The Grapefruit Special vol.1 no.3

A short booklet dedicated to the Golden Grapefruit of the Rio Grande Valley. The booklet describes how the Valley is a great place for agriculture. It also addresses other areas such as fishing and hunting, and women\u27s activities.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnshary/1019/thumbnail.jp

Influential Article Review - A Comprehensive Assessment of the Blockchain Concept

This paper examines business and economics. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: Blockchain is considered by many to be a disruptive core technology. Although many researchers have realized the importance of blockchain, the research of blockchain is still in its infancy. Consequently, this study reviews the current academic research on blockchain, especially in the subject area of business and economics. Based on a systematic review of the literature retrieved from the Web of Science service, we explore the top-cited articles, most productive countries, and most common keywords. Additionally, we conduct a clustering analysis and identify the following five research themes: “economic benefit,” “blockchain technology,” “initial coin offerings,” “fintech revolution,” and “sharing economy.” Recommendations on future research directions and practical applications are also provided in this paper. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

Protocol for sectioning human dentine: expanded from Methods 1 and 2

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Isotope analysis of incremental human dentine: towards higher temporal resolution

YesHere we present a novel method which allows the measurement of the stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) from much smaller samples of dentine than previously possible without affecting the quality parameters. The reconstruction of the diet of past populations using isotopic analysis of bone collagen is a well-established tool. However, because of remodelling of bone throughout life, this gives a blurred picture of the diet. The analysis of δ13C and δ15N from tiny increments of dentine utilizes tissue that does not remodel and permits comparison, at the same age, of those who survived infancy with those who did not at high temporal resolution. This new method has been tested on archaeological teeth from two sites: three molar teeth from the 19th Century Kilkenny Union Workhouse Famine cemetery, Ireland; and three from the Anglian (5-7th centuries AD) cemetery at West Heslerton, Yorkshire, England, selected on the basis of their varied preservation. The methods of incremental dentine sectioning described in Beaumont et al (2013)[1] were carried out and a sub-section removed prior to denaturing and lyophilisation. The two sample sets, dentine and collagen from each section, were measured by isotope ratio mass spectrometry. The profiles produced from each of the six teeth studied show close correlation in isotope ratios indicating that demineralized dentine which has not been denatured and lyophilised produces isotope ratios comparable with dentine collagen. This finding allows analysis of extremely small samples of dentine which could previously not be measured using current instruments and methods

Agricultural Ethics: Issues for the 21st Century

A review of Agricultural Ethics: Issues for the 21st Century, by Peter G. Hartel, Kathryn Paxton George, and James Vorst, editors

Embedding spanning bounded degree graphs in randomly perturbed graphs

We study the model G 8 G(n; p) of randomly perturbed dense graphs, where G is any n-vertex graph with minimum degree at least n and G(n; p) is the binomial random graph. We introduce a general approach for studying the appearance of spanning subgraphs in this model using absorption. This approach yields simpler proofs of several known results. We also use it to derive the following two new results. For every > 0 and C 5, and every n-vertex graph F with maximum degree at most , we show that if p = !(n−2~(+1)) then G 8 G(n; p) with high probability contains a copy of F. The bound used for p here is lower by a log-factor in comparison to the conjectured threshold for the general appearance of such subgraphs in G(n; p) alone, a typical feature of previous results concerning randomly perturbed dense graphs. We also give the rst example of graphs where the appearance threshold in G 8 G(n; p) is lower than the appearance threshold in G(n; p) by substantially more than a log-factor. We prove that, for every k C 2 and > 0, there is some > 0 for which the kth power of a Hamilton cycle with high probability appears in G 8 G(n; p) when p = !(n−1~k−). The appearance threshold of the kth power of a Hamilton cycle in G(n; p) alone is known to be n−1~k, up to a log-term when k = 2, and exactly for k > 2

