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Conflict and conflict resolution: Parent and young teen perceptions

Abstract Introduction: The purpose of this preliminary study was to describe a novel approach to examine the thinking of parents and young teens about conflict and conflict resolution in their relationship. The novel approach was that teens and parents were asked to solve, in focus groups, a hypothetical conflict situation without, and then with, a structured conflict resolution guide. Methods: Two focus groups were conducted. The resulting data were analyzed with use of content analysis from a sample of 8 parent-young teen dyads. The young teens and their parents participated separately from one another in the focus groups. Results: Data demonstrated that the young teens (a) thought parents or siblings initiated most disagreements and that such disagreements were routine, and (b) handled conflict with their parents by trying to prevent it. If a conflict ensued, they used emotion, aggression, cooling off, accepting some of the blame, or submission to resolve it. Parents viewed the disagreements as (a) representing their struggles with their role as a parent or (b) opportunities to instill a sense of intrinsic responsibility in their child. Parents used the strategies of setting clear expectations, parental authority, negotiation, cooling down, and feedback to solve disagreements with their teenage children. Discussion: We concluded that these parents and young teens do not use a systematic method of solving disagreements but that with structured guidance, the parents and teens were able to resolve conflicts. J Pediatr Health Care. (2003). 17, 22-31.
Nonpecuniary Benefits to Farming: Implications for Supply Response to Decoupled Payments

We develop a household model wherein farmers allocate labor to maximize utility from leisure, consumption, and nonpecuniary benefits from farming. The model shows that farmers with decreasing marginal utility of income respond to higher decoupled payments by decreasing off-farm labor and increasing farm labor, resulting in greater agricultural output. We then estimate the difference between farm and off-farm returns to labor using data from three nationally representative farm household surveys. The finding of a large on-farm/off-farm wage differential provides compelling evidence of substantial nonpecuniary benefits from farming.
ROBOTIS’ Robot Systems

ROBOTIS Co., Ltd (Seoul, South Korea) was founded by Bill Byoung-Soo Kim in 1999 along with two other engineers. The current CEO (Byoung-Soo Kim) and Vice-President (In-Yong Ha) were from the original team. The ROBOTIS name derived from the question “What is a robot?” and their vision statement can be read at http://www.ROBOTIS.com/xe/greeting_en. In 2009, ROBOTIS opened their USA office in Irvine, California and currently ROBOTIS has more than 200 partners in 40 countries worldwide. In a 2014 interview with Robot Magazine, CEO Kim shared his strategy for future products (http://www.ROBOTIS.com/xe/news_en/797584).
Resveratrol and cancer: focus on in vivo evidence

Resveratrol is a naturally occurring polyphenol that provides a number of anti-aging health benefits including improved metabolism, cardioprotection, and cancer prevention. Much of the work on resveratrol and cancer comes from in vitro studies looking at resveratrol actions on cancer cells and pathways. There are, however, comparatively fewer studies that have investigated resveratrol treatment and cancer outcomes in vivo, perhaps limited by its poor bioavailability when taken orally. Although research in cell culture has shown promising and positive effects of resveratrol, evidence from rodents and humans is inconsistent. This review highlights the in vivo effects of resveratrol treatment on breast, colorectal, liver, pancreatic, and prostate cancers. Resveratrol supplementation in animal models of cancer has shown positive, neutral as well as negative outcomes depending on resveratrol route of administration, dose, tumor model, species, and other factors. Within a specific cancer type, there is variability between studies with respect to strain, age, and sex of animal used, timing and method of resveratrol supplementation, and dose of resveratrol used to study cancer endpoints. Together, the data suggest that many factors need to be considered before resveratrol can be used for human cancer prevention or therapy.
Retrovirus uncovers potent collaboration

Comment on Landrette et al, page [2900][1] Plag1 and Plagl2, identified as Cbfb-MYH11 candidate cooperating genes in genetic screens using retrovirus, are now found to have increased expression in human AML and are individually capable of rapidly producing AML in mice in combination with Cbfb-
Bleomycin induces the extrinsic apoptotic pathway in pulmonary endothelial cells.

Bleomycin, a chemotherapeutic agent, can cause pulmonary fibrosis in humans and is commonly used to induce experimental pulmonary fibrosis in rodents. In cell culture, bleomycin causes single- and ...
Short- and long-term implications of clearcut and two-age silviculture for conservation of breeding forest birds in the central Appalachians, USA

