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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 3 All in One (2004)

In just a short time you can learn how to use all the components of Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Design Premium Edition) to design, create, and edit graphics, publications, and web pages of all kindsi¾everything from simple brochures to entire integrated ad campaigns.Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, and Bridge from the ground up.“This book should be required reading for every introductory digital graphics course. Mordy has packed this book with great information for folks at all levels of expertise!”i¾ i¾ Sharon Steuer, author of The Illustrator CS3 Wow! BookMordy Golding has played an active role in the design and publishing environment since 1990. He worked at Adobe as the product manager for Adobe Illustrator and is currently a consultant and trainer specializing in Adobe Creative Suite. A production artist for both print and the Web for many years, he is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist.John Ray is a senior business analyst and developer for The Ohio State University Research Foundation. He provides custom network, security, and programming solutions for clients across the country, including the National Regulatory Research Institute and the Brevard Metropolitan Planning Organization in Florida.Learn how to... Choose the ideal Creative Suite 3 application for the job Make accurate selections Manage complex compositions with layers Apply filters, effects, and transformations Control color and type precisely Manipulate vector objects Paint, draw, and animate objects Prepare images for use on the Web Create websites Display and print your work anywherei¾exactly as designed Design brochures Develop an entire integrated ad campaignRegister your book at www.informit.com/title/9780672329340 for access to source images, updates, and links.Category:i¾ Graphics/Web DesignCovers:i¾ Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Editioni¾Adobe Bridge CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Acrobat 8 ProfessionalUser Level:i¾ Beginning-Intermediate
Reproduction and Teratogenesis: Current Methods and Suggested Improvements (1975)

The risks to human reproduction, particularly in regard to possible induction of birth defects, from present levels of environmental chemicals are thought to be low but in need of closer scrutiny than is now the case. Methods currently used to estimate the hazards to reproduction of new chemicals and drugs are reviewed and some shortcomings and potential sources of error are noted. Specific suggestions are made for improving existing methodology. In addition to the widely used treatment span encompassing all or most of the period of organogenesis, it is proposed that some exposure periods of shorter duration be added to avert possibly adaptative changes in maternal homeostatic systems. Greater diversity of test animals, beyond the rodent-rabbit species largely used today, is urged with the objective of better matching metabolic pathways in a test animal to those of man. The demonstration of an embryotoxicity effect-level must be regarded as essential in all tests, and once found this level should be used as the basis of extrapolating downward to find an acceptable tolerance level of dosage. More attention should be focused on postnatal functional evaluation after prenatal and perinatal exposure of test animals to environmental chemicals, especially those that might interfere with the maturation of the central nervous system, endocrine glands, and immunological mechanisms. The use of nonhuman primates should be reserved for the testing of drugs essential for use during human pregnancy or early pregnancy, because of the scarcity of such animals and the high costs of doing meaningful tests with them.
Waste Windshield-Derived Silicon/Carbon Nanocomposites as High-Performance Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes (2018)

Silicon has emerged as the most promising high-capacity material for lithium-ion batteries. Waste glass can be a potential low cost and environmentally benign silica resource enabling production of nanosized silicon at the industry level. Windshields are generally made of laminated glass comprising two separate glass bonded together with a layer of polyvinyl butyral sandwiched between them. Herein, silicon/carbon nanocomposites are fabricated from windshields for the first time via magnesiothermic reduction and facile carbonization process using both waste glass and polyvinyl butyral as silica and carbon sources, respectively. High purity reduced silicon has unique 3-dimensional nanostructure with large surface area. Furthermore, the incorporation of carbon in silicon enable to retain the composite anodes highly conductive and mechanically robust, thus providing enhanced cycle stability.
Sexual harassment: preventive steps for the healthcare practitioner. (1993)

Like other employers, healthcare providers can be held liable for sexual harassment in the workplace. However, by implementing an effective sexual harassment policy, healthcare providers can avoid corporate liability for sexual harassment and create a more productive working environment as well.
On Optimum Digital Phase-Locked Loops (1968)

This paper gives the design procedure of optimum digital filters for analog-digital phase-locked loops. The inputs considered are the step and ramp change in phase. The digital filters can easily be realized on the digital computer or otherwise. Design curves are given to choose proper noise bandwidth, sampling period, and loop parameters. It is shown that the optimum digitalanalog phase-locked loop is not the discrete version of the optimum continuous phase-locked loop.
Scattering and Interference in Epitaxial Graphene (2007)

