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151Werner, Carol M.; Brown, Barbara B.Using accelerometer feedback to identify walking destinations, activity overestimates, and stealth exercise in obese and nonobese individualsAccelerometer output feedback might enable assessment of recall biases for moderate bouts by obese and nonobese individuals; accelerometry might also help residents recall destinations for moderate-intensity walking bouts. Methods: Adult residents' 1-week accelerometer-measured physical activity and...Physical activity assessment; METs; Community-based research; Obese2008
152Brown, Barbara B.; Werner, Carol M.Using accelerometer feedback to identify walking destinations, activity overestimates, and stealth exercise in obese and nonobese individualsAccelerometer output feedback might enable assessment of recall biases for moderate bouts by obese and nonobese individuals; accelerometry might also help residents recall destinations for moderate-intensity walking bouts. Methods: Adult residents' 1-week accelerometer-measured physical activity and...Accelerometer feedback; Walking destinations; Activity overestimates; Stealth exercise; Recall bias; Obese individuals; Nonobese individuals2008
153Dailey, Andrew T.Variations in surgical treatment of cervical facet dislocationsObjective. To explore surgeon preference in the choice of surgical approach in the treatment of traumatic cervical facet dislocations. Summary of Background Data. The choice of surgical approach in the treatment of traumatic cervical dislocations is highly variable and maybe influenced by a vari...Cervical facet dislocations; Spine Trauma Study Group2008
154Bromley, Benjamin C.Variations on debris disks: icy planet formation at 30-150 AU for 1-3 M. main-sequence starsWe describe calculations for the formation of icy planets and debris disks at 30-150 AU around 1-3 M. stars. Debris disk formation coincides with the formation of planetary systems. As protoplanets grow, they stir leftover planetesimals to large velocities. A cascade of collisions then grinds the l...Icy planets; Planet formation; Debris disks; Main-sequence stars2008
155Kestle, John R. W.Ventriculoperitoneal shunts in children: indications, equipment and techniquesThe decision to implant a ventriculoperitoneal shunt in a child with ventriculomegaly should not be taken lightly. Once a shunt has been implanted, it is very difficult to determine that it is no longer necessary, and therefore the initial decision is very important. Sometimes the need is obvious, s...2008
156Dailey, Andrew T.Vertebral artery injuries associated with cervical spine injuries: a review of the literatureObjective: To determine the incidence of vertebral artery injuries (VAIs) in association with cervical spine trauma and investigate the optimum diagnostic and treatment protocols. Summary of Background Data: VAIs may result from cervical spine trauma and have the potential to cause cerebral, brain...Cervical spine injuries; Literature review2008
157Whitaker, Ross T.VispackVISPACK (volume-image-surface package) is a C++ library that includes matrix, image, and volume objects and tools for manipulating level-set surface modelsVISPACK; volume-image-surface package; C++ library2008
158Cashdan, Elizabeth A.Waist-to hip ratio across cultures: trade-offs between androgen-and estrogen-dependent traitsA gynoid pattern of fat distribution, with small waist and large hips (low waist-to-hip ratio, or WHR) holds significant fitness benefits for women: women with a low WHR of about 0.7 are more fecund, are less prone to chronic disease, and (in most cultures) are considered more attractive. Why, then...Fertility; Optimum; Fecundity2008
159Cashdan, Elizabeth A.Waist-to-hip ratio across cultures: trade-offs between androgen- and estrogen-dependent traitsA gynoid pattern of fat distribution, with small waist and large hips (low waist-to-hip ratio, or WHR) holds significant fitness benefits for women: women with a low WHR of about 0.7 are more fecund, are less prone to chronic disease, and (in most cultures) are considered more attractive. Why, then...Fat distribution; Gynoid pattern; Body types; Waist-to-hip ratio; WHR2008
160McElreath, RichardWhen natural selection favors imitation of parentsIt is commonly assumed that parents are important sources of socially learned behavior and beliefs. However, the empirical evidence that parents are cultural models is ambiguous, and debates continue over their importance. A formal theory that examines the evolution of psychological tendencies to i...Transmission; Evolution; Culture2008
161Thalos, Mariam G.Wit of knitting: a philosophical reflection on knitting things arightSeeing a pattern in a medium of yarn emerge on a pair of needles, initially from a single row of loops, and grow to become an article of clothing, is immensely satisfying. Indeed, every moment of knitting provides immediate gratification. This is perhaps why knitting, like many other occupations of ...2008
162Furse, Cynthia M.; Bergerson, Amy A.Work in progress - Utahs engineering initiativeAbstract - In response to a shortage of engineers in Utah an interdisciplinary team at the University of Utah developed an outreach program intended to increase the number of students recruited into the College of Engineering and who complete engineering degrees. An innovative mix of service l...2008
163Jorgensen, Erikμ2 adaptin facilitates but is not essential for synaptic vesicle recycling in Caenorhabditis elegansSynaptic vesicles must be recycled to sustain neurotransmission, in large part via clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Clathrin is recruited to endocytic sites on the plasma membrane by the AP2 adaptor complex. The medium subunit (u 2) of AP2 binds to cargo proteins and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisph...Synaptic vesicles; Caenorhabditis elegans; Adaptin2008
