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The use of multispectral sensing techniques to detect ponderosa pine trees under stress from insect or pathogenic organisms
Application of multispectral sensors to detect insect and disease infestation of ponderosa pine tree
The Achiever: December 2012
The College at Brockport Educational Opportunity Program Newsletter:
- From the Director p.1 - Financial Aid News p.2 - Academic Services p.3 - GPS Mentoring Program p.4 - Athlete Support Group p.4- EOP Holiday Celebration p.5 - Career Spotlight p. 6 - Nursing Support Group p.6 - Student Spotlight p. 7 - XAE Induction Highlights p.8https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/eop_news/1002/thumbnail.jp
High Energy Physics from High Performance Computing
We discuss Quantum Chromodynamics calculations using the lattice regulator.
The theory of the strong force is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of
particle physics. We present USQCD collaboration results obtained on Argonne
National Lab's Intrepid supercomputer that deepen our understanding of these
fundamental theories of Nature and provide critical support to frontier
particle physics experiments and phenomenology.Comment: Proceedings of invited plenary talk given at SciDAC 2009, San Diego,
June 14-18, 2009, on behalf of the USQCD collaboratio
Long-term persistence of rituximab in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an evaluation of the UCL cohort from 1998 to 2020
OBJECTIVES: B cell depletion therapy based on rituximab in patients with RA was pioneered at University College London Hospitals/University College London in 1998. The objective of this study was to evaluate long-term persistence of rituximab and identify factors associated with discontinuation of treatment. METHODS: Retrospective review of medical records from all rituximab-treated RA patients followed up in a dedicated clinic (1998ā2020). Data collected included gender, disease duration, previous DMARDs, autoantibody status, age and concomitant therapy at first cycle, length of follow-up, and number of cycles. Drug survival and factors associated with drug discontinuation were analysed using KaplanāMeier survival curves, log-rank test and Cox regression analysis. RESULTS: A total of 404 patients were included. Median disease duration and age at time of first rituximab cycle were 10 and 57āyears, respectively. Median total follow-up was 55āmonths and median number of cycles five. 93.1% of patients were seropositive. Overall, 31.2% of patients stopped rituximab, with the largest reason for discontinuing being primary inefficacy (42.1%). Comparison of KaplanāMeier curves showed that rituximab drug survival was lower in seronegative patients and in patients who had previously failed at least one biologic DMARD (bDMARD). Cox regression analysis revealed that rituximab discontinuation was associated with a greater number of previous bDMARDs. CONCLUSION: Many patients with RA achieve good control of their disease with repeated cycles of rituximab treatment. The most common reasons for treatment discontinuation were either primary or secondary inefficacy. Patients who were seronegative and who had previously failed other bDMARDs were more at risk of drug discontinuation
Hawking radiation and thermodynamics of dynamical black holes in phantom dominated universe
The thermodynamic properties of dark energy-dominated universe in the
presence of a black hole are investigated in the general case of a varying
equation-of-state-parameter . We show that all the thermodynamics
quantities are regular at the phantom divide crossing, and particularly the
temperature and the entropy of the dark fluid are always positive definite. We
also study the accretion process of a phantom fluid by black holes and the
conditions required for the validity of the generalized second law of
thermodynamics. As a results we obtain a strictly negative chemical potential
and an equation-of-state parameter Comment: 22 pages,3 figure
D-Brane Chemistry
We study several different kinds of bound states built from D-branes and
orientifolds. These states are to atoms what branonium - the bound state of a
brane and its anti-brane - is to positronium, inasmuch as they typically
involve a light brane bound to a much heavier object with conserved charges
which forbid the system's decay. We find the fully relativistic motion of a
probe Dp'-brane in the presence of source Dp-branes is integrable by
quadratures. Keplerian conic sections are obtained for special choices for p
and p' and the systems are shown to be equivalent to nonrelativistic systems.
Their quantum behaviour is also equivalent to the corresponding
non-relativistic limit. In particular the p=6, p'=0 case is equivalent to a
non-relativistic dyon in a magnetic monopole background, with the trajectories
in the surface of a cone. We also show that the motion of the probe branes
about D6-branes in IIA theory is equivalent to the motion of the corresponding
probes in the uplift to M-theory in 11 dimensions, for which there are no
D6-branes but their fields are replaced by a particular Taub-NUT geometry. We
further discuss the interactions of D-branes and orientifold planes having the
same dimension. this system behaves at large distances as a brane-brane system
but at shorter distances it does not have the tachyon instability.Comment: ref. added and typos correcte
Determining Mortality Rates Attributable to Clostridium difficile Infection
To determine accuracy of measures of deaths attributable to Clostridium difficile infection, we compared 3 measures for 2007ā2008 in Ontario, Canada: death certificate; death within 30 days of infection; and panel review. Data on death within 30 days were more feasible than panel review and more accurate than death certificate data
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