cssi/SciSciGPT-SciSciNet huggingface dataset:
Decoding the E-code.

Injury is a major public health problem. E-coding is an important epidemiologic tool that would allow for quantitative estimates of injury morbidity and mortality. This information could then be used to develop and evaluate injury control interventions. E-coding has been successfully implemented at the county level in Nebraska and efforts should be supported to expand this effort statewide. Language: en
Toward Crystalline Molecular Rotors with Linearly Conjugated Diethynyl-Phenylene Rotators and Pentiptycene Stators

A strategy for the construction of crystalline molecular rotors involves the assemblage of chemical structures that emulate the elements of macroscopic rotary devices, such as those found in macroscopic gyroscopes and compasses. In this report, we describe an efficient and short synthetic route for preparation of molecular rotors with two pentiptycene-units linked at their central benzene ring by triple bonds to a linearly conjugated phenylene rotator. Five analogous compounds with phenol, alkoxy, or alkoxycarbonyl substituents were synthesized and fully characterized in solution and in the solid-state through various methods, such as cross-polarization magic angle spinning (CPMAS) 13C NMR and single crystal X-ray diffraction. Molecular and packing structures obtained from single crystal X-ray diffraction and crystallization properties were analyzed with the goal of identifying the key parameters that may hinder or facilitate the formation of dynamically functional, crystalline molecular rotors.
51 WINDOW FALLS AMONG CHILDREN: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW

Background Falls are the most common type of unintentional injury among the pediatric population in the United States. Falls from windows have been repeatedly shown to occur with remarkable frequency in both urban and suburban settings, and with notable associated morbidity and mortality. Despite this knowledge, little is known about the environmental risk factors and External Cause of Injury Codes (E-codes) associated with these particular types of falls. We performed a pilot study to assess these important issues. Study Design and Methods We conducted a retrospective medical record review of 897 Emergency Department visits at Harborview Medical Center. We included children between the ages of 0 and 10 years of age who had been assigned E-codes of either E888.x, E884.x, E884.9, or E882. We tested both the sensitivity and specificity of External Cause of Injury Codes assigned by professional institutional coders to window falls. Results Of the fall events we found (897 fall related events), 8.7% (78) were falls from windows. Of these window falls, 58% of the fall victims were male and 32% were female. 94.9% of the window fall victims were between the ages of 1 and 6 years of age. 81% of the window falls occurred in the Spring and Summer months. Also, 9.7% of the total falls observed and 84.6% of the window falls were coded as E882. We found the sensitivity and specificity for E-code E882 to be 84.6% and 97.4% respectively. Along with this E-code, we found the specificities and sensitivities of the following E-codes E884.9 (Sensitivity: 9.0%, Specificity: 73.0%), E888.1 (1.3%, 97.7%), E888 (6.4%, 54.6%), and E884.2 (1.3%, 98.4%). Conclusions We found that of the E-codes assigned by institutional coders, E882 produced the highest combined sensitivity and specificity for window fall accidents. We also identified some useful environmental and epidemiological factors associated with this particular fall type. These data will be useful in a study of window falls in the Pacific Northwest to define this risk further as an important cause of pediatric injury.
A Study of Fire Administrative Law Enforcement

This paper collects the characteristics and categories of fire administrative law enforcement and makes a study of the daily enforcement and the procedure.It explores the significance of the fundamental means of the fire administrative law enforcement.
Analysis of Iodized Salt Monitoring Result of the Hosehold from the District of Lusong in the Year of 2013

Object To analyze the monitoring data of iodized salt in the district of Lusong during the year of 2013,and to provide basic information for working out control strategies of the iodine deficiency disorder.Methods According to the iodized salt monitoring requirements in "national iodine deficiency disorder monitoring program",the sampling method and determining method of iodized salt were carried on.Results In the year of 2013,300 hosehold salt samples were tested by the Lusong district center for disease control and prevention,272 salt sampleswere qualified,iodized salt qualification rate 90.97 %,iodized salt coverage rate 99.67 %,qualified iodized salt consumption rate 90.67 %,rate of non-iodized salt was 0.33 %,salt median iodine were 23.62 mg/kg,and the iodine salt qualification rate of city was better than town.Coclusions The iodized salt quality indicators were within the state-controlled range in the district of Lusong which remained at relatively low levels,and need to continue to accelerate health education,ensuring the edible quality of iodized salt.
Historic status of black-footed ferret habitat in Montana