Abstract Two-age (deferment or leave tree) harvesting is used increasingly in even-aged forest management, but long-term responses of breeding avifauna to retention of residual canopy trees have not been investigated. Breeding bird surveys completed in 1994–1996 in two-age and clearcut harvests in the central Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, USA allowed us to document long-term changes in these stands. In 2005 and 2006, we conducted point counts in mature unharvested forest stands and in 19–26 year-old clearcut and two-age harvests from the original study and in younger clearcut and two-age stands (6–10 years old). We found differences in breeding bird metrics among these five treatments and temporal differences in the original stands. Although early-successional species are typically absent from group selection cuts, they were almost as common in young two-age stands as clearcuts, supporting two-age harvests as an alternative to clearcutting. Although older harvests had lower species richness and diversity, they were beginning to provide habitat for some species of late-successional forest songbirds that were absent or uncommon in young harvests. Overall, late-successional forest-interior species were more flexible in their use of different seral stages; several species used both age classes and harvest types in addition to mature forest, which may reflect the lack of edges in our heavily-forested landscape. Consequently, two-age management provides habitat for a diverse group of species as these stands mature and may be an ecologically sustainable alternative to clearcutting in landscapes where brown-headed cowbirds ( Molothrus ater ) are uncommon.
Ventilatory Responses to Inspired CO2 in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

A rebreathing method with 100 percent oxygen was used to study the ventilatory response to an increase in alveolar Pco 2 in 23 patients with cystic fibrosis. The patients were divided into two groups on the basis of two-minute nitrogen washout and maximal midexpiratory flow rate. Group 1 consisting of patients with markedly impaired functions and group 2 with less impaired functions were compared with the results of study of eight normal subjects. Initial end tidal Pco 2 levels were the same in all groups. With an increase in the Pco 2 during the rebreathing procedure group 1 had a diminished increase in ventilation, and group 2 had responses similar to those of normal subjects. Disturbances in the mechanics of breathing are implicated to contribute significantly to a diminished ventilatory response to CO 2 .
Mobilizing Upward Mobility Through Education Reform

This research analyzed the quality of education in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Findings confirm that OUSD is failing to adequately educate it's predominantly African American student population. In turn, leaving OUSD students immobile and merely dreaming about the American Dream. As a result, we redefine and re-conceptualize education in the context required to eliminate educational inequalities and promote upward mobility for student of color attending OUSD and similar school districts.
A parent's place: Parents', mentors' and program staff members' expectations for and experiences of parental involvement in community-based youth mentoring relationships

Abstract Youth mentoring has been conceptualized largely as a dyadic relationship between a mentor and mentee, with less attention paid to the role of parents. This study contributes to an emerging body of research on parent involvement by examining expectations for parents' roles in the mentoring process held by program staff, mentors, and parents themselves. In-depth interviews with mentoring program staff (n = 12), mentors (n = 30), and a parent or guardian of the youth being mentored (n = 30) were analyzed to identify these participants' views on the role of parents. Findings indicate that mentors and program staff were more aligned in their views and tended to be more focused on the ways that parents could potentially interfere with or otherwise disrupt the mentor–youth relationship. Parents' views were more varied and rooted in differences in both their individual values and beliefs about the role of a mentor in their child's life, their parenting styles and ways they expected adults outside of the family who were interacting with their child to engage with them. Implications for future research on parent involvement and for mentoring program practices are discussed.
The effect of Imidocarb treatment on Babesia in the bovine and the tick (Boophilus microplus).

Treatment of calves with 5 mg/kg Imidocarb (3,31-bis-(2 - imidazolin - 2 - yl)carhanilide dipropionate) given intramuscularly 14 days before and 14 days after exposure to Babesia infected Boophilus microplus larvae rendered the next generation of larvae incapable of transmitting Babesia infection. When administered to calves 14 or 28 days before tick exposure, the drug prevented the development of clinical babesiosis; the larval progeny of ticks reared on the calf which was treated 28 days before infestation were infective. Treatment of a calf 42 days before exposure to infective larvae did not prevent the development of a Babesia parasitaemia but appeared to reduce the severity of infection.
Hereditary Issues In Ovarian Cancer

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of gynecological cancer deaths, although it accounts for only about one-quarter of all gynecological malignancies (1, 2). A woman’s lifetime risk of ovarian cancer is about 1 in 70. In the year 2004, the American Cancer Society estimated that 25,580 women would be diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the United States, and that 16,090 would die of this disease (3).
High anabolic potential of essential amino acid mixtures in advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer

Background Conventional nutritional supplements are not or only partly successful in inducing protein accretion in advanced cancer, suggesting an attenuated anabolic response. To prevent muscle wasting and its deleterious consequences, generating an anabolic response is crucial. Dietary essential amino acids (EAA) have anabolic properties in other wasting diseases; however, data in advanced cancer are lacking.
Incremental Partitioning of Large Time-Evolving Graphs

Many present-day datasets, such as social networks, biological networks, citation networks can essentially be modeled as Time-Evolving Graphs (TEGs). Partitioning such graphs into smaller components has applications in many diverse domains. However, utilizing the traditional static graph partitioning methods for such graphs does not meet the scale at which they evolve due to high computation cost of these methods and their long offline processing time. In this work, we approach this problem from a different perspective and present several scalable incremental algorithms for partitioning various TEGs when different modification events are applied to them. Moreover, with extensive experiments, we compare the results of heuristics in terms of different metrics to those of other mechanisms.
Measurement of Vertical Temperature Profiles in a Stormwater Detention Pond

