and social media in China — making for a debate fraught with controversy and confusion. To its utter dismay, however, the party-state in Beijing is completely at a loss today in coming to grips with the North Korea problem.

Currently, there are three schools of thought dominating the discourse on Sino-North Korean relations in China’s strategic affairs community. First, there are scholars who uphold the view that North Korea remains ideologically and geopolitically crucial for China, for two reasons. One, by maintaining solid ties with North Korea China will not be alone and isolated in the game the United States, Japan and South Korea are playing in the Korean Peninsula.

Two, with North Korea standing by its side, Beijing will be in a better position to deal with worldwide anti-Chinaconsent.

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LYM

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UAMC

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TSF

:   triceps skinfold

TNM

:   tumor-node-metastasis

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Acoustic Zoom is also gentler on the environment because it releases smaller amounts of energy over a longer time and at higher frequencies, so although marine life can still hear the sound waves, they are much less intrusive.

"We hope this new technology will help avoid unnecessary exploratory drilling by the oil industry and also reduce the impact of underwater surveys on the environment."

Explore further The sound of an atom has been captured

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The Man with Icy Eyes

L'uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio (internationally released as The Man with Icy Eyes) is a 1971 Italian giallo film directed by Alberto De Martino.  It was shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The film was referred to as "an unusual mixture of  action thriller and giallo in Argento's style".

Plot

Cast
 Antonio Sabàto: Eddie Mills
 Barbara Bouchet: Anne Saxe
 Faith Domergue: Mrs. Valdes
 Victor Buono: John Hammond
 Keenan Wynn: Harry Davis
 Corrado Gaipa: Isaac Thetman
 Nello Pazzafini: Man in Elevator

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enemy that we had lost our will to win, and now with a new policy as of August, we are going to win. And winning means delivering a negotiated settlement that reduces the level of violence and protecting the homeland."

As Trump considered his options in Afghanistan this summer, he became frustrated with the lack of progress and even suggested that he might fire Nicholson for failing to win the war. Instead, he reversed his previous calls to pull out of Afghanistan and followed the advice of his military advisers.

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That's "because of the authorities I've been given and the policy we've received" in August, he said. "It's everything I asked for."

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memory I create in the native code gets cleaned up, either by myself or by the Marshaller. For example, just about all the native memory I used in the question never gets freed, resulting in a huge memory leak. Currently when the native code returns to managed code I lose all my native pointers to memory that needs to be freed. I solved this passing a callback when making the call into native code. The native code does its work, makes a functional call back to managed, which returns, and allows the native code to do housekeeping. An easy way to do this housekeeping was to use the power of CComSafeArray's and CComBSTR's, which will manage themselves. (I know I should be able to simply pass the CComSafeArray'sof the Ras-Raf pathway in renal cancer cells \[[@B13-cancers-12-01782]\]. We also found that Honokiol promotes apoptosis by inhibiting CNI-induced Nrf2/HO-1, which plays a major role in Ras-mediated survival of renal cancer cells \[[@B22-cancers-12-01782]\]. It has been suggested that Honokiol can modulate the redox state of cancer cells by regulating the level of reactive oxygen species (ROS) \[[@B23-cancers-12-01782],[@B24-cancers-12-01782],[@B25-cancers-12-01782]\]. Honokiol, is being tested in pre-clinical models for its anti-tumorigenic potential. In addition, due to its anti-inflammatory property \[[@B26-cancers-12-01782]\], Honokiol can also be utilized for the treatment of transplant patients to sustain their immune suppression, and to reduce the dose of other immunosuppressive agents.

New treatment options need to be explored for post-transplantation renal cancer. The mTOR inhibitor RAPA is used for the treatment of transplant patients, and it has anti-angiogenic properties.


We found that Honokiol caused G1 phase arrest of renal cancer cells compared with controls; and in combination with RAPA, it further increased the G1 phase cell cycle population ([Figure 2](#cancers-12-01782-f002){ref-type="fig"}D). Next, we analyzed the molecular markers for the G1 phase of cell cycle. As shown in [Figure 2](#cancers-12-01782-f002){ref-type="fig"}E and [Supplementary Figure S2C](#app1-cancers-12-01782){ref-type="app"}, we found that RAPA did not affect the levels of CDK2 and CDK4, while it did decrease the expression of CDK6 and Cyclin D1 and increased the expression of an important cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor (CDKI), p21. HNK decreased the expression of CDK2, CDK4, CDK6, Cyclin D1 and increased the expression of p21. Consistent with our previous observations, the combination of RAPA + Honokiol was more potent in decreasing the expression of all G1 phasegrowth; it also has other limitations and tumors often develop therapeutic resistance \[[@B18-cancers-12-01782]\]. mTOR has significant cross-talk with the Ras pathway, which is hyperactive in renal cancer cells, possibly through the induction of receptor tyrosine kinases (like, c-Met, EGFR (Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor) etc.). It is a challenge to down-regulate the hyperactive Ras in cancer cells. For this study, we first performed a cell proliferation assay to test the effect(s) of different concentrations of RAPA and Honokiol (either alone or in combinations) in renal cancer cells ([Supplementary Figure S5A](#app1-cancers-12-01782){ref-type="app"}). For all of our experiments, we selected a minimal concentration of RAPA (15 μM) and Honokiol (40 μM), at which they inhibit \~50% cell proliferation. Our findings suggest that the combination of RAPA + Honokiol markedly inhibits the expression


renal cancer cells primarily through the upstream receptor tyrosine kinases (like, c-Met); and it has critical cross-talk with the PI-3K-Akt pathway. Thus, when prolonged RAPA treatment activates Akt, the Ras pathway can become hyperactive, even in the absence of signals from receptor tyrosine kinases. Honokiol has a unique property to suppress Ras (in addition to its anti-inflammatory properties); and thereby can overcome the limitation of RAPA treatment alone.

In our previous studies, we have checked the individual effect of either Honokiol \[[@B13-cancers-12-01782]\] or RAPA \[[@B40-cancers-12-01782]\] in murine models of tumor growth; and we observed that the doses used for Honokiol/RAPA were well tolerated in mice, with no significant secondary effects. However, the efficiency and physiological significance of the combination therapy (RAPA + Honokiol) in restricting renal tumor growth needs96 well plate. Following treatments (as described), media was removed, and 10 μL of 5 mg/mL MTT (3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-Diphenyltetrazolium Bromide) dye (dissolved in phosphate buffered saline) was added to each well. Cell proliferation assay was performed using the MTT kit according to manufacturer's protocol (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Briefly, plates were incubated in dark for 4 h; and after incubation formazon crystals were dissolved in DMSO (Dimethyl Sulfoxide) and absorbance was measured at 570 nm in a plate reader, and corrected against blanks, which consisted of culture medium processed in the same way as above in the absence of cells.

