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Optimal receiver design with wavelet bases

A generalized orthogonal series expansion should reflect the natural modes of a signal. In doing so, the transform becomes precise and useful. The most precise transform is the Karhunen-Loeve (KL) transform. The covariance function of a signal expanded in its KL basis has uncorrelated coefficients. This property can be used to derive optimal detection structures. Erdol and Bao (see Proceedings of the Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, 1993) addressed the classical problem of detection of a message signal in white noise by considering a variable coefficient wavelet series expansion of the input signal. It is shown that, given the hypothesis that there exists a wavelet eigen basis of the message signal, then the optimization problem of searching for the eigen wavelet may be transformed into a search over an array of variables. These variables are shown to be the coefficients that arise in the representation of one wavelet basis in terms of another. In this paper, the structure of this array of coefficients is explored for simplifying the search space. >
Removal of Moisture from the Ultra Fine Particles Using Both High Centrifugal Force and Air Pressure

Abstract A newly developed centrifugal batch dewatering unit was developed and used to remove the moisture contents of ultra fine particles (e.g., kaolin clay, silica, talc, and precipitated calcium carbonate). In the present method, air pressure was applied into the vessel of a conventional centrifuge to improve the efficiency of the dewatering. The experimental results showed that the moisture reductions of the samples could be enhanced more than 50% depending on dewatering conditions (i.e., G-force, spin time, applied pressure, cake thickness, particle size, surface hydrophobicity, and particle agglomeration). As a result, when the new centrifuge modification is used for the fine particle dewatering, cost and environmental concerns of thermal dryers could be considerably reduced and the handleability of the filter cakes could be significantly increased.
Nanomechanical radio transmitter

We explore a design possibility for a highly integrated nanoscale radio transmitter, where the key functional component is a mechanically vibrating electrically charged beam.
Cardiac shunt calculations made easy: A case-based approach†

On the basis of an interesting case of a 40-year-old lady with an atrial septal defect, we describe a simple approach for complex shunt volume calculations based on the Fick principle using hemodynamic data obtained in the catheterization laboratory. Understanding Fick's principle allows determination of all relevant flows, flow ratio, and resistances without having to resort to memorization of complex formulae. Those findings significantly impact the managements of patients like ours with hemodynamically and clinically relevant shunting.
Research and complicity: the case of Julius Hallervorden

The charge of complicity has been raised in debates over the ethics of fetal tissue transplantation and embryonic stem cell research. However, the applicability of the concept of complicity to these types of research is neither clear nor uncontroversial. This article discusses the historical case of Julius Hallervorden, a distinguished German neuropathologist who conducted research on brains of mentally handicapped patients killed in the context of the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme. It is argued that this case constitutes a paradigm of complicity in research that is useful in assessing complicity in contemporary research ethics.
Strain effects on the electronic properties in δ -doped oxide superlattices

Strain effects on the electronic properties of (LaTiO3)1/(SrTiO3)N superlattices were investigated using density functional theory. Under biaxial in-plane strain within the range of −5% ≤ e// ≤ 5%, the dxy orbital electrons are highly localized at the interfaces whereas the dyz and dxz orbital electrons are more distributed in the SrTiO3 (STO) spacer layers. For STO thickness N ≥ 3 unit cells (u.c.), the dxy orbital electrons form two-dimensional (2D) electron gases (2DEGs). The quantized energy levels of the 2DEG are insensitive to the STO spacer thickness, but are strongly dependent on the applied biaxial in-plane strain. As the in-plane strain changes from compressive to tensile, the quantized energy levels of the dxy orbitals decrease thereby creating more states with 2D character. In contrast to the dxy orbital, the dyz and dxz orbitals always have three-dimensional (3D) transport characteristics and their energy levels increase as the strain changes from compressive to tensile. Since the charge densities in the dxy orbital and the dyz and dxz orbitals respond to biaxial in-plane strain in an opposite way, the transport dimensionality of the majority carriers can be controlled between 2D and 3D by applying biaxial in-plane strain.
How Interpersonal Communication Mediates the Relationship of Multichannel Communication Connections to Health-Enhancing and Health-Threatening Behaviors

This article examines how everyday media use and interpersonal communication for health information could influence health behaviors beyond intervention or campaign contexts. The authors argue that interpersonal communication works as an independent information channel and mediates the relation between media channels and health behaviors. In addition, the authors investigate whether interpersonal communication differently influences the relation between media connections and health behaviors for more and less educated individuals. Using data from the 2008 Annenberg National Health Communication Survey, the authors show that multiple communication channels for health information encourage health-enhancing behaviors but do not have significant relations with health-threatening behaviors. Interpersonal communication is directly linked to health-enhancing behaviors, but it also mediates the influence of individuals' multichannel media environment on health-enhancing behaviors. The mediating role of interpersonal health communication was only significant for less educated people. In addition, among media channels, television was a more important instigator of health-related conversations with family and friends for the less educated group. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings, as well as suggestions for future research directions, are discussed.
Binding of ATP to UAP56 is necessary for mRNA export

