Half A Moon (Is Better Than No Moon)

Sheet music contains sexist and/or misogynistic language, concepts, and/or imagry promoting rape culture. With Ukulele arrangement. Contains advertisements and/or short musical examples of pieces being sold by publisher.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/6988/thumbnail.jp

The effect of neighbors on root distribution in a creosotebush (Larrea tridentata) population.

Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Abstract. We excavated and mapped the lateral extension of 32 creosotebush shrubs (Larrea tridentata) in the Chihuahuan desert of New Mexico to examine the effect of neighborhood interaction on root distribution. The smallest closed-angle polygon encompassing all roots of an individual was taken as a representation of its root system. Several geometrical characteristics of these polygons were measured and compared to interference vectors based on the location and size of the neighbors. We found that root systems were more developed away from the maximum competitive pressure of neighbors. Relation between root system shape and pressure from neighbors was stronger when the competitive vectors were integrating effect from all neighbors. Size of neighbors did not appear to contribute significantly to the relation. The resulting spatial pattern tended to reduce the overlap between neighboring root systems. Two conceptual models of root growth response to neighbors appear to explain our results. Both models assume that when the root system of neighbors meet, root growth is impaired or ceases at the zone of contact. In the nonoverlapping, non-compensatory model, the decrease in root growth between two close neighbors is not compensated elsewhere, possibly affecting the overall plant performance. In the non-overlapping, compensatory model, a plant with a close neighbor responds by investing in root growth away from the competitive pressure or simply in zones free of neighbors. Under this model, two plants can be close to each other and not compete. Competition in the population is for space and only occurs when a plant root system is crowded on all sides

An Anthropometric Study of 38 Individuals With Prader-Labhart- Willi Syndrome

Weight, height, sitting height, and 24 other anthropometric variables (5 body circumferences, skinfolds at 7 sites, 4 head dimensions, and 8 hand and foot measurements) were obtained on 38 Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome (PLWS) individuals (21 with apparent chromosome 15 deletions and 17 nondeletion cases) with an age range of 2 weeks to 38½ years. More than half of these individuals were measured on more than one occasion. The measurements confirmed the presence of short stature, small hands and feet, obesity, and narrow bi-frontal diameter in PLWS. No differences were found for the anthropometric measurements between the 2 chromosome subgroups. Inverse correlations were produced with linear measurements (eg, height, hand and foot lengths) and age, which indicated a deceleration of linear growth relative to normal individuals with increasing age

Mitral valve prolapse syndrome: The effect of adrenergic stimulation

Previous studies demonstrating increased adrenergic tone in symptomatic patients with mitral valve prolapse prompted a study of the response of symptomatic patients with mitral valve prolapse to adrenergic stimulation. Sixteen such patients had plasma catecholamines and 24 hour urinary epinephrine plus norepinephrine values that were greater than those of control subjects (473.3 ± 92.8 pg/ml versus 292 ± 15 and 44.7 ± 2.3 μg/g creatinine versus 29.8 ± 2.3; p < 0.01 and < 0.001, respectively). Twenty-four hour urinary sodium was lower in the patient group than in the control group (75 ± 7.4 versus 141 ±11 mEq; p < 0.01), with an inverse relation between urinary sodium and norephinephrine in the patient group (r = - 0.78) but not in the control group.Isoproterenol infusions, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 μg/min for 6 minutes, produced a dose-related, greater increase in heart rate in the mitral valve prolapse group than in the control group (16.1 ± 2.3 versus 10 ± 2; 31.8 ± 3.5 versus 19.6 ± 3; 48 ± 4.1 versus 27 ± 3; p< 0.01 with 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 μg, respectively). The greater increase in heart rate resulted in a significantly shorter diastolic time in the patient group than in the control group (26.4 ± 2 s/min versus 30.6 ± 2; 27 ± 1.5 versus 30.6 ± 2; 26.6 ± 2 versus 30.9 ± 2; p < 0.01 with 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 μg, respectively). The QT interval was 25 ms shorter than electromechanical systole (QS2) in the normal group and 26.5 ms shorter than QS2in the mitral valve prolapse group at rest; during isoproterenol infusion QT-QS2values were different in the mitral valve prolapse and control groups (3.3 ± 3 versus -7.0 ± 3; 31.9 ± 2.8 versus 10 ± 4; 52 ± 9.2 versus 29 ± 8; p < 0.01 with 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 μg/min, respectively). Isoproterenol infusion also reproduced symptoms on a dose-related basis in 14 patients with mitral valve prolapse but not in control subjects (excluding palpitation).Symptomatic patients with mitral valve prolapse and high rest values of catecholamines were hypersensitive to isoproterenol infusion, suggesting that some of the symptoms are catecholamine-related or mediated

Randomized controlled trial of a clinical decision support system for painful polyneuropathy

IntroductionDespite the existence of guidelines, painful neuropathy is often inappropriately treated. We sought to determine the effectiveness of a clinical decision support system on guideline‐recommended medication use.MethodsWe randomized neurology providers, stratified by subspecialty, to a best practice alert (BPA) linked to a Smartset or a BPA alone when seeing patients with neuropathy. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients with uncontrolled nerve pain prescribed a guideline‐recommended medication. Generalized estimating equations were used to assess effectiveness.ResultsSeventy‐five neurology providers (intervention 38, control 37) treated 2697 patients with neuropathy (intervention 1026, control 671). Providers did not acknowledge the BPA in 1928 (71.5%) visits. Only four of eight intervention arm neurologists who treated patients with uncontrolled nerve pain opened the Smartset. The intervention was not associated with guideline‐recommended medication use (odds ratio 0.52, 0.18‐1.48; intervention 52%, control 54.8%).DiscussionOur intervention did not improve prescribing practices for painful neuropathy. Physicians typically ignored the BPAs/Smartset; therefore, future studies should mandate their use or employ alternate strategies.See editorial on pages 552–553 in this issue.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154934/1/mus26774.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/154934/2/mus26774_am.pd

