Circuits and circuit testing for spaceborne redundant digital systems Special technical report no. 3

Design and testing of majority logic redundancy for spaceborne and GSE digital system

Religion in the News on an Ordinary Day: Methodology, Choices, and Bias

In this article we explore the Religion on an Ordinary Day (RoD) methodology in detail. The RoD project collected news stories published on September 17 over the period of three years (2013, 2014, 2015) in Australia, Canada, Finland, and the United Kingdom. We consider our decisions regarding the variability of language, researcher bias, and intercoder reliability in data collection and coding and the implications of those decisions. We offer a case study that analyzes references to New Religious Movements in the news. We considered the intentional choices, unintentional choices in the forms of accidents and misunderstandings, as well as unconsidered choices that may reveal the biases and assumptions of the coders. The article concludes by making several recommendations to address these challenges in future studies

Religion in the News on an Ordinary Day: Diversity and Change in English Canada

Canada has a deeply rooted connection with Christianity in its Protestant and Catholic forms. However, over the latter half of the 20th century there has been a strong shift toward secularization and the promotion of religious diversity. Through our study, we identified 186 news articles that made one or more references to conventional religion, common religion, or secular sacred themes. We then considered news stories with references to religion where religion was the main issue of the story and found 56 articles with majority of their focus on Islam. In the analysis it became clear there was a conflict in representations of Islam: as a terror threat or as a positive belief system. This study found a greater tolerance for religious diversity than was evident in earlier media studies in Canada, which suggests an overall shift in media representation that may be more representative of Canada’s changing religious demographics

Tiltaksplan for forurensede sedimenter i Borgundfjorden - Fase 2. Aspevågen, Buholmstranda og Fiskerstrand

NIVA og Multiconsult har på oppdrag for kommunene Ålesund og Sula utarbeidet tiltaksplan for forurensede sedimenter fase 2. Tiltaksplanen omfatter delområdene Aspevågen, Buholmstranda og Fiskerstrand. Det er utført supplerende sedimentundersøkelser som inngår i risikovurderingene av bunnsedimentene i området. Områdene kan ikke friskmeldes etter SFTs risikovurdering av forurensede sedimenter trinn 1 og 2. Det er i samarbeid med kommunene og fylket utarbeidet miljømål for området. Basert på risikovurderingene og miljømålene er det foreslått ulike tiltak i områdene. Første prioritet bør være å stoppe eksisterende kilder til forurensning fra land til sjø, herunder å stoppe tilførslene av TBT og Cu til området utenfor Fiskerstrand og Hg og PAH til Aspholet / Aspevågen. Deretter kan tiltak i sjø gjennomføres. Tildekking av forurensede sedimenter er å foretrekke fremfor fjerning. Arbeidet med kildekartlegging og forurensede sedimenter bør vektlegges og inngå i en helhetlig kommunal plan. Dette er særlig aktuelt ved utbygginsprosjekter i strandsonen

Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?

We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed substantial amounts, nurses contributed significantly more, on average 76 percent of their endowment. In a second part, subjects chose between a certain repetition of the experiment and a 50-50 chance of costly exit. About one third of the brokers and half of the nurses chose the exit option. While generosity was indeed higher among nurses, even when taking exits into account, the difference cannot readily be attributed to different degrees of altruism.dictator game, exit option, generosity, occupational differences

Maintenance of weight loss and aerobic capacity one year aft er the end of a lifestyle intervention focusing on nutritional guidance and/or exercise

The aims of this study were to: 1) investigate to what extent participants in a lifestyle intervention program, including nutritional guidance and two weekly intensive running sessions, maintain improvements in aerobic capacity and health parameters one year after the end of an intervention; and 2) identify common determinants for those participants who succeeded in weight loss maintenance. A total of 51 participants completed the 33-week intervention. One year after the end of the intervention period (1YA) 34 participants completed anthropometric measurements, 12 (8 women) in the training group (TG) and 22 (13 women) in the nutritional guidance and training group (NTG). A total of 13 participants (9 women) in the TG and 11 participants (7 women) in the NTG completed a 3000 m running test. There were no significant differences in body mass index, 3000 m running time or waist circumference between the groups 1YA. There was however, substantial variation in both groups as to what extent participants had maintained their weight loss. Higher self-efficacy and self-control in relation to food and exercise characterized those who best maintained their weight loss

Asymptotics of the solutions of the stochastic lattice wave equation

We consider the long time limit theorems for the solutions of a discrete wave equation with a weak stochastic forcing. The multiplicative noise conserves the energy and the momentum. We obtain a time-inhomogeneous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation for the limit wave function that holds both for square integrable and statistically homogeneous initial data. The limit is understood in the point-wise sense in the former case, and in the weak sense in the latter. On the other hand, the weak limit for square integrable initial data is deterministic

GoIFISH: a system for the quantification of single cell heterogeneity from IFISH images.

Molecular analysis has revealed extensive intra-tumor heterogeneity in human cancer samples, but cannot identify cell-to-cell variations within the tissue microenvironment. In contrast, in situ analysis can identify genetic aberrations in phenotypically defined cell subpopulations while preserving tissue-context specificity. GoIFISHGoIFISH is a widely applicable, user-friendly system tailored for the objective and semi-automated visualization, detection and quantification of genomic alterations and protein expression obtained from fluorescence in situ analysis. In a sample set of HER2-positive breast cancers GoIFISHGoIFISH is highly robust in visual analysis and its accuracy compares favorably to other leading image analysis methods. GoIFISHGoIFISH is freely available at www.sourceforge.net/projects/goifish/.This is the final published version. It is also available from Genome Biology at http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/8/442