Joint task force recommendations for credentialing of bariatric surgeons William B. Inabnet III, M.D., Eric Bour, M.D., Arthur M. Carlin, M.D., Ronald Clements, M.D., Jonathan Finks, M.D., Matt Hutter, M.D., Christopher Joyce, M.D., Kim Marley, M.D., Joe Moran, M.D., John Morton, M.D., Kevin Reavis, M.D., William S. Richardson, M.D., Shean Satgunam, M.D. Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,...

Maize is highly genetically and phenotypically diverse. Tropical maize and teosinte are important genetic resources that harbor unique alleles not found in temperate maize hybrids. To access these resources, breeders must be able to extract favorable unique alleles from tropical maize and teosinte from their population J. B. Holland ( ) · S. Sood Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State...

Yang Zhang, Xin Zhang, Kai Wang, Jian He, L. Ruby Leung, Jiwen Fan, and Athanasios 3 Nenes 5 4 5 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 6 USA. 7 Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality, Beijing 100084, China} 8 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA. 9 School of Earth a...

the zarankiewicz number z(b; s) is the maximum size of a subgraph of kb,b which does not contain ks,s as a subgraph. the two-color bipartite ramsey number b(s, t) is the smallest integer b such that any coloring of the edges of kb,b with two colors contains a ks,s in the rst color or a kt,t in the second color.in this work, we design and exploit a computational method for bounding and computin...

In this paper we use adaptive lasso estimator select between relevant and irrelevant instruments in heteroskedastic and non Gaussian data. To do so limit theory of Zou (2006) is extended from univariate iid case. Next, it is shown that adaptive lasso estimator can achieve near minimax risk bound even in the case of heteroskedastic data. To achieve that a new proof is used that benefits from Ste...

The relative suitability of two colonies established from local strains of Aedes albopictus (Wilmington and Rockingham) and a local (Raleigh) and laboratory (Liverpool) strain of Ae. aegypti to support development of Dirofilaria immitis was investigated. High levels of mortality occurred 1-2 days after mosquitoes fed on a heavily microfilaremic (28,617 microfilariae/ml) dog but not when mosquit...

This paper introduces a new multivariate conditional volatility model for returns that utilizes realized covariance matrices. The model decomposes the conditional and realized covariance matrices into standard deviations and correlations matrices. On a first level, the univariate variances are estimated by a modified Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) that exploit...

1 National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 2 ITZ Ecology & Evolution, TiHo Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 3 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 4 ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, 5 Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinforma...

St. Augustinegrass [Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt.) Kuntze] is the least cold-hardy turfgrass species. Development of freezing-tolerant St. Augustinegrass cultivars would greatly benefit home owners in many southern states of the US. Towards this breeding goal, 7800 plants regenerated through tissue culture and 36 germplasm accessions were screened for improved freezing tolerance. Among the con...