PURPOSE To determine the extent to which behavioral and physiological responses during child-directed speech (CDS) correlate concurrently and predictively with communication skills in young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). METHOD Twenty-two boys with ASD (initial mean age: 35 months) participated in a longitudinal study. At entry, behavioral (i.e., percentage looking) and physio...

Concerns have been raised, especially since the global financial crisis, about whether trading in credit default swaps (CDS) increases the credit risk of the reference entities. This study examines this issue by quantifying the impact of CDS trading on the credit risk of firms. We use a unique, comprehensive sample covering 901 CDS introductions on North American corporate issuers between June ...

In the present study, a facile one-step hydrothermal treatment of coriander leaves for preparing carbon dots (CDs) has been reported. Optical and structural properties of the CDs have been extensively studied by UV-visible and fluorescence spectroscopic, microscopic (transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy) and X-ray diffraction techniques. Surface functionality and compo...

Electrochemically deposited CdS nanoparticles (NPs) were formed using porous silicon (PS) as a substrate/electrode. The structure, electronic behavior of the CdS NPs and the interaction between CdS-PS were systematically examined using electron microscope, X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) at S K-edge and Si K-edge. The optical luminescence behavior of the nanocomposi...

Methanosphaera stadtmanae has the most restricted energy metabolism of all methanogenic archaea. This human intestinal inhabitant can generate methane only by reduction of methanol with H2 and is dependent on acetate as a carbon source. We report here the genome sequence of M. stadtmanae, which was found to be composed of 1,767,403 bp with an average G+C content of 28% and to harbor only 1,534 ...

In this study, sea-urchin shaped Bi2S3/CdS hierarchical heterostructures are successfully synthesized via a convenient one-pot growth rate controlled route. The product is mainly composed of Bi2S3 nanorods and CdS nanoparticles grown on their surfaces. The formation mechanism was proposed based on the evolution of morphology as a function of solvothermal time, which involves fast formation of t...

The use of pharmacogenomics (PGx) in clinical practice still faces challenges to fully adopt genetic information in targeting drug therapy. To incorporate genetics into clinical practice, many support the use of Pharmacogenomics Clinical Decision Support Systems (PGx-CDS) for medication prescriptions. This support was fueled by new guidelines to incorporate genetics for optimizing drug dosage a...

Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is an attractive photocatalyst because of its visible-light-driven photocatalytic behavior, abundance, low toxicity, and environmental compatibility. However, its short electron diffusion length and low hole mobility result in low photocatalytic efficiency, which hinders its wider applications. Herein, we report an in situ method to introduce nitrogen-doped carbon dots (N-C...

We present a detailed simulation based performance study of our recently proposed strong-neighborhood based connected dominating sets (SN-CDS) for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). We compare the performance of SN-CDS with that of the well-known minimum connected dominating sets (MCDS) and the ID-based connected dominating sets (ID-CDS) for MANETs. We show that by computing the SN-CDS involving ...