [SDGT] 9...
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2013-02-12
... following individuals are removed from the SDN List: Individuals 1. ALI, Abbas Abdi, Mogadishu, Somalia.... MSALAM, Fahad Ally; a.k.a. MSALAM, Fahid Mohammed Ali; a.k.a. MSALAM, Mohammed Ally; a.k.a. MUSALAAM, Fahid Mohammed Ali; a.k.a. SALEM, Fahid Muhamad Ali); DOB 19 Feb 1976; POB Mombasa, Kenya; citizen Kenya...
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75 FR 74769 - Designation of Three Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 13224
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2010-12-01
..., Pakistan (individual) [SDGT] 2. KHAN, Mohammad Naushad Alam (a.k.a. KHAN, Muhammad Nowshad Alam; a.k.a. KHAN, Naushad Aalam; a.k.a. KHAN, Rahat Hasan); DOB Aug 1971; alt. DOB Dec 1970; Holder of a Pakistan... Abdul; a.k.a. RAUF, Hafiz Abdul), Dola Khurd, Lahore, Pakistan; 4 Lake Road, Room No. 7, Choburji...
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78 FR 28289 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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2013-05-14
... (individual) [SDNTK]. 7. SALAZAR RAMIREZ, Jesus Alfredo (a.k.a. ``INDIO''; a.k.a. ``MUNE''); DOB 24 Mar 1974; POB Chihuahua, Mexico; citizen Mexico (individual) [SDNTK]. 8. SOSA CANISALES, Felipe de Jesus (a.k.a...
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-04-20
... (Yemen) (individual) [SOMALIA] 11. SA'ID, Mohamed (a.k.a. ATOM, Mohamed Sa'id; a.k.a. ATOM, Mohamed Siad; a.k.a. ``ATOM''), Badhan, Somalia; Galgala, Puntland, Somalia; DOB circa 1966; POB Galgala, Puntland...
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2011-05-11
... REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (IRGC)-QODS FORCE (a.k.a. PASDARAN-E ENGHELAB-E ISLAMI (PASDARAN); a.k.a. SEPAH-E QODS (JERUSALEM FORCE)) [SDGT] [SYRIA] [IRGC.] 2. SYRIAN GENERAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE (a.k.a. IDERAT AL-AMN AL...
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Lua, Pei Lin; Neni, Widiasmoro Selamat
2011-07-01
The influence of awareness, knowledge, and attitudes (AKA) on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with epilepsy has not been widely established. The aims of this preliminary study were to (1) assess general AKA and HRQoL levels, (2) correlate AKA and HRQoL levels, and (3) compare the HRQoL of patients with epilepsy with different AKA levels. A cross-sectional sample of outpatients with epilepsy were recruited from the Neurology Clinic, Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Data analysis was carried out using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 15 employing descriptive and nonparametric statistics. On written consent, included patients completed the Malay AKA Epilepsy and the Malay Quality of Life in Epilepsy-30 (MQOLIE-30) instruments. Across all patients, both AKA levels (median: 80.0, range: 0-170) and overall HRQoL (median 51.5; range 15-97) were moderate. Awareness was significantly correlated only with Seizure Worry (r(s)=+0.29, p<0.05), whereas Knowledge was not significantly linked to any domain. However, Attitudes was significantly correlated with all domains (r(s)=+0.35 to +0.47, p<0.01) except Medication Effects and Seizure Worry. Patients with good AKA levels (Total Score ≥ median) experienced significantly better Overall Quality of Life and Cognitive Functioning (p<0.05). Findings showed that AKA may play an important role in influencing patients' HRQoL, suggesting that epilepsy treatment efforts should also focus on enhancing AKA through epilepsy awareness to improve health outcomes. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Carrott, Anthony; Siegel, Edward Carl-Ludwig; Hoover, John-Edgar; Ness, Elliott
2013-03-01
Terrorism/Criminalogy//Sociology : non-Linear applied-mathematician (``nose-to-the grindstone / ``gearheadism'') ''modelers'': Worden,, Short, ...criminologists/counter-terrorists/sociologists confront [SIAM Conf. on Nonlinearity, Seattle(12); Canadian Sociology Conf,. Burnaby(12)]. ``The `Sins' of the Fathers Visited Upon the Sons'': Zeno vs Ising vs Heisenberg vs Stoner vs Hubbard vs Siegel ''SODHM''(But NO Y!!!) vs ...??? Magntism and it turn are themselves confronted BY MAGNETISM,via relatively magnetism/metal-insulator conductivity / percolation-phase-transitions critical-phenomena -illiterate non-linear applied-mathematician (nose-to-the-grindstone/ ``gearheadism'')''modelers''. What Secrets Lie Buried in Magnetism?; ``Magnetism Will Conquer the Universe!!!''[Charles Middleton, aka ``His Imperial Majesty The Emperior Ming `The Merciless!!!']'' magnetism-Hamiltonian phase-transitions percolation-``models''!: Zeno(~2350 BCE) to Peter the Pilgrim(1150) to Gilbert(1600) to Faraday(1815-1820) to Tate (1870-1880) to Ewing(1882) hysteresis to Barkhausen(1885) to Curie(1895)-Weiss(1895) to Ising-Lenz(r-space/Localized-Scalar/ Discrete/1911) to Heisenberg(r-space/localized-vector/discrete/1927) to Priesich(1935) to Stoner (electron/k-space/ itinerant-vector/discrete/39) to Stoner-Wohlfarth (technical-magnetism hysteresis /r-space/ itinerant-vector/ discrete/48) to Hubbard-Longuet-Higgins (k-space versus r-space/
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Siegel, Edward; Nabarro, Frank; Brailsford, Alan; Tatro, Clement
2011-06-01
NON-shock-plasticity/fracture BAE[E.S.:MSE 8,310(71);PSS:(a)5,601/607(71);Xl.-Latt. Defects 5,277(74);Scripta Met.:6,785(72); 8,587/617(74);3rd Tokyo AE Symp.(76);Acta Met. 25,383(77);JMMM 7,312(78)] ``1''/ ω-``noise'' power-spectrum ``pink''-Zipf-(NOT ``red''-Pareto) power-law UNIVERSALITY is manifestly-demonstrated in two distinct ways to be nothing but Newton Law of Motion F = ma REdiscovery!!!(aka ``Bak''(1988)-``SOC'':1687 < < < 1988: 1988-1687=301-years!!! PHYSICS:(1687) cross-multiplied F=ma rewritten as 1/m=a/F=OUTPUT/IN-PUT=EFFECT/CAUSE=inverse-mass mechanical-susceptibility=X(`` ω'') X(`` ω '') ~(F.-D. thm.) ~P(`` ω'') ``noise'' power-spectrum; (``Max & Al show''): E ~ ω , & E ~(or any/all media with upper-limiting-speeds) ~m. Thus: ω ~ E ~m inverting: 1/ ω ~ 1/E ~1/m ~a/F= X(`` ω'') ~ P(`` ω'') thus: F=ma integral-transform(I-T) is ```SOC'''s'' P(ω) ~ 1/ ω !!!; ``PURE''-MATHS: F=ma DOUBLE-integral time-series(T-S) s(t)=[v0t+(1/2)at2] I-T formally defines power-spectrum:
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Clarençon, Frédéric; Di Maria, Federico; Cormier, Evelyne; Gaudric, Julien; Sourour, Nader; Gabrieli, Joseph; Iosif, Christina; Jenny, Catherine; Koskas, Fabien; Chiras, Jacques
2013-11-01
The aim of this study was to compare the sensitivity of intra-aortic computed tomography angiography (IA-CTA) to that of regular spinal digital subtraction angiography for the presurgical location of the Adamkiewicz artery (AKA). Thirty patients (21 males, 9 females; mean age 64 years) had an IA-CTA for the location of the AKA before surgery of aneurysm (n = 24) or dissection (n = 6) of the thoracoabdominal aorta. After femoral artery puncture, a pigtail catheter was positioned at the origin of the descending aorta. CT acquisition was performed with an intra-aortic iodinated contrast media injection (15 mL/s, 120 mL). The visualization of the AKA and the location of the feeder(s) to the AKA were independently evaluated by two observers. Interrater agreement was calculated using a kappa test. Spinal angiogram by selective catheterization was systematically performed to confirm the results of the IA-CTA. The AKA was visualized by the IA-CTA in 27/30 cases (90 %); in 26/31 (84 %) cases, the continuity with the aorta was satisfactorily seen. Interrater agreement was good for the visualization of the AKA and its feeder(s): 0.625 and 0.87, respectively. In 75 % of the cases for which the AKA was visualized, the selective catheterization confirmed the results of the IA-CTA. In the remaining 25 % of the cases, the selective catheterization could not be performed due to marked vessels' tortuosity or ostium stenosis. IA-CTA is a feasible technique in a daily practice that presents a good sensitivity for the location of the AKA.
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75 FR 26846 - Unblocking of Three Specially Designated Nationals Pursuant to Executive Order 13224
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The Analysis of 2-amino-2-thiazoline-4-carboxylic Acid in the Plasma of Smokers and Non-Smokers
2009-01-01
Yamanaka, S., Takaku, S., Takaesu, Y., and Nishimura, M. 1991. Validity of salivary thiocyanate as an indicator of cyanide exposure from smoking . Bull. Tokyo Dental Call. 32:157- 163. ...Concentrations of AKA in the plasma of smoking and non- smoking human volunteers were analyzed using gas- chromatography mass-spectrometry to establish the...feasibility of using AKA as a marker for cyanide exposure. The levels of AKA in plasma of smoking volunteers. 17.2 ng/ml. were found to be significantly
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76 FR 25405 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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Subretinal Drusenoid Deposits AKA Pseudodrusen.
Spaide, Richard F; Ooto, Sotaro; Curcio, Christine A
2018-05-30
A distinction between conventional drusen and pseudodrusen was first made in 1990, and more recently knowledge of pseudodrusen, more accurately called subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD), has expanded. Pseudodrusen have a bluish-white appearance by biomicroscopy and color fundus photography. Using optical coherence tomography, pseudodrusen were found to be accumulations of material internal to the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) that could extend internally through the ellipsoid zone. These deposits are more commonly seen in older eyes with thinner choroids. Histologic evaluation of these deposits revealed aggregations of material in the subretinal space between photoreceptors and RPE. SDD contain some proteins in common with soft drusen, but differ in lipid composition. Many studies reported that SDD are strong independent risk factors for late age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Geographic atrophy and Type 3 neovascularization are particularly associated with SDD. Unlike conventional drusen, eyes with SDD show slowed dark adaptation and poor contrast sensitivity. Eyes with regression of SDD develop outer retinal atrophy, which is a newly recognized form of late AMD. Advances in imaging technology have enabled many insights into this condition, including associated photoreceptor, RPE, and underlying choroidal changes. Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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76 FR 5857 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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Vincent, C; Serre, G; Basile, J P; Lestra, H C; Girbal, E; Sebbag, M; Soleilhavoup, J P
1990-01-01
Serum IgG, labelling the stratum corneum of the rat oesophagus epithelium, so-called anti-keratin antibodies (AKA) constitute the most specific marker for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. In this study, we investigated 31 IgG AKA-positive rheumatoid sera and 21 control sera from patients with non-rheumatoid inflammatory rheumatic diseases. The serum level of IgG1,2,3 and 4 was determined by radial immunodiffusion and the subclass distribution of IgG AKA by a three-step semi-quantitative immunofluorescence assay using standard monoclonal antibodies specific for each of the four human IgG subclasses. In the rheumatoid sera, the serum level of IgG1 was found to be significantly increased and the level of IgG2 significantly decreased with regard to the control sera, while the levels of IgG3 and 4 as well as total IgG were in the normal range. IgG1,2,3, and 4 AKA were detected in 27 (87%), 6 (19%), 4 (13%) and 11 (35%) of the 31 rheumatoid sera, respectively, and were found to be independent of the clinical and biological indices of the disease. In spite of inter-individual heterogeneity, two predominant profiles were distinguished: IgG1 (alone) and IgG(1 + 4), which together represented 18 sera (58%). The large predominance of IgG1 AKA and the quasi-absence of IgG2 AKA suggest that the recognized antigen may be partly comprised of protein. Moreover, the high frequency of occurrence of IgG4 AKA might result from chronic exposure to the eliciting antigen, which could be a genuine autoantigen since we demonstrated that it is also present in the stratum corneum of human epidermis. Images Fig. 1 PMID:1696185
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Neni, Selamat Widiasmoro; Latif, Ahmad Zubaidi Abdul; Wong, Sok Yee; Lua, Pei Lin
2010-06-01
This study was carried out to gauge the preliminary insight regarding epilepsy among the rural society. The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine general level of awareness, knowledge and attitudes (AKA) towards epilepsy among rural communities, (2) to compare the AKA level based on socio-demographic characteristics and (3) to investigate rural cohort's perception of the best epilepsy treatment, preference for epilepsy information delivery and preference for mode of transportation to seek medical treatment. This prospective, cross sectional study included a sample of 615 rural residents enrolled via cluster sampling in East Coast region of Peninsular Malaysia (mean age=41.6+/-18.02, female=56.6%, married=65.5%, Malay=94.0%, monthly income < or = RM 500=56.9%). The Total AKA level was generally low (2.66+/-0.7). Gender-wise no significant difference was shown regarding AKA level (p>0.05). However, respondents with higher education significantly possessed better attitudes and higher Total AKA level compared to those with lower education level (p<0.001). Employed respondents reported significantly more favourable attitudes than unemployed respondents (p=0.011). Additionally, higher income rural cohorts possessed both significantly better attitudes and better AKA. These rural communities perceived modern medicine as the best epilepsy treatment (56.60%), preferred to obtain direct epilepsy-related information from health personnel (60.4%) and chose to use their own car to seek medical treatment in hospital (76.30%). The outcomes of this preliminary study signified the need to devise a dedicated epilepsy education program for implementation among rural residents. Increased AKA level in the society could enhance the people's acceptance, reduce stigmatisation and improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for epilepsy patients and their family. Copyright 2010 British Epilepsy Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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A randomised controlled trial of an SMS-based mobile epilepsy education system.
Lua, Pei Lin; Neni, Widiasmoro Selamat
2013-01-01
We evaluated an epilepsy education programme based on text messaging (SMS). Epilepsy outpatients from three hospitals in Malaysia were randomised into two groups: intervention and control. Patients in the control group were supplied with printed epilepsy educational material while those in the intervention group also received text messages from the Mobile Epilepsy Educational System (MEES). A total of 136 patients completed the study (mean age 31 years; 91% Malay; 51% with an illness duration of more than 5 years). A between-group analysis showed that the awareness, knowledge and attitudes (AKA) about epilepsy did not significantly differ between the groups at baseline (P > 0.05). The intervention patients reported better AKA levels during follow-up compared to the control patients (P < 0.05). A within-group analysis showed that in intervention patients, there were significant improvements in all AKA domains with larger effect sizes (P < 0.01) while control patients also exhibited significant improvement in most domains except for Awareness but with smaller effect sizes. After controlling for possible confounding variables (age, gender, educational qualification, monthly income and baseline mean for each domain), the intervention group still reported significantly higher AKA than the control group particularly in Awareness (P < 0.001) and Total AKA (P = 0.003). There was also significantly better medication adherence and clinic attendance in the intervention group (P < 0.05). The results suggest that the addition of the MEES to conventional epilepsy education is effective in improving AKA.
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Notification: Audit of FIFRA and PRIA Funds Management
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... to Libya.'' DATES: The designation by the Acting Director of OFAC of the individual identified in... Executive Order 13566, ``Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya,'' (the.... ABDUSSALAM, Ahmid; a.k.a. ``ABDULHADI''; a.k.a. ``HUMAYD''); DOB 30 Dec 1965; Passport 55555 (Libya...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Olufemi, Adejoke Christianah; Mji, Andile; Mukhola, Murembiwa S.
2016-01-01
In this paper, we compared the levels of awareness, knowledge and attitudes (AKA) about environmental pollution of secondary school students from two South African provinces. The purpose was to determine the levels of AKA between students living under different environmental conditions. These two groups were students from a coal-mining province…
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American Kinesiology Association: A National Effort to Promote Kinesiology
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Morrow, James R., Jr.; Thomas, Jerry R.
2010-01-01
The American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE) and The American Kinesiology Association (AKA) should work together to help kinesiology thrive. Data are provided about kinesiology that reflects its visibility in PubMed and Google. Survey data from AKA show the rapid growth of the undergraduate major and graduate programs. In…
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Rodriguez-Merchan, E. Carlos
2015-01-01
Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a serious complication of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Control of infection after a failed two-stage TKA is not always possible, and the resolution of infection may require an above-knee amputation (AKA) or a the-knee (KF). The purpose of this review is to determine which treatment method (AKA or KF) yields better function and ambulatory status for patients after a failed two-stage reimplantation. A PubMed search related to the resolution of infection by means of an above-the-knee amputation (AKA) or a knee fusion was performed until 10 January 2015. The key words were: infected TKA and above-the-knee amputation. Five hundred and sixty-six papers were found, of which ten were reviewed because they were focused on the topic of the article. KF should be strongly considered as the treatment of choice for patients who have persistent infected TKA after a failed two-stage revision arthroplasty. Patients can walk at least inside the house, and activity of daily living independence is achieved by the patients with successful KF, although walking aids, including a shoe lift, are required. An intramedullary nail leads to better functional results than an external fixator. The functional outcome after AKA performed after TKA is poor. A substantial percentage of the patients never fit with a prosthesis, and those who are seldom obtain functional independence. Only 50% of patients are able to walk after AKA. Patients receiving KF for treating recurrent PJI after TKA have better function and ambulatory status compared to patients receiving AKA. KF must be recommended as the treatment of choice for patients who have persistent infected TKA after a failed two-stage reimplantation procedure. PMID:26550586
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Rodriguez-Merchan, E Carlos
2015-10-01
Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a serious complication of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Control of infection after a failed two-stage TKA is not always possible, and the resolution of infection may require an above-knee amputation (AKA) or a the-knee (KF). The purpose of this review is to determine which treatment method (AKA or KF) yields better function and ambulatory status for patients after a failed two-stage reimplantation. A PubMed search related to the resolution of infection by means of an above-the-knee amputation (AKA) or a knee fusion was performed until 10 January 2015. The key words were: infected TKA and above-the-knee amputation. Five hundred and sixty-six papers were found, of which ten were reviewed because they were focused on the topic of the article. KF should be strongly considered as the treatment of choice for patients who have persistent infected TKA after a failed two-stage revision arthroplasty. Patients can walk at least inside the house, and activity of daily living independence is achieved by the patients with successful KF, although walking aids, including a shoe lift, are required. An intramedullary nail leads to better functional results than an external fixator. The functional outcome after AKA performed after TKA is poor. A substantial percentage of the patients never fit with a prosthesis, and those who are seldom obtain functional independence. Only 50% of patients are able to walk after AKA. Patients receiving KF for treating recurrent PJI after TKA have better function and ambulatory status compared to patients receiving AKA. KF must be recommended as the treatment of choice for patients who have persistent infected TKA after a failed two-stage reimplantation procedure.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Grymes, Rosalind A.; Martin, Rodney Alexander; Dianati, Soheila
2016-01-01
These files contain more precise and accurate representations of the architectural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and site information pertaining to Sustainability Base, aka Collaborative Support Facility, aka N232. These supersede the 'bid' drawings released in STI 8112 previously. They are useful for NASA researchers and collaborators in modeling the performance characteristics of the facility. Otherwise, they do not contain new data.
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Ayurvĕda gleaned through Buddhism.
Narayana, Ala; Lavekar, G S
2005-01-01
The Păli canon consists of three Pitakas (baskets), which replete the Buddhism and is known as Tripiţaka, viz, Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma Piţakas. The original phase of Tripiţaka (Buddhisim started in 544 B.C. and lastly systematized up to 29 B.C. The Buddhist literature also possesses the esoteric material of Medical Science, which is practiced and conserved in India since centuries. It refers to the fundamentals of medicine, rules of good living, which lay considerable emphasis on the hygiene of body, mind. Internal Medicine, curative medicine including symptoms, methods of diagnosis, theories of causation, materia-medica, therapeutics and treatment and skills of Jivaka. Some famous and popular prescriptions are also dealt with.
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Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002
2003-04-01
Lebanon. On 25 July, SEPRINTE raided the Ciudad del Este office and apartment of alleged money launderer Fajkumar Naraindas Sabnani, who is allegedly...Saint-Jean-De- Luz , unidentified persons threw gasoline bombs at a police headquarters, causing material damage to police barracks and three parked...sustaining. 121 Revolutionary Organization 17 November a.k.a. 17 November Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) a.k.a. Devrimci Sol
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Siegel, Edward
2015-06-01
NON-shock plasticity/fracture BAE[E.S.:MSE 8,310(71); PSS:(a)5,601/607(71); Xl.-Latt.Defects 5,277(74); Scripta Met.:6,785(72); 8,587/617(74); 3rd Tokyo AE Symp.(76); Acta Met. 5,383(77); JMMM 7,312(78)] ``1''/ ω-``noise'' power-spectrum ``pink''-Zipf(NOT ``red'' =Pareto) power-law UNIVERSALITY is manifestly-demonstrated in two distinct ways to be nothing but Newton 3rd Law of Motion F = ma REdiscovery!!! (aka ``Bak''(1988)-``SOC'':1687 <<<1988: 1988-1687 =301-years!!! PHYSICS:F =ma cross-multiplied as 1/m =a/F =OUTPUT/INPUT = EFFECT/CAUSE =inverse-mass mechanical-susceptibility = χ (`` ω'') χ(`` ω'') ~(F.-D.thm.) ~P(`` ω'') ``noise'' power-spectrum; (``Max & Al show''): E ~ ω & E ~ (upper-limiting-speeds media) ~m. Thus: ω ~ E ~m Inverting: 1/ ω ~ 1/E ~1/m ~a/F = χ (`` ω'') ~P(`` ω'') Thus: F =ma integral-transform(I-T) is ````SOC'''s'' P(ω) ~ 1/ ω!!! ; ''PURE''-MATHS: F =ma DOUBLE-integral time-series(T-S) s(t) =[v0t +(1/2)at2] I-T formally de?nes power-spectrum(PS): P(ω) ≡ ∫ s(t)e-iωtdt = ∫ [vot +(1/2)at2]e-iωtdt = vo ∫ a(t)e-iωtdt +(1/2)[a ≠a(t)] ∫t2e-iωtdt =vo(∂ / ∂ω) δ(ω) + (1/2)[a ≠a(t)](∂2/ ∂ω2) δ(ω) = vo/ω0 + (1/2)[a ≠a(t)]/ω 1 . 000 ...; uniform-velocity a =0 PS P(ω) = 1/ωo WHITE vs. uniform:-a>0a<0) PS P(ω) = 1/ω 1 . 000 ... pink/flicker/HYPERBOLICITY.
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Population Simulation, AKA: Grahz, Rahbitz and Fawkzes
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Bangert, Tyler R.
2008-01-01
In an effort to give students a more visceral experience of science and instill a deeper working knowledge of concepts, activities that utilize hands-on, laboratory and simulated experiences are recommended because these activities have a greater impact on student learning, especially for Native American students. Because it is not usually feasible to take large and/or multiple classes of high school science students into the field to count numbers of organisms of a particular species, especially over a long period of time and covering a large area of an environment, the population simulation presented in this paper was created to aid students in understanding population dynamics by working with a simulated environment, which can be done in the classroom. Students create an environment and populate the environment with imaginary species. Then, using a sequence of "rules" that allow organisms to eat, reproduce, move and age, students see how the population of a species changes over time. In particular, students practice collecting data, summarizing information, plotting graphs, and interpreting graphs for such information as carrying capacity, predator prey relationships, and how specific species factors impact population and the environment. Students draw conclusions from their results and suggest further research, which may involve changes in simulation parameters, prediction of outcomes, and testing predictions. The population Simulation has demonstrated success in the above student activities using a "board game" version of the population simulation. A computer version of the population simulation needs more testing, but preliminary runs are promising. A second - and more complicated - computer simulation will simulate the same things and will add simulated population genetics.
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Armed Conflict in Syria: Overview and U.S. Response
2014-09-08
at Abu Ghraib and Taji in Iraq, reportedly freeing several hundred detained members and shaking international confidence in Iraq’s security forces... Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Iraq from 2002 through 2006—Tawhid wal Jihad (Monotheism and Jihad) and Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers (aka Al Qaeda...Under the leadership of Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al Badri al Samarra’i (aka Abu Bakr al Baghdadi),23 ISI rebuilt its capabilities. By early 2013, the
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Automatic acquisition of domain and procedural knowledge
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Ferber, H. J.; Ali, M.
1988-01-01
The design concept and performance of AKAS, an automated knowledge-acquisition system for the development of expert systems, are discussed. AKAS was developed using the FLES knowledge base for the electrical system of the B-737 aircraft and employs a 'learn by being told' strategy. The system comprises four basic modules, a system administration module, a natural-language concept-comprehension module, a knowledge-classification/extraction module, and a knowledge-incorporation module; details of the module architectures are explored.
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2008-05-01
St. Martin’s Press, 1993), pp. 5–36. 65 the use of chemical weapons.159 But even more troubling developments resulted from changes inside the...force, even if it was a force the size of the Kuwaitis.”273 In the same post-war discussion, Ali Hassan al-Majid (aka Chemical Ali) re- called that in...decided to annex Kuwait, and Saddam installed his cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid (aka Chemical Ali) as the governor. Chemical Ali was then replaced by
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Vogel, Todd R; Smith, Jamie B; Kruse, Robin L
2018-05-29
Understanding risk factors associated with readmission after lower extremity amputation may indicate targets for reducing readmission. This study evaluated factors associated with all-cause 30-day readmission after lower extremity amputation procedures. Retrospective cohort study. Inpatient. A total of 2480 patients who had lower extremity amputations between 2008 and 2014 were selected from national electronic medical record database, Cerner Health Facts. Univariate analysis of demographics, diagnoses, postoperative medications, and laboratory results were examined. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify characteristics independently associated with readmission overall and by amputation location-above the knee (AKA) or below the knee (BKA). Readmission within 30 days of discharge. More than one half of patients (1403, 57%) underwent BKA and 1077 (43%) underwent AKA. Readmission within 30 days was 22% (24.1% BKA versus 19.4% AKA, P = .005). In multivariable logistic regression, factors associated with 30-day readmission after any amputation included BKA (odds ratio [OR] 1.41, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.15-1.74, P = .001), hypertension (OR 1.70, 95% CI 1.33-2.16), surgical-site infections (OR 1.44, 95% CI 1.02-2.04), heart failure (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.10-1.75), discharge to a skilled nursing facility (OR 1.88, 95% CI 1.41-2.51), and emergency/urgent procedures (OR 1.32, 95% CI 1.04-1.67). At readmission, 13.3% of patients with a BKA required an AKA revision, and 21.3% had a diagnosis of surgical-site infection. Risk factors for readmission after any amputation included cardiac comorbidities, associated postoperative medications, and discharge to a skilled nursing facility. The finding that acute arterial embolism or thrombosis and a BKA during the index admission was highly associated with readmission, combined with the high rates of 30-day conversion to an AKA when readmitted, suggests these patients more often develop stump complications
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Ion Beam Deflection (AKA Push-Me/Pull-You)
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Brophy, John
2013-01-01
The Ion Beam Deflection provides the following potential advantages over other asteroid deflection systems. Like the gravity tractor, it doesn't require despinning of the asteroid. Unlike the gravity tractor, it provides a significantly higher coupling force that is independent of the asteroid size. The concept could be tested as part of the baseline Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission. The thrust and total impulse are entirely within the design of the SEP vehicle. The total impulse is potentially competitive with kinetic impactors and eliminates the need for a second rendezvous spacecraft.?Gridded ion thrusters provide beam divergence angles of a few degrees enabling long stand-off distances from the asteroid. Mitigating control issues. Minimizing back-sputter contamination risks
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Lu, Yanrong; Li, Lixiang; Peng, Haipeng; Yang, Yixian
2016-06-08
WSNs (Wireless sensor networks) are nowadays viewed as a vital portion of the IoTs (Internet of Things). Security is a significant issue in WSNs, especially in resource-constrained environments. AKA (Authentication and key agreement) enhances the security of WSNs against adversaries attempting to get sensitive sensor data. Various AKA schemes have been developed for verifying the legitimate users of a WSN. Firstly, we scrutinize Amin-Biswas's currently scheme and demonstrate the major security loopholes in their works. Next, we propose a lightweight AKA scheme, using symmetric key cryptography based on smart card, which is resilient against all well known security attacks. Furthermore, we prove the scheme accomplishes mutual handshake and session key agreement property securely between the participates involved under BAN (Burrows, Abadi and Needham) logic. Moreover, formal security analysis and simulations are also conducted using AVISPA(Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications) to show that our scheme is secure against active and passive attacks. Additionally, performance analysis shows that our proposed scheme is secure and efficient to apply for resource-constrained WSNs.
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Lu, Yanrong; Li, Lixiang; Peng, Haipeng; Yang, Yixian
2016-01-01
WSNs (Wireless sensor networks) are nowadays viewed as a vital portion of the IoTs (Internet of Things). Security is a significant issue in WSNs, especially in resource-constrained environments. AKA (Authentication and key agreement) enhances the security of WSNs against adversaries attempting to get sensitive sensor data. Various AKA schemes have been developed for verifying the legitimate users of a WSN. Firstly, we scrutinize Amin-Biswas’s currently scheme and demonstrate the major security loopholes in their works. Next, we propose a lightweight AKA scheme, using symmetric key cryptography based on smart card, which is resilient against all well known security attacks. Furthermore, we prove the scheme accomplishes mutual handshake and session key agreement property securely between the participates involved under BAN (Burrows, Abadi and Needham) logic. Moreover, formal security analysis and simulations are also conducted using AVISPA(Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications) to show that our scheme is secure against active and passive attacks. Additionally, performance analysis shows that our proposed scheme is secure and efficient to apply for resource-constrained WSNs. PMID:27338382
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Childs, Larry; Everest, John; Clark, Adam
1999-01-01
Describes three games for all ages, used in adventure- and experiential-education settings. Includes target group, group size, time and space requirements, activity level, props, instructions, and tips for post-activity group reflection and processing where appropriate. The games demonstrate the tenets of adventure programming, involve group…
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Jia, Ying-bin; Li, Jian; Su, Yong-hui; Ma, Jie-fei; Guan, Xiao-dong; Zhang, Bai-meng
2012-10-23
To evaluate the effects of using longer xenografts in conjunctions with the location of Adamkiewicz artery (AKA) on midterm outcomes of endovascular treatment for thoracic aortic dissection. From March 2005 to September 2011, 217 patients with type B dissection were recruited. There were 143 males and 74 females with a mean age of 65 ± 11 years. Among them, 43 patients were from Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University while another 174 patients from Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University. They were divided into 2 groups according to whether AKA was identified or not pre-operatively. Endovascular repairs were performed for all patients. Distal landing levels of xenografts were recorded. The thrombosis of false lumen and the complications of spinal cord injury and endoleak were analyzed. AKA was detected in 121 (55.8%) patients (group A) but not in 96 (44.2%) patients (group B). According to the levels of AKA, the patients of group A obtained the stabilization of affected thoracic aorta over a longer distance. And the ratio of patients with distal landing levels at T8-T10 was significantly higher than in group B (59.5% vs 12.5%, χ² = 49.85, P < 0.01). Also, during the follow-up period of 7.3 months, the ratio of patients with total thrombosis of false lumen in group A was significantly higher than that in group B (32.1% vs 19.1%, χ² = 4.34, P < 0.05). During the endovascular repair of thoracic aortic dissection, selecting a longer device may provide a better structural stability of affected aorta and promote false lumen thrombosis.
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Red Plague Control Plan (RPCP)
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Cooke, Robert W.
2010-01-01
SCOPE: Prescribes the minimum requirements for the control of cuprous / cupric oxide corrosion (a.k.a. Red Plague) of silver-coated copper wire, cable, and harness assemblies. PURPOSE: Targeted for applications where exposure to assembly processes, environmental conditions, and contamination may promote the development of cuprous / cupric oxide corrosion (a.k.a. Red Plague) in silver-coated copper wire, cable, and harness assemblies. Does not exclude any alternate or contractor-proprietary documents or processes that meet or exceed the baseline of requirements established by this document. Use of alternate or contractor-proprietary documents or processes shall require review and prior approval of the procuring NASA activity.
