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Estimation of Successful Breeding Pairs for Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA

Abstract Under the Endangered Species Act, documenting recovery and federally mandated population levels of wolves (Canis lupus) in the Northern Rocky Mountains (NRM) requires monitoring wolf packs that successfully recruit young. United States Fish and Wildlife Service regulations define successful breeding pairs as packs estimated to contain an adult male and female, accompanied by ≥2 pups on 31 December of a given year. Monitoring successful breeding pairs will become more difficult following proposed delisting of NRM wolves; alternatives to historically intensive methods, appropriate to the different ecological and regulatory context following delisting, are required. Because pack size is easier to monitor than pack composition, we estimated probability a pack would contain a successful breeding pair based on its size for wolf populations inhabiting 6 areas in the NRM. We also evaluated the extent to which differences in demography of wolves and levels of human-caused mortality among the areas influenced the probability of packs of different sizes would contain successful breeding pairs. Probability curves differed among analysis areas, depending primarily on levels of human-caused mortality, secondarily on annual population growth rate, and little on annual population density. Probabilities that packs contained successful breeding pairs were more uniformly distributed across pack sizes in areas with low levels of human mortality and stable populations. Large packs in areas with high levels of human-caused mortality and high annual growth rates had relatively high probabilities of containing breeding pairs whereas those for small packs were relatively low. Our approach can be used by managers to estimate number of successful breeding pairs in a population where number of packs and their sizes are known. Following delisting of NRM wolves, human-caused mortality is likely to increase, resulting in more small packs with low probabilities of containing breeding pairs. Differing contributions of packs to wolf population growth based on their size suggests monitoring successful breeding pairs will provide more accurate insights into population dynamics of wolves than will monitoring number of packs or individuals only.
Mutational spectrum of adult T-ALL

Novel target discovery is warranted to improve treatment in adult T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) patients. We provide a comprehensive study on mutations to enhance the understanding of therapeutic targets and studied 81 adult T-ALL patients. NOTCH1 exhibitedthe highest mutation rate (53%). Mutation frequencies of FBXW7 (10%), WT1 (10%), JAK3 (12%), PHF6 (11%), and BCL11B (10%) were in line with previous reports. We identified recurrent alterations in transcription factors DNM2, and RELN, the WNT pathway associated cadherin FAT1, and in epigenetic regulators (MLL2, EZH2). Interestingly, we discovered novel recurrent mutations in the DNA repair complex member HERC1, in NOTCH2, and in the splicing factor ZRSR2. A frequently affected pathway was the JAK/STAT pathway (18%) and a significant proportion of T-ALL patients harboured mutations in epigenetic regulators (33%), both predominantly found in the unfavourable subgroup of early T-ALL. Importantly, adult T-ALL patients not only showed a highly heterogeneous mutational spectrum, but also variable subclonal allele frequencies implicated in therapy resistance and evolution of relapse. In conclusion, we provide novel insights in genetic alterations of signalling pathways (e.g. druggable by γ-secretase inhibitors, JAK inhibitors or EZH2 inhibitors), present in over 80% of all adult T-ALL patients, that could guide novel therapeutic approaches.
Not Really Single: The Deportation to Welfare Pathway for U.S. Citizen Mothers in Mixed-Status Marriage

Working-class, Latin American men are increasingly removed from their families and exploited by the global market-driven for-profit detention system and then deported from the United States. Using gendered and racialized deportation regimes and neoliberal paternalism this research qualitatively analyzes the financial and emotional consequences of deportation for 17 U.S. citizen mothers who are part of a mixed-status marriage (primarily white non-Latina citizens, married to undocumented Latin American men). The state uses strict deportation policies as a mechanism to “protect” citizens from so-called dangerous criminals, most who have not committed a crime. This supposed safeguard suggests that citizens need to be protected from their own husbands and fathers. Citizens are suddenly cast into the role of single parent and sole provider and often rely on public assistance to replace their husband’s income, in what I call the deportation to welfare pathway.
A structured-based differencing method for version control system for java codes

In this paper, a new proposed method for extracting the syntax differences between different Java code versions is designed and implemented to support CVSs based on optimistic approach. This proposed algorithm relies on converting the codes into XML through Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) algorithm followed by applying a modified difference algorithm using a separate chaining within a hash table to extract the syntax differences between code versions. This proposed algorithm is implemented as a web page interface to enable a quick client server interaction with the use of some existing tools based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Asynchronous JavaScript, and AJAX platform. Experimentation results showed that our proposed method is efficient with comparing to the traditional line differencing algorithms.
Do We Need Intra-Daily Data to Forecast Daily Volatility ?

