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\section{DIFFRACTION AT HERA}
At the HERA $ep$ collider the diffractive quark structure of the proton
is probed with a point-like photon (\figref{fig1}).
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
fig1.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{Diffractive $ep$ scattering.}
\label{fig1}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}                           %
The virtuality of the photon is denoted by $Q^2$ and sets the hard
scale of the interaction.
Diffraction is characterised by an elastically scattered proton
which loses only a small fraction $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ of its initial beam
momentum.
These events are selected experimentally by detecting the proton
at small scattering angles (roman pot detectors)
or by requiring a large empty area in the detector between the outgoing
proton and the hadronic system $X$ produced in the interaction (rapidity gap).
The squared 4-momentum $t$ transferred at the proton vertex can be
measured by tagging the proton.
For the rapidity gap method, which accesses a much larger event
sample, the cross section has to be integrated over $|t|<1$~GeV$^2$ and in
$\approx 10\%$ of the events the proton is excited into a hadronic
system of small mass $<1.6$~GeV. The two methods give the same
results when compared in the same kinematic range.

In a picture which depicts diffraction as a two step process,
the proton exchanges a diffractive object (often called
the pomeron) with momentum fraction $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ and the quark struck by the
photon carries a fraction $\beta$ of the momentum of the diffractive
exchange.
Additional kinematic variables are Bjorken-x $x=\beta \ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ and
the inelasticity $y=Q^2/(s x)$ where $s$ is the $ep$ centre-of-mass
energy squared.

The cross section is proportional to the combination of two structure
functions:
\begin{equation}
\sigma \propto \ensuremath{{F_2^D}} - Y \ensuremath{{F_L^D}} \equiv \ensuremath{{\sigma_r^D}}, \label{eq_ftd}
\end{equation}
where $Y=\frac{y^2}{1+(1-y)^2}$ is a kinematic factor
 resulting from the difference of
the fluxes of transversely and longitudinally polarised photons from
the electron.
$\ensuremath{{F_2^D}}$ is proportional to the diffractive $\gamma^* p$ cross section,
whereas $\ensuremath{{F_L^D}}$ is related only to the part induced by longitudinal photons.
The factor $Y$ is sizable at large values of $y$ and
in most of the phase space measured so far, $\ensuremath{{F_L^D}}$ is a small
correction.

\section{FACTORISATION IN DIFFRACTION}
The diffractive structure functions have been proven to factorise
into diffractive parton densities $f_i^D$ of the proton convoluted
with ordinary photon-parton scattering cross sections
$\hat{\sigma}^{\gamma^* i}$~\cite{Collins}:
\begin{equation}
\ensuremath{{F_2^D}} = \sum_i f_i^D \otimes \hat{\sigma}^{\gamma^* i},
\end{equation}
where the sum runs over all partons. This factorisation formula holds
for large enough scales at leading twist and applies also to $\ensuremath{{F_L^D}}$.
The diffractive parton densities obey the standard QCD evolution
equations and can be determined from fits to structure function data.

\section{EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS}
\subsection{Dependence on \boldmath{$t$}}
The $t$ dependence of the cross section has the form
$d\sigma/dt \propto e^{b t}$ with a
slope parameter $b\approx$ 5~to~7~GeV$^{-2}$
which at the present level of precision does
not depend on $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ as shown in \figref{figt}~\cite{fps}.
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
figt.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The slope parameter $b$ from fits to the diffractive $ep$
cross section $d\sigma/dt \propto e^{b t}$ for different values
of \ensuremath{{x_\pom}}.}
\label{figt}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Dependence on \boldmath{$\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$}}
\label{sec_xpom}
The reduced diffractive cross section is shown in \figref{figsrd}
as a function of \ensuremath{{x_\pom}}{} in bins of $\beta$ and $Q^2$.
The measurements are obtained using a rapidity gap selection and
cover a large kinematic range $Q^2=1.5$~to~1600~GeV$^2$~\cite{fit,gap}.
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
H1prelim-03-011.fig2.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The reduced diffractive $ep$ cross section $\ensuremath{{\sigma_r^D}} \equiv \ensuremath{{F_2^D}}
  - Y \ensuremath{{F_L^D}}$ compared with the H1 2002 NLO QCD fit.}
\label{figsrd}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}                           %
The collected event sample statistics do not allow an extraction of diffractive
parton densities at fixed values of $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$.
Instead, the $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ and $t$ dependence of the PDFs are parameterised
in a so-called flux factor \ensuremath{f_{\pom}}:
\begin{equation}
f_i^D(\beta, Q^2, \ensuremath{{x_\pom}}, t) = f_{{I\!\!P}}(\ensuremath{{x_\pom}},t) \ f^D_i(\beta, Q^2)
\end{equation}
with $\ensuremath{f_{\pom}}(\ensuremath{{x_\pom}},t) = e^{b t} \ensuremath{{x_\pom}}^{1-2 \ensuremath{\alpha_\pom}(t)}$,
where $\ensuremath{\alpha_\pom}(t) = \ensuremath{\alpha_\pom}(0) + \ensuremath{\alpha'_\pom}\,t$ is the linear
pomeron Regge trajectory.
This flux factor approach is consistent with the data within
the present uncertainties for $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}<0.01$.
At larger $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ values, a second term has to be introduced which can be
interpreted as reggeon exchange:
\begin{equation}
\ensuremath{{\sigma_r^D}} =  \ensuremath{f_{\pom}} \left( F_2^D + Y F_L^D \right)
      + \ensuremath{f_{\reg}}  \left( F_2^{I\!\!R} + Y F_L^{I\!\!R} \right).
\end{equation}
This is illustrated in \figref{figmeson} where the
cross section is well described by \ensuremath{f_{\pom}}{} alone for
$\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}<0.01$.
A fit to the data gives an
intercept $\alpha_{I\!\!P}(0) = 1.17^{+0.07}_{-0.05}$ which
is larger than 1.08 as obtained for the soft pomeron in
hadron-hadron collisions.
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
H1prelim-02-112.stamp.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ dependence of the reduced diffractive cross
  section for low and high $\beta$ compared with
the H1 2002 NLO QCD fit.}
\label{figmeson}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}                           %

\subsection{Scaling Properties and \boldmath{$\beta$} dependence}
The $Q^2$ and $\beta$ dependences of the diffractive cross section are shown
in \figsref{figqs}{figbeta} in a kinematic range ($y<0.6$, $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}<0.01$)
where to good approximation $\ensuremath{{\sigma_r^D}} = \ensuremath{{F_2^D}}$ and the reggeon term is
negligible.
The shown data points display the pure $\beta$ and $Q^2$ dependences
of the structure function $\ensuremath{{F_2^D}}$;
kinematic effects related to $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ and $t$ have been
corrected by dividing the cross section by $\ensuremath{f_{\pom}}$.
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
H1prelim-02-012.fig5.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The diffractive structure function $\ensuremath{{F_2^D}}$ as a function of
  $Q^2$ compared with the H1 2002 NLO QCD fit. The $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ dependence
  has been divided out.}
\label{figqs}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}
In \figref{figqs} the structure function displays approximate scaling
for $\beta=2/3$. For lower values the data exhibit scaling violations
which are driven by a large gluonic component in the diffractive exchange.
The structure function depends only weakly on $\beta$ as shown
in \figref{figbeta}.
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
H1prelim-02-012.fig4.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The diffractive structure function $\ensuremath{{F_2^D}}$ as a function of
  $\beta$ compared with the H1 2002 NLO QCD fit. The $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ dependence
  has been divided out.}
\label{figbeta}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}                           %

\subsection{Diffractive parton densities}
The H1 Collaboration has extracted diffractive parton densities
from QCD fits to the diffractive structure function data.
The $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ and $t$ dependence of the PDFs is given by the flux factor
as discussed in \secref{sec_xpom}. The $\beta$ dependences of the quark
and gluon densities are
parameterised at a starting scale $Q_0^2=3~$GeV$^2$ and are evolved
to the measured $Q^2$ values using the DGLAP equations~\cite{dglap}.
The best fit is shown in \figrange{figsrd}{figbeta} and
describes the measurements very well.
The corresponding parameterisations for the NLO and LO quark and gluon densities are shown in
\figref{figpdf}.
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
H1prelim-02-012.fig14.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The H1 diffractive quark and gluon densities as extracted in a
  QCD fit to structure function data.}
\label{figpdf}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}                           %
The gluon carries $\approx 75\%$ of the momentum of the diffractive
exchange.
The error band around the NLO densities includes
experimental (inner band) and model uncertainties (outer band)
which have been propagated to the PDFs.
The gluon density is known to better than 30\% up to fractional
momenta $z \approx 0.5$, but is poorly known at large $z$.
These densities have been used to predict diffractive final state cross
sections such as dijet and heavy flavour production at HERA~\cite{svetlana} and at the
Tevatron~\cite{fit}.

