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Predictive value of estimated pulse wave velocity with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the hypertensive population: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 1999–2014
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Predicting hospitalization for heat-related illness at the census-tract level: Accuracy of a generic heat vulnerability index in phoenix, Arizona (USA)
No full textabstract: Background: Vulnerability mapping based on vulnerability indices is a pragmatic approach for highlighting the areas in a city where people are at the greatest risk of harm from heat, but the manner in which vulnerability is conceptualized influences the results.
Objectives: We tested a generic national heat-vulnerability index, based on a 10-variable indicator framework, using data on heat-related hospitalizations in Phoenix, Arizona. We also identified potential local risk factors not included in the generic indicators.
Methods: To evaluate the accuracy of the generic index in a city-specific context, we used factor scores, derived from a factor analysis using census tract–level characteristics, as independent variables, and heat hospitalizations (with census tracts categorized as zero-, moderate-, or highincidence) as dependent variables in a multinomial logistic regression model. We also compared the geographical differences between a vulnerability map derived from the generic index and one derived from actual heat-related hospitalizations at the census-tract scale.
Results: We found that the national-indicator framework correctly classified just over half (54%) of census tracts in Phoenix. Compared with all census tracts, high-vulnerability tracts that were misclassified by the index as zero-vulnerability tracts had higher average income and higher proportions of residents with a duration of residency < 5 years.
Conclusion: The generic indicators of vulnerability are useful, but they are sensitive to scale, measurement, and context. Decision makers need to consider the characteristics of their cities to determine how closely vulnerability maps based on generic indicators reflect actual risk of harm.Corresponding Author:
Wen-Ching Chuang
Arizona State University
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Panel 18. Faulkner in Asia, Asia in Faulkner, and Faulkner and Asian Writers
No full textFaulkner’s “Mississippi”: Holiday, Encounter, and Bungakukai / Yuko Yamamoto, Chiba University “Taste And Responsibility—You Manila Snopeses”: Faulkner and the Philippines / Jenna Grace Sciuto, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Alternative Modernities in Continuum: The Spatial and Sexual Otherness in William Faulkner’s Light in August and Pai Hsien-Yung’s Crystal Boys / Pei-Wen Clio Kao, National Ilan University Comparing William Faulkner and Mo Yan: A Study on Sexual Ethics / Mengyu Li, Ocean University of Chin
Taxonomy of the genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in Mindanao, Philippines IV: Begonia bangsamoro subsp. bagasa (Begonia section Petermannia), a new subspecies from Zamboanga del Sur
No full textNaive, Mark Arcebal K., Calimbo, Liberty Grace L., Cudal, Maricris G., Alejandro, Grecebio Jonathan D., Yu, Wen-Bin (2022): Taxonomy of the genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in Mindanao, Philippines IV: Begonia bangsamoro subsp. bagasa (Begonia section Petermannia), a new subspecies from Zamboanga del Sur. Phytotaxa 559 (1): 88-94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.559.1.10, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.559.1.1
First person – Yi-Wen Xu
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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yi-Wen Xu is the first author on ‘Maternal DCAF2 is crucial for maintenance of genome stability during the first cell cycle in mice’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Yi-Wen is a PhD student in the lab of Heng-Yu Fan at the Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, China, investigating the mechanisms of mammalian germ cell development and disease models relating to the female reproductive system.</jats:p
First person – Chih-Wen Chu
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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Chih-Wen Chu is the first author on ‘The Ajuba family protein Wtip regulates actomyosin contractility during vertebrate neural tube closure’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Chih-Wen is an associate scientist in the lab of Sergei Sokol at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA, investigating apical constriction and planar cell polarity, with a focus on protein dynamics at the cell junctions.</jats:p
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Jetting, In-Nozzle Meniscus Motion and Nozzle-Plate Flooding in An Industrial Drop-on-Demand Print Head
No full textThe state of the ink film at and near the nozzles of a drop-ondemand(DoD) print head during jetting has a direct impact on
printing performance and reliability. We have developed highspeed imaging apparatus and analytical techniques to investigate
the ink film dynamics on an industrial print head nozzle-plate in real-time. In addition to a direct correlation between the jet
emergence velocity and drive voltage, drive-dependent variations in the oscillation of the ink meniscus in adjacent nozzles were also observed. Using a ray-tracing model to analyze the meniscus shape, the meniscus oscillations for both printing and nonprinting nozzles were found to be complex and involve elements such as pre-oscillation and high-order surface waves. The flooding of non-firing nozzles, deliberately caused by the application of maximum drive voltage to a neighboring nozzle, has been recorded and analyzed dynamically. The build-up of fluid in an annulus around the nozzle (flooding rate) has been characterized and compared with models for the net ink flow
through the nozzle
The Menkaure Triad, Numerical Thinking, and Divine Configurations in Ancient Egypt
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Formerly an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wen Li Teng is a transfer student at the University of Chicago. Wen Li is currently pursuing a major in History
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