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SU-C-217BCD-06: Analysis of Different CT Accreditation Programs

Purpose: This study will review two alternate pathways for CT accreditation ‐ the program of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the program of Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). The study will compare and contrast the two programs. Methods: The requirements of the ACR‐CT accreditation and IAC ‐ICACTL programs are reviewed for both the clinical and technical aspect. Physics data collected on several multidetector CT scanners (MDCT), including 16, 64, 128, 320, and up to 750 detector arrays utilizing both the ACR CT phantom and the CATPHAN 600 CT Phantom (note, IAC does not require a specific phantom, thus this widely used commercial phantom) is used. Scanning protocols are based on the protocols as required by ACR or IAC. Data necessary to complete the data forms for alignment, CT# accuracy, slice width, low contrast resolution (uniformity and noise, distance accuracy and high contrast spatial resolution), obtained measurements were made as specified in the accrediting group's instructions using manual processes as well as automated analysis approaches. Results: The results show examples of significant differences in the required levels of physical performance of head and body scanning under the different programs, particularly in the high resolution modulation transfer function(MTF) scanning ability. Likewise, significant differences in clinical body scanning ability of approved devices are shown. Conclusions: Significant differences in the levels of CT performance required to pass the two different accreditation programs are shown. The data sets indicate that a single phantom requirement for an accreditation program is unnecessary because the portability of physics data should obviate the need to purchase duplicate phantoms for accreditations purposes, and allow for more ready comparison between accreditation programs, government and industry specifications. This paper may guide imaging professionals in decisions regarding accreditation pathways with CT.DJG serves as a consultant to The Phantom Labratory and Image OWL, Salem, NY
Mitigating aggression and promoting prosocial behavior in aggressive elementary schoolboys.

Abstract The effects of four school-based interventions designed to decrease children's aggression and promote prosocial behavior were assessed. One hundred and four aggressive boys, ages 8–13, from ‘Behavior Disorder’ classrooms, were assigned to one of four training conditions: cognitive (self-control) training, behavioral (prosocial skills) training, combined cognitive-behavioral training, or attention/play training. School psychologists trained the boys in small groups for 10 1-h sessions. It was hypothesized that training in both cognitive and behavioral competencies would lead to the most behavioral improvement. Results indicated that, according to teacher report, those children receiving the cognitive-behavioral and attention/play interventions improved significantly more than those exposed to cognitive and behavioral training by decreasing their aggression and increasing their prosocial behavior immediately following the intervention. At 6-month follow-up, only those children exposed to the attention/play intervention remained significantly improved.
Migratory movements: evolutionary theory in the works of J.M. Synge

Synge's interest in evolutionary theory is well-documented, and his plays are often viewed as representations of an Irish culture in decline. In response, this article argues that Synge's tramps, tinkers, and outcasts function as figures for species migration and cultural renewal. To demonstrate that Synge's drama has a footing in the science of speciation, the article details the extent to which Synge was directly familiar with works of evolutionary theory. Although he read Darwin and Herbert Spencer at about the same time, their respective influences show up at much different stages of his literary career. While Synge's earliest prose is most strongly influenced by Spencer's progressivist interpretation of evolution, Synge's Spencerianism soon gives way to a Darwinian interest in the bizarre affinities between the human and animal worlds, as well as to an appreciation of difference rather than a fetishisation of fitness.
User interfaces for content-based image retrieval

This paper demonstrates a prototype application of content-based database searching, specifically customised for designers in the textile industry. It takes account of their particular needs, enabling them to operate in a visually stimulating manner that does not inhibit their creativity.
How sensitive is U.S. agricultural trade to the bilateral exchange rate? Evidence from bulk, intermediate, and consumer‐oriented products

This article examines the dynamic effects of changes in bilateral exchange rates on changes in bilateral trade of bulk, intermediate, and consumer-oriented agricultural products between the United States and its 10 major trading partners. We find that, for consumer-oriented products, U.S. exports are highly sensitive to bilateral exchange rates in both the short and long run, while U.S. imports are mostly responsive only in the short run. For bulk products, on the other hand, U.S. exports and imports are relatively insensitive to exchange rate changes in both the short and long run. For intermediate products, exports and imports are responsive to exchange rate changes in the short run, but not in the long run. It is also found that income of the United States and its trading partners has a significant effect on U.S. exports and imports of the three types of agricultural products in both the short and long run.
Near-field wireless magnetic link for an ingestible cattle health monitoring pill

