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Dykes intruding along the Melanson Brook Fault record two magmatic episodes in northern New Brunswick. Dykes at the South Gold Zone of the Elmtree gold deposit are aphanitic and magnesian-calcic, whereas those at Ellis Brook (2.5 km to the west) are ilmenite-series and weakly peraluminous with hornblende- and plagioclase-porphyritic phases. Elevated [.sup.147]Sm/[.sup.144]Nd generated by partial melting, titanium depletion, absence of rare earth element fractionation, and trondhjemite-like compositions indicate that the South Gold Zone dykes were sourced from low-volume fluid-fluxed melting of gabbroic crust. An Sm-Nd-depleted model mantle age of 1.1 Ga for the Ellis Brook dykes suggests that they were sourced from melting of Ganderian crustal rocks rather than the sinking Acadian slab. [.sup.143]Nd/[.sup.144]Nd evolution curves for the South Gold Zone dykes intersect that of the Ellis Brook dykes at 432 and 427 Ma. This suggests that the magma from which the South Gold Zone dykes crystallized was extracted from a similar source area as the magma that generated the Ellis Brook dykes. Evidence of fluid exsolution in the Ellis Brook dykes indicates that they could be a potential source for reduced intrusion-related gold mineralization. The Ellis Brook dykes yielded a U-Pb zircon age of 391 [+ or -] 5 Ma, which is consistent with the timing of oceanic slab break-off at the end of the Acadian orogenic cycle. Extraction of South Gold Zone magma occurred up to 40 Myr earlier, likely during the Salinic orogenic cycle. Key words: U-Pb (zircon) geochronology, New Brunswick, slab failure magmatism, intrusion-related gold, Elmtree Inlier, Introduction Intrusion-related mineralization systems emplaced during the Appalachian orogenic cycle are a significant source of metal endowment in Atlantic Canada (van Staal 2007). Understanding the role of intrusions in mineralizing [...]

The technology for sealing has considerably advanced since it was first developed in the late 1800s. It is crucial to choose the right seal design and material to ensure efficient [...]

Objective: To measure differences in access to contraceptive services based on history of incarceration and its intersections with race/ethnicity and insurance status. Data Sources and Study Setting: Primary data were collected from telephone calls to physician offices in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi in 2021. Study Design: We deployed a field experiment. The outcome variables were appointment offers, wait days, and questions asked of the caller. The independent variables were callers' incarceration history, race/ethnicity, and insurance. Data Collection Methods: Using standardized scripts, Black, Hispanic, and White female research assistants called actively licensed primary care physicians and Obstetrician/Gynecologists asking for the next available appointment for a contraception prescription. Physicians were randomly selected and randomly assigned to callers. In half of calls, callers mentioned recent incarceration. We also varied insurance status. Principal Findings: Appointment offer rates were five percentage points lower (95% CI: -0.10 to 0.01) for patients with a history of incarceration and 11 percentage points lower (95% CI: -0.15 to -0.06) for those with Medicaid. We did not find significant differences in appointment offer rates or wait days when incarceration status was interacted with race or insurance. Schedulers asked questions about insurance significantly more often to recently incarcerated Black patients and recently incarcerated patients who had Medicaid. Conclusions: Women with a history of incarceration have less access to medical appointments; this access did not vary by race or insurance status among women with a history of incarceration. KEYWORDS access to care, African Americans/Blacks, contraception, Hispanics/Latinas, insurance, prisoners, 1 | INTRODUCTION Reproductive autonomy is an important aspect of the transition out of incarceration. As women establish or continue romantic relationships, care for their children, work toward economic security, [...]

Byline: Julie Walker and C.J. Moore Determining a dealership's value remains a subjective area, industry experts say, eliciting questions about how much of an assist artificial intelligence can provide to [...]

Byline: Julie Walker After Hurricane Helene destroyed his Kia inventory in New Port Richey, Fla., Ken Ganley got an assist from a dealership about 100 miles away. Raul Gomila, general [...]

Byline: Julie Walker NO. 1 SINGLE - POINT DEALERSHIP DAVE WRIGHT NISSAN-SUBARU A mix of more education, fun and food makes a winning recipe for attracting and retaining employees at [...]

Byline: Julie Walker NO. 1 RURAL DEALERSHIP FRIENDSHIP KIA OF BECKLEY Community outreach and cross-training help Friendship Family of Dealerships position its Kia store in Mount Hope, W.Va., for success [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Longtime auto retailer Carl Moyer, owner and founder of Karl Chevrolet in Ankeny, Iowa, a flagship store that led to the creation of Karl Auto Group, died [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Dealer Ken Ganley worked the equation out loud: 660 new and used vehicles, all losses, plus 12 customer cars that were in for service, all totaled, because [...]

