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Alcohol and violence related cognitive risk factors associated with the perpetration of intimate partner violence

The primary aim of this study is to determine the association between alcohol, violence related cognitive risk factors, and impulsivity with the perpetration of partner violence among current drinkers. A probability sample (n = 1468) of White, Black, and Hispanic couples 18 years of age or older in the United States household population was interviewed in 1995 with a response rate of 85%. The risk factors of interest included the alcohol and violence related cognitions of approval of marital aggression, alcohol as an excuse for misbehavior, and aggressive expectations following alcohol consumption as well as impulsivity. In all, 15% (216/1468) of the respondents reported perpetration of domestic violence. In addition, 24% (7/29) of those who approved of marital violence, 11% (126/1163) of those who reported alcohol use as an excuse for misbehavior, 10% (128/1257) of those who reported aggressive expectations following alcohol consumption, and 14% (99/716) of those who reported impulsivity also reported perpetration of domestic violence. Bivariate analysis indicated that all of the cognitive risk factors were significantly more common in those who reported perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) (p < 0.05). However, multivariate analysis controlling for ethnicity, education, income, age, gender, and impulsivity indicated that those who reported strong or very strong expectations of aggressive behavior following alcohol consumption were 3.2 (95% CI = 1.3–7.9) times more likely to perpetrate IPV. Although all of the alcohol and violence related cognitive risk factors were associated with the perpetration of domestic violence, expectations of aggressive behavior following alcohol consumption appeared to be the strongest predictor of the perpetration of IPV among current drinkers. Therefore, alcohol expectancy may be an important factor to assess when attempting to identify and treat perpetrators of domestic violence who are also current drinkers.
Concepts of Causation in the Behavioral Assessment Paradigm

Causation is a central concept of the behavioral assessment paradigm. Causal concepts and causal models of clients strongly affect assessment strategies and intervention decisions. Behavioral interventions are often designed to modify the hypothesized causes of a client’s behavior problems and are often based on causal models of the client’s behavior problems. The focus of an intervention program is often guided by the results of preintervention assessment, which identifies causal relations that are most likely to be important and clinically useful for a client’s behavior problems and treatment goals.
More light for art conservation

The author discusses the uses of high-intensity light for surface treatment of artifacts to effect divestment, stabilization, sterilization, and activation. Such techniques, exploiting unique noncontact and self-limiting attributes of the coupling of high-power light to surface, are used for the conservation and restoration of artwork. Both laser and nonlaser light cleaning are described. Topics include: divestment by laser, light coupling to surfaces, conservation using lasers, and xenon flash lamp and scanning electron microscope systems for art conservation use.
Infectious cDNA Clone of the Epidemic West Nile Virus from New York City

We report the first full-length infectious clone of the current epidemic, lineage I, strain of West Nile virus (WNV). The full-length cDNA was constructed from reverse transcription-PCR products of viral RNA from an isolate collected during the year 2000 outbreak in New York City. It was cloned into plasmid pBR322 under the control of a T7 promoter and stably amplified in Escherichia coli HB101. RNA transcribed from the full-length cDNA clone was highly infectious upon transfection into BHK-21 cells, resulting in progeny virus with titers of 1 x 10(9) to 5 x 10(9) PFU/ml. The cDNA clone was engineered to contain three silent nucleotide changes to create a StyI site (C to A and A to G at nucleotides [nt] 8859 and 8862, respectively) and to knock out an EcoRI site (A to G at nt 8880). These genetic markers were retained in the recovered progeny virus. Deletion of the 3'-terminal 199 nt of the cDNA transcript abolished the infectivity of the RNA. The plaque morphology, in vitro growth characteristics in mammalian and insect cells, and virulence in adult mice were indistinguishable for the parental and recombinant viruses. The stable infectious cDNA clone of the epidemic lineage I strain will provide a valuable experimental system to study the pathogenesis and replication of WNV.
Characterization of the mouse von Willebrand factor promoter.

Expression of the von Willebrand factor (vWF) gene is restricted to the endothelial and megakaryocyte lineages. Within the endothelium, expression of vWF varies between different vascular beds. We have previously shown that the human vWF promoter spanning a region between −2182 (relative to the start site of transcription) and the end of the first intron contains information for environmentally responsive, vascular bed-specific expression in the heart, skeletal muscle, and brain. In the present study, we cloned the mouse vWF (mvWF) promoter and studied its function in cultured endothelial cells and transgenic mice. In transient transfection assays, the mvWF gene was found to be regulated by distinct mechanisms in different endothelial cell subtypes. In independent lines of transgenic mice, an mvWF promoter fragment containing DNA sequences between −2645 and the end of the first intron directed endothelial cell-specific expression in the microvascular beds of the heart, brain, and skeletal muscle as well as the endothelial lining of the aorta. In 1 line of mice, reporter gene activity was also detected in bone marrow megakaryocytes. Taken together, these findings suggest that both the mouse and human vWF promoters are regulated by vascular bed-specific mechanisms.
Academic cross-pollination: The role of disciplinary affiliation in research collaboration