Cattle health assessment is receiving increased attention due to threats that disease and bioterrorism pose to producer profits and to the safety of the food supply. Ingesti-ble pill technology offers a promising means to obtain these physiologic data, since a bovine reticulum is an environment sheltered from outside elements that offers direct access to feed intake and heart/lung data. Traditional radio-frequency links are inappropriate for this application, as water absorption severely limits transmission ranges through tissue. This paper presents the initial design of a communications link that utilizes magnetic induction for signal transport and should be well-suited for a tissue medium. The link consists of a transmitter/receiver pair that employs loop antennae frequency matched at 125 kHz. Optimization of the link design offers the potential to achieve transmission distances of several feet through tissue.
ESCA-thickness metrology and head-medium spacing impact of disk lubricant

Electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) has been commonly used as a metrology tool for lubricant film-thickness measurement on magnetic hard disks. The accuracy of the ESCA-thickness measurement rests solely with the calibration accuracy of the characteristic photoelectron attenuation length in the lubricant film. Several past studies on this subject yielded widely divergent results, due to the difficulty in obtaining an accurate, absolute lubricant film-thickness measurement. In this paper, we revisited the calibration issue and, instead of following the same paths pursued in the past, used a derivative method to yield an accurate calibration of the photoelectron attenuation length. We also compared the various methods for lubricant film-thickness calculation based on ESCA measurements and determined that the most accurate method is to use only the photoemission signal from the lubricant film. In addition, by studying the lubricant film-thickness effect on the electrical readback signal, we found that the lubricant film leads to an increase in the head-medium spacing by an amount greater than one times, but less than two times, its physical thickness.
An Adaptive Spectrum Detection Mechanism for Cognitive Radio Networks in Dynamic Traffic Environments

We propose an adaptive spectrum detection mechanism for cognitive radios in a dynamic traffic environment. Cognitive radios generate secondary calls, which opportunistically make use of channels left idle by primary traffic generated by the licensed radios in the system. Spectrum detection for the cognitive radios is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem based on the Bayes criterion to minimize average cost. The maximum likelihood estimates of the prior probabilities for the hypothesis test are obtained from the dynamics of both traffic types of traffic using a Markovian model of the system channel occupancy. The spectrum detection scheme is extended to incorporate cooperation among multiple secondary users. Our numerical results suggest that the adaptive spectrum detection scheme can achieve significantly better error performance than a static scheme that ignores the prior probabilities, especially under light primary traffic conditions. Cooperative spectrum detection among multiple users can further reduce the false alarm and misdetection probabilities.
Cohesion: Inter and intra Sentence Errors

Cohesion implies that a written text is more than a mere collection of statements no matter how syntactically mature or grammatically correct such sentences appear. A cohesive scale was developed to aid teachers in identifying specific types of textual cohesions difficult for a student in order that appropriate instructional objectives can be established.
Hospital water filters as a source of Mycobacterium avium complex

Bronchoscopes and the filters used for washing them were found to yield high numbers of Mycobacterium avium isolates sharing the same repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) fingerprint pattern as M. avium isolates recovered from patient samples collected by bronchoscopy. Water and biofilm samples collected from the bronchoscopy preparation laboratory yielded M. avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium malmoense and Mycobacterium gordonae. Several M. avium and M. intracellulare isolates from water samples in the bronchoscopy laboratory had rep-PCR patterns matching those of patient bronchoscopy isolates. Five of the 22 (23 %) M. avium patient bronchoscopy isolates and 42 of the 56 (75 %) M. intracellulare patient bronchoscopy isolates could have been due to contamination from the water supply.
Hexon Hypervariable Region-Modified Adenovirus Type 5 (Ad5) Vectors Display Reduced Hepatotoxicity but Induce T Lymphocyte Phenotypes Similar to Ad5 Vectors

Hexon modification of adenovirus type 5 (Ad5) vectors with the hypervariable regions (HVRs) of Ad48 has been shown to allow Ad5HVR48 vectors to circumvent the majority of the preexisting Ad5-neutralizing antibodies. However, it remains unclear whether modifying hexon HVRs impacts innate or adaptive immune responses elicited by this vector. In this study, we investigated the influence of the HVR substitution of Ad5 on innate and adaptive immune responses following vaccination. Ad5HVR48 displayed an intermediate level of innate immune cytokines and chemokines relative to those of Ad5 and Ad48, consistent with its chimeric nature. Hepatotoxicity was observed after Ad5 immunization but not after Ad5HVR48 or Ad48 immunization. However, the CD8(+) T-cell responses elicited by Ad5HVR48 vectors displayed a partially exhausted phenotype, as evidenced by the sustained expression of programmed death 1 (PD-1), decreased effector-to-central memory conversion, and reduced memory recall responses, similar to those elicited by Ad5 vectors and in contrast to those induced by Ad48 vectors. Taken together, these results indicate that although Ad5HVR48 largely bypasses preexisting Ad5 neutralizing antibodies and shows reduced hepatotoxicity compared to that of Ad5, it induces adaptive immune phenotypes that are functionally exhausted similar to those elicited by Ad5.
Application of Blue Diode Lasers to Printing

