Dollars, Defense, and the Desert: Southern Nevada’s Military Economy and the Second World War

Modern Las Vegas has come to inhabit a unique place in the American imagination. A neon mirage glittering amid the desolate Mojave Desert, “Sin City” is both celebrated and scorned as an oasis of gambling, nightlife, and entertainment. Consistently ranked among the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas, Las Vegas has experienced sensational economic, infrastructural, and demographic growth in recent years. The dizzying pace of this development makes it difficult to imagine that the city was once anything other than the bustling urban playground it is today. Like many great western cities, Las Vegas came of age during the World War Two era. A mere hamlet of 8,422 residents in 1940, it had nearly tripled in size by 1950. Many believe Las Vegas to be synonymous with its gambling economy, but war, not wagering, triggered the city’s first period of dramatic growth. A sizeable military presence, established during World War Two and sustained by the Cold War, took root in southern Nevada. Though never as visible as the area’s high-profile gambling industry, this military economy was a vital factor in the development of the nascent metropolis

Form factor expansion of the row and diagonal correlation functions of the two dimensional Ising model

We derive and prove exponential and form factor expansions of the row correlation function and the diagonal correlation function of the two dimensional Ising model

Study of physiological tolerance to centrifugation Final report

Physiological effects and acceleration tolerances after weightlessness based on space environment simulation with human centrifuges and bed res

Bullying girls - Changes after brief strategic family therapy: A randomized, prospective, controlled trial with one-year follow-up

Background: Many girls bully others. They are conspicuous because of their risk-taking behavior, increased anger, problematic interpersonal relationships and poor quality of life. Our aim was to determine the efficacy of brief strategic family therapy (BSFT) for bullying-related behavior, anger reduction, improvement of interpersonal relationships, and improvement of health-related quality of life in girls who bully, and to find out whether their expressive aggression correlates with their distinctive psychological features. Methods: 40 bullying girls were recruited from the general population: 20 were randomly selected for 3 months of BSFT. Follow-up took place 12 months after the therapy had ended. The results of treatment were examined using the Adolescents' Risk-taking Behavior Scale (ARBS), the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI), the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-D), and the SF-36 Health Survey (SF-36). Results: In comparison with the control group (CG) (according to the intent-to-treat principle), bullying behavior in the BSFT group was reduced (BSFT-G from n = 20 to n = 6; CG from n = 20 to n = 18, p = 0.05) and statistically significant changes in all risk-taking behaviors (ARBS), on most STAXI, IIP-D, and SF-36 scales were observed after BSFT. The reduction in expressive aggression (Anger-Out scale of the STAXI) correlated with the reduction on several scales of the ARBS, IIP-D, and SF-36. Follow-up a year later showed relatively stable events. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that bullying girls suffer from psychological and social problems which may be reduced by the use of BSFT. Expressive aggression in girls appears to correlate with several types of risk-taking behavior and interpersonal problems, as well as with health-related quality of life. Copyright (c) 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel

Obtenção de material propagativo livre de vírus e diagnóstico de vírus em macieiras e pereiras.

Principais vírus da macieira e da pereira. Danos causados por vírus. Limpeza clonal: produção de macieiras e pereiras livres de vírus. Análises e testes de avaliação de sanidade.bitstream/item/60758/1/CNPUV-DOC.-69-09.pd

Detection of Viruses in Apples and Pears by Real Time RT-PCR Using 5'-Hydrolysis Probes

Apple stem pitting virus (ASPV), Apple stem grooving virus (ASGV), Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV) and Apple mosaic virus (ApMV) are common in apples and pears and the main targets of virus elimination from propagation material. The objective of this work was to design primers and probes for a real time RT-PCR protocol for detection of the four above viruses. FAM/TAMRA-labeled probes and primers were designed by searching for highly conserved nucleotide regions in the coat protein gene of the four viruses. Infection levels in analyzed apple samples were 92.6, 96.4, 100 and 88% for ASGV, ASPV, ACLSV and ApMV, respectively. In pears, all pre-existing ASPV infections were detected. Viral infections were confirmed in a selection of commercial cultivars of apples and pear scions, and quince rootstocks, demonstrating the sensitivity and reliability of the designed primers and probes. Real time RT-PCR using 5'-labeled probes is suitable for checking sanitary quality as a routine test in certification programs

Renormalised four-point coupling constant in the three-dimensional O(N) model with N=0

We simulate self-avoiding walks on a cubic lattice and determine the second virial coefficient for walks of different lengths. This allows us to determine the critical value of the renormalized four-point coupling constant in the three-dimensional N-vector universality class for N=0. We obtain g* = 1.4005(5), where g is normalized so that the three-dimensional field-theoretical beta-function behaves as \beta(g) = - g + g^2 for small g. As a byproduct, we also obtain precise estimates of the interpenetration ratio Psi*, Psi* = 0.24685(11), and of the exponent \nu, \nu = 0.5876(2).Comment: 16 page

First report on detection of three Bunya-Like Viruses in apples in Brazil.

Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV), apple stem grooving virus (ASGV), and apple stem pitting virus (ASPV) cause significant losses to Brazilian (BR) apple production. Looking beyond these latent viruses, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of three samples (Vacaria, Brazil) was performed on an Illumina HiSeq X Ten platform (USA), cv. Braeburn (BB), and a BGISEQ-500 platform (China), cvs. Royal Gala (RG) and Mishima (MI)