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CORR Insights®: do corresponding authors take responsibility for their work? A covert survey.

This CORR Insights® is a commentary on the article “Do Corresponding Authors Take Responsibility for Their Work? A Covert Survey” by Teunis and colleagues available at: DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3868-3. The author certifies that he, or any member of his immediate family, has no funding or commercial associations (eg, consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangements, etc) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. All ICMJE Conflict of Interest Forms for authors and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ® editors and board members are on file with the publication and can be viewed on request. The opinions expressed are those of the writers, and do not reflect the opinion or policy of CORR ® or the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons®. This CORR Insights® comment refers to the article available at DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3868-3.
An in Vitro Method for Assessing Corneal Opacification Potential Using a Rabbit Corneal Cell Line

AbstractWe report an in vitro method for identifying materials with the potential to cause corneal opacity. Monolayers obtained from an established line of rabbit corneal cell epithelium were exposed to test materials and the increase in light absorbance at 360 nm was assessed after 10 min. Responses obtained proved to be concentration-dependent and the curves generated were of sufficiently different character to allow differentiation among the test materials. Because trichloroacetic acid (2%) caused a linear response over the entire range of initial monolayer densities used and provided the widest degree of response of any of the materials tested, it was chosen as a reference compound. The effects of all other test materials were expressed in relation to that observed for 2% trichloroacetic acid to provide a basis for comparative effects and to control for the effects of intertrial variation in monolayer density. The increased absorbance caused by 20% acetaldehyde and 2% silver nitrate was 30% and 60%, r...
The Sources and Frames Used to Tell Stories About Depression and Anxiety: A Content Analysis of 18 Years of National Television News Coverage

Although mental illness is a serious public health issue, little is known about the nature of national television news coverage of these medical conditions. The framing of this coverage, the subtopics discussed in stories, and the sources used to tell those stories of mental illness may have a significant impact on attitudes and behaviors tied to diagnosis, treatment, and social interactions with those with a mental illness. Through a content analysis of 18 years of coverage of anxiety and depression, we sought to gain deeper insight into the connections between source use and frames in national television news stories about mental illness. Prospect theory and Iyengar’s concepts of episodic and thematic frames formed the foundation of this content analysis. The data revealed different source use patterns in gain—versus loss-framed stories as well as in episodic—versus thematic-framed stories. Implications for researchers, news organizations, and mental health advocates are discussed.
The Age Bias in Academic Publishing

Academic publishing in economics is dominated by younger professors. Why is that so? As more tenured professors stay in their positions well beyond normal retirement age, will less be published in ...
Learning to Appraise the Quality of Qualitative Research Articles: A Contextualized Learning Object for Constructing Knowledge.

Helping beginning qualitative researchers critically appraise qualitative research articles is a common learning objective for introductory methodology courses. To aid students in achieving competency in appraising the quality of qualitative research articles, a multi-part activity incorporating the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme’s (CASP) Making Sense of Evidence Tool: 10 Questions to Help You Make Sense of Qualitative Research to evaluate the articles is shared. A Contextualized Learning Object for Constructing Knowledge or CLOCK approach is used to represent the appraising activity in terms of its context, content, evaluation components, exemplary outcomes, and options for customizing parts of the assignment. Key Words: Qualitative Research, Learning Objects, Contextualized Learning Object for Constructing Knowledge, CASP, Appraising
Local normal mode analysis of guided mode interactions with waveguide gratings

The reflection of a guided mode obliquely incident to a periodic, shallow, surface corrugation, waveguide grating is analyzed using the local normal mode expansion of coupled-mode theory. The coupling coefficients which give the strength of the TE-TE, TE-TM, TM-TE, and TM-TM mode interactions are evaluated as a function of incidence angle. The results are compared to the coupling coefficients obtained using a number of other analytical techniques. >
Green Tea Constituent Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate and Induction of Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest in Human Carcinoma Cells

