Background. Isolated male epispadias (IME) is a rare congenital penile malformation, as often part of bladder-exstrophy-epispadias complex (BEEC). In its isolated presentation, it consists in a defect of the dorsal aspect of the penis, leaving the urethral plate open. Occurrence of urinary incontinence is related to the degree of dorsal displacement of the meatus and the underlying underdevelop...

I The phyto-estrogens formononet in (7-hydroxy-4 methoxylsoflavone) and biochanin A (5-7-dlhydroxy-4-methoxylsof lavone) were independently incubated in vitro at 39~ in bovine rumen fluid from a fistulated steer receiving an alfalfa hay diet. Formononet in was incubated in studies 1 and 2, whereas biochanin A was incubated in s tudy 3. The isoflavones were separated and quantified by high perfo...

In this dissertation, I propose that, post-action, people tend to be more optimistic about outcomes when their actions were based on malleable (vague) information compared to when their actions were based on unmalleable (precise) information. However, pre-action, no such difference occurs. I term this inconsistency in optimism in the pre and post-action stage, the Information Malleability Effec...

Parallel computing systems provide hardware redundancy that helps t o achieve low cost fault-tolerance, by duplicating the task into more than a single processor, and comparing the states of the processors a t checkpoints. This paper suggests a novel technique, based on a Markov Reward Model (MRM) , f o r analyzing the performance of checkpointing schemes with task duplication. W e show how thi...

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a critical role in cognitive processes including learning and memory. However, it has been difficult to detect BDNF in the brains of behaving animals because of its extremely low concentration, i.e., at the sub-nanogram/mL level. Here, we developed an interdigitated microelectrode (IME) biosensor coated with an anti-BDNF an anti-BDNF antibody in a ...

Enhancement of phytoplankton biomass near island and atoll reef ecosystems—termed the Island Mass Effect (IME)—is an ecologically important phenomenon driving marine ecosystem trophic structure fisheries in midst oligotrophic tropical oceans. This study investigated occurrence IME at Rangiroa Atoll French Polynesian Tuamotu archipelago, physical mechanisms IME, through analysis satellite situ d...

JEL codes 1 Int roduct ion 2 Measures and magni tudes 2.1 Participation in crime and offenses per criminal 3 Cr ime in a market context 3.1 The market 3.2 The market model and incapacitation 4 Ev idence on the supply o f c r ime 4.1 The effect of legitimate opportunities: unemployment 4.2 The porous boundary between legal and illegal work 4.3 The effect of legitimate opportunities: earnings ine...

Abs t rac t Planning in any realistic sett ing requires the management of an enormous amount of in format ion. This in format ion is generally temporal in nature; predict i on , plan choice, and debugging all involve reasoning about t ime. The assertions manipulated by t radi t ional predicate-calculus data base systems, such as Prolog, are timelessly t rue. In the temporal data base system des...

Abstract. In solving a system of ordinary differential equations by an interval method the approximate solution at any considered moment of time t represents a set (called interval) containing the exact solution at the moment t. The intervals determining the solution of a system are often expanded in the course of time irrespective of the method and step used. The phenomenon of interval expansi...

This paper discusses the architecture and provides performance studies of a silicon photonic chip-scale optical switch for scalable interconnect network in high performance computing systems. The proposed switch exploits optical wavelength parallelism and wavelength routing characteristics of an Arrayed Waveguide Grating Router (AWGR) to allow contention resolution in the wavelength domain. Sim...