It is well known that an accurate solution to the Euler equations requires more resolution in some parts of the flow field than others. Just where these regions are, and how fine the mesh spacing must be, depends on characteristics of the solution to be computed, and changes with different flow parameters, such as Mach number, angle of attack, etc. Therefore, it cannot be known in advance of th...

Interviews to develop profiles of all partner homicides that occurred in North Carolina in a single year. This methodology allowed us to investigate gender differences that might shape the context for male and female homicide perpetration and victimization. Five themes emerged: (a) The context for partner homicides is often chronic women battering, (b) leaving an abusive partner and remaining a...

0. Introduction Prosody in speech is expressed through the modulation of pitch, duration, loudness and spectral balance. These features encode (i) phonological phrase structures that serve to group words into sense units, and (ii) prominence structures that mark the location of perceptually prominent syllables and words within larger domains. The prosodic phonological structures that encode phr...

Capital One Financial Corporation is a major supplier of credit products in the US market. A key part of their growth and success over the last decade has been an Information Based Strategy collecting large quantities of data and performing advanced analysis to leverage the information obtained to make good business decisions. The ability to continue this successful strategy is contingent on tr...

A directional-split, modular, user-friendly grid point distribution code is applied to several test problems. The code is self-adaptive in the sense that grid point spacing is determined by user-specified constants denoting maximum and minimum grid spacings and constants relating the relative influence of smoothness and orthogonality. Estimates of truncation error, in terms of flow-field gradie...

Background: AS is a chronic inflammatory immune-mediated disease primarily affecting the sacroiliac joints and spine, with prevalence of 0.2%–0.5% in United States. 1 Because radiographic features can take years to develop, diagnosis may be delayed by up 10 2 , which negatively affect patients’ function, ability work, overall quality life. Objectives: To describe geographic variations diagnosti...

-The effect of layer charge and of the interlayer cations of smectites on the hydrolysis of azinphosmethyl (0,0-dimethyl S-((4-oxo-1,2,3-benzotriazine-3(4H)-yl)methyl) phosphorodithioate) in an aqueous medium was investigated. Ultraviolet spectroscopy was used for monitoring the hydrolysis process. Hydrolysis of the pesticide is catalyzed by Ca-hectorite (layer charge 0.216) but is not catalyze...

The adreno-genital syndrome in infancy is associated almost invariably with bilateral adrenal hyperplasia. The characteristic syndrome is a combination of hyperfunction of the genital hormones of the suprarenal, producing precocious virilism in males and pseudohermaphroditism in females, and hypofunction of the salt-water hormones resulting in an electrolyte imbalance of the Addisonian type. Gl...

The goal of the present study was to test whether models of portions of curves, representing movements of the crucial articulator for production of place in syllables containing labiodental and alveolar gestures for production of obstruents (‘iceberg’ portions of demisyllables), that had previously been found to be stable across different prosodic conditions (Bonaventura, 2003; 2005; 2006; Bona...

A once widely used nematicide that is now banned, 1,2dibromokhloropropane (DBCP), persists in groundwaters and is a significant pOlluUnt in some water supplier. A study was conducted to determine whether a means for the biodegradation of this persistent compound could be devised. DBCP was not converted to organic products, halide, or CO, in unamended samples of soil, subsoil materiel, or ground...