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Dealing with an Angry Public: The Mutual Gains Approach To Resolving Disputes

Dealing With an Angry Public: The Mutual Gains Approach to Resolving Disputes Some portion of the American public will react negatively to almost any new corporate initiative, as Disney discovered when it announced its plans to build an historical theme park in Virginia. Similarly, government efforts to change policy or shift budget priorities are invariably met with stiff resistance. In this enormously practical book, Lawrence Susskind and Patrick Field analyze scores of both private and public-sector cases, as well as crisis scenarios such as the Alaskan oil spill, the silicone breat implant controversy, and nuclear plant malfunction at Three Mile Island. They show how resistance to both public and private initiatives can be overcome by a mutual gains approach involving face-to-face negotiation, a strategy applied successfully by over fifteen hundred executives and officials who have attended Professor Susskind's MIT-Harvard "Angry Public" seminars. Susskind and Field outline the six key elements of this approach in order to help business and government leaders negotiate, rather than fight, with their critics. In the process, they show how to identify who the public is, whose concerns to address first, which people and organizations must be convinced of the legitimacy of action taken, and how to assess and respond to different types of anger effectively. Acknowledging the crucial role played by the media in shaping public perception and understanding, Susskind and Field suggest a way to develop media interaction which is consistent with the six mutual gains principles, and also discuss the type of leadership that corporate and government managers must provide in order to combine these ideas into a useful whole. We all need to be concerned about a society in which the public's concerns, fears and anger are not adequately addressed. When corporate and government agencies must spend crucial time and resources on rehashing and defending each decision they make, a frustrated and angry public contributes to the erosion of confidence in our basic institutions and undermines our competitiveness in the international marketplace. In this valuable book, Susskind and Field have produced a strong, clear framework which will help reduce these hidden costs for hundreds of executives, managers, elected and appointed officials, entrepreneurs, and the public relations, legal and other professionals who advise them.
SVM-Based Comments Classification and Mining of Virtual Community: For Case of Sentiment Classification of Hotel Reviews

Comments of virtual communities are very import to the operation and development of an enterprise, through analysis the sentiment of the comments, we can mine the user's semantic orientation and preferences or hates, it is very helpful for enterprises to improve their products and services and for individuals to use these information rationally. This paper takes hotel review of the virtual community for example, to use key technologies of support vector machine (SVM) and sentiment classification to build a small domain sentiment corpus, and to propose a sentiment classification model based on the corpus to reach the purpose of feature dimension reduction. We choose a hotel reviews corpus as instance to validate the method we proposed in this paper, the results of the experiment shows that the accuracy of support vector machine algorithm has been enhanced by adding a user's sentiment corpus. This method can be fatherly extended to apply to other comments of the virtual communities.
Training Feedforward Networks with the Marquardt Algorithm

The Marquardt algorithm for nonlinear least squares is presented and is incorporated into the backpropagation algorithm for training feedforward neural networks. The algorithm is tested on several function approximation problems, and is compared with a conjugate gradient algorithm and a variable learning rate algorithm. It is found that the Marquardt algorithm is much more efficient than either of the other techniques when the network contains no more than a few hundred weights. I I I dl)
Temporal Difference Methods for the Variance of the Reward To Go

In this paper we extend temporal difference policy evaluation algorithms to performance criteria that include the variance of the cumulative reward. Such criteria are useful for risk management, and are important in domains such as finance and process control. We propose variants of both TD(0) and LSTD(λ) with linear function approximation, prove their convergence, and demonstrate their utility in a 4-dimensional continuous state space problem.
MIMO full-duplex wireless: Node architecture and medium access control protocol

Recently, a novel full-duplex wireless technology attracts attention in wireless research field. Full-duplex wireless enables transmission and reception simultaneously in a single channel [1]. Intuitively, the full-duplex wireless has a great potential to achieve throughput improvement comparing to the conventional half-duplex wireless. However, since existing medium access control (MAC) protocols such as carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) are designed for half-duplex wireless, they cannot bring out the potential of the full-duplex wireless.
Hypertonic saline increases vascular permeability in the rat trachea by producing neurogenic inflammation.

