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Parental expressed emotion and suicidal ideation in adolescents with bipolar disorder

Family environmental variables are risk factors for recurrent courses of mood disorder in adolescents. The present study examined the association between parental expressed emotion (EE)-critical, hostile and/or emotionally overinvolved attitudes toward a concurrently ill offspring-and suicidal ideation in adolescents with bipolar disorder. The sample consisted of 95 adolescents with a bipolar I or II diagnosis who had experienced a mood episode in the prior 3 months. Participants (mean age=15.54 years, S.D.=1.4) were interviewed and completed questionnaires regarding current and past suicidal ideation prior to their participation in a treatment trial. Parents completed five-minute speech samples from which levels of EE were assessed. High EE attitudes in parents were associated with current suicidal ideation in adolescents. This relationship was independent of the effects of age, gender, current depressive or manic symptoms, comorbid diagnoses, bipolar I/II subtypes, family adaptability, and family cohesion. These results underscore the importance of addressing the emotional reactivity of caregivers in treating adolescents with bipolar disorder who have suicidal ideation.
Exponential Parameter Estimation (in NMR) Using Bayesian Probability Theory

Data modeled as sums of exponentials arise in many areas of science and are common in NMR. However, exponential parameter estimation is fundamentally a difficult problem. In this article, Bayesian probability theory is used to obtain optimal exponential parameter estimates. The calculations are implemented using Markov chain Monte Carlo with simulated annealing to draw samples from the joint posterior probability for all of the parameters appearing in the exponential model. Monte Carlo integration is then used to approximate the marginal posterior probabilities for each of the parameters. We give numerical examples taken from simulated data and NMR relaxation experiments to illustrate the calculations and the effect of prior information on the parameter estimates.
Face Discovery with Social Context

We present an approach to discover novel faces in untagged photo collections by leveraging the “social context” of co-occurring people. Our idea exploits the social nature of consumer photos, in which people of the same clique (family, team, class, friends) often appear together. Initially, the system trains detector s for any individuals with tagged instances in the collection. Then, for each untagged image, it isolates any unfamiliar faces. Among those, it discovers novel face clusters by leveraging both their appearance, as well as descriptors encoding the (predicted) familiar fa ces with which the unfamiliar faces co-occur. The resulting discovered people can then be presented to a user for nametagging, thereby efficiently propagating manually provide d labels. Our experiments with real consumer photo collections demonstrate that the system outperforms baseline approaches that either lack any social context model, or rely solely on the appearance of co-occurring faces. Furthermore, we show it can successfully use the discovered models it forms to auto-tag unseen faces in a new collection.
Identification of a Sex Attractant Pheromone for Male Winterform Pear Psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola

Pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Forster) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), a major economic pest of pears, uses a female-produced sex attractant pheromone. We compared the chemical profiles obtained from cuticular extracts of diapausing and post-diapause winterform males and females to isolate and identify the pheromone. Post-diapause females produced significantly more of the cuticular hydrocarbon, 13-methylheptacosane, than post-diapause males and diapausing females. In olfactometer assays, conspecific males were attracted to synthetic racemic 13-methylheptacosane, whereas females were not, indicating that the behavioral response to this chemical is sex-specific. Furthermore, 13-methylheptacosane was as attractive to males as a cuticular extract of females, suggesting that this chemical was largely responsible for the female attractiveness. A field study showed that males but not females were attracted to 13-methylheptacosane, confirming the olfactometer results. This study provides evidence that 13-methylheptacosane is a sex attractant pheromone for C. pyricola winterform males. This is the first identification of a sex pheromone in the Psylloidea. Our results open the path to developing monitoring tools and possibly new strategies for integrated pest management of this insect.
The association of longitudinal and interpersonal continuity of care with emergency department use, hospitalization, and mortality among medicare beneficiaries

Background Continuity of medical care is widely believed to lead to better health outcomes and service utilization patterns for patients. Most continuity studies, however, have only used administrative claims to assess longitudinal continuity with a provider. As a result, little is known about how interpersonal continuity (the patient's experience at the visit) relates to improved health outcomes and service use. Methods We linked claims-based longitudinal continuity and survey-based self-reported interpersonal continuity indicators for 1,219 Medicare beneficiaries who completed the National Health and Health Services Use Questionnaire. With these linked data, we prospectively evaluated the effect of both types of continuity of care indicators on emergency department use, hospitalization, and mortality over a five-year period. Results Patient-reported continuity was associated with reduced emergency department use, preventable hospitalization, and mortality. Most of the claims-based measures, including those most frequently used to assess continuity, were not associated with reduced utilization or mortality. Conclusion Our results indicate that the patient- and claims-based indicators of continuity have very different effects on these important health outcomes, suggesting that reform efforts must include the patient-provider experience when evaluating health care quality.
Improved bounds on the price of stability in network cost sharing games

