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Notes on Boletes. IV

In Notes III (pp. 356-358),1itwasconcludedthat B. carolinensis Beardslee was the same as B. Curtisii Berk. because in the speci? mens of the latter examined there was no reticulation of the stipe as given in one of Berkeley's two descriptions. In another examination of the Peck material at Albany during the past summer, I was again unable to distinguish any reticula? tion of stipes of plants labelled B. Curtisii. On the other hand, in Peck's type specimens of B. fistulosus, which are without doubt the same as B. Curtisii, as pointed out by Murrill, I did see a small amount of reticulation. This marking was found in small patches at the very apex of the stipe of one of the two plants. Thus the confusion in Berkeley's descriptions is explained. It appears then that the stipe of this species may be slightly reticulate in places, but from the material available to me, there can be no reason for calling the stipe "reticulate" and the conclusions of last year's notes still hold.
Situation of human resources of disease prevention and control institutions in Changfeng county

Objective To analyze the current status of human resources county CDCs,and to provide scientific basis and policy recommendations for rational allocation of human resources. Methods The personnel data were collected by questionnaire,and the situation of human resources was analyzed by descriptive epidemiology. Results There was 141 staffs in total,including technical personnel accounting for 80. 85%. Most of the staffs were under 40 years old,accounting for 58. 86%. 44. 68% of staffs graduated from junior college. The junior professional title ranked the first location( 71. 63%), and public health personnel accounted for 21. 28% of the total staff. Conclusion The persnnel human resources were young in county CDCs but the proportion of middle and senior professional title was low. It is necessary to reform and adjust county CDCs human resources,and strengthen the governmental functions. The government must raise the investment in public health to establish and perfect the public health system and develop the long- term mechanism of human resources.
Mechanical support: Assist or nemesis?

Our 6-year experience with ventricular assist devices was reviewed to determine variables associated with improved survival. Forty-three patients (mean age 62 ± 14 years) were supported after balloon pumping and pressors proved inadequate. Twenty-eight patients could not be weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass, 12 patients deteriorated in the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery, and three had a bridged to transplantation. Overall, 47% (20/43) of patients could not be weaned from the ventricular assist devices, and 26% (11/43) were weaned but died before discharge, resulting in a hospital mortality rate of 72% (31/43). The remaining 28% (12/43) of patients were discharged and have survived 9 to 62 months. Early institution of ventricular assist devices (p
Presence of repeating hyperostotic bones in dorsal pterygiophores of the oarfish, Regalecus russellii.

Hyperostosis, excessive bone growth along bone that stems from bone, periosteum or articular or epiphyseal cartilage, occurs in at least 22 families of fishes most of which are tropical or subtropical marine species. While the presence of hyperostosis is well documented in fishes, the mechanism driving the development of the excessive bone growth is unclear. This study documented hyperostosis along the dorsal pterygiophores in both sexes of oarfish, Regalecus russellii; however, it was not present in all specimens examined. This is the second lampridiform fish with hyperostoses and the first case documented in a deeper-water, epi-mesopelagic fish. In oarfish, the majority of the dorsal pterygiophores tissues are poorly mineralized, anosteocytic bones with some fish displaying localized stiffened, hyperostotic growths near the distal edge. Oarfish lack a swim bladder so they must continuously beat their bi-directional dorsal fin to maintain position within the water column while engaged in locomotory behavior. These fishes have areas of localized, hyperostotic skeletal elements along the dorsal pterygiophores that, presumably, function as a stiffened lever system to support fin undulation. It was noted that hyperossification was not present in all fish examined and was only documented in fish with total lengths greater than 3 m.
Large-Scale Preparation of Potassium Hydroxide-Modified Silica Gel Adsorbent

A large-scale method, using custom-made apparatus, is described for making potassium hydroxide-modified silica gel. Batches as large as 2,3 kg can be made in 16 man-hours. A smaller-scale version of the method, requiring no specialized apparatus, is also described. The method can be used to integrate this adsorbent into many sample-enrichment procedures
Effect of Vapor-Cell Geometry on Rydberg-Atom-Based Measurements of Radio-Frequency Electric Fields

Precise measurement of electric fields at giga- to terahertz frequencies is important for emerging technologies, such as generating single photons and building quantum logic gates and advanced sensors. The authors have developed an absolute rf electric-field sensor based on Rydberg atoms, in which each gaseous alkali-metal atom acts as a detector. This study provides crucial information about how the geometry of the container affects such measurements, and the work is poised to impact applications as diverse as atomic clocks, vapor-cell magnetometers, remote sensing, antenna calibration, and metamaterials characterization.
Severe Gemcitabine-Associated Lung Injury in Hodgkins Disease & Other Cancers: Reporting Quality and Clinical Characteristics of Cases Reported in the Medical Literature and to the FDA.

