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Alcohol Consumption and Negative Sex-Related Consequences among College Women: The Moderating Role of Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies

Alcohol protective behavioral strategies (PBS) limit overall negative consequences; however, less is known about the relationship between PBS and negative sex-related consequences. The purpose of the current study was to examine the moderating effects of 2 distinct types of PBS—controlled consumption strategies and serious harm reduction strategies—on the relationship between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related risky sexual behavior and sexual victimization. Participants were 459 undergraduate women (ages 18–25) who had consumed alcohol within the past 30 days. Both types of PBS significantly qualified the alcohol-sexual victimization link, but neither type of PBS qualified the alcohol-risky sexual behavior link.
Supersymmetric baryonic branes

We derive an energy bound for a `baryonic' D5-brane probe in the AdS5 ? S5 background near the horizon of N D3-branes. Configurations saturating the bound are shown to be 1/4 supersymmetric S5-wrapped D5-branes, with a total Born-Infeld charge N. Previous results are recovered as a special case. We derive a similar energy bound for a `baryonic' M5-brane probe in the background of N M5-branes. Configurations saturating the bound are again 1/4 supersymmetric and, in the AdS7 ? S4 near-horizon limit, provide a worldvolume realization of the `baryon string' vertex of the (2,0)-supersymmetric six-dimensional conformal field theory on coincident M5-branes. For the full M5-background we find a worldvolume realization of the Hanany-Witten effect in M-theory.
Interfacial behaviour between Mechanically Fastened FRP laminates and concrete substrate: test results and modelling

This paper presents an experimental and numerical study aimed at investigating the interfacial behaviour of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) strips mechanically fastened (MF) to concrete elements. The results of a series of pull-out tests carried out at the Laboratory of Structures of the University of Salerno on FRP laminates mechanically fastened to concrete blocks are reported in the first part of the paper. Then, the paper presents the formulation of a 1D FE model for simulating the behaviour of RC beams externally strengthened by MF-FRP laminates. The results of the direct shear tests on FRP mechanically fastened on concrete prisms are employed for calibrating a realistic bearing-stress-interface-slip law describing the behaviour of the fasteners. Moreover, well-established stress-strain relationships are considered for simulating the response of the other structural materials. Finally, the proposed model is validated by comparing the numerical simulation with the results of some experimental tests already available in the scientific literature.
Verb Alternations and Japanese : How, What and Where

We set out to empirically identify the range and frequency of basic verb alternation types in Japanese, through analysis of the Goi-Taikei Japanese pattern-based valency dictionary. This is achieved through comparison of the selectional preference annotation on corresponding case slots, based on the assumption that selectional preferences are preserved under alternation. Three separate extraction methods are considered, founded around: (1) simple match of selectional restrictions; (2) selectional restriction matching, with recourse to penalised backing-off; and (3) semantic density, again with recourse to backing-off.
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Shielding of Magnetic Stray Fields Based on Superposition of 2-D Models

This paper concerns the superposition of 2-D semianalytical models to model 3-D shielding configurations. The 2-D semianalytical models are used to describe the effect of magnetic shielding on the stray field of a single-sided coreless linear permanent-magnet motor. The modeling results are compared to 3-D finite-element analysis and to measurements. It is found that an accurate description of the tendencies and the order of magnitude is given. Furthermore, the comparison of the superposition of 2-D semianalytical models with the measurements shows that saturation and neglecting the 3-D effects cause the deviation between model and measurement.
Optical Diagnostics to Improve Periodontal Diagnosis and Treatment

The performance of clinicians undertaking periodontal assessment or periodontal therapy can be improved by using optical methods as adjuncts to visual inspection and periodontal probing. Subtle changes that occur over time in periodontal tissues that are below the detection limit of visual examination or periodontal probing can be found and tracked accurately over time using 3D imaging, fluorescence spectroscopy, and optical coherence tomography. During debridement of teeth and dental implants, the effective removal of subgingival microbial biofilms and dental calculus deposits can be enhanced using magnifying loupes and operating microscopes and by novel methods based on the interactions of light with bacterial deposits, such as differential reflectometry and light-induced fluorescence. While such techniques can also be used using initial case assessment, their primary purpose is for checking debridement procedures, since the point when bacterial deposits are no longer present represents an endpoint for treatment. The concept of real-time feedback has been developed, using fluorescence readings to control the removal of deposits. Overall, optical methods can support traditional periodontal diagnosis and improve treatment planning and clinical periodontal care.
Assessment of RAPTOR's linear programming approach in CAFASP3

