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A piezoelectric frequency-increased power generator for scavenging low-frequency ambient vibration

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and testing of a piezoelectric inertial micro power generator for scavenging low-frequency non-periodic vibrations. A mechanism up-converts the ambient vibration frequency to a higher internal operation frequency, in order to achieve better electromechanical coupling and efficiency: enhancing the generators performance at very low frequencies (≪30Hz). The generator incorporates a bulk piezoelectric ceramic machined using ultrafast laser ablation. The fabricated device generated a peak power of 100µW and an average power of 3.25µW from an input acceleration of 9.8m/s2 at 10Hz. The device operates over a frequency range of 24Hz. The internal volume of the generator is 1.2cm3.
Optimization of fuzzy logic inference architecture

A fuzzy logic controller architecture that is efficient in both performance and cost is proposed. Optimization of the fuzzy logic circuits is discussed. To speed up the inference process, the defuzzification operation is precomputed, and partial results are stored for runtime uses. Thus, larger memory is traded for better performance. The proposed architecture is less general than previous implementations, but offers better performance and cost. >
UV light‐mediated alkylation of inorganic selenium

In the presence of low molecular weight organic acids (formic, acetic, propionic and malonic), inorganic selenium(IV) is converted by UV irradiation to volatile selenium carbonyl, dimethylselenide and diethylselenide, depending on the acid used. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis of the volatile products shows that, in 0.7 M formic acid solution, approximately 60–70% (v/v) SeH2 and 30–40% (v/v) SeCO are formed. The presence of nitrate ion appears to increase threefold the formation of SeCO while completely suppressing formation of SeH2. Copyright © 2003 Crown in the right of Canada. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Computational fluid mechanics and massively parallel processors

The author reports on work devising massively parallel implementations of vortex methods for computing turbulent flow in highly complex geometries. The challenges involved in fitting evolving compilers, hardware, and I/O to nontraditional fluid mechanics techniques, N-body solvers, and interactive real-time visualization environments are discussed. The results describe algorithms to compute two and three-dimensional inside chambers and around bluff bodies. Some issues involved in developing intuition about parallel implementation of complex codes are examined.
A Quantitative Treatment of Directive Effects in Aromatic Substitution

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the quantitative treatment of directive effects in aromatic substitution. The observations for the electrophilic substitution reactions of the monosubstituted benzenes are examined for adherence to a linear free-energy relationship. The selectivity relationship, or the extended selectivity relationship, correlates the data for aromatic substitution simply and accurately. Comparison of the correlations of substitution reactions with side-chain reactions illustrates the more precise nature of the selectivity treatment. This result must be a reflection of the greater similarity of transition states for all aromatic substitution reactions as contrasted to the large variations in the character of the equilibrium states and activated complexes encountered in ordinary and electrophilic side-chain reactions. The introduction of additional parameters in the correlation equation does not yield a significant improvement in the correlation of substitution data. The discrepancies found are not associated with the more apparent properties of these reactions—that is, with influences, such as the charge on the electrophile or variations in resonance interactions as a consequence of the modification of selectivity of the reagent.
Online Social Lending: The Effect of Cultural, Economic and Legal Frameworks

This study is based on a hand-collected dataset of over 7,300 peer-to-peer (P2P) loans granted in common law nations (U.S.A., U.K., India and Kenya) and civil law nations (Italy, Brazil, Germany, Finland, China and South Korea) between 2008 and 2013. Overall, peer-to-peer loans granted in common law nations are larger and have significantly lower interest rates and longer payback periods than those granted in civil law nations. Furthermore, controlling for the number of bidding days, peer-to-peer loans in common law nations seem to get funded more quickly, especially in nations with higher Hofstede masculinity scores.
Prescription Privileges: A Dearth of Confidence in Psychological Interventions