Background: In view of concern about substantially increased risk of gemcitabine-associated lung injury (ALI), vigilant post-marketing surveillance is necessary to further characterize the frequency, severity, and clinical features of gemcitabine-associated pulmonary injury. Methods: From 2001–2003, investigators with the Research on Adverse Drug reactions And Reports (RADAR) program compared the clinical characteristics and adverse event reporting quality of gemcitabine-associated lung injury contained in published case reports and adverse event reports submitted in the setting of clinical trials or the non-clinical trial setting. Results: Completeness of reporting was excellent for published case reports and intermediate to poor for FDA adverse event reports from clinical trials or observational studies, including age (100%, 92%, 91%); time to onset of toxicity (100%, 63%, 58%); dose (97%, 63%, 79%); results of imaging studies (94%, 56%, 59%); presence/absence of hypoxia (97%, 6%, 4%); and cause of death (88%, 82%, 66%). Temporal analyses identified a bimodal pattern for the onset of pulmonary symptoms: 90% occurred before 150 days and 8% after 300 days. The highest rates of severe lung injury were in high dose patients co-administered bleomycin (28%) and in lung cancer patients (16%). Conclusions: Reporting completeness for severe gemcitabine-ALI to the FDA from the clinical trial and the non-clinical trial setting is poor, limiting the ability of the RADAR group to comprehensively assess this toxicity. Nonetheless, this toxicity is severe and, as shown in published case reports, frequent in the presence of concomitant pulmonary insults such as bleomycin-containing combination chemotherapy regimens for Hodgkin’s disease and taxol-containig combination chemotherapy regimens for lung cancer. Gemcitabine-associated Acute Lung Injury in Selected Clinical Trials
Oxidative Balance Score and the Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease and Cardiovascular Disease

Background: Oxidative balance score (OBS) is a composite measure of oxidative stress-related exposures. The aim of this study was to investigate the association b
Composite Surfaces and Spline Interpolation

This chapter discusses the composite surfaces and spline interpolation. B-spline plays an important role in current surface design methods. For curves, triple end knots meant that the first and last two B-spline control points were also Bezier control points. The B-spline control points d i for which i or j equal 0 or 1, are also control vertices of the piecewise Bezier net of the surface. Thus, they determine the boundary curves and the cross boundary derivatives. This corresponds to interpreting the B-spline control net row by row as univariate B-spline polygons and then converting them to piecewise Bezier form. The Bezier points thus obtained—column by column—may be interpreted as B-spline polygons, which one may again transform to Bezier form one by one. From the Bezier form, one may at present transform to any other piecewise polynomial form, such as the piecewise monomial or the piecewise Hermite form.
The lone star digital memorial: a case study in pervasive displays

The Lone Star digital memorial was an art installation shown as part of HIV/AIDS Awareness Week at the University of Texas at Dallas in November, 2016 (fig. 1). The purpose of The Lone Star digital memorial was to transduce and re-translate the digital form of the AIDS Memorial Quilt into an intense source of color and light in commemoration of those who have died anonymously or alone from HIV/AIDS. The project sought to continue research into publicly situated digital memorials and three dimensional objects as pervasive displays. To accomplish this goal projection mapping techniques were employed where video content was displayed upon a large three dimensional object that functioned as the publicly accessible display.
Complete response of mediastinal clear cell sarcoma to pembrolizumab with radiotherapy

Clear cell sarcoma (CCS) is a rare, aggressive soft tissue sarcoma thought to derive from neural crest and characterized by a 12;22 translocation. The resulting fusion protein directly activates expression of the melanocyte master transcription factor and drives the same down-stream pathways in CCS and melanoma leading to significant clinical parallels between these malignancies. Striking success of immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma has promoted interest in immunotherapy of CCS. We report the first complete clinical response of a bulky chest wall recurrence of mediastinal CCS in a young woman to anti-PD1 checkpoint blockade with pembrolizumab combined with standard fractionation radiotherapy to enhance regional control and potentially boost the systemic immune response. The treatment was well tolerated with grade 2 skin toxicity within the range expected with radiation alone. Significant reduction in tumor bulk occurred after only 2 radiation fractions and complete response was achieved at 50 Gray. The complete clinical response observed in our patient suggests synergy between concurrent radiotherapy and PD1 blockade in CCS. This case and the striking parallels between CCS and melanoma indicate the need for prospective trials of immune checkpoint blockade combined with radiotherapy in this rare malignancy.
Incorporating GPS and Mobile Radio Frequency Identification to Detect PIT-Tagged Fish and Evaluate Habitat Utilization in Streams

AbstractThe use of mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to detect PIT tags has increased in support of research on fish movement, population dynamics, and habitat use. We describe the development and application of a mobile RFID system that incorporates GPS to detect PIT-tagged fish and evaluate habitat utilization in streams. The study was conducted in two distinct phases. First, development and testing of the RFID–GPS system were conducted using georeferenced, PIT-tagged rocks to evaluate detection probability and GPS accuracy. Second, the system was field deployed to estimate the abundance of PIT-tagged fish and evaluate habitat utilization. Detection probability was negatively influenced by stream width, distance from the stream center, and water depth, whereas detection probability increased with the number of passes. The GPS error between detected and surveyed positions averaged 4.5 m, with greater error observed in longitude than in latitude. Because of high capture and recapture pr...
Increased volume responsiveness of macroporous hydrogels

