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A Comparison of the Effects of Feedback and Prompts on Safe Sitting Posture: Utilizing an Automated Observation and Feedback System

This study used an ABCB within-subjects design to examine the relative effects of feedback and prompts on safe sitting posture. Participants were three office workers. The dependent variables were the percentages of time the participants spent in four safe individual body positions and in the safe overall sitting posture. After baseline (A), feedback (B) was introduced, and prompts (C) were introduced in the next phase. In the final phase, feedback (B) was reintroduced. Results indicated that sitting postures improved substantially when feedback was provided. However, the prompts had only limited effects on the sitting posture. Thus, the use of a combined antecedent-based and consequence-based intervention is advised to improve sitting posture.
It’s who you know: intracultural differences in ethnic product consumption

Reports a study of 214 Chinese Canadian consumers across eight product categories. This study shows that intracultural differences in consumer behavior are inadequately explained by the psychological construct of ethnic identification, and that additional explanatory power is achieved when incorporating the ethnic homogeneity of social ties. The results of the study support the proposition that the ethnic homogeneity of strong social ties exerts significant influence over an individual’s consumption of ethnic products, and is a much more robust predictor variable than ethnic identification. Also calls for a more theory‐based measure for the construct ethnic identification.
Aging and the segmentation of narrative film

ABSTRACT The perception of event structure in continuous activity is important for everyday comprehension. Although the segmentation of experience into events is a normal concomitant of perceptual processing, previous research has shown age differences in the ability to perceive structure in naturalistic activity, such as a movie of someone washing a car. However, past research has also shown that older adults have a preserved ability to comprehend events in narrative text, which suggests that narrative may improve the event processing of older adults. This study tested whether there are age differences in event segmentation at the intersection of continuous activity and narrative: narrative film. Younger and older adults watched and segmented a narrative film, The Red Balloon, into coarse and fine events. Changes in situational features, such as changes in characters, goals, and objects predicted segmentation. Analyses revealed little age-difference in segmentation behavior. This suggests the possibility that narrative structure supports event understanding for older adults.
The ETS Transcription Factors ELK1 and GABPA Regulate Different Gene Networks to Control MCF10A Breast Epithelial Cell Migration

Members of the ETS transcription factor family often target the same binding regions and hence have the potential to regulate the same genes and downstream biological processes. However, individual family members also preferentially bind to other genomic regions, thus providing the potential for controlling distinct transcriptional programmes and generating specific biological effects. The ETS transcription factor ELK1 controls cell migration in breast epithelial cells through targeting a cohort of genes, independently from another family member GABPA, and therefore achieves biological specificity. Here, we demonstrate that GABPA also controls cell migration in breast epithelial cells. However, GABPA controls the expression of a different network of target genes to ELK1. Both direct and indirect target genes for GABPA are identified and amongst the direct targets we confirm the importance of RAC1 and KIF20A for cell migration. Therefore, although ELK1 and GABPA ultimately control the same biological process, they do so by regulating different cohorts of target genes associated with cytoskeletal functions and cell migration control.
Web Accessibility Model for Visually Impaired Students on eLearning in Higher Education

More than a decade ago, internet had gradually come to play a major role in the world as it was an advance technological tool provided various benefits to human being. Internet could also influence in educational field because it was the advance media to create distance learning in term of online learning or eLearning. Many universities and colleges have turned to focus on eLearning class instead of traditional class due to students and teachers could access anywhere and anytime. Internet learning or eLearning also well enabled visually-impaired students to access more materials and work more independently than what they could do via traditional method. In the meantime, eLearning could provide effective learning for higher education to all people who need to continue their studies without being required to enroll in traditional academic system because those people could apply, register, study, and take examination through their own computer based. However, the information and activities posted via internet learning were not fully appropriately accessible with adaptive technology used by general visually-impaired students. Therefore, all eLearning websites should be focused on the issue of accessibility to facilitate visuallyimpaired students to effectively access including eLearning for higher education. This paper therefore would be proposed the eLearning model used for creating success eLearning on higher education together with the factors assisted to create effective eLearning for higher education, and component required to create accessibility of eLearning for higher education to support visually-impaired students. This paper could summarize that to create effective eLearning for higher education that could support the accessibility of visuallyimpaired students, there were four factors required to focus on for developing eLearning for higher education and the eLearning website must consist of four components guideline.
Adaptive Mobile Multimedia Networks

