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Looking Backwards to Reach Forward: A Strategic Architecture for Professional Development in Music Education

The article analyzes professional development in music education considering the ways in which policy change depends on conditions where renewed practice can become self supporting. The authors situate professional development amid the current politico-educational climate while offering an interpretive framework based on key issues and actions identified by other authors in this issue of Arts Education Policy Review. Further, they suggest a pragmatic policy agenda focused on the notion of a strategic architecture for professional development in music education, arguing that it may bring (1) greater confidence in teacher's capacity to adapt, engender concepts, intervene in instructional patterns, and establish positive feedback loops; and (2) improvement in teacher retention and productivity. The article calls for a professional development agenda that sees teachers as capable change agents and that is jointly incentivized by union leaders, government, and institutions of higher learning.
Intercultural communicative competence, language proficiency, and study abroad

Numerous students are encouraged to study overseas in the hope of becoming competitive professionals in a global community. The two major benefits of studying abroad as commonly believed are foreign language acquisition and intercultural communicative competence development. To gain a deeper understanding of whether study abroad programmers have significantly positive impact on students’ linguistic gains and development of intercultural communicative competence, this paper reviews recent research on the development of language proficiency and intercultural communicative competence in the context of study abroad. It is found that study abroad duration is one of the key factors that influence the development of sojourners’ language acquisition and intercultural communicative competence. Students participated in one semester achieved the greatest development in terms of intercultural communicative competence. Regarding language learning, students’ speaking, listening, and reading skills could be significantly improved in both long and short term programmers. However, their writing skills need comparatively longer time to be substantially enhanced. Strategies that can be employed to maximize the students’ benefit from study abroad programmers are also identified.
Vertical Profiling : Evaluating Computer Architectures using Commercial Applications

This paper demonstrates how a performance analysis technique, vertical profiling, can be used to determine the cause of a performance anomaly: a gradual increase in instructions per cycle over time. Understanding the cause required trace-information from multiple layers of the execution stack (application, Java virtual machine, and hardware), expert knowledge in each layer, and repeated application of the process. To evaluate today’s complex software and hardware systems requires sophisticated performance analysis techniques. Nevertheless, as future software and hardware systems become more complex, these performance analysis techniques must be automated.
Beyond the “National Container”

This essay argues that there is a need for higher education researchers to become aware of methodological nationalism (MN) and take steps to reframe their scholarship in new ways. It illuminates two characteristics of MN prevalent in higher education research and suggests that although a few researchers have attempted to move beyond MN in the higher education globalization literature, most remain encapsulated in a view of nation-state equates society. The authors address this gap by arguing for the expansion of analytic approach to some of the common phenomena studied within U.S. higher education (such as college student experience, diversity, and governance) and highlight how these typical objects of study would transform once we overcome MN.
Dictator games: a meta study

Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarises the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, in multiple regression the meta study is able to assess the effect of single manipulations, controlling for a host of alternative explanatory factors. The resulting rich dataset also provides a testbed for comparing alternative specifications of the statistical model for analysing dictator game data. It shows how Tobit models (assuming that dictators would even want to take money) and hurdle models (assuming that the decision to give a positive amount is separate from the choice of amount, conditional on giving) provide additional insights.
Allostatic load as a marker of cumulative biological risk: MacArthur studies of successful aging

Allostatic load (AL) has been proposed as a new conceptualization of cumulative biological burden exacted on the body through attempts to adapt to life's demands. Using a multisystem summary measure of AL, we evaluated its capacity to predict four categories of health outcomes, 7 years after a baseline survey of 1,189 men and women age 70–79. Higher baseline AL scores were associated with significantly increased risk for 7-year mortality as well as declines in cognitive and physical functioning and were marginally associated with incident cardiovascular disease events, independent of standard socio-demographic characteristics and baseline health status. The summary AL measure was based on 10 parameters of biological functioning, four of which are primary mediators in the cascade from perceived challenges to downstream health outcomes. Six of the components are secondary mediators reflecting primarily components of the metabolic syndrome (syndrome X). AL was a better predictor of mortality and decline in physical functioning than either the syndrome X or primary mediator components alone. The findings support the concept of AL as a measure of cumulative biological burden.
Pravastatin to prevent recurrent fetal death in massive perivillous fibrin deposition of the placenta (MPFD)

