Complexes of yttrium(III) formed with 5-sulphosalicylic acid, 5-SSA (H3L), and 5-nitrosalicylic acid, 5-NSA (H2L), were investigated in 0.1 mol.dm −3 sodium perchlorate ionic medium at 25.0 ± 0.1 ◦C potentiometrically for various molar ratios of Y(III) to these salicylic acid, SA (H2L), derivatives. Y(III) forms YL and YL3− 2 type complexes with 5-SSA that have rather high stabilities (log β1= ...

The National Security Agency’s ‘warrantless wiretapping program’ is arguably one of the largest domestic surveillance operations in history. It also represents among the most serious contemporary challenges to democratic governance and civil liberties. This paper reports on the development of the IXmaps interactive mapping application designed to show internet users how their personal traffic m...

Perceptions of two groups of minority adolescent mothers (those who reported childhood sexual abuse and those who did not) were examined by analyzing their responses to four open-ended questions. Responses of sexually abused (SA) and non-sexually abused (NSA) respondents were studied, and themes that emerged from the data were derived. The responses from the groups were compared, and major them...

We present a combinatorial coverage measurement analysis for (subsets) of the TLS cipher suite registries by analyzing the specified ciphers of IANA, ENISA, BSI, Mozilla and NSA Suite B. The method introduced here may contribute towards the design of quality measures of cipher suites, and may also be applied more broadly to the analysis of configurable systems. Keywords—Combinatorial testing, c...

BACKGROUND This study examined the clinical outcomes of indirect reduction maneuver and minimally invasive approach for treating displaced proximal humerus fractures in patients older than 60. METHODS Thirty-two patients (11 male and 21 female) who had undergone treatment for displaced proximal humerus fracture were evaluated. The mean age of the patients was 72.4 years (range, 60 to 92 years...

We examined potential differences in women's likelihood of sexual risk taking in a laboratory setting based on alcohol intoxication and sexual abuse history. Participants (n = 64) were classified as non-sexually abused (NSA) or as having experienced sexual abuse in childhood only (CSA) or adulthood only (ASA) and randomly assigned to consume alcoholic (.06, .08, or .10% target blood alcohol con...

Muscle and joint contact force influence stresses at the proximal growth plate of the femur and thus bone growth, affecting the neck shaft angle (NSA) and femoral anteversion (FA). This study aims to illustrate how different muscle groups' activation during gait affects NSA and FA development in able-bodied children. Subject-specific femur models were developed for three able-bodied children (a...

In mammalians, stem cells acts as a source of undifferentiated cells to maintain cell genesis and renewal in different tissues and organs during the life span of the animal. They can potentially replace cells that are lost in the aging process or in the process of injury and disease. The existence of neural stem cells (NSCs) was first described by Reynolds and Weiss (1992) in the adult mammalia...

1 Introduction According to Spinoza, 'In Nature there cannot be two or more substances of the same nature or attribute' (IP5). 1 Call this the 'No Shared Attribute' thesis, 2 hereafter NSA. It is widely recognised (indeed, virtually undeniable) that NSA plays a crucial role in Spinoza's argument in The Ethics for his version of substance monism—for the view that there exists only one substance,...

The distinct contrast between the reflectance of solar radiation in Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) channel 3 (3.75 mm) by clouds and by bright surfaces provides an effective means of cloud discrimination over snow/ice surfaces. A threshold function for the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) albedo in channel 3 (r3) is derived and used to develop an improved method for cloud discriminatio...