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Favorable Outcome for Lymphoblastic Lymphoma (LL) After Frontline Therapy with the Hyper-CVAD Regimens: An Update.

Abstract 4099 Outcome with LL has improved with the use of more intensive chemotherapy regimens designed for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). A prior report of 33 pts with de novo LL showed favorable outcomes with the hyper-CVAD regimens (fractionated cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, dexamethasone alternating with methotrexate and cytarabine) [Thomas D, Blood 104:1624, 2004]. We updated their outcomes and reviewed the subsequent experience. From April 1992 to March 2009, 47 patients (pts) with newly diagnosed LL were treated with hyper-CVAD (n=20) or modified hyper-CVAD (n=11 with anthracycline intensification with liposomal daunorubicin-cytarabine for course 2, n=16 with subsequent regimen omitting anthracycline intensification). Intrathecal chemotherapy for CNS prophylaxis alternated methotrexate (MTX) and ara-C on days 2 and 7 of the first 4 courses. Mediastinal irradiation (XRT) was recommended for all pts presenting with bulky mediastinal disease (after consolidation prior to maintenance therapy). POMP (6-mercaptopurine, vincristine, MTX, prednisone) maintenance therapy was administered for 24 months with hyper-CVAD (intensifications with MTX-asparaginase months 7 & 11) with extension to 30 months with modified hyper-CVAD (intensifications with hyper-CVAD months 6 & 7 followed by MTX-asparaginase months 18 & 19). Allogeneic stem cell transplant (SCT) was considered in first remission only if inadequate response to therapy. Median age was 31 yrs (range, 17-59); 77% were males. Mediastinal disease was present in 74%, and 30% had pericardial and/or pleural effusions. Two pts had superior vena cava syndrome and five had CNS disease. T-cell immunophenotype was present in majority (79%). Eight (17%) pts had bone marrow involvement. Overall complete remission (CR) rate was 92% in 44 evaluable patients (3 in CR at start), with remainder achieving partial response (residual mediastinal disease not qualifying for CR). Of the 23 pts with mediastinal disease, 74% underwent XRT as planned. With a median follow-up of 73 months (range 23-187+ months), 31 (66%) pts remained alive without disease. Overall 3-yr rates for CR duration and survival were 72% and 74%, respectively. Fourteen pts relapsed or progressed within a median of 13 months (6 with standard, 8 with modified hyper-CVAD); five pts were successfully salvaged with chemotherapy and allogeneic SCT. Hyper-CVAD remains a highly active regimen for de novo LL. Anthracycline intensification did not improve the outcome. Nelarabine has now been incorporated into the modified hyper-CVAD regimen as a single agent for the consolidation (cycles 9 & 10) and maintenance (in lieu of early intensifications) phases given its activity in relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma; accrual is ongoing. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
Association between (GT)n Promoter Polymorphism and Recovery from Concussion: A Pilot Study.

Variability in recovery among concussed athletes can be attributed to several risk factors. One risk factor not definitively explored is genetic variation. Genetic variations such as variable numbe...
Necrophilia, mon amour1: José Luis Brea y los últimos días de la historia en la Expo 92

El teatro circulatorio, poshistorico y posidentitario de la Exposicion Universal de Sevilla 1992 resulta un escenario privilegiado para interrogar las conexiones entre el nuevo contexto nacional y ...
Design of a Robot for the 2019 NASA Robotic Mining Competition

The viability of extracting water on both the Moon and Mars is a focus of NASA as they explore the idea of In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). Marquette Aerospace and Robotic Systems (MARS) is participating in the 2019 NASA Robotic Mining Competition (RMC), a competition driven by using the systems engineering process to design, build, and test a robot capable of autonomously mining icy-regolith simulant in an off-world terrain to simulate an ISRU mining mission. The team used systems engineering to guide technical management, design, and operations of the robot. With feedback from the team’s faculty advisor and industry sponsors, the team utilized multiple systems engineering approaches. No single systems engineering process was selected, rather the team drew from multiple reference texts. The proposed design satisfies the requirements outlined in the 2019 NASA RMC Rules and Rubrics and placed 6 th out of 50 in the competition.
Polymer reinforced carbon fiber interfaces for high energy density structural lithium-ion batteries

Here, we show that for battery active materials coated onto carbon fiber current collectors, a thin electroconductive poly acrylonitrile, or PAN, coating applied to the surface of the battery material coated fiber drastically improves adhesion and multifunctional structural energy storage performance. With this electrode design, we demonstrate structural battery composites composed of lithium iron phosphate cathodes and graphite anodes which exhibit a maximum energy density of 58 W h kg−1 considering all combined battery and composite materials that make up both the energy storage unit and structural system framework it powers. These full-cell structural batteries also demonstrate capacity retention over 80% exceeding 100 cycles with an average energy density of 52 W h kg−1. Combined mechanical and electrochemical testing correlates this excellent multifunctional performance to the role of PAN coating that adheres active battery materials to carbon fibers during battery operation and mechanical loading. Our findings demonstrate a structural Li-ion battery with a gravimetric multifunctional advantage for electrically powered systems, and highlights the importance of interface engineering to enable practical structural battery systems.
Strategic Cognitive Maps of Small Business Leaders

