cssi/SciSciGPT-SciSciNet huggingface dataset:
Force Tracking Control of Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Variable Stiffness Structures

Active valve control is investigated for force tracking of fluidic flexible matrix composite (F2MC) variable stiffness structures through analytical and experimental studies. F2MC structures are based upon fluid-filled flexible matrix composite tubes, and previous investigations have shown that several orders of magnitude change in stiffness can theoretically be achieved by opening and closing the inlet valve to the tubes. In this article, a simple analytical model of the F2MC system is developed that captures the dynamics of the composite tube, the servovalve, and the flow of the fluid through the valve. A combined observer/ regulator control system is determined using linearized equations of motion and is applied to the non-linear system. Analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the F2MC system can track a desired force—displacement curve using active valve control.
Black Psychological Functioning and the Legacy of Slavery

The collective or group trauma model being explored in this volume requires that we first identify a group that has experienced a jolting, unpredictable, and monstrous assault. Second, we must be able to identify an unambiguous period that marks the termination of the trauma, for then, and only then, can we establish a before-and-after frame of reference. More specifically, the experiences of the group following the trauma must be more normative or nontraumatic in nature. When these conditions are met, we document the trauma and its termination, and then try to determine whether attitudes and behaviors originally elicited by the trauma have been passed down to the immediate and extended kin of the original victims, even though the survivors and their progeny live under conditions that are a far cry from the period of trauma. When such transcendence is confirmed across several decades or longer, we speak of the intergenerational legacy of the trauma.
The Effect of Sublethal Doses of Parathion. II. Site of Parathion Activity, and Signal Integration

SummaryComparison of dance angles of parathion-treated bees on vertical and on horizontal comb revealed that poison-induced deviations were minimal or absent on the horizontal plane. Marked deviations reappeared upon returning the comb to its vertical position. This suggests that parathion affects the peripheral receptors or the integrating centre involved in geomenotaxis. The behavioural effect of topical application of parathion to part or all of the gravity receptors was comparable to that of oral administration.In a “fan” experiment, recruits interpreted the misinformation supplied by the dances of poisoned bees in a “correct” manner and were so misled. The stimulus strength of the wagtail dance appeared to be greater than that of the odour at the feeding sites in determining the flight direction of new recruits.It is postulated that the thoracic ganglia of honeybees have evolved as secondary centres of integration, and assume control of the fine-structural patterns of the communication dance angle (i...
U.S. Higher Education Accreditation Old and New: The Emergence of a New Paradigm

Throughout the world a paradigm shift is taking place within higher education and in the relationship between higher education institutions (HEIs) and their quality assurance bodies. Viewed by some as a fundamental paradigm shift in higher education, it is created out of a fundamentally new emphasis on student learning, its assessment and measurement. This paper examines the nature of this paradigm shift from the perspective of U.S. higher education accreditation, in specific the efforts of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Senior Commission to develop a new model of accreditation to which its member institutions can become fully committed.
A Rare Case of Plastic Bronchitis in an Adult Patient After Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Plastic bronchitis is a rare life-threatening complication observed after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We describe a case of a 54-year-old man in whom a fulminant case of plastic bronchitis developed after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and mitral valve repair. A brief review of the literature is also presented.
A Study of the Residual Physical Capabilities of Cerebral Palsied Individuals

This paper presents data describing the performance of the cerebral palsied population on a series of physical tests. The tests are designed to measure the kinds of abilities required of persons working in industry.
Maize Pollen of 3500 B.P. from Southern Alabama

A large Gramineae pollen, positively identified as corn ( Zea mays ), from the sediments of Lake Shelby in coastal Alabama at a stratigraphic level securely dated to 3500 B.P. predates any other evidence for corn in eastern North America by at least 1,000 years. Currently, the most frequently cited and accepted date for corn in eastern North America is approximately 1800 B.P. from macrobotanical remains; however, several paleoecological studies have reported corn pollen in older contexts. The Lake Shelby pollen adds to a growing body of microfossil evidence supporting the presence of maize in eastern North America much earlier than the macrobotanical records indicate. Corn was probably present in eastern as well as western North America by 3000 B.P.
Interrelations of the Squash Bug, Anasa tristis, and Six Varieties of Squash (Cucurbita Spp.)