Academic collaboration is critical to knowledge production, especially as teams dominate scientific endeavors. Typical predictors of collaboration include individual characteristics such as academic rank or institution, and network characteristics such as a central position in a publication network. The role of disciplinary affiliation in the initiation of an academic collaboration between two investigators deserves more attention. Here, we examine the influence of disciplinary patterns on collaboration formation with control of known predictors using an inferential network model. The study group included all researchers in the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) at Washington University in St. Louis. Longitudinal data were collected on co-authorships in grants and publications before and after ICTS establishment. Exponential-family random graph models were used to build the network models. The results show that disciplinary affiliation independently predicted collaboration in grant and publication networks, particularly in the later years. Overall collaboration increased in the post-ICTS networks, with cross-discipline ties occurring more often than within-discipline ties in grants, but not publications. This research may inform better evaluation models of university-based collaboration, and offer a roadmap to improve cross-disciplinary collaboration with discipline-informed network interventions.
Bringing negotiation teaching to life: From the classroom to the campus to the community

Taking students of negotiation out into the field might be an excellent way to learn. However, taking your students to the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul, Cohn and Ebner point out, is educational all right, but it is expensive. So they turn their attention to what might be done with adventure learning in the immediate environment of a university. A whole menu of options, it turns out, is readily available. For suggestions on assessing adventure learning, and for using it as a method in the course's student evaluation array, see http://ssrn.com/abstract=2328831.
All Anxiety is not Created Equal: Correlates of Parent/Youth Agreement Vary Across Subtypes of Anxiety

Research has examined patterns and correlates of parent/youth informant discrepancies in the reporting of youth anxiety. However, little work has examined whether it is better to conceptualize patterns and correlates of informant disagreement across anxiety broadly, or more useful to consider disagreement on specific symptom clusters. Using data from the Child Adolescent/Anxiety Multimodal Study (CAMS; N = 488; Walkup et al. The New England Journal of Medicine, 359(26), 2753-2766. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0804633 , 2008), the current study applied the most recent recommended analytic strategies to study informant discrepancies and examined differences in the magnitude and patterns of disagreement for: (a) broadband anxiety symptoms, versus (b) symptoms of specific anxiety diagnoses (or anxiety subtypes; e.g., separation, social anxiety). Correlates of informant discrepancies were also examined. Results indicated that there was variability in agreement across anxiety subtypes, with parent/youth agreement higher on separation anxiety and school refusal symptoms relative to other domains. Parental psychopathology was associated with disagreement on broadband anxiety symptoms, such that parental psychopathology was highest when parents reported higher symptoms than their children; however, this finding was largely driven by a relationship between parental psychopathology and disagreement on separation anxiety symptoms. Age was associated with disagreement on total and separation anxiety symptoms. Gender was not associated with disagreement. Clinical implications are discussed.
Mental health and the elderly: factors in stability and change over time.

Data from the Cleveland GAO Study reveal that, over one year, more elderly persons improved or remained stable than declined in self-assessed mental health and psychiatric symptoms. This pattern is contrary to findings that mental impairment increases with age. Factor analysis of a commonly used psychiatric symptom checklist identified two subscales, one a measure of psychological symptoms and the other of somatic symptoms; both of these are analyzed in this report. Secondary analysis of the 1,332 persons for whom data from both Ti (1975) and T2 (1976) are available evaluates this unexpected stability and improvement. Good physical health at T2 and less illness during the year emerged as the most powerful explanands for gains in all mental health measures, with higher educational levels also contributing to such gains. Improvement in self-assessed mental health was more likely for blacks than for whites, and males were more likely than females to show improvement in somatic symptomatology. Implications offindings for measurement of mental health and for the quality of life among the elderly are discussed.
Some effects of depletion and repletion in proteins on body fluids in adult dogs.

