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The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible.
THE SURFACE DENSITY PROFILE OF THE GALACTIC DISK FROM THE TERMINAL VELOCITY CURVE

The mass distribution of the Galactic disk is constructed from the terminal velocity curve and the mass discrepancy–acceleration relation. Mass models numerically quantifying the detailed surface density profiles are tabulated. For R0 = 8 kpc, the models have stellar mass 5 < M* < 6 × 1010 M ⊙ ? > , scale length 2.0 ≤ Rd ≤ 2.9 kpc, LSR circular velocity 222 ≤ Θ0 ≤ 233 km s - 1 ? > , and solar circle stellar surface density 34 ≤ Σd(R0) ≤ 61 M ⊙ pc - 2 ? > . The present interarm location of the solar neighborhood may have a somewhat lower stellar surface density than average for the solar circle. The Milky Way appears to be a normal spiral galaxy that obeys scaling relations like the Tully–Fisher relation, the size–mass relation, and the disk maximality–surface brightness relation. The stellar disk is maximal, and the spiral arms are massive. The bumps and wiggles in the terminal velocity curve correspond to known spiral features (e.g., the Centaurus arm is a ∼50% overdensity). The rotation curve switches between positive and negative over scales of hundreds of parsecs. The rms amplitude ⟨ ∣ dV / dR ∣ 2 ⟩ 1 / 2 ≈ 14 km s - 1 kpc - 1 ? > , implying that commonly neglected terms in the Jeans equations may be nonnegligible. The spherically averaged local dark matter density is ρ0,DM ≈ 0.009 M ⊙ pc - 3 ? > (0.34 GeV cm - 3 ? > ). Adiabatic compression of the dark matter halo may help reconcile the Milky Way with the c–V200 relation expected in ΛCDM while also helping to mitigate the too-big-to-fail problem, but it remains difficult to reconcile the inner bulge/bar-dominated region with a cuspy halo. We note that NGC 3521 is a near twin to the Milky Way, having a similar luminosity, scale length, and rotation curve.
Exploration of Memory and Cluster Modes in Directory-Based Many-Core CMPs

Networks-on-chip have become the standard interconnect solution to address the communication requirements of many-core chip multiprocessors. It is well-known that network performance and power consumption depend critically on the traffic load. The network traffic itself is a function of not only the application, but also the cache coherence protocol, and memory controller/directory locations. Communication between the distributed directory to memory can introduce hotspots, since the number of memory controllers is much smaller than the number of cores. Therefore, it is critical to account for directorymemory communication, and model them accurately in architecture simulators. This paper analyzes the impact of directorymemory traffic and different memory and cluster modes on the NoC traffic and system performance. We demonstrate that unrealistic models in a widely used multiprocessor simulator produce misleading power and performance predictions. Finally, we evaluate different memory and cluster modes supported by Intel Xeon-Phi processors, and validate our models on four different cache coherence protocols.
Comparison of Artificial Neural Networks and Cox Regression Models in Prediction of Kidney Transplant Survival

Cox regression model serves as a statistical method for analyzing the survival data, which requires some options such as hazard proportionality. In recent decades, artificial neural network model has been increasingly applied to predict survival data. This research was conducted to compare Cox regression and artificial neural network models in prediction of kidney transplant survival. The present multi-center retrospective study was conducted on the medical records of 756 kidney transplant recipients undergoing kidney operations at two treatment centers from 2001 through 2012. The data was randomly divided into two educational and experimental (validation) groups. Then, Kaplan-Meier, Cox proportional hazard, and three-layer artificial neural network models were used for analyzing the data. To compare the prediction of both models, the area under the curve in the characteristic function was applied. Post-operative creatinine and relative family are among the factors of influencing kidney transplant survival. Moreover, the survival estimates of the transplanted kidney for periods of six months, one year, three years, and five years were 89, 87.4, 80, and 75 percent, respectively. ROC areas under the curve, for multi-layer perceptron neural network model and Cox regression, were 81.3% and 71%, respectively.If a structure with high prediction ability is obtained in neural network, we may detect risk patients through the method and consider more treatment resources for them
Uses Impact of Betel Leaf ( Piper betle L.) on Public Health

This review paper focus on the uses and health impact of betel leaf (Piper betle L.). The betel plant belongs to the family Piperaceae. Traditionally betel leaf is chewing after taking meal having significant medicinal properties and nutritional values. It contains some vitamins, minerals and produce enzyme that helps in digestion and work as mouth freshener. Literature shows that the leaf has a significant antimicrobial activity against broad spectrum of microorganisms. The betel leaf is predominantly consumed as betel quid, which is a mixture of substances areca nut, tobacco and lime. Some reports may suggest that betel quid has adverse health effects but most of the findings show that the betel leaf has many medicinal benefits and it has no adverse effects.
Orlistat: an update after the first decade of clinical experience