Abstract Massive perivillous fibrin deposition of the placenta (MPFD) or maternal floor infarction (MFI) is a serious condition associated with recurrent complications including fetal death and severe fetal growth restriction. There is no method to evaluate the risk of adverse outcome in subsequent pregnancies, or effective prevention. Recent observations suggest that MFI is characterized by an imbalance in angiogenic/anti-angiogenic factors in early pregnancy; therefore, determination of these biomarkers may identify the patient at risk for recurrence. We report the case of a pregnant woman with a history of four consecutive pregnancy losses, the last of which was affected by MFI. Abnormalities of the anti-angiogenic factor, sVEGFR-1, and soluble endoglin (sEng) were detected early in the index pregnancy, and treatment with pravastatin corrected the abnormalities. Treatment resulted in a live birth infant at 34 weeks of gestation who had normal biometric parameters and developmental milestones at the age of 2. This is the first reported successful use of pravastatin to reverse an angiogenic/anti-angiogenic imbalance and prevent fetal death.
Knowledge, Motivation, and Adaptive Behavior: A Framework for Improving Selling Effectiveness

The authors propose that adaptive selling is influenced by salespeople's knowledge of customer types and sales strategies as well as their motivation to alter the direction of their behavior. Pertinent research in psychology and personal selling is reviewed and specific propositions relating to knowledge, motivation, and adaptive behavior are advanced. On the basis of these propositions, suggestions are made for selecting, training, managing, and compensating salespeople.
Multiple Invariance ESPRIT

ESPRIT is a recently developed technique for high-resolution signal parameter estimation. For the specific problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, a decrease in computational complexity of orders of mag nitude over other high-resolution methods is achieved by exploiting an int'driance structure designed into the sensor array. Previously, ESPRIT took advantage of only one such invariance per dimension of the parameter vector. The ubiquitous uniform linear array is an example of a sensor array possessing many such invariances, and the question of which invariance to use naturally arises. In this paper, ESPRIT is extended to address the problem of exploiting all the invariances simultaneously. The nonlinear multiple invariance ESPRIT algorithm is derived and compared via simulation to various standard ESPRIT solutions possible for arrays with multiple invariances.
Mediating role of employee emotions in the relationship between authentic leadership and employee innovation

Although researchers emphasize that the construct of authentic leadership (AL) is relevant to resolving different kinds of failures and inadequacies of leadership, it remains unknown whether or not, and how, authentic leadership style intrinsically evokes employees’ innovation. Using multilevel data from 76 teams sourced from 5 enterprises in China, we applied hierarchical linear modeling and found a positive relationship between AL and employees’ innovation. Employees’ positive emotions were found to have a mediating effect in this relationship, whereas employees’ negative emotions did not act as a mediator. Our study results extend AL theory by revealing the cross-level effects of authentic leadership, and provide practical implications to help leaders perform relevant interventions in promoting employee innovation.
The Enhanced Cognitive Interview: A study on the efficacy of shortened variants and single techniques

The superiority of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview (ECI) over standard police interview protocols has been strongly supported. Recently, some authors have underlined the need to develop shorter versions of the ECI appealing for time-critical situations. There is some evidence that disregarding change order and change perspectives techniques could yield a brief but still efficient version of ECI. The present study aimed to examine some shortened versions of the ECI in comparison with the full ECI. One hundred participants watched a video of a crime and were interviewed with one of the five interviewing procedure: complete ECI, three shortened ECIs, and Structured Interview. Full ECI elicited a greater amount of correct information compared to the other interviews, with the exception of the shortened version that omitted change order and change perspectives techniques. Theoretical and applicative implications are discussed.
A novel DFT-based method for clipping noise suppression in OFDM systems

It is well known that clipping the OFDM signals in digital part of the transmitter is one of the simplest methods to reduce the peak to mean envelop power ratio. However, it suffers from additional clipping distortion, peak regrowth after digital to analog conversion, and out-of-band distortion. Recently, to combat the effect of in-band distortion and peak regrowth, it is proposed that before clipping, oversampling is performed by padding the modulating sequence with zeros. In this paper, we propose a robust DFT-based method (DBM) to reconstruct the clipped samples and mitigate the clipping distortion in the presence of channel noise at the expense of bandwidth expansion. We show through extensive simulations that by slightly increasing the bandwidth of the system, we can significantly improve the performance while limiting the maximum of the analog signal. Furthermore, we compare the performance of the DBM and the channel coding methods. It can be seen that for lower bandwidth expansions, the DBM outperforms the channel coding methods at moderate SNR values while for higher bandwidth expansions, the channel coding methods seem to be more efficient. Furthermore, we introduce a hybrid system which outperforms both the DBM and the channel coding methods at most SNR values.
Flexural Strength and Ductility Improvement of NSC beams