164Andreou, ChrisoulaAddiction, procrastination, and failure points in decision-making systemsRedish et al. suggest that their failures-in-decision-making framework for understanding addiction can also contribute to improving our understanding of a variety of psychiatric disorders. In the spirit of reflecting on the significance and scope of their research, I briefly develop the idea that t...Addiction; Failure in decision-making systems2008-08
165Balasubramonian, RajeevArchitecting efficient interconnects for large caches with CACTI 6.0Efficiently executing multithreaded applications on future multicores will require fast intercore communication. Most of this communication happens via reads and writes to large shared caches in the memory hierarchy. Microprocessor performance and power will be strongly influenced by the long inter...Interconnects; CACTI 6.0; Non-uniform cache architectures (NUCA)2008-01
166Vardeny, Zeev ValentineBelow-gap excitation of ∏-conjugated polymer-fullerene blends: implications for bulk organic heterojunction solar cellsWe used a variety of optoelectronic techniques such as broadband fs transient and cw photomodulation spectroscopies, electroabsorption, and short-circuit photocurrent in bulk heterojunctions organic solar cells for studying the photophysics in ∏-conjugated polymer-fullerene blends with below-gap...pi-conjugated polymers; Fullerene blends; Below-gap excitations; Bulk heterojunctions; Bulk organic heterojunction solar cells; Photophysics2008-07
167Mishchenko, EugeneCharge response function and a novel plasmon mode in graphenePolarizability of noninteracting 2D Dirac electrons has a 1 1 / √qv-ω singularity at the boundary of electron-hole excitations. The screening of this singularity by long-range electron-electron interactions is usually treated within the random phase approximation. The latter is exact only in the ...Excitons; Random phase approximation2008-04
168Couldwell, William T.Choroid plexus cyst development and growth following ventricular shuntingChoroid plexus cysts are typically incidental, asymptomatic cysts. They have been reported to hemorrhage and grow, causing symptoms of obstruction. However, growth and multiplication has not been reported following ventriculoperitoneal shunting procedures. A 66-year-old woman initially underwent a ...Choroid plexus cyst; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt2008-01
169Scarpulla, MichaelCompensation-dependent in-plane magnetization reversal processes in Ga1-xMnxP1-ySyWe report the effect of dilute alloying of the anion sublattice with S on the in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and magnetization reversal process in Ga1−xMnxP as measured by both ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) spectroscopy and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometry. ...Ferromagnetic semiconductors; Nonmagnetic compensation2008-12
170Lucero, Mary T.; Mobley, Arie S.Cross-species comparison of metabolite profiles in chemosensory epithelia: an indication of metabolite roles in chemosensory cellsComparative studies of chemosensory systems in vertebrates and invertebrates have greatly enhanced our understanding of anatomical and physiological constraints of chemical detection. Immunohistochemical comparisons of chemosensory systems are difficult to make across species due to limited cross-re...Olfactory; Vomeronasal; Mouse; Zebrafish; Squid2008-04
171Gondolo, PaoloDark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolutionA mechanism is identified whereby dark matter (DM) in protostellar halos dramatically alters the current theoretical framework for the formation of the first stars. Heat from neutralino DM annihilation is shown to overwhelm any cooling mechanism, consequently impeding the star formation process and ...Dark stars2008-02
172Gondolo, PaoloDark stars: dark matter in the first stars leads to a new phase of stellar evolutionThe _x000C_first phase of stellar evolution in the history of the universe may be Dark Stars, powered by dark matter heating rather than by fusion. Weakly interacting massive particles, which are their own antiparticles, can annihilate and provide an important heat source for the fi_x000C_rst stars...Dark stars; WIMP; Weakly interacting massive particles2008-06
173Rogachev, AndreyDetermination of the superconductor-insulator phase diagram for one-dimensional wiresWe establish the superconductor-insulator phase diagram for quasi-one-dimensional wires by measuring a large set of MoGe nanowires. This diagram is roughly consistent with the Chakravarty-Schmid-Bulgadaev phase boundary, namely, with the critical resistance being equal to RQ ¼ h=4e2. Deviations fr...One-dimensional wires; Superconductor-insulator phase diagram; MoGe; Chakravarty-Schmid-Bulgadaev; Phase boundary2008-11
174Gondolo, PaoloDirect detection of neutralino dark matter in nonstandard cosmologiesWe compute the neutralino direct detection rate in nonstandard cosmological scenarios where neutralinos account for the dark matter of the Universe. Significant differences are found when such rates are compared with those predicted by the standard cosmological model. For b-ino-like neutralinos, the...Neutralinos2008-02
175Gondolo, PaoloDirectional recoil rates for WIMP direct detectionNew techniques for the laboratory direct detection of dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are sensitive to the recoil direction of the struck nuclei.We compute and compare the directional recoil rates dR/d cosθ, (where θ is the angle measured from a reference direction in th...WIMP; Weakly interacting massive particles; WMAP 3; Directional recoil; Halo models2008-02
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