*Centro de Investigaci on en Matem aticas, CIMAT, Jalisco s/n. Col. Valenciana, 36240 Guanajuato, Guanajuato, M exico Departamento de Matem aticas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Jalisco s/n. Col. Valenciana, 36240 Guanajuato, Guanajuato, M exico Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Group, Centro de Investigaci on y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, CINVESTAV, Saltillo, Coah, M exico §LAAS-CNRS, Labora...

Mining causes changes in natural areas, from the elimination of vegetation and seed bank to physical soil water dynamics. The recovery such impacted areas depends on both process secondary succession use techniques that assist return flora. Aiming evaluate rain an area basaltic rock mining, 18 collectors 0.5 m2 were installed placed under artificial perches, pioneer trees (natural perches) cont...

Rui Liang 1,*, Zhi Yang 1, Nan Peng 1, Chenglei Liu 1 and Firuz Zare 2 1 School of Electrical and Power Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; [email protected] (Z.Y.); [email protected] (N.P.); [email protected] (C.L.) 2 Power and Energy Group, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; [email protected] * Correspondence: liangrui@...

Address to: Dra. Juliana Pena Porto. FM/UFU. Avenida Pará 1720/Bloco 2U, Campus Umuarama, 38400-902 Uberlândia, MG, Brasil. Phone: 55 34 3218-2236; 55 34 8816-7987. e-mail: [email protected] Received 8 August 2014 Accepted 3 December 2014 Authors’ reply: Emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and extended spectrum β-lactamases, and mul...

Objective This study investigates the determinants of parental involvement in diverse types stepfamilies. Background Most research has studied married stepfather families with resident children. also includes some more recent and emerging stepfamily (e.g., living-apart-together [LAT] stepfamilies) allowing for a simultaneous examination role biological relatedness, type relationship, residence,...

We conducted a retrospective review of 3218 primary total knee arthroplasties (TKA) performed over two years at an urban academic hospital network using clinical and administrative data. Increased length of stay (LOS) was associated with readmission (P < 0.001). Readmission was not associated with age (P = 0.100), gender (P = 0.608), body mass index (P = 0.329), or staged bilateral procedures (...

In the setting of partially ordered metric spaces, using the notion of compatible mappings, we establish the existence and uniqueness of coupled common fixed points involving a (φ ,ψ )-contractive condition for mixed g-monotone operators. Our results extend and generalize the well-known results of Berinde (Nonlinear Anal. TMA 74:7347-7355, 2011; Nonlinear Anal. TMA 75:3218-3228, 2012) and weake...

This study examines alternative tobacco use among Latin American youth. A self-administered survey in a random sample of 27 schools was administered in 2004 in Jujuy, Argentina (N = 3218). Prevalence of alternative tobacco product use was 24.1%; 15.3% of youth used hand-rolled cigarettes, 7.8% smoked cigars, 2.3% chewed tobacco leaf and 1.6% smoked pipe. Among youth who never smoked manufacture...

PURPOSE The IL6/STAT3 axis promotes inflammation, angiogenesis, and cancer. The effect of genetic variants within this pathway on benefit from antiangiogenic cancer therapy is unknown. We tested whether SNPs in genes involved in IL6/STAT3 signaling can predict efficacy of bevacizumab-based chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Associations between p...