Cognitive maps influence organizational strategic behaviors by guiding the perceptions of key decisions makers. This paper empirically examines these maps in small business leaders who have the ability to strongly influence an organization's attributes and actions. Results demonstrate that two distinct and polar orientations develop from small business leaders' self-identity with their organization, overall assessments of external stakeholders, and general perceptions of the environment. The strategic implications of these findings suggest that small business leaders should be mindful of their own viewpoints and biases since they can greatly influence organizational behaviors and subsequent performance.
Universal Frequency-Domain Analysis of N-Path Networks

N-path commutated capacitive networks provide a practical solution to implement highly sought on-chip high-Q filtering applications in which the use of lumped inductors is undesirable due to their significant footprints and low Q-factors. Recently, it has been also revealed that N-path networks can also exhibit other interesting functionalities, such as nonreciprocal phase-shifting and ultra-wideband true time delay, providing a path to miniaturization of various reciprocal and nonreciprocal devices. The analytical treatment of these networks, however, remains challenging, because their operation involves frequency mixing produced by the time modulation. In this article, we present a highly accurate frequency-domain approach for the analysis of N-path networks based on perturbation theory. Our method compares favorably to the state-of-the-art polyphase analysis by being much simpler mathematically, yet providing results essentially indistinguishable from numerical simulations, while offering physical insights into the N-path filter operation. We particularize the solution for the high-Q operation regime and obtain simple closed-form analytical expressions for harmonic transfer functions, scattering parameters and baseband impedance.
Antifouling strategies for protecting bioelectronic devices

Bioelectronic devices are playing an increasingly important role in many areas of our lives. They power a significant portion of medical diagnostics and are becoming more and more important for delivery of therapeutics and monitoring of chronic symptoms. However, surface fouling phenomena, and especially biofouling in complex biological fluids, restricts the performance of these devices and severely reduces their useful lifespan. In this Research Update, we discuss the main principles and strategies that researchers use to prevent fouling and minimize or remove the foulants from bioelectronic device surfaces. We also survey a variety of antifouling approaches that can enhance device performance.
Enhancing SAT-Attack Resiliency and Cost-Effectiveness of Reconfigurable-Logic-Based Circuit Obfuscation

Logic locking is a well-explored defense mechanism against various types of hardware security attacks. Recent approaches to logic locking replace portions of a circuit with reconfigurable blocks such as look-up tables (LUTs) and switch boxes (SBs) to primarily achieve logic and routing obfuscation, respectively. However, these techniques may incur significant design overhead, and methods that can mitigate the implementation cost for a given security level are desirable. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing an algorithm for deciding the location and inputs of the LUTs in LUT-based obfuscation to enhance security and reduce design overhead. We then introduce a locking method that combines LUTs with SBs to further robustify LUT-based obfuscation, largely independently of the specific LUT locations. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches on a set of ISCAS benchmark circuits.
El futuro se repite: priming effects in Spanish future expressions

Spanish shows variation between two future expressions. The synthetic future (SF) is marked morphologically while the periphrastic future (PF) is constructed with the verb ir ‘to go’ and an infinitive. Previous studies have described the semantic factors that determine the use of these expressions. The effects of priming in the selection of these expressions have yet to be addressed. Our results showed that a combination of factors contributes to the occurrence of the SF: priming effect; certainty; and verb frequency. We demonstrated that cognitive factors in combination with semantic ones should be taken into consideration when talking about the variation between the SF and the PF in Spanish. Our study also provides evidence for the fact that the obsolescing construction, the SF, will have a stronger priming effect in the larger process of language variation and change. Our work offers an important addition to the literature about the effects of persistence and entrenchment in language since we demonstrated that speakers are sensitive to contextual activation and language use factors.
How Do People Perceive Other People’s Affordances, and How Might That Help Us Design Robots That Can Do So?