In this study, we examined whether inhalation of hypertonic saline aerosols increases vascular permeability in the rat trachea, and we examined the role of neurogenic inflammation in this response. Stereological point counting was performed to measure the percent area occupied by Monastral blue-labeled blood vessels as a means of quantifying the increase in vascular permeability in tracheal whole mounts. Hypertonic saline aerosols (3.6-14.4% NaCl) increased vascular permeability in a dose-dependent fashion compared with 0.9% NaCl. Thus, the area density of Monastral blue-labeled vessels after inhalation of 3.6% NaCl was greater (21.2 +/- 3.5% mean +/- SEM, n = 5) than after 0.9% NaCl aerosol (3.3 +/- 0.9%, n = 5, P less than 0.5). The neutral endopeptidase inhibitor phosphoramidon (2.5 mg/kg, i.v.) significantly potentiated the increase of vascular permeability caused by 3.6% NaCl. Desensitization of sensory nerve endings by pretreatment with capsaicin markedly reduced the usual increase in vascular permeability caused by 3.6% NaCl, but the increase in vascular permeability induced by aerosolized substance P (10(-4) M) was unchanged. These findings suggest that hypertonic saline increases vascular permeability in the rat trachea by stimulating the release of neuropeptides from sensory nerves.
OKUL YÖNETİCİLERİNİN OTANTİK LİDERLİK DAVRANIŞLARI İLE ÖĞRETMENLERİN MOTİVASYON VE MOBBİNG (YILDIRMA) YAŞAMA DÜZEYLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİLERİN İNCELENMESİ

Bu arastirmanin amaci ilk ve ortaokullarda gorev yapan ogretmenlerin algilarina gore, okul yoneticilerinin otantik liderlik davranislari ogretmenlerin motivasyonlarini ve mobbing (yildirma) yasama duzeylerini hangi yonde ve duzeyde etkiledigini belirlemektir. Arastirma iliskisel tarama modelindedir. Bu arastirmanin evrenini, 2015-2016 ogretim yilinda Şirnak il merkezindeki 38 ilkokul ve 42 ortaokulda gorev yapan toplam 882 ogretmen olusturmaktadir . Arastirmada okul yoneticilerinin otantik liderlik davranislarini belirlemek icin “Otantik Liderlik”, ogretmenlerin mobbing yasama duzeylerini belirlemek icin “ Mobbing ” ve motivasyon duzeylerini belirlemek icin “Motivasyon” Olcegi killanilmistir. Bu cerceve degiskenlere iliskin betimsel istatistikler, korelasyon analizleri SPSS 21, arastirma modelinin test edilmesi amaciyla da AMOS 22 programi kullanilarak hesaplanmistir. Arastirma sonucunda, ogretmenlerin algilarina gore okul yoneticilerinin otantik liderlik davranislari ile ogretmenlerin icsel ve dissal motivasyonlari arasindaki iliski pozitif yonde ve orta duzeyde; okul yoneticilerinin otantik liderlik davranislari ile ogretmenlerin goreve ve sosyal iliskilere yonelik mobbing yasama duzeyleri arasinda negatif yonde ve dusuk duzeyde; ogretmenlerin goreve ve sosyal iliskilere yonelik mobbing yasama duzeyleri ile icsel ve dissal motivasyonlari arasinda ise negatif yonde ve dusuk duzeyde bir iliski oldugu belirlenmistir. Yapilan path analizi sonucunda ise, ogretmenlerin algilarina gore okul yoneticilerinin otantik liderlik davranislari ogretmenlerin motivasyonlarini arttirirken mobbing yasama duzeylerine iliskin algilari ise azalmaktadir. Bununla birlikte yapilan arastirma sonucunda ogretmenlerin icsel ve dissal motivasyon duzeyleri arttikca mobbing yasama duzeylerine iliskin algilarinin dustugu tespit edilmistir. Okul yoneticilerinin otantik liderlik davranislari, motivasyona gore mobbing davranislarina maruz kalma duzeyleri uzerinde daha guclu bir yordayici oldugu sonucuna ulasilmistir.
LOCUS OF CONTROL IN GEORGIAN TEACHERS AND ITS RELATION TO TEACHER BURNOUT

