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The Accuracy of the Scratch Collapse Test Performed by Blinded Examiners on Patients With Suspected Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Assessed by Electrodiagnostic Studies.

Purpose A diagnostic maneuver known as the "scratch-collapse test" (SCT), to aid in the diagnosis of compressive upper limb neuropathies such as carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), has been described. There is a wide variability in the sensitivity and specificity values reported to date, and the reason for this discrepancy is unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of the SCT performed by examiners blinded to the meaning of the examination. Methods Forty consecutive patients referred to a single physiatrist for electrodiagnostic testing for the evaluation of suspected CTS were included in the study. The patients were evaluated by blinded physician examiners with no knowledge of the SCT. The examiners were instructed on the maneuver but were not told the purpose of the test or the significance of a "positive" or "negative" response. Routine electrodiagnostic testing including nerve conduction studies and electromyography were also performed. Results For the blinded examiners, the SCT had a sensitivity of 0.24, a specificity of 0.6, a positive predictive value of 0.73, a negative predictive value of 0.15, and the accuracy was 31%. The SCT performed by the attending physician demonstrated a sensitivity of 0.28, a specificity of 0.75, a positive predictive value of 0.81, a negative predictive value of 0.2, and the accuracy was 37%. All of the previous values are presented with electrodiagnostic studies as the reference standard for CTS. There was disagreement between the blinded, inexperienced examiners and the attending physician in only 3 of the 40 patients evaluated with the SCT. Conclusions The SCT appears to have low sensitivity and specificity values relative to electromyography findings in patients with CTS when performed by examiners blinded to the meaning of the patients' response. Further study of this maneuver is necessary to fully assess its performance. Type of study/level of evidence Diagnostic II.
Unhealthful Food-and-Beverage Advertising in Subway Stations: Targeted Marketing, Vulnerable Groups, Dietary Intake, and Poor Health

Unhealthful food-and-beverage advertising often targets vulnerable groups. The extent of such advertising in subway stations has not been reported and it is not clear how ad placement may relate to subway ridership or community demographics, or what the implications might be for diets and diet-related health in surrounding communities. Riding all subway lines (n = 7) in the Bronx, NY, USA, investigators systematically assessed all print ads (n = 1586) in all stations (n = 68) in 2012. Data about subway ridership came from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Demographic data on surrounding residential areas came from the U.S. Census Bureau. Data on dietary intake and diet-related conditions came from a city health-department survey. There were no ads promoting “more-healthful” food-or-beverage items (i.e., fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, water or milk). There were many ads for “less-healthful” items (e.g., candies, chips, sugary cereals, frozen pizzas, “energy” drinks, coffee confections, hard alcohol, and beer). Ad placement did not relate to the number of riders entering at stations. Instead, exposure to food-or-beverage ads generally, and to “less-healthful” ads particularly (specifically ads in Spanish, directed at youth, and/or featuring minorities), was directly correlated with poverty, lower high-school graduation rates, higher percentages of Hispanics, and/or higher percentages of children in surrounding residential areas. Correlations were robust to sensitivity analyses. Additional analyses suggested correlations between ad exposures and sugary-drink consumption, fruit-and-vegetable intake, and diabetes, hypertension, and high-cholesterol rates. Subway-station ads for “less-healthful” items were located disproportionately in areas home to vulnerable populations facing diet and diet-related-health challenges. The fact that uneven ad placement did not relate to total rider counts suggests ads were not directed at the largest possible audiences but rather targeted to specific groups.
Wireless Sensors for Smart Orthopedic Implants

Orthopedic implants are medical devices which are surgically implanted inside the human body and widely used for replacing missing joints and bones or restoring function of a damaged structure. Examples include orthopedic implants for joint replacement (hip, elbow, knee, shoulder, etc.), implants that treat fractures (ulna, femur, etc.), and implants for fixation of the spine. Recent advances in wireless sensors and medical telemetry are promising new and hitherto unexplored opportunities in orthopedic implants. This implies miniature unobtrusive sensors that are implanted along with the orthopedic device and used to wirelessly communicate information to exterior monitoring/control equipment. This information may be related to the status of the medical device itself and/or the health status of the surrounding biological tissues. This paper provides a review of orthopedic implants with wireless communication capabilities. Example applications reported to date are discussed, along with challenges raised (biocompatibility, wireless interface, and powering), and future directions.
Towards Re-defining Relation Understanding in Financial Domain

We describe our experiences in participating in the scored task for the 2017 FEIII Data Challenge. Our approach is to model the problem as a binary classification problem and train an ensemble model leveraging domain features that capture financial terminology. We share challenge results for our submission, which performed well achieving the highest score in four out of six evaluation criteria. We describe semantic complexities encountered with regards to the task definition and ambiguities in the labeled dataset. We present an alternative task formulation Relationship Validation that addresses some of these semantic complexities and demonstrate how our approach naturally extends to this simplified task definition.
Techniques and Tools for Photo Metrology

