340 research outputs found
The Vehicle, Spring 2004
Table of Contents
Mother Nature\u27s PotentialsChristina Leepage 4
The Elephant in the RoomErika Olsenpage 5
Sin of MortalsHeather Harmonpage 6
Autumn GoldBrianne Kennedypage 7
Flight to the SeaBrianne Kennedypage 8
SmileTravis A. Probstpage 9
The BodyLavada Rainierpage 10
GuessTravis A. Probstpage 11
MonopolyCatherine Apodacapage 12
MourningLavada Rainierpage 13
A Premonition During My Sister\u27s PregnancyLavada Rainierpage 14
The Things I LoveSarah Chancepage 15
Flights of BirdsLavada Rainierpage 16
The Slumbering LibrarianJosh Sopiarzpage 16
Untitled (1)Josh Reeleypage 18
Untitled (2)Josh Reeleypage 19
Untitled (3)Josh Reeleypage 20
Self-IntrospectionLiz Toyntonpage 21
Mother\u27s DayCatherine Apodacapage 22
CarolJosh Sopiarzpage 23
PerhapsWillie Griggspage 24
PoemWillie Griggspage 25
In Longing for WealthWillie Griggspage 26
Crisis by DesignCatherine Apodacapage 27
UntitledLiz Toyntonpage 28
SleetCara Moranpage 29https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1081/thumbnail.jp
The Vehicle, Spring 2004
Table of Contents
Mother Nature\u27s PotentialsChristina Leepage 4
The Elephant in the RoomErika Olsenpage 5
Sin of MortalsHeather Harmonpage 6
Autumn GoldBrianne Kennedypage 7
Flight to the SeaBrianne Kennedypage 8
SmileTravis A. Probstpage 9
The BodyLavada Rainierpage 10
GuessTravis A. Probstpage 11
MonopolyCatherine Apodacapage 12
MourningLavada Rainierpage 13
A Premonition During My Sister\u27s PregnancyLavada Rainierpage 14
The Things I LoveSarah Chancepage 15
Flights of BirdsLavada Rainierpage 16
The Slumbering LibrarianJosh Sopiarzpage 16
Untitled (1)Josh Reeleypage 18
Untitled (2)Josh Reeleypage 19
Untitled (3)Josh Reeleypage 20
Self-IntrospectionLiz Toyntonpage 21
Mother\u27s DayCatherine Apodacapage 22
CarolJosh Sopiarzpage 23
PerhapsWillie Griggspage 24
PoemWillie Griggspage 25
In Longing for WealthWillie Griggspage 26
Crisis by DesignCatherine Apodacapage 27
UntitledLiz Toyntonpage 28
SleetCara Moranpage 29https://thekeep.eiu.edu/vehicle/1081/thumbnail.jp
sĂgame v3: Gas Fragmentation in Postprocessing of Cosmological Simulations for More Accurate Infrared Line Emission Modeling
We present an update to the framework called Simulator of Galaxy Millimeter/submillimeter Emission (SĂGAME). SĂGAME derives line emission in the far-infrared (FIR) for galaxies in particle-based cosmological hydrodynamics simulations by applying radiative transfer and physics recipes via a postprocessing step after completion of the simulation. In this version, a new technique is developed to model higher gas densities by parameterizing the probability distribution function (PDF) of the gas density in higher-resolution simulations run with the pseudoLagrangian, Voronoi mesh code AREPO. The parameterized PDFs are used as a look-up table, and reach higher densities than in previous work. SĂGAME v3 is tested on redshift z = 0 galaxies drawn from the SIMBA cosmological simulation for eight FIR emission lines tracing vastly different phases of the interstellar medium. This version of SĂGAME includes dust radiative transfer with SKIRT and high-resolution photoionization models with CLOUDY, the latter sampled according to the density PDF of the AREPO simulations to augment the densities in the cosmological simulation. The quartile distributions of the predicted line luminosities overlap with the observed range for nearby galaxies of similar star formation rate (SFR) for all but two emission lines: [O I]63 and CO(3â2), which are overestimated by median factors of 1.3 and 1.0 dex, respectively, compared to the observed lineâSFR relation of mixed-type galaxies. We attribute the remaining disagreement with observations to the lack of precise attenuation of the interstellar light on sub-grid scales (200 pc) and differences in sample selection
Consensus guidelines for sarcopenia prevention, diagnosis and management in Australia and New Zealand
Background: Sarcopenia is an age-associated skeletal muscle condition characterized by low muscle mass, strength, and physical performance. There is no international consensus on a sarcopenia definition and no contemporaneous clinical and research guidelines specific to Australia and New Zealand. The Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ANZSSFR) Sarcopenia Diagnosis and Management Task Force aimed to develop consensus guidelines for sarcopenia prevention, assessment, management and research, informed by evidence, consumer opinion, and expert consensus, for use by health professionals and researchers in Australia and New Zealand. Methods: A four-phase modified Delphi process involving topic experts and informed by consumers, was undertaken between July 2020 and August 2021. Phase 1 involved a structured meeting of 29 Task Force members and a systematic literature search from which the Phase 2 online survey was developed (Qualtrics). Topic experts responded to 18 statements, using 11-point Likert scales with agreement threshold set a priori at >80%, and five multiple-choice questions. Statements with moderate agreement (70%â80%) were revised and re-introduced in Phase 3, and statements with low agreement (80%) were confirmed by the Task Force in Phase 4. Conclusions: The ANZSSFR Task Force present 17 sarcopenia management and research recommendations for use by health professionals and researchers which includes the recommendation to adopt the EWGSOP2 sarcopenia definition in Australia and New Zealand. This rigorous Delphi process that combined evidence, consumer expert opinion and topic expert consensus can inform similar initiatives in countries/regions lacking consensus on sarcopenia
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint
magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science
opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field
of view of 9.6 deg^2, and will be devoted to a ten-year imaging survey over
20,000 deg^2 south of +15 deg. Each pointing will be imaged 2000 times with