Abstract Hydrogels can be fabricated into “smart” materials whose volumes predictably depend on their chemical environment. These “smart” hydrogel materials can be utilized in applications such as sensors, actuators, and for drug delivery materials, for example. The volume response of these hydrogels is well-known to be limited by their crosslink density. Thus, the responsiveness of hydrogels can be increased by decreasing the hydrogel’s crosslink density. Unfortunately, this also decreases the hydrogel strength. The hydrogel “effective crosslink density” can be decreased by fabricating macroporous hydrogels where voids are incorporated into the hydrogel. In the work here we demonstrate that this approach increases the volume responsiveness of hydrogels. We fabricated pH responsive macroporous hydrogels by copolymerizing acrylic acid with acrylamide. We compared the pH response of these hydrogels to that of macroporous hydrogels with small water bubbles embedded by vortexing the polymerizing hydrogel in air, or by preparing an inverse opal hydrogel. We then filled these embedded air bubbles with water. The pH responsiveness of these macroporous hydrogels are significantly increased compared to those of non-macroporous hydrogels of similar composition. We find that these macroporous hydrogels appear to be more mechanically robust than are similarly responsive hydrogels without voids.
Short communication: Effects of fluoxetine on lactation at weaning in sheep

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have been considered for use in the dairy industry to aid in dry-off procedures because of their ability to delay the onset of lactation. Fluoxetine (a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; FLX) is an agent that has been shown to delay the onset of lactogenesis stage II when taken during pregnancy and lactation in women. Two experiments were conducted to determine whether ewes would be an appropriate model to evaluate the effects of FLX on milk production at weaning. In the first experiment, 12 Suffolk cross ewes (body weight = 83.4 ± 12.2 kg; body condition score = 2.1 ± 0.4) in late lactation were assigned to treatments of 0 (control), 40, or 80 mg of FLX. They were given a single subcutaneous injection with the appropriate level of FLX mixed with propylene glycol at 0700 h on approximately d 78 of lactation (the day lambs were removed). In the second experiment, 18 Suffolk cross ewes (body condition score = 1.8 ± 0.3) from a previous lactation study were selected in late lactation. On approximately d 66 following parturition, weaning was initiated and ewes received a single oral bolus treatment (0, 80, or 160 mg of FLX). Treatment was administered using gelatin capsules containing the appropriate dose of FLX. For both experiments, milk production was estimated: in experiment 1 on d 0 (before treatment), 1, 2, and 3 (after treatment) at 0800 and 1100 h, and in experiment 2 on d 0, 1, and 2 following treatment at 0800 or 1100 h. Milk production was measured over a 3-h period. We observed no treatment differences or day effects on milk production in either experiment. In experiments 1 and 2, as the dose of FLX increased, milk production decreased linearly. Serum lactose concentrations were depressed in ewes treated with FLX in experiment 1 but similar across treatments in experiment 2. Overall, FLX depressed milk production in ewes; therefore, there is potential to use FLX as a dry-off agent in the dairy industry.
Electron Transfer Components of Manganese Oxidizing Bacteria

Unlike ferrous iron, manganous manganese does not autoxidize readily below 8(1). Yet manganous manganese is oxidized at a as low as 5 in nature (2,3). This oxidation is usually the result of bacterial or fungal activity. Bacteria may promote the oxidation enzymatically or non-enzymatically whereas fungi appear to promote it only non- enzymatically. Non-enzymatic oxidation below 8 is the result of interaction of Mn(II) with specific metabolic products formed by certain microbes.
Ad Empathy: A Design Fiction

Industry demand for novel forms of personalization and audience targeting paired with research trends in affective computing and emotion detection puts us on a clear path toward emotion-sensitive technologies. Written as API documentation for an AI marketing solution that provides "emotion-sensitive marketing decisions," this design fiction presents one possible future application of today's research. Offering a demonstrable grey area in technology ethics, Ad Empathy should help to ground debates around fair use of data, and the boundaries of ethical design.
Online Structure-Search for Sum-Product Networks

A variety of algorithms exist for learning both the structure and parameters of sum-product networks (SPNs), a class of probabilistic model in which exact inference can be done quickly. The vast majority of them are batch learners, including a recently proposed algorithm, SEARCHSPN. However, SEARCHSPN has properties that make it particularly suited for adaptation to the online setting. In this paper we introduce the ONLINESEARCHSPN algorithm which does just that. We compare it to two general methods that build online learners from batch learners; one learns poor models quickly and the other learns good models slowly. Our experiments show that ONLINESEARCHSPN achieves the best of both methods. The test likelihood values of the models it learns are as good as the slow learner, while the training times needed to learn the models are much closer to the fast learner.
Predicting Fibrosis Progression in Renal Transplant Recipients Using Laser-Based Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging.