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the critical dimension (CD) scanning electron microscope (CD-SEM) and the optical overlay tools which provide the most important final measurements for lithographic control. Electrical CD measurement is also discussed, because of its growing importance as a CD control method in cutting edge microprocessor fabrication. This chapter also covers optical metrology tools for film thickness control. A guide to the statistical interpretation of metrology data is also given. The purpose of the CD-SEM is still to gain from a top-down scan or image sufficient information about a complex cross-sectional shape to predict electrical device performance. This has become a difficult task with multiple requirements. The scan or image have high resolution to represent details of the top surface, the side wall, the foot, and any residual material in between features. The CD-SEM consists basically of an ultrahigh vacuum electron column which produces a tiny electron probe on the wafer surface; an accurate stage for locating the features to be measured on the wafer a detector which collects the electrons that arise from the impact of the probe upon the wafer surface (called “secondary” electrons or “SE”); and a sophisticated computer for interpreting the images and controlling the entire system.
Branched Chain Amino Acids, Androgen Hormones, and Metabolic Risk Across Early Adolescence: A Prospective Study in Project Viva.

Objective This study aimed to examine the associations of two obesity-related metabolite patterns with changes in metabolic biomarkers during early adolescence. Methods Multivariable linear regression was used to examine associations of branched chain amino acid (BCAA) and androgen hormone patterns with changes in glycemia (fasting glucose, insulin, homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance), adipokines (leptin, adiponectin), inflammation (C-reactive protein, interleukin-6), lipid profile, and blood pressure during ∼5 years of follow-up among 213 children aged 6 to 10 years at baseline. Covariates included baseline age, pubertal status, biomarker level, and BMI percentile, and age at follow-up. Interactions with sex and baseline BMI percentile were also considered. Results The median age at baseline was 7.7 years; 48.8% were boys. In adjusted models, each 1 unit of the BCAA pattern corresponded with a 4.82 (95% CI: 0.92 to 8.71) mg/dL decrease in fasting glucose in boys. In girls, the BCAA pattern was associated with an increase in triglycerides (4.17 [0.03 to 8.32] mg/dL). The androgen pattern was associated with decreased leptin (-2.35 [-4.34 to -0.35] ng/dL) and increased C-reactive protein (0.28 [0.03 to 0.54] mg/dL) in girls. These relationships did not differ by baseline BMI percentile. Conclusions The BCAA and androgen hormone metabolite patterns are related to changes in metabolic parameters in a sex-specific manner during early adolescence.
Davidson and kim on Psychophysical Laws

Etude de la contradiction entre les lois psychophysiques et les lois de la survenance qui met en doute l'argument de Davidson developpe dans l'article intitule «Mental events». Mesurant la possibilite d'une reconciliation a partir de la position de J. Kim fondee sur l'idee d'une survenance psychophysique forte, l'A. examine les notions d'etat mental, externalisme et holisme, ainsi que les normes de rationalite et d'indetermination et le role de l'interpretant chez Davidson. Examinant les differentes interpretations et reconstructions de l'argument de Davidson, l'A. conclut en montrant qu'il n'existe pas de conditionnels psychophysiques vrais de la survenance
Ethical understanding: recognizing and using belief conflict in narrative processing

Belief conflict patterns (BCPs) are knowledge structures representing the understander's moral attitude toward problematic interpretations of the events in a story. These structures are used to model interest in stories by contrasting the understanding of stories to the system's beliefs about the characters and what they have done. Once recognized, BCPs provide a framework for interpreting the rest of the story, and a basis for identifying the theme of the story. The representation of reasons for the attitude that the understander has of characters are called character assessments. Character assessments form the basis for BCPs by giving the understander a prior attitude under which to judge the character's actions. BCPs organize the subjective reasons that the understander has for why a goal success/failure for a character should or shouldn't have occurred, and these reasons provide support for the problematic interpretation of the story events. A process model for BCP recognition and how thematic resolution is accomplished is presented. The role of BCPs in a program that models the interpretive understanding of a short ironic story is described.
Thomas B. Ferguson, MD. Recipient, 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