\subsection{Ratio of diffractive to inclusive cross section}
The ratio of the diffractive to the inclusive cross section at the
same $x=\beta \ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ is shown
in \figref{figratio} for $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}=0.01$ as a function of $Q^2$.
For this particular $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$ and the corresponding gap size,
the diffractive contribution amounts to
2--3\% of the inclusive cross section.
The ratio
is flat for $\beta<0.6$ indicating a similar QCD evolution of
the inclusive and the diffractive structure functions away from the
kinematic limit $\beta=1$~\cite{fit}.

\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.35\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
betadep.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The ratio of diffractive to inclusive $ep$ scattering cross
  sections as a function of $Q^2$ at $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}=0.01$ for different values of $x=\beta \ensuremath{{x_\pom}}$.}
\label{figratio}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}                           %

\subsection{Charged current cross section}
Diffractive processes which occur via $W$ boson exchange instead of
photon exchange have been measured by H1 using events with missing transverse energy which is
carried away by the neutrino~\cite{cc}.
The ratio of the diffractive to the inclusive charged current cross section was measured
to be $2.5\% \pm 1.0\%$ for $\ensuremath{{x_\pom}}<0.05$.
The cross section as a function of $\beta$ is shown in \figref{figcc}.
It is well described by a leading order Monte Carlo prediction which
is based on the diffractive parton densities extracted in neutral
current processes.
\begin{figure}[hhh]
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth,keepaspectratio]{%
H1prelim-04-115.fig5.eps}
\vspace{-1cm}
\caption{The diffractive charged current cross section as a function
  of the momentum fraction $\beta$ compared with a LO prediction based
  on the LO diffractive parton densities of \figref{figpdf}.}
\label{figcc}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}                           %

\section{CONCLUSIONS}
Diffractive structure functions have been measured by the H1
Collaboration to unprecedented precision.
The data are consistent with QCD factorisation and
diffractive parton densities have been extracted in QCD evolution
fits. The gluon component
carries $\approx 75\%$ of the momentum of the diffractive exchange.
QCD factorisation was tested in diffractive charged current
interactions where
predictions based on the neutral current PDFs are in good agreement
with the measured cross section.
Diffractive and inclusive deep-inelastic $ep$ scattering
were shown to evolve similarly with the hard QCD scale.

\subsection*{Acknowledgements}
I thank my colleagues in H1 for their work reflected in this article
and the organisers for an interesting conference in a
splendid location.
I thank Nicholas Malden for a thorough reading of the manuscript.

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Geografia fisica
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Società

Evoluzione demografica
Secondo il censimento del 2010, c'erano 2,934 persone.

Etnie e minoranze straniere
Secondo il censimento del 2010, la composizione etnica della città era formata dal 96,5% di bianchi, lo 0,1% di afroamericani, lo 0,4% di nativi americani, lo 0,2% di asiatici, lo 0,2% di oceanici, l'1,2% di altre razze, e l'1,4% di due o più etnie. Ispanici o latinos di qualunque razza erano il 3,5% della popolazione.

