In this study, we examined whether Sprague-Dawley rats obtained from two different vendors, Harlan and Sasco, differ with respect to the types of alpha-2 adrenoceptors in the spinal cord that mediate antinociception. This hypothesis was tested using two alpha-2 adrenoceptor agonists, dexmedetomidine and ST-91, which are relatively selective for alpha-2A and alpha-2B adrenoceptors, respectively,...

Orderly phonetic correspondence with Middle Chinese are found in Chinese dialects, such as Hakka, Min, and Yue, yet their phonological structure reflect traces of linguistic substrate or language contact. Contrastive phonetic analyses on Hakka, She, and Yao are the focus of this paper, historical evolution and language contact within are also attempted. The aims are to study, analyze and compar...

During the last decade, it has become widely accepted that global warming is not simply a natural cycle but that it is being exacerbated by human activity and that the impact of emissions from man-made technologies is substantial and critical. Reduction in the release of greenhouse gasses is therefore very urgent. Rather than direct regulatory action, governments around the world have been conv...

In late 2013, Trinidad & Tobago Police Service conducted the first randomized experiment ever to test a hot spots patrol strategy across large areas, as distinct from testing extra patrols one hot spot at a time. The Hot Spots Patrol Strategy (HSPS) experiment required, and helped to refine, a formal theory of both the causes and effects of directed patrols in hot spots. This paper presents an ...

Recent work on semantic role labeling (SRL) has focused almost exclusively on the analysis of the predicate-argument structure of verbs, largely due to the lack of human-annotated resources for other types of predicates that can serve as training and test data for the semantic role labeling systems. However, it is wellknown that verbs are not the only type of predicates that can take arguments....

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To pilot test the acceptability of a DVD platform to deliver a newly created cognitive-behavioral hot flash intervention and estimate the efficacy of the new intervention. DESIGN Nonrandomized pretest, post-test design. SETTING Midwestern and southeastern outpatient cancer clinics serving urban and rural areas. SAMPLE 40 participants from two sites completed the study. ...

For the last year or two of college, I lived in a small room attached to a garage at the back of a house on Del Mar Boulevard in Pasadena. I’d been living in a room of the main house for a year and leaped at the opportunity for more privacy. The room was tiny — but I didn’t have much stuff and it had its own bathroom. It was just right for me. There was only one thing that was a little disagree...