1 The MetaFrameEnvironment MetaFrame is a meta-level framework designed to ooer a sophisticated support for the systematic and structured computer aided generation of application-speciic complex objects from collections of reusable components. Figure 1 shows its overall organization. Special care has been taken in the design of an adequate, almost natural-language speciication language, of a us...

Milk, meat and eggs tend not to be regarded as an important source of PUFA. They are disproportionally high in SFA compared with their PUFA content, especially those from cattle and sheep, since their rumen microbes are responsible for the loss of over 90 % of PUFA intake by livestock. This need not necessarily be the case since the relative proportion of PUFA in these foods is dictated by live...

Economic choice entails assigning values to the available options and is impaired by lesions to the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Recent results show that some neurons in the OFC encode the values that monkeys (Macaca mulatta) assign to different goods when they choose between them. A broad and fundamental question is how this neuronal representation of value depends on the behavioral context. He...

Cryptosporidium and Giardia are two important pathogenic parasites that have caused many waterborne outbreaks which affected hundreds of thousands of people. Contamination from effluent discharged by sewage treatment plants have been implicated in previous waterborne outbreaks of Cryptosporidium and Giardia. This study evaluated the reduction of Cryptosporidium and Giardia (oo)cysts in two sewa...

IP 95-1 Page 1 This is the story of teacher trainees in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) alternative training program during a labor dispute. The individual stories highlight the stress a labor dispute places on prospective teachers who are not yet full-time teachers but also not the traditional transitory student teachers from a university teacher education program. In the dispu...

We examine the power of Boolean functions with low L 1 norms in several settings. In large part of the recent literature, the degree of a polynomial which represents a Boolean function in some way was chosen to be the measure of the complexity of the Boolean function (see, e. have high degree, but small L 1 norms. So, in conjunction with communication complexity, instead of the degree, the L 1 ...