We investigate how editorial slant—defined as the quantity and tone of a newspaper’s candidate coverage as influenced by its editorial position—shapes candidate evaluations and vote choice. We avoid various methodological pitfalls by focusing on a single Senate campaign in a single market with two competing, editorially distinct newspapers. Combining comprehensive content analyses of the papers...

hedera helix  is widely used to treat bronchial asthma for many years. however, effects of this herb on lung histopathology is still far from clear. we aimed to determine the effect of oral administration of hedera helix on lung histopathology in a murine model of chronic asthma. balb/c  mice  were  divided  into  four  groups;   i  (placebo),  ii  (hedera  helix), iii (dexamethasone) and iv (c...

Antennas which are fed by a “shunt” or other method in which a part of the antenna comprises a portion of an electrically small one-turn loop, so that the feed is in essence a sort of autotransformer, are quite common, particularly at frequencies above 10 megahertz. Shunt feed arrangements for grounded vertical tower radiators, such as those used for medium wave broadcasting, are less common. A...

Two novel yttrium nitrides, YN6 and Y2N11, were synthesized by direct reaction between nitrogen at 100 GPa 3000 K in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell. High-pressure synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed that the crystal structures of Y2N11 feature unique organization atoms—a previously unknown anionic N18 macrocycle polynitrogen double helix, respectively. Density functional th...

The aim of this work was to characterize several ionic channels in nervous cells of the suboesophageal visceral, left and right parietal, and left and right pleural brain ganglia complex of the snail Helix aspersa by immunocytochemistry. We have studied the immunostaining reaction for a wide panel of eleven polyclonal antibodies raised against mammal antigens as follows: voltage-gated-Na+ chann...

This study propose and demonstrates a novel technique incorporating multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural networks for feature extraction with Photometric stereo based image capture techniques for the analysis of complex and irregular 2D profiles and 3D surfaces. In order to develop the method and to ensure that it is capable of modelling non-axisymmetric and complex 2D/3D profiles, the network wa...

In this paper, we propose a digital watermarking algorithm based on the Slant transform for the copyright protection of images. Our earlier research work associated with the fast Hadamard transform for robust watermark embedding and retrieval of images and characters suggests that this transform could also provide a good “hidden” space for digital watermarking. The Slant transform has many simi...