The major-histocompatibility-complex protein UAP56 (BAT1) is a DEAD-box helicase that is deposited on mRNA during splicing. UAP56 is retained on spliced mRNA in an exon junction complex (EJC) or, alternatively, with the TREX complex at the 5′ end, where it might facilitate the export of the spliced mRNA to the cytoplasm. Using confocal microscopy, UAP56 was found to be concentrated in RNA-splicing speckled domains of nuclei but was also enriched in adjacent nuclear regions, sites at which most mRNA transcription and splicing occur. At speckled domains, UAP56 was in complexes with the RNA-splicing and -export protein SRm160, and, as measured by FRAP, was in a dynamic binding equilibrium. The application of an in vitro FRAP assay, in which fluorescent nuclear proteins are photobleached in digitonin-extracted cells, revealed that the equilibrium binding of UAP56 in complexes at speckled domains was directly regulated by ATP binding. This was confirmed using a point mutant of UAP56 that did not bind ATP. Point mutation of UAP56 to eliminate ATP binding did not affect RNA splicing, but strongly inhibited the export of mRNA to the cytoplasm.
Genetic Variation of Abdominal Fat, Body Weight, and Carcass Weight in a Female Broiler Line

Pedigreed matings in a commercial purebred female broiler selection line produced 311 males and 341 females, which were slaughtered at 50 days of age. Coefficients of variation of abdominal fat weights were higher than live and carcass weights. The coefficient of variation was reduced when abdominal fat was regressed on live weight or when percentage of live or carcass weight was used. Leaf fat was approximately two-thirds and gizzard fat was approximately one-third of the total abdominal fat. Heritabilities for abdominal fat were high, and the genetic correlations between the fat and live or carcass weights ranged from .43 to .50 in males and .32 to .40 in females. The phenotypic correlations between fat and live weight were reduced when abdominal fat weight was subtracted from live weight, showing that the part-whole relationship between abdominal fat included in live body weight increased the correlations. The heritabilities indicate that it should be possible to reduce abdominal fat by selection, and the genetic correlations signify that a method has to be devised to increase body weight while simultaneously reducing abdominal fat weight.
Explanations determine the impact of information on financial investment judgments

Previous research has shown that some types of judgments are influenced by the results of an explanation-seeking comprehension process. The present experiments investigated novice investors' stock price forecasts and investment decisions. Information presented in a narrative story order was hypothesized to promote the construction of a coherent mental representation that would affect how information was interpreted and subsequently used to predict stock price changes. The results showed that outcome information had a distinctively high impact, but only when the information was read in story order. These results imply that presentation order affects the mental representation of evidence relevant to the forecast, and the form of that mental representation moderates the impact of individual pieces of information on the ultimate judgment. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Characterizations of a quality certified athletic trainer.

Context: Didactic proficiency does not ensure clinical aptitude. Quality athletic health care requires clinical knowledge and affective traits. Objective: To develop a grounded theory explaining th...
Nc Machine Programming and Software Design

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Formation of pluton roofs, floors, and walls by crack opening at Split Mountain, Sierra Nevada, California

Spectacularly exposed contact relations of the Split Mountain interpluton screen, Sierra Nevada batholith, indicate that its bounding plutons grew by injection of dikes. The screen is composed of Cambrian metasedimentary rocks and ranges from a few tens of meters to ∼500 m thick. On Split Mountain, the screen is bounded by gently dipping intrusive contacts with two Jurassic plutons, the overlying Tinemaha Granodiorite and underlying leucogranite of Red Mountain Creek. Field relations indicate that both plutons grew mainly by opening of subhorizontal crack systems and that stoping was at most a minor process. The intrusive contacts are sharp and cut across wall-rock structures that reflect pre–165 Ma tectonic shortening. Wall-rock xenoliths are extremely rare in both plutons. Contrary to previous descriptions, neither pluton has an exposed steep wall, but later tectonic deformation locally produced steep contacts. Westward, the Split Mountain screen enters the subvertical Sawmill Lake mylonitic shear zone, which sheared it downward to a subvertical dip. On the north side of the Red Mountain Creek pluton, the primary intrusive contact dips gently, but a zone of high-angle faults steps the contact incrementally downward toward the north and east from near the range crest to the eastern range front. These faults were not previously recognized and the resulting map pattern has been misconstrued to reflect northward steepening of the contact. The Cretaceous Lamarck Granodiorite intrudes the western contact of the vertical section of the screen along a locally concordant contact. However, elsewhere the intrusive contact dips more gently and sharply cuts across the screen and the shear zone. Concordant segments of the intrusive contact reflect opening of fractures that were guided by the shear zone fabric. The Split Mountain interpluton screen thus owes its shape and its location between several plutons to the opening of fractures that admitted the bounding intrusions. The screen originally formed in the Jurassic as a subhorizontal body between the vertically stacked, broadly laccolithic Tinemaha and Red Mountain Creek plutons. After part of the screen was tectonically sheared into a subvertical orientation, the Lamarck Granodiorite invaded steep fractures concordant with the shear zone.
Do Angry Birds Make for Angry Children? A Meta-Analysis of Video Game Influences on Children’s and Adolescents’ Aggression, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, and Academic Performance:

