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Dyadic coping moderates the impact of individual coping strategies on CRP among individuals facing chronic parenting stress

Dyadic coping refers to the extent to which partners work together to deal with the stress that they are facing both individually and as a couple. Active problem-focused coping represents the strategies that the individual uses in response to daily stressors. Although both types of coping have been related to less psychological distress, no studies have examined the interaction between individual and dyadic coping responses to stress. The goal of this study was to examine the interplay of individual and dyadic coping among parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder facing exceptional parenting challenges. Forty-four partnered parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder completed a self-reported assessment of dyadic coping, daily diaries assessing individual coping strategies for 6 days in a row, and provided a blood sample for CRP analysis. Results indicated that greater dyadic coping was associated with lower circulating CRP levels, p = . 03 . Although there was no main effect of individual coping strategies, p = . 25 , there was a significant interaction between dyadic coping and individual coping strategies, p = . 02 . Individual coping strategies were associated with lower CRP levels only among individual reporting lower levels of dyadic coping. These results suggest that higher levels of dyadic coping attenuate the impact of poor individual coping responses to stress on CRP in the context of chronic parenting stress.
Iron in Plants

Iron is essential for plant growth, and plant-based foods are the primary source of iron in the human diet. Hence, understanding how plants take up iron, distribute iron, and regulate iron deficiency responses is important for both plant health and human nutrition. This chapter will review the two major strategies of iron uptake in plants as well as how iron is transported and compartmentalized to maintain iron homeostasis. We will also review recent approaches for reducing micronutrient deficiencies using biofortification. Keywords: iron; iron transport; Arabidopsis; rice; phytosiderophore; nicotianamine; biofortification
Blow-up problems for the heat equation with a local nonlinear Neumann boundary condition

Abstract This paper estimates the blow-up time for the heat equation u t = Δ u with a local nonlinear Neumann boundary condition: The normal derivative ∂ u / ∂ n = u q on Γ 1 , one piece of the boundary, while on the rest part of the boundary, ∂ u / ∂ n = 0 . The motivation of the study is the partial damage to the insulation on the surface of space shuttles caused by high speed flying subjects. We show the finite time blow-up of the solution and estimate both upper and lower bounds of the blow-up time in terms of the area of Γ 1 . In many other work, they need the convexity of the domain Ω and only consider the problem with Γ 1 = ∂ Ω . In this paper, we remove the convexity condition and only require ∂Ω to be C 2 . In addition, we deal with the local nonlinearity, namely Γ 1 can be just part of ∂Ω.
Physician Specialization and Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV

BACKGROUND: Since the introduction of the first protease inhibitor in January 1996, there has been a dramatic change in the treatment of persons infected with HIV. The changing nature of HIV care has important implications for the types of physicians that can best care for patients with HIV infection. OBJECTIVE: To assess the association of specialty training and experience in the care of HIV disease with the adoption and use of highly active antiretroviral (ARV) therapy (HAART). DESIGN: Observational cohort study of patients under care for HIV infection and their physicians. PATIENTS AND SETTING: This analysis used data collected from a national probability sample of noninstitutionalized persons with HIV infection participating in the HIV Costs and Service Utilization Study and their primary physicians. We analyzed 1,820 patients being cared for by 374 physicians. MEASUREMENTS: Rates of HAART use at 12 months and 18 months after the approval of the first protease inhibitor. RESULTS: Forty percent of the physicians were formally trained in infectious diseases (ID), 38% were general medicine physicians with self-reported expertise in the care of HIV, and 22% were general medicine physicians without self-reported expertise in the care of HIV. The majority of physicians (69%) reported a current HIV caseload of 50 patients or more. In multivariable models controlling for patient characteristics, there were no differences between generalist experts and ID physicians in rates of HAART use in December 1996. When compared to ID physicians, however, patients being treated by non-expert general medicine physicians were less likely to be on HAART (odds ratio [OR], 0.32; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 0.17 to 0.61). Patients being treated by low-volume physicians were also much less likely to be on HAART therapy than those treated by high-volume physicians (OR, 0.26; 95% CI, 0.14 to 0.48). These findings were attenuated by June 1997, suggesting that over time, the broader physician community successfully adopted HAART therapy. This finding is consistent with prior research on the diffusion of innovations. CONCLUSIONS: Similar proportions of patients treated by expert generalists and ID specialists were on appropriate HAART therapy by December 1996 and July 1997. Patients treated by non-expert generalists, most of whom were the lowest-volume physicians, were much less likely to be on appropriate ARV therapy in the earlier time period. Our findings demonstrate that generalists who develop specialized expertise are able to provide care of quality comparable to that of specialists.
Submicron particles at Thompson Farm during ICARTT measured using aerosol mass spectrometry