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Flavivirus serostatus (i.e. dengue and JE) at baseline and safety data at each time point were summarized by vaccine group. The safety analysis set was defined for each dose as those children who received a vaccine; data were analyzed according to the vaccine received. Between
14 August 2010 and 31 July 2012, 550 participants were enrolled and 468 completed the NVP-BGJ398 nmr study (Fig. 2). The main reason for discontinuation was voluntary withdrawal. No child withdrew owing to an AE. Mean age at inclusion, BMI, and ratio of male:female were similar in the three groups (Table 1). All children except one were Asian. Before vaccination, 2 children (2.0%) in JE-CV Group, 18 children (9.1%) in MMR Group and 5 children (2.3%) in Co-Ad Group were flavivirus seropositive i.e. they presented with pre-existing antibodies against either JE or dengue virus. All groups had low seroprotection/seropositivity rates before vaccination for all antigens (JE, measles, mumps and rubella). Non-inferiority was demonstrated for all analyses as the lower bound of the 95% CI of the difference in seroconversion rates between groups stood above −10.0% (Fig. 3). On Day 42 after vaccination, seroconversion rates were above 96% for all antigens in both concomitant check details and sequential groups (Fig. 3). The seropositivity/seroprotection
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of 10.0 1/dil before JE-CV vaccination. The GMTs of JE antibody were increased in all groups 42 days after JE-CV vaccination and were higher in the sequential administration groups compared with Co-Ad Group. For JE-CV, GMTs were 510 1/dil (95% CI: 356; 731) for JE-CV Group, 581 1/dil (95% CI: 449; 752) for MMR Group, and 332 1/dil (95% CI: 258; 426) for Co-Ad Group. Likewise, the GMTRs tended to be higher in JE-CV Group (102 [95% CI: until 71.3; 146]) and MMR Group (116 [95% CI: 89.8; 150]) compared with Co-Ad Group (66.3 [95% CI: 51.6; 85.2]); however, this difference is not clinically significant as the GMT values in all groups were well above the threshold considered to be protective. Results in the FAS were similar to those in the PP population. Persistence in seroprotection/seropositivity remained high for all four antigens up to 6 months after the last vaccination, as the level of antibody titers remained far above the threshold for seroprotection or seropositivity. The seroprotection rates for JE remained high at 12 months after first vaccination in the two groups with successive administration of the vaccines, and decreased slightly in the co-administration group (Fig. 4). All GMTs remained well above the level of protection (Fig. 4). Seroprotection rates remained high at 12 months after vaccination in all groups for measles, mumps, and rubella (Fig. 4).
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origin. Comparisons with other disease states such as diabetic neuropathy do not adequately characterize the symptoms presented by these 2 cases. Diabetic neuropathy commonly presents with a broad range of positive symptoms typically described as "pins and needles" and prickling or tingling. Our patients presented with a novel complaint of vibratory sensation in the perineum. In both cases, the associated symptoms and Angiogenesis inhibitor physical examination findings support a diagnosis of prostatitis. "Buzzing" has been used as a descriptor in multiple other disease states with multifactorial etiologies similar to those proposed for CP/CPPS and might represent a novel description within the vast prostatitis symptomatology. It is clearly necessary
for more research to be completed as to the pathogenesis of prostatitis and its symptoms, and we hope these DNA Damage inhibitor data allow clinicians to better recognize and manage patients with this disorder. Moldwin R: Taris Biomedical–investigator, medical advisory board; Afferent Pharmaceuticals–investigator; Urigen Pharmaceuticals–investigator, medical advisory board. "
"Sacral neuromodulation (ie, InterStim) has been shown to be an effective treatment for a variety of bladder control issues. It was first introduced by Tanagho and Schmidt in 1981 and approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of urge incontinence in 1991. In 1999, it was approved for the treatment of urinary retention and urinary frequency.1 This
technique involves the surgical implantation of a device in the abdomen or buttock region, which is then attached to an electrode to stimulate sacral nerves.2 InterStim uses electrical impulses to modulate afferent sacral signals through because inhibition. These impulses modulate the nerves and muscles used to control the bladder.3 This reversible treatment option has been shown to be successful in existing research. Specifically, current research has shown that sacral neuromodulation can be used to successfully treat urinary urge incontinence, urgency frequency, urinary retention, and even fecal incontinence.2 Recent research focuses primarily on sacral neuromodulation in conjunction with non-neurogenic urinary tract dysfunction.1 However, a study by Wallace et al3 demonstrated the effectiveness of sacral neuromodulation on patients with underlying neurologic disease, ranging from multiple sclerosis and Parkinson disease to spina bifida and spinal cord disease. This research seems to indicate that InterStim therapy can be successful in cases of nonobstructive bladder control issues in patients with neurogenic or non-neurogenic causes. EM is a 24-year-old woman who presented with a history urinary retention brought on by stress since early premenstrual childhood. She reported multiple episodes in which she would become spontaneously unable to urinate and have painless retention.
You just think well for the peace of mind, even though it's quite
You just think well for the peace of mind, even though it's quite expensive to have it done separately. Just have it separately if it's going to be safer, even if it's 1% chance that it could go wrong. (P16, singles) Parents who opted for single vaccines were more concerned about clinic reputability and access than about cost, as most felt they were paying for peace of mind as much as for a safe vaccine. Accordingly, these parents did not consider
MMR unsafe specifically because it was a combination vaccine, and immune overload was not a concern raised by this group. No, I don't think it's combination vaccines in general, I just, sometimes there's Carfilzomib something about certain things that just don't work and there might be some sort of chemical mishap. (P15, singles) Most parents, even those who planned to reject all vaccines for their child, said that they had thought more about MMR than they had about other vaccines, and most attributed this primarily to the MMR controversy having introduced doubts about MMR safety. You know, if [the controversy] had never sort of happened I would probably just merrily gone along as if it was just the jab for 2 month, 4 month, 6 months and not really given it no thought whatsoever. (P8, MMR1 late) Policy, research and practice responses to the controversy were also seen to
set MMR apart from other vaccines, though parents evaluated the motives for these responses in different ways – some saw the strong official response as evidence Autophagy inhibitor mouse of the importance of MMR, whilst others saw it as a smokescreen to detract attention from other genuinely dangerous vaccines. I think, there seems to be this dramatic focus on the MMR while they were dumping off DTP with thimerosal in it but isothipendyl nobody mentioned that. (P20, no MMR1) Other parents highlighted that controversy-based MMR worry is compounded by the fact parents have more time to think about MMR than they do about the primary schedule
vaccines. Whereas with MMR it's a drawn out process as well because you can't do it until the baby is a certain age, you've got to have certain injections beforehand. It's not like a quick stab when they're born. (P8, MMR1 late) Similarities and differences emerged in how different decision groups perceived key players in the controversy. Whilst parents across the decision spectrum agreed that Wakefield's 1998 study was fatally flawed, his motives for running it and the way the GMC handled his case were evaluated quite differently across the groups. The only worry is that bloody Wakefield, and his silly little party research (P3, MMR1 on-time) The controversy was seen to have been perpetuated by heavy, unbalanced and irresponsible media coverage, and by Tony and Cherie Blair refusing to confirm whether son Leo had received MMR – both of which were roundly criticised.
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34 and p = 0.3961) decrease in the duration of hind limb extension indicating the protective effect of the standard drug diazepam and fraction at all administered doses. Being potential free radical scavenger, the selected fraction might have protected the mice from oxidative damage and hence there was a decrease in the duration of hind limb extension. In forced swim test, the
immobilized time was increased significantly (df = 4, F = 189.18 and p = 0.6899) in comparison with control group. The animals treated with all the doses of fraction were found to be with increased alertness E7080 datasheet unlike diazepam treated group. There was an increased immobilized time in diazepam group indicating the depressive symptoms of the drug. 29% of the epileptic patients suffer from depression
during the course of treatment. 23 The antiepileptic drugs were found to decrease the locomotor activity. 24 This might the reason for the increase in immobilized time with diazepam. Repeated induction of seizures is also one of the reason for depression. 25 In control group there was less immobilized period Decitabine mouse may be due to single induction of seizures. The decrease in immobilized time with the administered doses of fraction indicates the positive antiepileptic activity without the induction of depression. This may be because of the flavonoids which are believed in literature to improve the synaptic signaling. 26 Another reason may be the mechanism of flavonoids to increase the levels of serotonin and noradrenalin by inhibiting monoamino oxidase 27 that catalyzes the oxidative deamination of serotonin and noradrenaline. 28 The decrease in the levels of serotonin and noradrenaline can lead to depression. 29 Further studies were continued with the estimation Vasopressin Receptor of malonodialdehyde as it is an index of lipid peroxidation. 2 In these estimations the treatment per se caused non-significant changes (df = 4, F = 1.07 and p = 0.4317). Flavonoids can act as GABA agonist 30 as they are similar in structure with benzodiazepines and NMDA antagonist. 31 This may be the strong evidence that, they are able to protect the animals from pentylenetetrazole, a
GABA antagonist and NMDA agonist induced seizures. Oxidative stress is one of the underlying mechanisms of epilepsy. Ethyl acetate fraction of ethanol extract of L. lanata which is rich in flavonoids and phenolic contents can be an effective treatment for epilepsy without the induction of depression. The responsible flavonoids must be isolated and elucidated for their structure in further studies. All authors have none to declare. Authors express their sincere thanks to Department of Pharmacy, University College of Technology, Osmania University for the provision of grant (Ref no. SR/PURSE/2010 dated 18/10/2010) and for their kind support during the completion of the project. "
"Dicoumarol is a derivative of coumarin and is an anticoagulant that functions as a vitamin K antagonist.
In addition, we observed
In addition, we observed trans-isomer nmr that incorporation of gD did not change the molar ratio of the NDV HN and F proteins relative to the nucleocapsid and matrix proteins, and did not appear to affect the yield of particles or their infectivity. These results suggest that space is not a constraint in the incorporation of foreign proteins into envelope of NDV. At the present, we do not know the basis for the highly efficient incorporation of the gD protein in the NDV virion. One possibility is
that some feature of the amino acid sequence of the transmembrane domain or cytoplasmic tail of the native BHV-1 gD makes it more efficient for inclusion in particles. Another possibility is that gD might accumulate at the cell surface in a higher molar amount compared to the NDV proteins, leading to more efficient incorporation. However, it remains unexplained why the chimeric gD protein containing the cytoplasmic and
transmembrane from the NDV F protein accumulated efficiently at the cell surface yet was not significantly incorporated. One potential consequence of incorporating such high amounts of gD into the virus particles was that it might lead to an increase in virulence of the NDV vector, but this was not observed for the MDT and ICPI tests in chickens. Furthermore, the rLaSota/gDFL virus remained as restricted for replication in GSK-3 activity bovines as the LaSota empty vector and the rLaSota/gDF vaccine. In summary, for the first time we have evaluated the potential of an avian virus as a vaccine
vector for bovine use. The commonly used NDV vaccine strain LaSota was used to express the gD of BHV-1. Our results showed that calves vaccinated with the recombinant viruses elicited an immune response against the gD and provided partial protection from BHV-1 challenge. These results suggested that the gD could be a useful component of a mucosal vaccine against BHV-1 infection. These vectored vaccine candidates are highly attenuated for replication in cattle of and are not shed into the environment. Furthermore, the observation that NDV has a negligible incidence of recombination with other circulating viruses in cattle population makes it a promising and safe vaccine delivery vector candidate for bovine population. This strategy may be useful for the development of live viral vectored vaccines against foreign animal diseases for which currently safe and effective vaccines are not available. We thank Daniel Rockemann and all our laboratory members for their excellent technical assistance and help. This research was supported in part by NIAID contract no. N01A060009 (85% support) and the NIAID, NIH Intramural Research Program (15% support). The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. "
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For our current study, we used wound-healing assays to examine th
For our current study, we used wound-healing assays to examine the rates of migration of cell lines established from LD 10–87 VERO cells and HD 10–87 VERO cells at 10 passage intervals. After the monolayer was scratched with a pipette tip, the migration of cells
into the wounded area were photographed every 3 h for 15 h. Representative photomicrographs are shown of wounded cell-culture monolayers at 0 and 12 h. Red arrows represent absence of cell migration into the wounds. The non-tumorigenic LD 10–87 VERO cells at p151 and tumorigenic SB431542 price LD 10–87 VERO cells at p256 were used as references lines for slowly and rapidly migrating cells, respectively. The tumorigenic LD 10–87 VERO cells at p256 started filling the wound around 9 h and completely closed the wound by 12 h, whereas little or no motility was observed with LD 10–87 VERO at p151 ( Fig. 3A). When we tested LD 10–87 VERO cells at 10-passage intervals between p151 to p256, the cells displayed a progressive Selleckchem Afatinib increase in migration rates from p165 to p186, and the wound was completely closed by LD 10–87 VERO cells at p194. In a similar fashion, HD 10–87 VERO cells displayed a progressive increase in migration rate from p165 to p195 (Fig. 3B). The rate at which the HD 10–87 VERO cells migrate was somewhat faster than the LD VERO cells, since as the wound completely closed at p185 as opposed to p194 for LD VERO cells. Both LD
and HD VERO cells appeared to migrate predominantly
