Global Journalist: Views from around the world on the Israeli-Palestinian war and its global impact

On Apr. 4, 2002 Stuart Loory continues the discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian war for the third week in a row. His fellow journalists agree that what has been done, so far, by all international mediators – the U.S. getting most of the criticism – hasn’t led anywhere. Loory dares his peers to suggest a way out of this impasse

The Effects of Haptic Feedback on Postural Sway

Purpose: Effectiveness of haptic feedback on reducing postural sway Hypothesis: Haptic input improves static standing stability. Individuals with increased variability in sway may have an increased risk for falls. Therefore, our haptic feedback device may have the ability to reduce risk of falling. Postural control is a dynamic system involving vision, vestibular system, proprioception, and musculoskeletal system. Postural control enables people to maintain their balance, reduce their sway, and keep an upright posture. Haptic feedback is tactile or vibratory cues that assist a subject in determining where they are in space

Real-time position control of concentric tube robots

A novel approach to constructing robots is based on concentrically combining pre-curved elastic tubes. By rotating and extending the tubes with respect to each other, their curvatures interact elastically to position and orient the robot's tip, as well as to control the robot's shape along its length. Since these robots form slender curves, they are well suited for minimally invasive medical procedures. A substantial challenge to their practical use is the real-time solution of their kinematics that are described by differential equations with split boundary equations. This paper proposes a numerically efficient approach to real-time position control. It is shown that the forward kinematics are smooth functions that can be pre-computed and accurately approximated using Fourier series. The inverse kinematics can be solved in real time using root finding applied to the functional approximation. Experimental demonstration of real-time position control using this approach is also described

Image analysis and statistical inference in neuroimaging with R

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It can be considered an alternative implementation of the S language developed in the 1970s and 1980s for data analysis and graphics (Becker and Chambers, 1984; Becker et al., 1988). The R language is part of the GNU project and offers versions that compile and run on almost every major operating system currently available. We highlight several R packages built specifically for the analysis of neuroimaging data in the context of functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. We review their methodology and give an overview of their capabilities for neuroimaging. In addition we summarize some of the current activities in the area of neuroimaging software development in R

Scalable Computational Algorithms for Geo-spatial Covid-19 Spread in High Performance Computing

A nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) based compartmental model of COVID-19 provides a continuous trace of infection over space and time. Finer resolutions in the spatial discretization, the inclusion of additional model compartments and model stratifications based on clinically relevant categories contribute to an increase in the number of unknowns to the order of millions. We adopt a parallel scalable solver allowing faster solutions for these high fidelity models. The solver combines domain decomposition and algebraic multigrid preconditioners at multiple levels to achieve the desired strong and weak scalability. As a numerical illustration of this general methodology, a five-compartment susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered-deceased (SEIRD) model of COVID-19 is used to demonstrate the scalability and effectiveness of the proposed solver for a large geographical domain (Southern Ontario). It is possible to predict the infections up to three months for a system size of 92 million (using 1780 processes) within 7 hours saving months of computational effort needed for the conventional solvers

Asignación anticipada e interés superior del niño durante el proceso de alimentos en el juzgado de familia de la CSJ Lima Este - 2023

La presente tesis, se realizó con el objetivo principal de analizar la relación existente entre la asignación anticipada con el interés superior del niño durante el proceso de alimentos en el juzgado de familia de la CSJ Lima Este -2023., motivo por lo cual ha sido pertinente realizar un estudio a profundidad del marco normativo, doctrina, derecho comparado y plenos casatorios, con respecto a la asignación anticipada y el interés superior del niño en territorio nacional. La metodología que se ha empleado en la tesis es de tipo básica, para el cual hemos utilizamos el enfoque cualitativo ya que tiene como finalidad describir y también evaluar las respuestas obtenidas por los participantes que fueron sujeto de estudio, contiene un diseño de investigación interpretativo, basado en la teoría fundamentada. Obteniendo como resultado mediante la elaboración de los instrumentos de recolección de análisis documental y las guías de entrevistas. En este sentido, se concluyó que la asignación anticipada se relaciona directamente con el interés superior del niño durante el proceso de alimentos en el juzgado de familia

MITOMAP: a human mitochondrial genome database—2004 update

MITOMAP (http://www.MITOMAP.org), a database for the human mitochondrial genome, has grown rapidly in data content over the past several years as interest in the role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in human origins, forensics, degenerative diseases, cancer and aging has increased dramatically. To accommodate this information explosion, MITOMAP has implemented a new relational database and an improved search engine, and all programs have been rewritten. System administrative changes have been made to improve security and efficiency, and to make MITOMAP compatible with a new automatic mtDNA sequence analyzer known as Mitomaster

Six simple guidelines for introducing new genera of fungi

We formulate five guidelines for introducing new genera, plus one recommendation how to publish the results of scientific research. We recommend that reviewers and editors adhere to these guidelines. We propose that the underlying research is solid, and that the results and the final solutions are properly discussed. The six criteria are: (1) all genera that are recognized should be monophyletic; (2) the coverage of the phylogenetic tree should be wide in number of species, geographic coverage, and type species of the genera under study; (3) the branching of the phylogenetic trees has to have sufficient statistical support; (4) different options for the translation of the phylogenetic tree into a formal classification should be discussed and the final decision justified; (5) the phylogenetic evidence should be based on more than one gene; and (6) all supporting evidence and background information should be included in the publication in which the new taxa are proposed, and this publication should be peer-reviewed