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Amato, Alexandre Campos Moraes; Parga, José Rodrigues; Stolf, Noedir Antônio Groppo
2018-01-01
Resumo Contexto Diferenças morfológicas da artéria de Adamkiewicz (AKA) entre a população portadora e não portadora de doença aórtica têm importância clínica, influenciando as complicações neuroisquêmicas da medula espinhal em procedimentos operatórios. Ainda não é conhecida a correlação entre parâmetros clínicos e a previsibilidade da identificação dessa artéria pela angiotomografia. Objetivo Desenvolver um modelo matemático que, através de parâmetros clínicos correlacionados com aterosclerose, possa prever a probabilidade de identificação da AKA em pacientes submetidos a angiotomografias. Método Estudo observacional transversal utilizando banco de imagens e dados de pacientes. Foi feita análise estatística multivariada e criado modelo matemático logit de predição para identificação da AKA. Variáveis significativas foram utilizadas na montagem da fórmula para cálculo da probabilidade de identificação. O modelo foi calibrado, e a discriminação foi avaliada pela curva receiver operating characteristic (ROC). A seleção das variáveis explanatórias foi guiada pela maior área na curva ROC (p = 0,041) e pela significância combinada das variáveis. Resultados Foram avaliados 110 casos (54,5% do sexo masculino, com idade média de 60,97 anos e etnia com coeficiente B -2,471, M -1,297, N -0,971), com AKA identificada em 60,9%. Índice de massa corporal: 27,06 ± 0,98 (coef. -0,101); fumantes: 55,5% (coef. -1,614/-1,439); diabéticos: 13,6%; hipertensos: 65,5% (coef. -1,469); dislipidêmicos: 58,2%; aneurisma aórtico: 38,2%; dissecção aórtica: 12,7%; e trombo mural: 24,5%. Constante de 6,262. Fórmula para cálculo da probabilidade de detecção: (e−(Coef. Etnia+(Coef. IMC×IMC)+Coef.fumante+Coef.HAS+Coef.dislip+Constante)+1)−1 . O modelo de predição foi criado e disponibilizado no link https://vascular.pro/aka-model . Conclusão Com as covariáveis etnia, índice de massa corporal, tabagismo, hipertens
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Turkmenoglu, Osman N; Kanat, Ayhan; Yolas, Coskun; Aydin, Mehmet Dumlu; Ezirmik, Naci; Gundogdu, Cemal
2017-01-01
The blood supply of the lower spinal cord is heavily dependent on the artery of Adamkiewicz. The goal of this study was to elucidate the effects of lumbar subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) on the lumbar 4 dorsal root ganglion (L4DRG) cells secondary to Adamkiewicz artery (AKA) vasospasm. This study was conducted on 20 rabbits, which were randomly divided into three groups: Spinal SAH ( n = 8), serum saline (SS) (SS; n = 6) and control ( n = 6) groups. Experimental spinal SAH was performed. After 20 days, volume values of AKA and neuron density of L4DRG were analyzed. The mean alive neuron density of the L4DRG was 15420 ± 1240/mm 3 and degenerated neuron density was 1045 ± 260/mm 3 in the control group. Whereas, the density of living and degenerated neurons density were 12930 ± 1060/mm 3 and 1365 ± 480/mm 3 in serum saline (SS), 9845 ± 1028/mm 3 and 4560 ± 1340/mm 3 in the SAH group. The mean volume of imaginary AKAs was estimated as 1,250 ± 0,310 mm 3 in the control group and 1,030 ± 0,240 mm 3 in the SF group and 0,910 ± 0,170 mm 3 in SAH group. Volume reduction of the AKAs and neuron density L4DRG were significantly different between the SAH and other two groups ( P < 0.05). Decreased volume of the lumen of the artery of Adamkiewicz was observed in animals with SAH compared with controls. Increased degeneration the L4 dorsal root ganglion in animals with SAH was also noted. Our findings will aid in the planning of future experimental studies and determining the clinical relevance on such studies.
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Turkmenoglu, Osman N.; Kanat, Ayhan; Yolas, Coskun; Aydin, Mehmet Dumlu; Ezirmik, Naci; Gundogdu, Cemal
2017-01-01
Background: The blood supply of the lower spinal cord is heavily dependent on the artery of Adamkiewicz. The goal of this study was to elucidate the effects of lumbar subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) on the lumbar 4 dorsal root ganglion (L4DRG) cells secondary to Adamkiewicz artery (AKA) vasospasm. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 20 rabbits, which were randomly divided into three groups: Spinal SAH (n = 8), serum saline (SS) (SS; n = 6) and control (n = 6) groups. Experimental spinal SAH was performed. After 20 days, volume values of AKA and neuron density of L4DRG were analyzed. Results: The mean alive neuron density of the L4DRG was 15420 ± 1240/mm3 and degenerated neuron density was 1045 ± 260/mm3 in the control group. Whereas, the density of living and degenerated neurons density were 12930 ± 1060/mm3 and 1365 ± 480/mm3 in serum saline (SS), 9845 ± 1028/mm3 and 4560 ± 1340/mm3 in the SAH group. The mean volume of imaginary AKAs was estimated as 1,250 ± 0,310 mm3 in the control group and 1,030 ± 0,240 mm3 in the SF group and 0,910 ± 0,170 mm3 in SAH group. Volume reduction of the AKAs and neuron density L4DRG were significantly different between the SAH and other two groups (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Decreased volume of the lumen of the artery of Adamkiewicz was observed in animals with SAH compared with controls. Increased degeneration the L4 dorsal root ganglion in animals with SAH was also noted. Our findings will aid in the planning of future experimental studies and determining the clinical relevance on such studies. PMID:28413527
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Collaborative PLM - The Next Generation AKA Cars on Mars
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Soderstrom, Tom; Stefanini, Mike
2007-01-01
In this slide presentation the importance of collaboration in developing the next systems for space exploration is stressed. The mechanism of this collaboration are reviewed, and particular emphasis is given to our planned exploration of Mars and how this will require a great deal of collaboration. A system architecture for this collaboration is shown and the diagram for the collaborative environment is conceptualized.
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Scieszka's Subversive Little Red Hen: AKA "One Annoying Chicken"
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Pantaleo, Sylvia
2007-01-01
During the past three years, the author has been exploring Grade 5 students' processes of reading and understanding contemporary picturebooks with Radical Change characteristics and metafictive devices, and examining how students use their knowledge of these characteristics and devices to create their own texts. "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other…
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Hyun, Jae-Sang; Li, Beiwen; Zhang, Song
2017-07-01
This paper presents our research findings on high-speed high-accuracy three-dimensional shape measurement using digital light processing (DLP) technologies. In particular, we compare two different sinusoidal fringe generation techniques using the DLP projection devices: direct projection of computer-generated 8-bit sinusoidal patterns (a.k.a., the sinusoidal method), and the creation of sinusoidal patterns by defocusing binary patterns (a.k.a., the binary defocusing method). This paper mainly examines their performance on high-accuracy measurement applications under precisely controlled settings. Two different projection systems were tested in this study: a commercially available inexpensive projector and the DLP development kit. Experimental results demonstrated that the binary defocusing method always outperforms the sinusoidal method if a sufficient number of phase-shifted fringe patterns can be used.
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High-speed 3D imaging using digital binary defocusing method vs sinusoidal method
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Zhang, Song; Hyun, Jae-Sang; Li, Beiwen
2017-02-01
This paper presents our research findings on high-speed 3D imaging using digital light processing (DLP) technologies. In particular, we compare two different sinusoidal fringe generation techniques using the DLP projection devices: direct projection of 8-bit computer generated sinusoidal patterns (a.k.a, the sinusoidal method), and the creation of sinusoidal patterns by defocusing binary patterns (a.k.a., the binary defocusing method). This paper mainly examines their performance on high-accuracy measurement applications under precisely controlled settings. Two different projection systems were tested in this study: the commercially available inexpensive projector, and the DLP development kit. Experimental results demonstrated that the binary defocusing method always outperforms the sinusoidal method if a sufficient number of phase-shifted fringe patterns can be used.
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Baker, Jennifer W; Pierce, Kristi L; Ryals, Casey A
2011-03-01
In January 2009, the Joint Commission implemented a National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) for ambulatory care, NPSG 3E, intended to reduce harm associated with the use of anticoagulation therapy. The 2011 NPSG 3E encompasses 8 elements of performance, including requirements that each organization (a) provide education regarding anticoagulation therapy to staff, patients, and families and (b) evaluate its safety practices and take appropriate action to improve its practices. The Alvin C. York (ACY) outpatient anticoagulation clinic provides education to new patients and their families at the initial clinic visit, with follow-up reinforcement of education as needed throughout their care. To (a) assess the knowledge level of patients receiving warfarin therapy in an anticoagulation clinic using the validated Anticoagulation Knowledge Assessment (AKA) questionnaire and (b) examine the relationship between patient anticoagulation knowledge and anticoagulation control as measured by the international normalized ratio (INR). All ACY Veterans Affairs (VA) anticoagulation clinic patients seen during their routine visit within an 8-week recruitment period from February 2010 to April 2010 were asked to complete the AKA questionnaire. Upon voluntary consent, the questionnaire was completed by the patient either during the clinic visit or returned later by mail. Demographic and clinical data were manually extracted from the computerized patient record system and included age, gender, indication for and duration of anticoagulation therapy, goal INR range, and the 10 INR values preceding the date of consent. A passing score was defined as at least 21 correct responses on the 29-item AKA questionnaire (72.4% correct). Statistical analyses included comparisons of demographic and clinical characteristics for patients with passing versus failing scores, assessed with Pearson chi-square and Fisher's exact test, and bivariate analyses of INR control with anticoagulation knowledge
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 2.0: a.k.a. the Remix
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Ladson-Billings, Gloria
2014-01-01
In this article, Ladson-Billings reflects on the history of her theory of culturally relevant pedagogy and the ways it has been used and misused since its inception. She argues for the importance of dynamic scholarship and suggests that it is time for a "remix" of her original theory: culturally sustaining pedagogy, as proposed by Paris…
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[The prevalence of yaws among the Aka in the Congo].
Coldiron, M; Obvala, D; Mouniaman-Nara, I; Pena, J; Blondel, C; Porten, K
2013-05-01
This study, conducted in 2012 in two districts of the Congo (Bétou and Enyellé), screened for yaws (endemic treponemiasis) that could be treated by a single dose of azithromycin. The screening involved a clinical history, followed by a clinical examination of the children reporting dermatological problems. A rapid diagnostic test for treponema was performed on the children with suspicious lesions. Of 6215 children screened, 485 (7.8%) had such lesions; 480 (99.0%) of them had a rapid diagnostic test, and it was positive for 183 (38.1%). This so-called Morges strategy is aimed at eradicating yaws in endemic areas.
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2010-02-17
Directors Colloquium, Nichelle Nichols (aka Lt Uhura of Star Trek) presents 'NASA - What's in it for me'. Nichols discusses how she successfully helped NASA recruit the first women and minority astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program.
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Honey Do Franchising Group, Inc. Information Sheet
Honey Do Franchising Group, Inc., a/k/a The Honey Do Service, Inc. (the Company) is located in Bristol, Virginia. The settlement involves renovation activities conducted at properties constructed prior to 1978, located in Bristol, Virginia.
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Lateral vehicle accelerations due to longitudinally tined portland cement concrete pavement.
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
2009-12-01
The objective of this study was to determine, via field measurements, the vibration characteristics of vehicle squirming (a.k.a. groove wander) a phenomenon whereby vehicles experience lateral vibrations due to interaction between tire tread groo...
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31 CFR Appendix C to Part 560 - Eligible Procurement Bodies
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... procurement bodies of the Government of Iran identified by the Office of Foreign Assets Control as not being affiliated with the coercive organs of the state. See § 560.531(e). Government Trading Corporation (a.k.a...
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Technical product bulletin: aka ECOVOOM-MARINE, this surface washing agent is used in oil spill cleanups. Manual pump sprayers should be used to presoak contaminated areas, then pressure washers used to agitate after presoak has been applied.
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Technical product bulletin: aka SEACARE, ECOSPERSE, this water based dispersant may be applied in oil spill cleanups by aerial or boat spraying. Concentration/application rates depend on type of oil, degree of weathering, temperature, extent of slick.
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Technical product bulletin: aka MICRO CLEAN or POWERCLEAN, this surface washing agent used in oil spill cleanups should be applied full strength to surfaces such as shorelines and beaches, pressure sprayed into cracks/crevices, and scrubbed well.
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Technical product bulletin: aka SHEENCLEAN, BILGE CLEAR, OIL GONE, this non-intrusive bioremediation agent (nutrient additive) used in oil spill cleanups is an accelerator for remediation of hydrocarbon spills or leaks in soil or sheen on water.
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A Discrete Global Grid System Programming Language Using MapReduce
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Peterson, P.; Shatz, I.
2016-12-01
A discrete global grid system (DGGS) is a powerful mechanism for storing and integrating geospatial information. As a "pixelization" of the Earth, many image processing techniques lend themselves to the transformation of data values referenced to the DGGS cells. It has been shown that image algebra, as an example, and advanced algebra, like Fast Fourier Transformation, can be used on the DGGS tiling structure for geoprocessing and spatial analysis. MapReduce has been shown to provide advantages for processing and generating large data sets within distributed and parallel computing. The DGGS structure is ideally suited for big distributed Earth data. We proposed that basic expressions could be created to form the atoms of a generalized DGGS language using the MapReduce programming model. We created three very efficient expressions: Selectors (aka filter) - A selection function that generate a set of cells, cell collections, or geometries; Calculators (aka map) - A computational function (including quantization of raw measurements and data sources) that generate values in a DGGS cell; and Aggregators (aka reduce) - A function that generate spatial statistics from cell values within a cell. We found that these three basic MapReduce operations along with a forth function, the Iterator, for horizontal and vertical traversing of any DGGS structure, provided simple building block resulting in very efficient operations and processes that could be used with any DGGS. We provide examples and a demonstration of their effectiveness using the ISEA3H DGGS on the PYXIS Studio.
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Jombo, G T A; Egah, D Z; Akosu, J T
2007-03-01
To assess the level of parasite burden in a village community and the predisposing factors. Two hundred subjects each were recruited from three communities- Tyogbenda, Jato-Aka and Adikpo during an episode of free medical outreach. A simple random sampling method was adopted and a questionnaire was interviewer administered on relevant aspects of basic hygiene such as- sources of water supply, methods of domestic sewage disposal and frequency of hand washing. Stool samples were collected and tested and findings analysed using appropriate statistical methods, p values < 0.05 were considered significant. The prevalence of intestinal parasites in Tyogbenda, Jato-Aka and Adikpo communities was found to be 71.5%, 65.5% and 40.5% respectively. Ascaris lumbricoides was the commonest parasite in the three centres (34.5%, 28.5% and 19.0% respectively for Tyogbenda, Jato-Aka and Adikpo communities). Other parasites identified were- Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba coli, Hookworm. Enterobius vermicularis, Strongyloides stercoralis, Schistosoma mansoni and Trichuris trichura. Multiple parasitic infestation was common in the communities where quality of water supply and methods of sewage disposal facilities were below standard. The prevalence of intestinal parasitism is still high in Nigerian rural communities. The present resolve by the federal ministry of water resources to supply potable water to all Nigerian rural communities should be sustained. Furthermore, a health education program should be properly constituted and integrated into the present primary health care policy for the country.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Wernsman, Bernard; Fiedor, Joseph N.; Irr, Lawrence G.
2016-10-04
A back surface reflector (BSR) is described. The BSR includes a reflecting layer, a substrate and an adhesion layer between the reflecting layer and the substrate. The adhesion layer includes 3-mercaptopropyl (trimethoxy) silane (a.k.a. Merc).
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Select physicochemical properties of nine surfactants which are conventionally used in the remediation of perchloroethylene (PCE, a.k.a. tetrachloroethene) were evaluated with varying concentrations of PCE and indicator dyes in aqueous solutions using a response surface quadrati...
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Technical product bulletin: aka HYDRO-CLEAN, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANER, AWAN PRA, this surface washing agent for oil spill cleanups is sprayed full strength on oiled rocky surfaces at shorelines, mangroves, and seagrasses. Allow at least 30 minute soak.
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... phrase to indicate that the virus is also known as ``Rabies.'' This rule also makes two clarifications to... Controlled section, and adding in its place the name ``Lyssa virus (a.k.a. Rabies)''. 4. In Supplement No. 1...
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Kepler Planet Detection Metrics: Statistical Bootstrap Test
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Jenkins, Jon M.; Burke, Christopher J.
2016-01-01
This document describes the data produced by the Statistical Bootstrap Test over the final three Threshold Crossing Event (TCE) deliveries to NExScI: SOC 9.1 (Q1Q16)1 (Tenenbaum et al. 2014), SOC 9.2 (Q1Q17) aka DR242 (Seader et al. 2015), and SOC 9.3 (Q1Q17) aka DR253 (Twicken et al. 2016). The last few years have seen significant improvements in the SOC science data processing pipeline, leading to higher quality light curves and more sensitive transit searches. The statistical bootstrap analysis results presented here and the numerical results archived at NASAs Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) bear witness to these software improvements. This document attempts to introduce and describe the main features and differences between these three data sets as a consequence of the software changes.
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Chadwick Dearing Oliver; E.C. Burkhardt; Daniel A. Skojac
2005-01-01
Red oaks - cherrybark oak (Quercus pagoda Raf.) willow oak (Quercus phellos L.), water oak (Quercus nigra L.), and Nuttall oak (Quercus texana Buckley; aka: Quercus nuttallii Palmer) - are not regrowing in Mississippi Delta river floodplain forests in the southeastern United...
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Technical product bulletin: aka OIL SPILL CLEANUP, this surface washing agent may be applied liberally to heavily weathered oil on rocks or beaches/sand, vegetation, or at full strength on tar balls. Best results if allowed to soak, agitated, or reapplied.
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View west along Lower Raceway, Van Houten Street, with (left ...
View west along Lower Raceway, Van Houten Street, with (left to right) Congdon Mill, Phoenix Mill, and Fabricolor Mill (a.k.a., Industry Mill, HAER No. NJ-15) - Great Falls/S. U. M. Power Canal System, Paterson, Passaic County, NJ
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Background and Objective: The rnain objective ofthis study was to examine the feasibility ofconducting a local (e.g., city level) assessment ofthe public health impacts ofcumulative air pollution reduction activities (a.k.a. accountability) from the federal, state, local and vo...
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Double pruning to prevent trunk diseases in Washington vineyards
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Trunk diseases (aka wood-canker diseases) present a serious challenge to vineyard productivity and longevity. There are four main trunk diseases: Botryosphaeria dieback, Esca, Eutypa dieback, and Phomopsis dieback. The causal fungi (e.g., Eutypa lata, Neofusicoccum parvum) establish chronic infectio...
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76 FR 6843 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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..., Jaslico, Mexico; Vereda Del Canario 1, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Puerto de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco..., Jalisco, Mexico; Puerto de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico; Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.... RODRIGUEZ OLIVERA, Daniel (a.k.a. RODRIGUEZ MORFIN, Daniel), Puerto de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico...
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Flexural strength and fatigue of steel fiber reinforced concrete (2004 Hale Boggs deck).
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
2008-12-01
Through its history, a variety of wearing surface systems for the orthotropic steel deck of the Luling Bridge (aka Hale Boggs : Bridge) have been built and studied. The main problem with these systems was they did not last the expected service life (...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the list of Superfund sites that Administrator Pruitt has targeted for immediate and intense attention. The former Mohawk Tannery facility (a.k.a. Granite State Leathers) is one of the 21 sites on th
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Suppression of GHS-R in AgRP neurons mitigates diet-induced obesity by activating thermogenesis
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Ghrelin, an orexigenic hormone released primarily from the gut, signals the hypothalamus to stimulate growth hormone release, enhance appetite and promote weight gain. The ghrelin receptor, aka Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor (GHS-R), is highly expressed in the brain, with highest expression in...
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1999-12-02
Atlas Image mosaic, covering 34 x 34 on the sky, of the Coma cluster, aka Abell 1656. This is a particularly rich cluster of individual galaxies over 1000 members, most prominently the two giant ellipticals, NGC 4874 right and NGC 4889 left.
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Water and the Ecosystems of the Luquillo Experimental Forest
Ariel E. Lugo
1986-01-01
Water dynamics, water balance, and water requirements of the ecosystems and aquatic organisms of the Luquillo Experimental Forest (aka Caribbean National Forest) are reviewed. Objective is to draw attention to research needs and to highlight importance of freshwater allocations to natural ecosystems.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Gaddis, L. R.; Laura, J.; Hare, T.; Hagerty, J.
2017-06-01
Here we address the role of the PSDI initiative in the context of work to archive and deliver planetary data by NASA’s Planetary Data System, and in particular by the PDS Cartography and Imaging Sciences Discipline Node (aka “Imaging” or IMG).
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Roulette, Casey J; Hagen, Edward; Hewlett, Barry S
2016-06-01
In the developing world, the dramatic male bias in tobacco use is usually ascribed to pronounced gender disparities in social, political, or economic power. This bias might also reflect under-reporting by woman and/or over-reporting by men. To test the role of gender inequality on gender differences in tobacco use we investigated tobacco use among the Aka, a Congo Basin foraging population noted for its exceptionally high degree of gender equality. We also tested a sexual selection hypothesis-that Aka men's tobacco use is related to risk taking. Tobacco use, income, tobacco purchases, tobacco sharing, reasons for using tobacco, risk taking, and other variables were measured using structured surveys and peer reports. Tobacco use was verified by testing for salivary cotinine, a nicotine metabolite. Contrary to expectations, we found a very large male bias in tobacco use. Low levels of use among females appeared to be explained by aversions to tobacco, concerns over its negative effects on fetal health, and a desire to attract husbands, who prefer nonsmoking wives. High male use appeared to be related to a desire to enhance hunting abilities and attract and/or retain wives, who prefer husbands that smoke. We conclude that low levels of smoking by Aka women are better explained by the hypothesis that women evolved to avoid plant toxins to protect their fetuses and nursing infants. High male use might be better explained by sexual selection. We also highlight the important role that recreational drugs appear to play in hunter-gatherer sharing relationships.
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Technical intelligence and culture: Nut cracking in humans and chimpanzees.
Boesch, Christophe; Bombjaková, Daša; Boyette, Adam; Meier, Amelia
2017-06-01
According to the technical intelligence hypothesis, humans are superior to all other animal species in understanding and using tools. However, the vast majority of comparative studies between humans and chimpanzees, both proficient tool users, have not controlled for the effects of age, prior knowledge, past experience, rearing conditions, or differences in experimental procedures. We tested whether humans are superior to chimpanzees in selecting better tools, using them more dexteriously, achieving higher performance and gaining access to more resource as predicted under the technical intelligence hypothesis. Aka and Mbendjele hunter-gatherers in the rainforest of Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo, respectively, and Taï chimpanzees in the rainforest of Côte d'Ivoire were observed cracking hard Panda oleosa nuts with different tools, as well as the soft Coula edulis and Elaeis guinensis nuts. The nut-cracking techniques, hammer material selection and two efficiency measures were compared. As predicted, the Aka and the Mbendjele were able to exploit more species of hard nuts in the forest than chimpanzees. However, the chimpanzees were sometimes more efficient than the humans. Social roles differed between the two species, with the Aka and especially the Mbendjele exhibiting cooperation between nut-crackers whereas the chimpanzees were mainly individualistic. Observations of nut-cracking by humans and chimpanzees only partially supported the technical intelligence hypothesis as higher degrees of flexibility in tool selection seen in chimpanzees compensated for use of less efficient tool material than in humans. Nut cracking was a stronger social undertaking in humans than in chimpanzees. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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75 FR 21151 - Designation of Two Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 13224
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Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Huanglongbing (HLB), aka Citrus Greening, is a well-known destructive disease that threatens the multi-billion dollar citrus industry in the United States and citrus production in other countries around the world. The presumptive causal agent of HLB, ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' (CLas), is of...
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Asiago spectroscopic classification of ASAS-SN18ao
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Tomasella, L.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.; Turatto, M.
2018-01-01
The Asiago Transient Classification Program (Tomasella et al. 2014, AN, 335, 841) reports the spectroscopic classification of ASAS-SN18ao (aka AT2018gm, Atel #11178) discovered during the ongoing All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN, Shappee et al. 2014).
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
SPLAT-MAT Spinosad ME(aka STATIC Spinosad ME),an "attract and kill" sprayable biopesticide, was evaluated as an area wide suppression treatment against Bactrocera carambolae(Drew & Hancock),carambola fruit fly, in Brazil and Bactrocera dorsalis(Hendel),oriental fruit fly, in Hawaii. In Brazil, a sin...
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Efficacy of aerial electrostatic-charged sprays was evaluated for spray deposit characteristics and season-long control of sweet potato whitefly (SWF), Bemisia tabaci biotype B (a.k.a. B. argentifolii), in an irrigated 24-ha cotton field. Treatments included electrostatic-charged sprays at full and ...
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1999-12-02
Atlas Image mosaic, covering 14.8 x 20.0 on the sky, of the Trifid Nebula, aka Messier 20 and NGC 6514. The Trifid is only about 1.5 degrees northwest on the sky of the larger Lagoon Nebula Messier 8 in the constellation Sagittarius
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Glycosyl hydrolase family 5 (GHF5) ß-1,4-endoglucanses, a.k.a. cellulases, are important parasitism genes that facilitate root penetration and migration by plant-parasitic nematodes. The reniform nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) is a sedentary semi-endoparasite of >300 plant species for which li...
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Selecting Cases for Intensive Analysis: A Diversity of Goals and Methods
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Gerring, John; Cojocaru, Lee
2016-01-01
This study revisits the task of case selection in case study research, proposing a new typology of strategies that is explicit, disaggregated, and relatively comprehensive. A secondary goal is to explore the prospects for case selection by "algorithm," aka "ex ante," "automatic," "quantitative,"…
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To Seem and to Feel: Situated Identities and Literacy Practices
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Bartlett, Lesley
2007-01-01
Background/Context: This study draws upon and contributes to sociocultural studies of literacy (a.k.a. New Literacy Studies), sociohistorical theories of identity formation, and practice theories of language interaction to argue that "becoming literate" requires critical inter- and intra-personal identity work accomplished through…
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INTERJURISDICTIONAL HOUSING PRICES IN LOCATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM. (R828103 AKA R826609)
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Concl...
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Welcome to the Blogoshere: The Educational Use of Blogs (aka Edublogs)
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Ray, Jan
2006-01-01
Proclaimed as the "Word of the Year" in 2004 by the "Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary," blog is the official abbreviated name for Weblog. The Weblog began as an online journal, with a single author providing hyperlinks to Web sites of interest and posting personal commentaries for the world to read, ponder, and…
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ESTIMATING EQUILIBRIUM MODELS OF LOCAL JURISDICTION. (R826609 AKA R828103)
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Concl...
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Development of a duplex ddPCR assay for detection of “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus”
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Huanglongbing (HLB) (aka citrus greening) is a devastating citrus disease associated with “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” (CLas). Currently, diagnosis of CLas in regulatory samples is based on a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay using 16S rRNA gene specific primers/pr...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Ryan, Barry J.
2013-01-01
This paper describes how three technologies were utilised in combination to align student learning and assessment as part of a case study. Multiple choice questions (MCQs) were central to all these technologies. The peer learning technologies; Personal Response Devices (a.k.a. "Clickers") and "PeerWise"…
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The South Fork Nooksack River (South Fork) is located in northwest Washington State and is home to nine species of Pacific salmon, including Nooksack early Chinook (aka, spring Chinook salmon), an iconic species for the Nooksack Indian Tribe. The quantity of salmon in the South F...
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APICAL LOCATION OF FERROPORTIN 1 IN AIRWAY EPITHELIA AND ITS ROLE IN IRON DETOXIFICATION IN THE LUNG
Ferroportin 1 (FPN1; aka MTP1, IREG1, and SLC40A1), which was originally identified as a basolateral iron transporter crucial for nutritional iron absorption in the intestine, is expressed in airway epithelia and upregulated when these cells are exposed to iron. Using immunofluor...
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... Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya.'' DATES: The designation by the Director of... Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya'' (the ``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the International.... AL BAGHDADI, Ali Al-Mahmoudi (a.k.a. MAHMUDI, Baghdadi); DOB 1950; POB Al Jamil, Libya; Prime...
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Are western juniper seeds dispersed through diplochory?
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Seed dispersal of western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) appears to be convergent on a strategy utilized by fruit-bearing trees in that this conifer produces fleshy female cones (a.k.a., juniper “berries”) that are consumed by frugivorous birds, which then disperse the seeds through endozoochory b...
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Assessing the Feasibility of Performing an Air Accountability Study in New Haven, CT
The main objective of this EPA study was to examine the feasibility of conducting a local (e.g., city level) assessment of the public health impacts of cumulative air pollution reduction activities (a.k.a. accountability) from the federal, state, local and voluntary actions in t...
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... Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. Notice is... Society, (aka State Historical Society of Wisconsin), Museum Division, Madison, WI, that meet the definition of unassociated funerary object under 25 U.S.C. 3001. This notice is published as part of the...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Bradford, George R.
2011-01-01
This study sought to explore if a relationship exists between cognitive load and student satisfaction with learning online. The study separates academic performance (a.k.a., "learning") from cognitive load and satisfaction to better distinguish influences on cognition (from cognitive load) and motivation (from satisfaction). Considerations that…
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Diaphorina citri is a major pest of citrus because it transmits the bacterium that causes Huanglongbing (HLB) (a.k.a. citrus greening). One approach to disease management is vector management using insecticides. However, knowledge of vector mortality alone is not sufficient if the vector has had tim...
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78 FR 148 - Additional Designations of Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 13581
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..., Russia; Varketili Masivi, 4th Block, 1st Building, Flat 30, Tbilisi, Georgia; DOB 20 Mar 1953; POB Tbilisi, Georgia; citizen Georgia; alt. citizen Russia; Passport 60- 4145924 (Russia); alt. Passport 60-4145934 (Russia) (individual) [TCO] 2. ANAPIYAEV, Almanbet Mamadaminovich (a.k.a. ANAPIYAEV, Almanbaet; a...
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78 FR 59766 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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... Esteban, Olancho, Honduras; Numero de Identidad 1517-1950-00095 (Honduras) (individual) [SDNTK]. 3. RIVERA... Identidad 0209-1949-00019 (Honduras) (individual) [SDNTK]. 4. RIVERA MARADIAGA, Javier Eriberto (a.k.a..., Casa 234, Tocoa, Colon, Honduras; DOB 20 Apr 1972; POB Tocoa, Colon, Honduras; Numero de Identidad 0209...
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2016-03-10
NASA photographer Jim Ross captured this shot while pilot Troy Asher flew inverted in an F-15D. The F-15B is seen here flying over the mirror farm, AKA the Abengoa Mojave Solar Project, east of Four Corners off of Highway 58 in Southern California.
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78 FR 53007 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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... MORALES, Jairo Estuardo (a.k.a. ``EL PELON''), Aldea Dona Maria, Zacapa, Guatemala; DOB 28 Sep 1973; POB Zacapa, Guatemala; nationality Guatemala; citizen Guatemala; Cedula No. R-19 42080 (Guatemala); Passport 111904000420805 (Guatemala) issued 28 Aug 2008 expires 28 Aug 2013 (individual) [SDNTK]. Dated: August 20, 2013...
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PHYTOPLANKTON NUTRIENT STATUS AND VARIABLE FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS IN A GULF COAST ESTUARY
Changes in variable fluorescence parameters such as the maximum quantum yield of fluorescence (a.k.a. photosynthetic efficiency and Fv/Fm) have been related to nutrient status in single-species cultures. To test if changes in Fv/Fm of mixed natural assemblages were related to nut...
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... Jiangsu Inter-China Group Corporation (previously operated as Zhenjiang Inter-China Import & Export Co...., Ltd aka Wanli Tools Group Zhenjiang Inter-China Import & Export Co., Ltd.. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF... the People's Republic of China with respect to one exporter. All deadlines for the submission of...
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75 FR 2929 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
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... soliciting comments concerning an information collection titled ``Bank Secrecy Act/Money Laundering Risk Assessment'' (a.k.a. Money Laundering Risk (MLR) System). The OCC also gives notice that it has sent the... approval for the following information collection: Title: Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Risk...
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78 FR 25740 - Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants
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... Logistics Systems, Inc. dba Mils dba Fesco, Integrated Transport (NVO & OFF), 1000 Second Avenue, Suite 1310...: Name Change to Fesco Integrated Transport North Neptune Shipping Limited dba Novalink Logistics (NVO), 2085 S. Atlantic Blvd., Suite H, Montery Park, CA 91754, Officers: Jennifer aka Pei Pei Li, Vice...
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... industry. The Commission's notice of investigation named as respondents Ninestar Image Co. Ltd., (a/k/a Ninestar Technology Co., Ltd.) of Guangdong, China (``Ninestar''); Ninestar Image Int'l, Ltd. of Guangdong, China (``Ninestar Image Int'l''); Seine Image International Co. Ltd. of New Territories, Hong Kong...
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... Engineering Physics.'' The changes included revising the entry to add additional aliases for that entry. The... listing the aliases as separate aliases for the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics. China (1) Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, a.k.a., the following nineteen aliases: --Ninth Academy; --Southwest...