The authors consider a networking environment in which the users are mobile, the topology changes, code division multiple access (CDMA) provides multiple wireless channels, the bandwidth of a given link is unpredictable and possibly very low, the error rates are extremely high and variable, major interference occurs when multiple transmissions take place over (possibly different) links on the same or different codes, real-time multimedia traffic must be supported as well as datagram traffic, there is no stable communication infrastructure, and there is no central control. They consider the problem of developing a design prototyping methodology, performance evaluation techniques, and networking algorithms to support a rapidly deployable radio network for such an environment. The network must be capable of providing guaranteed quality of service (QoS) to real-time multimedia traffic in a mobile, wireless, multihop radio network with no fixed infrastructure (e.g., no base stations). Another element of the environment with which they deal is that of multihop communications. They focus on two layers of key importance in multimedia wireless network design, namely compression algorithms and adaptivity in the voice/video applications layer, and network algorithms at the wireless subnet layer. Simulation tools are used to evaluate our design as well as to provide a path toward their implementation in software.
Accurate Function Parsing

In this paper, we extend an existing parser to produce richer output annotated with function labels. We obtain state-of-the-art results both in function labelling and in parsing, by automatically relabelling the Penn Treebank trees. In particular, we obtain the best published results on semantic function labels. This suggests that current statistical parsing methods are sufficiently general to produce accurate shallow semantic annotation.
The effect of on‐the‐spot versus delayed compensation: the moderating role of failure severity

Purpose – The present study compares two types of compensation – i.e. on‐the‐spot and delayed – and tries to reveal how and when firms can utilize delayed compensation effectively. For this, failure severity is considered how these two types of compensation affect satisfaction and repurchase intentions.Design/methodology/approach – A scenario‐based experiment in the hotel and restaurant industries was used with a sample of 292 students.Findings – The results show that failure severity acts as a moderating variable in a recovery process of compensation‐satisfaction‐repurchase intention. The more severe consumers perceive the failure is, the more they depend on satisfaction to decide repurchase intentions. The two types of compensation are also moderated by failure severity on their effects on satisfaction and repurchase intentions. On‐the‐spot compensation leads to more satisfaction and repatronage intentions when failures are severe, but the results are not as straightforward when failures are insignifica.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Jordan. Types and patterns of 111 cases classified according to the WHO classification of hematological malignancies.

OBJECTIVE Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is one of the most frequent malignancies in Jordan. The aims of this study are: 1. To classify NHL cases in Jordan, using the new World Health Organization (WHO) classification system, 2. To identify the most common types of NHL in Jordan, and 3. To compare lymphoma types and patterns in Jordan with those in surrounding countries and the West. METHODS We studied all NHL cases, diagnosed during 1996 through to 1999 inclusive, at 2 major medical centers in Jordan, in order to identify their main types and patterns. One hundred and eleven cases of confirmed NHLs were reexamined and immunophenotyped in the year 2000, at the Department of Pathology, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan, using an immunohistochemical panel of antibodies, including CD3, CD15, CD20, CD30, CD43, CD45 and CD45RO. Confirmed NHL cases were reclassified according to the recently proposed WHO system of Hematological Malignancies. RESULTS The median age of NHL cases was 44-years (range 2-85). The vast majority of cases were of B-cell phenotype; only 14% of the cases were T-cell lymphomas. Most of the cases were of the aggressive intermediate to high-grade large cell type. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) comprised 53% of NHLs and 62% of B-cell NHLs. Indolent lymphomas were uncommon, comprising 14% of all NHL cases. Twenty-nine cases were seen among patients less than 20-years. Burkitt lymphoma represented the largest group (55%) of the childhood NHLs followed by diffuse large cell and lymphoblastic types. CONCLUSION Indolent lymphomas are rare in Jordan and account for less than 15% of all NHLs. Aggressive lymphomas; on the other hand, account for the majority of NHLs in Jordan. Burkitt lymphoma affected children less than 10-years of age with a median of 4.5-years. These observations indicate that NHLs in Jordan have different type distribution and patterns from those seen in the West.
Chandra Observations of Unresolved X-Ray Sources around Two Clusters of Galaxies