We study the price of stability in undirected network design games with fair cost sharing. Our work provides multiple new pieces of evidence that the true price of stability, at least for special subclasses of games, may be a constant. We make progress on this long-outstanding problem, giving a bound of O(log log log n) on the price of stability of undirected broadcast games (where n is the number of players). This is the first progress on the upper bound for this problem since the O(log log n) bound of [Fiat et al. 2006](despite much attention, the known lower bound remains at 1.818, from [Bilo et al. 2010. Our proofs introduce several new techniques that may be useful in future work.We provide further support for the conjectured constant price of stability in the form of a comprehensive analysis of an alternative solution concept that forces deviating players to bear the entire costs of building alternative paths. This solution concept includes all Nash equilibria and can be viewed as a relaxation thereof, but we show that it preserves many properties of Nash equilibria. We prove that the price of stability in multicast games for this relaxed solution concept is Θ(1), which may suggest that similar results should hold for Nash equilibria. This result also demonstrates that the existing techniques for lower bounds on the Nash price of stability in undirected network design games cannot be extended to be super-constant, as our relaxation concept encompasses all equilibria constructed in them.
Designing the e-Servicescape: Implications for Online Retailers

This exploratory study attempts to establish the link between Internet retailing and services marketing and proposes a conceptual framework for examining the Web site as an e-servicescape. Findings suggest that the dimensions of the servicescape as they pertain to Web sites play a significant role in influencing customers' attitudes, evaluation, and purchase intentions with respect to online retailers. Whether a Web site is an extension of an organization's bricks-and-mortar establishment or a stand-alone service portal, it is clear that the servicescape dimensions of ambient conditions (AC), spatial layout and functionality (SLF), and signs, symbols, and artifacts (SSA) are present and influential in organizations' cyber settings.
Economic Versus Natural Disasters: If Detroit Had a Hurricane...

This article focuses on the economic development impacts of natural, as opposed to economic, disasters and ultimately argues that many of the approaches and responses to sudden natural disasters might be effectively applied to areas experiencing more chronic economic decay. An evaluation of federal assistance in the wake of a devastating flood in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, indicates that commitment, cooperation, creativity, inclusivity, and flexibility resulted in a redevelopment framework that generated substantial improvements in a remarkably short time. Critical aspects of responses to sudden natural disasters could be applied to cities experiencing slow death: media attention; a sense of urgency coupled with longrange vision; coordinated federal, state, and foundation assistance; an emphasis on community hope; and a focus on the public sector, public investment, public infrastructure, and public pride.
High-speed A/D conversion for ultra-wideband signals based on signal projection over basis functions

The paper introduces techniques to perform analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion, based on the quantization of the coefficients obtained by the projection of a continuous-time signal over an orthogonal space. This framework for A/D conversion is motivated by the sampling of an input signal in domains which may lead to lower levels of signal distortion and significantly less demanding A/D conversion characteristics. The A/D conversion distortion is reduced by assigning optimal bit rates according to the variance distribution of the coefficients. Moreover, since the quantization of the coefficients is realized at the end of a time window during which the signal is projected, the speed of the quantizers can be much lower than the one needed in conventional time-domain ADCs. In particular, we study ADC in the frequency domain which overcomes some of the difficulties encountered with conventional time-domain A/D conversion of signals with very large bandwidths, such as ultra-wideband (UWB) signals.
REFUGIA AND MIGRATION IN THE QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE NEW ENGLAND FLORA

New data sets and analytic techniques provide the tools to build a new perception of changes in the New England flora following the retreat of the last Pleistocene continental glacier. We consider a set of 13 species for which genetic data are available in the context of 1) the fossil record when available, and 2) the evidence of the distribution of appropriate habitat in the late Pleistocene and Holocene. The current New England flora is derived from a diverse set of refugia including the High Arctic, the serpentines of the American West, and the unglaciated and now submerged North Atlantic coastal plain as well as the traditional refugia to the south, both along the coastal plain and to the west in the lower Mississippi valley. This analysis demonstrates that present-day communities are in fact transient, constantly changing assemblages of species.
Biopower, food and space

This paper schematically considers the exercise of biopower in the regulation of food and drink, tracing the spatiality of biopower and biopolitics as they play out in the trajectory of regulation of two key types of beverage: alcoholic beverages and fluid milk. Empirically, the paper considers 19 th century temperance laws and 20 th century mandatory milk pasteurization in the United States, highlighting the spatial strategies by which biopower’s reach into digestive tracts was extended across political territories. The account suggest that biopolitical resistance enacts spatial strategies as well.
Arranging Your Life Away from the Job

Your job should not be the whole of your life. You will perform even better if you can relax with your family and enjoy hobbies and vacations.
Erdheim-Chester disease: a report of three cases

