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SENSORY CHARACTERIZATION OF VITIS VINIFERA CV. MALBEC WINES FROM SEVEN VITICULTURE REGIONS OF ARGENTINA

Fifty-six Malbec wines from seven Argentine viticulture regions (Valles Calchaquies, Mendoza del Este, Mendoza del Sur, Patagonia, Alto Rio Mendoza, Valle de Uco and San Juan), of the 2004 vintage, were evaluated by sensory descriptive analysis using a panel of 10 not-sighted assessors. “Noncommercial” samples were obtained using standardized conditions, not aging and produced with grapes corresponding to each viticulture region. Malbec wines from same regions exhibited particular characteristics. Valles Calchaquies wines had strong herbal, spicy, sweet pepper aromas and pungency in contrast to San Juan wines that showed fruity, strawberry, honey and citrus aromas. Mendoza del Este and Valle de Uco wines were associated with cooked fruit, raisin, floral and sweetness attributes as opposed to Mendoza del Sur and Patagonia wines which were characterized by sourness, bitterness, persistency and astringency, and not by aroma attributes. Alto Rio Mendoza wines were characterized by pungency, sweet pepper and bitterness. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS Sensory profiling of “non-commercial” Malbec wines developed in this research could be used as a tool to differentiate and classify Argentine Controlled Denominations of Origin (DOC). Wines with DOC have important value in the market and they are original country representative in the world. The results of this study suggest that Malbec wines from some of the regions located in latitudes 31–33° (San Juan, Mendoza del Este and Valle de Uco; Argentina) were associated with the most desired sensory characteristics. Out of these latitudes, wine-making process would have more importance on Malbec wine quality.
[Evaluation of lethal ovitraps as a strategy for Aedes aegypti control].

INTRODUCTION Dengue fever is a vector-borne viral disease of major public health importance. In the absence of a vaccine, control measures are primarily focused on reducing the mosquito vector. However, these strategies are very expensive, and the use of lethal ovitraps could contribute, in a practical manner, to the design of cost-effective strategies for vector control. OBJECTIVE To determine the most efficient type of lethal ovitrap for Ae. aegypti vector control by combining different types of insecticides, oviposition substrates and attractant infusions. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted in two stages. In the first, 18 different ovitraps resulting from the combination of insecticides (deltamethrin and permethrin), oviposition substrates (towel, dacron and flannel), and attractant infusion (10 and 20% hay infusion, and dechlorinated water) were evaluated in the laboratory. For this evaluation, ovitraps were placed into a mosquito holding cage, and 100 gravid Ae. aegypti females were released. The top six ovitraps were selected based on the higher number of registered eggs, and the lower hatched eggs percentage. In the second, the top six ovitraps were evaluated in field conditions. RESULTS In laboratory conditions, statistical differences were observed between the 18 ovitraps. The ovitraps with deltamethrin were the most efficient showing the best results. In field conditions, the ovitraps with the highest vector reduction were those combining deltamethrin/towel/10% hay infusion. CONCLUSIONS The ovitrap combining deltamethrin, towel as oviposition substrate, and 10% hay infusion as attractant was the most efficient Ae. aegypti vector control.
Tolerance to the nonbronchodilator effects of inhaled beta 2-agonists in asthma.