Considering mixed data sampling (MIDAS) regressions, we analyze the influence of the sampling frequency of intra-daily predictors on the accuracy of the volatility forecasts. We propose various in-sample and out-of-sample comparisons of daily, weekly and bi-weekly volatility forecasts issued from MIDAS regressions based on intra-daily regressors sampled at different frequencies. First, we show that increasing the frequency of the regressors improves the forecasting abilities of the MIDAS model. In other words, using regressors sampled at 5 minutes gives more accurate forecasts than using regressors sampled at 10 minutes, etc. These results are robust to the choice of the loss function (MSE, Qlike, etc.) and to the choice of the forecasting horizon. Third, the MIDAS regressions with high-frequency regressors (sampled between 5 minutes and 30 minutes) provide more accurate in-sample forecasts than a GARCH model based on daily data. However, except the one-period-ahead forecasts of the calm period, the out-of-sample forecasts of MIDAS models are not significantly different from the GARCH forecasts, whatever the sampling frequency used, confirming that the direct use of high-frequency data does not necessarily improve volatility predictions. JEL classification: C22; C53; G12
High genetic similarity of ciprofloxacin-resistant Campylobacter jejuni in central Europe

Campylobacteriosis is the leading zoonosis in the European Union with the majority of cases attributed to Campylobacter jejuni. Although the disease is usually self-limiting, some severe cases need to be treated with antibiotics, primarily macrolides and quinolones. However, the resistance to the latter is reaching alarming levels in most of the EU countries. To shed light on the expansion of antibiotic resistance in central Europe, we have investigated genetic similarity across 178 ciprofloxacin-resistant C. jejuni mostly isolated in Slovenia, Austria and Germany. We performed comparative genetic similarity analyses using allelic types of seven multilocus sequence typing housekeeping genes, and single nucleotide polymorphisms of a quinolone resistance determining region located within the DNA gyrase subunit A gene. This analysis revealed high genetic similarity of isolates from clonal complex ST-21 that carry gyrA allelic type 1 in all three of these central-European countries, suggesting these ciprofloxacin resistant isolates arose from a recent common ancestor and are spread clonally.
Submentalizing or Mentalizing in a Level 1 Perspective-Taking Task: A Cloak and Goggles Test

It has been proposed that humans possess an automatic system to represent mental states (‘implicit mentalizing’). The existence of an implicit mentalizing system has generated considerable debate however, centered on the ability of various experimental paradigms to demonstrate unambiguously such mentalizing. Evidence for implicit mentalizing has previously been provided by the ‘dot perspective task,’ where participants are slower to verify the number of dots they can see when an avatar can see a different number of dots. However, recent evidence challenged a mentalizing interpretation of this effect by showing it was unaltered when the avatar was replaced with an inanimate arrow stimulus. Here we present an extension of the dot perspective task using an invisibility cloaking device to render the dots invisible on certain trials. This paradigm is capable of providing unambiguous evidence of automatic mentalizing, but no such evidence was found. Two further well-powered experiments used opaque and transparent goggles to manipulate visibility but found no evidence of automatic mentalizing, nor of individual differences in empathy or perspective-taking predicting performance, contradicting previous studies using the same design. The results cast doubt on the existence of an implicit mentalizing system, suggesting that previous effects were due to domain-general processes.
Biodegradation of Dispersed Oil in Arctic Seawater at -1°C