On May 11, 2009, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery presented its Lifetime Achievement Award to Thomas B. Ferguson, MD. Few surgeons of any generation have been so universally revered by their contemporaries as Tom Ferguson, the only living surgeon to have served as President of both the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (1976– 1977) and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (1981–1982). Tom was born in Oklahoma, where his grandfather Ferguson was the first Territorial Governor of Oklahoma, his father was a successful newspaper publisher, and his mother, Lucia Loomis Ferguson, was quite famous as a nationally syndicated columnist fervently devoted to women’s rights. Tom attributes his early interest in medicine to his grandfather Loomis, who upon graduating from the Cincinnati Medical School in the 1880s spent his life as a frontier doctor among the Choctaw Indians of the Oklahoma territory. After attending public schools in Oklahoma, Tom graduated from Duke University and then from its medical school and thereafter trained in surgery at both Duke and Barnes Hospital/ Washington University in St Louis with a year out to complete a Public Health Service fellowship in physiology at Harvard. With the exception of 4 years in private practice in Florida in the early 1960s, Tom’s entire professional career has been spent in St Louis. A simple litany of the awards that Tom Ferguson has received and the important positions that he has held during his career would exceed my allotted word count for this article. Tom has been honored with awards and appointments repeatedly by his friends and surgical colleagues in St Louis, by his alma mater, by his national and international surgical colleagues, and by virtually every organized body in his specialty. He has been the Chairman of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery (1974–1977), and he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Duke University in 1979. There is a Ferguson Lecture at Washington University in St Louis and another at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Tom served 16 years as the Editor of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery (1984–2000) and 10 years as the Editor of CTSNet (2000–2009). During his tenure as
Fatigue crack growth of a hot mix asphalt using digital image correlation

Abstract The objective of this study is to demonstrate that digital image correlation can be employed to track crack propagation and produce more accurate measurements of the fatigue crack growth of hot mix asphalts. Indirect tensile, fracture, and fatigue crack growth (FCG) experiments are performed. Digital image correlation is shown to capture the crack propagation, crack tip remodeling, fatigue process zone, and strain distribution on the surface of the specimens. Microstructurally-small cracking is detected in the FCG data; where cracking is extremely sensitive to microstructural features. Failure analysis finds on the macroscale, the crack bypasses aggregates and propagates primarily through the mastic (bitumen and mineral filler). On the microscale, the temperature-dependent cohesive strength of the mastic governs FCG resistance.
Accelerator Architectures A Ten-Year Retrospective

This article is a ten-year retrospective of the rise of the accelerators since the authors coedited a 2008 IEEE MICRO special issue on Accelerator Architectures. It identifies the most prominent applications using the accelerators to date: high-performance computing, crypto currencies, and machine leaming. For the two most popular types of accelerators, CPUs and FPGAs, the article gives a concise overview of the important trends in their compute throughput, memory bandwidth, and system interconnect. The article also articulates the importance of education for growing the adoption of accelerators. It concludes by identifying emerging types of accelerators and making a few predictions for the coming decade.
Imaging Selection of Acute Ischemic Stroke

Fast and comprehensive stroke imaging triage has become increasingly critical to the diagnosis and management of patients with acute ischemic stroke. Multiple randomized trials have recently shown how the combination of imaging-based triage and endovascular intervention leads to unprecedented improvements in neurologic outcomes in stroke, compared to natural history or best medical therapy such as intravenous thrombolytic drugs alone. This chapter reviews the rationale and practice of CT and MR protocols in acute ischemic stroke, including streamlined approaches to facilitate imaging triage to help select patients for intervention. Whatever triage route is taken or results produced, we stress that imaging features need to be harmonized with multiple patient factors, facility capabilities, and clinician and family preferences to optimize the most appropriate care for individual patients.
Novel Technologies: The Holyrood Chapel Diorama in James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Kirstyn Leuner, “Novel Technologies: The Holyrood Chapel Diorama in James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner” (pp. 437–461) This essay argues that there is a diorama remediated within James Hogg’s experimental Scottish Gothic novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Invented in 1822, the diorama was a popular multimedia theater experience comprised of a mural-sized immersive and realistic painting as well as a printed booklet describing the scene. Together, the view and booklet imaginatively transport the diorama’s audience to the depicted location. The diorama in Hogg’s novel is Louis Daguerre’s “Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, a Moonlight Scene” (1823), which places the viewer within the crumbling abbey at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, at night, among the tombs of Scottish nobles and royalty buried there. With its remediated Holyrood diorama, Confessions of a Justified Sinner prompts readers and characters, much like diorama-goers, to test their surroundings and determine where reality ends and the screen of illusion begins. Such reality-testing reveals characters’ and readers’ present moments to be part of, not detached from, the history of the ruined Holyrood Chapel and graveyard, the fractured identity of Scots, and the reception and retelling of their stories. Further, reality-testing draws attention to the media that construct one’s sense of self, the present, and the past, and these include not only the newer technology of the diorama, but also that of the novel in the late-Romantic period.
A morphology based constitutive model for high density polyethylene