sulfate (averages of 5.7 m gm � 3 and 3.6 m gm � 3 , respectively), with smaller contributions from nitrate and ammonium (averages of 0.3 m gm � 3 and 1.02 m gm � 3 , respectively). Organic aerosol (OA) mass correlates well with anthropogenic tracers such as carbon monoxide (CO, R 2 = 0.58) and black carbon (R 2 = 0.59), but multiple analyses indicate possible contributions from primary, secondary, anthropogenic, and biogenic OA. Multivariate statistical analysis of the OA mass spectra indicates the presence of two types of oxygenated OA (OOA) and a hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA) component that also contains contributions from biomass burning OA (BBOA). On average, the HOA/BBOA component accounts for 21% of the total OA mass while the two OOA components account for 24% and 55%, respectively, of the OA burden. Observed nitrate correlates well with OA (R 2 = 0.67), suggesting interference, the presence of organic nitrates, processing/ uptake of nitric acid by OA, or other temporally coincident processes because of the ammonia-poor environment with respect to sulfate. The relative increase of OA with respect to background compared to that of CO (average of 72.7 m gm � 3 ppmv � 1 ) indicates
AIDS: serologic testing for the human immunodeficiency virus--to screen or not to screen.

The world pandemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now in its eighth year and may represent the most serious infectious disease threat to world health in modern history. We now have the capability to diagnose HIV infection very accurately by simple serologic means. However, there has been great reluctance in this country to use serologic testing on a wide scale as a weapon in the war against AIDS. It is hard to believe that when serologic testing first became available, there was controversy as to whether blood donors should be routinely screened.
Study of a plasticized‐unoriented P(VF2/VF3) (73/27 mol %) copolymer. II. The effects of poling on the piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties of slow‐cooled films

The ferroelectric properties of unoriented films of a random copolymer of vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene (73/27 mol %) as a function of plasticizer concentration, tricresyl phosphate (TCP), were examined. The percentages of dopant chosen were 5% and 10% by weight and a comparison was made with undoped films. The mechanical and thermal properties of these films were examined both before and after poling. Electric field poling induced the all-trans chains of the ferroelectric phase to pack in a more compact crystal structure, and also produced an increase of 7°C in the Curie transition temperature (Tc). The results of piezoelectric coefficient measurements (d31 and e31), X-ray diffraction analysis, and DSC thermal investigations provided insights into the ferroelectric nature of these plasticized copolymer films. In the films with 5% dopant, the crystallinity and remanent polarization decreased by 15% and 50%, respectively, when compared to the undoped films, yet showed a 21% increase in piezoelectric coefficient, d31. Contrary to this behavior, films doped at 10% TCP, with ≈ 55% crystallinity, indicated almost no remanent polarization. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 37: 29–35, 1999
Vaccinia virus mediated p53 gene therapy for bladder cancer in an orthotopic murine model

ABSTRACT Purpose: We determined if vaccinia virus (VV) mediated delivery of human tumor suppressor p53 is safe and effective for bladder tumor therapy in an orthotopic murine model. Materials and Methods: We used recombinant VV (rVV) vectors to express transgenes in murine bladder cancer MB-49 cells in culture and those growing orthotopically in syngeneic mice. Cultured MB-49 cells were infected with rVV expressing reporter genes (rVV-L15) or p53 (rVV-TK-53) to measure virus infection and apoptosis induction. Orthotopic MB-49 tumors in C57/Bl6 mice were treated with intravesical instillation of rVV, and the tumor incidence, survival and transgene expression were determined. Results: Productive virus infection in vitro was observed in MB-49 cells, although at somewhat lower efficiency than in African Green Monkey kidney CV-1 cells (American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia). Expression of transgenes in vitro correlated with the virus dose. Cells infected with rVV underwent apoptosis with rVV-TK-53 inducing far greater cell death than rVV-L15. The rVV-L15 virus had no effect on tumor incidence but it increased mean survival compared with control. Instillation of rVV-TK-53 decreased the tumor incidence and 33% of mice survived treatment. At necropsy all nonsurviving mice had bladder tumor, whereas 2 survivors in the rVV-TK-53 treated group were tumor-free. Immunohistochemistry of tumors detected expression of the human p53 gene product in tumor cells. Conclusions: To our knowledge we report for the first time that recombinant vaccinia virus expressing human p53 can induce the death of MB-49 tumor cells in vivo, not only through the lytic effect of the virus, but also through expression of the death inducing p53 transgene. Further studies are needed to shed light on the mechanisms of rVV-TK-53 mediated tumor apoptosis and the antitumor immune response.
Vision Research At The NMSU Computing Research Laboratory

The paper sets out briefly the history of the Computing Research Laboratory, its main aims and objectives, and then gives a brief description of each of the current computer vision-based projects.
Strains in an inflated rubber sheet

Abstract A technique to measure the strain distribution of an inflated membrane is described, and applied to natural rubber inflated to pole biaxial strains of 12%, 26%, and 33%. The radial strain was found to be nearly constant over the entire surface, while the circumferential strain falls to zero at the edge. Thus, biaxial deformation is limited to a narrow region in the vicinity of the pole. These results are quite different from (the very limited) data published previously. The stress-strain behavior was also measured in uniaxial tension, and the strain distribution of the inflated membrane calculated using finite elements. The experiment results and the modeling were in good agreement.
Preparative purification of tetraantennary oligosaccharides from human asialyl orosomucoid.