The issue of whether video games-violent or nonviolent-"harm" children and adolescents continues to be hotly contested in the scientific community, among politicians, and in the general public. To date, researchers have focused on college student samples in most studies on video games, often with poorly standardized outcome measures. To answer questions about harm to minors, these studies are arguably not very illuminating. In the current analysis, I sought to address this gap by focusing on studies of video game influences on child and adolescent samples. The effects of overall video game use and exposure to violent video games specifically were considered, although this was not an analysis of pathological game use. Overall, results from 101 studies suggest that video game influences on increased aggression (r = .06), reduced prosocial behavior (r = .04), reduced academic performance (r = -.01), depressive symptoms (r = .04), and attention deficit symptoms (r = .03) are minimal. Issues related to researchers' degrees of freedom and citation bias also continue to be common problems for the field. Publication bias remains a problem for studies of aggression. Recommendations are given on how research may be improved and how the psychological community should address video games from a public health perspective.
Cultural Spaces as Political Spaces: Place and the Politics of Cultural Production in Johannesburg, South Africa

Places of cultural production can shape the choices that cultural creators make. Using South Africas Soweto Theater as a case study, this paper examines the conditions under which cultural creators produce objects that are charged with political meaning. A cultural and urban-sociological analysis of Soweto Theater reveals that cultural creators evoke the historical and social significance that places engender, as well as the desired or expected relationship between the theater and its environs. Theater directors utilize the political significance of Soweto, a key site during the anti-apartheid struggle, to define their visions of the role of Soweto Theater. The theaters location in a black township also creates an expectation amongst theater directors to support township theater, particularly as apartheid prevented black South Africans from establishing formal public performance spaces. Defining Soweto Theater in terms of the townships social conditions and political history results in a cultural vision that emphasizes the institutionalization of black South African narratives through theater, thereby making Soweto Theater not only a cultural space, but also a political space.
Church Support for Higher Education in America: Issues of Survival and Purpose

From the founding of the first college in America at Henrico, Virginia, in 1619, until the end of the Civil War, American higher education was shaped by religious purposes. The college at Henrico was based on a tradition of liberal education which went back some fifteen centuries. The history of this tradition could be traced through the eighth-century palace schools, the monastic and cathedral schools, the medieval universities, and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. The tradition combined classical education and the study of the Christian religion.1 Harvard College, founded in 1636, became the first permanent institution of higher learning in America, and its statement of purpose reflected the thoroughgoing religious character of the New England Puritan culture:
Transplantation of transduced nonhuman primate CD34+ cells using a gibbon ape leukemia virus vector: restricted expression of the gibbon ape leukemia virus receptor to a subset of CD34+ cells.

Transplantation of transduced nonhuman primate CD34 + cells using a gibbon ape leukemia virus vector: restricted expression of the gibbon ape leukemia virus receptor to a subset of CD34 + cells
Coexist of neurotransmitters and relationships between them in gaster and intestine

The conclusions from our experiment,other materials of abroad and domestic materials are as follows: (1) Two kinds of neurotransmitters could exist in a neurocyte in general. (2) The classic transmitters and the peptide transmitters could effect each other in intestine.NE could enhance the function of Enk enerigic neuro fibric,on the other hand,Enk could reduce the function of NE. (3) Subthreshold dose of Histamine could modulate the effect of Ach and NE.
Study of the Occupational Hazards on 338 Ironware Enterprise at Baoan District of Shenzhen City in 2007

Objective To investigate the occupational hazards on ironware enterprise at Baoan District of Shenzhen city and provide scientific basis for prevent occupational diseases. Method The monitoring data of occupational disease were collected and statistical analyzed on basic occupational health service(BOHS) of Baoan District in Shenzhen city in 2007. Result The noise,trichloroethylene and N-hexane were main occupational hazards on ironware enterprise,which of qualification rate is 37.0%,68.9%,and 69.8%,respectively. Conclusion The noise,trichloroethylene and N-hexane were main occupational hazards on ironware enterprise at Baoan District of Shenzhen city. Health supervision,monitor and safe protection to them should be strengthen.
Privacy-enhanced architecture for occupancy-based HVAC Control