Summary.-Starker and Pankratz (1996) reported that psychologists have very high confidence in the efficacy of psychotropic medications relative to psychological interventions. In this paper it is argued that this lack of professional self-confidence is the central dynamism in the prescription privileges movement.
Protection against ischemia/reperfusion injury and myocardial dysfunction by antisense-oligodeoxynucleotide directed at angiotensin-converting enzyme mRNA.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity in the myocardium and angiotensin-II (Ang-II) levels in plasma increase after myocardial ischemia, which lead to exacerbation of myocardial injury and cardiac dysfunction. We examined the protective role of novel antisense-oligodeoxynucleotide (AS-ODN) directed at ACE mRNA in myocardial ischemic injury. Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with ACE-AS-ODN (200 microg per rat, n = 8, i.v.) or inverted-ODN (IN-ODN, 200 microg per rat, n = 8, i.v.), given with 600 microg per rat of liposome DOTAP/DOPE. Hearts from AS-ODN- or IN-ODN-treated rats were excised, perfused in vitro, and subjected to 25 min of global ischemia followed by 30 min of reperfusion. Parallel groups of rats were given ACE inhibitor captopril (5 mg/kg, n = 8) or saline (n = 8) before excising the hearts. Ischemia/reperfusion resulted in myocardial dysfunction (increase in coronary perfusion pressure and LV end-diastolic pressure and a decrease in developed LV pressure) in the saline-treated rats. Myocardial dysfunction was associated with evidence of lipid peroxidation and enzyme leakage (MDA and LDH levels in the myocardium) and up-regulation of ACE protein expression. Administration of AS-ODN or captopril, but not IN-ODN, reduced Ang-II levels in the plasma, decreased ischemia/reperfusion-mediated cardiac functional deterioration and lipid peroxidation, and preserved LDH in the myocardium (all P < 0.05 versus the saline group). AS-ODN and captopril had equipotent effects on cardiac dynamics. ACE protein expression (western blot) was decreased in the hearts of the AS-ODN-treated group, but not in IN-ODN-treated rat hearts. In contrast, ACE protein expression was significantly increased in captopril-treated rat hearts. These observations suggest that AS-ODN directed at ACE mRNA can ameliorate myocardial dysfunction and injury after ischemia/reperfusion, and its use is associated with decreased expression of ACE protein in the ischemic myocardium.
Perspectives on adverse effects of milks and infant formulas used in infant feeding

Dietitians, nutritionists, physicians, and nurses have a responsibility to be knowledgeable about the advantages and disadvantages of the available forms of infant feeding and to advise mothers accordingly. Their advice must be reasonable, practical, and backed by the best scientific proof available.
Relation of mastocytoma to mast cell leukemia, and of heparin, histamine and serotonin to mast cells.

A highly functional, transplantable neoplasm of mast cells is described. It causes solitary slowly growing tumors localized at the site of graft in muscles and subcutaneous tissues. Mast cell leukemia results when isolated cells are injected intravenously. The blood of mice with mast cell leukemia produces solid mastocytomas when injected intramuscularly. These and other observations suggest the essential identity of blood and tissue mast cells and suggest that mast cells are an independent cell type with primary residence in tissues outside the hemopoietic organs. In mastocytomas, heparin, histamine and serotonin are present in great quantities. Some histamine is released and partly excreted in the urine. In the mast cell leukemias, histamine plasma levels are slightly raised and urine levels are highly elevated. Plasma heparin values may be slightly raised in mice with mast cell tumors and are greatly increased in mast cell leukemias without a hemorrhagic state. The liver histamine and heparin values appear to be related to the number of infiltrating mast cells.
Socio-eco-efficiency analysis of highways: a data envelopment analysis

To ensure the large network of highways is performing sustainably, there is a dire need to quantify sustain­ability for highways. In this paper, data envelopment analysis (DEA) based mathematical model is developed to evalu­ate sustainability in an attempt to aid these efforts. Sustainability goals pertaining to the three dimensions of sustain­ability, social, economic and environmental, were utilized. Utilizing the developed model, sustainability scores of thirty highway sections were calculated and ranked accordingly. Percent improvement analysis was carried out to gain more insight. In addition, sensitivity analysis was carried out to understand how different values of input parameters impacted the socio-eco-efficiency of each highway section. The aim of the study was to show that DEA based sustainability as­sessment model could be used to evaluate highways and assist in strategic planning goals of transportation agencies. Results indicated that 22% to 47% reductions are required to be achieved on negative social and environmental impacts for the inefficiency highway sections to be 100% efficient while keeping the economic indicators the same.
Alcohol-Focused Behavioral Couple Therapy.

Alcohol Behavioral Couple Therapy (ABCT) has emerged over the last 30 years as a highly efficacious treatment for those with alcohol use disorders. This review highlights the historical and conceptual underpinnings of ABCT, as well as the specific treatment elements and structure. Proposed active ingredients, moderators, and mediators of treatment outcome are discussed. Efficacy is evaluated for reductions in identified patient drinking, improved relationship functioning, and reductions in intimate partner violence. Adaptations of ABCT for substances other than alcohol are described. Other adaptations, including brief interventions, interventions addressing PTSD and TBI along with alcohol use, and interventions deliverable via technology platforms are described. Additional cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness findings supporting the economic value of ABCT are noted. Future directions for research in this area include possible adaptations for female identified patients, nontraditional couples, LGBT partners and dyads involving nonintimate partner relationships. The development of more flexible models and enhanced dissemination strategies may improve clinical uptake and utility as well as increasing the feasibility of this treatment for integrated healthcare settings.
Fully observable networks with polytree structure

