Flexible Ultrasound Transducer Fixture

Final report and team photo for Project 21 of ME450, Fall 2010 semester.This project involves developing an automated ultrasound transducer positioning system for blood flow monitoring that does not disrupt patient care, minimizes measurement variability and is operator independent.William Weitzel (Nephrology, U of M); Grant Kruger (Mechanical Engineering, U of M)http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86248/1/ME450 Fall2010 Final Report - Project 21 - Flexible Ultrasound Transducer Fixture.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86248/2/ME450 Fall2010 Team Photo - Project 21 - Flexible Ultrasound Transducer Fixture.jp

Social group membership before treatment for substance dependence predicts early identification and engagement with treatment communities

Social relationships play a major role in recovery from substance dependence. To date, greater attention has been paid to the role of important individuals in a person’s life and their contribution to recovery following treatment. This study is the first to examine both individual and wider group-based social connections in the lead up to residential treatment for substance misuse in a therapeutic community (TC), and their influence both on a person’s readiness to engage with the treatment community and with a recovery pathway. Participants were 307 adults interviewed early in treatment about their individual- and group-based social relationships prior to treatment entry, their social identification with the TC, as ‘a user’ and a person ‘in recovery’, their current recovery capital and quality of life. Correlational analysis showed that only pre-treatment group-based, and not individual, relationships, were significantly associated with developing social identification with the TC early in treatment. Moreover, results of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that identification with the TC was best predicted by the extent to which people saw themselves as being in recovery. Finally, mediation analysis indicated that TC identification was the mechanism through which social group memberships prior to treatment commencement protected quality of life in the early phases of treatment. These findings highlight the protective role that group memberships play in building early identification with the TC and supporting well-being in a critical period of transitioning to treatment

Entry Assessment in Community Colleges: Tracking or Facilitating?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66989/2/10.1177_009155219302100302.pd

Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign

Abstract: In 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration succeeded in capturing the first direct image of the center of the M87 galaxy. The asymmetric ring morphology and size are consistent with theoretical expectations for a weakly accreting supermassive black hole of mass ∼6.5 × 109 M ⊙. The EHTC also partnered with several international facilities in space and on the ground, to arrange an extensive, quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign. This Letter presents the results and analysis of this campaign, as well as the multi-wavelength data as a legacy data repository. We captured M87 in a historically low state, and the core flux dominates over HST-1 at high energies, making it possible to combine core flux constraints with the more spatially precise very long baseline interferometry data. We present the most complete simultaneous multi-wavelength spectrum of the active nucleus to date, and discuss the complexity and caveats of combining data from different spatial scales into one broadband spectrum. We apply two heuristic, isotropic leptonic single-zone models to provide insight into the basic source properties, but conclude that a structured jet is necessary to explain M87’s spectrum. We can exclude that the simultaneous γ-ray emission is produced via inverse Compton emission in the same region producing the EHT mm-band emission, and further conclude that the γ-rays can only be produced in the inner jets (inward of HST-1) if there are strongly particle-dominated regions. Direct synchrotron emission from accelerated protons and secondaries cannot yet be excluded

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A double-blind placebo controlled trial of paroxetine in the management of social phobia (social anxiety disorder) in South Africa

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Intratumoral cisplatin/epinephrine-injectable gel as a palliative treatment for accessible solid tumors: A multicenter pilot study

Intratumoral injections of cisplatin/epinephrine-injectable gel were administered weekly for 4 weeks in 45 patients with malignant tumors of various histologic types. Tumors were located on the skin and subcutaneous tissue primarily of the head, neck, and trunk, and on the tongue, oral pharynx, and esophagus. Patients were not candidates for surgery, radiation, or systemic chemotherapy. Each of the treated tumors ( n = 82) was evaluated 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks after the final injection. The initial dose of cisplatin was 1 mg/cm 3 tumor volume, with escalation to 6 mg/cm 3 allowed, depending on observed toxicities. The mean cumulative dose per patient for the four treatments ranged from 0.56 to 380 mg cisplatin. No dose-limiting cisplatin-related toxicities, such as nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, or ototoxicity, were observed. The overall objective tumor response rate was 50% (41 of 82), with 40% (33 of 82) complete responses and a median response duration of 160 days. Complete responses for adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma were 58% (21 of 36) and 38% (12 of 32), respectively. These results justified further clinical trials to evaluate the role of local chemotherapy with intratumoral cisplatin/epinephrine-injectable gel in the palliative treatment of patients with selected accessible solid tumors. (Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1998;118:496-503.

Identifying Complex Sound Correspondences in Bilingual Wordlists

The determination of recurrent sound correspondences between languages is crucial for the identi cation of cognates, which are often employed in statistical machine translation for sentence and word alignment. In this paper, an algorithm designed for extracting non-compositional compounds from bitexts is shown to be capable of determining complex sound correspondences in bilingual wordlists. In experimental evaluation, a C++ implementation of the algorithm achieves approximately 90% recall and precision on authentic language data