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Shakespeare in Love: A Fictional Transliteration of the Grammar of Heterosexual Mating

This article explores the structure of the male–female interaction in the human mating process from the perspective of the so-called Tie-Up Theory, applying it to the analysis of a cinematic fictional narrative, namely the Shakespeare in love movie. We look at romantic fictional narratives as possible simulations with a social cognition valence, and show that, in the case study under exam, the actual structure of the interaction between the two main characters reflects the basic steps of a successful mating process. In view of this, the fact that the long-term couple is not formed at the end of the story neither jeopardizes its social cognition valence, nor the audience’s need and expectation of an emotional climax, as what makes the difference in terms of social cognition is not the story outcome, but the process that leads to it. Our research makes a case for a renewed interest toward romantic fictional comedies as an interesting source of insight into real mating-related interactions, provided that such narratives are socially validated in terms of audience response and intergenerational transmission.
Political Violence as a Time That is Past? Engaging With Non-Participation in Transitional Justice in Cambodia

Transitional justice scholarship has increasingly focused on participation to critically reflect upon the legitimacy and transformative potential of transitional justice. This article addresses these issues yet through a different vantage point: that of non-participation. It focuses on the case study of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and a particular set of actors: those who continue to face political violence in Cambodia today. Thereby, it engages with the perspectives of those often overlooked in transitional justice for having opted out of the process, but also for putting forward justice claims that exceed the mandate of established transitional justice institutions. This article draws from qualitative fieldwork conducted in Cambodia between 2013 and 2016. It demonstrates the epistemic value of engaging with non-participation in transitional justice. It argues that non-participation in judicial transitional justice processes is inherently linked to the ways in which ordinary citizens experience and understand the law in their everyday life. It further highlights continuities in subjective experiences of political violence, which question discourses that political violence is a time that is past in Cambodia.
An Experimental Study of Corrective Feedback during Video-Conferencing.

This study investigated the effectiveness of oral metalinguistic feedback and recasts as well as the effect of focused tasks (FT) in the development of implicit and explicit knowledge during video-conference interactions. This was accomplished by partial replication of a study performed in a classroom setting. Three groups of Brazilian EFL learners (n = 42) participated in a pre-test, post-test, and delayed post-test targeting the regular simple past. The final results indicated that all the groups developed implicit and explicit knowledge of the target structure over time, with no differences across groups. This study also discusses the challenges of experimental research in video-conferencing, and suggests some strategies on how this particular area of research can be improved.
THE ACS NEARBY GALAXY SURVEY TREASURY. I. THE STAR FORMATION HISTORY OF THE M81 OUTER DISK

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury is a large Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/ACS treasury program to obtain resolved stellar photometry for a volume-limited sample of galaxies out to 4 Mpc. As part of this program, we have obtained deep ACS imaging of a field in the outer disk of the large spiral galaxy M81. The field contains the outskirts of a spiral arm as well as an area containing no current star formation. Our imaging results in a color–magnitude diagram (CMD) reaching to mF814W = 28.8 and mF606W = 29.5, one magnitude fainter than the red clump. Through detailed modeling of the full CMD, we quantify the age and metallicity distribution of the stellar populations contained in the field. The mean metallicity in the field is −1 < [M/H] < 0 and only a small fraction of stars have ages ≲ 1 Gyr. The results show that most of the stars in this outer disk field were formed by z ∼ 1 and that the arm structure at this radius has a lifetime of ≳ 100 Myr. We discuss the measured evolution of the M81 disk in the context of surveys of high redshift disk galaxies and deep stellar photometry of other nearby galaxies. All of these indicate that massive spiral disks are mostly formed by z ∼ 1 and that they have experienced rapid metal enrichment.
Telemanipulator for remote minimally invasive surgery

The requirements for an ideal telemanipulator (i.e., robot and surgical instrument) are derived. An overview on telemanipulators reported in literature is given. The new robot for telepresence surgery developed by German Aerospace Center (DLR) is presented in detail in the "DLR Robot" section. Surgical instruments equipped with miniaturized force-torque sensors and additional DoF at the distal end, also developed by DLR, are described in the "DLR Instruments" section. The last section concludes this article and gives directions for further research.
Space‐time dynamics of depositional systems: Experimental evidence and theoretical modeling of heavy‐tailed statistics

