Boston Unplugged: Mapping a Wireless Future

Reviews a variety of models that would allow Boston to provide free or low-cost high-speed Internet access citywide. Outlines the benefits and mechanics of citywide WiFi, and lists factors to consider in designing, developing, and deploying a system

Passion & Purpose: Raising the Fiscal Fitness Bar for Massachusetts Nonprofits

Presents data on and financial analyses of the state's nonprofit sector by organization type, budget, focus area, and location. Recommends better financial stewardship, restructuring, repositioning, and reinvestment to enhance nonprofits' sustainability

Passion & Purpose: Restructuring, Repositioning and Reinventing: Crisis in the Massachusetts Nonprofit Sector

Examines how the economic downturn has affected nonprofits in Massachusetts and nationwide and how they, funders, and stakeholders are reacting. Explores cash availability, cost-cutting measures, creative mergers, and potential impact of stimulus funding

Boomtown/Hometown: What the Numbers Say about Income, Housing and Education in Cambridge Today?

A new report by Cambridge Community Foundation charts the impact of trends in housing, education and income disparity that threaten the city's prized culture of diversity and inclusion, even as its enviable role in a regional innovation economy drives soaring levels of prosperity. A review of relevant data raises questions about whether this growth actually benefits city residents–or whether a growing financial disconnect means many residents can no longer afford the city they live in.Fully 78 percent of current low-income households in Cambridge are "cost burdened," spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Over half spend over 50 percent of total income on housing. They qualify as "severely cost burdened."In 2015, Just 4 percent of the city's rental housing stock was affordable for a family with two workers earning $75,000 a year in total – in a community with a median annual household income of just over$79,000. The cost of buying a home is inevitably further out of reach: just 2 percent of single-family homes and 9 percent of condominiums are affordable for a family earning $75,000 a year total.Closely related to the housing situation is a growing income gap as the city moves toward a divide between rich and poor with those in the middle squeezed out. One consequence: the number of low- and middle- income residents in the city has declined in recent years while high–income residents have dramatically increased as a proportion of the whole.The report, titled Boomtown/Hometown: What the Numbers Say about Income, Housing and Education in Cambridge Today, was developed with data contributions from the city and from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. It identifies a serious threat to a tradition of cohesiveness and inclusivity, signatures of this small city with its long history as a global education center, immigrant destination and creative industrial sparkplug

Conditional Generative Adversarial Network Model for Conversion of 2 Dimensional Radiographs Into 3 Dimensional Views

The inefficacy of 2-Dimensional techniques in visualizing all perspectives of an organ may lead to inaccurate diagnosis of a disease or deformity. This raises a need for adopting 3-Dimensional medical images. But, the high expense, exposure to a high volume of harmful radiations, and limited availability of machinery for capturing images are limiting factors in implementing 3-Dimensional medical imaging for the whole populace. Thus, the conversion of 2-Dimensional images to 3-Dimensional images gained high popularity in the field of medical imaging. However, numerous research works offer the potential for the reconstruction of 3-Dimensional images. But, none of these provides the visualization of all angles of view from 0° to 360° for a 2-Dimensional input image such as X-ray and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Also, these techniques fail to handle noisy and deformed input images. The purpose of this research is to propose a tailored Conditional Adversarial Network Model for the translation of 2-Dimensional images of bones into their corresponding 3-Dimensional view. The model is preceded by pre-processing techniques for dataset cleaning, noise removal, and converting the dataset to a uniform format. Further, the efficacy of the model is improved by determining the optimal values of model parameters, employing the customized activation function, and optimizers. Additionally, the visual quality of the generated 3-Dimensional images is evaluated to showcase the degree of quality degradation while translating. The experimental results obtained on the real-life datasets collected from hospitals across India prove the efficacy of the proposed model in generating 3-Dimensional images. The generated images are similar in quality to the input image and also effective in retaining the information available in an input image

Towards uterine inversion: Illustration of a gradual process through three cases of submucous myoma

How the largest of the large (> 10 x 8 cms) sub mucous myoma arising from the fundus uteri successively promotes the occurrence of non puerperal uterine inversion over the years as depicted through 3 different illustrations imitating a gradual process; first by forming an indentation in the uterine fundus then progressively causing more dimpling in the verge of uterine inversion until finally giving rise to a full blown picture of complete uterine inversion where the uterine fundus is driven beyond the level of introitus with the consequences of prolapsed incarcerated myoma in a post menopausal woman. A total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingoophorectomy were performed on all of these 3 women 2 perimenopausal and a postmenopausal; the latter was first facilitated by vaginal myomectomy further supplemented by division of the inversion ring posteriorly as described by Haultain. Key ey words: Non puerperal uterine inversion, submucous fundal myoma, vaginal myomectomy

Myomectomy: TU Teaching Hospital experiences

Aim: To study, open myomectomy operation for uterine myoma/s as of present day practices in women of reproductive age attending TU Teaching Hospital. Methods: This is a retrospective study where we reviewed the medical records of myomectomy cases fro

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Not AvailableIron deficiency is a serious nutritional disorder in aerobic rice, causing chlorosis, poor yields and reduced grain nutritional quality. The problem can be managed by complementing the use of Fe-efficient plant type with a suitable Fe management strategy. In the present paper, we report the effect of eight iron management practices to resolve the problem of iron (Fe) chlorosis through the use of an iron deficiency tolerant (IDTR) and iron deficiency susceptible (IDSR) rice genotype, i.e. Pusa 33 and ADT 39, respectively. Fe deficiency tolerance of these genotypes was related to the root release of PS which enabled a higher uptake of Fe in the IDTR than the IDSR under Fe deficiency. In general, IDTR performed better than the IDSR as evident from a significant increase in total iron, active iron, chlorophyll content and grain and straw yield. IDSR produced the highest grain and straw yield under slow iron release nano clay complex source. Grain Fe content of the IDTR and IDSR increased by 18.9 and 13.4%, respectively, under recommended dose of Fe. The results identified the most effective soil management strategies for the alleviating Fe deficiency chlorosis and improving Fe nutrition of both IDTR and IDSR genotypes.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableIron deficiency is a serious nutritional disorder in aerobic rice, causing chlorosis, poor yields and reduced grain nutritional quality. The problem can be managed by complementing the use of Fe-efficient plant type with a suitable Fe management strategy. In the present paper, we report the effect of eight iron management practices to resolve the problem of iron (Fe) chlorosis through the use of an iron deficiency tolerant (IDTR) and iron deficiency susceptible (IDSR) rice genotype, i.e. Pusa 33 and ADT 39, respectively. Fe deficiency tolerance of these genotypes was related to the root release of PS which enabled a higher uptake of Fe in the IDTR than the IDSR under Fe deficiency. In general, IDTR performed better than the IDSR as evident from a significant increase in total iron, active iron, chlorophyll content and grain and straw yield. IDSR produced the highest grain and straw yield under slow iron release nano clay complex source. Grain Fe content of the IDTR and IDSR increased by 18.9 and 13.4%, respectively, under recommended dose of Fe. The results identified the most effective soil management strategies for the alleviating Fe deficiency chlorosis and improving Fe nutrition of both IDTR and IDSR genotypes.Not Availabl