Abstract An approach to isolate micromole quantities of tetraantennary oligosaccharides from human orosomucoid is presented. The N-linked oligosaccharides from 500 mg of the glycoprotein were released enzymatically, desialylated, and isolated free of protein using ion exchange chromatography. The pooled oligosaccharides were converted into oligosaccharide glycosylamines by reaction with ammonium bicarbonate then coupled to BOC-tyrosine to prepare tyrosinamide oligosaccharides. These were resolved on semipreparative RP–HPLC to recover micromole quantities of six purified tyrosinamide oligosaccharides. The oligosaccharide structures were elucidated by a combination of high-field proton NMR and matrix-assisted time of flight mass spectrometry and included biantennary, triantennary, monofucosylated triantennary, tetraantennary, monofucosylated tetraantennary, and a tetraantennary containing a single polylactosamine extension. Edman degradation was utilized to reverse the tyrosinamide oligosaccharide derivatization leading to the generation of reducing oligosaccharides. These were used to characterize the elution profile of asialyl orosomucoid oligosaccharides on high pH anion exchange chromatography. This application of tyrosinamide derivatization has allowed for the first time the complete resolution of the complex oligosaccharide mixture from orosomucoid on a semipreparative scale in a single chromatogram and provide the first NMR characterization of polylactosamine tetraantennary oligosaccharide from this substrate. This study demonstrates the broad utility of the tyrosinamide derivatization to develop oligosaccharide libraries useful for probing the biological functions of glycosylation.
Acylcarnitine chain length influences carnitine-enhanced drug flux through the spinal meninges in vitro.

BACKGROUND Palmitoyl carnitine has been shown to improve the penetration of hydrophilic drugs through the spinal meninges. Naturally occurring acylcarnitines, however, exist as a homologous series of different acyl chain lengths. The purpose of this study was to determine the most effective acylcarnitine chain length to increase meningeal permeability. METHODS The transmeningeal flux of mannitol, morphine, and sufentanil through monkey spinal meninges was determined before and after adding acylcarnitines with chain lengths of 6 to 18 carbon atoms. Flux was measured using a previously established in vitro diffusion cell model. RESULTS For mannitol, acylcarnitines generally showed a greater penetration-enhancing effect with increasing chain length, with palmitoyl carnitine (16 carbons) being the most effective compound with an increase of 244 +/- 29% (means +/- SE). Morphine flux was increased most significantly by lauroyl-(12 carbons) and myristoyl-carnitine (14 carbons) with 165 +/- 25% and 188 +/- 44% flux increases, respectively. In contrast, none of the studied acylcarnitines significantly altered the meningeal penetration of the more hydrophobic drug sufentanil. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that, to promote hydrophilic drug penetration, acylcarnitines must surpass a critical chain length (10 carbon units) but should not exceed 16 carbon units. The activity of the acylcarnitines at the spinal meninges is reduced on either side of this range. The ability of acylcarnitines to increase the transmeningeal flux of morphine in vitro suggests that lauroyl or myristoyl carnitine may increase the spinal bioavailability of morphine after epidural administration.
ERK5 IS A NOVEL REGULATOR OF PLATELET ACTIVATION AND CONTRIBUTES TO INFARCT EXPANSION AND CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Mechanisms which cause dysregulated platelet function during MI are under-estimated and poorly understood. Extracellular regulated protein kinase 5 (ERK5), a mitogen known to protect endothelial and myocardial cells, is present in platelets but appears to promote platelet activation. Human
Green's functions in layered poroelastic half-spaces

In this paper, the complete Green's functions in a multilayered, isotropic, and poroelastic half-space are presented. It is the first time that all the common point sources, i.e. the total force, fluid force, fluid dilatation, and dislocation, are considered for a layered system. The Laplace transform is applied first to suppress the time variable. The cylindrical and Cartesian systems of vector functions and the propagator matrix method are then employed to derive the Green's functions. In the treatment of a point dislocation, an equivalent body-source concept is introduced, and the difference of a dislocation in a purely elastic and a poroelastic medium is discussed. While the spatial integrals involved in the Green's functions can be evaluated accurately by an adaptive Gauss quadrature with continued fraction expansions, the inverse Laplace transform can be carried out by applying a common numerical inversion technique. These complete Green's functions can be implemented into a suitable boundary element formulation to study the deformation and fracture problems in a layered poroelastic half-space. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Measuring the effects of new brand introduction on inter-brand strategic interaction