GBA3 as tightly packed sheets in a wound-healing assay. Since doubling times for both LD (26 h) and HD VERO (20 h) cells are greater than the assay time (12 h), it is unlikely that the differences in migration observed were affected by the rate of proliferation of the respective cells. In our earlier study, 10 specific signature miRNAs were identified that correlated with the transition of LD 10–87 VERO cells from a non-tumorigenic phenotype at p148 to a tumorigenic phenotype at p256 [28]. The 10 signature miRNAs were differentially overexpressed in tumorigenic, high-passage LD 10–87 VERO cells compared with non-tumorigenic, low-passage LD 10–87 VERO cells. Based on their level of expression, six miRNAs (miR-376a, miR-654-3p, miR-543, miR-299-3p, miR-134 and miR-369-3p) were chosen for evaluation of their use as potential biomarkers to track the progression of neoplastic development in VERO cells. Using RNA samples prepared from LD 10–87 VERO cell banks established at every 10 passages from p150 to p254, the level of expression of the selected miRNAs was examined by quantitative RT-PCR. The expression levels of these miRNAs in non-tumorigenic LD 10–87 VERO cells (p154) were slightly above background levels of pAGMK cells. In contrast, the expression levels of these miRNAs increased progressively by at least 2-10 fold at p174 and by greater than 8-42 fold (p < 0.
Thus, the ORF of NS1 was used for inserting Brucella sequences in
Thus, the ORF of NS1 was used for inserting Brucella sequences in this study. The A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (H1N1) strain was used as the backbone for obtaining influenza A virus vectors expressing Brucella L7/L12 or Omp16 sequences
in the form of fusion proteins with the N-terminal 124 amino acid residues of NS1. Our previous studies have shown that a bivalent vaccine formulation selleck compound library comprising a mixture of recombinant influenza A virus subtype H5N1 or H1N1 expressing the ribosomal L7/L12 or Omp16 proteins in prime and booster immunization mode (via conjunctival injection) generated antigen specific humoral and Th1-cellular immune responses in laboratory animals, and most importantly provided a high level of protection equivalent to the commercial B. abortus vaccine S19 (unpublished data). On this basis, a logical continuation of our research is to evaluate the immunogenicity and protectiveness
of the proposed new live vector vaccine in cattle, which is the purpose of the present study. All viruses were generated by a standard reverse genetics method using eight bidirectional plasmids pHW2000 [26]. Briefly, Vero cells were co-transfected by the LonzaNucleofector™ (Cologne, Germany) technique with 0.5 μg/μl of plasmids encoding the PB1, PB2, PA, NP, M gens and NS (chimeric) genes of the A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (H1N1) virus; and the HA and NA genes of the A/chicken/Astana/6/05 (H5N1) or A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1) strains. The HA protein Sorafenib sequence of the H5 virus was attenuated by means of exchanging its polybasic cleavage site to one containing a trypsin-dependent sequence. The NS genes were modified to express NS1 fusion proteins containing the sequence encoding the 124 N-terminal amino acids of the NS1 protein coupled with the sequences of B. abortus-derived proteins: L7/L12 (GenBank: AAA19863.1) or Omp16 (GenBank: AAA59360.1), followed by a double stop codon. Brucella sequences were obtained synthetically. Bay 11-7085 The supernatants of the transfected cell cultures were used to inoculate 10-day-old embryonated
chicken eggs (CE; Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, Cuxhaven, Germany) which were incubated at 34 °C for 48 h. Vaccine batches were produced in CE after three egg passages of the viral constructs (Flu-NS1-124-L7/L12-H5N1, Flu-NS1-124-Omp16-H5N1, Flu-NS1-124-L7/L12-H1N1 и Flu-NS1-124-Omp16-H1N1). Vaccine samples were prepared from the viral constructs Flu-NS1-124-L7/L12-H5N1, Flu-NS1-124-Omp16-H5N1, Flu-NS1-124-L7/L12-H1N1 and Flu-NS1-124-Omp16-H1N1, which accumulated in 10-day-old CE (Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH) at 34 °C for 48 h. The obtained allantoic suspensions of viral constructs with the same antigenic structure (H5N1 or H1N1) were combined in a single pool in a 1:1 ratio to obtain the bivalent vaccine formulation.
1 and Table 3); in contrast, only a few responders were recorded
1 and Table 3); in contrast, only a few responders were recorded in the placebo group (A). Both the magnitudes of responses and frequencies of responders
were significantly higher in all the vaccine groups than in the placebo group. Responses to all antigens peaked 5 days after the second dose in a majority of the vaccinees. Highest and most frequent responses were observed against LTB and CS3 in all vaccine groups. Evaluation of the effect of the dmLT adjuvant revealed significantly higher (2.3-fold, P = 0.04) magnitudes of ALS responses to CS6 in the group receiving vaccine plus 10 μg dmLT (C) than in the group receiving vaccine alone (B) ( Fig. 1). Magnitudes and frequencies of responses to LTB, CFA/I and CS5 also tended to be higher in Group C than in Group B. A majority of volunteers in each of the vaccine groups (B, C, D) responded with increased specific SIgA/total Protein Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor SIgA to all the primary antigens in fecal specimens (Fig. 2 and Table 3). Both the magnitudes and frequencies of responders were significantly higher in all of the vaccine
groups than in the placebo group. Comparable frequencies of responders were observed after the first and second dose. No significant differences in frequencies or magnitudes of responses were recorded between the different vaccine groups. Analysis of any mucosal immune response, i.e. fecal SIgA and/or ALS IgA responses against the primary antigens, showed that a high proportion (74–83%) of the vaccinees responded to all Metalloexopeptidase the 5 primary antigens, with the highest frequency in Group C, and 85–91% responded to ≥4 of the antigens selleck compound (Table 4). The magnitudes
and frequencies of serum IgA and IgG antibody responses against LTB were high in all vaccine groups (Fig. 3). The responses were higher after the second dose, peaking on day 21 (IgA) or day 21–28 (IgG) in most subjects. The frequencies and magnitudes of IgA and IgG responses in Group C were slightly higher than in Group B and significantly higher than in Group D. The LT neutralizing responses closely resembled the titer increases determined by ELISA (Fig. 3). Anti-LT serum antibody responses were also compared with those induced in recent trial of a first-generation ETEC vaccine containing CTB (for results of this comparison, see Supplementary material) [11]. The frequencies of IgA responses against the different CFs in serum were low (3–19%) and no significant differences between the different vaccine groups were seen (data not shown). High rates of mucosal and serum antibody responses against O78 LPS were recorded in all vaccine groups. ALS responses were particularly frequent, with 96–100% of the vaccinated subjects responding (Table 5). Responses in Group D tended to be lower and less frequent than in Groups B or C. The antibody responses to O78 LPS were comparable after the first and the second dose in all sample types. The MEV (Etvax vaccine) was found to be safe and well tolerated.
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Lions' Caldwell: Never seen a finish like Michigan-MSU
Dave Birkett
Jim Caldwell has been in the coaching business nearly 40 years, but the Detroit Lions' head coach today said he never has seen an ending quite like Saturday's Michigan-Michigan State game.
"That one was unique," Caldwell said in his weekly interview on WXYT-FM (97.1) today.
Michigan State rallied from a fourth-quarter deficit to win on a botched punt on the final snap of the game.
Watch this: ESPN's Sport Science dissects U-M's punt
Michigan punter Blake O'Neill bobbled a low snap, and when he tried to get the ball away in the face of a ferocious rush, he knocked it right into the arms of MSU's Jalen Watts-Jackson, who returned it 38 yards for a touchdown.
Caldwell compared that play to Doug Flutie's Hail Mary in Boston College's dramatic win over Miami (Fla.) in 1984 and the fifth-down play in 1990, in which Colorado beat Missouri.
"I'm not certain if I've seen one to that magnitude -- big games and really a lot at stake," Caldwell said. "Obviously, through the years, seen the ones that probably they've been describing on television. Flutie's Hail Mary, the kid at Colorado, (Kordell) Stewart, and the fifth down play, all that kind of stuff. But some of those were probably really, really dramatic plays at the end of games that stick out in your mind. Being involved? I hadn't been involved in one to end it right at the end like that."
Caldwell said two games from his tenure with the Indianapolis Colts involved especially dramatic finishes, including one when the Colts scored 21 points in a 2-minute, 10-second span to beat the Houston Texans. And he said last year's Lions comeback win against the Atlanta Falcons in London, when Matt Prater made a second-chance field goal after the Lions' own delay-of-game penalty, would fit the bill.
"There's always a lot of crazy stuff (that goes) go on, but nothing quite like that one," Caldwell said.
Contact Dave Birkett at dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @davebirkett.
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From Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I, by Nick Lloyd (Basic Books, 2014), Kindle Loc. 2489-2509:
At first glance the doughboys looked little different from their British and French associates. They wore a version of the British tin helmet and used the small pattern box respirator. They ate bully beef. They fired French or British weapons, often Lee Enfields, Lewis guns or Chauchats, and threw Mills bombs. They went into action alongside French tanks – Renaults or Schneiders – flew French or British aircraft – Spads or Sopwith Camels – and grew to love the French 75mm field gun, the legendary soixante-quinze. But in other respects the Americans were remarkably different. While both British and French Armies recruited mainly from remarkably cohesive home societies (excepting, of course, their colonial contingents), Pershing's men were drawn from the full spectrum of US society, and included many recent immigrants from Europe, Russia and Latin America, as well as Native Americans. A considerable number of black Americans also went to France, and although they were not permitted to serve alongside white soldiers and continued to suffer horrific racial prejudice, they did yeoman service on the lines of transport in France, helping to unload equipment and supplies, and doing the menial jobs without which Pershing's army could not have survived.
The Americans were different in other ways too. They were much richer than their cousins in other armies. They could draw $30 a month, about ten times the pay of a French private, thus gaining the eternal jealousy of the poilus, who looked upon the arrival of the Americans with concern and insecurity. And in another odd, but still tangible way, the Americans differed from their British and French counterparts. They were big; physically big. Numerous commentators at the time noticed the physical presence of the first US soldiers, tall, well-built troops with high morale and an instinctive, almost cocky pride; the kind of soldiers that had not been seen on the Western Front since 1916, when Britain's New Armies had entered the fray. For their commander, this was the key point. Pershing was confident that American valour – her aggressive frontier spirit – would be the answer to the stalemate in the west. When he had first travelled to France and met British and French commanders, Pershing had quickly come to the conclusion that their methods would never win the war. They were stuck in their ways, he would tell his subordinates, and obsessed with limited, artillery-heavy trench attacks. He wanted his troops to be trained, first and foremost, as individual soldiers and riflemen, able to think for themselves on the battlefield and engage the enemy on their own terms.
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Category: Draper Facilities
Wasatch is the oldest facility at the Utah State Prison. It has housed inmates since 1951, when the State prison was moved to Draper from the site in Salt Lake City where Sugar House Park now sits. Since then, the prison complex has gradually expanded and now houses approximately 4,300 inmates at capacity.
Wasatch houses medium-security inmates as is where the prison's infirmary is located. It also includes the Culinary, barbershop, library, a Family History Center, a non-denominational chapel and a recreation gymnasium. In total, Wasatch has capacity for nearly 800 inmates.
Wasatch A West (pictured below left) serves as short-term, overflow housing for Receiving and Orientation, located in Uinta 5. The unit can house 95 offenders at capacity.
Wasatch A East (pictured below right) can house 95 offenders at capacity.
Both sections are three-tiered housing units that use the old manual "Johnson Bar" system, brought from Sugar House, seen at Alcatraz.
Offenders in A East are single-celled, meaning they do not have cellmates. Inmates' time out of their cells and other allowances vary based on privilege level and classification. Inmates can earn and lose privileges, like other inmates in the prison system. They have the ability to move around the facility to engage in work, attend educational courses, life skills classes and engage in other programs.
Wasatch Baker Block is a medium-security housing area inside the Wasatch building. Baker Block can house 192 offenders at capacity.
(NOTE: This section was closed in October 2015 due to a staffing shortage.) Wasatch B-North is a medium-security housing area geared for inmates with lower IQs or those who have learning impairments. The purpose of segregating these inmates from the rest of the population is two-fold: first, to ensure they get the appropriate assistance they need to improve their lives, and second, to keep them away from other inmates who might prey on or take advantage of them. B-North can house 28 inmates.
(NOTE: This section was closed in October 2015 due to a staffing shortage.) Wasatch Charlie Block houses 68 offenders at capacity. Inmates generally seek to be housed here because of the multitude of educational and programming opportunities. Inmates in this section have a relatively high degree of flexibility in terms of movement and privilege allowances. Many serve as educational mentors to other inmates. Inmates in this area often take part in distance learning, where they may continue their education through mail-in school programs. Inmates must be very well behaved and follow rules closely to be housed here.
D-Block (sometimes called "Dog Block") houses 192 inmates at capacity. Many inmates who have undergone sex offender treatment or who are awaiting entry to the sex offender program are housed here, though not every inmate in this unit is a sex offender. The prison attempts to keep sex offenders separate from inmates who might attempt to harm them because of their crimes, which are often looked down upon even among the inmate population.
Timpanogos Women's Facility
The Timpanogos Women's Correctional Facility (pictured in the lower portion of the photo above) is located at the Utah State Prison site, but all of its buildings are separated from the male facilities in order to minimize management issues that would be inherent with adjacent housing.
Many of our correctional officers and other staff who work with female offenders have gone through nationally certified Gender Responsive training programs that teach them how to address issues specific to women.This is particularly true of staff working at Star 4, home to the ExCell program.
Timpanogos includes five buildings arranged in a star shape encircling an outdoor recreation yard. The buildings are referred to as Star 1 through Star 5. Female inmates are housed in Star 1 through Star 4, which also have recreation yards.
Star 5 does not have any housing units; it is where the gymnasium, library, classrooms and culinary are located. Timpanogos has capacity for up to 570 inmates.
Star 1 and Star 2 house general population inmates who have access to programming, education and other activities based on their privilege levels.
Star 3 is the maximum-security unit for female inmates and is used for women whose behavior requires them to be separated from others for safety and security reasons. Inmates are able to move to other housing units when their behavior improves. The unit has capacity for 138 women. Utah has no women on death row.
Star 4 houses the ExCell substance abuse treatment program, which is similar to the HOPE and Con-Quest programs for male inmates. ExCell is based on a residential, therapeutic community model designed to help women overcome substance abuse issues and resolve trauma (physical and emotional abuse) that often underlie criminal behaviors. An analysis of the program found that women who complete the ExCell program are nearly 30 percent less likely to return to prison than inmates who do not. The program typically takes 11 months to complete.
