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Developmental epidemiological courses leading to antisocial personality disorder and violent and criminal behavior: effects by young adulthood of a universal preventive intervention in first- and second-grade classrooms.

BACKGROUND
Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), violent and criminal behavior, and drug abuse disorders share the common antecedent of early aggressive, disruptive behavior. In the 1985-1986 school year teachers implemented the Good Behavior Game (GBG), a classroom behavior management strategy targeting aggressive, disruptive behavior and socializing children to the student role. From first through seventh grade the developmental trajectories of 2311 students from 19 Baltimore City Public Schools were examined. We report the GBG impact on these trajectories and ASPD and violent and criminal behavior by age 19-21.


METHODS
In five urban, poor to lower middle class predominately African-American areas, three to four schools were matched and within each set randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) GBG, (2) a reading achievement program, or (3) the standard program. Classrooms and teachers were randomly assigned to intervention or control. Measures at 19-21 included self reports and juvenile court and adult incarceration records. GBG impact was assessed via General Growth Mixture Modeling based on repeated measures of aggressive, disruptive behavior.


RESULTS
Three trajectories of aggressive, disruptive behavior were identified. By young adulthood, GBG significantly reduced the rates of ASPD and violent and criminal behavior among males in the persistent high aggressive, disruptive trajectory. REPLICATION: A replication was implemented with the following cohort of first-grade children using the same teachers, but with diminished mentoring and monitoring. Beneficial impact was found among persistent high males through seventh grade. By young adulthood GBG effects on ASPD and violent and criminal behavior were non-significant, but generally in the hypothesized direction.
Age-related differences in walking stability.

BACKGROUND
a large proportion of falls in older people occur when walking; however the mechanisms underlying impaired balance during gait are poorly understood.


OBJECTIVE
to evaluate acceleration patterns at the head and pelvis in young and older subjects when walking on a level and an irregular walking surface, in order to develop an understanding of how ageing affects postural responses to challenging walking conditions.


METHODS
temporo-spatial gait parameters and variables derived from acceleration signals were recorded in 30 young people aged 22-39 years (mean 29.0, SD 4.3), and 30 older people with a low risk of falling aged 75-85 years (mean 79.0, SD 3.0) while walking on a level and an irregular walking surface. Subjects also underwent tests of vision, sensation, strength, reaction time and balance.


RESULTS
older subjects exhibited a more conservative gait pattern, characterised by reduced velocity, shorter step length and increased step timing variability. These differences were particularly pronounced when walking on the irregular surface. The magnitude of accelerations at the head and pelvis were generally smaller in older subjects; however the smoothness of the acceleration signals did not differ between the two groups. Older subjects performed worse on tests of vision, peripheral sensation, strength, reaction time and balance.


CONCLUSION
the adoption of a more conservative basic gait pattern by older people with a low risk of falling reduces the magnitude of accelerations experienced by the head and pelvis when walking, which is likely to be a compensatory strategy to maintain balance in the presence of age-related deficits in physiological function, particularly reduced lower limb strength.
Transformational change and business process reengineering (BPR): Lessons from the British and Dutch public sector

Available online 18 May 2011
The effect of person-centred communication on parental stress in a NICU: a randomized clinical trial.

AIM
To investigate the effect of the Guided Family-Centred Care intervention, developed by the lead author, on parental stress in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).


METHODS
Parents (n = 134) of infants born ≤34 weeks gestational age were randomly assigned to a standard care group (n = 60) or intervention group (n = 74) between April 2011 and August 2012. Guided Family-Centred Care components used were as follows: scheduled nurse-parent dialogues, semi-structured reflection sheets and person-centred communication. Parental stress was assessed at discharge using parent-reported outcomes on the Nurse Parent Support Tool and the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.


RESULTS
The total stress scores reported by parents did not vary significantly between the intervention and standard groups, with a mean (SD) of 2.70 (0.67) versus 2.84 (0.71), respectively. However, the confidence interval included the prespecified clinical significance level. Subscale and Nurse Parent Support Tool scores did not differ between the groups. Overall, mothers reported more stress than fathers (p < 0.001).