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Children's Play and Culture Learning in an Egalitarian Foraging Society.
Boyette, Adam H
2016-05-01
Few systematic studies of play in foragers exist despite their significance for understanding the breadth of contexts for human development and the ontogeny of cultural learning. Forager societies lack complex social hierarchies, avenues for prestige or wealth accumulation, and formal educational institutions, and thereby represent a contrast to the contexts of most play research. Analysis of systematic observations of children's play among Aka forest foragers (n = 50, ages 4-16, M = 9.5) and Ngandu subsistence farmers (n = 48, ages 4-16, M = 9.1) collected in 2010 illustrates that while play and work trade off during development in both groups, and consistent patterns in sex-role development are evident, Aka children engage in significantly less rough-and-tumble play and competitive games than children among their socially stratified farming neighbors. © 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
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Bell's Theorem, Many Worlds and Backwards-Time Physics: Not Just a Matter of Interpretation
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Werbos, Paul J.
2008-11-01
The classic “Bell’s Theorem” of Clauser, Holt, Shimony and Horne tells us that we must give up at least one of: (1) objective reality (aka “hidden variables”); (2) locality; or (3) time-forwards macroscopic statistics (aka “causality”). The orthodox Copenhagen version of physics gives up the first. The many-worlds theory of Everett and Wheeler gives up the second. The backwards-time theory of physics (BTP) gives up the third. Contrary to conventional wisdom, empirical evidence strongly favors Everett-Wheeler over orthodox Copenhagen. BTP allows two major variations—a many-worlds version and a neoclassical version based on Partial Differential Equations (PDE), in the spirit of Einstein. Section 2 of this paper discusses the origins of quantum measurement according to BTP, focusing on the issue of how we represent condensed matter objects like polarizers in a model “Bell’s Theorem” experiment. The backwards time telegraph (BTT) is not ruled out in BTP, but is highly speculative for now, as will be discussed.
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Optimization of the AGS superconducting helical partial snake strength.
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Lin,F.; Huang, H.; Luccio, A.U.
2008-06-23
Two helical partial snakes, one super-conducting (a.k.a cold snake) and one normal conducting (a.k.a warm snake), have preserved the polarization of proton beam up to 65% in the Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at the extraction energy from 85% at injection. In order to overcome spin resonances, stronger partial snakes would be required. However, the stronger the partial snake, the more the stable spin direction tilted producing a stronger horizontal intrinsic resonance. The balance between increasing the spin tune gap generated by the snakes and reducing the tilted stable spin direction has to be considered to maintain the polarization. Becausemore » the magnetic field of the warm snake has to be a constant, only the cold snake with a maximum 3T magnetic field can be varied to find out the optimum snake strength. This paper presents simulation results by spin tracking with different cold snake magnetic fields. Some experimental data are also analyzed.« less
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Matjasko, Jennifer L.
2011-01-01
Based on the stage environment and the person environment fit perspectives, the current study examined the relation between school disciplinary policies and offending from adolescence into young adulthood. Using Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (a.k.a., Add Health), hierarchical multinomial logistic…
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75 FR 38107 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request
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2010-07-01
... TeamSTEPPS[supreg] (aka Team Strategies and Tools for Enhancing Performance and Patient Safety) to provide an evidence-based suite of tools and strategies for training teamwork- based patient safety to... TeamSTEPPS and are afforded the opportunity to observe the tools and strategies provided in the program...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
McMurray, Jaclyn Roverud
2012-01-01
The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between family literacy practices and children's early literacy development. Drawing from a developmental-ecological framework, this study modified existing surveys (e.g., Family Involvement Questionnaire, a.k.a. FIQ, by Fantuzzo, Tighe, & Childs, 2000) to develop the "Family…
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10 Ways to Protect Your Hearing
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Walter, Jennifer Stewart
2011-01-01
There are physical symptoms related to noise overexposure--difficulty with communication, ringing in the ears, temporary hearing loss (a.k.a. temporary threshold shift), noise-induced hearing loss--as well as psychological symptoms, such as irritability and psychological fatigue. Since both the physical and psychological symptoms of noise…
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
The indica rice accession, PI 312777 (a.k.a. WC 4644), is highly productive and can suppress barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) in reduced-input systems, but the genetic control of this weed suppression is unknown. A set of 330 recombinant inbred lines (RILs) was developed using single seed desc...
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... Physics'' (CAEP) and not as part of the eighteenth alias, i.e. the ``University of Electronic Science and... described above, to read as follows: China (1) Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, a.k.a., the following...; --Southwest Institute of Fluid Physics; --Southwest Institute of General Designing and Assembly; --Southwest...
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David Anna
2017-12-09
The National Energy Technology Laboratory developed the idea of a portable joint information center AKA JIC in-a-box. This video discribes some of the equipment in the portable JIC as well as some of the methodology that NETL developed as a result of this portable JIC concept.
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Worldwide genetic diversity for mineral element concentrations in rice grain
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
With the aim of identifying rice (Oryza spp.) germplasm having enhanced grain nutritional value, the mineral nutrient and trace element content (a.k.a. ionome) of whole (unmilled) grains from a set of 1763 rice accessions of diverse geographic and genetic origin were evaluated. Seed for analysis o...
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2011-12-05
... published in the Federal Register our preliminary notice to rescind the NSR with respect to Shanghai Colour... should be rescinded. \\1\\ Shanghai Colour Nail Co., Ltd. (aka, Shanghai Colour Nail Import & Export Co., Ltd.), and Wuxi Colour Nail Co., Ltd. (collectively ``Shanghai Colour''). \\2\\ See Certain Steel Nails...
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... Group). 26 Haimen Shuguang Carbon Industry Co., Ltd. 27 Handan Hanbo Material Co., Ltd. 28 Hebei Long Great Wall Electrode Co., Ltd. (aka Chang Cheng Chang Electrode Co., Ltd. and Laishui Long Great Wall... Inner Mongolia Xinghe County Hongyuan Electrical Carbon Factory. 35 Jiang Long Carbon. 36 Jiangsu Yafei...
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Section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act requires states to assess the overall quality of waters in the states, while Section 303(d) requires states to develop a list of the specific waters in their state not attaining water quality standards (a.k.a impaired waters). An integrate...
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... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [File No. 500-1] In the Matter of Digital Video Systems, Inc., Geocom Resources, Inc., and GoldMountain Exploration Corp., and Real Data, Inc. (a/k/a Galtech... securities of Digital Video Systems, Inc. because it has not filed any periodic reports since the period...
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76 FR 10668 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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... Agency, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement... EXCHANGE; a.k.a. SHAH HAKIMI MONEY EXCHANGE), Sarayee Shahzada, 1 floor, Shop No. 7, Kabul, Afghanistan; Surai Shahzada, Ground Floor, Shop No. 7, Kabul, Afghanistan; Sara-e-Shahzada Market, Shop No. 7, Kabul...
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76 FR 75950 - Hazardous Materials: Emergency Restriction/Prohibition Order
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.... This Order is issued to Rainbow of Hope, Strategic Sciences, Inc., Realm Industries AKA Realm Catalyst... company of Rainbow of Hope. This explosion was also linked to TyLar. In light of these facts, PHMSA... of Hope, Strategic Sciences, Inc., Realm Industries (Realm Catalyst, Inc.), any other alias or...
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Cold plasma processing technology makes advances
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Cold plasma (AKA nonthermal plasma, cool plasma, gas plasma, etc.) is a rapidly maturing antimicrobial process being developed for applications in the food industry. A wide array of devices can be used to create cold plasma, but the defining characteristic is that they operate at or near room temper...
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75 FR 12748 - Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants
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... Line (LA), Inc., 470 Cloverleaf Drive, Unit A&B, Baldwin Park, CA 91706, Officers: Wai (aka Winson) M... Shipping & Logistics, LLC, 10651 SW. 108 Avenue, 3A, Miami, FL 33176, Officers: Lorenzo A. Macias... Individual), Zhenfen Wu, Chairman. Qingfeng Wang dba Global Intertrans Logistics, 200 East Norwood Place, San...
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AN OVERVIEW OF THE AQUATIC ECOLOGICAL RISKS POSED BY DIOXIN-LIKE CHEMICALS
This seminar will provide a basic overview of how 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (a.k.a. TCDD or "dioxin") and dioxin-like chemicals (e.g., certain PCBs) bioaccumulate and affect non-human receptors in aquatic food webs; the latest on applications of the toxicity equivalence...
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Exposing Gaps in/between Discourses of Linguistic Deficits
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Johnson, Eric J.; Avineri, Netta; Johnson, David Cassels
2017-01-01
Hart and Risley's (1995) concept of a "word gap" (aka "language gap") is widely used to describe inferior cognitive development and lower academic achievement as by-products of the language patterns of families from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. In recent decades, this line of deficit research has proliferated and…
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Childhood Diabesity: International Applications for Health Education and Health Policy
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Pinzon-Perez, Helda; Kotkin-Jaszi, Suzanne; Perez, Miguel A.
2010-01-01
Health policy has a direct impact on health education initiatives, health care delivery, resource allocation, and quality of life. Increasing rates in the epidemics of obesity and obesity-dependent diabetes mellitus (aka diabesity) suggest that health policy changes should be included in health education and disease prevention strategies. Health…
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77 FR 28250 - Entity List Additions; Corrections
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2012-05-14
... person who was added under the destination of Pakistan to clarify the text is the address of this person... follows: Pakistan (1) Jalaluddin Haqqani, a.k.a., the following seven aliases: --General Jalaluddin... Jalaluddin. --Miram Shah, Pakistan. United Arab Emirates (1) Al Maskah Used Car and Spare Parts, Maliha Road...
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis(Hendel)(aka B.invadens Drew, Tsuruta, and White) was first reported in Africa in 2003 and has since spread to over 27 countries. It has become a serious tree fruit pest, particularly in mango (Mangifera indica L.). Because of uncertainty as to the exact status...
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Some Daytime Activities in Solar Astronomy
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Burin, Michael J.
2016-01-01
This century's transits of Venus (2004, 2012) captured significant public attention, reminding us that the wonders of astronomy need not be confined to the night. And while nighttime telescope viewing gatherings (a.k.a. "star parties") are perennially popular, astronomy classes are typically held in the daytime. The logistics of…
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Shifting with the Paradigm: LJ's Picks & Pans for ALA in Disneyland
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Berry, John N., III
2008-01-01
The feelings of librarians planning for the American Library Association (ALA) conference at Disneyland (aka Anaheim, California, June 26-July 2) range from moderate pleasure to dread. Some remember the joys and difficulties of Orlando, especially the exorbitant cab fares and mediocre restaurants. Others quail at screaming kids and tourists in…
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When Policy Is Practice: SDE Effort to Help/Transform/Label Low-Performing Schools
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Phillips, April J.
2017-01-01
Policymakers have long been infatuated with education reform (Berliner & Biddle, 1995; Stein, 2004), including at the state level (Lusi, 1997). Consistent with this longer tradition, the Nebraska State Legislature (a.k.a. the "Unicameral') passed Legislative Bill 438 (LB 438) in 2014, providing a statutory outline for a new education…
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2011-03-30
or remediation Used with regulatory values to determine cleanup levels Risk-based screening levels (aka PRGs, RBCs, RSLs) ►Screen sites early in...Final IRIS Values for Hydrogen Cyanide and Cyanide Salts (September 2010) New Oral noncancer RfD = 0.0006 mg/kg- day; male reproduction effects
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1975-01-01
initialization. The switching section must switch high bandwidth analog signrtls (i.e., video ) and route certain hardwired functions. These functions are...tenwfltlon of the tfeCxiCI,& and w*c interface rfqmuied fit. mate the Pedo -Recruit with the F,4J aka 770 b. Analysis and wind tunnel verification of
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78 FR 36635 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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...) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: RESTAURANT BAR LOS ANDARIEGOS, S.A. DE C.V.). 2. BUENROSTRO VILLA, Denisse... (Mexico) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: RESTAURANT BAR LOS ANDARIEGOS, S.A. DE C.V.). 8. CORTES...]. 15. RESTAURANT BAR LOS ANDARIEGOS, S.A. DE C.V. (a.k.a. BARBARESCO RESTAURANT), [[Page 36638
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Mining and Modeling Real-World Networks: Patterns, Anomalies, and Tools
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Akoglu, Leman
2012-01-01
Large real-world graph (a.k.a network, relational) data are omnipresent, in online media, businesses, science, and the government. Analysis of these massive graphs is crucial, in order to extract descriptive and predictive knowledge with many commercial, medical, and environmental applications. In addition to its general structure, knowing what…
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Learning Sociolinguistically Appropriate Language through the Video Drama "Connect with English"
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Hwang, Caroline C.
2005-01-01
Video provides (1) simultaneous audio/visual input, and (2) complete and contextualized conversations, and thus proves to be a rich vehicle in foreign language instruction. The video drama "Connect with English" (a.k.a. "Rebecca's Dream"), created to promote English language learning, is particularly outstanding in that it contains an captivating…
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Sources of Interference in Recognition Testing
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Annis, Jeffrey; Malmberg, Kenneth J.; Criss, Amy H.; Shiffrin, Richard M.
2013-01-01
Recognition memory accuracy is harmed by prior testing (a.k.a., output interference [OI]; Tulving & Arbuckle, 1966). In several experiments, we interpolated various tasks between recognition test trials. The stimuli and the tasks were more similar (lexical decision [LD] of words and nonwords) or less similar (gender identification of male and…
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Verbal and Nonverbal Semantic Processing in Children with Developmental Language Impairment
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Cummings, Alycia; Ceponiene, Rita
2010-01-01
In an effort to clarify whether semantic integration is impaired in verbal and nonverbal auditory domains in children with developmental language impairment (a.k.a., LI and SLI), the present study obtained behavioral and neural responses to words and environmental sounds in children with language impairment and their typically developing…
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77 FR 61752 - Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants
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..., Application Type: New OFF License. Korchina Logistics USA, Inc. (NVO & OFF), 18120 S. Broadway Street, Unit A, Gardena, CA 90248, Officers: Jong (A.K.A. Jake) K. Park, CFO (QI), Eric Sun, President, Application Type... License. Ocean Line Logistics Inc. (NVO & OFF), 630 W. Duarte Road, 205, Arcadia, CA 91007, Officer...
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... Nam Co. Ltd., Sao Ta Foods Joint Stock Company; Soc Trang Aquatic Products and General Import Export Company; UTXI Aquatic Products Processing Company; and Viet Foods Co., Ltd, (collectively, the ``23... Phuong Nam Co. Ltd., aka 0.01 Phuong Nam Seafood Co. Ltd. Sao Ta Foods Joint Stock Company (``Fimex VN...
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... Armenia, two persons in China, seven persons in Hong Kong, four persons in Malaysia and two persons in.... Hakobyan 3, Yerevan, Armenia. China (1) Chitron Electronics Company Ltd, a.k.a., Chi-Chuang Electronics Company Ltd (Chitron-Shenzhen), 2127 Sungang Rd, Huatong Bldg, 19/F, Louhu Dist, Shenzhen, China 518001...
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How IRT Can Solve Problems of Ipsative Data in Forced-Choice Questionnaires
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Brown, Anna; Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto
2013-01-01
In multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) questionnaires, items measuring different attributes are presented in blocks, and participants have to rank order the items within each block (fully or partially). Such comparative formats can reduce the impact of numerous response biases often affecting single-stimulus items (aka rating or Likert scales).…
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Kardex Quadrangle Overlays - www.arlis.org
Wild & Scenic Rivers About Contacts Partner Libraries Policies Administrative Records Challenged Records Challenged Materials Circulation Code of Conduct Conference Room Conference Room Form Internet Use /AK/AE-03/003. This page links to records in jpg graphics format. The images in this collection are
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... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [AKA01300.L14100000.ES0000; AA-092370, and AA... AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of realty action. SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) examined approximately 0.31 acres of public land in Alaska and found it suitable for...
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A Network Design Approach to Countering Terrorism
2015-09-01
2003). More and more scale-free networks have been discovered. How can such diverse systems have the same architecture and properties? Part of the...Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed (a.k.a. the Egyptian ) convinced the group to pursuit jihad at home, where they had the material resources to act (Atran, 2010
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A Sustaining Environment for Environmental Art
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Malamud, Randy
2008-01-01
Environmental art (aka land art, green art, earthworks) aims to interpret nature and to inspire audiences to re-envision people's relationship with nature. Some artists see their work as a springboard for reclaiming and remediating damaged environments. Art began keenly grounded in nature--think of cave paintings of animals, in charcoal and…
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Consent Agreement and Final Order for AMVAC Chemical Corporation
EPA has reason to believe that the pesticide Fluensulfone 480EC (a/k/a Nimitz) is misbranded as defined in section 2(q)(1)(F) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. § 136(q)(1)(F) and section 2(q)(1)(G) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. § 136(q)(1)(G).
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USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
The genetically engineered plum 'HoneySweet' (aka C5) has proven to be highly resistant to Plum pox virus (PPV) for over 10 years in field trials. The original vector used for transformation to develop 'HoneySweet' carried a single sense sequence of the full length PPV coat protein (ppv-cp) gene, y...
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... DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice: 7086] In the Matter of the Review of the Designation of the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (aka CPP/NPA and Other Aliases) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization Pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as Amended Based upon a review of...
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Exploring folate diversity in wild and primitive potatoes for modern crop improvement
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Malnutrition is one of the world’s largest health concerns. Folate (a.k.a. vitamin B9) is essential in the human diet and without adequate folate intake several serious health concerns such as congenital birth defects and an increased risk of stroke and heart disease can occur. Most people’s folate ...
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Daniel J. Twedt; Scott G. Somershoe
2013-01-01
To promote desired forest conditions that enhance wildlife habitat in bottomland forests, managers prescribed and implemented variable-retention harvest, a.k.a. wildlife forestry, in four stands on Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge, LA. These treatments created canopy openings (gaps) within which managers sought to regenerate shade-intolerant trees. Six years after...
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2002
This 40-minute videotape tackles the issue of childhood bullying and unwanted teasing and torment. This videotape features real school children handling dramatic roles, and "doing the right thing" (aka "positive modeling.") The film is divided into two distinct parts: first act themes include bullying, girl bullies, children without one or both…
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77 FR 50210 - Unblocking of One (1) Individual Designated Pursuant to Executive Order 13573
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... removed from the SDN List. The following designation is removed from the SDN List: Individual 1. HIJAB, Riyad (a.k.a. HIJAB, Riyad Farid), Syria; DOB 1966; POB Deir Ezzor, Syria; Prime Minister (individual... concerning OFAC are available from OFAC's Web site ( www.treas.gov/ofac ) or via facsimile through a 24-hour...
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... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [File No. 500-1] Bio-Life Labs, Inc., BSI2000, Inc., Calais Resources, Inc., EGX Funds Transfer, Inc., Great Western Land Recreation, Inc. (a/k/a Great Western Land and... securities of Bio-Life Labs, Inc. because it has not filed any periodic reports since the period ended March...
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... Processing Company and UT-XI Aquatic Products Processing Company. \\32\\ AKA Viet Foods, Nam Hai Exports Food Stuff Limited, Nam Hai Export Foodstuff Company Ltd., Vietfoods Co. Ltd., Viet Foods Company Limited and...\\ 4.57 Phu Cuong Seafood Processing and Import-Export Company 4.57 Limited \\25\\ Phuong Nam Co. Ltd.\\26...
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...-00233-001-PHX-FJM; October, 1976. (15) Juan Victorian Gimenez; March 21, 2012; U.S. District Court...; April, 1976. (2) Davoud Baniameri (aka Davoud Baniamery, David Baniameri, David Baniamery); August 12... Edwardo Cantu; March 21, 2012; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; Case No. 7:11CR00686-S1...
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15 CFR Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 - Entity List
Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR
2014-01-01
...) BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS CONTROL POLICY... the EAR. (See § 744.11 of the EAR). Presumption of denial 77 FR 25057, 4/27/12. Zurmat Group of... Electronic Solutions, a.k.a., the following one alias:—Mercury Group International, 380 Vansickle Rd Unit 660...
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... than August 31, 2011.\\3\\ \\1\\ (1) An Giang Fisheries Import and Export Joint Stock Company (aka Agifish... Vietnam, 68 FR 47909 (August 12, 2003). On September 22, 2010, the Department initiated the August 1, 2009... Revocation, 75 FR 60076, (September 29, 2010). Based upon requests for review from various parties, the...
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Bringing RNA Interference (RNAi) into the High School Classroom
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Sengupta, Sibani
2013-01-01
RNA interference (abbreviated RNAi) is a relatively new discovery in the field of mechanisms that serve to regulate gene expression (a.k.a. protein synthesis). Gene expression can be regulated at the transcriptional level (mRNA production, processing, or stability) and at the translational level (protein synthesis). RNAi acts in a gene-specific…
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
IT Coroporation, Las Vegas, NV
2002-04-17
This Corrective Action Decision Document/Closure Report (CADD/CR) has been prepared for Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 405, Area 3 Septic Systems, in accordance with the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order. Located on the Tonopah Test Range (TTR) approximately 235 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada, CAU 405 consists of three Corrective Action Sites (CASs): 03-05-002-SW03, Septic Waste System (aka: Septic Waste System [SWS] 3); 03-05-002-SW04, Septic Waste System (aka: SWS 4); 03-05-002-SW07, Septic Waste System (aka: SWS 7). The CADD and CR have been combined into one report because no further action is recommended for this CAU, and this reportmore » provides specific information necessary to support this recommendation. The CAU consists of three leachfields and associated collection systems that were installed in or near Area 3 for wastewater disposal. These systems were used until a consolidated sewer system was installed in 1990. Historically, operations within various buildin gs in and near Area 3 of the TTR generated sanitary and industrial wastewaters. There is a potential that contaminants of concern (COCs) were present in the wastewaters and were disposed of in septic tanks and leachfields. The justification for closure of this CAU without further action is based on process knowledge and the results of the investigative activities. Closure activities were performed at these CASs between January 14 and February 2, 2002, and included the removal and proper disposal of media containing regulated constituents and proper closure of septic tanks. No further action is appropriate because all necessary activities have been completed. No use restrictions are required to be imposed for these sites since the investigation showed no evidence of COCs identified in the soil for CAU 405.« less
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77 FR 39573 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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..., Ali Houssein (a.k.a. HARB, Ali Hussein), Calle 10A No. 11-63, Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia; Calle 13... to the Kingpin Act: SALEH, Ali Mohamad, c/o ALMACEN BATUL; c/o COMERCIAL ESTILO Y MODA; DOB 1 Jan 1974; Cedula No. 1124006380 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK]. The listing appears as follows: SALEH, Ali...
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Separate Is Inherently Unequal: Rethinking Commonly Held Wisdom
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Lightfoot, Jonathan D.
2006-01-01
Modern educational reform owes much to the legal team and educational leaders who fought to make equal educational opportunity a reality for Black students in the United States of America. Their efforts helped to dismantle American apartheid; a.k.a. Jim Crow, a system of allocating human and civil rights according to assigned or assumed…
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Healthcare.gov: Opportunity out of Disaster. Teaching Case
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Cundiff, Jacob; McCallum, Taylor; Rich, Andrew; Truax, Michael; Ward, Tamara; Havelka, Douglas
2015-01-01
The launch of HealthCare.gov, the website of the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare), was a major public relations disaster for the Obama administration. This case examines some of the factors that contributed to the failure of the launch and then details how Optum, an information technology service provider, considered the opportunity provided by…
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2006-10-01
evidence for these parallels through the depression of glass transition temperature in silica-filled polystyrene.31 For the final material performance...has been reported for molecular nanowires, tubes, ribbons, and rods (Li2Mo6- Se6, imogolite, Nb2PS10, V2O5 , boehmite (γ-AlOOH), aka- ganeite (â-FeOOH
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77 FR 838 - Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
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...) (individual) [SDNTK]. 4. EL KHANSA, Ahmad, c/o GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY IMPORT & EXPORT, S.A. (GTI); DOB 4 Oct 1967... Zouheir (a.k.a. TORRES ZAMBRANO, Manuel), c/o ALMACEN ELECTRO SONY STAR; c/o GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY IMPORT.... GIORGIOTELLY, S.A., Panama; RUC 33518-38-252229 (Panama) [SDNTK]. 28. GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY IMPORT & EXPORT, S.A...
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R. C. Ploetz; Y. Y. Thant; M. A. Hughes; T. J. Dreaden; J. L. Konkol; A. T. Kyaw; J. A. Smith; C. L. Harmon
2016-01-01
In October 2014, a survey for diseases and pests of an emerging fruit crop, avocado (Persea americana) (FAO 2000), was conducted in Southern Shan State of Myanmar (aka Burma). In the Tuanggyi District (1,400 m elevation, 20.5°N 97°E), monocultures of up to 20 ha were observed, whereas...
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... SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [File No. 500-1] IAS Energy, Inc., IB3 Networks, Inc., IBroadband, Inc., ICP Solar Technologies, Inc., IdentiPHI, Inc., iDNA, Inc., Immune Network Ltd., Inca Designs, Inc., Indico Technologies, Inc. (n/k/a Indico Resources Ltd.), Infopage, Inc. (a/k/a Tamija Gold & Diamond Exploration, Inc.), Innofone.com , Inc...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Nanin, Jose E.; Parsons, Jeffrey T.; Bimbi, David S.; Grov, Christian; Brown, Justin T.
2006-01-01
Crystal methamphetamine (aka "crystal meth") use with high-risk sex has become an emerging health problem for gay and bisexual men in New York City since the late 1990s. Public health campaigns were eventually developed to encourage gay and bisexual men to avoid or reconsider using crystal meth. Reactions to three campaigns were measured…
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Lexical and Clause-Linkage Properties of the Converbal Constructions in Sakha (Yakut)
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Petrova, Nyurguyana
2011-01-01
This thesis is a comprehensive study of lexical and clause-linkage properties of converbs in an underdescribed language, Sakha (aka Yakut). Following Haspelmath (1995b) a converb is defined as a non-finite verb form which mainly indicates an adverbial subordination. Converbs are attested in diverse languages of the world, but are used extensively…
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... Management Group, Inc., DnC Multimedia Corp., Dorsey Trailers, Inc. (n/k/a DT Liquidation, Inc.), and ElectraCapital, Inc. (a/k/a Electra Capital, Inc.); Order of Suspension of Trading March 10, 2011. It appears to.... (n/k/a DT Liquidation, Inc.) because it has not filed any periodic reports since the period ended...
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Rowe, Mike
2015-01-01
Mike Rowe wants high school students to rethink that $140,000 art history degree. The creator, executive producer, and host of CNN's Somebody's Gotta Do It and former host of TV's Dirty Jobs has long been passionate about promoting vocational, aka middle-skills, professions. Over the past decade, Rowe has given countless public and private…
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A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca (Soteapanec, a Mixe-Zoquean Language)
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
de Jong Boudreault, Lynda J.
2009-01-01
This dissertation is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Sierra Popoluca (SP, aka Soteapanec), a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in Veracruz, Mexico. This grammar begins with an introduction to the language, its language family, a typological overview of the language, a brief history of my fieldwork, and the…
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77 FR 61249 - Addition of Certain Persons to the Entity List
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The Photomontages of John Heartfield: A Provocative Teaching Tool for "Landeskunde."
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Mathieu, Gustave Bording
1992-01-01
A case is made for the use of the politically provocative photomontages of Heartfield (a.k.a. Berlin-born Helmut Herzfeld) in the German classroom. The interplay of language, art, culture, and history makes them especially useful as realia. A model for teaching them is presented, including a chronology and nine reproductions. (Author/LB)
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Home Energy Scoring Tools (website) and Application Programming Interfaces, APIs (aka HEScore)
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Mills, Evan; Bourassa, Norm; Rainer, Leo
2016-04-22
A web-based residential energy rating tool with APIs that runs the LBNL website: Provides customized estimates of residential energy use and energy bills based on building description information provided by the user. Energy use is estimated using engineering models developed at LBNL. Space heating and cooling use is based on the DOE-2. 1E building simulation model. Other end-users (water heating, appliances, lighting, and misc. equipment) are based on engineering models developed by LBNL.
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Home Energy Scoring Tools (website) and Application Programming Interfaces, APIs (aka HEScore)
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Mills, Evan; Bourassa, Norm; Rainer, Leo
A web-based residential energy rating tool with APIs that runs the LBNL website: Provides customized estimates of residential energy use and energy bills based on building description information provided by the user. Energy use is estimated using engineering models developed at LBNL. Space heating and cooling use is based on the DOE-2. 1E building simulation model. Other end-users (water heating, appliances, lighting, and misc. equipment) are based on engineering models developed by LBNL.
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INCREMENTAL CONSUMER'S SURPLUS AND HEDONIC PRICE ADJUSTMENT. (R826609 AKA R828103)
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Concl...
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A Peculiar Subclass of Type Ia Supernovae a.k.a. Type Iax
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Singh, Mridweeka; Misra, Kuntal; Sahu, Devendra Kumar; Dastidar, Raya; Gangopadhyay, Anjasha; Bose, Subhash; Srivastav, Shubham; Anapuma, Gadiyara Chakrapani; Chakradhari, Nand Kumar; Kumar, Brajesh; Kumar, Brijesh; Pandey, Shashi Bhushan
2018-04-01
We present optical photometric (upto ˜ 410 days since Bmax) and spectroscopic (upto ˜ 235 days since Bmax) observations of a type Iax supernova SN 2014dt located in M61. The broad band light curves follow a linear decline up to ˜ 100 days after which a significant flattening is seen in the late-time (beyond 150 days) light curves of SN 2014dt. SN 2014dt best matches the light curve evolution of SN 2005hk and reaches a peak magnitude of MB˜ -18.12±0.04 with ?m15˜ 1.35±0.06 mag. The earliest spectrum at ˜ 23 days is dominated by FeII and CoII lines with the absence of the Si II 6150 Å line. Using the peak bolometric luminosity we estimate a 56Ni mass of 0.14 M⊙ in the case of SN 2005hk and the striking similarity between SN 2014dt and SN 2005hk implies that a comparable amount of 56Ni would have been synthesized in the explosion of SN 2014dt. There are several explosion scenarios proposed for these peculiar events. Being one of the brightest and closest SN! , SN 2014dt is an ideal candidate for long term monitoring. Late phase observations are very essential to understand the progenitor system and the actual explosion scenario for these events.
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Science in a Team Environment (AKA, How to Play Nicely with Others)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Platts, S. H.; Primeaux, L.; Swarmer, T.; Yarbough, P. O
2017-01-01
So you want to do NASA funded research in a spaceflight analog? There are several things about participating in an HRP managed analog that may be different from the way you normally do work in your laboratory. The purpose of this presentation is to highlight those differences and explain some of the unique aspects of doing this research. Participation in an HRP funded analog study complement, even if initially selected for funding, is not automatic and involves numerous actions from ISSMP, HRP, and the PI. There are steps that have to be taken and processes to follow before approval and ISSMP-FA integration. After the proposal and acceptance process the Investigator works closely with the Flight Analog team to ensure full integration of their study requirements into a compliment. A complement is comprised of a group of studies requiring a common platform and/or scenario that are able to be integrated on a non-interference basis for implementation. Full integration into the analog platform can be broken down into three phases: integration, preparation, and implementation. These phases occur in order with some overlap in the integration and preparation phase. The ISSMP-FA team integrates, plans and implements analog study complements. Properly defining your research requirements and getting them documented is one of the most critical components to ensure successful integration and implementation of your study, but is also one of the most likely to be neglected by PIs. Requirements that are not documented, or that are documented poorly are unlikely to get done, no matter how much you push. The process to document requirements is two-fold, consisting of an initial individual requirements integration and then a compliment requirements integration. Understanding the requirements in detail and early ensures that the science is not compromised by outside influences. This step is vital to the integration, preparation, and implementation phases. The individual requirements integration is the first step in ensuring that the research fits into an available analog platform or allows for the Flight Analog team to provide information on structural study changes for participation in the analog. At this early point investigators need to understand exactly what their requirements are to produce relevant data and convey their must have needs to the Flight Analog team. The fluid nature of analog platforms allow for minor alterations to the operational structure. Participation in analog research requires flexibility from the investigator to ensure implementation of their research into a flight like analog platform. The compliment integration requires plasticity; investigators are asked to work closely with one another and the Flight Analog team to combine research studies into a single study plan. This study plan's ultimate goal is to facilitate multiple study participation with minimal scientific impact to each individual study. The Flight Analogs team works to find the best compromise for all parties while protecting the flight like atmosphere of a particular analog. Additional restrictions, limitations and constraints may be required by the analog in order to make all of the science work. Many studies need to be combined into each complement and there are a limited number of hours available for data collection. Through data/sample sharing, we can reduce the burden on the test subject, while usually avoiding significant science impacts. Restrictions on food, exercise, medications and sleep cycle are important to consider for your research.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Kempler, Steve; Alcott, Gary; Lynnes, Chris; Leptoukh, Greg; Vollmer, Bruce; Berrick, Steve
2008-01-01
NASA Earth Sciences Division (ESD) has made great investments in the development and maintenance of data management systems and information technologies, to maximize the use of NASA generated Earth science data. With information management system infrastructure in place, mature and operational, very small delta costs are required to fully support data archival, processing, and data support services required by the recommended Decadal Study missions. This presentation describes the services and capabilities of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) and the reusability for these future missions. The GES DISC has developed a series of modular, reusable data management components currently in use. They include data archive and distribution (Simple, Scalable, Script-based, Science [S4] Product Archive aka S4PA), data processing (S4 Processor for Measurements aka S4PM), data search (Mirador), data browse, visualization, and analysis (Giovanni), and data mining services. Information management system components are based on atmospheric scientist inputs. Large development and maintenance cost savings can be realized through their reuse in future missions.