[1] In depositional systems, channels migrate from one location to another, causing erosion and deposition at any given point in the domain. The durations of depositional and erosional events, as well as their magnitudes, control the structure of the stratigraphic record. In this study, we use high-resolution temporal surface elevation data from a controlled experiment to quantify the probability distributions of the processes that govern the evolution of depositional deltaic systems. Heavy-tailed statistics of erosional and depositional events are documented, indicating that a small but significant chance exists for the occurrence of extreme events. We show that the periods of inactivity, when neither deposition nor erosion occurs, follow a truncated Pareto distribution whose truncation scale is set by the mean characteristic avulsion time scale in the system. Further, we show that the heavy tails in the magnitudes of the erosional and depositional events are not preserved in the stratigraphic record, resulting instead in an exponential distribution for the bed sediment thickness. It is also shown that the temporal evolution of surface elevation exhibits self-similarity with a nonlinear spectrum of scaling exponents (multifractality) quantifying the complex dynamics of the system. Finally, we show how the results of this study can lead to improved diffusional models for surface evolution using the tools of fractional calculus.
Measuring membrane protein bond orientations in nanodiscs via residual dipolar couplings

Membrane proteins are involved in numerous vital biological processes. To understand membrane protein functionality, accurate structural information is required. Usually, structure determination and dynamics of membrane proteins are studied in micelles using either solution state NMR or X‐ray crystallography. Even though invaluable information has been obtained by this approach, micelles are known to be far from ideal mimics of biological membranes often causing the loss or decrease of membrane protein activity. Recently, nanodiscs, which are composed of a lipid bilayer surrounded by apolipoproteins, have been introduced as a more physiological alternative than micelles for NMR investigations on membrane proteins. Here, we show that membrane protein bond orientations in nanodiscs can be obtained by measuring residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) with the outer membrane protein OmpX embedded in nanodiscs using Pf1 phage as an alignment medium. The presented collection of membrane protein RDCs in nanodiscs represents an important step toward more comprehensive structural and dynamical NMR‐based investigations of membrane proteins in a natural bilayer environment.
Detecting DNA Depurination with Solid-State Nanopores

Among the different types of DNA damage that occur endogenously in the cell, depurination is especially prevalent. These lesions can initiate mutagenesis and have been implicated in a variety of diseases, including cancer. Here, we demonstrate a new approach for the detection of depurination at the single-molecule scale using solid-state nanopores. We induce depurination in short duplex DNA using acidic conditions and observe that the presence of apurinic sites results in significantly slower dynamics during electrokinetic translocation. This procedure may be valuable as a diagnostic for in situ quantification of DNA depurination.
Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences Efficacy of optimized in vitro predegeneration period on the cell count and purity of canine Schwann cell cultures

Objective(s): Predegeneration is a standard technique to obtain mitotically activated and enriched cultures of Schwann cells (SCs). This study, for the first time, evaluated the impact of various duration of predegeneration on cell yield and enrichment of SCs from dog peripheral nerve. Materials and Methods: Dog sural nerves were subjected to 5, 10, 15 day-long in vitro predegeneration. The total cell yield and the purity of SCs were evaluated in each group on the first and seventh day after plating. Results: The maximum and minimum numbers of cells were counted in 15 day-long predegene- ration and control groups which underwent no predegeneration. The 10 day-long in vitro predegeneration group with 80±0.5% SCs enrichment had the best purity after plating day and could maintain its purity with elapsing on cultures. Conclusion: 10 day-long predegeneration results in the higher cell number and the better and prolonged purity of SCs in culture.
The Impact of Cognitive Age on Materialism, Status Consumption and Loyalty Proneness on the Indian Elderly

India is of interest to marketers due to its transition from socialism to a market economy in the early 1990s (the liberalization period that included industrial deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and reduced regulation) (CIA, 2014; Khare, 2011; Lysonski and Durvasula, 2013). This liberalization period resulted in radical changes in the Indian economy that allowed for faster economic growth, greater choice in consumer products, and the entry of multinational firms (Lysonski and Durvasula, 2013) along with increased income levels, a higher priority toward education, and rapid industrialization (Khare, 2011). With the rapid emergence of the Indian economy, including growth of discretionary income and luxury consumption, little is known about how consumers behave in this market (Schultz and Jain, 2015; Knorringa and Guarin, 2014; Sanyal, Datta, and Banerjee, 2014).
Towards the quark gluon plasma via MHV techniques