Renal transplants have not seen a significant improvement in their 10-year graft life. Chronic damage accumulation often leads to interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IF/TA) and thus graft function loss over time. For this reason, IF/TA has been the chief suspect for a potential prognostic marker for long term outcomes. In this study, we have used infrared spectroscopic (IR) imaging to interrogate the biochemistry of regions of fibrosis from renal transplant biopsies to identify a biochemical signature that can predict rapid progression of fibrosis. IR imaging represents an approach that permits label-free biochemical imaging of human tissues towards identifying novel biomarkers for disease diagnosis or prognosis. Two cohorts were identified as progressors (n = 5, > 50% fibrosis increase between time points) and non-progressors (n = 5, < 5% increase between time points). Each patient had an early time point and late time point biopsy. Collagen associated carbohydrate moieties (ν(C–O), 1035 cm−1 and ν(C–O–C),1079 cm−1) spectral ratios demonstrated good separation between the two cohorts (p = 0.001). This was true for late and early time point biopsies suggesting the regions of fibrosis are biochemically altered in cases undergoing progressive fibrosis. Thus, IR imaging can potentially predict rapid progression of fibrosis using histologically normal early time point biopsies.
Acceptability of a Self-Regulation Theory-Based mHealth Behavior Intervention for Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity

Background: The successful use of mobile health (mHealth) in lifestyle changes for older adults with type 2 diabetes is unknown. We report here acceptability of a mHealth intervention for older adults. Method: We used a one-group pre-posttest design. Participants received an 8-week theory-based mHealth intervention, using the Lose It! App for daily self-monitoring of food intake, a Fitbit, and Bluetooth-enabled glucometers and weighing scales. Linear mixed models were used for analysis. Results: The sample (N=9) was white (88.9%), female (44.4%), with a mean age of 76.4±6.0 years (range: 69-89), 15.7±2.0 years of education, BMI of 33.3±3.1 kg/m2 and HbA1c 7.4%±0.8. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment score was 24.6±2.7, indicating no severe cognitive impairment. Over 56 days, the % days of using the Lose It!, Fitbit, glucometer, and scales were 92.7±7.9, 93.7±10.6, 76.4±23.5, 52.4±37.8, respectively. The data showed a significant % weight loss (b=-0.04, p Conclusion: Older adults are able to use mHealth to improve outcomes. The additional 3-month follow-up is ongoing to provide insight into long-term feasibility and acceptability. Disclosure Y. Zheng: None. K. Weinger: None. M.C. Gregas: None. J. Greenberg: None. Z. Li: None. L.E. Burke: None. C. Qi: None. C. Slyne: None. T. Greaves: None. M. Munshi: Consultant; Self; Sanofi.
Multidimensional treatment foster care for preschoolers: A program for maltreated children in the child welfare system.

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Preschoolers (MTFC-P) is an intensive, evidenced-based intervention targeting young children in the child welfare system and their caregivers. Given the extensive maltreatment histories of young children in the child welfare system, MTFC-P specifically targets domains with which young maltreated children struggle, such as behavior problems, emotion regulation, and developmental delays. MTFC-P also focuses extensively on training both foster parents and long-term placement caregivers in parenting skills, such as practicing consistent discipline and providing adequate positive reinforcement, that have been shown to predict positive child outcomes. This chapter provides descriptions of the history and development of MTFC-P, the conceptual foundation underpinning the intervention, the intervention components and staffing structure, and the existing evidence base. The chapter closes with a case study describing the salutary effects of participation in MTFC-P on the life of a young boy in the child welfare system.
Bifurcation with One Dimensional Null Space

In Chapter 4, we have discussed bifurcation of solutions of an equation $$M(\lambda ,x) = 0$$ (1.1) under the assumption that M(λ, 0) = 0 for all λ ∈ Λ. The parameter could be a scalar or an n-dimensional vector, but the criterion for bifurcation was based only upon the linear approximation to M(λ, x) near x = 0, namely, the operator D x M(λ, 0). If \({D_x}M(\lambda ,0) = B - \sum\nolimits_{j = 1}^N {{\lambda _j}} {A_j}\) and λ0 is an eigenvalue of (B, A1,..., A N ) possessing certain properties, then it was shown that. λ0 is always a bifurcation point for M(λ, x) regardless of the nature of the nonlinear terms N(λ, x) defined by $$M(\lambda ,x) = {D_x}M(\lambda ,0)x + N(\lambda ,x)$$ (1.2) .
Structured Sparse Spectral Transforms and Structural Measures for Voice Conversion

We investigate a structured sparse spectral transform method for voice conversion (VC) to perform frequency warping and spectral shaping simultaneously on high-dimensional (D) STRAIGHT spectra. Learning a large transform matrix for high-D data often results in an overfit matrix with low sparsity, which leads to muffled speech in VC. We address this problem by using the frequency-warping characteristic of a source–target speaker pair to define a region of support (ROS) in a transform matrix, and further optimize it by nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) to obtain structured sparse transform. We also investigate structural measures of spectral and temporal covariance and variance at different scales for assessing VC speech quality. Our experiments on ARCTIC dataset of 12 speaker pairs show that embedding the ROS in spectral transforms offers flexibility in tradeoffs between spectral distortion and structure preservation, and the structural measures provide quantitatively reasonable results on converted speech. Our subjective listening tests show that the proposed VC method achieves a mean opinion score of “very good” relative to natural speech, and in comparison with three other VC methods, it is the most preferred one in naturalness and in voice similarity to target speakers.
A scoping review on community mobilisation for maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa: Impact on empowerment