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Critical Behavior in Cellular Automata Animal Disease Transmission Model
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Morley, P. D.; Chang, Julius
Using cellular automata model, we simulate the British Government Policy (BGP) in the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in Great Britain. When clinical symptoms of the disease appeared in a farm, there is mandatory slaughter (culling) of all livestock in an infected premise (IP). Those farms in the neighboring of an IP (contiguous premise, CP), are also culled, aka nearest neighbor interaction. Farms where the disease may be prevalent from animal, human, vehicle or airborne transmission (dangerous contact, DC), are additionally culled, aka next-to-nearest neighbor interactions and lightning factor. The resulting mathematical model possesses a phase transition, whereupon if the physical disease transmission kernel exceeds a critical value, catastrophic loss of animals ensues. The nonlocal disease transport probability can be as low as 0.01% per day and the disease can still be in the high mortality phase. We show that the fundamental equation for sustainable disease transport is the criticality equation for neutron fission cascade. Finally, we calculate that the percentage of culled animals that are actually healthy is ≈30%.
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Teaching in hunter–gatherer infancy
Hewlett, Barry S.; Roulette, Casey J.
2016-01-01
A debate exists as to whether teaching is part of human nature and central to understanding culture or whether it is a recent invention of Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic cultures. Some social–cultural anthropologists and cultural psychologists indicate teaching is rare in small-scale cultures while cognitive psychologists and evolutionary biologists indicate it is universal and key to understanding human culture. This study addresses the following questions: Does teaching of infants exist in hunter–gatherers? If teaching occurs in infancy, what skills or knowledge is transmitted by this process, how often does it occur and who is teaching? The study focuses on late infancy because cognitive psychologists indicate that one form of teaching, called natural pedagogy, emerges at this age. Videotapes of Aka hunter–gatherer infants were used to evaluate whether or not teaching exists among Aka hunter–gatherers of central Africa. The study finds evidence of multiple forms of teaching, including natural pedagogy, that are used to enhance learning of a variety of skills and knowledge. PMID:26909166
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Static Extraction and Conformance Analysis of Hierarchical Runtime Architectural Structure
2010-05-14
Example: CryptoDB 253 Architectural Component Java Class Note CustomerManager cryptodb.test.CustomerManager AKA “ crypto consumer” CustomerManager.Receipts...PROVIDERS PLAIN KEYID KEYMANAGEMENT KEYSTORAGE CRYPTO (+) (+) (+) (+) (+) (+) (+)(+) Figure 7.29: CryptoDB: Level-0 OOG with String objects...better understand this communication, we declared different domains for plain-text (PLAIN), encrypted ( CRYPTO ), alias identifier (ALIASID), and key
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Theoretical Studies of Small-System Thermodynamics in Energetic Materials
2016-01-06
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: This is a comprehensive theoretical research program to investigate the fundamental principles of small-system thermodynamics ...a.k.a. nanothermodynamics). The proposed work is motivated by our desire to better understand the fundamental dynamics and thermodynamics of...for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited Final Report: Theoretical Studies of Small-System Thermodynamics in Energetic Materials The views, opinions
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... Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') of the entities identified in this notice whose... E.O. 13067 and E.O. 13412 from the SDN List: BANK OF KHARTOUM (a.k.a. BANK OF KHARTOUM GROUP), P.O... [SUDAN] On May 26, 2011, OFAC removed from the SDN List the entity listed below, whose property and...
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Sports Drove Silva to Teach Wellness
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Deschenie, Tina
2008-01-01
This article profiles teacher Leroy Silva (Laguna), 27, a.k.a. "Buster". Silva describes himself as an active guy who stays busy working out, playing basketball, softball, and more recently golf, soccer, and lacrosse. He teaches personal wellness and sports (not physical education), a job he began in 2006. Before that he was a trainer at…
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Chen, Yu-Hua; Baker, Paul
2016-01-01
In this study, we investigated criterial discourse features in L2 writing through the use of recurrent word combinations, a.k.a. lexical bundles, taking a corpus-driven and expert-judged approach by examining L2 English data across various proficiency levels from L1 Chinese learners. Proficiency was determined by a robust rating procedure which is…
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Bringing Exoplanet Habitability Investigations to High School
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Woody, Mary Anne; Sohl, Linda
2016-01-01
Habitability, a.k.a. habitat suitability, is a topic typically discussed in Biology class. We present here a curriculum unit that introduces the topic of global-scale planetary habitability in a Physics classroom, allowing students to emulate the process of doing cutting-edge science and re-framing an otherwise "typical" physics unit in a more engaging and interactive way.
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Three-dimensional light bullets in a Bragg medium with carbon nanotubes
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Zhukov, Alexander V.; Bouffanais, Roland; Belonenko, Mikhail B.; Dvuzhilov, Ilya S.; Nevzorova, Yulia V.
2017-07-01
We present a theoretical study of the propagation of three-dimensional extremely short electromagnetic pulses (a.k.a. light bullets) through a Bragg medium containing an immersed array of carbon nanotubes. We demonstrate the possible stable propagation of such light bullets. In particular, our results suggest these light bullets can carry information about the Bragg medium itself.
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Negawatts for Buildings: Observations from the Past 25 Years
Lee Eng Lock
2017-12-09
Many authoritative studies over the past several decades state that energy efficiency, aka Negawatts, is cheaper, faster, cleaner, more sustainable and more profitable than building more power plants of any kind. In this Jan. 20, 2009 Berkeley Lab lecture, Lee Eng Lock of Singapore's TRANE discusses the barriers, success stories as well as failures associated with the Negawatt revolution.
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Gray, Nathan L.; Wolf, Patrick J.; Jensen, Laura I.
2008-01-01
With the passage of 2005 Wisconsin Act 125, private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) are now required to administer a nationally normed standardized test annually in reading, mathematics, and science to their MPCP (a.k.a. "Choice") students enrolled in the 4th, 8th, and 10th grades. The law further…
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..., Hillsborough Village, Muntin Lupa City, Philippines, 1780, Respondent; Celltron Marketing Company, a.k.a... Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778 (2000)) (``AECA''). Specifically, Chua was... Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706); 18 U.S.C. 793, 794 or 798; section 4(b) of the Internal Security Act of...
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Analyzing and Specifying Reusable Security Requirements
2003-09-01
avionics applications and ecommerce applications need to specify levels of identification, authentication, authorization, integrity, privacy , etc. At...sections specifying functional requirements. Thus, the functional requirements for an embedded avionics application and an ecommerce website may have... Privacy (a.k.a., confidentiality), which is the degree to which sensitive data and communications are kept private from unauthorized individuals and
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Lake, Robin; Hill, Paul T.; Maas, Tricia
2015-01-01
Every sector of the U.S. economy is working on ways to deliver services in a more customized manner. If all goes well, education is headed in the same direction. Personalized learning and globally benchmarked academic standards (a.k.a. Common Core) are the focus of most major school districts and charter school networks. Educators and parents know…
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Liu, Yan; Sun, Jiandong; Wang, Yubin; Lopez, Dulce; Tran, Jennifer; Bi, Xiaoning; Baudry, Michel
2016-01-01
Calpain-1 (CANP1) has been shown to play a critical role in synaptic plasticity and learning and memory, as its deletion in mice results in impairment in theta-burst stimulation (TBS)-induced LTP and various forms of learning and memory. Likewise, PHLPP1 (aka SCOP) has also been found to participate in learning and memory, as PHLPP1 overexpression…
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Anderson, Daniel
2010-01-01
I'm talking about the ways we represent ourselves and our world. I've put some thoughts on the topic together here--a gathering that enacts new media creating and takes up conceptual layers like metaphors, models, and composing. The primary sources are videos from the Get a Mac campaign, aka I'm a Mac; I'm a PC ads. Posthuman concepts blending…
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1988-11-01
Formed 1975. Estimated Membership Unknown. Headquarters Unknown. Area of Operations Worldwide. Leadership ASALA-RM: Monte Melkonian. ASALA-M: Hagop...release. Black Sea are. Stan ulSOVIEIT UNION ®ANKARA ~ Ararat TURKEY Moditerroneen Sea LES- BEIRUT ’ . Historic area claimed by Armenian terrorists...Lima, Peru. - Leadership Ernesto Montes Aliaga (AKA Raul Perez). Other Names Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (original language). Armed members of
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A Dozen Primers on Important Information Standards
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Dempsey, Kathy, Comp.
2007-01-01
This is a compilation of 12 primers on important information standards and protocols. These primers are: (1) Atom; (2) COinS; (3) MADS; (4) MARC 21/MARCXML; (5) MIX; (6) MXG; (7) OpenSearch; (8) PREMIS; (9) RESTful HTTP; (10) unAPI; (11) XMPP (aka Jabber); and (12) ZeeRex. The Atom Syndication Format defines a new XML-based syndication format for…
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Theodore M. Hesburgh and His Philosophy of Catholic Higher Education
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Parmach, Robert J.
2012-01-01
Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. (aka "Father Ted") is one of the leading living figures in the philosophy of Catholic higher education in the United States. He is not only recognized for a long and impressive tenure as president of the University of Notre Dame, but also revered as a priest whose intellectual and critical leadership blends a practical…
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Sorber, Rebecca L.; Rebecca L. Sorber, Henry A. Kobulnicky, Daniel A. Dale, Matthew S. Povich, William T. Chick, Heather N. Wernke, Julian E. Andrews, Stephan Munari, Grace M. Olivier, Danielle Schurhammer
2016-01-01
Though the main sequence evolution of OB type stars is relatively well known, the mass loss rates for these stars are still highly uncertain. Some OB stars are gravitationally ejected from their birth sites, traveling at speeds of 30 km/s or more which results in a prominent bowshock nebulae. We identified OB bowshock candidates at low Galactic latitudes by visual inspection of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 22-micron images. Each candidate was observed using the Longslit Spectrograph at the Wyoming Infrared Observatory (WIRO) 2.3 meter telescope. We present here the results from observing four such candidates, and all four are confirmed as early type stars: GO92.3191+0.0591 (B1V) (aka ALS11826), GO86.551014-1.0873935 (B2V; a probable short-period binary), G076.6921-2.4071 (B5V), and G075.5711-0.2558 (B0V) (aka HD 194303). These results enlarge the sample of candidate runaway massive stars hosting bowshocks and provide a promising sample of such objects for studying stellar mass loss. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation Grants AST-1063146 (REU), AST-1411851 (RUI), and AST-1412845.
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Ream, Thomas S.; Haag, Jeremy R.; Pontvianne, Frederic; Nicora, Carrie D.; Norbeck, Angela D.; Paša-Tolić, Ljiljana; Pikaard, Craig S.
2015-01-01
Using affinity purification and mass spectrometry, we identified the subunits of Arabidopsis thaliana multisubunit RNA polymerases I and III (abbreviated as Pol I and Pol III), the first analysis of their physical compositions in plants. In all eukaryotes examined to date, AC40 and AC19 subunits are common to Pol I (a.k.a. Pol A) and Pol III (a.k.a. Pol C) and are encoded by single genes. Surprisingly, A. thaliana and related species express two distinct AC40 paralogs, one of which assembles into Pol I and the other of which assembles into Pol III. Changes at eight amino acid positions correlate with the functional divergence of Pol I- and Pol III-specific AC40 paralogs. Two genes encode homologs of the yeast C53 subunit and either protein can assemble into Pol III. By contrast, only one of two potential C17 variants, and one of two potential C31 variants were detected in Pol III. We introduce a new nomenclature system for plant Pol I and Pol III subunits in which the 12 subunits that are structurally and functionally homologous among Pols I through V are assigned equivalent numbers. PMID:25813043
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I Am Science - and So Can You!
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
DiChristina, Mariette
Science is humanity’s best invention for getting at the truth about how things work (a.k.a. “basic research”) and solving problems (“applied”). I can even make a claim that most people are interested in science topics—they just don’t think of them as “science.” Consider how many of today’s top headlines have a critical science underpinning: energy supply, social change from digital innovations, efforts to treat cancer and other diseases, emerging infectious agents like bird flu, climate change, and so on. Clearly, a basic understanding about science is more vital than ever. At the same time, we see two trends: the collapsemore » of traditional science journalism jobs as newspapers have cut thousands of positions and a greater access to—and a larger readership for—science-related materials than the world has ever known. Put another way, just when the public needs the Fourth Estate most, it’s instead drowning in a sea of 24/7 misinformation (a.k.a. “the Internet”). What’s a busy scientist to do to help engage the lay public? Glad you asked.« less
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On the shock response of Pisum Sativum (a.k.a the Common Pea)
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Leighs, James; Hazell, Paul; Appleby-Thomas, Gareth
2011-06-01
The high strain-rate response of biological and organic structures is of interest to numerous fields ranging from the food industry (dynamic pasteurisation) to astrobiology (e.g. the theory of panspermia, which suggests that planets could be `seeded' with life `piggy-backing' of interplanetary bodies). Consequently, knowledge of the damage mechanisms and viability of shocked organic material is of paramount importance. In this study a single-stage gas-gun has been employed to subject samples of Pisum Sativum (the Common Pea) to semi-planar shock loading, corresponding to impact pressures of up to c.3 GPa. The experimental approach adopted is discussed along with results from Manganin gauges embedded in the target capsule which show the loading history. Further, the viability of the shock-loaded peas was investigated via attempts at germination. Finally, microscopic examination of the impacted specimens allowed a qualitative assessment of damage mechanisms to be made.
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High efficiency environmental sampling with UV-cured peelable coatings (aka NuGoo project)
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Henzl, Vladimir; Junghans, Sylvia Ann; Lakis, Rollin Evan
This report presents slides on CA Related Project (FY13-17); Environmental sampling by IAEA (not only) during CA; Decontamination gels; Cotton swipes vs. decon gel (FY15); Contamination removal study; The origins of the NuGoo; NuGoo – proof of concept; NuGoo – FY17 project ($250K); LED lamp – which one works and why; Selecting photoinitiator; Monomers and oligomers; Results.
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Show Me the Money: The Benefits of For-Profit Charter Schools (aka EMOs)
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Toson, Amy L.-M.
2013-01-01
The continued presence of educational management organizations (EMO) is explained as an inevitable and continued component of the public school landscape. This article discusses both why EMOs are here to stay and the benefits of EMOs in public education. Statistics are shared showing a 420% increase in the number of EMOs over the past 11 years as…
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Wicasa Was'aka: restoring the traditional strength of American Indian boys and men.
Brave Heart, Maria Yellow Horse; Elkins, Jennifer; Tafoya, Greg; Bird, Doreen; Salvador, Melina
2012-05-01
We examined health disparities among American Indian men and boys within the framework of historical trauma, which incorporates the historical context of collective massive group trauma across generations. We reviewed the impact of collective traumatic experiences among Lakota men, who have faced cross-generational challenges to enacting traditional tribal roles. We describe historical trauma-informed interventions used with two tribal groups: Lakota men and Southwestern American Indian boys. These two interventions represent novel approaches to addressing historical trauma and the health disparities that American Indians face. We offer public health implications and recommendations for strategies to use in the planning and implementation of policy, research, and program development with American Indian boys and men.
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Shoulder Launched Missiles (A.K.A. MANPADS): The Ominous Threat to Commercial Aviation
2006-12-01
global trade and just-in-time delivery, along with its leadership status in the world’s largest industry , travel and tourism , make it even more...vulnerability to shoulder launched missiles, also known as MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense Systems). This industry sustains the flow of goods...that “a credible threat to the viability of America’s commercial airline industry could have profound effects on the nation’s economy and on
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(R)-albuterol for asthma: pro [a.k.a. (S)-albuterol for asthma: con].
Ameredes, Bill T; Calhoun, William J
2006-11-01
Is there scientific evidence to support the replacement of the beta-agonist racemic albuterol with levalbuterol--that is, (R)-albuterol? The argument presented further refines the question as "Do we wish to continue to treat asthma with a mixture of albuterol, of which half is an agent with no known benefit--that is, (S)-albuterol--and which may exacerbate the disease?"
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Wicasa Was'aka: Restoring the Traditional Strength of American Indian Boys and Men
Elkins, Jennifer; Tafoya, Greg; Bird, Doreen; Salvador, Melina
2012-01-01
We examined health disparities among American Indian men and boys within the framework of historical trauma, which incorporates the historical context of collective massive group trauma across generations. We reviewed the impact of collective traumatic experiences among Lakota men, who have faced cross-generational challenges to enacting traditional tribal roles. We describe historical trauma–informed interventions used with two tribal groups: Lakota men and Southwestern American Indian boys. These two interventions represent novel approaches to addressing historical trauma and the health disparities that American Indians face. We offer public health implications and recommendations for strategies to use in the planning and implementation of policy, research, and program development with American Indian boys and men. PMID:22401529
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Force of Choice: Optimizing Theater Special Operations Commands to Achieve Synchronized Effects
2012-12-01
GCC Geographic Combatant Command GFM Global Force Management GSN Global SOF Network (aka EGSN) IA Interagency IATF Interagency Task Force...and through African partners.75 SOCOM NCR was chosen because it is a primary outgrowth of the SOCOM Interagency Task Force ( IATF ), and the...result, SOCOM established the IATF and Special Operations Support Teams (SOST). While the IATF remained at SOCOM Headquarters at MacDill AFB, the
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Exploiting the Multi-Service Domain Protecting Interface
2012-10-17
Linux OpenVPN and IPSec VLAN services subsystems. Essentially, MSDPI becomes the transport mechanism for these subsystems. For the RIB, LSP, and...includes those necessary files to build a complete LiveCD system For example, adding various configuration files: ifcfg-eth?, ifcfg-ib?, openvpn ...aka IP address), openvpn files, specific files in the etc/sysconfig directory. %prep %build %install rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT mkdir -p
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Distillate Fuel Trends: International Supply Variations and Alternate Fuel Properties
2013-01-31
general trend toward a more uniform diesel around the world but the use of alternative fuels, such as biodiesel , has introduced additional variations...reduce sulfur; however, there are still areas with high sulfur, poor stability fuel. The primary source of alternate diesel fuel is Biodiesel , more...US FAME Fatty Acid Methyl Ester, aka Biodiesel FIA Fluorescent Indicator Adsorption FT SPK Fischer Tropsch derived Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene
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Future Roles for Autonomous Vertical Lift in Disaster Relief and Emergency Response
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Young, Larry A.
2006-01-01
System analysis concepts are applied to the assessment of potential collaborative contributions of autonomous system and vertical lift (a.k.a. rotorcraft, VTOL, powered-lift, etc.) technologies to the important, and perhaps underemphasized, application domain of disaster relief and emergency response. In particular, an analytic framework is outlined whereby system design functional requirements for an application domain can be derived from defined societal good goals and objectives.
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RELICS Discovery of a Probable Lens-magnified SN behind Galaxy Cluster Abell 1763
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Rodney, S.; Coe, D.; Bradley, L.; Strolger, L.; Brammer, G.; Avila, R.; Ryan, R.; Ogaz, S.; Riess, A.; Sharon, K.; Johnson, T.; Paterno-Mahler, R.; Molino, A.; Graham, M.; Kelly, P.; Filippenko, A.; Frye, B.; Foley, R.; Schmidt, K.; Umetsu, K.; Czakon, N.; Weiner, B.; Stark, D.; Mainali, R.; Zitrin, A.; Sendra, I.; Graur, O.; Grillo, C.; Hjorth, J.; Selsing, J.; Christensen, L.; Rosati, P.; Nonino, M.; Balestra, I.; Vulcani, B.; McCully, C.; Dawson, W.; Bouwens, R.; Lam, D.; Trenti, M.; Nunez, D. Carrasco; Matheson, T.; Merten, J.; Jha, S.; Jones, C.; Andrade-Santos, F.; Salmon, B.; Bradac, M.; Hoag, A.; Huang, K.; Wang, X.; Oesch, P.
2016-07-01
We report the discovery of a likely supernova (SN) in the background field of the galaxy cluster Abell 1763 (a.k.a. RXC J1335.3+4059, ZwCl 1333.7+4117). The SN candidate was detected in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations collected on June 17, 2016 as part of the Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey (RELICS, HST program ID: 14096, PI: D.Coe).
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The use of high technology in STEM education
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan; McBride, Annette C.
2015-10-01
There has been a huge increase in the use of high technology in education. In this paper we discuss some aspects of technology that have major applications in STEM education, namely, (a) virtual reality systems, (b) personal electronic response systems aka "clickers", (c) flipped classrooms, (d) mobile learning "m-Learning", (e) massive open online courses "MOOCS", (f) internet-of-things and (g) cloud computing.
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2012-08-01
est honor, to Manuel Marulanda (aka Tirofijo, or Sure Shot), the FARC’s supreme commander at the time.100 The government of Rafael Correa in Ecuador ... governments sanctioned criminal activities as part of coherent, mul- tistate instruments of statecraft. This monograph synthesizes research on such...criminalized states in Latin America. It documents how, through the growing alliance with Iran and other external actors, these governments have devel
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Targeting the Ron-DEK Signaling Axis in Breast Cancer
2014-09-01
Health Services Grants R01CA116316 ( SIW ), R01HL875109 (JAC), T32ES007250 (AKA), T32CA117846-07 (PKW) and T32CA11784 (SEW and NMB), Department of Defense...Grant W81XWH-12-1-0194 ( SIW and SEW) and the Veteran’s Administration Grant BX000803 (SEW). JS-W is supported by the Government of the Spanish Junta de
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Targeting the Ron-DEK Signaling Axis in Breast Cancer
2014-09-01
Public Health Services Grants R01CA116316 ( SIW ), R01HL875109 (JAC), T32ES007250 (AKA), T32CA117846-07 (PKW) and T32CA11784 (SEW and NMB), Department of...Defense Grant W81XWH-12-1-0194 ( SIW and SEW) and the Veteran’s Administration Grant BX000803 (SEW). JS-W is supported by the Government of the Spanish
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Anti-Communist Vigilantes in the Philippines
1988-06-03
including the founding chairman Jose Maria Sison and communist guerrilla leader Bernabe Buscayno, a.k.a. Kumander Dante. 2 Today, the CPP/NPA continues...arrest in 1976 of Jose Maria Sison, the CPP chairman. The new leadership modified the communist armed struggle by giving new impetus to urban guerilla...largest island In the Southern Philippines. The MNLF chairman Nur Misuari assisted CPP founder Jose Maria Sison in organizing the radical youth
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2008-01-01
alimentary tract anaerobes (AI). Initial antibacterial activity should not be directed at multidrug-resistant pathogens such as Acinetobacter baumannii...plus 4 isolation beds Ancillary Lab, x-ray 5. LPH, AKA, APA, LST class ships are no longer in active service. 6. Hospital ships (T-AH) may provide...responsibilities and as the supported combatant commander for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). USSOCOM is actively engaged in the JLLP, where the goal
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Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia - Worsening Pain in Opioid-Dependent Patients
2013-02-01
NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) United States Army Institute ofSurgical Research, JBSA Fort Sam Houston...distress and manifested no yawning, sweating, lacrimation , rhinorrhea, mydriasis, or piloerection. His abdomen was soft, nontender, and had a... functioning left lower quadrant colostomy with no signs of infection. He had bilateral AKAs without signs of infection. The remainder of the examination was
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Kim, Angela
2012-01-01
When the author was first introduced to philosophy for children (p4c) Hawai'i, it made her cringe. She wasn't sure what it was all about, but it reminded her of a miserable past experience of sitting in a circle. Sitting in circles is the sort of activity that she tries to avoid in life. She was told that Dr. Thomas Jackson, aka Dr. J, would guide…
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Aerial Explorers and Robotic Ecosystems
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Young, Larry A.; Pisanich, Greg
2004-01-01
A unique bio-inspired approach to autonomous aerial vehicle, a.k.a. aerial explorer technology is discussed. The work is focused on defining and studying aerial explorer mission concepts, both as an individual robotic system and as a member of a small robotic "ecosystem." Members of this robotic ecosystem include the aerial explorer, air-deployed sensors and robotic symbiotes, and other assets such as rovers, landers, and orbiters.
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Multi-Element Free-Space Optical (FSO) Modules for Mobile-Opportunistic Networking
2016-11-14
will enable us to improve our existing FSO prototype modules to low power consuming, miniature devices with high data transfer rates. Particularly, we... wireless spectrum bands in both military and civilian settings. Recent research has shown that free- space-optical (FSO), a.k.a. optical wireless ...communications is a promising complementary approach to address the exploding mobile wireless traffic demand. The major impediment for using FSO in a
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Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism
2009-01-01
appointed Malaysian Inspector General of Police renewed efforts to fight organized crime by dedicating more resources to Operation Copperhead, originally...opera- tions in Kuala Lumpur.104 The Malaysian government singled out the dragonhead of the Ang Bin Hoey triad, Tee Yam (aka Khoo Tee Yam), as its...interviews with Serious Crime Division of Malaysian Police, August 1, 2005. Getting Down to Cases: Organized Crime and Film Piracy 71 in
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2010-06-01
a storytelling narrative of how the risk was mitigated and what worked or did not work. A knowledge-based risk is also a means of transferring...devel- oping a cadre of trained facilitators to assist teams in using Web-based deci- sion-support technology to support team brain - storming...and use “contextualization” (a.k.a. storytelling ) as an alternative method to analysis? Storytelling Instead of Analysis There have been some
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Structural insights into SAM domain‐mediated tankyrase oligomerization
DaRosa, Paul A.; Ovchinnikov, Sergey
2016-01-01
Abstract Tankyrase 1 (TNKS1; a.k.a. ARTD5) and tankyrase 2 (TNKS2; a.k.a ARTD6) are highly homologous poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerases (PARPs) that function in a wide variety of cellular processes including Wnt signaling, Src signaling, Akt signaling, Glut4 vesicle translocation, telomere length regulation, and centriole and spindle pole maturation. Tankyrase proteins include a sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain that undergoes oligomerization in vitro and in vivo. However, the SAM domains of TNKS1 and TNKS2 have not been structurally characterized and the mode of oligomerization is not yet defined. Here we model the SAM domain‐mediated oligomerization of tankyrase. The structural model, supported by mutagenesis and NMR analysis, demonstrates a helical, homotypic head‐to‐tail polymer that facilitates TNKS self‐association. Furthermore, we show that TNKS1 and TNKS2 can form (TNKS1 SAM‐TNKS2 SAM) hetero‐oligomeric structures mediated by their SAM domains. Though wild‐type tankyrase proteins have very low solubility, model‐based mutations of the SAM oligomerization interface residues allowed us to obtain soluble TNKS proteins. These structural insights will be invaluable for the functional and biophysical characterization of TNKS1/2, including the role of TNKS oligomerization in protein poly(ADP‐ribosyl)ation (PARylation) and PARylation‐dependent ubiquitylation. PMID:27328430
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Ream, Thomas S.; Haag, Jeremy R.; Pontvianne, Frederic; ...
2015-05-02
Using affinity purification and mass spectrometry, we identified the subunits of Arabidopsis thaliana multisubunit RNA Polymerases I and III (abbreviated as Pol I and Pol III), providing the first description of their physical compositions in plants. AC40 and AC19 subunits are typically common to Pol I (a.k.a. Pol A) and Pol III (a.k.a. Pol C) and are encoded by single genes whose mutation, in humans, is a cause of the craniofacial disorder, Treacher-Collins Syndrome. Surprisingly, A. thaliana, and related species, express two distinct AC40 paralogs, one of which assembles into Pol I and the other of which assembles into Polmore » III. Changes at eight amino acid positions correlate with this functional divergence of Pol I and Pol III-specific AC40 paralogs. Two genes encode homologs of the yeast C53 subunit, and either variant can assemble into Pol III. By contrast, only one of two potential C17 variants, and one of two potential C31 variants were detected in Pol III. We introduce a new nomenclature system for plant Pol I and Pol III subunits in which the twelve subunits that are structurally and functionally homologous among Pols I through V are assigned equivalent numbers.« less
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Ream, Thomas S.; Haag, Jeremy R.; Pontvianne, Frederic
Using affinity purification and mass spectrometry, we identified the subunits of Arabidopsis thaliana multisubunit RNA Polymerases I and III (abbreviated as Pol I and Pol III), providing the first description of their physical compositions in plants. AC40 and AC19 subunits are typically common to Pol I (a.k.a. Pol A) and Pol III (a.k.a. Pol C) and are encoded by single genes whose mutation, in humans, is a cause of the craniofacial disorder, Treacher-Collins Syndrome. Surprisingly, A. thaliana, and related species, express two distinct AC40 paralogs, one of which assembles into Pol I and the other of which assembles into Polmore » III. Changes at eight amino acid positions correlate with this functional divergence of Pol I and Pol III-specific AC40 paralogs. Two genes encode homologs of the yeast C53 subunit, and either variant can assemble into Pol III. By contrast, only one of two potential C17 variants, and one of two potential C31 variants were detected in Pol III. We introduce a new nomenclature system for plant Pol I and Pol III subunits in which the twelve subunits that are structurally and functionally homologous among Pols I through V are assigned equivalent numbers.« less
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Palagummi, S.; Yuan, F. G.
2016-04-01
This article identifies and studies key parameters that characterize a horizontal diamagnetic levitation (HDL) mechanism based low frequency vibration energy harvester with the aim of enhancing performance metrics such as efficiency and volume figure of merit (FoMv). The HDL mechanism comprises of three permanent magnets and two diamagnetic plates. Two of the magnets, aka lifting magnets, are placed co-axially at a distance such that each attract a centrally located magnet, aka floating magnet, to balance its weight. This floating magnet is flanked closely by two diamagnetic plates which stabilize the levitation in the axial direction. The influence of the geometry of the floating magnet, the lifting magnet and the diamagnetic plate are parametrically studied to quantify their effects on the size, stability of the levitation mechanism and the resonant frequency of the floating magnet. For vibration energy harvesting using the HDL mechanism, a coil geometry and eddy current damping are critically discussed. Based on the analysis, an efficient experimental system is setup which showed a softening frequency response with an average system efficiency of 25.8% and a FoMv of 0.23% when excited at a root mean square acceleration of 0.0546 m/s2 and at frequency of 1.9 Hz.
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Liu, Xuemei; Gu, Zhixin; Guo, Yuan; Liu, Jingjing; Ma, Ming; Chen, Bo; Wang, Liping
2017-04-15
Paper spray-mass spectrometry (PS-MS) is a rapid, solvent-efficient, and high-throughput analytical method for analyzing complex samples. In this study, a PS-MS method was developed to obtain MS profiles of Aurantii Fructus Immaturus (aka Zhishi in Chinese) in positive and negative ion modes. In combination with multivariate analyses, including principal component analysis and cluster analysis, the PS-MS profiles of 25 batches of Zhishi were discriminated in 25 batches of Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride (aka Qingpi in Chinese; an adulterant of Zhishi). Moreover, a rapid quantitative analysis of synephrine, a prescriptive quality control component of Zhishi listed in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, was conducted with PS-MS using synephrine-d2 as an internal standard (IS). The linearity range was 1.68-16.8μg/mL (R 2 =0.9985), the limit of quantitation was 0.5μg/mL. Relative standard deviations in the intra- and inter-day precision of the MS were 4.87 and 4.90%, respectively. Compared with HPLC results, there was no significant difference in the quantitation of synephrine. This study demonstrated that the PS-MS method is useful for the rapid discrimination and quality control of Zhishi samples. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Structure, production and signaling of leptin
Münzberg, Heike; Morrison, Christopher D.
2014-01-01
The cloning of leptin in 1994 was an important milestone in obesity research. In those days obesity was stigmatized as a condition caused by lack of character and self-control. Mutations in either leptin or its receptor were the first single gene mutations found to cause morbid obesity, and it is now appreciated that obesity is caused by a dysregulation of central neuronal circuits. From the first discovery of the leptin deficient obese mouse (ob/ob), to the cloning of leptin (ob aka lep) and leptin receptor (db aka lepr) genes, much has been learned about leptin and its action in the central nervous system. The initial high hopes that leptin would cure obesity were quickly dampened by the discovery that most obese humans have increased leptin levels and develop leptin resistance. Nevertheless, leptin target sites in the brain represent an excellent blueprint for distinct neuronal circuits that control energy homeostasis. A better understanding of the regulation and interconnection of these circuits will further guide and improve the development of safe and effective interventions to treat obesity. This review will highlight our current knowledge about the hormone leptin, its signaling pathways and its central actions to mediate distinct physiological functions. PMID:25305050
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Surgical management of Gorlin syndrome: a 4-decade experience using local excision technique.
