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HOW RESPONSIVE ARE PRIVATE TRANSFERS TO INCOME? EVIDENCE FROM A LAISSEZ-FAIRE ECONOMY

In recent years there has been rapidly growing interest in the responsiveness of private transfers to household income, or “transfer derivatives.” Undoubtedly most of the interest in transfer derivatives is fueled by the problem of “crowding out”: If incomes are fungible, and private transfers are highly responsive to household resources, expansion of public transfers could serve merely to supplant private ones, leaving the distribution of household consumption largely unchanged. Yet there is also an emerging consensus from empirical work that these transfer derivatives are rather small, at least for the United States, implying that crowding out might loom larger in the minds of some economists than in the data. A possible reason for the lack of evidence for crowding out in a developed country like the United States is that the substantial public transfers that already exist could have rendered it a f it accompli, leaving the remaining small samples uninformative about crowding out. In this paper, we focus on the Philippines, a country with extremely limited public income redistribution. We also pay attention to the possibility that theoretical models of private transfers, including models of altruism and household risk-sharing, can imply a non-linear relationship between inflows of private transfers and household resources, taking the form of a spline. We estimate this model by non-linear least squares, treating the threshold (knot point) as an unknown parameter, using recently developed econometric techniques. This allows for a more exact measurement of transfer derivatives than the more commonly applied monotonic approach. We find that private transfers are widespread, and that they can be highly responsive to household economic status, in a way that is consistent with either altruistic preferences, effective household risk-sharing, or both. A strong transfer derivative occurs, however, only for the very poorest households, where decreases in their resources prompt very large increases in private transfers. Our findings have significant policy implications, because they imply that attempts to improve the status of the very poorest households could be thwarted by private responses. Some of the gains from public transfers would be shared with richer households whose burden of support for their less fortunate kin is eased. So the problems that operative private transfers create for public income redistribution, first pointed out by Becker and Barro nearly 25 years ago, do indeed matter empirically.
EBIC: an evolutionary-based parallel biclustering algorithm for pattern discovery

Motivation
Biclustering algorithms are commonly used for gene expression data analysis. However, accurate identification of meaningful structures is very challenging and state-of-the-art methods are incapable of discovering with high accuracy different patterns of high biological relevance.


Results
In this paper, a novel biclustering algorithm based on evolutionary computation, a sub-field of artificial intelligence, is introduced. The method called EBIC aims to detect order-preserving patterns in complex data. EBIC is capable of discovering multiple complex patterns with unprecedented accuracy in real gene expression datasets. It is also one of the very few biclustering methods designed for parallel environments with multiple graphics processing units. We demonstrate that EBIC greatly outperforms state-of-the-art biclustering methods, in terms of recovery and relevance, on both synthetic and genetic datasets. EBIC also yields results over 12 times faster than the most accurate reference algorithms.


Availability and implementation
EBIC source code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/EpistasisLab/ebic.


Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
PHOTOGROUP : DECENTRALIZED WEB APPLICATION USING ETHEREUM BLOCKCHAIN

1,2,3,4,5 Department Of Computer Engineering, Smt .Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------***-------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACTIn today’s world social networking platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Google+ etc, have created the boon in our humanitarian society[1]. Along with these social networking platforms there comes a great responsibility of handling user privacy as well as user data. In most of these websites, data is stored on the centralized system called as the server. [1] The whole system crash down if the server goes down. One of the solutions for this problem is to use a decentralized system. Decentralized applications works on Blockchain. A Blockchain is a group of blocks connected sequentially to each other. The blockchains are designed so that transactions remain immutable i.e. unchanged hence provides security. The data can be distributed and no one can tampered that data. This paper presents a decentralized social media photo sharing web application which is based on blockchain technology where the user would be able to view, like, comment, share photos shared by different users.
Accelerated temperature cycle test and Coffin-Manson model for electronic packaging

Temperature cycle profiles at various stress levels were investigated for accelerated reliability testing of electronic device packaging. Failure analysis was conducted for test failures to determine their root cause failure mechanisms and failure modes. Weibull analysis was conducted for failures with the main failure mechanisms (such as solder fatigue, mechanical cracks). The Coffin-Manson model has been used to model crack growth due to repeated temperature cycling. A good correlation was obtained between the Coffin-Manson model and the test results, and activation energy (EA) was determined. The limitation and application of the Coffin-Manson model are further discussed. The Coffin-Manson model with determined activation energy could be used to estimate product reliability under different application conditions for the same main failure mechanism.
Mindful Parenting in Mental Health Care: Effects on Parental and Child Psychopathology, Parental Stress, Parenting, Coparenting, and Marital Functioning

