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Factors that Contribute to Faculty's Incorporation of Diversity-Related Content into Their Course Materials.

This study examined the factors that predict whether college faculty incorporate diversity-related content into their course material and whether the decision to include this type of content is affected by personal beliefs and experiences with diversity. The sample consisted of 336 faculty members at a large midwestern, predominantly white, public university (40.3% response rate). The survey instrument was adapted from one used by the Higher Education Research Institute. By accounting for personal demographics, professional characteristics, beliefs about and experiences with diversity, and perceptions of institutional and department commitment to diversity, the proposed model has an 85% success rate in predicting which faculty members choose to incorporate diversity-related material and which do not. In terms of its ability to predict whether faculty will incorporate diversity-related content into course materials, race is a much stronger predictor for males than for females. Study findings indicate that, after controlling for all other variables, participation in activities designed to promote diversity on campus is one of the main predictors of the incorporation of diversityrelated materials in the classroom. (Contains 5 tables and 20 references.) (SLD) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Running Head: FACULTY DIVERSITY Faculty Diversity 1 Factors that Contribute to Faculty's Incorporation of Diversity-Related PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 1 Content into Their Course Materials 2003 AERA Annual Meeting April 21 to 25, 2003 Chicago, Illinois U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Cf/dThis document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. Submitted by: Matthew J. Mayhew & Heidi E. Grunwald Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education University of Michigan EST COPY AVAIIIEABILIE Address: CSHPE, 2102 School of Education, 610 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259
Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome: Neuroradiologic Findings and Follow-Up

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To date, few studies have focused specifically on imaging findings in Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS). We set out to evaluate retrospectively neuroradiologic data from a large sample of patients with AGS, focusing on the pattern of white matter abnormalities and the temporal evolution of the cerebral involvement to establish the radiologic natural history of the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-six patients, 18 girls and 18 boys, were included. All had a clinical diagnosis of AGS, genetically confirmed in 31 of them. For every subject, we reviewed at least 1 CT and 1 MR imaging study; 19 (52.7%) had multiple examinations. In all, we reviewed 109 examinations. Clinical-neuroradiologic comparisons were analyzed by using the χ2 test. RESULTS: Calcifications were found in all subjects, mainly in the basal ganglia, lobar white matter, and dentate nuclei. Abnormal white matter was present in all the subjects, showing 2 patterns of distribution: diffuse in 18 (50%) and an anteroposterior gradient in 18 (50%). Cystic areas were observed in the temporal and/or frontal lobes in 12/36 patients (33.3%). A correlation was found between early age at onset and severity of the leukoencephalopathy in the frontal (P = .024) and temporal (P = .034) regions. A significant degree of cerebral atrophy was found in 31/36 subjects (86.1%). The neuroradiologic presentation remained substantially stable with time. CONCLUSIONS: The different neuroradiologic presentations of AGS are here outlined for the first time in a large sample of patients. These findings may facilitate more precise and earlier diagnosis of this rare but probably underdiagnosed syndrome.
An Experiment in Comparing Human-Computation Techniques

Human computation can address complex computational problems by tapping into large resource pools for relatively little cost. Two prominent human-computation techniques - games with a purpose (GWAP) and microtask crowdsourcing - can help resolve semantic-technology-related tasks, including knowledge representation, ontology alignment, and semantic annotation. To evaluate which approach is better with respect to costs and benefits, the authors employ categorization challenges in Wikipedia to ultimately create a large, general-purpose ontology. They first use the OntoPronto GWAP, then replicate its problem-solving setting in Amazon Mechanical Turk, using a similar task-design structure, evaluation mechanisms, and input data.
Analysis of Filtering Effects Based on Low Dose 3D Hepatic MDCT Images by Applying an Optimized Feature Preserving Strategy

The X-ray exposure of hepatic MDCT (Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography) images threatens human health. In this paper, the 3D adaptive median filter with local averaging is optimized to improve the image quality of low dose hepatic MDCT images. The modified strategy is designed according to the subtle texture of a hepatic tumor. Filtering experiments are based on phantom images with different dose levels and clinical hepatic ones with a certain dose level. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that the x-ray exposure can be reduced to 60% at least without compromising the quality of diagnostic images.
High-resolution T1-relaxation time mapping displays subtle, clinically relevant, gray matter damage in long-standing multiple sclerosis