During and subsequent to a rainfall event, stormwater runoff can transport heat from an urban area (which can be significantly warmer than its surrounding regi…
Medieval Popular Humor in Russian Eighteenth Century Lubki

Russian lubki, or popular prints, of the eighteenth century reveal clearly an archaic premodem humor. Since 1945 much seventeenth century and early eighteenth century urban popular literature, which before existed only in manuscript books, collections of stories, and plays, has been published and has revealed a native tradition of popular humor in Russian print.' The appearance in popular prints of various characters and activities from the popular festive culture, scenes from popular theatricals, parodies of sundry rites and proceedings, and so forth attest to the fact that this culture of popular humor was thriving in the early eighteenth century. A culture of "medieval" popular humor in lubki was important through the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. In the last third of the century a more modern humor, satirical and didactic, appeared.2 Ignorance of the sources and cultural context of lubki have resulted in their misinterpretation and misuse as evidence of popular political criticism. Recognizing that they embody the culture of popular humor will lay to rest their interpretation as deliberate political satire and can also provide the proper cultural context for viewing some of the less-understood behavior of the tsars. Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great shared the crude parodying antics typical of the old Russian popular culture, which was in their times still a culture shared by all strata of society.3 This article will also suggest a psychological basis for this humor that eluci-
Oxygen-Ozone-Hydrogen peroxide Bleaching Sequence of Kraft Pulp

Multistage bleaching of kraft pulp with the sequence oxygen-ozone-hydrogen peroxide has been carried out to develop the non-chlorine bleaching process. The results obtained are as follows:1. The properties of the pulp of the latter stage was dependent on those of the former bleaching stage.2. Oxygen bleached pulp with brightness less than 35%was favourable for the subsequent bleaching.3. The proper brightness of ozone bleached pulp was found to be less than 75%.4. It was clarified that there is an optimum value in the amount of hydrogen peroxide added, and the addition of excess hydrogen peroxide gave little improvement of the brightness. Addition of 1% of hydrogen peroxide on pulp gave 10% of brightness increment.5. Fully bleached pulps with the sequence oxygen-ozone-hydrogen peroxide had a higher viscosity than 5.0m Pa·s at brightness 85%. The addition of carbohydrate protectors at the ozone bleaching stage resulted in the increase of viscosity: 1 point for sulfuric acid, 2 points for oxalic acid and 4 points for methanol. Yields of fully bleached pulps were 89-91%.6. Waste water of ozone bleaching stage had high COD in case of oxalic acid and methanol addition.
Quieta non movere? The B’nai B’rith in the Eastern Upper Silesia 1921–1934

This article aims to narrate and examine a unique story of ‘Polonisation’ of a certain population group in the interwar Central-European border area. It deals with the question of belonging and affiliation of a group of members of a Jewish organisation in East Upper Silesia. The area, which was transferred to Poland from Germany after WWI, experienced an intensive process of nationalisation, or Polonisation. The article focuses mostly on the former German city Kattowitz, or Katowice, which after the border shift became the capital of Poland’s new province, the Silesian Voivodeship. A period of thirteen years has been taken into account: from 1921, the year of the plebiscite in Upper Silesia, until 1934, when Poland and Germany signed the non-aggression pact. Both the plebiscite and the signing of the non-aggression pact were crucial for the Upper Silesian minorities. At the time of the plebiscite, these minorities had to opt for a national affiliation, while none of them considered themselves completely German or Polish. Therefore, after the plebiscite and with the borders rearranged, these groups should have been fit for getting Polonised. The article focuses at the Jewish test case, in a wide and comparative context of international political and diplomatic background. It therefore places micro-history cases within the macro-history of Central Europe between the two World Wars.
ANALYSIS AND REINFORCEMENT OF FLOATING UNDERGROUND GARAGE

As an engineering example of underground floating garage in rock pit,it is researched as a result of concrete cracks in roof-slab、basement slab and column due to improper ground service and improper anti-floating.The analysis of the reason to crocking damage in underground garage is conducted following the drawings information and field survey results.The reinforced treatments of anti-floating and column are applied to deal with the incident.It showed that the reinforcement of floating underground garage turned out to be effective.
Protective Effects of Heparin and Other Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans on Crystal Adhesion to Injured Urothelium

Abstract Heparin was found to prevent calcium oxalate crystal adhesion to chemically injured rat bladder urothelium. Heparin was the only polysaccharide tested which restored injured urothelium to the functional status of normal, uninjured urotehlium with respect to anticrystal adhesion properties. Other sulfated glycosaminoglycans, sulfated polysaccharides and monosaccharides were without restorative or protective effects. 3 H-heparin was found to bind to injured urothelium but not to normal urothelium.
Local avian density influences risk of mortality from window strikes

