445 research outputs found
Cotton insect control (1988)
"These recommendations are based on research conducted in Missouri and are designed to provide adequate yet economical pest insect control with a minimum of insecticide applications."--First page.Flernoy G. Jones and Raymond A. Nabors (Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture)Revised 3/88/6
A STUDY OF FACULTY AND STUDENTS' PERCEIVED USE OF GOOD PRACTICES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF DEVELOPMENTAL MATHEMATICS CLASSROOMS
In this dissertation, which is written in a journal-ready format, results from three separate but related studies are reported. In the first study the extent to which developmental mathematics faculty (both full-time and adjunct) perceived they used the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education was explored. Comparisons of median and boxplots indicated that most developmental mathematics faculty reported using most of the principles often or very often, but variability existed on several items. Active Learning items were the least implemented. In the second study comparisons were made between developmental mathematics faculty and their students at one community college on their reported use of the Seven Principles. Patterns observed in the confidence intervals indicated (a) consistent behaviors among students across classes and (b) incongruence among students and their teachers on most items. In the last study, the principle of Student-Faculty Contact was explored by examining how the use of electronic communication influenced the development of student-faculty relationships through the responses of students from one community college. Results indicated that (a) student initiated conversations were correlated to studentsâ Predicted Outcome Value, (b) instructor immediacy behaviors and studentsâ reasons for communicating were correlated, and (c) studentsâ reasons for communication was the largest predictor for studentsâ Predicted Outcome Value. Personal/Social, Clarification, Efficiency Reasons and Immediacy explained 33.9% of the variance in studentsâ Predicted Outcome Value. The ÎČ weight and structure coefficient suggested Personal/Social reasons was a possible suppressor
Cost impact of blocking: predictability of ICU patient throughput and cost variance using process modeling
A trapped-ion local field probe
We introduce a measurement scheme that utilizes a single ion as a local field
probe. The ion is confined in a segmented Paul trap and shuttled around to
reach different probing sites. By the use of a single atom probe, it becomes
possible characterizing fields with spatial resolution of a few nm within an
extensive region of millimeters. We demonstrate the scheme by accurately
investigating the electric fields providing the confinement for the ion. For
this we present all theoretical and practical methods necessary to generate
these potentials. We find sub-percent agreement between measured and calculated
electric field values
Evaluation of an Afterschool Childrenâs Healthy Eating and Exercise Program
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of the Childrenâs Healthy Eating and Exercise Program (CHEE) in an afterschool program of an elementary school.
Methods:Students in a low-income elementary school were recruited to participate in the program. Thirty-three children were in the intervention group. Twenty-four children in the comparison group were recruited from after school clubs in the same elementary school.The CHEE Program consisted of 18 sessions, featuring nutrition (20 min) and physical activity (40 min) lessons. Nutrition lessons were adapted from the Traffic Light Diet. Other lessons included MyPlate, my refrigerator, my lunchbox, and a healthy foods tasting activity. Multiple physical activities were utilized in the program including soccer, dance, relay races, tag, and other fun games. Data were collected at the beginning and end of the program.
Results: Children in both groups reported eating more vegetables at the post-intervention measurement. Children in the intervention group indicated that they learned about healthy eating and new physical activities due to their participation in the program.
Conclusions: Future studies are needed to discover barriers to behavior change as well as apply a more rigorous design to examine the impact of the CHEE Program
MGMT Promoter Methylation Cutoff with Safety Margin for Selecting Glioblastoma Patients into Trials Omitting Temozolomide: A Pooled Analysis of Four Clinical Trials.
The methylation status of the O <sup>6</sup> -methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene promoter is predictive for benefit from temozolomide in glioblastoma (GBM). A clinically optimized cutoff was sought allowing patient selection for therapy without temozolomide, while avoiding to withhold it from patients who may potentially benefit.Experimental Design: Quantitative MGMT methylation-specific PCR data were obtained for newly diagnosed patients with GBM screened or treated with standard radiotherapy and temozolomide in four randomized trials. The pooled dataset was randomly split into a training and test dataset. The unsupervised cutoff was obtained at a 50% probability to be (un)methylated. ROC analysis identified an optimal cutoff supervised by overall survival (OS).
For 4,041 patients valid MGMT results were obtained, whereof 1,725 were randomized. The unsupervised cutoff in the training dataset was 1.27 (log <sub>2</sub> [1,000 Ă (MGMT+1)/ACTB]), separating unmethylated and methylated patients. The optimal supervised cutoff for unmethylated patients was -0.28 (AUC = 0.61), classifying "truly unmethylated" (â€-0.28) and "gray zone" patients (>-0.28, â€1.27), the latter comprising approximately 10% of cases. In contrast, for patients with MGMT methylation (>1.27) more methylation was not related to better outcome. Both methylated and gray zone patients performed significantly better for OS than truly unmethylated patients [HR = 0.35, 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.27-0.45, P < 0.0001; HR = 0.58, 95% CI, 0.43-0.78, P < 0.001], validated in the test dataset. The MGMT assay was highly reproducible upon retesting of 218 paired samples (R <sup>2</sup> = 0.94).
Low MGMT methylation (gray zone) may confer some sensitivity to temozolomide treatment, hence the lower safety margin should be considered for selecting patients with unmethylated GBM into trials omitting temozolomide
Full capacitance-matrix effects in driven Josephson-junction arrays
We study the dynamic response to external currents of periodic arrays of
Josephson junctions, in a resistively capacitively shunted junction (RCSJ)
model, including full capacitance-matrix effects}. We define and study three
different models of the capacitance matrix : Model A
includes only mutual capacitances; Model B includes mutual and self
capacitances, leading to exponential screening of the electrostatic fields;
Model C includes a dense matrix that is constructed
approximately from superposition of an exact analytic solution for the
capacitance between two disks of finite radius and thickness. In the latter
case the electrostatic fields decay algebraically. For comparison, we have also
evaluated the full capacitance matrix using the MIT fastcap algorithm, good for
small lattices, as well as a corresponding continuum effective-medium analytic
evaluation of a finite voltage disk inside a zero-potential plane. In all cases
the effective decays algebraically with distance, with
different powers. We have then calculated current voltage characteristics for
DC+AC currents for all models. We find that there are novel giant capacitive
fractional steps in the I-V's for Models B and C, strongly dependent on the
amount of screening involved. We find that these fractional steps are quantized
in units inversely proportional to the lattice sizes and depend on the
properties of . We also show that the capacitive steps
are not related to vortex oscillations but to localized screened phase-locking
of a few rows in the lattice. The possible experimental relevance of these
results is also discussed.Comment: 12 pages 18 Postscript figures, REVTEX style. Paper to appear in July
1, Vol. 58, Phys. Rev. B 1998 All PS figures include
Modeling Single Electron Transfer in Si:P Double Quantum Dots
Solid-state systems such as P donors in Si have considerable potential for
realization of scalable quantum computation. Recent experimental work in this
area has focused on implanted Si:P double quantum dots (DQDs) that represent a
preliminary step towards the realization of single donor charge-based qubits.
This paper focuses on the techniques involved in analyzing the charge transfer
within such DQD devices and understanding the impact of fabrication parameters
on this process. We show that misalignment between the buried dots and surface
gates affects the charge transfer behavior and identify some of the challenges
posed by reducing the size of the metallic dot to the few donor regime.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Nanotechnolog
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