In order to calculate the flexural strength of normal-strength concrete (NSC) beams, the nonlinear actual concrete stress distribution within the compression zone is normally replaced by an equivalent rectangular stress block, with two coefficients of α and β to regulate the intensity and depth of the equivalent stress respectively. For NSC beams design, α and β are usually assumed constant as 0.85 and 0.80 in reinforced concrete (RC) codes. From an earlier investigation of the authors, α is not a constant but significantly affected by flexural strain gradient, and increases with the increasing of strain gradient till a maximum value. It indicates that larger concrete stress can be developed in flexure than that stipulated by design codes. As an extension and application of the authors’ previous study, the modified equivalent concrete stress block is used here to produce a series of design charts showing the maximum design limits of flexural strength and ductility of singlyand doublyNSC beams, through which both strength and ductility design limits are improved by taking into account strain gradient effect. Keywords—Concrete beam, Ductility, Equivalent concrete stress, Normal strength, Strain gradient, Strength
The role of insulin glulisine to improve glycemic control in children with diabetes mellitus

Glulisine (Apidra®) is a rapid-acting human insulin analog approved for use in children with diabetes mellitus ≥4 years of age. Management of children with type 1 diabetes has seen a shift in favor of mimicking normal physiological insulin responses with multiple daily injections or continuous subcutaneous insulin infusions (CSII). Few studies have compared the rapid-acting insulin analogs in this population but limited data indicate that glulisine is as effective as lispro when used in a basal–bolus regimen. This review appraises the current available studies and reviews on insulin glulisine in children. An extensive keyword search of ‘insulin glulisine’, ‘insulin analogs’, and ‘Apidra’ in the pediatric population was performed. These studies have suggested that glulisine is safe, well tolerated, and is an effective option in the diabetes armamentarium. Further studies are needed to determine its safety for use in CSII pumps in the pediatric population.
Colorization matrix construction with high compression efficiency for colorization-based coding using optimization

In colorization-based coding, a chrominance component is reconstructed by applying a colorization matrix to a vector which contains a few color information. The conventional method formulated the colorization-based coding problem into an optimization problem. Since this approach obtains the optimal color information with respect to a given colorization matrix in the sense that it minimizes the reconstruction error, the compression efficiency depends on the colorization matrix. In this paper, we propose a colorization matrix construction with high compression efficiency for the colorization-based coding using optimization. To improve the ability to reconstruct the chrominance component, we construct our proposed colorization matrix based on a luminance-chrominance correlation in a local area. Furthermore, we embed an edge-preserving smoothing filtering process into the colorization matrix to reduce artifacts. The experimental results show that our method achieves better reconstruction of the chrominance component and higher compression efficiency compared with the conventional method.
Cumulative versus Multiple-Risk Models in the Prediction of Anxiety Symptoms

The present study aimed to advance understanding of the cumulative and incremental influences of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, and interpretive and judgment biases on anxiety outcomes in a large sample of emerging adults (N = 862; mean age = 18.75 years, SD = 1.04). Participants completed a battery of questionnaires assessing the constructs of interest and cumulative- and multiple-risk models were tested. Linear, hierarchical regression analyses showed that cumulative- and multiple-risk models significantly predicted anxiety outcomes, although the statistical prediction offered by the latter model was superior. Additionally, variability in each risk factor significantly predicted anxiety outcomes after controlling for the total number of risks, supporting the value of the severity of risk to the prediction of anxiety outcomes. Findings, implications for intervention, and limitations are discussed.
A role for the dominant thalamus in language? A linguistic comparison of two cases subsequent to unilateral thalamotomy procedures in the dominant and non-dominant hemispheres