The intensive reforms taking place in general education field in Georgia impose considerable stress to those engaged in teaching profession. This may gradually lead to the condition of professional burnout of teachers. According to the conducted research some teachers have experienced burnout while others did not. The purpose of the present research is to identify how the personal quality such as control of locus may have influenced the level of burnout in Georgian teachers. Two self-assessment instruments, Rotter Scale and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), were used in this research to measure control of locus type and level of burnout among Georgian teachers. Two questionnaires were distributed among 407 teachers at Public schools of Georgia. After dismissing inaccurately filled out questionnaires the analysis was conducted based on the data received from 373 questionnaires. The research findings revealed that Georgian teachers with internal locus of control are less likely to become professional burnout victims. Significant correlations proved to exist between locus of control orientation and teacher burnout on Emotional Exhaustion (EE) and Personal Achievements (PA) subscales of MBI. The article explores the opportunities to change locus of control from external to internal as a part of teacher professional development activities guided by school Principals and through redesigning of teacher preparation programs in order to make teachers more resistant to professional burnout.
Experiences from Lightweight RE Method Evaluations

A comprehensive requirements engineering (RE) method was evaluated to assess its value for practitioners. A literature search brought up two evaluation frameworks that were used as the basis for both theoretical and empirical evaluations; one of the frameworks was used as such while a lightweight adaptation was developed from the other one. The different assessments proved to complement each other: one focused on the balance the method provides between the three fundamental dimensions of RE, second one on the potential the method has to address key issues in RE, and third one on the actual effect the method has on company RE practices.
Labeling Chinese Predicates with Semantic Roles

In this article we report work on Chinese semantic role labeling, taking advantage of two recently completed corpora, the Chinese PropBank, a semantically annotated corpus of Chinese verbs, and the Chinese Nombank, a companion corpus that annotates the predicate-argument structure of nominalized predicates. Because the semantic role labels are assigned to the constituents in a parse tree, we first report experiments in which semantic role labels are automatically assigned to hand-crafted parses in the Chinese Treebank. This gives us a measure of the extent to which semantic role labels can be bootstrapped from the syntactic annotation provided in the treebank. We then report experiments using automatic parses with decreasing levels of human annotation in the input to the syntactic parser: parses that use gold-standard segmentation and POS-tagging, parses that use only gold-standard segmentation, and fully automatic parses. These experiments gauge how successful semantic role labeling for Chinese can be in more realistic situations. Our results show that when hand-crafted parses are used, semantic role labeling accuracy for Chinese is comparable to what has been reported for the state-of-the-art English semantic role labeling systems trained and tested on the English PropBank, even though the Chinese PropBank is significantly smaller in size. When an automatic parser is used, however, the accuracy of our system is significantly lower than the English state of the art. This indicates that an improvement in Chinese parsing is critical to high-performance semantic role labeling for Chinese.
MEDIUM TO LONG TERM IMPACTS ON FORMER PARTICIPANTS OF THE SHOULDER TO SHOULDER GLOBAL BRIGADES TO ECUADOR

of Thesis MEDIUM TO LONG TERM IMPACTS ON FORMER PARTICIPANTS OF THE SHOULDER TO SHOULDER GLOBAL BRIGADES TO ECUADOR Medium to Long Term Impacts on Former Participants of the Shoulder to Shoulder Global Brigades to Ecuador. International service learning and voluntourism programs in global health evoke benefits for both community and the intervener. While it is clear that the Shoulder to Shoulder Global program at the University of Kentucky provides a service to an economically resource poor community in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, what is unclear is the impact these interprofessional experiences have on the participants that travel with the four times a year health brigades. This study proposes to answer the question of what are the educational, personal and professional impacts that brigade participants experience. Alumni of the Shoulder to Shoulder Global health brigades from 2007 – 2017 were sent a twenty-three question survey to better understand the impact of this program. Seventy-five responses to the quantitative and qualitative questions were received and a chi square analysis was performed of subgroups within the seventy-five respondents. The findings indicate that this program has positively impacted participants in all three areas, with strong evidence to show that the impacts are related to the initial and intermediate outcomes, with more data needed to better assess the long-term program outcomes. KEWORDS: Interprofessional, international service learning, voluntourism, experiential learning, cultural awareness, volunteer at home and abroad Craig Borie December 5, 2018 MEDIUM TO LONG TERM IMPACTS ON FORMER PARTICIPANTS OF THE SHOULDER TO SHOULDER GLOBAL BRIGADES TO ECUADOR
Donor Stars in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries

