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Filtering Institutional Logics: Community Logic Variation and Differential Responses to the Institutional Complexity of Toxic Waste

Although many recent studies have emphasized the multiplicity of institutional logics and the competition among them, how some institutional logics become prioritized over others in shaping organizational decisions is undertheorized. Drawing on panel data of 118 industrial facilities across 34 communities in Texas and Louisiana, we show that the saliency of different kinds of community logics significantly affects environmental practices-specifically, toxic waste emissions-of facilities in a community. Our results show that community logics not only have direct effects but also have indirect effects by filtering organizational reactions to broader field-level institutional logics. We theorize how community logics can amplify or dampen the influence of broader field-level logics and discuss the implications for the study of institutional complexity, social movements, and values in the configuration of institutional logics.
An Extended Single-index Model with Missing Response at Random

An extended single-index model is considered when responses are missing at random. A three-step estimation procedure is developed to define an estimator for the single index parameter vector by a joint estimating equation. The proposed estimator is shown to be asymptotically normal. An iterative scheme for computing this estimator is proposed. This algorithm only involves one-dimensional nonparametric smoothers, thereby avoiding the data sparsity problem caused by high model dimensionality. Some simulation study is conducted to investigate the finite sample performances of the pro- posed estimators.
NETWORKING FOR DRUG INJECTION AS A SOCIAL PROCESS: A SUBSTANTIVE AND METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION Substance abuse is regarded as the nation’s number one health problem (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2001), and HIV/AIDS risks are known more prone among drug injectors and disproportionately more concentrated among African American drug injectors (Friedman, Jarlais, and Ward, 1993; CDC, 1996). According to the Center for Disease Control (1998), 217,000 injecting drug users (IDU) had been diagnosed with AIDS as of 1998, and 87,000 had died of the disease. Clearly, drug injection practice must be a major focus of HIV prevention efforts. What has been less clear is whether members of networked IDU groups with different connections among them have similar level of higher risks of HIV/AIDS. Although most injecting drug users do not use alone, it remains largely unknown what kind of network ties would signify, and for what kind of drug behavior. Comparatively little attention has been devoted to quantitatively assessing network structure and its etiological factors driving the formation and maintenance of cohesive subgroups as well as roles and positions within networks. The objective of this study is twofold: first, to examine what and how specific positions and roles held by drug injectors would be conducive to higher HIV/AIDS risk; second, to examine whether there exists potential systematic self-motivated social selection in terms of social networked ties. The research questions of this study are: (1) what personal and behavioral characteristics contribute to the drug injectors’ relational settings in their web of connections? (2) what personal and behavioral characteristics contribute to the drug injectors’ positional settings in their web of connections? and (3) what are the structural network covariates of the IDU’s chance to be infected with HIV?
A Description of Fish Assemblages in the Black Coral Beds off Lahaina, Maui, Hawai‘i

ABSTRACT A series of scuba dives surveyed patches of black corals and their associated deep-reef fish community in the channel waters (50–73 m depth) of Maui, Hawai‘i. Most of the corals were identified as Antipathes dichotoma and averaged 76 cm (±0.37) in height. Forty fish taxa were surveyed in the patches. Only Oxycirrhites typus was found exclusively within these coral trees. Sixty percent of the fish taxa surveyed were observed to frequent and pass through the coral branches. However, only four fish species were documented to reliably take shelter in the coral branches when evading an approaching diver. An archival video monitored movement patterns of fishes around a cluster of black coral trees for a 60-hr period. During daylight hours Dascyllus albisella, Centropyge potteri, Forcipiger flavissimus, Aulostomus chinensis, and Canthigaster jactator were observed to be the routine users of the coral patch, but only Dascyllus albisella and Centropyge potteri appeared to be resident to specific trees. At night Sargocentron sp. were observed feeding around the base of the coral trees, and Heniochus diphreutes dropped from their daytime position high in the water column to hide in the tree branches throughout the night. These observations indicate that black coral trees are used by many fishes as a general form of habitat, and if the coral trees are the largest relief feature at a site, their removal will likely impact the fish assemblage.
Prognosis for coronary stenoses in patients with diabetes and silent myocardial ischemia.