Up to a billion birds die per year in North America as a result of striking windows. Both transparent and reflective glass panes are a cause for concern, misleading birds by either acting as invisible, impenetrable barriers to desired resources, or reflecting those resources over a large surface area. A high number of window strikes occur during migration, but little is known about the factors of susceptibility, or whether particular avian taxa are more vulnerable than others. We report on a study of window strikes and mist-netting data at the Virginia Zoological Park (Norfolk, Virginia, USA), conducted in the autumn of 2013 and 2014. We focused on three factors likely to contribute to an individual's predisposition to collide with windows: (i) taxonomic classification, (ii) age, and (iii) migrant vs. resident status. Thrushes, dominated by the partial migrant American Robin (Turdus migratorius), were significantly less likely to strike glass than be sampled in mist nets (χ(2) = 9.21, p = 0.002), while wood-warblers (Parulidae) were more likely to strike than expected (χ(2) = 13.55, p < 0.001). The proportion of juveniles striking windows (45.4%) was not significantly different (χ(2) = 0.05, p = 0.827) than the population of juvenile birds naturally occurring at the zoo (48.8%). Migrants, however, were significantly more susceptible to window strikes than residents (χ(2) = 6.35, p = 0.012). Our results suggest that resident birds are able to learn to avoid and thus reduce their likelihood of striking windows; this intrinsic risk factor may help explain the apparent susceptibility of certain taxa to window strikes.
Prediction of recrystallization times in electroplated copper thin films

Abstract Room temperature recrystallization responses of blanket electroplated Cu thin films deposited under various conditions were monitored in real-time using synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Nominal control of electroplating parameters such as plating current, bath chemistry, and plating time was found to be insufficient to ensure repeatability of the 50% recrystallization time, τ50, from sample to sample even though the thickness variations between samples were insignificant. Real-time X-ray analysis of samples from numerous electroplating baths showed that, for a given seed deposition process, a reliable estimation of τ50 at room temperature can be obtained from the ratio of the integrated intensities of the 111 and 200 Cu reflections, I − 111 / I − 200 , of the electroplated film at time zero (immediately after plating). Among the plating parameters investigated seed-layer texture most influenced this ratio and, hence, the subsequent room temperature recrystallization behavior of the plated film.
Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Tumors of the Cavernous Sinus: A Series of 234 Patients

Background Cavernous sinus (CS) tumors often are considered inoperable. We present our experience with endoscopic endonasal surgery (EES) and compare the outcomes for different tumor. Methods EES (medial or lateral approach) was used in 234 patients with CS tumors. The cohort included 175 (75%) pituitary adenomas and 59 (25%) nonadenomatous lesions. Results Presenting symptoms were significantly different between the 2 groups, with cranial neuropathies occurring mainly in nonadenomas (P Conclusions EES provides an easily accessible midline corridor to the CS with equivalent or superior results to transcranial approaches in the management of select tumors. Symptomatology due to CS invasion is more likely to improve in pituitary adenomas and the rate of surgical complications is greater in nonadenomas. Using a team approach, the overall mortality due to vascular injury is low.
Stakeholder perspectives on the importance of rare-species research for deep-sea environmental management

Abstract The apparent prevalence of rare species (rarity) in the deep sea is a concern for environmental management and conservation of biodiversity. Rare species are often considered at risk of extinction and, in terrestrial and shallow water environments, have been shown to play key roles within an ecosystem. In the deep-sea environment, current research focuses primarily on abundant species and deep-sea stakeholders are questioning the importance of rare species in ecosystem functioning. This study asks whether deep-sea stakeholders (primarily scientists) view rare-species research as a priority in guiding environmental management. Delphi methodology (i.e., an iterative survey approach) was used to understand views about whether or not ‘deep-sea scientists should allocate more resources to research on rare species in the deep sea, even if this means less resources might be available for abundant-species research.’ Results suggest little consensus regarding the prioritization of resources for rare-species research. From Survey 1 to Survey 3, the average participant response shifted toward a view that rare-species research is not a priority if it comes at a cost to research on abundant species. Participants pointed to the need for a balanced approach and highlighted knowledge gaps about even the most fundamental questions, including whether rare species are truly ‘rare’ or simply under-sampled. Participants emphasized the lack of basic biological knowledge for rare and abundant species, particularly abundant meio- and microscopic species, as well as uncertainty in the roles rare and abundant species play in ecosystem processes. Approaches that jointly consider the role of rare and abundant species in ecosystem functioning (e.g., biological trait analysis) may help to clarify the extent to which rare species need to be incorporated into deep-sea environment management in order to maintain ecosystem functioning.
Gender as a Variable in Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations

Researchers and practitioners in natural-language processing (NLP) and related fields should attend to ethical principles in study design, ascription of categories/variables to study participants, and reporting of findings or results. This paper discusses theoretical and ethical frameworks for using gender as a variable in NLP studies and proposes four guidelines for researchers and practitioners. The principles outlined here should guide practitioners, researchers, and peer reviewers, and they may be applicable to other social categories, such as race, applied to human beings connected to NLP research.
Language Matters—in Science, as in Science Studies

In this article and the essays that follow, we would like to reconstruct Evelyn Fox Keller's 2008 tour of Taiwan and her intellectual impact on this island. Since the late 1980s a number of Taiwanese scholars, including EASTS 's founding editor-in-chief, Daiwie Fu, had taken up her insights on gender and science, but for most people it was not until her visit to National Yang-Ming University that they had the chance to actually meet her in person. Keller's attention to the technical details of scientific knowledge and its production, and her eagerness to speak to scientists of all stripes, really comes across in the speech she gave, and her efforts to expand our horizons and make connections across diverse fields serve as an admirable model for STSers in Taiwan. In her essay, Zxyyann Jane Lu, Keller's local host, reminisces about the feminist movement in Taiwan, offers her take on Keller's works, and speaks of her fond memories of Keller's easy going demeanor. An advocate on gender and science in southern Taiwan, Hsiu-yun Wang contributes an account that is both personal and contextual. By tracing her career path to gender and science, and with a survey of the field, she emphasizes the importance of Keller's talk in Kaohsiung to debates in Taiwan that continue to this day. Two scientists also provide their accounts here. Chien-Kuang Cornelia Ding, then a medical student, writes about how Keller's 2008 visit and her recent book, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture , have been a source of lasting inspiration in science. And last but not least, Li-Tang Tsai, then a student in physiotherapy who also transcribed Keller's speech, reflects upon Keller in the initial stages of her choice to pursue a career in science. The essays together not only show how Keller and her work have the capacity to speak to diverse audiences, including scientists, feminist scholars, activists, and students, but also convey her passion for intellectual and social change. —EASTS Editorial Office
A 3D Galloping Quadruped Robot

In this work, we present a practical approach for producing a stable 3D gallop in a simulated quadrupedal robot which includes the prominent characteristics of the biological gait. The dynamic model utilizes biologically-based assumptions, and the resulting 3D gallop contains the prominent biological features of early leg retraction, phase-locked leg motion, a significant gathered flight phase, unconstrained spatial dynamics, and a smooth gait. A multiobjective genetic algorithm is used to find control parameters in a partitioned search space. During stance, a simple energy control law ensures a fixed amount of energy in the knee springs during each stride, which is a key factor for stabilization.
L’etica della virtù nei dialoghi di Charles Péguy, Alfred Döblin e Carlo Michelstaedter

In questo saggio l’autore storicizza e studia la rinascita del dialogo come genere letterario all’inizio del ventesimo secolo. Prendendo in considerazione i dialoghi di Charles Peguy, Alfred Doblin, and Carlo Michelstaedter, l’autore dimostra che la nuova forma simbolica novecentesca della tradizione platonica, sebbene sia formalmente preservata, presenta come elemento caratterizzante l’etica come forma di espressione ed esistenza. In questo senso, il dialogo non e, solo, una struttura maieutica, ma piuttosto un luogo di formazione dove i personaggi possono recuperare e costruire la loro identita. In this paper I aim to historicize and study the re-birth of dialogue as a literary genre in the early twentieth-century European culture. By taking into account Charles Peguy, Alfred Doblin, and Carlo Michelstaedter’s dialogues, I argue that the new symbolic form of the Platonic tradition is indeed formally preserved, but its ground is focused on the ethics as form of both expression and existence. In this sense, dialogue is not (just) a maieutic structure, rather is a "Building", where characters can recover and build their own identity.
A Mouse Model of Beta-Cell Dysfunction as Seen in Human Type 2 Diabetes.

Loss of first-phase insulin release is an early pathogenic feature of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Various mouse models exist to study T2D; however, few recapitulate the early β-cell defects seen in humans. We sought to develop a nongenetic mouse model of T2D that exhibits reduced first-phase insulin secretion without a significant deficit in pancreatic insulin content. C57BL/6J mice were fed 10% or 60% fat diet for three weeks, followed by three consecutive, once-daily intraperitoneal injections of the β-cell toxin streptozotocin (STZ; 30, 50, or 75 mg/kg) or vehicle. Four weeks after injections, the first-phase insulin response to glucose was reduced in mice when high-fat diet was combined with 30, 50, or 75 mg/kg STZ. This was accompanied by diminished second-phase insulin release and elevated fed glucose levels. Further, body weight gain, pancreatic insulin content, and β-cell area were decreased in high fat-fed mice treated with 50 and 75 mg/kg STZ, but not 30 mg/kg STZ. Low fat-fed mice were relatively resistant to STZ, with the exception of reduced pancreatic insulin content and β-cell area. Together, these data demonstrate that in high fat-fed mice, three once-daily injections of 30 mg/kg STZ produces a model of β-cell failure without insulin deficiency that may be useful in studies investigating the etiology and progression of human T2D.
Combined optical and electronic paper-nose for detection of volatile gases.