CONCLUSION
Our study was unable to demonstrate the effect of person-centred communication using the Guided Family-Centred Care intervention. It may be necessary to replicate the design to address the risk of contamination and add instruments sensitive to human interaction.
MonALISA : A Distributed Monitoring Service Architecture

The MonALISA (Monitoring Agents in A Large Integrated Services Architecture) system provides a distributed monitoring service. MonALISA is based on a scalable Dynamic Distributed Services Architecture which is designed to meet the needs of physics collaborations for monitoring global Grid systems, and is implemented using JINI/JAVA and WSDL/SOAP technologies. The scalability of the system derives from the use of multithreaded Station Servers to host a variety of loosely coupled self-describing dynamic services, the ability of each service to register itself and then to be discovered and used by any other services, or clients that require such information, and the ability of all services and clients subscribing to a set of events (state changes) in the system to be notified automatically. The framework integrates several existing monitoring tools and procedures to collect parameters describing computational nodes, applications and network performance. It has built-in SNMP support and network-performance monitoring algorithms that enable it to monitor end-to-end network performance as well as the performance and state of site facilities in a Grid. MonALISA is currently running around the clock on the US CMS test Grid as well as an increasing number of other sites. It is also being used to monitor the performance and optimize the interconnections among the reflectors in the VRVS system.
Translation and validation of the Arab version of the fear avoidance beliefs questionnaire.

OBJECTIVE
Determine the reliability and validity of the fear avoidance beliefs questionnaire (FABQ) translated into Arabic.


METHODS
The FABQ work and physical activity subscales (FABQ-W and FABQ-PA) were translated and culturally adapted into Arabic using the back-translation procedure. Forty-eight subjects with acute low back pain (LBP) and 63 subjects with chronic LBP, whose native language was Arabic, completed a demographic questionnaire, the FABQ, a pain intensity numerical scale, the Modified Oswestry Disability Index (MOSW), and the SF-36 questionnaire. Thirty patients completed the FABQ a second time 3-7 days later.


RESULTS
FABQ-W and FABQ-PA showed good internal consistencies (α=0.90 and 0.81 respectively). Test-retest reliability was moderate to high (ICC (1,1) of 0.63 and 0.83 for the FABQ-W and FABQ-PA, respectively). Pain intensity correlated with FABQ-W only for subjects with acute pain (rho 0.41), and with the FABQ-PA only for subjects with chronic pain (rho 0.47). Significant differences between patients with acute and chronic pain were found. Correlations between the FABQ and the MOSW were moderate (rho between 0.40-0.42). Correlations between the FABQ subscales and the SF-36 questionnaire were stronger for subjects with chronic pain. A high ceiling effect was demonstrated for the FABQ-PA, in particular for patients with chronic LBP.


CONCLUSIONS
The Arabic version of the FABQ has acceptable psychometric properties. However, the results of the physical activity subscale should be interpreted with caution due to a strong ceiling effect.
Testosterone lab testing and initiation in the United Kingdom and the United States, 2000 to 2011.

CONTEXT
New formulations, increased marketing, and wider recognition of declining testosterone levels in older age may have contributed to wider testosterone testing and supplementation in many countries.


OBJECTIVE
Our objective was to describe testosterone testing and testosterone treatment in men in the United Kingdom and United States.


DESIGN
This was a retrospective incident user cohort.


SETTING
We evaluated commercial and Medicare insurance claims from the United States and general practitioner healthcare records from the United Kingdom for the years 2000 through 2011.


PARTICIPANTS
We identified 410,019 US men and 6858 UK men who initiated a testosterone formulation as well as 1,114,329 US men and 66,140 UK men with a new testosterone laboratory measurement.


MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Outcome measures included initiation of any injected testosterone, implanted testosterone pellets, or prescribed transdermal or oral testosterone formulation.


RESULTS
Testosterone testing and supplementation have increased pronouncedly in the United States. Increased testing in the United Kingdom has identified more men with low levels, yet US testing has increased among men with normal levels. Men in the United States tend to initiate at normal levels more often than in the United Kingdom, and many men initiate testosterone without recent testing. Gels have become the most common initial treatment in both countries.


CONCLUSIONS
Testosterone testing and use has increased over the past decade, particularly in the United States, with dramatic shifts from injections to gels. Substantial use is seen in men without recent testing and in US men with normal levels. Given widening use despite safety and efficacy questions, prescribers must consider the medical necessity of testosterone before initiation.
Finding a Balance between Psychological Thinking and Musical Awareness in Music Therapy Theory — A Psychoanalytic Perspective:

There is a growing body of literature which suggests that it is possible to provide safe therapeutic encounters without reference to non-music derived theory (Lee 1996), and that music therapy theo...
Design and Verification of Fault-Tolerant Components