Silent myocardial ischemia (SMI) is common in patients with diabetes (1–4). The prognostic value of SMI, evidenced by exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) stress test (5) and thallium 201 myocardial scintigraphy (6), as well as their association (7) in asymptomatic diabetic patients, has recently been demonstrated. About 50% of the patients with SMI exhibit angiographically normal coronary arteries (1,2). In these patients, endothelial dysfunction and abnormalities of coronary microcirculation may be involved (8). So far, the respective roles played by these functional disorders, by the demonstrated silent coronary stenoses, or by both in the poor prognosis of SMI are still unknown. The aim of this …
Personality factors predicting changes in shift work tolerance: A longitudinal study among nurses working rotating shifts

Abstract The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality factors (hardiness, morningness, flexibility, and languidity) and longitudinal changes on different measures of shift work tolerance (fatigue, sleepiness, anxiety and depression) over one year among nurses working rotating shifts. A total of 642 female Norwegian nurses working in a rotating three-shift schedule participated in the study. The cohort was established by age-stratified selection among members of the Norwegian Nurses Association in 2008. Questionnaires were administered in 2008/2009 (T1) and in 2009/2010 (T2). The results showed that hardiness was negatively related to fatigue, anxiety and depression at T2 when controlling for the scores on these constructs at T1. Morningness was not related to any indicators of shift work tolerance at T2 when controlling for shift work tolerance at T1. Flexibility was negatively related to anxiety at T2 when controlling for anxiety at T1. Languidity was positively related to sleepiness and fatigue at T2 when controlling for sleepiness and fatigue at T1. The findings indicate that personality factors, especially hardiness, can predict changes related to shift work tolerance over a period of one year.
Mobile-assisted language learning in technical and engineering education: Tools and learners' feedback

Mobile devices have become standard within didactic means on all levels of education and in all subjects to appropriate extent, including foreign languages. This study focuses on their use within technical (i.e. bachelor) and engineering (i.e. master) higher education in Informatics and Management study programmes at the Faculty of Informatics and Management (FIM), University of Hradec Kralove (UHK), Czech Republic, particularly focusing on comparison in general subjects to English for specific purposes (ESP). Following questions were set to be researched: (1) What sources of information do students use for ESP? , (2) What mobile devices do they own and exploit for mobile-assisted ESP learning? and (3) What is students' feedback after MALL? As the availability and exploitation of mobile devices have been spreading sharply lately in the Czech Republic, the results closely reflect the state in education, particularly in MALL, in the world.
Explaining `Voltage-Driven' Breakdown Statistics by Accurately Modeling Leakage Current Increase in Thin SiON and SiO2/High-K Stacks

The statistical properties of the hard BD distribution in the presence of a digital soft BD are demonstrated. In very thin oxides, hard breakdown is not Weibull distributed, and if approximated by a Weibull distribution, the distribution parameters will be area and voltage dependent. We show how information on the digital soft BD distribution can be extracted from the leakage current increase preceding the hard BD. By generalizing this interpretation the time dependence of conventional stress-induced leakage current (SILC) in ultra-thin dielectrics is analytically modeled
The MIT User Center for Neutron Capture Therapy Research

Abstract Harling, O. K. , Riley, K. J., Binns, P. J., Patel, H. and Coderre, J. A. The MIT User Center for Neutron Capture Therapy Research. Radiat. Res. 164, 221–229 (2005). Neutron capture therapy (NCT) research encompasses a wide range of preclinical and clinical studies needed to develop this promising but complex cancer treatment. Many specialized facilities and capabilities including thermal and epithermal neutron irradiation facilities, boron analysis, specialized mixed-field dosimetry, animal care facilities and protocols, cell culture laboratories, and, for human clinical studies, licenses and review board approvals are required for NCT research. Such infrastructure is essential, but much of it is not readily available within the community. This is especially true for neutron irradiation facilities, which often require significant development and capital investment too expensive to duplicate at each site performing NCT research. To meet this need, the NCT group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has established a User Center for NCT researchers that is already being accessed successfully by various groups. This paper describes the facilities, capabilities and other resources available at MIT and how the NCT research community can access them.
Vortex Action Potentials in Normal Ventricular Muscle a

A remarkable feature of healthy ventricular myocardium, exposed by electrical stimulation and high-resolution mapping, is that, despite its gross nonuniformities and structural discontinuities on the submillimeter scale, it behaves electrically so much like a continuous uniformly anisotropic excitable medium. Such media are susceptible to a self-sustaining high-frequency periodic mode of activity in the form of freely movable paired vortices in two dimensions or vortex filaments in three dimensions. These can be evoked by a timely stimulus of the right size, for example, in myocardium by an electrical stimulus during the vulnerable period. Such stimuli may occur at random within complex patterns of stimulation and activation, even in healthy uniform tissue. Discontinuities and heterogeneity apparently make diseased tissue more vulnerable. Such vortices may underlie common reentrant tachycardias that degenerate into ventricular fibrillation, the commonest cause of sudden cardiac death. If the normal mechanism here reviewed also plays a role in diseased tissue, then it provides a quantitative basis for design of improved procedures for management of reentrant ventricular tachycardias that threaten to degrade to fibrillation.
Drinking problems in adopted and nonadopted sons of alcoholics.