We study theoretically the formation of black hole (BH) X-ray binaries. Consistency of the models with the observed relative numbers of systems with low-mass (≲2 M☉) and intermediate-mass (~2 M☉-MBH) donors leads to severe constraints on the evolutionary parameters of the progenitors. In particular, we find that (1) BH progenitor masses cannot exceed about 2MBH; (2) high values of the common envelope efficiency parameter (αCE > 1) are required, implying that energy sources other than orbital contraction must be invoked to eject the envelope; and (3) the mass-loss fraction in helium star winds is limited to ≲50%. Outside of this limited parameter space for progenitors we find that either BH X-ray binary formation cannot occur at all or donors do not have the full range of observed masses. We discuss the implications of these results for the structure of massive hydrogen-rich stars, the evolution of helium stars, and BH formation. We also consider the possible importance of asymmetric kicks.
Pricing of National Park Visits in Kenya: The Case of Lake Nakuru National Park

This study analyses the factors influencing pricing of National Park visits in Kenya. A two step regression procedure is used to develop a pricing mechanism for Lake Nakuru National Park (LNNP). In the first stage, count data models are applied to estimate the Trip generating function to LNNP and in the second, the results from count data models are used to simulate visitation as price varied through an increase in the gate fee to LNNP. The simulated data is used to estimate the demand curves for LNNP. The finding shows that the current price set-up at LNNP of Ksh. 7,050 for international tourists and Ksh. 1,000 for domestic tourists is in fact cost recovery. However, there is greater scope to raise more revenue from an increase in entry fees. The study proposes price increase for international visits from the current Ksh. 7,050 (US$75) to Ksh.20,000 (US$230) in the medium term. This will yield a total revenue estimated at Ksh. 2,823 million (US$33 million) without major decline in visitation days. With regard to domestic visitors, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) can increase the price from the current Ksh. 1,000 (US$11.8) to Ksh. 2,000 (US$ 22) over the same horizon. This price increase will yield revenue equivalent to Ksh. 288 million (US$ 3.4 million) but also lead to a decline in visitation levels from domestic group by 30 percent.
Personal Decisionmaking Styles and Long-Term Care Choices

To learn more about how older people make decisions about long-term care (LTC), in-depth interviews were conducted with 63 elderly individuals and 56 of their relatives to obtain information on the decisionmaking process. This qualitative research showed that LTC decisionmaking does not always follow typical consumer dedisionmaking models, in which a consumer seeks a product or service, selects among the alternatives, and assesses the choice. Further, the interviews yielded four long-term care decisionmaking styles among older adults related to their degree of planning or not planning. This study underscores the need to develop tailored communications for older people and their families aimed at encouraging appropriate and cost-effective use of LTC services.
Algorithms for optimal resource allocation in heterogeneous cognitive radio networks

In this paper, the problem of resource allocation in heterogeneous cognitive radio networks is investigated under the constraints of interference temperature limit. The resource allocation problem is formulated as a mixed-integer programming problem and solved by Lagrangian dual method based on which a centralized subgradient update algorithm is proposed. The approximate optimality of this algorithm is promised by time-sharing condition. We also realize this centralized algorithm distributively following the implication of dual decomposition. Two algorithms are compared in terms of complexity, communication signaling, latency etc. At last, simulations are carried out to validate the proposed algorithms.
Seasonally Varying Preferences: Theoretical Foundations for an Empirical Regularity