Approximately a decade has pasted since the introduction of orlistat for the treatment of obesity. A considerable amount of clinical trial evidence has been accumulated to demonstrate that orlistat is safe and effective both for induction of weight loss and also in weight maintenance. No serious side effects have emerged, either in clinical studies or during postmarketing surveillance. Despite the documented efficacy, adoption of orlistat for the treatment of overweight and obese individuals has been slow. Many factors appear to be responsible, including its relatively modest effect compared with the magnitude of the obesity problem and the failure of many government and private insurance agencies to cover the costs of orlistat and indeed other antiobesity treatments. Obesity is clearly a multifactorial problem that is likely to benefit from a combination of different treatment approaches. Orlistat should be viewed as a safe and useful adjuvant therapy in the treatment of this disease.
Telomeres and Cellular Senescence in Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases

A number of observations suggest a close connection between telomere length and mortality and age-related disease, suggesting that telomere length is a useful marker of individual biological aging and the shortening of telomere length is causally related with the pathogenesis in age-related diseases. To date, the significance of telomere length in metabolic and endocrine diseases has also been clarified. It has been reported that obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), NAFLD, and hypertension were associated with shortened telomere length. In endocrine diseases, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Cushing’s syndrome, and acromegaly were associated with shortened telomere length. In these conditions, an increased oxidative stress associated with the metabolic and hormonal abnormalities appears to play a pivotal role in the shortened telomere length. Recently, a large population-based study demonstrated that shortened telomeres at baseline were associated with an increased risk of metabolic diseases, suggesting that the shortened telomere itself plays a causal role for the onset or development of the metabolic diseases. In this chapter, the pathophysiological role of shortened telomere length in metabolic and endocrine diseases and the significance of cellular senescence are discussed.
THE MISHKIN TEST: AN ANALYSIS OF MODEL EXTENSIONS

This paper reviews empirical research that apply Mishkin test for the examination of the existence of accruals anomaly using alternative approaches. Mishkin test is a test used in macro-econometrics for rational hypothesis, which test for the market efficiency. Starting with Sloan (1996) the model has been applied to accruals anomaly literature. Since Sloan (1996), the model has known various improvements and it has been the subject to many debates in the literature regarding its efficacy. Nevertheless, the current evidence strengthens the pervasiveness of the model. The analyses realized on the extended studies on Mishkin test highlights that adding additional variables enhances the results, providing insightful information about the occurrence of accruals anomaly.
Parent and Teacher Autonomy-Support in Russian and U.S. Adolescents

The proposition, derived from self-determination theory (SDT), that autonomy-support has a positive effect on self-motivation and well-being, is examined in two distinct cultural settings. Participants were 264 high school students from Russia and the United States who completed measures of perceived parental- and teacher-autonomy-support, academic motivation, and well-being. Means and covariance structure analyses were used to examine the cultural comparability of measured constructs. Results supported the hypotheses that Russian adolescents would perceive parents and teachers as more controlling than U.S. students; and in both samples, perceived autonomy-support would predict greater academic self-motivation and well-being. Results are discussed in terms of SDT’s postulate of a basic human need for autonomy in the context of cultural variations.
The Educational Expectations of Children of Immigrants in Italy

In this article, the authors investigate the short-run educational expectations and long-term educational aspirations of the children of immigrants living in Italy and attending eighth grade. The authors look at educational ambition, both as a predictor of educational choice and as a measure of social integration. They consider both secondary-school track and university goals. Data come from the ITAGEN2 survey (2005–2006). First, the authors analyze the relationship of short-run expectations and long-term aspirations to structural (e.g., migration status and country of origin) and social (e.g., family socioeconomic status and friendship ties) conditions. The latter seem to be determinants of both expectations and aspirations, but long-term educational aspirations are not associated with migration status. Second, the authors investigate the relevance of context in delineating educational attitudes. The authors performed a multilevel analysis including both individual- and school-level variables. Their results show that attending a school where most of the Italian pupils have high educational expectations may lead children of immigrants to enhance their own aspirations.
Labor Statistics Office of Prices and Living Conditions A New Vehicles Transaction Price Index : Offsetting the Effects of Price Discrimination and Product Cycle Bias with a Year-Over-Year Index

