1,282 research outputs found
[Telegram from E. D. Joost to Giles B. Cook - October 3, 1933]
No full textTelegram from E. D. Joost, secretary on behalf of Odelia R. Staiti, to the Reverend Giles B. Cook informing him of the passing of H. T. Staiti on Monday, October 2, 1933
Lost in Translation. About the Castilian Gloss on Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum
No full textThe paper shows how deep are the changes that Giles of Rome's de regimine principum undergoes in the so-called Castilian Gloss. the traditional attibution to the Franciscan friar Juan Garcia de Castrojeriz has been challenged. The paper claims, however, on internal evidence, that the author must have been a Franciscan friar. The book is edited by G. Briguglia and T. Ricklin
Modern Airline Pilots\u27 Quandary: Standard Operating Procedures—to Comply or Not to Comply
No full textModern airline pilots are tasked every flight with the safe and efficient operation of highly automated airliners in today’s complicated global and economic environments. Airlines have developed standard operating procedures (SOP) for normal, abnormal, and emergency operations. These procedures serve as a script for crews to follow. These procedures are designed by airlines to ensure that aircraft are operated in the (1) most safe, (2) most efficient, and (3) most on-time manner. For the most part pilots will comply with SOP, but when they (1) don9t agree with SOP, (2) don9t understand SOP or the risks associated with not complying with SOP, or (3) don9t feel adequately trained to know what SOP is, it is difficult to motivate them to comply. Airlines have the means to measure compliance through Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) and Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA). The purpose of this research is to determine if increased understanding, knowledge and awareness of the risk of noncompliance with SOP increase airline pilots’ compliance with SOP. This research explores data from line checks at a major US airline that was gathered in pursuit of understanding what drives SOP compliance. Baseline data was gathered and analyzed to determine the top 12 noncompliant items. The airline provided training during the Human Factors module in each pilots recurrent training on Pilot Intentional Non Compliance (PINC). The training including developing pilots’ understanding that while most Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) reports grant pilots immunity from legal action, if a violation is labeled PINC, ASAP protections do not apply. Further line checks were conducted after the pilots received the PINC training. The top 12 noncompliant items from the pre-PINC training group were compared to the same 12 items in the post-PINC training group. Significant improvement in SOP compliance was found in six of the 12 items tested. The results established that training pilots on the risk of PINC did significantly increase SOP compliance
Clifford G. McIntire, James H. Anderson, William L. Giles, Roy L. Lovvorn, Robert T. Clapp
No full textClifford G. McIntire (second from left), co-author of the McIntire-Stennis Act, is pictured with Experiment Station Director James H. Anderson (left), MSU President William L. Giles, Cooperative State Research Service Administrator Roy L. Lovvorn, and Dean Robert T. Clapp (right) at the Forest Products Laboratory during a McIntire-Stennis meeting.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/6476/thumbnail.jp
Digit Ratio (2D:4D): A Biomarker for Prenatal Sex Steroids and Adult Sex Steroids in Challenge Situations
No full textDigit ratio (2D:4D) denotes the relative length of the second and fourth digits. This ratio is considered to be a biomarker of the balance between fetal testosterone (T) and estrogen (E) in a narrow window of early ontogeny. Evidence for this assertion is derived from direct and indirect measures of prenatal hormonal exposure (in experimental animals, via amniotic fluid samples and in the study of sex-typical traits) in relation to 2D:4D. In contrast, the relationships between 2D:4D and levels of sex steroids in adults are less clear, as many correlational studies of 2D:4D and adult sex steroids have concluded that this association is statistically non-significant. Here, we suggest that in order to understand the link between 2D:4D and sex hormones, one must consider both fetal organizing and adult activating effects of T and E. In particular, we hypothesize that 2D:4D correlates with organizing effects on the endocrine system that moderate activating effects in adulthood. We argue that this is particularly evident in “challenging” conditions such as aggressive and sexual encounters, in which individuals show increased levels of T. We discuss this refinement of the 2D:4D paradigm in relation to the links between 2D:4D and sports performance, and aggression
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Prenatal multiple micronutrient-fortified balanced energy-protein supplementation and newborn telomere length and mitochondrial DNA content: a randomized controlled efficacy trial in rural Burkina Faso
No full textBackground: Evidence regarding the effectiveness of prenatal nutritional supplements has mainly
considered anthropometric pregnancy outcomes. The effect on markers of health and disease, such as
offspring telomere length (TL) and mitochondrial DNA content (mtDNAc) is unknown.
