50 Years After the 25th Amendment: How to Improve Presidential Succession

Pamphlet summarizing the Second Succession Clinic\u27s recommendations

Role of Spirituality in Mental Health Practice

Background: Most modern medical disciplines adopt biomedical and positivistic corners while viewing andinterpreting various events and phenomena related to living and physical worlds. But in case of mental health thedimension is much complicated and full of abstract elements and relativism; all these areas can be expressed orenumerated what can be possible in other steams of physical and biological sciences. Factors like socio-cultural andhuman factors, spirituality and religiosity have some definite association with various aspects of mental health andillness. Spirituality in recent times has been entertained as a major factor in determining the course of mental healthand illness; it drew the attention of mental health clinicians and researchers to find out its temporal relationship withmental illness and psychological wellbeing. Many authentic literatures came up with the view that positivespirituality does have some potentialities to enhance as well as protect the positive mental health and psychologicalwell-being of the people. Spirituality can also lower the distress level and increase the positive coping ability ofpeople. The aim of this article is to explore the role of spirituality in mental health in terms of evolution ofpsychopathology, understanding of the illness and finally, its role in treatment of the psychiatric settings. This articlealso aims to sensitize mental health clinicians to remain positive towards the religious and spiritual beliefs of patientsand to use those things in the therapeutic process

Non-Extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series. National Accounts-Based Inverse Problems

Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics approach to the economic modelling of ill-behaved inverse problems. Particular attention is paid to national account-based general equilibrium models known for their relative complexity. In theoretical terms, the approach generalizes Gibbs-Shannon-Golan entropy models, which are useful for describing ergodic phenomena. In essence, this entropy econometrics approach constitutes a junction of two distinct concepts: Jayne’s maximum entropy principle and the Bayesian generalized method of moments. Rival econometric techniques are not conceptually adapted to solving complex inverse problems or are seriously limited when it comes to practical implementation. Recent literature showed that amplitude and frequency of macroeconomic fluctuations do not substantially diverge from many other extreme events, natural or human-related, once they are explained in the same time (or space) scale. Non-extensive entropy is a precious device for econometric modelling even in the case of low frequency series, since outputs evolving within the Gaussian attractor correspond to the Tsallis entropy limiting case of Tsallis q-parameter around unity. This book introduces a sub-discipline called Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics or, using a recent expression, Superstar Generalised Econometrics. It demonstrates, using national accounts-based models, that this approach facilitates solving nonlinear, complex inverse problems, previously considered intractable, such as the constant elasticity of substitution class of functions. This new proposed approach could extend the frontier of theoretical and applied econometrics

Second Ceres, 1982

1982 Menus from Second Ceres restaurant, 21 Pleasant Street. The space had previously been The Hungry Hunza restaurant, Second Ceres was in business from 1981-1983, and by early 1984 the space became home to Alberta\u27s restaurant (where Alberta\u27s was located through 1996). See Additional Files link (above) for the Second Ceres Breakfast MENU.1981 Photograph from Second Ceres can be seen at this link.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/menus/1053/thumbnail.jp

Evolutionary relationships in the Sativa group of Oryza based on isozyme data

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Non-Extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series

The second edition of Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics approach to the economic modelling of ill-behaved inverse problems. Particular attention is paid to national account-based general equilibrium models known for their relative complexity. This new proposed approach could extend the frontier of theoretical and applied econometrics

Genetic Architecture of Salt and Drought Tolerance in Cowpea

Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] is a diploid and nutrient-dense legume species. It provides affordable source of protein to human. Cowpea cultivation is prevalent in Africa, Asia, the western and southern U.S., and Central and South America. However, earlier reports have shown that drought and salt stress can be devastating to cowpea production. The objectives of this study were to screen for salt and drought tolerance in cowpea and to identify molecular markers associated with these traits. Simple methodologies to screen for drought (Chapter 2) and salt tolerance were developed (Chapter 3). Results suggested that: 1) a total of 14, 18, 5, 5, and 35 SNPs were associated with plant growth habit change due to drought stress, drought tolerance index for maturity, flowering time, 100-seed weight, and grain yield respectively in a MAGIC cowpea population, the network-guided approach revealed clear interactions between the loci associated with the drought tolerance traits, and GS accuracy varied from low to moderate for this population, 2) a total of 7, 2, 18, 18, 3, 2, 5, 1, and 23 SNPs were associated with various traits evaluated for salt tolerance in a MAGIC cowpea population, some of these SNPs were in the vicinity of potassium channel and biomolecule transporters, and significant epistatic interactions were found 3) a large variation of salt tolerance and drought tolerance was found in the panel involving 331 cowpea genotypes which were genotyped with 14,465,516 SNPs obtained from whole-genome resequencing, 4) tolerance to salt and drought-related traits seemed to be associated with the geographical origins of the cowpea genotypes, 5) a significant GWAS peak defined by a cluster of 196 significant SNPs and mapped on a 210-kb region of chromosome 5 was identified to be a good locus candidate for tolerance to trifoliate leaf chlorosis under drought stress in cowpea and harbored hormone-induced genes, and 6) a strong candidate locus for tolerance to leaf score injury under salt stress and defined by a cluster of 1,400 significant SNPs on chromosome 3 was identified and this region harbored a potassium channel gene. The results from this study could contribute to a better understanding of salt and drought tolerance in cowpea. The salt- and drought-tolerant genotypes could be used as parents in cowpea breeding programs