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Victory in Shanghai
Victory in Shanghai tells the long-hidden story of a
family from Korea that struggled for three decades to become
Americans and ultimately fought their way to the United States
through heroic actions with the U.S. Army during World War II.
Among the first families from Korea to migrate to the United
States in the early twentieth century, the Kim family was forced
into exile in Shanghai in the mid-1920s after a new U.S.
immigration law in 1924 excluded Asians. Two decades later, the
family’s four sons—raised as Americans in the
expatriate community of Shanghai—voluntarily stepped
forward during World War II to defend the nation they considered
theirs. From both sides of the Pacific, the Kim brothers served
in uniform with the U.S. Army and in the underground U.S.
intelligence network in Shanghai. At the end of the war the
eldest son led the liberation of seven thousand American and
Allied civilians held in Japanese internment camps in Shanghai.
His actions and the support of the leading generals of the U.S.
Army in China led to three special acts of Congress that granted
him U.S. citizenship and admitted the entire Kim family into the
United States. Four Kim brothers became some of the earliest
intelligence officers of the nascent U.S. intelligence community,
and three of them ascended to leadership positions in the CIA and
the Army Special Forces.
Victory in Shanghai tells two intertwined American
origin stories: a Korean family’s struggle to become
Americans during the World War II era and the contributions of
Korean Americans to the creation of modern U.S. intelligence and
special operations. Withheld from the public until recently due
to the secrecy surrounding their actions during World War II and
the Cold War, the history of the Kim family is one of the great
stories of coming to America and defending and strengthening it
in the process.
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture : Based on the Competing Values Framework
\"The Third Edition of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency; a theoretical framework (competing values) for understanding organizational culture; and a systematic strategy and methodology for changing organizational culture and personal behavior. New edition includes online versions of the MSAI and OCAI assessments and new discussions of the implications of national cultural profiles\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Simple framework for constructing functional spiking recurrent neural networks
Cortical microcircuits exhibit complex recurrent architectures that possess dynamically rich properties. The neurons that make up these microcircuits communicate mainly via discrete spikes, and it is not clear how spikes give rise to dynamics that can be used to perform computationally challenging tasks. In contrast, continuous models of rate-coding neurons can be trained to perform complex tasks. Here, we present a simple framework to construct biologically realistic spiking recurrent neural networks (RNNs) capable of learning a wide range of tasks. Our framework involves training a continuous-variable rate RNN with important biophysical constraints and transferring the learned dynamics and constraints to a spiking RNN in a one-to-one manner. The proposed framework introduces only 1 additional parameter to establish the equivalence between rate and spiking RNN models. We also study other model parameters related to the rate and spiking networks to optimize the one-to-one mapping. By establishing a close relationship between rate and spiking models, we demonstrate that spiking RNNs could be constructed to achieve similar performance as their counterpart continuous rate networks.
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An Ottoman traveller : selections from the Book of travels of Evliya Çelebi
Evliya Çelebi was the Orhan Pamuk of the 17th century, the Pepys of the Ottoman world - a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This translation brings his sparkling work to life.
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Extracellular polymeric substance (EPS)-degrading enzymes reduce staphylococcal surface attachment and biocide resistance on pig skin in vivo
Staphylococcal extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) such as extracellular DNA (eDNA) and poly-N-acetylglucosamine surface polysaccharide (PNAG) mediate numerous virulence traits including host colonization and antimicrobial resistance. Previous studies showed that EPS-degrading enzymes increase staphylococcal biocide susceptibility in vitro and in vivo, and decrease virulence in animal models. In the present study we tested the effect of EPS-degrading enzymes on staphylococcal skin colonization and povidone iodine susceptibility using a novel in vivo pig model that enabled us to colonize and treat 96 isolated areas of skin on a single animal in vivo. To quantitate skin colonization, punch biopsies of colonized areas were homogenized, diluted, and plated on agar for colony forming unit enumeration. Skin was colonized with either Staphylococcus epidermidis or Staphylococcus aureus. Two EPS-degrading enzymes, DNase I and the PNAG-degrading enzyme dispersin B, were employed. Enzymes were tested for their ability to inhibit skin colonization and detach preattached bacteria. The effect of enzymes on the susceptibility of preattached S. aureus to killing by povidone iodine was also measured. We found that dispersin B significantly inhibited skin colonization by S. epidermidis and detached preattached S. epidermidis cells from skin. A cocktail of dispersin B and DNase I detached preattached S. aureus cells from skin and increased their susceptibility to killing by povidone iodine. These findings suggest that staphylococcal EPS components such as eDNA and PNAG contribute to skin colonization and biocide resistance in vivo. EPS-degrading enzymes may be a useful adjunct to conventional skin antisepsis procedures in order to further reduce skin bioburden.
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DFT Calculation of Carbon-Doped TiO2 Nanocomposites
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has been proven to be an excellent material for mitigating the continuous impact of elevated carbon dioxide concentrations. Carbon doping has emerged as a promising strategy to enhance the CO2 reduction performance of TiO2. In this study, we investigated the effects of carbon doping on TiO2 using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Two carbon doping concentrations were considered (4% and 6%), denoted as TiO2-2C and TiO2-3C, respectively. The results showed that after carbon doping, the band gaps of TiO2-2C and TiO2-3C were reduced to 1.58 eV and 1.47 eV, respectively, which is lower than the band gap of pure TiO2 (2.13 eV). This indicates an effective improvement in the electronic structure of TiO2. Barrier energy calculations revealed that compared to pure TiO2 (0.65 eV), TiO2-2C (0.54 eV) and TiO2-3C (0.59 eV) exhibited lower energy barriers, facilitating the transition to *COOH intermediates. These findings provide valuable insights into the electronic structure changes induced by carbon doping in TiO2, which can contribute to the development of sustainable energy and environmental conservation measures to address global climate challenges.
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Ranibizumab versus Verteporfin for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Previous studies have implicated intravitreal vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) as a target for countering neovascularization and, therefore, age-related macular degeneration. This double-blind, controlled trial comparing ranibizumab, which neutralizes all isoforms of VEGF-A, with photodynamic therapy with verteporfin showed that ranibizumab was better able to retard the progression of predominantly classic neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
This trial comparing ranibizumab with photodynamic therapy with verteporfin showed that ranibizumab was better able to retard the progression of predominantly classic neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of severe and irreversible vision loss in the developed world among people 50 years of age or older.
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The neovascular form of the disease is characterized by the growth of abnormal, choroidal blood vessels beneath the macula, which causes severe loss of vision.
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Two main patterns of choroidal neovascularization that are associated with age-related macular degeneration, as seen on fluorescein angiography, are classic (in which intensely bright fluorescence is seen in early phases of the angiogram and leaks in late phases) and occult (in which leakage is less intense and appears in . . .
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