We have developed a new algorithm based on the mathematical theory of linear programming (LP) and implemented it in our program RAPTOR. Our new approach provides an elegant formulation of the protein‐threading problem, overcomes the intractability problem of protein threading, in practice, and allows us to use existing powerful linear programming software to obtain optimal protein threading solutions. CASP5 and CAFASP3 gave us the first chance to test RAPTOR in an unbiased way. RAPTOR was ranked as the top individual (automatic) server for fold recognition by the CAFASP3 organizers. In this short article, we describe RAPTOR's LP formulation, assess RAPTOR's performance in CAFASP3/CASP5, explain why it has superceded other existing automatic individual methods, and point out its strengths, limitations, extensions, and prospects for improvement. Proteins 2003;53:579–584. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Broadband High-Gain Microstrip Array Antennas for WiMAX Base Station

Two novel array antennas (3×2 and 3×3) with broadband and high gain characteristics are proposed for the application of WiMAX base station. To maintain the same electric current intensity with identical phase for each array element, an asymmetrical feed-network which composed of microstrip T-junctions with 2:1 power ratio, quarter-wavelength impedance transformers, and 180° phase shifters are devised, which in turn exhibits a desirable gain of more than 17 dBi at boreside direction for the proposed array antennas. Furthermore, by embedding a U-slot into all array elements, enhanced operating bandwidth measured along 14-dB return loss can be achieved, so that the WiMAX band operating between 3.3 and 3.8 GHz can be covered.
A Low Power Phase-Change Random Access Memory using a Data-Comparison Write Scheme

A low power PRAM using a data-comparison write (DCW) scheme is proposed. The PRAM consumes large write power because large write currents are required during long time. At first, the DCW scheme reads a stored data during write operation. And then, it writes an input data only when the input and stored data are different. Therefore, it can reduce the write power consumption to a half. The 1K-bit PRAM test chip with 128times8bits is implemented with a 0.8mum CMOS technology with a 0.5mum GST cell.
Simulation of a photovoltaic model using bisection method

This paper presents an alternative method of solving the mathematical equation that represents a photovoltaic cell. The mathematical model used was obtained through literature review, keeping faithful to cell's structure, i.e, avoiding simplifications. In solving this model, was used the bisection method, a robust iterative mathematical method that presents assurance solution. This method presented similar simulation results to those performed by other authors.
Direct 3D Printing of Reactive Agitating Impellers for the Convenient Treatment of Various Pollutants in Water

Mass transfer plays a key role in the diffusion‐controlled heterogeneous reactions. Varied efforts have been made to design the structure of catalysts and reactors to optimize the diffusion process. Herein, a facile strategy is reported to construct highly reactive agitating impeller (denoted as AI) by employing 3D printing and a facile surface activation treatment. On the one hand, experimental results and numerical simulation analysis reveal that the 3D printing AI with appropriate structure can not only effectively eliminate external diffusion but also conveniently be separated from heterogeneous reaction systems. On the other hand, surface activation helps to significantly promote the chemical reactivity of AI for Fenton and galvanic replacement reaction, which are used to treat organic and inorganic pollutants in water, respectively. Benefiting from these cooperative merits, the integrated catalytic AI delivers a catalytic performance toward Fenton reactions as high as a homogeneous catalyst, and the removal rate for heavy metal ions is nearly 100% through galvanic replacement. This 3D printing with surface engineering strategy should also be extended to other applications, and provide new field for preparing efficient and durable heterogeneous catalysts in a more economical way.
Feature Selection for SUNNY: A Study on the Algorithm Selection Library

Given a collection of algorithms, the Algorithm Selection (AS) problem consists in identifying which of them is the best one for solving a given problem. The selection depends on a set of numerical features that characterize the problem to solve. In this paper we show the impact of feature selection techniques on the performance of the SUNNY algorithm selector, taking as reference the benchmarks of the AS library (ASlib). Results indicate that a handful of features is enough to reach similar, if not better, performance of the original SUNNY approach that uses all the available features. We also present sunny-as: a tool for using SUNNY on a generic ASlib scenario.
Hardware-Assisted Thread and Data Mapping in Hierarchical Multicore Architectures

The performance and energy efficiency of modern architectures depend on memory locality, which can be improved by thread and data mappings considering the memory access behavior of parallel applications. In this article, we propose intense pages mapping, a mechanism that analyzes the memory access behavior using information about the time the entry of each page resides in the translation lookaside buffer. It provides accurate information with a very low overhead. We present experimental results with simulation and real machines, with average performance improvements of 13.7% and energy savings of 4.4%, which come from reductions in cache misses and interconnection traffic.
Prospective, randomized trial of Doppler-assisted subclavian vein catheterization.