The availability of blue diode lasers would have a significant impact on several printing applications. The laser printing market is moving towards higher resolutions and higher print speeds. The optical systems for polygon scanner laser printers are diffraction limited and therefore to improve the optical resolution it is very advantageous to reduce the wavelength of the scanning laser beam from that of the IR or red lasers currently being used. The other printing application of blue lasers is exposure of film, an area where argon ion lasers are currently being used. Replacement of these by diode lasers would potentially lower system costs. In this paper, the applications of blue lasers to printing will be outlined and the technical requirements that the lasers will need to satisfy will be discussed.
The Michaelis–Menten kinetics of soil extracellular enzymes in response to temperature: a cross‐latitudinal study

Decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) is mediated by microbial extracellular hydrolytic enzymes (EHEs). Thus, given the large amount of carbon (C) stored as SOM, it is imperative to understand how microbial EHEs will respond to global change (and warming in particular) to better predict the links between SOM and the global C cycle. Here, we measured the Michaelis–Menten kinetics [maximal rate of velocity (Vmax) and half-saturation constant (Km)] of five hydrolytic enzymes involved in SOM degradation (cellobiohydrolase, b-glucosidase, b-xylosidase, a-glucosidase, and N-acetyl-b-D-glucosaminidase) in five sites spanning a boreal forest to a tropical rainforest. We tested the specific hypothesis that enzymes from higher latitudes would show greater temperature sensitivities than those from lower latitudes. We then used our data to parameterize a mathematical model to test the relative roles of Vmax and Km temperature sensitivities in SOM decomposition. We found that both Vmax and Km were temperature sensitive, with Q10 values ranging from 1.53 to 2.27 for Vmax and 0.90 to 1.57 for Km. The Q10 values for the Km of the cellulose-degrading enzyme b-glucosidase showed a significant (P = 0.004) negative relationship with mean annual temperature, indicating that enzymes from cooler climates can indeed be more sensitive to temperature. Our model showed that Km temperature sensitivity can offset SOM losses due to Vmax temperature sensitivity, but the offset depends on the size of the SOM pool and the magnitude of Vmax. Overall, our results suggest that there is a local adaptation of microbial EHE kinetics to temperature and that this should be taken into account when making predictions about the responses of C cycling to global change.
Geometric derivation of expectation-maximization and generalized successive interference cancellation algorithms with applications to CDMA channel estimation

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is well established as a computationally efficient method for separable signal parameter estimation. Here, a new geometric derivation and interpretation of the EM algorithm is given that facilitates the understanding of EM convergence properties. Geometric considerations lead to an alternative separable signal parameter estimator based on successive cancellation. The new generalized successive interference cancellation (GSIC) algorithm is then applied to multiuser delay and channel estimation for code-division multiple access (CDMA) radiolocation and communication. The radiolocation application uses a handshaking protocol in which multiple reference nodes transmit acknowledge (ACK) CDMA packets to a master node, which then computes round-trip travel times (RTTs). Simulation results comparing EM and GSIC are presented for the CDMA channel-estimation problem.
The Interplay of Ideological Diversity, Dissents, and Discretionary Review in the Judicial Hierarchy: Evidence from Death Penalty Cases

We use an original dataset of death penalty decisions on the Courts of Appeals to evaluate how the institutions of multimember appellate courts, dissent, and discretionary higher court review, interact to increase legal consistency in the federal judicial hierarchy. First, beginning with three-judge panels, we show the existence of ideological diversity on a panel — and the potential for dissent — plays a significant role in judicial decision making. Second, because of the relationship between panel composition and panel outcomes, considering only the incidence of dissents dramatically underestimates the influence of the institution of dissent — judges dissent much less frequently than they would in the absence of this relationship. Third, this rarity of dissent means they are informative: when judges do dissent, they influence en banc review in a manner consistent with the preferences of full circuits. Taken together, these results have important implications for assessing legal consistency in a vast and diverse judicial hierarchy.
National Heart Attack Alert Program position paper: chest pain centers and programs for the evaluation of acute cardiac ischemia

The National Heart Attack Alert Program (NHAAP), which is coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), promotes the early detection and optimal treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction and other acute coronary ischemic syndromes. The NHAAP, having observed the development and growth of chest pain centers in emergency departments with special interest, created a task force to evaluate such centers and make recommendations pertaining to the management of patients with acute cardiac ischemia. This position paper offers recommendations to assist emergency physicians in EDs, including those with chest pain centers, in providing comprehensive care for patients with acute cardiac ischemia.
Analysis of a price markdown mechanism