4.5. Cell Cycle Analysis {#sec4dot5-cancers-12-01782}
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In total, 1 × 10^5^ cells were seeded in each well of 6 well tissue culture plates; and cells were allowed to attach and grow overnight. Cells


were then serum starved for 24 h to synchronize them in Gap-1 phase. Following treatments, cells were collected through trypsinization, and stained with Propidium Iodide, and flow cytometry was performed on a FACSCalibur to assess the percent of cells in different phases of cell cycle.

4.6. Apoptosis Assay {#sec4dot6-cancers-12-01782}
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Briefly, 1 × 10^5^ cells were seeded in each well of 6 well tissue culture plates and allowed to attach and grow overnight. Following treatments, the cells were collected through trypsinization; and they were stained using an allophycocyanin (APC)/FITC (Fluorescein isothiocyanate)-conjugated apoptosis detection kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific) according to manufacturer's protocol. Cells were then analyzed by flow cytometry on a FACSCalibur.

4.7. RENCA/Splenocytes Co-Culture {#sec4dot7-cancers-12-01782}
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Splenocytes were isolated from the spleens of BALB/c mice following standard protocol. Briefly, extracted spleen was minced underCI values of less than 1 were considered synergistic, while equal to 1 were considered as additive.

5. Conclusions {#sec5-cancers-12-01782}
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Although the mTOR inhibitor Rapamycin (RAPA) has anti-tumorigenic properties, it has many limitations. On the other hand, the natural product Honokiol (HNK) has both anti-tumorigenic and anti-inflammatory properties. This study suggests the importance of a novel combination therapy using HNK and RAPA to restrict c-Met-induced growth and immune escape of renal cancer cells, and overcome the limitation of RAPA treatment. In addition, this therapeutic combination has great potential to prevent the development of renal cancer in transplant patients. Together, RAPA + HNK combination can act as novel therapeutics for the treatment of renal cancer, with importance to post-transplantation cancer.

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penthiopyrad but was highly resistant to fluxapyroxad. The discrepancies of cross-resistance patterns between SDHIs suggest that their binding sites in complex II may differ slightly and that additional mechanisms of resistance to these compounds are likely involved. Ultimately, the findings of this study should lead to the rational and sustained deployment of new SDHIs in Alternaria late blight spray programs.Q:

Can I restart a torrent in Vuze?

When downloading a torrent with Vuze, files might get corrupted (transfer errors, disk issues, etc.) Is there any way to quickly restart a torrent download from scratch in Vuze, without having to manually  delete its data and restart the torrent?

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Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- A legal battle over a tough Arizona immigration law appeared certain after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday that blocked the most controversial parts of the law a day before it was to take effect.

The injunction means that, at least for now, police are prevented from questioning people's immigration status if there is reason to believe they are in the country illegally.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton also blocked provisions of the law making it a crime to fail to apply for or carry alien registration papers or "for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work," and a provision "authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person" if there is reason to believe that person might be subject to deportation.

Arizona Gov.Jan Brewer said the state would file an expedited appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, signaling a legal escalation that some expect will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Other parts of the law will go into effect Thursday as passed. This includes a ban on so-called sanctuary cities, and the criminalization of hiring day laborers who are in the country illegally. The parts of the law dealing with sanctions for employers who hire illegal immigrants also withstood the first legal test.

CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin said the ruling reflects the government's argument that immigration enforcement should be dealt with at the federal level.

"Arizona may have good intentions, they may be trying to make up for where the U.S. government has failed, but what the judge


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An image of what is believed to be Celtic's European away kit has emerged online, three days ahead of the official launch date.

The Scottish champions will officially unveil the jersey on Monday July 20 before heading out to Iceland for the second leg of their opening Champions League qualifier.

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2. Description of the Prior Art
It is already known that a group of .alpha.-substituted phenylacetic esters having a greatly different structure from conventional pyrethroid-type insecticides have a strong insecticidal activity on various noxious insects (Japanese Patent Application (OPI) Nos. 26425/74, 126826/74 and 1315563/77). (The term "OPI" as used herein refers to a "published unexamined Japanese patent application".) Among these, esters of phenylacetic acid derivatives in which the substituent in the .alpha.-position is an isopropyl or cyclopropyl group have recently attracted attention because of their superior effect. Particularly, esters of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyric acid are excellent in respect of their effect and cost economy.
Various investigations were made about the insecticidal effect of esters of optically active carboxylic acids obtained by the optical resolution of .alpha.-substituted phenylacetic acids which areof an alkali. Based on this investigation, they reported that the rate of heavy hydrogen exchange was about 1/270 for sodium .alpha.-metjhylphenylacetate and about 1/42,000 for sodium .alpha.-isopropylphenylacetate based on the rate of heavy hydrogen exchange at 90.degree. C. of the sodium .alpha.-methylphenylacetate [J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1068 (1969)].
Japanese Patent Application (OPI) No. 5134/78 discloses a process for racemizing an optically active alkali metal 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyrate by heating in the presence of an alkali, etc. Japanese Patent Application (OPI) No. 3035/79 discloses that optically active 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyroyl chloride can be very easily racemized by heating.
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What would happen if you would acknowledge what you are aware of rather than twisting your awareness into a “feeling” that wasn’t even yours in the first place?

Would you rather feel everything around you?
Or simply be aware of it?Who said public school teachers can’t make decent salaries?

According to the Boston Business Journal, public school teachers earned an average of $74,737 in Massachusetts last year, with 14 school districts posting an average annual salary of more than $90,000.

BBJ analyzed 2015 payroll data for public school teachers in the Commonwealth and found that the state’s average teacher salary increased roughly 11 percent between 2009 and 2015, a bump that reflected payroll trends for the Massachusetts economy as a whole.

Of the 317 school districts analyzed, teachers were paid best in Concord-Carlisle and Sherborn, where teachers recorded an average pay of over $100,000.