Black-footed ferrets ( Mustela nigripes ) use prairie dogs ( Cynomys spp.) for food and their burrows for shelter. Thus, prairie dog colonies are essential ferret habitat. Prairie dog control, which resulted in permanent loss of ferret habitat, is considered the primary reason for the ferret's endangered status today. Northern Pacific Railroad (presently Burlington Northern) lands were surveyed 1908-1914, just prior to the onset of widespread prairie dog control. In Montana the surveyed area included a belt about 483 Km long and 192 Km wide, from the Montana-North Dakota border westward to Livingston. In all, 6,661 sections (11.8%) of 22 counties were surveyed and 1,662 of these sections (24.9%) contained at least some prairie dogs. Prairie dog colonies (N=1,985) occupied all or part of 5,186, 16 ha (40ac) parcels and totaled a minimum of 47,568 ha, with mean colony size of 24.5 ha (2.8% of the landscape in colonies). Two township-wide belt transect samples-T4N and R45E-showed colonies were clumped in distribution. Two areas with large complexes of colonies are illustrated, and each area exeeded an estimated 15,000+ ha. The Tongue River-Otter Creek area had at least 20 complexes, with a mean intercomplex distance of 3.4 Km; and the Powder River-O'Fallon Creek area had at least 20 complexes, with a mean intercomplex distance of 2.9 Km. Historic land uses were similar to today's uses-grazing and a few crops. Historic prairie dog areas in Montana occupied an estimated 5,953 sq Km. An estimated 90+ % reduction in prairie dogs has occurred since 1914, largely if not totally due to poisoning. The elimination, fragmentation, and greatly reduced size of ferret habitat has undoubtedly contributed to the endangered status of ferrets. A few areas in Montana appear to contain enough prairie dogs to potentially harbor ferret populations. These areas could serve as reintroduction sites for ferrets, as well as examples of complex prairie dog ecosystems.
Modeling of Stepper Motors

The dynamics of any motor consist of two parts, the mechanical and the electrical dynamics. The mechanical dynamics are given by Newton’s laws relating the force (or torque) to the acceleration. The electrical part is governed by Kirchoff’s laws and can be derived using an equivalent circuit model. The mechanical and electrical subsystems are coupled through the force (or torque) which depends on the currents and the inductances which depend on the position. The derivation of the dynamics of linear and rotary motors are similar. For simplicity, we consider a rotary motor to illustrate the basic principles. Although models of various motors have common features, we pursue modeling of stepper motors in this chapter. Modeling of brushless DC motors and induction motors are postponed to Chaps. 11 and 12, respectively.
Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Variation in the Level of Opposition to Energy Projects

In Chapter 1, we spelled out four principal research questions that we hoped to address in the book: How much emergent collective action do we see across the twenty communities we are studying? What causal conditions explain variation in the level of mobilization in these communities? Net of other factors, what influence, if any, does the level of mobilized opposition have on the outcome of the proposed project? Finally, why did opposition to one kind of energy project – liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals – grow into broader regional movements in some parts of the country but not others? In this chapter, we take up the first two of these questions. We aim to establish something of a baseline of just how much emergent collective action we see across the twenty communities we are studying and then move to see if we can identify certain mixes of factors – or “recipes” in the language of fuzzy set/Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA) – that help account for variation in level of mobilization across these locales. We begin with a basic description of the level and forms of emergent collective action we found in the twenty communities that we have come to know so well throughout the past few years. ESTABLISHING A BASELINE A newcomer to the United States would be forgiven if, in reading the social movement literature, she or he imagined that our communities were awash in protest activity. In a 2005 article, McAdam and colleagues (2005: 2) argued that the field’s initial engagement with and continued interest in the movements of the 1960s had “created a stylized image of movements that threatens to distort our understanding of popular contention . . . in the contemporary U.S. . . . This stylized view tends to equate movements with: Disruptive protest in public settings Loosely coordinated national struggles over political issues Urban and/or campus-based protest activities Claim making by disadvantaged minorities.”
Background and Related Work

Vehicle traffic has been an important research issue. Numerous studies have been conducted providing insights from various levels and perspectives. Researchers analyze traffic in terms of speed, flow rate, density, volume, occupancy, congestion, etc.
Incorporating Environmental Externalities Into Electricity Markets: Methods and Policies

Les industries productrices d'electricite ignorent les depenses sociales de l'environnement resultant des degâts engendres par les polluants lors de la production de l'electricite
Neighbor Discovery and Rendezvous Maintenance with Extended Quorum Systems for Mobile Applications