A single sheet of carbon, graphene, exhibits unexpected electronic properties that arise from quantum state symmetries, which restrict the scattering of its charge carriers. Understanding the role of defects in the transport properties of graphene is central to realizing future electronics based on carbon. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy was used to measure quasiparticle interference patterns in epitaxial graphene grown on SiC(0001). Energy-resolved maps of the local density of states reveal modulations on two different length scales, reflecting both intravalley and intervalley scattering. Although such scattering in graphene can be suppressed because of the symmetries of the Dirac quasiparticles, we show that, when its source is atomic-scale lattice defects, wave functions of different symmetries can mix.
Direct Active and Reactive Power Control of DFIG for Wind Energy Generation (2006)

This paper presents a new direct power control (DPC) strategy for a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind energy generation system. The strategy is based on the direct control of stator active and reactive power by selecting appropriate voltage vectors on the rotor side. It is found that the initial rotor flux has no impact on the changes of the stator active and reactive power. The proposed method only utilizes the estimated stator flux so as to remove the difficulties associated with rotor flux estimation. The principles of this method are described in detail in this paper. The only machine parameter required by the proposed DPC method is the stator resistance whose impact on the system performance is found to be negligible. Simulation results on a 2 MW DFIG system are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control strategy during variations of active and reactive power, rotor speed, machine parameters, and converter dc link voltage.
“States of Emergency”: Armed Youths and Mediations of Islam in Northern Nigeria (2014)

On November 14, 2013, the U.S. Department of State labeled Boko Haram and a splinter group, Ansaru, operating in northern Nigeria, “foreign terrorist organizations” with links to al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). This designation is debatable, since the groups are diffuse, with tendencies to split or engage other armed groups into violent actions, primarily focused on Nigerian national and state politics and the implementation of shari’a criminal codes. This essay offers two analytic perspectives on “states of emergency” in Nigeria and the affective, violent forms of “justice” that armed young men employed during the 2000 implementation of shari’a criminal codes in Kano State, important contexts for analyses of militant groups such as Boko Haram or Ansaru. One analysis is meant to capture the expressive aspects of justice, and the other presumes a-priori realms of public experience and understanding that mediate the suffering and the cultural, religious, and political forms of justice Muslim youths draw upon to make sense of their plight. Based on eight years of ethnographic research in northern Nigeria, I suggest the uneasy reliance in Nigeria on secular and religious legalism as well as on extrajudicial violence to assure “justice” (re)enacts real-virtual experiences of authorized violence as “justice” in Nigeria’s heavily mediated publics.
Robust extraction of input function from H/sub 2//sup 15/O dynamic myocardial positron emission tomography using independent component analysis (2003)

It is hard to extract the input function from the left ventricle on H/sub 2//sup 15/O PET image to estimate the regional myocardial blood flow (rMBF). In this study the authors applied blind source separation technique by Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to extract input function from the H/sub 2//sup 15/O dynamic myocardial PET. Dynamic PET scans were performed on 5 dogs at rest and dipyridamole-induced stress. A transverse slice containing the biggest heart was selected and masked so that only the cardiac components were included in the analysis. The authors assumed that the elementary activities corresponding to the left and right ventricular pool and myocardial tissue as independent sources since their anatomical structures are not overlapped in the space. After principal component analysis, ICA unmixing process was performed using the extended infomax learning algorithm and left ventricular input function was obtained. In all the cases, the authors could extract the input functions, which had identical shape with those obtained using the manually drawn region of interest, and the rMBFs obtained using them were correlated well (r=0.87, p=0.001). Since all the process was, moreover, automatically achieved with very short computation time, it will be useful for the quantification of the rMBF using H/sub 2//sup 15/O PET.
[Symptomatic treatment of septic shock]. (1993)

Septic shock is characterized by an important vasoplegia associated with an oxygen extraction abnormality probably linked to the presence of a biochemical alteration at the microcirculatory level. Hemodynamic intervention requires aggressive fluid resuscitation complemented if necessary by the use of sympathomimetic amines (dopamine and often epinephrine, norepinephrine). Dobutamine is indicated when left ventricular dysfunction was obviously demonstrated. Swan Ganz catheter is required when hemodynamic intervention -ie fluid resuscitation and dopamine-remains unefficacious. However the earlier indication of Swan Ganz catheter use might be justified by the necessity of a precise preload evaluation and the possibility of the determination of the best oxygen transport.
On the Design and Structure of Artificial Eyes for Tracking Tasks (2005)

Nature developed different types of eyes for different functions and creatures. In this work the design parameters to common eye types are analysed with respect to visual tracking abilities. The goal is to select optimal parameters for building artificial vision systems. The parameters investigated are different tessellations and resolutions of eye cells (pixels), the window size or field of view, the frequency to acquire visual input and the system latency or reaction time. The analysis shows that following a target is best achieved at high frequency with small target windows or with a space-variant tessellation. While the first case enables high resolution for smooth motions, the second case trades resolution for speed and jerky motions. An experimental set-up demonstrates the performance characteristics.
Characterization of a Na+/H+ antiporter gene of Escherichia coli. (1987)