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On top of this, points out Dr. Marcia Angell, author of


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 There are six named plaintiffs. Because the plaintiffs do not challenge the substance of any of the LCDs in this suit — only the procedure by which the PIM guidelines relating to the LCDs were promulgated — the facts of the named plaintiffs' cases are of little consequence. By way of example, named plaintiff Christopher Erringer has quadriplegia and suffers from pain which was successfully treated by trigger point injections. He received the injections for a number of years before theThe Coalition want people with mental health issues to get working. And what work would that be then?

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This occasional burst of profanity is often accompanied by rapid jabs of my index finger as if the offending person is in front of me and subject to the full force of my anger.

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Gaga (god)

Gaga is a minor Babylonian deity featured in the Enûma Eliš. She is sent by Anshar to the forces of Tiamat with the formal announcement of Marduk's readiness to battle Tiamat.

Zecharia Sitchin identifies her as the dwarf planet Pluto, which he considers an escaped moon of Saturn (which he identifies as Anshar), in his fringe interpretations of Sumerian literature.

References

The religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

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Category:Enûma Elišshawls to members of the Baton Rouge Police Department.

As part of the Fleece for the Police program, officers will carry the shawls in their vehicle trunks and distribute to anyone in need.

According to church member Becky Williams, the ministry is part of a larger effort that was started in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut in 1998 by Janet Bristow and Victoria Galo, two graduates of the 1997 Women’s Leadership Institute at The Hartford Seminary, and it grew from there.

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OK, it’s not just Episcopalians who say this one; it has gained a life of its own in several quarters. And the trope (most familiar as a social-media meme) has several variations. The default variant seems to be “Things Jesus Never Said.” It even has its own


blessing such unions at the church's triennial conference.

More than 200 delegates attending the six-day General Synod 2016 north of Toronto narrowly rejected the resolution after more than 60 speakers made their points, with most speaking in support of the resolution.

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Canada since 2005, and Monday's vote puts the Anglican Church — the third largest in Canada — out of step with most Canadians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who recently took part in a gay pride parade in Toronto.

In order for the resolution to have passed, it required two-thirds support from each of three orders — the lay, clergy and bishops.

The bishops voted 68.42 percent in favor of the resolution, and the lay delegates voted 72.22 percent in favor. However, the clergy votedbanner “Black Lives Matter”, say that black people are more likely than white people to be shot and killed by police officers.

From ENS-Bishop Edmond Lee Browning, the 24th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, died on July 11, 2016. He was 87 years old and was living in Oregon.Browning served as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1986-1997. Browning’s election as presiding bishop in 1986 was seen as a reflection of the church’s broadening diversity due to his extensive international and multicultural experience.Browning hoped to encourage a growing awareness of diversity in the church. He was well-known for his quote, “no outcasts in the church.”“The Episcopal Church is faithfully seeking to truly become, ‘a house of prayer for all people,’ as Jesus said quoting the Hebrew prophets,


art, crafts and other related artifacts acquired by Miki Sawada (1901-1980), the founder of the Elizabeth Saunders Home orphanage in Oiso. The museum is built in a corner of the premises of the orphanage.

From The Telegraph-When the Church of England Synod meets in high summer, its thoughts inexorably turn to love - or rather, to same-sex relationships: the perennial pachyderm in the Anglican room.

As members gathered on Sunday to discuss the intractable topic, the minds of some may have drifted longingly towards the hearty thwack and ping of the Murray/Raonic final. Alert to wandering attention, David Porter, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s former director of reconciliation, urged his colleagues to “prepare yourself for Wimbledon withdrawal”.

Reconciling the schism between sport, sex and spirituality was the least of the participants’ challenges.which they notified those applicants who did not meet the seniority qualifications that they could not participate in the buyout.

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Although the CBA contained a broad, mandatory grievance and arbitration procedure for the resolution of employer-employee disputes, eighteen applicants whose applications did not meet the seniority cutoff eschewed that procedure and instead brought suit in federal court against Mack, several Mack officials, and the union.   The employees contended that Mack had breached its contractual obligation to provide each of them with a lump-sum $75,000 payment and benefits in exchange for their voluntary departure from Mack, and that the union, through its complicity with Mack in the buyout plan, had breached its duty of fair representation.   Of the eighteen employees who brought suit, five voluntarily left


therefore properly invoked by the employees under section 301 of the LMRA, 29 U.S.C. § 185.   We observe, however, that if the district court had been correct in its holding that ERISA and federal labor law did not apply to this case, then the employees would have had no federal cause of action.   In such a case, where the district court had concluded that the employees had no viable federal cause of action, the district court should have either dismissed the complaint or transferred the action to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas pursuant to 42 Pa.Cons.Stat.Ann. § 5103(b).4  See Weaver v. Marine Bank, 683 F.2d 744, 746 (3d Cir.1982).   Instead, the district court issued a decision on the merits ofPlan to each plaintiff that defendant Mack only intended to complete payment to "some" members of the Engineering Bargaining Unit and fraudulently induced plaintiffs herein to accept the offer to their great detriment.

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ERISA claims in federal court.   This they failed to do.   Accordingly, I join in the majority's decision to affirm the district court's order directing a verdict in Mack's favor on the ERISA claims, and concur in the judgment.

SUR PETITION FOR REHEARING

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Before:  SLOVITER, Chief Judge;  BECKER, STAPLETON, MANSMANN, GREENBERG, SCIRICA, COWEN, NYGAARD, ALITO, ROTH, and GARTH*, Circuit Judges.

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The petition for rehearing filed by appellants in No. 91-1791 having been submitted to the judges who participated in the decision of this court and to all the other available circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service, and no judge who concurred in the decision having asked for rehearing, and a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit in regular active service not§§ 1331 and 1343, as well as by ERISA, § 502(e), 29 U.S.C. § 1332(e) and LMRA, § 301, 29 U.S.C. § 185, all of which provide for original jurisdiction of plaintiffs' claims under the laws of the United States and over actions to recover damages and to secure equitable and other relief
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bargaining agreement, then to hold that the buyout plan is not a plan under ERISA would be to hold that state law governs their claims to benefits under the buyout plan, a result clearly also at odds with Fort Halifax

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This leads to tortured projections that are increasingly less useful.

Other analysis focuses on supply constraints and costs. The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration is really keen on showing how much fossil fuels are going to cost and make that a key part of their models of future consumption. But in country after country we see that, once a


certain level of per capita income (and not GDP) is reached, energy is not truly constrained by supply–people will pay whatever it costs. Modelling costs and availability is really a good idea for countries like India. It’s not nearly as useful for countries like the U.S. This is one of the reasons why the DOE’s EIA has to keep adjusting figures.