Griner, Devan; Sutphin, Daniel; Sargent, Larry A
2015-04-01
Basal cell nevus syndrome (aka Gorlin syndrome, Gorlin-Goltz syndrome, nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, and fifth phacomatosis) is a rare but well-described autosomal dominant condition with variable penetrance. We present a female patient who has been successfully treated using local surgical excision and diligent skin surveillance for more than 4 decades, demonstrating that simple local incision is an efficacious and reasonable surgical alternative that may circumvent the specialization and expense of Mohs technique.
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This data set contains the transcriptional profiles of 20 dorsal skin samples from eight-week-old mice. Mice were generated by crossing FVB/N to Mus spretus mice to generate F1 mice, and then crossing F1 mice back to the FVB/N strain. 10 FVB/N mice lacking Hras1 (aka HrasKO, Hras-/-) and 10 FVB/N mice with wild-type Hras1 were generated. Read the abstract.
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2010-03-01
applicable passages were found in the New Testament. See the Judaism section for passages from the Old Testament (aka the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh... Hebrew Bible ) Hinduism – Bhāgavad Gītā (metaphorical only interpretation) – Rāmāyaa – Bhāgavad...angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment … ( Bible , Matt. 5:21-22) Hinduism The Supreme Personality of Godhead said
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Welding Emissions in Shipbuilding and Repair (Briefing Charts)
2009-09-03
not just about Hexavalent Chromium • http://www.weldinglawsuits.com/ 5 Naval Facilities Engineering Command/ Engineering Service Center Driving...Regulations ( the Dry Stuff) • OSHA 1910.1026 – Hexavalent Chromium Regulation • OSHA 1910.1000 – Limits for Air Contaminants – e.g. Manganese, Nickel...gas – GTAW –uses shield gas, but low emissions –aka TIG – SAW – lowest rate, solid wire weld covered with flux material 7 Naval Facilities
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2011-06-01
and interpret patterns of social ties among actors, either multitudinous or relatively few (de Nooy, Mrvar , & Batagelj , 2005, p. 5). An aspect of...millions of vertices [aka nodes] ( Batagelj & Mrvar , 2003). With its ability to process large networks, it is considered an excellent social-network...8217Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar —program package Pajek: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/’ name=’generator’/> </head> <Scene
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Is Cheese Food Really Food? a.k.a. Some Conscious Alternatives to Overprocessing Experience.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Estes, Cheryl A.; Tomb, Steven
The increasing emphasis on teacher-directed processing of adventure experiences may be devaluing both the learning experience and the promotion of self-reliance among students. The problem with "overprocessing" is that the teacher, not the student, decides what was learned and its relative value. In addition, this approach emphasizes…
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Roadway reference system users' manual (a.k.a. the reference post system made simple)
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
1999-05-01
Modern roadway management requires information. The Roadway Reference System (RRS) is a means by which data can be associated to a specific location and retrieved in reference to that location. The major advantage to this system is that once in place...
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Status of biological control of banana poka, P. mollissima (aka P. tarminiana) in Hawaii
R. D. Friesen; C. E. Causton; G. P. Markin
2008-01-01
Surveys were conducted between 1982 and 1995 on banana poka, Passiflora mollissima Bailey (also known as P. tarminiana, subgenus Tacsonia) and related species in the Andes Mountains of South America. The objective was to identify potential biocontrol agents for control of banana poka in Hawaii, USA. Host-related insect diversity was greatest in Colombia,...
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The Zen of Government Program Management (aka Lessons Learned from a Defense Program Manager)
2014-08-01
acquisition, we get a lot of education and training in managing research and development, much of which is the best in the world. But most of it is nuts and...Money. Over the years, I’ve provided these to my col- leagues, both inside the government and outside such as at the Marine Technology Society’s...in high- technology programs usually involves more coaching and less directing. Program offices most often consist of skilled specialists in
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The Afghan National Police: Turning a Counterinsurgency Problem into a Solution
2009-12-01
27 “Special Forces groups are organized in small teams of 12 men — a.k.a. Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA). A typical Green Beret’s Team structure...Human Progress, 98. 162 Akbar S. Ahmed and David M. Hart, Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus (London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan ...Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Al Jazeera. “Taliban Issue Code of Conduct.” Al Jazeera English Central/S. Asia (July 27, 2009), http
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Heavy Lift Helicopter - Advanced Technology Component Program - Hub and Upper Controls
1977-09-01
horsepov.er increasces or decreases at a rate which is determined by the pilot’s rate of collective input. The change in rotor horse - power produces a...34;TATU’ H-31 1"O1 RMANC1• T’I’.- J’ - MOD IFl El) FSD I.1’:AKA(;I’ ARIEA U .00025 IN’ Unuodit ied ModI. iud Spec. I; trkt,. F I:(._ ’z’u1.11, % Nnl-,’F
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Structural insights into SAM domain-mediated tankyrase oligomerization.
DaRosa, Paul A; Ovchinnikov, Sergey; Xu, Wenqing; Klevit, Rachel E
2016-09-01
Tankyrase 1 (TNKS1; a.k.a. ARTD5) and tankyrase 2 (TNKS2; a.k.a ARTD6) are highly homologous poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) that function in a wide variety of cellular processes including Wnt signaling, Src signaling, Akt signaling, Glut4 vesicle translocation, telomere length regulation, and centriole and spindle pole maturation. Tankyrase proteins include a sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain that undergoes oligomerization in vitro and in vivo. However, the SAM domains of TNKS1 and TNKS2 have not been structurally characterized and the mode of oligomerization is not yet defined. Here we model the SAM domain-mediated oligomerization of tankyrase. The structural model, supported by mutagenesis and NMR analysis, demonstrates a helical, homotypic head-to-tail polymer that facilitates TNKS self-association. Furthermore, we show that TNKS1 and TNKS2 can form (TNKS1 SAM-TNKS2 SAM) hetero-oligomeric structures mediated by their SAM domains. Though wild-type tankyrase proteins have very low solubility, model-based mutations of the SAM oligomerization interface residues allowed us to obtain soluble TNKS proteins. These structural insights will be invaluable for the functional and biophysical characterization of TNKS1/2, including the role of TNKS oligomerization in protein poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation (PARylation) and PARylation-dependent ubiquitylation. © 2016 The Protein Society.
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Choi, Jaesung P.; Foley, Matthew; Zhou, Zinan; Wong, Weng-Yew; Gokoolparsadh, Naveena; Arthur, J. Simon C.; Li, Dean Y.; Zheng, Xiangjian
2016-01-01
Mutations in CCM1 (aka KRIT1), CCM2, or CCM3 (aka PDCD10) gene cause cerebral cavernous malformation in humans. Mouse models of CCM disease have been established by deleting Ccm genes in postnatal animals. These mouse models provide invaluable tools to investigate molecular mechanism and therapeutic approaches for CCM disease. However, the full value of these animal models is limited by the lack of an accurate and quantitative method to assess lesion burden and progression. In the present study we have established a refined and detailed contrast enhanced X-ray micro-CT method to measure CCM lesion burden in mouse brains. As this study utilized a voxel dimension of 9.5μm (leading to a minimum feature size of approximately 25μm), it is therefore sufficient to measure CCM lesion volume and number globally and accurately, and provide high-resolution 3-D mapping of CCM lesions in mouse brains. Using this method, we found loss of Ccm1 or Ccm2 in neonatal endothelium confers CCM lesions in the mouse hindbrain with similar total volume and number. This quantitative approach also demonstrated a rescue of CCM lesions with simultaneous deletion of one allele of Mekk3. This method would enhance the value of the established mouse models to study the molecular basis and potential therapies for CCM and other cerebrovascular diseases. PMID:27513872
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Basu, Sukanta
2015-09-01
Utilizing the so-called Thorpe scale as a measure of the turbulence outer scale, we propose a physically-based approach for the estimation of Cn2 profiles in the lower atmosphere. This approach only requires coarse-resolution temperature profiles (a.k.a., soundings) as input, yet it has the intrinsic ability to capture layers of high optical turbulence. The prowess of this computationally inexpensive approach is demonstrated by validations against observational data from a field campaign over Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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Armed Conflict in Syria: Overview and U.S. Response
2014-06-24
extremists in the region. In July 2013, ISIL attacked prisons at Abu Ghraib and Taji in Iraq, reportedly freeing several hundred detained members and...and led by the late Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Iraq from 2002 through 2006—Tawhid wal Jihad (Monotheism and Jihad) and Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two...withdrawal in 2011. Under the leadership of Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al Badri al Samarra’i (aka Abu Bakr al Baghdadi),21 ISI rebuilt its capabilities
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Software Security Knowledge: CWE. Knowing What Could Make Software Vulnerable to Attack
2011-05-01
shall be subject to a penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. 1...Buffer • CWE-642: External Control of Critical State Data • CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path • CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path • CWE...94: Failure to Control Generation of Code (aka ’Code Injection’) • CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check • CWE-404: Improper Resource
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Artillery Engagement Simulation
1980-05-01
coordinate* of the burst point to 10 meter accuracy (4 digit number). 7. Press R/S. Calculator will run for approximately one second and display the...northing coordinate* of the burst point to 10 meter accuracy (4 digit number). 8. If it is not desired to send azimuth and distance instructions to the...Now Delhi 1 USA Agey for Aviation Safety, Ft Rucker. ATTN: Educ Advisor I Pars Rsch Ofc, Libary , AKA. Israel Defense Forces I USA Aviation Sch. Ft
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Solid Freeform Fabrication of Aesthetic Objects
Hart, George [SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States
2018-01-08
Solid Freeform Fabrication (aka. Rapid Prototyping) equipment can produce beautiful three-dimensional objects of exquisite intricacy. To use this technology to its full potential requires spatial visualization in the designer and new geometric algorithms as tools. As both a sculptor and a research professor in the Computer Science department at Stony Brook University, George Hart is exploring algorithms for the design of elaborate aesthetic objects. In this talk, he will describe this work, show many images, and bring many physical models to display.
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Benchmarking Software Assurance Implementation
2011-05-18
product The chicken#. (a.k.a. Process Focused Assessment ) – Management Systems ( ISO 9001, ISO 27001 , ISO 2000) – Capability Maturity Models (CMMI...Assurance PRM, RMM, Assurance for CMMI)) – Lifecycle Processes ( ISO /IEEE 15288, ISO /IEEE 12207) – COBIT, ITIL, MS SDL, OSAMM, BSIMM 5 The egg...a.k.a Product Focused Assessments) – SCAP - NIST-SCAP – ISO /OMG W3C – KDM, BPMN, RIF, XMI, RDF – OWASP Top 10 – SANS TOP 25 – Secure Code Check Lists
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Ramifications of Illegal U.S. Arms Exports
1989-03-01
the military goods may not have known and/or cared where their wares would ultimately be delivered. 5. U.S. v. Ken Park , aka Kwan Park, January 1989 The...revealed that Ken Park , acting as the Export Manager of Universal Technology, was involved in illegal export of aircraft parts to South Korea in August...transshipment to Teheran, Iran. On January 13, 1939, Ken Park admitted illegally exporting aircraft parts purchased from HTL. This case not only shows Iran’s
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Three-dimensional ultrashort optical Airy beams in an inhomogeneous medium with carbon nanotubes
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Zhukov, Alexander V.; Bouffanais, Roland; Belonenko, Mikhail B.; Dvuzhilov, Ilya S.
2017-03-01
In this Letter, we consider the problem of the dynamics of propagation of three-dimensional optical pulses (a.k.a. light bullets) with an Airy profile through a heterogeneous environment of carbon nanotubes. We show numerically that such beams exhibit sustained and stable propagation. Moreover, we demonstrate that by varying the density modulation period of the carbon nanotubes one can indirectly control the pulse velocity, which is a particularly valuable feature for the design and manufacturing of novel pulse delay devices.
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Balik Terrorism: The Return of the Abu Sayyaf
2005-09-01
Hudaibiyah," to work with the ASG. The JI operative, Rohmat (aka Zaki), had been a JI trainer at Camp Hudaibiyah in Camp Abu Bakar in 2000, and then in...brothers traveled to Camp Abu Bakar in August 1999 to meet with MILF leaders; and in December 2001, Santos underwent military and explosives training...More Davao Bombers Nabbed in Davao Norte," Sun-Star, November 19, 2004. 68. Camp Hudaibiyah was the portion of the MILF base, Camp Abu Bakar es
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Why there is no supernatural morality: response to Miller's opening statement.
Shermer, Michael
2016-11-01
If one is going to argue that objective morality depends on an Archimedean point outside the natural world, then it would seem to imply that this source is necessarily supernatural. Thus, Christian Miller begins by defining precisely who he thinks this supernatural moral law giver is: the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent creator of the universe who is still actively involved with human affairs-Elohim, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Allah-aka God. Already I'm skeptical. © 2016 New York Academy of Sciences.
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A Preliminary Overview of Cultural History in the Lower Rio Chama, New Mexico.
1980-09-15
mid Pueblo I1 19 Late Pueblo III - Pueblo rV 20 HISTORY OF THE LOWER RIO ClAKA 23 Spanish 23 Navajo 26 Utes and their Allies 27 Anglos 29 Modern Pueblos...lower Chasm and in the reservoir district, were recorded during intensive systematic surveys. Prior to work in the 1970s, nonceramic sites were rarely...the Spanish could have provided either direct or indirect impetus for the move, it is also at this time that Navajos probably begin to make their
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Tactical assessment in a squad of intelligent bots
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Gołuński, Marcel; Wasiewicz, Piotr
2010-09-01
In this paper we explore the problem of communication and coordination in a team of intelligent game bots (aka embodied agents). It presents a tactical decision making system controlling the behavior of an autonomous bot followed by the concept of a team tactical decision making system controlling the team of intelligent bots. The algorithms to be introduced have been implemented in the Java language by means of Pogamut 2 framework, interfacing the bot logic with Unreal Tournament 2004 virtual environment.
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Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification. Version 1.2
2006-11-08
Prescribed by ANSI Std Z39-18 Electronic Biometric Transmission Specification DIN: DOD_BTF_TS_EBTS_ Nov06_01.02.00 i Revision History Revision...contains: • the ORI • a Greenwich Mean (a.k.a. Zulu or UTC) date/time stamp • a code for the software used at the point of collection/transmission...long names and would generally include the tribe name. Subfield 1 Item 1 Character Type AS Characters 1 to 50 Special Characters: Any 7-bit non
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Errors from approximation of ODE systems with reduced order models
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Vassilevska, Tanya
2016-12-30
This is a code to calculate the error from approximation of systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) Reduced Order Models (ROM) methods and to compare and analyze the errors for two POD ROM variants. The first variant is the standard POD ROM, the second variant is a modification of the method using the values of the time derivatives (a.k.a. time-derivative snapshots). The code compares the errors from the two variants under different conditions.
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Analysis of Radiation Exposure for Naval Units of Operation CROSSROADS. Volume 1. Basic Report
1982-03-03
m^m 341500 2195F UNDERWAY "ROM ANCHORAGE 341623 2000E ANCHORED IN BERTH #219 341829 2000E UNDERWAY LL RIVER . PROCEEDING TO ANCHORAGE IN VICINITY...DUTTON (AGS-8) USS ENOREE (AO-69) USS ETLAH (AN-79) USS FALL RIVER (CA-131) USS FLUSSER (DD-368) USS FULTON (AS-11) USS FURSE (DD-882) USS...24) USS SUNCOCK (AN-80) USS SYLVANIA (AKA-44) USSTELAMON(ARB-8) USSTOMBIGBEE(AOG-ll) USS TURNER (DD-834) USS WALKE (DD-723) USS WENATCHEE (ATF
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The promises of big data and small data for travel behavior (aka human mobility) analysis.
Chen, Cynthia; Ma, Jingtao; Susilo, Yusak; Liu, Yu; Wang, Menglin
2016-07-01
The last decade has witnessed very active development in two broad, but separate fields, both involving understanding and modeling of how individuals move in time and space (hereafter called "travel behavior analysis" or "human mobility analysis"). One field comprises transportation researchers who have been working in the field for decades and the other involves new comers from a wide range of disciplines, but primarily computer scientists and physicists. Researchers in these two fields work with different datasets, apply different methodologies, and answer different but overlapping questions. It is our view that there is much, hidden synergy between the two fields that needs to be brought out. It is thus the purpose of this paper to introduce datasets, concepts, knowledge and methods used in these two fields, and most importantly raise cross-discipline ideas for conversations and collaborations between the two. It is our hope that this paper will stimulate many future cross-cutting studies that involve researchers from both fields.
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Episodic Syndromes That May Be Associated With Migraine: A.K.A. "the Childhood Periodic Syndromes".
Gelfand, Amy A
2015-01-01
Previously called "childhood periodic syndromes that are commonly precursors of migraine" in International Headache Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD)-II, these disorders were renamed "episodic syndromes that may be associated with migraine" in ICHD-III beta. The specific disorders reviewed in this article include: benign paroxysmal torticollis, benign paroxysmal vertigo, abdominal migraine, and cyclical vomiting syndrome, as well as infantile colic, which was recently added under the appendix section in ICHD-III beta. © 2015 American Headache Society.
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Marquinez, Nicole S.; Correa, John B.; Meltzer, Lauren R.; Unrod, Marina; Sutton, Steven K.; Simmons, Vani N.; Brandon, Thomas H.
2015-01-01
Introduction: Use of e-cigarettes has been increasing exponentially, with the primary motivation reported as smoking cessation. To understand why smokers choose e-cigarettes as an alternative to cigarettes, as well as to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved nicotine replacement therapies (NRT), we compared outcome expectancies (beliefs about the results of drug use) for the three nicotine delivery systems among vapers, i.e., e-cigarette users, who were former smokers. Methods: Vapers (N = 1,434) completed an online survey assessing 14 expectancy domains as well as perceived cost and convenience. We focused on comparisons between e-cigarettes and cigarettes to determine the attraction of e-cigarettes as a smoking alternative and between e-cigarettes and NRT to determine perceived advantages of e-cigarettes over FDA-approved pharmacotherapy. Results: Participants believed that e-cigarettes, in comparison to conventional cigarettes, had fewer health risks; caused less craving, withdrawal, addiction, and negative physical feelings; tasted better; and were more satisfying. In contrast, conventional cigarettes were perceived as better than e-cigarettes for reducing negative affect, controlling weight, providing stimulation, and reducing stress. E-cigarettes, compared to NRT, were perceived to be less risky, cost less, cause fewer negative physical feelings, taste better, provide more satisfaction, and be better at reducing craving, negative affect, and stress. Moderator analyses indicated history with ad libitum forms of NRT was associated with less positive NRT expectancies. Conclusions: The degree to which expectancies for e-cigarettes differed from expectancies for either tobacco cigarettes or NRT offers insight into the motivation of e-cigarette users and provides guidance for public health and clinical interventions to encourage smoking-related behavior change. PMID:25168035
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Big Science, Small-Budget Space Experiment Package Aka MISSE-5: A Hardware And Software Perspective
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Krasowski, Michael; Greer, Lawrence; Flatico, Joseph; Jenkins, Phillip; Spina, Dan
2007-01-01
Conducting space experiments with small budgets is a fact of life for many design groups with low-visibility science programs. One major consequence is that specialized space grade electronic components are often too costly to incorporate into the design. Radiation mitigation now becomes more complex as a result of being restricted to the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts. Unique hardware and software design techniques are required to succeed in producing a viable instrument suited for use in space. This paper highlights some of the design challenges and associated solutions encountered in the production of a highly capable, low cost space experiment package.
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Harrell, Paul T; Marquinez, Nicole S; Correa, John B; Meltzer, Lauren R; Unrod, Marina; Sutton, Steven K; Simmons, Vani N; Brandon, Thomas H
2015-02-01
Use of e-cigarettes has been increasing exponentially, with the primary motivation reported as smoking cessation. To understand why smokers choose e-cigarettes as an alternative to cigarettes, as well as to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)--approved nicotine replacement therapies (NRT), we compared outcome expectancies (beliefs about the results of drug use) for the three nicotine delivery systems among vapers, i.e., e-cigarette users, who were former smokers. Vapers (N = 1,434) completed an online survey assessing 14 expectancy domains as well as perceived cost and convenience. We focused on comparisons between e-cigarettes and cigarettes to determine the attraction of e-cigarettes as a smoking alternative and between e-cigarettes and NRT to determine perceived advantages of e-cigarettes over FDA-approved pharmacotherapy. Participants believed that e-cigarettes, in comparison to conventional cigarettes, had fewer health risks; caused less craving, withdrawal, addiction, and negative physical feelings; tasted better; and were more satisfying. In contrast, conventional cigarettes were perceived as better than e-cigarettes for reducing negative affect, controlling weight, providing stimulation, and reducing stress. E-cigarettes, compared to NRT, were perceived to be less risky, cost less, cause fewer negative physical feelings, taste better, provide more satisfaction, and be better at reducing craving, negative affect, and stress. Moderator analyses indicated history with ad libitum forms of NRT was associated with less positive NRT expectancies. The degree to which expectancies for e-cigarettes differed from expectancies for either tobacco cigarettes or NRT offers insight into the motivation of e-cigarette users and provides guidance for public health and clinical interventions to encourage smoking-related behavior change. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
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The promises of big data and small data for travel behavior (aka human mobility) analysis
Chen, Cynthia; Ma, Jingtao; Susilo, Yusak; Liu, Yu; Wang, Menglin
2016-01-01
The last decade has witnessed very active development in two broad, but separate fields, both involving understanding and modeling of how individuals move in time and space (hereafter called “travel behavior analysis” or “human mobility analysis”). One field comprises transportation researchers who have been working in the field for decades and the other involves new comers from a wide range of disciplines, but primarily computer scientists and physicists. Researchers in these two fields work with different datasets, apply different methodologies, and answer different but overlapping questions. It is our view that there is much, hidden synergy between the two fields that needs to be brought out. It is thus the purpose of this paper to introduce datasets, concepts, knowledge and methods used in these two fields, and most importantly raise cross-discipline ideas for conversations and collaborations between the two. It is our hope that this paper will stimulate many future cross-cutting studies that involve researchers from both fields. PMID:27182125
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Oliva-Buisson, Yvette J. (Compiler)
2014-01-01
The overall objective for this project is to evaluate two candidate alternatives for the existing Propellant Handler's Ensemble (PHE) escape ventilator. The new candidate ventilators use newer technology with similar quantities of air at approximately half the weight of the current ventilator. Ventilators are typically used to ingress/egress a hazardous work area when hard line air is provided at the work area but the hose is not long enough to get the operator to and from the staging area to the work area. The intent of this test is to verify that the new ventilators perform as well as or better than the current ventilators in maintaining proper oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the PHE during a typical use for the rated time period (10 minutes). We will evaluate two new units comparing them to the existing unit. Subjects will wear the Category I version of the Propellant Handler's Ensemble with the rear suit pouch snapped.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Rodriguez, J.; Cadolle Bel, M.; Tomsick, J. A.; Hannikainen, D.; Pottschmidt, K.; Kuulkers, E.; Corbel, S.; Coriat, M.; Goldwurm, A.; Russell, D. M.; Wilms, J.
2011-04-01
Following the report of renewed activity of the microquasar H1743-322 (aka IGR J17464-3213, ATels #3263, #3267) we have triggered a Swift ToO. The observation was performed on April 10, 2011 between 7.9h UT and 16.12h UT, therefore in quasi-simultaneity with the INTEGRAL bulge monitoring program (April 10, 2011 18.0h UT to 21.7h UT). The Swift/XRT was operated in Window Timing mode.
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The supernova-regulated ISM. III. Generation of vorticity, helicity, and mean flows
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Käpylä, M. J.; Gent, F. A.; Väisälä, M. S.; Sarson, G. R.
2018-03-01
Context. The forcing of interstellar turbulence, driven mainly by supernova (SN) explosions, is irrotational in nature, but the development of significant amounts of vorticity and helicity, accompanied by large-scale dynamo action, has been reported. Aim. Several earlier investigations examined vorticity production in simpler systems; here all the relevant processes can be considered simultaneously. We also investigate the mechanisms for the generation of net helicity and large-scale flow in the system. Methods: We use a three-dimensional, stratified, rotating and shearing local simulation domain of the size 1 × 1 × 2 kpc3, forced with SN explosions occurring at a rate typical of the solar neighbourhood in the Milky Way. In addition to the nominal simulation run with realistic Milky Way parameters, we vary the rotation and shear rates, but keep the absolute value of their ratio fixed. Reversing the sign of shear vs. rotation allows us to separate the rotation- and shear-generated contributions. Results: As in earlier studies, we find the generation of significant amounts of vorticity, the rotational flow comprising on average 65% of the total flow. The vorticity production can be related to the baroclinicity of the flow, especially in the regions of hot, dilute clustered supernova bubbles. In these regions, the vortex stretching acts as a sink of vorticity. In denser, compressed regions, the vortex stretching amplifies vorticity, but remains sub-dominant to baroclinicity. The net helicities produced by rotation and shear are of opposite signs for physically motivated rotation laws, with the solar neighbourhood parameters resulting in the near cancellation of the total net helicity. We also find the excitation of oscillatory mean flows, the strength and oscillation period of which depend on the Coriolis and shear parameters; we interpret these as signatures of the anisotropic-kinetic-α (AKA) effect. We use the method of moments to fit for the turbulent transport
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Siegel, Edward
2014-03-01
Baggott[Farewell to Reality: How Fairy-Tale Physics Betrayed Search For Scientific Truth]-Unzicker [Bankrupting Physics: How Top Scientists Are Gambling Away Credibility] shame physics shameless rock-star media-hype P.R. spin-doctoring veracity-abandoning touting sci-fi show-biz aided by online proliferation of uncritical pop-sci science-writers verbal diarrhea, all spectacle vs little truth, lacking Kant-Popper skepticism/ falsification, lemming-like stampedes to truth abandonment, qualified by vague adverbs: might, could, should, may,...vs factual is! Physics, motivated by financial greed, swept up in its very own hype, touts whatever next big thing/cutting-edge bombast ad infinitum/ad nauseum, turning it into mere trendy carney sideshow, full of fury(FOF) but signifying absolutely nothing! Witness: GIGO claims string-theory holographic-universe causes cuprates optical conductivity; failed Anderson RVB cuprates theory vs. Keimer discovery all cuprates ``paramagnons'' bosons aka Overhauser SDWs; Overbye NYT holographic-universe jargonial-obfuscation comments including one from APS journals editor-in-chief re. its unintelligibility, FOF but signifying absolutely nothing INTELLIGIBLE!; Bak/BNL SOC tad late rediscovery of F =ma mere renaming of Siegel acoustic-emission!; 2007 physics Nobel-prize Fert-Gruenberg rediscovery of Siegel[JMMM 7,312(78); https://www.flickr.com/search/?q = GIANT-MAGNETORESISTANCE] GMR. Each trendy latest big thing modulo lack of prior attribution aka out and out bombastic chicanery! Siegel caveat emptor ``Buzzwordism, Bandwagonism, Sloganeering for Fun Profit Survival Ego'' sociological-dysfunctionality thrives!
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Siegel, Edward
2014-03-01
Baggott[Farewell to Reality: How Fairy-Tale Physics Betrayed Search For Scientific Truth]-Unzicker [Bankrupting Physics: How Top Scientists Are Gambling Away Credibility] shame physics shameless rock-star media-hype P.R. spin-doctoring veracity-abandoning touting sci-fi show-biz aided by online proliferation of uncritical pop-sci science-writers verbal diarrhea, all spectacle vs little truth, lacking Kant-Popper skepticism/falsification, lemming-like stampedes to truth abandonment, qualified by vague adverbs: might, could, should, may,...vs factual is! Physics, motivated by financial greed, swept up in its very own hype, touts whatever next big thing/cutting-edge bombast ad infinitum/ad nauseum, turning it into mere trendy carney sideshow, full of fury(FOF) but signifying absolutely nothing! Witness: GIGO claims string-theory holographic-universe causes cuprates optical conductivity; failed Anderson RVB cuprates theory vs. Keimer discovery all cuprates ``paramagnons'' bosons aka Overhauser SDWs; Overbye NYT holographic-universe jargonial-obfuscation comments including one from APS journals editor-in-chief re. its unintelligibility, FOF but signifying absolutely nothing INTELLIGIBLE!; Bak/BNL SOC tad late rediscovery of F =ma mere renaming of Siegel acoustic-emission!; 2007 physics Nobel-prize Fert-Gruenberg rediscovery of Siegel[JMMM 7,312(78); https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=GIANT-MAGNETORESISTANCE] GMR. Each trendy latest big thing modulo lack of prior attribution aka out and out bombastic chicanery! Siegel caveat emptor ``Buzzwordism, Bandwagonism, Sloganeering for Fun Profit Survival Ego'' sociological-dysfunctionality thrives!
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Pröfrock, Daniel; Irrgeher, Johanna; Prohaska, Thomas
2016-01-01
The performance and validation characteristics of different single collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers based on different technical principles (ICP-SFMS, ICP-QMS in reaction and collision modes, and ICP-MS/MS) were evaluated in comparison to the performance of MC ICP-MS for fast and reliable S isotope ratio measurements. The validation included the determination of LOD, BEC, measurement repeatability, within-lab reproducibility and deviation from certified values as well as a study on instrumental isotopic fractionation (IIF) and the calculation of the combined standard measurement uncertainty. Different approaches of correction for IIF applying external intra-elemental IIF correction (aka standard-sample bracketing) using certified S reference materials and internal inter-elemental IIF (aka internal standardization) correction using Si isotope ratios in MC ICP-MS are explained and compared. The resulting combined standard uncertainties of examined ICP-QMS systems were not better than 0.3–0.5% (uc,rel), which is in general insufficient to differentiate natural S isotope variations. Although the performance of the single collector ICP-SFMS is better (single measurement uc,rel = 0.08%), the measurement reproducibility (>0.2%) is the major limit of this system and leaves room for improvement. MC ICP-MS operated in the edge mass resolution mode, applying bracketing for correction of IIF, provided isotope ratio values with the highest quality (relative combined measurement uncertainty: 0.02%; deviation from the certified value: <0.002%). PMID:27812369
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Hanousek, Ondrej; Brunner, Marion; Pröfrock, Daniel; Irrgeher, Johanna; Prohaska, Thomas
2016-11-14
The performance and validation characteristics of different single collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers based on different technical principles (ICP-SFMS, ICP-QMS in reaction and collision modes, and ICP-MS/MS) were evaluated in comparison to the performance of MC ICP-MS for fast and reliable S isotope ratio measurements. The validation included the determination of LOD, BEC, measurement repeatability, within-lab reproducibility and deviation from certified values as well as a study on instrumental isotopic fractionation (IIF) and the calculation of the combined standard measurement uncertainty. Different approaches of correction for IIF applying external intra-elemental IIF correction (aka standard-sample bracketing) using certified S reference materials and internal inter-elemental IIF (aka internal standardization) correction using Si isotope ratios in MC ICP-MS are explained and compared. The resulting combined standard uncertainties of examined ICP-QMS systems were not better than 0.3-0.5% ( u c,rel ), which is in general insufficient to differentiate natural S isotope variations. Although the performance of the single collector ICP-SFMS is better (single measurement u c,rel = 0.08%), the measurement reproducibility (>0.2%) is the major limit of this system and leaves room for improvement. MC ICP-MS operated in the edge mass resolution mode, applying bracketing for correction of IIF, provided isotope ratio values with the highest quality (relative combined measurement uncertainty: 0.02%; deviation from the certified value: <0.002%).