The talk tackles the problem of reconstructing the tree-like topological structure of a network of linear dynamical systems. A distance function is defined in order to evaluate the “closeness” of two processes and some useful mathematical properties are derived. Theoretical results to guarantee the correctness of the identification procedure for networked linear systems characterized by a tree topology are provided as well. The talk also suggests the approximation of a complex connected network with a tree in order to detect the most meaningful interconnections.
Corruption Reform, Equilibrium Selection, and the Institutional Entrepreneur

This work is intended to be what has been called an “analytical narrative;” that is, it is a presentation of a specific, naturally occurring circumstance but with the analysis examined through the lens of a strategic economic model. The core of our model, corruption reform modeled as an equilibrium selection problem, is presented in the first two sections. We then describe in greater detail many of the policies William Parker implemented in his reform drive in the Los Angeles Police Department. We close the chapter by relating his policies back to our model.
Multidisciplinary model to implement pharmacogenomics at the point of care.

Despite potential clinical benefits, implementation of pharmacogenomics (PGx) faces many technical and clinical challenges. These challenges can be overcome with a comprehensive and systematic implementation model. The development and implementation of PGx were organized into eight interdependent components addressing resources, governance, clinical practice, education, testing, knowledge translation, clinical decision support (CDS), and maintenance. Several aspects of implementation were assessed, including adherence to the model, production of PGx-CDS interventions, and access to educational resources. Between August 2012 and June 2015, 21 specific drug–gene interactions were reviewed and 18 of them were implemented in the electronic medical record as PGx-CDS interventions. There was complete adherence to the model with variable production time (98–392 days) and delay time (0–148 days). The implementation impacted approximately 1,247 unique providers and 3,788 unique patients. A total of 11 educational resources complementary to the drug–gene interactions and 5 modules specific for pharmacists were developed and implemented. A comprehensive operational model can support PGx implementation in routine prescribing. Institutions can use this model as a roadmap to support similar efforts. However, we also identified challenges that will require major multidisciplinary and multi-institutional efforts to make PGx a universal reality. Genet Med 19 4, 421–429.
Dietary Carbohydrate Intake, Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load in Relation to Adiposity-Related Cancer Risk: Results from The Framingham Offspring Cohort (1991–2013)

ObjectiveThe aim of this prospective cohort study is to investigate the role of dietary carbohydrates, glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) in the risk of adiposity-related cancers combined a...
Advances in Cu 2 ZnSnSe 4 solar cell performance using 2SSS processing

We have developed an all-solid-state two-step process(2SSS) for fabrication of Cu 2 ZnSnSe 4 (CZTS) devices. Raman spectra are used to determine and control secondary phases and formation of excess MoSe 2 at the CZTS/Mo interface due to over selenization. While processing at temperatures above 450 C decreases ZnSe and CuSe phases, a temperature driven interface recombination mechanism reduces Jsc and FF resulting in device efficiencies of 3%. Voc's, however are in the range 0.40–0.43 volts which are the same as for comparable band gap CIS and among the highest reported for CZTS.
Inferring human intent from video by sampling hierarchical plans

This paper presents a method which allows robots to infer a human's hierarchical intent from partially observed RGBD videos by imagining how the human will behave in the future. This capability is critical for creating robots which can interact socially or collaboratively with humans. We represent intent as a novel hierarchical, compositional, and probabilistic And-Or graph structure which describes a relationship between actions and plans. We infer human intent by reverse-engineering a human's decision-making and action planning processes under a Bayesian probabilistic programming framework. We present experiments from a 3D environment which demonstrate that the inferred human intent (1) matches well with human judgment, and (2) provides useful contextual cues for object tracking and action recognition.
Shifting the Beveridge curve: What affects labour market matching?

This paper explores conditions and policies that could affect the matching between labor demand and supply. We identify shifts in the Beveridge curves for 12 OECD countries between 2000Q1 and 2013Q4 using three complementary methodologies and analyze the short-run determinants of these shifts by means of limited-dependent variable models. We find that labor force growth as well as employment protection legislation reduce the likelihood of an outward shift in the Beveridge curve,. Our findings also show that the matching process is more difficult the higher the share of employees with intermediate levels of education in the labor force and when long-term unemployment is more pronounced. Policies which could facilitate labor market matching include active labor market policies, such as incentives for start-up and job sharing programs. Passive labor market policies, such as unemployment benefits, as well as labor taxation render matching signficantly more difficult.
A simple cinch is superior to a locking loop for meniscus root repair: a human biomechanical comparison of suture constructs in a transtibial pull-out model