Sons of alcoholic parentage, adopted in infancy, were compared with their brothers who were raised by the alcoholic parent. Both the adopted and nonadopted sons had high rates of alcoholism (25% and 17%, respectively), but the difference was not statistically significant. The two groups also had comparable frequency of alcohol problems. The nonadopted sons differed from the adopted sons in age (older) and belonging to a lower socioeconomic class. Length of exposure to the alcoholic parent was not associated with the development of alcoholism. However, severity of the parent's alcoholism, as inferred by number of hospitalizations, was positively related to alcoholism in the offspring. The results suggested that environmental factors contributed little, if anything, to the development of alcoholism in sons of severe alcoholics, in this sample.
A ZVS resonant receiver with maximum efficiency tracking for device-to-device wireless charging

A receiver for efficient wireless power delivery at 6.78MHz from smartphones to IoT devices has been designed in 0.18 μm CMOS. The receiver implements a technique to estimate the end-to-end efficiency and achieve maximum efficiency-point tracking (MEPT) across the charge cycle of a Li-ion battery without needing an explicit communication channel with the transmitter. The MEPT technique is tested using two rectifier topologies designed in the same process - the commonly used synchronous full-bridge and a resonant topology with ZVS for high efficiency. Adding MEPT to the full bridge receiver yields an estimated 7.9% savings in transmitter energy in fully charging a Li-ion battery on the receiver, while using the resonant rectifier with MEPT achieves 13.8% total savings in transmitter energy.
Organ donation rates in a neurosurgical intensive care unit.

OBJECT The number of patients waiting for organ transplantation continues to grow, while organs are donated by very few of the thousands of potential donors who die every year. The authors' neurosurgical intensive care unit (NICU) has worked closely with coordinators from the local organ procurement organization (OPO) for many years. In this study, the authors analyze donation rates in the NICU and discuss factors that may be important in maximizing these rates. METHODS All referrals from the NICU to the OPO from 1996 to 1999 were analyzed. Of the 180 referrals, 98 patients were found to be medically suitable as potential donors. Another 15 patients died of hemodynamic collapse shortly after admission to the NICU. If one assumes that all 15 patients would have been suitable donors, the unsuccessful resuscitation rate becomes 15 (13.3%) of 113. Of the 98 eligible donors, consent was obtained and organs or tissue were recovered in 72, yielding a successful organ procurement rate of 73.5%. CONCLUSIONS Close working relationships among physicians, nurses, and OPO coordinators can result in higher donation rates than have been reported previously. Aggressive resuscitation and stabilization of all patients, early identification of potential organ donors, prompt declaration of brain death, and attempts by the OPO coordinator to build rapport with families are all important factors that may increase donation rates. Because most organ donors have sustained catastrophic intracranial events, neurosurgeons are uniquely positioned to influence organ donation policies at their hospitals and thus to salvage some benefit from tragic cases of overwhelming brain injury.
Chemotaxis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes from patients with diabetes mellitus.

Abstract With a new in vitro method of measuring the chemotaxis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes from peripheral blood, a chemotactic index was calculated. The mean chemotactic index in 31 patients with diabetes mellitus was significantly less (p less than 0.0005) than that in 31 matched controls. The defect in chemotaxis could not be correlated with plasma insulin, plasma glucose, serum carbon dioxide and blood urea nitrogen values, or with any therapeutic agents. Incubation of the leukocytes from 11 normals with glucose in concentrations of 300 to 900 mg per 100 ml did not alter indexes. The defect in chemotaxis of the diabetic leukocyte was corrected by incubation of the cells with insulin in concentrations of 100 μU to 10 mU per milliliter. Insulin with phenol was less effective than insulin without preservative. Insulin was ineffective in the absence of glucose. It is suggested that this defect in the chemotaxis of diabetic leukocytes could contribute to increased infections in these patients.
Four-Wave Mixing in a Microfiber Attached Onto a Graphene Film

We demonstrate effective four-wave mixing in a 2- μm microfiber attached onto a graphene film by using two continuous-wave pump lasers at wavelengths near 1550 nm. With a contact length of 10 mm between the microfiber and the graphene film and input powers of 600 and 100 mW for the two pumps, we achieve a conversion efficiency that varies from -28 to -34 dB as the wavelength difference between the two pump lasers varies from 0.5 to 4.5 nm. Graphene-attached microfibers could find applications as miniaturized nonlinear devices in optical signal processing.
Black hole bound states in AdS(3) x S**2

We systematically construct the geometries dual to the 1+1 dimensional (0,4) conformal field theories that arise in the low-energy description of wrapped M5-branes in S^1 x CY_3 compactifications of M-theory. This includes a large number of multicentered black hole bound states asymptotic to AdS_3 x S^2. In addition, we find many geometries that develop multiple, mutually decoupled AdS_3 x S^2 throats. We argue there is a useful one to one correspondence between the connected components of the space of solutions and particular limits of type IIA attractor flow trees. We point out that there is a thermodynamic instability of small supersymmetric BTZ black holes to localization on the S^2, a supersymmetric and exactly solvable analog of the well known AdS-Schwarzschild localization instability, and identify this with the "Entropy Enigma" in four dimensions. We discuss the phase transition this suggests, and initiate the CFT interpretation of these results.
Sensitive drug-resistance assays reveal long-term persistence of HIV-1 variants with the K103N nevirapine (NVP) resistance mutation in some women and infants after the administration of single-dose NVP: HIVNET 012.