A considerable amount of research has worked toward enabling robot caregivers to perform various tasks for individuals in need of assistance. However, little, if any, research has aimed to enable r...
To Forgive All

We return in this chapter to the question of the conditions under which we are justified in holding persons obligable for their actions. In light of what has been said in the preceding two chapters, it should obviously not be expected that I shall attempt to propound a general formula in terms of which to answer this question. Rather, I shall merely suggest some of the considerations that must be weighed in making reasonable judgments of obligability and, more generally, in justifying the practice of making such judgments. Since reference to the overall causal structure of the universe plays no role in deciding questions of obligability in a particular case, this is a further indication of the independence of the question of obligability from that of determinism/indeterminism. Still so strong is the seductive power of the pictures associated with these exotic metaphysical doctrines that our fidelity to our homely, everyday notion of obligability may be weakened — at least while we are under the spell of these pictures. So I shall say more in opposition to the general rejection of obligability, which, as I have argued, is based on the acceptance of an inadequate principle of non-obligability. I have suggested that this general rejection is paradoxical, or, at least highly infelicitous. But, in addition, the practice of holding persons obligable has, at the practical level, much to recommend it beyond the avoidance of conceptual difficulty.
Dietary Fat Dose-Dependently Increases α-Tocopherol Bioaccessibility

Dietary intake of the lipophilic antioxidant α-tocopherol (α-T) is poor with a significant proportion of Americans having suboptimal α-T status. Although its bioavailability is limited in the absen...
Miscible fluid displacement stability in unconfined porous media:. Two-dimensional flow experiments and simulations

In situ flushing groundwater remediation technologies, such as cosolvent flushing, rely on the stability of the interface between the resident and displacing fluids for efficient removal of contaminants. Contrasts in density and viscosity between the resident and displacing fluids can adversely affect the stability of the displacement front. Petroleum engineers have developed techniques to describe these types of processes; however, their findings do not necessarily translate directly to aquifer remediation. The purpose of this laboratory study was to investigate how density and viscosity contrasts affected cosolvent displacements in unconfined porous media characterized by the presence of a capillary fringe. Two-dimensional flow laboratory experiments, which were partially scaled to a cosolvent flushing field experiment, were conducted to determine potential implications of flow instabilities in homogeneous sand packs. Numerical simulations were also conducted to investigate the differential impact of fluid property contrasts in unconfined and confined systems. The results from these experiments and simulations indicated that the presence of a capillary fringe was an important factor in the displacement efficiency. Buoyant forces can act to carry a lighter-than-water cosolvent preferentially into the capillary fringe during displacement of the resident groundwater. During subsequent water flooding, buoyancy forces can act to effectively trap the cosolvent in the capillary fringe, contributing to the inefficient removal of cosolvent from the aquifer.
73 – Enduring Effects of Early Experience on Adult Behavior

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the long-term behavioral effects of neonatal experiences that involve disruptions of mother-infant relationships. Two paradigms of early experience are discussed, early handling and maternal separation. Early handing, which consists of removing the pup from the dam for a few minutes daily during the first two postnatal weeks results in marked changes in behaviors that are suggestive of decreased emotionality and more effective coping behavior. The outcomes related to early handling are in part maternally mediated. The effects of maternal separation, which in general involves long periods of separation from the dam, are not as conclusive. The problems associated with the maternal separation procedures are: the maternal separation paradigms vary considerably between laboratories and different comparison groups are used to evaluate the consequences of maternal separation.
'I'm Not Racist - I Voted for Obama': Youth White Racial Attitudes in a Time of Prominent Black Politicians

Racial resentment is largely predicated on the notion that Whites believe Blacks are undeserving of special help because Civil Rights legislation leveled the playing field. Young White Americans have not only lived in a time of legal racial equality but they also live in an America with a Black president who they helped to elect. The cohort replacement thesis asserts that we should expect younger Whites to be more racially liberal and tolerant than those in the previous generation. This study has two objectives. First, this article seeks to gain a sense of whether younger White Americans are, in fact, more racially liberal than their parents' generation. I find, in general, they are not. The second objective, then, is to better understand how young White Americans can be racially conservative but support a minority for president. In order to better understand this paradox, I test whether Black elites have been able to gain the support of young Whites due to the use of deracialized rhetoric; this type of rhetoric distances Blacks elites from committing to ameliorate racial disparities.
Oils and cancer

Epidemiologic evidence on the relationship between mineral oil exposure and cancer is reviewed. The review is restricted to occupations involving substantial dermal and inhalational exposure and for which an epidemiologic literature exists: metal machining, print press operating, and cotton and jute spinning. Mineral oils are complex mixtures of aliphatic hydrocarbons, naphthenics, and aromatics, the relative distribution of which depends on the source of the oil and the method of refinement. End-use products contain a variety of additives, and contamination by other agents generally occurs during use. Suspect agents include polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) (particularly benz[a]pyrene), nitrosamines, chlorinated paraffins, long-chain aliphatics, sulfur, N-phenyl-2-naphthylamine, and formaldehyde. The heterogeneity of this exposure makes epidemiologic study difficult and meta-analysis inappropriate. Nonetheless, several associations emerge from the literature with varying degrees of support. There is clear evidence that early formulations of mineral oils used in cotton and jute spinning and in metal machining were carcinogenic to the skin. Associations of mineral oil exposure with laryngeal and rectal cancer have received some support in the literature, particularly with respect to straight oils. Evidence is suggestive that grinding operations (which can entail either mineral oil-based or ethanolamine-based fluids) are associated with excess risk of cancer of the esophagus, stomach, and pancreas. A number of bladder cancer case-control studies have noted an association with work as a machinist. There is limited evidence of an association with cancer of the colon, prostate, and sinonasal region. Several studies of printers have yielded positive findings for lung cancer, whereas studies in metal machinists have been generally negative. The PAH and nitrosamine content of current formulations is lower than in the past and the implications of these changes in composition to the carcinogenicity of the formulations are not yet known.
Optical Dephasing in Molecular Iodine