This review integrates evidence on community mobilisation (CM) for maternal and child health in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to identify the impact on empowerment. For the purposes of this review we use the following definition of CM: 'a capacity-building process through which community members, groups or organizations plan, carry out and evaluate activities on a participatory and sustained basis to improve their health and other conditions, either on their own initiative or stimulated by others', [Howard-Grabman, L., Storti, C., Hummer, P., Pooler, B., & Geneva: USAID (2007). Demystifying community mobilization: An effective strategy to improve maternal and newborn health. Retrieved from http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnadi338.pdf, p. 5]. A scoping review was chosen to conduct a search and analysis of the literature due to the broad, complex nature of the topic. The search yielded 136 articles, and 19 met the inclusion criteria. This review illustrates CM as an important research process for engaging the community, ensuring that interventions are meeting the needs of the community, take context into account and are sustainable. Community mobilisation was associated with positive behaviour change and/or health outcomes. However, community mobilisation was not defined or operationalised consistently among the identified studies. Empowerment was also not defined, measured, or reported on in the articles. This review provides recommendations for the reporting of CM and its influence on empowerment in communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube

Large organizations like YouTube are dealing with exploding data volume and increasing demand for data driven applications. Broadly, these can be categorized as: reporting and dashboarding, embedded statistics in pages, time-series monitoring, and ad-hoc analysis. Typically, organizations build specialized infrastructure for each of these use cases. This, however, creates silos of data and processing, and results in a complex, expensive, and harder to maintain infrastructure.At YouTube, we solved this problem by building a new SQL query engine - Procella. Procella implements a superset of capabilities required to address all of the four use cases above, with high scale and performance, in a single product. Today, Procella serves hundreds of billions of queries per day across all four workloads at YouTube and several other Google product areas.
Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels

Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels explores the prolific careers of four exemplary novelists - E. D. E. N. Southworth, Ann Stephens, Mary Jane Holmes, and Laura Jean Libbey. These commercially successful writers helped to shape the popular tradition of serial magazine fiction by drawing on readers' tastes along with their cultural concerns. Their astonishing productivity led magazine editors and publishers to return to them repeatedly for more serials to be turned into even more novels, even as they reprinted these fictions under new titles. Dale M. Bauer analyzes how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. Arguing that these novels provided temporary resolutions to the social, economic, and psychological tensions that readers faced, Bauer explains how this otherwise forgotten archive of fiction now offers an extraordinarily expanded range of women's literary effort from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.
Event-Triggered Approximate Leader-Follower Consensus with Resilience to Byzantine Adversaries

A distributed event-triggered controller is developed for approximate leader-follower consensus while being robust to Byzantine agents for a homogeneous multi-agent system (MAS). The event-triggered strategy enables intermittent communication and sensing. Moreover, each agent can detect Byzantine adversaries within their neighbor set and selectively disregard their transmission to achieve approximate leader-follower consensus. A non-smooth Lyapunov stability analysis is leveraged to prove consensus of the MAS.
Mixer-First Extremely Wideband 43–97 GHz RX Frontend with Broadband Quadrature Input Matching and Current Mode Transformer-Based Image Rejection for Massive MIMO Applications

This work presents an ultra-wideband mixer-first front-end that can cover mmWave communications bands in the frequency range 43–97 GHz. The front-end employs a mmWave 90°coupler as an input stage in order to achieve wideband matching and RF quadrature signal generation. Passive mixer and multi-gated gm3-cancellation IF amplifiers used to achieve and maintain high linearity across the frequency range. In addition, the frond-end implements a current mode image rejection using a transformer based IF 90°coupler. The receiver front-end is implemented in CMOS 22nm FD-SOI technology and achieves an ultra-wideband S11 matching while employing up to 32 dB image rejection and 1.6-5.2 dBm in-band IIP3. In addition, the front-end supports up to 6 Gbps 64QAM modulated data.
Abstract 108: Contemporary Timing and Etiology of Mortality in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Background: Acute treatment of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has focused on early reperfusion, prompt defibrillation, and appropriate mechanical support to mitigate short-term mortalit...
Fisher's Forewarning: Using Data to Normalize College Admissions