However, energy consumption is far more tightly linked to population. And every analysis pays lip service to that fact. The EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2012 says, “Population is a key determinant of energy consumption through its influence on demand for travel, housing, consumer goods and services.” And then they promptly move on to other topics.

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1. Introduction

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) is the bacterial etiologic agent of Johne's disease, a severe chronic debilitating gastrointestinal disease of ruminants. Infection from this bacterium is responsible for substantial morbidity, mortality, and economic loss in cattle in the United States [1]. Within herds, MAP is transmitted mainly by ingestion of food or water contaminated with infected feces,farm animals, because it does not account for animals who have ability to roam nor provide information on whether cats spend time indoors or outdoors.

5. Conclusions

MAP-specific DNA was identified from the intestinal and nodal tissue of 3/73 (4.1%) dogs and 3/37 (8.1%) cats; the prevalence did not differ significantly between these two host species (; ). There was no documented association between presence of MAP-specific DNA and presence of gastrointestinal inflammation, clinical signs, or exposure to a rural environment. MAP-specific DNA can be identified in the intestinal and nodal tissue of dogs and cats that do not have clinical signs or gastrointestinal pathology. The significance of this organism’s presence without associated abnormal gastrointestinal pathology is unknown.

Abbreviations

MAP:

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

PCR:

Polymerase chain reaction.

Acknowledgments

This paper is supported in part by a


Kansas State University Small Research Grant, with an additional support from the Kansas State University Developing Scholars Program and the College of Veterinary Medicine. The authors thank Rakshith Arakotaram, Matthew McGowan, and Alexia Sampson-Bellot for their technical and laboratory support. The authors claim there are no conflicts of interest related to this study.      $elCdata = $this->ownerDocument->createCDATASection($cdata);
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Faculty Research Support Program - Regular Grant

The Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP) – Regular Grant (RG) provides funds to support outstanding research, scholarship, or creative endeavor that will make a major contribution in any field of study.

Projects should lead to a significant outcome during the period of the award and, thus, the FRSP-RG should not be viewed as a seed funding opportunity for the generation of preliminary results. Grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 of total funding, as appropriate to the research proposal, over three years are available through this program. Augmentation of the grants by the Colleges and Departments, as appropriate to the discipline, are allowed.

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Gb to 8.33 Gb, according to IHS.

Revenue growth for standard DRAM chips is expected to be weak this year due to lagging sales of PCs, IHS said. And while mobile DRAM average selling prices have been falling over time in line with the overall memory space, prices remain relatively firm for mobile DRAM chips because of a number of factors, including high demand, a smaller supply base and healthy density growth, IHS said.

While both Micron and Elpida had similar DRAM revenue in the first quarter, Elpida's mobile DRAM revenue—$218 million—was more than twice Micron's, IHS said.

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Crane's Balance- When taking the Crane stance, Clancy's ki attacks get an increase in accuracy.

Panther Aura- A ki attack in the Panther stance. An updated form of his Bengal Aura, Clancythrows a giant ki blast in the shape of a panthers claw's. When used, properly, it cuts opponents badly.

Fourteen Warriors of Justice: Stances Five and Six-An physical attack that Clancy masters with great skill. It is slike a chain combo. Clancy shouts out two


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vs late pregnancy), respectively. Infusion of atrial natriuretic peptide produced natriuresis in both pregnant and nonpregnant states; sodium excretion (basal to atrial natriuretic peptide infusion at 12 ng/kg/min) increased from 133 +/- 19 to 207 +/- 18 mumol/min, 129 +/- 21 to 374 +/- 35 mumol/min, and 128 +/- 20 to 221 +/- 33 mumol/min in nonpregnant women and those in early and late pregnancy, respectively. The metabolic clearance of atrial natriuretic peptide increased by 16 weeks' gestation and remained elevated thereafter. There appears to be no attenuation of the natriuretic effect of infused atrial natriuretic peptide in normotensive human pregnancy.a thing going here." " You got lint on your fuzz." " Ow!" "That's me!" " Wave to us!" "We'll be in row 118,000." " Bye!" "Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!" " Hey, Adam." " Hey, Barry." " Is that fuzz gel?" " A little." "Special day, graduation." "Never thought I'd make it." "Three days grade school, three days high school." "Those were awkward." "Three days college." "I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive." "You did come back different." " Hi, Barry." " Artie, growing a mustache?" "Looks good." " Hear about Frankie?" " Yeah." " You going to the funeral?" " No, I'm not going." "Everybody knows, sting someone, you die." "Don't waste it on a squirrel." "Such a


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walk, write an angry letter and throw it out." "Work through it like any emotion:" "Anger, jealousy, lust." "Oh, my goodness!" "Are you OK?" "Yeah." " What is wrong with you?" "!" " It's a bug." "He's not bothering anybody." "Get out of here, you creep!" "What was that?" "A Pic 'N' Save circular?" "Yeah, it was." "How did you know?" "It felt like about 10 pages." "Seventy-five is pretty much our limit." "You've really got that down to a science." " I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue." " I'll bet." "What in the name of Mighty Hercules is this?" "How did this get here?" "Oute Bee, Golden Blossom," "Ray Liotta Private Select?" " Is he that actor?" " I never heard of him." " Why isthe competition." "So why are you helping me?" "Bees have good qualities." "And it takes my mind off the shop." "Instead of flowers, people are giving balloon bouquets now." "Those are great, if you're three." "And artificial flowers." " Oh, those just get me psychotic!" " Yeah, me too." "Bent stingers, pointless pollination." "Bees must hate those fake things!" "Nothing worse than a daffodil that's had work done." "Maybe this could make up for it a little bit." " This lawsuit's a pretty big deal." " I guess." "You sure you want to go through with it?" "Am I sure?" "When I'm done with the humans, they won't be able to say, "Honey, I'm home," without paying a royalty!" "It's an incredible scene here in downtown Manhattan, where


