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Towards development of spark based agricultural information system including geo-spatial data (2017)

Voluminous and variety of disparate information is generated and consumed in agriculture domain at a higher velocity. In agriculture, information is available in the form of weather and soil conditions reports, GPS mapping, water resources, fertilizer/ pesticide use, field characteristics, and commodity market conditions. Big data technology has a huge potential to refer these information and produce comprehensive insight via Geo-spatial processing, remote sensing, advance analytics algorithms, cloud resources, and advance storage systems. The paper, proposes a spark based information management system for agriculture and intend to reduce the technological gap between agro users and information. The system is proposed to collect, query, analyze, and visualize heterogeneous and distributed data including Geo-spatial data at scale using open source. The implementation is done on big data open source architectures by developing various web based analytical and visualization services for cotton crop in Gujarat state, India. The analytical results are explored through interactive maps and Restful ad-hoc APIs.
REVIEWS Simone Weil: Thinking Poetically. By DARGANJOAN. (SUNY series, Simone Weil Studies). Albany, University of New York Press, 1999. xii + 148 pp. (2001)

REVIEWS Get access Simone Weil: Thinking Poetically. By JOAN DARGAN. (SUNY series, Simone Weil Studies). Albany, University of New York Press, 1999. xii + 148 pp. J. P. LITTLE J. P. LITTLE ST PATRICK'S COLLEGEDUBLIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LV, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 120–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LV.1.120 Published: 01 January 2001
Fungal infections in burns: Diagnosis and management (2010)

ABSTRACT Burn wound infection (BWI) is a major public health problem and the most devastating form of trauma worldwide. Fungi cause BWI as part of monomicrobial or polymicrobial infection, fungaemia, rare aggressive soft tissue infection and as opportunistic infections. The risk factors for acquiring fungal infection in burns include age of burns, total burn size, body surface area (BSA) (30–60%), full thickness burns, inhalational injury, prolonged hospital stay, late surgical excision, open dressing, artificial dermis, central venous catheters, antibiotics, steroid treatment, long-term artificial ventilation, fungal wound colonisation (FWC), hyperglycaemic episodes and other immunosuppressive disorders. Most of the fungal infections are missed owing to lack of clinical awareness and similar presentation as bacterial infection coupled with paucity of mycology laboratories. Expedient diagnosis and treatment of these mycoses can be life-saving as the mortality is otherwise very high. Emergence of resistance in non-albicans Candida spp., unusual yeasts and moulds in fungal BWI, leaves very few fungi susceptible to antifungal drugs, leaving many patients susceptible. There is a need to speciate fungi as far as the topical and systemic antifungal is concerned. Deep tissue biopsy and other relevant samples are processed by standard mycological procedures using direct microscopy, culture and histopathological examination. Patients with FWC should be treated by aggressive surgical debridement and, in the case of fungal wound infection (FWI), in addition to surgical debridement, an intravenous antifungal drug, most commonly amphotericin B or caspofungin, is prescribed followed by de-escalating with voriconazole or itraconazole, or fluconazole depending upon the species or antifungal susceptibility, if available. The propensity for fungal infection increases, the longer the wound is present. Therefore, the development of products to close the wound more rapidly, improvement in topical antifungal therapy with mould activity and implementation of appropriate systemic antifungal therapy guided by antifungal susceptibility may improve the outcome for severely injured burn victims.
Modulation of Receptive Field Properties of Thalamic Somatosensory Neurons by the Depth of Anesthesia (1999)