This Article presents a nuanced view of Fisher v. University of Texas that has largely been ignored in mainstream discourse in the case. In Fisher, Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the deciding vote to uphold the University of Texas (UT) race-conscious admissions policy. This was the first time that Justice Kennedy voted to uphold a race-conscious policy, and many commentators have focused on this aspect of his Fisher majority opinion. However, Justice Kennedy also gave a stern forewarning to UT and other universities: in the future, they better have strong data to show that they need to use race-conscious admissions. Kennedy did not hold UT to a strenuous evidentiary burden because the University did not have incentive to collect certain data up to 2008 — the year that Plaintiff Abigail Fisher was denied admission. However, he also made it clear that UT and other universities are now on notice and will need meticulous data for future defense of their policies. Using UT as a model, this Article shows how universities can use data to defend their race-conscious policies and to ensure that they are attaining student body diversity along racial, socioeconomics, and other lines. First, the Article reviews jurisprudence on race-conscious university admissions, all the way up to Justice Kennedy’s forewarning. Second, it evaluates data that UT has gathered since 2008. It considers admission and enrollment rates for UT’s race-neutral Top Ten Percent Law (TTPL) and for its race-conscious holistic admissions policy, and it also examines which secondary schools are the top feeders for minority students at UT. The Article argues that UT needs its race-conscious holistic policy because (1) White American students admitted under TTPL enroll at greater rates than Black and Latina/o TTPL admittees; and (2) Those minority students who are admitted via TTPL come from racially homogeneous schools. Part III of the Article then concludes with proposals for UT to defend its race-conscious policies and to improve enrollment and retention rates for minority students. These proposals also provide models for other universities who may face lawsuits against their affirmative action policies.
A New Lizard-Like Reptile from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Virginia and the Triassic Record of Lepidosauromorpha (Diapsida, Sauria)

We describe a new taxon of lepidosauromorph reptile, Vinitasaura lizae, based on a nearly complete dentary and the posterior portion of a second dentary from the Upper Triassic (upper Carnian) Vini...
Psychodynamic Theory and Approaches to Depression

Over the last 30 years, several disorder-focused psychodynamic psychotherapies have been developed to directly address specific problem areas. This chapter will describe depression-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy as one form of these interventions. Consistent with these approaches, the chapter will describe a core psychodynamic formulation for depression, including particular self and other representations, intrapsychic conflicts, and defenses. The formulation posits a core vulnerability that can lead to vicious cycles involving (1) angry reactions to narcissistic injury and (2) a compensatory idealization that then triggers subsequent intense disappointment in self and others. The chapter will then provide an overview of how to address these vulnerabilities using psychodynamic techniques modified for treatment of depressive symptoms.
[3H]neurotensin receptor densities in human postmortem brain tissue obtained from normal and schizophrenic persons. An autoradiographic study

[3H]Neurotensin binding and autoradiographic techniques were used to determine the distribution and density of neurotensin receptors in normal and schizophrenic postmortem brain tissue. Coronal hemi-brain blocks of tissue were cut at the level of the caudate and hippocampus from frozen brain tissue obtained from normal individuals with no known psychiatric or neurologic illnesses and from schizophrenic subjects off- or on-antipsychotic drugs at the time of death. Each hemi-block was further divided, sectioned, thaw mounted on to slides, incubated with [3H]neurotensin and apposed to film. Digitized images were analyzed for binding densities. Areas of intense binding include the substantia nigra, the entorhinal cortex, superficial layers of the cingulate, middle frontal, and insular cortices; and with moderate binding in nucleus accumbens, and caudate. Schizophrenic patients off- (3 months or more) or on-antipsychotic drugs at the time of death were tested; all patients showed a reduced level of neurotensin receptors in the caudate (68% of normals), cingulate (34%) and prefrontal cortices (25%).
Exploring the notion of presence in remocollaborative learning environments

Neste artigo discutimos questoes relacionadas a comunicacao e dinâmicas sociais que caracterizam a colaboracao remota entre comunidades distantes. Essas observacoes surgem de pesquisas etnograficas realizadas em um workshop colaborativo envolvendo estudantes do MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology com outras universidades ou empresas privadas. O foco do artigo e a nocao de presenca. Esta nocao e analisada atraves de tres diferentes aspectos relacionados: a presenca de informacao, a presenca de ferramentas de comunicacao e, finalmente, a presenca de pessoas. Estas analises dao indicacoes sobre como melhorar espaco de design para aprendizagem e colaboracao remota usando ferramentas de comunicacao multimidia interativas.
Use of rifampin with penicillin and erythromycin in the treatment of psoriasis. Preliminary report.

The addition of 5 days of rifampin therapy to a 10- or 14-day course of penicillin or erythromycin therapy has been shown to reduce greatly the rate of chronic streptococcal carriage. The empiric use of rifampin in combination with penicillin or erythromycin in nine of nine patients with streptococcalassociated psoriasis appeared to coincide with a marked improvement in their skin.
Microbial degradation of corrinoids. V. Further observations on the chromophore in pigments derived from vitamin B 12 by Pseudomonas rubescens.

Abstract Yellow pigments A and B produced from vitamin B 12 by Pseudomonas rubescens were subjected to controlled reaction with chloramine-T. Absorption spectra of the reaction products were compared with those of the products obtained from vitamin B 12 . The p K a values of pigments A and B were determined and compared with that of vitamin B 12 . The findings are discussed relative to the structure of the chromophore in each pigment.
RGS9-1 is required for normal inactivation of mouse cone phototransduction.