SummaryThe plasma albumin decreases markedly while the total plasma globulins decrease slightly below control values in the protein-depleted animal. The dogs are very susceptible to disease in the depleted state, a susceptibility which is reduced upon repletion in proteins. The plasma volume drops and the available fluids increase as the total circulating plasma albumin is reduced by the process of depletion. This nutritional edema is corrected rapidly by repletion in plasma albumin.The excretion of urine nitrogen gradually increases during the feeding of protein nitrogen in the repletion period. This gradual increase is the result of a decrease in the utilization of the protein and of an increase in the excretion of nitrogen from body stores. The decrease in urine nitrogen excretion below normal which occurs in the hypoproteinemic dog is primarily the result of a decrease in ammonia and urea nitrogen.
Urban Daytime Population: A Field for Demographic-Ecological Analysis

This paper has proposed the need to consider social structure in addition to ecological and cultural factors in the study of changes in land use. The traditional ecological processes are no longer adequate tools to analyze changes in land use. These processes, like most ecological concepts, are based on models of eighteenth century free enterprise economics. Yet fundamental changes in the structure of the economy call for new economic models which in turn call for a recasting of general ecological theory. The new vital trend of cultural ecology does not do this adequately, for it considers the structural realities of urban society only indirectly. This paper proposes that ecological change be studied by first isolating the important and powerful land-interested groupings in the city. Certain elements in an analytical scheme have been proposed to study the collective bargaining relationships among these groupings. The forces that operate in land use change may well be studied in the socio-political struggles that are presently occurring in the area of zoning. A brief survey of some changes in urban zoning points to the greater adequacy of the sociological over the traditional ecological analysis for understanding and predicting land use changes. 17 Solon T. Kimball, "A Case Study of Township Zoning," Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station Quarterly Bulletin, 28 (May 1946), p. 4.
ADHD, Socioeconomic Status, Medication Use, and Academic Ethic

ABSTRACTThis study examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and the likelihood of receiving medication for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and then addresses the embodiment of the “ideal student,” using the National Survey of Child’s Health. We find that the construction of the ideal student and parents’ higher income is correlated with higher odds of medication use for children and adolescents with ADHD. Furthermore, our results imply that structural inequalities in the current healthcare system increase the odds of upper-class children and adolescents receiving medication for ADHD. We find evidence that both severity of ADHD and younger ages increase the odds of receiving medication. We conclude with a discussion of the academic ethic, upper-class life, and future suggestions for research.
179 INDIVIDUALS WITH DIABETES HAVE AN INCREASED RISK OF COLORECTAL CANCER.

Objectives To determine the prevalence of colorectal cancer among individuals with and without diabetes in a large nationally representative survey. To ascertain if there are increased odds of having colorectal cancer among individuals with diabetes mellitus after controlling for relevant confounders. Background Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer and second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States. An emerging risk factor for colorectal cancer is type 2 diabetes mellitus. Biochemical mechanisms postulated for this risk include hyperinsulinemia and elevated serum C-peptide levels, both of which affect colon mucosa adversely in vitro. Methods Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 1997-2003, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. The NHIS is a comprehensive nationally representative survey weighted to represent the US adult population. Subjects selected by a complex sampling design involving stratification, clustering, and multistage sampling with a nonzero probability of selection for each person. There were 226,953 subjects represented in the combined 7 years of the NHIS, of which 13,399 reported a history of diabetes (5.9%). Dependent variable was colorectal cancer history, defined by an affirmative answer to "Have you ever been told by a health care professional that you have colon or rectal cancer? " The primary independent variable was a reported history of diabetes. Relevant covariates included age, race, gender, smoking history, alcohol use, and obesity. NHIS data from 1997-2003 were merged with SAS v. 9.1.3. Analyses performed with STATA v. 8.0, which accounted for the complex survey design of the NHIS and generated population estimates. Multiple logistic regression was used to determine whether diabetes was independently associated with colorectal cancer. Results Individuals with diabetes were more likely to have a history of colorectal cancer than individuals without diabetes (1.34% vs 0.47%, p Conclusions The prevalence of colorectal cancer is nearly 3 times as high among individuals with diabetes as compared to subjects without diabetes. After controlling for relevant confounders, the odds of having colorectal cancer were significantly higher among people with diabetes. People age 50 and older, Caucasians, and former smokers were all more likely to have a history of colorectal cancer. If this association remains positive in prospective trials, people with diabetes may require more aggressive screening for colorectal cancer than the general population. Research should be directed at understanding the pathophysiologic reasons why diabetes is associated with colorectal cancer.
Studies on the QTLs for Cold Tolerance Related Characters of Rice Seedlings by Molecular Markers

The quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for cold tolerance related characters, chlorophyll content and chilling injury, in the seedling stage of rice were identified by 89 microsatellite markers (SSR) based on the population of 79 recombinant inbred lines (RIL) from the cross between indica variety Erjiuqing and japonica variety Yukihikari. Treated under three low temperature conditions of 17℃, 18℃ and 15～20℃ and using chlorophyll content as the indicator for cold tolerance, eleven QTLs located on chromosomes 1 (two), 2 (two), 3,5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 were found to be related to low temperature chlorosis resistance. Among them, three QTLs could be tested under all three temperature environments, one under two environments and seven under only one environment. Each of the eleven QTLs could explain 5.68%～ 27.42 % of the total phenotypic variation. Treated under lethal low temperature (4℃) conditions and using chilling injury as the indicator for cold tolerance, five QTLs were located on chromosomes 3, 4, 7, 8 and 11 with each one explaining 7.65 %～49.34% of total phenotypic variation. Of them, RM224 on chromosome 11 was a major QTL with an effect of 49.34% on chilling injury. Based on the results of QTL localization with SSR markers, there was not a genetic linkage between the traits of chlorosis and chilling injury, even though they are both the expressions of the varieties without cold tolerance under low temperature conditions. Therefore, it can be concluded that the seedling cold tolerance is a complex character with polygenic inheritance.
Lupus as a renal disease.