Using a new transaction level dataset on new vehicle purchases from J.D. Power, this paper documents violations of assumptions underlying cost-of-living theory and constructs a new price index that address these violations. First, we show that there are significant differences in consumer characteristics at different points in a typical product cycle, which suggests profit maximizing behavior through intertemporal price discrimination. When the composition of consumers changes each month, observed prices do not represent the purchases of a typical consumer at each point in time. Consumer segmentation violates assumptions necessary for measuring cost-of-living and can introduce bias into matched model price indexes. Second, we construct a price index that uses product age to control for consumer heterogeneity at different points of a product's life cycle. Specifically, we compare the price of a vehicle at a particular point in its life cycle to its previous-year's model at the same point in its life cycle, which we implement by assuming stability in the pattern of model year introduction and comparing each vehicle to its model year equivalent as of 12 months prior. Finally, this year-over-year price index does not convey information about short-run fluctuations in new vehicle prices, so we reincorporate highfrequency price change into the index by using a novel filtering technique. This new index averages 0.24 percentage points lower growth than the current CPI for new vehicles on an annual basis. JEL Codes: C43, E31, L62
Phylogenetic Networks for the Human mtDNA Haplogroup T

We develop phylogenetic networks for mtDNA haplogroup T, based on information stored in the MitoSearch database at www.mitosearch. org. Analysing the structure of the resulting networks, we note that nucleotide 16296 appears to be unstable throughout the haplogroup. We also observe a cluster that does not fall within one of the established subgroups of haplogroup T and so we propose some revision to the haplogroup hierarchy in order to encompass this cluster.
Tam, Shu K.E. and Robinson, Jasper and Jennings, Dómhnall J. and Bonardi, Charlotte (2014) Dissociations in the effect of delay on object recognition: evidence for an associative model of recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning

Rats were administered three versions of an object recognition task: In the spontaneous object recognition task (SOR) animals discriminated between a familiar object and a novel object; in the temporal order task they discriminated between two familiar objects, one of which had been presented more recently than the other; and, in the object-in-place task, they discriminated among four previously presented objects, two of which were presented in the same location as in preexposure and two in different but familiar locations. In each task animals were tested at two delays (5 minutes and 2 hours)―between sample and test phases in the SOR and object-in-place tasks, and between the two sample phases in the temporal order task. Performance in the SOR was poorer with the longer delay, whereas in the temporal order task performance improved with delay. There was no effect of delay on object-in-place performance. In addition the performance of animals with neurotoxic lesions of the dorsal hippocampus was selectively impaired in the object-in-place task at the longer delay only. These findings are interpreted within the framework of Wagner's (1981) model of memory.
ANational Profile Of Patient Safety In U.S. Hospitals

Measures based on routinely collected data would be useful to examine the epidemiology of patient safety. Extending previous work, we established the face and consensual validity of twenty Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs). We generated a national profile of patient safety by applying these PSIs to the HCUP Nationwide Inpatient Sample. The incidence of most nonobstetric PSIs increased with age and was higher among African Americans than among whites. The adjusted incidence of most PSIs was highest at urban teaching hospitals. The PSIs may be used in AHRQ’s National Quality Report, while providers may use them to screen for preventable complications, target opportunities for improvement, and benchmark performance. S everal years ago researchers at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a set of Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) for identifying suspected instances of compromised patient safety based on hospital administrative data. This initial set of PSIs was designed to target events with a high likelihood of representing errors, such as foreign bodies left during procedures. Realizing the value of such indicators for institutional case-finding and patient safety improvement initiatives, AHRQ contracted with the University of California–Stanford Evidence-Based Practice Center to expand the initial set of indicators to address a broader range of patient safety concerns, to obtain clinical input about face validity, to review published evidence on coding and construct validity, and to revise indicators as appropriate. This final set of PSIs is now a component of AHRQ’s Quality Indicators. This paper presents national data on the incidence of these events over time and their association with patient and hospital characteristics. 1 5 4 M a r c h /A p r i l 2 0 0 3 R e s e a r c h C h a l l e n g e PatrickRomano is an associate professor ofmedicine and pediatrics at theUniversity of California,Davis, Division ofGeneralMedicine. JeffreyGeppert is a research analyst at theNational Bureau of EconomicResearch (NBER) in Stanford, California. SherylDavies is a researchmanager at the Center for PrimaryCare and OutcomesResearch, also in Stanford, andKathrynMcDonald is the center’s executive director.MarleneMiller is director of quality and safety initiatives at the JohnsHopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore,Maryland. Anne Elixhauser is a senior research scientist at theAgency forHealthcare Research andQuality in Rockville, Maryland.
Percutaneous Treatment of Mitral and Tricuspid Regurgitation in Heart Failure