BACKGROUND Tolerance to the direct bronchodilator effects of beta 2-agonists does not appear to occur in asthma. However, it is not known whether this is true for the nonbronchodilator effects of these agents, which protect the airways against bronchoconstrictive stimuli. METHODS We investigated whether tolerance develops to the protective effect of inhaled terbutaline on airway responsiveness to the bronchoconstrictors methacholine (which acts directly on airway smooth muscle) and AMP (which acts indirectly by stimulating the release of mediators from mast cells) during sustained treatment with terbutaline. In a randomized, double-blind, crossover study, 12 patients with mild asthma each inhaled a single dose of terbutaline (500 micrograms) or placebo before a challenge with a series of doubling doses of inhaled methacholine or AMP, before and after treatment for seven days with 500 micrograms of terbutaline four times daily or placebo. RESULTS Before the seven days of treatment with terbutaline, a single dose of terbutaline reduced airway responsiveness to methacholine by 2.7 doubling doses (95 percent confidence interval, 1.9 to 3.5), but it had an even greater protective effect against AMP, reducing airway responsiveness by 3.8 doubling doses (95 percent confidence interval, 2.7 to 4.9; P less than 0.001). After seven days of treatment with terbutaline, the protective effect of terbutaline against methacholine decreased to 2.2 doubling doses (95 percent confidence interval, 1.3 to 3.0; P = 0.04), and that against AMP decreased even more, to 1.7 doubling doses (95 percent confidence interval, 1.1 to 2.4; P less than 0.001). By contrast, the bronchodilator response to terbutaline was unchanged during seven days of treatment with this agent. CONCLUSIONS We observed tolerance to the nonbronchodilator actions of the inhaled beta 2-agonist terbutaline in patients with mild asthma, an effect that may be more pronounced in mast cells than in bronchial smooth muscle. This property of beta-agonists may constitute a drawback to their regular use in patients with asthma.
Thiopseudomonas denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from anaerobic activated sludge.

A Gram-staining-negative, rod-shaped, motile and facultatively anaerobic bacterial strain, designated X2(T), was isolated from the sludge of an anaerobic, denitrifying, sulfide-removal bioreactor, and found to oxidize sulfide anaerobically with nitrate as electron acceptor. The strain grew at salinities of 0-3% (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 0-1%). Growth occurred at pH 6.0-10.0 (optimum, pH 8.0) and 10-37 °C (optimum, 30 °C). The genomic DNA G+C content was 59 mol%. Q-8 and Q-9 were detected as the respiratory quinones. The major fatty acids (>10 %) were C16:1ω7c and/or C16: 1ω6c, C18: 1ω7c and C16:0. The polar lipids consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol and one unidentified phospholipid. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain X2(T) formed a novel clade within the family Pseudomonadaceae, with the highest sequence similarity to Pseudomonas caeni KCTC 22292(T) (93.5%). On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characteristics, it is proposed that this strain represents novel genus and species within the family Pseudomonadaceae, for which the name Thiopseudomonas denitrificans gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is X2(T) ( =CCTCC M 2013362(T) =DSM 28679(T) = KCTC 42076(T)).
A Demonstration of the Universal Problem-Solving Approach to Address Children’s Inappropriate Behavior in Head Start Classrooms

The purpose of this demonstration was to evaluate a universal intervention during teacher-identified routines that were characterized by significant classwide problem behavior. Six Head Start classrooms (seven groups of children, with one classroom divided into two groups) received two workshops and two coaching sessions on universal Positive Behavior Support. Participating teams were taught to use an antecedent–behavior–consequence problem-solving process and to develop and implement action plans addressing prevent–teach–respond (PTR) strategies to improve targeted routines. Following intervention, children’s inappropriate behavior decreased to below baseline levels in all six classrooms. Intervention fidelity in all six classrooms averaged 82.6% for the total intervention. Social validity ratings indicated that interventions were feasible for use in their classrooms and had positive effects on students and staff. This program evaluation suggests that, with support, preschool classroom teams can apply assessment-based action plans using PTR strategies to reduce the inappropriate behavior of students during difficult classroom routines.
Scalable Non-blocking Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods

The preconditioned conjugate gradient method (PCG) is a popular method for solving linear systems at scale. PCG requires frequent blocking allreduce collective operations that can limit performance at scale. We investigate PCG variations designed to reduce communication costs by decreasing the number of allreduces and by overlapping communication with computation using a non-blocking allreduce. These variations include two methods we have developed, non-blocking PCG and 2-step pipelined PCG, and pipelined PCG from Ghysels and Vanroose. Performance modeling for communication and computation costs shows the expected performance of these methods. Weak and strong scaling experiments on up to 128k cores show that scalable PCG methods can outperform standard PCG at scale. We observe that the fastest method varies depending on the work per core, suggesting we need a suite of scalable solvers to obtain the best performance. Experiments with multiple preconditioners and linear systems show the robustness of these methods.
Polyglot Database Architectures = Polyglot Challenges