Background and Purpose: The polyphenolic compounds present in green tea show cancer chemopreventive effects in many animal tumor models. Epidemiologic studies have also suggested that green tea consumption might be effective in the prevention of certain human cancers. We investigated the effect of green tea polyphenols and the major constituent, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, on the induction of apoptosis (programmed cell death) and regulation of cell cycle in human and mouse carcinoma cells. Methods: Human epidermoid carcinoma cells (cell line A431), human carcinoma keratinocyte (cell line HaCaT), human prostate carcinoma cells (cell line DU145), mouse lymphoma cells (cell line L5178Y), and normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEKs) were used. Apoptosis was assessed by 1) the formation of internucleosomal DNA fragments by agarose gel electrophoresis, 2) confocal microscopy, and 3) flow cytometry after tagging the DNA fragments by fluorescence label. The distribution of cells in different phases of the cell cycle was analyzed by flow cytometry. Results: Treatment of A431 cells with green tea polyphenols and its components, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, epigallocatechin, and epicatechin-3-gallate, resulted in the formation of internucleo-somal DNA fragments, characteristic of apoptosis. Treatment with epigallocatechin-3-gallate also resulted in apoptosis in HaCaT, L5178Y, and DU145 cells, but not in NHEK. Confocal microscopy and flow cytometry confirmed the findings. The DNA cell cycle analysis showed that in A431 cells, epigallocatechin-3-gallate treatment resulted in arrest in the G 0 -G 1 phase of the cell cycle and a dose-dependent apoptosis. Conclusions: Green tea may protect against cancer by causing cell cycle arrest and inducing apoptosis. It needs to be evaluated in human trials.
Reflective Parenting Programs: Theory and Development

Recent research has indicated that parental reflective functioning or mentalization plays a crucial role in the development of a range of healthy adaptations in both parent and child. While many parenting interventions developed over the course of the last 20 years have implicitly attempted to enhance mentalization in parents, this article describes an effort to directly intervene with parents to enhance or encourage the development of reflective capacities. In this article, the broad outlines of a reflective parenting approach are described. Two reflective parenting programs are then considered, one a group intervention designed for low-risk parents, the other a home visiting intervention designed for high-risk parents and children.
PASSIVE ERROR COMPENSATING DEVICE APPLICABLE TO OPTICAL ALIGNMENT SENSING SUBSYSTEMS

An optical device has been developed that passively compensates for certain instrumental angular and/or translationalbeam misalignment errors internal to a laser beam projector. This device insures that centroid of the projected beam remains centered with the optic axis of the projection optics in spite of these errors. Several concepts for such a compensator are mentioned, and the performance of one concept that has been reduced to functional hardware form is summarized. The intended application of this device in an alignment subsystem that senses relative translational errors of separated components in an optical instrument is briefly described.© (1977) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
The human homolog of a candidate mouse t complex responder gene: conserved motifs and evolution with punctuated equilibria

The mouse Tcp-10 gene has been established as a molecular candidate for the t complex responder locus which plays a central role in the transmission ratio distortion phenotype expressed by males heterozygous for a t haplotype. Here we describe a comparison of the mouse and human TCP10 coding sequences. The results show that whole exons have been added or eliminated from the transcripts expressed in each species, suggesting an evolutionary process of punctuated equilibria for this gene. Two of the polypeptide regions that are most conserved between the two species contain specific peptide motifs. The conserved C-terminal region contains a unique nonapeptide repeat of unknown function and the conserved N-terminal region contains a pair of leucine zippers within a region that shows additional similarity to the coiled-coil regions of various cytosolic polypeptides. These results are discussed in terms of the possible function of the TCP10 protein.
Redefining "Paradigm" for Computer-Aided Language Instruction

: This article proposes a means by which inflectional paradigms can be promoted from their primary present status as references at the end of textbooks to a more central role in the language learning process. This can be done by encouraging each student to determine how words of a given part of speech divide into paradigms, and how those paradigms will be visually represented. This reinterpretation of the largely frozen notion of “paradigm” is derived from work on a natural language processing system that required a more rigorous definition of the word than is commonly found in most descriptive grammars. That natural language processing system, and its potential application to the task of language learning, are described in this article as well.
Degradation kinetics of indocyanine green in aqueous solution.

The degradation kinetics of a near-infrared fluorescent, diagnostic, and photodynamic agent, indocyanine green (ICG), was investigated in aqueous solution by steady-state fluorescence technique. The influence of ICG concentration on its fluorescence spectrum was determined. The degradation kinetics of ICG in aqueous solution was studied as a function of light exposure, type of light exposed, temperature, and ICG concentration. The degradation of ICG was found to follow first-order kinetics. Exposure to light and high temperatures caused acceleration in the degradation. The type and intensity of exposed light also affected degradation. ICG aqueous solutions were found to be more stable in dark, at low temperatures, and at higher ICG concentrations.
Environmental Regulations and Corporate Strategy: A NAFTA Perspective

The article reviews the book “Environmental Regulations and Corporate Strategy: A NAFTA Perspective,” by Alan Rugman, John Kirton and Julie Soloway.
Female Householding in Late Eighteenth-Century America and the Problem of Poverty