In many mobile sensing applications, devices need to discover new neighbors and maintain the rendezvous with known neighbors continuously. Due to the limited energy supply, these devices have to duty cycle their radios to conserve the energy and bandwidth, making neighbor discovery and rendezvous maintenance even more challenging. To date, the main mechanism for device discover and rendezvous maintenance in existing solutions is pairwise, direct one-hop communication. We argue that such pairwise direct communication is sufficient but not necessary: there exist unnecessary active slots that can be eliminated, without affecting discovery and rendezvous. In this work, we propose a novel concept of extended quorum system , which leverages indirect discovery to further conserve energy. Specifically, we use quorum graph to capture all possible information flow paths where knowledge about known-neighbors can propagate among devices. By eliminating redundant paths, we can reduce the number of active slots significantly. Since a quorum graph can characterize arbitrary active schedules of mobile devices, our work can be broadly used to improve many existing quorum-based discovery and rendezvous solutions. We comprehensively evaluate $EQS$ in three different scales of networks, and the results show that $EQS$ reduces as much as 55 percent energy consumption with a maximal 5 percent increase in latency for existing solutions. To test the real-world values of $EQS$ , we further propose a taxicab dispatching application called $EQS$ -dispatch to navigate taxicab drivers to the area with less competition based on the discovery results of nearby taxicabs.
Anticancer Action of Mn Porphyrins in Head and Neck Cancer

Manganese porphyrins have been successfully used preclinically as adjuvant therapies to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy for tumors of multiple histologies, including brain, breast, prostate, and melanoma. In contrast, the literature regarding the use of Mn porphyrins in head and neck cancer (HNC) is conspicuously scant. Yet, HNC may be an ideal disease to target with Mn porphyrins. First, the pathologies and risk factors underlying HNC are linked to oxidative stress. In addition, there are several major sources of oxidative stress in HNC (i.e., products of smoking, hypoxia, virally induced gene expression, and immune cell infiltration) that drive tumor promotion and progression by contributing to genetic instability. Further, oxidative stress promotes tumorigenesis through induction of multiple signal transduction pathways and cellular and mitochondrial reactive oxygen species.
A Functional Switch in Tonic GABA Currents Alters the Output of Central Amygdala Corticotropin Releasing Factor Receptor-1 Neurons Following Chronic Ethanol Exposure.

The corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) system in the central amygdala (CeA) has been implicated in the effects of acute ethanol and the development of alcohol dependence. We previously demonstrated that CRF receptor 1 (CRF1) neurons comprise a specific component of the CeA microcircuitry that is selectively engaged by acute ethanol. To investigate the impact of chronic ethanol exposure on inhibitory signaling in CRF1+ CeA neurons, we used CRF1:GFP mice subjected to chronic intermittent ethanol (CIE) inhalation and examined changes in local inhibitory control, the effects of acute ethanol, and the output of these neurons from the CeA. Following CIE, CRF1+ neurons displayed decreased phasic inhibition and a complete loss of tonic inhibition that persisted into withdrawal. CRF1− neurons showed a cell type-specific upregulation of both phasic and tonic signaling with CIE, the latter of which persists into withdrawal and is likely mediated by δ subunit-containing GABA A receptors. The loss of tonic inhibition with CIE was seen in CRF1+ and CRF1− neurons that project out of the CeA and into the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. CRF1+ projection neurons displayed an increased baseline firing rate and loss of sensitivity to acute ethanol following CIE. These data demonstrate that chronic ethanol exposure produces profound and long-lasting changes in local inhibitory control of the CeA, resulting in an increase in the output of the CeA and the CRF1 receptor system, in particular. These cellular changes could underlie the behavioral manifestations of alcohol dependence and potentially contribute to the pathology of addiction. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) system in the central amygdala (CeA) has been implicated in the effects of acute and chronic ethanol. We showed previously that CRF receptor 1-expressing (CRF1+) neurons in the CeA are under tonic inhibitory control and are differentially regulated by acute ethanol (Herman et al., 2013). Here we show that the inhibitory control of CRF1+ CeA neurons is lost with chronic ethanol exposure, likely by a functional switch in local tonic signaling. The loss of tonic inhibition is seen in CRF1+ projection neurons, suggesting that a critical consequence of chronic ethanol exposure is an increase in the output of the CeA CRF1 system, a neuroadaptation that may contribute to the behavioral consequences of alcohol dependence.
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy-linked genes and centronuclear myopathy-linked genes regulate myonuclear movement by distinct mechanisms.

Drosophila is used as a model system to show that the common phenotype of mispositioned nuclei occurs via distinct mechanisms in Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and centronuclear myopathy.
Playing with the Past: The Complete and Utter History of Britain in the Context of Sixties Television

Flanagan situates the television series The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) into the context of Terry Jones and Michael Palin’s pre-Monty Python work. In addition to serving as an extension of Jones and Palin’s academic interests, the show connects their nascent experiences as revue comedians to their burgeoning careers as media personalities. “Playing With the Past” argues that The Complete and Utter History of Britain fascinates because it engages with and parodies the dominant modes of historical discourse on British television, in particular the televised lecture format and the docudrama re-creation of the distant past. Flanagan assesses the extant episodes from the series and further connects them to Jones and Palin’s post-Python fame as television documentarians.
Acoustical detection of the sweetpotato weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in sweet potato.