The Promontory facility houses male offenders actively participating in the substance abuse treatment program called "Con-Quest." In this structured, therapeutic environment, offenders (called residents here) are separated into dormitories where they function as teams. Each dorm has a unifying mascot and logo. As part of the structured environment, residents are expected to hold one another accountable for behavior and actions.
A relay system allows residents to report their fellow residents' misdeeds or shortcomings. This type of behavior is encouraged in Promontory, while in other areas of the prison it might be frowned upon by fellow inmates. For example, if a resident fails to wipe down a sink after using it, one of his dorm mates might report him to a peer committee that imposes a light-hearted, albeit embarrassing, penalty — such as singing "I'm A Little Teapot" in front of a room full of fellow residents.
Con-Quest residents participate in both group and individual therapy. They complete assignments and make occasional presentations to fellow residents on a productive topic aimed at addressing problems common among many inmates in the prison system. They have more freedom to move around, in contrast to offenders in many other areas of the prison. After successfully completing the treatment program, many residents choose to remain in Con-Quest as peer mentors or dorm leaders until they parole.
Residents in Con-Quest also participate in public awareness panels, where the public is able to listen to the residents' life stories and interact with them through a question and answer session. In addition to shedding more light on the prison system, these panels gives Promontory residents an opportunity to reflect on their actions and provide a warning to at-risk youth or others about where negative choices can lead.
Residents who complete Con-Quest sometimes get earlier parole dates from the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, though each decision is made on a case-by-case basis.
Uintas
The Uintas (pronounced Yew-In-Tahs) include the Maximum Security facilities at the Utah State Prison. This also is the location of the Intake and Receiving & Orientation (R&O) facility, where new offenders being admitted to the prison go through initial assessments. The Uintas also house high-profile inmates, death-row inmates, and inmates who pose severe management problems such as active gang members. The Uintas have capacity for nearly 800 inmates.
Uinta 1 is the highest-security building in the State's prison system. The building is capable of housing 96 inmates. Inmates are "single-celled," meaning they do not have cellmates. Unlike traditional depictions of "solitary confinement," inmates housed in this area can communicate with one another through the doors of their cells. Each cell has a window that provides natural light, and inmates have the opportunity to recreate either indoors in a common area, or outdoors on a concrete pad confined by side walls and chain-link fencing overhead. Like inmates in other facilities, privilege levels vary based on behavior. Nearly all inmates in this section have the ability to earn greater privileges and transition to other areas over time by demonstrating positive behavior. Generally, death-row inmates are the only exception, requiring a sentence to be overturned or commuted to life. Utah currently has nine men on death row.
Uinta 5 is the prison's "Receiving and Orientation" unit for males. The building can house 122 inmates at capacity. Newly sentenced offenders, offenders who violate terms of their probation and are sentenced to prison time by a judge, and offenders who violate conditions of their parole and are returned to prison by the Board of Pardons and Parole are housed here initially. While in Uinta 5, inmates' ability to move around, access programming and interact with other inmates is temporarily limited as staff assess each person's needs and behaviors and decided on appropriate housing. Inmates also learn about rules, regulations, the grievance and disciplinary processes, and classification.This process typically can take from one to three months.
While in R&O inmates take a test known as the "Level of Service Inventory" or LSI, which evaluates risk factors, appropriate level of supervision and other useful information. The LSI is used by staff to create a "Case Action Plan" (CAP) for each inmate. The CAP tells an inmate what he is expected to do and which programs he is expected to complete (substance-abuse treatment, sex offender treatment, thinking for a change, anger management, etc.) prior to paroling or otherwise being released from custody.
This plan allows staff to aid the offender in focusing on his own release from the day he enters the prison system.
The Olympus facility is designated for inmates with mental health needs. The building can house 168 offenders at full capacity.
Inmates in Olympus generally suffer from more severe mental illnesses that typically require psychotropic medications and more frequent services from mental-health staff. In extreme cases, mentally-ill offenders may not be housed in Olympus due to their tendency to act out, compromise security or cause harm to themselves, other inmates, staff, visitors, etc. This may require these inmates to be housed, at least temporarily, in the Maximum Security facility until their dangerous behavior is stabilized.
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The relationship between male BMI and waist circumference on semen quality: data from the LIFE study
Authors Eisenberg ML, Kim S, Chen Z, et al.
Review Date January 2014
Citation Human Reproduction 2014; 29(2 ): 193–200.
Higher body mass index (BMI) has been shown to be associated with impaired semen parameters, although not in all studies, and some studies have shown improvement in semen parameters with weight loss. However, waist circumference (WC), a measure of body fat distribution, has not been as well studied with respect to semen parameters and so far only assessed in infertile men. The effect of physical activity on fertility is uncertain.
The authors aimed to explore the separate and combined effects of BMI, WC and physical activity on semen parameters among male partners of couples attempting to become pregnant from a population sample.
The Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment (LIFE) study is a population-based prospective cohort of 501 couples attempting to conceive, from two geographical areas in the USA, recruited in 2005-2009. Couples were recruited from four counties in Michigan and 12 counties in Texas to ensure a range of environmental exposures and lifestyle characteristics. In person interviews were conducted to ascertain demographic, health and reproductive histories followed by anthropometric assessment. Semen samples were obtained from 468 men (93%) of whom 378 provided two samples.
BMI (kg/m2) was categorised as < 25.0 (underweight and normal), 25.0–29.9 (overweight) 30.0–34.9 (obese, class I) and ≥ 35 (obese, class II) for analysis. Data were available for analysis in 468 men (93%),
Participants had a mean +/- SD age of 31.8 +/- 4.8 years, BMI of 29.8 +/- 5.6 kg/m2 and WC of 100.8 +/- 14.2 cm. Most men were either overweight (41%) or obese (41%); 58% reported physical activity < 1 time/week. 53% had never fathered a child.
The median sperm concentration for the men in the cohort was 60.2 M/ml with 8.6% having oligospermia (< 15 M/ml). When examining semen parameters, ejaculate volume showed a linear decline with increasing BMI and WC(P < 0.01). Similarly, the total sperm count showed a negative linear association with WC (P< 0.01). No significant relationship was seen between either BMI or WC and semen concentration, motility, vitality, morphology or DNA fragmentation index.
The percentage of men with abnormal volume, concentration and total sperm increased with increasing BMI and increasing WC, although the evidence for the association between WC and low volume was weak (p=0.099). No relationship between physical activity and semen parameters was identified.
Points to Note
There were some important limitations to the study:
The cohort had a high proportion of overweight and sedentary men, limiting generalisability of the findings.
The physical activity measure was crude, less than one versus one or more episodes of vigorous activity per week, making it difficult to interpret the physical activity associations (or lack thereof).
Semen parameters are not very accurate measures of fertility and the study did not include pregnancy success rates for the cohort so it is unclear how the findings relate to infertility per se.
Despite the limitations, the negative linear associations exhibited between body mass index and waist circumference and serum parameters suggests further research is warranted to examine impacts on fertility.
Following from these kinds of observational studies there is a need to examine the effect of weight loss on serum parameters and fertility and ways to manage obese men with infertility.
Website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24306102
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It feels WONDERFUL to be able to report that I believe a good time was had by ALL on Saturday night for the opening of "The Barber of Seville" here in NYC! I think the audience was happy to be given the chance to laugh out loud a bit, as laughter truly does tend to work magic, even on the most unsuspecting!
Yesterday was a huge day, as I had a big brainstorming session with my recording team of EMI/Virgin, and there are definitely exciting prospects lurking ahead! Knowing the Rossini disc has been well anticipated had everyone in a good mood, and ideas were flying about how to beat this apparent downward trend in music sales. I don't believe people are no longer interested in buying music, I think simply the means to purchase it has changed so drastically, and so quickly, that the folks on both sides of the aisle don't quite know how to proceed. One thing I'm beyond happy about is that this team around me believes 100% in the importance of QUALITY programming and producing. No one around that table was hinting at dumbing down, or watering down what it is that I do and love. Everyone believes in keeping the standard extremely high, no question. The caveat comes in how we market that, so they can afford to keep the level at such a premium.
But we also tossed around some very fun ideas - ideas that really excite me, so the future should prove to be interesting, to say the least!!!
I then hopped in a taxi with a REALLY belligerent NY Taxi Driver (how I love them!), and arrived 2 minutes late to a master class I was giving for the young artists at the Met. First thing I always say, "Be on TIME", so I'm not sure how much credibility I carried for the next 90 minutes, BUT I still think it was a good class. I'm always astonished at how much I feel I have learned in doing sessions like this - and I can only hope that it's a mutual gaining of knowledge, as I just love the exchange of ideas and seeing the occasional light bulb click on over the soprano's head! It's a scary proposition to work with such talented singers who are already receiving the best coaching in the world, but what never fails to impress me is how tireless and infinite the learning process is for an artist.
Most of the session consisted of me asking questions, and feeding the singers possible sub-texts for what they are singing. Does Donna Elvira need to convince herself that she will REALLY tear off Giovanni's face when she sees him (hence the need for the wayward, yet driving ascending scales at the end of "Ah, chi me dice mai?", or is she utterly convinced and sure of herself? That absolutely affects the intention with which she sings those tricky phrases. Does regret enter into any of her thirst for revenge? Is perhaps the more legato, less angular phrasing of "Ah si ritrovo l'empio" a chance to show her more delicate side? (Does she have a delicate side?) I'm sure that once the vocal foundation for an aria is established (legato, breath support, phrasing, pure vowels, etc), questions become a singers best friend. And the license to chose different answers, and then experiment with different colors as a result, start to lead to comprehensive, deep portrayals.
How I love that moment when the singer starts to leave the rehearsal studio and starts to inhabit their character. Oh, it's GOOD!
And in keeping with the need for laughter, let's just enter the world of the panda for fun. I mean seriously, why NOT?!?!?
It's very interesting to have a glimpse of the questions a singer is bound to ask him/herself when it comes to embody a character. Opera is not just a matter of voice, one has to give emotion through the acting. And when voice and acting are united, how can one stand up to such a torrent of emotions? This is precisely why I love opera so much: beautiful music, and incredible acting conveyed by this very music and the singer's sensibility.
Speaking of Elvira, I always get goosebumps when I'm watching yours. Talk about embodying a character! This balance you found between her harshness and her vulnerability is just priceless. So thank you for not being only a voice, but also an actress.
I attended this master class. Not only were the young singers could but Joyce was astounding. What a wonderful personality. Such awesome commitment to what she does. I am so glad for the opportunity to experience. My wife was with me and she had seen Joyce in the rehearsal of BARBER and came home enthralled. Bravo to the entire cast.
Hi Joyce, I just wanted to pass along another "brava!" for tonight's performance at the Met. The whole cast sounded great and you were wonderful! Keep up the good work.
Love the Pandas, and I see that the one is sneezing into his elblw like Elmo said!
I just learned that you are being honoured at the Fifth Annual Opera News Awards. Congratulations! I know it's early, but I hope you have a great evening on November 19.
Oops: forgot the link to Opera Chic's post.
Congratulations on your new CD Joyce, I can't wait to hear it!
Congratulations to you on your new CD and on the richly deserved award from Opera News. Regarding the "apparent downturn" in sales of CDs, Florez opined in a recent interview that You Tube was largely at fault since singers' performances appear there for free sometimes only hours afterwards. Alagna also had some things to say about the business. He revealed that he gets only 25 centimes (a quarter of a Euro I presume) for each of his CDs. Thus a CD selling 20,000 copies would net him only 5000 Euros. I think it is sad that this business has deteriorated as it has. Artists deserve more reward for their art.
Again, congratulations on the Colbran disc. I have listened through once so far, and it is excellent!
You were mentioning some "brainstorming" with your team concerning future recording projects. I would immediately suggest a second Colbran disc. Seriously, this repertoire fits you like a glove, and there is more than enough music to fill at least one more CD. Is there any chance you would consider this? There are excellent arias in each of the untapped Colbran operas: Ermione!, Zelmira (a tremendous final scene), Mose in Egitto, and Ricciardo e Zoraide (very seldom recorded). In addition, if memory serves, there are additional arias in both Elisabetta and Otello. You could also include a couple of duets - possibly with Lawrence Brownlee as on the current disc? Anyway, it's just a thought. Best wishes to you.
Bad news from amazon.co.uk, your CD's release has been postponed from October 12 to November 2: I won't have it for my birthday.
I really like the pandas. Were they a special post for someone special??
Yesterday your Colbran CD arrived in the mail!
It's incredible:72 minutes of beauty and inspiration.
Rossini's music and your voice are a match made in heaven!Congratulations!
Thanks, everyone, for all the support and comments!! I don't know, yet, about the release of the Barber, but as soon as I hear anything - I'll let you know!!!
And Chris - you are right, no one is making money on recordings. I'll speak for myself, but I'm personally doing it for the art ... hopefully we can pay our rent via other means. OR some genius at the top will figure out how to turn things around!! Any takers???