The patterns of lupus nephritis lesions differ from patient to patient and in the same patient from glomerulus to glomerulus. Despite this diversity, considerable progress has been made in treatment and in improving prognosis. Ongoing investigations presage the development of new therapeutic approaches, including the use of biologic and pharmacologic immunomodulation.
How Compliance Measures, Behavior Modification, and Continuous Quality Improvement Led to Routine HIV Screening in an Emergency Department in Brooklyn, New York.

Objective.New York State adopted a new HIV testing law in 2010 requiring medical providers to offer an HIV test to all eligible patients aged 13–64 years during emergency room or ambulatory care vi...
DisCoF: Cooperative Pathfinding in Distributed Systems with Limited Sensing and Communication Range

Cooperative pathfinding is often addressed in one of two ways in the literature. In fully coupled approaches, robots are considered together and the plans for all robots are constructed simultaneously. In decoupled approaches, the plans are constructed only for a subset of robots at a time. While decoupled approaches can be much faster than fully coupled approaches, they are often suboptimal and incomplete. Although there exist a few decoupled approaches that achieve completeness, global information (which makes global coordination possible) is assumed. Global information may not be accessible in distributed robotic systems. In this paper, we provide a window-based approach to cooperative pathfinding with limited sensing and communication range in distributed systems (called DisCoF). In DisCoF, robots are assumed to be fully decoupled initially, and may gradually increase the level of coupling in an online and distributed fashion. In some cases, e.g., when global information is needed to solve the problem instance, DisCoF would eventually couple all robots together. DisCoF represents an inherently online approach since robots may only be aware of a subset of robots in the environment at any given point of time. Hence, they do not have enough information to determine non-conflicting plans with all the other robots. Completeness analysis of DisCoF is provided.
Loyal Sons and the Domestic Ideal

Even as Nicholas Petrovich Kirsanov delighted in his son Arcadii’s return to the family estate after a number of years away at the university, he lamented the ever-increasing distance between himself and his son. ‘Oppressed with sad thoughts,’ Nicholas Petrovich ‘for the first time clearly realized the gulf that separated him from his son.’1 Weeks, months, and years spent at the university had widened the emotional and philosophical gap that opened between the generations. Although he had returned home, Arcadii largely rejected the past — personified by his father — in the hope of a more fulfilling future with his friend, the nihilist Bazarov. This familiar story, found in Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, connected Arcadii’s distancing himself from his father with his own coming of age into new, more radical, political ideas.
Rickettsia parkeri and "Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae" in Questing Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae) From Mississippi.

Amblyomma maculatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae), the primary vector for Rickettsia parkeri , may also be infected with a rickettsia of unknown pathogenicity, “ Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae.” Infection rates with these rickettsiae vary geographically, and coinfected ticks have been reported. In this study, infection rates of R. parkeri and “ Ca . R. andeanae” were evaluated, and rickettsial DNA levels quantified, in 335 questing adult A. maculatum collected in 2013 ( n = 95), 2014 ( n = 139), and 2015 ( n = 101) from Oktibbeha County, MS. Overall infection rates of R. parkeri and “ Ca. R. andeanae” were 28.7% and 9.3%, respectively, with three additional A. maculatum (0.9%) coinfected. While R. parkeri- infected ticks were detected all three years (34.7% in 2013; 13.7% in 2014; 43.6% in 2015), “ Ca. R. andeanae” was not detected in 2013, and was detected at rates of 10.8% in 2014, and 15.8% in 2015. Interestingly, rickettsial DNA levels in singly-infected ticks were significantly lower in “ Ca. R. andeanae”-infected ticks compared to R. parkeri- infected ticks ( P < 0.0001). Thus, both infection rates and rickettsial DNA levels were higher for R. parkeri than “ Ca. R. andeanae.” Infection rates of R. parkeri were also higher, and “ Ca. R. andeanae” lower, here compared to A. maculatum reported previously in Kansas and Oklahoma. As we continue to monitor infection rates and levels, we anticipate that understanding temporal changes will improve our awareness of human risk for spotted fever rickettsioses. Further, these data may lead to additional studies to evaluate potential interactions among sympatric Rickettsia species in A. maculatum at the population level.
Resemblance profiles as clustering decision criteria: Estimating statistical power, error, and correspondence for a hypothesis test for multivariate structure