Objectives: We assessed the efficacy of maternal multiple micronutrient (MMN)-fortified balanced-energy
protein (BEP) and iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation on newborn TL as a secondary outcome and
mtDNAc as a non-declared outcome.
Design: We conducted a randomized controlled trial in rural Burkina Faso, among pregnant females (15−40
years old) enrolled at < 21 weeks of gestation. Mothers received either MMN-fortified BEP and IFA
(intervention) or IFA only (control) throughout pregnancy. Whole arterial blood samples were collected
from the umbilical cord of 104 control and 90 intervention group infants, respectively. Average relative TL
and mtDNAc were measured using quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Linear regression models were
fitted to assess TL and mtDNAc differences across trial arms.
Results: We found that a combined daily MMN-fortified BEP supplement and IFA tablet did not affect
newborn TL [β = -0.010 (95% CI: -0.057, 0.036); P = 0.662] or mtDNAc [β = 0.065 (95% CI: -0.203, 0.073);Funding
The MIcronutriments pour la SAnté de la Mère et de l’Enfant III (MISAME-III) efficacy trial was
supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Grant number: OPP1175213). The funder had no role in
study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The telomere
length and mitochondrial DNA analysis was supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (Grant numbers:
12X9620N and 12X9623N) and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program (Grant number: 946192, HUMYCO
Adherence to healthy and sustainable diets is not differentiated by cost, but rather source of foods among young adults in Albania
No full textHigh cost of nutritious foods and eating out of home (OH) might be barriers to healthy and sustainable diets. We examined adherence to Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH), EAT-Lancet reference diet (EAT) and Mediterranean diet score (MDS) and the associations with dietary cost and eating OH. We evaluated cross-sectional data from single multiple-pass 24-h diet recalls from 289 young adults (18-24 years) in Tirana, Albania. Dietary cost (in Albanian Lek (ALL)) was estimated by matching food consumption data with retail prices from local fast-food chains, supermarkets, restaurants and food vendors. Poisson regression was fitted to models that included DASH, EAT and MDS as dependent variables to assess associations between healthy sustainable diet indicators and dietary cost and eating OH. Adjusted models were controlled for BMI, sex and total energy intake (kJ) using the residual method. Our findings indicate relatively poor adherence to healthy and sustainable dietary patterns among young men and women in Albania. Furthermore, better adherence to DASH, EAT or MDS was not associated with dietary cost (per 100 ALL; range incidence rate ratios (IRR): 0 center dot 97-1 center dot 00; all (un-)adjusted P > 0 center dot 05). Nonetheless, eating OH was related to lower adherence to DASH (IRR: 0 center dot 79; P = 0 center dot 003) and MDS (IRR: 0 center dot 69; P < 0 center dot 001). In conclusion, adherence to health and sustainable dietary patterns was poor and not differentiated by cost, but rather source of foods (i.e. OH or at home). Further research on the potential public and environmental health effects of these findings is warranted in Albania
Reduced hole mobility due to the presence of excited states in poly-(3-hexylthiophene)
No full textCopyright 2007 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 93, 233306 (2008) and may be found at
Relations between x-ray timing features and spectral parameters of galactic black hole x-ray binaries
No full textWe present a study of correlations between spectral and timing parameters for a sample of black hole X-ray binary candidates. Data are taken from GX
339-4, H 1743-322, and XTE J1650-500, as the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
(RXTE) observed complete outbursts of these sources. In our study we investigate outbursts that happened before the end of 2009 to make use of the high-energy coverage of the HEXTE detector and select observations that
show a certain type of quasi-periodic oscillations (type-C QPOs). The spectral parameters are derived using the empirical convolution model simpl to model the Comptonized component of the emission together with a disc blackbody for the emission of the accretion disc. Additional spectral features, namely a reflection component, a high-energy cut-off, and excess emission at 6.4 keV, are taken into account. Our investigations confirm the known positive
correlation between photon index and centroid frequency of the QPOs and reveal an anti-correlation between the fraction of up-scattered photons and the QPO frequency. We show that both correlations behave as expected in the “sombrero”
geometry. Furthermore, we find that during outburst decay the correlation between photon index and QPO frequency follow a general track, independent of individual outbursts
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