Interet diagnostic de la radiographie et de l'histologie dans cette lipogranulomatose. Mise en evidence de plusieurs formes cliniques: lesion focale asymptomatique ou accumulation extra osseuse d'histiocytes. A propos d'un cas de lesion focale costale et de 2 cas d'atteintes des os longs
On Knowing How I Feel About That—A Process-Reliabilist Approach

Human subjects seem to have a type of introspective access to their mental states that allows them to immediately judge the types and intensities of their occurrent emotions, as well as what those emotions are about or “directed at”. Such judgments manifest what I call “emotion-direction beliefs”, which, if reliably produced, may constitute emotion-direction knowledge. Many psychologists have argued that the “directed emotions” such beliefs represent have a componential structure, one that includes feelings of emotional responses and related but independent representations of what those feelings are about. I argue that such componentiality may help to explain how emotion-direction knowledge is achievable. I begin by developing a hybrid view of introspection that combines David Chalmers’ phenomenal realism with Alvin Goldman’s “partial redeployment” account of meta-belief content. I then provide a process-reliabilist account of introspectively gained emotion-direction knowledge that outlines the minimum conditions of reliably forming emotion-direction beliefs, and specifies several ways in which the warrant of such beliefs could be defeated by relevant counterfactual alternatives. The overall account suggests how distinct introspective processes might be epistemically synergistic.
Exploring the Structure and Function of the Chemistry Self-Concept Inventory with High School Chemistry Students

Though the Chemistry Self-Concept Inventory (CSCI) was developed to study one aspect of the affective domain in college chemistry students, the instrument on which it was based, the Self-Description Questionnaire III, was developed for use with late adolescents. As such, we explored data generated from administering the CSCI to high school students in seven teachers’ classrooms in four schools. This paper presents findings which describe the validity and the reliability of the data obtained from the CSCI when used with high school students. The validity of the data is supported by the results of an exploratory factor analysis, relationships between subscales and chemistry knowledge, and comparisons among different groups of students. Evidence supporting the reliability of the data is provided by internal consistency values for each of the subscales. The results presented in this paper demonstrate the usefulness of the CSCI with a high school population. This instrument may be used by teachers to better un...
High-pressure characterization of nitrogen-rich bis-triaminoguanidinium azotetrazolate (TAGzT) by in situ Raman spectroscopy.

Compounds rich in nitrogen are attracting significant interest not only because of their high energy content but also because they are potentially more environmentally benign in comparison to conventional energetic materials. Given this interest, it is desirable to understand their molecular composition and structural variations with pressure to derive their stability and determine the conditions in which they transform physically or chemically. In this study, we examine the room-temperature isothermal compression behavior of bis-triaminoguanidinium azotetrazolate (TAGzT) by in situ Raman spectroscopy to pressures near 17 GPa. We assign the characteristic vibrational bands and report the effects of pressure on band intensity, line width, and frequency shift. Two prominent peaks near 1370 and 1470 cm–1 arise from the C–N and N═N symmetric stretches, respectively. Overall, the intensity of these bands and others diminishes with pressure, and their spectral linewidths increase monotonically upon compression....
Testing the role of charge and structure on the stability of peptide-porphyrin complexes.

This study aims to extend a structural and biophysical understanding of a coiled-coil based peptide model system that serves as a scaffold for the anionic porphyrin, TPPS4. This is part of an ongoing biomaterials effort to create photoelectronically active mesoscale fibrils for surface deposition and characterization of conductivity properties. The goals are two-fold: (1) to explore optimal basic side-chain moieties for tight binding to TPPS4 and (2) to test the binding of various metalated TPPS4 derivatives to our peptide model system. The latter goal is to control the electronic and redox properties of the fibrillar biomaterials. A soluble version of the peptide biomaterial was used in order to probe binding and to extract thermodynamically rigorous equilibrium binding constants. UV–visible spectroscopy and circular dichroism spectropolarimtery are used to measure the effects of binding on the Soret band of the porphyrin and the helical signal of the peptide, respectively. For the first study, it was fo...
Exploring the impact of network characteristics on substance use outcomes among homeless former foster youth

This study examined network structure differences between homeless youth with and without a history of foster care and the impact of network position and location on substance use outcomes among former foster youth specifically. Sociometric and individual-level data were collected from a cross-sectional community-based sample (n = 814) of homeless youth from drop-in centers in Los Angeles across three points in time. To determine the structure and position of foster youth in the larger homeless network, structural variables and regressions examining the impact of network structure on substance use were calculated. Results indicated that former foster youth were more likely to have low connectivity compared to homeless youth without a history of foster care. Furthermore, the impact of structure on substance use among former foster youth varied by panel; location in the core was significantly associated with recent and lifetime rates of substance use. Results highlight the need for a more in-depth understanding of the impact of network changes over time and their effect on substance use outcomes in this population.
Renal Devitalization Using 95 Per Cent Ethyl Alcohol

