OBJECTIVES The transition from pediatric to adult care is a high-risk period for the emerging adult with diabetes. We aimed to determine adequacy of pediatric transition care structures and explore the pediatric diabetes care provider's perceptions of transition care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In-depth interviews with pediatric diabetes care providers from 12 diabetes centers in Quebec were...

A single two dimensional (2D) image does not contain depth information. An infinite number of points in the three dimensional (3D) space are projected to the same point in the image plane. But a single 2D image has some monocular depth cues, by which we can make a hypothesis of depth variation in the image to generate a depth map. This paper proposes an interactive method of depth map generatio...

Notched metallic glasses (MGs) have received much attention recently due to their intriguing mechanical properties compared to their unnotched counterparts, but so far no fundamental understanding of the correlation between failure behavior and notch depth/sharpness exists. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we report necking and large notch strengthening in MGs with symmetric sharp-and-deep...

The Earth’s transition zone has until recently been assumed to be seismically isotropic. Increasingly, however, evidence suggests that ordering of material over seismic wavelengths occurs there, but it is unclear what causes this. We use the method of source-side shear wave splitting to examine the anisotropy surrounding earthquakes deeper than 200 km in slabs around the globe. We find signific...

Consider a random recursive tree with n vertices. We show that the number of vertices with even depth is asymptotically normal as n → ∞. The same is true for the number of vertices of depth divisible by m for m = 3, 4 or 5; in all four cases the variance grows linearly. On the other hand, for m ≥ 7, the number is not asymptotically normal, and the variance grows faster than linear in n. The cas...

A simplified version of the near-boundary eddy flux parameterization developed recently by Ferrari et al. has been implemented in the NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) ocean component for the surface boundary only. This scheme includes the effects of diabatic mesoscale fluxes within the surface layer. The experiments with the new parameterization show significant improvements compared...

We investigate the transition to synchronization in the Kuramoto model with bimodal distributions of the natural frequencies. Previous studies have concluded that the model exhibits a hysteretic phase transition if the bimodal distribution is close to a unimodal one due to the shallowness of the central dip. Here we show that proximity to the unimodal-bimodal border does not necessarily imply h...

We show how the state space exploration tool VeriSoft can be used to analyze sequential and parallel C/C++ programs with respect to their transition traces. The analysis determines whether or not a given program can behave as prescribed by some nite transition trace. VeriSoft's exploration is always bounded by a user-speciied, nite depth parameter. Therefore, our analysis is guaranteed to termi...

The glass transition process gets affected in ultrathin films having thickness comparable to the size of the molecules. We observe systematic broadening of the glass transition temperature (T(g)) as the thickness of an ultrathin polymer film reduces below the radius of gyration but the change in the average T(g) was found to be very small. The existence of reversible negative and positive therm...

This paper presents the investigation and comparison of TLC model checking method (TLA Checker) properties. There are two different approaches to method usage which are considered. The first one consists of a transition system states attendance by breadth-first search (BFS), and the second one by depth-first search (DFS). The Kripke structure has been chosen as a transition system model. A case...