We have searched for unresolved X-ray sources in the vicinity of two rich clusters of galaxies, Abell 1995 (A1995) and MS 0451.6-0305 (MS 0451), using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. We detected significantly more unresolved sources around A1995 than expected based on the number of X-ray sources to the same flux limit detected in deep Chandra observations of blank fields. Previous studies have also found excess X-ray sources in the vicinity of several nearby clusters of galaxies using ROSAT and recently in more distant (z ≈ 0.5) clusters (RX J0030 and 3C 295) using Chandra. In contrast, we detect only 14 unresolved X-ray sources near MS 0451, which is consistent with the number expected from a cluster-free background. We determine the luminosity functions of the extra sources under the assumption that they are at the distance of their respective clusters. The characteristic luminosity of the extra sources around A1995 must be an order of magnitude fainter than that of the extra sources around RX J0030 and 3C 295. The apparent lack of extra sources around MS 0451 is consistent with its greater distance and the same characteristic luminosity as the A1995 sources. Hardness ratios suggest that, on average, the extra sources in A1995 may have harder spectra than those of RX J0030 and 3C 295. These results indicate that different classes of objects may dominate in different clusters, perhaps depending on the formation history and/or dynamical state of the accompanying cluster.
No need to replace an “anomalous” primate (Primates) with an “anomalous” bear (Carnivora, Ursidae)

Abstract By means of mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequencing of putative “yeti”, “bigfoot”, and other “anomalous primate” hair samples, a recent study concluded that two samples, presented as from the Himalayas, do not belong to an “anomalous primate”, but to an unknown, anomalous type of ursid. That is, that they match 12S rRNA sequences of a fossil Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), but neither of modern Polar Bears, nor of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos), the closest relative of Polar Bears, and one that occurs today in the Himalayas. We have undertaken direct comparison of sequences; replication of the original comparative study; inference of phylogenetic relationships of the two samples with respect to those from all extant species of Ursidae (except for the Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and two extinct Pleistocene species; and application of a non-tree-based population aggregation approach for species diagnosis and identification. Our results demonstrate that the very short fragment of the 12S rRNA gene sequenced by Sykes et al. is not sufficiently informative to support the hypotheses provided by these authors with respect to the taxonomic identity of the individuals from which these sequences were obtained. We have concluded that there is no reason to believe that the two samples came from anything other than Brown Bears. These analyses afforded an opportunity to test the monophyly of morphologically defined species and to comment on both their phylogenetic relationships and future efforts necessary to advance our understanding of ursid systematics.
Providing eyewitnesses with initial retrieval support: what works at immediate and subsequent recall?

The effect of retrieval support on eyewitness recall was investigated in two experiments. Based on the outshining hypothesis, Experiment 1 tested whether retrieval support enhances witness performance (compared to free recall) especially when witnessing conditions are suboptimal (e.g., because witnesses were distracted during the crime). Eighty-eight participants watched a videotaped crime with either full or divided attention and subsequently received retrieval support with the Self-Administered Interview© (SAI) or completed a free recall (FR). One week later (Time 2 – T2) all participants completed a second FR. Unexpectedly, retrieval support did not lead to better memory performance than FR under divided attention conditions, suggesting that retrieval support is not effective to overcome adverse effects of divided attention. Moreover, presence of retrieval support at Time 1 (T1) had no effect on memory performance at T2. Experiment 2 (N = 81) tested the hypothesis that these T2-results were due to a reporting issue undermining the memory-preserving effect of T1-retrieval support by manipulating retrieval support (SAI vs. FR) at T1 and T2. As expected, T1-retrieval support led to increased accuracy at T2. Thus, the beneficial value of T1-retrieval support seems greatest with high-quality T2-interviews. Interviewers should consider this when planning a subsequent interview.
Same-Sex Marriage: Contrasting Perspectives among Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Christians