Perhaps the oldest spectroscopic technique for studying time-dependent interactions in matter goes back to the turn of the century when MICHELSON [1] demonstrated that atomic collisions can broaden spectral lines. Some 55 years later, similar time-dependent interactions were pursued in more sophisticated and detailed ways by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance—the difference being that the measurements were carried out more directly in the time domain using coherent radio frequency sources. The development of this field abounds with coherence effects such as the spin echo and the free induction decay (FID) effect introduced initially by HAHN [2], and thus has set an example of what might be done at optical frequencies using laser sources. Indeed, the optical analog of the spin echo was first reported [3] in 1964, and the field of coherent optical transients has progressed steadily since that time.
Proactive Two-Party Signatures for User Authentication.

We study proactive two-party signature schemes in the context of user authentication. A proactive two-party signature scheme (P2SS) allows two parties—the client and the server—jointly to produce signatures and periodically to refresh their sharing of the secret key. The signature generation remains secure as long as both parties are not compromised between successive refreshes. We construct the first such proactive scheme based on the discrete log assumption by efficiently transforming Schnorr’s popular signature scheme into a P2SS. We also extend our technique to the signature scheme of Guillou and Quisquater (GQ), providing two practical and efficient P2SSs that can be proven secure in the random oracle model under standard discrete log or RSA assumptions. We demonstrate the usefulness of P2SSs (as well as our specific constructions) with a new user authentication mechanism for the Self-certifying File System (SFS) [28]. Based on a new P2SS we call 2Schnorr, the new SFS authentication mechanism lets users register the same public key in many different administrative realms, yet still recover easily if their passwords are compromised. Moreover, an audit trail kept by a secure authentication server tells users exactly what file servers an attacker may have accessed— including even accounts the user may have forgotten about.
Application of Computational Aeroacoustic Methodologies to Advanced Propeller Configurations - A Review

Current research in the area of advanced propeller configurations for performance and acoustics are briefly reviewed. Particular attention is given to the techniques of Lock and Theodorsen modified for use in the design of counterrotating propeller configurations; a numerical method known as SSTAGE, which is a Euler solver for the unducted fan concept; the NASPROP-E numerical analysis also based on a Euler solver and used to study the near acoustic fields for the SR series propfan configurations; and a counterrotating propeller test rig designed to obtain an experimental performance/acoustic data base for various propeller configurations.
Inventing the Louvre

Inventing the Louvre: Arts, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth. Century Paris, Andrew McLellan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiii. 289 pp. 84 halftones; appendices, notes, bibliography, index.
Noradrenergic Suppression of Synaptic Transmission May Influence Cortical Signal-to-Noise Ratio

Hasselmo, Michael E., Christiane Linster, Madhvi Patil, Daveena Ma, and Milos Cekic. Noradrenergic suppression of synaptic transmission may influence cortical signal-to-noise ratio. J. Neurophysiol...
Box products in nilpotent normal form theory: The factoring method

Abstract Let N be a nilpotent matrix and consider vector fields x ˙ = N x + v ( x ) in normal form. Then v is equivariant under the flow e N ⁎ t for the inner product normal form or e M t for the sl 2 normal form. These vector equivariants can be found by finding the scalar invariants for the Jordan blocks in N ⁎ or M; taking the box product of these to obtain the invariants for N ⁎ or M itself; and then boosting the invariants to equivariants by another box product. These methods, developed by Murdock and Sanders in 2007, are here given a self-contained exposition with new foundations and new algorithms yielding improved (simpler) Stanley decompositions for the invariants and equivariants. Ideas used include transvectants (from classical invariant theory), Stanley decompositions (from commutative algebra), and integer cones (from integer programming). This approach can be extended to covariants of sl 2 k for k > 1 , known as SLOCC in quantum computing.
Irrigation District Service in the Western United States

Data were obtained from 61 agricultural districts within the Mid-Pacific Region of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, regarding the level of water delivery service provided to users, water pricing, associated characteristics, and plans for modernization. A flexibility index was developed and used by the writers to characterize the degree of water delivery flexibility provided by each district. The flexibility index provides a rating of 3–15 (15 being the highest value) based upon the frequency, rate, and duration of irrigation water delivery service to farmers. The data show that 42% of the districts received a flexibility score of 12 or greater, with two of the districts receiving almost perfect scores. Based on these results, a program for technical assistance to irrigation districts was developed and implemented. A high priority item was supervisory control and data acquisition systems.
Health service access across racial/ethnic groups of children in the child welfare system