Background : Thalamotomy has been reported to be successful in ameliorating the motor symptoms of tremor and/or rigidity in people with Parkinson's disease (PD), emphasising the bona fide contribution of this subcortical nucleus to the neural circuitry subserving motor function. Despite evidence of parallel yet segregated associative and motor corticosubcortical-cortical circuits, comparatively few studies have investigated the effects of this procedure on cognitive functions. In particular, research pertaining to the impact of thalamotomy on linguistic processes is fundamentally lacking. Aims : The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of thalamotomy in the language dominant and non-dominant hemispheres on linguistic functioning, relative to operative theoretical models of subcortical participation in language. This paper compares the linguistic profiles of two males with PD, aged 75 years (10 years of formal education) and 62 years (22 years of formal education), subsequent to unilateral thalamotomy procedures within the language dominant and non-dominant hemispheres, respectively. Methods & Procedures : Comprehensive linguistic profiles comprising general and high-level linguistic abilities in addition to on-line semantic processing skills were compiled up to 1 month prior to surgery and 3 months post-operatively, within perceived "on periods (i.e., when optimally medicated). Pre- and post-operative language performances were compared within-subjects to a group of 16 non-surgical Parkinson's controls (NSPD) and a group of 16 non-neurologically impaired adults (NC). Outcomes & Results : The findings of this research suggest a laterality effect with regard to the contribution of the thalamus to high-level linguistic abilities and, potentially, the temporal processing of semantic information. This outcome supports the application of highlevel linguistic assessments and measures of semantic processing proficiency to the clinical management of individuals with dominant thalamic lesions. Conclusions : The results reported lend support to contemporary theories of dominant thalamic participation in language, serving to further elucidate our current understanding of the role of subcortical structures in mediating linguistic processes, relevant to cortical hemispheric dominance.
Children's Word Recognition in Context: Spreading Activation, Expectancy, and Modularity

STANOVICH, KEITH E. ; NATHAN, RUTH G. ; WEST, RICHARD F. ; and VALA-RossI, MARILYN. Children's Word Recognition in Context: Spreading Activation, Expectancy, and Modularity. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1985, 56, 1418-1428. Both third-grade children (mean age 9-6) and fifth-grade children (mean age 11-6) performed like adults in that they named a word (e.g., "tractor") just as fast when it was preceded by a related but incongruous incomplete sentence context (e.g., "the farmer planted the") as when it was preceded by a neutral context (e.g., "they said it was the"). The results support the assumption of the 2-process interactive-compensatory model that context effects on children's word recognition are caused by a spreading-activation process and an expectancy-based attentional process that operate simultaneously. The findings indicate that the word recognition input system of children as young as third graders displays some modular properties. The conclusion that word recognition is modular for adults and that it displays considerable modularity even in children as young as third graders has implications for global theories of the reading process because other recent developmental/individual difference findings are more easily accommodated by modular models of reading than by hypothesis-testing models that do not as clearly demarcate the word level of processing.
Why were millions of people not obeying the law? Motivational influences on non-compliance with the law in the case of music piracy

Abstract Despite highly publicized efforts by the music industry to curb music piracy, millions of Americans continued to illegally download and share music. This study obtained college student responses to scenarios that measured perceptions of three types of music theft: shoplifting a CD, illegally downloading, and illegally downloading plus file sharing. The students also reported their own recent downloading behavior, completed a demographics questionnaire, and responded to a series of statements that assessed their attitudes regarding factors associated with legal compliance in other domains. The data indicated that students viewed downloading and file sharing very differently than they viewed shoplifting in terms of endorsement of reasons to comply with laws prohibiting those behaviors. Further, concerns regarding punishment (i.e. deterrence), morality beliefs, and generalized obligation to obey the rule of law had the strongest relationships to self-reported downloading behavior. Respect for the music industry had the weakest relationship to legal compliance with both responses to the scenarios and students’ self-report of their own downloading behavior.
Getting it together: The leadership challenge of mergers and acquisitions

Mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances are supposed to create new, stronger organizations, but history shows that such combinations often fall far short of expectations. Cross-border integrations, such as those between Western and Eastern companies, are particularly difficult to manage. Here the CEOs of two multinational firms that have been there talk about the factors that set winning corporate combinations apart from the rest.
Controlling others and controlling oneself: Social power and emotion suppression

Abstract Power is associated with living in reward-rich environments and causes behavioural disinhibition (Keltner, Grumfeld & Anderson, 2003). Powerful people also have greater freedom of emotional expression (Hecht & La France, 1998). Two studies were conducted with the aim of: a) analyzing the effect of dispositional power on emotion suppression, and b) exploring the simple and interaction effects of dispositional and situational power on emotion suppression. In a first correlational study, the power of individuals was found to be negatively correlated with emotion suppression. In a second experimental study, participants were assigned to a powerful or powerless position and negative emotions were induced with pictures. Participants were asked to suppress their emotions during the presentation of the pictures. Participants' emotion suppression was measured using the suppression subscale of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003). Results showed that dispositionally powerless participants suppressed their emotions more than dispositionally powerful participants only when they were assigned to a low power position. These results are discussed.