This study evaluated the acceptability and effects of a Mindful Parenting course in mental health care. Parents (n=86) referred to secondary mental health care because of their children’s and/or their own psychopathology, or parent– child relationship problems, followed a Mindful Parenting course in a group format (10 groups). Assessments took place just before the course (pre-test), immediately after the nineweek course (post-test), and at 8-week follow-up. A waitlist assessment took place only for those parents who had to wait for a course (n=23). Measures concerned parent report of psychopathology symptoms of their target child, as well as their own psychopathology symptoms, parental stress, parenting behaviors, coparenting, and marital functioning. Only one parent dropped out and parents evaluated the program as valuable and effective in many areas of family functioning. No improvement was reported during waitlist, except for an improvement in parental externalizing symptoms. Improvements after the course occurred in the target child’s internalizing and externalizing psychopathology symptoms, parents’ own internalizing symptoms and further improvement on their externalizing symptoms. Also, improvements occurred on parental stress, parenting, and coparenting, but not on marital functioning. Improvements were generally maintained at follow-up. In conclusion, the very low dropout rate as well as the positive evaluations, suggest that Mindful Parenting is an acceptable and feasible intervention in mental health care. Mindful Parenting appears a promising new intervention for parents inmental health care, as it seems effective on a broad range of child, parent, and family variables. Studies comparing Mindful Parenting to other effective interventions, such as Parent Management training, are needed to gain more knowledge about its relative and differential effectiveness.
Design of low-profile microstrip antenna with enhanced bandwidth and reduced size

An effective technique is presented to enhance the bandwidth and reduce the size of an ultralow-profile microstrip antenna. By loading multicouple staggered slots on the patch and using inset feed structure, two TM10 modes can be excited at two close frequencies and matched well simultaneously. Designs based on the structures with four-, five-, and six-couple staggered slots have been made to demonstrate the effective technique. To the best designed results, the presented ultralow-profile microstrip antenna obtains a bandwidth enhancement of about two times and a size reduction of about 60% compared with the ordinary one. The technique is suitable for radio-frequency front-end antenna integration and package in microwave and millimeter-wave bands
Efficiency and Security of Data with Symmetric Encryption Algorithms

In this paper, we proposed the encryption algorithm to encrypt plaintext to cipher text and the decryption algorithm to do the reverse. We applied the basic computing operations to design these algorithms in this study. We used the inserting dummy symbols, rotating, transposition, shifting, complement and inserting control byte to build the data and tables in the encryption algorithm. These operations are simple and easily to implement. Without knowing the data and tables of encryption, it is difficult to do cryptanalysis. In the decryption algorithm, we used these data and tables to decrypt cipher text to plaintext. We can easily apply these algorithms to transmit data in network and the data transmission is secure. Keywords— Encryption; Decryption; Data transmission; Cipher text; Plaintext; Encryption techniques
Systematic review: the economic impact of irritable bowel syndrome.

BACKGROUND
Although little mortality is associated with irritable bowel syndrome, curative therapy does not exist and thus the economic impact of this disorder may be considerable.


METHODS
A systematic review of the literature was performed. Studies were included if their focus was irritable bowel syndrome, and direct and/or productivity (indirect) costs were reported. Two investigators abstracted the data independently.


RESULTS
One hundred and seventy-four studies were retrieved by the search; 11 fulfilled all criteria for entry into the review. The mean direct costs of irritable bowel syndrome management were reported to be UK pound sterling90, Canadian$259 and US$619 per patient annually, with total annual direct costs related to irritable bowel syndrome of pound sterling45.6 million (UK) and $1.35 billion (USA). Direct resource consumption of all health care for irritable bowel syndrome patients ranged from US$742 to US$3166. Productivity costs ranged from US$335 to US$748, with total annual costs of $205 million estimated in the USA. Annual expenditure for all health care, in addition to expenditure limited to gastrointestinal disorders, was significantly higher in irritable bowel syndrome patients than in control populations.


CONCLUSIONS
Despite the lack of significant mortality, irritable bowel syndrome is associated with high direct and productivity costs. Irritable bowel syndrome patients consume more gastrointestinal-related and more total health care resources than non-irritable bowel syndrome controls, and sustain significantly greater productivity losses.
Three-dimensional immersive virtual reality for studying cellular compartments in 3D models from EM preparations of neural tissues.