Objective—This study examined health service access among children of different racial/ethnic groups in the child welfare system in an attempt to identify and explain disparities. Methods—Data were from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). N for descriptive statistics = 2,505. N for multiple regression model = 537. Measures reflected child health services need, access, and enabling factors. Chi-square and t tests were used to compare across racial/ethnic groups. A logistic regression model further explored the greatest disparity identified, that between non-Latino/a Black and White children in caseworker-reported access to counseling. Results—In general, caseworker reports of health care service receipt did not differ across racial/ ethnic groups. However, Latino/a children had better reported access to vision services than nonLatino/a White children, and counseling access was lower for non-Latino/a Black children than nonLatino/a White children. Caseworkers' self-reported efforts to facilitate service access did not vary by race/ethnicity for any type of health care. In the multiple regression model, both private health insurance and a lack of insurance were negatively associated with counseling access, while a history of sexual abuse, adolescence, and greater caseworker effort to secure services were positively associated with access. Race was just barely nonsignificant after controlling for other factors expected to affect access. Conclusions—One possible reason why Black children are less likely to be identified as needing counseling is the fact that they are less likely than White children to have reports of sexual abuse, which strongly predicts counseling access. Practice implications—First, child welfare practice may be more equitable than many believe, with generally comparable health service access reported across children's racial/ethnic groups. Second, caseworkers may be under-identifying need for counseling services among Black children, although this might reflect less frequent reports of sexual abuse for Black children. Third, both
SIMON Says: Break Area Records of Block Ciphers on FPGAs

While advanced encryption standard (AES) is extensively in use in a number of applications, its area cost limits its deployment in resource constrained platforms. In this letter, we have implemented SIMON, a recent promising low-cost alternative of AES on reconfigurable platforms. The Feistel network, the construction of the round function and the key generation of SIMON, enables bit-serial hardware architectures which can significantly reduce the cost. Moreover, encryption and decryption can be done using the same hardware. The results show that with an equivalent security level, SIMON is 86% smaller than AES, 70% smaller than PRESENT (a standardized low-cost AES alternative), and its smallest hardware architecture only costs 36 slices (72 LUTs, 30 registers). To our best knowledge, this work sets the new area records as we propose the hardware architecture of the smallest block cipher ever published on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) at 128-bit level of security. Therefore, SIMON is a strong alternative to AES for low-cost FPGA-based applications.
Development of an assessment instrument to evaluate performance of the skill of decontamination.

Summary Background and Purpose Nurses must competently demonstrate psychomotor skills. Few reliable and valid instruments are available for psychomotor evaluation for disaster skills, including the skill of decontamination. Objectives The purpose of this study was to develop and refine an instrument to measure the skill of decontamination. Design A seven step instrument development design was implemented that included content validity and reliability as well as inter-rater reliability analysis. Setting and Participants A convenience sample of approximately 140 participants was drawn from two colleges of nursing at two large academic universities. The sample included senior nursing students in either their community or final practicum nursing course. Methods Based on a sample of 140 students who participated in a decontamination training experience using virtual reality simulation, a seven step established process for assessment of reliability and validity was implemented to develop a checklist for the skill of decontamination. Results The final instrument statistics: Content Validity Index for the overall instrument score was 0.94, Internal consistency coefficient = 0.607(KR-20) and Inter-rater reliability = 0.9114. Conclusions This instrument provides a reliable and valid assessment of nurses' competency in performing the skill of decontamination offering a template for educators to develop similar tools.
Rhizosphere growth of Pseudomonas solanacearum genetically altered in extracellular enzyme production

The alteration of specific genes in a bacterium may help in understanding the ecological significance of the genes. In this study we determined the effects of alterations of a single gene (encoding endopolygalacturonase A) and two genes combined (encoding endopolygalacturonase A and endoglucanase) on growth of Pseudomonas solanacearum (the causal agent of bacterial wilt) in soil and in the rhizosphcres of host and nonhost plants. The levels of endopolygalacturonase A, or endopolygalacturonase A and endoglucanasc production by P. solanacearum were either reduced by insertion mutagenesis or enhanced by increasing the gene copy number with a recombinant plasmid. In addition, changes in virulence of the genetically altered strains were determined by soil inoculation. Under nonstcrile conditions, population densities of all strains failed to increase in rhizosphere and nonrhizosphcre soils of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Marion), common purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.), and pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.]. Under gnotobiotic conditions, all strains grew in the rhizospherc of tomato, but the genetically altered strains had < 1–81% lower maximal cell densities, and 9 108% longer generation times. Strains with enhanced enzyme activity were avirulent. possibly because of an impaired ability to grow. Strains with reduced enzyme activity showed little difference in virulence compared to the wild type strain. Our data suggest that a reduction of endopolygalacturonase A, or a reduction of endopolygalacturonase A coupled with an inactivation of endoglucanase production, is of minor importance to the rhizosphere growth of P. solanacearum.
Asking as Giving: Apostolic Prayers and the Aesthetics of Well-Being in Botswana