Greenhouse studies involving interactions of six varieties of Cucurbita spp. and the squash bug, Anasa tristis (De Geer) (Corei dae, Hemiptera), indicate that Butternut is the most resistant and Black Zucchini is the most susceptible of the group. A smaller amount of plant sap was removed from the more resistant plants. Lack of preference appeared to be the major factor involved in resistance. However, the resistant plants produced an antibiotic effect on nymphal development. Nymphs reared on Black Zucchini and Pink Banana attained a significantly later instar and lived longer than those reared on the other four varieties. Tolerance did not seem to be involved in the greenhouse studies. The order of resistance of the six varieties from high to low was Butternut, Royal Acorn, Sweet Cheese, Green Striped Cushaw, Pink Banana and Black Zucchini.
Classical Genetics with Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an outstanding experimental model organism that has been exploited since the early part of the twentieth century for studies in biochemistry and genetics. It has been the premiere experimental system for modern functional genomics and continues to make important contributions to many areas of biology. Here we discuss its many virtues as an organism for classical genetic research.
Survey of Research on Flexible Loads Scheduling Technologies

Integration of flexible and controllable load resources into power system scheduling and operation will enrich scheduling modes and enhance the system regulating capability,which has become a worldwide research hotspot.This paper is intended to make a review of recent investigations on the adjustable potential,scheduling modes,response behavior modeling and scheduling frameworks of flexible loads considering demand response(DR).Then detailed light is shed on the advantages and problems of these scheduling modes and scheduling frameworks.By proceeding from five aspects including modeling of flexible load's comprehensive response,multi-time scales interactive trading modes,multi-time scales coordinated scheduling,coordination of centralized control and decentralized control,interactive benefit assessment,further research directions for flexible load scheduling are discussed.In addition,in view of China's actual situation,suggestions for and assumptions about developing flexible load scheduling are proposed.
Early ACA Medicaid Expansions: Impacts on Enrollment and Access

We use four states that were early adopters of Medicaid expansion to study how this expansion affects enrollment and access to physicians for Medicaid enrollees. We use the universe of Medicaid enrollment and claims data to construct state-month-level measures of enrollment, enrollee composition, and access to physicians. Using a differences-in-differences framework, we find that Medicaid expansion leads to a 13 percent increase in overall enrollment, a 27 percent increase in enrollment among adults ages 23 to 65, and a 7 percent increase in the number of Medicaid patients seen by physicians. We find no statistically significant increase in the number of Medicaid patients seen among obstetricians/gynecologists and pediatricians, who are less likely to be affected by the expansion. We find that Medicaid expansion increases physician participation on the intensive margin but not on the extensive margin.
Assessing Performance of Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) in MANET Using Emulation

The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is designed to meet the requirements for Internet of Things (IoT) data transmission among constrained nodes. The lean design of CoAP enables it to meet the needs of the data transmission in the Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). In this paper, we conduct an emulation-based quantitative performance assessment of CoAP in comparison with HTTP, assessing data transmission based on characteristics of MANET. Our evaluation results show that CoAP performs better than HTTP for data transmission in the dynamic MANET topologies with respect to delivery rate, delay, and overhead.
The formation and growth of echelon cracks in brittle materials

Cracks subjected to mode III shear loading fragment into numerous daughter cracks. The formation of such patterns—called echelon cracks—is explored in this work through a phase-field model of fracture. It is shown that the phase field method predicts that a crack subjected to mixed-mode I $$+$$ III grows along the extension of the parent crack plane, contrary to experimental observations. In order to replicate the experimentally observed fragmentation of crack fronts, defects are introduced in the vicinity of the crack front to trigger fragmentation of the front; examples of successful formation and growth of these echelon cracks is demonstrated in this paper. It is also shown that the intrinsic scale parameter in the phase field model must be very small in comparison to the scale of formation of the echelon cracks.
Genetic variants in pigmentation genes, pigmentary phenotypes, and risk of skin cancer

4686 There is substantial variation in human pigmentation within and across populations. Melanin synthesized by melanocytes is the main contributor to human pigmentation. Lighter pigmentation is a risk factor for skin cancer. Human pigmentation is a polygenic quantitative trait with high heritability. Although a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified in pigmentation genes, very few SNPs were examined in relation to human pigmentary phenotypes. No studies were conducted for the risk of skin cancer except for the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene. We evaluated the associations between 12 SNPs (including 8 non-synonymous SNPs) in 7 candidate pigmentation genes (TYR, OCA2, SLC24A5, SLC45A2, POMC, ASIP, and ATRN) involved in inducing the maturation from pheomelanine to eumelanine, and both pigmentary phenotypes (hair color, skin color, and tanning tendency) and skin cancer risk in a nested case-control study within the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) among 219 melanoma cases, 286 squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cases, 300 basal cell carcinoma (BCC) cases, and 873 common controls. Unconditional logistic regression and linear regression were used for data analysis. We found that the TYR Arg402Gln variant was significantly associated with skin color and tanning tendency (p-value G was associated with melanoma risk (adjusted OR, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.60-0.95); the TYR Ser192Tyr was associated with SCC risk (adjusted OR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.00-1.50); the OCA2 Arg419Gln was associated with BCC risk (adjusted OR, 1.50; 95% CI, 1.06-2.13); and the ASIP g.8818 A>G was associated with BCC risk (adjusted OR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.53-1.00). These associations remained essentially the same after adjusting for pigmentary phenotypes. We observed an interaction between hair color and the TYR Ser192Tyr on SCC risk (p, interaction, 0.02). This study provides evidence for the contribution of pigmentation genetic variants to variation in human pigmentary phenotypes and development of skin cancer.
Simulation of the January 2014 polar vortex and its impacts on interdependent electric-natural gas infrastructure