Heart failure has become a real epidemic condition related to poor outcomes despite advances in medical therapies. Prevalence of significant mitral and/or tricuspid regur gitation is high in patients with advanced heart failure. Novel transcatheter techniques have recently emerged as a minimally invasive alternative in patients deemed high-risk for surgery or inoperable. Among them, MitraClip ® system is thus far the first device that received regulatory approval and gained widespread clinical application, especially in patients with functional mitral regurgitation. Furthermore, first experiences with new devices for percutaneous mitral and tricuspid valves repair, and transcatheter mitral valve prosthesis have been increasingly reported. Percutaneous therapies for valvular heart disease have therefore become one of the most promising fields in the present and future of interventional cardiology and heart failure.
Running head: RECONCILING MOOD CONGRUENCY AND MOOD REGULATION Reconciling Mood Congruency and Mood Regulation: The Role of Psychological Distance

Two important research streams on affect are mood congruency, which states that people respond in accordance with their mood, and mood regulation, which states that people try to manage their mood. We propose that an important moderator of such mood effects is the psychological distance between individuals and the consequences of their decisions. Mood congruency is predicted for psychologically distal outcomes, which lack affective feedback. In contrast, mood regulation is expected for psychologically proximal outcomes, which have strong affective feedback and can therefore impact current mood. This conceptualization is supported in a series of experiments, using manipulations and measurements of both mood and psychological distance. A meta-analytic classification complements these experiments by demonstrating that psychological distance reconciles prior mood congruency and mood regulation studies. We conclude by discussing the theoretical implications of this work for the interaction of affect and cognition.
Cheiloscopy: A Frequency Based Approach for IV Quadrant in Female Lip Print

Cheiloscopy is a forensic investigation technique that deals with identification of humans based on lips traces. The aim of this study was to establish the uniqueness of lip prints and to look out for any new character which aids in personal identification. In the study, we followed the classification of patterns of the lines on the lips proposed by Jerzy Kasprzak in 1990. In the present study we collect the lip prints of 50 females of 18-25 years of age (having full dentition) were collected the lip prints were then studied for the pattern and characteristic features present at its quadrant for analyzing variations, and to determine the most common pattern in the study population. The statistical calculation after study estimated that Simple Bifurcation is more prominent in upper lip with 56% and Simple Bottom Bifurcation is prominent in lower lip with 68%. However calculation shows that A Line Like (I) feature is most common, when both upper and lower lips are taken into consideration with 44% presence. On extensive of lip prints samples, a new character “A Bar” denoted as “x” in the script was found in both upper and lower lip with a requency of 14% and 16% respectively. The present study is an attempt to propose a better method of personal identification based on lip prints for forensic investigation.
ARTHROSCOPIC TREATMENT OF THE ΑCUTE AND CHRONIC ANTERIOR INSTABILITY OF THE SHOULDER-EARLY RESULTS E.ANTONOGIANNAKIS, C.KARLIAFTIS, C.K.YIANNAKOPOULOS, P.LABRINAKOS

We are presenting the early results of the arthroscopic treatment of the anterior-inferior acute and chronic traumatic instability of the shoulder in a population of young, male patients. In this study 32 patients with symptomatic instability were included. Arthroscopic reattachment of the capsule and the labrum has been performed with 3-5 bone anchors. The follow up ranged between 4 and 15 months (mean 9 months). No recurrence has been noted. In all patients the apprehension sign disappeared. Four patients exhibited loss of external rotation less than 10. One patient complained of mild pain with intense activity. One patient developed impingement syndrome and was treated conservatively with modification of the physiotherapeutic program with success. Intraoperative rupture of sutures occurred in the first cases. No infection or neurapraxia occurred. Stiffness more than 4 months was noted in 3 patients and was treated with physiotherapy. All patients displayed shoulder flexion more than 180 and internal rotation to the level of T6(T4-T12), similar to the normal shoulder. The loss of external rotation with the arm at the side was 5 and with the arm in abduction 7. The functional result has been evaluated with the Rowe and Zarins scale. Twenty-five of the patients achieved an excellent result (score 90-100), five very good (score 70-89) and only two satisfactory result (score 69). The arthroscopic reconstruction of anterior traumatic instability is a very promising technique providing excellent results.
Duplicate Publications and Systematic Reviews : Problems and Proposals

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