The Internet provides tremendous opportunities for implementing dynamic pricing mechanisms, since it is easier to collect information about markets and customers, and to change prices electronically rather than physically. We analyze a markdown pricing mechanism, which is a form of dynamic pricing, under complete information. Our focus is on mechanism design and the strategic bidding behavior of the customers. First, we look at a model with a single seller and two customers, where each customer demands multiple units. Then we generalize our analysis to n customer classes and compare an optimal markdown mechanism with the optimal single posted price from a revenue maximizing perspective for the seller.
What can we learn from a large border effect in developing countries

Abstract Failure of the law of one price (LOP) in the short run is an empirical regularity. Recent research, using disaggregated price data for different cities across an international boundary, has shown that the variation of the prices in equidistant cities located in two different countries is systematically larger than that for the cities within the same country. Nontariff barriers and exchange rate variability are cited as the proximate causes of this systematic difference in consumer price variability. Results using data from developing countries with large nontariff barriers and more volatile exchange rate suggest that those claims are overemphasized.
The influence of neighbor relatedness on multilevel selection in the Great Lakes sea rocket.

Abstract: Natural selection can operate at the individual and group level in natural populations. This study investigates the ecological factors that determine the relative importance of individual versus group selection. In particular, it determines how the relatedness of interacting neighbors influences multilevel natural selection in a population of the Great Lakes sea rocket. Focal plants were grown in groups of siblings, groups of plants that were themselves siblings but unrelated to the focal plants, and groups of plants with mixed genotypes. Significant group selection on plant size was observed only when the neighbors were siblings but not when they were unrelated. In sibling groups, individuals with heavier stems had higher fitness, and individuals growing with heavier but shorter neighbors also had higher fitness. Thus, individual and group selection on stem weight operated in the same direction. The detection of group selection in sibling groups can be attributed in part to an increased opportu...
Improved growth velocity with intensive dialysis. Consequence or coincidence

Growth failure in children with end-stage renal disease remains a difficult problem. A 2.5-month-old baby in renal failure due to primary hyperoxaluria type I received intensive dialysis aimed at decreasing oxalate tissue accretion. Over 5.5 months, while awaiting transplantation, his growth velocity was 29 cm/year compared with an average 4 cm/year in infants on hemodialysis and 22 cm/year in normal infants of this age. This remarkable growth rate, which could have represented catch-up growth, is hypothesized to be related to the delivered dialysis dose. It is suggested that this relationship be evaluated in a prospective randomized trial.
A reconfigurable simulator for large-scale heterogeneous multicore architectures

Future general purpose architectures will scale to hundreds of cores. In order to accommodate both latency-oriented and throughput-oriented workloads, the system is likely to present a heterogenous mix of cores. In particular, sequential code can achieve peak performance with an out-of-order core while parallel code achieves peak throughput over a set of simple, in-order (10) or single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) cores. These large-scale, heterogeneous architectures form a prohibitively large design space, including not just the mix of cores, but also the memory hierarchy, coherence protocol, and on-chip network (OCN). Because of the abundance of potential architectures, an easily reconfigurable multicore simulator is needed to explore the large design space. We build a reconfigurable multicore simulator based on M5, an event-driven simulator originally targeting a network of processors.
A design methodology for active-bootstrapped Miller-amplifiers

This paper describes a methodology to design an active-bootstrapped Miller-amplifier. An accurate model is used to analyse the small-signal behavior of the amplifier. Approximate relations suitable for hand calculations are also derived.
Recent changes in Arctic sea ice melt onset, freezeup, and melt season length

In order to explore changes and trends in the timing of Arctic sea ice melt onset and freeze-up and therefore melt season length, we developed a method that obtains this information directly from satellite passive microwave data, creating a consistent data set from 1979 through present. We furthermore distinguish between early melt (the first day of the year when melt is detected) and the first day of continuous melt. A similar distinction is made for the freeze-up. Using this method we analyze trends in melt onset and freeze-up for 10 different Arctic regions. In all regions except for the Sea of Okhotsk, which shows a very slight and statistically insignificant positive trend (O.4 days/decade), trends in melt onset are negative, i.e. towards earlier melt. The trends range from -1.0day/decade for the Bering Sea to -7.3 days/decade for the East Greenland Sea. Except for the Sea of Okhotsk all areas also show a trend towards later autumn freeze onset. The Chukchi/Beaufort Seas and Laptev/East Siberian Seas observe the strongest trends with 7 days/decade. For the entire Arctic, the melt season length has increased by about 20 days over the last 30 years. Largest trends of over 1O days/decade are seen for Hudson Bay, the East Greenland Sea the Laptev/East Siberian Seas, and the Chukchi/Beaufort Seas. Those trends are statistically significant a1 the 99% level.
Urban Sprawl, Oil, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Beginning in the 1930s, the U.S. government employed urban sprawl to profitably absorb the country's industrial output (especially automobiles). The fact that the U.S. government could utilize urban sprawl in the context of the Great Depression to expand its market for consumer durables (goods expected to last at three years) meant that it did not have to pursue a revisionist foreign policy to attain external markets. In the post-World War period urban sprawl in the U.S. continued to persist and expand, and this resulted in a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East - where the majority of the world's petroleum lies. The public policies forwarding urban sprawl, and the ancillary policies surrounding urban sprawl, have historically been fostered by economic elites and producer groups. This is consistent with economic elite theory, whose proponents hold that economic elites and producer groups are at the center of public policy formation and state behavior.
Embodied Ethos and Rhetorical Accretion: Genevieve Stebbins and the Delsarte System of Expression