The development of tools that appropriately simulate electric-natural gas interdependencies and their resulting propagation of disturbances within and between systems is a particular need of system operators. The need for such tools is further emphasized by the January 2014 Polar Vortex event, where the response of the electric power and natural gas systems further highlighted the importance of the coordinated assessment of interdependent systems when a large diversion of natural gas to non-electric customers created unexpected consequences in the electric sector. This paper documents ongoing modeling and assessment activities of the Argonne Electric Power-Natural Gas Integrated Model and demonstrates the estimated impacts for this historic disruptive event. This paper presents a description of the Polar Vortex event, the modeling approach and methods used, including the assumptions, data, and modeling platform, and provides simulation results showing agreement with historically reported impacts, in both spatial and quantitative terms, to validate model performance.
Biology of Turfgrass Diseases Incited by Rhizoctonia Species

Turfgrasses are those members of the family Poaceae (Gramineae) characterized by a dense foliar canopy and tolerance to mowing. Approximately 40 species in 18 genera represent two physiological groups commonly referred to as cool-season and warm-season grasses. Cool-season grasses are adapted to subarctic and temperate regions, with optimal growth occurring at 15–25°C. These species, known as C3 grasses, undergo photosynthetic carbon fixation through the Calvin cycle. In contrast, warm-season grasses are known as C4 grasses because they fix carbon via the Hatch-Slack pathway. These grasses are adapted to tropical and subtropical regions, with optimal growth occurring at 25–35°C (Smiley et al., 1992).
Effect of varying bases on preferential crystallization of C-methylresorcin[4]arene and calix[6]arene

Preferential crystallization from a mixture of C-methylresorcin[4]arene (RsC1) and calix[6]arene (Calix6) in the presence of different bases has been investigated. In the presence of pyridine, a bo...
Conservative Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure Patients in a Tertiary Care Medical Center

Introduction Several recent studies support a salutary effect of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), with ablation reducing mortality and heart failure hospitalization compared to strategies of rate control or anti-arrhythmic medication. The current patterns of AF management in the HFrEF population in tertiary care centers are not well understood. Objective To determine the primary approach to AF treatment in patients with HFrEF in a large tertiary care center with access to all modalities of CHF and AF management. Methods Consecutive patients undergoing ICD interrogation were assessed for history of AF and HFrEF and AF management strategy. Strategies were categorized as rate control, anti-arrhythmic medication rhythm control, or curative ablation (RFA). Use of anticoagulation was also assessed along with patient co-morbidities. Results Sixty-seven patients (76% men, mean age 70) with LVEF ≤35% and AF were assessed over a six month period in ICD clinic. A strategy of rate control was pursued in 34.3%, rhythm control in 35.8%, and RFA in 28.4% (remainder were untreated). Anticoagulation was employed in 82.1%. The most commonly used antiarrhythmic medication was amiodarone and most common anticoagulant was warfarin. Conclusions These findings portray a conservative approach to AF in the HFrEF population, with fewer than 30% of patients undergoing RFA. These data suggest that further large trials with positive outcomes for RFA in HFrEF population will likely be required to overcome conflicting data and current treatment patterns of AF in this population, given the patients’ co-morbidities.
Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: Following the evidence from suspicion to certainty

Accurate, timely and cost-effective identification of pulmonary embolism remains a diagnostic challenge. This article reviews the pulmonary embolism diagnostic process with a focus on the best practice advice from the American College of Physicians. Benefits and risks of each diagnostic step are discussed. Emerging diagnostic tools, not included in the algorithm, are briefly reviewed.
Representing Knowledge for Radiation Therapy Planning with Markov Logic Networks