Abstract Preoperative embolization of renal arteries with solid material before nephrectomy is a standard procedure for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. However, it often is difficult to use these materials and sometimes special equipment is required. We have used 95 per cent ethyl alcohol in 3 patients to devitalize kidneys with tumors. Our results show 95 per cent ethyl alcohol to be safe, effective and easy to use. When combined with epidural anesthesia alcohol embolization is well tolerated by the patient, and its destructive effect is complete and limited to the selected organ.
Rethinking the Binary: Rural Heterotopia

In Chapters 1 to 4, I have argued that the construction of religious utopia in twentieth-century South Asia (of a Hindu ram-rajya in India and a Buddhist dhammadipa in Sri Lanka) and the literary cultures they influenced (that in turn also shaped them) reproduced highly codified controlling mechanisms that were really forms of authoritarianism and repression. Such essentializing visions (literary or otherwise), playing down plurality, sought to construct illusory unities on the basis of an erasure of differences. At their best (and most patronizing), majoritarian religious discourses reproduce what Dipesh Chakrabarty in Habitations of Modernity terms a ‘deafness to the call of the other’ (147); at their worst, these become propaganda committed to ‘the politics of ethnicity’ (Chakrabarty 136) that in turn creates such historical flashpoints as the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan and the 1983 riots between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. In twentieth-century India, the Gandhian programme of swaraj, as Richard Fox and others have shown, became (mis)translated into an essentialized vision of free India, a national utopia recast, despite enormous religious, linguistic, and ethnic diversity, as a modern-day Hindu ram-rajya. As I discuss in Chapters 1 and 3, such political assembling allowed for unity in the face of a colonial oppressor, but created solidarity on lines of ethnicity and religion that became problematic for the postcolonial nation.
AFLP identification of Berberis thunbergii cultivars, inter-specific hybrids, and their parental species

SummaryCultivars of Berberis thunbergii DC. are among the most popular garden shrubs in the United States. Using 174 amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers we were able to differentiate between 43 B. thunbergii cultivars and analyse the genetic similarity of 62 B. thunbergii genotypes, B. julianae, B. koreana, B. vulgaris and B. vulgaris ‘Atropurpurea’. Seven different accessions of B. thunbergii ‘Crimson Pygmy’ from a variety of sources had identical AFLP profiles, indicating that there is only one genotype in cultivation and not a collection of similar genotypes. B. thunbergii cultivars ‘Crimson Pygmy’, ‘Crimson Dwarf’, and ‘Monomb’ Cherry Bomb™ could not be distinguished and appeared to be the same genotype. The B. thunbergii cultivars ‘Concorde’ and ‘Criruzam’ Crimson Ruby™ are most likely genotypes of B. ottawensis since they formed a cluster with known B. ottawensis cultivars. The B. thunbergii var. atropurpurea accessions analysed had Jaccard’s coefficients ranging from 0.89 – 0.99 a...
Corneal epithelial bullae after short-term wear of small diameter scleral lenses.

Abstract Complications of scleral lens wear are not well documented or understood. While multiple studies focus on oxygen transmission during scleral lens wear and associated corneal swelling, little is known about the effects of varying scleral lens fitting relationships, especially when there is corneal interaction. Scleral lenses, by convention, are designed to completely clear the corneal surface and rest on the conjunctival and scleral tissue. However, some designs maximize oxygen transmission by reducing the lens diameter, thickness, and recommended corneal clearance.While the modifications increase oxygen transmission in any scleral lens design, they also distribute the lens mass closer to the limbus and make visualization of corneal clearance, especially narrow in the limbal region, more difficult. The sequelae from mechanical interaction between scleral lenses and the ocular surface, in particular the cornea, remain uncertain. This case series will describe corneal epithelial bullae, molding, and epithelial erosions as unintended scleral lens complications. These corneal changes corresponded to areas of contact lens-corneal bearing confirmed utilizing a combined scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) and anterior segment OCT. This case series will discuss epithelial bullae detection, their etiology, and suggestions for application of this information into scleral lens fitting protocols.
Reclaiming the atmospheric commons: the regional greenhouse gas initiative and a new model of emissions trading, by Leigh S. Raymond

Scientists and policymakers alike have increasingly directed attention toward climate change in recent years. While the conversation on climate science appears to be progressing, in the United Stat...
Liberal indoctrination and the problem of community

Responding to claims to the contrary, this essay shows how liberal education, the education of critical exposure, indoctrinates students into a style of belief and belief formation. It argues that a common liberal view about what constitutes freedom from indoctrination is precisely the form of indoctrination feared by many conservative communitarians. While I support the style and procedures of liberal education, I argue that we cannot excise all indoctrinating components from it by semantic, logical or epistemic analyses of what “indoctrination” or “education” means.
An Update of Teaching Methods and Evaluation in the Introductory Finance Classroom