Families in early modern England were more than twice as likely to be headed by a woman as were white households in late eighteenth-century America. On average, in a preindustrial English community, women headed between one-sixth and one-fifth of all households. In the United States in 1790, by contrast, less than one-thirteenth had female household heads or householders.1 The incidence of female householding provides an important window on preindustrial American society. Its magnitude and ramiScations deserve analysis and discussion for at least four reasons. First, householder was a significant status, particularly because households were very important units of social and economic life in the preindustrial era. Householders served as the directors of the predominant institution of economic production. While not a primary category in thinking about the family, householding nevertheless was a consequence of other statuses that mattered more centrally, at least for men. Since newlywed couples established households, becoming a head (and wives were considered co-heads, especially with respect to matters that were internal to the household) conveyed independence from the control of parents. Indeed, the contrast between autonomy and dependence was at the heart of legal definitions and other perceptions of social roles in early modern Anglo-America. The category of female household heads thus is crucial for assessing one critical arena of social autonomy for women.2 Second, like their current counterparts, women who were particularly likely to head households in preindustrial England and America also were disproportionately prone to be impoverished. Consequently they were subjects for support from and intervention by agents beyond the household: informal aid from kin, charity from private individuals or voluntary groups, and poor relief from public authorities. As the wages and assets of these female household heads were lower than those enjoyed by male family heads, on average they were closer to poverty. Additionally, as women householders frequently had responsibility for the support of minor children, they shared their meager incomes with others, increasing the numbers facing poverty. A heterogeneous group, women who headed households had some stability of residence and thus status in the community. Some were even "widows of means," who had the inherited resources and practical skills to support themselves and their families comfortably. But for many women familially unattached to the households of husbands or fathers, private troubles became, in many instances, public problems. The study of the incidence of female-headed households proS vides an indirect entry into the analysis of one large segment of the population of the poor of preindustrial society, a portion that was relatively larger in England than in America.
Evaluation of the Flow Distortion around the Campbell Scientific CSAT3 Sonic Anemometer Relative to Incident Wind Direction

Abstract In June 2002, a high-frequency air–sea momentum system was deployed in the surf zone for 3 days as part of an experiment to quantify air–sea momentum transfer when the wind and wave direction were at angles. The system obtained measurements in the nearshore via a high-resolution Campbell Scientific CSAT3 3D sonic anemometer and five high-frequency saltwater wave staffs. An advantage of the air–sea momentum system is that direct measurements of the atmospheric turbulent fluctuations can be obtained and applied to the calculation of momentum transfer at the air–sea interface. The Campbell Scientific CSAT3 sonic anemometer was postcalibrated under turbulent wind conditions to determine incident wind direction measurements influenced by the geometry of the instrument. Measurement results are compared to a pre-established benchmark, constant tow speed; and the mean wind speed, incident wind direction, and spectral density characteristics are evaluated to resolve specific instrument orientations in whi...
The Outcome of Patients with Classic Bladder Exstrophy in Adult Life

AbstractPurpose: We determined the outcome of 20 adult bladder exstrophy patients regarding urinary continence, sexual function, fertility and psychosocial integration.Materials and Methods: A total of 16 men and 4 women completed an anonymous questionnaire and the charts were reviewed for medical history.Results: Of 9 patients who void spontaneously 6 are dry for 4 hours and 3 for 2 hours. Among the remaining 11 patients 5 are dry on clean intermittent catheterization, 3 who had undergone ureterosigmoidostomy are dry for more than 4 hours and 3 had an incontinent stoma. Four men and 2 women are married, including 2 men and 1 woman who had a total of 7 children. Ten of 16 men (63 percent) reported that they ejaculate a few cubic centimeters in volume, 3 ejaculate only a few drops and 3 have no ejaculation (2 of whom underwent cystectomy). Semen was analyzed in 4 patients (3 with azoospermia and 1 with oligospermia) and average volume of ejaculate was 0.4 cc (range 0.2 to 1). All women reported regular and...
Learning the Relative Importance of Features in Image Data

In computational analysis in scientific domains, images are often compared based on their features, e.g., size, depth and other domain-specific aspects. Certain features may be more significant than others while comparing the images and drawing corresponding inferences for specific applications. Though domain experts may have subjective notions of similarity for comparison, they seldom have a distance function that ranks the image features based on their relative importance. We propose a method called features rank for learning such a distance function in order to capture the semantics of the images. We are given training samples with pairs of images and the extent of similarity identified for each pair. Using a guessed initial distance function. Features rank clusters the given images in levels. It then adjusts the distance junction based on the error between the clusters and training samples using heuristics proposed in this paper. The distance junction that gives the lowest error is the output. This contains the features ranked in the order most appropriate the domain. Features rank is evaluated with real image data from nanotechnology and bioinformatics. The results of our evaluation are presented in the paper.
Weighing risks and benefits of stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients

