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MEMS capacitive pressure sensor array fabricated using printed circuit processing techniques (2005)

Micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) based capacitive pressure sensors are typically fabricated using silicon micromachining techniques. In this paper, novel liquid crystal polymer (LCP) based capacitive pressure sensors, fabricated using printed circuit processing techniques, are reported. LCP exhibits good dimensional stability, material flexibility, high chemical resistance, and extremely low moisture absorption, which makes it suitable for MEMS applications. The pressure sensor comprises of a cylindrical cavity formed by a sandwich of LCP substrate, LCP spacer layer with circular holes and LCP top layer. The bottom electrode and the top electrode of the capacitive pressure sensor are defined on the top surface of the LCP substrate and the bottom surface of the top LCP layer, respectively. A typical pressure sensor with a diaphragm diameter of 3.2 mm provides a total capacitance change of 0.7627 pF for an applied pressure in the range of 0-170 kPa.
An In Vivo Rodent Model for Identifying and Characterizing Acaricides (2006)

Evaluation of candidate acaricides in livestock or companion animals is expensive, time-consuming, and usually requires large quantities of test material. To identify promising substances at the earliest possible stage of the development process, robust and predictive surrogate animal models, capable of rapidly characterizing potency with minimal compound requirements, are necessary. The objective of this study was to generate an in vivo surrogate animal bioassay capable of rapidly and accurately predicting the topical activity of acaricides emerging from in vitro acaricide bioassays. The rat acaricide test (RAT) requires adult rats, Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769), a exible tick containment device fastened to their dorso-thoracic region, and the nymphal stage of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.). The feeding kinetics of A. americanum nymphs on rats was assessed, and compound efcacies were determined by measuring tick survivorship and engorgement weight on acaricide-treated animals. Results from this bioassay demonstrated efcacy with pronil, ivermectin, permethrin, and chlorpyrifos, and doseresponse relationships for each acaricide were determined. The rank order of potencies was pronil ivermectin chlorpyrifos permethrin for nymphal mortality and pronil ivermectin chlorpyrifos permethrin for inhibition of nymphal engorgement. The activity of permethrin against nymphs in the RAT was positively correlated with potency values for technical and commercial permethrin formulations against adult A. americanum infestations on cattle. The RAT proved to be an economical, rapid surrogate animal bioassay that together with the in vitro acaricide bioassay can be used for the rapid identication, characterization, and prioritization of candidate acaricides.
A Comparison of 100% Stator Ground Fault Protection Schemes for Generator Stator Windings (1984)

This paper describes three different schemes for detecting single-phase-to-ground faults in 100% of the generator stator winding. The operating theory, a setting example, and field measurements are provided for each of the three schemes. A chart comparing the significant application characteristics of the three schemes is presented.
Storing and Indexing Expressions in Database Systems (2006)

Expressions are very useful in a number of applications for describing the interest of the user in particular data items. Examples of such application domains include publish/subscribe, ecommerce, web site personalization. In recent work, database techniques have been utilized for efficiently matching large number of expressions with data. These techniques include storing expressions as data in the database and then indexing these expressions to quickly identify expressions that match a given data item. In this thesis a new model for expressions is presented that allows definition of richer expressions than provided in previous work. Implementation of this expression model is then described. The implementation includes sequential search as well as an indexing approach. The thesis then presents an experimental performance study that shows the benefit of the indexing approach.
Multiple Nucleotide Substitutions in the <i>Neisseria meningitidis</i> Serogroup C <i>ctrA</i> Gene Cause False-Negative Detection by Real-Time PCR (2010)