We categorize polyglot database architectures into three types (polyglot persistence, lambda architecture and multi-model databases) and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. 1 Polyglot Database Architectures When designing the data management layer for an application, several database requirements may be contradictory. For example, regarding access patterns some data might be accessed by write-heavy workloads while others are accessed by read-heavy workloads. Regarding the data model, some data might be of a different structure than other data; for example, in an application processing both social network data and order or billing data, the former might usually be graphstructured while the latter might be semi-structured data. Regarding the access method, a web application might want to access data via a REST interface while another application might prefer data access with query language. It is hence worthwhile to consider a database and storage architecture that includes all these requirements. We describe three option for polyglot database architectures in the following three sections. 1.1 Polyglot Persistence Instead of choosing just one single database management system to store the entire data, so-called polyglot persistence could be a viable option to satisfy all requirements towards a modern data management infrastructure. Polyglot persistence (a term coined in [4]) denotes that one can choose as many databases as needed so that all requirements are satisfied. Polyglot persistence can in particular be an optimal solution when backward-compatibility with a legacy application must be ensured. The new database system can run alongside the legacy Copyright c © 2015 by the paper’s authors. Copying permitted only for private and academic purposes. In: R. Bergmann, S. Gorg, G. Muller (Eds.): Proceedings of the LWA 2015 Workshops: KDML, FGWM, IR, and FGDB. Trier, Germany, 7. -9. October 2015, published at http://ceur-ws.org
Old People

The foremost condition of the problem is that the aged live in a contracting social world in which their participation declines, notably sharply after age seventy-five (Rosow, 1962; Smith, 1966). This has two aspects. First, their activity in formal organizations of all kinds is drastically reduced (Wright and Hyman, 1958; Dotson, 1951). At the same time, they apparently also lose friends, and their informal associations
Long-Term Efficacy and Safety of Two Doses of Growth Hormone in Short Japanese Children Born Small for Gestational Age

Background/Aims: To investigate the long-term efficacy and safety of two doses (33 and 67 µg/kg/day) of growth hormone (GH) in short Japanese children born small for gestational age (SGA). Methods: 96 children born SGA (age 3 to <8 years) were randomized to GH at 33 or 67 µg/kg/day for 104 weeks, or to an untreated control (UC) group for 52 weeks. After 52 weeks, the UC group was randomized to GH at a dose of 33 or 67 µg/kg/day for a 156-week extension study. Initial treatment groups continued unchanged for the extension phase. Efficacy was evaluated by change in height SDS for chronological age from baseline to 208/260 weeks. Results: After 208 weeks, change in height SDS from baseline (least square (LS) means (SE)) was 1.01 (0.47) and 1.99 (0.67) in the UC 33 and UC 67 µg/kg/day groups, respectively. After 260 weeks, change in height SDS from baseline was 1.22 (0.51) and 2.01 (0.64) in the 33 and 67 µg/kg/day groups, respectively. Insulin-like growth factor-1 levels were significantly higher in the groups receiving 67 µg/kg/day but largely remained within normal limits (–2 to +2 SDS). Conclusion: Long-term continuous GH treatment was well tolerated and effective in improving height SDS. Improvements were dose-dependent and significantly higher at 67 than 33 µg/kg/day.
Multi-level and Multi-objective Survey on Cloud Scheduling

Cloud computing has emerged during the last decade to be widely adopted nowadays in several IT areas. It consists to propose market or not market-oriented resources as services that can be consumed in a ubiquitous, flexible and transparent way. In this paper, we deal with scheduling, one of the major cloud computing issue. According to the targeted cloud configuration, the addressed objectives and the accuracy of the view that one have of the cloud, we propose a taxonomy that identifies three levels of scheduling: service-level, task-level and Virtual Machine-level. We compare different cloud scheduling approaches from the literature and identify the common features and the differences between all the approaches according to each cloud scheduling level using different criteria. The reported results of the comparison show inter alia a weakness in the proposed schedulers, almost no Pareto multi-objective solving algorithms and very few realistic experiments facing the real cloud constraints.
Phonological development of word-initial Korean obstruents in young Korean children*