Large-scale sensing and actuation infrastructures have allowed buildings to achieve significant energy savings; at the same time, these technologies introduce significant privacy risks that must be addressed. In this paper, we present a framework for modeling the trade-off between improved control performance and increased privacy risks due to occupancy sensing. More specifically, we consider occupancy-based HVAC control as the control objective and the location traces of individual occupants as the private variables. Previous studies have shown that individual location information can be inferred from occupancy measurements. To ensure privacy, we design an architecture that distorts the occupancy data in order to hide individual occupant location information while maintaining HVAC performance. Using mutual information between the individual's location trace and the reported occupancy measurement as a privacy metric, we are able to optimally design a scheme to minimize privacy risk subject to a control performance guarantee. We evaluate our framework using real-world occupancy data: first, we verify that our privacy metric accurately assesses the adversary's ability to infer private variables from the distorted sensor measurements; then, we show that control performance is maintained through simulations of building operations using these distorted occupancy readings.
Surgery of the Umbilicus and Related Structures

Ruminants of all types requiring umbilical surgery can be affected by a number of different conditions. However, the practitioner should be able to correct any of these conditions surgically, especially in young animals, as a field procedure if appropriate restraint and environment are available. Like other aspects of veterinary practice, the individual must decide what services he or she wishes to offer clients in their practice and which ones will be referred. The objective of this article is to equip veterinarians who wish to treat umbilical masses surgically with the information they need.
MQ-9 Unmanned Aircraft Responsiveness to Air Traffic Controller Commanded Maneuvers: Implications for Integration into the National Airspace System

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) integration into the National Airspace System (NAS) will require overcoming numerous challenges, including evaluating the responsiveness of Unmanned Aircraft (UA) to...
Suppression of renal cell carcinoma growth and metastasis with sustained antiangiogenic gene therapy

B151 INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is the third most common urologic neoplasm. This aggressive malignancy has proven refractory to conventional treatment options. Recently, antiangiogenic agents have shown early success in treating metastatic disease. The highly vascular nature of RCC appears particularly susceptible to this approach. This study investigates the potential of sustained expression of an endostatin-angiostatin fusion protein in an early-stage model of RCC to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis. METHODS: Subcutaneous RCC-29 tumors were induced in 7-week old athymic nude male mice by injecting 2x106 cells bilaterally into each flank region. Mice were divided into two groups. Once tumors reached volumes of 10 mm3 and 25 mm3 respectively, subjects received intratumoral injections in the right flank only of a non-replicating adenoviral vector every 20 days until the conclusion of the trial. The mice were randomly assigned to three treatment groups: saline control, viral Ad-GFP control and Ad-EndoAngio, encoding a chimeric endostatin-angiostatin fusion protein. Tumor volumes were measured twice weekly for 80 days. During days 40-50 of the trial, subjects were administered fluorescent rhodamine-BSA dye and underwent dual-photon optical imaging of the tumor vasculature to ascertain antiangiogenic effects of treatment. All animals underwent post-mortem histopathological analysis to assess for metastatic disease in the kidney, lung, liver, brain, lymph nodes and spleen. RESULTS: The 10 mm3 and 25 mm3 tumor arms when treated with Ad-EndoAngio displayed 97% and 92% growth reduction respectively (p
When sparsity meets low-rankness: Transform learning with non-local low-rank constraint for image restoration

Recent works on adaptive sparse signal modeling have demonstrated their usefulness in various image/video processing applications. As the popular synthesis dictionary learning methods involve NP-hard sparse coding and expensive learning steps, transform learning has recently received more interest for its cheap computation. However, exploiting local patch sparsity alone usually limits performance in various image processing tasks. In this work, we propose a joint adaptive patch sparse and group low-rank model, dubbed STROLLR, to better represent natural images. We develop an image restoration framework based on the proposed model, which involves a simple and efficient alternating algorithm. We demonstrate applications, including image denoising and inpainting. Results show promising performance even when compared to state-of-the-art methods.
On the Uniqueness of Invariant Measures for the Stochastic Infinite Darcy–Prandtl Number Model

The infinite Darcy–Prandtl number model is an effective reduced model for describing convection in a fluid-saturated porous medium. It is well known that the deterministic model does not possess a unique invariant measure. In this work, we study the dynamics of the infinite Darcy–Prandtl number model, under an additive stochastic forcing of its low modes. This is the so-called stochastic infinite Darcy–Prandtl number model. We prove that the stochastically forced system, does indeed possess a unique invariant measure.
Reaching Additional Users with Proactive Chat

Despite a general decline in recent years in academic libraries’ reference desk statistics, research indicates that library users continue to have complex research questions but are largely unaware...
Asynchronous State Machine Design and Analysis: Basic Concepts

