James Clay Moltz is Research Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He also directs the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Project at CNS. From 1993-98 (Vols. 1-5), Dr. Moltz was Editor of this journal. When the authors of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) crafted the...

We introduce “antifragility” as a conceptual framework to understand the impact of occasional violations regime norms on health respective regimes. Contrary prevailing understanding norm violation strictly negative phenomenon that leaves regimes damaged, we show normative deviance is, under certain conditions, stressor helps predominantly antifragile systems learn, improve, and adapt changes in...

Surveillance requires time for analysis and for the communication to physicians. In order to reduce this delay, a new surveillance system based on the use of a near patient test (NPT) has been evaluated. The high specificity of NPT together with the rapidity in obtaining the results, make these tests attractive for surveillance of influenza epidemic in community practice. Such surveillance has ...

Methods The study population consisted of 28 patients (9 female and 19 males, aged between 18-32 years) with diagnostic of persistent AR (ARIA consensus). This was a randomized, crossover study. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive either azelastine hydrochloride (140 mcg/nostril) or budesonide (64mcg/nostril) or both drugs. All patients received the three treatments using nasal spray twi...

BACKGROUND Primary care physicians (PCPs) are optimally situated to identify and manage early stage chronic kidney disease (CKD). Nonetheless, studies have documented suboptimal PCP understanding, awareness, and management of early CKD. The TRANSLATE CKD study is an ongoing national, mixed-methods, cluster randomized control trial that examines the implementation of evidence-based guidelines fo...

This paper describes a new image watermarking technique based on the Natural Preserving Transform (NPT). The proposed watermarking scheme uses NPT to encode a gray scale watermarking logo image or text, into a host image at any location. NPT brings a unique feature which is uniformly distributing the logo across the host image in an imperceptible manner. The contribution of this paper lies is p...

We present an atomistic potential for BiFeO(3) based on the principles of bond-valence (BV) and bond-valence vector (BVV) conservation. The validity of this model potential is tested for both canonical ensemble (NVT) and isobaric-isothermal ensemble (NPT) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The model reproduces the ferroelectric-to-paraelectric phase transition in both NVT and NPT MD simulati...

Negative pressure therapy (NPT) has been reported to be effective in treating infants with open chest wounds. This report further supports its effectiveness by treating a 3-month-old infant with a 12 × 7 cm sized opening in its chest after an oversized heart transplantation. After applying a mesh and allodermis over the defect, 75-mmHg continuous negative pressure was set and used for an extend...