ABSTRACT This study investigates the acquisition of word-initial Korean obstruents (i.e. stops, affricates and fricatives). Korean obstruents are characterized by a three-way contrast among stops and affricates (i.e. fortis, aspirated and lenis) and a two-way fricative contrast (i.e. fortis and lenis). All these obstruents are voiceless word-initially. Cross-sectional data were collected from forty Korean children aged 2 ; 6 (year;month), 3 ; 0, 3 ; 6 and 4 ; 0, and the acquisition patterns of Korean obstruents were explored based on productions of mono- and multisyllabic words. Results confirm the universal patterns: stops were acquired before affricates and fricatives. In terms of order of acquisition across different laryngeal types, lenis stops were the last to be acquired. For Korean fricatives, in contrast, the lenis category appears to be acquired earlier than the fortis category. This study proposes that this order of acquisition may be explained by articulatory complexity associated with language-specific phonetic properties.
TRANSCONJUNCTIVAL 25-GAUGE SUTURELESS VITRECTOMY AND SILICONE OIL INJECTION IN DIABETIC TRACTIONAL RETINAL DETACHMENT

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to evaluate the outcomes and complications of transconjunctival sutureless 25-gauge vitrectomy using silicone oil tamponade in diabetic tractional retinal detachment. Materials and Methods: Patients were retrospectively evaluated. Main outcome measure was the feasibility of pars plana vitrectomy and silicone oil injection with 25-gauge system in eyes with diabetic tractional retinal detachment. Results: Fourteen eyes of 14 patients were included in the study. Tractional retinal detachment was accompanied by vitreous hemorrhage in 9 eyes and combined traction/rhegmatogenous retinal detachment was present in 1 eye. All patients underwent transconjunctival sutureless 25-gauge vitrectomy and 1,000 centistokes silicone oil injection. Angled insertion of the trocars was made in all eyes. Bimanual surgery was performed in 6 (42.8%) eyes. The median preoperative best-corrected visual acuities were 3.00 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution; it increased to 1.60 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution at last visit. Retinal tear formation occurred in 4 (28.5%) eyes. Retinal detachment developed in 2 (14.2%) eyes. Intraocular pressure of 5 mmHg or less was detected in 3 (21.4%) eyes. One patient lost light perception due to anterior hyaloidal fibrovascular proliferation. Conclusion: Pars plana vitrectomy and 1,000 centistokes silicone oil injection with 25-gauge system is feasible in diabetic tractional retinal detachment even in complex cases. Indications of 25-gauge surgery may be expanded toward this area.
Coaching Life Skills through Football: A Study of Award Winning High School Coaches

This study examined how outstanding high school football coaches developed life skills in their players. In-depth phone interviews were conducted with 10 outstanding coaches ranging in age from 47 to 68 years (M = 54). Coaches averaged 31 years of coaching experience, and were highly successful (76.6% winning percentage). Hierarchical content analysis of the data revealed that two general dimensions or categories of strategies emerged: (a) general coaching; and (b) player development strategies. Within the general coaching strategies dimension, higher-order themes focused on working with players and strategies for dealing with other parties. In the player development strategies general dimension was the higher-order theme set of teaching life skills. Results highlighted that it was clear these coaches did not view the coaching of life skills as separate from their general coaching strategies for performance enhancement and while highly motivated to win, personal development of their players was a top priority.
Innovative & Interactive iPad Interventions: The New Wave of Delivering Pediatric Behavioral, Emotional & Social Care