This essay extends efforts to complicate traditional understandings of ethos by considering it as expressed through and by means of the body. This analysis also examines ethos in relation to Vicki Tolar Burton’s concept of rhetorical accretion or the practice of overlaying new texts on the primary core text. To reveal the significance of analyzing ethos in this manner, this study explores the work of Genevieve Stebbins, a late nineteenth-century proponent of the ideas of French acting and vocal instructor Francois Delsarte. The essay examines her use of textual accretion as a form of critique but also as a means of acceptance and overlay. More significantly, it reveals the ways that Stebbins’s deployment of rhetorical accretion represents a striking reversal of Burton’s concept. Instead of men overlaying a woman’s text we see the opposite practice in Stebbins’s case.
Investigation of the Awareness, Attitudes,Behavior of Guardians of Children to Vaccination

Objective This study was to learn the status of children guardian's knowledge, attitude and related practices about childhood vaccination in Suizhou City, Hubei Province, so as to provide reference for the related public education and improve the rate of vaccination. Methods In June, 2011, 562 parents whose children received vaccination in our clinic were selected randomly for the survey by questionnaire. Starting from July 2th, 2011, interventions were conducted, including rewarding questions on newspapers, televising the importance ofvaccination on TV, putting up posters aboutvaccination around the supermarkets and delivering vaccination pamphletstopatientsateveryclinicin thecity. Atlastin June, 2012, similarquestionnaire survey was conducted to 617children gardians. Results After the one-year intervention, the awareness of vaccinaton among children guardians was improved by1.40%, and the rate of taking proper vaccination was improved by 1.20%. More guardians gained knowledge on vaccinated via TV.No changes were observed in the proportion of people obtaining vaccination knowledge from newspaper. However, the rates of knowing how to deal with side effects of vaccination and reading the vaccination schedule were still low. Conclusion The children guardians' awarenessaboutvaccination metwith standard in the last survey and kept stable for a long time. However, more effort was necessary to improve on other aspects of vaccination education to children guardians.
Concordance Correct of Detection Result with Two Different Biochemical Analyzers

Objective To apply different biochemistry detection systems(including different equipment、reagent and method) to the same sample to measure,the result can have better comparability and concordance.Methods According to EP 9-A document request of National Committee for Clinical Laboratory of Standards(NCCLS),by Roche P800 biochemical analyzer as well as Roche assemble reagent 、the calibration 、the quality control and the process of determination were standard detection system(reference system);With LEADMAN kinds of indicated value of standard liquid to calibrate "MT-100+/ZHONG SHENG reagent" detection system was "A" detection system;With the patients fresh pooled serum for temporary calibration,LEADMAN kinds of standard liquid through accuracy rating of standard system transferred,the indicated value was transferred to actuality correction value,then reapplied the value to calibrate "MT-100+/ZHONG SHENG reagent" was"B"detection system.Simultaneously,above-mentioned three detection systems determined 40 patients serum glucose(Glu)、Urea(UREA)、Creation(Cr) and α-amylase(AMY)(the whole concentration scope can be measured).At last,the results were used to bias evaluation、dependablity and linear regression statistical analysis.Results The compare of measure index between "A"detection system with standard detection system,bias correspondence all exceeded 5.0%,linear regression analysis wasn't fine,but coefficient correlation(r) all larger than 0.975.The compare of measure index between "B" detection system with standard detection system,bias correspondence all less than 5.0%,linear regression analysis was fine,coefficient correlation(r) all larger than 0.990.Conclusion The measured results had deviation to the same sample with two different biochemistry analyzers.The fresh pooled serum was used for temporary calibration to equipments compare、calibrate and accuracy rating transfer,which ensured sequential comparability and concordance,then satisfied clinical demand.
Rat Liver Pyruvate Carboxylase: III. ISOTOPIC EXCHANGE STUDIES OF THE FIRST PARTIAL REACTION