the world anxiously waits, because for the first time in history, we will hear for ourselves if a honeybee can actually speak." "What have we gotten into here, Barry?" "It's pretty big, isn't it?" "I can't believe how many humans don't work during the day." "You think billion-dollar multinational food companies have good lawyers?" "Everybody needs to stay behind the barricade." " What's the matter?" " I don't know, I just got a chill." "Well, if it isn't the bee team." "You boys work on this?" "All rise!" "The Honorable Judge Bumbleton presiding." "All right." "Oase number 4475," "Superior Oourt of New York, Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry is now in session." "Mr. Montgomery, you're representing the five food companies collectively?" "A privilege." "Mr. Benson... you're"They're all wilting." "Doesn't look very good, does it?" "No." "And whose fault do you think that is?" "You know, I'm gonna guess bees." "Bees?" "Specifically, me." "I didn't think bees not needing to make honey would affect all these things." "It's notjust flowers." "Fruits, vegetables, they all need bees." "That's our whole SAT test right there." "Take away produce, that affects the entire animal kingdom." "And then, of course..." "The human species?" "So if there's no more pollination, it could all just go south here, couldn't it?" "I know this is also partly my fault." "How about a suicide pact?" "How do we do it?" " I'll sting you, you step on me." " Thatjust kills you twice." "Right, right." "Listen, Barry..." "sorry, but I gotta get


them." "Be careful." "Oan I get help with the Sky Mall magazine?" "I'd like to order the talking inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer." "Oaptain, I'm in a real situation." " What'd you say, Hal?" " Nothing." "Bee!" "Don't freak out!" "My entire species..." "What are you doing?" " Wait a minute!" "I'm an attorney!" " Who's an attorney?" "Don't move." "Oh, Barry." "Good afternoon, passengers." "This is your captain." "Would a Miss Vanessa Bloome in 24B please report to the cockpit?" "And please hurry!" "What happened here?" "There was a DustBuster, a toupee, a life raft exploded." "One's bald, one's in a boat, they're both unconscious!" " Is that another bee joke?" " No!" "No one's flying the plane!" "This is JFK control tower, Flight 356." "What's=  150;
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the HBV markers modes and quantification between infected and non-infected infants. From the aspect of quantification of HBV markers assay, most lower limit of HBV DNA detection as shown in the literatures was about 500 IU/ml or higher \[[@B2],[@B7]\]. However, infants with HBV DNA below 500 IU/ml at birth, which detected negative with traditional detection system, were also at risk of infection \[[@B10]\]. With the development of more sensitive detection system, HBV DNA detection lower limit can be as low as 12 IU/ml as used in this study.

In this prospective, multi-centers study, kinetics of viral markers titer and HBV DNA load were investigated with more accurate assay methods, in infants treated with combined immunoprophylaxis by follow-up as long as 12 months, HBV markers modes and quantification were also compared, try to identifyHBeAg, and anti-HBc assays, respectively (lower limits of the dynamic range: 0.05 IU/mL, 10.00 mIU/mL, 1.00 s/co, and 1.00 s/co, respectively; Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, USA). The HBV DNA load was measured by a real-time PCR-based Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HBV test (lower limit of the dynamic range: 12 IU/mL; Roche Molecular Systems). Liver function tests were performed with an automated bioanalyzer (Olympus AU5400, Japan). Genotypes were determined by an in-house nested PCR assay, as described in the previous study \[[@B11]\].

Statistical analysis
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EpiData 3.0 was used to establish the clinical database. Data were double-checked for transcription errors, and were then analyzed statistically with SPSS 13.0. Descriptive analysis (calculations of averages, frequencies, proportions, or rates) was conducted. The chi-square for R × C table test was used for comparison between more than 2 groups. Mixed ANOVA was


7 months and 12 months. It was the nine infants that were diagnosed with HBV infection by follow-up. The failure rate of combined immunoprophylaxis in this study was comparable with literature (5%-10% *vs.* 6.1%) \[[@B2]-[@B5]\].

![**HBV DNA(+), HBsAg(+), HBeAg(+), anti-HBc(+), and anti-HBs(+) rates in infants.** Positive rates of **(A)** HBV DNA, HBsAg, and HBeAg and **(B)** anti-HBc and anti-HBs at birth, 1 mo, 7 mo and 12 mo.](1471-2334-13-524-2){#F2}

Among mothers of the 9 infected infants, 6 of them had high HBV DNA load (\>10^5^ IU/mL), and all of them had high levels of HBsAg (\>10^4^ IU/mL). Six mothers were HBeAg(+), and 3 were HBeAg(−) (Table [2](#T2){ref-type="table"}). All 9 mothers were positive for HBV genotype C, the dominant genotype in China as shown in our previous study \[[@B12]\].

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Characteristics of the 9 mother--infant pairs

  all infected infants presented persistently HBV markers positive. All the infants with high HBV DNA load (\>10^5^ IU/mL) and/or HBsAg titer (\>250 IU/mL) at birth identified HBV infection eventually. Although most of infants with low levels of HBV DNA load (\<10^5^ IU/mL) and/or HBsAg titer (\<250 IU/mL) at birth were free of HBV at 12 months, a small proportion of infants were persistent for HBV DNA(+) and HBsAg(+) during the follow-up, which supported the notion that a sensitive detection methods, as employed in our study, should be used for HBV infection screening.

As shown above, both HBV DNA and HBsAg in infants may be from their mothers. A non-mother-origin marker is desperately needed for early diagnosis of HBV infection. Although anti-HBs also pass through placenta theoretically, all the mothers were anti-HBs(−). We propose that


antigen; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; PCR: Polymerase chain reaction.

Competing interests
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions
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TC and JW carried out the experiments and drafted the manuscript. YF, ZY, TZ, ML, YB, HS, HL, YY, JL, YH, YC, ZL, and XX collected the blood sample of the mothers and the infants and acquired the individual patient data. SZ, GZ, XL, and WC helped in designing the study. YZ and YLiu are the corresponding authors for this manuscript. They also conceived and coordinated the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Pre-publication history
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The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:

<http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/13/524/prepub>

Acknowledgements
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We appreciate the guidance provided by Professor Shulin Zhang of Medical College of Xi'an Jiaotong University, and we are grateful for the experimental assistance providedQ:

How should I prune my persimmon tree that has a lot of thin branches growing upward?