Advances in the application of electron microscopy (EM) to serial imaging are opening doors to new ways of analyzing cellular structure. New and improved algorithms and workflows for manual and semiautomated segmentation allow us to observe the spatial arrangement of the smallest cellular features with unprecedented detail in full three-dimensions. From larger samples, higher complexity models can be generated; however, they pose new challenges to data management and analysis. Here we review some currently available solutions and present our approach in detail. We use the fully immersive virtual reality (VR) environment CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment), a room in which we are able to project a cellular reconstruction and visualize in 3D, to step into a world created with Blender, a free, fully customizable 3D modeling software with NeuroMorph plug-ins for visualization and analysis of EM preparations of brain tissue. Our workflow allows for full and fast reconstructions of volumes of brain neuropil using ilastik, a software tool for semiautomated segmentation of EM stacks. With this visualization environment, we can walk into the model containing neuronal and astrocytic processes to study the spatial distribution of glycogen granules, a major energy source that is selectively stored in astrocytes. The use of CAVE was key to the observation of a nonrandom distribution of glycogen, and led us to develop tools to quantitatively analyze glycogen clustering and proximity to other subcellular features. J. Comp. Neurol. 524:23-38, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Nocturnal Wakefulness as a Previously Unrecognized Risk Factor for Suicide.

OBJECTIVE
Suicide is a major public health problem and the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. The identification of modifiable risk factors is essential for reducing the prevalence of suicide. Recently, it has been shown that insomnia and nightmares significantly increase the risk for suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, and death by suicide. While both forms of sleep disturbance may independently confer risk, and potentially be modifiable risk factors, it is also possible that simply being awake at night represents a specific vulnerability for suicide. The present analysis evaluates the frequency of completed suicide per hour while taking into account the percentage of individuals awake at each hour.


METHODS
Archival analyses were conducted estimating the time of fatal injury using the National Violent Death Reporting System for 2003-2010 and the proportion of the American population awake per hour across the 24-hour day using the American Time Use Survey.


RESULTS
The mean ± SD incident rate from 06:00-23:59 was 2.2% ± 0.7%, while the mean ± SD incident rate from 00:00-05:59 was 10.3% ± 4.9%. The maximum incident rate was from 02:00-02:59 (16.3%). Hour-by-hour observed values differed from those that would be expected by chance (P < .001), and when 6-hour blocks were examined, the observed frequency at night was 3.6 times higher than would be expected by chance (P < .001).


CONCLUSIONS
Being awake at night confers greater risk for suicide than being awake at other times of the day, suggesting that disturbances of sleep or circadian neurobiology may potentiate suicide risk.
Modular Design of testable reversible ALU by QCA multiplexer with increase in programmability

The quantum-dot cellular automata have emerged as one of the potential computational fabrics for the emerging nanocomputing systems due to their ultra-high speed and integration density. On the other hand, reversible computing promises low power consuming circuits by nullifying the energy dissipation during the computation. This work targets the design of a reversible arithmetic logic unit (RALU) in the quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) framework. The design is based on the reversible multiplexer (RM) synthesized by compact 2:1 QCA multiplexers introduced in this paper. The proposed reversible multiplexer is able to achieve 100% fault tolerance in the presence of single missing or additional cell defects in QCA layout. Furthermore, the advantage of modular design of reversible multiplexer is shown by its application in synthesizing the RALU with separate reversible arithmetic unit (RAU) and reversible logic unit (RLU). The RALU circuit can be tested for classical unidirectional stuck-at faults using the constant variable used in this design. The experimentation establishes that the proposed RALU outperforms the conventional reversible ALU in terms of programming flexibility and testability. & 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Synchronized video and motion analysis for the assessment of procedures in the operating theater.

HYPOTHESIS
Objective assessment of surgical skill has recently been shown to be possible through the use of dexterity-based and video analysis systems. The aim of this study was to synchronize these 2 modalities to produce a comprehensive surgical assessment tool.


DESIGN
The Imperial College Surgical Assessment Device is a dexterity-based motion analysis device that has been developed in the Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology by the Surgical Computing and Imaging Research Group. Further advances to this system have been made to enable synchronized acquisition of hand kinematics and video from real procedures, and their concurrent analysis. To test the feasibility of the system, 10 laparoscopic cholecystectomies performed by 5 different surgeons on consenting patients were recorded. Analysis focused on the entire procedure and also on specific parts of the operation such as the clipping and cutting of the cystic duct and artery.


RESULTS
Dexterity analysis was performed using the objective measures of time, path length, number of movements, velocities, and trajectories. Comparative analysis of a surgeon's dexterity was carried out on the whole procedure and by using the synchronized zoom facility in the software. Kinematic signals revealed rapid changes in velocity caused by alternating between different instruments or occurring after complications such as bleeding.