We investigate an asset pricing model with preferences cycling between high risk aversion and low EIS in fall/winter and the reverse in spring/summer. Calibrating to consumption data and allowing plausible preference parameter values, we produce returns that match observed equity and Treasury returns across the seasons: risky returns are higher and risk-free returns are lower or stable in fall/winter, and they reverse in spring/summer. Further, risky returns vary more than risk-free returns. A novel finding is that both EIS and risk aversion must vary seasonally to match observed returns. Further, the degree of necessary seasonal change in EIS is small.
BRAIN IMAGING: Selective attention to emotional stimuli in a verbal go/no-go task: an fMRI study

Tasks requiring subjects to attend emotional attributes of words have been used to study mood-congruent information processing biases in anxiety and affective disorders. In this study we adapted an emotional go/no-go task, for use with fMRI to assess the neural substrates of focusing on emotional attributes of words in normal subjects. The key ®ndings were that responding to targets de®ned on the basis of meaning of words compared to targets de®ned on the basis of perceptual features was associated with response in inferior frontal gyrus and dorsal anterior cingulate. Further, selecting emotional targets, whether happy or sad, was associated with enhanced response in the subgenual cingulate, while happy targets elicited enhanced neural response in ventral anterior cingulate. These ®ndings reaf®rm the importance of medial prefrontal regions in normal emotional processing. NeuroReport 11:1739±1744 & 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Laparoscopic versus Open Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: An Updated Meta-Analysis

Objective To expand the current knowledge on the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) for gastric cancer in comparison with open total gastrectomy (OTG). Background Additional studies comparing laparoscopic versus open total gastric resection have been published, and it is necessary to update the meta-analysis of this subject. Methods Original articles compared LTG and OTG for gastric cancer, which published in English from January 1990 to July 2013 were searched in PubMed, Embase, and Web of Knowledge by two reviewers independently. Operative time, blood loss, harvested lymph nodes, proximal resection margin, analgesic medication, first flatus day, first oral intake, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative complications, hospital mortality, 5-year overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) were compared using STATA version 10.1. Results 17 studies were selected in this analysis, which included a total of 2313 patients (955 in LTG and 1358 in OTG). LTG showed longer operative time, less blood loss, fewer analgesic uses, earlier passage of flatus, quicker resumption of oral intake, earlier hospital discharge, and reduced postoperative morbidity. The number of harvested lymph nodes, proximal resection margin, hospital mortality, 5-year OS and DFS were similar. Conclusion LTG had the benefits of less blood loss, less postoperative pain, quicker bowel function recovery, shorter hospital stay and lower postoperative morbidity, at the price of longer operative time. There were no statistical differences in lymph node dissection, resection margin, hospital mortality, and long-term outcomes, which indicated the similar oncological safety with OTG. A positive trend was indicated towards LTG. So LTG can be performed as an alternative to OTG by the experienced surgeons in high-volume centers. Whereas, due to the relative small sample size of long-term outcomes and lack of randomized control trials, more studies are required.
MIO: Enhancing Wireless Communications Security Through Physical Layer Multiple Inter-Symbol Obfuscation

Communications security is a critical and increasingly challenging issue in wireless networks. A well-known approach for achieving information-theoretic secrecy relies on deploying artificial noises to blind the intruders' interception in the physical layer. However, this approach requires a static channel condition for the transmitter and receiver to generate and offset the controllable artificial noise, which can hardly be implemented in real wireless environments. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of symbol obfuscation to defend against the passive eavesdropping attack and fake packet injection attack during the wireless communications. We propose a multiple inter-symbol obfuscation (MIO) scheme, which utilizes a set of artificial noisy symbols (symbols key) to obfuscate the original data symbols in the physical layer. MIO can effectively enhance the wireless communications security. On the one hand, an eavesdropper, without knowing the artificial noisy symbols, cannot correctly decrypt the obfuscated symbols from the eavesdropped packets. On the other hand, a legitimate receiver can easily check the integrity of the symbols key and then reject the fake packets from the received packets. The security analysis reveals that, without considering the initial key, the MIO scheme can achieve information-theoretic secrecy against the passive eavesdropping attack and computational secrecy against the fake packet injection attack. Moreover, we have implemented our approach in a USRP2 testbed and conducted simulations with Simulink tools to validate the effectiveness of MIO in enhancing wireless communications security.