Abstract High density polyethylene (HDPE) has been widely used in pipe systems for water delivery. Over the course of service, chlorine diffuses into HDPE and causes changes in the material morphology. This process has a significant influence on the deformation and failure mechanisms of HDPE. It has been demonstrated that the failure of HDPE exhibits a ductile-to-brittle transition as the corrosion level increases. Capturing this transition in the material failure mode is essential for predicting the long-term behavior of HDPE structures exposed to a chlorinated environment. In this study, a morphology based constitutive model of HDPE is developed. The model takes into account several essential deformation and failure mechanisms, which include viscoplastic deformation due to intermolecular resistance and homogeneous void growth in the crystalline and amorphous phases, as well as entangled network resistance and craze damage in the amorphous phase. The constitutive parameters are explicitly related to the molecular weight, which varies with the corrosion level. The proposed model is calibrated using uniaxial tensile tests on HDPE samples performed at different deformation rates, crystallinities, and corrosion levels. The model is then used to simulate the mechanical behavior of double-edge notched tension specimens exposed to different corrosion levels. It is shown that the model is capable of capturing the rate-dependent elasto-viscoplastic behavior of HDPE under the unexposed condition as well as the brittle failure behavior after exposure to a highly corrosive environment.
Review: Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City by William J. Glover

William J. Glover Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 288 pp., 75 b/w illus. Paper $25, ISBN 9780816650224 Colonial discourse, as described by Edward Said’s Orientalism , involved a kind of collusion between the colonizer and colonized in which the self-construction of the West and its equally fictional other, the non-West, were both framed by the desires and politics of Orientalism. Since Said, the question of how to responsibly articulate the colonial encounter, and its architecture, outside the Eurocentric, self-legitimating, Enlightenment-based tropes of Orientalism has assumed great importance. Unfortunately, a genuinely post-Orientalist revision of the colonial architecture of the West still remains to be done; the self-congratulatory ethos of the Enlightenment, perhaps, still holds us firmly in its thrall. But the reinscription of its other, the “non-West,” it seems, is fortunately well underway. Perhaps this should not come as a surprise; after all, it was the life-world of the colonized that was materially depreciated by colonization, and it was the colonized who felt at least as betrayed by the Enlightenment and its quest for modernity as they felt empowered by it. William J. Glover’s Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City focuses on the “emergence of the modern Indian city as a distinctive social and material milieu shaped under British rule” (xiii). Glover’s book outlines the manner in which the colonizers and the colonized worked together to transform this renowned Mughal city into a shared, if not identical, image of modernity. Modernity for Glover is a third entity, outside the colonizer-colonized dyad. In his introduction, he asserts that he has …
Use of insect pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis for control of grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in turf

An evaluation was performed for host range of Bacillus thuringiensis tolworthi, kumamotoensis, and japonensis against the following scarab turfgrass pests (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Anomala cuprea, Atenius sp., Cotinis sp., Cyclocephala borealis, Cyclocephala lurida, Cyclocephala pasadenae, Popillia japonica, Phyllophaga sp. Results showed Bacillus thuringiensis tolworthi and Bacillus thuringiensis japonensis to have activity against U.S. economic grub pests Cyclocephala borealis, Cyclocephala lurida, and Popillia japonica while Bacillus thuringiensis kumamotoensis was active against Cotinis sp. Other U.S. turfgrass pests tested, Atenius sp. and Phyllophaga sp. had no detectable susceptibility to any of the three isolates. Bacillus popilliae was inactive against Cyclocephala pasadenae. ' Dow AgroSciences, 5501 Oberlin Drive, San Diego CA 92121 ^ USDA-ARS Com Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Genetics Laboratory, ISU, Ames, lA 50011 ^ Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, lA SOOl 1
Evaluation of Addition of Intravenous Metronidazole to Oral Vancomycin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with Non‐Fulminant Severe Clostridioides difficile Infection

BACKGROUND Data on the impact of combination therapy (intravenous metronidazole [IV MTZ] plus oral vancomycin [PO VAN]) on clinical outcomes in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with severe non-fulminant Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), including NAP1-positive samples, are lacking. METHODS Retrospective observational cohort of adult patients who developed CDI in the ICU diagnosed with severe non-fulminant CDI who received PO VAN. Patients with an order for IV MTZ started within 72 hours of PO VAN and who received at least 72 hours of combined therapy composed the combination therapy group. A subset of patients had stool samples collected for NAP1 testing. An additional subset was matched by Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II scores. The primary outcome was inpatient all-cause mortality within 30 days of CDI diagnosis. RESULTS A total of 138 patients were included with 60 (43.5%) patients in the combination group. Compared with the PO VAN group, those in the combination group had higher white blood cell counts at diagnosis (15.9 [interquartile range (IQR) 10.2-21.1] vs 20.9 [IQR 16.2-29] cells/mm3 , p<0.001), respectively. Overall inpatient mortality was higher in the combination group, but 30-day mortality was not significantly different between groups (12.8% monotherapy vs 18.3% combination, p=0.371). This finding was the same for the 96 patients in the APACHE II-matched subgroup, 14.6% monotherapy versus 18.8% combination, p=0.785. NAP1 testing was completed in 42 patients; 11 were positive (26.2%). Patients who were NAP1 positive were more likely to receive IV MTZ (54.5% vs 19.4%, p=0.026). CONCLUSION Compared with PO VAN, combination therapy with IV MTZ was not associated with better clinical outcomes in severe non-fulminant CDI in ICU patients.
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of hydromorphone hydrochloride in healthy horses.