AN ARTIFICIAL intelligence can solve the CAPTCHA puzzles used by websites to distinguish whether users are humans or bots 100 per cent of the time. Andreas Plesner at ETH Zurich [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Lithia Motors Inc. expanded its U.S. dealership portfolio and entered a new Florida region after acquiring three stores expected to add more than $200 million in annual [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Offline printers. A last-minute manufacturer issue. Coffee runs. A lunch break. Aside from those typical closing day delays, the deal to buy a New Jersey dealership, which [...]

Byline: Julie Walker In this town not far from the beaches of the Jersey Shore, Contemporary Motor Cars Mercedes-Benz has new owners for the first time in nearly 50 years. [...]

Objective: To illustrate the process of developing and sustaining an academic-public health partnership for behavioral health integration through an expansion of the Aligning Systems for Health (ASfH) framework. Study Setting: Practice-informed primary data (2017-2023) from the Holistic Opportunity Program for Everyone (HOPE) Initiative based in Charlotte, NC. Study Design: The unit of analysis in this descriptive case study is interorganizational, specifically focusing on an academic-public health relationship. We illustrate the partnership process across the ASfH four core areas, including key challenges and insights. Data Collection: Utilized a Critical Moments Reflection methodology and review of HOPE program data. Principal Findings: (1) Formal partnership structures and processes are essential to monitoring the four ASfH core components for on-going system alignment. (2) Aligning systems for health principally involves two ecologies: (i) the health program and (ii) the partnership. The vitality and sustainability of both ecologies require continuous attention and resource investment. (3) Relationships rest at the heart of aligning systems. (4) With comparative advantages in research methods, the academic sector is especially poised to collaborate with healthcare systems and human service organizations to study, develop, implement, and scale evidence-based health interventions. Conclusions: The academic sector shares overlapping purposes with the public health, healthcare, and social services sectors while providing complementary value. It is a critical sectoral partner in advancing population health and health equity. KEYWORDS academic-public health partnership, aligning systems for health, case study, cross-sector partnership, health equity, integrated care What is known on this topic * Cross-sector partnerships are critical to promoting community health and health equity. However, the pathways to effective and sustainable cross-sector partnerships are less well understood. * Aligning Systems for Health is an emergent, prominent theoretical framework for building cross-sector alignment that requires field-testing and refinement. * While the benefits of academic-public health partnerships are well-recognized, descriptive studies about how to effectively establish and sustain this type of cross-sector partnership remain limited. What this study adds * This study expands the Aligning Systems for Health theoretical framework to include the academic sector and demonstrates the opportunities and value associated with integrating this sector. * The article illuminates the process and pitfalls of academic-public health partnership formation, growth, and maintenance; and lends generalizable practice insights for cross-sector partnerships more broadly., 1 | INTRODUCTION Cross-sector partnerships are essential to improving health equity and population health outcomes. (1,2) Defined as a formal alliance between two or more organizations representing different sectors of [...]

Byline: Julie Walker A Sonic Automotive Inc. executive chided automakers including Stellantis and Nissan for swelling inventories that he called 'ridiculous.' Sonic President Jeff Dyke told investors and analysts in [...]

Using chatbots or voice assistants to find out information makes it less likely you will spot errors THE conversational tone of an AI chatbot or voice-based assistant seems like a [...]

NEGATIVE news stories about social media platforms appear to be highly effective at pressuring companies into changing their policies. Christian Katzenbach at the University of Bremen, Germany, and his colleagues [...]

In this Economic Commentary, we look at how households sort into neighborhoods in different metro areas and analyze these patterns by race, ethnicity, and income. We find that in many metros, Black households face a significant tradeoff between a neighborhood's Black population share and its socioeconomic status (SES), with many high-income Black households residing in lower SES neighborhoods than is the case for white households of similar income. A similar pattern exists for Hispanic households. Because a neighborhood's SES correlates with the labor market outcomes of the children who grow up there, these sorting patterns could, over time, act to limit workforce productivity, and individual earnings, by restraining skill acquisition for youth residing in under-resourced areas., Neighborhoods matter for children's economic outcomes. After all, many of the factors that develop personal attributes such as depth of knowledge, skills, and education--components of what economists call 'human capital'--are [...]

Byline: Julie Walker ALEX MORTON 35 CFO, GREGG YOUNG AUTOMOTIVE GROUP Alex Morton started work in general accounting before a shift led him to a new industry -- and he's [...]