Two strains of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C with disparate sequences of ctrA were isolated. The nucleotide substitutions did not alter the corresponding protein sequences, but they impeded the detection of these meningococcal isolates by real-time PCR.
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In this work, we examine the process at the LHC in which a Higgs boson is produced in association with a tt¯ pair and subsequently decays to a pair of muons. We show that the statistical significance for the discovery of a light, Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass around 120 GeV in this channel is comparable to those for other processes (gluon fusion, weak-boson fusion) in which the Higgs decays to a muon pair. Combining all three of these channels, we show that evidence for a Higgs boson with a mass in the range 115 GeV<mh<130 GeV could be obtained at the 3σ significance level with an integrated luminosity of 300 fb−1. We also calculate the enhancement factor to the tt¯h cross-section that would be needed to discover a non-standard Higgs boson in this channel.
PIkit: A New Kernel-Independent Processor-Interconnect Rootkit (2016)

The goal of rootkit is often to hide malicious software running on a compromised machine. While there has been significant amount of research done on different rootkits, we describe a new type of rootkit that is kernel-independent – i.e., no aspect of the kernel is modified and no code is added to the kernel address space to install the rootkit. In this work, we present PIkit – Processor-Interconnect rootkit that exploits the vulnerable hardware features within multi-socket servers that are commonly used in datacenters and high-performance computing. In particular, PIkit exploits the DRAM address mapping table structure that determines the destination node of a memory request packet in the processorinterconnect. By modifying this mapping table appropriately, PIkit enables access to victim’s memory address region without proper permission. Once PIkit is installed, only user-level code or payload is needed to carry out malicious activities. The malicious payload mostly consists of memory read and/or write instructions that appear like “normal” user-space memory accesses and it becomes very difficult to detect such malicious payload. We describe the design and implementation of PIkit on both an AMD and an Intel x86 multi-socket servers that are commonly used. We discuss different malicious activities possible with PIkit and limitations of PIkit, as well as possible software and hardware solutions to PIkit.
Devitrification in sodium disilicate glasses containing iron (1987)

Etude systematique des transformations de structure induites par la chaleur dans des verres du systeme (Na 2 O•2SiO 2 ) 1−x •(Fe 2 O 3 ) x avec 0,05≤x<0,3 a l'aide de la diffraction X de l'etude de la structure fine au-dela du bord d'absorption X et de la spectroscopie Mossbauer. Le systeme vitreux se devitrifie a haute temperature pour former trois phases cristallines principales
The value added tax in Korea (1987)

The paper provides arguments for and against the adoption of VAT in South Korea, the reform process, the structure and administration of the VAT, concentrating especially on the differences in these aspects before and after the tax reform. The VAT system is evaluated, and problems and prospects outlined. The author concludes that while the VAT has contributed to the simplification of the indirect tax system and is satisfactory from the revenue viewpoint, its stabilization function has yet to be tested and it seems to have aggravated the income inequality in Korea.
Long-term effects of nerve blocks in chronic pain (1998)

Regional blockade techniques have been of crucial importance for decades in chronic pain therapy, but in recent years some developments have made a new definition of the status of invasive procedures necessary. The realization of chronic pain as a multifactorial process led to the establishment of an interdisciplinary approach to pain therapy, leaving blockades as only one step in a multimodal therapy. The mainstay of local anaesthetic blocks now is diagnostic and prognostic, but correct interpretation of the results is limited by different factors, and controlled studies on the diagnostic value of local anaesthetic blockade are lacking. In cancer pain, invasive procedures are necessary in only a few cases. Some neuroablative techniques can offer long-term pain reduction. In non-cancer pain, neurodestructive procedures should be reserved for some special indications (e.g. lumbar sympathetic neurolytic blocks in ischaemic diseases). In a great number of chronic pain conditions the sympathetic nervous system is involved or even has a central status. In the acute stage of these diseases sympathetic blockades can be the therapy of choice. There is no disease in which different invasive procedures are performed so frequently and so uncritically as in chronic low back pain. Up to now, however, all controlled studies of invasive procedures only demonstrated short-term effects and failed to prove long-term efficacy. Therefore any invasive technique should only be performed in well-selected patients over a defined period and with a limited number of blockades.
L'influence des conceptions prénuptiales sur les différences de fécondité aux États-Unis (1972)

