College academic success and retention twvc tradi tionally been prcdich..-U using demographic and academic variables. This study in vcstigall.:tilhc influence of student heal th on or A and intent 10 drop out of college. A longitudinal survt.:y of 242 freshmen rcvc.1lcd that cmOlional and social faclors (e.g., stress, living in the donn, being in a study group) prcdiC1I."d second semester Or A ...

Background: Chronic lung diseases can be treated successfully, by applying five phases theory to the symptoms of lung disease results for 3 situations: (1) excessive Liver qi injures Lung qi (rebellion) (相侮or反侮), (2) Kidney deprives Lung qi through engendering route (child deprives mother qi; Kidney: child, Lung: mother) (相生), (3) Spleen deprives Lung qi through engendering route (Spleen: mothe...

One of the central concepts guiding efforts to prevent Clostridium difficile infection has been that symptomatic patients in hospitals are the major source of transmission.1 Infected patients with diarrhea shed large numbers of spores, contaminating their skin, clothing, and surrounding surfaces. The basic measures that are used to prevent transmission include placement of infected patients und...

Traditional ecological knowledge andbiodiversity management intheAndes ofsouthernEcuadorThe tropical mountain rainforests of the easternAndean slopes insouthern Ecuador have an extraordi-nary rich biodiversity. At the same time. thesesensitiveecosystems are vulnerable because of theextensionof agricultural land, theextraction oftimber....

-Scant information exists about the spatial extent of human impact on forest resource supplies, i .e. , depreciative and nonforest uses. I used observations of ground-sampled land use and intrusions on forest land to map the probabil i ty of resource use and human impact for broad areas. Data came from a seven-state survey region (Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, east Oklahoma, Tennes...

1 I N T R O D U C T I O N The pass ive d i rec t ion-of-ar r iva l (DOA) e s t ima t ion p rob lem, in which the bea r ings of a n u m b e r of far-field acous t ic sources are d e t e r m i n e d , is of g rea t i m p o r t a n c e in m a n y unde rwa te r appl ica t ions . Tradi t iona l ly , the solut ion is to use a spa t i a l l y d i s t r i b u t e d a r ray of omnid i r ec t iona l pres...

The col lection of papers in this special edi tion of Twin Research represents a smal l landmark in the study of behavioral genetics. The work publ ished here is the frui t of an invi ted three-day workshop, supported by the John M Templeton Foundation, hosted by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (Berkeley, November 13-15, 1998), which was specifical ly devoted to the task of pla...

This paper presents an approach for establishing correspondences in time and in space between two di erent video sequences of the same dynamic scene recorded by stationary uncalibrated video cameras The method simultaneously estimates both spatial alignment as well as temporal synchronization temporal alignment between the two sequences using all available spatio temporal information Temporal v...

The first Korean inlmiizrants caine to the US in I 903. when Korean workers arrived in Haw au. Flowever, the large wave of immigra tion only began with the Immigration Act of 1965. Today. Korean populations exist throughout the US, hut the largest groups reside in California and New ‘iork. wherethe majority are post—1965 migrants and their children, The Korean population in Hawaii is relatively...