Substantiation data for hypersonic cruise vehicle wing structure evaluation - Volume 1, sections 1-10

Trajectory, load, aerodynamic heating, materials, structural, and thermal analyses for hypersonic cruise vehicle wing

Toward a Holistic Agricultural Student Recruitment Model: A National Analysis of the Factors Affecting Students’ Decision to Pursue an Agricultural Related Degree

Currently, the agricultural industry struggles to fill positions with qualified agricultural workers. Therefore, it is critical to attract high caliber individuals to agricultural degree programs that are prepared to enter the workforce with the skills needed to navigate complex issues and problems. The purpose of this national study was to identify key factors that influence the recruitment of agriculture students at land-grant and non-land-grant universities. Using Chapman’s model of student success as our conceptual lens, we tested 66 factors identified in the literature as successful recruitment strategies for colleges of agriculture based on students’ personal characteristics as well as key external influences. We discovered statistically significant (p \u3c .05) differences existed based on students’ gender and race/ethnicity. To better operationalize the findings from this study for U.S. colleges of agriculture, we developed the agricultural student recruitment model (ASRM). The model visually represents the distinct but intersecting factors that most profoundly influence students’ academic degree decisions. Moving forward, we recommend colleges of agriculture use the ASRM as a tool to better resonate with populations that may lack representation in their degree programs and the state’s agricultural industry

Antimalarial Drug Evaluations: Namru-2 And Indonesian Partnership

Meningkatnya insiden malaria di beberapa daerah tertentu terutama di Indonesia Bagian Timur disebabkan antara lain : P. falciparum telah resisten terhadap beberapa obat antimalaria, ditemukannya P. vivax resisten klorokuin, dan belum tersedianya vaksin yang efektif. Sehubungan dengan hal tersebut, dilakukanlah evaluasi obat antimalaria yang perlu dipertimbangkan dalam peningkatan pelaksanaan program. Obat antimalaria meflokuin, halofantrin dan beberapa derivat qinghaosu (artesunat dan artemeter) telah diuji coba klinik di Indonesia, dan memberikan efikasi yang cukup baik walaupun perlu dipertimbangkan kemungkinan efek samping dan resistensi atau rekrudesensi yang mungkin terjadi serta harganya yang relatif masih mahal. Obat antimalaria baru yang direncanakan akan diuji coba klinik adalah azithromycin, derivat primaquine WR 238605, atovaquone dan derivat qinghaosu lain. Dasar pengembangan pengobatan malaria adalah sebagai berikut: Meningkatkan atau memperbaiki efikasi pengobatan malaria tanpa komplikasi yaitu dengan mengembangkan kombinasi atau regimen obat antimalaria yang tersedia di Indonesia (klorokuin dan tetrasiklin/doksisiklin) atau dengan mempersiapkan obat antimalaria baru (derivat qinghaosu, atovaquone, azithromycin dan WR 238605).Mencari obat antimalaria baru alternatif yang efektif sebagai obat penyelamat untuk pengobatan malaria dengan komplikasi. Dengan melakukan evaluasi obat antimalaria ini, akan didapat data efikasi dan keamanan yang dapat membantu Departemen Kesehatan untuk menentukan obat pilihan di Indonesia. Selain itu juga dapat ikut membantu menanggulangi masalah malaria di dunia

Does maternal oral health predict child oral health-related quality of life in adulthood?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A parental/family history of poor oral health may influence the oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) of adults.</p> <p>Objectives</p> <p>To determine whether the oral health of mothers of young children can predict the OHRQOL of those same children when they reach adulthood.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Oral examination and interview data from the Dunedin Study's age-32 assessment, as well as maternal self-rated oral health data from the age-5 assessment were used. The main outcome measure was study members' short-form Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) at age 32. Analyses involved 827 individuals (81.5% of the surviving cohort) dentally examined at both ages, who also completed the OHIP-14 questionnaire at age 32, and whose mothers were interviewed at the age-5 assessment.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>There was a consistent gradient of relative risk across the categories of maternal self-rated oral health status at the age-5 assessment for having one or more impacts in the overall OHIP-14 scale, whereby risk was greatest among the study members whose mothers rated their oral health as "poor/edentulous", and lowest among those with an "excellent/fairly good" rating. In addition, there was a gradient in the age-32 mean OHIP-14 score, and in the mean number of OHIP-14 impacts at age 32 across the categories of maternal self-rated oral health status. The higher risk of having one or more impacts in the psychological discomfort subscale, when mother rated her oral health as "poor/edentulous", was statistically significant.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>These data suggest that maternal self-rated oral health when a child is young has a bearing on that child's OHRQOL almost three decades later. The adult offspring of mothers with poor self-rated oral health had poorer OHRQOL outcomes, particularly in the psychological discomfort subscale.</p

Space-time localization of inner heliospheric plasma turbulence using multiple spacecraft radio links

Radio remote sensing of the heliosphere using spacecraft radio signals has been used to study the near-sun plasma in and out of the ecliptic, close to the sun, and on spatial and temporal scales not accessible with other techniques. Studies of space-time variations in the inner solar wind are particularly timely because of the desire to understand and predict space weather, which can disturb satellites and systems at 1AU and affect human space exploration. Here we demonstrate proof-of-concept of a new radio science application for spacecraft radio science links. The differing transfer functions of plasma irregularities to spacecraft radio up- and downlinks can be exploited to localize plasma scattering along the line of sight. We demonstrate the utility of this idea using Cassini radio data taken in 2001-2002. Under favorable circumstances we demonstrate how this technique, unlike other remote sensing methods, can determine center-of-scattering position to within a few thousandths of an AU and thickness of scattering region to less than about 0.02 AU. This method, applied to large data sets and used in conjunction with other solar remote sensing data such as white light data, has space weather application in studies of inhomogeneity and nonstationarity in the near-sun solar wind.Comment: 28 Pages including 14 Figures (7 unique figures in both inline format and full-page format)