Drawing on an ethnographic description of hymns, prayers, and requests for material goods among Apostolic Christians in Botswana, this article considers how styles of asking bring aspects of the person to the attention of divine and human others. Apostolic believers regard personal well-being under circumstances of vulnerability as hinging in part on styles of prayer and asking, which entail forms of both self-assertion and engagement with the personhood of others. Experiences of vulnerability compel Apostolics’ awareness of how partible aspects of their persons, including the voice, move among them so as ideally to build up well-being. Thus prayers to God as the ultimate source of well-being frame persons in aesthetic terms so that they may be well apprehended by divine and human others. In light of Mauss’s theory of the gift, the article considers how verbal requests can foster well-being by conveying aspects of the person to divine and human hearers in ways that assert personal standing while sustaining moral consideration. An avenue is presented for comparative inquiry into the ways in which asking opens spaces of agency and obligation in religious and humanitarian discourses.
Faster Canonical Forms for Primitive Coherent Configurations: Extended Abstract

Primitive coherent configurations (PCCs) are edge-colored digraphs that generalize strongly regular graphs (SRGs), a class perceived as difficult for Graph Isomorphism (GI). Moreover, PCCs arise naturally as obstacles to combinatorial divide-and-conquer approaches for general GI. In a natural sense, the isomorphism problem for PCCs is a stepping stone between SRGs and general GI. In his 1981 paper in the Annals of Math., Babai proposed a combinatorial approach to GI testing via an analysis of the standard individualization/refinement (I/R) technique and proved that I/R yields canonical forms of PCCs in time exp(~O(n1/2)). (The tilde hides polylogarithmic factors.) We improve this bound to exp(~O(n1/3)). This is faster than the current best bound, exp(~O(n1/2)), for general GI, and subsumes Spielman's exp(~O(n1/3)) bound for SRGs (STOC'96, only recently improved to exp(~O(n1/5)) by the present authors and their coauthors (FOCS'13)).Our result implies an exp(~O(n1/3)) upper bound on the number of automorphisms of PCCs with certain easily described and recognized exceptions, making the first progress in 33 years on an old conjecture of Babai. The emergence of exceptions illuminates the technical difficulties: we had to separate these cases from the rest. For the analysis we develop a new combinatorial structure theory for PCCs that in particular demonstrates the presence of "asymptotically uniform clique geometries" among the constituent graphs of PCCs in a certain range of the parameters.A corollary to Babai's 1981 result was an exp(~O(n1/2)) upper bound on the order of primitive but not doubly transitive permutation groups, solving a then 100-year old problem in group theory. An improved bound of exp(~O(n1/3)) (with known exceptions) follows from our combinatorial result. This bound was previously known (Cameron, 1981) only through the Classification of Finite Simple Groups. We note that upper bounds on the order of primitive permutation groups are central to the application of Luks's group theoretic divide-and-conquer methods to GI.
Heterarchical versus Hierarchical Modes of Imageless Thinking

In this factor-analytic study of imaging and thinking, measures of vivid visual and auditory imaging loaded onto a unitary “vivid imaging” factor, on which no measures of thinking loaded. This firs...
Lightweight micro lattices with nanoscale features fabricated from Projection Microstereolithography

Complex, three-dimensional lightweight cellular materials inspired by nature, such as honeycomb and foamlike structures are desirable for a broad array of applications such as structural components, catalysts supports and energy efficient materials. Additionally, when designed with interconnected porosity, the open volume in the architecture can be exploited for active cooling or energy storage, providing unique opportunities for multifunctionality. However, they are extremely difficult to fabricate with the current state-of-the-art fabrication techniques. This paper reports the fabrication of complex, three-dimensional cellular materials with nanoscale features using a novel additive manufacturing approach, namely Projection Microstereolithography (PμSL).
A MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC MODEL OF THE 2006 DECEMBER 13 ERUPTIVE FLARE

