Reducing consumption of calories from added sugars is a recommendation of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and an objective of Healthy People 2020. Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) are major sources of added sugars in the diets of U.S. residents. Daily SSB consumption is associated with obesity and other chronic health conditions, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. U.S. adul...

The efficiency of the carbon dioxide absorption by soda lime was determined in the following way. (1) " Circle " breathing. In six experiments, a subject breathing through a Waters canister fully packed with 425 g of fresh soda lime was connected to a closed circuit spirometer as described by Erikson et al. (1951). The expired air then passed the canister before entering the spirometer where th...

FOR patients who are breathing spontaneously the Magill attachment or system A (Mapleson, 1954) is the most widely used semiclosed anaesthetic system. A theoretical analysis predicted that if the freshgas inflow were made at least equal to the patient's minute-volume ventilation, then rebreathing would be eliminated (Mapleson, 1954). A similar conclusion has been reached experimentally by vario...

In a ground-breaking paper, Indyk and Woodruff (STOC 05) showed how to compute Fk (for k > 2) in space complexity O(poly-log(n,m) · n 2 k ), which is optimal up to (large) poly-logarithmic factors in n and m, where m is the length of the stream and n is the upper bound on the number of distinct elements in a stream. The best known lower bound for large moments is Ω(log(n)n 2 k ). A follow-up wo...

We study the following set membership problem in the bit probe model: given a set S from a finite universe U , represent it in memory so that membership queries of the form “Is x in S?” can be answered with a small number of bitprobes. We obtain explicit schemes that come close to the information theoretic lower bound of Buhrman et al. [STOC 2000, SICOMP 2002] and improve the results of Radhakr...

Abstract. We assess the CALIPSO Version 4.2 (V4) aerosol typing and assigned lidar ratios over ocean using optical depth (AOD) retrievals from Synergized Optical Depth of Aerosols (SODA) algorithm retrieved columnar ratio estimated by combining SODA AOD attenuated backscatter (CALIPSO–SODA). Six types – clean marine, dusty dust, polluted continental/smoke, elevated smoke are characterized CALIP...

Given an edge-weighted graph G with a set Q of k terminals, a mimicking network is a graph with the same set of terminals that exactly preserves the sizes of minimum cuts between any partition of the terminals. A natural question in the area of graph compression is to provide as small mimicking networks as possible for input graph G being either an arbitrary graph or coming from a specific grap...