Purpose To determine the cyclic displacement and ultimate failure loads of two clinically relevant suture configurations for repair of medial and lateral meniscus root tears. Methods A total of 10 matched pair fresh-frozen, human meniscus specimens were randomly assigned to either simple cinch or locking loop meniscus-suture fixation techniques for transtibial pull-out repair in either medial (n = 10 matched pairs) or lateral (n = 10 matched pairs) meniscal root tears. The menisci were subjected to cyclic tensioning at 10-30 N for 1000 cycles at 0.5 Hz, and then post-cycling load to failure was performed at a tensile rate of 0.5 mm/s. Results For both the medial and lateral meniscus, there was significantly less displacement with the cinch stitch at 100, 500 and 1000 cycle counts (p Conclusions The cinch stitch was significantly better at resisting displacement compared to the locking loop stitch configuration, and had similar ultimate load to failure. The lateral meniscus root repair construct has higher failure loads compared to the medial meniscus, independent of suture configuration.
CMV-associated adrenal insufficiency in a renal transplant recipient.

Abstract Adrenal insufficiency is a rare manifestation of tissue-invasive cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease. CMV is one of the leading opportunistic pathogens affecting renal transplant recipients. Its prevalence in the adrenal glands of autopsied AIDS cases has been well documented. We report a rare case of CMV-associated adrenal insufficiency in a renal transplant recipient.
Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in managing persistent air leaks

Persistent air leak (PAL) is a common and challenging condition associated with increased morbidity and mortality, intensive care unit admission, and prolonged hospital stay. Multiple medical and surgical approaches have been developed to manage PAL. Depending on the etiology of PAL, surgical management may be effective and usually performed using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Medical management is less invasive and consists of pleural or bronchoscopic methods. The non-surgical techniques for the management of PAL have not been investigated in large prospective studies, and so their use is mostly guided by observational data. Specifically, the role of intrabronchial valve (IBV) placement for PAL has been the subject of an ever-increasing number of case reports and series documenting successful deployment of IBVs for both surgical and medical PAL. In this case-based discussion, we describe three patients with non-surgical PAL who were managed using multiple modalities, including both surgical and medical approaches. These cases illustrate the challenges in identifying the location of the air leak and in the application of various therapeutic options.
Are Correlations any Guide to Predictive Value

When faced with the choice between various hypotheses purporting to explain the fluctuations of a certain variable, one is tempted to choose the hypothesis that shows the best correlation with known results in given circumstances and to use it to predict future fluctuations. In this article Dr Ferber examines the adequacy of this procedure in practice.
Lung consolidation as a rare presentation of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma with extramedullary Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

Objectives: Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) is a mature B cell lymphoma that usually involves the bone marrow, spleen and lymph nodes. Extramedullary involvement, including the lung, is rarely rep...
Testing potentiates new learning across a retention interval and a lag: A strategy change perspective

Abstract Practicing retrieval on previously studied materials can potentiate subsequent learning of new materials. In four experiments, we investigated the influence of retention interval and lag on this test-potentiated new learning (TPNL) effect. Participants studied four word lists and either practiced retrieval, restudied, or completed math problems following Lists 1–3. Memory performance on List 4 provided an estimate of new learning. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were tested on List 4 after either a 1 min or 25 min retention interval. In Experiments 3 and 4, participants took at 25 min break before studying List 4. A TPNL effect was observed in all experiments. To gain insight into the mechanism that may underlie TPNL, we analyzed the extent to which participants organized their recall from list to list. Relative to restudy and math, testing led to superior semantic organization across lists. Our results support a strategy change account of TPNL.
The Evolution of Communicative Capacities

Ape-language reports, regardless of the extent of language skills claimed for apes, present both a challenge and a problem for psychology as a field. The problem is that none of the ape-language studies fit neatly into the extant categories of research. They are not “animal learning” studies in that they do not look for basic principles or laws of learning nor do they not deal with a retricted type of learning such as discrimination, memory, etc. Instead, they involve all of these processes at once in a complex manner for the expressed purpose of communication (Savage-Rumbaugh, Rumbaugh, and Boysen, 1978).
Chemical, Anatomical, and Physiological Studies on Human Pancreatic and Rat Hypothalamic Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor

The hypothalamic regulation of growth hormone (GH) secretion is mediated by stimulatory and inhibitory factors, both of which reach the adenohypophysis via the hypothalamic—hypophysial portal system.(1,2) Somatostatin, which exerts inhibitory control over the secretion of GH, was purified from ovine hypothalamic extracts and characterized over 10 years ago(3) as a tetradecapeptide, and subsequently a biologically active, iV-terminally extended, 28-amino-acid long form was identified in duodenal(4) and hypothalamic extracts.(5–7) Prior to 1982, several agents with GH-releasing activity had been described; none, however, were of high potency or otherwise fulfill the criteria expected of a physiological GH-releasing factor (GRF).
Implementation of the D L P Nucleus