H. J. L'influence des conceptions prénuptiales sur les différences de fécondité aux États-Unis. In: Population, 27ᵉ année, n°2, 1972. pp. 315-318.
Generation of a Transgenic Mouse for Colorectal Cancer Research with Intestinal Cre Expression Limited to the Large Intestine (2010)

Genetically modified mice have been used for colon cancer research, but findings from these models are confounded by expression of cancer in multiple organs. We sought to create a transgenic mouse with Cre recombinase (Cre) expression limited to the epithelial cells of the large intestine and used this model to study colon cancer driven by adenomatosis polyposis coli (APC) gene inactivation. A promoter/enhancer from the mouse carbonic anhydrase I gene was used to generate a Cre-expressing transgenic mouse (CAC). After characterizing transgene expression and distribution, CAC mice were crossed to APC(580S) mice to generate mice with APC inactivation at one (CAC;APC(580S/+)) or both alleles (CAC;APC(580S/580S)). Transgene expression was limited to the epithelial cells of the cecum and colon, extended from the crypt base to the luminal surface, and was expressed in approximately 15% of the crypts. No abnormal gross phenotype was seen in 3- or 6-week-old CAC;APC(580S/+) mice, but CAC;APC(580S/580S) mice had significant mucosal hyperplasia in the colon at 3 weeks, which developed into tumors by 6 weeks. By 10 weeks, 20% of CAC;APC(580S/+) mice developed adenomatous lesions in the distal colon (3.0 +/- 0.4 mm; 1.1 per mouse). Dextran sulfate sodium treatment increased the incidence and number of tumors, and this occurred predominantly in distal colon. Our new model has improved features for colon cancer research, that is, transgene expression is limited to the epithelium of the large bowel with normal cells found next to genetically modified cells.
Screening for Colorectal Cancer: A Guidance Statement From the American College of Physicians (2012)

The authors searched the National Guideline Clearinghouse to identify guidelines developed in the United States. Four guidelines met the inclusion criteria: a joint guideline developed by the American Cancer Society, the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer, and the American College of Radiology and individual guidelines developed by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and the American College of Radiology. GUIDANCE STATEMENT 1: ACP recommends that clinicians perform individualized assessment of risk for colorectal cancer in all adults. GUIDANCE STATEMENT 2: ACP recommends that clinicians screen for colorectal cancer in average-risk adults starting at the age of 50 years and in high-risk adults starting at the age of 40 years or 10 years younger than the age at which the youngest affected relative was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. GUIDANCE STATEMENT 3: ACP recommends using a stool-based test, flexible sigmoidoscopy, or optical colonoscopy as a screening test in patients who are at average risk. ACP recommends using optical colonoscopy as a screening test in patients who are at high risk. Clinicians should select the test based on the benefits and harms of the screening test, availability of the screening test, and patient preferences. GUIDANCE STATEMENT 4: ACP recommends that clinicians stop screening for colorectal cancer in adults over the age of 75 years or in adults with a life expectancy of less than 10 years.
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS STUDIES, SYNTHESIS OF 1,5-BENZOXATHIEPINES (1983)

Abstract 1,5-Benzoxathiepinic derivatives have been obtained in good yields by the reaction of epichlorohydrines with 2-hydroxybenzenethiols in an aqueous alkalinic hydroxides medium. Their structures have been determined by 13C NMR spectroscopy.
BEAUTY: an enhanced BLAST-based search tool that integrates multiple biological information resources into sequence similarity search results. (1995)