Byline: Julie Walker GREGG CIOCCA JR. 35 VICE PRESIDENT, CIOCCA AUTOMOTIVE Gregg Ciocca Jr. always had a choice. His father said he would support whatever career path he chose, even [...]

AN ARTIFICIAL intelligence can accurately predict how a monkey plays the video game Pac-Man and mimic the animal's eye movements. Tianming Yang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Jane Vaden Thacher's bull's-eye reads $1 billion. Vaden Automotive's second-generation owner crafted a five-year plan in January 2021 to grow to $1 billion in total sales. The [...]

Byline: Julie Walker and Gail Kachadourian Howe Cyberattacks on CDK Global Inc.'s systems have delayed some dealership acquisitions, buy-sell brokers say, and a prolonged outage could lead to more stalled [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Matt Bowers spent much of 2023 planning his next dealership acquisition moves, calculating how he might capitalize on opportunities he predicted would arise in 2024 and 2025. [...]

Book https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443151/love-triangle-by-parker-matt/9780241505694 Matt Parker(Allen Lane) A sometimes fascinating book by a stand-up mathematician leaves Chris Stokel-Walker in an unexpected bind WRITING a popular science book that lures readers into often [...]

PEOPLE will take a 28 per cent pay cut when they can use a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM) to assist with their writing job. This is [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Teddy Morse said riding motorcycles 'makes you feel like the star of your own movie.' An intense, genuine passion for motorcycles -- all kinds, but especially Harley-Davidson [...]

Microgreens are trendy and fun to grow, but do they really live up to their health-boosting superfood label, asks Chris Stokel-Walker FOR several years, I have had a collection of [...]

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal and Firsd Tea collaborated on a second tea sustainability survey in 2023, the results of which were released in October. The first story in a [...]

Despite a rough year, the 2023 tea report finds China continuing to lead all tea-producing countries in global tea production, with white tea showing the biggest gains, and strong growth [...]

Cast aluminum alloys have PJP been increasingly used in internal combustion engine cylinder head applications because of their light weight and high thermal conductivity. Increasing demand for fuel economy and [...]

Big tech firms are competing to have the most exciting artificial intelligence products, but generative AI remains hampered by issues, says Chris Stokel-Walker WHEN OpenAI released its ChatGPT tool in [...]

Political adverts may swing elections cheaply, finds an analysis of German election results A POLITICIAN really can increase their popularity by using adverts on social media, and swaying a single [...]

LARGE language model chatbots like those powering ChatGPT can reduce someone's beliefs in conspiracy theories by debating with them. The tactics used by the chatbots reveal potentially better ways for [...]

Book https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/296774/alex-edmans Alex Edmans(Penguin Business, 25 April (UK); University of California Press, 14 May (US)) Can you see through deceiving data and beguiling stories? Take the card test and find [...]

AI image generators can be made more culturally sensitive and accurate by feeding them just a small number of more representitive images. The images used to train these artificial intelligence [...]

Byline: Julie Walker Thirteen franchised dealerships and six collision shops in Louisiana and Mississippi sold following five months of negotiations that resulted in the number of buyers growing from an [...]

Book https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/madhumita-murgia/code-dependent/9788119300969 Madhumita Murgia(Picador) AI is already challenging our work and lives. A must-read book explores the human impact, finds Chris Stokel-Walker THE artificial intelligence revolution has overwhelmed us all [...]

People who used generative AI to create art got better feedback, despite it being less original USING artificial intelligence to create artworks increases artists' productivity and generates more positive reactions, [...]

Book https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/pete-etchells/unlocked/9780349432939/ Pete Etchells(Piatkus) What is all our screen use really doing to us? A new book counters the scare stories by sticking to the science, says Chris Stokel-Walker DURING [...]

TAKING between 9000 and 10,000 steps per day seems to reduce the risk of an early death or heart-related event, adding legitimacy to an idea that has been criticised as [...]

THE artificially intelligent large language models (LLMs) behind chatbots may 'think' in English, even if tasked to do something in a different language. This is because their training data is [...]

The idea that musical notes sound best in certain mathematical combinations doesn't seem true AN ANCIENT Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes – often attributed to [...]

The audit committee is comprised of fully independent directors with backgrounds ranging from professional investors to retired audit partners, CFOs and CEOs. As board duties and oversight areas have expanded, the skillsets learned from these experiences have made the audit committee a catch-all for each new responsibility. How are audit committees sorting through their expanding portfolio of tasks, while also improving their core oversight role?, Traditional audit committee (AC) oversight responsibilities have included overseeing internal and external auditors, monitoring internal controls, and reviewing disclosures made by management. Now, many ACs are adding oversight responsibilities related [...]