What's one of your current projects? We all have things we need to do. They can be unique tasks or they can be repetitive ones. For example, I need to stop storm-water ingress at home when it rains. Psalm 127 gives us advice on how to do our daily work. The main point is that it's better to commit our work to God rather than to do it all alone.
Psalm 127 has been categorized as a wisdom psalm. These psalms have similarities in literary features or content to the wisdom books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job. They are written for the purposes of teaching and instruction rather than worship. Wisdom literature addresses important issues in life.
Psalm 127 is attributed to Solomon and its contents are consistent with other scriptures that are attributed to him. As Solomon reigned from 970BC to 930 BC, the psalm could be dated to about 950BC in the greatest building period of Solomon's rule. It's a proverb or didactic (teaching) saying. And biblical proverbs usually address generalizations, and not specific situations. The Bible says that Solomon wrote 1,005 songs and this is one of them (1 Ki. 4:32).
The key words are "the Lord" (4 times), and "in vain" (3 times). Divine and human activities are compared and contrasted. The divine activities are: building (1a), watching (2a), and giving sleep (4b). The human activities are: building (1b), guarding (2b), and working hard (3a-4a). In everything we do there should be a divine component and a human component. There is divine sovereignty and human responsibility. We need to acknowledge God's sovereignty while carrying out our human responsibility.
Verse one has repetition and parallelism.
Repetition: The words, "unless the Lord" at the beginning of line 1 are repeated at the beginning of line 2. And the words "in vain" at the end of line 1 are repeated at the end of line 2. And the grammatical structure of line 1 is repeated in line 2.
Parallelism: There is parallelism between "builds the house" and "watches over the city". Both activities done without the Lord are in vain, and the second example adds to the first.
A house was built to live in; it provided shelter. And houses in a city were secured behind a wall, with guards patrolling in towers and along the wall. People wanted to have a safe place to live and a city provided that security. So building a house and guarding a city were common activities in ancient times.
What did "labor in vain" and "watch in vain" mean? In this context, the Hebrew word shav (Strongs #7723) means "useless" (Brown-Driver-Briggs). Obviously men were doing the building (for shelter) and the watching (for security). But they could do it in two ways: either according to God's will or against God's will. They were either dependant on the Lord and fruitful, or independent of the Lord and not fruitful (Jn 15:5). Likewise, we can carry out our projects and daily tasks in two ways: either according to God's will or against God's will. For example, the tower of Babel was built against God's will, while the temple in Jerusalem was built according to God's will.
God is sovereign, and therefore we can have no degree of success or achievement unless God allows it in the first place (Jas. 4:13-16). But God accomplishes His sovereign will through our work.
And the Bible teaches that God is the One who ultimately keeps us safe and secure. The Lord guards us like a shepherd (Jn. 10:7-14).
We all require shelter and housing. Do we seek God's will when deciding where to live? And when deciding whether to buy or rent a house or apartment?
We all require safety and security. Do we seek God's will when deciding how to keep safe? Or do we worry unnecessarily about the dangers of life?
Verse two describes two kinds of people. The first is the workaholic who works long hours in order to put food on the table. The implication is that because they are anxious, they can't sleep at night. The second is one who trusts in God and can sleep at night. Via the figure of speech of metonymy (where the name of a thing is replaced with the name of something else with which it is closely associated), sleep may also refer to having one's needs met. They can sleep because they realize that God provides their needs. Their sustenance.
God's sovereignty doesn't release us from our responsibility, but it does free us from worry.
We all require to be sustained physically, emotionally and spiritually. If we are able, we work to provide for our physical needs. But are you a workaholic? What about your spiritual needs? Do you read the Bible and pray regularly? Are you part of a church?
In Psalm 127, God told the Israelites to involve Him in meeting their basic needs of shelter, security and sustenance. If they did this and lived in submission to God, depending on His guidance and protection, they could rest assured at night that all would be well. Otherwise, their efforts to meet their basic needs would be useless. And they would become workaholics who couldn't sleep at night because of their anxiety. Let's commit all our work (activities, projects and tasks) to the Lord in prayer.
When the Jews were encouraged to rebuild the temple, they were told "'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord Almighty" (Zech. 4:6). This means that the temple would be rebuilt not by human energy or power alone, but by the power of the Holy Spirit. Likewise, let's work in the power of the Holy Spirit.
And Jesus taught His disciples, "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit [be fruitful]; apart from me you can do nothing [your work is in vain; useless]" (Jn. 15:5). Let's keep in touch with God and His people, so we can continue to be fruitful.
So the best way to work is to commit all our work to the Lord so we can work in the power of the Holy Spirit.
This entry was posted on April 7, 2019 by George Hawke. It was filed under Christian, Old Testament, Spiritual and was tagged with build, David, God, guard, Psalm 127, Solomon, the Lord, work.