Abstract In this work, a paper-based optoelectronic sensor (paper-nose) is presented for sensing volatile gases in air. The proposed optoelectronic sensor is a combination of both colorimetric (optical) and chemiresistive (electronic) sensor arrays in order to improve the selectivity of the paper-nose in the complex air background. The optical sensors are based on chemoresponsive dyes, namely Reichardt's dye (2,6-diphenyl-4-(2,4,6-triphenyl-1-pyridinio)phenolate), bromocresol purple, methyl red, bromothymol blue, brilliant yellow and manganese tetraphenylporphyrin (Mn-TPP). The chemiresistive sensors are based on nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes (CNT), PEDOT:PSS, graphite, and an ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMI TFSI). Sensor is fabricated through direct handwriting of sensing materials using a pen on paper without the need of expensive cleanroom facilities. The optoelectronic sensor is tested in ambient air with different volatile gases such as methanol, ammonia, toluene, acetone and ethanol and their mixtures of varying concentrations. The detected electrical and optical responses together form a unique signature for each volatile gas and its mixture. Support-vector machine (SVM) is applied for target classification and detection. From the SVM result, it is found that better discriminative power is achieved by combining optical and electrical responses.
Do Party Contributions Help Candidates Win

The parties’ congressional and senatorial campaign committees have made it their business to provide contributions to candidate campaigns in order to help their candidates win. However, the effectiveness of these contributions in terms of increasing the competitiveness of party-sponsored races remains untested. Using a variety of models, I find the receipt of party contributions significantly improves the competitive position of non-incumbent candidates, at times, turning incumbent-challenger races into toss-ups and providing the party’s open-seat contestants with victories. For incumbents, the reverse proves true - without exception there are costs associated with incumbents’ receipt of party funds which diminish their electoral competitiveness. Further analysis reveals when the incumbent receives party money, the opposition party is more likely to sponsor their challenger in the race.
Casting votes in the auditorium

In elections employing electronic voting machines, we have observed that poor procedures, equipment failures, and honest mistakes pose a real threat to the accuracy of the final tally. The event logs kept by these machines can give auditors clues as to the causes of anomalies and inconsistencies; however, each voting machine is trusted to keep its own audit and ballot data, making the record unreliable. If a machine is damaged, accidentally erased, or otherwise compromised during the election, we have no way to detect tampering or loss of auditing records and cast votes. We see a need for voting systems in which event logs can serve as robust forensic documents, describing a provable timeline of events leading up to and transpiring on election day. To this end, we propose an auditing infrastructure that draws on ideas from distributed systems and secure logging to provide a verifiable, global picture of critical election-day events, one which can survive individual machine malfunction or malice. Our system, the Auditorium, joins the voting machines in a polling place together in a private broadcast network in which all election events are logged redundantly by every machine. Each event is irrevocably tied to the originating machine by a digital signature, and to earlier events from other machines via hash chaining. In this paper we describe in detail how to conduct an election in the Auditorium. We demonstrate our system's robustness to benign failures and malicious attacks, resulting in a believable audit trail and vote count, with acceptable overhead for a network the size of a polling place.
The Use of a Bio-Inductive Collagen Patch to Supplement Repair of Large and Massive Rotator Cuff Tears Including Revisions: Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes at 2-year Follow Up:

Objectives:Failures of large, massive, and revision rotator cuff repairs is a challenging problem within orthopedics. Poor tendon tissue and vascularity are known causes for failure of rotator cuff...
Queering New Media Art : Histories & Asking Questions about Nothing

Not rooted in a traditional culture or ancestral homeland, Queerness constitutes ephemeral cultures, continually reinvented and reimagined. Queerness is under constant threat of erasure from cultural amnesia and political malice. Academia and the art world have responded to this erasure with alternately heroic and halting efforts. This paper suggests ways in which this erasure manifests, from historic forces to contemporary discourses. The author attempts to assess various responses to queer erasure in the overlapping enclaves of new media art comprised of artists, academics, writers, and curators. Lastly, this paper will consider how new media art inflects or reframes ongoing conversations around queer social erasure and how artists and art historians work against the forces of nothingness.
Implementation of A1C Point-of-Care Testing: Serving Under-Resourced Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in a Public Health Department

