Tighter P&T committee rules proposed for NAIC model act.

In the summer of 2014, the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study about emotional contagion conducted by a Facebook researcher in collaboration with two academics. 1 The premise of the study was that emotional states can spread through social networks. The data was gathered for one week in January 2012 from 689,003 randomly selected users who interact w...

Bypassing much theory from integral geometry, we construct an elementary measure on a space whose elements can represent rank k orthogonal projections in RN . By replacing the Grassmannian GN,k with a simple product space ⊗j=1S we are able to reproduce certain important features of the nontrivial measure on GN,k invariant under the action of the orthogonal group (a property also enjoyed by our ...

We use quantitative media (blogs, and news as a comparison) data generated by a large-scale natural language processing (NLP) text analysis system to perform a comprehensive and comparative study on how company related news variables anticipates or reflects the company’s stock trading volumes and financial returns. Building on our findings, we give a sentiment-based market-neutral trading strat...

Species in the North American clade (NAC) of the Ceratocystis fimbriata complex are mostly weak pathogens that infect native tree hosts through fresh wounds. Isolations from discolored tissue of wounded Tilia americana (basswood) in Iowa and Nebraska yielded a Ceratocystis species that was similar to but distinct from isolates of C. variospora from other hosts. Sequences of 28S rDNA showed that...

In August 2010 Facebook launched Places, a locationbased service that allows users to check into points of interest and share their physical whereabouts with friends. The friends who see these events in their News Feed can then respond to these check-ins by liking or commenting on them. These data consisting of the places people go and how their friends react to them are a rich, novel dataset. ...

Handloom is the mostly widely established cottage industry of North East India (NE) that is most wide spread throughout the region. It employs a large skilled and unskilled workforce and which, in North East, mainly consists of women workers. In the present era of commercialization, handloom sector is also witnessing changes and large number, of women are adopting the weaving activity as their ...

Effects of Kaluza-Klein excitations associated with extra dimensions with large radius compactifications on the Fermi constant are explored. It is shown that the current precision determinations of the Fermi constant, of the fine structure constant, and of the W and Z mass put stringent constraints on the compactification radius. The analysis excludes one extra space time dimension below ∼ 1.6 ...

PROCEnf-USP is a decision support system that offers staff nurses at the University Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil a set of questionnaires to guide patient assessment. Using the answers, the system computes probabilities for nursing diagnoses based on NANDA-I. This study aims to evaluate PROCenf in terms of its reliability (Does it consistently gives the right diagnose?) and its validity in Braz...

Designing a well-structured XML document is important for the sake of readability and maintainability. More importantly, this will avoid data redundancies and update anomalies when maintaining a large quantity of XML based documents. In this paper, we propose a method to improve XML structural design by adopting graphical notations for Document Type Definitions (GN-DTD), which is used to descri...