The isotopic exchange reactions catalyzed by rat liver pyruvate carboxylase are reported. The ATP ⇌ ADP and ATP ⇌ Pi exchanges displayed the same kinetic dependence on acetyl-CoA, Mg++, K+, and HCO3-. These two exchanges occurred at the same rate suggesting a rapid equilibrium random addition of MgADP and Pi. HCO3- was a total uncompetitive substrate inhibitor of both exchanges versus Mg-ATP. The HCO3- ⇌ oxalacetate exchange required all of the substrates and activators of the reverse reaction, and ordinarily was observed only at chemical equilibrium. The pyruvate ⇌ oxalacetate exchange was shown to be partially dependent on acetyl-CoA and added cations. These results are the basis for a proposed concerted mechanism for the carboxylation of biotin.
Future hurricane storm surge risk for the U.S. gulf and Florida coasts based on projections of thermodynamic potential intensity

Coastal populations in the global tropics and sub-tropics are vulnerable to the devastating impacts of hurricane storm surge and this risk is only expected to rise under climate change. In this study, we address this issue for the U.S. Gulf and Florida coasts. Using the framework of Potential Intensity, observations and output from coupled climate models, we show that the future large-scale thermodynamic environment may become more favorable for hurricane intensification. Under the RCP 4.5 emissions scenario and for the peak hurricane season months of August–October, we show that the mean intensities of Atlantic hurricanes may increase by 1.8–4.2 % and their lifetime maximum intensities may increase by 2.7–5.3 % when comparing the last two decades of the 20th and 21st centuries. We then combine our estimates of hurricane intensity changes with projections of sea-level rise to understand their relative impacts on future storm surge using simulations with the National Weather Service’s SLOSH (Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes) model for five historical hurricanes that made landfall in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. Considering uncertainty in hurricane intensity changes and sea-level rise, our results indicate a median increase in storm surge ranging between 25 and 47 %, with changes in hurricane intensity increasing future storm surge by about 10 % relative to the increase that may result from sea level rise alone, with highly non-linear response of population at risk.
A Question of Authorship: A. M. Stephen's Catalogue of the Keam Collection [1884]

ABSTRACTThe first large-scale commercialization of antiquities in the Southwest began with the “Catalogue of Keam's Canon Collection of Relics of the Ancient Builders of the Southwestern Table Lands.” Compiled and written by Alexander M. Stephen, the catalogue accompanied a collection of ceramics Thomas V. Keam offered to the Smithsonian Institution on the occasion of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans in 1884. Internal and external evidence is presented to support the argument that while Stephen developed the descriptive and taxonomic framework of the catalogue, the explanations of symbolism were taken from narratives recorded by Jeremiah Sullivan. Stephen and Sullivan represent different perspectives in the formative decade of American anthropology, a decade dominated by the social evolutionary paradigm of Lewis Henry Morgan. The catalogue was instrumental in the sale of the pottery collection in 1892. The collection is now located in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology...
Phase I trial of nelfinavir added to cisplatin chemotherapy with concurrent pelvic radiation for locally advanced cervical cancer.

TPS5619 Background: Despite platinum based chemoradiation (C-XRT), 40-50% of women with locally advanced cervical cancer will die from their disease. Nelfinavir (NFV), a protease inhibitor, has bee...
Jesus ACTED UP and Any Possible Future of “Queer Theology”

What can we learn about the prospects for “queer theology” from how Goss wrote Jesus ACTED UP into the future for which he hoped? Theology seems to add four things to the book's political arguments and exhortations. It deepens the analyses of oppression, provides stronger means for re-education, invokes divine help, and doubles political theater with sacrament. These tasks of critique, re-education, invocation, and ritual will continue to define any Christian theology that might be called “queer.” Each requires the transformation of language. In order to have a future, queer theology must undertake a poiesis outside the endless prattle that sustains present power. Its poetry may first appear as silence.
On-chip hybrid photonic crystal surface emitting membrane lasers

CMOS compatible lasers on silicon (Si) remain to be an active and challenging area of research for integrated Si photonics. Over the last few years, we have been working on heterogeneous integration of III–V/Si material systems for the development of various photonic crystal membrane lasers on silicon. Earlier we proposed and demonstrated a membrane reflector surface-emitting laser on silicon, based on multi-layer semiconductor nanomembrane stacking via transfer printing processes, and photonic crystal Fano resonance membrane reflectors. Recently, we demonstrated another type of membrane lasers based on photonic crystal bandedge effect in coupled III–V quantum well/Si photonic crystal cavities. In this talk, I will review the design, fabrication, and characterization of these membrane lasers. The potentials and prospects of nanomembrane materials and transfer printing processes will also be discussed, for applications in silicon photonics, and flexible optoelectronics.
Building Objective 3D Fault Representations in Active Tectonic Settings