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What's the connection between the 400m hurdles and Lady Gaga? Steve Hasker's career.
Location: New York, USA
Hurdling can't last forever. That's what Steve Hasker (TC 1987) learnt when his track and field career came to a halt in 1995. Looking for a fresh start, Steve signed up for a Master of International Affairs and an MBA in New York. This led to short stints working in New York, Sydney and London with management consulting firm McKinsey, along with financial services roles in Melbourne and Russia, before Steve was drawn back to McKinsey's New York office. Twenty-five years later, NYC feels like home.
Steve's ensuing career as a media industry executive follows a 'right place, right time' narrative. 'In a consulting environment, a lot of people go in thinking about working in a particular industry, but your path is often determined by the quality of the people you work with,' says Steve. 'At that point at McKinsey [in New York], the media practice was very strong and full of talented people, and a lot of them were Australian. It made me feel at home, I suppose.'
For Steve, the work environment in New York became an optimal balance of Australian collegiality and American business acumen. 'People in the United States are very aligned to a set of objectives,' he says. 'It's an easy place to do business because people are highly motived. They're ambitious and they get straight to the point.'
Steve would soon find himself dealing with a particularly glamorous group of highly motivated people: celebrities. A role turning around Nielsen's media measurement business – a global frontrunner in ratings, audience measurement and marketing data analysis – would lead him to the chief executive's seat at Creative Artists Agency Global (CAA), the world's biggest talent agency, which unsurprisingly looks after some of the world's highest-profile names.
With celebs such as Lady Gaga, Ashton Kutcher and Martha Stewart on the books, Steve learnt to marry business and art. 'An agent's role is to balance the artistic nature of the client's work with the hard-edged business side of things. In some cases, that balance is an easy one to strike, but in many cases, it can be very difficult,' says Steve. He goes on to say, however, that getting celebrities in front of an audience has become easier than ever. 'I think the biggest opportunity in the way in which celebrities make money and, more importantly, communicate with their audiences, has exploded. In the old days they needed to be cast in a film, but now there's social media and brand partnerships for example – there are myriad opportunities for them to be out there.'
CAA gave Steve the opportunity to get his name and expertise out there too. After driving a transformation project within CAA for 18 months, he stepped above the talent agency in August 2019 and into its majority shareholder company, TPG, as a senior advisor. Steve's remit has now expanded beyond media – as a global private equity firm, TPG also owns stakes in companies such as Uber, Spotify and Airbnb – and he is tasked with navigating an increasingly complex global environment to make investment decisions. 'I think that the biggest challenge, particularly for an investment firm, is navigating the current economic climate,' he says. 'For instance, what do all these trade disputes mean? What does Brexit mean? What do low long-term interest rates mean?'
Although Steve has a tough job at hand, he's never been afraid of a challenge. 'When I first joined Nielsen, everyone said the media business couldn't be turned around, but we did it,' he says. And so, for Steve, advising a firm with $108 billion of assets under management is another career rung to climb and no doubt conquer.