This paper update the results of a 2001 national survey of corporate finance faculty teaching methods and assessment techniques. In addition to looking at the undergraduate course in financial management, this study investigates the teaching methods and assessment techniques for the core MBA course in financial management.
Spatially Resolved Mitochondrial 2-Photon Imaging Using Flickering Membrane Potential Fluorescence

Mitochondrial imaging helps to determine cell viability based on the morphology, structure, and dynamics of individual mitochondria. Flickering of 2-photon signal based on membrane potential enables resolving the shape of overlapping mitochondria in deep tissue.
Identification of Patients With Documented Pathologic Complete Response in the Breast After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Omission of Axillary Surgery

Importance A pathologic complete response (pCR; no invasive or in situ cancer) occurs in 40% to 50% of patients with HER2 -positive ( HER2 +) and triple-negative (TN) breast cancer. The need for surgery if percutaneous biopsy of the breast after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) indicates pCR in the breast (hereinafter referred to as breast pCR) has been questioned, and appropriate management of the axilla in such patients is unknown. Objective To identify patients among exceptional responders to NCT with a low risk for axillary metastases when breast pCR is documented who may be eligible for an omission of surgery clinical trial design. Design, Setting, and Participants This prospective cohort study at a single-institution academic national comprehensive cancer center included 527 consecutive patients with HER2 +/TN (T1/T2 and N0/N1) cancer treated with NCT followed by standard breast and nodal surgery from January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2014. Main Outcomes and Measures Patients who achieved a breast pCR were compared with patients who did not based on subtype, initial ultrasonographic findings, and documented pathologic nodal status. Incidence of positive findings for nodal disease on final pathologic review was calculated for patients with and without pCR and compared using relative risk ratios with 95% CIs. Results The analysis included 527 patients (median age, 51 [range, 23-84] years). Among 290 patients with initial nodal ultrasonography showing N0 disease, 116 (40.4%) had a breast pCR and 100% had no evidence of axillary lymph node metastases after NCT. Among 237 patients with initial biopsy-proved N1 disease, 69 of 77 (89.6%) with and 68 of 160 (42.5%) without a breast pCR had no evidence of residual nodal disease ( P P Conclusions and Relevance Breast pCR is highly correlated with nodal status after NCT, and the risk for missing nodal metastases without axillary surgery in this cohort is extremely low. These data provide the fundamental basis and rationale for management of the axilla in clinical trials of omission of cancer surgery when image-guided biopsy indicates a breast pCR.
Malignant biliary obstruction: endoscopic approaches.

Malignant obstruction of the biliary tree can occur at different sites; intrahepatic, perihilar, and extrahepatic. Symptoms of biliary obstruction vary significantly from patient to patient but may include right upper quadrant abdominal pain, back or shoulder pain, pruritis, jaundice, acholic stool, dark urine, and fatigue. Less than ten percent of malignancies involving the biliary tree will present with evidence of cholangitis; typical symptoms of biliary obstruction along with fever, chills, or bacteremia. A multidisciplinary team approach involving gastroenterologists, surgeons, interventional radiologists, and oncologists is often required for managing patients with malignant biliary obstruction. This chapter will focus on endoscopic approaches for alleviating biliary obstruction, either as a palliative technique for unresectable tumors or as a bridge to surgery for potentially curable tumors.
Retail Garden Outlets: Plant Material Purchases and Trends

Abstract A Georgia survey indicated that retail garden outlets purchased about 86% of plant material directly from growers. The estimated wholesale value of plants purchased by retail garden outlets represented in this survey was about $30M. The mean wholesale value of plants purchased by garden centers ($99K) greatly exceeded that of feed and seed ($22K) and hardware($24K) stores. The most important factor in selection of a plant supplier by a retail garden outlet was plant quality. The mix of plant material purchased varied with the type of retail outlet as did the information sources used to determine which plants to purchase. The marketing implications of these results for growers are discussed.
Right ventricular strain differences between idiopathic and systemic sclerosis Pulmonary Hypertension