Background: Gray matter (GM) pathology has high clinical relevance in multiple sclerosis (MS), but conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is insufficiently sensitive to visualize the rather subtle damage. Objective: To investigate whether high spatial resolution T1-relaxation time (T1-RT) measurements can detect changes in the normal-appearing GM of patients with long-standing MS and whether these changes are associated with physical and cognitive impairment. Methods: High spatial resolution (1.05 × 1.05 × 1.2 mm3) T1-RT measurements were performed at 3 T in 156 long-standing MS patients and 54 healthy controls. T1-RT histogram parameters in several regions were analyzed to investigate group differences. Stepwise linear regression analyses were used to assess the relation of T1-RT with physical and cognitive impairment. Results: In both thalamus and cortex, T1-RT histogram skewness was higher in patients than controls. In the cortex, this was driven by the frontal and temporal lobes. No differences were found in other GM histogram parameters. Cortical skewness, thalamus volume, and average white matter (WM) lesion T1-RT emerged as the strongest predictors for cognitive performance (adjusted R2 = 0.39). Conclusion: Subtle GM damage was present in the cortex and thalamus of MS patients, as indicated by increased T1-RT skewness. Increased cortical skewness emerged as an independent predictor of cognitive dysfunction.
An Analysis on Problem Solving Skills of Students Studying in Balikesir University School of Physical Education and Sports

The purpose of this study is to analyze the problem solving skills of the students in Balıkesir University School of Physical Education and Sports by the variables of age, sex, sports branch, department and grade and to reveal the differences. This is a descriptive research. The research population of this descriptive survey modeled study is composed of 1063 students approximately studying in different departments of Balıkesir University School of Physical Education and Sports while the sample consists of randomly selected 304 students. A questionnaire was used to determine the descriptive characteristics of the students in data collection and “Problem solving inventory (PSI)” developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) and adapted into Turkish by Sahin et al. (1993) was used in the study. In data analysis, percentage and frequency values were used while One Way Anova, Man Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis test were utilized in comparison of data and these data were addressed at the significance level of p<0.05. All analyses were performed with SPSS v17.0 (SPSS Science, Chicago, IL, USA). When comparing the problem solving skills of students studying in Balıkesir University School of Physical Education and Sports by the variable of age, the problem solving skill of 30+ age group was found high. Problem solving perception of the students studying in sports management department by the variable of department was found high. It has been established that problem solving skills don’t differ significantly by the variables of sports branch, sex and grade.
PERFORMANCE OF CROSS-BORDER MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS ( M & A ’ S ) BY CHINESE FIRMS

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A's) by Chinese enterprises have become increasingly popular in recent years. The number of M&A deals, as well as the dollar amount involved, has been drastically growing, especially during the period from 2007 to Q12008. The cross-border activities slowed down a little during the global financial crisis, but fast growth resumed in 2009, totaled about $20 billion during the third quarter of 2009. As dictated by the strategic purposes, a majority of these foreign M&A deals were mostly energy and natural resource-related. A smaller numbers of these cross-border acquisitions were business oriented as Chinese companies had gradually recognized the needs of strategic expansion and internationalization. Some of these business acquisitions were for global market expansion (such as Lenovo's acquisition of the IBM PC division) or for gaining managerial expertise (such as China Investment Corporation's investment in Blackstone and Morgan Stanley). For those acquisitions successfully completed, Chinese acquires were then running into the many hurdles of integration and making the acquisitions performing. This proved to be a difficult task. Even Lenovo, the company that acquired IBM's PC unit in 2005, had been force to reexamine the way it runs its business recently in the face of losses and drop in global market share. Many other acquisitions are facing the same difficulties, including China Investment Corporation (the China sovereign fund). CDC is still losing on the investment on Blackstone Group and Morgan Stanly as of today. In short, there has been a growing concern about the performance of Chinese outward cross-border M&A activities. While there are may studies have been done on the cross-border M&As by Chinese firms, most of them focused on the nature of the acquisitions (such as energy-focused or specific geographical distribution) and the strategic decisions in making such acquisitions, very few has studied the performance of Chinese foreign acquisitions. The purpose of this study is to bridge the gap by analyzing the impact of cross-border M&A's on Chinese acquirers, from a stock holders' perspective. In this study, Chinese outward M&A deals between year 2001 and 2008 are examined to identify any patterns of target choice, the overall impact on the financial performance of acquirers, and the determinants of such performance. Selected financial ratios before and after deal are calculated and compared to identify any changes on the financial performance. We then used the acquirer's stock price reaction around those acquisition announcements to gauge the …
Out of the shadows: The editor as a defining characteristic of journalism

The editor has often been hidden in scholarship under the catch-all term of ‘journalist’. Yet the roles of editor and reporter, while overlapping, are distinct. That distinction is essential to make because the editorial function is one of the defining characteristics of news journalism that separates it from ‘interloper media’ such as blogs, public relations (PR), government missives and citizen journalism. Editors are a marker of quality control which legitimises news journalism. This article scrutinises the editor as one who negotiates among four groups with distinct values: the audience, the organisation, journalism as practice, and society. Editor-centric analysis examines how individuals in editorial systems negotiate diverse elements of a fragmented phenomenon which is routinely unified under the banner of ‘journalism’. Clearer assessment of the editor thus allows for richer assessment of what is – and what is not – journalism. It directs discourse rooted in experience and ideology to legitimate journalism as a cultural form, leading consideration of how editor-centric study can be applied empirically.
Ramified Structural Recursion and Corecursion