Abstract Objectives To determine the physiologic and behavioral effects and pharmacokinetic profile of hydromorphone administered intravenously (IV) to horses. Study design Prospective, randomized, crossover study. Animals A group of six adult healthy horses weighing 585.2 ± 58.7 kg. Methods Each horse was administered IV hydromorphone (0.025 mg kg–1; treatment H0.025), hydromorphone (0.05 mg kg–1; treatment H0.05) or 0.9% saline in random order with a 7 day washout period. For each treatment, physiologic, hematologic, abdominal borborygmi scores and behavioral data were recorded over 5 hours and fecal output was totaled over 24 hours. Data were analyzed using repeated measures anova with significance at p Results Hydromorphone administration resulted in a dose-dependent increase in heart rate (HR) and systolic arterial pressure (SAP). HR and SAP were 59 ± 17 beats minute–1 and 230 ± 27 mmHg, respectively, in treatment H0.05 at 5 minutes after administration. No clinically relevant changes in respiratory rate, arterial gases or temperature were observed. The borborygmi scores in both hydromorphone treatments were lower than baseline values for 2 hours. Fecal output did not differ among treatments and no evidence of abdominal discomfort was observed. Recorded behaviors did not differ among treatments. For hydromorphone, mean ± standard deviation for volume of distribution at steady state, total systemic clearance and area under the curve until the last measured concentration were 1.00 ± 0.29 L kg–1, 106 ± 21 mL minute–1 kg–1 and 8.0 ± 1.5 ng hour mL–1, respectively. Conclusions and clinical relevance Hydromorphone administered IV to healthy horses increased HR and SAP, decreased abdominal borborygmi and did not affect fecal output.
Platforms with Restrictive Licensing

Two-sided platforms coordinate two types of users in order to increase the value of the whole system surrounding the platform. Users of a platform have different outside opportunities, and these influence their behavior on the platform. Platforms often limit these outside projects through restrictive licensing agreements. These are often thought to reflect market power and a foreclosure motivation, but it shows that they can be a way of managing the “quality commons” aspect of a platform. This chapter analyzes a platform where all component developers produce two kinds of quality—inside quality for their offerings on the platform and outside quality on their outside project. It shows that there are cases where restrictive licensing agreements that shut down the outside projects can increase social welfare, while in other cases they reduce social welfare. The reason is that if consumers and the platform value components inside quality enough, all agents prefer to be protected from low-quality behavior, even at the cost of giving up outside projects.
Implementation of COVID-19 Protocols and Tele-Triage in an Academic Ophthalmology Department

Background The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected academic ophthalmology departments globally, causing changes in educational, research, and clinical operations in the short and long term. Healthcare workers are at higher risk of contracting the disease and given early reports suggestive of transmission through the tear film in COVID-19 cases with conjunctivitis, and close proximity during examination, eye care providers in particular may be at increased risk. Objective To provide the experience from a single academic ophthalmology program in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This article describes the changes executed in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, with emphasis on the implementation of a tele-triage process for urgent visits. Results In response to the pandemic, our department made rapid changes to its departmental protocols for education, research, and patient management. Early measures focused on limiting face-to-face interactions among patients, staff, residents, and faculty, decreasing the risk of exposure to disease while also providing access for patients in urgent need of care. Conclusion We hope that the UIC experience will assist other academic tertiary referral centers in maximizing their opportunities to deliver excellent patient care while minimizing risks to patient and provider, all while continuing to provide a quality graduate medical educational experience during and beyond the pandemic.
Structural and mechanistic bases for a potent HIV-1 capsid inhibitor

The potent HIV-1 capsid inhibitor GS-6207 is an investigational principal component of long-acting antiretroviral therapy. We found that GS-6207 inhibits HIV-1 by stabilizing and thereby preventing functional disassembly of the capsid shell in infected cells. X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, and hydrogen-deuterium exchange experiments revealed that GS-6207 tightly binds two adjoining capsid subunits and promotes distal intra- and inter-hexamer interactions that stabilize the curved capsid lattice. In addition, GS-6207 interferes with capsid binding to the cellular HIV-1 cofactors Nup153 and CPSF6 that mediate viral nuclear import and direct integration into gene-rich regions of chromatin. These findings elucidate structural insights into the multimodal, potent antiviral activity of GS-6207 and provide a means for rationally developing second-generation therapies.
Stepping stones learning center.