Ultrasensitive acoustical equipment was used to detect larvae of the sweetpotato weevil, Cylas formicarius elegantulus (Summers) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in the sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas (L.). Methods of expressing results were evaluated with per cent audible as the best indicator of larval presence. Sound from moderately infested sweet potatoes (8 to 20 weevils/sweet potato) varied considerably even though infestation rates above 60 weevils/sweet potato resulted in sound throughout most of the observation period. Infested sweet potatoes were detectable after two weeks of weevil development; maximum values were observed a month after infestation. However, the substantial variation of the observation data precluded descriptive mathematical models based on infestation rate or weevil development. Disease processes also caused signals that were indistinguishable from those made by sweetpotato larvae. Other factors that influence detectability are also discussed.
The ubiquitin-specific protease USP36 is a conserved histone H2B deubiquitinase.

Abstract Histone H2B monoubiquitination plays a critical role in the regulation of gene transcription. Deregulation of H2B monoubiquitination contributes to human pathologies, such as cancer. Here we report that human USP36 is a novel H2Bub1 deubiquitinase. We show that USP36 interacts with H2B and deubiquitinates H2Bub1 in cells and in vitro. Overexpression of USP36 markedly reduced the levels of H2Bub1 in cells. Using the p21 gene as a model, we demonstrate that depletion of USP36 increases H2Bub1 at the p21 locus, primarily within its gene body. Consistently, knockdown of USP36 induced the expression of p21 and inhibits cell proliferation. Together, our results reveal USP36 as a novel H2B deubiquitinase and shed light on its additional functions in regulating gene expression.
Agenda to Reshape Metropolitan America

America’s population is getting older and more diverse, and these changes will influence housing needs. The Baby Boom generation shocked the housing system between about 1980 and 2005 by needing more new housing units than any previous generation. Because of their income and growing space needs, and the availability of cheap housing in the suburbs, their needs could be met easily through the construction of single-family homes on large lots. They accounted for three-quarters of the demand for new housing during this period, causing suburbs to expand as never before, but this trend has run its course. Because of demographic changes, the new demand for this kind of housing may only be a small fraction of the total demand to 2030.
Heart Rhythm Society: expert consensus statements—part 2

One of the most important roles for professional societies in medicine is assembling multiple stakeholders and experts to develop documents that can help guide and define policies and strategies for best medical care. Each year the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) develops several consensus documents that address critical clinical subjects that have been identified by input from HRS members and HRS committees. Over the past 5 years, HRS has produced documents with multiple professional societies from around the world, and although the topics chosen for exploration center around arrhythmia management, the reviews and recommendations made in the documents are important for clinical cardiologists and generalists who are not arrhythmia specialists. When an internist or other primary care provider identifies a patient who may be having symptoms from an arrhythmia, the referral first is made to the clinical cardiologist and only later, if necessary, does an arrhythmia specialist become involved. These expert consensus statements are developed for specific clinical questions regarding arrhythmia management where there is controversy or uncertainty, often with less data from randomized controlled trials to help guide recommendations, which must then be made by extrapolation of existing data, observational data, and expert opinion. In this 2-part review, the consensus statements developed by the HRS over the past 5 years that pertain to adults are discussed in part 1; part 2 focuses on consensus statements that HRS has developed in conjunction with the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society that address arrhythmia issues in children and adults with congenital heart disease.
Detection and tracking of migrating oligodendrocyte progenitor cells from in vivo fluorescence time-lapse imaging data

In this work, we develop a fully automatic algorithm named "MCDT" (Migrating Cell Detector and Tracker) for the integrated task of migrating cell detection, segmentation and tracking from in vivo fluorescence time-lapse microscopy imaging data. The interest of detecting and tracking migrating cells arouses from the scientific question in understanding the impact of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) migration in vivo, using advanced microscopy imaging techniques. Current practice of OPC mobility analysis relies on manual labeling, suffering from massive human labor, subjective biases, and weak reproducibility. Existing cell tracking methods have difficulties in analyzing such challenging data due to the extra complexity of in vivo data. Designed for in vivo data, MCDT circumvents the common strong assumption of separable feature distributions between foreground and background. Besides, by focusing on migrating cells (OPCs) only, MCDT relieves the burden of tracking all irrelevant cells correctly, not only accelerating the analysis but also achieving better accuracy in OPCs. Seed based segmentation and tracking by topology-preserved motion estimation endows MCDT with robustness to complex surroundings of the cell under tracking and to occasional inaccurate segmentation in some frames. We tested MCDT on imaging data of transgenic zebrafish larval spinal cord and MCDT showed very promising performance.
Suicide Attempt Survivorship and Designation as a Concealable Stigmatized Identity