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Enzyme replacement prevents enamel defects in hypophosphatasia mice
Yadav, Manisha C.; de Oliveira, Rodrigo Cardoso; Foster, Brian L.; Fong, Hanson; Cory, Esther; Narisawa, Sonoko; Sah, Robert L.; Somerman, Martha; Whyte, Michael P.; Millán, José Luis
2012-01-01
Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is the inborn error of metabolism characterized by deficiency of alkaline phosphatase activity leading to rickets or osteomalacia and to dental defects. HPP occurs from loss-of-function mutations within the gene that encodes the tissue-nonspecific isozyme of alkaline phosphatase (TNAP). TNAP knockout (Alpl−/−, a.k.a. Akp2−/−) mice closely phenocopy infantile HPP, including the rickets, vitamin B6-responsive seizures, improper dentin mineralization, and lack of acellular cementum. Here, we report that lack of TNAP in Alpl−/− mice also causes severe enamel defects, which are preventable by enzyme replacement with mineral-targeted TNAP (ENB-0040). Immunohistochemistry was used to map the spatiotemporal expression of TNAP in the tissues of the developing enamel organ of healthy mouse molars and incisors. We found strong, stage-specific expression of TNAP in ameloblasts. In the Alpl−/− mice, histological, μCT, and scanning electron microscopy analysis showed reduced mineralization and disrupted organization of the rods and inter-rod structures in enamel of both the molars and incisors. All of these abnormalities were prevented in mice receiving from birth daily subcutaneous injections of mineral-targeting, human TNAP (sALP-FcD10, a.k.a. ENB-0040) at 8.2 mg/kg/day for up to 44 days. These data reveal an important role for TNAP in enamel mineralization, and demonstrate the efficacy of mineral-targeted TNAP to prevent enamel defects in HPP. PMID:22461224
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Ten Most Important Things to Know About Caring for Transgender Patients.
Chipkin, Stuart R; Kim, Fred
2017-11-01
Transgender people have a gender that is not in agreement with their birth sex. Previous barriers, including lack of provider knowledge, have created significant healthcare disparities for this population. Recent societal changes are increasing the numbers of transgender people seen by primary care practitioners. Ten key principles are provided to help primary care practitioners create more welcoming environments and provide quality care to transgender patients. Overall, all members of the healthcare team (primary and specialty) need to become aware of the transition process and maintain communication regarding risks, benefits, and goals. Transwomen (aka male to female) can be treated with estrogens, antiandrogens, or a combination. Benefits include change in fat distribution, skin softening, and breast development. Significant risks for thrombosis from estrogens have been linked to genetic mutations, smoking, prolonged inactivity, and hormone formulation. Oral administration may provide increased risk over peripheral administration. Transmen (aka female to male) can be treated with peripheral testosterone preparations. Benefits include deepening of voice and development of facial and body hair with variable changes in muscle mass. Risks from testosterone appear to be less common than from estrogen. Laboratory monitoring can guide treatment decisions and provide early detection of some complications. Monitoring of "existing" anatomy (either hormonally or surgically created or removed) is an important component of healthcare for transgender patients. Primary care providers also should be aware of resources in their community and online, which can help patients optimize their transition. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Grieshaber, Sarah E.; Farran, Alexandra J. E.; Lin-Gibson, Sheng; Kiick, Kristi L.; Jia, Xinqiao
2009-01-01
We are interested in developing elastin–mimetic hybrid polymers (EMHPs) that capture the multiblock molecular architecture of tropoelastin as well as the remarkable elasticity of mature elastin. In this study, multiblock EMHPs containing flexible synthetic segments based on poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) alternating with alanine-rich, lysine-containing peptides were synthesized by step-growth polymerization using α,ω-azido-PEG and alkyne-terminated AKA3KA (K = lysine, A = alanine) peptide, employing orthogonal click chemistry. The resulting EMHPs contain an estimated three to five repeats of PEG and AKA3KA and have an average molecular weight of 34 kDa. While the peptide alone exhibited α-helical structures at high pH, the fractional helicity for EMHPs was reduced. Covalent cross-linking of EMHPs with hexamethylene diisocyanate (HMDI) through the lysine residue in the peptide domain afforded an elastomeric hydrogel (xEMHP) with a compressive modulus of 0.12 MPa when hydrated. The mechanical properties of xEMHP are comparable to a commercial polyurethane elastomer (Tecoflex SG80A) under the same conditions. In vitro toxicity studies showed that while the soluble EMHPs inhibited the growth of primary porcine vocal fold fibroblasts (PVFFs) at concentrations ≥0.2 mg/mL, the cross-linked hybrid elastomers did not leach out any toxic reagents and allowed PVFFs to grow and proliferate normally. The hybrid and modular approach provides a new strategy for developing elastomeric scaffolds for tissue engineering. PMID:19763157
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Parsons, S. G.; Hermes, J. J.; Marsh, T. R.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Tremblay, P.-E.; Littlefair, S. P.; Sahman, D. I.; Ashley, R. P.; Green, M.; Rattanasoon, S.; Dhillon, V. S.; Burleigh, M. R.; Casewell, S. L.; Buckley, D. A. H.; Braker, I. P.; Irawati, P.; Dennihy, E.; Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Winget, D. E.; Winget, K. I.; Bell, Keaton J.; Kilic, Mukremin
2017-10-01
Using data from the extended Kepler mission in K2 Campaign 10, we identify two eclipsing binaries containing white dwarfs with cool companions that have extremely short orbital periods of only 71.2 min (SDSS J1205-0242, a.k.a. EPIC 201283111) and 72.5 min (SDSS J1231+0041, a.k.a. EPIC 248368963). Despite their short periods, both systems are detached with small, low-mass companions, in one case a brown dwarf and in the other case either a brown dwarf or a low-mass star. We present follow-up photometry and spectroscopy of both binaries, as well as phase-resolved spectroscopy of the brighter system, and use these data to place preliminary estimates on the physical and binary parameters. SDSS J1205-0242 is composed of a 0.39 ± 0.02 M⊙ helium-core white dwarf that is totally eclipsed by a 0.049 ± 0.006 M⊙ (51 ± 6MJ) brown-dwarf companion, while SDSS J1231+0041 is composed of a 0.56 ± 0.07 M⊙ white dwarf that is partially eclipsed by a companion of mass ≲0.095 M⊙. In the case of SDSS J1205-0242, we look at the combined constraints from common-envelope evolution and brown-dwarf models; the system is compatible with similar constraints from other post-common-envelope binaries, given the current parameter uncertainties, but has potential for future refinement.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
La Bel, Kenneth A.; Sampson, Michael J.
2016-01-01
As the space business rapidly evolves to accommodate a lower cost model of development and operation via concepts such as commercial space and small spacecraft (aka, CubeSats), traditional EEE parts screening and qualification methods are being scrutinized under a risk-reward trade space. In this presentation, two basic concepts will be the overarching theme: 1) The movement from complete risk aversion EEE parts methods to managing and/or accepting risk via alternate approaches; and, 2) A discussion of over-design focusing on both electrical design performance and bounding margins.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
LaBel, Kenneth A.; Sampson, Michael J.
2016-01-01
As the space business rapidly evolves to accommodate a lower cost model of development and operation via concepts such as commercial space and small spacecraft (aka, CubeSats), traditional EEE parts screening and qualification methods are being scrutinized under a risk-reward trade space. In this presentation, two basic concepts will be the overarching theme: 1) The movement from complete risk aversion EEE parts methods to managing and or accepting risk via alternate approaches; and, 2) A discussion of over-design focusing on both electrical design performance and bounding margins.
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Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm in an elderly woman.
Foong, H B B; Chong, M; Taylor, E M; Carlson, J A; Petrella, T
2013-04-01
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (a.k.a. NK cell lymphoma, CD4+CD56+ haematodermic neoplasm) is a rare aggressive tumour that arises from plasmacytoid dendritic cell precursors. We report the first case from Malaysia of a 79-year-old Chinese woman who presented with purpuric plaques and nodules produced by pleomorphic CD4+, CD56+, CD68+, CD123+ and CD303+, but CD2APmononuclear cell infiltrates. Leukemic dissemination occurred and she succumbed to disease without treatment 4 weeks after diagnosis and 9 months after onset of cutaneous disease.
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Ring dark and antidark solitons in nonlocal media.
Horikis, Theodoros P; Frantzeskakis, Dimitrios J
2016-02-01
Ring dark and antidark solitons in nonlocal media are found. These structures have, respectively, the form of annular dips or humps on top of a stable CW background, and exist in a weak or strong nonlocality regime, defined by the sign of a characteristic parameter. It is demonstrated analytically that these solitons satisfy an effective cylindrical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (aka Johnson's) equation and, as such, can be written explicitly in closed form. Numerical simulations show that they propagate undistorted and undergo quasi-elastic collisions, attesting to their stability properties.
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Sloane, Elliot; Rosow, Eric; Adam, Joe; Shine, Dave
2005-01-01
The Clinical Engineering (a.k.a. Biomedical Engineering) Department has heretofore lagged in adoption of some of the leading-edge information system tools used in other industries. This present application is part of a DOD-funded SBIR grant to improve the overall management of medical technology, and describes the capabilities that Strategic Graphical Dashboards (SGDs) can afford. This SGD is built on top of an Oracle database, and uses custom-written graphic objects like gauges, fuel tanks, and Geographic Information System (GIS) maps to improve and accelerate decision making.
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French Modular Impoundment: Final Cost and Performance Evaluation
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Drown, Peter; French, Bill
This report comprises the Final Cost and Performance Report for the Department of Energy Award # EE0007244, the French Modular Impoundment (aka the “French Dam”.) The French Dam is a system of applying precast modular construction to water control structures. The “French Dam” is a term used to cover the construction means/methods used to construct or rehabilitate dams, diversion structures, powerhouses, and other hydraulic structures which impound water and are covered under FDE’s existing IP (Patents # US8414223B2; US9103084B2.)
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Perl Embedded in PTC's Pro/ENGINEER, Version 1
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
2003-12-22
Pro-PERL (AKA Pro/PERL) is a Perl extension to the PTC Pro/TOOLKIT API to the PTC Pro/ENGINEER CAD application including an embedded interpreter. It can be used to automate and customize Pro/ENGINEER, create Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) format files and re-create CAD models from the VNA files. This has applications in sanitizing classified CAD models created in a classified environment for transfer to an open environment, creating template models for modification to finished models by non-expert users, and transfer of design intent data to other modeling technologies.
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University of California San Francisco (UCSF-2): Gene Expression Profiling of Normal Mouse Skin, Hras WT and Hras -/- This data set contains the transcriptional profiles of 20 dorsal skin samples from eight-week-old mice. Mice were generated by crossing FVB/N to Mus spretus mice to generate F1 mice, and then crossing F1 mice back to the FVB/N strain. 10 FVB/N mice lacking Hras1 (aka HrasKO, Hras-/-) and 10 FVB/N mice with wild-type Hras1 were generated. Read the abstract.
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Audiovisual quality evaluation of low-bitrate video
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Winkler, Stefan; Faller, Christof
2005-03-01
Audiovisual quality assessment is a relatively unexplored topic. We designed subjective experiments for audio, video, and audiovisual quality using content and encoding parameters representative of video for mobile applications. Our focus were the MPEG-4 AVC (a.k.a. H.264) and AAC coding standards. Our goals in this study are two-fold: we want to understand the interactions between audio and video in terms of perceived audiovisual quality, and we use the subjective data to evaluate the prediction performance of our non-reference video and audio quality metrics.
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Responsive Image Inline Filter
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Freeman, Ian
2016-10-20
RIIF is a contributed module for the Drupal php web application framework (drupal.org). It is written as a helper or sub-module of other code which is part of version 8 "core Drupal" and is intended to extend its functionality. It allows Drupal to resize images uploaded through the user-facing text editor within the Drupal GUI (a.k.a. "inline images") for various browser widths. This resizing is already done foe other images through the parent "Responsive Image" core module. This code extends that functionality to inline images.
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MAXI/GSC detection of a new outburst from SAX J1810.8-2609
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Negoro, H.; Mihara, T.; Nakahira, S.; Yatabe, F.; Takao, Y.; Matsuoka, M.; Kawai, N.; Sugizaki, M.; Tachibana, Y.; Morita, K.; Sakamoto, T.; Serino, M.; Sugita, S.; Kawakubo, Y.; Hashimoto, T.; Yoshida, A.; Nakajima, M.; Sakamaki, A.; Maruyama, W.; Ueno, S.; Tomida, H.; Ishikawa, M.; Sugawara, Y.; Isobe, N.; Shimomukai, R.; Ueda, Y.; Tanimoto, A.; Morita, T.; Yamada, S.; Tsuboi, Y.; Iwakiri, W.; Sasaki, R.; Kawai, H.; Sato, T.; Tsunemi, H.; Yoneyama, T.; Yamauchi, M.; Hidaka, K.; Iwahori, S.; Kawamuro, T.; Yamaoka, K.; Shidatsu, M.
2018-05-01
We report a new X-ray outburst from the low-mass X-ray binary SAX J1810.8-2609 (aka V4722 Sgr; Ubertini et al. 1998, IAUC 6838) observed with MAXI/GSC. The enhancement was recognized from 2018 April 23 (MJD 58231), and X-ray count rates in the 2-4 keV and 4-10 keV bands peaked on April 26 at 0.085 +/- 0.008 c/s/cm2 ( 80 mCrab) and 0.096+/-0.008 c/s/cm2 ( 82 mCrab), respectively.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Young, Larry A.; Pisanich, Gregory; Ippolito, Corey; Alena, Rick
2005-01-01
The objective of this paper is to review the anticipated imaging and remote-sensing technology requirements for aerial vehicle survey missions to other planetary bodies in our Solar system that can support in-atmosphere flight. In the not too distant future such planetary aerial vehicle (a.k.a. aerial explorers) exploration missions will become feasible. Imaging and remote-sensing observations will be a key objective for these missions. Accordingly, it is imperative that optimal solutions in terms of imaging acquisition and real-time autonomous analysis of image data sets be developed for such vehicles.
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Free Body Dynamics of a Spinning Cylinder With Planar Restraint (a.k.a. Barrel of Fun)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Moraru, Laurentiu; Dimofte, Florin; Hendricks, Robert C.
2006-01-01
The dynamic motion of a cylinder on a floor or hard surface is both entertaining and instructive. With maintenance torques, motion can be sustained and controlled as illustrated in a video clip that can be viewed in the PDF file of this document. The analysis of such a cylinder with and without end caps is burned on rotation about its center of mass and restrained by a plane normal to the axis passing through its center of mass at an angle alpha. For small values of alpha, the governing equations are simplified, and for symmetric bodies, stability requires rotation greater than [2 square root of(JWL*)]/J(sub X), where J is the transverse mass moment of inertia, W is the weight of the cylinder, L* is the cylinder length from the base to the center of mass, and JX is the mass moment of inertia about the longitudinal axis OX of the barrel. Comparisons to data are made and some applications are discussed.
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Eaton, Michael A W
2012-12-28
Over the last decade the involvement of European academic scientists in the translation of Nanomedicines and Drug Delivery into useful therapeutics has been modest. Funders have become increasingly concerned and some attempts have been made in Europe to improve impact. While the consequences are minimal at present for stakeholders, the eventual impact at national and political levels could be serious and is likely to lead to reverse innovation - the import of healthcare products from developing economies - if not addressed. Some knowledge of industrial drug development is critical for innovation in this regulated sector - this information being not easily obtained outside Pharma. While peer review has failings, more important is project inception, since once started research takes on a life of its own. This paper aims to encourage healthcare researchers to take a more translational approach to selecting (applied) drug delivery projects. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Silverman, Wayne; Miezejeski, Charles; Ryan, Robert; Zigman, Warren; Krinsky-McHale, Sharon; Urv, Tiina
2010-03-01
Stanford-Binet and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) IQs were compared for a group of 74 adults with intellectual disability (ID). In every case, WAIS Full Scale IQ was higher than the Stanford-Binet Composite IQ, with a mean difference of 16.7 points. These differences did not appear to be due to the lower minimum possible score for the Stanford-Binet. Additional comparisons with other measures suggested that the WAIS might systematically underestimate severity of intellectual impairment. Implications of these findings are discussed regarding determination of disability status, estimating prevalence of ID, assessing dementia and aging-related cognitive declines, and diagnosis of ID in forensic cases involving a possible death penalty.
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Silverman, Wayne; Miezejeski, Charles; Ryan, Robert; Zigman, Warren; Krinsky-McHale, Sharon; Urv, Tiina
2010-01-01
Stanford-Binet and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) IQs were compared for a group of 74 adults with intellectual disability (ID). In every case, WAIS Full Scale IQ was higher than the Stanford-Binet Composite IQ, with a mean difference of 16.7 points. These differences did not appear to be due to the lower minimum possible score for the Stanford-Binet. Additional comparisons with other measures suggested that the WAIS might systematically underestimate severity of intellectual impairment. Implications of these findings are discussed regarding determination of disability status, estimating prevalence of ID, assessing dementia and aging-related cognitive declines, and diagnosis of ID in forensic cases involving a possible death penalty. PMID:20401180
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Lunar Occultations, Setting the Stage for VLTI: The Case Study of CW-Leo (aka IRC+10216)
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Käufl, Hans Ulrich; Stecklum, Bringfried; Richter, Steffen; Richichi, Andrea
Lunar occultation allows for a sneak preview of what the VLTI will observe, both with comparable angular resolution and sensitivity. In the thermal infrared ( λ ≈ 10μ m, angular resolution ≤ 0.03^' ') the technique has been pioneered with TIMMI on La Silla. Using this technique several dust shells around Asymptotic Giant Branch stars have been resolved. For the Carbon star CW-Leo (IRC+10 216) high S/N scans will allow for `11/2-dimensional' imaging of the source. At the present state of data reduction the light curves already provide for a very convincing proof of theories on the milli-arcsec scale. In combination with VLTI the technique allows for checks of the visibility calibration and related issues. Moreover, in the (u,v)-plane both techniques are extremely complementary, so that a merging of the data sets appear highly desirable. At La Silla and Paranal ESO a suite of instruments which can be (ab)used for this project is under construction.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Geiculescu, O. E.; DesMarteau, D. D.; Creager, S. E.; Haik, O.; Hirshberg, D.; Shilina, Y.; Zinigrad, E.; Levi, M. D.; Aurbach, D.; Halalay, I. C.
2016-03-01
Ionic liquids (IL's) were proposed for use in Li-ion batteries (LIBs), in order to mitigate some of the well-known drawbacks of LiPF6/mixed organic carbonates solutions. However, their large cations seriously decrease lithium transference numbers and block lithium insertion sites at electrode-electrolyte interfaces, leading to poor LIB rate performance. Deep eutectic electrolytes (DEEs) (which share some of the advantages of ILs but possess only one cation, Li+), were then proposed, in order to overcome the difficulties associated with ILs. We report herein on the preparation, thermal properties (melting, crystallization, and glass transition temperatures), transport properties (specific conductivity and viscosity) and thermal stability of binary DEEs based on mixtures of lithium bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide or lithium bis(fluoro)sulfonimide salts with an alkyl sulfonamide solvent. Promise for LIB applications is demonstrated by chronoamperometry on Al current collectors, and cycling behavior of negative and positive electrodes. Residual current densities of 12 and 45 nA cm-2 were observed at 5 V vs. Li/Li+ on aluminum, 1.5 and 16 nA cm-2 at 4.5 V vs. Li/Li+, respectively for LiFSI and LiTFSI based DEEs. Capacities of 220, 130, and 175 mAh· g-1 were observed at low (C/13 or C/10) rates, respectively for petroleum coke, LiMn1/3Ni1/3Co1/3O2 (a.k.a. NMC 111) and LiAl0.05Co0.15Ni0.8O2 (a.k.a. NCA).
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Pereira, Susana R; Vasconcelos, Vítor M; Antunes, Agostinho
2013-01-01
Microcystins (MCs) are cyclic peptides, produced by cyanobacteria, that are hepatotoxic to mammals. The toxicity mechanism involves the potent inhibition of protein phosphatases, as the toxins bind the catalytic subunits of five enzymes of the phosphoprotein phosphatase (PPP) family of serine/threonine-specific phosphatases: Ppp1 (aka PP1), Ppp2 (aka PP2A), Ppp4, Ppp5 and Ppp6. The interaction with the proteins includes the formation of a covalent bond with a cysteine residue. Although this reaction seems to be accessory for the inhibition of PPP enzymes, it has been suggested to play an important part in the biological role of MCs and furthermore is involved in their nonenzymatic conjugation to glutathione. In this study, the molecular interaction of microcystins with their targeted PPP catalytic subunits is reviewed, including the relevance of the covalent bond for overall inhibition. The chemical reaction that leads to the formation of the covalent bond was evaluated in silico, both thermodynamically and kinetically, using quantum mechanical-based methods. As a result, it was confirmed to be a Michael-type addition, with simultaneous abstraction of the thiol hydrogen by a water molecule, transfer of hydrogen from the water to the α,β-unsaturated carbonyl group of the microcystin and addition of the sulfur to the β-carbon of the microcystin moiety. The calculated kinetics are in agreement with previous experimental results that had indicated the reaction to occur in a second step after a fast noncovalent interaction that inhibited the enzymes per se. © 2011 The Authors Journal compilation © 2011 FEBS.
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Shifting the Computational Paradigm
2004-10-01
Classifier. SIGART Bulletin 2 (3): 88-92 (1991) 23. F. Donini , M . Lenzerini, D. Nardi, and W. Nutt. `The Complexity of Concept Languages’, KR-91, pp 151...162, 1991. 24. F. Donini , M . Lenzerini, D. Nardi, and W. Nutt. Tractable concept languages’, IJCAI-91, pp 458-465, 1991. 25. O. Lassila, “Web...UnambiguousProperty, then if P(x, y) and P(z, y) then x=z. aka injective. e.g. if nameOfMonth( m , "Feb") and nameOfMonth(n, "Feb") then m and n are the same
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Blob structure and motion in the edge and SOL of NSTX
Zweben, S. J.; Myra, J. R.; Davis, W. M.; ...
2016-01-28
Here, the structure and motion of discrete plasma blobs (a.k.a. filaments) in the edge and scrape-off layer of NSTX is studied for representative Ohmic and H-mode discharges. Individual blobs were tracked in the 2D radial versus poloidal plane using data from the gas puff imaging diagnostic taken at 400 000 frames s -1. A database of blob amplitude, size, ellipticity, tilt, and velocity was obtained for ~45 000 individual blobs. Empirical relationships between various properties are described, e.g. blob speed versus amplitude and blob tilt versus ellipticity. The blob velocities are also compared with analytic models.
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Evaluating and Evolving Metadata in Multiple Dialects
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Kozimore, John; Habermann, Ted; Gordon, Sean; Powers, Lindsay
2016-01-01
Despite many long-term homogenization efforts, communities continue to develop focused metadata standards along with related recommendations and (typically) XML representations (aka dialects) for sharing metadata content. Different representations easily become obstacles to sharing information because each representation generally requires a set of tools and skills that are designed, built, and maintained specifically for that representation. In contrast, community recommendations are generally described, at least initially, at a more conceptual level and are more easily shared. For example, most communities agree that dataset titles should be included in metadata records although they write the titles in different ways.
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Efficiency Versus Instability in Plasma Accelerators
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Lebedev, Valeri; Burov, Alexey; Nagaitsev, Sergei
2017-01-05
Plasma wake-field acceleration in a strongly nonlinear (a.k.a. the blowout) regime is one of the main candidates for future high-energy colliders. For this case, we derive a universal efficiency-instability relation, between the power efficiency and the key instability parameter of the witness bunch. We also show that in order to stabilize the witness bunch in a regime with high power efficiency, the bunch needs to have high energy spread, which is not presently compatible with collider-quality beam properties. It is unclear how such limitations could be overcome for high-luminosity linear colliders.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Fang, Chin
This Technical Note describes how the Zettar team came up with a data transfer cluster design that convincingly proved the feasibility of using high-density servers for high-performance Big Data transfers. It then outlines the tests, operations, and observations that address a potential over-heating concern regarding the use of Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCI aka NVM Express or NVMe) Gen 3 PCIe SSD cards in high-density servers. Finally, it points out the possibility of developing a new generation of high-performance Science DMZ data transfer system for the data-intensive research community and commercial enterprises.
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VizieR Online Data Catalog: Intermediate-luminosity X-ray objects catalog (Colbert+, 2002)
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Colbert, E. J. M.; Ptak, A. F.
2002-11-01
ROSAT, and now Chandra, X-ray images allow studies of extranuclear X-ray point sources in galaxies other than our own. X-ray observations of normal galaxies with ROSAT and Chandra have revealed that off-nuclear, compact, intermediate-luminosity (LX[2-10keV]>=1039erg/s) X-ray objects (IXOs, a.k.a. ULXs [ultraluminous X-ray sources]) are quite common. Here we present a catalog and finding charts for 87 IXOs in 54 galaxies, derived from all of the ROSAT HRI imaging data for galaxies with cz<=5000km/s from the Third Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies. (2 data files).
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(Congressional) Center for Microplasma Science and Technology
2012-03-29
Flexible Tubing Plasma Jet (a.k.a plasma snake) We made the device using Ar and He as working gases, Teflon tubing, copper tape as electrode(s) and a...An advantage of these Cap‐DBDs over planar or coaxial DBDs is their geometry; the open space surrounding each tube allows active species created by...plasma. The gap width between tubes influences both the area and shape of the Lissajous figures ( Figure 8, middle). For the larger spacing , the
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Optimum viewing distance for target acquisition
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Holst, Gerald C.
2015-05-01
Human visual system (HVS) "resolution" (a.k.a. visual acuity) varies with illumination level, target characteristics, and target contrast. For signage, computer displays, cell phones, and TVs a viewing distance and display size are selected. Then the number of display pixels is chosen such that each pixel subtends 1 min-1. Resolution of low contrast targets is quite different. It is best described by Barten's contrast sensitivity function. Target acquisition models predict maximum range when the display pixel subtends 3.3 min-1. The optimum viewing distance is nearly independent of magnification. Noise increases the optimum viewing distance.
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Telescope Bernard Lyot: operation, instrumentation, perspectives
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Cabanac, R.
2016-12-01
This talk is the TBL director report at the 3rd French national telescopes Users Meeting of 2016. Telescope Bernard Lyot, the 2-m at Pic du midi (2870m), is dedicated to spectro-polarimetric studies since 2007 with the instrument Narval. This paper presents TBL operation, science highlights and statistics of the past 10 years of operation. It also opens perspectives for the coming 10 years with the funding of Neo-Narval (Narval stabilized to v_r < 3m/s) and SPIrou at Pic du midi (aka SPIP) for the study of the young exoplanetary systems.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2010-11-22
... office space'' leased by Respondents from a company called Servcorp. See note 4. infra. It is BIS's understanding that other persons also rent ``virtual office space'' at this address. The only current users at... ship those items to Iran through third countries. Respondents use the leased virtual office space in...
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Short-term C mineralization (aka the flush of CO2) as an indicator of soil biological health
USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database
Soil biological activity is a key component of soil health assessments, as it (a) indicates soil nutrient cycling capacity from various organic matter sources to inorganic availability, (b) relates to soil structural conditions, (c) informs about the potential to harbor biodiversity in soil, and (d)...
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Beitz, Janice M
2017-03-01
Patients with wounds often are provided pharmacologic interventions for their wounds as well as for their acute or chronic illnesses. Drugs can promote wound healing or substantively hinder it; some medications cause wound or skin reactions. A comprehensive review of extant literature was conducted to examine the impact of drug therapy on wound healing and skin health. MEDLINE and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) were searched for English-language articles published between 2000 and 2016 using the terms drugs, medications, drug skin eruptions, adverse skin reactions, wound healing, delayed wound healing, nonhealing wound, herbals, and herbal supplements. The search yielded 140 articles (CINAHL) and 240 articles (MEDLINE) for medications and wound healing. For medications and adverse skin effects, the search identified 256 articles (CINAHL) and 259 articles (MEDLINE). The articles included mostly narrative reviews, some clinical trials, and animal studies. Notable findings were synthesized in a table per pharmacological class and/or agent focusing on wound healing impact and drug-induced adverse skin reactions. The medications most likely to impair wound healing and damage skin integrity include antibiotics, anticonvulsants, angiogenesis inhibitors, steroids, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Conversely, drugs such as ferrous sulfate, insulin, thyroid hormones, and vitamins may facilitate wound healing. Selected clinical practices, including obtaining a detailed medication history that encompasses herbal supplements use; assessing nutrition status especially protein blood levels affecting drug protein binding; and scrutinizing patient history and physical characteristics for risk factors (eg, atopy history) can help diminish and/or eliminate adverse integumentary outcomes. "Deprescribing" (discontinuing unnecessary medications) should be utilized when possible. Contemporary wound care clinicians must be cognizant of these mitigating clinical approaches.
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ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Silverman, Wayne; Miezejeski, Charles; Ryan, Robert; Zigman, Warren; Krinsky-McHale, Sharon; Urv, Tiina
2010-01-01
Stanford-Binet and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) IQs were compared for a group of 74 adults with intellectual disability (ID). In every case, WAIS Full Scale IQ was higher than the Stanford-Binet Composite IQ, with a mean difference of 16.7 points. These differences did not appear to be due to the lower minimum possible score for the…
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VizieR Online Data Catalog: Spitzer-CANDELS catalog within 5 deep fields (Ashby+, 2015)
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Ashby, M. L. N.; Willner, S. P.; Fazio, G. G.; Dunlop, J. S.; Egami, E.; Faber, S. M.; Ferguson, H. C.; Grogin, N. A.; Hora, J. L.; Huang, J.-S.; Koekemoer, A. M.; Labbe, I.; Wang, Z.
2015-08-01
We chose to locate S-CANDELS inside the wider and shallower fields already covered by Spitzer Extended Deep Survey (SEDS), in regions that enjoy deep optical and NIR imaging from HST/CANDELS. These S-CANDELS fields are thus the Extended GOODS-south (aka the GEMS field, hereafter ECDFS; Rix et al. 2004ApJS..152..163R; Castellano et al. 2010A&A...511A..20C), the Extended GOODS-north (HDFN; Giavalisco et al. 2004, II/261; Wang et al. 2010, J/ApJS/187/251; Hathi et al. 2012ApJ...757...43H; Lin et al. 2012ApJ...756...71L), the UKIDSS UDS (aka the Subaru/XMM Deep Field, Ouchi et al. 2001ApJ...558L..83O; Lawrence et al. 2007, II/319), a narrow field within the EGS (Davis et al. 2007ApJ...660L...1D; Bielby et al. 2012A&A...545A..23B), and a strip within the UltraVista deep survey of the larger COSMOS field (Scoville et al. 2007ApJS..172...38S; McCracken et al. 2012, J/A+A/544/A156). The S-CANDELS observing strategy was designed to maximize the area covered to full depth within the CANDELS area. Each field was visited twice with six months separating the two visits. Table 1 lists the epochs for each field. All of the IRAC full-depth coverage is within the SEDS area (Ashby et al. 2013, J/ApJ/769/80), and almost all is within the area covered by HST for CANDELS. (6 data files).
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Methodology for Designing Fault-Protection Software
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Barltrop, Kevin; Levison, Jeffrey; Kan, Edwin
2006-01-01
A document describes a methodology for designing fault-protection (FP) software for autonomous spacecraft. The methodology embodies and extends established engineering practices in the technical discipline of Fault Detection, Diagnosis, Mitigation, and Recovery; and has been successfully implemented in the Deep Impact Spacecraft, a NASA Discovery mission. Based on established concepts of Fault Monitors and Responses, this FP methodology extends the notion of Opinion, Symptom, Alarm (aka Fault), and Response with numerous new notions, sub-notions, software constructs, and logic and timing gates. For example, Monitor generates a RawOpinion, which graduates into Opinion, categorized into no-opinion, acceptable, or unacceptable opinion. RaiseSymptom, ForceSymptom, and ClearSymptom govern the establishment and then mapping to an Alarm (aka Fault). Local Response is distinguished from FP System Response. A 1-to-n and n-to- 1 mapping is established among Monitors, Symptoms, and Responses. Responses are categorized by device versus by function. Responses operate in tiers, where the early tiers attempt to resolve the Fault in a localized step-by-step fashion, relegating more system-level response to later tier(s). Recovery actions are gated by epoch recovery timing, enabling strategy, urgency, MaxRetry gate, hardware availability, hazardous versus ordinary fault, and many other priority gates. This methodology is systematic, logical, and uses multiple linked tables, parameter files, and recovery command sequences. The credibility of the FP design is proven via a fault-tree analysis "top-down" approach, and a functional fault-mode-effects-and-analysis via "bottoms-up" approach. Via this process, the mitigation and recovery strategy(s) per Fault Containment Region scope (width versus depth) the FP architecture.
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The joint Simon effect: a review and theoretical integration
Dolk, Thomas; Hommel, Bernhard; Colzato, Lorenza S.; Schütz-Bosbach, Simone; Prinz, Wolfgang; Liepelt, Roman
2014-01-01
The social or joint Simon effect has been developed to investigate how and to what extent people mentally represent their own and other persons' action/task and how these cognitive representations influence an individual's own behavior when interacting with another person. Here, we provide a review of the available evidence and theoretical frameworks. Based on this review, we suggest a comprehensive theory that integrates aspects of earlier approaches–the Referential Coding Account. This account provides an alternative to the social interpretation of the (joint) go-nogo Simon effect (aka the social Simon effect) and is able to integrate seemingly opposite findings on joint action. PMID:25249991
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
LaBel, Kenneth A.; Sampson, Michael J.