Stepping Stones Learning Center, located in West Irondequoit, NY, has sustained high-quality, specialized applied behavior analytic programs since 1996 within an agency that has a broad mission of serving children with and without special needs. The agency’s success reflects long-standing commitment from its leaders, frequent expert consultation, substantial experience and knowledge within the agency, and well-established relationships with community partners.
The “Community” in Community College: Lorain County Community College’s Strategic Visioning Model

Lorain County Community College’s (LCCC) community engagement and strategic planning process demonstrates this community college’s evolution throughout the past three decades to its current Vision Network model that engaged more than 1,600 external and internal stakeholders. This case study provides a context on the evolution of community colleges with a specific reference to the transformation of this Midwestern community college’s vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities that are grounded in the four pillars of education, economy, culture, and community. LCCC’s planning process is detailed to provide practitioners with a conceptual model for planning and engagement, and it incorporates strategic foresight in recognition of the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity facing higher education institutions today, with particular emphasis on community colleges that are aligned to local stakeholder needs.
Rumor has it: The role of social ties and misinformation in evacuation to nearby shelters after disaster

Abstract When crisis strikes, why do some communities utilize evacuation shelters more than others? This mixed methods study draws on a new dataset of almost-daily tallies of evacuees at 660 local shelters following Japan’s 2018 Eastern Iburi Earthquake in Hokkaido to create a large-N time-series cross sectional (TSCS) dataset of local, short-distance evacuation. We pair time-series cross-sectional data models with qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of nine affected municipalities to examine why some shelters see higher evacuation rates than others. While past studies have used Facebook user data, post-hoc surveys, or ad-hoc roadside interviews to measure evacuation, this study uses meticulously recorded shelter attendance data to draw inferences about evacuation behavior. Controlling for types of shelters, damage levels, infrastructure quality, social vulnerability, governance capacity, and community resources, we find that in affected communities, stronger bridging social ties, especially when aided by linking ties, motivate greater evacuation to shelters. In unaffected communities, stronger bonding and bridging ties encourage potentially unnecessary evacuation, helping spread rumors during blackouts. These results highlight the necessity of clear, transparent communication with the public, and fostering trust in government during crises.
Efficient Graph Encryption Scheme for Shortest Path Queries

Graph encryption schemes (introduced by [Chase and Kamara, 2010]) have been receiving growing interest across various disciplines due to their attractive tradeoff between functionality, efficiency and privacy. In this paper, we advance the state of the art on encrypted graph search by providing an efficient graph encryption scheme for shortest path queries. The preprocessing time and space and the query time are proportional to those for building and querying the search structure for the unencrypted graph. Hence, the overhead of providing structured encryption is asymptotically optimal. We implement our scheme and experimentally validate its performance on real world networks. Furthermore, we extend our scheme to support verifiability. Our scheme is the first structured encryption scheme that supports a recursive algorithm, where the number of recursion steps is not known at setup time (unlike the chaining technique from [Chase and Kamara, 2010]). Recursion is an important algorithmic design paradigm. Hence, our technique may help develop other practical encrypted structures for recursive algorithms.
Correction: Hafnium–zirconium oxide interface models with a semiconductor and metal for ferroelectric devices

Correction for ‘Hafnium–zirconium oxide interface models with a semiconductor and metal for ferroelectric devices’ by Kisung Chae et al., Nanoscale Adv., 2021, DOI: 10.1039/d1na00230a.
End to end system test for Geshang +or-500 kV HDVC project

An extensive end-to-end system test of China's first +or-500 kV HVDC line, the Gezhouba to Shanghai HVDC project, was completed in August, 1990. The items and results of this test are discussed. Several important events which occurred during the test as well as their reason and effects are described. Same valuable experiences are also discussed. >
Prototype details of the smartphone-based researcher's companion software (RCS)

Smartphones are handheld devices that include most or all the functionality of traditional personal digital assistants (PDAs) with the additional capability of serving as cell phones. One of the main issues with smartphones is a lack of software programs that meet the needs of certain tasks or application domains. The primary objective of the work presented in this paper has been to create a Researcher's Companion Software that uses the new smartphone technology and incorporates functions and features that meet the specific needs of researchers in various domains. The second objective of our work has been to place a strong emphasis on the software's ease of use and user interaction capabilities, such that researchers from various fields (e.g., engineering, environment studies, social sciences, medicine, arts, education, etc.) can use it almost immediately, without having to go through a lengthy learning process. The Researcher's Companion Software presented in this paper operates on Google's new smartphone platform Android. The RCS enables users to manage references, collaborators, notes, appointments, and checklists, and also provides some advanced capabilities. The key benefit of the RCS is its mobility, which allows researchers to keep track of their research-related information regardless of location, thus significantly improving their overall work productivity.
Contribución indígena a la cartografía del Alto Ucayali a fines del siglo XVII