Despite literature on unique challenges faced by people living with concealable stigmatized identities (CSIs), no research has explored this concept among suicide attempt survivors. Social network ...
Dealing with Overlapping Copyrights on the Internet

This article addresses the problems presented by the effective overlap of copyright's exclusive rights in the context of transmission on computer networks. Simple activities such as sending email or posting to Web pages may implicate the reproduction right, the adaptation right, the distribution right, the performance and display rights, and the new digital performance as well as triggering liability for contributory infringement and under the proposed transmission right. The article suggests that this overlap creates serious problems not only for user rights and defenses, but also for copyright owners who wish to license only a subset of their rights or who wish to divide ownership of their copyright. The article considers as possible solutions to this problem a theory of implied license, as well as a unified statutory transmission right that displaces other exclusive rights.
Product Innovation: Product innovation and strategic logic

Innovation involves changes and improvements to technologies, products, processes, and services that result in positive contributions for customers and other constituents of business organizations. An innovation is a creative new solution to the prevailing conditions and trends, and fulfills the expressed and latent needs and wants of customers and stakeholders. Innovation management involves the means, mechanisms, and methods for leading change through developing new technologies, products, and processes. It includes changes in business models and organizational structure. Innovation management is imperative for improving product portfolios, enhancing and developing new products, and achieving customer and stakeholder satisfaction in the fast-paced world of globalization, technological change, and pressures from the business environment. Innovation is pivotal for sustaining the prosperity of most organizations. If cash flow is the life-blood of a business enterprise, then innovation is the prescription for reinvigorating the organization to compete more successfully in a demanding world. Product innovation concentrates on improving the strategic position and product-delivery capabilities of the organization through creativity and leadership. Product innovation includes several essential aspects. Examining the needs for new products, processes, and services. Determining the proper direction and fit for new products. Establishing the appropriate game plan of the entire management system for developing and commercializing new products. Selecting new-product opportunities for investment. Enhancing the organizational capabilities to create successful new products. Creating the new product and executing the new-product development (NPD) program. Product innovation is a dynamic construct requiring managerial and organizational leadership and skills; it is a far-reaching term.
Voter Diversity, Ideological Trends, and Changing Party System Polarization in Western Democracies: Implications for Ideological Congruence

Ideological congruence between the median voter and the government changes substantially from one decade to the next, especially in the SMD systems of Western democracies. These changes are closely linked to changing levels of party system polarization. When the large parties are close to the median voter, any outcome creates congruent governments. When they diverge, governments are usually much further away. This paper explores the relative influence and relationships between international ideological trends, domestic voter diversity and party system polarization. Citizen self-placement data from Eurobarometer, World Value and CSES studies, and party position data from the comparative manifesto project and CSES, are used to analyze these dynamic movements and their consequences from the mid-1970s through 2005.
Mechanism of Quantum Speedup in Novel Population Transfer Protocol for Binary Optimization Problems

We consider a novel quantum population transfer protocol to solve binary optimization problems that exploits quantum many-body dynamics in the delocalized regime. Hard optimization problems are characterized by energy landscape with a large number of local minima separated by large Hamming distances which scale with the problem size. This landscape gives rise to an interesting computational primitive: given an initial bit-string, we are to produce other bit-strings within certain narrow range of energies around the initial state. We consider a specific model we call "impurity band": a system of n qubits in a transverse field, where a number of bitstrings $M<<2^n$ selected at random are assigned random energies distributed in a narrow window of width $W<<1$ around the mean energy $-n$. We demonstrate the existence of the many-body delocalized regime in this model when the spectrum of the model splits into many-body minibands, and a typical eigenstate wave function is a superposition of peaks centered at a large number of local minima. The typical width of the minibands in energy determines the efficiency of the population transfer protocol. We demonstrate theoretically that the population transfer protocol achieves Grover type speedup in the unstructured impurity band model.
Group B Streptococcus (Streptococcus agalactiae)