BACKGROUND The HIV Network for Prevention Trials (HIVNET) 012 trial showed that NVP resistance (NVPR) emerged in some women and children after the administration of single-dose nevirapine (SD-NVP). We tested whether K103N-containing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 variants persisted in women and infants 1 year or more after the administration of SD-NVP. METHODS We analyzed samples from 9 women and 5 infants in HIVNET 012 who had NVPR 6-8 weeks after the administration of SD-NVP. Samples were analyzed with the ViroSeq system and with 2 sensitive resistance assays, LigAmp and TyHRT. RESULTS ViroSeq detected the K103N mutation in 8 of 9 women and in 2 of 5 infants. LigAmp detected the K103N mutation at low levels in 8 of 9 women and in 4 of 5 infants. K103N was not detected by ViroSeq 12-24 months after the administration of SD-NVP but was detected by LigAmp in 3 of 9 women and in 1 of 5 infants. K103N was also detected in those samples by use of the TyHRT assay. CONCLUSIONS K103N-containing variants persist in some women and infants for 1 year or more after the administration of SD-NVP. Sensitive resistance assays may provide new insight into the impact of antiretroviral drug exposure on HIV-1 evolution.
A comparison of the effects of adoption, restoration to the natural mother, and continued institutionalization on the cognitive development of four-year-old children.

TIZARD, BARBARA, and REEs, JUDITH. A Comparison of the Effects of Adoption, Restoration to the Natural Mother, and Continued Institutionalization on the Cognitive Development of FourYear-Old Children. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1974, 45, 92-99. 65 children aged 41 years who had spent their first 2-4 years in institutions were tested, and an assessment was made of their behavior in the test situation. 24 of the children had been adopted and 15 restored to their natural mothers at a mean age of 3 years; the remaining 26 were still in institutions. The mean WIPPSI IQs of all groups were at least average; the adopted children had significantly higher IQs, were initially more friendly, and were less restless and distractible than the other children. The findings are discussed in relation to the concept of institutional deprivation.
The Long-Term Effects of Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis

seen later in the course of their disease. A number of conclusions can be drawn from these studies. Complete remission is unlikely after the first few years of the disease. By 10 years approximately half the patients will be severely disabled, falling into classes III and IV of the Steinbroker classification for functional capacity[9]. But there is evidence, especially in the series of patients described by Duthie et al. [7,10,11 ] that hospital therapy can improve functional capacity and that this improve-
Cross-Correlation Based Vehicle Feature Extraction by Magnetic Wireless Sensor Networks

—Due to the limitation of sensor size and cost, in order to implement vehicle detection by magnetic wireless sensor network, it attaches importance to the two important problems, vehicle detection and feature extraction, with facing the challenge of low signal-to-noise ratio and limited resources. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to accomplish vehicle monitoring, namely CBNP. In this mechanism, we propose a cross-correlation based vehicle detection algorithm to accurately detect vehicle presence. To accurately extract response feature, we propose and prove a theorem which depicts the relation between feature point and its cross-correlation result. Based on the theorem, we proposed a Cross-Correlation Based Feature Extraction (CBFE) algorithm to accurately locate vehicle feature points under relative strong noise. Simulation indicates that CBNP outperforms traditional methods on both vehicle detection rate and feature extraction accuracy. In meaningful conditions, the detection accuracy is over 90% and the deviation rate of feature extraction is within 10%.
MUC1: A target molecule for cancer therapy

MUC1 is a mucin family protein, overexpressed in more than 90 % of breast cancers in an underglycosylated form, exposing the core peptides of the extracellular domain that act as a potential target for antibody-mediated therapy. The highly conserved repeats of 20 amino acids VNTR varies between 20 and 125 depending on the allele. Each tandem repeat contains five potential O-glycosylation sites that have been exploited in designing cancer therapeutics. The core peptides in the tandem repeated VNTR domain are masked in normal cells and become exposed in the cancer cells associated mucins. The characteristics of the MUC1 epitopes constituted with the tandem repeats and the carbohydrates present on MUC1 induce immune responses that favour targeted immunotherapy. In addition, aberrant glycosylation also plays an important role in enhancing the internalization of MUC1 into the cytoplasm making MUC1 a very attractive cytoplasmic delivery system of drugs and other therapeutic agents. MUC1 being present on most of the cancers of glandular epithelial origin, appears as a potential target for therapeutic interventions in these cancers.