Background: Right ventricular (RV) contractility has been shown to be significantly worse in systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SSPAH) versus idiopathic PAH (IPAH), despite similar afterloads. Speckle-based strain may be a useful tool in conjunction with conventional 2D echocardiography (2DE) for detection of regional and global RV dysfunction between groups. Aim: To determine differences in conventional and novel measures of RV function between IPAH and SSPAH. Methods: 55 well-characterized PAH patients (23 IPAH, 32 SSPAH) underwent right heart catheterization (RHC) within 5 hours of 2DE. 2DE analysis included tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) and fractional area change (FAC), as well as novel basal, mid, apical and global RV longitudinal systolic strain (RVLSS). Results: SSPAH patients were more commonly female and older. There were no significant differences in hemodynamic parameters by RHC, or 2D based TAPSE or FAC between SSPAH and IPAH. In contrast, RVLSS was significantly diminished in SSPAH both globally (-12.6 ± 5.1 vs -15.6 ± 4.3%, p=0.03), and regionally, mostly due to a decreased basal RVLSS in SSPAH (-15.5 ± 7.9 vs -24.8 ± 8%, p=0.02). There was no correlation between abnormalities in RVLSS and invasive measures of mean pulmonary arterial pressure, and pulmonary vascular resistance. Conclusion: Under similar afterload, conventional 2DE measures of RV function were not different between SSPAH and IPAH, while speckle-based strain revealed differences in global RV contractility mostly due to decrease in basal RVLSS in SSPAH. These findings are suggestive of unique pattern of RV contractility in SSPAH not detected by 2DE alone.
Two-Dimensional Models of Commensurate-Incommensurate Phase Transitions

This paper presents a brief review of the phase diagram and phase transition properties of the two-dimensional Axial Next Nearest Neighbor Ising (ANNNl) model. The model exhibits a two-dimensional commensurate-incommensurate phase transition to a striped incommensurate phase. The phenomenological finite-size scaling method is able to correctly locate and identify all the phase transition lines in the phase diagram.
Towards the Explanation of Workflows.

Across many fields involving complex computing, software systems are being augmented with workflow logging functionality. The log data can be effectively organized using declarative structured languages such as OWL; however, such declarative encodings alone are not enough to facilitate understandable workflow systems with high quality explanation. In this paper, we present our approach for visually explaining OWL-encoded workflow logs for complex systems, which includes the following steps: (i) identifying and normalizing provenance in workflow logs using the provenance interlingua PML2, (ii) using this provenance information, as well as supplemental log data, building an abstracted workflow representation known as a RITE network (capable of storing workflow state Relationships, Identifiers, Types, and Explanations), and (iii) visualizing the workflow log by displaying its provenance information as a directed acyclic graph and presenting supplemental explanations for individual workflow states and relationships. To demonstrate these techniques, we describe the design of a workflow explainer for the Generalized Integrated Learning Architecture (GILA) – a multi-agent platform designed to use multiple learners to solve problems such as resolving airspace allocation conflicts. We also comment on how our approach can be generalized to explain other complex workflow systems.
CD7+, CD4-, CD8- acute leukemia: a syndrome of malignant pluripotent lymphohematopoietic cells

Following our initial observation of in vivo conversion of CD7+, CD4-, CD8- acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells from lymphoid to myeloid lineages (Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 81:253, 1984) we have studied eight additional cases of ALL with this leukemic cell phenotype. The CD7+, CD4-, CD8- phenotype was associated with a distinct clinical entity with those affected predominantly male (either less than 35 years or greater than 65 years of age), with frequent mediastinal and/or thymic masses, skin and CNS disease, high peripheral WBC counts, and bone marrow blasts that were morphologically L1 or not ascribable to a specific lineage. These patients did not respond to conventional chemotherapeutic regimens for either acute lymphoid or myeloid leukemias. No common karyotype or T-cell gene rearrangement pattern could be defined. Importantly, seven of eight patient's leukemic cells studied were capable of multilineage (myeloid, erythroid, monocytoid, megakaryocytoid, and lymphoid) differentiation in vitro. Data is presented suggesting that CD7+, CD4-, CD8- leukemias, in many instances, are leukemias of immature hematopoietic cells. The development of novel therapeutic approaches to this form of leukemia will be necessary to alter its poor prognosis.
Features and History

Describes casuistry and its history in the West, in particular ancient Greek, Hebrew, Muslim, and Roman Catholic and Protestant Christian casuistries and provides an explanation of how casuistry was bloodied by bitter controversies, but lived on to emerge later when needed.
A Distribution Inequality For Martingales with Bounded Symmetric Differences

We discuss (with some generalizations) the question of optimal strategies for the game of red-and-black with a fixed goal, with fixed subfair odds, and with both the size of legal bets allowed and the playing time limited.
Viscosity of spent potliner mixed with additives

Spent potliner is generated in the electrolytic process of reducing alumina to make aluminum metal using molten fluoride electrolytes. Spent potliner (SPL) is obtained at the end of the pot ’s life. The SPL contains small amounts of cyanide and fluoride, which present environmental problems. Spent potliner could possibly be used as a fluidizer to replace calcium fluoride (CaF2) in the iron- and steelmaking industry and in the glass industry. A low viscosity and a low melting point are prime requirements for such an application. In the present study, viscosity measurements were performed. The effects of various additives, such as sand, limestone, dicalcium silicate dust and MgO baghouse dust, on the viscosity of SPL were studied. The results showed that the addition of sand and limestone can produce a very high-fluidity SPL melt at significantly lower temperatures. The results suggest that spent potliner mixed with additives could potentially be used as a substitute fluidizer.
Outcomes and toxicity following Yttrium-90 radioembolization for hepatic metastases from neuroendocrine tumors-a single-institution experience.