Radiation oncologists rely on clinical guidelines and results of clinical research studies to design an effective Radiation Treatment (RT) plan with the goal of maximum damage to cancer cells and minimum effects on normal tissue. As a step toward computerizing the clinical guidelines and clinical trials results in RT planning, we propose an approach and investigated its feasibility of representing the complex and uncertain RT knowledge using Markov Logic Networks (MLNs). MLNs combines both probability and first-order logic in a single representation to encode uncertain knowledge and perform reasoning on incomplete data or evidence. Within this approach, different types of RT knowledge with associated uncertainty can be extracted from published clinical guidelines and research studies, then be represented into a computerized formal model, and reasoned with evidence for intelligent RT planning. As an example for demonstration we focus on the RT planning scenario for limiting the risk of radiation-induced effects and suggesting dosimetric criteria and prescription dosage. We tested the constructed MLNs by making inferences to predicate the risk of radiation-induced effects given RT dose-volume plan. The initial results show the MLNs prediction of risk is in the range of risk suggested in guidelines. The proposed approach can be generalized to represent and reason with uncertain knowledge in radiation oncology for decision support.
Assessing recent suicidal ideation and behavior in the adult epilepsy monitoring unit.

Abstract Objectives The objective of the study was to describe the prevalence of recent suicidal ideation and behavior in adult patients admitted to a tertiary epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) and to assess the difference between patients with epileptic seizures, psychogenic nonepileptic spells (PNES), and other inpatient populations. Results Over the 14-month period, 316 patients were included in the study. One hundred and seventy-nine (57%) were classified as having epilepsy (ES), 116 (37%) with PNES, and 21 (7%) with comorbid ES and PNES (ES/PNES). Overall, 25 patients (8%) were screened positive for suicide risk factors (recent suicidal ideation and/or suicidal behavior). Patients admitted to the EMU had double the risk of suicide ideation and behavior when compared with other inpatient populations. There was no significant difference in the risk of suicidal ideation and behavior among patients with ES, PNES, and comorbid ES/PNES. Patients with comorbid ES/PNES had the highest risk (14%), although this did not reach statistical significance. Across all groups, patients with any comorbid psychiatric disorder had increased rates of suicidal ideation and behavior (11% vs 5%, p = 0.04). Conclusions The rate of suicidal ideation and behavior in this sample of EMU patients was higher compared with other inpatient populations. The presence of a psychiatric disorder was independently associated with a higher risk. There was no statistically significant difference in the risk between those with ES and PNES. Screening for suicide risk, suicidal ideation, and behavior is recommended for all patients admitted to the EMU.
The Role of Non-reductive Naturalism: Cognitive Science or Phenomenology?

Shaun Gallagher argues that we need a new philosophy of nature that accommodates the insights of existential phenomenology. On his view existential phenomenology needs a philosophy of nature that i...
The Ohaka (Grave) Project: Post-secular social service delivery and resistant necropolitics in San’ya, Tokyo:

This is an ethnography of a Buddhist, Catholic, and secular collaboration tending to the souls of marginalized men in San’ya, Tokyo’s former day labor ghetto. How does this post-secular project foc...
New York after 9/11, edited by Susan Opotow and Zachary Baron Shemtob

Writing history is hard, and made even harder when done without the benefit of hindsight. New York After 9/11 reads like source material for what will someday be written as the history of New York ...
Welfare and Work

All industrialized countries have welfare or social assistance programs intended to provide income support to low-income families. Such programs have the potential to reduce work effort among recipients and the research evidence indicates that such incentives exist and are sometimes large in magnitude. Work disincentives can be ameliorated with financial and nonfinancial incentives such as job search assistance, sanctions, and work requirements. Earnings subsidies are one way to provide financial incentives to those with very low-work capacities.
Patients with Significant Lung Disease

This chapter presents present drawn data from a number of interesting and informative cases focusing on patients with significant lung disease.
Mathematical Modeling, Management Science, and Operations Research for Military Decision-Making

Two military observation posts 5.43 miles apart pick up a brief radio signal. The sensing devices were oriented at 110° and 119°, respectively, when a signal was detected. The devices are accurate to within 2° (i.e., ±2° of their respective angle of orientation). According to intelligence, the reading of the signal came from a region of active terrorist exchange, and it is inferred that there is a boat waiting for someone to pick up the terrorists. It is dusk, the weather is calm, and there are no currents. A small helicopter leaves a pad from Post 1 and is able to fly accurately along the 110° angle direction. This helicopter has only one detection device, a searchlight. At 200 ft, the searchlight can just illuminate a circular region with a radius of 25 ft. The helicopter can fly 225 miles in support of this mission due to its fuel capacity. Where do we search for the boat? How many search helicopters should you use to have a “good” chance of finding the target? (Fox and Jaye 2011).
A Semiquantitative Scoring System May Allow Biopsy Diagnosis of Pulmonary Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to devise reproducible biopsy criteria for distinguishing pulmonary large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) from non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). METHODS Tissue microarrays of LCNEC and NSCLC were generated from resection specimens and used as biopsy surrogates. They were stained for neuroendocrine markers, Ki-67, napsin-A, and p40, and independently analyzed by standardized morphologic criteria by four pathologists. Tumors were scored based on morphology, neuroendocrine marker expression, and Ki-67 proliferative index. RESULTS The average total score for LCNEC was significantly higher than for NSCLC (5.65 vs 0.51, P < .0001). Utilizing a cutoff score of 4 or higher showed 100% sensitivity and 99% specificity for LCNEC diagnosis, with an excellent agreement among four pathologists (98%). CONCLUSIONS The proposed semiquantitative approach based on a combination of specific morphologic and immunophenotypic features may be a useful tool for biopsy diagnosis of LCNEC.
Insulin-induced hypoglycaemia suppresses pulsatile luteinising hormone secretion and arcuate Kiss1 cell activation in female mice.

