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Mr. Monk is open for business : a novel
Monk and Teeger begin an investigation of a disgruntled import business worker who disappeared after killing three of his coworkers.
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Precision and Disclosure in Text and Voice Interviews on Smartphones
As people increasingly communicate via asynchronous non-spoken modes on mobile devices, particularly text messaging (e.g., SMS), longstanding assumptions and practices of social measurement via telephone survey interviewing are being challenged. In the study reported here, 634 people who had agreed to participate in an interview on their iPhone were randomly assigned to answer 32 questions from US social surveys via text messaging or speech, administered either by a human interviewer or by an automated interviewing system. 10 interviewers from the University of Michigan Survey Research Center administered voice and text interviews; automated systems launched parallel text and voice interviews at the same time as the human interviews were launched. The key question was how the interview mode affected the quality of the response data, in particular the precision of numerical answers (how many were not rounded), variation in answers to multiple questions with the same response scale (differentiation), and disclosure of socially undesirable information. Texting led to higher quality data-fewer rounded numerical answers, more differentiated answers to a battery of questions, and more disclosure of sensitive information-than voice interviews, both with human and automated interviewers. Text respondents also reported a strong preference for future interviews by text. The findings suggest that people interviewed on mobile devices at a time and place that is convenient for them, even when they are multitasking, can give more trustworthy and accurate answers than those in more traditional spoken interviews. The findings also suggest that answers from text interviews, when aggregated across a sample, can tell a different story about a population than answers from voice interviews, potentially altering the policy implications from a survey.
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Mr. Monk and the new lieutenant
\"An all-new story starring Adrian Monk by Edgar Award-nominated Monk screenwriter and coexecutive producer Hy Conrad. It's compulsive, page-turning fun. Monk and Natalie have finally settled into a new office routine. Now they just need to work things out with their neighbors-a print shop run by hippies whose music leaks through the walls, driving Monk nuts. But the detectives soon have a more serious conflict to deal with: Captain Stottlemeyer's new lieutenant, A.J. Cartledge-a man of limited skills whom Monk finds insufferable. Even the presence of Lieutenant Cartledge won't keep Monk and Natalie from attending the funeral of Judge Oberlin, and it's a good thing. In typical fashion, Monk examines the body in the casket-and finds evidence of poison. The judge was murdered. While there are no traces of the poison at the judge's house, Monk detects that there had been an intruder. The next rainy day, when Captain Stottlemeyer begins to show the same symptoms, Monk deduces that there's a diabolical killer at work, someone who wanted both the judge and the captain dead. Monk and Natalie turn to the captain's ex-lieutenant in Summit, New Jersey for help, but even that might not be enough to solve this crime. With his friend in danger and an enemy close, Monk will have to put his reservations aside to crack the case in time.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Blockade of the Fas/FasL System Improves Pneumococcal Clearance from the Lungs without Preventing Dissemination of Bacteria to the Spleen
Background. The Fas/FasL system is both proapoptotic and proinflammatory. FasL is inhibited by decoy receptor-3 (DcR3), a naturally occurring decoy receptor. We determined the effects of systemic blockade of the Fas/FasL system by a DcR3 analog (DcR3-a) in mice with pneumococcal pneumonia. Methods. Streptococcus pneumoniae (7.2 x 105 or 1.9 x 107 cfu/mL) was instilled intratracheally into untreated C57Bl/6 mice, C57Bl/6 mice treated with DcR3-a, or Fas-deficient lpr mice, and the mice were studied 48 h later. Results. After instillation of the lower bacterial dose, disruption of the Fas/FasL system by either DcR3-a or the lpr mutation resulted in improved clearance of bacteria in the lungs (mean ± SE, 4.6 ± 2.1 x 106 and 3.5 ± 1.6 x 106 cfu/lung, respectively, vs. 21.9 ± 9.3 x 106 cfu/lung in untreated C57Bl/6 mice; P < .05) and decreased percentage of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (mean ± SE, 19.3% ± 9.5% and 20.2% ± 7.8%, respectively, vs. 55.0% ± 12.2% in untreated C57Bl/6 mice; P < .05). These changes were associated with decreased lung concentrations of the proinflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor-a and macrophage inflammatory protein-2 and with a decrease in apoptotic cells in the alveolar walls. Conclusion. Blockade of the Fas/FasL system by DcR3-a in the lungs improves clearance of bacteria in mice with pneumococcal pneumonia.
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When girls learn more than boys
These are the empirical issues addressed in this article, on the basis of our study of learning gains in English and math among 4948 form 1 and form 2 pupils: What is the magnitude of the school's overall influence on learning gains? How much do youths really learn at the junior-secondary level? Does the influence of time in school on learning gains differ for girls relative to boys? Does this effect vary between language and math achievement? In addition ... do teacher characteristics and pedagogical practices help to explain learning gains? Do these more specific factors operate differently on girls, which, thus, would help to explain their advantage in language achievement? (DIPF/Text uebernommen).
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