Clustering data continues to be a highly active area of data analysis, and resemblance profiles are being incorporated into ecological methodologies as a hypothesis testing-based approach to clustering multivariate data. However, these new clustering techniques have not been rigorously tested to determine the performance variability based on the algorithm's assumptions or any underlying data structures. Here, we use simulation studies to estimate the statistical error rates for the hypothesis test for multivariate structure based on dissimilarity profiles (DISPROF). We concurrently tested a widely used algorithm that employs the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) to estimate the proficiency of clustering with DISPROF as a decision criterion. We simulated unstructured multivariate data from different probability distributions with increasing numbers of objects and descriptors, and grouped data with increasing overlap, overdispersion for ecological data, and correlation among descriptors within groups. Using simulated data, we measured the resolution and correspondence of clustering solutions achieved by DISPROF with UPGMA against the reference grouping partitions used to simulate the structured test datasets. Our results highlight the dynamic interactions between dataset dimensionality, group overlap, and the properties of the descriptors within a group (i.e., overdispersion or correlation structure) that are relevant to resemblance profiles as a clustering criterion for multivariate data. These methods are particularly useful for multivariate ecological datasets that benefit from distance-based statistical analyses. We propose guidelines for using DISPROF as a clustering decision tool that will help future users avoid potential pitfalls during the application of methods and the interpretation of results.
A Fast and Robust Linear State Estimator for Very Large Scale Interconnected Power Grids

This paper presents a computationally efficient and statistically robust linear state estimator for very large scale interconnected power grids that are made observable by synchronized phasor measurements. The developed estimator has some desirable properties such as robustness against gross errors in phasor measurements (bad data), computational performance that remains minimally affected by growing system size or bad data as long as the size of the largest control area remains bounded, and the fact that independent system operators associated with control areas do not have to share majority of their real-time data or measurements while the estimator solves for the entire system. The estimator is implemented and tested on a small (30-bus) and a large (2917-bus) utility test systems and results are provided.
Representing Teaching Within High-Stakes Teacher Performance Assessments

Teacher education in the United States is contextualized by efforts among various actors—for instance, state policy makers, teacher educators, and researchers—to wrest control over the terms, conditions, and consequences of accountability in the field. A key mechanism in this campaign is teacher performance assessments (TPAs), which have evolved with the accountability movement to serve the roles of gatekeeping teachers’ entry into the profession and evaluating the outcomes of teacher education. Tensions over TPAs as policy levers first emerged in California in the early 2000s, when—in response to a law mandating that teaching candidates pass a state-approved performance assessment for licensure—universities within the Performance Assessment of California Teachers (PACT) consortium developed an alternative to the existing test that aimed to emphasize subject-specific student learning, position the TPA as a formative assessment tool, and preserve flexibility in teacher education programming.
High prevalence of elevated blood lead levels in both rural and urban Iowa newborns: Spatial patterns and area-level covariates

Lead in maternal blood can cross the placenta and result in elevated blood lead levels in newborns, potentially producing negative effects on neurocognitive function, particularly if combined with childhood lead exposure. Little research exists, however, into the burden of elevated blood lead levels in newborns, or the places and populations in which elevated lead levels are observed in newborns, particularly in rural settings. Using ~2300 dried bloods spots collected within 1-3 days of birth among Iowa newborns, linked with the area of mother's residence at the time of birth, we examine the spatial patterns of elevated (>5 μg/dL) blood lead levels and the ecological-level predictors of elevated blood lead levels. We find that one in five newborns exceed the 5 μg/dL action level set by the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Bayesian spatial zero inflated regression indicates that elevated blood lead in newborns is associated with areas of increased pre-1940s housing and childbearing-age women with low educational status in both rural and urban settings. No differences in blood lead levels or the proportion of children exceeding 5 μg/dL are observed between urban and rural maternal residence, though a spatial cluster of elevated blood lead is observed in rural counties. These characteristics can guide the recommendation for testing of infants at well-baby appointments in places where risk factors are present, potentially leading to earlier initiation of case management. The findings also suggest that rural populations are at as great of risk of elevated blood lead levels as are urban populations. Analysis of newborn dried blood spots is an important tool for lead poisoning surveillance in newborns and can direct public health efforts towards specific places and populations where lead testing and case management will have the greatest impact.
Fragile X Newborn Screening: Lessons Learned From a Multisite Screening Study