New Measurements of the Motion of the Zodiacal Dust

Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM), we have measured at high spectral resolution and high signal-to-noise the profile of the scattered solar Mg I 5184 absorption line in the zodiacal light. The observations were carried out toward 49 directions that sampled the ecliptic equator from solar elongations of 48\dg (evening sky) to 334\dg (morning sky) plus observations near +47\dg and +90\dg ecliptic latitude. The spectra show a clear prograde kinematic signature that is inconsistent with dust confined to the ecliptic plane and in circular orbits influenced only by the sun's gravity. In particular, the broadened widths of the profiles, together with large amplitude variations in the centroid velocity with elongation angle, indicate that a significant population of dust is on eccentric orbits. In addition, the wide, flat-bottomed line profile toward the ecliptic pole indicates a broad distribution of orbital inclinations extending up to about 30\dg - 40\dg with respect to the ecliptic plane. The absence of pronounced asymmetries in the shape of the profiles limits the retrograde population to less than 10% of the prograde population and also places constraints on the scattering phase function of the particles. These results do not show the radial outflow or evening--morning velocity amplitude asymmetry reported in some earlier investigations. The reduction of the spectra included the discovery and removal of extremely faint, unidentified terrestrial emission lines that contaminate and distort the underlying Mg I profile. This atmospheric emission is too weak to have been seen in earlier, lower signal-to-noise observations, but it probably affected the line centroid measurements of previous investigations.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, to appear in ApJ v612; figures appear low-res only on scree

Innovative Development of a Cross-Center Timeline Planning Tool

The Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is the United States focal point to support operations controllers and payload developers conducting payload science operations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Some of the key functions are planning, coordination and scheduling of science activities. This effort occurs in coordination with other NASA centers, international partners, and payload developers. The ability to efficiently plan and re-plan in response to change is critical to the flight planning teams. Additionally, in Fall 2017, NASA will increase its ability to perform payload science operations aboard the ISS with a fourth crew member. In order to support this, there will be an increasing need to quickly plan and schedule more activities. In the past, it was cumbersome and time-consuming to consolidate copious amounts of planning and change request data from various sources. Planners would summarize information from the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Operations Planning Timeline Integration System (OPTIMIS) and manually integrate it with other data in order to produce a Timeline Planning Summary (TPS). This lengthy process of updating static documents while planning and re-planning was cumbersome, introduced human error, and was inflexible to last minute changes. There was a need for a dynamic, more efficient, less erroneous, and more concise way of building a report that could be readily updated as fast as payload science plans change

Innovative Development of a Cross-Center Timeline Planning Tool

The Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) supports planning, coordination and scheduling of science activities for the International Space Station (ISS) in coordination with other NASA centers, international partners, and payload developers. The ability to efficiently plan and re-plan in response to change is critical to the flight planning teams. With the achievement of supporting a fourth crew member aboard the ISS and an increasing amount of payload science activities, came the need for a dynamic, more efficient way of building timeline planning reports that could be readily updated as fast as payload science plans could change. This paper addresses software architecture considerations in the successful cross-center development of an automated planning tool with multiple data sources. It also discusses the practical implementation of a time-boxed, hybrid Agile Software Development (ASD) approach to deliver customer-driven value despite changing requirements with respect to low-Earth orbit operational planning activities. The goal of this paper is to open discussion with members of the international community and trade effective strategies for cross-center architectural and customer-developer driven collaborations, to support increasing utilization of planning and conducting science activities in space

Impact of age and race on outcomes of a program to prevent excess weight gain and disordered eating in adolescent girls

Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) prevents weight gain and reduces loss-of-control (LOC)-eating in adults. However, IPT was not superior to health-education (HE) for preventing excess weight gain and reducing LOC-eating over 1-year in adolescent girls at risk for excess weight gain and eating disorders. Limited data suggest that older and non-White youth may be especially responsive to IPT. In secondary analyses, we examined if age or race moderated weight and LOC-eating outcomes. The 113 participants (12–17 years; 56.6% White) from the original trial were re-contacted 3 years later for assessment. At baseline and follow-up visits through 3 years, we assessed BMI, adiposity by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, and LOC-eating presence. In linear mixed models, baseline age moderated 3-year BMI outcome; older girls in IPT had the lowest 3-year BMI gain compared to younger girls in IPT and all girls in HE, p = 0.04. A similar pattern was observed for adiposity. Race moderated 3-year LOC-eating; non-White girls in IPT were most likely to abstain from LOC-eating at 3 years compared to all other girls, p = 0.04. This hypothesis-generating analysis suggests future studies should determine if IPT is especially efficacious at reducing LOC-eating in older, non-White adolescents

Long-Term Effects of Land Application of Domestic Wastwater: Tooele, Utah, Slow-Rate Site, Volume 1: Field Investigation

Application of wastewater to the land has been designated a viable alternative for wastewater treatment by the Water Pollution Act Amendments of 1972 (PL 92-500). However, very little information is available concerning the long-term effects of applying wastewater to the land. The general objective of this study was to determine the long-term effects of employing secondary treated municipal wastewater as irrigation water. The study compared the quality of soils, crops, groundwater, and applied water to a site receiving normal irrigation water (control site) to a site (treated site) which had utilized seondary treated municipal effluent for irrigation water during a 20-year period. Similar management practices were employed at both sites