Citation Marik PE, Tajender Vasu T, Hirani A, Pachinburavan M: Stress ulcer prophylaxis in the new millennium: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Critical Care Med 2010, 38:11.
Task-execution scheduling schemes for network measurement and monitoring

Measurement is a required process in high performance networks for efficient quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning and service verification. Active measurement is an attractive approach because the measurement traffic injected into the network can be controlled and the measurement tasks can be distributed throughout the network. However, the execution of measurement tasks in common parts of a network may face contention for resources, such as computational power, memory, and link bandwidth. This contention could jeopardize measurement accuracy and affect network services. This contention for limited resources defines a conflict between measurement tasks. Furthermore, we consider two sets of measurement tasks, those used to monitor network state periodically, called periodic tasks, and those for casual measurements issued as needed, called on-demand measurement tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel scheduling scheme to resolve contention for resources of both periodic and on-demand measurement tasks from graph coloring perspective, called ascending order of the sum of clique number and degree of tasks. The scheme selects tasks according to the ascending order of the sum of clique number and conflict task degree in a conflict graph and allows concurrent execution of multiple measurement tasks for high resource utilization. The scheme decreases the average waiting time of all tasks in periodic measurement tasks scheduling. For on-demand measurement tasks, the proposed scheme minimizes the waiting time of inserted on-demand tasks while keeping time space utilization high. In other words, the total time spent on finishing all the tasks is shortened. We evaluate our proposed schemes under different measurement task assignment scenarios through computer simulations, and compare the performance of this scheme with others that also allow concurrent task execution. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme produces effective contention resolution and low execution delays.
Vibrio cholerae ACE stimulates Ca2+-dependent Cl−/HCO3−secretion in T84 cells in vitro

ACE, accessory cholera enterotoxin, the third enterotoxin in Vibrio cholerae, has been reported to increase short-circuit current (I sc) in rabbit ileum and to cause fluid secretion in ligated rabb...
Pervasive Cameras: Making Sense of Many Angles using Radial Basis Function Interpolation and Salience Analysis

This paper describes situations which lend themselves to the use of numerous cameras and techniques for displaying many camera streams simultaneously. The focus here is on the role of the "director" in sorting out the onscreen content in an artistic and understandable manner. We describe techniques which we have employed in a system designed for capturing and displaying many video feeds incorporating automated and high level control of the composition on the screen using radial basis function interpolation.
Cumulus over the Tibetan Plateau in the Summer Based onCloudSat–CALIPSOData

AbstractCumulus (Cu) can transport heat and water vapor from the boundary layer to the free atmosphere, leading to the redistribution of heat and moist energy in the lower atmosphere. This paper uses the fine-resolution CloudSat–CALIPSO product to characterize Cu over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). It is found that Cu is one of the dominant cloud types over the TP in the northern summer. The Cu event frequency, defined as Cu occurring within 50-km segments, is 54% over the TP in the summer, which is much larger over the TP than in its surrounding regions. The surface wind vector converging at the central TP and the topographic forcing provide the necessary moisture and dynamical lifting of convection over the TP. The structure of the atmospheric moist static energy shows that the thermodynamical environment over the northern TP can be characterized as having weak instability, a shallow layer of instability, and lower altitudes for the level of free convection. The diurnal variation of Cu with frequency peaks d...
15-Lipoxygenase-2 induction of prostate tumor Dormancy through downregulation of VEGF.

Fifth AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, Nov 12-15, 2006 PR-19 Dietary fats are known to influence the incidence and progression of prostate cancer. 15-lipoxygenase-2(15-LOX-2) is a fatty acid metabolizing enzymes catalyzing the formation of 15(S)-hydroxyeicosatetraenoid acid (HETE) using arachidonic acid as the substrate. 15-LOX-2 is expressed in normal prostate epithelium but its expression and activity are frequently lost in prostate carcinoma. To study the role of 15-LOX-2 in prostate cancer, we restored the expression of 15-LOX-2 as a fusion protein with GFP in prostate carcinoma cells (DU145 and PC-3 cells). When restored in hormone-independent PC-3 or DU145 cells, 15-LOX-2 did not abrogate the tumorigenicity of PC-3 or DU145 cells in animal models. But, the tumors with 15-LOX-2 expression restored were dormant. They grew significantly slower than those derived from vector controls. The data suggest that 15-LOX-2 sustains tumor dormancy while having no effects on tumor formation. Interestingly, the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A or VEGF) was drastically reduced in prostate cancer cells with 15-LOX-2 expression restored. Further, VEGF promoter activities were reduced in prostate carcinoma cells with 15-LOX-2 expression restored. Using a series of VEGF promoter deletion constructs, a region between the -88 and -66 of VEGF promoter was identified as critical for 15-LOX-2 to suppress VEGF gene expression. Our studies suggest that 15-LOX-2 induces tumor dormancy by suppressing VEGF gene expression in prostate cancer, and that loss of 15-LOX-2 represents a key step for prostate cancer cells to exit from dormancy and embark on malignant progression in vivo.
Poster Abstract: Well-Connected Microzones for Increased Building Efficiency and Occupant Comfort

