INTRODUCTION In 1949, the establishment of the Peo-ple's Republic of China (PRC †) resulted in the cessation of mainland China's diplomatic ties with Western countries. Only after U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China and the signing of the Shanghai Communiqué in 1972 were Sino-American diplomatic relations formally established. Academic exchanges between the PRC and the United States t...

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS APPROACH FOR EARLY PREDICTION OFSTUDENT DROPOUTbySATTAR AMERIDecember 2015Advisor: Dr. Chandan ReddyMajor: Computer ScienceDegree: Master of Science Retention of students at colleges and universities has long been a concern for educatorsfor many decades. The consequences of student attrition are significant for both students,academic staffs ...

M R ALBERTS IS THE classic " frequent flyer. " At age 60 years, he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, anxiety, and chronic pulmonary emboli. Formerly a computer network engineer , he has been unemployed since 2010. He was admitted to the hospital 4 times within the first 6 months of 2011. His cumulative charges to Medicaid were $82 952— substantially higher than the na-tion's median in...

and manuals for archival procedures published , and practicing archivists were on the job bringing order out of chaos. While Leland humbly claimed that he was not a professional archivist, Wosh, his champion, clearly demonstrates the impact he had on all these developments. Wosh achieves much in this book, making no claims that he can't substantiate , demonstrating a deft and scrupulous scholar...

THE EUPHORIA HAS DIED down over our “triumph without victory” in the Gulf War, but the harm it can do is still with us. It is time to exam ine what we think we saw and learned from both the televi sion imagery and the postwar interpre ta tions. We need to as sess with a more dis­ pas sion ate eye what did and did not take place. Much—indeed, perhaps most—of what the public knows to be true abou...

A s any CIA operative will tell you, the best defense is to know your enemy. Ari Helenius, veteran vi-rologist, has spent the majority of his career learning the sneaky infi ltration tactics of human and animal foes such as infl uen-za, vaccinia, and herpes simplex virus. And their tactics are many and varied. Helenius learned that Semliki Forest virus, for example, enters cells via endosomes a...

Two types of mt DNA are present in the embryophytes (land plants). The mitochon-dria of the three clades of bryophytes (liver-worts, hornworts and mosses, see chapter " Promiscuous Organellar DNA ") possess circular genomes of around 105–185 kb resembling that of their green algal relatives like Chara and even the early-branching nongreen eukaryote, Reclinomonas ameri-cana (Li et al. 2009). The...

Product Life cycle Knowledge (PLK) is the combination of knowledge about a product across its life time and the knowledge about all processes controlling the product life cycle. In other words, it is a kind of fusion of heterogeneous knowledge about the structure, the functions, the life cycle processes, and the operational environment having impact on the product life cycle. The origin of the ...

cott MJ. Fatal spirochetosis due to a relapsing fever−like Borrelia sp. in a northern spotted owl. of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia hermsii. al. Variable tick protein in two genomic groups of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia hermsii in western North Ameri-ca. To the Editor: Documentation of possible tuberculosis (TB) in goats in Nigeria was reported by Ojo (1) on the basi...