Purpose: To test the hypothesis that Regulator of G-protein Signaling 9 (RGS9-1) is necessary for the normal inactivation of retinal cones. Methods: Mice having the gene RGS9-1 inactivated in both alleles (RGS9-1 -/-) were tested between the ages 8-10 weeks with electroretinographic (ERG) protocols that isolate cone-driven responses. Immunohistochemistry was performed with a primary antibody against RGS9-1 (anti-RGS9-1c), with the secondary conjugated to fluorescein isothiocyanate, and with rhodamine-conjugated peanut agglutinin. Results: (1) Immunohistochemistry showed RGS9-1 to be strongly expressed in the cones of wildtype (WT is C57BL/6) mice, but absent from the cones of RGS9-1 mice. (2) Cone-driven b-wave responses of dark-adapted RGS9-1 -/- mice had saturating amplitudes and sensitivities in the midwave and UV regions of the spectrum equal to or slightly greater than those of WT (C57BL/6) mice. (3) Cone-driven b-wave and a-wave responses of RGS9-1 -/- mice recovered much more slowly than those of WT after a strong conditioning flash: for a flash estimated to isomerize 1.2% of the M-cone pigment and 0.9% of the UV-cone pigment, recovery of 50% saturating amplitude was approximately 60-fold slower than in WT. Conclusions: (1) The amplitudes and sensitivities of the cone-driven responses indicate that cones and cone-driven neurons in RGS9-1 -/- mice have normal generator currents. (2) The greatly retarded recovery of cone-driven responses of RGS9-1 -/- mice relative to those of WT mice establishes that RGS9-1 is required for normal inactivation of the cone phototransduction cascades of both UV- and M-cones.
MR spectroscopy in the evaluation of enhancing lesions in the brain in multiple sclerosis.

PURPOSE To compare proton MR spectroscopic alterations with the degree of contrast enhancement in multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions. METHODS Thirty-five patients with clinically diagnosed MS were studied with MR spectroscopy. A total of 47 lesions were examined. Solvent-suppressed proton spectra were acquired with an echo time of 16 milliseconds using the point-resolved spectroscopic localization method from 1.5 cm3 voxels. Marker peaks/creatine (Cr) ratios obtained from these spectra were plotted against the relative enhancement of the lesion seen after administration of contrast material. The relative enhancement was defined as S(contrast) -S0/S0, where S0 is the signal intensity of a T1-weighted image and S(contrast) is the signal intensity after administration of gadopentetate dimeglumine. RESULTS We found a positive linear relationship between the marker peaks/Cr ratio and the degree of enhancement of the lesion. That is, the marker peaks/Cr ratio was higher in the lesions that showed the greatest enhancement. CONCLUSION The MR/Cr ratio obtained with the use of short-echo-time proton MR spectroscopy correlates with the degree of contrast enhancement. This ratio may therefore serve as a means for evaluating and quantifying the level of inflammatory activity within the plaques of patients with MS.
Plasma fatty acid composition as an indicator of habitual dietary fat intake in middle-aged adults

We compared the plasma fatty acid (FA) composition of the habitual diet, measured by a 66-item semiquantitative food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ), with the corresponding plasma phospholipid and cholesterol ester (CE) FA composition measured by gas chromatography in 3570 free-living, middle-aged adults. Pearson correlations between dietary and plasma FA (expressed as % of total FAs) for phospholipid and CE, respectively, were as follows : saturated FA (r = 0.15 and 0.23), monounsaturated FA (r = 0.05 and 0.01), polyunsaturated FA (r = 0.25, 0.31), linoleic acid (r = 0.22 and 0.28), linolenic acid (r = 0.15 and 0.21), eicosapentaenoic acid (r = 0.20 and 0.23), and docosahexaenoic acid (r = 0.42 and 0.42). The correlations between diet and plasma FAs held relatively constant regardless of whether participants were overweight, had chronic diseases, were alcohol drinkers, or were cigarette smokers. However, at similar reported dietary intakes, the plasma lipid concentration of saturated FAs was higher and/or that of linoleic acid was lower in people with these characteristics compared with those without these characteristics.
Dynamical and thermodynamical modulations on future changes of landfalling atmospheric rivers over western North America

This study examines the changes of landfalling atmospheric rivers (ARs) over the west coast of North America in response to future warming using model outputs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5). The result reveals a strikingly large magnitude of increase of AR days by the end of the 21st century in the RCP8.5 climate change scenario, with fractional increases ranging between ~50% and 600%, depending on the seasons and the landfall locations. These increases are predominantly controlled by the super-Clausius-Clapeyron rate of increase of atmospheric water vapor with warming, while changes of winds that transport moisture in the ARs, or dynamical effect, mostly counter the thermodynamical effect of increasing water vapor, limiting the increase of AR events in the future. The consistent negative effect of wind changes on AR days during spring and fall can be further linked to the robust poleward shift of the subtropical jet in the North Pacific basin.
The Appraisal of Personally Identifiable Student Records