Background: The prognosis of patients with hepatic metastases from neuroendocrine tumors (NET) is generally good, and radioembolization with Yttrium-90 microspheres is a locoregional therapy that is used in efforts to improve hepatic disease control and survival. This study aims to describe the survival outcomes and toxicities associated with radioembolization for hepatic-predominant metastatic NET in a large single-institution cohort. Methods: A total of 59 patients underwent radioembolization for metastatic NET with hepatic predominant disease at a single academic center. Patient outcomes were analyzed by Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and toxicities were detailed and described. Ten patients within the cohort underwent post-treatment dosimetric analysis using PET-MRI and normal liver dosimetry was correlated with hepatic fibrosis and toxicity. Results: Median overall survival from time of radioembolization in the patient cohort was 31 months, and the 1- and 2-year overall survival was 80.4% and 65.6% respectively. Median hepatic progression-free survival and overall progression-free survival were 18 and 13 months, respectively. Three patients died of hepatic failure that was possibly therapy-related. Ten patients underwent evaluation of post-treatment dosimetry following radioembolization. In patients who did not develop hepatotoxicity or hepatic fibrosis, mean dose to normal liver was 25.4 Gy, while the mean liver dose in patients who experienced toxicity (hepatic fibrosis in n=2 and death from hepatic failure in n=1) was 59.1 Gy. Conclusions: Overall survival following radioembolization for hepatic metastases from NET is excellent; however, deaths that are potentially treatment-related have been observed. Preliminary data regarding dose to normal liver is suggestive of a relation between dosimetry and toxicity, however further work is required to further elucidate the mechanism, correlation with dosimetry, as well as additional patient and tumor factors that may predispose these patients to toxicity.
The Topology of Elliptic Surfaces

In this chapter, we shall complete the classical (i.e., pre-gauge theory) analysis of the C ∞-topology of elliptic surfaces. In particular we shall compare deformation equivalence and diffeomorphism in all cases except when the fundamental group of the elliptic surface is finite cyclic. We shall also prove auxiliary results on the monodromy of general elliptic surfaces over ℙ1 and on the existence of embedded 2-spheres of self-intersection −2 in such surfaces.
From Habits to Standards: Towards Systematic Design of Emotion Models and Affective Architectures

Emotion modeling has been an active area of research for almost two decades now. Yet in spite of the growing and diverse body of work, designing and developing emotion models remains an art, with few standards and systematic guidelines available to guide the design process, and to validate the resulting models. In this introduction I first summarize some of the existing work attempting to establish more systematic approaches to affective modeling, and highlight the specific contributions to this effort discussed in the papers in this volume. I then propose an analytical computational framework that delineates the core affective processes, emotion generation and emotion effects, and defines the abstract computational tasks necessary to implement these. This framework provides both a common vocabulary for describing the computational requirements for affective modeling, and proposes the building blocks necessary for implementing emotion models. As such, it can serve both as a foundation for developing more systematic guidelines for model design, and as a basis for developing modeling tools. I conclude with a summary and a discussion of some open questions and challenges.
Mutual Fund Manager Education Background and Activeness

Some active mutual funds are more active than others. Indeed, research finds that many so-called active funds are not nearly as active as they appear because they each hold a portfolio that can be quite similar to the benchmark index. Furthermore, in general, research indicates that funds that are consistently active (i.e., hold a portfolio that is quite different from the benchmark) but take positions that are sufficiently well diversified across industries (i.e., do not have high tracking error) may have better risk-adjusted performance. Given the importance of an active fund being truly active, this article tries to predict a fund’s activeness by examining mutual fund manager educational characteristics. After controlling for many factors, including the firm at which the fund is located, the finding is that funds with managers who attend undergraduate schools with higher mean SAT scores are significantly more active than the funds of other managers. However, apart from this variable, other educational variables do not help explain fund activeness. TOPICS:Mutual fund performance, performance measurement, manager selection
Role of Implementation Science: Linking Fundamental Discovery Science and Innovation Science to Ending the HIV Epidemic at the Community Level.