A prototype decision support system that implements the D L P nucleus is described in this chapter. This carefully designed computer programhenceforth called DLPEDU—comprises several thousand lines of Fortran-77 code, and its implementation was a very challenging undertaking. It is neither possible nor desirable to describe this implementation in complete detail in the present chapter. However, we will overview its principal features, in particular: the main data structures around which the implementation is built; the programming practices employed in implementing the data structures and the principal subroutines of the system. The function of each such subroutine is briefly summarized along with the overall pattern and hierarchy of subroutine calls; the validation and testing of the implementation and the debugging and tracing aids that are included.
Factors Contributing to the Development of Atherosclerosis

Beginning with the Framingham Heart Study, there have been numerous, large epidemiological studies across the world identifying many conventional and novel risk factors for the development and progression of atherosclerosis. Certain of these well-established risk factors are modifiable, to include hypertension, diabetes, and cigarette smoking, whereas others are non-modifiable, such as age, male gender, and family history of premature heart disease.
Vegetative covers for waste containment

Disposal of municipal and hazardous waste in the United States is primarily accomplished by containment in lined and capped landfills. Evapotranspiration cover systems offer an alternative to conventional landfill cap systems. These covers work on completely different principles than traditional covers do, and that difference may slow understanding and acceptance by site owners, regulators, and stakeholders. This chapter provides an introduction to this alternative technique and explains some of the common concerns regarding its implementation.
Primary Care Office Visits For Acute Care Dropped Sharply In 2002–15, While ED Visits Increased Modestly

The traditional model of primary care practices as the main provider of care for acute illnesses is rapidly changing. Over the past two decades the growth in emergency department (ED) visits has sp...
Species and Population Polymorphism of the Histone and 5S Gene Repeat Unit in Artemia

The genes encoding histones and 5S rRNA are interspersed in a single tandemly repeated unit in the genome of the brine shrimp, Artemia [1]. In both the Great Salt Lake and San Francisco populations of A. franciscana there are three variants of the repeat unit with lengths of 8.6, 9.1 and 9.9 kb. The total number of repeat units is about 100 and the distribution among the three variants, defined by digestion of genomic DNA with BamHI, is the same in both populations. However, digestion with other restriction enzymes reveals subtle differences in the genomic restriction patterns, indicating that some sequence divergence has occurred since the San Francisco population became established in man-made salterns. In A. parthenogenetica from Tiensin, PRC, there are two variants of the repeat unit with lengths of 12.5 and 14.1 kb. These two variants are present in approximately equal number in this species and appear to be more numerous than in A. franciscana. Except for the unique BamHI site in each repeat unit, there is little restriction fragment length similarity between these two species.
Contributions of DNS to the Investigation of Compressible Turbulent Shear Flows

Compressible turbulence is relevant to technologies in nigh-speed aviation, missiles and high-energy devices. In the realm of nature, flows on planetary and galactic scales involve compressibility effects. Thus, applications in engineering and astrophysics have motivated the study of compressible turbulence over a time span of the same order as that of incompressible turbulence. Most of the work has been experimental and theoretical in nature. Computational studies of compressible flows with direct numerical simulation (DNS) have been more recent but substantial progress has been made in the past ten years in understanding essential differences between incompressible and compressible turbulence. The objective of the current paper is to describe developments in a specific example, the compressible shear layer. The supersonic boundary layer, its structure, and its interaction with shocks has also been an active area of investigation by DNS but will not be covered in the current paper. Reviews by Lele (1994) and Smits & Dussauge (1996) can be consulted for progress in these areas.
Shareholder Activism by Public Pension Funds and the Rights of Dissenting Employees Under the First Amendment

Public pension funds enjoy significant voting power in the U.S. publicly traded corporations by virtue of the aggregated retirement assets at their disposal. Many funds are engaged in a concerted drive to assert shareholder control rights with respect to such corporations and to effect a host of environmental, social, and governance reforms in American business. Although many public-sector employees may applaud the goals and objectives of these public pension funds, not all will. This Article argues that dissenting employees whom the law compels to contribute to such funds have a First Amendment right to object to having their pro rata portion of publicly traded shares held by such funds voted by fund administrators for the purpose of advancing goals of a political or ideological nature not germane to the fund’s core mission of providing retirement benefits to participants. This argument, which has not been addressed by courts or the academic literature, would extend firmly established First Amendment caselaw to a novel area of application. In making this argument, this Article addresses the Supreme Court’s developing government speech doctrine, under which citizens may challenge compelled support of private speech but have no First Amendment right not to fund government speech. The Article argues that the political and ideological activities of a public pension fund, at least in the case of the leading public pension fund, CalPERS, should be treated as those of the public pension fund itself, and not ascribed to the state, for purposes of the First Amendment. The Article suggests using an “independent instrumentality” test to ascertain whether the relevant legislature has by statute created a body not subject to effective control by the executive branch of government, such that courts should not attribute the instrumentality’s political and ideological activities to the government for the purposes of the government speech doctrine.
Interphase Inclusion and Crack in an Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Plane