Modulation of receptive field properties of thalamic somatosensory neurons by the depth of anesthesia. The dominant frequency of electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings was used to determine the depth of halothane or urethan anesthesia while recording extracellular single-unit responses from thalamic ventral posterior medial (VPM) neurons. A piezoelectric stimulator was used to deflect individual whiskers to assess the peak onset latency, magnitude, probability of response, and receptive field (RF) size. There was a predictable increase in the dominant ECoG frequency from deep stage IV to light stage III-1 anesthetic levels. There was no detectable frequency at stage IV, a 1- to 2-Hz dominant frequency at stage III-4, 3-4 Hz at stage III-3, 5-7 Hz at stage III-2, and a dual 6- and 10- to 13-Hz pattern at stage III-1. Reflexes and other physical signs showed a correlation with depth of anesthesia but exhibited too much overlap between stages to be used as a criterion for any single stage. RF size and peak onset latency of VPM neurons to whisker stimulations increased between stage III-4 and III-1. A dramatic increase in RF size and response latency occurred at the transition from stage III-3 (RF size approximately 2 whiskers, latency approximately 7 ms) to stage III-2 (RF size approximately 6 whiskers, latency approximately 11 ms). Response probability and magnitude decreased from stage III-4 to stage III-3 and III-2. No responses were ever evoked in VPM cells by vibrissa movement at stage IV. These changes in VPM responses as a function of anesthetic depth were seen only when the nucleus principalis (PrV) and nucleus interpolaris (SpVi) trigeminothalamic pathways were both intact. Eliminating SpVi inputs to VPM, either by cutting the primary trigeminal afferent fibers to SpVi or cutting axons projecting from SpVi to VPM, immediately reduced the RF size to fewer than three whiskers. In addition, the predictable changes in VPM response probability, response magnitude, and peak onset latency at different anesthetic depths were all absent after SpVi pathway interruption. We conclude that 1) the PrV input mediates the near "one-to-one" correspondence between a neuronal response in VPM and a single mystacial whisker, 2) in contrast, the SpVi input to VPM is primarily responsible for the RF properties of VPM neurons at light levels of anesthesia and presumably in the awake animal, and 3) alterations in VPM responses produced by changing the depth of anesthesia are due to its selective influence on the properties mediated by SpVi inputs at the level of the thalamus.
Perspectives on Emerging Biomarkers for Non-Invasive Assessment of Embryo Viability in Assisted Reproduction (2010)

A key step in assisted reproduction is the assessment of embryo viability in order to identify the embryo(s) most likely to result in pregnancy. Currently used embryo assessment systems are largely based on morphology and cleavage rate. While these systems have been pivotal in improving implantation and pregnancy rates and reducing multiple gestations, their precision is still insufficient. The limitations of strategies based on morphology have led to the investigation of adjunctive technologies for non-invasive assessment of embryo viability in assisted reproduction. These include the measurement of glucose, pyruvate, or amino acid levels in the embryo culture media, assessment of oxygen consumption by the embryo, genomic and proteomic profiling, and most recently, analytical examination of the embryonic metabolome. As the number of ART cycles increases worldwide, improvements in the ability to quickly and non-invasively identify the best embryos for transfer become an increasingly more important goal for reproductive medicine.
Pesticides (1953)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTPesticidesJ. L. St. JohnCite this: Anal. Chem. 1953, 25, 1, 42–47Publication Date (Print):January 17, 1953Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 17 January 1953https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac60073a009https://doi.org/10.1021/ac60073a009research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views75Altmetric-Citations3LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Does Planning Pay Off? (1993)

When Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS) was implemented, hospitals faced the prospect of diminishing reimbursement. Added to other fundamental changes involving medical practice, consumerism, competition, and medical technology, hospitals had significant incentives to focus more attention on strategic planning. This article examines how rural hospitals altered their strategic planning in response to PPS and the extent to which planning is related to better performance. It presents results from a case study of rural New Mexico hospitals. The implications of these results for other hospitals are discussed by the authors.
Hierarchical placement and floorplanning in BEAR (1989)