OBJECTIVE To examine the rate of success and complications of Doppler-guided subclavian vein catheter insertion compared with standard insertion in patients considered at high risk for failure. DESIGN Prospective, randomized, crossover trial. SETTING University-affiliated tertiary care medical center. PATIENTS Two hundred forty patients were enrolled in the study. Patients were stratified for 3 known risk factors: (1) prior surgery in the subclavian vein region, (2) prior radiotherapy at the attempted catheterization site, and (3) an abnormal weight-height ratio. INTERVENTIONS Subclavian vein catheterization was performed either in standard or Doppler-guided fashion using the Smart Needle (Peripheral Systems Group, Mountain View, Calif), which is a Doppler probe at the tip of a cannulating needle. If subclavian vein catheterization was unsuccessful after 2 attempts, patients were crossed over to the other technique. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Successful cannulation of the subclavian vein. RESULTS The success rate, either as an initial technique or as a salvage technique, and complication rate were not significantly different with use of the Smart Needle. A subgroup of physicians had a significantly lower success rate using the Smart Needle. CONCLUSIONS Doppler guidance did not increase the success rate or decrease the complication rate of subclavian vein catheterization when compared with the standard technique in high-risk patients. Doppler guidance was not more useful than the standard technique as a salvage technique following a previous failure of catheterization. Furthermore, real-time Doppler guidance of subclavian vein catheterization is a technique that is highly operator dependent.
Apply Language Rhythm in Topic Tracking

Language Rhythm is an important characteristic in language. Research and analysis the Language Rhythm, those four kinds of language rhythms prompted: language nature rhythm, language grammar rhythm, language logic rhythm and language emotion rhythm. Each language rhythms reflect the language characteristic. How to get the language rhythms and their characteristics is expounded. The simulation results show that it is significant to apply in topic tracking.
Subclinical Chlamydial Infection of the Female Mouse Genital Tract Generates a Potent Protective Immune Response: Implications for Development of Live Attenuated Chlamydial Vaccine Strains

ABSTRACT Chlamydia trachomatis is a major cause of sexually transmitted disease (STD) for which a vaccine is needed. CD4+ T-helper type 1 (Th1) cell-mediated immunity is an important component of protective immunity against murine chlamydial genital infection. Conventional vaccine approaches have not proven effective in eliciting chlamydial-specific CD4 Th1 immunity at the genital mucosa. Thus, it is possible that the development of a highly efficacious vaccine against genital infection will depend on the generation of a live attenuated C. trachomatis vaccine. Attenuated strains of C. trachomatis do not exist, so their potential utility as vaccines cannot be tested in animal models of infection. We have developed a surrogate model to study the effect of chlamydial attenuation on infection and immunity of the female genital tract by treating mice with a subchlamydiacidal concentration of oxytetracycline following vaginal infection. Compared to untreated control mice, antibiotic-treated mice shed significantly fewer infectious organisms (3 log10) from the cervico-vagina, produced a minimal inflammatory response in urogenital tissue, and did not experience infection-related sequelae. Antibiotic-treated mice generated levels of chlamydia-specific antibody and cell-mediated immunity equivalent to those of control mice. Importantly, antibiotic-treated mice were found to be as immune as control untreated mice when rechallenged vaginally. These findings demonstrate that subclinical chlamydial infection of the murine female genital tract is sufficient to stimulate a potent protective immune response. They also present indirect evidence supporting the possible use of live attenuated chlamydial organisms in the development of vaccines against chlamydial STDs.
High performance technique for database applications using a hybrid GPU/CPU platform

Many database applications, such as sequence comparing, sequence searching, and sequence matching, etc, process large database sequences. we introduce a novel and efficient technique to improve the performance of database applications by using a Hybrid GPU/CPU platform. In particular, our technique solves the problem of the low efficiency resulting from running short-length sequences in a database on a GPU. To verify our technique, we applied it to the widely used Smith-Waterman algorithm. The experimental results show that our Hybrid GPU/CPU technique improves the average performance by a factor of 2.2, and improves the peak performance by a factor of 2.8 when compared to earlier implementations.
Parnas on Parnas: a life of indecision

When asked to prepare this biography, I took the occasion to review my life and realized that I have spent it unable to decide whether to be a scientist or an engineer and whether to be in academia or industry. As a student at the Bronx High School of Science in New York, I was clearly on the engineering side. I found both challenge and satisfaction in making calculations that could be tested against reality by building a device. I wasn't satisfied with having something rigkt 'fin theory;" I wanted to see it work. I loved designing, building, and testing electronic equipment, obtained a government license as a "Radio Engineer," and later worked in rac,io ,~ations. In 1957 1 entered a1~ engineering school, Carnegie Institute of Technology, but chose to study science (physics); I thought that studying science would be the way to learn the truth about the universe. Two years later I realized that the truth being sought by rr:y teachers was an extra decimal place of precision in the estimated weight of electrons. I was left cold by discussions of un~estable, or difficult to test, theories. I was lured to Engineering by a teacher, Everard M. Williams, who convinced me that by . ,~aying that the greatest challenge in the world was solving real problems. I received my undergraduate degree in Electrica:~ Engineering in 1961. Even before I grmtuated, I was allowed to teach an introductory EE course and discovered the joy, indeed the thrill, of teaching engineering. However, teaching engineering convinced me that the real problem was that my students did not understand how to use mathematics. In yet another sign of indecision, I asked ~o teach a mathematics course. I enjoyed the experience, and v~:ote a novel textbook, but lost interest after a major publisher offered to publish it. After obtaining m:~ e:agineering degree, I once again found myself attracted b3 t:ae idea of searching for simple truths and began my graduate studies in mathematics at the University of Michigar. This time, I learned more quickly; after one semester, I returned to Carnegie Tech, and engineering. Mathematics was indeed beautiful, but somehow too simple. I enjoyed its internal logic, but missed designing and testing the results against reality. In mathematics, the researchers make up all the rules; in engineering we must observe and exploit the natural laws of the universe. It was while teaching a course in …
On the Round Trip Path Testing Strategy