Personal Comfort Systems (PCS) are capable of maintaining occupant comfort in buildings despite large deviations from recommended "comfortable" temperatures. We present a novel digital controller for a well-studied (previously analog) PCS, allowing it to report real-time telemetry and respond to programmatic actuation requests. This enables the established capabilities of a PCS to be synergistically combined with occupant-aware building applications, providing new methods of comfort and energy efficiency maximization.
Screening for Listeria monocytogenes surrogate strains applicable to food processing by ultrahigh pressure and pulsed electric field.

Ultrahigh pressure (UHP) and pulsed electric field (PEF) are emerging processing technologies developed to enhance the safety while maintaining the fresh-like quality of food. For each food and process combination, a pathogen of concern (i.e., target pathogen) must be determined, and a low-risk microorganism that serves as the pathogen surrogate for process validation must be identified. The objective of this study was to identify a surrogate for Listeria monocytogenes for UHP and PEF process validation. Potential surrogates tested include four Lactobacillus spp., a Pediococcus sp., and a Listeria innocua strain. These were compared with nine L. monocytogenes strains, with regard to sensitivity to UHP and PEF processing. For UHP treatment, the strains were suspended in citrate-phosphate buffer (pH 7.0 or 4.5), sweet whey, or acidified whey and pressure processed at 500 MPa for 1 min. For PEF treatment, the strains were suspended in NaCl solution, acid whey, or sweet whey and processed at 25 kV/cm. The let...
Switching Impulse Strength of ±800 kV UHVDC Transmission Line Air Gap Insulation Under High Altitude Condition

This paper is concerning switching impulse air gap insulation characteristics of rod-to-plane and V-string 6-conductor bundle to tower body in ±800 kV transmission lines.The tests were performed in China Southern Power Grid Co.,Ltd.(CSG) Kunming outdoor UHV laboratory at an altitude of 2 100 m.The switching impulse strength performance were obtained at a rod-to-plane arrangement and a full-scale model of 6-conductor bundle to tower.The test gap length of the typical rod-to-plane arrangement is 1.5～10 m and 5.3～8.2 m for the conductor-tower model,and the range of test voltage is about 450～3 100 kV.The critical positive switching impulse strength of conductor-tower gap is 1 525 kV in the gap length of 6.2 m.Additionally,the influence of the wave front time(100～1 700 μs) on the 50% flashover voltage is discussed.According to the test data,the minimum air gap clearances of the conductor-tower model with V-insulators at the altitude of 2 100 m should be longer than 6.8 m(wave front time 250 μs) and 5.8 m(wave front time 1 000 μs),respectively.The results are useful to air gap insulation design in UHVDC systems with rated voltage of ±800 kV.
De man die niets kon doorslikken

Wat doe je als je wel goed kan kauwen maar je slokdarm voor altijd geblokkeerd is? De oplossing was niet bepaald smakelijk, maar kwam mooi ten goede van de medische wetenschap.
WTO Articles of Agreement and Beyond

The WTO came into existence on 1 January 1995. Its charter is entirely institutional and procedural; it draws upon the GATT and its Uruguay Round resolutions in its Annexes for compliance. The WTO is not a mere replacement or succession of the GATT. The WTO Agreement under the Uruguay Round of GATT Trade negotiations provides a ‘common institutional framework for the conduct of trade relations among its members’ (Article II of the Agreement). The new institution upgraded several working arrangements and rules with considerable clarity, as in the case of dispute resolution, adoption of resolutions and voiding veto powers for members. Some of the ‘birth defects’ of the GATT were modified in the WTO. The WTO Charter XVI.1 states clearly that GATT’s decisions, procedures and customary practices will be guiding principles to the extent feasible. The WTO budget was estimated (Blackhurst, 1998) at an equivalent of about 10 minutes of the value of the world merchandise trade in mid-1990s.
Rugged Basketball Goals for Outdoors

(1978). Rugged Basketball Goals for Outdoors. Journal of Physical Education and Recreation: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 27-27.
Inferring Muscle-Tendon Unit Power from Ankle Joint Power during the Push-Off Phase of Human Walking: Insights from a Multiarticular EMG-Driven Model.