In the past two decades, same-sex relationship has been a contentious issue within the Christian community. Officially, almost all Christian denominations have now taken the significant, though insufficient, step in calling for the toleration of individual believers with homosexual orientation. Nevertheless, conservative quarters of the Christian community still contest that a same-sex relationship (by implication involving the ‘practice’ of one’s sexual orientation) is unequivocally unacceptable because it is against Biblical strictures, church tradition and the law of nature. On this issue, there are inter-denominational differences and potential discrepancy between local church climate and official church teachings (space does not allow a detailed discussion here, but see, for instance, Yip, 1998, 2002a). Nevertheless, lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians continue to face the reality that their intimate relationships are a topic of incessant theological, religious and social debates and censure. In this respect, the specific issue of same-sex marriage has generated much contention. Not surprisingly, conservative Christians consider this not only a challenge to ‘family values’, but also a blatant disregard for the sanctity and religious symbolism of marriage. To them, samesex marriage is a step too far for the recognition of this sexual minority in the name of political correctness. Liberal Christians, on the other hand, argue that this is a positive step towards recognizing the right of lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians to partake in this religious and social institution. Here, I focus on lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians themselves, by highlighting their contrasting views on same-sex marriage. This paper presents both quantitative and qualitative data, drawn from a project involving a UK sample of 565 participants (389 gay men, 131 lesbians, 24 bisexual women and 21 bisexual men). The project, conducted in 1997–98, examined various themes pertaining to the participants’ lived experiences and life circumstances. The primary themes
Consciousness is not a property of states: A reply to Wilberg

According to Rosenthal's higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness, one is in a conscious mental state if and only if one is aware of oneself as being in that state via a suitable HOT. Several critics have argued that the possibility of so-called targetless HOTs—that is, HOTs that represent one as being in a state that does not exist—undermines the theory. Recently, Wilberg (2010) has argued that HOT theory can offer a straightforward account of such cases: since consciousness is a property of mental state tokens, and since there are no states to exhibit consciousness, one is not in conscious states in virtue of targetless HOTs. In this paper, I argue that Wilberg's account is problematic and that Rosenthal's version of HOT theory, according to which a suitable HOT is both necessary and sufficient for consciousness, is to be preferred to Wilberg's account. I then argue that Rosenthal's account can comfortably accommodate targetless HOTs because consciousness is best understood as a property of individuals, not a property of states.
Efeitos a curto e longo prazo de um grupo de desenvolvimento de habilidades sociais para universitários

In spite of the trend to implement evidence-based practices in community settings, we know little about the efficacy of interventions outside research contexts. There is a lack of empirical studies on the effects of social skills training in real-world contexts that include sufficient numbers of participants and follow up studies. The short and long-term effects of a social skills training of 34 college students were investigated in a real world setting. Social skills (IHS) and anxiety (STAI) scores were checked before and after the intervention and after a follow up interval. Both anxiety and social skills improved from the pre-test to post-test, and both remained stable from the post-test to follow-up after 3 months to 5 years.
Time and Temporal Data Management - Operationalization in a Temporal GIS

The objective of this technical report is twofold. It gives an introduction to the notions and operationalization of time and temporal data in the context of data modeling and databases. The more philosophical aspects and conceptions of time is not discussed herein. Secondly, we introduce the previously presented time and temporal concepts in the realm of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), or more precisely sketch a temporal framework for a comprehensive temporal geographic data model. The temporal dimension type(s) described is part of a multi-dimensional geographic data model developed in both MultiBed and other ongoing projects. Chapter
Outcome of Children Seen after One Parent Killed the Other

A group of children ( N = 95) seen by our team at least one year previously for assessment after one parent had killed the other, was followed up by a postal questionnaire to the original referrer. Through this we examined a number of outcome variables including placement effects, the frequency of their contact with the surviving parent, the referrer’s view of the difference our intervention had made and their view on the child’s adjustment over time. We analysed the data to determine any associations between these factors to help us understand the difficulties these children face and to aid clinical decisions.
Do What Consumers Say Matter? The Misalignment of Preferences with Unconstrained Ethical Intentions

Nearly all studies of consumers’ willingness to engage in ethical or socially responsible purchasing behavior is based on unconstrained survey response methods. In the present article we ask the question of how well does asking consumers the extent to which they care about a specific social or ethical issue relate to how they would behave in a more constrained environment where there is no socially acceptable response. The results of a comparison between traditional survey questions of “intention to purchase” and estimates of individuals willingness-to-pay for social attributes in products reveal that simple survey questions are too “noisy” to provide operationally meaningful information and overstate intentions to a considerable extent.