We study the multiple radiative gluon emission off a massless and highly energetic quark in the pQCD picture. We introduce the Maximally Helicity Violating (MHV) techniques to cope with the complexities in computing cross sections in multi-jet QCD. The multiphoton emission in QED is reviewed to emphasize the efficiency of the MHV approach. We show that the computation of the multiple photon emission current provides insight into the understanding of the multiple radiative gluon emission in QCD. We then compute the momentum distribution for one, two and three soft and collinear radiative gluons from a hard struck quark. Our MHV results exhibit non-Abelian information about the correlation of gluons. As a phenomenological analysis, we study the energy spectrum for emitting radiative gluons using our MHV results. By comparing the MHV and the standard Poisson approximation of uncorrelated multiple emission results, we see that there is significant difference between the two methods.
THE LUBRICATION APPROXIMATION FOR THIN VISCOUS FILMS: THE MOVING CONTACT LINE WITH A 'POROUS MEDIA' CUT OFF OF VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS

We consider the effect of a second-order 'porous media' term on the evolution of weak solutions of the fourth-order degenerate diffusion equation ht=- Del . (hn Del Delta h- Del hm) in one space dimension. The equation without the second-order term is derived from a 'lubrication approximation' and models surface tension dominated motion of thin viscous films and spreading droplets. Here h (x,t) is the thickness of the film, and the physical problem corresponds to n=3. For simplicity, we consider periodic boundary conditions which has the physical interpretation of modelling a periodic array of droplets. In a previous work we studied the above equation without the second-order 'porous media' term. In particular we showed the existence of non-negative weak solutions with increasing support for 0 or=3. This is consistent with the fact that, in this case, non-negative self-similar source-type solutions do not exist for n>or=3. In this work, we discuss a physical justification for the 'porous media' term when n=3 and 1 0 and 1 0 and 1 3/2, we show that the regularity of the weak solutions is in exact agreement with that predicted by the asymptotics. Finally, we present several numerical computations of solutions. The simulations use a weighted implicit-explicit scheme on a dynamically adaptive mesh. The numerics suggest that the weak solution described by our existence theory has compact support with a finite speed of propagation. The data confirms the local 'power law' behaviour at the edge of the support predicted by asymptotics.
Relational evaluation schemes

We describe extensions to a scheme for evaluating parse selection accuracy based on named grammatical relations between lemmatised lexical heads. The scheme is intended to directly reflect the task of recovering grammatical and logical relations, rather than more arbitrary details of tree topology. There is a manually annotated test suite of 500 sentences which has been used by several groups to perform evaluations. We are developing software to create larger test suites automatically from existing treebanks. We are considering alternative relational annotations which draw a clearer distinction between grammatical and logical relations in order to overcome limitations of the current proposal.
Financial liberalisation and interest rate risk management in Sub-Saharan Africa

The appropriateness of financial liberalisation in Africa - at least over the short-term - is in doubt. It has been suggested that the credit risks faced by financial institutions will be detrimental to the supply of credit. The contribution of this paper is to point out that financial liberalisation creates a significant interest rate risk. It is argued that this interest rate risk will bias African banks’ activities towards brokerage rather than maturity-transformation functions. Furthermore, it is stressed that the management of interest rate risk is in itself likely to lead to a reduction in the supply of credit. In this regard the usefulness of capital adequacy as defined by the Basle Committee is investigated.
Reforming project management: The role of planning, execution and controlling

In this paper, we focus on the need for reforming the role of plans, execution (or action) and control in project management. We argue that the present style of project management, as described in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) of PMI, is based on two underlying theories in this regard: management-as-planning (for planning and execution) and the thermostat model (for control). Unfortunately, both theories can be shown to be heroically simplistic and insufficient from the point of view of project management reality. In consequence, the practice of project management suffers from three shortcomings. The vague interface between planning and execution is the cause for two of them. First, the role of planning is not realistically defined, and short term planning (that is critical from the point of view of execution) is customarily poorly carried out or simply neglected. Secondly, there is no systematic way of managing execution, i.e. taking into account the actual conditions of the real world as higher level plans are translated into short term plans and then into action. Thirdly, control is too narrowly seen as measuring and taking corrective action, rather than as a process of learning. These arguments are justified by empirical data and theoretical discussion.
A Social-Psychological Process of “Fear of Crime” for Men and Women: Revisiting Gender Differences from a New Perspective

ABSTRACT Prior research has identified gender as a significant predictor of crime fear. Specifically, women are typically more fearful of crime than men, despite being relatively less likely to be victimized. The current study examines different ways men and women may think about crime and victimization within their neighborhoods, using contemporary social-psychological models of victimization worry. Data were collected from a sample of community residents (N = 713) living on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. Results suggest that men’s and women’s fear of crime and perceptions of victimization threat are dependent on crime type and can be represented by a number of relationships among different social-psychological dimensions of victimization worry. The study concludes with practical implications for researchers seeking to examine the complex associations between gender and fear of crime.
Clinical Implications of Angiogenesis in Cancers