We present a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation that qualitatively models the coronal magnetic field evolution associated with the eruptive flare that occurred on 2006 December 13 in the emerging δ-sunspot region NOAA 10930 observed by the Hinode satellite. The simulation is set up to drive the emergence of an east-west-oriented magnetic flux rope at the lower boundary into a preexisting coronal field constructed from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Michelson Doppler Imager full-disk magnetogram at 20:51:01 UT on 2006 December 12. The resulting coronal flux rope embedded in the ambient coronal magnetic field first settles into a stage of quasi-static rise and then undergoes a dynamic eruption, with the leading edge of the flux rope cavity accelerating to a steady speed of about 830 km s–1. The pre-eruption coronal magnetic field shows morphology that is in qualitative agreement with that seen in the Hinode soft X-ray observation in both the magnetic connectivity as well as the development of an inverse-S-shaped X-ray sigmoid. We examine the properties of the erupting flux rope and the morphology of the post-reconnection loops, and compare them with the observations.
Modeling Slope as a Contributor to Route Selection in Mountainous Areas

Slope exerts a powerful influence on the route selection processes of humans. Attempts to model human movement in hilly and mountainous terrain which have largely focused on least-time route transformations can be improved by incorporating research suggesting that humans systematically overestimate slopes. Such research suggests that cost functions derived from slope should be more expensive than time derivations alone would indicate. This paper presents a method for empirically estimating cost functions for slopes. We use the method to predict routes and paths that are more likely to be selected by humans based on their perceptions of slope. An evaluation of the method found that it successfully predicts road, track and trail locations over a variety of conditions and distances.
Customization and design of directed self-assembly using hybrid prepatterns

Diminishing error tolerance renders the customization of patterns created through directed self-assembly (DSA) extremely challenging at tighter pitch. A self-aligned customization scheme can be achieved using a hybrid prepattern comprising both organic and inorganic regions that serves as a guiding prepattern to direct the self-assembly of the block copolymers as well as a cut mask pattern for the DSA arrays aligned to it. In this paper, chemoepitaxy-based self-aligned customization is demonstrated using two types of organic-inorganic prepatterns. CHEETAH prepattern for “CHemoepitaxy Etch Trim using a self-Aligned Hardmask” of preferential hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ, inorganic resist), non-preferential organic underlayer is fabricated using electron beam lithography. Customized trench or hole arrays can be achieved through co-transfer of DSA-formed arrays and CHEETAH prepattern. Herein, we also introduce a tone-reversed version called reverse-CHEETAH (or rCHEETAH) in which customized line segments can be achieved through co-transfer of DSA-formed arrays formed on a prepattern wherein the inorganic HSQ regions are nonpreferential and the organic regions are PMMA preferential. Examples of two-dimensional self-aligned customization including 25nm pitch fin structures and an 8-bar “IBM” illustrate the versatility of this customization scheme using rCHEETAH.
Differential Expression of Soybean Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitor Genes during Development and in Response to Wounding and Methyl Jasmonate

Three cysteine proteinase inhibitor cDNA clones (pL1, pR1, and pN2) have been isolated from a soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) embryo library. The proteins encoded by the clones are between 60 and 70% identical and contain the consensus QxVxG motif and W residue in the appropriate spatial context for interaction with the cysteine proteinase papain. L1, R1, and N2 mRNAs were differentially expressed in different organs of plants (juvenile and mature) and seedlings, although N2 mRNA was constitutive only in flowers. R1 and N2 transcripts were induced by wounding or methyl jasmonate (M-JA) treatment in local and systemic leaves coincident with increased papain inhibitory activity, indicating a role for R1 and N2 in plant defense. The L1 transcript was constitutively expressed in leaves and was induced slightly by M-JA treatment in roots. Unlike the chymotrypsin/trypsin proteinase inhibitor II gene (H. Pena-Cortes, J. Fisahn, L. Willmitzer [1995] Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 4106-4113), expression of the soybean genes was only marginally induced by abscisic acid and only in certain tissues. Norbornadiene, a competitive inhibitor of ethylene binding, abolished the wounding or M-JA induction of R1 and N2 mRNAs but not the accumulation of the wound-inducible vspA transcript. Presumably, ethylene binding to its receptor is involved in the wound inducibility of R1 and N2 but not vspA mRNAs. Bacterial recombinant L1 and R1 proteins, expressed as glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins, exhibited substantial inhibitory activities against vicilin peptidohydrolase, the major thiol endopeptidase in mung bean seedlings. Recombinant R1 protein had much greater cysteine proteinase inhibitor activity than recombinant L1 protein, consistent with the wound inducibility of the R1 gene and its presumed role in plant defense.
Data Analysis Using GAUSS and Markov

GAUSS can be used in a variety of ways for statistical computing. Most simply, it is an interactive matrix calculator. It is also a standard statistical package in which you specify the data, variables, and type of analysis and let the program do the computations. And, finally, GAUSS is a powerful matrix programming language that is ideal for statistical computations. GAUSS's strength lies in its ability to move among these levels of use. This article begins with a review of GAUSS's main features, followed by a didactic example of the different ways that a multiple regression can be computed. This leads to a demonstration of GAUSS's programming capabilities for a series of nonstandard statistical problems.
Reactions of atomic silicon and germanium with nitrous oxide to produce electronically excited silicon monoxide and germanium monoxide

