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The Flow of Funds Through the Commercial Banking System, Minnesota - North Dakota.
No full textThis publication is based on an analysis and presentation
of primary county income and call report data (which is a
balance sheet statement of assets and liabilities) provided to
the author by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. This
is the first time such data are published in this form. 32 pages. This archival publication may not reflect current scientific knowledge or recommendations. Current information available from University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station: http://www.maes.umn.edu/Shane, Matthew D.. (1972). The Flow of Funds Through the Commercial Banking System, Minnesota - North Dakota.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/163836
Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad
No full textWe consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed
Hydrodynamic effects on animal cells in microcarrier bioreactors by Matthew Shane Croughan.
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1988.Includes bibliographical references.Ph.D
Artful living and the eradication of worry in Søren Kierkegaard's interpretation of Matthew 6:24-34
No full textDanish thinker Søren Kierkegaard published fourteen discourses, across four collections, on Matthew 6:24-34. The repeated readings of the biblical text, whose themes include the choice between God and mammon, worry, what it means to consider the birds and lilies, and how to seek first the kingdom of God, converge with Kierkegaard’s interest in anxiety, despair, worry, subjectivity, indirect communication, choice, the moment, and life before God. Accordingly, the discourses make connections with his larger works, elucidate frequently explored Kierkegaardian themes in recent scholarship, and contribute to his critique of nineteenth-century Copenhagen. Additionally, the collections present an interpretation of each verse and phrase of Matthew’s text and, held up against modern Matthew scholarship, they correlate with and contribute to Sermon on the Mount and New Testament studies. Kierkegaard’s reading of Matthew also holds implications for the practice of biblical interpretation as it promotes the importance of awareness of sin, interestedness, and appropriation as central to proper reading. His emphasis on Christ as the primary exemplar of Matthew’s text adds an additional Christological element to his hermeneutic. Furthermore, the discourses serve as spiritual treatises which provide the reader with theological terminology to help confront the problem of worry and suffering. In light of a human being’s distinctiveness as imago Dei, Kierkegaard elucidates ways an individual may respond artfully to the ongoing possibility of worry, a possibility which the discourses connect with Christian anthropology and external labels associated with possessions and status. The Matthew 6 discourses intimate Kierkegaard’s sympathy with classic Christian spirituality and, in combination with the cultural-ecclesiastical critique, the creative exegesis, and the in-depth analysis of the cause of and cure for worry, his work emerges as an excellent example of spiritual theology
Matthew’s Emmanuel Messiah: a paradigm of presence for god's people
No full textThe motif of divine presence is a clear phenomenon within the Gospel of Matthew. The modern critical means for assessing the ancient biblical text have multiplied to the point, some claim, of disparity. This study employs both narrative and redaction criticism in an attempt to respond authentically to the structural, historical and theological dimensions of Matthew's Gospel. This study begins with the presumption of the wholeness and integrity of Matthew's narrative, and assumes the gospel story to have an inherently dramatic structure which invites readers to inhabit imaginatively its narrative world and respond to its call. But since we are concerned with the role of both reader and author, this study also assumes a text with an historical author and context. The introduction focuses on the meta-critical dilemma facing New Testament students - what is the text and how do we read it? - and seeks some balance in terms of Krieger's analogy of the text as both window and mirror. Proposed is a narrative reading of Matthew's presence motif alongside a redaction critical assessment of it. In Chapter 2 the elements of narrative theory are introduced and relevant terms defined: the structure of narrative, the function of the narrator, points of view. Chapter 3 becomes an exercise in narrative reading, with Matthew's presence motif providing the focus, and the implied reader’s interaction with the story being predominant in interpretation. Characters, rhetorical devices, and points of view are discussed, to understand the motif's development throughout the story's progress. The thrust of Chapter 4 is thereafter to examine divine presence as a dominant motif within Matthew's most important literary context: the Jewish scriptures. Here the primary paradigms of divine presence provided by the Patriarchs, the Sinai experience, and the Davidic-Zion traditions are assessed. Chapter 5 follows with a more detailed examination of the OT "I am with you/God is with us" formula and its µeo' vµwv/ηuwv language, so strongly connected to Matthew's presence motif. Chapters 6-8 build on these investigations with a closer analysis of the three critical "presence passages" of Mt 1:23. 18:20 and 28:20. The passages and their contexts are probed from a redaction critical perspective, guided by the narrative investigation of Chapter 3, and the background from Chapters 4 and 5.The three major "presence passages" examined in Chapters 6-8 are also complimented by a number of secondary issues: worship, wisdom, the Spirit and the poor in Matthew, and their relation to Jesus' divine presence. These are discussed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 summarizes and looks briefly at some implications. Matthew' presence motif proves to be an important element of the Gospel’s rhetorical design, redactional strategy and Christology. The presence of Jesus, the Emmanuel Messiah, exhibited in his risen authority, becomes the focus of his people's hopes and experiences in the post-Easter world. What the presence of Yahweh was to his people. Jesus now provides in a new paradigm for his people - his followers, the little ones, the poor and the marginalized, from all nations