CONCLUSION
This new motion analysis system has been shown to be an effective tool for the comprehensive assessment of operative procedures.
A phase II trial of ganetespib, a heat shock protein 90 Hsp90) inhibitor, in patients with docetaxel-pretreated metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)-a prostate cancer clinical trials consortium (PCCTC) study

Introduction Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) has been studied as a therapeutic target in many cancers. In preclinical trials, the Hsp90 ATPase inhibitor ganetespib demonstrated potent inhibition of solid tumor growth, with superior potency than prior Hsp90 inhibitors. Given the promising preclinical outcome and favorable pharmacologic properties of ganetespib, we conducted a phase II trial of single-agent ganetespib in patients with metastatic, castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The primary objective of the study was to determine the 6-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate. Methods Patients with mCRPC who had been previously treated with docetaxel were enrolled after meeting eligibility criteria. All patients received ganetespib at 200 mg/m2 on days 1, 8, and 15 of every 28 days (one cycle). Subjects who tolerated therapy were continued on ganetespib until disease progression. Considering that Hsp90 acetylation may confer insensitivity to Hsp90 inhibitors and maspin inhibits protein deacetylation, maspin-associated molecular markers were evaluated. Results Eighteen patients were recruited into the trial; most were Caucasian, had performance status 1, had received prior docetaxel, and were heavily pretreated. Of the 17 patients who were treated, none attained 6-month PFS. Only 2 patients achieved PFS > 4 months. The median PFS was 1.9 months. As per the study design, the trial was terminated after the interim analysis. The most frequent types of Grade 3 toxicity were dehydration, diarrhea, and fatigue. Molecular markers provided little additional insight regarding drug activity. Conclusions Ganetespib demonstrated minimal clinical activity in men with mCRPC. The true 6-month PFS rate was, at most, 0.20. Possible reasons for this include selection of a heavily pretreated patient population and lack of agent potency in patients with mCRPC.
Autonomic virtual resource management for service hosting platforms

Cloud platforms host several independent applications on a shared resource pool with the ability to allocate computing power to applications on a per-demand basis. The use of server virtualization techniques for such platforms provide great flexibility with the ability to consolidate several virtual machines on the same physical server, to resize a virtual machine capacity and to migrate virtual machine across physical servers. A key challenge for cloud providers is to automate the management of virtual servers while taking into account both high-level QoS requirements of hosted applications and resource management costs. This paper proposes an autonomic resource manager to control the virtualized environment which decouples the provisioning of resources from the dynamic placement of virtual machines. This manager aims to optimize a global utility function which integrates both the degree of SLA fulfillment and the operating costs. We resort to a Constraint Programming approach to formulate and solve the optimization problem. Results obtained through simulations validate our approach.
Facial performance synthesis using deformation-driven polynomial displacement maps

We present a novel method for acquisition, modeling, compression, and synthesis of realistic facial deformations using polynomial displacement maps. Our method consists of an analysis phase where the relationship between motion capture markers and detailed facial geometry is inferred, and a synthesis phase where novel detailed animated facial geometry is driven solely by a sparse set of motion capture markers. For analysis, we record the actor wearing facial markers while performing a set of training expression clips. We capture real-time high-resolution facial deformations, including dynamic wrinkle and pore detail, using interleaved structured light 3D scanning and photometric stereo. Next, we compute displacements between a neutral mesh driven by the motion capture markers and the high-resolution captured expressions. These geometric displacements are stored in a polynomial displacement map which is parameterized according to the local deformations of the motion capture dots. For synthesis, we drive the polynomial displacement map with new motion capture data. This allows the recreation of large-scale muscle deformation, medium and fine wrinkles, and dynamic skin pore detail. Applications include the compression of existing performance data and the synthesis of new performances. Our technique is independent of the underlying geometry capture system and can be used to automatically generate high-frequency wrinkle and pore details on top of many existing facial animation systems.
Speciation and Sources of Toxic Metals in Sediments of Lake Chapala, Mexico

Heavy metals chemical speciation in Lake Chapala sediments was studied using sequential extraction to assess the mobility of potentially biotoxic metals and to elucidate their sources. Lake water quality was also studied. Results show Cd, Pb, Cr present in exchangeable and carbonate fractions indicating anthropogenic origin. An ecologic history indicates anthropogenic sources of Cd, Pb, Cr during 1960-2006. Risk Assessment Code indicates very high risk of pollution for water column due to high potential detachment of heavy metals.