functional definition. This uses the results from the level above and models the common system specification. Based on these abstract functional definitions, the Functional Design Architecture of EAST-ADL can be used to model a system architecture and a detailed functional design as well. These levels capture information before module specification and implementation. After that, the more speci...

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Christopher C. Heffner, Laura C. Dilley, J. Devin McAuley, and Mark A. Pitt Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Department of Psych...

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A small half-island on the equator came to independence in ruins with high-quality, free health care for all as a key goal. More than a decade on, East Timor is still working to leave behind centuries of oppression, but idealism is not dead in the capital Dili. The people developing East Timor’s health system still want a future without the pitfalls of medicine in more prosperous countries. Whe...

The distribution of denitrification was investigated in the hypolimnion of the east and west lobes of permanently ice-covered Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Anomalously high concentrations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN; nitrate, nitrite, ammonium and nitrous oxide) in the oxygen-depleted hypolimnion of the east lobe of the Lake implied that denitrification is or was active in th...

BACKGROUND Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome is a dominantly inherited multisystem cancer syndrome caused by a heterozygous mutation in the VHL tumor suppressor gene. Previous studies suggested that similar populations of Caucasian and Japanese patients have similar genotype or phenotype characteristics. In this comprehensive study of East Asian patients, we investigated the genetic and clinical...

Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616 (M.M., P.R.O.); Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (L.Z., S.Y.H.); Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (L.Z., S.Y.H.); and Plant Resilience Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gordon and Betty...

Infections (SSTI) in Obese Patients Hao Nguyen, MD; Kaushal Shah, MD; Manjit Dhillon; Michael Gooch, PharmD; Paul Cook, MD; Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases Division, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC; Infectious Disease, East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC; Infectious Diseases, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; Pharmacy, ...