Introduction Inverse dynamics joint kinetics are often used to infer contributions from underlying groups of muscle-tendon units (MTUs). However, such interpretations are confounded by multiarticular (multi-joint) musculature, which can cause inverse dynamics to over- or under-estimate net MTU power. Misestimation of MTU power could lead to incorrect scientific conclusions, or to empirical estimates that misguide musculoskeletal simulations, assistive device designs, or clinical interventions. The objective of this study was to investigate the degree to which ankle joint power overestimates net plantarflexor MTU power during the Push-off phase of walking, due to the behavior of the flexor digitorum and hallucis longus (FDHL)–multiarticular MTUs crossing the ankle and metatarsophalangeal (toe) joints. Methods We performed a gait analysis study on six healthy participants, recording ground reaction forces, kinematics, and electromyography (EMG). Empirical data were input into an EMG-driven musculoskeletal model to estimate ankle power. This model enabled us to parse contributions from mono- and multi-articular MTUs, and required only one scaling and one time delay factor for each subject and speed, which were solved for based on empirical data. Net plantarflexing MTU power was computed by the model and quantitatively compared to inverse dynamics ankle power. Results The EMG-driven model was able to reproduce inverse dynamics ankle power across a range of gait speeds (R2 ≥ 0.97), while also providing MTU-specific power estimates. We found that FDHL dynamics caused ankle power to slightly overestimate net plantarflexor MTU power, but only by ~2–7%. Conclusions During Push-off, FDHL MTU dynamics do not substantially confound the inference of net plantarflexor MTU power from inverse dynamics ankle power. However, other methodological limitations may cause inverse dynamics to overestimate net MTU power; for instance, due to rigid-body foot assumptions. Moving forward, the EMG-driven modeling approach presented could be applied to understand other tasks or larger multiarticular MTUs.
Eight Principles for Promoting Sustainable Education

This chapter looks at resistance to the promotion of sustainable development, which may be based on ideological grounds, on theories of economic development, in beliefs in future innovations in natural resource development, and in greed and protection of privilege. The author offers eight principles to assist promoters of a sustainable education. Finally, it is suggested that one of the most critical activities now is to develop an educational vision that values the future as well as the present and leads to sustainable education, and to promote that vision across borders and generations.
A connected city strategy for Oakland: Leveraging distributed energy resources across building and transportation infrastructure to improve environmental and operational efficiency

With utilities shifting to a business model structured around when and how people use energy, states gearing up to meet renewable energy carve-outs, and the catastrophic effects of climate change increasingly present, the economic, political, and environmental pressures to adapt are finally converging on cities. Oakland is capable of meeting these challenges through modern urban infrastructure that integrates distributed energy generation, energy storage, and electric transportation. Distributed energy generation and on-site energy storage can provide energy security and meet government mandates, but they need to be part of a city-wide communication network that can prioritize the distribution of load and energy resources in a way that optimally navigates matters of functionality, cost, and environmental impact. This connected whole provides the flexibility to adapt to mounting constraints on energy availability and cost affecting the way we live, work, and travel in urban environments.
Retrospective Comparison of Intermediate-term Efficacy of 350 mm2 Glaucoma Drainage Implants and Medium-sized 230-250 mm2 Implants.

AIM To compare the intermediate-term efficacy of a large surface area Baerveldt 350 mm2 glaucoma drainage device (GDD) with medium surface area implants (Baerveldt 250 mm2 and Molteno 3, 230, or 245 mm2). DESIGN This is a retrospective, nonrandomized comparative trial. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 94 eyes of 94 patients of mixed glaucoma diagnoses without any prior glaucoma surgical procedures and who had undergone a glaucoma drainage implant surgery with either a large Baerveldt 350 mm2 GDD or a medium-sized GDD (Baerveldt 250 mm2 or Molteno 230 or 245 mm2) were reviewed for intraocular pressure (IOP), number of glaucoma medications, and visual acuity (VA) preoperatively, and at 1, 2, and 3 years postprocedure. RESULTS No significant differences were found in mean IOP, number of glaucoma medications used, and VA at 1, 2, and 3 years postoperatively. The rate of additional glaucoma procedures was similar between the two groups. CONCLUSION There is no clear evidence that a larger implant surface area beyond 230 to 250 mm2 is advantageous in providing intermediate-term IOP control. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE It may be technically easier to surgically place a GDD that does not need to have its wings placed underneath the recti muscles, and the IOP results are similar. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE Meyer AM, Rodgers CD, Zou B, Rosenberg NC, Webel AD, Sherwood MB. Retrospective Comparison of Intermediate-term Efficacy of 350 mm2 Glaucoma Drainage Implants and Medium-sized 230-250 mm2 Implants. J Curr Glaucoma Pract 2017;11(1):8-15.
Necrosis after Craniospinal Irradiation: Results from a Prospective Series of Children with CNS Embryonal Tumors