BEAUTY (BLAST enhanced alignment utility) is an enhanced version of the NCBI's BLAST data base search tool that facilitates identification of the functions of matched sequences. We have created new data bases of conserved regions and functional domains for protein sequences in NCBI's Entrez data base, and BEAUTY allows this information to be incorporated directly into BLAST search results. A Conserved Regions Data Base, containing the locations of conserved regions within Entrez protein sequences, was constructed by (1) clustering the entire data base into families, (2) aligning each family using our PIMA multiple sequence alignment program, and (3) scanning the multiple alignments to locate the conserved regions within each aligned sequence. A separate Annotated Domains Data Base was constructed by extracting the locations of all annotated domains and sites from sequences represented in the Entrez, PROSITE, BLOCKS, and PRINTS data bases. BEAUTY performs a BLAST search of those Entrez sequences with conserved regions and/or annotated domains. BEAUTY then uses the information from the Conserved Regions and Annotated Domains data bases to generate, for each matched sequence, a schematic display that allows one to directly compare the relative locations of (1) the conserved regions, (2) annotated domains and sites, and (3) the locally aligned regions matched in the BLAST search. In addition, BEAUTY search results include World-Wide Web hypertext links to a number of external data bases that provide a variety of additional types of information on the function of matched sequences. This convenient integration of protein families, conserved regions, annotated domains, alignment displays, and World-Wide Web resources greatly enhances the biological informativeness of sequence similarity searches. BEAUTY searches can be performed remotely on our system using the "BCM Search Launcher" World-Wide Web pages (URL is < http:/ /gc.bcm.tmc.edu:8088/ search-launcher/launcher.html > ).
A New Synthesis of<i>O</i>-Benzyl-L-serine (1989)

An efficient three-step procedure to prepare O-benzyl-L-serine from serine in 85% overall yield using the 4-methoxybenzyloxycarbonyl group for N-protection.
Disease-associated CAG{middle dot}CTG triplet repeats expand rapidly in non-dividing mouse cells, but cell cycle arrest is insufficient to drive expansion (2014)

Genetically unstable expanded CAG·CTG trinucleotide repeats are causal in a number of human disorders, including Huntington disease and myotonic dystrophy type 1. It is still widely assumed that DNA polymerase slippage during replication plays an important role in the accumulation of expansions. Nevertheless, somatic mosaicism correlates poorly with the proliferative capacity of the tissue and rates of cell turnover, suggesting that expansions can occur in the absence of replication. We monitored CAG·CTG repeat instability in transgenic mouse cells arrested by chemical or genetic manipulation of the cell cycle and generated unequivocal evidence for the continuous accumulation of repeat expansions in non-dividing cells. Importantly, the rates of expansion in non-dividing cells were at least as high as those of proliferating cells. These data are consistent with a major role for cell division-independent expansion in generating somatic mosaicism in vivo. Although expansions can accrue in non-dividing cells, we also show that cell cycle arrest is not sufficient to drive instability, implicating other factors as the key regulators of tissue-specific instability. Our data reveal that de novo expansion events are not limited to S-phase and further support a cell division-independent mutational pathway.
KuaFu: Closing the parallelism gap in database replication (2013)

Database systems are nowadays increasingly deployed on multi-core commodity servers, with replication to guard against failures. Database engine is best designed to scale with the number of cores to offer a high degree of parallelism on a modern multi-core architecture. On the other hand, replication traditionally resorts to a certain form of serialization for data consistency among replicas. In the widely used primary/backup replication with log shipping, concurrent executions on the primary and the serialized log replay on a backup creates a serious parallelism gap. Our experiment on MySQL with a 16-core configuration shows that the serial replay of a backup can sustain only less than one third of the throughput achievable on the primary under an OLTP workload. This paper proposes KuaFu to close the parallelism gap on replicated database systems by enabling concurrent replay of transactions on a backup. KuaFu maintains write consistency on backups by tracking transaction dependencies. Concurrent replay on a backup does introduce read inconsistency between the primary and backups. KuaFu further leverages multi-version concurrency control to produce snapshots in order to restore the consistency semantics. We have implemented KuaFu on MySQL; our evaluations show that KuaFu allows a backup to keep up with the primary while preserving replication consistency.
Growth Analysis of Corn (Zea mays L.) as Influenced by Indole- Butyric Acid and Gibberellic Acid (2013)