Publisher Summary This chapter emphasizes the synchronous sequential machine design. The major aim of the chapter is to develop a working-level understanding of asynchronous finite state machines (FSMs), their design and analysis, and to design state machines that operate at speeds exceeding those possible for their synchronous FSM counterparts. The study of asynchronous FSMs forces one to deal with the complexities of sequential machines in greater depth than was required for the simpler synchronous machines. The study of synchronous FSMs permitted the reader to develop capabilities that are sufficient to design and analyze large systems without having to deal with the intricacies of asynchronous machine design. The chapter explains that all sequential machines have certain characteristics in common. However, there are features owned more or less exclusively by asynchronous FSMs: the presence of memory in the absence of the familiar clocked flip-flop and the appearance of the asynchronous machine as a combinational logic circuit with feedback.
Restorative potential, fascination, and extent for designed digital landscape models

Abstract Few studies have investigated whether manipulating objective measures related to fascination and extent affect respondents’ ratings of restorative potential (RP) and estimations of fascination and extent. The following study addresses this need. We manipulated or measured variables in 27 color digital landscape model views. Tree height represented a measure of fascination. Three measures related to extent: The number of organized plant groups represented coherence. Shannon’s Information Entropy bit values represented plant species complexity. The visible view polygon area in each model represented scope. We included 65 respondents’ RP ratings for the digital model views in analyses, along with estimations of fascination (n = 48), extent (n = 43), coherence (n = 38), complexity (n = 44), and scope (n = 35). Collinearity diagnostics indicated dependency between respondents’ estimations of fascination, extent, and complexity, and between estimations of coherence and scope. A strong, inverse correlation occurred between respondents’ RP ratings and the view polygon area. Repeated measures ANOVA test results suggest that respondents’ RP ratings increased as mean designed tree height increased. RP ratings for model views depicting scattered and formally arranged plants were significantly higher than views of clustered plants. Moreover, the decrease in RP ratings between scattered and clustered scenes was greater when plants represented three bits of entropy instead of two. Chief among the implications stemming from this study is that increasingly taller trees and groundcover plants may have increasingly greater restorative potential.
From Village Land to “Native Reserve”: Changes in Property Rights in Sabah, Malaysia, 1950–1996

In this paper I explore the interactions between colonial law and native customary law in the formation of contemporary property regimes in a rural village in Sabah, Malaysia, that I call Govuton. 3 Govuton was one of the few known villages in Sabah that rejected colonial policies of land settlement that focused on settling private, individual property claims. Instead, village leaders negotiated with colonial officials for their village lands to be legally designated as corporately-held village property under the title of “Native Reserve.” While the Native Reserve served to protect village access to jointly-held property in the colonial period, in the contemporary period new land disputes are arising as different images of community and tradition are strategically deployed by villagers in order to win struggles over rights of ownership and access to resources in the current political economy. By adopting such an historical and site-specific view of the transformation of property rights several broader themes regarding the relationship between state and society and natural resource management emerge. First, this case study challenges the idea the colonial governments were a monolithic force imposing laws on an unresisting native population. Second, the notion that “the community” is an appropriate unit for natural resource management is questioned. And finally, this case study raises the possibility that the current trend toward strengthening or reinvigorating native customary law is not always in the interests of native peoples with diverse interests in natural resource management.
A Consideration of Energy from the Viewpoint of Computational Aeroacoustics

The propagation of acoustic energy from a sound source to the far field is a fundamental problem of acoustics. In this paper, a finite volume, multistage time stepping, Euler code is used to investigate the use of CFD algorithms for the direct calculation of the acoustic field. The two dimensional, compressible, inviscid flow about an accelerating circular cylinder is used as a model problem. The time evolution of the energy transfer from the cylinder surface to the fluid, as the cylinder is moved from rest to some nonnegligible velocity, is shown. Energy is the quantity of interest in the calculations since various components of energy have physical meaning. By examining the temporal and spatial characteristics of the numerical solution, a distinction can be made between the propagating acoustic energy, the convecting energy associated with the entropy change in the fluid, and the energy following the body. In the calculations, entropy generation is due to a combination of physical mechanisms and numerical error. In the case of propagating acoustic waves, entropy generation seems to be a measure of numerical damping associated with the discrete flow solver.
Glycobrowser: a tool for contextual visualization of biological data and pathways using ontologies

This paper introduces GlycoBrowser, a dynamic biological pathwayexploration and visualization tool. Its capabilities include incremental navigationof pathways, as well as overlaying relevant experimental data about glycans andreactions within a pathway. The use of ontologies not only allows dynamic constructionof pathways, but also facilitates more accurate validation of the informationretrieved. Pathway exploration is initiated by means of an ontologicallydriven glycan structure building tool, which facilitates glycan structure constructionand searching with minimal user error. Because of the complex nature ofglycan structures and the difficulty involved in interpreting the associated data,GlycoBrowser is tailored especially to suit the needs of glycobiologists.
Structured Settlements and Single-Claimant Qualified Settlement Funds: Regulating in Accordance with Structured Settlement History