Stress suppresses pulsatile luteinising hormone (LH) secretion in a variety of species, although the mechanism underlying this inhibition of reproductive function remains unclear. Metabolic stress, particularly hypoglycaemia, is a clinically-relevant stress type that is modelled with bolus insulin injection (insulin-induced hypoglycaemia). The present study utilised ovariectomised C57BL/6 mice to test the hypothesis that acute hypoglycaemia suppresses pulsatile LH secretion via central mechanisms. Pulsatile LH secretion was measured in 90-minute sampling periods immediately prior to and following i.p. injection of saline or insulin. The secretion of LH was not altered over time in fed animals or acutely fasted (5 hours) animals following an i.p. saline injection. By contrast, insulin elicited a robust suppression of pulsatile LH secretion in fasted animals, preventing LH pulses in five of six mice. To identify the neuroendocrine site of impairment, a kisspeptin challenge was performed in saline or insulin pre-treated animals in a cross-over design. LH secretion in response to exogenous kisspeptin was not different between animals pre-treated with saline or insulin, indicating normal gonadotrophin-releasing hormone cell and pituitary responses during acute hypoglycaemia. Based on this finding, the effect of insulin-induced hypoglycaemia on arcuate kisspeptin (Kiss1) cell function was determined using c-Fos as a marker of neuronal activation. Insulin caused a significant suppression in the percentage of Kiss1 cells in the arcuate nucleus that contained c-Fos compared to saline-injected controls. Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that insulin-induced hypoglycaemia suppresses pulsatile LH secretion in the female mouse via predominantly central mechanisms, which culminates in the suppression of the arcuate Kiss1 population.
Estimating and Influencing User Mental Models of a Robot's Perceptual Capabilities: Initial Development and Pilot Study

People develop mental models of robots to improve their interactions with them, but predictions from these models are not always accurate. Robots often fail to communicate their capabilities, especially perceptual capabilities---i.e., what they can sense and understand about the world. This paper describes ongoing preliminary work [8] towards enabling robots to autonomously estimate and influence human beliefs about robot perceptual capabilities. A custom-designed, web-based game is being used to establish feasibility and guide ongoing work. Our approach is discussed along with results from a pilot study.
Use of Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Behavioral Support to Quit ENDS

Background: Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) have seen increased use in the past several years with no clear guide for healthcare providers to help motivated users to quit. Case Study: 25-year-old African American male who had been vaping since 2015 started using nicotine replacement therapy and received behavioral support by a pharmacist to help quit. Conclusion: Nicotine replacement therapy paired with behavioral counseling could be beneficial to ENDS users by reducing withdrawal symptoms and helping them quit.
PERIODIC VARIABILITY OF LOW-MASS STARS IN SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY STRIPE 82

We present a catalog of periodic stellar variability in the "Stripe 82" region of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. After aggregating and re-calibrating catalog-level data from the survey, we ran a period-finding algorithm (Supersmoother) on all point-source light curves. We used color selection to identify systems that are likely to contain low-mass stars, in particular M dwarfs and white dwarfs. In total, we found 207 candidates, the vast majority of which appear to be in eclipsing binary systems. The catalog described in this paper includes 42 candidate M dwarf/white dwarf pairs, four white dwarf pairs, 59 systems whose colors indicate they are composed of two M dwarfs and whose light-curve shapes suggest they are in detached eclipsing binaries, and 28 M dwarf systems whose light-curve shapes suggest they are in contact binaries. We find no detached systems with periods longer than 3 days, thus the majority of our sources are likely to have experienced orbital spin-up and enhanced magnetic activity. Indeed, 26 of 27 M dwarf systems that we have spectra for show signs of chromospheric magnetic activity, far higher than the 24% seen in field stars of the same spectral type. We also find binaries composed of stars that bracket the expected boundary between partially and fully convective interiors, which will allow the measurement of the stellar mass-radius relationship across this transition. The majority of our contact systems have short orbital periods, with small variance (0.02 days) in the sample near the observed cutoff of 0.22 days. The accumulation of these stars at short orbital period suggests that the process of angular momentum loss, leading to period evolution, becomes less efficient at short periods. These short-period systems are in a novel regime for studying the effects of orbital spin-up and enhanced magnetic activity, which are thought to be the source of discrepancies between mass-radius predictions and measurements of these properties in eclipsing binaries.
Transplant renal artery and vein occlusion evaluated with ferumoxytol-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography.