ABSTRACT Developing 3D representations of active faults is an important step to improve seismic‐hazard assessment. However, the geometries of faults can be difficult to constrain at depth, and building representations is often subjective. We present a new objective workflow to build 3D fault geometries from surface and subsurface data that are generally available in active tectonic environments. We use surface traces, focal mechanism orientations, and relocated hypocenters as geological constraints in an implicit modeling approach. This method enables us to control the weights assigned to the different constraints, increasing the accuracy of the fault model. We evaluate and refine our method by applying it to a well‐known natural case study: the Puente Hills thrust fault, a blind thrust beneath Los Angeles, California, that is imaged by high‐quality seismic reflection data and that generated the 1987 M w 6.0 Whittier Narrows earthquake. Then, we apply our new workflow to the Xianshuihe–Anninghe left‐lateral strike‐slip fault systems, China. Implementing this workflow allows for the development of improved fault surface representations that can contribute to Community Fault Models and support fault system modeling, rupture simulations, and regional hazard assessments.
A Statistical Method to Construct Confidence Sets on Carrion Insect Age from Development Stage

The age of a carrion insect associated with a corpse may represent a minimum postmortem interval. No method has been proposed before for constructing a confidence set on age based on development stage modeled as a categorical response. This paper illustrates the application of exact p values, first developed for succession data, to construct a confidence set on a carrion insect’s age based only on its development stage. It uses published development data for Lucilia sericata, with individuals reared at different temperatures pooled into sets of similar age as indexed in accumulated degree hours. Rates of coverage of true ages, assessed using each insect as a singleton holdout sample, were greater than the nominal 95% level.
A multiplex liquid-chip assay based on Luminex xMAP technology for simultaneous detection of six common respiratory viruses.

// Yong Yan 1, * , Jian-Yong Luo 1, * , Yin Chen 2, * , Heng-Hui Wang 1 , Guo-Ying Zhu 1 , Pei-Yan He 1 , Jin-Lei Guo 1 , Yong-Liang Lei 3 and Zhong-Wen Chen 1 1 Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology, Jiaxing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jiaxing 314050, China 2 Institute of Microbiology, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310051, China 3 Lishui Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Lishui 323000, China * These authors contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Zhong-Wen Chen, email: heton74@hotmail.com Keywords: Luminex, xMAP, respiratory virus, real-time RT-PCR, multiplex detection Received: December 30, 2016 Accepted: June 02, 2017 Published: June 17, 2017 ABSTRACT We utilized one-step multiplex reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and Luminex xMAP technology to develop a respiratory multiplex liquid-chip assay (rMLA) for simultaneous detection of 6 common respiratory viruses, including influenza virus type A (FluA) and type B (FluB), para-influenza virus type 3 (PIV-3), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus (MPV) and a threatening virus to China, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Performance of rMLA was evaluated by comparing with real-time RT-PCR. Detection data from clinical specimens showed that the rMLA had diagnostic sensitivities of 97.10% for FluA, 94.59% for FluB, 98.68% for PIV-3, 94.87% for RSV and 95.92% for MPV (No Data for MERS-CoV due to the lack of positive specimens). Data of analytical sensitivities showed that the detection limits of the rMLA assay were 5–25 viral RNA copies per μl for FluA, FluB, PIV-3 and MERS-CoV, approximate to the real-time RT-PCR assay; while the values were 8 and 22copies/μl for MPV and RSV, lower than the real-time RT-PCR(78 and 114 copies/μl respectively). The results indicated that the rMLA is a sensitive, specific detection tool and comparable to real-time RT-PCR, especially suitable for high-throughput detection of respiratory specimens.
Reducing White-tailed Deer Damage to Landscape Plants with Organic Products

Abstract Chemical repellency is one of the most selective approaches to controlling white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) damage to horticultural crops. This study evaluated the continuous efficacy of selected organic products containing garlic, fish oil, or putrescent egg solids against feeding damage caused by confined white-tailed deer to Hosta fortunei L. H. Bailey ‘Francee’, Gomphrena globosa L. ‘Rose’, and Catharanthus roseus L. ‘Pacifica Red’. There was a significant interaction between plant species × product (p < 0.02) when all 3 plant species were tested together. When products were tested separately on single plant species, differences (p ≤ 0.05) were detected among products. All products displayed some level of damage control by reducing browsing damage compared to the untreated control; yet for each species, 100% destruction occurred within 5 to 6 days. Overall product efficacy was determined by Overall Rank Sum Index. When product ranks were calculated for the 3 species, products contai...
The Dancing Horse, A Learned Pig, and Muscle Twitches