Invasive disease due to group B Streptococcus infection (Streptococcus agalactiae) results in a wide spectrum of clinical disease. In North America, serotypes Ia, Ib, II, III, and V are most frequently associated with invasive disease. Group B Streptococcus remains a continuing source of morbidity and mortality in high-risk populations, including pregnant women, neonates, and the elderly; an increasing incidence of invasive disease has been observed in nonpregnant adults. Group B Streptococcus remains the most common culture-confirmed neonatal bacterial infection in the United States and is a significant source of neonatal morbidity globally. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis has reduced the incidence of early-onset neonatal disease without a notable impact on the incidence of late-onset neonatal disease. Penicillin G remains the mainstay of therapy, although reduced penicillin susceptibility has been observed in select isolates. Increased frequency of resistance to non-beta-lactam antibiotics, including clindamycin, erythromycin, and fluoroquinolones, has been observed, with some isolates demonstrating resistance to vancomycin. The development and implementation of strategies to identify hosts, treat judiciously with antimicrobials with the narrowest spectra, and prevent invasive disease, with vaccines, are essential to reduce the burden of group B Streptococcus disease.
CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN FETAL γ GLOBIN DNA

Publisher Summary This chapter explains the characterization of human fetal γ globin DNA. Using a cDNA transcript of adult human globin mRNA as hybridization probe, an Eco RI fragment of fetal γ globin gene from human genome was cloned into Charon phage vector 3AAlac. The clone, Hs 51.1, has been characterized with respect to size, type of gene sequence contained, and position of these sequences. Detailed DNA sequencing and restriction enzyme mapping will be presented documenting the fact that Hs 51.1 contains the major portion of the γ globin amino acid coding region (residues 1-121) and 1.25 kbp of adjacent 5′ nontranslated DNA. The coding region is divided into three blocks by two intervening sequences designated IVS 1 (about 100 bp between residues 30 and 31) and IVS 2 (about 900 bp between residues 104 and 105). The location of these intervening sequences is precisely the same as those found in human, rabbit, and mouse 3 globin, and the junction between them and the corresponding coding regions show nucleotide sequence homology.
Using Tiered Coaching and Bug-in-Ear Technology to Promote Teacher Implementation Fidelity:

In this study, we examined the effects of a tiered teacher coaching intervention package, including video coaching and in situ coaching with use of the bug-in-ear technology, on the implementation ...
Phase I prospective trial of TAS-102 (trifluride and tipiracil) and radioembolization with 90Y resin microspheres for chemo-refractory colorectal liver metastases.

110Background: Clinical efficacy of Yttrium-90 (90Y) radioembolization (TARE) for patients with chemotherapy-refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is limited by extrahepatic disease progre...
Effect of pore size and spacing on neovascularization of a biodegradble shape memory polymer perivascular wrap

Neointimal hyperplasia (NH) is a main source of failures in arteriovenous fistulas and vascular grafts. Several studies have demonstrated the promise of perivascular wraps to reduce NH via promotion of adventitial neovascularization and providing mechanical support. Limited clinical success thus far may be due to inappropriate material selection (e.g., nondegradable, too stiff) and geometric design (e.g., pore size and spacing, diameter). The influence of pore size and spacing on implant neovascularization is investigated here for a new biodegradable, thermoresponsive shape memory polymer (SMP) perivascular wrap. Following an initial pilot, 21 mice were each implanted with six scaffolds: four candidate SMP macroporous designs (a-d), a nonporous SMP control (e), and microporous GORETEX (f). Mice were sacrificed after 4 (N = 5), 14 (N = 8), and 28 (N = 8) days. There was a statistically significant increase in neovascularization score between all macroporous groups compared to nonporous SMP (p < .023) and microporous GORETEX (p < .007) controls at Day 28. Wider-spaced, smaller-sized pore designs (223 μm-spaced, 640 μm-diameter Design c) induced the most robust angiogenic response, with greater microvessel number (p < .0114) and area (p < .0055) than nonporous SMPs and GORETEX at Day 28. This design also produced significantly greater microvessel density than nonporous SMPs (p = 0.0028) and a smaller-spaced, larger-sized pore (155 μm-spaced, 1,180 μm-sized Design b) design (p = .0013). Strong neovascularization is expected to reduce NH, motivating further investigation of this SMP wrap with controlled pore spacing and size in more advanced arteriovenous models.
Time Required for Planned and Unplanned Episodes of Care in Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty: Has Anything Changed With a Growth in Outpatient Arthroplasty?