When a child requires hospitalization, medical professionals focus first and foremost on meeting the physical needs of the patient. A developing trend in pediatric care, however; takes into account the social and emotional needs of the child, and recognizes the impact of emotion, behavior and social supports on healing and wellness. Research indicates the effectiveness, and necessity, of the comprehensive biopychosocial approach to pediatric hospital care, utilizing specific behavior management techniques rooted in t Equipping young patients with such a skill set will enable them to better cope with the emotional aspects of being sick or injured, and provide them with vital, life-long skills. An exciting new practice is the integration of psychosocial interventions with innovative interactive patient care technology. This pilot study describes how one Midwestern children's hospital has begun to explore the use of tablet-based applications to leach and support patients with the skills necessary to cope with pain, stress, and other behavioral issues of pediatric hospitalization. Degree Type Open Access Senior Honors Thesis Department Special Education First Advisor Ann Orr Second Advisor Rhonda Kraai Third Advisor Janet Fisher This open access senior honors thesis is available at DigitalCommons@EMU: http://commons.emich. edu/honors/412 INNOVATIVE L~ INTERACTIVE IPAD INTERVENTIONS: THE NEW WA VE OF DELIVERING PEDIATRlC BEHA VI ORAL, EMOTIONAL & SOCIAL CARE By Moll y Pe.body A Senior Thesis Submitted to the Eastem Michigan University Honors College in Partial Fulfillment of Ihe Requirements for Graduation with Iionors in the Department of Special Education Approved at Ypsil,nti, Michigan, on thi s date \j,~~'< \5, 1.0\'\:
The platelet function dose‐response to abciximab during percutaneous coronary revascularization is variable

The platelet function dose‐response to incremental abciximab (Reopro, Eli Lilly/Centocor, Indianapolis, IN) bolus dosing during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was evaluated in 85 patients using a point‐of‐service platelet function assay. Patients received incremental bolus doses of abciximab at 10‐ to 20‐min intervals; platelet function was measured at 10‐min intervals during dosing. The percentage of patients achieving ≥ 80% inhibition of platelet function after 50%, 75%, and 100% of a standard abciximab bolus was 40%, 87%, and 95%, respectively. There were no significant associations between the platelet function dose‐response to abciximab and age, weight, platelet count, hematocrit, heparin dose, peak activated clotting time, thienopyridine use prior to PCI, gender, cigarette smoking, diabetes mellitus, or clinical syndrome. This study demonstrated significant interpatient variability in platelet function dose‐response to abciximab with a substantial proportion (87%) of patients achieving high‐level platelet function inhibition with less than the standard abciximab bolus dose. Cathet Cardiovasc Intervent 2001;54:497–504. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR SHARED ATTENTION IN PIGEONS 1

Two pigeons performed a three-key matching-to-sample task. The comparison (side.key) stimuli were either solid colors or white lines. The sample (center key) stimuli were either comiipounds (white lines on colored grounds) or elements (white lines on black grounds on some trials, and solid colors on other trials). Sample stimuli were presented for nine samiiple stimulus durations ranging between 0.04 and 5.00 sec. Within each daily session, both compound and element samples were presented at each sample duration in a random sequence. Compound samples controlled matching responses less effectively than did element samples at all sample stimulus durations.
Optimized Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks Based on Dynamic Threshold Energy Detector

Cognitive radio is a seemly hopeful technology for future. Spectrum sensing is the most important function of cognitive radio. Most of the spectrums sensing techniques proposed become dysfunctional at lower signal to noise ratio environments. This paper proposes a reliable spectrum sensing algorithm for cooperative cognitive network. A dynamic threshold updating method is developed for which threshold changes with the environmental noise impact. Energy detector will be used as basic block to development. The reliability of sensing technique is evaluated in terms of probability of error and minimum signal to ratio it tolerates. The work includes study of existing spectrum sensing techniques that are single threshold energy detector and double threshold energy detector and their implementation in the cooperative sensing environment. Finally they are juxtaposed in cooperative environment. Optimal number of cognitive radios required in the decision making process is also calculated.
Studying Distinguished Practitioners: a Humanistic Approach to Discovering How to Do Psychotherapy

One laborious, although not especially common, way to learn how to do psychotherapy is to spend nearly four decades studying taped sessions of distinguished psychotherapists. This article explains how one humanistic psychotherapist came to do this, and reports the findings of a long-term series of studies growing out of years of personal tape listening. The findings include a series of steps that occur in therapy sessions to form the cornerstone of an experiential psychotherapy.