Background:During the past 4 decades, substantial progress has been made in the development of strategies for HIV prevention, treatment, and care resulting from observational science, discovery and innovation science, and implementation science. Building on these fundamental discoveries, innovation
Practical Drone Delivery

Despite its enormous economic impact, the parcel delivery industry has evolved slowly over the decades with the biggest innovations coming from GPS and planning algorithms. New developments in the technologies of drone delivery, such as aircraft design, battery improvements, and control software, could transform this industry and, consequently, society as a whole.
Historical Perspectives on Gender, Security, and Technology: Gathering, Weaving, and Subsistence in Colonial Mission Communities of Bolivia

The present paper brings to the discussion of human risks and rights an analysis of the gendered spheres of labor that developed in the eighteenth-century mission communities of lowland, eastern Bolivia. It argues that the differential work experiences of men and women, their access to technology and to the rewards of their labor, can be explained only by combining sensitivity to gender issues with a contextual framework that takes into account the environment, cultural expectations, and political economy. This historical case study is situated in Chiquitos, one of the Iberian colonial frontiers established in the ecological borderlands between the Andes and Amazonia.
Discovery of Diphenylacetamides as CXCR7 Inhibitors with Novel β-Arrestin Antagonist Activity.

The atypical chemokine receptor CXCR7 has been studied in various disease settings including immunological diseases and heart disease. Efforts to elucidate the role of CXCR7 have been limited by th...
Participation in Sport: A Developmental Glimpse at Emotion

As we will see when we review the emotional response literature later in this chapter, competitive sport offers a rich emotional context with many potential sources of stress and enjoyment. We also know from previous research that the sources of these emotional responses organize into threecategories: intrapersonal, situational, and significant others. If we examine Jeniqua, we might see that she experiences a certain amount of stress from being a perfectionist (intrapersonal), participating in championship meets (situational), and dealing with negative social evaluation from her coach (significant others). However, she derives considerable enjoyment from learning new gymnastics skills (intrapersonal), winning (situational), and from the friendships she has established through participation (significant others).
Grapefruit: An Open-Source, Full-Stack, and Customizable Automata Processing on FPGAs

Regular expressions have been widely used in various application domains such as network security, machine learning, and natural language processing. Increasing demand for accelerated regular expressions, or equivalently finite automata, has motivated many efforts in designing FPGA accelerators. However, there is no framework that is publicly available, comprehensive, parameterizable, general, full-stack, and easy-touse, all in one, for design space exploration for a wide range of growing pattern matching applications on FPGAs. In this paper, we present Grapefruit, the first open-source, full-stack, efficient, scalable, and extendable automata processing framework on FPGAs. Grapefruit is equipped with an integrated compiler with many parameters for automata simulation, verification, minimization, transformation, and optimizations. Our modular and standard design allows researchers to add capabilities and explore various features for a target application. Our experimental results show that the hardware generated by Grapefruit performs 9%80% better than prior work that is not fully end-to-end and has 3.4 × higher throughput in a multi-stride solution than a single-stride solution.
Rate of Formation of Hydrogen Molecules by Three-body Recombination during Primordial Star Formation

Astrophysical models of primordial star formation require rate constants for three-body recombination as input. The current status of these rates for H2 due to collisions with H is far from satisfactory, with published rate constants showing orders of magnitude disagreement at the temperatures relevant for H2 formation in primordial gas. This Letter presents an independent calculation of this recombination rate constant as a function of temperature. An analytic expression is provided for the rate constant which should be more reliable than ones currently being used in astrophysical models.
Out with a bang.

No one could have predicted a year like 2020. At the time of writing this in mid-November, the virus has not relented. Our hospitals are overflowing and the holiday season is more of a time of worry than one of celebration. After a summer of racial turmoil, the USA endured its most contentious election in history. The promise of a vaccine and relative political stability provide some hope for the new year. Despite these troubling events, the JNIS marched on in what was probably the best year in its history. Unfortunately, we were not able to celebrate this in person at our annual meeting. Of note, the journal received a record number of submissions in 2019 (more than 1000) and is on pace to surpass that number in 2020. Amazingly, submissions to the journal surged during the earliest days of the pandemic. While neurointerventionalists may not have been working as hard clinically, they were certainly working hard academically! The JNIS impact factor rose to 4.46, …
Hypopharyngeal Surgery for OSA Patients

The hypopharynx is a common site of obstruction in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Hypopharyngeal surgery for management of OSA may be considered in continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)-intolerant patients. Success of various hypopharyngeal surgeries, including hypoglossal nerve stimulation therapy, is contingent upon appropriate selection criteria based on localizing the site(s) of obstruction. Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) has the ability to mimic upper airway collapse during a sleep-like state. All surgical candidates must be counseled regarding expected outcomes and complications of various hypopharyngeal surgical techniques
Overseas NGOs and Foundations and Covid in China

The COVID crisis that enveloped Wuhan, Hubei Province and some other parts of China in late 2019 and early 2020 might, in another era, have encouraged China to temporarily relax constraints on international aid and engagement. In the current Chinese political environment, such relaxation of constraints wasn’t going to happen. China accepted some overseas aid at the beginning of the COVID crisis, but almost entirely on the restrictive political and legal terms laid down in the Overseas NGO Law and framework enacted in 2016.