A mutant of Escherichia coli with increased Na+/H+ antiport activity was isolated and found by other workers to harbor two mutations [Niiya, S., Yamasaki, K., Wilson, T.H. & Tsuchiya, T. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 8902-8906]. The mutation that leads to increased Na+/H+ antiport (antup) has now been separated and mapped. antup maps in the vicinity of 0.5 min on the E. coli map, and the presence of this mutation alone in an isogenic pair raises antiport activity (Vmax) by approximately 4-fold. We also characterized cells hearing plasmids containing fragments of a 15-kilobase-pair segment of DNA between carA and dnaJ. A wild-type gene located within 2 kilobase pairs counterclockwise of rpsT increases the Na+/H+ antiport activity when present in multiple copies.
Infection and Stress Activation of Bean Chalcone Synthase Promoters in Transgenic Tobacco (1990)

The object of this study was to define the inducibility of two CHS promoters in transgenic tobacco and to establish a system to investigate physical and biological agents that activate CHS promoter-driven transcription. ?enns between the 5'-flanking regulatory sequences of two CHS genes (CH58 and CHS15) and the GUS gene region encoding for β-glucoronidase were constructed and used to transform tobacco. One of these CHS promoters contains sequences that control expression associated with a bacterially induced hypersensitive response
Isolated Liver Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Does Resection Prolong Survival? (1998)

Hepatic resection in selected patients with isolated liver metastases from neuroendocrine tumors may prolong survival. This conclusion was reached by comparing our resected group with an unresectable group with similar tumor burden.
Assessing the relationship of paraoxonase-1 Q192R polymorphisms and the severity of lung disease in SM-exposed patients (2013)

Late respiratory complications in patients suffering from pulmonary lesions due to sulfur mustard (SM) gas are asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis. Recently PON1 antioxidant activity draws attention as the enzyme which prevents the oxidation of lipoproteins during oxidative stress. In this study we aimed to investigate PON1 192 polymorphisms and paraoxonase and arylesterase activity in the serum of SM-exposed lung disease patients. Also, we examined the detection of PON1 and apoA1 proteins in BAL fluid. 101 male patients were included who were categorized to three groups of mild, moderate and severe suffering from pulmonary lesions due to SM. Significant reduction in paraoxonase activity [Healthy: 412.46 ± 89.1 U/L, Severe: 89.66 ± 20.7 U/L] (p < 0.0001) and arylesterase activity [Healthy: 25826.4 ± 4425.23 U/L, Severe: 16760.43 ± 3814.9 U/L] (p < 0.0001) with increase in severity of disease was demonstrated statistically. With respect to the distribution of the PON1 polymorphism, the RR genotype was more frequent in severe patients [37.2%] than healthy group [10%] (p < 0.05) and no significant regression was found between genotype and PON1 activity. On the other hand, the results of PON1 and apoA1 detection illustrated that only apoA1 protein was found in BAL fluid. According to our findings it seems that increase in the stress oxidative in chemical injured veterans with pulmonary complications comes with reduction in PON1 enzyme activity and appearance of RR genotype rises up with the increase in disease severity. Since a significant correlation between enzyme activity and genotype was not observed altering these two variables with each other requires more studies.
A robust steganography algorithm based on texture similarity using gabor filter (2006)

The main concern of steganography (image hiding) methods is to embed a secret image into a host image in such a way that the host should remain as similar as possible to its original version. In addition the host image should remain robust with respect to usual attacks. In this paper we present a method that tries to cover all above mentioned concerns. The secret and host images are divided into blocks of size 4 /spl times/ 4. Each block in secret image is taken as a texture pattern for which the most similar block is found among the blocks of the host image. The embedding procedure is carried on by replacing these small blocks of the secret image with blocks in host image in such a way that least distortion would be imposed on it. We have used Gabor filter to measure the similarity between texture patterns. The location addresses of blocks in host image which are replaced by blocks of secret image are saved. This data is converted to a bit string and then modified by Hamming code. This bit string is embedded in DCT coefficients of the modified host image using a key which is the seed of a random number generator. Our experimental results showed a high level of capacity, robustness and minimum distortion on standard images.
Monetization and Services on a Real Online Social Network Using Social Network Analysis (2013)

