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Toward Progressive Inclusion and Acceptance: Myth or Reality? The Inclusion Debate and Bandwagon Discourse

Inclusion has been a topic of discussions and debate among adapted physical activity professionals since the 1980s. Although the initial discussions focused primarily on inclusion as a place or placement, the discourse today about inclusion must be expanded to incorporate issues of context, disability rights, and social justice. Inclusion must now be reconceptualized as an attitude or a process. Progressive inclusion and acceptance is not a myth but a reality. As international attention and efforts are focused on physical education as a right of all children, APA professionals must forego bandwagons and adopt a strong philosophical stance that guides our efforts toward achieving inclusive physical education.
Intergovernmental Organizations and the Kantian Peace

The authors use network analysis to argue that the main contribution of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) to international stability is not necessarily their direct and individual impact, because generally IGOs are institutionally weak. Rather, membership of IGOs creates network ties between states, allowing them, either individually or collectively, to intervene more effectively in latent conflicts. The IGO network also provides direct and indirect communication channels, where indirect links can act as partial substitutes for direct diplomatic ties. Empirically, the authors apply these ideas to the extensive network of international linkages created in the post—World War II period. They demonstrate that indirect links do indeed matter and that they substitute for more direct diplomatic ties. Furthermore, these effects are not limited to ties created by IGOs with specific security functions.
The Impact of Familiarity and Reputation on Consumer Trust in E-Commerce

Lack of trust is one of the most important factors slowing down the growth of B2C electronic commerce. When rules and customs are not sufficient, consumers rely on familiarity and reputation as primary mechanisms to reduce transaction uncertainty. This study validates the impacts of perceived familiarity and perceived reputation on consumer trust in B2C electronic commerce. A research model is proposed and tested using structural equation model. It is found that perceived familiarity, perceived reputation, and perceived security control are important antecedents to online consumer trust. It is also discovered that both perceived familiarity and perceived reputation have a positive impact on perceived security control.
Facial Position and Expression-Based Human–Computer Interface for Persons With Tetraplegia

A human-computer interface (namely Facial position and expression Mouse system, FM) for the persons with tetraplegia based on a monocular infrared depth camera is presented in this paper. The nose position along with the mouth status (close/open) is detected by the proposed algorithm to control and navigate the cursor as computer user input. The algorithm is based on an improved Randomized Decision Tree, which is capable of detecting the facial information efficiently and accurately. A more comfortable user experience is achieved by mapping the nose motion to the cursor motion via a nonlinear function. The infrared depth camera enables the system to be independent of illumination and color changes both from the background and on human face, which is a critical advantage over RGB camera-based options. Extensive experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms existing assistive technologies in terms of quantitative and qualitative assessments.
Leptospirosis in animals and human contacts in Egypt: broad range surveillance.

INTRODUCTION Leptospirosis is a re-emerging zoonotic disease of humans and animals worldwide. The disease is caused by pathogenic species of the genus Leptospira. These organisms are maintained in nature via chronic renal infection of carrier animals, which excrete the organisms in their urine. Humans become infected through direct or indirect exposure to infected animals and their urine or through contact with contaminated water and soil. This study was conducted to investigate Leptospira infections as a re-emerging zoonosis that has been neglected in Egypt. METHODS Samples from 1,250 animals (270 rats, 168 dogs, 625 cows, 26 buffaloes, 99 sheep, 14 horses, 26 donkeys and 22 camels), 175 human contacts and 45 water sources were collected from different governorates in Egypt. The samples were collected from different body sites and prepared for culture, PCR and the microscopic agglutination test (MAT). RESULTS The isolation rates of Leptospira serovars were 6.9%, 11.3% and 1.1% for rats, dogs and cows, respectively, whereas the PCR results revealed respective detection rates of 24%, 11.3% and 1.1% for rats, dogs and cows. Neither the other examined animal species nor humans yielded positive results via these two techniques. Only six Leptospira serovars (Icterohaemorrhagiae, Pomona, Canicola, Grippotyphosa, Celledoni and Pyrogenes) could be isolated from rats, dogs and cows. Moreover, the seroprevalence of leptospiral antibodies among the examined humans determined using MAT was 49.7%. CONCLUSIONS The obtained results revealed that rats, dogs and cows were the most important animal reservoirs for leptospirosis in Egypt, and the high seroprevalence among human contacts highlights the public health implications of this neglected zoonosis.
Renal Ischemia Regulates Marinobufagenin Release in Humans