We present a systematic approach to design and verification of faulttolerant components with real-time properties as found in embedded systems. A state machine model of the correct component is augmented with internal transitions that represent hypothesized faults. Also, constraints on the occurrence or timing of faults are included in this model. This model of a faulty component is then extended with fault detection and recovery mechanisms, again in the form of state machines. Desired properties of the component are model checked for each of the successive models. The models can be made relatively detailed such that they can serve directly as blueprints for engineering, and yet be amenable to exhaustive verification. The approach is illustrated with a design of a triple modular fault-tolerant system that is a real case we received from our collaborators in the aerospace field. We use UPPAAL to model and check this design. Model checking uses concrete parameters, so we extend the result with parametric analysis using abstractions of the automata in a rigorous verification.
Applying recent secure element relay attack scenarios to the real world: Google Wallet Relay Attack

This report explains recent developments in relay attacks on contactless smartcards and secure elements. It further reveals how these relay attacks can be applied to the Google Wallet. Finally, it gives an overview of the components and results of a successful attempt to relay an EMV Mag-Stripe transaction between a Google Wallet device and an external card emulator over a wireless network. Revision: 1.3 Date: March 25, 2013 Status: Final This work is part of the project “4EMOBILITY” within the EU programme “Regionale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit OÖ 2007–2013 (Regio 13)” funded by the European regional development fund (ERDF) and the Province of Upper Austria (Land Oberösterreich). Applying recent secure element relay attack scenarios to the real world: Google Wallet Relay Attack Michael Roland <michael.roland@fh-hagenberg.at> 1 ar X iv :1 20 9. 08 75 v2 [ cs .C R ] 2 5 M ar 2 01 3 Hagenberg Linz Steyr Wels A revised version of this report has been published as M. Roland, J. Langer, and J. Scharinger: Applying Relay Attacks to Google Wallet. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC 2013), pp. 1–6, Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 2013. DOI: 10.1109/NFC.2013.6482441, c © 2013 IEEE. The revised version gives a more detailed analysis of the Google Wallet oncard component, adds new ideas on how to improve the attack, details further information on our test setup, and adds an analysis of Google’s approach to fix the vulnerability. Applying recent secure element relay attack scenarios to the real world: Google Wallet Relay Attack Michael Roland <michael.roland@fh-hagenberg.at> 2 Hagenberg Linz Steyr Wels
List-only Entity Linking

Traditional Entity Linking (EL) technologies rely on rich structures and properties in the target knowledge base (KB). However, in many applications, the KB may be as simple and sparse as lists of names of the same type (e.g., lists of products). We call it as List-only Entity Linking problem. Fortunately, some mentions may have more cues for linking, which can be used as seed mentions to bridge other mentions and the uninformative entities. In this work, we select the most linkable mentions as seed mentions and disambiguate other mentions by comparing them with the seed mentions rather than directly with the entities. Our experiments on linking mentions to seven automatically mined lists show promising results and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.1
Socio-demographic area of Delhi.

This paper evaluates statistically and displays cartographically previously untabulated and unpublished data from the 1971 Census of India for the entire population of Delhi. Data pertain to Delhis census charges (wards) and were originally tabulated in the form of 348 variables relating to occupational distribution migration and non-worker status--each classified separately by gender. Although these data are subject to multiple reporting errors and fallacious ecological inferences they constitute the largest database yet assembled for comparative analysis of Indian intra-metropolitan patterns and structures. Socio-demographic patterns and areas are identified reflecting the traditional-modern formal-informal familistic and ethnic constituents of the national capital of India. (EXCERPT)
Insights and puzzles in light quark physics

Recent work in light flavour hadron physics is reviewed. In particular, I discuss the significance of the progress achieved with light dynamical quarks on the lattice for the effective low energy theory of QCD. Also, I draw attention to some puzzling results from NA48 and KTeV concerning the scalar form factor relevant for Kmu3 decay -- taken at face value, these indicate physics beyond the Standard Model.
The effect of charge at the surface of silver nanoparticles on antimicrobial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria: a preliminary study