Abstract The reactions Si( 3 P) + N 2 O → SiO + N 2 and Ge( 3 P) + N 2 O → GeO + N 2 have been studied. The products of the reactions have been studied by emission spectroscopy. We have assigned the emission spectrum of SiO to a 3 Σ + → X 1 Σ + and b 3 Π → X 1 Σ + transitions. Values of T 0 = 33 417 cm −1 for the a → X system, and T 0 = 33 863 cm −1 for the b → X system have been obtained. We have also assigned the emission spectrum of GeO, a 3 Σ + → X 1 Σ + , with T 0 = 27 560 cm −1 and ω 0 ′ = 628.1 cm −1 . The products of the reactions are discussed in terms of the conservation of spin angular momentum and orbital correlation.
Progressive template matching for content-based retrieval in earth-observing satellite image database

In this paper we present a progressive template matching algorithm that can be used when performing content-based retrieval on images or videos that are stored using DCT based block transforms such as those used in the JPEG compression standard. In the proposed method, the template matching is initially performed on a low-resolution version of the image consisting of the low frequency coefficients from the DCT-transformed image. The template is then matched against the neighborhood of the resulting hit(s) by incorporating additional DCT coefficients into the analysis. We have conducted preliminary experiments on a database consisting of large satellite images; our results show that the progressive template matching methodology yields significant computational speedup over the conventional approach.© (1995) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Comparison of linkage maps of mouse chromosome 12 derived from laboratory strain intraspecific and Mus spretus interspecific backcrosses

Progeny from an interspecific backcross between laboratory mice and Mus spretus were typed for inheritance of eight genetic markers on chromosome 12. Marker order determined by segregation analyses of 115 meiotic events was in good agreement with that determined previously using intraspecific laboratory strain backcrosses. Two additional markers, D12Nyu5 and Lamb-1, previously not ordered, were located in the middle of the interval between D12Nyu12 and D12Nyu1. Marker spacing was reduced in the interspecific cross relative to that observed in intraspecific crosses. Furthermore, the interspecific cross was characterized by marked deviation from 1:1 segregation in the recombinant chromosomes and very strong positive interference. These data suggest that comparisons of different mouse crosses may facilitate the understanding of underlying mechanisms that govern recombination events in complex genomes.
Shaping neighborhoods and nature: Urban political ecologies of urban waterfront transformations in Portland, Oregon

This research critically examines the planning and redevelopment of historic industrial waterfronts adjacent to downtown Portland, Oregon. While the city’s economy once centered on its waterfronts, economic restructuring and industrial decline rendered obsolete many of these spaces and their ancillary warehouses and railyards. The city and the region have pinned their hopes for the future on real estate development, biotech and the creative economy. The waterfront has become the site of considerable residential and commercial redevelopment that transforms underutilized areas into an expanded downtown following a familiar model of condos, restaurants, offices and galleries. These remade waterfront districts must be considered within the way in which articulations of nature and urbanity are mobilized in order to shape expectations and consumption of the new neighbourhoods. This is particularly relevant given the city’s prominence in academic and mainstream media regarding its liveability and environmentalism. Waterfront ecological restoration, urban liveability, and sustainable technologies all appeal to the urban imaginaries of planners, developers and residents while potentially displacing other concerns or questions. Public–private partnerships and strategic rescaling suggest new governance regimes are articulated in the visioning, planning and development of these districts, simultaneously reconstructing neighbourhoods and ecologies. Portland is often considered (and considers itself) at the leading edge of progressive urban development and politics. Careful criticism of the city’s production of new urban spaces should be pursued to avoid foreclosing opportunities for articulating alternate urban futures.
Existence theorems and necessary conditions for a general formulation of the minimum effort problem

The basic problem considered may be described briefly as follows. LetX,Y, andZ be normed linear spaces,T:D(T)→Y,S:D(S)→Z linear operators withD(T) $$ \subseteq$$ X andD(S) $$ \subseteq$$ X,Ω $$ \subseteq$$ X a convex set containing the zero elementθ, andJ a real-valued convex function defined onX×Y such that Givenζ∈Y andη∈S[core T Ω∩;D(S)], find an elementx=x 0 which minimizesJ(x,ζ−Tx) on the set {x∈[Ω∩;D(S)∩;D(T)]:Sx=η}. The abovementioned problem, together with certain special cases, is analyzed using the classical techniques of functional analysis. Existence problems are considered for a certain class of closed linear operators. In particular, existence of an optimal solution is determined by evaluating a generalized Minkowski functional at the point (ζ,η) inY×Z. A necessary condition is presented for special cases, and corresponding characterizations of optimal solutions are made in terms of the adjoint operators. These results are applicable to linear minimum effort problems, constrained variational problems, optimal control of distributive systems, and certain ill-posed variational problems.