Ouachita\u27s Adams Department of Art and Design to host John Deering in guest exhibit Nov. 10-Dec. 12

Ouachita Baptist University\u27s Rosemary Adams Department of Art and Design will host an art exhibit featuring the work of award-winning cartoonist and illustrator John Deering. The exhibit will run from Nov. 10 - Dec. 12 in Ouachita\u27s new Rosemary Adams Gallery in Moses-Provine Hall

Ouachita to host Ashton Edward\u27s senior exhibit Nov. 16-Dec. 2

Ouachita Baptist University\u27s School of Fine Arts will host Ashton Edwards\u27 senior graphic design exhibit in Verser Gallery Nov. 16-Dec. 2. The exhibit is free and open to the public

The Grenadian Crisis and the Caribbean Left

SUMMARY Prior to October 1983 ‘popular forces’ had established a hitherto unmatched degree of hegemony throughout the Caribbean region. The self?destruction of the Grenadian revolution opened the way to the restoration of colonial or neo colonial principles under US hegemony. The article examines the importance of democracy in the Caribbean political tradition, and the responsibility of the New Jewel Movement's leadership, and of the Caribbean intelligentsia who supported them, for ignoring this. RESUMEN La crisis de Grenada y la izquierda caribeña Con anterioridad a octubre de 1983, las ‘fuerzas populares’ establecieron un grado de hegemonía hasta entonces inédito en la región caribeña. La autodestrucción de la revolución de Grenada abrió el camino para la restauración de los principios coloniales o neocoloniales bajo la hegemonía estadounidense. El artículo examina la importancia de la democracia en la tradición política del Caribe y la responsabilidad que le cabe a la lideranza del Movimiento New Jewel, así como a la intelectualidad caribeña que la apoyó, por haberlo ignorado. SOMMAIRE La crise de la Grenade et la gauche Antillaise Avant Octobre 1983, les ‘forces populaires’ ont établi une hégémonie à un degré jusqu à present inégalé dans la région des Antilles. L'autodestruction de la révolution grenadine a ouvert la route à la restauration des principes coloniaux et néo?coloniaux sous l'hégémonie américaine. L'article examine l'importance de la Démocratie dans la tradition politique des Caraïbes et la responsabilité de la direction du mouvement du ‘Nouveau Bijou’ et de l'Intelligentsia des Caraïbes qui la supporte et veut ignorer cette première donnée

Lift at low Reynolds number

Lift forces are widespread in hydrodynamics. These are typically observed for big and fast objects, and are often associated with a combination of fluid inertia (i.e. large Reynolds numbers) and some specific symmetry-breaking mechanism. In contrast, low-Reynolds-number flows are usually overdamped and do not exhibit such peculiar and interesting features. However, the inclusion of boundary effects qualitatively changes this picture. Indeed, in the context of soft and biological matter, recent studies have revealed the emergence of novel lift forces generated by boundary softness, flow gradients and/or surface charges. The aim of the present review is to gather and analyse this corpus of literature, in order to identify and unify the questioning within the associated communities, and pave the way towards future research around lift effects at low Reynolds numbers

Homeostatic Eosinophils: Characteristics and Functions

Eosinophils are typically considered to be specialized effector cells that are recruited to the tissues as a result of T helper type 2 (Th2) cell responses associated with helminth infections or allergic diseases such as asthma. Once at the site of injury, eosinophils release their cytotoxic granule proteins as well as preformed cytokines and lipid mediators, contributing to parasite destruction but also to exacerbation of inflammation and tissue damage. Accumulating evidence indicates that, besides their roles in Th2 responses, eosinophils also regulate homeostatic processes at steady state, thereby challenging the exclusive paradigm of the eosinophil as a destructive and inflammatory cell. Indeed, under baseline conditions, eosinophils rapidly leave the bloodstream to enter tissues, mainly the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, adipose tissue, thymus, uterus, and mammary glands, where they regulate a variety of important biological functions, such as immunoregulation, control of glucose homeostasis, protection against obesity, regulation of mammary gland development, and preparation of the uterus for pregnancy. This article provides an overview of the characteristics and functions of these homeostatic eosinophils

Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-Trees

Abstract: In this paper, we show that spatial joins are very suitable to be processed on a parallel hardware platform. The parallel system is equipped with a so-called shared virtual memory which is well-suited for the design and implementation of parallel spatial join algorithms. We start with an algorithm that consists of three phases: task creation, task assignment and parallel task execu-tion. In order to reduce CPU- and I/O-cost, the three phases are processed in a fashion that pre-serves spatial locality. Dynamic load balancing is achieved by splitting tasks into smaller ones and reassigning some of the smaller tasks to idle processors. In an experimental performance compar-ison, we identify the advantages and disadvantages of several variants of our algorithm. The most efficient one shows an almost optimal speed-up under the assumption that the number of disks is sufficiently large. Topics: spatial database systems, parallel database systems

National trends in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking and quitting, 1994-2008

Objective: To describe the trends in the prevalence of smoking, quitting and initiation among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women aged 18 years and over. Methods: Analysis of responses to smoking questions in national Indigenous surveys in 1994, 2002, 2004 and 2008. Results: Male Indigenous smoking prevalence fell significantly from 58.5% in 1994 to 52.6% in 2008, an absolute decrease of 0.4 (CI 0.1-0.7)% per year, with the same decline in remote and non- remote areas. Female smoking fell from 51.0% to 47.4%, with markedly different changes in remote and non-remote areas. In non-remote areas, there was an absolute decrease in female smoking of 0.5 (CI 0.2-0.9)% per year, but in remote areas, female smoking increased by 0.4 (CI 0.0-0.8)% per year. From 2002 to 2008, the percentage of ever-smokers who had quit (quit ratio) increased absolutely by 1% per year in both men and women, remote and non-remote areas. Results about trends in initiation were inconclusive. Conclusions and Implications: Health Minister Roxon has committed to halving the Indigenous smoking prevalence by 2018, and has dramatically increased Indigenous-specific funding and activity in tobacco control. The reported historical trends in this paper are encouraging as they occurred at a time when there was little such tobacco control activity focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. However, to meet the Minister’s goal, Indigenous smoking prevalence will need to fall more than six times as quickly as occurred from 1994 to 2008

Decreasing rates of natural deaths in a remote Australian Aboriginal community, 1996-2010

Objective: To examine the trends of all-cause natural mortality for people aged 15 years and over in a remote Australian Aboriginal community between 1996 and 2010. Methods: The annual population in the community by gender and age group was obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). All known deaths and all records of start of renal replacement therapy (RRT) for renal failure were recorded between 1996 and 2010. Five-year aggregated death rates were calculated and the changes in natural mortality over the interval were evaluated. Mortality was compared with those of the Northern Territory (NT) Indigenous and non-Indigenous people as a whole from 1998 to 2006. Results: Rates of natural deaths were lower in the third interval 2006-2010 relative to the first interval 1996-2000, with higher, but more rapidly falling rates for females than males. Reductions were prominent for both sexes in the 65 and over age groups, but death rates in females of earlier middle age also trended lower. The trends applied whether or not the starting of RRT was considered as a natural death. There was a similar trend in rates of natural death in the aggregate Indigenous population of NT. Conclusions: The downward trends probably reflect improvements in risk factor status since the 1960s, all-of-life health interventions, as well as better chronic disease management in the last two decades. The higher death rates in females than males in this community remain unexplained, but the rapid rate of decline of female death rates predicts that this gap will soon be minimised