PURPOSE Necrosis of the CNS is a known complication of craniospinal irradiation (CSI) in children with medulloblastoma and similar tumors. We reviewed the incidence of necrosis in our prospective treatment series.
Omeprazole did not reduce mortality, rebleeding, surgery, or transfusion required in acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Source Citation Daneshmend TK, Hawkey CJ, Langman MJ, et al. Omeprazole versus placebo for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: randomised double blind controlled trial. BMJ. 1992 Jan;304:143-7.
Reminiscences of My Association with Professor I.I. Glass

While many of Professor Glass’s graduate students were referred to him by his professional friends, my association with him was completely unplanned. In the fall of 1967 I was a physics undergraduate at the University of Alberta, looking for graduate school. I was a hard-core physics student, taking all sorts of challenging physics and math courses, enjoying them and dreaming the Nobel Prize. At that time the Apollo program was in its full blown excitement, triggering the imagination. A brief checking around yielded the obvious conclusion that the UTIAS was the top aero school in Canada and so I applied.
Effect of extension of the heparin binding pocket on the structure, stability, and cell proliferation activity of the human acidic fibroblast growth factor.

Abstract Acidic human fibroblast growth factor (hFGF1) plays a key role in cell growth and proliferation. Activation of the cell surface FGF receptor is believed to involve the glycosaminoglycan, heparin. However, the exact role of heparin is a subject of considerable debate. In this context, in this study, the correlation between heparin binding affinity and cell proliferation activity of hFGF1 is examined by extending the heparin binding pocket through selective engineering via charge reversal mutations (D82R, D84R and D82R/D84R). Results of biophysical experiments such as intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence and far UV circular dichroism spectroscopy suggest that the gross native structure of hFGF1 is not significantly perturbed by the engineered mutations. However, results of limited trypsin digestion and ANS binding experiments show that the backbone structure of the D82R variant is more flexible than that of the wild type hFGF1. Results of the temperature and urea-induced equilibrium unfolding experiments suggest that the stability of the charge-reversal mutations increases in the presence of heparin. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) data reveal that the heparin binding affinity is significantly increased when the charge on D82 is reversed but not when the negative charge is reversed at both positions D82 and D84 (D82R/D84R). However, despite the increased affinity of D82R for heparin, the cell proliferation activity of the D82R variant is observed to be reduced compared to the wild type hFGF1. The results of this study clearly demonstrate that heparin binding affinity of hFGF1 is not strongly correlated to its cell proliferation activity.
Specification decomposition for synthesis from libraries of LTL Assume/Guarantee contracts

Contract-Based Design is a methodology that allows for compositional design of complex systems. Given a contract representing a specification, it is possible to formally satisfy it by composing a number of simpler contracts. When these simpler contracts are chosen from a library of existing solutions, we talk about synthesis from contract libraries. There are techniques to automate the synthesis process, but they are computationally intensive, especially for complex specifications. In this paper, we describe an efficient technique to partition a specification, i.e., an LTL-based Assume/Guarantee contract, in a number of simpler sub-specifications which can be satisfied independently. Once all these smaller problems are solved, it is possible to safely merge their solutions to satisfy the original specification. We show the effectiveness of our technique in an industrial case study.
Wildfire Hazard and the Role of Tree-Ring Research

In February 2009, wildfires raged across 3,900 km2 in southern Victoria near Melbourne in southeastern Australia, killing over 200 people and destroying more than 1,800 homes, the worst wildfire tragedy in the country’s history and worst ever natural disaster (Callinan 2009). Wildfires in Australia are in fact common. The vegetation of the region is well-adapted to frequent fire, suggesting a long history of fires that stretches back for millennia, well before human presence, but the severity with which these series of wildfires struck caught the country (and scientists alike) by surprise. Although several arsonists were arrested and charged, some speculate that climate change contributed to the severity and spatial extent of these wildfires, although this is still a highly debatable topic (Sullivan 2009).
Effect of the Alkali Cation on Heptane Aromatization in L Zeolite

Abstract Platinum was deposited on a series of BaL zeolites containing different alkali cations. The composition, Pt dispersion, infrared spectrum of adsorbed CO, and the turnover frequency for heptane reforming on each catalyst was determined. The infrared spectrum of a saturation coverage of CO on Pt/BaL at 25°C consists of a broad infrared band which shifts from 2085 to 2025 cm −1 as the alkali element in the L is changed from Li to Cs. Heating the samples to 225°C causes new bands to appear at 2030, 1975, and 1940 cm −1 . These bands are assigned to CO adsorbed on Pt in which the oxygen end of the molecule weakly bonds to cations in the L lattice. This and other evidence indicates that the Pt particles are primarily located inside the zeolite cavities. The specific activity of Pt/BaL for heptane reforming at 440°C, 0.16 atm heptane and 0.95 atm H 2 is sensitive to the distribution of alkali cations. As the lighter elements, Li and Na, are exchanged for heavier ones, Rb and Cs, the turnover frequencies for formation of C 1 -C 6 hydrocarbons, ethylcyclopentane, benzene and toluene increase on average by 3.4, 3.3, 8.8, and 3.8 times, respectively. These data indicate that adsorption and catalysis on Pt/BaL is strongly influenced by metal-support interactions.
Response to Morris