In the inhomogeneous anisotropic plane the problem about interaction between interphase crack and inclusion, which is in the conditions of full cohesion, was considered. Using the method of singular integral relations for interphase defects, the problem was reduced to the system of singular integral equations, and the method for its solution is proposed. As a result, the effect of the distance between defects, the loading applied to them and the properties of anisotropic materials on the features of the stress fields in the neighborhood of defects was investigated. In particular, the critical distance between the crack and the inclusion, according to which the mutual influence of the defects is significant, was established. It was also established under what loads it is advisable to remain within the singular statement of the problem without taking into account the contact zones of the crack edges.
Copper-Catalyzed Selective Hydroamination Reactions of Alkynes.

This is a versatile method for the hydroamination and reductive hydroamination of alkynes yielding enamines and amines respectively.
Plastic Deformation in Metals

One aspect of materials transport of prime interest to materials scientists and engineers is the response of metals to an applied stress. Under the action of an applied stress, metals deform and thus change shape. The nature of this deformation is shown schematically in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Music-like stimuli affect the emotional processing of words and facial expressions:

The present study used the affective priming paradigm to understand interference and facilitation effects of cross-modal emotional interactions; specifically, the ability for five-chord progression...
Using sociological theory to problematize family business research

Abstract This article critiques several taken-for-granted assumptions in family business research. We recommend the use of sociological theories to problematize the phenomenon of family business and to push beyond dichotomies in the field. To begin, we complicate the very definition of family—implicitly defined in most family business research as a heterosexual, conjugal family—by discussing socio-legal, socio-biological, and role-based ways of defining “families.” Next, we suggest critical ways to research value and worth beyond the financial wealth-socioemotional wealth (SEW) trade-off, by considering major themes in the sociology of value and evaluation (SVE), including: the intergenerational transmission of various forms of capital, conflict over equivalent systems of accounts, and the blending of the intimate and the economic. The groundwork presented here through a focus on the family, provides important theoretically complex questions to help launch transformative research to move the field of family business forward.
Chapter 2 – Wireless Adoption

Adoption of wireless communications using radio wave frequencies is closely associated with critical infrastructure sectors and services like transportation, utilities, public safety, law enforcement, national defense, and news media. Consumer applications started with the use of radio in the early 20th century, gathering momentum as content quality and variety increased (entertainment as well as news updates) and radios became a standard piece of living room furniture. The invention of the transistor in 1947 offered the promise of mobility and suggested innovative uses like tagging wildlife for tracking. In the 21st century, it is we who are increasingly tagged by our smart and chatty devices, exposing us to the potential for undesirable disclosure of our location and personal information through proliferation of “attack surfaces.” Globally, wireless penetration rates vary, with some countries bypassing wireline telecommunications in favor of wireless.
HIV Screening in an Urban Adolescent Population

Background: The risk for HIV/AIDS is often unrecognized in adolescent populations. In 2015, 22% of new HIV diagnoses were in persons aged 13-24 years (37.2 per 100,000 population), of which, 8% were diagnosed with AIDS. Despite national and international recommendations for routine HIV screening starting during adolescence, screening rates remain low. In line with this trend, average HIV screening rates for adolescent patients in our urban General Pediatrics and Adolescent clinic were only 3% from 2015-16. Specific Aims: Our global aim is to increase clinicians’ rate …
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Gestational and Pregestational Diabetes During Pregnancy in a Large, Public Hospital.

Background The use of billing codes (ICD-10) to identify and track cases of gestational and pregestational diabetes during pregnancy is common in clinical quality improvement, research, and surveillance. However, specific diagnoses may be misclassified using ICD-10 codes, potentially biasing estimates. The goal of this study is to provide estimates of validation parameters (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value) for pregestational and gestational diabetes diagnosis using ICD-10 diagnosis codes compared with medical record abstraction at a large public hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Methods This study includes 3,654 deliveries to Emory physicians at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, between 2016 and 2018. We linked information abstracted from the medical record to ICD-10 diagnosis codes for gestational and pregestational diabetes during the delivery hospitalization. Using the medical record as the gold standard, we calculated sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for each. Results For both pregestational and gestational diabetes, ICD-10 codes had a high-negative predictive value (>99%, Table 3) and specificity (>99%). For pregestational diabetes, the sensitivity was 85.9% (95% CI = 78.8, 93.0) and positive predictive value 90.8% (95% CI = 85, 97). For gestational diabetes, the sensitivity was 95% (95% CI = 92, 98) and positive predictive value 86% (95% CI = 81, 90). Conclusions In a large public hospital, ICD-10 codes accurately identified cases of pregestational and gestational diabetes with low numbers of false positives.
Reliability Generalization Meta-analyses in Mathematics Education Research: A Research Synthesis