2017-01-01
As the space business rapidly evolves to accommodate a lower cost model of development and operation via concepts such as commercial space and small spacecraft (aka, CubeSats and swarms), traditional EEE parts screening and qualification methods are being scrutinized under a risk-reward trade space. In this presentation, two basic concepts will be discussed: (1) The movement from complete risk aversion EEE parts methods to managing and/or accepting risk via alternate approaches; and, (2) A discussion of emerging assurance methods to reduce overdesign as well emerging model based mission assurance (MBMA) concepts. center dot Example scenarios will be described as well as consideration for trading traditional versus alternate methods.
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Enabling Telescopes of the Future: Long-Range Technology Investing
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Thronson, Harley
2004-01-01
The Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters has a current staff of about 60 professionals (aka, scientists, engineers, budget analysts) and an annual budget of $2.5 B out of NASA s $15.0 B. About 35 missions or programs in various stages of development or operation are managed by OSS, notable among them are Hubble Space Telescope, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars 2001 Odyssey, Chandra X-ray Observatory, TRACE (solar observatory), Cassini (mission to Saturn), Galileo (mission at Jupiter), and Next Generation Space Telescope. OSS has an annual technology budget of several hundred million dollars. So, what is it that we are doing?
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Dense module enumeration in biological networks
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Tsuda, Koji; Georgii, Elisabeth
2009-12-01
Analysis of large networks is a central topic in various research fields including biology, sociology, and web mining. Detection of dense modules (a.k.a. clusters) is an important step to analyze the networks. Though numerous methods have been proposed to this aim, they often lack mathematical rigorousness. Namely, there is no guarantee that all dense modules are detected. Here, we present a novel reverse-search-based method for enumerating all dense modules. Furthermore, constraints from additional data sources such as gene expression profiles or customer profiles can be integrated, so that we can systematically detect dense modules with interesting profiles. We report successful applications in human protein interaction network analyses.
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Roe, Catherine M; Babulal, Ganesh M; Mishra, Shruti; Gordon, Brian A; Stout, Sarah H; Ott, Brian R; Carr, David B; Ances, Beau M; Morris, John C; Benzinger, Tammie L S
2018-01-01
Abnormal levels of Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers, measured by positron emission tomography imaging using amyloid-based radiotracers and cerebrospinal fluid, are associated with impaired driving performance in older adults. We examined whether preclinical AD staging, defined using amyloid imaging and tau imaging using the radiotracer T807 (AKA flortaucipir or AV-1451), was associated with receiving a marginal/fail rating on a standardized road test (n = 42). Participants at Stage 2 (positive amyloid and tau scans) of preclinical AD were more likely to receive a marginal/fail rating compared to participants at Stage 0 or 1. Stage 2 preclinical AD may manifest in worse driving performance.
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Visualization of self-heating of an all climate battery by infrared thermography
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Zhang, Guangsheng; Tian, Hua; Ge, Shanhai; Marple, Dan; Sun, Fengchun; Wang, Chao-Yang
2018-02-01
Self-heating Li-ion battery (SHLB), a.k.a. all climate battery, has provided a novel and practical solution to the low temperature power loss challenge. During its rapid self-heating, it is critical to keep the heating process and temperature distributions uniform for superior battery performance, durability and safety. Through infrared thermography of an experimental SHLB cell activated from various low ambient temperatures, we find that temperature distribution is uniform over the active electrode area, suggesting uniform heating. We also find that a hot spot exists at the activation terminal during self-heating, which provides diagnostics for improvement of next generation SHLB cells without the hot spot.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Mullally, Fergal; Thompson, Susan E.; Coughlin, Jeffrey L.; Burke, Christopher J.; Rowe, Jason F.
2018-05-01
We show that the claimed confirmed planet Kepler-452b (a.k.a., K07016.01, KIC 8311864) cannot be confirmed using a purely statistical validation approach. Kepler detects many more periodic signals from instrumental effects than it does from transits, and it is likely impossible to confidently distinguish the two types of events at low signal-to-noise. As a result, the scenario that the observed signal is due to an instrumental artifact cannot be ruled out with 99% confidence, and the system must still be considered a candidate planet. We discuss the implications for other confirmed planets in or near the habitable zone.
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Geo-targeted Weather Alerts Coming to Millions of Mobile Devices
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Gerber, M.
2011-12-01
The Personal Localized Alert Network (PLAN), aka Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), is readying for roll out and will be broadcasting emergency public alerts to millions of cell phones by the middle of 2012. Learn how the National Weather Serivce (NWS) is supplying PLAN with geo-referenced weather alert information in the industry standard Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format and how you can access this same information for integration with mobile devices, other consumer electronics, and decision support systems. Information will also be provided on the NWS' new collaborative venue that encourages wide participation in the evolution and use of NWS CAP alerts in a variety of applications.
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1990-08-01
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An Evaluation Framework for Lossy Compression of Genome Sequencing Quality Values.
Alberti, Claudio; Daniels, Noah; Hernaez, Mikel; Voges, Jan; Goldfeder, Rachel L; Hernandez-Lopez, Ana A; Mattavelli, Marco; Berger, Bonnie
2016-01-01
This paper provides the specification and an initial validation of an evaluation framework for the comparison of lossy compressors of genome sequencing quality values. The goal is to define reference data, test sets, tools and metrics that shall be used to evaluate the impact of lossy compression of quality values on human genome variant calling. The functionality of the framework is validated referring to two state-of-the-art genomic compressors. This work has been spurred by the current activity within the ISO/IEC SC29/WG11 technical committee (a.k.a. MPEG), which is investigating the possibility of starting a standardization activity for genomic information representation.
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2014-04-30
ISS039-E-016800 (30 April 2014) --- Backdropped against a cloudy portion of Earth, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator -- the Canadian Space Agency’s robotic “handyman” AKA Dextre -- and the Canadarm2 or Space Station Remote Manipulator System arm take a "rest" after completing a task 225 miles above the home planet. Robotic ground controllers used the Canadarm2 and Dextre to remove the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) payload from the trunk of the SpaceX Dragon, seen in the top portion of the photo. HDEV was installed on the nadir adapter on the European Space Agency's Columbus exposed facility (out of frame).
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CAPS and Munc13: CATCHRs that SNARE Vesicles.
James, Declan J; Martin, Thomas F J
2013-12-04
CAPS (Calcium-dependent Activator Protein for Secretion, aka CADPS) and Munc13 (Mammalian Unc-13) proteins function to prime vesicles for Ca(2+)-triggered exocytosis in neurons and neuroendocrine cells. CAPS and Munc13 proteins contain conserved C-terminal domains that promote the assembly of SNARE complexes for vesicle priming. Similarities of the C-terminal domains of CAPS/Munc13 proteins with Complex Associated with Tethering Containing Helical Rods domains in multi-subunit tethering complexes (MTCs) have been reported. MTCs coordinate multiple interactions for SNARE complex assembly at constitutive membrane fusion steps. We review aspects of these diverse tethering and priming factors to identify common operating principles.
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Neutropenia and Neutropenic Complications in ABVD Chemotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma
Vakkalanka, Bhanu; Link, Brian K.
2011-01-01
A combination of Adriamycin (a.k.a. Doxorubicin), Bleomycin, Vinblastine, and Dacarbazine (ABVD) is the most commonly used chemotherapy regime for Hodgkin lymphoma. This highly effective treatment is associated with a significant risk of neutropenia. Various strategies are adopted to counter this commonly encountered problem, including dose modification, use of colony stimulating factors, and prophylactic or therapeutic use of antibiotics. Data to support these approaches is somewhat controversial, and in keeping with the paucity of definitive evidence, there is a wide disparity in the management of neutropenia in patients receiving ABVD chemotherapy. This paper summarizes the evidence for managing ABVD-related neutropenia during the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma. PMID:21687649
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Querying Provenance Information: Basic Notions and an Example from Paleoclimate Reconstruction
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Stodden, V.; Ludaescher, B.; Bocinsky, K.; Kintigh, K.; Kohler, T.; McPhillips, T.; Rush, J.
2016-12-01
Computational models are used to reconstruct and explain past environments and to predict likely future environments. For example, Bocinsky and Kohler have performed a 2,000-year reconstruction of the rain-fed maize agricultural niche in the US Southwest. The resulting academic publications not only contain traditional method descriptions, figures, etc. but also links to code and data for basic transparency and reproducibility. Examples include ResearchCompendia.org and the new project "Merging Science and Cyberinfrastructure Pathways: The Whole Tale." Provenance information provides a further critical element to understand a published study and to possibly extend or challenge the findings of the original authors. We present different notions and uses of provenance information using a computational archaeology example, e.g., the common use of "provenance for others" (for transparency and reproducibility), but also the more elusive but equally important use of "provenance for self". To this end, we distinguish prospective provenance (a.k.a. workflow) from retrospective provenance (a.k.a. data lineage) and show how combinations of both forms of provenance can be used to answer different kinds of important questions about a workflow and its execution. Since many workflows are developed using scripting or special purpose languages such as Python and R, we employ an approach and toolkit called YesWorkflow that brings provenance modeling, capture, and querying into the realm of scripting. YesWorkflow employs the basic W3C PROV standard, as well as the ProvONE extension for sharing and exchanging retrospective and prospective provenance information, respectively. Finally, we argue that the utility of provenance information should be maximized by developing different kinds provenance questions and queries during the early phases of computational workflow design and implementation.
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Chamizo, Sonia; Belnap, Jayne; Elridge, David J; Issa, Oumarou M
2016-01-01
Biocrusts exert a strong influence on hydrological processes in drylands by modifying numerous soil properties that affect water retention and movement in soils. Yet, their role in these processes is not clearly understood due to the large number of factors that act simultaneously and can mask the biocrust effect. The influence of biocrusts on soil hydrology depends on biocrust intrinsic characteristics such as cover, composition, and external morphology, which differ greatly among climate regimes, but also on external factors as soil type, topography and vegetation distribution patterns, as well as interactions among these factors. This chapter reviews the most recent literature published on the role of biocrusts in infiltration and runoff, soil moisture, evaporation and non-rainfall water inputs (fog, dew, water absorption), in an attempt to elucidate the key factors that explain how biocrusts affect land hydrology. In addition to the crust type and site characteristics, recent studies point to the crucial importance of the type of rainfall and the spatial scale at which biocrust effects are analyzed to understand their role in hydrological processes. Future studies need to consider the temporal and spatial scale investigated to obtain more accurate generalizations on the role of biocrusts in land hydrology.
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The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Concl...
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The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Concl...
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RANS Simulation (Actuator Disk Model[ADM]) of the NREL Phase VI wind turbine modeled as MHK Turbine
Javaherchi, Teymour
2016-06-08
Attached are the .cas and .dat files for the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation of a single lab-scaled DOE RM1 turbine implemented in ANSYS FLUENT CFD-package. In this case study the flow field around and in the wake of the NREL Phase VI wind turbine, modeled is MHK turbine, is simulated using Actuator Disk Model (a.k.a Porous Media) by solving RANS equations coupled with a turbulence closure model. It should be highlighted that in this simulation the actual geometry of the rotor blade is not modeled. The effect of turbine rotating blades are modeled using the Actuator Disk Theory (see the stated section of attached M.Sc. thesis for more details).
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cFE/CFS (Core Flight Executive/Core Flight System)
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Wildermann, Charles P.
2008-01-01
This viewgraph presentation describes in detail the requirements and goals of the Core Flight Executive (cFE) and the Core Flight System (CFS). The Core Flight Software System is a mission independent, platform-independent, Flight Software (FSW) environment integrating a reusable core flight executive (cFE). The CFS goals include: 1) Reduce time to deploy high quality flight software; 2) Reduce project schedule and cost uncertainty; 3) Directly facilitate formalized software reuse; 4) Enable collaboration across organizations; 5) Simplify sustaining engineering (AKA. FSW maintenance); 6) Scale from small instruments to System of Systems; 7) Platform for advanced concepts and prototyping; and 7) Common standards and tools across the branch and NASA wide.
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Kang, Hye Won; Kanno, Keishi; Scapa, Erez F; Cohen, David E
2010-04-01
Phosphatidylcholine transfer protein (PC-TP, a.k.a. StarD2) is abundantly expressed in liver and is regulated by PPARalpha. When fed the synthetic PPARalpha ligand fenofibrate, Pctp(-/-) mice exhibited altered lipid and glucose metabolism. Microarray profiling of livers from fenofibrate fed wild type and Pctp(-/-) mice revealed differential expression of a broad array of metabolic genes, as well as their regulatory transcription factors. PC-TP expression in cell culture controlled the activities of both PPARalpha and HNF4alpha, suggesting that the mechanism by which it modulates hepatic metabolism is at least in part via activation of transcription factors that govern nutrient homeostasis. 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder and opioid use disorder: A narrative review of conceptual models.
Danovitch, Itai
2016-01-01
Post-traumatic stress disorder is highly prevalent among individuals who suffer from opioid use disorder. Compared to individuals with opioid use disorder alone, those with post-traumatic stress disorder have a worse course of illness, occupational functioning, and physical health. The neurobiological pathways underlying each disorder overlap substantially, and there are multiple pathways through which these disorders may interact. This narrative review explores evidence underpinning 3 explanatory perspectives on comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder and opioid use disorder: The opioid susceptibility model (a.k.a.: the Self-Medication Hypothesis), the post-traumatic stress disorder susceptibility model, and the common factors model. Diagnostic implications, treatment implications, and directions for future research are discussed.
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Usability of Operational Performance Support Tools - Findings from Sea Test II
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Byrne, Vicky; Litaker, Harry; McGuire, Kerry
2014-01-01
Sea Test II, aka NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 17(NEEMO 17) took place in the Florida Aquarius undersea habitat. This confined underwater environment provides a excellent analog for space habitation providing similarities to space habitation such as hostile environment, difficult logistics, autonomous operations, and remote communications. This study collected subjective feedback on the usability of two performance support tools during the Sea Test II mission, Sept 10-14, 2013; Google Glass and iPAD. The two main objectives: - Assess the overall functionality and usability of each performance support tool in a mission analog environment. - Assess the advantages and disadvantages of each tool when performing operational procedures and Just-In-Time-Training (JITT).
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Efficient Use of AUVs in the Maritime Environment
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Slămnoiu, G.; Radu, O.; Roşca, V.; Pascu, C.; Surdu, G.; Curcă, E.; Damian, R. G.; Rădulescu, A.
2017-06-01
Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) a.k.a. underwater drones are subsea vehicles which operate in the underwater environment independently of direct human input. There is a growing interest in underwater data collection by using autonomous underwater vehicles within the oceanographic research community. In this paper, the Iver 2 AUV is examined to accomplish accurate side-scan data while executing well planned missions. Therefore, this papers goal is to establish the optimal use conditions for the AUV that RCN has so that we maximize the detection probability of sea bottom objects that can be risk factors and at the same time to cover a surface as large as possible during a single mission.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Santos-Sacchi, Joseph
2018-05-01
Measures of membrane capacitance (Cm) can be used to assess important characteristics of voltage-dependent membrane proteins (e.g., channels and transporters). In particular, a protein's time-dependent voltage-sensor charge movement is equivalently represented as a frequency-dependent component of Cm, telling much about the kinetics of the protein's conformational behavior. Recently, we have explored the frequency dependence of OHC voltage-dependent capacitance (aka nonlinear capacitance, NLC) to query rates of conformational switching within prestin (SLC26a5), the cell's lateral membrane molecular motor 1. Following removal of confounding stray capacitance effects, high frequency Cm measures using wide-band stimuli accurately reveal unexpected low pass behavior in prestin's molecular motions.
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GIV/Girdin transmits signals from multiple receptors by triggering trimeric G protein activation.
Garcia-Marcos, Mikel; Ghosh, Pradipta; Farquhar, Marilyn G
2015-03-13
Activation of trimeric G proteins has been traditionally viewed as the exclusive job of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). This view has been challenged by the discovery of non-receptor activators of trimeric G proteins. Among them, GIV (a.k.a. Girdin) is the first for which a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) activity has been unequivocally associated with a well defined motif. Here we discuss how GIV assembles alternative signaling pathways by sensing cues from various classes of surface receptors and relaying them via G protein activation. We also describe the dysregulation of this mechanism in disease and how its targeting holds promise for novel therapeutics. © 2015 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
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Gegenbauer-solvable quantum chain model
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Znojil, Miloslav
2010-11-01
An N-level quantum model is proposed in which the energies are represented by an N-plet of zeros of a suitable classical orthogonal polynomial. The family of Gegenbauer polynomials G(n,a,x) is selected for illustrative purposes. The main obstacle lies in the non-Hermiticity (aka crypto-Hermiticity) of Hamiltonians H≠H†. We managed to (i) start from elementary secular equation G(N,a,En)=0, (ii) keep our H, in the nearest-neighbor-interaction spirit, tridiagonal, (iii) render it Hermitian in an ad hoc, nonunique Hilbert space endowed with metric Θ≠I, (iv) construct eligible metrics in closed forms ordered by increasing nondiagonality, and (v) interpret the model as a smeared N-site lattice.
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KIC 8462852 Brightness Pattern Repeating Every 1600 days
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Gary, Bruce; Bourne, Rafik
2017-12-01
Observations of KIC 8462852 (aka Boyajian's Star) reveal a yearlong fade pattern that is remarkably similar to the fade pattern derived from Kepler mission observations. The ground-based observations reported here can be described as a gradual fade that ended in late 2016 with the beginning of a yearlong U-shaped fade of 1.1 percent. Near the end of this U-shaped fade a series of very brief dips occurred. The Kepler data exhibit a similar pattern 1600 days earlier, except with an abrupt end of observations before the U-shape recovery. Observations lasting many years are needed, especially during our predicted repeat of the U-shape and short dip pattern in 2021.
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Pushing Boundaries: My Personal and Scientific Journey
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Sarachik, Myriam P.
2018-03-01
This autobiographical narrative offers a brief account of my journey and adventures in condensed matter physics (a.k.a. solid state physics) and some of the personal events that shaped my life and my career: my early years in Europe, my family's escape from the Nazis, growing up in Cuba, the difficult road into a field that was essentially closed to women, a personal disaster that knocked the wind out of my sails for more than a decade, and my return to a successful career in physics. In closing, I argue that, although we have made remarkable progress, we know but a thimble-full in our inexhaustible search for an understanding of the laws of nature.
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A new necessary condition for Turing instabilities.
Elragig, Aiman; Townley, Stuart
2012-09-01
Reactivity (a.k.a initial growth) is necessary for diffusion driven instability (Turing instability). Using a notion of common Lyapunov function we show that this necessary condition is a special case of a more powerful (i.e. tighter) necessary condition. Specifically, we show that if the linearised reaction matrix and the diffusion matrix share a common Lyapunov function, then Turing instability is not possible. The existence of common Lyapunov functions is readily checked using semi-definite programming. We apply this result to the Gierer-Meinhardt system modelling regenerative properties of Hydra, the Oregonator, to a host-parasite-hyperparasite system with diffusion and to a reaction-diffusion-chemotaxis model for a multi-species host-parasitoid community. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Impact dynamics of liquid marbles
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Marston, Jeremy; Supakar, Tinku
2016-11-01
The impact of particle coated droplets (a.k.a. liquid marbles or armored droplets) onto solid substrates is assessed experimentally with high-speed video. The impact is characterized by the maximum spread diameter, which conforms to scaling laws in terms of the impact Weber number, meaning that the marbles behave similar to water droplets during this stage. However, the motion of the particles across the surface allows us to observe both clustering and divergence of the particle shell and, in particular, we observe the formation of arrested shapes (i.e. jammed interfaces) after impact onto hydrophobic surfaces, from an initially spherical shape. In this case, we postulate that the speed of retraction and rate of change of surface coverage is a key ingredient leading to arrested shapes.
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Erles, K; Mugford, A; Barfield, D; Leeb, T; Kook, P H
2018-04-01
An 11-month-old Border collie presented collapsed and continued to deteriorate rapidly despite supportive treatment. The dog had a history of failure to thrive and recurring respiratory infection. Laboratory abnormalities included neutrophilic leucocytosis, Heinz body anaemia, hyperammonaemia, hyperbilirubinaemia, proteinuria and hypocobalaminaemia. Post-mortem examination revealed multi-focal necrosis within the heart, kidneys, pancreas, liver, meninges and cerebral cortex. Fungal hyphae in lesions were identified as Scedosporium prolificans following culture. Subsequent genotyping confirmed that the dog carried the CUBN:c.8392delC mutation in a homozygous state, verifying hereditary cobalamin deficiency (a.k.a. Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome). Cobalamin deficiency may have been a predisposing factor for the development of systemic fungal infection in this dog. © 2017 British Small Animal Veterinary Association.
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Hypnosis lessons by stage magnetizers: Medical and lay hypnotists in Spain
Graus, Andrea
2017-01-01
During the late nineteenth century, Spanish physicians had few chances to observe how hypnosis worked within a clinical context. However, they had abundant opportunities to watch lay hypnotizers in action during private demonstrations or on stage. Drawing on the exemplary cases of the magnetizers Alberto Santini Sgaluppi (a.k.a. Alberto Das) and Onofroff, in this paper I discuss the positive influence of stage magnetizers on medical hypnosis in Spain. I argue that, owing to the absence of medical training in hypnosis, the stage magnetizers’ demonstrations became practical hypnosis lessons for many physicians willing to learn from them instead of condemning them. I conclude that Spain might be no exception in this regard, and that further research should be undertaken into practices in other countries.
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Floquet high Chern insulators in periodically driven chirally stacked multilayer graphene
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Li, Si; Liu, Cheng-Cheng; Yao, Yugui
2018-03-01
Chirally stacked N-layer graphene is a semimetal with ±p N band-touching at two nonequivalent corners in its Brillioun zone. We predict that an off-resonant circularly polarized light (CPL) drives chirally stacked N-layer graphene into a Floquet Chern insulators (FCIs), aka quantum anomalous Hall insulators, with tunable high Chern number C F = ±N and large gaps. A topological phase transition between such a FCI and a valley Hall (VH) insulator with high valley Chern number C v = ±N induced by a voltage gate can be engineered by the parameters of the CPL and voltage gate. We propose a topological domain wall between the FCI and VH phases, along which perfectly valley-polarized N-channel edge states propagate unidirectionally without backscattering.
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Servo-hydraulic actuator in controllable canonical form: Identification and experimental validation
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Maghareh, Amin; Silva, Christian E.; Dyke, Shirley J.
2018-02-01
Hydraulic actuators have been widely used to experimentally examine structural behavior at multiple scales. Real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is one innovative testing method that largely relies on such servo-hydraulic actuators. In RTHS, interface conditions must be enforced in real time, and controllers are often used to achieve tracking of the desired displacements. Thus, neglecting the dynamics of hydraulic transfer system may result either in system instability or sub-optimal performance. Herein, we propose a nonlinear dynamical model for a servo-hydraulic actuator (a.k.a. hydraulic transfer system) coupled with a nonlinear physical specimen. The nonlinear dynamical model is transformed into controllable canonical form for further tracking control design purposes. Through a number of experiments, the controllable canonical model is validated.
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Heading in the right direction? An innovative approach toward proper patient head positioning
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Grush, William H.; Steffen, Gary A
2002-12-31
An in-house-manufactured modification of the standard A-F foam rubber head-neck supports (aka. Timo Supports) was designed to eliminate clinical setup problems with head immobilization and instability during treatment, thus providing for a more comfortable head rest for the patient. The custom design of this head holder seeks to eliminate superior-to-inferior shift, and minimize the lateral right-to-left rotational movement of the head when coupled with an AquaPlast casting system. By focusing attention to the seating of the occipital portion of the head and contour of the patient's neck, the aforementioned problems of movement were addressed, while adhering to the interests ofmore » patient comfort in this modified head support system.« less
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Lin, Hui; Liu, Tianyu; Su, Lin; Bednarz, Bryan; Caracappa, Peter; Xu, X. George
2017-09-01
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is well recognized as the most accurate method for radiation dose calculations. For radiotherapy applications, accurate modelling of the source term, i.e. the clinical linear accelerator is critical to the simulation. The purpose of this paper is to perform source modelling and examine the accuracy and performance of the models on Intel Many Integrated Core coprocessors (aka Xeon Phi) and Nvidia GPU using ARCHER and explore the potential optimization methods. Phase Space-based source modelling for has been implemented. Good agreements were found in a tomotherapy prostate patient case and a TrueBeam breast case. From the aspect of performance, the whole simulation for prostate plan and breast plan cost about 173s and 73s with 1% statistical error.
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Advances in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Merging NDVI, Soil Moisture, and Chlorophyll Fluorescence
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Tucker, Compton
2016-04-01
I will describe an advance in remote sensing of vegetation in the time domain that combines simultaneous measurements of the normalized difference vegetation index, soil moisture, and chlorophyll fluorescence, all from different satellite sensors but acquired for the same areas at the same time step. The different sensor data are MODIS NDVI data from both Terra and Aqua platforms, soil moisture data from SMOS & SMP (aka SMAP but with only the passive radiometer), and chlorophyll fluorescence data from GOME-2. The complementary combination of these data provide important crop yield information for agricultural production estimates at critical phenological times in the growing season, provide a scientific basis to map land degradation, and enable quantitative determination of the end of the growing season in temperate zones.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Alcott, G.; Kempler, S.; Lynnes, C.; Leptoukh, G.; Vollmer, B.; Berrick, S.
2008-12-01
NASA Earth Sciences Division (ESD), and its preceding Earth science organizations, has made great investments in the development and maintenance of data management systems, as well as information technologies, for the purpose of maximizing the use and usefulness of NASA generated Earth science data. Earth science information systems, evolving with the maturation and implementation of advancing technologies, reside at NASA data centers, known as Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs). With information management system infrastructure in place, and system data and user services already developed and operational, only very small delta costs are required to fully support data archival, processing, and data support services required by the recommended Decadal Study missions. This presentation describes the services and capabilities of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) (one of NASAs DAACs) and their potential reuse for these future missions. After 14 years working with instrument teams and the broader science community, GES DISC personnel expertise in atmospheric, water cycle, and atmospheric modeling data and information services, as well as Earth science missions, information system engineering, operations, and user services have developed a series of modular, reusable data management components currently is use in several projects. The knowledge and experience gained at the GES DISC lend themselves to providing science driven information systems in the areas of aerosols, clouds, and atmospheric chemicals to be measured by recommended Decadal Survey missions. Available reusable capabilities include data archive and distribution (Simple, Scalable, Script-based, Science [S4] Product Archive aka S4PA), data processing (S4 Processor for Measurements aka S4PM), data search (Mirador), data browse, visualization, and analysis (Giovanni), and data mining services. In addition, recent enhancements, such as
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Grgic, Ivica; Kaistha, Brajesh P; Hoyer, Joachim; Köhler, Ralf
2009-06-01
The arterial endothelium critically contributes to blood pressure control by releasing vasodilating autacoids such as nitric oxide, prostacyclin and a third factor or pathway termed 'endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor' (EDHF). The nature of EDHF and EDHF-signalling pathways is not fully understood yet. However, endothelial hyperpolarization mediated by the Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels (K(Ca)) has been suggested to play a critical role in initializing EDHF-dilator responses in conduit and resistance-sized arteries of many species including humans. Endothelial K(Ca) currents are mediated by the two K(Ca) subtypes, intermediate-conductance K(Ca) (KCa3.1) (also known as, a.k.a. IK(Ca)) and small-conductance K(Ca) type 3 (KCa2.3) (a.k.a. SK(Ca)). In this review, we summarize current knowledge about endothelial KCa3.1 and KCa2.3 channels, their molecular and pharmacological properties and their specific roles in endothelial function and, particularly, in the EDHF-dilator response. In addition we focus on recent experimental evidences derived from KCa3.1- and/or KCa2.3-deficient mice that exhibit severe defects in EDHF signalling and elevated blood pressures, thus highlighting the importance of the KCa3.1/KCa2.3-EDHF-dilator system for blood pressure control. Moreover, we outline differential and overlapping roles of KCa3.1 and KCa2.3 for EDHF signalling as well as for nitric oxide synthesis and discuss recent evidence for a heterogeneous (sub) cellular distribution of KCa3.1 (at endothelial projections towards the smooth muscle) and KCa2.3 (at inter-endothelial borders and caveolae), which may explain their distinct roles for endothelial function. Finally, we summarize the interrelations of altered KCa3.1/KCa2.3 and EDHF system impairments with cardiovascular disease states such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis and discuss the therapeutic potential of KCa3.1/KCa2.3 openers as novel types of blood pressure-lowering drugs.
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SPECTRUM OF DISEASE AND OUTCOME OF PRIMARY AMPUTATION FOR DIABETIC FOOT SEPSIS.
Cheddie, S; Manneh, C; Zulu, H
2017-09-01
Guillotine amputation for diabetic foot sepsis followed by an elective refashioning of the stump is regarded as standard practice. Primary amputation is associated with higher reamputation rates. A prospective cohort study of 85 patients who underwent surgery for diabetic foot sepsis from 2014 to 2016 at Madadeni Provincial Hospital, KwaZulu-Natal was done. Ethical approval was granted. The Wagner classification (Wag) was used to classify disease severity. Outcome measures included length of hospital stay, mortality and re-amputation rates. Of the 85 patients, females (n=45) accounted for 53% of admissions. The mean age was 61 years (range: 29 to 80 years). The majority of patients were African, n=75 (88%). Only 1 patient presented with diabetic ketoacidosis and 18 (21%) presented with renal failure. Most patients presented with advanced disease: [Wag 5, n=66 (78%); Wag 4, n=12 (14%); Wag 3, n=5 (6%); Wag 2, n=2 (2%)]. The levels of vascular occlusion included aortoiliac disease n=2 (2%), femoro-popliteal disease n=18 (21%), tibio-peroneal disease n=65 (76%). Radiographic features included normal findings n=60 (71%); gas gangrene n=11 (13%), osteitis n=8 (9%). The following amputations were done: AKA, n=29 (34%); BKA, n=39 (46%); TMA, n=8 (9%); Toe-ectomy, n=5 (6%) and Debridement, n=4 (5%). The re-amputation rate to above knee amputation was n= 3/39 (8%). All AKA stumps healed well. The overall in-hospital mortality was n=5 (6%) and mean length of hospital stay was 7.8 days ±3.83. The majority of patients presented with advanced disease requiring a major amputation. A definitive one stage primary amputation is a safe and effective procedure for diabetic foot sepsis and is associated with a low re-amputation rate, length of hospital stay and mortality. A guillotine amputation should be reserved for physiologically unstable patients.
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Stone, Patrick A; Flaherty, Sarah K; Aburahma, Ali F; Hass, Stephen M; Jackson, J Michelle; Hayes, J David; Hofeldt, Matthew J; Hager, Casey S; Elmore, Michael S
2006-03-01
Major lower extremity amputations continue to be associated with significant morbidity and mortality, yet few recent large series have evaluated factors associated with perioperative mortality and wound complications. The purpose of this study was to examine factors affecting perioperative mortality and wound-related complications following major lower extremity amputation. A retrospective review was conducted of all adult patients who underwent nontraumatic major lower extremity amputations over a 5-year period at a single tertiary-care center in southern West Virginia. Demographic and clinical data, perioperative data, and outcomes were collected and analyzed to identify any relationship with perioperative mortality, as well as wound complications and early revisions (within 90 days) to a more proximal level. Variables were examined using chi-squared, two-tailed t-tests, and logistic regression. Three hundred eighty patients (61% male) underwent 412 major lower extremity amputations during 1999-2003. The initial level of amputation included 230 below-knee (BKA), 149 above-knee (AKA), and one hip disarticulation. Perioperative mortality was 15.5% (n = 59). From a regression model, age, albumin level, AKA, and lack of a previous coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) were independently related to mortality. Patients who did not have a previous CABG were nearly three times more likely to die than those who did (p = 0.038). Overall early wound complications were noted in 13.4% (n = 51). Four factors were independently related to experiencing a 90-day wound complication: BKA, community (rather than care facility) living, type of anesthesia, and preoperative hematocrit >30%. Major lower extremity amputation in patients with peripheral vascular disease continues to be associated with considerable perioperative morbidity and mortality. Even though the surgical procedure itself may not be challenging from a technical standpoint, underlying medical conditions put this group
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The Role of Content Aggregators In GEOValue
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Wright, D. J.; Breyer, S.; Hogeweg, M.; Foust, J.; Jordan, L.; Plunkett, G.