IN BRIEF A1C point-of-care testing (POCT) paired with face-to-face education potentially improves glycemic control in under-resourced populations. In this study, A1C POCT was implemented with same-day face-to-face medication management and education for adults with type 2 diabetes in a public health department in southeastern North Carolina. The combination of POCT, medication management, and education provided together improved glycemic control and decreased clinical inertia in a setting in which access to health care is limited.
USE OF MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING IN DETERMINING THE ETIOLOGY OF COMBINED SYSTOLIC AND DIASTOLIC HEART FAILURE IN THE ELDERLY WITH VALVULAR HEART DISEASE AND INFILTRATIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY

Transthyretin type cardiac amyloidosis (ATTR-CA) is prevalent in ~16% of the elderly with severe calcific aortic valve stenosis (AoS) being considered for TAVR. Tc-99m PYP cardiac imaging is useful in identifying ATTR-CA in these patients. An 87 year old male presented with decompensated combined
HIV Status and Other Risk Factors for Prevalent and Incident Sexually Transmitted Infection during Pregnancy (2000-2014).

Background. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are associated with adverse birth outcomes. Current prenatal STI screening guidelines define “risk” without explicit consideration of HIV status. Our objective was to test the hypothesis that HIV status is associated with bacterial STI in pregnant women. Methods. We designed a retrospective cohort study to identify pregnant women with HIV who delivered at our facility during 2000-2014. HIV+ women were compared to HIV- women with matching by year of delivery. Logistic regression was used to model adjusted odds of prevalent and incident STI. Prevalent STI was defined as chlamydia (CT), gonorrhea (GC), syphilis, or trichomoniasis detected on an initial prenatal screening test and incident STI as a newly positive result following a negative prenatal test. Results. The cohort included 432 women, 210 HIV+ and 222 HIV-. Most pregnant women were screened for STI (92% of HIV+ women and 74% of HIV- women). STI rates were high and particularly elevated in HIV+ women: 29% vs 18% (p=0.02), for prevalent STI and 11% vs 2% (p<0.001) for incident STI. Risk factors for prevalent STI were as follows: HIV status (aOR 3.0, CI: 1.4-6.4), Black race (aOR 2.7, 95% CI: 1.1-6.6), and more recent delivery (2007-2014 compared to 2000-2006) (aOR 2.3, CI: 1.1-4.7). HIV status was an independent risk factor for incident STI (aOR 7.2, CI: 2.1-25.0). Conclusion. Pregnant women who delivered in our center had high STI rates. Since HIV infection was independently associated with prevalent and incident STI, prenatal screening guidelines may need to incorporate HIV status as a high-risk group for repeat testing.
ARQ 197 in patients with previously-treated malignant mesothelioma (MM): A phase II trial from the University of Chicago Phase II Consortium.

7511 Background: The MET receptor tyrosine kinase plays a key role in MM biology. MET and its ligand, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), are each over-expressed in ~80% of MM; MET is mutated and/or am...
A Fast Load Control System Based on Mobile Distribution-Level Phasor Measurement Unit

The increase of renewable penetration in power grids calls for loads to participate in frequency regulation to avoid under-frequency load shedding after large resource contingencies. The motivation of this paper is to fulfill a fast residential load control for frequency stability enhancement. For this purpose, a novel mobile distribution-level phasor measurement unit (MDPMU) is developed for disturbance event detection, power mismatch estimation and fast load control. First, the systematic design of the MDPMU introduced. The proposed MDPMU has the major advantages of low cost and high frequency measurement accuracy. Second, the distribution-level measurement is utilized for the rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) calculation. Upon detection of a power system frequency event, power mismatch is estimated at the early stage of the event. Details of a robust approach to calculate ROCOF and determine the event starting point are presented. Practical issues including the measurement reporting rate and estimation time are also considered. Last, with the proposed control system, residential load responses can be controlled coordinately based on load availability and compensation prices offered by customers, providing adaptive frequency regulation service after large resource contingencies. The accuracy of frequency measurement and power mismatch estimation are evaluated via experimental analysis. The frequency stability improvement by load control is validated via PSS/E simulation.
Blockchains as Enablers of Participatory Smart Grids

The next thirty years must bring about an accelerated change in our urban infrastructure. Global efforts, to prevent an increase in global warming above 2.7°F (1.5°C) relative to preindustrial leve...
Integrated Risk-Informed Design (I-RID) methodological framework and computational application for FLEX equipment storage buildings of Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract In this research, an Integrated Risk-Informed Design (I-RID) methodological framework is developed for generating and evaluating design options for Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) structures and for providing plant decision makers with a quantitative comparison among design options based on multiple decision criteria, e.g., safety risk and cost. In the I-RID framework, simulations of underlying failure mechanisms are integrated with Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) (consisting of event trees and fault trees) and a cost assessment model in a unified framework. The failure mechanisms are simulated by conducting Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and a probabilistic interface between FEA and the existing plant PRA is generated using structural reliability techniques. A causal model for cost assessment is developed, which allows for the modeling of multi-layer causal relationships among underlying contributing factors and, therefore, creates an explicit connection between cost and safety risk outputs. This paper applies the I-RID framework to the design of a storage building for the Diverse and Flexible Coping Strategies (FLEX) equipment in an NPP subjected to a potential tornado impact. Over two hundred design options are generated and evaluated, and three suggested design options with the lowest values of safety risk and cost are identified.
Development of the engagement questionnaire (EQ): A tool to measure panelist engagement during sensory and consumer evaluations