Cardiotonic steroids, including marinobufagenin, are a group of new steroid hormones found in plasma and urine of patients with congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, and chronic renal failure. In animal studies, partial nephrectomy induces marinobufagenin elevation, cardiac hypertrophy, and fibrosis. The objective of this study is to test the effect of renal ischemia on marinobufagenin levels in humans with renal artery stenosis (RAS). To test this, plasma marinobufagenin levels were measured in patients with RAS of the Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Renal Artery Stenting With or Without Distal Protection, non-RAS patient controls who were scheduled for coronary angiography, and normal healthy individuals. Marinobufagenin levels were significantly higher in patients with RAS compared with those of the other 2 groups. Multivariate analysis shows that occurrence of RAS is independently related to marinobufagenin levels. In addition, renal artery revascularization by stenting partially reversed marinobufagenin levels in the patients with RAS (0.77±0.06 nmol/L at baseline; 0.66±0.06 nmol/L at 24 hours; and 0.61±0.05 nmol/L at 1 month). In conclusion, we have found that marinobufagenin levels are increased in patients with RAS, whereas reversal of renal ischemia by stenting treatment reduces marinobufagenin levels. These results suggest that RAS-induced renal ischemia may be a major cause of marinobufagenin release.
Mitochondrial Efficiency-Dependent Viability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutants Carrying Individual Electron Transport Chain Component Deletions

Mitochondria play a crucial role in eukaryotic cells; the mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC) generates adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which serves as an energy source for numerous critical cellular activities. However, the ETC also generates deleterious reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a natural byproduct of oxidative phosphorylation. ROS are considered the major cause of aging because they damage proteins, lipids, and DNA by oxidation. We analyzed the chronological life span, growth phenotype, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), and intracellular ATP and mitochondrial superoxide levels of 33 single ETC component-deleted strains during the chronological aging process. Among the ETC mutant strains, 14 (sdh1Δ, sdh2Δ, sdh4Δ, cor1Δ, cyt1Δ, qcr7Δ, qcr8Δ, rip1Δ, cox6Δ, cox7Δ, cox9Δ, atp4Δ, atp7Δ, and atp17Δ) showed a significantly shorter life span. The deleted genes encode important elements of the ETC components succinate dehydrogenase (complex II) and cytochrome c oxidase (complex IV), and some of the deletions lead to structural instability of the membrane-F1F0-ATP synthase due to mutations in the stator stalk (complex V). These short-lived strains generated higher superoxide levels and produced lower ATP levels without alteration of MMP. In summary, ETC mutations decreased the life span of yeast due to impaired mitochondrial efficiency.
The preparation of athletes with cerebral palsy for elite competition

Sport performance management has emerged as a specialization in sport science that is focused on providing the athlete and coach with optimal information about training programmes and the support services needed in order to pursue excellence. As a more professional approach to disability sport has grown with the international status of the Paralympics, sport performance management dealing specifically with athletes with disabilities requires development. The purpose of this study was to focus on documenting the delivery of sport science support for three cyclists with cerebral palsy training for the Athens Paralympics. A case study approach was taken in this research that provided sport science support to three cyclists. Documentation of the training experience of each cyclist over 18 months of training leading up to the Games, was accomplished by quantification of daily training as well as periodic laboratory testing. A comprehensive picture was drawn of training intensities, modalities and frequencies for each cyclist during each macro-cycle, with special attention to the following three variables. Power output and lactate Power output and VO2 max Peak and mean sprint power output (Wingate test) Two of the three cyclists perceived the support they received to have been critical to the success of their preparation. The investigator concluded that sport management has an important role to play in the development of disability sport at the elite level, and that a lot more hard training is possible for cyclists with cerebral palsy, than some coaches may have previously believed, especially in terms of intensity and duration.
Whatʼs best about social work supervision according to Association

This article is the second in a series where the results from a national survey of social work supervision practice are presented. The survey was the first phase of an ongoing doctoral study into social work supervision undertaken by the first author and supervised by the coauthors. The article explores what’s best about social work supervision from the perspective of members of the ANZASW by discussing their responses to an open-ended question. The 399 statements made by the 204 respondents were categorised and analysed according to frequency and theme. It was found that: • the portrait of the best things in supervision ranged across the areas of practice, environment, relationship, and the qualities, attributes and abilities of the supervisor; and • there were marked frequency differences across the practice and supervisor response categories between those who participated in supervision as both supervisors and supervisees and those who were solely supervisees. The implications of these results for supervision practice are discussed with regard to development towards best practice guidelines, a model of ‘best’ supervision and an evaluation tool for supervision. Background This article is the second in a series based on the results of a national survey of social work supervision practice conducted amongst full members of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) in 2004. The previous article mapped the territory of social work supervision within the Association through a quantitative analysis of the results from the survey’s closed questions (O’Donoghue, Munford and Trlin, 2005). This article reports and discusses the responses made to a question in which the respondents were asked to comment on the two best things about their supervision. The specific question of what’s best about social work supervision is not widely explored in the social work supervision literature. The most relevant literature relates to the phenomena of the good supervisor, good social work supervision and the strengths of social work supervisors (Davys, 2002; Kadushin and Harkness, 2002; Kadushin, 1992a). Kadushin
Determinants of Capital Structure in Malaysia Electrical and Electronic Sector