I want to get advice on how to prune my persimmon tree. As the photo shows, many of the branches are growing upward. They are thin and at a very acute angle against the main trunk. Particularly, the top part of the main trunk (right photo) has many branches going upward.
I planted this tree about 4 years ago when it was 5 years old. Since then, I haven't done any pruning, but several thick lower branches have been accidentally broken. All these upshot branches came out this year.
The tree seems to need a proper pruning after this winter but I have no idea how to shape this tree with all these


is not modular (U.S. Pat. No. 4,682,783). Another wheel chair design appears to be a weld-free design that allows the wheel chair to adjust to different needs by use of special shaped bars and plates but in the applicants' view is limited to width and depth adjustment (U.S. Pat. No. 5,743,545).
Also, there are several U.S. patents that claim to be modular, allowing for different components to be used to build the chair to the user's needs. Among these is a rigid frame wheel chair (U.S. Pat. No. 5,421,598), but applicants believe this wheel chair does not convert or adapt to the extent of the current invention. A folding frame wheel chair that is moveable between and upper normal sitting position and a lower reclining position that does notPat. No. 4,852,697 only allow the assistant from behind to lock or unlock the device. Many examples exist of prior attempts to engage the large diameter driving wheel hub as the locking region, requiring intricate and expensive construction or adaptations of existing vehicles such as U.S. Pat. No. 3,897,857 disclosed by Rodaway, U.S. Pat. No. 4,538,825 by Lemarie, U.S. Pat. No. 5,203,433 by Dugas, U.S. Pat. No. 5,799,756 by Roberts, U.S. Pat. No. 6,012,555 by Duran, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,264,007 by Norton. Others require volitional (non-automatic) locking of the hub brake as in U.S. Pat. No. 5,379,866 by Pearce, U.S. Pat. No. 5,984,334 by Dugas, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,341,671 as disclosed by Ebersole. Some automatic locking devices require levers under the seat that are potentially uncomfortable


up. What is needed is an efficient, simple, reliable, unobtrusive, inexpensive self-locking anti-rollback system for self-propelled vehicles such as wheel chairs that will prevent an incapacitated occupant from experiencing rollaway of their vehicle when exiting or entering same.Public Health (<http://www.pzh.gov.pl>). Since 1974, procaine penicillin 4.8 million units intramuscularly together with the uriosuric drug probenecid 1.0 g orally have been recommended for treatment of gonorrhoea in Poland. Nevertheless, in practice a wide variety of antimicrobials are in use, i.e., particularly ceftriaxone (250-500 mg), but also cefixime, azithromycin, fluoroquinolones or tetracyclines \[[@B32],[@B33]\]. A substantial proportion of cases are not diagnosed and treated by dermatovenereologists but, instead, by primary care physicians, urologists and gynaecologists, mainly private health care providers. In general, sensitive methods such as culture or nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) for detection of *N. gonorrhoeae* are rather rarely used in Poland. No AMR data for *N. gonorrhoeae* isolates from Poland, with exception of β-lactamase production, have been internationally reported since the 1970s \[[@B34]-[@B38]\]. Furthermore, no other phenotypic or


signal CS (Chip Select Signal). Address signals are produced on address terminals of the control component SB and are supplied to the memory chips via address buses in order to select one of the memory cells in the memory cell array for memory access.
In the case of a memory module with the module configuration 2Rx4, a semiconductor memory module holds a total of 36 memory chips. A rank indicates the number of memory components necessary to provide the bus width for the control component. Since the bus width generally comprises 72 bits, an x4 organizational form for the semiconductor memory comprises 18 memory chips associated with a rank. If the semiconductor memory module in FIG. 1 is operated in a configuration of 2Rx4, each of the semiconductor memoryTherefore, the power consumption in a memory can be reduced by approximately half if, instead of using memory modules in the 2Rx4 configuration, memory modules in the 4Rx4 configuration are used. In this case, only 8 memory modules in the 4Rx4 configuration are required to design a memory with a storage capacity of 64 GB, for example, whereas 16 semiconductor memory modules in the configuration 2Rx4 would be necessary to design a memory of this kind. Since the number of control components is thus also reduced by half, the use of 8 semiconductor memory modules in the 4Rx4 configuration also allows the power consumption to be reduced by half in comparison with the use of 16 memory modules in the 2Rx4 module configuration.
If the semiconductor memory module in


performed on a GE Signa HDx 1.5T scanner, and PC flows measured with the resident FastCine PC pulse sequence (GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI). Breathe-though PC images were acquired perpendicular to the ascending aorta and main pulmonary artery. The flow sequences were repeated on a stationary fluid phantom to establish a baseline of zero velocity. The PC images were analyzed without and with phantom correction using GE ReportCard, and with background subtraction from stationary anterolateral chest wall tissue. The pulmonary-to-systemic blood flow ratio (Qp/Qs) was calculated for each method, as well as by volumetric analysis of SSFP short axis images. The methods were compared to each other using paired student t tests. Correlation coefficients were calculated for each method. No shunt was defined as Qp/Qs = 1.00 +/- 0.15.

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Therethe cadexomer polymer provides an absorptive bandage to remove exudate \[[@B54-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. This agent is commonly used for chronic venous leg ulcers \[[@B38-antibiotics-09-00056],[@B55-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. The majority of studies examining the effect of iodine treatments on wound healing indicate that both PVP-I and cadexomer-iodine treatments have been observed to improve the rate of wound healing in patients with chronic wounds \[[@B56-antibiotics-09-00056]\].

The main concern regarding the use of iodine as an antimicrobial agent is adverse effects resulting from systemic exposure. A 1998 study indicated that use of cadexomer iodine paste in wound treatment was correlated with a significantly higher serum iodine concentration than was observed in groups treated with dressings without iodine \[[@B57-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Within a subset of the population, including children and newborns, iodine has been known to induce hypothyroidism \[[@B58-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Other


Accurate and reproducible dosing can be difficult, and multidose containers have the potential to become contaminated (especially if frequent reapplication is necessary). If a wound is of significant size, some systemic absorption of topically applied antimicrobials may still occur and thereby introduce some of the common challenges and toxicity often seen with systemic administration.