The problems of the administration and appraisal of student records have increased due to the growth of academic institutions and the proliferation of laws and regulations pertaining to such records. This article examines three areas: how the laws of the last decade, particularly the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, have affected record-keeping practices within units at one large public institution; how archivists and records managers at selected universities manage and appraise student records; and the effect on the research community of those appraisal decisions and the limited accessibility of student records and records containing personally identifiable information in general.
Advances in hypersonic extrapolation capability - Wind tunnel to flight

Hypersonic cruise aircraft configuration reliable Reynolds numbers extrapolation from laminar boundary to turbulent layer
The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99%

Tensions between activists and the homeless were common across different Occupy locations. This article focuses on the Occupy movement in downtown El Paso, Texas. It discusses the interactions between activists and homeless people. Initially, as the Occupiers camped in the square they excluded the homeless. A pivotal point was when some Occupiers spoke out against the mistreatment of the homeless arguing that these prejudiced actions were examples of classism. Furthermore, they argued that the homeless exemplified an important segment of the 99%. The contradictions that the homeless population brought to the movement allowed for the movement to grow. The tensions disappeared once the homeless took particular roles in the maintenance of the camp and the logistics needed to keep it running. This justified the presence of these individuals in the eyes of others. This also gave the homeless people a different identity, and normalized their sleeping arrangements since everyone in the camp was sleeping in urban...
Genotype and toxicity relationships among Hyalella azteca: II. Acute exposure to fluoranthene-contaminated sediment

This study examined the genotypic responses of Hyalella azteca to the toxicity of sediment contaminated by the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) fluoranthene. We monitored the time to death for 696 H. azteca exposed to ultraviolet light and sediment spiked with fluoranthene. The survival distribution functions within the genotypes at each of three variable allozyme loci (acid phosphatase [ACP*], glucose-6-phosphate isomerase [GPI*], and phosphoglucomutase [PGM*]) were compared using a log-rank test. Results showed significant differences among SDFs at all three loci. No association of heterozygosity with time to death was observed. The homozygote ACP*-CC was associated with decreased survivorship compared with ACP*-AA, ACP*-BB, and ACP*-AB. However, GPI*-AA was associated with increased survivorship compared with GPI*-BB, GPI*-CC, and GPI*-BC. Significant differences in resistance also were observed for PGM*-BB versus either PGM*-AC or PGM*-BC. These results indicate that differential resistance to PAH phototoxicity was genetically related, producing significant alteration in the frequencies of several genotypes in the population.
Imaginal processes during the attempt to recall names

Definitions of 20 distinctive but uncommon objects were read to 51 subjects. For each definition the subject was to attempt to recall the name of the object defined and to indicate whether the name was recalled before an image was remembered or vice versa. They were also to draw a picture of the defined object even if they were unable to remember its appearance. Three judges independently rated the degree to which the drawings resembled the target object. Drawings made when the visual appearance was reputed to be recalled before the name were significantly better than the drawings made without benefit of recall of the name or appearance and were indistinguishable from drawings made when the name was remembered immediately. Apparently, recall of visual information can precede verbal recall.
Statistical optimization of single-cell production from Taxus cuspidata plant cell aggregates.

Flow-cytometric characterization of plant cell culture growth and metabolism at the single-cell level is a method superior to traditional culture average measurements for collecting population information. Investigation of culture heterogeneity and production variability by obtaining information about different culture subpopulations is crucial for optimizing bio-processes for enhanced productivity. Obtaining high yields of intact and viable single cells from aggregated plant cell cultures is an enabling criterion for their analysis and isolation using high-throughput flow cytometric methods. The critical parameters affecting the enzymatic isolation of single cells from aggregated Taxus cuspidata plant cell suspensions were optimized using response-surface methodology and factorial central composite design. Using a design of experiments approach, the output response single-cell yield (SCY, percentage of cell clusters containing only a single cell) was optimized. Optimal conditions were defined for the ind...
Organizational access to research settings: Entering secondary schools

Fieldworkers have long acknowledged the problems of gaining access to research settings but often failed to analyze them systematically. In this article we provide preliminary evidence that, when seeking to enter formal bureaucracies, access problems can be better understood and more easily resolved by referring to the organizational logic of the setting. Adopting an organizational perspective to analyze access issues, we compare public schools and private religious schools and show how access problems and the strategies to overcome them vary according to the variation in the schools’ organizational features. We develop our argument in four steps. First, we examine the organizational literature on formal institutionalized organizations to highlight the structural problems of gaining entry to public schools for research purposes. Second, we adopt an organizational perspective to identify strategies for overcoming problems of access to public schools. Third, we compare the access to private religious schools and to public schools to demonstrate that problems and solution strategies vary according to the schools’ variation in organizational features. Fourth, we demonstrate the usefulness of organizational access by showing that researchers’ ability to gain entry is enhanced by a preliminary understanding of the organizational characteristics of a formal research setting. Throughout our discussion, we provide illustrative examples from the senior author’s research in public schools and private religious schools in a large Midwestern city.