In response to Michael Morris, I attempt to refute the crucial second premise of the argument, which states that the formality condition cannot be satisfied “non-stipulatively” in computational systems. I defend the view of representation urged in Meaning and Mental Representation against the charge that it makes content stipulative and therefore irrelevant to the explanation of cognition. Some other reservations are expressed.
Ordering in Cu-Au Alloys: Statics and Dynamics

This paper presents a study of the ordering and ordering dynamics in Cu-Au alloys. The study is based upon a realistic model Hamiltonian. It is shown that the nature of ordering transition on an elastic lattice is different from that on a rigid lattice and comparisons are made with studies of deformable Ising models. The modulated CuAuII phase is shown to arise in this model from a “size effect” which leads to effective spin interactions reminiscent of the ANNNI model. A model for describing growth kinetics in alloys with modulated phases is derived. The model is different from the standard time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau description of the evolution of a non-conserved order parameter with the equations closely resembling the Swift-Hohenberg model.
Healthy Male and Couple Sexuality: Integral Components of the Sexual Compulsivity/Addiction Recovery Process

This conceptual/clinical paper advocates a “both/and” approach to sexual compulsivity/addiction and healthy male and couple sexuality. Sexual recovery is an integral component in successful treatme...
SHRM Assurance of Learning Exam

The following information was obtained directly from the SHRM website and is intended to familiarize human resource faculty and administrators with the “Assurance of Learning Exam” developed and administered by SHRM for graduating HR students who have little or no work experience in HR.
Does The Firm’s Receivable Policy Tend to be Uniform Across their Industry and Stable over Time? Evidence from Matured Firms

This paper empirically examines whether the generally accepted finding that the firm’s accounts receivable tend to be industry-specific is valid for private mature Belgian firms between 2001 and 2008. The initial average receivable of the firm’s industry in 2001 is not an important determinant in explaining the future accounts receivable of mature private Belgian firms. This result implies that the firm’s accounts receivable is firm-specific. The findings are robust for European countries with medium customer payment risk such as The United Kingdom and France. A tentative explanation for these findings is provided.
Learning deep features for online person tracking using non-overlapping cameras: A survey

Abstract Target-agnostic person tracking and re-identification across multiple non-overlapping cameras is an open vision problem. It is the task of maintaining the correct identity of people at different time instances and possibly different cameras. This study focuses on existing algorithms that facilitate online person tracking by using discriminative spatio-temporal features from video data, and presents the open issues and future research directions. The initial take on the problem introduces person tracking as a pure association problem, where the influence of human appearance, biometric and location information on re-identification are addressed explicitly. These constraints are modeled and used to understand and associate detections in real world environments. Next, a spatio-temporal model using LSTM networks for propagating associations and recovering from errors by taking advantage of the spatial and temporal information in videos is described. The spatio-temporal context indicates a way for discriminative appearance learning. The novelty of the mentioned approaches is that they do not require to learn target-specific appearance models and collect samples to distinguish different people from each other. The methods are evaluated on large-scale tracking datasets. State-of-the-art performance is achieved using motion metadata such as person bounding box and camera number, and shows better associations for the challenging exit-entry cases.
Atypical Clinical Manifestations of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a vasculopathy caused by β-amyloid deposition in cerebral arterioles and capillaries. It is closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease and predisposes elderly patients to intracerebral hemorrhage, transient focal neurological episodes, and cognitive impairment. Because of a predilection for symptomatic hemorrhage, particularly in the frontal lobes, cerebral amyloid angiopathy may also cause a dysexecutive syndrome. In this case series, we describe presentations of classic clinical dementia syndromes which are not are widely thought to be associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, namely logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (n = 3), normal pressure hydrocephalus (n = 3), and Lewy body dementia (n = 2). In every case, after a clinical diagnosis was established, neuroimaging, brain biopsy, and/or autopsy confirmed the presence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy has significant clinical implications, and its ability to mimic and/or contribute to other clinical dementia syndromes can complicate its diagnosis. This series of cases broadens the range of clinical scenarios associated with cerebral amyloid angiopathy.