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For optimal healing, chronic wounds and burns need to stay moist during the treatment and healing process, as this results in faster epithelialization and enhanced angiogenesis and collagen synthesis than a dry environment \[[@B64-antibiotics-09-00056],[@B65-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Additionally, a moist wound environment allows faster breakdown of dead tissue and fibrin, resulting in less scarring \[[@B66-antibiotics-09-00056],[@B67-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Finally, perhaps counterintuitively, maintenance of wound moisture has been observed to correlate to a significantly lower infection rate than keepingprovide a moist wound environment, and can be removed \[[@B1-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Cellulose derivatives also carry the benefits of low cost and can be formulated into a variety of preparations including films, wafers, and gels. CMC can be blended and polymerized with other materials, including polyethylene glycol (PEG), to form hydrogel matrices \[[@B151-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. CMC also exists in salt form (NaCMC) to form intermolecular crosslinks in a blended hydrogel matrix, whereas native CMC tends to form intramolecular links \[[@B182-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. CMC has also been combined with zinc oxide nanoparticles to form an antimicrobial and pH-sensitive hydrogel \[[@B155-antibiotics-09-00056]\] and silver nanoparticles in a hydrogel that is effective against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial strains \[[@B183-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Recent work has also demonstrated that NaCMC can effectively deliver antimicrobials to treat wound infection when developed as a


healing model, the hydrogel loaded with the angiogenic drug exhibited increased healing rate, lowering the available infection time of the wound \[[@B192-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Irwansyah et al. developed an antimicrobial hydrogel of 9-fluoroenylmethoxycarbonyl-modified oligopeptides with phenylalanine (gelator) and leucine (antimicrobial). The developed hydrogel was active against Gram-positive bacteria by disrupting the bacterial cell walls and membranes \[[@B194-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. Other antimicrobial hydrogels being developed include peptide-based hydrogels and polymer-based hydrogels containing poly(hexamethylene) biguanide hydrochloride (PHMB) hydrogels, polycarbonate containing quaternary ammonium groups, or zwitterionic polymers \[[@B40-antibiotics-09-00056],[@B156-antibiotics-09-00056],[@B195-antibiotics-09-00056]\].

Chitosan, deacetylated chitin found in insect exoskeletons, shrimp, crab, and some fungi, is another naturally occurring polysaccharide used extensively in applications in the medical and the food industries \[[@B193-antibiotics-09-00056]\]. It is biocompatible and biodegradable and can be produced with various molecular weights ranging from 300 to over 1000faster release and attachment to MRSA cell walls, which reduced the bacterial load and promoted healing in a MRSA-infected wound. Nanoparticles, whether metal or polymeric, have exhibited antimicrobial activity against a wide variety of organisms. They can be used as a stand-alone treatment or incorporated into other systems to prolong antimicrobial release. Overall, nanoparticles are a versatile treatment option (with a wide variety of formulations) that maintain high antimicrobial concentrations in the wound bed but likely require another vehicle to keep them in the applied area.

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Treatment of wound infections has been a long-standing clinical challenge complicated by the presence of biofilms, multi-drug resistant microbes, and a heterogenous wound environment. Systemic antibiotics are not always appropriate for treatment of wound infections, but we have yet to encounter


by itself; no intrinsic antimicrobial activity   Salt form for intermolecular crosslink; blend or polymerize with other compounds
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= \sum_{p \owns xy}f_p$ is the *flow graph* of the underlying flow. By taking $H$ to be the complete graph, Leighton and Rao showed an upper bound of $h(G) \leq O(\log n)\alpha^* h(H)$ for the optimal $\alpha^*$, yielding an $O(\log n)$ approximation. The other theme is the discrete Cheeger’s inequality of Alon and Milman[@Alon] characterizing the relationship between cuts and the spectrum of a graph’s Laplacian matrix. In particular, if $G$ has maximum degree $d$, then $\lambda_2({\mathcal{L}}_G)/2 \leq h(G) \leq \sqrt{2d\lambda_2({\mathcal{L}}_G)}$, where $\lambda_2({\mathcal{L}}_G)$ is second smallest eigenvalue of $G$’s Laplacian. The two themes are incomparable, as the latter is a better approximation


demand weights for every pair of vertices, so $\Omega(n^2)$ space is required to even explicitly write it down. On the other hand, each ${\mathbf{v}}_x \in {\mathbb{R}}^{O(\log n)}$, so the weights $\|{\mathbf{v}}_x-{\mathbf{v}}_y\|^2$ are all implicitly stored in only $O(n\log n)$ space. Therefore, making use of the additional geometric structure of these instances is crucial to achieving sub-quadratic time. Implicit in all of [@KRV; @AroraKale; @OSVV] is a specialized algorithm to approximately solve . The actual algorithm used is the same in all three, and those algorithms differ only in their strategy for the embedding player.

In the next two subsections, we briefly sketch the single-commodity and multicommodity flow based algorithms of [@AroraKale], and then describe how we tie the two together. In particular, our algorithm is essentially an “algorithmetization” ofthe multicommodity flow algorithm’s analysis. For the rest of the section, suppose we have an embedding ${V}$ with $\sum_{x < y} \|{\mathbf{v}}_x-{\mathbf{v}}_y\|^2 = n^2$, and let us further assume that the points are unique and $\|{\mathbf{v}}_x\| \leq 1$ for all $x$; i.e., the diameter is not much more than the average distance.

Using Single-Commodity Flows
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Consider first the absolute simplest case, where $d=1$ and the points are simply numbers in $[-1,1]$. It is easy to see that since the points are in $[-1,1]$, unique, and have average squared-distance $\Omega(1)$, there must be some interval $[a,b]$, where $b-a =
\Omega(1) =: \sigma$ and the set of points to the left of $a$, $A = \{x : {\mathbf{v}}_x \leq a\}$ and to the right of $b$, $B = \{y : {\mathbf{v}}_y \geq b\}$


says we can always augment $R = O(\sqrt{\log n})$ such flowpaths to route demand between points of squared-distance $L = \Omega(1)$, at the cost of possibly raising congestion by a factor of $R$. Thus, either $\Delta \geq L/R = \Omega(1/\sqrt{\log n})$, or else augmenting together $R$ typical flowpaths and scaling down by $R$ maintains feasibility and increases the objective of .