As offshore oil and gas exploration expands in the Arctic, it is important to expand the scientific understanding of arctic ecology and environmental impact to mitigate operational risks. Understanding the fate of oil in arctic seawater is a key factor for consideration. Here we report the chemical loss due to the biodegradation of Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude oil that would occur in the water column following the successful dispersion of a surface oil slick. Primary biodegradation and mineralization were measured in mesocosms containing Arctic seawater collected from the Chukchi Sea, Alaska, incubated at −1°C. Indigenous microorganisms degraded both fresh and weathered oil, in both the presence and absence of Corexit 9500, with oil losses ranging from 46−61% and up to 11% mineralization over 60 days. When tested alone, 14% of 50 ppm Corexit 9500 was mineralized within 60 days. Our study reveals that microorganisms indigenous to Arctic seawater are capable of performing extensive biodegradation of chemically and physically dispersed oil at an environmentally relevant temperature (−1°C) without any additional nutrients.
Nitric oxide and protein kinase G act on TRPC1 to inhibit 11,12-EET-induced vascular relaxation.

AIMS Vascular endothelial cells synthesize and release vasodilators such as nitric oxide (NO) and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs). NO is known to inhibit EET-induced smooth muscle hyperpolarization and relaxation. This study investigates the underlying mechanism of this inhibition. METHODS AND RESULTS Through measurements of membrane potential and arterial tension, we show that 11,12-EET induced membrane hyperpolarization and vascular relaxation in endothelium-denuded porcine coronary arteries. These responses were suppressed by S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) and 8-Br-cGMP, an NO donor and a membrane-permeant analogue of cGMP, respectively. The inhibitory actions of SNAP and 8-Br-cGMP on 11,12-EET-induced membrane hyperpolarization and vascular relaxation were reversed by hydroxocobalamin, an NO scavenger; ODQ, a guanylyl cyclase inhibitor; and KT5823, a protein kinase G (PKG) inhibitor. The inhibitory actions of SNAP and 8-bromo cyclic GMP (8-Br-cGMP) on the EET responses were also abrogated by shielding TRPC1-PKG phosphorylation sites with an excessive supply of exogenous PKG substrates, TAT-TRPC1(S172) and TAT-TRPC1(T313). Furthermore, a phosphorylation assay demonstrated that PKG could directly phosphorylate TRPC1 at Ser(172) and Thr(313). In addition, 11,12-EET failed to induce membrane hyperpolarization and vascular relaxation when TRPV4, TRPC1, or KCa1.1 was selectively inhibited. Co-immunoprecipitation studies demonstrated that TRPV4, TRPC1, and KCa1.1 physically associated with each other in smooth muscle cells. CONCLUSION Our findings demonstrate a novel role of the NO-cGMP-PKG pathway in the inhibition of 11,12-EET-induced smooth muscle hyperpolarization and relaxation via PKG-mediated phosphorylation of TRPC1.
E-MAIL WRITING PROJECTS IN AN EFL CONTEXT: FROMLINGUISTIC AND ATTITUDINAL PERSPECTIVES

A great number of benefits have been claimed in a Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) context; however, little research has been conducted by the method of discourse analysis. The purpose of this study is to, through discourse analysis, unfold and uncover EFL learners’ underlying feelings about e-mail writing and their writing styles. The participants were thirty-four Applied English-majored college students, writing e-mail to their peers for five times. Based on the data collected from the learners’ e-mail and reflection discourse, the results showed that the majority (88.24%) had positive attitudes towards e-mail writing. Besides positive feelings about this writing project, the learners presented highly active participation in writing e-mail to their peers. Through the e-mail writing project, they not only had more opportunities to use the target language, but also supported each other to deal with academic and personal difficulties. Furthermore, their e-mail writing style had also been analyzed. Through the analysis, it was claimed that EFL learners also used repeated letters, punctuation marks, emoticons, and special features in the e-mail writing. Implications of these findings for future studies are proposed to be of help to those who would like to apply e-mail writing to an EFL context. Article visualizations:
Quot schemes for flags and Gromov invariants for flag varieties