Hierarchical placement and floorplanning algorithms for rectangular blocks are described and implemented as part of the BEAR building block layout system developed at the University of California at Berkeley. The algorithm combines the goal orientation of top-down approaches with the block orientation of bottom-up techniques. The result is a meet-in-the-middle strategy. It considers the mutual dependency between placement and routing explicitly by incorporating a novel method of hierarchical routing area estimation. If the layout includes flexible blocks, the placement result can be further optimized by resizing these blocks subject to constraints on their areas and aspect ratios. Placement and floorplanning are refined more and more (with possible topological change) as routing proceeds. Global routing is updated incrementally to eliminate the need for iterations between placement and routing, thus achieving a more uniform design flow.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
EFFICACY OF PONAZURIL IN VITRO AND IN PREVENTING AND TREATING TOXOPLASMA GONDII INFECTIONS IN MICE (2004)

Toxoplasma gondii is an important apicomplexan parasite of humans and other warm-blooded animals. Ponazuril is a triazine anticoccidial recently approved for use in horses in the United States. We determined that ponazuril significantly inhibited T. gondii tachyzoite production (P < 0.05) at 5.0, 1.0, or 0.1 microg/ml in African green monkey kidney cells. We used outbred female CD-1 mice to determine the efficacy of ponazuril in preventing and treating acute toxoplasmosis. Each mouse was subcutaneously infected with 1,000 tachyzoites of the RH strain of T. gondii. Mice were weighed daily, and ponazuril was administered orally in a suspension. Mice given 10 or 20 mg/kg body weight ponazuril 1 day before infection and then daily for 10 days were completely protected against acute toxoplasmosis. Relapse did not occur after prophylactic treatments were stopped. Toxoplasma gondii DNA could not be detected in the brains of these mice using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). One hundred percent of mice treated with 10 or 20 mg/kg ponazuril at 3 days after infection and then daily for 10 days were protected from fatal toxoplasmosis. Sixty percent of mice treated with 10 mg/kg ponazuril at 6 days after infection and 100% of mice treated with 20 mg/kg or 50 mg ponazuril 6 days after infection and then daily for 10 days were protected from fatal toxoplasmosis. Relapse did not occur after treatments were stopped. Toxoplasma gondii DNA was detected in the brains of some, but not all, of these mice using PCR. The results demonstrate that ponazuril is effective in preventing and treating toxoplasmosis in mice. It should be further investigated as a safe and effective treatment for this disease in animals.
Investigation of growth dynamics of carbon nanotubes (2017)

The synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with defined properties is required for both fundamental investigations and practical applications. The revealing and thorough understanding of the growth mechanism of SWCNTs is the key to the synthesis of nanotubes with required properties. This paper reviews the current status of the research on the investigation of growth dynamics of carbon nanotubes. The review starts with the consideration of the peculiarities of the growth mechanism of carbon nanotubes. The physical and chemical states of the catalyst during the nanotube growth are discussed. The chirality selective growth of nanotubes is described. The main part of the review is dedicated to the analysis and systematization of the reported results on the investigation of growth dynamics of nanotubes. The studies on the revealing of the dependence of the growth rate of nanotubes on the synthesis parameters are reviewed. The correlation between the lifetime of catalyst and growth rate of nanotubes is discussed. The reports on the calculation of the activation energy of the nanotube growth are summarized. Finally, the growth properties of inner tubes inside SWCNTs are considered.
Qualified Immunity: A View from the Bench (1999)

Id. at 226 (holding that "the motion by Dinkins and Brown for dismissal of all federal claims against them on qualified immunity grounds
Liver Fatty Acid-binding Protein Targets Fatty Acids to the Nucleus (2002)