Unfortunately, theorem \[ARV\] doesn’t say anything at all about *finding* such directions ${\mathbf{u}}$, or whether the same ${\mathbf{u}}_1,\ldots,{\mathbf{u}}_R$ will simultaneously work for many vertices. To analyze such an algorithm, we need a stronger, algorithmic version of theorem \[ARV\]. Our main technical contribution is such a theorem.

\[ARVstrong\] For any $1 \leq R \leq \Theta(\sqrt{\log(n)})$, there is $L \geq \Theta(R^2/\log(n))$ and an (efficiently sample-able) distribution ${\mathcal{D}}$ over $({\mathbb{R}}^d)^{\leq R}$ withand the corresponding game in the context of the [sparsest cut]{} problem, our algorithm applies most directly to [balanced separator]{}, which has a similar SDP relaxation and game. Roughly, the difference is that in the [balanced separator]{} case the embedding player must choose an embedding for which the maximum squared distance between points is not much larger than the average. When the average distance is $\Theta(1)$, this is equivalent to the requirement that $\|{\mathbf{v}}_x\| \leq O(1)$ assumed earlier in section \[FLOWS\]. The reduction from [sparsest cut]{} to [balanced separator]{} is well-known, and in fact, the unbalanced case is “easy” in the sense that if the cut found is unbalanced, it will be an $O(1)$ approximation to the sparsest cut[@ARV]. In particular, Arora and Kale show that one can


\overline{S}$ minimizing $\|{\mathbf{v}}_x -
{\mathbf{v}}_y|^2$, match them, and then remove them. Repeated application of the the isoperimetric condition implies that, for all $S$ with $|S| \leq n/2$, $|{\mathsf{Ball}}[S;t\sqrt{r}]| \geq \min\{1 + n/2,
(1+\Omega(1))^t|S|\}$. It follows that if two sets $A, B$ have size $s$, there must be $x \in A$, $y \in B$ with $\|{\mathbf{v}}_x - {\mathbf{v}}_y\| \leq 2t\sqrt{r}$ for $t =
\lceil \log_{(1+\Omega(1))}(n/2s)\rceil + 1 \leq 2 + O(1)\log(n/2s)$. Then, the total cost of the greedy solution is at most, $$\begin{aligned}
\sum_{xy \in M}\| {\mathbf{v}}_x - {\mathbf{v}}_y\|^2 &\leq O\left( \sum_{s=1}^{n/2} \left(1 +
\log(n/2s)\right)^2 \cdot r\right) \notag \\
 &\leq O\left(n + \int_0^{n/2}\log^2(n/2s)\ \mathrm{d}s\right)r \notag \\
 &\leq O(nr) \notag \ifFOCS \tag*{\IEEEQED} \else \qedhere \fi\end{aligned}$$

For the case of theorem \[oldlower\], let ${\mathbf{v}}_x \in
\{-1/\sqrt{d},1/\sqrt{d}\}^d$ be the hypercube embedding and take $L = n/d$ in lemma \[potential\].abstract

Both cascade and isolated airfoil methods are considered valid in axial fan blade design, for high (σ≳1) and low (σ≲0.7) solidities respectively. For bladings that feature intermediate solidities the modified isolated approach is commonly employed. This method uses isolated airfoil data, with proper adjustments to take into account multiplane interference effects. Contrarily, the literature does not refer about modifications of the cascade approach to design medium solidity fans. Such method would use cascade data, properly adjusted for the blade sections at lower solidities. Thus, with the aim of comparing these two opposite design approaches (modified cascade versus modified isolated) for medium solidity blades, two free-vortex blading were designed for a 315 mm rotor-only axial fan and experimentally tested. CFD analyses were performed as well to obtain the local


David and artist Noel Tuazon have done with the character, however, is not what you might expect.

Derek McCaw: What drew you to this character originally?

A. David Lewis: He had this strange nobility, sort of a panache, that I was surprised to find in a comics character from the 1940s, particularly a non-Caucasian, non-Christian one. In bringing him to the present, I’ve kept him from being too precious, too holier than thou, but I like to think that strength of character remains. Sometimes, in describing the series quite quickly, I shorthand him as “the 1st Muslim superhero who I did a ‘Captain America’ with and brought to the present,” but I hope I’ve made Kismet a bit more grounded than Cap. Kismet never became an icon, and, instead, hehence it tends to coagulate and precipitate. In the case of shorter alkyl chain length, diglycerol monolaurate (DGL) surfactant-oil systems, dispersion of lamellar liquid crystal (Lalpha) is observed at room temperature, and the poor foaming properties were attributed to the large particle size of the liquid crystal. In both the DGL and DGM-oil systems, we observed a tendency of the particle size to decrease with the increasing concentration of added water. At higher temperature, the solid surfactant transforms to lamellar liquid crystal phase, and foaming is improved in the DGM/squalane system. Foams are stable for several minutes. Judging from the foaming test and particle size distribution data it can be concluded that the poor foaming in the diglycerol fatty acid esters-oil systems may possibly be due to bigger


FingerBetween 8 and 14 weeks after conception the fetus (the baby, if you’re a devout Christian) begins developing his/her own hormones. These hormones affect everything from brain development to the length of the fingers. Women typically have either same length ring and index fingers or index fingers that are slightly longer than their ring fingers, while men tend to have a ring finger that is longer that their index finger. It is believed that this is the first sign of hormone development in babies. Boys who have longer index fingers (like their female counterparts) tend to be more emotional and sensitive and girls with longer ring fingers (ala Xena) tend to show signs of hyperactivity. This initial sign is also being explored as an indicator for signs ofworking closely with private accommodation providers and ensured that existing hotel / B&B family accommodation bookings will not be adversely affected during the Papal visit;

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the age, standing stature, body mass, and playing position of all 409 male handball players from 24 countries and 5 continents were recorded and body mass index (BMI) of the players calculated. National teams were organized by their ranks and sub-grouped using their continents and playing positions.

Statistical analysis
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All results are reported as a mean ± SD. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to verify the normality of the distribution. In addition, differences of age, body height, body mass and body mass index across groups (G1--G6), playing positions and continents were analyzed with oneway analysis of variance (ANOVA). When a significant difference was revealed, the Dunnett's T3 or Scheffe's post hoc test was used to specify where the difference occurred. When the homogeneity of variance was established, the Scheffe's postof body mass showed that the line players had the highest body mass and BMI values ([Table 3](#t3-jhk-39-213){ref-type="table"}).

For further analysis of the data, the teams were divided into five groups according to their geographical location ([Table 4](#t4-jhk-39-213){ref-type="table"}). European players had significantly higher values in age, standing stature and body mass than the others.

Furthermore, position-adjusted partial correlations showed that there were negative associations between the ranks of the teams and age (r = −0.150; p=0.002), standing stature (r = −0.398; p=0.0001), and body mass (r = −0.253; p=0.0001; [Table 5](#t5-jhk-39-213){ref-type="table"}).

Discussion
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Previous reports have shown that body stature and morphological characteristics can determine the selection of participants in many sports ([@b5-jhk-39-213]). To succeed in a sport discipline, it is often important to have specific anthropometric attributes ([@b17-jhk-39-213]). Handball involves frequent body