Este articulo examina la participacion de nativos conibo en la produccion del conocimiento geografico y cartografico del Alto Ucayali en 1686. La evidencia proviene de una serie de reportes y mapas derivados de un litigio entre los franciscanos de Lima y los jesuitas de Quito por la posesion de una mision entre los conibo. Esta investigacion resalta el importante rol que los conibo jugaron en la expedicion franciscana al Alto Ucayali y la naturaleza consensual de la cartografia de la Amazonia colonial.
Laboratory enhancements through partnerships with local industry for a course in wireless communications

Results from recent and ongoing sections of a course in wireless communications are discussed. Development of the laboratory portion of such courses is challenging because of the wide variety of topics and the rapid advancements of specialized technology in the field. By developing industry contacts through alumni, consulting, and a local professional society, a few members of local industry were found who were motivated to work with the instructor to enhance the course. Rather than limiting their involvement to advisory activities, arrangements were made for on-site demonstrations that allowed the students to experience use of equipment and software that is not available in most university settings. Follow-up activities include simulation exercises based upon a widely available applications program that use actual system parameters and calculations provided by industry contacts.
Culture and Cultural Competence in Nursing Education and Practice: The State of the Art

HarkessKaddouraProblem The concept of cultural competency has developed a substantial presence in nursing education and practice since first attracting widespread attention in the 1990s. While several theories and corresponding measures of cultural competency have been advanced and tried, much work remains, as many nursing professionals continue to call for greater evidence-based research and attention to patient perspectives and outcomes. Methods Using a method provided by Hawker et al. to appraise articles, this paper compares nine recent (2008–2013) studies (including two composite studies) related to cultural competency, undergraduate curricula, and teaching strategies in nursing to assess the state of the art in this important area of care. Findings The studies applied phenomenological, study abroad, online, and service learning strategies, four of which relied on some version of Campinha-Bacote's IAPCC© model. These studies reported a general improvement in competency among students, though generally only to a level of cultural awareness, and admitted being constrained by several common limitations. Conclusion Improved results and more realistic expectations in this area may require a closer understanding of the nature of the “culture” that underlies cultural competence. HarkessKaddoura
Purification and Biochemical Analysis of the Cytoplasmic Membrane from the Desiccation-Tolerant Cyanobacterium Nostoc commune UTEX 584.

Abstract The cytoplasmic membrane of the heterocystous cyanobacterium Nostoc commune UTEX 584 was isolated free of thylakoids and phycobiliprotein-membrane complexes by flotation centrifugation. Purified membranes had a buoyant density of 1.07 g cm−3 and were bright orange. Twelve major proteins were detected in the membrane, and of these, the most abundant had molecular masses of 83, 71, 68, 51, and 46 kilodaltons. The ester-linked fatty acids of the methanol fraction contained 16:0, 18:0, 18:1ω9c, 20:0, and 20:3ω3 with no traces of hydroxy fatty acids. Compound 20:3ω3 represented 56.8% of the total fatty acid methyl esters, a feature which distinguishes the cell membrane of N. commune UTEX 584 from those of all other cyanobacteria which have been characterized to date. Fatty acid 18:3 was not detected. Carotenoids were analyzed by highperformance liquid chromatography. The cytoplasmic membrane contained β-carotene and echinenone as the dominant carotenoids and lacked chlorophyll a and pheophytin a. Whole cells contained β-carotene and echinenone, and lesser amounts of zeaxanthin and (3R)-cryptoxanthin.
Genetic Aspects of Schizophrenia: Observations on the Biological and Adoptive Relatives of Adoptees who Became Schizophrenic

The mental illness (or illnesses) that we call schizophrenia constitute a major social problem in terms of suffering, the loss of human potential, and sheer public cost. Its gravity is matched by our ignorance regarding its causes. It is not surprising, therefore, that hypotheses have taken the place of knowledge, nor that these hypotheses have grown into doctrines and dogmas. The syndrome was first described at a time when the new sciences of microbiology and pathology were making important contributions to medicine and the natural assumption was made that schizophrenia was a simple disease of the brain that the neuropathologists would soon characterize. That did not happen convincingly and meanwhile Freud brought a new dimension into psychiatry in the recognition of the importance of life experience, the interaction of a child with its parents, especially its mother, and a new doctrine developed which postulated the overriding importance of “schizophrenogenic” parents in the development of schizophrenia. More recently, a doctrine has emerged which insists that schizophrenia is not a disease of the brain but is a myth devised by the psychiatric establishment which uses it to label what is a creative adaptation to a sick society. Although the belief in one or another of these doctrines is often very strong, the evidence on which they depend is quite weak.
Conservation of Dnmt1o cytosine methyltransferase in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica

Imprinted genes have been identified in both eutherian mammals and in marsupials. In eutherian species, there is a conservation of the imprinting process, both in terms of the genes imprinted and the epigenetic inheritance mechanism. In the mouse, the inheritance of gametic methylation patterns depends on an oocyte-derived isoform of the Dnmt1 (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase protein, Dnmt1o, which functions during preimplantation development to maintain methylation patterns on imprinted alleles. To determine if this component of genomic imprinting is also found in marsupials, Dnmt1 isoforms were examined in somatic cells and germ cells of the South American opossum Monodelphis domestica. There is a Dnmt1o protein in Monodelphis oocytes that is synthesized, as in the mouse, from a different transcript than the somatic Dnmt1 protein. Thus, an essential component of imprinting in eutherian mammals is found in a marsupial species, suggesting that marsupials and eutherian mammals imprint their genes with the same methylation-dependent mechanism.
EXAMINING CONGRUENCE WITHIN SCHOOL–FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS: DEFINITION, IMPORTANCE, AND CURRENT MEASUREMENT APPROACHES

The purpose of this article is to explore the construct of congruence, particularly with regard to school–family collaboration and partnerships. An in-depth review of the empirical and theoretical literature supporting a shift in focus from encouraging family involvement to creating effective school–family partnerships is presented, followed by an investigation into the construct of congruence and the methodological challenges it presents. The authors define congruence, discuss its role in creating and maintaining effective school–family partnerships, and critically review common approaches to measuring congruence and similar constructs. The implications for researchers and practitioners are discussed.
Leveraging supplier capabilities: The role of locus of capability deployment

This study adds to the resource-based view by studying how client firms may gain performance benefits from supplier IT capabilities in market-based arrangements where the supplier's IT capabilities are readily available to multiple client firms. I argue that the locus of supplier capability deployment, i.e. whether supplier capabilities are deployed at the client (in-sourcing) or supplier (outsourcing), has implications for client firm performance. The findings show that in-sourcing leads to complementary effects between supplier IT capabilities and client operational capabilities. In contrast, clients with weaker operational capabilities benefit from outsourcing the respective activity to the supplier, and may even be able to reduce their capability disadvantage through outsourcing. The data on 964 U.S. credit unions contracting with 22 technology solution providers is archival. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Temporal structure of in vivo growth hormone secretory events in humans

The time course of spontaneous growth hormone (GH) secretion was studied in 12 normal men by analyzing serum GH concentrations measured in blood collected at 5-min intervals over 24 h with a multiple-parameter deconvolution model to simultaneously resolve endogenous GH secretory and clearance rates. Twenty-four-hour profiles of serum GH concentrations were accounted for by an average of 12 +/- 1.2 (SE) discrete GH secretory bursts having a mean half-duration (duration at half-maximal amplitude) of 25 +/- 2.3 min, indicating that 95% of daily GH secretion occurred in 8.8 h. The majority (96%) of GH was secreted in volleys composed of multiple (4.0 +/- 0.4) discrete secretory bursts. Such volleys of GH secretion were separated by 171 +/- 19 min, whereas their constituent individual secretory events occurred every 36 +/- 1.7 min (P = 0.0001). Between secretory volleys, calculated GH secretory rates fell asymptotically to zero. Significant positive and negative autocorrelations were observed for the series consisting of successive GH secretory burst mass and interburst intervals, respectively. Linear regression analysis revealed significant negative correlations between the mass of GH secreted per burst and both the preceding and following interburst intervals. Estimates of the half-life of endogenous GH (17 +/- 1.7 min) and of the endogenous GH production rate (0.25 +/- 0.033 mg/m2 for an assumed distribution volume of 7.9% body wt) agreed well with earlier independent measurements. We conclude that the human pituitary gland secretes GH in volleys consisting of multiple secretory bursts, without measurable intervening tonic secretion. This pattern of in vivo GH release in normal humans is consistent with a model of high-frequency GH-releasing hormone secretory events superimposed on low-frequency episodes of somatostatin withdrawal.
Los tientos 68, 65 y 67 de Obras de música: Estudio analítico de tres obras maestras de Cabezón

The present study focuses on three tientos which can undoubtedly be counted among Cabezon’s masterpieces, numbers 68, 65, an 67 from Obras de musica. This particular order allows an analytical journey from a long and brilliant tiento with great modal unity, to a short and introspective piece that includes three sections, each of which is in a different mode, by way of a mid-length tiento featuring structural ambiguity between two modes. Cabezon’s tonal world (as well as his time’s) is represented in these three tientos in all its richness and variety. We consider three aspects in each of these tientos: Formal organization, thematic coherence and motivic relationships among different subjects, and modal organization. Far from being three isolated features within the musical process, we will see that these three elements are closely related in these works by Cabezon, and together they constitute and determine the compositional structures that define these tientos as masterpieces.