In 1982 Congress legislated a tax subsidy incentivizing the use of structured settlements. Since then the structured settlement has become a common conclusion for personal injury claims. Perhaps to the detriment of plaintiffs, it became clear early on that defendants and their liability insurers were capturing much of the benefits from structuring, including the value of the tax subsidy. While this usurpation may have lessened over time as plaintiff advisors became more knowledgeable about structured settlements, it continues today. In the 1990s, some plaintiffs began using an entity that allows for the prevention of defense capturing: the qualified settlement fund (QSF). Because the use of this fund by single-claimants breaks two important tax rules that Congress originally applied to the structured settlement tax subsidy - the constructive receipt (control of monies) and economic benefit (vested right in future distribution of assets or monies) doctrines - it is unclear if such claimants can make use of the QSFs and still access the subsidy. Treasury regulations could cure the ambiguity, but should do so in accordance with structured settlement history, and in the interest of public policy. By reviewing the legislative, administrative, and regulatory history of structured settlements, this paper demonstrates that the two tax doctrines no longer apply, at least not strictly, to structured settlements. Thus, upon a showing that extending the tax subsidy to structured settlements produced by single-claimant QSFs is in the interest of public policy, this paper recommends the issuance of Treasury regulations extending the subsidy.
Chemical Kinetic Research Related To Combustion in High-Speed Flows

The effect of chemical kinetics on combustion in high-speed com- bustors is presented and discussed. The results of analytical studies suggest that chemical kinetic effects can be very important and can control the chemical energy that is released in the combustors. Areas where additional chemical kinetic research is required have been identified.
Intramural Input: Intramural Officials Association

(1973). Intramural Input. Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation: Vol. 44, Including Leisure Today, pp. 53-54.
3D-Conformer of Tris[60]fullerenylated cis-Tris(diphenylamino-fluorene) as Photoswitchable Charge-Polarizer on GHz-Responsive Trilayered Core-Shell Dielectric Nanoparticles

Novel 3D-configurated stereoisomers cis-cup-tris[C60>(DPAF-C9)] and trans-chair-tris[C60>(DPAF-C9)] were designed and synthesized in good yields. The former, with three C60> cages per molecule facing at the same side of the geometrical molecular cup-shape, was proposed to provide excellent binding interaction forces at the gold surface of core-shell γ-FeOx@AuNP nanoparticles and to direct the subsequent formation of a fullerene cage array (defined as fullerosome). Upon photoactivation of the Au-layer and cis-cup-tris[C60>(DPAF-C9)] itself, the degree of photoinduced intramolecular e−-transfer from DPAF to a C60> moiety was found to be largely enhanced by the accumulated plasmonic resonance energy at the near-field surface. Distribution of resulting negative charges along the outer (C60>)-derived fullerosome shell layer of the trilayered NPs was correlated with the detected photoswitchable dielectric amplification phenomena using white LED light at 1.0 GHz.
3D Printing Temporary Crown and Bridge by Temperature Controlled Mask Image Projection Stereolithography

Abstract Traditionally, the fabrication of temporary teeth restorations must go through multiple processes such as moulding, curing and post finishing, which requires extensive expertise of dentists. In addition, the handmade temporary restorations are usually unable to precisely fit the patient’s teeth due to limited formability of material. To address the problem, a three-dimensional (3D) printing technology named temperature controlled mask image projection based stereolithography (TCMIP-SL) is presented for dental materials in this paper, with aim to build customized temporary crown and bridge quickly for its use in dental offices. We first studied the photo-polymerization performance of commercial materials that are commonly used in dental industry. Then we discussed the temperature effect on curing performance and rheology of dental composite material. Based on the studies, we further developed our TCMIP-SL process by integrating a material coating system with controllable heating, so that the coated thin film of dental composite material can be selectively cured using high resolution patterned light beam. Several test cases are performed to demonstrate the TCMIP-SL process can 3D print high viscous temporary crown material with fast speed and high resolution.
Machine Learning in Neurooncology Imaging: From Study Request to Diagnosis and Treatment.

OBJECTIVE. Machine learning has potential to play a key role across a variety of medical imaging applications. This review seeks to elucidate the ways in which machine learning can aid and enhance ...
Sleep disturbances in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: Is it all subjective? A prospective pilot study of sleep-wake patterns.

