We optically classified 5682 micrometeorites (MMs) from the 2000 South Pole collection into textural classes, imaged 2458 of these MMs with a scanning electron microscope, and made 200 elemental and eight isotopic measurements on those with unusual textures or relict phases. As textures provide information on both degree of heating and composition of MMs, we developed textural sequences that il...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Although soybeans have the ability to attenuate insulin resistance, it is insufficient to alleviate type 2 diabetic symptoms and different types of fermented soybeans may have even better anti-diabetic effects. Meju, unsalted fermented soybeans exhibited better insulin sensitizing and insulinotropic actions than unfermented cooked soybeans (CSB). We investigated whether...

PURPOSE The most common γ-aminobutyric-acid (GABA) editing approach, MEGA-PRESS, uses J-editing to measure GABA distinct from larger overlapping metabolites, but suffers contamination from coedited macromolecules (MMs) comprising 40 to 60% of the observed signal. MEGA-SPECIAL is an alternative method with better MM suppression, but is not widely used primarily because of its relatively poor spa...

We calculate electromagnetic mass difference of mesons using a method proposed by Duncan et al. The RG-improved gauge action and the non-compact Abelian gauge action are employed to generate configurations. Quark propagators in the range of mPS/mV = 0.76− 0.51 are obtained with the meanfield-improved clover quark action. Chiral and continuum extrapolations are performed and the results are comp...

This study analyzed the interaction between the small-scale fishers and the Mediterranean Monk Seal (MMS) in an important Peninsula and two important marine protected areas on the southwest coast of Turkey. The survey was carried out from January 2014 to December in 2015 in the Muğla Province. Small-scale fishers in the study sites were interviewed to assess the interactions between small-scale...

Fair division is a fundamental problem in various multi-agent settings, where the goal to divide set of resources among agents fair manner. We study case m indivisible items need be divided n with additive valuations using popular fairness notion maximin share (MMS). An MMS allocation provides each agent bundle worth at least her share. While it known that such an not exist [1], [2], series rem...

STUDY DESIGN Repeated measures reliability/validity study. OBJECTIVES To determine the concurrent validity, test-retest, inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of lumbar flexion and extension measurements using the Tracker M.E. computerized dual inclinometer (CDI) in comparison to the modified-modified Schober (MMS). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND Numerous studies have evaluated the reliability and...

Sorting is a primitive operation that is a building block for countless algorithms. As such, it is important to design sorting algorithms that approach peak performance on a range of hardware architectures. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are particularly attractive architectures as they provides massive parallelism and computing power. However, the intricacies of their compute and memory hier...

The HH 24 MMS protostellar system was observed in the 6.9 mm continuum with a high angular resolution (0.5). HH 24 MMS was resolved into two sources. The separation between sources 1 and 2 is ∼0.9 or 360 AU. The spectral energy distribution suggests that the 6.9 mm flux is almost entirely from dust. The 6.9 mm image and the spectrum suggest that HH 24 MMS may be a protostellar binary system. To...

As reported in a companion work [13], in its first phase, NASA’s 2015 highly elliptic MMS mission set a record for the highest altitude operational use of on-board GPS-based navigation, returning state estimates at 12 Earth radii. In early 2017 MMS transitioned to its second phase which doubled the apogee distance to 25 Earth radii, approaching halfway to the Moon. This paper will present resul...