The purpose of this systematic review was to characterize the implementation of reliability generalization meta-analytic (RGM) practices within mathematics education-related empirical research. RGM studies are used to investigate and generalize the reliability of a measure across various studies. An exhaustive literature search was conducted to locate studies related to mathematics education, including RGM studies of psychological tests. The literature search included articles as well as grey literature (e.g., conference proceedings, dissertations, theses). Of the 27 RGM studies examined, five were on scales that related to mathematics education research, five were on scales related to motivation and/or learning, four related to self-esteem, self-concept, and/or self-efficacy, six related to perceptions, well-being, and/or anxiety, and seven related to personality or behavior. Of the mathematics education-related RGM studies, 85.5% (N=9,184) of the articles examined across studies had no mention of reliability or fell into the convention of citing previously reported reliabilities. Increasing awareness of RGM studies could lead to an increase in RGM studies conducted on mathematics education research scales, leading to increased understanding of mathematics education scales. This paper contributes to the literature on the practical and empirical importance of RGM for mathematics and STEM education praxis.
The Characteristics of Cell Lines Derived from Human Germ Cell Tumors

Cell lines derived from human tumors enable the properties of neoplastic cells to be analyzed under more controlled conditions than are possible in a clinical setting. This approach is especially important in the case of germ cell tumors in which histological complexity obscures their origins and the relationships between the various elements of which they may be composed. Interpreting the significance of alphafetoprotein (AFP) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) production in patients with germ cell tumors illustrates these problems. Often the serum levels of these markers may be affected differently after therapy, indicating that they are produced by different cell types (Braunstein et al., 1973). Also embryological data would suggest that AFP (Gitlin and Boesman, 1967; Gitlin and Perricelli, 1970) is a marker of yolk sac carcinoma, and HCG (Midgley and Pierce, 1962) is a marker of choriocarcinoma. Nevertheless, these proteins have been reported in patients in whom neither carcinoma has been recognized histologically (Javadpour et al., 1978; Javadpour, 1980). Analysis of well-defined cell lines corresponding to the different components of these tumors may help to clarify existing histological classifications, which are based largely on morphology, and to provide new criteria for more sound diagnosis and assessment of methods of treatment.
Information Percolation Driving Volatility

Sudden big price changes are followed by periods of high and persistent volatility. I develop a tractable dynamic rational expectations model consistent with this observation. An infinity of agents possess dispersed information about future dividends and trade in centralized markets. Information is processed, transmitted, and aggregated in two ways: (i) agents meet randomly and exchange information through word-of-mouth communication, and (ii) the price aggregates information through the trading process. Both mechanisms operate simultaneously to generate high and persistent volatility. The resulting information flow drives both returns and volume. The short-term asset, defined as the claim to immediate future dividends, becomes more volatile. The pronounced heterogeneity in investors’ information endowments induces patterns of trade consistent with empirical findings. These results serve as a road sign indicating the central role played by word-of-mouth communication in financial markets.
Outcomes of surgical repair of bile leaks and strictures after adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant.

Melcher ML, Freise CE, Ascher NL, Roberts JP. Outcomes of surgical repair of bile leaks and strictures after adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant. Clin Transplant 2010: 24: E230–E235. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Abstract: We sought to determine factors that predict the successful surgical repair of biliary complications after adult living donor liver transplantation (ALDLT). Methods: Records of 82 consecutive ALDLT right lobe recipients were reviewed. Operations were performed on 19 recipients for biliary complications. Post-operative biliary complications were analyzed. Fisher’s exact test was used to identify variables that correlated with successful surgical repair. Results: A total of 29 recipients had biliary complications, of which 19 had a surgical repair. The five recipients, operated on for a stricture without history of leaks, did not develop further complications. However, nine of 14 with a history of a leak developed further complications after surgical repair (p-value = 0.044). All five who presented with a biliary complication more than 100 d after transplant had successful surgical repair; however, nine out of 13 who presented within 57 d had additional complications after repair. Conclusions: Operations for strictures after ALDLT are more successful than operations for leaks. Recipients with isolated biliary strictures after ALDLT can be managed surgically; however, recipients with history of a leak often require additional interventions after surgical repair.
Great auricular neuralgia: case series

The great auricular nerve (GAN) leaves the C2-C3 cervical rami, wraps around the sternocleidomastoid muscle, then divides into: anterior branch (skin over preauricular, parotid, jaw angle) and posterior branch (skin over mastoid and posteroinferior pinna). GAN damage is well described with procedures nearby the nerve course. However, neuralgia of this nerve is uncommon, and its knowledge is based on a handful of case reports.
Timescale of Possible Episodic Behavior in Mass Loss from Cool Stars