This paper empirically investigates the effects of a new brand introduction on the market structure of a product market, i.e., the nature of competition among existing brands. The model is based on the discrete choice multinomial logit model in which the household-specific brand intercepts are decomposed into brand locations in attribute space and households' importance weights for these attributes. The formulation also incorporates the effects of marketing variables on brand choice behavior. The relative proximity of brands in the attribute space provides a measure of the intensity of competitive rivalry among brands. A new brand introduction results in an additional location in this space. Three consequences of the introduction are investigated. (i) Impact on brand locations of extant brands. (ii) Change in the importance weights assigned by households to the attributes. (iii) Effects on households' sensitivities to marketing activities. As some or all of the above could change, these three effects result in eight combinations that need to be studied. The general model is one in which all three components are allowed to change and this nests the remaining seven specifications. The specification that is most consistent with the data can, therefore, be isolated via a statistical test of nested hypotheses. Identifying the consequences of the introduction for market structure has implications for managerial action. An empirical application of the model to household scanner panel data using liquid laundry detergents is provided.
Proportional Counter for Monitoring Low Levels of Krypton-85 and Other Beta- and X-Ray-Emitting Nuclides

The use of the inert radioactive gas Kr-85 for tracer studies, leak detection, etc., will become more widespread as the sensitivity of available detectors increases. A multiwire multiplane proportional counter system for beta detection has been developed with a measured minimum detectable concentration for a 3-minute count of 3 × 10-3 pCi cm-3 of Kr-85 in a semi-infinite cloud. Larger proportional counters operated for counting times of several hours can reduce this limit to below 1 × 10-4 pCi cm-3. These detectors should be useful in monitoring low levels of -the radioactive inert gases and of x-ray emitting nuclides.
Algorithm 839: FIAT, a new paradigm for computing finite element basis functions

Much of finite element computation is constrained by the difficulty of evaluating high-order nodal basis functions. While most codes rely on explicit formulae for these basis functions, we present a new approach that allows us to construct a general class of finite element basis functions from orthonormal polynomials and evaluate and differentiate them at any points. This approach relies on fundamental ideas from linear algebra and is implemented in Python using several object-oriented and functional programming techniques.
Reliability of Holistic Scoring for the MCAT Essay

The Association of American Medical Colleges is conducting research on the incremental validity associated with adding an essay to the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). The present research examined the reliability of holistic scoring for a sample of essays written during the Spring 1985 MCAT administration. Analysis of variance techniques were used to estimate the reliability of scoring and to partition score variance into that due to level differences between papers and to context-specific factors such as rater, time of scoring, etc. Recommendations for structuring and managing large-scale scoring sessions are presented based on the results.
Mechanical behavior of erosion-corrosion scales on steels as characterized by single-particle impacts

Samples of 2.25Cr-1Mo (less than 0.5 Si) and 2.5Cr-0.55Mo-1.4Si steels were eroded-corroded at 450 and 650 °C using fluidized bed combustor bed particles at velocities of 10 and 20 m s−1. The steel with higher silicon content showed significantly lower metal loss rates under all conditions. The samples were subsequently subjected to single-particle impacts using spherical WC particles at velocities around 50 m s−. The impact response of the scales could be explained in terms of a combination of substrate hardness and scale morphology effects but could not be consistently related to the superior erosion-corrosion resistance of the steel with higher silicon content. All scales were composed of oxidation product and deposited bed material erodent. Samples eroded-corroded at 450 °C had denser, more mechanically stable scales which could be associated with the generally lower erosion-corrosion rates at this temperature. At 650 °C the scales were more loosely packed, especially at the lower erosion-corrosion velocity, which resulted in apparent ductility by permitting them to densify under impact. Scales were either segmented or continuous in appearance. Thick continuous scales maintained their integrity under the lower velocity conditions of the erosion-corrosion tests, thus leading to low metal losses, but spalled catastrophicaliy under the single impacts. Segmented scales spalled in smaller pieces under single impacts. It is proposed that the segmented scales would exhibit significant failure under low velocity conditions, thus providing less protection to the steels than continuous scales under similar conditions.
Primer extension analysis of Streptococcus mutans promoter structures

To characterize the promoter structures of Streptococcus mutans genes, primer extension analysis was carried out with 4 genes previously isolated in this laboratory. An analysis of the transcription start sites for the gtfB, gtfC, gtfD and ftf genes revealed that each transcript was initiated at a purine residue. Based on these sites, the -10 and -35 sequences for each transcript were deduced and compared. For all 4 transcripts, the -10, but not the -35, sequences were homologous to the Escherichia coli promoter consensus sequences.
Introduction: The analytic and nonanalytic frameworks for performance appraisal

