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    Kentucky Travel Writer Gary P. West

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    Leading Kentucky travel writer Gary P. West shared his travel secrets Bowling Green, Kentucky community audience and signed his books in the “Kentucky Live! Series” at the local Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Retiring in 2006 West has devoted himself to writing. He writes a syndicated column for seven Kentucky newspapers and is the author of eight books. His latest: Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association: The Real Story of a Team Left Behind was published by Acclaim Press in 2011. Two of his most popular books include Eating Your Way Across Kentucky: 101 Must Places to Eat (updated edition in 2006) and Shopping Your Way Across Kentucky (2008)

    Quantifying the volume fraction and texture of cancellous bone using 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging

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    Introduction: 3.0 Tesla MRI offers the potential to quantify the volume fraction and structural texture of cancellous bone, along with quantification of marrow composition, in a single non-invasive examination. This study describes our preliminary investigations to identify parameters which describe cancellous bone structure including the relationships between texture and volume fraction.\u

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    Mood disorders in familial epilepsy: A test of shared etiology

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    Objective: Mood disorders are the most common comorbid conditions in epilepsy but the cause remains unclear. One possible explanation is a shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and mood disorders. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating lifetime prevalence of mood disorders in relatives with and without epilepsy in families containing multiple individuals with epilepsy, and comparing the findings with rates from a general population sample. Methods: The Composite International Diagnostic Interview was administered to 192 individuals from 60 families, including 110 participants with epilepsy of unknown cause (50 focal epilepsy [FE], 42 generalized epilepsy [GE], 6 FE and GE, 12 unclassifiable) and 82 relatives without epilepsy (RWOE). Odds ratios (ORs) for lifetime prevalence of mood disorders in participants with versus without epilepsy were computed through logistic regression, using generalized estimation equations to account for familial clustering. Standardized prevalence ratios (SPRs) were used to compare prevalence in family members with general population rates. Results: Compared with RWOE, ORs for mood disorders were significantly increased in participants with FE (OR = 2.4, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.1 - 5.2) but not in those with GE (OR = 1.0, 95% CI = 0.4 - 2.2). In addition, prevalence of mood disorders was increased in individuals with epilepsy who had ≥1 relative with FE. Compared with general population rates, mood disorders were significantly increased in individuals with FE but not in those with GE. Rates were also increased in RWOE, but not significantly so (SPR = 1.4, P = 0.14). Significance: These findings are consistent with the hypothesis of shared genetic susceptibility to epilepsy and mood disorders, but suggest (1) the effect may be restricted to FE, and (2) the shared genetic effect on risk of mood disorders and epilepsy may be restricted to individuals with epilepsy, that is, to those in whom the genetic risk for epilepsy is “penetrant.”Peer reviewedThis is the accepted version of the following article: Insel BJ, Ottman R, Heiman GA. Mood disorders in familial epilepsy: A test of shared etiology. Epilepsia. 2018;00:1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.13985, which has been published in the Early View form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.13985/full. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Wiley Self-Archiving Policy [https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing-open-access/open-access/self-archiving.html]

    How "Chicagoan" are Gary Becker's Economic Models of Marriage?

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    This paper describes Gary Becker’s theoretical models of marriage. At the micro-level, these are all rational choice models. At the market level, Becker offers two major types of models: partial equilibrium models based on Price Theory as taught by Marshall and Friedman and optimal sorting models based on optimal assignment models. The paper examines some of the possible intellectual influences on Becker’s theory of marriage, compares Becker’s research on marriage with that of some scholars interested in intra-marriage distribution, and documents that Becker’s students at Chicago were more interested in Becker’s Friedmanian models of marriage than in his optimal assignment models.

    Planting the Union Flag in Texas: The Campaigns of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks in the West

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    Nathaniel Banks in Texas Over the years Gary Joiner and others have offered examinations of various parts of General Nathaniel P. Banks’s Western command in the latter years of the Civil War; comes now a full review of Banks’s activities by Stephen A. Dupree. The author\u27s efforts remin...

    A condition-based maintenance methodology for rails in regional railway networks using evolutionary multiobjective optimization: Case study line Braşov to Zărneşti in Romania

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    In this paper, we propose a methodology based on signal processing and evolutionary multiobjective optimization to facilitate the maintenance decision making of infra-managers in regional railways. Using a train in operation (with passengers onboard), we capture the condition of the rails using Axle Box Acceleration measurements. Then, using Hilbert-Huang Transform, the locations where the major risks are detected and ssessed with a degradation model. Finally,evolutionary multiobjective optimization is employed to solve the maintenance decision problem, and to facilitate the visualization of the trade-offs between number of interventions and performance. Real-life measurements from the track from Braşov to Zărneşti in Romania are included to show the methodology.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Railway Engineerin

    A citizen's guide to employment, inflation, income, and the Oregon economy

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    R. Bruce Rettig, David R. Darr, Ludwig M. Eisgruber, John P. Farrell, A. Gene Nelson, Gary W. Sorenson.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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