Abstract Background Compromise of the transplanted vasculature accompanying a kidney allograft can lead to graft failure if not diagnosed and treated expeditiously. Location of the vascular defect in the transplant renal artery or vein is difficult to anticipate, given the variety of etiologies. However, early diagnosis can anticipate further progression of kidney allograft dysfunction. Ferumoxytol-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (FeMRA) can precisely localize lesions in both the transplant renal artery and vein and provide a comprehensive survey of the vascular conduits of concern. It avoids complications of kidney injury associated with intravenous iodinated contrast that may amplify a diagnosis of delayed graft function or further impair an allograft already compromised by donor-derived vascular disease. Methods We report a case of concomitant and irreversible proximal transplant renal artery and vein stenosis diagnosed by FeMRA and treated with surgical intervention. Results and conclusions FeMRA offers a rapid, non-invasive approach to simultaneously diagnose compromised blood flow through the transplant artery and or vein in preparation for definitive correction of the defect.
Hardware/Algorithm Codesign for Adversarially Robust Deep Learning

Editor’s note: This article describes DeepFense, a framework to make deep learning models automatically and efficiently realizable on constrained devices. — Rosario Cammarota, Intel Labs — Francesco Regazzoni, University of Amsterdam and Universita della Svizzera Italiana
By-Pass Hydrocarbon Absorber System for ULEV

A by-pass zeolite adsorber system consisting of a first catalyst, a by-pass loop containing the zeolite adsorbers followed by a downstream second catalyst was FTP tested using a US vehicle equipped with a 3.8 L, V6 engine. The system exhibited ULEV emissions performance with hydrocarbon adsorption and regeneration (desorption and oxidation) within the FTP cycle and required only a single diversion valve within the exhaust line. Adsorption takes place during the initial 70 seconds of the FTP cycle. The adsorbers were regenerated with the exhaust gas plus injected air.
Cellular imaging of endosome entrapped small gold nanoparticles

Abstract Small gold nanoparticles (sAuNPs, The summary of the method is: • This non-invasive imaging strategy provides a tool for label-free real-time tracking and quantification of sAuNPs using a commercially available confocal laser scanning microscope. • Scattering intensity depends on particle size. • The linear relation established between scattering intensity and uptaken gold amount enables simultaneous quantitative assessment through simple image analysis.
CORPORATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ASSOCIATIONS Partnerships: Designate Qualification Requirements, Laws Governing, and Regulation Concerns for Foreign Limited Liability Partnerships

The Act provides guidelines for foreign limited liability partnerships transacting business in Georgia. The Act mandates certification with the Secretary of State as a means for providing service of process on foreign limited liability partnerships. Once a certificate is issued, a foreign limited liability partnership is authorized to transact business in Georgia. In addition, the Act requires appointment of a registered agent who may accept service of process on behalf of the foreign limited liability partnership. The Act also provides a list of activities that do not constitute transacting business in Georgia; however, the list is not intended to be exhaustive. Any foreign limited liability partnership that is not authorized to transact business in Georgia is also prohibited from maintaining any action, suit, or proceeding in a Georgia court.
Early identification of ADHD risk via infant temperament and emotion regulation: a pilot study

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is theorized to have temperamental precursors early in life. These are difficult to identify because many core features of ADHD, such as breakdowns in executive function and self-control, involve psychological and neural systems that are too immature to reliably show dysfunction in early life. ADHD also involves emotional dysregulation, and these temperamental features appear earlier as well. Here, we report a first attempt to utilize indices of emotional regulation to identify ADHD-related liability in infancy.Fifty women were recruited in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy, with overselection for high parental ADHD symptoms. Measures of maternal body mass index, nutrition, substance use, stress, and mood were examined during pregnancy as potential confounds. Offspring were evaluated at 6 months of age using LABTAB procedures designed to elicit fear, anger, and regulatory behavior. Mothers completed the Infant Behavior Questionnaire about their child's temperament.After control for associated covariates, including maternal depression and prenatal stress, family history of ADHD was associated with measures of anger/irritability, including infant negative vocalizations during the arm restraint task (p = .004), and maternal ratings of infant distress to limitations (p = .036). In the regulation domain, familial ADHD was associated with less parent-oriented attention seeking during the still face procedure (p < .001), but this was not echoed in the maternal ratings of recovery from distress.Affective response at 6 months of age may identify infants with familial history of ADHD, providing an early indicator of ADHD liability. These preliminary results provide a foundation for further studies and will be amplified by enlarging this cohort and following participants longitudinally to evaluate ADHD outcomes.
Relationship between Science Teaching Practices and Students’ Achievement in Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and the US: An Analysis Using TIMSS 2011 Data