Capital structure is one of the most important financial decisions in corporate financing strategy. It involves the choice of debt and equity level in financing a company’s operations. This study aims to investigate whether the capital structure choice of Malaysian electrical and electronic manufacturing companies that are listed in the Bursa Malaysia can be explained by factors that have been found by most studies as dominant determinants of capital structure (company size, profitability, asset tangibility, liquidity and growth). Using debt ratio as the proxy for capital structure and applying pooled ordinary least square multiple regression estimation, the results showed that on average, Malaysian electrical and electronic manufacturing companies used less debt in funding their business operations. The findings also showed that size and asset tangibility has a significant positive relationship with debt level, while liquidity has a negative significant relationship with leverage. Keywords—Capital structure, capital structure theories, leverage, manufacturing companies.
A CONVERSATION-PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO EXPLORE TURKISH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ CONCEPTUAL SOCIALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES

The present study explores Turkish international students’ conceptual socialization by examining their social interactions with American speakers to look for the ways they coordinated modes of communication through social and linguistic means. A conversational-pragmatic approach was employed to examine the data coming from the video-recordings of a formal, social event held at a U.S. university. The findings indicated that the Turkish students had almost an equal number of endeavors to establish rapport with the American guests and overlapping speech was one of the strategies they employed for rapport increment. Turkish students overused the speech formulas and situation-bound utterances mostly to express gratitude, while the idioms and phrasal verbs were more common in American speakers’ utterances. The findings provide insights into Turkish students’ conceptual socialization since they socially as well as linguistically demonstrated appropriate behaviors during their conversations with the American guests. While the findings of this study can only be interpreted according to this specific social occasion and might not be generalized to the Turkish students’ socialization in different social contexts within the American culture, the study with its naturalistic data does fill a gap in the literature which has been dominated with classroom contexts and artificial language production tasks.
Vancomycin and to lesser extent tobramycin have vasomodulatory effects in experimental endotoxemia in the rat.

BACKGROUND Antibiotic treatment represents a key component of therapy for severe sepsis. Apart from their antimicrobial efficacy, when choosing antibiotics in septic conditions, vasomodulatory effects should also be taken into account. OBJECTIVES Aim of this study was to evaluate the vasomodulatory effects of vancomycin (VANCO) and tobramycin (TOBRA) in experimental endotoxemia by using intravital microscopy (IVM) of the intestinal microcirculation and measurements of the arterial contractility in vitro. METHODS Endotoxemia was induced in rats by intravenous administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). VANCO or TOBRA were given immediately after LPS administration. Intestinal functional capillary density (FCD) and leukocyte-endothelial interactions were evaluated by IVM 2 hrs after LPS challenge. The effects of the antibiotics on the motility of aortal rings were examined in vitro. RESULTS Leukocyte adhesion was significantly potentiated in the LPS group and in both antibiotic groups as compared to control group. Roller flow in V1 and V3 venules increased in antibiotic treated groups as compared to untreated LPS animals. FCD in the longitudinal muscular and mucosal layers decreased significantly in either endotoxemia or antibiotics treated rats. However, administration of VANCO ameliorated FCD in endotoxemic rats. Both antibiotics, in higher concentration, produced moderate relaxation of the arterial smooth muscle. CONCLUSION Tobramycin and vancomycin did not affect the interaction between leukocytes and microvascular endothelium while vancomycin increased functional capillary density in the intestinal wall. Both antibiotics had direct relaxing effects on the vascular smooth muscle. Therefore, vancomycin and to lesser extent tobramycin may influence vascular tone and thereby affect microcirculation in endotoxemia and sepsis.
Politicians and Firms in Seven Central and Eastern European Countries

