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Almost identical
Once inseparable best friends, thirteen-year-old identical twins Sammie and Charlie begin to grow apart when they make new friends and join different clubs as seventh graders at a brand new school.
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The Well-being of Urban Residents of Serviced Apartment in USJ, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Serviced apartment as a newly popular type of mixed-use residential area is providing a new lifestyle to people with commercial, recreational facilities, and public transport facilities within the walking distance. The change of living environment from traditional housing area such as terrace houses and apartments to high rise serviced apartment did affect the change of well-being level of people. A study had been carried out in Main Place Serviced Apartment in USJ, Subang Jaya with three components of well-being, i.e. psychological, physical and social well-being. The well-being level among residents was identified through a questionnaire survey. From the analysis, the study found that psychological aspect of well-being was increased after respondents were moved into the study area. However, not all the physical and social elements were increased the satisfaction/well-being levels. Serviced apartment with a mixture of land uses and facilities can be further refined especially on the aspects of parking, traffic condition, social life, and waste management/cleaning services.
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Two-faced
When thirteen-year-old Charlie compromises her values to help Lauren, one of the popular girls, cheat on a test, her identical twin sister, Sammie, is inadvertantly pulled into the mess.
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Twice as nice
Offered readmittance into the popular clique when they need her grades and extracurriculars to qualify for a new school club, Charlie, who was ostracized for siding against her friends on behalf of her twin, fears she is being used.
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HCV Prevalence in Asian Americans in California
The World Health Organization estimates that 170 million persons are infected with HCV worldwide, but only 22 million are from the Americas and Europe, compared to 94 million from Asia. HCV prevalence in the general US population is 1.6 %, but data for Asian Americans are limited. Our goal was to examine HCV prevalence in Asian Americans in a large ethnically diverse patient cohort seeking primary care at a free clinic in Northern California. A total of 1347 consecutive patients were seen from September 2009 to October 2012 and were studied via individual chart review using case report forms. HCV infection was defined as positive HCV antibody (anti-HCV) or HCV RNA by PCR. 699 out of 1347 patients were screened for HCV. Asian Americans comprised 57.2 % of these patients and 29 (4.1 %) patients tested positive for HCV. Of these 29 HCV-positive patients, 22 (75.9 %) were Asian, yielding a prevalence of 5.5 % for Asians and 2.3 % for non-Asians (P = 0.038). The highest HCV prevalence was seen in Vietnamese patients at 7.9 %, and 6.0 % in Chinese patients. Of the HCV-positive Asians, none had a history of intravenous drug use (IVDU), tattoos, or sexual exposure. On multivariate analysis, significant independent predictors for positive HCV infection were male gender (OR 2.53, P = 0.02) and presence of known risk factors (OR 21.1, P < 0.001). However, older age and Asian ethnicity were found to be significant predictors of HCV infection (OR 1.03, P = 0.05 and 2.31, P = 0.066, respectively). In our study, HCV prevalence in patients seeking routine primary care was 5.5 % in Asian Americans, which was over double the prevalence for non-Asians at 2.3 %. Known risk factors were also notably absent in Asian patients with HCV infection. The high prevalence of HCV in Asian-Americans is likely reflective of the higher prevalence of HCV in their countries of origin in Asia. Asian-Americans immigrants from endemic countries are at higher risk of HCV infection and should be screened for HCV, regardless of their exposure risk profile.
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Look out! ghost mountain below
When the fantastic frame takes Tiger, Luna, and Chives to New Mexico in 1936, as depicted in Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, Red Hills with the Pedernal, they explore a sacred mountain.
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Splat! another messy Sunday
After visiting Madame Dots where they see a famous painting about a day in the park, Tiger Brooks, accompanied by his friend Luna, get sucked into the painting and land in a Parisian park where they're attacked by a pet monkey and chased by the police.
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Shape-persistent ladder molecules exhibit nanogap-independent conductance in single-molecule junctions
Molecular electronic devices require precise control over the flow of current in single molecules. However, the electron transport properties of single molecules critically depend on dynamic molecular conformations in nanoscale junctions. Here we report a unique strategy for controlling molecular conductance using shape-persistent molecules. Chemically diverse, charged ladder molecules, synthesized via a one-pot multicomponent ladderization strategy, show a molecular conductance (d[log(
G
/
G
0
)]/d
x
≈ −0.1 nm
−1
) that is nearly independent of junction displacement, in stark contrast to the nanogap-dependent conductance (d[log(
G
/
G
0
)]/d
x
≈ −7 nm
−1
) observed for non-ladder analogues. Ladder molecules show an unusually narrow distribution of molecular conductance during dynamic junction displacement, which is attributed to the shape-persistent backbone and restricted rotation of terminal anchor groups. These principles are further extended to a butterfly-like molecule, thereby demonstrating the strategy’s generality for achieving gap-independent conductance. Overall, our work provides important avenues for controlling molecular conductance using shape-persistent molecules.
Achieving robust and controllable conductance in single-molecule junctions is challenging due to the dynamic nature of molecular conformations that fluctuate over operational timescales. A strategy using shape-persistent molecules has now been developed that demonstrates nearly junction-displacement-independent conductance, providing a stable solution for single-molecule electronic properties.
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