AWWA has reached a noteworthy milestone this year. In 2018, partnered with Wiley to digitize its entire collection of Journal AWWA, Opflow, and Water Science, content going back 1914. And in early 2023, surpassed one million article downloads. While most these articles are from the past 10 years, have been accessed all 110 years AWWA's publishing history, almost 20,000 different being downloade...

A PUNITIVE damage award in a highprofile case is a corporate defense counsel’s worst nightmare. Consider, as examples, • $2.7 million punitive damages against McDonald’s Corp. for burns a customer suffered from a coffee spill; • $7.1 million for a secretary who prevailed in a sexual harassment case; • $101 million against General Motors in a design defect case; • $125 million against a pharmace...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to estimate the cost-effectiveness of using individual-donor nucleic acid testing (ID-NAT) in addition to serologic tests compared with the sole use of serologic tests for the identification of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among blood donors in Sweden. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS The two strategi...

1933-2874/$ see front matter 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl.2014.03 Statins are the most widely prescribed class of medications in the United States and their benefits for lowering lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and reducing the risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) are well documented. Statins have been the cornerstone of pharmacotherapy for the management of high blood chol...

Yann Le Cun L eon Bottou Yoshua Bengio Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab AT&T Labs, 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA [email protected] ABSTRACT We propose a new machine learning paradigm called Multilayer Graph Transformer Network that extends the applicability of gradient-based learning algorithms to systems composed of modules that take graphs as input and...

Scrub typhus is endemic in regions of eastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific (Korea to Australia) and from Japan to India and Pakistan. It is estimated that there are about one million cases of this disease each year (Vas and Gupta, 2006). This illness is caused by Orientia (formerly Rickettsia). Orientia tsutsugamushi, an obligate intracellular Gram negative bacterium, which was first isola...