This paper explores, both formally and empirically, the political accountability mechanisms that lie behind the varying levels of public corruption and of effective governance taking place across nations. The first section develops a principal-agent model in which good governance is a function of the extent to which citizens can hold political officials accountable for their actions. Although policy-makers may have strong incentives to appropriate parts of the citizens' income, well-designed institutions (those increasing both informational flows and elite competitiveness) boost political accountability and reduce the space left for the appropriation of rents. The following sections of the paper test the model. The presence of democratic mechanisms of control and an increasingly informed electorate, measured through the frequency of newspaper readership, explain considerably well the distribution of corrupt practices and governmental ineffectiveness in three types of data sets: a large cross-section of countries in the late 1990s for which an extensive battery of governance indicators has been recently developed by Kaufmann et al. (1999a); a panel data set for the period 1980-95 and about 100 nations on corruption and bureaucratic quality based on experts' rankings; and corruption data for the cross-section of US states in the period 1977-95.
Continuous and precise work function adjustment for integratable dual metal gate CMOS technology using Hf-Mo binary alloys

We demonstrate for the first time a continuous and almost linear work function adjustment between 3.93 and 4.93eV using Hf/sub x/Mo/sub (1-x)/ binary alloys deposited by co-sputtering. In view of the process integration, dual work function metal gate technology using Mo and Hf/sub x/Mo/sub (1-x)/ formed by metal intermixing was proposed. Work function values were verified to be a function of the thickness ratio and accurate work function adjustment can be possible. Furthermore, one can be allowed to get around the thermal stability issue by choosing an appropriate total metal thickness corresponding to the thermal budget subsequent to gate deposition, since the thermal budget required for metal intermixing depends on the total metal thickness.
Democracy, Social Policy, and Mortality Decline in Brazil

From 1960 to 1995, Brazil made slower progress than most other Latin American countries at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality, even though it achieved the fastest economic growth in Latin America and one of the fastest rates of fertility decline. Policy failures, particularly neglect of basic health care for the poor, did more than socioeconomic challenges, such as high income inequality, to produce this disappointing outcome. Military rule from 1964 to 1985, and the low quality of democracy in the preceding and succeeding periods, contributed heavily to Brazil’s neglect of basic health care.
Pilot study using doxycycline‐releasing stents to ameliorate postoperative healing quality after sinus surgery

Poor postoperative healing after sinus surgery is associated with high concentrations of matrix metalloproteinase‐9 (MMP‐9). The frontal recess is especially vulnerable to restenosis, and frontal sinus stents have been used to overcome this problem. However, the long‐term success rate is still controversial and may be poor. In this perspective, we developed doxycycline (DC)‐releasing stents, delivering the MMP‐9 synthesis‐suppressing agent locally to the frontal recess area. We evaluated postoperative MMP‐9 levels, bacterial colonization, healing quality, and symptom scores in patients suffering from chronic rhinosinusitis with (CRSwNP) and without nasal polyposis (CRSsNP) (n=10) who underwent functional endoscopic sinus surgery during which the DC‐releasing and placebo stents were placed. We found that MMP‐9 concentrations were significantly lower at the side of the DC‐releasing stent (3,414±582 ng/mL) compared with the contralateral placebo stent (9,172±2,564 ng/mL) (p<0.05) at month 3 postsurgery. DC stents adequately suppressed bacterial growth compared with placebo stents. Furthermore, the visual analog scale (VAS) for the frontal region was significantly better (mean value 75.1 vs. 52.8, p<0.001) compared with its placebo counterpart. We conclude that compared with placebo stents, DC‐releasing stents significantly lowered MMP‐9 concentrations and bacterial colonization locally, and improved postoperative healing quality after functional endoscopic sinus surgery, as demonstrated by visual analog scale and ostial closure.
Understanding a Brain-Based Approach to Learning and Teaching.

T he greatest challenge of brain research for educators does not lie in understanding the ana tomical intricacies of brain functioning but in comprehending the vastness, complexity, and potential of the hu man brain. What we are beginning to discover about the role of emotions, stress, and threat in learning and about memory systems and motivation is challenging basic assumptions about traditional education. Fully under stood, this information requires a ma jor shift in our definitions of testing and grading and in the organizational structure of classrooms and schools.
Intelligence-led policing and the problems of turning rhetoric into practice

Policing strategies, and the terminology that accompanies them, can now be rapidly disseminated around the world. New tactics that are seen to apparently work elsewhere are often demanded of local police before any real evaluation has taken place. This paper looks at 'intelligence-led policing' - currently seen as one of the more positive contributions that policing can make to crime prevention and reduction. In the context of policing in Australia this paper suggests that local factors and recent history may hinder the adoption of some strategies and that arrogation of rhetoric may be easier than adopting the practices.