Abstract It seems fair to state that a general restlessness or uneasiness surrounds the current performance appraisal literature. Although performance appraisal is recognized by scientists and practitioners alike as an important component of modern organizations, and continues to receive considerable research attention, there is a growing concern over the direction in which appraisal research is headed (Balzer & Sulsky 1990; Banks & Murphy 1985; Napier & Latham 1986). Much of the research conducted over the last decade has explored cognitive processes and factors influencing appraisal judgments. Arguably, we now have a better understanding of the general appraisal process than we did 15 years ago, prior to Landy and Farr's (1980) influential call for a process approach to performance appraisal (see DeNisi & Williams 1988; Lord & Maher 1989, for recent reviews). As process-oriented research continues, however, criticisms that this research lacks generalizability and offers few suggestions for improving actual performance appraisal procedures in organizations have become more frequent (Balzer & Sulsky 1990; Banks & Murphy 1985; Bernardin & Villanova 1986; Murphy & Cleveland 1991). In fact, performance appraisal has been used as an illustrative example of the wide gulf that often exists between practitioners and scientists in industrial/organizational psychology (Dunnette 1990; Lapointe 1990). This special issue of Human Resource Management Review addresses the question of how to design “real world” performance appraisal systems and contrasts cognitive- or process-based perspectives (referred to here as the non-analytic or intuitive approach) with noncognitive or analytic perspectives.
Transrectal ultrasound in the evaluation of rhabdomyosarcoma involving the prostate

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate transrectal ultrasound as a means of diagnosis and of monitoring patients with rhabdomyosarcoma involving the prostate. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Serial transrectal ultrasonography was utilized to evaluate prostatic rhabdomyosarcoma in three patients. RESULTS: Unlike prostatic adenocarcinoma and transitional cell carcinoma involving the prostate, which are predominantly hypoechoic, the echogenicity of rhabdomyosarcoma is similar to that of the normal prostate. Transrectal ultrasound provided a simple means of monitoring prostate size and sampling tissue in these patients. CONCLUSION: Transrectal ultrasound imaging can be useful in both diagnosis and evaluation of treatment response as well as provide easy access for biopsies in patients with rhabdomyosarcoma involving the prostate.
Abstract nouns: Imagery versus lexical complexity

Four types of nouns were used as stimuli in a paired-associate learning experiment: low-imagery nouns that correspond to simple lexical entries (e.g., soul) and low-imagery nouns that may be derived from more basic lexical entries (e.g., explanation); high-imagery nouns that correspond to simple lexical entries (e.g., comrade), and high-imagery nouns that are derived lexically (e.g., speaker). Both low imagery and lexical complexity significantly retarded paired-associate learning. The frequency with which words are used was shown to be important, in that some high-frequency words that may be derived lexically were nevertheless treated like simple lexical entries. It was argued that lexical derivations are interesting psychological processes which must not be confused with abstractness.
Update on the diagnosis of osteoporosis

Abstract Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue leading to diminished biomechanical competence of the skeleton and low-trauma or atraumatic fractures: fractures of the spine, hip and wrist are the common clinical complications, with those of the hip being the most serious. These contribute substantially to morbidity, mortality and health care cost. The susceptibility to fracture depends on a variety of factors, including the propensity to fall, visual acuity, response to falling and bone mass; however, studies have shown that bone mass is the most important determinant of bone strength and accounts for up to 80% of its variance. Considerable progress has been made in the development of non-invasive methods for the assessment of the skeleton. Although dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and quantitative computed tomography (QCT) are commonly used techniques, other approaches such as radiographic absorptiometry (RA), single X-ray absorptiometry (SXA) and quantitative ultrasound (QUS) are gaining ground. QCT has an advantage over the other techniques in its ability to measure the true volumetric density of trabecular or cortical bone. There is an increased momentum to establish the role of peripheral techniques such as QUS and peripheral DXA (pDXA) due to their low costs and potentially wide availability.
Do Attitudes Toward Specific Supreme Court Decisions Matter? The Impact of Webster and Texas v. Johnson on Public Confidence in the Supreme Court:

In this article, we revisit the question of whether, and in what manner, attitudes regarding specific Supreme Court decisions influence subsequent levels of confidence in the Court itself. Analysis centers on the impact of the 1989 Webster abortion decision and Texas v. Johnson, the flag-burning edict released immediately prior to Webster. Using data from three Harris polls, one conducted just before the two decisions, and two conducted soon after, we design a quasi-experimental test in which data are ana lyzed using ordered logistic regression. Results demonstrate that agree ment with the rulings did affect perceptions of the Court, and that the pattern of effects is indicative of a negativity bias; that is, disagreement with one or both decisions substantially reduced confidence in the Court, but agreement with both edicts brought only a marginal gain in confi dence. Results also reveal that these effects did not decay in strength from the time of the first postdecision poll (conducted immediately after...
Educators' Assessment Accommodation Preferences for Students with Autism