Abstract Background This study sought to determine the total amount of time committed to planned and unplanned episodes of care related to primary, unilateral total joint arthroplasty (TJA), relative to a growth in outpatient TJA. Methods All primary, unilateral TJA procedures performed over a 7-year period by a single surgeon at a single institution were retrospectively reviewed. Time dedicated to planned work was calculated over each episode of care, from surgery scheduling to 90 days postoperatively. All telephone inquiries and readmissions involving the surgeon’s direct input, over the episode of care, constituted time dedicated to unplanned work. Results Between 2012 and 2018, as the proportion of outpatient TJAs increased, the average planned episode-of-care time per patient decreased from 412 minutes to 361 minutes. Despite a 108% increase in the total number of outpatient TJAs between 2017 and 2018 (51/432 (11.8%) to 106/555 (19.1%); P = .002), neither the average number of unplanned telephone inquiries (4.6 ± 3.8 vs 4.2 ± 3.7; P = .124), nor the mean time per patient required to respond to calls (23.1 ± 19.4 vs 21.2 ± 18 minutes, P = .135) differed. Between 2017 and 2018, the average total episode-of-care time per patient decreased from 403 minutes (376 planned + 27 unplanned) to 387 minutes (361 planned + 26 unplanned). Conclusion Despite an increase in outpatient TJA, the average time required for planned and unplanned patient care remained relatively constant. The growth of outpatient TJA nationally should not trigger a change in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services benchmarks.
Analysis of Electric Vehicle Charging Facilities Operation Data

In future, electric vehicle (EV) charging enterprises will change from simple charging service to data service, information service and other modes. This paper analyzes the operating platform data of EV charging facilities from multiple perspectives. From the user's point of view, this paper analyzes the user's mobile terminal, gender and age distribution, consumption ability and payment habits. According to time dimensions of week, quarter and hour, the charging behavior pattern and charging load distribution are mainly explored. From the perspective of operators, this paper studies the load distribution of charging stations, the utilization rate, and income of AC/DC piles in different areas, recharge income, transaction amount and so on. Finally, the user group is depicted, the benefit points of charging operators are summarized, and corresponding suggestions are put forward for charging facility operation, in the hope of improving user experience and stickiness, and exploring a business model that can further create added value.
A toolset to support a software maintenance process in academic environments

Software engineering and maintenance processes are designed to provide structure and organization around a set of activities involved in the production or maintenance of a software product. Understanding these processes and learning to follow them are important experiences for students in a software engineering course. But it can be difficult for both students and instructors to recognize when a process isn’t being followed. Tools designed to guide a process can help. In these environments, tool support can also help ensure that students are using version control systems appropriately while fostering an environment in which students learn from their peers. The importance of tool support for agile processes has been recognized, but little such support has been designed for academic environments. "Co-Op" is a software maintenance-focused process and supporting toolset designed for use in academic environments. The toolset is implemented as a web application that focuses on change impact analysis, use of version control systems that adheres to the process, and communication amongst part-time developers. A brief overview can be seen at https://bit.ly/2YEbWvO.
Endoscopic-Assisted Oropharyngectomy for Early Oropharyngeal Cancer in Trismus Patients.

Objective: Management of the early-stage oropharyngeal carcinoma in trismus patients underlying with multiple head and neck cancer history is a clinical challenge because minimal invasive surgery s...
Planar liquid crystal polarization optics for augmented reality and virtual reality: from fundamentals to applications

Planar and ultrathin liquid crystal (LC) polarization optical elements have found promising applications in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and photonic devices. In this paper, we give a comprehensive review on the operation principles, device fabrication, and performance of these optical elements. Optical simulations methods for optimizing the device performance are discussed in detail. Finally, some potential applications of these devices in AR and VR systems are illustrated and analyzed.
Detecting job interference in large distributed multi-agent systems — A formal approach

This work is on formal modeling, analysis and detection of job interference in large distributed multi-agent systems. Such an analysis usually requires an examination of all the global system states-often impossible due to the well-known state space explosion. We obtain a sufficient condition so that job interference can be detected by observations of individual system component without the knowledge of global system states. Given that the job interference can be detected locally, we propose a guided random walk algorithm for detecting interference. We apply it to Kansei, a large and distributed wireless sensor network system with multi-agents. Ten job interference traces are identified; they have not been detected before by manual analysis and system operations. We further diagnose the detected interference for a correction of system design.
Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated Death of Lament

Reviewed Medium: book Authors: James M. Wilce Year: 2008 Pages: 296 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell ISBN: 9781405169929 (hard cover).
"Billy in the Darbies . . . and on Page, Stage, and Screen: Adaptations of Melville's Billy Budd"