2016-12-01
Data (aka content) in the form of numbers or layers, and transformed into information by way of maps, images, graphs, charts, tables, even stories, are foundational for a myriad of decision-makers. Recent advances in information technology, as well as civil remote sensing of the Earth, are rapidly allowing us to advance beyond mere static data collection and archiving, further enabling information awareness and understanding, and leading us towards knowledge and better decision making. However, such volumes, velocities, and varieties of data streams also bring with them serious dilemmas with regard to effective organization, cataloging, and easy access. This is where the role of aggregator comes in, with their provision of the necessary sustainability and reliability of information via proven, well-engineered platforms, all with the necessary interoperability and openness as guaranteed through the adoption of established standards. Information technology (IT) giants such as Google, Facebook, IBM and Apple are well known for aggregating just about every aspect of life in modern society, from our music to our mood swings. A use case of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (aka Esri) is presented as a geospatial aggregator. It has over the years, compiled, assembled and produced a carefully curated library of public content into a global "Living Atlas of the World," organized into different themes such as Earth observation, transportation, demographics, natural hazards, ecological land units, elevation, and more. Among a myriad of decision scenarios with this content to be presented is the tracking of sea ice in the Arctic, estimating potential impact to shipping lanes or coastal infrastructure, and forecasting future conditions. Esri as the main aggregator of Living Atlas content continues to welcome not only contributors who will publish new content to be included in this global Atlas, but fellow curators who will assist in reviewing, organizing, and even
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Znojil, Miloslav
An N-level quantum model is proposed in which the energies are represented by an N-plet of zeros of a suitable classical orthogonal polynomial. The family of Gegenbauer polynomials G(n,a,x) is selected for illustrative purposes. The main obstacle lies in the non-Hermiticity (aka crypto-Hermiticity) of Hamiltonians H{ne}H{sup {dagger}.} We managed to (i) start from elementary secular equation G(N,a,E{sub n})=0, (ii) keep our H, in the nearest-neighbor-interaction spirit, tridiagonal, (iii) render it Hermitian in an ad hoc, nonunique Hilbert space endowed with metric {Theta}{ne}I, (iv) construct eligible metrics in closed forms ordered by increasing nondiagonality, and (v) interpret the model as amore » smeared N-site lattice.« less
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Komatsu, M.; Fagan, T. J.; Yamaguchi, A.; Mikouchi, T.; Zolensky, M. E.; Yasutake, M.
2016-01-01
Amoeboid olivine aggregates (AOAs) are important refractory components of carbonaceous chondrites and have been interpreted to represent solar nebular condensates that experienced high-temperature annealing, but largely escaped melting. In addition, because AOAs in primitive chondrites are composed of fine-grained minerals (forsterite, anorthite, spinel) that are easily modified during post crystallization alteration, the mineralogy of AOAs can be used as a sensitive indicator of metamorphic or alteration processes. AOAs in CR chondrites are particularly important because they show little evidence for secondary alteration. In addition, some CR AOAs contain Mn-enriched forsterite (aka low-iron, Mn-enriched or LIME olivine), which is an indicator of nebular formation conditions. Here we report preliminary results of the mineralogy and petrology of AOAs in Antarctic CR chondrites, and compare them to those in other carbonaceous chondrites.
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Reticulon 4B (Nogo-B) is necessary for macrophage infiltration and tissue repair.
Yu, Jun; Fernández-Hernando, Carlos; Suarez, Yajaira; Schleicher, Michael; Hao, Zhengrong; Wright, Paulette L; DiLorenzo, Annarita; Kyriakides, Themis R; Sessa, William C
2009-10-13
Blood vessel formation during ischemia and wound healing requires coordination of the inflammatory response with genes that regulate blood vessel assembly. Here we show that the reticulon family member 4B, aka Nogo-B, is upregulated in response to ischemia and is necessary for blood flow recovery secondary to ischemia and wound healing. Mice lacking Nogo-B exhibit reduced arteriogenesis and angiogenesis that are linked to a decrease in macrophage infiltration and inflammatory gene expression in vivo. Bone marrow-derived macrophages isolated from Nogo knock-out mice have reduced spreading and chemotaxis due to impaired Rac activation. Bone marrow reconstitution experiments show that Nogo in myeloid cells is necessary to promote macrophage homing and functional recovery after limb ischemia. Thus, endogenous Nogo coordinates macrophage-mediated inflammation with arteriogenesis, wound healing, and blood flow control.
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Singular value decomposition for collaborative filtering on a GPU
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Kato, Kimikazu; Hosino, Tikara
2010-06-01
A collaborative filtering predicts customers' unknown preferences from known preferences. In a computation of the collaborative filtering, a singular value decomposition (SVD) is needed to reduce the size of a large scale matrix so that the burden for the next phase computation will be decreased. In this application, SVD means a roughly approximated factorization of a given matrix into smaller sized matrices. Webb (a.k.a. Simon Funk) showed an effective algorithm to compute SVD toward a solution of an open competition called "Netflix Prize". The algorithm utilizes an iterative method so that the error of approximation improves in each step of the iteration. We give a GPU version of Webb's algorithm. Our algorithm is implemented in the CUDA and it is shown to be efficient by an experiment.
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Cormode, Graham; Dasgupta, Anirban; Goyal, Amit; Lee, Chi Hoon
2018-01-01
Many modern applications of AI such as web search, mobile browsing, image processing, and natural language processing rely on finding similar items from a large database of complex objects. Due to the very large scale of data involved (e.g., users' queries from commercial search engines), computing such near or nearest neighbors is a non-trivial task, as the computational cost grows significantly with the number of items. To address this challenge, we adopt Locality Sensitive Hashing (a.k.a, LSH) methods and evaluate four variants in a distributed computing environment (specifically, Hadoop). We identify several optimizations which improve performance, suitable for deployment in very large scale settings. The experimental results demonstrate our variants of LSH achieve the robust performance with better recall compared with "vanilla" LSH, even when using the same amount of space.
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Siegel, Edward Plato Aristotle Archimedes Carl-Ludwig; Young, Frederic; Lewis, Thomas
2013-06-01
Siegel[MRS Fall-Mtgs,:Symp.Fractals(89)-5-papers!!!;Symp.Scaling(90)] FCP/CSC {aka SPD}(Tic-Tac-Toe-Matrix/Tabular List-Format) ``COMMON-FUNCTIONING-PRINCIPLE'' DI/TRI-CHOTOMY GENERIC ``INEVITABILITY_-WEB'' PURPOSEFUL PARSIMONY-of-DI/TRI-CHOTOMY STRATEGY REdiscovery of SoO automatically/optimality is in NON-list-format/matrix: DIMENSIONALITY-DOMINATION -INEVIT-ABILITY ROOT-CAUSE(RC) ULTIMATE-ORIGIN(UO): (level-0.-logic) DIMENSIONALITY (level-0. logic): [dst = ODD-Z] <->{Dst=FRACTAL-UNcertainty FLUCTUATIONS} <->(dst = EVEN-Z): CAUSES: (level- I.-logic): EXTENT/SCALE/RADIUS: (relative)-[LOCALITY] <-> (relative)-(...GLOBALITY...) & (level-II.-logic): POWER-SPECTRUM{noise ≅generalized-susceptibility}: [``l''/ω0-White] <->(...-``l''/ω 1 . 000 . . . - HYPERBOLICITY...) & (level-III.-logic) CRITICAL-EXPONENT:n =0 <->n = 1.000... ; BUT ALL 3 ALSO CAUSED BY ANOTHER INdependent RCUO (level-IV.-logic):
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Wildfire and MAMS data from STORMFEST
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Jedlovec, Gary J.; Carlson, G. S.
1993-01-01
Early in 1992, NASA participated in an inter-agency field program called STORMFEST. The STORM-Fronts Experiment Systems Test (STORMFEST) was designed to test various systems critical to the success of STORM 1 in a very focused experiment. The field effort focused on winter storms in order to investigate the structure and evolution of fronts and associated mesoscale phenomena in the central United States. This document describes the data collected from two instruments onboard a NASA ER2 aircraft which was deployed out of Ellington Field in Houston, Texas from February 13 through March 15, 1992, in support of this experiment. The two instruments were the Wildfire (a.k.a. the moderate resolution imaging spectrometer-nadir (MODIS-N) Airborne Simulation (MAS)) and the Multispectral Atmospheric Mapping Sensor (MAMS).
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Omar al-Hammami: a case study in radicalization.
Mastors, Elena; Siers, Rhea
2014-01-01
This article presents a case study on the radicalization of Omar al-Hammami, aka Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, an American who joined al-Shabaab, a Somali terrorist group. There are a limited number of in-depth case studies that help to inform the fragmented discussions in the literature about the radicalization process of Islamic terrorists. Hammami received quite a bit of attention from the government and media due to his "homegrown" status, as well as his prolific use of social media to inform the world of his views and exploits. Hammami did not fully commit to the group, his sense of self-importance taking precedent over the norms of the group. He left al-Shabaab, was publicly critical of the group, and was ultimately killed by them. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Array-based Hierarchical Mesh Generation in Parallel
Ray, Navamita; Grindeanu, Iulian; Zhao, Xinglin; ...
2015-11-03
In this paper, we describe an array-based hierarchical mesh generation capability through uniform refinement of unstructured meshes for efficient solution of PDE's using finite element methods and multigrid solvers. A multi-degree, multi-dimensional and multi-level framework is designed to generate the nested hierarchies from an initial mesh that can be used for a number of purposes such as multi-level methods to generating large meshes. The capability is developed under the parallel mesh framework “Mesh Oriented dAtaBase” a.k.a MOAB. We describe the underlying data structures and algorithms to generate such hierarchies and present numerical results for computational efficiency and mesh quality. Inmore » conclusion, we also present results to demonstrate the applicability of the developed capability to a multigrid finite-element solver.« less
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Advanced functional network analysis in the geosciences: The pyunicorn package
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Donges, Jonathan F.; Heitzig, Jobst; Runge, Jakob; Schultz, Hanna C. H.; Wiedermann, Marc; Zech, Alraune; Feldhoff, Jan; Rheinwalt, Aljoscha; Kutza, Hannes; Radebach, Alexander; Marwan, Norbert; Kurths, Jürgen
2013-04-01
Functional networks are a powerful tool for analyzing large geoscientific datasets such as global fields of climate time series originating from observations or model simulations. pyunicorn (pythonic unified complex network and recurrence analysis toolbox) is an open-source, fully object-oriented and easily parallelizable package written in the language Python. It allows for constructing functional networks (aka climate networks) representing the structure of statistical interrelationships in large datasets and, subsequently, investigating this structure using advanced methods of complex network theory such as measures for networks of interacting networks, node-weighted statistics or network surrogates. Additionally, pyunicorn allows to study the complex dynamics of geoscientific systems as recorded by time series by means of recurrence networks and visibility graphs. The range of possible applications of the package is outlined drawing on several examples from climatology.
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The Possible Crosstalk of MOB2 With NDR1/2 Kinases in Cell Cycle and DNA Damage Signaling.
Gundogdu, Ramazan; Hergovich, Alexander
2016-09-06
This article is the authors' opinion of the roles of the signal transducer Mps one binder 2 (MOB2) in the control of cell cycle progression and the DNA Damage Response (DDR). We recently found that endogenous MOB2 is required to prevent the accumulation of endogenous DNA damage in order to prevent the undesired, and possibly detrimental, activation of cell cycle checkpoints. In this regard, it is noteworthy that MOB2 has been linked biochemically to the regulation of the NDR1/2 (aka STK38/STK38L) protein kinases, which themselves have functions at different steps of the cell cycle. Therefore, we are speculating in this article about the possible connections of MOB2 with NDR1/2 kinases in cell cycle and DDR Signaling.
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Flight Results from the HST SM4 Relative Navigation Sensor System
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Naasz, Bo; Eepoel, John Van; Queen, Steve; Southward, C. Michael; Hannah, Joel
2010-01-01
On May 11, 2009, Space Shuttle Atlantis roared off of Launch Pad 39A enroute to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to undertake its final servicing of HST, Servicing Mission 4. Onboard Atlantis was a small payload called the Relative Navigation Sensor experiment, which included three cameras of varying focal ranges, avionics to record images and estimate, in real time, the relative position and attitude (aka "pose") of the telescope during rendezvous and deploy. The avionics package, known as SpaceCube and developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center, performed image processing using field programmable gate arrays to accelerate this process, and in addition executed two different pose algorithms in parallel, the Goddard Natural Feature Image Recognition and the ULTOR Passive Pose and Position Engine (P3E) algorithms
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NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Elias-Miró, Joan; Rychkov, Slava; Vitale, Lorenzo G.
2017-10-01
Hamiltonian Truncation (a.k.a. Truncated Spectrum Approach) is an efficient numerical technique to solve strongly coupled QFTs in d = 2 spacetime dimensions. Further theoretical developments are needed to increase its accuracy and the range of applicability. With this goal in mind, here we present a new variant of Hamiltonian Truncation which exhibits smaller dependence on the UV cutoff than other existing implementations, and yields more accurate spectra. The key idea for achieving this consists in integrating out exactly a certain class of high energy states, which corresponds to performing renormalization at the cubic order in the interaction strength. We test the new method on the strongly coupled two-dimensional quartic scalar theory. Our work will also be useful for the future goal of extending Hamiltonian Truncation to higher dimensions d ≥ 3.
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Lucan, S C; Varona, M; Maroko, A R; Bumol, J; Torrens, L; Wylie-Rosett, J
2013-08-01
Mobile food vendors (also known as street food vendors) may be important sources of food, particularly in minority and low-income communities. Unfortunately, there are no good data sources on where, when, or what vendors sell. The lack of a published assessment method may contribute to the relative exclusion of mobile food vendors from existing food-environment research. A goal of this study was to develop, pilot, and refine a method to assess mobile food vendors. Cross-sectional assessment of mobile food vendors through direct observations and brief interviews. Using printed maps, investigators canvassed all streets in Bronx County, NY (excluding highways but including entrance and exit ramps) in 2010, looking for mobile food vendors. For each vendor identified, researchers recorded a unique identifier, the vendor's location, and direct observations. Investigators also recorded vendors answers to where, when, and what they sold. Of 372 identified vendors, 38% did not answer brief-interview questions (19% were 'in transit', 15% refused; others were absent from their carts/trucks/stands or with customers). About 7% of vendors who ultimately answered questions were reluctant to engage with researchers. Some vendors expressed concerns about regulatory authority; only 34% of vendors had visible permits or licenses and many vendors had improvised illegitimate-appearing set-ups. The majority of vendors (75% of those responding) felt most comfortable speaking Spanish; 5% preferred other non-English languages. Nearly a third of vendors changed selling locations (streets, neighbourhoods, boroughs) day-to-day or even within a given day. There was considerable variability in times (hours, days, months) in which vendors reported doing business; for 86% of vendors, weather was a deciding factor. Mobile food vendors have a variable and fluid presence in an urban environment. Variability in hours and locations, having most comfort with languages other than English, and reluctance to interact with individuals gathering data are principal challenges to assessment. Strategies to address assessment challenges that emerged form this project may help make mobile-vendor assessments more routine in food-environment research. Copyright © 2013 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Gonzalez Porras, Maria A; Durfee, Paul; Giambini, Sebastian; Sieck, Gary C; Brinker, C Jeffrey; Mantilla, Carlos B
2018-04-01
Cholera toxin B (CTB) modified mesoporous silica nanoparticle supported lipid bilayers (CTB-protocells) are a promising, customizable approach for targeting therapeutic cargo to motoneurons. In the present study, the endocytic mechanism and intracellular fate of CTB-protocells in motoneurons were examined to provide information for the development of therapeutic application and cargo delivery. Pharmacological inhibitors elucidated CTB-protocells endocytosis to be dependent on the integrity of lipid rafts and macropinocytosis. Using immunofluorescence techniques, live confocal and transmission electron microscopy, CTB-protocells were primarily found in the cytosol, membrane lipid domains and Golgi. There was no difference in the amount of motoneuron activity dependent uptake of CTB-protocells in neuromuscular junctions, consistent with clathrin activation at the axon terminals during low frequency activity. In conclusion, CTB-protocells uptake is mediated principally by lipid rafts and macropinocytosis. Once internalized, CTB-protocells escape lysosomal degradation, and engage biological pathways that are not readily accessible by untargeted delivery methods. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
2012-02-24
... maintained. This determination shall be published in the Federal Register. Dated: February 16, 2012. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State. [FR Doc. 2012-4334 Filed 2-23-12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4710-10-P ...
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Regulation of Lipid and Glucose Metabolism by Phosphatidylcholine Transfer Protein
Kang, Hye Won; Wei, Jie; Cohen, David E.
2010-01-01
Phosphatidylcholine transfer protein (PC-TP, a.k.a. StARD2) binds phosphatidylcholines and catalyzes their intermembrane transfer and exchange in vitro. The structure of PC-TP comprises a hydrophobic pocket and a well-defined head-group binding site, and its gene expression is regulated by peroxisome proliferator activated receptor α. Recent studies have revealed key regulatory roles for PC-TP in lipid and glucose metabolism. Notably, Pctp−/− mice are sensitized to insulin action and exhibit more efficient brown fat-mediated thermogenesis. PC-TP appears to limit access of fatty acids to mitochondria by stimulating the activity of thioesterase superfamily member 2, a newly characterized long-chain fatty acyl-CoA thioesterase. Because PC-TP discriminates among phosphatidylcholines within lipid bilayers, it may function as a sensor that links metabolic regulation to membrane composition. PMID:20338778
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Attachment at work and performance.
Neustadt, Elizabeth A; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian
2011-09-01
This paper examines the relations between self-reported attachment orientation at work and personality, self-esteem, trait emotional intelligence (aka emotional self-efficacy), and independently assessed career potential and job performance. Self-report data were collected from 211 managers in an international business in the hospitality industry; independent assessments of these managers' job performance and career potential were separately obtained from the organization. A self-report measure of romantic attachment was adapted for application in the work context; a two-factor solution was found for this measure. Secure/autonomous attachment orientation at work was positively related to self-esteem, trait emotional intelligence, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and also to job performance. Not only was secure/autonomous attachment orientation at work statistically predictive of job performance, but the new measure also made a distinct contribution, beyond conscientiousness, to this prediction.
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Evaluation of Potential LSST Spatial Indexing Strategies
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Nikolaev, S; Abdulla, G; Matzke, R
2006-10-13
The LSST requirement for producing alerts in near real-time, and the fact that generating an alert depends on knowing the history of light variations for a given sky position, both imply that the clustering information for all detections is available at any time during the survey. Therefore, any data structure describing clustering of detections in LSST needs to be continuously updated, even as new detections are arriving from the pipeline. We call this use case ''incremental clustering'', to reflect this continuous updating of clustering information. This document describes the evaluation results for several potential LSST incremental clustering strategies, using: (1)more » Neighbors table and zone optimization to store spatial clusters (a.k.a. Jim Grey's, or SDSS algorithm); (2) MySQL built-in R-tree implementation; (3) an external spatial index library which supports a query interface.« less
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Structural Dynamics Experimental Activities in Ultra-Lightweight and Inflatable Space Structures
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Pappa, Richard S.; Lassiter, John O.; Ross, Brian P.
2001-01-01
This paper reports recently completed structural dynamics experimental activities with new ultralightweight and inflatable space structures (a.k.a., "Gossamer" spacecraft) at NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Nine aspects of this work are covered, as follows: 1) inflated, rigidized tubes, 2) active control experiments, 3) photogrammetry, 4) laser vibrometry, 5) modal tests of inflatable structures, 6) in-vacuum modal tests, 7) tensioned membranes, 8) deployment tests, and 9) flight experiment support. Structural dynamics will play a major role in the design and eventual in-space deployment and performance of Gossamer spacecraft, and experimental R&D work such as this is required now to validate new analytical prediction methods. The activities discussed in the paper are pathfinder accomplishments, conducted on unique components and prototypes of future spacecraft systems.
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STEREO/Waves Education and Public Outreach
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
MacDowall, R. J.; Bougeret, J.; Bale, S. D.; Goetz, K.; Kaiser, M. L.
2005-05-01
We present the education and public outreach plan and activities of the STEREO Waves (aka SWAVES) investigation. SWAVES measures radio emissions from the solar corona, interplanetary medium, and terrestrial magnetosphere, as well as in situ waves in the solar wind. In addition to the web site components that display stereo/multi-spacecraft data in a graphical form and explain the science and instruments, we will focus on the following three areas of EPO: class-room demonstrations using models of the STEREO spacecraft with battery powered radio receivers (and speakers) to illustrate spacecraft radio direction finding, teacher developed and tested class-room activities using SWAVES solar radio observations to motivate geometry and trigonometry, and sound-based delivery of characteristic radio and plasma wave events from the SWAVES web site for accessibility and esthetic reasons. Examples of each element will be demonstrated.
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Circumstellar Interaction in Supernovae in Dense Environments—An Observational Perspective
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Chandra, Poonam
2018-02-01
In a supernova explosion, the ejecta interacting with the surrounding circumstellar medium (CSM) give rise to variety of radiation. Since CSM is created from the mass loss from the progenitor, it carries footprints of the late time evolution of the star. This is one of the unique ways to get a handle on the nature of the progenitor system. Here, I will focus mainly on the supernovae (SNe) exploding in dense environments, a.k.a. Type IIn SNe. Radio and X-ray emission from this class of SNe have revealed important modifications in their radiation properties, due to the presence of high density CSM. Forward shock dominance in the X-ray emission, internal free-free absorption of the radio emission, episodic or non-steady mass loss rate, and asymmetry in the explosion seem to be common properties of this class of SNe.
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2018-01-01
Many modern applications of AI such as web search, mobile browsing, image processing, and natural language processing rely on finding similar items from a large database of complex objects. Due to the very large scale of data involved (e.g., users’ queries from commercial search engines), computing such near or nearest neighbors is a non-trivial task, as the computational cost grows significantly with the number of items. To address this challenge, we adopt Locality Sensitive Hashing (a.k.a, LSH) methods and evaluate four variants in a distributed computing environment (specifically, Hadoop). We identify several optimizations which improve performance, suitable for deployment in very large scale settings. The experimental results demonstrate our variants of LSH achieve the robust performance with better recall compared with “vanilla” LSH, even when using the same amount of space. PMID:29346410
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Mars in Situ Resource Utilization Technology Evaluation
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Muscatello, Anthony C.; Santago-Maldonado, Edgardo
2012-01-01
We have examined the technologies required to enable Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) because our understanding of Mars resources has changed significantly in the last five years as a result of recent robotic missions to the red planet. Two major developments, (1) confirmation of the presence of near-surface water in the form of ice in very large amounts at high latitudes by the Phoenix Lander and (2) the likely existence of water at lower latitudes in the form of hydrates or ice in the top one meter of the regolith, have the potential to change ISRU technology selection. A brief technology assessment was performed for the most promising Mars atmospheric gas processing techniques: Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS) and Methanation (aka Sabatier), as well as an overview of soil processing technology to extract water from Martian soil.
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Mars In-Situ Resource Utilization Technology Evaluation
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Santiago-Maldonado, Edgardo; Muscatello, Anthony
2011-01-01
We have examined the technologies required to enable Mars Tn-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) because our understanding of Mars resources has changed significantly in the last five years as a result of recent robotic missions to the red planet [1-4]. Two major developments, (1) confirmation of the presence of near-surface water in the form of ice in very large amounts at high latitudes by the Phoenix Lander and (2) the likely existence of water at lower latitudes in the form of hydrates or ice in the top one meter of the regolith, have the potential to change ISRU technology selection. A brief technology assessment was performed for the most promising Mars atmospheric gas processing techniques: Reverse Water Gas Shift (RWGS) and Methanation (aka Sabatier), as well as an overview of soil.processing technology to extract water from Martian soil.
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Sedivy, John M
2011-01-01
Phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein (PEBP) was identified almost three decades ago as an abundant protein in bovine brain. PEBP is the prototype of a highly conserved family of proteins represented in all three major phylogenetic divisions, eukaryota, bacteria, and archaea, with no significant sequence homology to other proteins. PEBP proteins have been studied in many species. The most thoroughly explored biological role of PEBP is that of a modulator of intracellular signaling pathways, which is mediated by its ability to bind and inhibit a number of protein kinases. The first such interaction that came to light was with the Raf1 kinase, and PEBP is thus widely referred to in the literature under its alternate name RKIP (Raf kinase inhibitory protein). The activity of RKIP itself is subject to regulation by phosphorylation. Intriguingly, PEBP has also been reported to possess additional, and diverse, biological functions unrelated to protein kinase networks that remain to be investigated in detail. Recent findings that RKIP may function as a suppressor of cancer metastasis are of great interest and importance. Prognostic and therapeutic applications of RKIP in human cancer were the subject of the first international workshop on RKIP that was held at the University of California, Los Angeles, in March 2010. This paper was presented at the workshop as a summary of the history of this still small but rapidly evolving field.
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Liska, Adam J.; Suyker, Andrew E.; Arkebauer, Timothy J.
2013-12-20
Soil emissions have been inadequately characterized in life cycle assessment of biofuels (see section 3.2.3). This project measures the net differences in field-level greenhouse gas emissions (CO 2, N 2O, and CH 4) due to corn residue removal for cellulosic ethanol production. Gas measurements are then incorporated into life cycle assessment of the final biofuel product to determine whether it is in compliance with federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for biofuels (Renewable Fuel Standard 2, RFS2). The field measurements have been conducted over three years on two, quarter-section, production-scale, irrigated corn fields (both roughly 50 hectares, as this size ofmore » field is necessary for reproducible eddy covariance flux measurements of CO 2; chamber measurements are used to determine N 2O and CH 4 emissions). Due to a large hail storm in 2010, estimates of the emission from residue could not be separated from the total CO 2 flux in 2011. This led us to develop soil organic carbon (SOC) modeling techniques to estimate changes in CO 2 emissions from residue removal. Modeling has predicted emissions of CO 2 from oxidation of SOC that are consistent (<12%) with 9 years of CO 2 flux measurements at the two production field sites, and modeling is also consistent with other field measurements (Liska et al., submitted). The model was then used to estimate the average change in SOC and CO 2 emissions from nine years of simulated residue removal (6 Mg biomass per hectare per year) at the sites; a loss of 0.43 Mg C ha -1 yr -1 resulted. The model was then used to estimate SOC changes over 10 years across Nebraska using supercomputing, based on 61 million, 30 x 30 meter, grid cells to account for regional variability in initial SOC, crop yield, and temperature; an average loss of 0.47 Mg C ha -1 yr -1 resulted. When these CO 2 emissions are included in simple life cycle assessment calculations, emissions from cellulosic ethanol from crop residue are above mandated levels of 60% reduction compared to gasoline (Liska, in press). These approaches are both technically effective and economically feasible. This work has been extensively peer reviewed.« less
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ATTX961014-1R/Y is a high yielding, red skin, yellow flesh cultivar which was released by Texas A&M AgriLife Research in 2012. It resulted from a cross of breeding clone A90601-2RDY by the potato cultivar Mazama. ATTX961014-1R/Y is susceptible to Late Blight (Phytopthora infestans), Potato Leaf Roll...
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DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
NONE
1997-03-01
This document provides a brief background of the site, a summary of the remedy selected in the 1989 ROD (PB90-203498) and how that remedy was modified by the 1991 (PB95-463105) and 1993 (PB95-963104) ESDs, a description of how this ESD affects the remedy originally selected by EPA in the 1989 ROD, and an explanation of why EPA is making these changes to the ROD. EPA is issuing this third ESD to the 1989 ROD in order to take into account information received by EPA after EPA`s issuance of the 1991 and 1993 ESDs. The southern portion of the site consistsmore » of the Loral Defense Systems-Arizona (Loral) property and the Phoenix-Goodyear Airport property and any groundwater contamination emanating from these areas. The northern portion of the site consists of the Unidynamics property and any groundwater contamination emanating from these areas.« less
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Lucan, Sean C.; Varona, Monica; Maroko, Andrew R.; Bumol, Joel; Torrens, Luis; Wylie-Rosett, Judith
2013-01-01
OBJECTIVES Mobile food vendors (also known as street food vendors) may be important sources of food, particularly in minority and low-income communities. Unfortunately, there are no good data sources on where, when, or what vendors sell. The lack of a published assessment method may contribute to the relative exclusion of mobile food vendors from existing food-environment research. A goal of this study was to develop, pilot, and troubleshoot a method to assess mobile food vendors. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional assessment of mobile food vendors through direct observations and brief interviews. METHODS Using printed maps, investigators canvassed all streets in Bronx County, NY (excluding highways but including entrance and exit ramps) in 2010, looking for mobile food vendors. For each vendor identified, researchers recorded a unique identifier, the vendor’s location, and direct observations. Investigators also recorded vendors answers to where, when, and what they sold. RESULTS Of 372 identified vendors, 38% did not answer brief-interview questions (19% were “in transit”, 15% refused; others were absent from their carts/trucks/stands or with customers). About 7% of vendors who ultimately answered questions were reluctant to engage with researchers. Some vendors expressed concerns about regulatory authority; only 34% of vendors had visible permits or licenses and many vendors had improvised illegitimate-appearing set-ups. The majority of vendors (75% of those responding) felt most comfortable speaking Spanish; 5% preferred other non-English languages. Nearly a third of vendors changed selling locations (streets, neighborhoods, boroughs) day-to-day or even within a given day. There was considerable variability in times (hours, days, months) in which vendors reported doing business; for 86% of vendors, weather was a deciding factor. CONCLUSIONS Mobile food vendors have a variable and fluid presence in an urban environment. Variability in hours and locations, having most comfort with languages other than English, and reluctance to interact with individuals gathering data are principal challenges to assessment. Strategies to address assessment challenges that emerged form this project may help make mobile-vendor assessments more routine in food-environment research. PMID:23891280
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Gerhold, Richard W; Saraf, Pooja; Chapman, Alycia; Zou, Xuan; Hickling, Graham; Stiver, William H; Houston, Allan; Souza, Marcy; Su, Chunlei
2017-10-23
Toxoplasma gondii is a widespread protozoan parasite that infects humans and other animals. Previous studies indicate some genotypes of T. gondii are more frequently isolated in wildlife than agricultural animals, suggesting a wild/feral animal diversity model. To determine seroprevalence and genetic diversity of T. gondii in southeastern US wildlife, we collected sera from 471 wild animals, including 453 mammals and 18 birds, between 2011 and 2014. These serum samples were assayed for T. gondii infection using the modified agglutination test (MAT). Heart or tongue tissues from 66 seropositive animals were bioassayed in mice and 19 isolates were obtained. The isolated parasites were genotyped by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method employing 10 genetic markers. One hundred and ninety-six of 471 samples (41.6%) had a titer ≥1:32 and were considered positive for T. gondii infection. Of 453 mammals, 195 (43%) were seropositive, whereas only one (5.6%) of 18 birds was seropositive. The seroprevalence in mammals was significantly higher than in the birds. Mammalian hosts with adequate samples size (≥ 20) comprised white-tailed deer (n = 241), feral hogs (n = 100), raccoons (n = 34) and coyotes (n = 22), with seroprevalences of 41.0%, 51.0%, 50.0% and 72.7%, respectively. Coyotes had significantly higher seroprevalence than the white-tailed deer. Genotyping revealed five distinct genotypes, including the ToxoDB PCR-RFLP genotype #5 (a.k.a type 12) for 15 isolates, genotype #3 (a.k.a. type II) for 1 isolate, and genotypes #154, #167 and #216, each for 1 isolate. The results showed moderate to high infection rates of T. gondii in white-tailed deer, feral hogs, raccoons and coyotes. Genotyping results indicated limited genetic diversity and a dominance of genotype #5, which has been reported as a major type in wildlife in North America. We conclude that T. gondii infection is common in game animals (white
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Channel and feature selection in multifunction myoelectric control.
Khushaba, Rami N; Al-Jumaily, Adel
2007-01-01
Real time controlling devices based on myoelectric singles (MES) is one of the challenging research problems. This paper presents a new approach to reduce the computational cost of real time systems driven by Myoelectric signals (MES) (a.k.a Electromyography--EMG). The new approach evaluates the significance of feature/channel selection on MES pattern recognition. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), an evolutionary computational technique, is employed to search the feature/channel space for important subsets. These important subsets will be evaluated using a multilayer perceptron trained with back propagation neural network (BPNN). Practical results acquired from tests done on six subjects' datasets of MES signals measured in a noninvasive manner using surface electrodes are presented. It is proved that minimum error rates can be achieved by considering the correct combination of features/channels, thus providing a feasible system for practical implementation purpose for rehabilitation of patients.
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Perturbative search for dead-end CFTs
Nakayama, Yu
2015-05-08
To explore the possibility of self-organized criticality, we look for CFTs without any relevant scalar deformations (a.k.a. dead-end CFTs) within power-counting renormalizable quantum field theories with a weakly coupled Lagrangian description. In three dimensions, the only candidates are pure (Abelian) gauge theories, which may be further deformed by Chern-Simons terms. In four dimensions, we show that there are infinitely many non-trivial candidates based on chiral gauge theories. Using the three-loop beta functions, we compute the gap of scaling dimensions above the marginal value, and it can be as small as O(10 –5) and robust against the perturbative corrections. These classesmore » of candidates are very weakly coupled and our perturbative conclusion seems difficult to refute. Furthermore, the hypothesis that non-trivial dead-end CFTs do not exist is likely to be false in four dimensions.« less