The passive operating mode of the linear optical gesture sensor

The study evaluates the influence of natural light conditions on the effectiveness of the linear optical gesture sensor, working in the presence of ambient light only (passive mode). The orientations of the device in reference to the light source were modified in order to verify the sensitivity of the sensor. A criterion for the differentiation between two states: "possible gesture" and "no gesture" was proposed. Additionally, different light conditions and possible features were investigated, relevant for the decision of switching between the passive and active modes of the device. The criterion was evaluated based on the specificity and sensitivity analysis of the binary ambient light condition classifier. The elaborated classifier predicts ambient light conditions with the accuracy of 85.15%. Understanding the light conditions, the hand pose can be detected. The achieved accuracy of the hand poses classifier trained on the data obtained in the passive mode in favorable light conditions was 98.76%. It was also shown that the passive operating mode of the linear gesture sensor reduces the total energy consumption by 93.34%, resulting in 0.132 mA. It was concluded that optical linear sensor could be efficiently used in various lighting conditions.Comment: 10 pages, 14 figure

Processing of insect retrotransposons by self-cleaving ribozymes

We show that several classes of insect non-LTR retrotransposons harbor self-cleaving ribozymes of the HDV family at their 5′ termini. In Drosophila the R2 ribozymes exhibit highly differential in vivo expression and robust in vitro activity, modulated by an upstream sequence originating from the insertion site. Our data suggest a role for self-cleaving ribozymes in co-transcriptional processing of retrotransposons with implications for downstream events, including translation and retrotransposition

Vaccination Disease Prevention

Vaccination disease prevention plays a big factor into the world of public health. There are many vaccinations available that are used for disease prevention. Research was taken to determine the impact these vaccinations have on health and why they are important. This poster discusses the impact that these vaccines have on pharmacy. It also addresses the different categories of determinants of health. There are direct and indirect health indicators that the vaccines are involved in and those are reviewed within the poster. The positive and negative views of vaccination preventable diseases are mentioned and the question, “Why should you be vaccinated?” is answered.https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/public_health_posters/1022/thumbnail.jp

Teamsters are Beautiful in the Twenty-first Century: The \u27Sisterly\u27 Organizing Rhetoric of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters

In line with Tim Kuhn\u27s work on organizational communication genres, this project seeks a generic understanding of Teamsters organizing rhetoric through analysis of the unique rhetorical situation at hand: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) organizing female members by using rhetoric that invites women to identify themselves as Teamsters. This approach reveals how Teamsters organizing rhetoric relies on reinforcing a particular organizational identity that reflects the union\u27s ideologically conservative roots as a bread-and-butter labor organization dependent on the organizing principle of brotherhood while permitting newer sisterly understandings of what it means to be a Teamster. Thus, the organizational genre of Teamsters organizing rhetoric is a hybrid of conventional union rhetoric that organizes the traditional union population, men, and organizational change rhetoric that enables the union\u27s gender order to transform to invite women. Teamsters organizing rhetoric both embraces and extends beyond traditional approaches to union organizing by constructively interweaving streams of rhetoric that represent historical revision of common union values as well as paradoxical understandings of what it means to be identified as a Teamster. While being a Teamster still represents affiliation with a strong union with a macho brotherhood that offers access to the middle class, being a Teamster can also have liberal feminist or women\u27s liberation connotations of being a nontraditional female worker with blue-collar (or pink-collar) pride. Particular genre rules explain how Teamsters union organizing rhetoric maintains this convergence of gendered realities into the twenty-first century

Two-photon microperimetry: Sensitivity of human photoreceptors to infrared light

Microperimetry is a subjective ophthalmologic test used to assess retinal function at various specific and focal locations of the visual field. Historically, visible light has been described as ranging from 400 to 720 nm. However, we previously demonstrated that infra-red light can initiate visual transduction in rod photoreceptors by a mechanism of two-photon absorption by visual pigments. Here we introduce a newly designed and constructed two-photon microperimeter. We provide for the first time evidence of the presence of a nonlinear process occurring in the human retina based on psychophysical tests using newly developed instrumentation. Since infra-red light penetrates the aged front of the eye better than visible light, it has the potential for improved functional diagnostics in patients with age-related visual disorders

High-risk HPV is not associated with epithelial ovarian cancer in a Caucasian population

Dataset containing information on individual samples and PCR reactions. (XLSM 26 kb