The assumption that inquiry-based instruction is more effective in influencing student science achievement than traditional didactic teaching has been the driving force of science education reform in recent decades and in many countries. However, the empirical relationship between these two kinds of science teaching and student science performance is not soundly established, which is worth a careful examination. Framed through the theoretical perspectives of inquiry-based instruction and culturally relevant pedagogy, using a two-level hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) approach and simultaneous multiple regression, this study examines the above relationship using the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011 8th grade dataset from Singapore, Chinese Taipei, and the US. The study found that for the low-performing students, none of the inquiry-based teaching practice items measured had a significant relationship with the science achievements at any performance levels of students in any country/region except for the case of two inquiry-based teaching practice items that were positively related to Chinese Taipei students’ achievements. No didactic teaching practice items were associated with the Singapore students’ science achievement, three of these practice items were found negatively related to Chinese Taipei students’ science achievement, and one traditional didactic teaching practice was negatively related to the science achievement of U.S. students. However, for medium- and high-performing students, none of these inquiry-based or traditional didactic science-teaching practices were found to be positive predictors of science performance in all three countries/regions. However, in the case of Chinese Taipei, one didactic teaching practice item was negatively related with the medium level performing students’ achievement and two didactic teaching practices were found to hinder high-performing students’ science achievements.
Dense model theorems and their applications

In 2004, Ben Green and Terry Tao [6] proved that, for every k, there are infinitely many length-k arithmetic progressions made entirely of prime numbers. This settled a very long-standing open question in number theory that had been open even for the k = 4 case.
Dynamic partition of memory reference instructions – a register guided approach

A high bandwidth L-1 data cache is essential for achieving high performance in wide-issue processors. Previous studies have shown that using multiple small single-ported caches instead of a monolithic large multi-ported one for L-1 data cache can be a scalable and inexpensive way to provide higher bandwidth. Many schemes have been proposed on how to direct the memory references to these multiple caches in order to achieve a close match to the performance of an ideal multi-ported cache. However, most previous designs seldom take dynamic data access patterns into consideration and thus suffer from access conflicts within one cache and unbalanced loads between the caches. We observe that if one can group data references defined in a program into several regions (access regions) to allow parallel accesses, then providing separate small caches (access region cache) for these regions may prove to have better performance than previous multi-cache schemes. The register-guided memory reference partition approach proposed in this paper effectively identifies these semantic regions and organizes them in multiple caches in an adaptive way to maximize concurrent accesses without incurring too much overhead. In our design, the base register number, not its content, in the memory reference instruction is used as a basic guide for instruction steering. A reassignment mechanism is applied to capture the pattern when program is moving across its access regions. In addition, a distribution mechanism is introduced to further reduce residual conflicts, which adaptively enables access regions to extend or shrink among the physical caches. Our simulations of SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks have shown that the register-guided approach can reduce the conflicts effectively, distribute memory reference instructions properly, and yield considerable performance improvement in terms of IPC.
Controller design and optimal tuning of a wafer handling robot

Frog-leg robots have been widely used for handling silicon wafers inside the vacuum environment of semiconductor manufacturing machines. In order to enhance stiffness, frog-leg robots adopt a parallel structure. A main challenge of controlling wafer handling robot is avoiding vibration, which is the major cause of wafer sliding and particle contamination. This paper presents two control approaches to improve the performance of frog-leg robots. First, in addition to the basic tri-loop PID feedback controller, torque offset is injected to the input of the robot to compensate the robot's nonlinear dynamics. This reduces the following error and major vibration. The torque offset is calculated based on identified robot dynamics. Second, a test based optimization method is developed to tune the gains of the feedback controller. Wafer vibration is measured and analyzed to score the system performance. Comparison results show that the proposed control scheme gives much improved performance.
The LMXB Population of NGC 3379

Presented here are the highlights from the deep Chandra observation of the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379. From the multi-epoch observation of this galaxy, 132 discrete X-ray sources have been detected within the region overlapped by all observations, 98 of which lie within the D25 ellipse of the galaxy. Of these 132 sources, 71 exhibit long-term variability, indicating that they are accreting compact objects. 11 of these sources have been identified as transient candidates, with a further 7 possible transients. In addition to this, from the joint Hubble/Chandra field of view, nine globular clusters (GCs) and 53 field low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) have been detected in the galaxy. Comparisons of these two populations reveals that, at higher luminosities the field LMXBs and GC-LMXBs are similar. However, a significant lack of GC-LMXBs has been found at lower luminosities, indicating that not all LMXBs can form in GCs.
Future directions in food composition studies