The bactericidal efficiency of various positively and negatively charged silver nanoparticles has been extensively evaluated in literature, but there is no report on efficacy of neutrally charged silver nanoparticles. The goal of this study is to evaluate the role of electrical charge at the surface of silver nanoparticles on antibacterial activity against a panel of microorganisms. Three different silver nanoparticles were synthesized by different methods, providing three different electrical surface charges (positive, neutral, and negative).The antibacterial activity of these nanoparticles was tested against gram-positive (i.e., Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus mutans, and Streptococcus pyogenes) and gram-negative (i.e., Escherichia coli and Proteus vulgaris) bacteria. Well diffusion and micro-dilution tests were used to evaluate the bactericidal activity of the nanoparticles. According to the obtained results, the positively-charged silver nanoparticles showed the highest bactericidal activity against all microorganisms tested. The negatively charged silver nanoparticles had the least and the neutral nanoparticles had intermediate antibacterial activity.Themost resistant bacteria were Proteus vulgaris. We found that the surface charge of the silver nanoparticles was a significant factor affecting bactericidal activity on these surfaces. Although the positively charged nanoparticles showed the highest level of effectiveness against the organisms tested, the neutrally charged particles were also potent against most bacterial species.
Relative efficacy of nucleic acid amplification testing and serologic screening in preventing hepatitis C virus transmission risk in seven international regions.

BACKGROUND
The relative contribution of serologic screening and nucleic acid testing (NAT) to prevent hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission has not been rigorously addressed.


STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS
Twenty-one blood organizations in seven geographical regions performing individual-donation (ID)-NAT in parallel with anti-HCV screening provided data from 10,897,105 donations to establish HCV infection rates in first-time, lapsed, and repeat donations. Screening efficacy was modeled for: anti-HCV alone, HCV antigen/antibody (combo), minipool (MP)-NAT in pools of 8 and 16 with anti-HCV, ID-NAT and anti-HCV, and ID-NAT alone. Probabilities of infectivity for red blood cell transfusions were estimated as 100% from window period (WP) and concordant HCV RNA/antibody-positive (concordantly positive [CP]) donations and 0.028% from anti-HCV-positive and RNA-negative probable resolved (PR) donations.


RESULTS
There were 5146 confirmed infections (30 WP, 3827 CP, and 1289 PR). Infection rates and transmission risks varied substantially across regions and by donation status. Residual risk with ID-NAT and serology screening was estimated at one in 250,000 in Egypt and at one in 10,000,000 in other regions combined; risk would increase to one in 7300 and one in 312,000, respectively, if NAT had not been performed. ID-NAT with or without anti-HCV testing showed higher efficacy than either MP-NAT or combo assays, particularly in lapsed or repeat donors in whom 99.2, 98.5, and 93.2% of infectious donations were estimated to be interdicted by these respective testing strategies.


CONCLUSIONS
The incremental efficacy of anti-HCV testing when ID- NAT screening is performed was minimal, particularly for screening lapsed and repeat donations.
Discovering telecom fraud situations through mining anomalous behavior patterns

In this paper we tackle the problem of superimposed fraud detection in telecommunication systems. We propose two anomaly detection methods based on the concept of signatures. The first method relies on a signature deviation-based approach while the second on a dynamic clustering analysis. Experiments carried out with real data, voice call records from an entire week, corresponding to approximately 2.5 millions of CDRs and 700 thousand of signatures processed per day, allowed us to detect several anomalous situations. The frauds analysts provide us a small list of 12 customers for whom a fraudulent behavior was detected during this week. Thus, 9 and 11 fraud situations were discovered from each method respectively. Preliminary results and discussion with fraud analysts has already proved that our methods are a valuable tool to assist them in fraud detection.
Phenomenology of [formula presented] from ratios of inclusive B decay rates

We explore the theoretical feasibility of extracting V{sub ub} from two ratios built from B meson inclusive partial decays, R{sub 1}={gamma}(b{yields}uc(bar sign)s{sup '})/3{gamma}(b{yields}cl{nu}(bar sign)) and R{sub 2}=[{gamma}(b{yields}cX)-{gamma}(b{yields}c(bar sign)X)]/{gamma}(b{yields}cu(bar sign)d{sup '}). We discuss contributions to these quantities from perturbative and nonperturbative physics, and show that they can be computed with overall uncertainties at the level of 10%. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.
Explaining Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Music Classification

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been actively adopted in the field of music information retrieval, e.g. genre classification, mood detection, and chord recognition. However, the process of learning and prediction is little understood, particularly when it is applied to spectrograms. We introduce auralisation of a CNN to understand its underlying mechanism, which is based on a deconvolution procedure introduced in [2]. Auralisation of a CNN is converting the learned convolutional features that are obtained from deconvolution into audio signals. In the experiments and discussions, we explain trained features of a 5-layer CNN based on the deconvolved spectrograms and auralised signals. The pairwise correlations per layers with varying different musical attributes are also investigated to understand the evolution of the learnt features. It is shown that in the deep layers, the features are learnt to capture textures, the patterns of continuous distributions, rather than shapes of lines.