This article reviews the preliminary results of a five-year Technology Innovation Challenge Grant initiative in North Dakota. A stratified sample of 72 schools was selected from the 423 schools participating. Data on the competencies of the leadership within each school (both administrators and mentors) was compared to technology integration success factors of the teachers associated with the l...

OBJECTIVES (1) To evaluate serum C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations in children with adenovirus infection, and (2) to compare CRP concentrations in adenovirus and influenza virus infection. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective, comparative single-center study conducted in Emergency Department patients of a paediatric tertiary care center. Comparison of CRP in adenovirus infection and influ...

In both robot grasping and robot locomotion, we wish t o hold objects stably in the presence of gravit . t ions f o r a supported heav ob‘ect, e m lo ing the tool of Stratified Morse Theory . &e t i e n a p p g t l e s e general results to the case of objects in the plane. We present a derivation of second-order stability con l i-

Some studies suggested that adequate vitamin D might reduce inflammation in adults. However, little is known about this association in early life. We aimed to determine the relationship between cord blood 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in neonates. Cord blood levels of 25(OH)D and CRP were measured in 1491 neonates in Hefei, China. Potential confounders including mat...

Continual applications of fertilizer and manure to permanent grassland or no-till soils can lead to an accumulation of P at the surface, which in turn increases the potential for P loss in overland flow. To investigate the feasibility of redistributing surface stratified P within the soil profile by plowing, Mehlich-3 P rich surface soils (128-961 mg kg(-) in 0-5 cm) were incubated with lower-P...

For any smooth free action of the unit circle S in a manifold M ; the Gysin sequence of M is a long exact sequence relating the DeRham cohomologies of M and its orbit space M/S. If the action is not free then M/S is not a manifold but a stratified pseudomanifold and there is a Gysin sequence relating the DeRham cohomology of M with the intersection cohomology of M/S. In this work we extend the ...

This paper presents a new definition of the community structure network, which takes also into account how communities are stratified. In particular, we extend standard concept clustering coefficient and provide local $l$-adjacency node $i$. We define it as an opportunely weighted mean coefficients nodes at distance $l$ from The stratus associated to $i$ is identified by $i$, so that peculiar $...