Abstract Purpose Patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) frequently complain of poor sleep, yet there are few and inconsistent data supporting objective sleep disturbances in this population. In this prospective observational study, we aimed to compare objective and subjective sleep-wake patterns in patients with PNES with those with epilepsy. Methods Subjects were recruited through the Brigham and Women’s Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) over a 6-month period, and were diagnosed as having PNES or epilepsy by experts using video-electroencephalography (v-EEG). Sleep-wake patterns were objectively examined using EEG and actigraphy during EMU admission. Subjects also completed several validated questionnaires on sleep. Results Twenty-seven subjects, including 17 with PNES and 10 with epilepsy were enrolled in the study. Compared to controls with epilepsy, PNES subjects showed greater sleep onset latency (48.7 ± 47.5 min vs 14.0 ± 13.4 min; p = 0.02). Otherwise, sleep architecture was similar between the groups. However, subjectively, PNES subjects reported worse sleep quality (10.8 ± 5.1 vs 5.8 ± 2.9; p = 0.01) and were more likely to meet clinical criteria for insomnia relative to epilepsy subjects (50% vs 10%, p = 0.05). Moreover, a higher proportion of PNES subjects reported taking medications for sleep (44% vs 0%, p = 0.01). Conclusion Overall, we found more evidence for a subjective basis rather than a pathophysiological nature for the reported sleep disturbances in PNES subjects. In addition to educating PNES patients on the importance of maintaining good sleep habits, clinicians should address sleep complaints and screen for insomnia, as effective treatments are available and may improve overall health.
Advances in Imaging Technology and Increases in Healthcare Accessibility Have Led to Shifts in the Initial Staging of Pediatric Cancers in the Us

Background and Objectives: The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was created in 1997 to expand affordable health insurance coverage for United States children and successfully enrolled more than 8 million children by 2012, halving the uninsured rate from 14% to 7%. Concordant with this increase in insured children was an increase in preventive care visits, a doubling of the CT and MRI devices per capita as well as scans per capita, and the commercial availability of the first PET/CT in 2001. Over this same time period, no changes were made to pediatric cancer screening guidelines. This study’s …
Carpenter v. United States: A Step Further in Privacy Protection but Not Far Enough

As of February 2018, approximately 311,600,000 Americans are conveying their location and other personal information to their service providers simply by participating in modern society and using a cell phone. A cell phone creates cell-site location information (“CSLI”) each time it pings a new tower, essentially creating a history of a person’s every move. If the government is able to access this cell-site information from the service providers without the need for a search warrant, a modern day Big Brother would be near in effect. The Supreme Court decided in Carpenter v. United States that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their location; however, the opportunity to further strengthen privacy rights was missed. This Article examines the history and evolution of the Fourth Amendment, the Stored Communications Act, the Third-Party Doctrine, privacy of customer information, and property rights and interest, all in relation to CSLI. The Article further analyzes the Court’s decision in Carpenter and follows Justice Gorsuch’s dissent highlighting the missed opportunity to strengthen privacy rights concerning CSLI. The author asserts that people have a property interest in their CSLI and recommends returning to a traditional approach of the Fourth Amendment by focusing on positive law.
Abstract P2046: The Effect Of Environmental Circadian Disruption On Kidney Injury In Spontaneously Hypertensive Stroke Prone Rats

Obesity, diabetes, and stroke are common morbidities amongst people who engage in shift work. Loosely defined as a lifestyle that includes extended and or rotating shifts, the development of these ...
Migratory return rates and breeding fidelity in Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis)

ABSTRACT Low mate fidelity and return rates are common in many migratory bird species. These low rates are likely due to high mortality during migration, making it impossible for between-year mate ...
Improving patient satisfaction through improved telephone triage in a primary care practice.

Objective The objective of this study was to improve the telephone communication experience for patients in a primary care practice. Design An exploratory survey was conducted that revealed suboptimal patient satisfaction with clinic access due to the telephone triage system. Several interventions were designed: a monthly quality meeting was established among clinic staff, all phone interactions were recorded in the electronic medical record (EMR) and clinic appointments were made available several months in advance. A follow-up survey was conducted to evaluate these interventions. Setting The study was conducted in a multispecialty, urban-based, resident-faculty practice from November 2016 to November 2017. Participants Subjects were recruited in a convenience sample from the waiting room. 200 subjects participated in the initial survey and 215 in the second survey. Results After the interventions, patients felt that their questions were answered more frequently than before (p Conclusion Improving telephone triage through implementing a monthly quality improvement meeting, optimising use of the EMR and opening schedules several months in advance resulted in several improvements in the patient experience, but did not change use of emergency services. Further interventions, including increased resource allocation, are needed to optimise patient experience.
White trash celebrity in the age of eugenics: desecrating Clara Bow

This essay examines the desecration of Clara Bow whose celebrity as a movie star and cultural icon exploded across media in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her symbolic and commodity value was synonymou...
The National Economic Association at 50: Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going?:

The National Economic Association was founded as the Caucus of Black Economists in 1969. The organization was formed to address the underrepresentation of Black economists in the American Economic ...
Precursor B Lymphoblastic Leukemia With Surface Light Chain Immunoglobulin Restriction