fifteen second exposures in six broad bands from 0.35 to 1.1 microns, to a
total point-source depth of r~27.5. The LSST Science Book describes the basic
parameters of the LSST hardware, software, and observing plans. The book
discusses educational and outreach opportunities, then goes on to describe a
broad range of science that LSST will revolutionize: mapping the inner and
outer Solar System, stellar populations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies,
the structure of the Milky Way disk and halo and other objects in the Local
Volume, transient and variable objects both at low and high redshift, and the
properties of normal and active galaxies at low and high redshift. It then
turns to far-field cosmological topics, exploring properties of supernovae to
z~1, strong and weak lensing, the large-scale distribution of galaxies and
baryon oscillations, and how these different probes may be combined to
constrain cosmological models and the physics of dark energy.Comment: 596 pages. Also available at full resolution at
http://www.lsst.org/lsst/sciboo
LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in
the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of
science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will
have unique survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is
driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking
an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and
mapping the Milky Way. LSST will be a wide-field ground-based system sited at
Cerro Pach\'{o}n in northern Chile. The telescope will have an 8.4 m (6.5 m
effective) primary mirror, a 9.6 deg field of view, and a 3.2 Gigapixel
camera. The standard observing sequence will consist of pairs of 15-second
exposures in a given field, with two such visits in each pointing in a given
night. With these repeats, the LSST system is capable of imaging about 10,000
square degrees of sky in a single filter in three nights. The typical 5
point-source depth in a single visit in will be (AB). The
project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations
by 2022. The survey area will be contained within 30,000 deg with
, and will be imaged multiple times in six bands, ,
covering the wavelength range 320--1050 nm. About 90\% of the observing time
will be devoted to a deep-wide-fast survey mode which will uniformly observe a
18,000 deg region about 800 times (summed over all six bands) during the
anticipated 10 years of operations, and yield a coadded map to . The
remaining 10\% of the observing time will be allocated to projects such as a
Very Deep and Fast time domain survey. The goal is to make LSST data products,
including a relational database of about 32 trillion observations of 40 billion
objects, available to the public and scientists around the world.Comment: 57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures
available from https://www.lsst.org/overvie
Timing of seasonal influenza epidemics for 25 countries in Africa during 2010-19: a retrospective analysis.
BACKGROUND: Using country-specific surveillance data to describe influenza epidemic activity could inform decisions on the timing of influenza vaccination. We analysed surveillance data from African countries to characterise the timing of seasonal influenza epidemics to inform national vaccination strategies. METHODS: We used publicly available sentinel data from African countries reporting to the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance and Response FluNet platform that had 3-10 years of data collected during 2010-19. We calculated a 3-week moving proportion of samples positive for influenza virus and assessed epidemic timing using an aggregate average method. The start and end of each epidemic were defined as the first week when the proportion of positive samples exceeded or went below the annual mean, respectively, for at least 3 consecutive weeks. We categorised countries into five epidemic patterns: northern hemisphere-dominant, with epidemics occurring in October-March; southern hemisphere-dominant, with epidemics occurring in April-September; primarily northern hemisphere with some epidemic activity in southern hemisphere months; primarily southern hemisphere with some epidemic activity in northern hemisphere months; and year-round influenza transmission without a discernible northern hemisphere or southern hemisphere predominance (no clear pattern). FINDINGS: Of the 34 countries reporting data to FluNet, 25 had at least 3 years of data, representing 46% of the countries in Africa and 89% of Africa's population. Study countries reported RT-PCR respiratory virus results for a total of 503â609 specimens (median 12â971 [IQR 9607-20â960] per country-year), of which 74â001 (15%; median 2078 [IQR 1087-3008] per country-year) were positive for influenza viruses. 248 epidemics occurred across 236 country-years of data (median 10 [range 7-10] per country). Six (24%) countries had a northern hemisphere pattern (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Morocco, Niger, and Tunisia). Eight (32%) had a primarily northern hemisphere pattern with some southern hemisphere epidemics (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Togo). Three (12%) had a primarily southern hemisphere pattern with some northern hemisphere epidemics (Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda). Three (12%) had a southern hemisphere pattern (Central African Republic, South Africa, and Zambia). Five (20%) had no clear pattern (CĂŽte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Rwanda). INTERPRETATION: Most countries had identifiable influenza epidemic periods that could be used to inform authorities of non-seasonal and seasonal influenza activity, guide vaccine timing, and promote timely interventions. FUNDING: None. TRANSLATIONS: For the Berber, Luganda, Xhosa, Chewa, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Afan Oromo translations of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section
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