BACKGROUND: Delays in the diagnosis of children with fragile X syndrome (FXS) suggest the possibility of newborn screening as a way to identify children earlier. However, FXS does not have a proven treatment that must be provided early, and ethical concerns have been raised about the detection of infants who are carriers. This article summarizes major findings from a multisite, prospective, longitudinal pilot screening study. METHODS: Investigators in North Carolina, California, and Illinois collaborated on a study in which voluntary screening for FXS was offered to parents in 3 birthing hospitals. FXS newborn screening was offered to >28 000 families to assess public acceptance and determine whether identification of babies resulted in any measurable harms or adverse events. Secondary goals were to determine the prevalence of FMR1 carrier gene expansions, study the consent process, and describe early development and behavior of identified children. RESULTS: A number of publications have resulted from the project. This article summarizes 10 “lessons learned” about the consent process, reasons for accepting and declining screening, development and evaluation of a decision aid, prevalence of carriers, father participation in consent, family follow-up, and maternal reactions to screening. CONCLUSIONS: The project documented public acceptance of screening as well as the challenges inherent in obtaining consent in the hospital shortly after birth. Collectively, the study provides answers to a number of questions that now set the stage for a next generation of research to determine the benefits of earlier identification for children and families.
Evaluation in Nonprofit Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Many factors influence the extent to which nonprofit organizations engage in evaluation. Drawing on organization theory, nonprofit scholarship, and public administration research, we propose a set ...
Chiral Metamaterials of Plasmonic Slanted Nanoapertures with Symmetry Breaking.

We propose a universal design scheme for a new type of chiral metamaterials based on plasmonic slanted nanoapertures simply milled in a single metal layer. Strong optical chirality is introduced by tilting nanoapertures with almost arbitrary shape along a certain direction to break all the mirror symmetries. As a typical example, chiral metamaterial based on slanted split-ring apertures is demonstrated with giant circular dichroism in transmission (CDT) over 78% at 760 nm. We reveal that the high CDT originates from the circularly dichroic mode coupling process in the slanted nanoapertures induced by spin-dependent field overlap conditions. Furthermore, tunable CDT is presented through the in-plane rotation of nanoapertures to form chiral images with controllable image contrast. Besides, chiral metamaterials with slanted nanoapertures of two other shapes including L-shaped aperture and rectangular aperture are also presented with large circular dichroism. We envision that our demonstrated chiral metamater...
MICROSPORIDIOSIS IN PEPPERMINT SHRIMP (DECAPODA: HIPPOLYTIDAE: LYSMATA SPP.)

Abstract Microsporidia are a diverse, parasitic phylum closely related to fungi. They infect a broad range of host species and tissues. This report describes microsporidiosis infection in a captive, wild-caught peppermint shrimp (Lysmata spp.). The animal was found dead in its enclosure approximately 5 days after molting. Grossly, the skeletal musculature was diffusely swollen, opaque, and pale tan to white. Histologically, skeletal myofibers were replaced by large aggregates of sporophorous vesicles containing up to eight spores and earlier stages of sporogony. Tissue inflammation was minimal. Spores had positive staining with Luna's, Giemsa, Fites acid fast, and Brown and Brenn Gram stains. Ultrastructurally, spores were ovoid with an exo- and endospore, lamellar polaroplast, and polar tube arranged in 9 to 14 basilar, bilayered coils with a straight, apical manubrium. Spores and earlier stages of sporogony were contained within sporophorous vesicles. This is the first report of microsporidiosis in a sh...
Dioxime and pyridine-2-aldoxime complexes of Re(CO)3+

Abstract We present the synthesis and characterization of a series of dioxime and pyridine-2-aldoxime complexes of rhenium(I) tricarbonyl. Complexes of the formula ReL ( CO ) 3 X (L = dioxime ( 1 , 2 ), dimethylglyoxime ( 3 , 4 ), diphenylglyoxime ( 5 , 6 ), 1,2-cyclohexanedione dioxime ( 7 , 8 ); X = Cl, Br) can be readily generated by reaction of the neutral ligand with Re ( CO ) 5 X (X = Cl, Br) or [ Re ( CO ) 3 ( H 2 O ) 3 ] Br . A similar set of pyridine-2-aldoximes of the formula ReL ( CO ) 3 X (L = pyridine-2-aldoxime ( 9 , 10 ), 2-pyridylamidoxime ( 11 , 12 ); X = Cl, Br) can also be synthesized in an analogous fashion. Compounds 1 – 6 , 9 and 12 were characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. These complexes all exhibit bidentate coordination of the oxime ligands as well as the expected facial arrangement of carbonyls around the metals with the halides completing the octahedral coordination spheres. The oxime groups remain protonated in all of the complexes. Compounds 1 – 12 all exhibit absorptions in the UV–Vis region resulting from MLCT transitions.
African desert dust in the Caribbean atmosphere: Microbiology and public health

