DIED, Jul 31, 2018

Reasons for parental withdrawal of care in a pediatric intensive care unit in China.
K Ho, X Wang, L Chen - PloS one, 2018
… PICU. One hundred one (11%) patients died during their hospital stay. Of these 69
(68%) died after parents elected to withdraw care. A large proportion (33 out of 69
48%) cited economic factors as a reason behind the decision …

CLIMATE News, Jul 31, 2018

Reducing uncertainties in climate models
BJ Soden, WD Collins, DR Feldman - Science, 2018
Radiative forcing is a fundamental quantity for understanding both anthropogenic
and natural changes in climate. It measures the extent to which human activities
[such as the emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2), see the image] and natural events …

SCIENCE News, Jul 31, 2018

Reducing uncertainties in climate models
BJ Soden, WD Collins, DR Feldman - Science, 2018
Radiative forcing is a fundamental quantity for understanding both anthropogenic
and natural changes in climate. It measures the extent to which human activities
[such as the emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2), see the image] and natural events …

MUSIC News, Jul 31, 2018

Reflections on Traditional African American Music: Its Function and Relevance in Contemporary Music Education
MC Moore - Traditional Musics in the Modern World: Transmission …, 2018
… block chords resulting in a homophonic sound (Moore 2010: 49). This is a common
event in Gospel music, eg, God Specializes by the Roberta Martin Singers. It also
illustrates the blending of African and Western sounds in …

MOST Beautiful Woman News, Jul 31, 2018

Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879–1911 ed. by Mary Maillard
M Washington - Journal of Southern History, 2018
… Lulu Jacobs's epistles are the most noteworthy … The beautiful woman
reportedly rejected marriage proposals "from respectable white men" (p.
37) … Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879–1911 is an excellent source of information …

INVENTIONS News, Jul 31, 2018

Authors and inventors
JL Guthrie - 2018
… Some features of this site may not work without it. Authors and inventors:
Date. 2018-05. Author … Ritual economy opens new vistas of historical
exploration that suggest a return to the primary evidence left by content …

HEALTH News, Jul 31, 2018

Air Health Trend Indicator: Association between Short-Term Exposure to Ground Ozone and Circulatory Hospitalizations in Canada for 17 Years, 1996⁻ 2012.
HH Shin, WS Burr, D Stieb, L Haque, H Kalayci, B Jovic… - … research and public health, 2018
Abstract The Air Health Trend Indicator is designed to estimate the public health risk
related to short-term exposure to air pollution and to detect trends in the annual
health risks. Daily ozone, circulatory hospitalizations and weather data for 24 cities …

INDIA Cinema News, Jul 31, 2018

Nollywood in Rio: An Exploration of Brazilian Audience Perception of Nigerian Cinema
K Ewing - Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora, 2018
… and World Cinema are non-Western or non-hegemonic subjects or directors
within the globalization model. Sociologist Jan Nedeerven Pieterse, a
globalization scholar, argues that there is no longer a cultural hegemony …

CINEMA News, Jul 31, 2018

InfoSec Cinema: Using Films for Information Security Teaching
J Blasco, EA Quaglia - 2018 {USENIX} Workshop on Advances in Security …, 2018
We present InfoSec Cinema, a film-based teaching activity that uses commercial
films to teach information security. We analyse ten films to verify their suitability and
build a public and editable database of information security events from films. Our …

WEATHER News, Jul 31, 2018

Towards Simulation and Risk Assessment of Weather-Related Outages
R Yao, K Sun - IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2018
Weather and environmental factors have played significant roles in historical major
outages and blackouts in interconnected power systems, and hence should be
considered in simulation and risk assessment of outages. This paper proposes a …

ASEAN News, Jul 31, 2018

The double burden of malnutrition in Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries: a comprehensive review of the literature.
CN Rachmi, M Li, LA Baur - Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition, 2018
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM)-a combination of undernutrition and
overnutrition-is a problem faced by many countries. This study aimed to
comprehensively review the DBM in ASEAN (Association of South East Asian …

ECOLOGY News, Jul 31, 2018

Functional Ecology and metabolics of the California moray (Gymnothorax mordax)
BA Higgins - 2018
Consistent pressures from overfishing and extirpation have led to the study and
conservation of many of the apex consumers within kelp forest ecosystems. Among
kelp forests, those of Southern California have been described as the most diverse in …

FINANCIAL News, Jul 31, 2018

Gauging procyclicality and financial vulnerability in Asia through the BIS banking and financial statistics
S Avdjiev, HS Shin - 2018
We look back at past episodes of financial stress in Asia with a forward-looking
perspective. We put ourselves in the shoes of a contemporary observer with the data
at hand and ask what evidence was available on the systematic build-up of …