Using Quot schemes and a localization theorem we study Gromov-Witten invariants for partial flag varieties. The strategy is to extend A. Bertram's result of Gromov-Witten invariants for special Schubert varieties of Grassmannians to the case of partial flag varieties. To do so a Grothendieck's Quot scheme is generalized for flags and proven to be an irreducible, rational, smooth, projective variety following Str\o mme \cite{St}.
Procedural and declarative memory and language ability in children

s screened: (n = 1374) Full text articles assessed for eligibility: (n = 86) Studies included in metaanalyses (n = 82*) *Some group design studies include more than 1 independent group comparison and multiple paradigms Abstracts excluded for not meeting research criteria: (n = 1287)  Focus on different disorders (eg: aphasia; autism; dementia; depression; Down syndrome; Parkinson’s disease; schizophrenia)  Focus on 2nd language learning  Case studies  Different implicit learning tasks (eg: lexical decision; fast mapping; graphomotor symbol acquisition) Full text articles excluded (n = 7)  Wrong participant groups (Cherry & Stadler, 1995; De Visscher et al., 2015; Folia et al., 2008; Ise et al., 2012)  Paradigm sufficiently different to warrant exclusion (eg: Roodenrys & Dunn, 2008; Sperling et al., 2004)  Focus on IQ, not language ability (eg: Gebauer et al., 2007) Screening re-run before final analysis (n = 3)
Work ethic and life satisfaction among social workers in Massachusetts: the moderating effect of gender

ABSTRACT Despite the belief that agreement with ideals of work ethic has positive effects on life satisfaction, empirical linkage of the association is sparse. Using a disproportionate stratified sample of 194 social workers in Massachusetts, results suggest that being female, being married, being employed full-time, and being satisfied with one’s job were associated with life satisfaction. Gender moderated the effects of work ethic on life satisfaction: For women, high levels of work ethic were associated with high levels of life satisfaction; for men, there was a much smaller correlation. Implications for practice, human service organizations, and research are discussed.
Using a Smart Phone as a Standalone Platform for Detection and Monitoring of Pathological Tremors

Introduction: Smart phones are becoming ubiquitous and their computing capabilities are ever increasing. Consequently, more attention is geared toward their potential use in research and medical settings. For instance, their built-in hardware can provide quantitative data for different movements. Therefore, the goal of the current study was to evaluate the capabilities of a standalone smart phone platform to characterize tremor. Results: Algorithms for tremor recording and online analysis can be implemented within a smart phone. The smart phone provides reliable time- and frequency-domain tremor characteristics. The smart phone can also provide medically relevant tremor assessments. Discussion: Smart phones have the potential to provide researchers and clinicians with quantitative short- and long-term tremor assessments that are currently not easily available. Methods: A smart phone application for tremor quantification and online analysis was developed. Then, smart phone results were compared to those obtained simultaneously with a laboratory accelerometer. Finally, results from the smart phone were compared to clinical tremor assessments.
Exploring the relationship of participation and connectedness in afterschool programs to problem behavior

As a fairly new establishment for childcare, afterschool programs are understudied. However, some research proposes that these environments provide risk prevention for problem behavior. This research investigates the roles of attendance and connectedness in afterschool programs upon children's substance abuse and problem behavior. Multiple regression analysis was used among 22 programs to gauge correlations between participation, connectedness, and behavior. This data, collected from 282 students, will help determine how factors such as race, age, and/or gender interact with participation and connectedness to shape outcomes. Overall, this research explores whether participation and connectedness in afterschool serves as a beneficial public health strategy.
BOREAL FOREST SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS USING HUT-2 D SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETER

two airborne measurement campaigns were conducted over the Sodankylä test area in Northern Finland. The goal of these measurement campaigns was to examine the retrieval of the moisture of a coniferous forest soil utilizing data from our airborne L-band 2-dimensional synthetic aperture radiometer HUT-2D, as well as the emission from bogs and partially frozen forest soil. Soil moisture is an important parameter in research of the Earth's hydrosphere, but so far no operational remote sensing instruments have been introduced. European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, launched in November 2009, is a satellite for global monitoring of soil moisture, as well as sea surface salinity. Microwave Imaging Radiometer by Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS), the sole instrument on SMOS utilizes aperture synthesis to achieve a ground resolution of 30 to 50 km, while retaining a relatively small antenna diameter of 8 m. [1] Low frequency microwave radiometry has high potential for remote sensing of soil moisture [2, 3, 4, 5]. The operating frequency of MIRAS, 1.4 GHz, was preferred over higher frequencies because of a lower sensitivity to vegetation. However, at L-band the effects of vegetation are still significant and must be modeled appropriately [6]. While soil moisture can be retrieved quite accurately in areas where vegetation is thin or absent [5], a dense vegetation layer is more problematic. Still, it has been noted, and our preliminary results from 2007 suggest, that retrieval may be possible even when a dense canopy is present [4]. HUT-2D (Figure 1, left) is an airborne L-band interferometric radiometer designed, manufactured and tested by Helsinki University of Technology. [7] It has been used in research of soil moisture retrieval since its completion in spring 2006 and was used to make the first airborne 2-dimensional interferometric imaging of the Earth [8]. HUT-2D has 36 dual-polarization receivers in U-shape formation, operating at 1.4 GHz frequency. Major technical characteristics of HUT-2D are similar to those of MIRAS and it can thus be used to collect datasets similar to those of SMOS. Two airborne campaigns were carried out in the Sodankylä test area (Figure 1, right) 2007 and 2009 with HUT-2D in order to examine the capabilities of the radiometer to measure soil water content in different conditions, as well as emissivity properties of different soils. A dataset was collected over selected land areas with variable vegetation properties. While the biome of the Sodankylä test area located in Finnish …
Lexical Based Semantic Orientation of Online Customer Reviews and Blogs

Rapid increase in internet users along with growing power of online review sites and social media has given birth to sentiment analysis or opinion mining, which aims at determining what other people think and comment. Sentiments or Opinions contain public generated content about products, services, policies and politics. People are usually interested to seek positive and negative opinions containing likes and dislikes, shared by users for features of particular product or service. This paper proposed sentence-level lexical based domain independent sentiment classification method for different types of data such as reviews and blogs. The proposed method is based on general lexicons i.e. WordNet, SentiWordNet and user defined lexical dictionaries for semantic orientation. The relations and glosses of these dictionaries provide solution to the domain portability problem. The method performs better than word and text level corpus based machine learning methods for semantic orientation. The results show the proposed method performs better as it shows precision of 87% and 83% at document and sentence levels respectively for online comments. (Aurangzeb khan, Khairullah khan, Shakeel Ahmad, Fazal Masood Kundi, Irum Tareen, Muhammad Zubair Asghar. Lexical Based Semantic Orientation of Online Customer Reviews and Blogs. J Am Sci 2014;10(8):143-147). (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.jofamericanscience. org . 19
Expression of Cocaine-Evoked Synaptic Plasticity by GluN 3 A-Containing NMDA Receptors

Tifei Yuan,1 Manuel Mameli,2,3 Eoin C. O’ Connor,1 Partha Narayan Dey,4 Chiara Verpelli,5 Carlo Sala,5 Isabel Perez-Otano,4 Christian Lüscher,1,6 and Camilla Bellone1,* 1Department of Basic Neurosciences, Medical Faculty, University of Geneva, 1 rue Michel Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland 2Institut du Fer à Moulin, 17 rue du Fer à Moulin, 75005 Paris France 3Inserm UMR-S 839, 75005 Paris, France 4Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, Centro de Investigacion Medica Aplicada (CIMA) and University of Navarra, Pı́o XII, 5531008 Pamplona, Spain 5CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, University of Milan and Neuromuscular Diseases and Neuroimmunology, Neurological Institute Foundation Carlo Besta, Via Vanvitelli 32, 20129 Milan, Italy 6Clinic of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital of Geneva, 4 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland *Correspondence: camilla.bellone@unige.ch http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.neuron. 2013.07. 050