Air samples collected on St. John in the U.S.Virgin Islands were screened for the presenceof viable bacteria and fungi to determine ifthe number of cultivatable microbes in theatmosphere differed between ``clear atmosphericconditions'' and ``African dust-events.'' Resultsindicate that during ``African dust-events,'' thenumbers of cultivatable airborne microorganismscan be 2 to 3 times that found during ``clearatmospheric conditions.'' Direct microbialcounts of air samples using an epifluorescentmicroscopy assay demonstrated that during an``African dust-event,'' bacteria-like andvirus-like particle counts were approximatelyone log greater than during ``clear atmosphericconditions.'' Bacteria-like particles exhibitingautofluoresence, a trait of phototrophs, wereonly detected during an ``African dust-event.''
Art as Unlearning: Towards a Mannerist Pedagogy

Art as Unlearning makes an argument for art’s unlearning as a mannerist pedagogy. Art’s pedagogy facilitates a form of forgetfulness by extending what happens in the practice of the arts in their visual, auditory and performative forms. The concept of learning has become predominantly hijacked by foundational paradigms such as developmental narratives whose positivistic approach has limited the field of education to a narrow practice within the social sciences. This book moves away from these strictures by showing how the arts confirm that unlearning is not contingent on learning, but rather anticipates and avoids it. This book cites the experience and work of artists who, by unlearning the canon, have opened a diversity of possibilities by which we make and live the world. Moving beyond cliches of art’s teachability and what we have to learn through the arts, it advances a scenario where unlearning is uniquely presented to us by the diverse practices that we identify with the arts. The very notion of art as unlearning stems from and represents a fundamental critique of the constructivist pedagogies that have dominated arts education for over half a century. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, philosophy of education, history of education, pedagogy of art and art education. It will also appeal to educators, art educators, and artists interested in the pedagogy of art.
Maximizing the potential of gifted learners through a developmental framework of affective curriculum

There is a growing demand for equal support of social–emotional learning across the globe. In the United States, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning has shed significant ...
An integrated framework to identify and analyze karst sinkholes.

Abstract Sinkholes are the most typical surface feature of karst landscapes. Their correct mapping is of great importance for a proper assessment of the possible occurrence of new events, and the likely effects they could have on the anthropogenic environment. In this work we compare and discuss different ways to map sinkholes, including heuristic approach, automatic mapping through different resolution DTMs, and digital aerial photo interpretation, aimed at highlighting advantages and drawbacks of the multiple approaches. For our purpose we use a study area in the Murge of Apulia, SE Italy, where many sinkholes of several typologies are present to characterize the landscape. To evaluate the reliability of the sinkhole mapping, we set up a conceptual methodology that integrates a semi-automatic method with the heuristic approach, with a special focus on the importance of incorporating digital stereoscopic interpretation. In detail, we used as input two DTMs at different resolution, aimed to test the robustness of the automatic method in different circumstances. Comparison of the data produced by the different approaches illustrated how the number, density and boundaries of the sinkholes may vary as a function of the input data. The automated mapping provides reliable results in terms of number, dimensions, and morphometric attributes of sinkholes, and appears to be particularly useful when large areas must be analyzed. Within the whole process, we stress the role of the expert geomorphologist who must determine the accuracy of the product obtained with the automated mapping by correcting/eliminating features not attributable to karst processes. The presented approach highlights the potential of digital stereoscopy in substantially decreasing the errors encountered with traditional analog mapping, simultaneously reducing the working time significantly.
How Parental Attachment Influences College Students’ Social Domains:

We investigated how parental continued attachment was related to college students’ social provision areas during the early phases of college to better understand student persistence factors. Using ...
Molecular simulation of nanocolloid rheology: Viscosity, viscoelasticity, and time-concentration superposition

A particulate molecular model in which the solvent particles are considered explicitly is developed for studying the linear viscoelasticity of nanocolloidal suspensions using molecular dynamics simulations. Nanocolloidal systems of volume fractions ranging from 0.10 to 0.49 are studied. The hydrodynamics in these model systems are governed by interparticle interactions. The volume fraction dependence of the relative zero shear viscosity exhibited by this molecular model is consistent with that reported in the literature experiments and simulations. Over the range of frequencies studied, the relative dynamic viscosity values follow the same qualitative trend as that seen in the literature experiments. The time-concentration superposition (TCS) principle is successfully applied to construct the viscoelastic master curves that span nine decades of frequency in the case of the elastic modulus and more than four decades of frequency in the case of the loss modulus. The TCS principle was observed to fail at high volume fractions that are near the glass transition concentration; this finding is consistent with the literature experimental and simulation observations. The volume fraction dependence of the shift factors used in the construction of the viscoelastic master curves is in good quantitative agreement with that of the viscosity of the nanocolloidal systems. Our results demonstrate that molecular simulations in conjunction with an explicit solvent model can be used to quantitatively represent the viscosity and the viscoelastic properties of nanocolloidal suspensions. Such particulate models will be useful for studying the rheology of systems whose properties are governed by specific chemical interactions.
Repair of Spontaneous Left Atrial Dissection Resulting in Severe Paravalvular Native Mitral Valve Regurgitation.