Tweets it will follow launch of Model Y compact SUV.
A rendering shows the Tesla pickup which bears a strong resemblance to the Tesla Semi.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the battery-carmaker is moving forward on plans to bring a pickup truck to market – though he said it will have to wait until the launch of a new compact electric SUV to be called the Model Y.
Musk has been hinting about a pickup for some time, and said in a series of tweets that he is "dying to build it." The basic design has been something the South African-born entrepreneur said he's been working on for almost five years.
Getting into the pickup segment could be an important move for Tesla considering the trucks account for anywhere from one in eight to one in seven new vehicles sold in the U.S. each year. And they are among the market's most profitable offerings, especially as conventional pickup producers, such as Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, continue to push more and more upmarket.
But pickup buyers are also some of the most loyal in the U.S. and even after nearly two decades trying to crack the full-size market import brands Toyota and Nissan barely rank as asterisks on the sales charts.
The question is whether there will be a market for a green pickup. Manufacturers are convinced there'll be a surge in demand for electrified sedans, coupes and SUVs over the next decade and will be flooding the market with new alternatives. Several are working up hybrid pickups, but Musk envisions an all-electric model expected to borrow at least some of its components from the new Tesla Semi.
While there is a sizable market for "personal use" pickups, most buyers still demand significant towing and cargo capabilities, and range is another factor that Tesla would have to deliver on if it hopes to make any headway with the pickup it is developing.
It will have a bit more time to work out the bugs, however. Before it reaches market, Musk noted, Tesla will launch a new SUV. And like the new Model 3 sedan, the Model Y ute is expected to target a relatively mainstream price segment, likely to start in the low to mid-$40,000 range, according to industry observers.
Tesla showed off its electric Semi during a splashy, mid-November rally in California.
Pricing on a battery pickup would likely be significantly higher, than Musk has so far given no indication what range Tesla is targeting.
Musk's rush to reveal future Tesla products appears to be resonating with the brand's fans, as well as investors. While TSLA shares are well off from the 52-week high of $389.61, shares closed at $317.29 on Tuesday, up more than 50% from their low point over the last year.
Not everyone is so upbeat, however. A number of analysts continue to voice concerns, especially in light of Tesla's ongoing struggles to build the new Model 3. A much slower than anticipated launch led to much higher than expected third-quarter losses and forecasts aren't much more upbeat for the October-December quarter.
Production is still reported to be dragging at less than 10% of Tesla's original estimate, raising serious questions about whether it can come close to the 500,000 total production target it had set for 2018. Some reports have suggested that Chevrolet and Nissan are starting to receive orders for their own long-range models from customers who have decided not to wait any longer for the Model 3 sedans they had reserved.
"There's bound to be growing scepticism if waiting lists and waiting times grow longer while yet another new model is unveiled." Paul Newton, an analyst at the IHS Automotive, told the BBC.
Goldman Sachs is one of the bears on Tesla stock, critics fearing that if the carmaker can't get a grip on its Model 3 production problems it will soon run short on cash and have to go back to the market for a new equity infusion.
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The homing pigeon is an interesting name for a candlestick. This candlestick is an inside day, something that traders using traditional western methods might recognize. However, the identification rules do not mention shadows, so it is possible that some homing pigeons are not inside days at all.
The homing pigeon is supposed to act as a bullish reversal, but testing found that it performs as a bearish continuation 56% of the time. That is what I call "near random" because you won't be able to tell the breakout direction with any certainty. Despite the poor reversal rate, the overall performance is quite good, ranking 21st, suggesting that the post breakout trend can be a worthwhile move.
As I mentioned in the introduction, the homing pigeon acts as a bearish continuation 56% of the time when it is supposed to be a bullish reversal. Thus, performance is near random. With a frequency rank of 34, it is a plentiful candle, so you should have no trouble finding it nesting in the treetops. The overall performance rank is 21 and that suggests good post breakout performance.
The best average move 10 days after the breakout is a rise of 4.76% in a bear market. That move also ranks 33rd where 1 is best out of 103 candlestick types. However, a good move would be 6% or more.
Configuration Look for a two line candle in a downward price trend. The first day should be a tall black body followed by a small black body that fits inside the body of the prior day.
Homing pigeon candles that appear within a third of the yearly low perform best -- page 421.
Select tall candles -- page 421-422.
Reversals from homing pigeons occur on the right of an inverted and ascending scallop -- page 422-423.
The chart shows a homing pigeon on the daily chart, circled in red. The first candle is a tall black one that appears in a downward price trend. The second day is also a black candle, but it is smaller and fits inside the body of the first black candle. Together, they make up the homing pigeon candle pattern.
The breakout from this homing pigeon is downward when price closes below the lowest low in the two-candle pattern. The decline is brief, lasting one day and forming a southern doji. That doji acts as a reversal and price rises in a sort of V-Shaped pattern.
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