The aim of present investigation was to study the effect of Indole - butyric acid (IBA) and Gibberellic acid (GA3) on growth of corn (Zea mays L.) single cross 704. Two field experiments during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 growing seasons were conducted near the city of Shiraz. The experiment was randomized complete blocks, split plot design with three replications. The foliar application of two growth regulators (GA3, IBA) in two physiological sensitive growth phases, i.e. 4 to 6 leaf and flowering stages constituted the main plots and concentration of 0, 50 and 100 mg L -1 of both IBA and GA3 formed the subplots. Evaluated physiological traits include, net assimilation rate, crop growth rate and leaf area index. Compared to the control, the greatest leaf area index is obtained by applying GA3-50 in 4-6 leaf stage of growth. The highest increase of crop growth rate (11.4 gr m -2 day -1 ) belonged to IBA100GA3-100 treatment in 4 to 6 leaf stage. The best net assimilation rate was obtained in the treatment IBA100GA3-50 with 2.72 gr m -2 day -1 . Totally, the results show that in both stages of growth, application of IBA and GA3 improves growth parameters.
Test Program for Filter Evaluation at Hanford (1960)

A filter evaluation program, in which small experimental filters are utilized, has been conducted at Hanford, Washington, since 1950. The program became most useful when a 5‐gpm experimental plant was constructed and operated at Hanford in 1955. The test data presented have been confirmed in the production plants at Hanford. It is believed that the experimental results may be of use to water utility engineers and operators. Study conclusions indicate that there is not much need for filters with the two‐layer bed since few are in use in the average water treatment plant. The results obtained by Conley and Pitman are amazing and should be studied by the water industry, particularly in places where filter runs are short over long periods of time, or where the use of high‐rate filtration is being considered. If water of the highest quality can be produced at filtration rates of 6 gpm/sq ft, fewer filters would be required in new plants, and extension of existing filters would not be needed so early. One important consideration, however, is that the water must be conditioned properly for high‐rate filtration.
Forecasting the stock of retail space using the Koyck distributed lag model (1993)

Summary This paper adapts the distributed lag model developed by Koyck to explain the propensity of developers to create retail space. The determinants of the stock of retail space are critically important to developers, lenders, appraisers, and researchers. The model is tested using retail sales data from the counties of North Carolina, USA. Results show that it takes more than 4 years for one‐half of the increased retail space resulting from expanded retail sales to be brought to the market. These extensive lags in the adjustment process indicate prolonged cycles in markets for retail space.
Control of Trihalomethane Precursors in Drinking Water: Granular Activated Carbon With and Without Preozonation (1984)

In a pilot study that lasted 80 weeks, unozonated and ozonated waters were fed to granular activated carbon (GAC) columns to compare the removal of trihalomethane formation potential by GAC treatment with that by ozone‐GAC treatment. The results were comparable for these treatments.
Investigating decision-making criteria of private equity investors in family firms (2006)

This paper examines decision-making models used by private equity investors in their selection of family firms. Building on literature on investment criteria at start-up stage, a series of hypotheses is put forward, based on decision-making, strategic management and buyout theories. The theoretical model is tested through an experimental design for which data have been collected among 41 respondents based in Italy. Findings are analysed using hierarchical linear models, in order to investigate which criteria are used, assess their relative importance and test whether decision-making models are individual-specific or influenced by the firm individuals work for.
Model‐Based Inference (2006)

Abstract A basic problem in survey sampling is that of using the sample data for a survey variable Y to infer the value of the total T of Y over the sampled population. The model‐based approach to this problem is to base this inference on a joint statistical model for both the population values of Y and, where appropriate, for the sampling method. This is in contrast to design‐based sampling inference, where the only source of uncertainty is the outcome of the sampling method.