Angiogenesis plays an important role in the growth and progression of cancer. The regulation of tumor angiogenesis depends on a net balance of angiogenic factors and antiangiogenic factors, which are secreted by both tumor cells and host-infiltrating cells. Numerous studies have indicated that assessment of angiogenic activity by either microvessel density or expression of angiogenic factors in cancer can provide prognostic information independent of conventional clinicopathological factors such as tumor staging. Some studies also suggested that assessment of tumor angiogenesis may predict cancer response to chemotherapy or radiotherapy. However, the most important clinical implication of tumor angiogenesis is the development of a novel strategy of anticancer therapy targeting tumor vessels instead of cancer cells. Antiangiogenic therapy aims to inhibit the growth of tumor, and current evidence suggests that it works best in combination with conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy. Recently, a monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor, which is one of the most potent angiogenic factors, has been approved for clinical use in colorectal cancer patients after a clinical trial confirmed that combining the antibody with standard chemotherapy regimen could prolong patient survival. The clinical implications of angiogenesis in cancer are reviewed in this article.
An investigation of the efficacy of a research-based regimen of skill development on the instructional clarity of preservice teachers

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The Effects of a Lifetime Physical Fitness (LPF) Course on College Students’ Health Behaviors

The purpose of this study was to examine motivational constructs and the effect of physical activity engagement on health behaviors in college students who were required to take a 15-week lifetime physical fitness (LPF) course for graduation. A total of fifty-eight first and second year college students aged between 17 and 23 years (M=18.72; SD=1.09). Paper and pencil questionnaires were anonymously administered at the beginning and at the end of the 15-week long spring 2012 semester. Analysis of the differences between the beginning and the end of the semester was completed. Physical activity behaviors and Behavioral Regulations variables did not change across time (p > .05). Appearance (d = −0.34, p = .013) and fitness (d = −0.37, p = .006) reasons for participating in physical activity and all Theory of Planned Behavior variables decreased over time (d = −0.32 to − 0.41, p < .05). Changes in attitude toward physical activity negatively predicted changes in alcohol consumption (r = −.261 to −.357). This study sustains the already existing literature that supports the positive impact of LPF courses offered to college students.
Quasi-Delay-Insensitive Return-toOne Design

Asynchronous design techniques are gaining attention in the scientific community for their ability to cope with current techneologies’ problems that the synchronous paradigm may fail to cope with. The quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) design style [1] [2] is attractive to asynchronous circuits, especially because it allows wire and gate delays to be ignored given that isochronic fork [1] delay assumptions are respected. This reduces design complexity and eases timing closure and analysis. Defining a QDI template requires choosing a handshake protocol and a delay-insensitive (DI) code for data [2]. Here, absence of data (a spacer) can be signaled by setting all wires of a data channel to 0, defining the return-to-zero (RTZ) protocol. The RTZ protocol is well accepted in the research community, but tradeoffs of alternative manners for representing a spacer received little attention. An obvious alternative is the return-to-one (RTO) protocol, where a spacer is encoded by all data wires in a channel at 1 [3].
Tree Decomposition for Large-Scale SVM Problems

To handle problems created by large data sets, we propose a method that uses a decision tree to decompose a given data space and trains SVMs on the decomposed regions. Although there are other means of decomposing a data space, we show that the decision tree has several merits for large-scale SVM training. First, it can classify some data points by its own means, thereby reducing the cost of SVM training applied to the remaining data points. Second, it is efficient for seeking the parameter values that maximize the validation accuracy, which helps maintain good test accuracy. For experiment data sets whose size can be handled by current non-linear, or kernel-based, SVM training techniques, the proposed method can speed up the training by a factor of thousands, and still achieve comparable test accuracy.
Code in Transition? The Evolution of Code of the Street Adherence in Adolescence

ABSTRACT Using four waves (n = 2,385) from a student sample drawn in large U.S. cities, we examine the code of the streets’ influence on criminal offending and conflict management. Key to the analysis is the theoretical notion that effects are most pronounced for those who believe in the code intractably. We perform Latent Class Analysis to identify adherence types and use Latent Transition Analysis to measure the individual change in street-code class membership. Findings reveal four classes, distinguished mainly by the level of agreement. Those high and stable on the code are more likely to engage in crime and have diminished conflict management skills.