Can compassion be taught? A medical students' compassion discourse

Background: Universities of Brighton, Surrey and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School responded to a regional bid to provide compassion awareness training to the local health care workforce. An appreciative inquiry methodology was used to develop a toolkit which included a number of different activities focused on the following pillars. Appreciate (best of what has been), imagine (what might be), determine (what should be) and finally create (what will be). One of the toolkit resources focused on seeking and celebrating acts of compassion. Methods: Following a cultivating compassion workshop, a group of medical students in their third year decided to use this activity from the Compassion toolkit to observe acts of compassion occurring within their clinical setting and reflected on the impact this activity had on them. Results: Themes deduced from the 34 acts of compassion witnessed included; team compassion, patient-centred compassion, peer to peer compassion and patient to patient compassion. Students’ reflections about undertaking this activity were thematically analysed and emerging themes included self compassion, confidence about talking about compassion, changes in behaviour and finally how could compassion be taught at medical school. Conclusion: This study generated discussions on what was the difference between acts of compassion and normal human behaviour and the “hidden curriculum” of health professionals’ behaviour. Students realised the importance of compassion and yet the absence of that word within their own curriculum. This small pilot study made it possible to consider how compassion can be taught within the undergraduate curriculum, simply by empowering students to open their eyes and witness compassionate acts. The medical students were able to see compassionate behaviour that they wished to model and that would support them once qualified

Accelerometry-Based Step Count Validation for Horse Movement Analysis During Stall Confinement

Quantitative tracking of equine movement during stall confinement has the potential to detect subtle changes in mobility due to injury. These changes may warn of potential complications, providing vital information to direct rehabilitation protocols. Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are readily available and easily attached to a limb or surcingle to objectively record step count in horses. The objectives of this study were: (1) to compare IMU-based step counts to a visually-based criterion measure (video) for three different types of movements in a stall environment, and (2) to compare three different sensor positions to determine the ideal location on the horse to assess movement. An IMU was attached at the withers, right forelimb and hindlimb of six horses to assess free-movement, circles, and figure-eights recorded in 5 min intervals and to determine the best location, through analysis of all three axes of the triaxial accelerometer, for step count during stall confinement. Mean step count difference, absolute error (%) and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were determined to assess the sensor's ability to track steps compared to the criterion measure. When comparing sensor location for all movement conditions, the right-forelimb vertical-axis produced the best results (ICC = 1.0, % error = 6.8, mean step count difference = 1.3) followed closely by the right-hindlimb (ICC = 0.999, % error = 15.2, mean step count difference = 1.8). Limitations included the small number of horse participants and the lack of random selection due to limited availability and accessibility. Overall, the findings demonstrate excellent levels of agreement between the IMU's vertical axis and the video-based criterion at the forelimb and hindlimb locations for all movement conditions

A Comparison of the Storage-Only Deficit and Joint Mechanism Deficit Hypotheses of the Verbal Working Memory Storage Capacity Limitation of Children with Developmental Language Disorder

Purpose: The storage-only deficit and joint mechanism deficit hypotheses are two possible explanations of the verbal working memory (vWM) storage capacity limitation of school-age children with developmental language disorder (DLD). We assessed the merits of each hypothesis in a large group of children with DLD and a group of same-age typically developing (TD) children. Method: Participants were 117 children with DLD and 117 propensity-matched TD children 7-11 years of age. Children completed tasks indexing vWM capacity, verbal short-term storage, sustained attention, attention switching, and lexical long-term memory (LTM). Results: For the DLD group, all of the mechanisms jointly explained 26.5% of total variance. Storage accounted for the greatest portion (13.7%), followed by controlled attention (primarily sustained attention 6.5%), and then lexical LTM (5.6%). For the TD group, all three mechanisms together explained 43.9% of total variance. Storage accounted for the most variance (19.6%), followed by lexical LTM (16.0%), sustained attention (5.4%), and attention switching (3.0%). There was a significant LTM by Group interaction in which stronger LTM scores were associated with significantly higher vWM capacity scores for the TD group as compared to the DLD group. Conclusions: Results support a joint mechanism deficit account of the vWM capacity limitation of children with DLD. Results provide substantively new insights into the underlying factors of the vWM capacity limitation in DLD