In this memo we argue that interoperability between the existing radio-interferometry packages provides a fast, robust, flexible, complete, and user-friendly data reduction package for ALMA. We discuss the meaning of these terms from the point of view of the end-user, the data reduction specialist, and the package maintainer, and show that an open software environment provides a cost effective,...

As someone who routinely confronts creationists of all stripes, where do you think this debate is headed? Oddly, those of us who study human evolution are not usually thought of as biologists within biology, and not usually thought of as paleontologists within paleontology. And I won’t even guess how most anthropologists view us these days... Maybe all of our various colleagues are just happier...

Appropriate conscious sedation is a critical component for successful awake laparoscopy. It is not surprising that the patients in both cases experienced pain during laparoscopy, since only 50 g of fentanyl citrate was administered in the first case, and 100 g in the second case. The protocol used for conscious sedation must be of sufficient efficacy to allow the awake procedure to continue wit...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine was used in 37 infants and children to assess the potential of this new technology to evaluate suspected lumbosacral dysraphic myelodysplasia. Eighteen of these patients had correlative metrizamide myelotomography and metrizamide computed tomography (CT). MRI using a spin-echo pulse sequence with short repetition times (TR) and echo delay times (TE)...

The Ojén nappe, an allochthonous unit that underlies the Ronda peridotites (Betic Cordilleras), is composed of Triassic marbles overlying a metapelitic sequence. In order to carry out LA-ICP-MS U-Pb age determination and provenance analysis, detrital zircon grains from two quartzites interlayered within metapelites were extracted. obtained results yield youngest population 254 ± 3 Ma (Late Perm...

Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, CP 6122, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brasil Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Biofabricação INCT-BioFabris, Campinas, SP, Brasil Faculdade de Engenharia, Departamento de Engenharia Metalúrgica e Materiais, Universidade do Porto – UP, CEP 4200-465, Porto, Portugal In...

Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial (INEGI). Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial (DEMEGI). Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n – 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. e-mail: {victor.albuquerque, tavares}@fe.up.pt 2 Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia Mecânica (CIDEM). Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica...

A Social Psychological Perspective on the Achievement Gap in Standardized Test Performance between White and Minority Students: Implications for Assessment Author(s): Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Source: The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 83, No. 4, Special Focus Topics: Diversity, Equity and Excellence with Education Values, Satisfaction, and Experiences (Fall 2014), pp. 465-484 Published by: Jour...

This note points out an error in the local quadratic convergence proof of the predictorcorrector interior-point algorithm for solving the semidefinite linear complementarity problem based on the Alizadeh–Haeberly–Overton search direction presented in [M. Kojima, M. Shida, and S. Shindoh, SIAM J. Optim., 9 (1999), pp. 444–465]. Their algorithm is slightly modified and the local quadratic converg...