Changes in bone mineral density, body composition, vitamin D status and mineral metabolism in urban HIV-positive South African women over 12 months
No full textHIV infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) are associated with bone loss and poor vitamin D status in Caucasian populations, though their relative roles are not known. No previous studies have examined longitudinal changes in areal bone mineral density (aBMD), measured by DXA, or in vitamin D status in HIV-positive African women. Of 247 premenopausal, urban, black African women from Soweto, South Africa, initially recruited, 187 underwent anthropometry, DXA scanning and blood and urine collections at both baseline and 12 months. Of these, 67 were HIV-negative throughout (Nref), 60 were HIV-positive with preserved CD4 counts at baseline (Ppres) and 60 were HIV-positive with low CD4 counts at baseline, eligible for ART by South African standards of care at the time (Plow). No participant had been exposed to ART at baseline. By 12 months, 51 Plow women had initiated ART, >85% of whom took combined tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), lamivudine and efavirenz. By 12 months, Plow and Nref, but not Ppres, increased in body weight and fat mass (group-by-timepoint p ≤0.001, p = 0.002 respectively). Plow had significant decreases in aBMD of 2-3%, before and after size adjustment, at the femoral neck (p ≤0.002) and lumbar spine (p ≤0.001), despite significant weight gain. These decreases were associated with increased bone turnover but there were no significant differences or changes over time in vitamin D status, serum phosphate concentrations or renal phosphate handling. Excluding data from 9 Plow women unexposed to ART and 11 Ppres women who had initiated ART accentuated these findings, suggesting the bone loss in Plow was related to ART exposure. This is the first study describing DXA-defined bone loss in HIV-positive Sub-Saharan African women in association with ART. Further work is required to establish if bone loss continues with on-going ART and, if so, whether this results in increased fracture rates
sj-docx-1-cjk-10.1177_20543581231206127 – Supplemental material for Change Management Accompanying Implementation of Decision Support for Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiac Catheterization Units: Program Report
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cjk-10.1177_20543581231206127 for Change Management Accompanying Implementation of Decision Support for Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiac Catheterization Units: Program Report by Bryan Ma, Matthew T. James, Pantea A. Javaheri, Denise Kruger, Michelle M. Graham, Bryan J. Har, Benjamin D. Tyrrell, Shane Heavener, Clare Puzey and Eleanor Benterud in Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease</p
Multi-GPU Accelerated Ray Tracing Using CUDA
No full textRay-tracing (RT) is integral to resolving numerical radiation heat transfer processes. The radiation view factor (Fij) must be determined to quantify the heat leaving or being absorbed by a participatory surface. To capitalize on the embarrassingly-parallel nature of determining Fij, graphics processing units (GPUs) can be employed to quickly and accurately resolve Fij values for complex systems. This work outlines the methods and best-practices of implementing multi-GPU accelerated RT in NVIDIA CUDA. Herein, specific Fij values for canonical geometries (parallel planes and concentric spheres) and novel geometries (a thermoelectric generator (TEG) unicouple) are determined and compared to analytic predictions, where applicable, and previously generated numeric values; a multi-GPU accelerated Java-based RT code serves as the basis for numerical comparison. The surfaces of the geometries are represented by tessellations within stereolithography (STL) files, which are created both in binary and American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) file-type formats. While the Java implementation achieved the same results with less computational time in comparison to RT codes executed on a central processing units (CPU), linear speed-up was not achieved with increasing GPU count. The achievable speed-up was highly dependent on the number of STLs used to represent each geometry, and although non-linear, still exhibited a near order-of-magnitude decrement in computation time in comparison to CPU-base codes. The CUDA-based RT code, combined with a binary STL file-type format, achieved lesser computation time in comparison to the Java-based RT code, and exhibited near-linear speed-up with increasing GPU count for large tessellation systems. Using binary STL file-type formats, less computational overhead was required in comparison to ASCII file-type formats used within the CUDA-based RT codes. It is demonstrated that the CUDA-based RT codes are robust and fast enough to provide benchmark-quality numerical results for three-dimensional systems that consider complexities such as the shadow effect and self-intersection. The source code for the present work is available at https://github.com/shane-riley/view-factor-cuda
International mobile-health intervention on physical activity, sitting, and weight: the Stepathlon cardiovascular health study
No full textAbstract not availableAnand N. Ganesan, Jennie Louise, Matthew Horsfall, Shane A. Bilsborough, Jeroen Hendriks, Andrew D. McGavigan, Joseph B. Selvanayagam, Derek P. Che
COVID_Data_Analysis-main
No full textData analysis pipeline for publication:
Harmony COVID-19: a ready-to-use kit, low-cost detector, and smartphone app for point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection
Nuttada Panpradist, Enos Kline, Robert G Atkinson, Michael Roller, Qin Wang, Ian T Hull, Jack H Kotnik, Amy K Oreskovic, Crissa Bennett, Daniel Leon, Victoria Lyon, Shane D Gilligan-Steinberg, Peter D Han, Paul K Drain, Lea M Starita, Matthew J Thompson, Barry R Lutz
medRxiv 2021.08.12.21261875; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.12.21261875
The included code takes as input device runs, parses the data, and plots the RFU against time for all samples. This code was used in order to create figure S8 for the above publication
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