Abstract Sensory and consumer testing are primary strategies companies use to collect insights about consumer products. However, frequently, unreliable results from these tests can lead to failed product launches which can have enormous financial and/or brand equity consequences. One potential reason is sensory tasks are often deliberately devoid of additional stimulation which reasonably has the possibility to reduce a panelist’s engagement with the task. Engagement may drive involvement and focus during testing and help generate reliable data. The overall objective of this study was to develop (Study 1), refine (Study 2), and validate (Studies 3–5) an engagement questionnaire (EQ), a tool to empirically assess varying engagement levels with a task. Prior literature and an exploratory qualitative assessment through an online platform (Study 1, N = 87) were used to operationalize the dimensionality of engagement and develop a preliminary questionnaire consisting of 54 items covering 7 themes (ability, attention, passivity, involvement, interest, motivation, and relevance). To assess the effectiveness of the initial item set, participants recalled being engaged with a task and answered the preliminary EQ (Study 2, N = 186). Results collected underwent an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) in order to explore the dimensionality and refine the scale by strategically eliminating items. To validate the tool, the EQ was distributed following numerous consumer sensory tests that spanned a variety of food and beverage products, test lengths, number, and types of questions (Studies 3–5). EFA was conducted in Study 3 (N = 774), which resulted in a three-factor, 10-item model with good reliability (α = 0.856). The new model was subsequently validated in two additional consumer sensory studies (Study 4A, N = 416 and Study 4B, N = 446). Both validation studies produced acceptable to good model fit indices with an RMSEA below 0.07, SRMR below 0.04, both CFI and TLI above 0.95 and good reliability (α > 0.850). When tested in a different sensory testing facility, the EQ produced acceptable model fit indices (Study 5, N = 247) and tracked as expected with participants’ perceived workload collected using the NASA Task Load Index; confirming the content and convergent and divergent validity of the instrument. Such an instrument allows for deeper understanding of panelist engagement and its impact on data quality, enabling the design of sensory tests capable of generating more reliable data both within the field of food science and beyond.
The Design and Implementation of a Scalable DL Benchmarking Platform.

The current Deep Learning (DL) landscape is fast-paced and is rife with non-uniform models, hardware/software (HW/SW) stacks, but lacks a DL benchmarking platform to facilitate evaluation and comparison of DL innovations, be it models, frameworks, libraries, or hardware. Due to the lack of a benchmarking platform, the current practice of evaluating the benefits of proposed DL innovations is both arduous and error-prone - stifling the adoption of the innovations. In this work, we first identify $10$ design features which are desirable within a DL benchmarking platform. These features include: performing the evaluation in a consistent, reproducible, and scalable manner, being framework and hardware agnostic, supporting real-world benchmarking workloads, providing in-depth model execution inspection across the HW/SW stack levels, etc. We then propose MLModelScope, a DL benchmarking platform design that realizes the $10$ objectives. MLModelScope proposes a specification to define DL model evaluations and techniques to provision the evaluation workflow using the user-specified HW/SW stack. MLModelScope defines abstractions for frameworks and supports board range of DL models and evaluation scenarios. We implement MLModelScope as an open-source project with support for all major frameworks and hardware architectures. Through MLModelScope's evaluation and automated analysis workflows, we performed case-study analyses of $37$ models across $4$ systems and show how model, hardware, and framework selection affects model accuracy and performance under different benchmarking scenarios. We further demonstrated how MLModelScope's tracing capability gives a holistic view of model execution and helps pinpoint bottlenecks.
Learning Domain Adaptive Features with Unlabeled Domain Bridges.

Conventional cross-domain image-to-image translation or unsupervised domain adaptation methods assume that the source domain and target domain are closely related. This neglects a practical scenario where the domain discrepancy between the source and target is excessively large. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to learn domain adaptive features between the largely-gapped source and target domains with unlabeled domain bridges. Firstly, we introduce the framework of Cycle-consistency Flow Generative Adversarial Networks (CFGAN) that utilizes domain bridges to perform image-to-image translation between two distantly distributed domains. Secondly, we propose the Prototypical Adversarial Domain Adaptation (PADA) model which utilizes unlabeled bridge domains to align feature distribution between source and target with a large discrepancy. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed models.
Two Studies Investigating Associations Between Sexual Assault Victimization History and Bystander Appraisals of Risk.

Across two studies, we examined sexual assault history and bystander appraisals of risk and the moderating roles of danger cue salience (Study 1) and alcohol intoxication (Study 2) in women. Partic...