Although unesterified long chain fatty acids interact with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors to initiate transcription within the nucleus, almost nothing is known regarding factors regulating long chain fatty acid distribution to the nucleus of living cells. The possibility that the liver fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP) may function in this role was addressed in transfected L-cell fibroblasts overexpressing L-FABP using a series of fluorescent fatty acids differing in chain length and unsaturation. After 30 min of incubation, oxidation of BODIPY-, NBD-, and cis-parinaric acids was undetectable in L-cells. Likewise, L-cells very poorly esterified these fluorescent fatty acids in the following order: 0% BODIPY-C5, NBD-C6 (short chain length) < 0-3% NBD-C18, BODIPY-C16, cis-parinaric acid (long chain length) < 11% BODIPY-C12 (medium chain length). Real time confocal and multiphoton laser scanning microscopy (CLSM and MPLSM) showed that these fluorescent fatty acids were generally taken up in the following order: long chain (BODIPY-C16, NBD-C18) > medium chain (BODIPY-C12) short chain (BODIPY-C5, NBD-C6). The fluorescent fatty acids were imaged in the nucleus, primarily associated with the nuclear envelope, at levels about 2-3-fold lower than outside the nucleus. CLSM and MPLSM showed that L-FABP expression enhanced by 2-4-fold the initial rate and/or average maximal uptake of the long and medium chain but not the short chain fluorescent fatty acids in living cells. Furthermore, L-FABP expression increased the targeting of long and medium but not short chain fluorescent fatty acids to the nucleus by 2.9-4.4-fold and increased the proportion (i.e. nuclear:cytoplasm ratio) of medium and long chain but not short chain fatty acids by 2-3.6-fold. In summary, these results showed for the first time the presence of unesterified fatty acids in the nucleus of living cells and demonstrated that expression of a fatty acid-binding protein, L-FABP, specifically enhanced uptake and intracellular targeting of long and medium chain fatty acids to the nucleus.
Direct and indirect effects of paliperidone extended-release tablets on negative symptoms of schizophrenia (2008)

Direct and indirect effects of the new psychotropic paliperidone extended-release (paliperidone ER) tablets on negative symptom improvement in schizophrenia were investigated using path analysis. A post hoc analysis of pooled data from three 6-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies of paliperidone ER in patients experiencing acute exacerbation was conducted. Regression analysis explored relationships between baseline/study characteristics and negative symptoms. Change in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) negative factor score at endpoint was the dependent variable; explanatory variables included demographic and clinical characteristics. Path analysis determined direct and indirect effects of treatment on negative symptom change. Indirect mediators of negative symptom change in the model included changes in positive symptoms, anxiety/depression symptoms and movement disorders. Path analysis indicated that up to 33% of negative symptom improvement was a direct treatment effect. Indirect effects on negative symptoms were mediated through changes in positive symptoms (51%) and anxiety/depression symptoms (18%), whereas changes in movement disorders had a 2.1% inverse effect. Path analysis indicated that paliperidone ER has a direct effect on negative symptoms. Negative symptom improvement also was indirectly mediated via changes in positive and depressive symptoms.
Electro-optic Y-junction modulator/switch (1976)

A new type of electro-optic channel-waveguide modulator/switch for integrated optics has been proposed and demonstrated in which the transverse confinement of The guided optical wave in a channel waveguide is controlled and the optical energy is selectively fed to either Y-junction output port by control of the applied electric field. The device exhibited 75% modulation depth for an applied voltage swing of 6 V peak to peak and a potential bandwidth of 10 GHz.
Low rates of DNA fragmentation in selected motile human spermatozoa assessed by the TUNEL assay (2001)

Motility may be a relevant physiological marker for DNA-intact sperm after exposure of spermatozoa to H(2)O(2) and alpha irradiation.
Hydrogen sulfide attenuates the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycin in rats (2009)

The present study investigated the role of the endogenous cystathionine gamma-lyase (CSE) / hydrogen sulfide pathway in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis. Rats treated with intratracheal bleomycin were exposed either to the H2S donor NaHS or to saline. The results on day 7 showed that plasma H2S concentration and pulmonary CSE activity (H2S production rate) were significantly lower in rats treated with bleomycin and saline (fibrosis-alone) than in controls, whereas on day 28 plasma H2S concentration was higher and pulmonary CSE activity was the same as that of controls. The relative CSE mRNA level in the lungs of rats treated with bleomycin was significantly higher than control values on days 7 and 28. After exposure to NaHS, the total lung hydroxyproline content and the malondialdehyde (MDA) content were both significantly lower, with no difference observed between NaHS high-dose and low-dose treatments. Further, MDA formation stimulated by the free radical-generating system (FRGS) in vitro was lower in lung tissue incubated with NaHS than it was in tissue incubated with FRGS alone. These results suggest that NaHS administration ameliorated the pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycin in rats and that this protective effect of H2S may be mediated by its antioxidative action.
介绍我的两本书 一、《从康德到马克思》——论主体和客体的认识论关系 二、《认识与劳动》——关于马克思的劳动认识论 (1979)