Abstract A 54-year-old male with history of end-stage renal disease secondary to hypertension on hemodialysis with moderate aortic valve insufficiency presented with progressive exertional dyspnea ...
Minimum Bounds on Multispacecraft ΔV Optimal Cooperative Rendezvous

Time- and orientation-free ΔV optimal transfers are used to investigate optimal rendezvous orbits for cooperative systems of two and more spacecraft. The problem of finding total ΔV optimal coopera...
CIO Interview with Vince Dobilas

Vince Dobilas, a retired senior technology executive in international finance, has nearly 30 years of IT experience working in the manufacturing, publishing, and finance industries. For the last 23...
Modeling and validation of a commercial gas-fired tumble dryer

Abstract Convective drying is one of the most energy intensive thermal processes. In convective textile drying, >50%) of the input energy is typically lost to the surroundings. A transient, two-dimensional mathematical model of textile drying in a gas-fired tumble dryer was developed. Mass, momentum, and energy conservation were used to understand the heat and mass transfer phenomena occurring in and around the textiles within the dryer. A moving evaporation front is used to numerically simulate the drying process in the textile. The mathematical model was validated using experiments conducted on a commercial gas-fired tumble dryer. The performance of the distributed parameter and the lumped drying models showed similar agreement when predicting specific moisture ratio and drying efficiency. The 2-D model showed good agreement when predicting the exit temperature of the combustor and drum with average absolute deviations of 4.2% and 7.7%, respectively.
MATEMATINĖ TIESA BE REFERENCIJOS

According to a canonical argument for mathematical platonism, if we are to have a uniform semantics which covers both mathematical and non-mathematical language, then we must understand singular terms in mathematics as referring to objects and understand quantifiers as ranging over a domain of such objects, and so treating mathematics as literally true commits us to the existence of (mind-independent, abstract) mathematical objects. In this paper, I argue that insofar as we can provide a uniform semantics for the better part of ordinary, non-mathematical language, we can provide a uniform semantics covering both mathematical and non-mathematical language without thereby committing ourselves to the existence of mathematical objects.
Relationship Between Baseline Coronary Calcium Score and Demonstration of Coronary Artery Stenoses During Follow-Up: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)

Objectives The MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) is a population-based study of 6,814 men and women. We sought to analyze the relationship between the extent of coronary artery calcium (CAC) at baseline and the severity of coronary stenoses in clinically indicated coronary angiography studies during follow-up. Background CAC is an established predictor of major cardiovascular events. Yet, the relationship between CAC and the distribution and severity of coronary artery stenoses has not been widely explored. Methods All MESA participants underwent noncontrast enhanced cardiac computed tomography during enrollment to determine baseline CAC. We analyzed 175 consecutive angiography reports from participants who underwent coronary catheterization for clinical indications during a median follow-up period of 18 months. The relationship between baseline CAC and the severity of coronary stenosis detected in coronary angiographies was determined. Results Baseline Agatston score was 0 in only 7 of 175 (4%) MESA participants who underwent invasive angiography during follow-up. When coronary arteries were studied separately, 13% to 18% of coronary arteries with ≥75% stenosis had 0 calcium mass scores at baseline. There was close association between baseline calcium mass score and the severity of stenosis in each of the coronary arteries (test for trend, p Conclusions The majority of patients with clinically indicated coronary angiography during follow-up had detectable coronary calcification at baseline. Although there is a significant relationship between the extent of calcification and mean degree of stenosis in individual coronary vessels, 16% of the coronary arteries with significant stenoses had no calcification at baseline.
Elevated parathyroid hormone-related peptide in a patient with an extragonadal germ-cell tumour and hypercalcemia.

Hypercalcemia has been described as a paraneoplastic syndrome associated with most malignant lesions but is very rarely reported in association with germ cell tumours. Paraneoplastic hypercalcemia is typically related to the production of parathyroid hormone–related peptide (PTHrP).1 I describe here what I believe to be the first case of germ cell tumour with hypercalcemia and confirmed PTHrP elevation.
Requirements analysis using forward and backward search

The requirements analysis of critical software components often involves a search for hazardous states and failure modes. This paper describes the integration of a forward search for consequences of reaching these forbidden modes with a backward search for contributing causes. Results are reported from two projects in which the integrated search method was used to analyze the requirements of critical spacecraft software. The search process was found to be successful in identifying some ambiguous, inconsistent, and missing requirements. More importantly, it identified four significant, unresolved requirements issues involving complex system interfaces and unanticipated dependencies. The results suggest that recent efforts by researchers to integrate forward and backward search have merit.