This study reports the results of a survey of teachers and related-services professionals experienced in working with students with autism. The survey focused on identifying students with autism spectrum disorders who were perceived to be appropriate for participation in a large-scale group assessment. Respondents identified minimally necessary testing accommodations or children considered appropriate to participate in districtwide testing.
Fermi surface evolution through a heavy-fermion superconductor-to- antiferromagnet transition: De Haas-van Alphen effect in Cd-substituted CeCoIn5

We report the results of de-Haas-van-Alphen (dHvA) measurements in ${\text{CeCoIn}}_{5}$ and ${\text{LaCoIn}}_{5}$. Cd doping is known to induce an antiferromagnetic order in the heavy-fermion superconductor ${\text{CeCoIn}}_{5}$, whose effect can be reversed with applied pressure. We find a slight but systematic change of the dHvA frequencies with Cd doping in both compounds, reflecting the chemical potential shift due to the addition of holes. The frequencies and effective masses are close to those found in the nominally pure compounds with similar changes apparent in the Ce and La compounds with Cd substitution. We observe no abrupt change to the electron Fermi surface volume in the high field paramagnetic state for $x\ensuremath{\sim}{x}_{c}$ corresponding to the onset of antiferromagnetic ordering at $H=0$ in $\text{CeCo}{({\text{In}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\text{Cd}}_{x})}_{5}$. Our results make it unlikely that a change of Fermi surface from large to small accompanies the change in the ground state meaning that the Fermi surface of ${\text{CeCoIn}}_{5}$ doped with Cd likely includes a significant contribution from $\text{Ce}\text{ }f$ electrons even for $xg{x}_{c}$.
Polarization of Jovian Emission at Decametre Wave-lengths

DURING the period September 1–December 31, 1963, observations of the polarization of radio-wave emission from Jupiter were made at 15.2, 16.2, 18.2, 22.2, and 24.2 Mc/s. The Southwest Research Institute two-helix polarimeter1, utilizing a twin channel receiver, was expanded so that determination of the cross-correlation of the right and left circular components, in addition to the two opposite circular components, was made separately for each Jupiter burst. This type of radio polarimeter scheme has been described by Cohen2. The calibrated polarimeter thus provided determination of the polarization fraction (m), axial ratio (r) and sense of the Jupiter bursts observed.
Treating cancer symptoms improves quality of life. Part I: treatment of anaemia and fatigue

Fatigue occurs frequently in cancer patients. This fatigue impacts on the activities of daily life, including social- and work-related activities. Anaemia, a common symptom of cancer and its treatment, is one of the many causes of this fatigue. Historically, treatment of anaemia has been limited to preventing the physiological complications associated with anaemia. This paradigm has recently changed as data have emerged to support the relationship between anaemia and fatigue up to and including haemoglobin levels of 12 g/dL.
Dynamics of wind‐driven circulation in a shallow lagoon with strong horizontal density gradient

[1] Albemarle-Pamlico Sound (APS) is a shallow lagoonal estuary with weak stratification but strong horizontal density gradient. Idealized and realistic model simulations are conducted to examine the dynamics of wind-driven circulation in APS. Two dimensionless parameters, the Ekman (Ek) and Wedderburn (W) numbers, are found to be two key parameters in controlling the flow pattern and dynamics. Circulation in Albemarle Sound and northern Pamlico Sound is primarily driven by wind-forcing, and shows laterally sheared flows withEk approaching 1 and Wexceeding 1. Analysis of the along-channel momentum equation shows a balance among the wind stress, barotropic pressure gradient due to sea level setup, and bottom friction, while the vertical vorticity is primarily determined by the balance between the wind stress curl and bottom stress curl. In contrast, circulation in southern Pamlico Sound is driven by both wind and gravitational forces, and shows vertically sheared two-layer flows with lowEk and Waround 1. Both baroclinic and barotropic pressure gradients act against the wind stress to drive the two-layer flows. A regime diagram in the parameter space ofEk and W is used to summarize variability of circulation pattern on the seasonal time scale. Northern Pamlico Sound is characterized by high Ek and high W values and laterally sheared currents. Southern Pamlico Sound is usually characterized by low Ek and low W values and vertically sheared flows but featuring laterally sheared flows during the fall when Ek averages to over 0.5.
AN OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF A BEHAVIOR MODELING TRAINING PROGRAM

Past research on the effects of behavior modeling training has rarely focussed on actual changes in job performance. This paper describes a study in which results of a behavior modeling training program for sales representatives were evaluated in relation to effects on the sales performance of the participants. Sales associates selling large appliances, radios, and television sets for a large chain retailer in seven stores in one metropolitan area participated in a behavior modeling training program designed to improve their sales effectiveness. Before and after comparisons were made in their sales records with similar sales associates in seven matched stores who participated in other kinds of sales training during the same period. Sales representatives who received the behavior modeling training increased their sales by an average of 7% during the ensuing six-month period, while their counterparts in the control group stores showed a 3% decrease in average sales. The extra effort entailed in obtaining the needed sales records seemed to be worthwhile in providing convincing evidence of the value of the training.
Enhancement of dorsal hippocampal activity by knockdown of HCN1 channels leads to anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like behaviors.