Two documents (one each from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries) which described specific behavioral techniques designed to train a nonhuman organism which then appeared to behave in a sapient manner were analyzed. The behavioral operations isolated were stimulus control, conditioned reinforcers and punishers, deprivation, time out, stimulus fading, successive approximation, backward chaining, negative reinforcement, response prevention, and ratio behaviors. These documents were discussed in relation to the clever Hans phenomenon, modern laboratory investigations into “private” behaviors (operationally defined as muscle twitches) and the historiography of psychology.
Computation of virtual X-ray diffraction patterns from discrete dislocation structures

Abstract A computational method to generate virtual micro-Laue X-ray diffraction patterns from discrete dislocation representations is presented. In order to capture elastic strain and rotation heterogeneities in space, the method takes a two-step approach, whereby the deformation gradient field is first evaluated at a set of sampling points throughout the volume, after which the diffracting vectors at each sampling point are ray-traced and their intensities are integrated to produce the resulting diffraction patterns. A non-singular formulation for the deformation gradient is developed to avoid numerical artifacts arising when sampling near dislocation cores. As an example, the method is applied to compute virtual diffraction peaks on a large scale strain-hardened microstructure in single crystal copper obtained from a dislocation dynamics simulation.
Healthcare Transition and the Medical Home

The purpose of this chapter is that the reader will understand the role of the pediatric medical home in the context of healthcare transition. The medical home is a model of care that provides a reliable and familiar entry into a comprehensive care system and fosters communication and collaboration between and among patients, families, clinicians, support staff, and the larger community. The medical home model is endorsed by pediatricians, internists, family medicine physicians, osteopathic providers, and emergency physicians. When established as a reliable touchpoint for preventive, acute, and chronic care, this model represents system-level support for transition and transfer to both an adult model and adult site of care. While adherence to condition-specific medical and lifestyle regimens is a critical piece of care for adolescents and young adults with special healthcare needs (AYASHCN), the medical home model offers enhanced opportunities to provide a holistic approach to AYASHCN.
Interhemispheric Approaches to Arteriovenous Malformations: 3-Dimensional Operative Video

We present 2 illustrative cases of interhemispheric approaches to right sided arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). The first patient is a healthy 54-yr-old female who presented with left-sided hearing loss and pulsatile tinnitus, and was neurologically intact. Imaging demonstrated a right sided interhemispheric AVM, fed by the anterior cerebral artery with superficial venous drainage to the superior sagittal sinus. The AVM was thought to be asymptomatic and the patient chose to have her AVM treated surgically to eliminate future risk of hemorrhage. We elected to approach this lesion via a contralateral interhemispheric approach to avoid retraction of the right hemisphere. Intraoperative angiogram demonstrated complete obliteration of the malformation and the patient was neurologically intact postoperatively. The second patient is a 41-yr-old healthy male who presented with progressive bifrontal headaches and was also neurologically intact. Imaging revealed a right interhemispheric AVM fed by the anterior cerebral artery and with superficial venous drainage to the superior sagittal sinus. Although the patient's headaches may have been related, the patient's decision to undergo surgical resection was primarily to eliminate future risk of hemorrhage. The difference with this patient was that imaging revealed the presence of two draining veins on the left side that would potentially be injured via a contralateral approach. As a result, we elected to approach this lesion ipsilaterally. Intraoperative angiogram showed complete obliteration of the malformation with intact venous drainage, and the patient was neurologically intact postoperatively. Contralateral vs ipsilateral interhemispheric approaches are compared and contrasted.
Spin-Doctoring Cobalt Redox Shuttles for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

A new low-spin (LS) cobalt(II) outer-sphere redox shuttle (OSRS) [Co(PY5Me2)(CN)]+, where PY5Me2 represents the pentadentate ligand 2,6-bis(1,1-bis(2-pyridyl)ethyl)pyridine, has been synthesized and characterized for its potential application in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Introduction of the strong field CN– ligand into the open axial coordination site forced the cobalt(II) complex, [Co(PY5Me2)(CN)]+, to become LS based upon the complex’s magnetic susceptibility (1.91 ± 0.02 μB), determined by the Evans method. Interestingly, dimerization and subsequent cobalt hexacyanide cluster formation of the [Co(PY5Me2)(CN)]+ monomer was observed upon long-term solvent exposure or addition of a supporting electrolyte for electrochemical characterization. Although long-term stability of the [Co(PY5Me2)(CN)]+ complex made it difficult to fabricate liquid electrolytes for DSSC applications, short-term stability in neat solvent afforded the opportunity to isolate the self-exchange kinetics of [Co(PY5Me2)(CN)]2+/...