We describe 15 patients (9 children) with precursor B-cell (pB) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with surface immunoglobulin (sIg) light chain restriction revealed by flow cytometric immunophenotyping (FCI). The same sIg+ immunophenotype was present at diagnosis and in 3 relapses in 1 patient. In 15 patients, blasts were CD19+CD10+ (bright coexpression) in 14, CD34+ in 12, surface κ+ in 12, surface λ+ in 3; in 8 of 8, terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase (TdT)+; and in 4, surface IgD+ in 2 and surface IgM+ in 1. The 3 CD34– cases included 1 TdT+ case, 1 with t(1;19)(q23;p13), and 1 infant with 70% marrow blasts. One adult had CD10–CD19+CD20–CD22+CD34+ TdT+sIg+ blasts with t(2;11)(p21;q23). Blasts were L1 or L2 in all cases (French-American-British classification). Karyotypic analysis in 12 of 12 analyzable cases was negative for 8q24 (myc) translocation. Karyotypic abnormalities, confirmed by fluorescence in situ hybridization in 6 cases, included hyperdiploidy, t(1;19)(q23;p13), t(12;21)(p13;q22), t(9;22)(q34;q11), t(2;11)(p21;q23), and trisomy 12. The sIg light chain restriction in pB ALL might be present in neoplasms arising from the early, intermediate, and late stages of precursor B-cell maturation; sIg light chain restriction revealed by FCI does not necessarily indicate a mature B-cell phenotype, further emphasizing the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing B-lymphoid neoplasms.
Actuation-Induced stable crack growth in near-equiatomic nickel-titanium shape memory alloys: Experimental and numerical analysis

Abstract Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuation technology requires a thorough understanding of the failure response of these alloys under loading that involves thermal variations, termed “actuation” loading. In this paper, the experimental observation of stable crack growth in SMA compact tension specimens during temperature changes under constant bias loads is reported for the first time. The intrinsic damage mechanisms that promote crack advance are those reported in literature for nominally isothermal overload fracture, i.e., cleavage assisted by ductile void growth. Moreover, a numerical analysis is employed, and the resulting simulations are compared with the experimental data with the purpose of building confidence in the insight provided on the role of extrinsic mechanisms that further promote or impede crack advance. It is concluded that phase transformation plays a dual role on the crack growth kinetics by promoting crack growth when occurring in a fan in front of the crack tip and providing the toughness enhancement that results in stable crack growth when left in the wake of the advancing crack. While the latter is well known as transformation-induced toughness enhancement, the former has just been recently observed experimentally and is characteristic of SMAs subjected to actuation loading conditions.
Improvement in Survival for Elderly Pts with AML over the Years: A NCDB Analysis

Objective: There has been significant changes in management of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) over past few years with bunch of new medications approved for AML management. We did a retrospective study to investigate if the recent improvement in AML management options have led to improved survival in elderly AML pts. Subjects and Methods: Patients with AML from 2004-2014 between age from 60-90 years were included in the retrospective study. Chi-square analysis was used to assess the association between treatment and factors investigated. Kaplan-Meier method was used to assess overall survival. Log rank methods were used to determine factors significant for survival. Multivariable Cox regression analysis was used to determine the independent variables. Results: 37,617 patients from the National Cancer Database were eligible for this study. Twenty-seven, thirty-six and thirty-seven percentage of pts were in the age group more than/equal to eighty, between 70-79 years and 60-69 years, respectively. The median survival in months of pts between 60-69 years, 70-79 years and >= 80 years was 9.5, 3.8 and 1.4 respectively. The median survival of pts did improve the years with median survival of 3.3 m, 3.7 m and 5 m in pts who got diagnosed between 2004-2007, 2008-2010 and 2011-2014 respectively. On multivariate analysis, after adjusting for all variable including age, gender, race, treatment received and comorbidity index, the year of AML diagnosis was statistically significant predictor of overall survival. The pts who got diagnosed between 2011-2014 were 19 % less likely to die compared to those diagnosed between 2004-2007. Conclusion: Survival analysis on AML in the National Cancer Database showed that survival in elderly pts with AML has improved over the years with pts who were diagnosed between 2011-2014 were 19 % less likely to die compared to pts diagnosed between 2004-2007. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
Understanding Corporate B2B Web Sites' Effectiveness from North American and European Perspective

The globalization of economic activities has led multinational business-to-business (B2B) firms to use their corporate web sites extensively to communicate with their stakeholders. Using a field study of 368 business customers, this paper examines three factors of information that influence corporate web sites’ effectiveness in a B2B context and whether these factors differ by web site user’s national origin. Results indicate that informativeness of a corporate web site is important for both North American and European visitors. Quality of information is important for European users but not an important aspect for North American users. Usability is the most important factor for North American users but it is not important for European users. Implications of these results are discussed for managerial practices and further research.