A number of techniques have been proposed for state-based testing. One well-known technique (criterion) is to traverse the graph representing the state machine and generate a so-called transition tree, in an attempt to exercise round trip paths, i.e., paths that start and end in the same state without any other repeating state. Several hypotheses are made when one uses this criterion: exercising paths in the tree, which do not always trigger complete round trip paths, is equivalent to covering round-trip paths; different traversal algorithms are equivalent. In this paper we investigate whether these assumptions hold in practice, and if they do not, we investigate their consequences. Results also lead us to propose a new transition tree construction algorithm that results in higher efficiency and lower cost.
Force sensing from human demonstration using a hybrid dynamical model and qualitative reasoning

This paper presents an analysis of force data that was generated by a human demonstration of a complex and asymmetrical insertion task. The human was blindfolded. And only had force sensors (i.e. fingers) available. The process is modelled using hybrid dynamics which highlighted the changes in contact as the essential parts of the assembly process. Qualitative reasoning is then applied to the force signals to identify those portions of the force signals that corresponded to either a gain or a loss of contact. The emphasis of the paper is to understand the force signals generated by the human subject. It is shown that qualitative reasoning proves to be a simple, efficient and effective means to understand the force signal by identifying the changes in contact state. Qualitative reasoning is also shown to be suitable for automated industrial assembly. <<ETX>>
Taking the health aid debate to the subnational level: the impact and allocation of foreign health aid in Malawi

Objective Cross-national studies provide inconclusive results as to the effectiveness of foreign health aid. We highlight a novel application of using subnational data to evaluate aid impacts, using Malawi as a case study. Design We employ two rounds of nationally representative household surveys (2004/2005 and 2010/2011) and geo-referenced foreign aid data. We examine the determinants of Malawi's traditional authorities receiving aid according to health, environmental risk, socioeconomic and political factors. We use two approaches to estimate the impact of aid on reducing malaria prevalence and increasing healthcare quality: difference-in-difference models, which include traditional authority and month-of-interview fixed effects and control for individual and household level time-varying factors, and entropy balancing, where models balance on health-related and socioeconomic baseline characteristics. General health aid and four specific health aid sectors are examined. Results Traditional authorities with greater proportions of individuals living in urban areas, more health facilities and greater proportions of those in major ethnic groups were more likely to receive aid. Difference-in-difference models show health infrastructure and parasitic disease control aid reduced malaria prevalence by 1.20 (95% CI −0.36 to 2.76) and 2.20 (95% CI 0.43 to 3.96) percentage points, respectively, and increased the likelihood of individuals reporting healthcare as more than adequate by 12.1 (95% CI 1.51 to 22.68) and 14.0 (95% CI 0.11 to 28.11) percentage points. Entropy balancing shows similar results. Conclusions Aid was targeted to areas with greater existing health infrastructure rather than areas most in need, but still effectively reduced malaria prevalence and enhanced self-reported healthcare quality.
Swordfish: user tailored workspaces in multi-display environments

This paper presents a novel interaction metaphor for Multiple Display Environments (MDEs) called lightweight personal bindings. This approach enables users to easily bind edges from one display to another and move seamlessly between displays. The goal of this work is to support collocated collaboration in a dynamic multi-display environment while accommodating users' personal preferences. With lightweight personal bindings, each user can choose their own display connections and create a personalized MDE. This approach also helps manage changes in the environment as devices enter, move, or leave.
Quantum dialogue by nonselective measurements

Unlike classical measurements, quantum measurements may be useful even without reading the outcome. Such so called nonselective measurements are exploited in this paper to design a quantum dialogue protocol that allows exchanging secret data without prior key distributions. The relevant data to be exchanged are in terms of the high-dimensional mutually unbiased bases of quantum measurements. Appropriate modes of bidirectional controlling are devised to ensure the protocol security which is asymptotic.