Effects of C-Section Birth on Vasopressin 1a Receptors in the Prairie Vole Brain

The goal of this study was to understand how the brain might change depending on the birth experience: a vaginal birth or a cesarean section. C-sections have been associated with an increased risk of obesity and other behavioral and metabolic health conditions that are related to the function of hypothalamic hormones in the brain1. Vasopressin is one neuropeptide hormone that is produced in the hypothalamus and influences a variety of metabolic functions and behaviors, including water balance and social pair bonding2. This study used prairie voles to assess the effect of birth experience on the brain because of their human relatedness in thermoregulation, adult social behavior, and neurohormones. This study examined whether birth mode changed the densities of the receptors for vasopressin in the vole brain

Fear of cancer recurrence and its predictive factors among Iranian cancer patients

Fear of cancer recurrence (FOCR) is one of the most important psychological problems among cancer patients. In extensive review of related literature there were no articles on FOCR among Iranian cancer patients. Aim: The aim of present study was to investigation FOCR and its predictive factors among Iranian cancer patients. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-correlational study 129 cancer patients participated. For data collection, the demographic checklist and short form of fear of progression questionnaire was used. Logistic regression was used to determine predictive factors of FOCR. Result: Mean score of FOCR among participants was 44.8 and about 50% of them had high level of FOCR. The most important worries of participants were about their family and the future of their children and their lesser worries were about the physical symptoms and fear of physical damage because of cancer treatments. Also, women, breast cancer patient, and patients with lower level of education have more FOCR. Discussion: There is immediate need for supportive care program designed for Iranian cancer patients aimed at decreasing their FOCR. Especially, breast cancer patients and the patient with low educational level need more attention

Environmental Impact Assessment: Waypoint Park

The COB plans to develop a park along the Whatcom Waterway called Waypoint Park. The park will include the creation of a beach area, native vegetation, open lawn spaces, pedestrian walkways, a play structure and an Acid Ball art piece from the former Georgia Pacific pulp and tissue mill. Waypoint Park will serve to improve shoreline ecological functions, provide public access and recreation opportunities along the waterfront and connect the waterfront to the central business district (CBD) of downtown Bellingham. The park is part of the Waterfront District Subarea Plan (SAP) approved by the Bellingham City Council in December 2013

Concert recording 2018-04-08c

[Track 1]. Revolutions. Groove machine [Track 2]. Black / Marc Mellits -- [Track 3]. Adagio and allegro / G.F. Handel -- [Track 4]. Sonata. Allegro / Lawson Lunde -- [Track 5]. American quartet. Allegro ma non troppo / Antonin Dvořák -- [Track 6]. Spain / Chick Corea arranged by Eddie Jennings -- [Track 7]. First suite in E♭. Chaconne Intermezzo March / Gustav Holst

Measurements of the pp → ZZ production cross section and the Z → 4ℓ branching fraction, and constraints on anomalous triple gauge couplings at √s = 13 TeV

Four-lepton production in proton-proton collisions, pp -> (Z/gamma*)(Z/gamma*) -> 4l, where l = e or mu, is studied at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1). The ZZ production cross section, sigma(pp -> ZZ) = 17.2 +/- 0.5 (stat) +/- 0.7 (syst) +/- 0.4 (theo) +/- 0.4 (lumi) pb, measured using events with two opposite-sign, same-flavor lepton pairs produced in the mass region 60 4l) = 4.83(-0.22)(+0.23) (stat)(-0.29)(+0.32) (syst) +/- 0.08 (theo) +/- 0.12(lumi) x 10(-6) for events with a four-lepton invariant mass in the range 80 4GeV for all opposite-sign, same-flavor lepton pairs. The results agree with standard model predictions. The invariant mass distribution of the four-lepton system is used to set limits on anomalous ZZZ and ZZ. couplings at 95% confidence level: -0.0012 < f(4)(Z) < 0.0010, -0.0010 < f(5)(Z) < 0.0013, -0.0012 < f(4)(gamma) < 0.0013, -0.0012 < f(5)(gamma) < 0.0013

Concert recording 2017-11-05d

[Track 1]. Quatour pour Saxophones. Overture Brillante / Pierre Max Dubois -- [Track 2]. Arrivée de la Reine de Sabbat / G.F. Handel -- [Track 3]. Recitation book. Broken heart: Der du bist drei in Einigkeit / David Maslanka -- [Track 4]. Stemming+ / Nigel Wood -- [Track 5]. Capriol suite. Basse danse Pavane Tordion Bransles Pieds-en-l\u27air Mattachins / Peter Warlock arranged by R. Stevens -- [Track 6]. Carnival / Karen Street

Concert recording 2017-04-26

[Track 1]. Fantazia / Orlando Gibbons arranged by Fred Hemke -- [Track 2-3]. Quartette (Allegro de concert) / Caryl Florio -- [Track 4]. O magnum mysterium / Morten Lauridsen arranged by Chase Shumsky -- [Track 5]. Petite symphonie. Scherzo / Charles Gounod arranged by Aaron M. Durst -- [Track 6]. Grainger set. Mock Morris / Percy Aldridge Grainger arranged by Gary Bricault -- [Track 7]. Grainger set. Two British folk settings. I. Mo nighean dubh [Track 8]. II. The hunter in his career / Percy Aldridge Grainger arranged by Chalon Ragsdale -- [Track 9]. Molly on the shore / Percy Aldridge Grainger arranged by Jacques Larocque -- [Track 10]. The great gate of Kiev / Modest Mussorgsky and Maurice Ravel arranged by B.L. Bruske

The human in the loop Perspectives and challenges for RoboCup 2050

Robotics researchers have been focusing on developing autonomous and human-like intelligent robots that are able to plan, navigate, manipulate objects, and interact with humans in both static and dynamic environments. These capabilities, however, are usually developed for direct interactions with people in controlled environments, and evaluated primarily in terms of human safety. Consequently, human-robot interaction (HRI) in scenarios with no intervention of technical personnel is under-explored. However, in the future, robots will be deployed in unstructured and unsupervised environments where they will be expected to work unsupervised on tasks which require direct interaction with humans and may not necessarily be collaborative. Developing such robots requires comparing the effectiveness and efficiency of similar design approaches and techniques. Yet, issues regarding the reproducibility of results, comparing different approaches between research groups, and creating challenging milestones to measure performance and development over time make this difficult. Here we discuss the international robotics competition called RoboCup as a benchmark for the progress and open challenges in AI and robotics development. The long term goal of RoboCup is developing a robot soccer team that can win against the world’s best human soccer team by 2050. We selected RoboCup because it requires robots to be able to play with and against humans in unstructured environments, such as uneven fields and natural lighting conditions, and it challenges the known accepted dynamics in HRI. Considering the current state of robotics technology, RoboCup’s goal opens up several open research questions to be addressed by roboticists. In this paper, we (a) summarise the current challenges in robotics by using RoboCup development as an evaluation metric, (b) discuss the state-of-the-art approaches to these challenges and how they currently apply to RoboCup, and (c) present a path for future development in the given areas to meet RoboCup’s goal of having robots play soccer against and with humans by 2050.</p