An alternative approach, sometimes called the public health or “environmental” perspective, tends to focus on formal laws, policies, and practices that affect the production, distribution, sales, and marketing of alcoholic beverages, or formal mechanisms that affect the drinkers themselves, such as drunk driving laws. These prevention programs generally promote policy changes by working through...

Shortcut fusion is a well-known optimization technique for functional programs. Its aim is to transform multi-pass algorithms into single pass ones, achieving deforestation of the intermediate structures that multi-pass algorithms need to construct. Shortcut fusion has already been extended in several ways. It can be applied to monadic programs, maintaining the global effects, and also to obtai...

With model-driven development being on the verge of becoming an industrial standard, systematic development strategies based on safe model transformations is a demand. However, the lack of a formal semantics makes the application of such transformations inadequate, especially transformations that must take into account changes in both behavioural and structural diagrams. As part of the Master t...

Tissue-specific differentiation programs become dysregulated during cancer evolution. The transcription factor Nkx2-1 is a master regulator of pulmonary differentiation that is downregulated in poorly differentiated lung adenocarcinoma. Here we use conditional murine genetics to determine how the identity of lung epithelial cells changes upon loss of their master cell-fate regulator. Nkx2-1 del...

the development, survival, and reproduction of diamondback moth (dbm), plutella xylostella (l.), were studied in laboratory at 25±1°c, 65±5% rh and a 14l: 10d hours photoperiodism on five host plants of: cauliflower (brassica oleracea l. var. botrytis), two varieties of cabbage (b. oleracea l. var. capitata) namely ‘globe master’ and ‘scarlet ohara’, kohlrabi (b. oleracea l. var. gongylodes), a...

This paper describes characteristics of Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS), a newly recognized discipline, and the need for formal undergraduate and graduate level education of engineers in this discipline. The tasks to be undertaken by CBS engineers are outlined. They form the requirements for the preparation of the ECBS Master program. The paper describes in detail the suggested cou...

In this paper, it is proposed to rapidly and accurately predict performance of master-slave (MS) parallel programs. To provide rapid prediction with high accuracy, our method reduces direct execution of the target MS program and estimates execution time of tasks of the program from only some directly executed tasks. In this estimation, we use a linear interpolation in order to reproduce the ori...

As the field of public health advances toward addressing complex, systemic problems, future public health professionals must be equipped with leadership and interprofessional skills that support collaboration and a culture of health. The University of Memphis School of Public Health has infused innovative strategies into graduate education via experiential learning opportunities to enhance lead...