Recent high resolution spectroscopic studies of CO line profiles in the Δv=l and Δv=2 bands reveal discrete absorption with well defined velocity components. Separate regimes are further distinguished by different rotational temperatures. Possible, though not unique, interpretations require episodic mass ejection, or intermittent modulation of continuous mass loss.
Playing With Fire at Sittercity (A)

To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of its competitors combined. In the process, she brought her boyfriend and his sister into the business to help her, and ended up learning important lessons about mixing family and business. Now looking to raise venture capital, Thiers has just received an email from a general partner at a top VC firm, proposing another meeting and asking her to bring to the meeting an extensive list of proprietary information. This was a promising development, but Thiers was unsure whether she wanted to discuss Sittercity in such depth, especially when the venture capital firm had refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement. How should she respond? Learning Objective: To introduce students to the risks of involving family in an entrepreneurial venture and some of the mechanisms that can be used to manage those risks, and to explore the risks of taking venture capital and some of the mechanisms to manage those risks.
A new polymer based nonlinear absorption material

A new naphthalocyanine was synthesized and incorporated into polycarbonate at high concentration. The thin film exhibits reverse saturable absorption from 520 nm to 725 nm and has an excited state lifetime greater than 5 ns.
Pseudo-pseudomyxoma peritonei from peritoneal sarcomatosis

Background: Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare clinical entity of mucinous ascites, most commonly associated with appendiceal mucinous neoplasms. Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) remains the current standard of care for PMP. Peritoneal sarcomatosis (PS) is an exceptionally rare disease with a poor prognosis. PMP associated with PS has not been previously described. The role of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for PS with or without PMP is not well-defined. PS manifesting like PMP has not been previously described. Case presentation: A 74-year-old patient with several weeks history of vague abdominal pain and increased abdominal girth was referred to our facility after incidental finding of PMP during laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. After complete work-up, he was advised to undergo CRS/HIPEC. Intra-operatively, he was noted to have extensive mucinous ascites and underwent aggressive CRS and HIPEC Result: Final pathology revealed myxoid liposarcoma with associated intraperitoneal mucin dissemination, which was confirmed with cytogenetic analysis. Conclusion: We describe a rare case of pseudomyxoma peritonei originating from an intra-abdominal sarcoma. We propose the term of “pseudo-pseudomyxoma peritonei” to appropriately describe this unusual clinical event.
Mutations in human dynamin block an intermediate stage in coated vesicle formation

The role of human dynamin in receptor-mediated endocytosis was investigated by transient expression of GTP-binding domain mutants in mammalian cells. Using assays which detect intermediates in coated vesicle formation, the dynamin mutants were found to block endocytosis at a stage after the initiation of coat assembly and preceding the sequestration of ligands into deeply invaginated coated pits. Membrane transport from the ER to the Golgi complex was unaffected indicating that dynamin mutants specifically block early events in endocytosis. These results demonstrate that mutations in the GTP-binding domain of dynamin block Tfn-endocytosis in mammalian cells and suggest that a functional dynamin GTPase is required for receptor-mediated endocytosis via clathrin-coated pits.
Remembrances of Removal: Native Resistance to Allotment and the Unmasking of Paternal Benevolence

This essay explores the ways that American Indians in the late nineteenth century enacted collective memories of the Indian Removal Act (1830) in their dissenting responses to the General Allotment, or Dawes, Act (1887). I argue that these collective memories served as a means for American Indians to unmask the paternal benevolence associated with the Dawes Act, while simultaneously aiding them in repositioning U.S. and Native identities. Such resistance was supported by forging connections between the removal and allotment policies. This essay proceeds, first, by contextualizing allotment and removal within the ideologies of expansion and paternalism that were vital to nineteenth-century U.S.-Native relations. Next, collective memory is discussed as a rhetoric of resistance through an analysis of speeches, commentaries, memorials and petitions proffered by American Indian communities in their rebukes of the Dawes Act. Finally, the essay presents the implications of collective memory on Native resistance ...
Instrumental variable estimation of nonseparable models

There are many environments where knowledge of a structural relationship is required to answer questions of interest. Also, nonseparability of a structural disturbance is a key feature of many models. Here, we consider nonparametric identification and estimation of a model that is monotonic in a nonseparable scalar disturbance, which disturbance is independent of instruments. This model leads to conditional quantile restrictions. We give local identification conditions for the structural equations from those quantile restrictions. We find that a modified completeness condition is sufficient for local identification. We also consider estimation via a nonparametric minimum distance estimator. The estimator minimizes the sum of squares of predicted values from a nonparametric regression of the quantile residual on the instruments. We show consistency of this estimator.