我在第一本书中讲的,是德国哲学上从康德,经过费希特、谢林、黑格尔和费尔巴哈到马克思,在解决主体和客体的关系这个认识论问题上的全部内容。我把德国哲学家们(从康德到费尔巴哈)在研究(一般的和必要的)认识对象时关于认识的主体的感性活动和理性活动所获得的结论,作为再现马克思的劳动认识论的基础,这种劳动认识论是深入研究认识论问题的出发点。我不象人们通常所作的那样,仅仅从黑格尔和费尔巴哈那里去发现马克思的认识论的来源,而是在德国哲学(从康德到费尔巴哈)的整个领域中去发掘它的来源。我从研究中所得出的结论是:费希特对马克思的影响是十分重要和饶有趣味的。
The Organization and Function of the Vomeronasal System (1987)

The brain's default mode network consists of discrete, bilateral and symmetrical cortical areas, in the medial and lateral parietal, medial prefrontal, and medial and lateral temporal cortices of the human, nonhuman primate, cat, and rodent brains. Its ...Read More
Profiled corrugated circular horns analysis and synthesis via an artificial neural network (2001)

In many reflector and lens antennas profiled corrugated circular horns constitute one of the best feed solution thanks to their polarization purity and small size. In this paper, a method for the design of these feeds by using an artificial neural network (ANN) approach is described. The results obtained with such an approach are investigated both for the analysis and for the synthesis problem, and compared with the standard methods. This unconventional solution gives a good level of accuracy and shorter processing times especially for the synthesis problem, where there is still a lack of affordable and fully automated procedures.
Breath-Acetone Concentrations in Fasting Healthy Men: Response of Infrared Breath-Alcohol Analyzers (1987)

Six healthy men fasted for 12 and 36 hours, and the resulting concentration of acetone in their breath was determined by gas chromatography. Breath samples were also analyzed by two commercially available breath-alcohol analyzers: Intoxilyzer Model 4011 and Alcotest 7010. Both these devices employ single wavelength infrared absorption spectrometry for detection of ethanol. This IR technique is not specific for ethanol but responds to acetone at the wavelength of 3.4 microns used for light absorption. After the men fasted for 12 hours, their breath-acetone concentrations ranged from 2.3 to 4.0 micrograms/L, and both breath-alcohol analyzers gave zero response (0.000 g/210 L). After 36 hours fasting, breath-acetone concentrations ranged from 33.6 to 157.2 micrograms/L, and the maximum "apparent" ethanol response was 0.005 g/210 L recorded on the Alcotest device. In the test subject with 157.2 micrograms/L acetone in his breath, the intoxilyzer gave a reading of 0.002 g/210 L. The present work shows that elevated breath-acetone concentrations associated with prolonged fasting (36 hours) are not a significant interference problem when infrared breath-alcohol analyzers are used for evidential purposes.
Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares for Maximum Likelihood Estimation, and Some Robust and Resistant Alternatives (1984)

SUMMARY The scope of application of iteratively reweighted least squares to statistical estimation problems is considerably wider than is generally appreciated. It extends beyond the exponential-family-type generalized linear models to other distributions, to non-linear parameterizations, and to dependent observations. Various criteria for estimation other than maximum likelihood, including resistant alternatives, may be used. The algorithms are generally numerically stable, easily programmed without the aid of packages, and highly suited to interactive computation.