Summary The hippocampus is an integral brain region for affective disorders. TRIP8b knockout mice lacking functional HCN channels as well as both HCN1 and HCN2 knockout mice have been shown to display antidepressant-like behaviors. The mechanisms or brain regions involved in these alterations in behavior, however, are not clear. We developed a lentiviral shRNA system to examine whether knockdown of HCN1 protein in the dorsal hippocampal CA1 region is sufficient to produce antidepressant-like effects. We found that knockdown of HCN1 channels increased cellular excitability and resulted in physiological changes consistent with a reduction of I h . Rats infused with lentiviral shRNA-HCN1 in the dorsal hippocampal CA1 region displayed antidepressant- and anxiolytic-like behaviors associated with widespread enhancement of hippocampal activity and upregulation of BDNF-mTOR signaling pathways. Our results suggest that HCN1 protein could be a potential target for treatment of anxiety and depression disorders.
Recordkeeping in Book Form: The Legacy of American Colonial Recordkeeping

As a legacy system, book-form recordkeeping plays an important role in documenting and preserving American colonial history. Through a close examination of four sample colonial collections in the Boston area, this study looks into the capacity of book form as a recording, keeping, organizing, and retrieving system in American recordkeeping history. The study highlights the importance of understanding the characteristics of recordkeeping forms and their historical transformations in managing modern archives.
Parallelization of a Parabolized Navier-Stokes Solver with a Design Optimizer

The design of future supersonic aircraft, such as the High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT), will rely heavily on computational methods for aircraft design and the prediction of the complex aerodynamics encountered in flight. Parabolized Navier-Stokes (PNS) equation flow solvers are recognized as efficient and accurate computational tools for the solution of supersonic and hypersonic flow-fields, while design optimizers have the potential to be valuable tools within the overall design process. Presently, however, the execution of the flow solver in conjunction with a design optimizer presents a computationally intensive and formidable problem. To meet the challenges and increasing demand for multidisciplinary numerical tools which are faster, more robust and provide greater functionality, alternative strategies are explored to increase computational throughput by coupling a design optimizer and flow solver in a parallel processing environment. To address this problem the parallel processing of a PNS flow solver with a nonlinear constraint design optimizer is investigated as an alternative computational method.
ILAB: A program for postexperimental eye movement analysis

The recording and analysis of eye movements are fundamental to a diverse set of research applications, including studies in which reading, visual search, and both overt and covert visuospatial attention are examined. Software tools supplied with commonly available eye-tracking equipment have generally been limited in functionality and nonextensible. Because of this dearth of available software, ILAB was createdto provide an extensible frame workfor analyzing various aspects of eye movements. The program consists of a series of open-source MATLAB functions. The program’s data structures keep raw data, analysis preferences, and analyzed data separate, thus maintaining data fidelity and promoting extensibility.
Surgical repair of bilateral levator ani muscles with ultrasound guidance

Separation of the levator ani muscles from pubic bone is a common major levator trauma that may occur in vaginal delivery and is associated with pelvic floor dysfunctions. We describe a novel ultrasound-guided technique to repair these muscles. A 33-year-old woman presented with a history of difficult vaginal delivery and complaint of numbness and weakness of the vagina. In evaluation, bilateral levator defects were diagnosed by physical examination, three-dimensional endovaginal ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging. With ultrasound guidance the detached ends of muscles were tagged and sutured to their insertion points at the pubic bone. The patient’s normal anatomy was restored with the return to normal pelvic floor tone. A follow-up ultrasound showed restored levator anatomy at 3 months.
Query evaluation with soft-key constraints

Key Violations often occur in real-life datasets, especially in those integrated from different sources. Enforcing constraints strictly on these datasets is not feasible. In this paper we formalize the notion of soft-key constraints on probabilistic databases, which allow for violation of key constraint by penalizing every violating world by a quantity proportional to the violation. To represent our probabilistic database with constraints, we define a class of markov networks, where we can do query evaluation in PTIME. We also study the evaluation of conjunctive queries on relations with soft keys and present a dichotomy that separates this set into those in PTIME and the rest which are #P-Hard.
Design Research and its Challenges

In the Editorial that accompanied the premier issue of Design Studies in June 1979, Sidney Gregory stated: ‘For the first time a forum exists for the written exchange of ideas and knowledge about design which lets us work across national boundaries and what are perhaps more difficult to traverse, the boundaries of prior disciplines (Gregory, 1979: the establishment of the journal was itself the outgrowth of a research initiative that had begun more than 15 years earlier with the first design methods conferences).While there were books and conference proceedings where research on design appeared before the arrival of Design Studies, the journals presence was an important step forward in the emergence of design research as a field. As its contribution to the field's development, Design Studies has, for more than 20 years, published numerous articles that have addressed important questions related particularly to the methodology, epistemology, and philosophy of design.
On Estimating a Linear Combination of Strata Means with Random Sample Sizes