Food composition studies are essential for many purposes in nutrition, food science, and dietetics. This article reviews uses of food composition information in food labeling, nutrition education, dietary surveys, epidemiological studies, and dietary intervention trials. Research is need to minimize the causes of variation between actual and measured diets. This involves minimizing errors in food sampling, chemical analysis, food composition table construction, nutrient data bases for food groups, and in computations using nutrient analysis systems. Critical knowledge relative to food composition necessary for food science experts, nutrition professionals and other professionals is discussed. Improving the reporting of food composition data will also require more attention by editors of journals: if they demand more documentation, they will get it.
The History, Evolution, and Clinical use of Dendritic Cell-Based Immunization Strategies in the Therapy of Brain Tumors

Despite advancements in therapeutic regimens, the prognosis remains poor for patients with malignant gliomas. Specificity has been an elusive goal for current modalities, but immunotherapy has emerged as a potential means of designing more tumor-specific treatments. Dendritic cells (DC) are the specialized antigen presenting cells of the immune system and have served now as a platform for therapeutic immunizations against such cancers as lymphoma, multiple myeloma, melanoma, prostate cancer, renal cell carcinoma, non-small cell lung carcinoma, colon cancer, and even malignant gliomas. DC-based immunizations offer a number of advantages over traditional immunotherapeutic approaches to brain tumors, approaches that have proved promising despite concerns over central nervous system immune privilege and glioma-mediated immunosuppression. The future success of clinical trials will depend on the optimization and standardizing of procedures for DC generation, loading, and administration.
Integral extensions of noncommutative rings

In this paper we study integral extensions of noncommutative rings. To begin, we prove that finite subnormalizing extensions are integral. This is done by proving a generalization of the Pare-Schelter result that a matrix ring is integral over the coefficient ring. Our methods are similar to those of Lorenz and Passman, who showed that finite normalizing extensions are integral. As corollaries we note that the (twisted) smash product over the restricted enveloping algebra of a finite dimensional restricted Lie algebra is integral over the coefficient ring and then prove a Going Up theorem for prime ideals in these ring extensions.
Proof of power series and Laurent expansions of complex differentiable functions without use of Cauchy's integral formula or Cauchy's integral theorem

Presentation d'une nouvelle methode de demonstration des series entieres et des developpements de Laurent des fonctions differentiables complexes
Studies on Suppressor Cell Function in Thyroid Diseases

Suppressor cell function of peripheral mononuclear cells has been examined in patients with Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and thyroid cancer, as well as in healthy subjects. Suppressor cell function was assessed through two methods: 1) measurement of enhanced blastogenesis after 24-h preculture and 2) concanavalin A-inducible suppressor activity. The results from the two tests were coincident and indicate that suppressor cell function was significantly decreased in the Graves' disease population but not changed in either the Hashimoto's thyroiditis or the thyroid cancer groups compared to healthy controls. The impairment of suppressor cell function in the Graves' disease population was still observed when patients became euthyroid by treatment with antithyroid drugs, although the treated patients had improved suppressor cell function compared to untreated patients (P = NS). Low activity of suppressor cell function in the Graves' disease population might be a constitutional character based on an inherited abnormality specific for the disease population.
Ring closing metathesis in organic synthesis: Evolution of a high speed, solid phase method for the preparation of β-turn mimetics

Abstract Complimentary solid phase syntheses of the Freidinger lactam class of β-turn mimetics have been developed using ring closing metathesis as both the key carbon-carbon bond forming step and the cyclative cleavage mechanism. Solid phase variants of the Fukuyama-Mitsunobu process were utilized as part of a rapid three-step sequence to construct immobilized lactam precursors. An alternative solid phase process is offered which utilizes an Ugi/ring closing metathesis reaction tandem to deliver the desired compounds in two synthetic operations.
Including Multiple Voices in Collaboratively Designing a Teacher Education Program.

This narrative case study describes the collaborative processes employed by a midwestern university as it designed and implemented a clinically based, postbaccalaureate teacher preparation program for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates committed to teaching in high need secondary schools. The program development team included 13 public school educators drawn from three partner districts, seven educators from the college of education, six representatives from STEM disciplines within the college of liberal arts and sciences, the engineering dean, along with foundation and state department of education observers. Throughout the intense program development process, the diverse team members challenged assumptions and traditions as they considered options and gained consensus on the design of the program. Participants reported that they valued the collaborative nature of the processes and the respect given to all team members. The program itself is still in the implementation pha...