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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
Pharmacoeconomic analysis of adjuvant oral capecitabine vs intravenous 5-FU/LV in Dukes' C colon cancer: the X-ACT trial
No full textOral capecitabine (Xeloda<sup>®</sup>) is an effective drug with favourable safety in adjuvant and metastatic colorectal cancer. Oxaliplatin-based therapy is becoming standard for Dukes' C colon cancer in patients suitable for combination therapy, but is not yet approved by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the adjuvant setting. Adjuvant capecitabine is at least as effective as 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (5-FU/LV), with significant superiority in relapse-free survival and a trend towards improved disease-free and overall survival. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of adjuvant capecitabine from payer (UK National Health Service (NHS)) and societal perspectives. We used clinical trial data and published sources to estimate incremental direct and societal costs and gains in quality-adjusted life months (QALMs). Acquisition costs were higher for capecitabine than 5-FU/LV, but higher 5-FU/LV administration costs resulted in 57% lower chemotherapy costs for capecitabine. Capecitabine vs 5-FU/LV-associated adverse events required fewer medications and hospitalisations (cost savings £3653). Societal costs, including patient travel/time costs, were reduced by >75% with capecitabine vs 5-FU/LV (cost savings £1318), with lifetime gain in QALMs of 9 months. Medical resource utilisation is significantly decreased with capecitabine vs 5-FU/LV, with cost savings to the NHS and society. Capecitabine is also projected to increase life expectancy vs 5-FU/LV. Cost savings and better outcomes make capecitabine a preferred adjuvant therapy for Dukes' C colon cancer. This pharmacoeconomic analysis strongly supports replacing 5-FU/LV with capecitabine in the adjuvant treatment of colon cancer in the UK
O kung Fu e o desenvolvimento infantil : desenvolvimento motor
No full textEste trabalho busca elementos para verificar a ligação do Kung Fu, uma arte
marcial chinesa, com o desenvolvimento motor infantil, baseando-se no conceito do
desenvolvimento motor de GALLAHUE, D. L.; OZMUN, J. C e MEINEL, K., e assim poder
associar estes conceitos a pratica desta, que atualmente é uma das artes marciais mais praticadas
no mundo. Mas antes de apresentar o desenvolvimento motor, passa-se por uma revisão da
história do Kung Fu, e uma revisão sobre o desenvolvimento, para que se possa desenvolver
com clareza a idéia da ligação das duas coisas. Durante a pesquisa foi realizado como forma de
busca de dados, um sistema de diário de observação de alunos praticantes de Kung Fu em
diversos níveis de aprendizagem e treinamento, respeitando a faixa etária proposta pelo trabalho,
para poder apresentar conclusões consistentes. Sem aprofundar-se no tipo de treinamento
realizado e nos estilos existentes da modalidade esportiva, mas se atentando exclusivamente as
crianças no treinamento, com os dados coletados, foi possível observar uma grande relação entre
o Kung Fu e a melhora do desenvolvimento de capacidades como coordenação motora geral,
equilíbrio, lateralidade, noção de direita e esquerda, posição e sentido.This paper searches for elements to verify the connection of Kung Fu, a
Chinese martial art, with the motor development of children, based on the concept of motor
development of GALLAHUE, D. L.; OZMUN, J. C e MEINEL, K., and this way be able to
associate these concepts to it, which is currently one of the most practiced martial arts in the
world. But before presenting the motor development, it will go through a review of the history
of Kung Fu, and a review about the development, so that it can develop a clear idea of the
connection of both things. During the research it was conducted as a way of data searching, a
system of observation journal of students practicing Kung Fu at different levels of learning and
training, respecting the age proposed for the work, to present consistent conclusions. Without
going too deep into the kind of training conducted and in the different existing styles of the
sport, but exclusively paying attention to the children in training, with the collected data, it was
possible to observe a strong relation between Kung Fu and the improvement of capacities as
general motor coordination, balance, laterality, sense of right and left, position and direction
Branching fraction and CP asymmetry of the decays B+→K0Sπ+ and B+→K0SK+
No full textAn analysis of B+ → K0
Sπ+ and B+ → K0
S K+ decays is performed with the LHCb experiment. The pp
collision data used correspond to integrated luminosities of 1 fb−1 and 2 fb−1 collected at centre-ofmass
energies of
√
s = 7 TeV and
√
s = 8 TeV, respectively. The ratio of branching fractions and the
direct CP asymmetries are measured to be B(B+ → K0
S K+
)/B(B+ → K0
Sπ+
) = 0.064 ± 0.009 (stat.) ±
0.004 (syst.), ACP(B+ → K0
Sπ+
) = −0.022 ± 0.025 (stat.) ± 0.010 (syst.) and ACP(B+ → K0
S K+
) =
−0.21 ± 0.14 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.). The data sample taken at
√
s = 7 TeV is used to search for
B+
c
→ K0
S K+ decays and results in the upper limit ( fc · B(B+
c
→ K0
S K+
))/( fu · B(B+ → K0
Sπ+
)) <
5.8 × 10−2 at 90% confidence level, where fc and fu denote the hadronisation fractions of a ¯b
quark
into a B+
c or a B+ meson, respectively
Asymptotics for -crank of -colored partitions
No full textIn this paper, we obtain asymptotic formulas for -crank of -colored
partitions. Let denote the number of -colored partitions of
with a -crank congruent to mod . For the cases , Fu and
Tang derived several inequality relations for using generating
functions. We employ the Hardy-Ramanujan Circle Method to extend the results of
Fu and Tang. Furthermore, additional inequality relations for
have been established, such as logarithmic concavity and logarithmic
subadditivity.Comment: 40 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1311.4344 by
other author
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
NF-TCP: Network Friendly TCP
No full textDelay-insensitive applications such as P2P file sharing, data center backups and software updates generate substantial amounts of traffic. This traffic, transported potentially over multiple TCP connections, competes with traffic from other possibly interactive applications. Today, with TCP, they compete on an equal level for each individual connection. In this paper, we propose a new TCP variant for such delay-insensitive applications, which we call Network Friendly TCP (NF-TCP). NF-TCP is responsive to available bandwidth, seeking to quickly and efficiently utilize the same in a congestion-free situation, while backing-off more aggressively than standard TCP on encountering competing traffic in a congested network. NF-TCP uses a novel combination of utilizing measurement of available bandwidth and ECN-based congestion avoidance techniques to ensure that it is truly friendly to existing TCP connections. We evaluate the performance of NF-TCP through ns-2 simulations and present the initial results enlightening the friendly nature of NF-TCP compared to standard TCP
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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