s MLA 2011 | Los Angeles, California “Billy in the Darbies . . . and on Page, Stage, and Screen: Adaptations of Melville’s Billy Budd” Co-Chair: Joseph Fruscione Georgetown University, George Washington University O rganized and moderated by Joseph Fruscione (Melville Society) and Jeff Dailey (Lyrica Society), this collaborative panel brought together five scholar/teachers to discuss adaptations of Billy Budd through short, focused papers that sparked a lively discussion. This was the Melville Society’s first collaborative panel, one we hope will set the tone for future work with other author societies and organizations. In recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s opera, this roundtable examined musical, cinematic, and aural adaptations of Billy Budd. Two panelists discussed the Britten opera, two the Claire Denis film Beau Travail, and one a radio version presented by Focus on the Family. The panelists moved beyond “fidelity criticism” to examine creative responses to Melville’s novella. Britten’s “Haunting Melodies”: The Music of Billy Budd as the Universal Language of Human Emotion Marcia Green San Francisco State University Benjamin Britten’s musical-literary theme—the indictment of human folly as revealed in the tragedy and wastage of war and in the corruption of human innocence—is achieved through his extraordinarily wide orchestral harmonic range. Utilizing a structure that is taut and tense and themes that are often similar in melodic outline, Britten stresses the obsessive nature of the piece. His opera is rich in variety and polytonality. He uses musical keys as literary leitmotifs, such as B-flat major in the Prologue and c © 2011 The Melville Society and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 120 L E V I A T H A N A J O U R N A L O F M E L V I L L E S T U D I E S
An Integrated Marketing Communications Perspective on Social Media Metrics

Marketers are being inundated with social media metrics, but there is little consensus on what one should be measuring, let alone how these measures inform marketing strategy. This article attempts to bring clarity to the situation by adopting an integrated marketing communications perspective. By screening extant metrics for alignment with social media communications objectives, seven key social media metrics are identified. These metrics are then described and their application to social media marketing from an integrated marketing communications perspective is discussed. Finally, limitations of the metrics are considered to arrive at suggestions for future research.
Context-centric proactive information delivery

Delivering only those information relevant to the needs of teammates is critical for avoiding information overload. Need-driven proactive information delivery has thus been widely investigated in diverse areas spanning from psychology, AI, to Web-based services. CAST, a team-oriented agent architecture, realized proactive information delivery as a built-in agent behavior, which is derived by the capability of anticipating others' information-needs based on a computational shared mental model. However, the first implementation of CAST is limited in managing the dynamic activation and deactivation of teammates' information-needs. This work addresses this issue by proposing a mechanism for organizing and managing the "context" of information-needs, which facilitates information-needs to be activated and deactivated dynamically. We evaluate the proposed approach by comparing its performance with agent teams using only reactive communications (e.g., ask/reply) and with the original CAST agent teams.
MAC protocols and transport capacity in ad hoc wireless networks: Aloha versus PR-CSMA

Ad hoc wireless networks represent a new communication paradigm and could be an important means of providing ubiquitous communication in the future. Based on a recently developed communication-theoretic framework, in which the interaction between the medium access control (MAC) layer and the physical layer is taken into account, we investigate the performance of circuit switched ad hoc wireless networks. Upon the introduction of the concept of effective transport capacity, which represents the "actual" rate-distance product carried by the network and the maximum of which is the transport capacity of the network, an intuitive and simple approach for the evaluation of this quantity is proposed. In particular, two MAC protocols are considered: Aloha and perroute carrier sense multiple access (PR-CSMA). Numerical results indicate that for low values of the network traffic load the effective transport capacity achievable with Aloha is almost equal to that obtained in the ideal case without internode interference (INI). We also show the existence of a threshold value of the traffic load below which Aloha outperforms PR-CSMA, and above which the opposite is true.
Role of nitric oxide in skeletal muscle blood flow at rest and during dynamic exercise in humans.

The role of nitric oxide at rest and in the active hyperemic response within skeletal muscle was investigated in eight physically active men. Three microdialysis probes were inserted into the vastu...
Optical interconnects for information distribution networks

Optical interconnections for information distribution provide advantages of a high distance-bandwidth product, high density, immunity to EMI and in some cases reduced weight and volume. This paper describes several interconnect technologies being developed at Honeywell. Serial, high speed (approximately 1 Gbit/sec) fiber optic data communication modules are being developed for applications including local area networks, links to peripherals and supercomputer cabinet-to-cabinet interconnects. These modules are being incorporated onto boards under the "PRISM" program to be inserted in the Intel Paragon supercomputer in order to enable this machine to be expanded to two rows of cabinets separated by 10-20 meters. Polymer waveguides are used to provide high density board and backplane integrated optical interconnects, and are also used to package optoelectronic devices together with conventional electronic die in multichip modules (MCM) using conventional fabrication procedures. An expanded beam parallel waveguide connector allows 32 optical channels to replace one electrical pin in a standard SEM-E connector. Polymer waveguides have interconnect densities 50/mm, and have been integrated with conventional circuit board material in industry-standard flamination processes. Systems in the next 3 to 5 year time frame will need optical interconnects at the board and backplane level if the interconnects are not to force undesirable compromises in system performance. We show that board-integrable waveguides represent the optimum choice for embedded systems. An interconnect figure-of-merit is given which shows that polyimide waveguides promise a factor of 20 speed-density-power improvement over copper interconnects.