Large social networks provide many services to their users for free. To be able to do so, these sites need to monetize their audience, in order to increase the level of services offered to their users and develop their business. Monetization of a social network platform comes not only from efficient advertising features but also from all features which would contribute in increasing the audience. In this paper, we focus on 3 monetization axes: community management, personalized advertising, and recommendation. We propose for each of these axes several features we can implement using social network analysis. These features were tested on the data of a real French social blog platform Skyrock.com, the second largest social network in France.
Immunologically reactive proteins of Streptococcus equi (1985)

Immunologically reactive proteins in acid extracts and culture supernatants of Streptococcus equi were recognized through a combination of chromatographic and immunologic procedures. Both high- and low-molecular-weight components of each of these protein preparations were protective for mice and were, therefore, presumed to contain a variety of hydrolytic products or fragments of the M protein of S. equi. Convalescent horse sera that exhibited strong bactericidal activity for S. equi always reacted with polypeptides in the molecular weight range of 24,000 to 29,000, whereas preinfection sera did not. Rabbit antisera to affinity-purified S. equi protein also reacted with these polypeptides, as well as with a polypeptide of about 36,000 to 37,000 molecular weight. M protein in acid extract and culture supernatant did not cross-react in immunodiffusion, but rabbit antiserum to affinity-purified M protein from an acid extract of S. equi reacted strongly with culture supernatant proteins of approximate molecular weights of 67,000, 58,000, and 43,000. We suggest, therefore, that the M protein in culture supernatant is masked by other sequences that are removed by hot acid during preparation of acid extracts. Polypeptides common to acid extracts of S. equi and Streptococcus zooepidemicus were also identified. These polypeptides had molecular weights of about 55,000 and 31,000.
High-Resolution Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis Reveals Multiple Diabetes Susceptibility Loci Mapped to Intervals &lt;800 kb in the Species-Conserved<i>Niddm1i</i>of the GK Rat (2006)

Niddm1i, a 16-Mb locus within the major diabetes QTL in the diabetic GK rat, causes impaired glucose tolerance in the congenic NIDDM1I strain. Niddm1i is homologous to both human and mouse regions linked with type 2 diabetes susceptibility. We employed multiple QTL analyses of congenic F2 progeny selected for one recombination event within Niddm1i combined with characterization of subcongenic strains. Fine mapping located one hyperglycemia locus within 700 kb (Niddm1i4, P=5x10(-6)). Two adjacent loci were also detected, and the GK allele at Niddm1i2 (500 kb) showed a glucose-raising effect, whereas it had a glucose-lowering effect at Niddm1i3 (400 kb). Most proximally, Niddm1i1 (800 kb) affecting body weight was identified. Experimental data from subcongenics supported the four loci. Sorcs1, one of the two known diabetes susceptibility genes in the region, resides within Niddm1i3, while Tcf7l2 maps outside all four loci. Multiple-marker QTL analysis incorporating the effect of cosegregating QTL as cofactors together with genetically selected progeny can remarkably enhance resolution of QTL. The data demonstrate that the species-conserved Niddm1i is a composite of at least four QTL affecting type 2 diabetes susceptibility and that two adjacent QTL (Niddm1i2GK and Niddm1i3GK) act in opposite directions.
A multiobjective model and evolutionary algorithms for robust time and space assembly line balancing under uncertain demand (2015)

Changes in demand when manufacturing different products require an optimization model that includes robustness in its definition and methods to deal with it. In this work we propose the r-TSALBP, a multiobjective model for assembly line balancing to search for the most robust line configurations when demand changes. The robust model definition considers a set of demand scenarios and presents temporal and spatial overloads of the stations in the assembly line of the products to be assembled. We present two multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to deal with one of the r-TSALBP variants. The first algorithm uses an additional objective to evaluate the robustness of the solutions. The second algorithm employs a novel adaptive method to evolve separate populations of robust and non-robust solutions during the search. Results show the improvements of using robustness information during the search and the outstanding behavior of the adaptive evolutionary algorithm for solving the problem. Finally, we analyze the managerial impacts of considering the r-TSALBP model for the different organization departments by exploiting the values of the robustness metrics.
Mixed Fourier/Walsh transform scheme for speech coding at 4.0 kbit/s (1992)

A mixed Fourier/Walsh transform scheme for speech coding is proposed. A set of harmonically structured frequency components is used to represent narrow-band components of speech. The broadband residual is characterised by a small number of sequency components. The frequencies and sequencies of the transform components are determined by sampling the shorttime Fourier and Walsh transforms, respectively. The magnitudes and phases of the Fourier components and the amplitudes of the Walsh components are determined using an iterative algorithm based on the Gauss-Seidel method. A vector quantisation (VQ) scheme is developed to encode the frequency and the sequency components. Results and subjective evaluations are given for speech coding at 4.0 kbit/s