In finite sampling it is widely believed that the probability sampling distribution is irrelevant for inference from a given sample. A super-population model in stratified sampling is investigated to show that the probability sampling distribution is relevant. It is proved that the traditional estimator of a linear combination of strata means, which is admissible and minimax when the vector of sample sizes is fu;ed, is inadmissible when the vector of sample sizes is random. Two alternative estimators are investigated. Based on analysis which is partly analytical and partly numerical, it appears that both of them are better than the traditional estimator.
Infrastructure-free shipdeck tracking for autonomous landing

Shipdeck landing is one of the most challenging tasks for a rotorcraft. Current autonomous rotorcraft use shipdeck mounted transponders to measure the relative pose of the vehicle to the landing pad. This tracking system is not only expensive but renders an unequipped ship unlandable. We address the challenge of tracking a shipdeck without additional infrastructure on the deck. We present two methods based on video and lidar that are able to track the shipdeck starting at a considerable distance from the ship. This redundant sensor design enables us to have two independent tracking systems. We show the results of the tracking algorithms in three different environments - field testing results on actual helicopter flights, in simulation with a moving shipdeck for lidar based tracking and in laboratory using an occluded, and, moving scaled model of a landing deck for camera based tracking. The complimentary modalities allow shipdeck tracking under varying conditions.
Co-cultivation versus blot hybridization for the detection of trigeminal ganglionic latency following corneal inoculation with HSV-1 strains of varying TK expression and pathogenicity

The sensitivity of two methods for the detection of latent trigeminal ganglionic (TG) infections were compared: (1) co-cultivation which detects infectious virions, and (2) blot hybridization which detects HSV-1 DNA sequences. Adult New Zealand rabbits were inoculated following corneal scarification with three strains of HSV-1 which differed in their thymidine kinase expression, and in their ability to invade the CNS and establish latency. When a large volume load of latent TG virus was expected (NIH TK+ strain), co-cultivation and blot hybridization were equally effective in detecting latent virus. However, when a small volume load of latent virus was expected (NIH TK+/-, NIH TK−), co-cultivation with its inherent amplification proved superior to blot hybridization for the detection of latent virus.
Nonlinear H∞ control theory for stable plants

We analyze various aspects of the nonlinear time-invariantH∞ control problem in the discrete-time setting. A recipe is presented that is shown to generate a solution of theH∞ problem in a precise but weak sense, and which is conjectured to generate a genuine solution in very general circumstances. The recipe involves a version of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs equation from differential game theory. An illustrative example is presented.
The azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia

A total of 237 species of azooxanthellate Scleractinia are reported for the Australian region, including seamounts off the eastern coast. Two new genera (Lissotrochus and Stolarskicyathus) and 15 new species are described: Crispatotrochus gregarius, Paracyathus darwinensis, Stephanocyathus imperialis, Trochocyathus wellsi, Conocyathus formosus, Dunocyathus wallaceae, Foveolocyathus parkeri, Idiotrochus alatus, Lissotrochus curvatus, Sphenotrochus cuneolus, Placotrochides cylindrica, P. minuta, Stolarskicyathus pocilliformis, Balanophyllia spongiosa, and Notophyllia hecki. Also, one new combination is proposed: Petrophyllia rediviva. Each species account includes an annotated synonymy for all Australian records as well as reference to extralimital accounts of significance, the type locality, and deposition of the type. Tabular keys are provided for the Australian species of Culicia and all species of Conocyathus and Placotrochides. A discussion of previous studies of Australian azooxanthellate corals is given in narrative and tabular form. This study was based on approximately 5500 previously unreported specimens collected from 500 localities, as well as a re-examination of most of the types and previously reported specimens from the Australian region. Fifty-six species are recorded as new to Australia; 183 state range extensions are listed; and 96 worldwide bathymetric range extensions are noted. In order to characterize the Australian fauna, all 703 known azooxanthellate species were tabulated as to coloniality, method of attachment, and depth range: 187 species are colonial, 516 solitary; 373 are attached, 265 free, and 54 transversely dividing; and 200- 1000 m is the most common depth range. Compared to all azooxanthellate species, those from Australia have a slightly higher percentage of species that are solitary and unattached (or transversely dividing), due to a disproportionate number of species in the families Flabellidae and Turbinoliidae. Bathymetrically they are typical of the worldwide fauna. Sixty-seven species are endemic to the Australian region. Both UPGMA cluster analysis and MDS ordination reveal two main regions: a northern tropical region and a southern warm temperate region, consistent with zonation patterns of shallow-water marine invertebrates.