BACKGROUND: Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) victims have unique medical and mental health needs and present frequently for medical attention. Little is known about the reported training, screening, comfort and knowledge of DMST among pediatricians in Rhode Island who likely encounter these patient victims without knowing. METHODS: An anonymous electronic survey sent to Rhode Island Hospit...

BACKGROUND Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) victims have unique medical and mental health needs and present frequently for medical attention. Little is known about the reported training, screening, comfort and knowledge of DMST among pediatricians in Rhode Island who likely encounter these patient victims without knowing. METHODS An anonymous electronic survey sent to Rhode Island Hospit...

This chapter describes a novel ACO algorithm for the degree-constrained minimum spanning tree (d-MST) problem. Instead of constructing the d-MST directly on the construction graph, ants construct the encoded d-MST. Two well-known tree codings are used: the Prüfer code, and the more recent Blob code (Picciotto, 1999). Both of these tree codings are bijective because they represent each spanning ...

By now, most social workers are familiar with the issue of human trafficking. However, many are likely unfamiliar with research indicating that youths constitute the most vulnerable group in the United States for becoming victims of sex trafficking and that most women in prostitution actually entered as minors. Some experts are now referring to the sex trafficking of U.S. children and youths as...

Miang is a kind of traditional fermented tea leaves, widely consumed in northern Thailand as a snack. It contains several kinds of Lactobacilli spp. The aim of this study was to isolate strains of Lactobacillus fermentum from miang and to investigate their antibacterial and antioxidant activities. The agar spot and well assays were used for determination of antibacterial power. The antibacteria...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical characteristics of patients referred for domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) to improve identification and intervention. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING The Lawrence A. Aubin, Sr Child Protection Center at Hasbro Children's Hospital where patients are evaluated by child abuse pediatricians in outpatient, emergency department, and inpatie...

Motivated by applications to wireless sensor networks, we study the following problem. We are given a set S of wireless sensor nodes, given as a multiset of points in a normed space. We must place a minimum-size (multi)set Q of wireless relay nodes in the normed space such that the unit-disk graph induced by Q ∪ S is two-connected. The unit-disk graph of a set of points has an edge between two ...

We consider the problem of updating a directed minimum cost spanning tree (DMST), when edges are deleted from or inserted to a weighted directed graph. This problem apart from being a classic for directed graphs, is to the best of our knowledge a wide open aspect for the field of dynamic graph algorithms. Our contributions include results on the hardness of updates, a dynamic algorithm for upda...

The substances belonging to the sterigmatocystin group bear a close structural relationship to aflatoxins. When demethylsterigmatocystin (DMST) was fed to Aspergillus parasiticus NIAH-26, which endogenously produces neither aflatoxins nor precursors in YES medium, aflatoxins B1 and G1 were produced. When dihydrodemethylsterigmatocystin (DHDMST) was fed to this mutant, aflatoxins B2 and G2 were ...

Supply-voltage (VDD) scaling techniques are often employed in low power System-on-Chip (SoC) design; however, adverse impacts such as voltage-dependent timing skews and small sensing headroom have become increasingly significant on memory circuits. In this dissertation, functional failures induced by voltage-dependent timing skews and small sensing headroom in memory circuits are investigated. ...