We investigate feasible computation over a fairly general notion of data and codata. Specifically, we present a direct Bellantoni-Cook-style normal/safe typed programming formalism, RS1, that expresses feasible structural recursions and corecursions over data and codata specified by polynomial functors. (Lists, streams, finite trees, infinite trees, etc. are all directly definable.) A novel aspect of RS1 is that it embraces structure-sharing as in standard functional-programming implementations. As our data representations use sharing, our implementation of structural recursions are memoized to avoid the possibly exponentially-many repeated subcomputations a naive implementation might perform. We introduce notions of size for representations of data (accounting for sharing) and codata (using ideas from type-2 computational complexity) and establish that type-level 1 RS1-functions have polynomial-bounded runtimes and satisfy a polynomial-time completeness condition. Also, restricting RS1 terms to particular types produces characterizations of some standard complexity classes (e.g., omega-regular languages, linear-space functions) and some less-standard classes (e.g., log-space streams).
Beyond the landlord: worldwide empirical analysis of port authority strategies

Research applying a strategic management perspective to port authorities is limited and mostly consists of specific case studies or comparative analyses of port authorities in a specific geographical area. In response, this paper offers a worldwide survey of 94 port authorities, the results of which address their strategic scope, i.e., the set of activities they undertake. While many port authorities are described as 'landlords', they often provide services that are not generally associated with this landlord role. A factor analysis of the survey results shows consistent and recurring patterns of strategic activities. Statistical analysis, aimed at exploring the relationship between port authorities' institutional position and strategic scope, indicates that PAs with more autonomy and a more business-like structure have a wider strategic scope and more business-like goals. At the same time, this might imply a shift in focus from goals at the macro level to goals at the firm level, as well as PAs moving from a more facilitating role towards a more entrepreneurial role.
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler: towards a protocol for accumulating evidence regarding the active content of health behaviour change interventions

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Evidence for the regulation of left‐right asymmetry in Ciona intestinalis by ion flux

Vertebrate embryos develop distinct left‐right asymmetry under the control of a conserved pathway involving left‐sided deployment of the nodal and Pitx2 genes. The mechanism that initiates asymmetric expression of these genes is less clear, with cilia, ion flux, and signalling molecules all implicated. Vertebrates share the chordate phylum with urochordates such as the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis. We have explored the role of ion flux in regulating left‐right asymmetry in Ciona, using an assay in which perturbation of left‐sided Ci‐Pitx expression provides a read‐out for the disruption of asymmetry. Our data show that omeprazole, which specifically inhibits H+K+ATPase activity, disrupts asymmetry in Ciona. The vertebrate H+K+ATPase is composed of two subunits, α and β. We identified one Ciona β ortholog and two Ciona α orthologs of the vertebrate H+K+ATPase genes, and show that one of these is expressed in dorsal and ventral embryonic midline cells shortly before the activation of left‐sided Ci‐Pitx expression. Furthermore, we show that omeprazole exerts its effect on asymmetry at this point in development, and additionally implicate K+ channels in the regulation of asymmetry in Ciona. These experiments demonstrate a role for ion flux in the regulation of asymmetry in Ciona, and show a conserved, ancestral role for the H+K+ATPase ion pump in this process. Developmental Dynamics 235:1543–1553, 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
A Proof of Concept, Phase II Randomized European Trial, on the Efficacy of ALF-5755, a Novel Extracellular Matrix-Targeted Antioxidant in Patients with Acute Liver Diseases

Objective No efficient medical treatment is available for severe acute hepatitis (SAH) except N-acetylcysteine for acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure. The human C-type lectin Reg3α, referred to as ALF-5755, improved survival in an animal model of acute liver failure and was well tolerated in a phase 1 trial in humans. We performed a phase 2a trial of ALF5755 in non-acetaminophen induced SAH. Design double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study. The primary end-point was the improvement in the coagulation protein synthesis assessed by the change of Prothrombin (PR) during the 72 hours following treatment initiation calculated as PRH0 minus PRH72 divided by 72 (PR slope H0H72). Intention to treat (ITT) and per-protocol (PP) analysis of the entire group and the Hepatitis B virus (HBV)/AIH (auto-immune hepatitis) sub-group were done separately. Results 57 patients were included. Twenty-eight received ALF-5755, 29 the placebo. Etiologies were: Hepatitis A (n = 10), HBV (n = 13), AIH (n = 9), drug-induced (n = 8), other (n = 17). On the whole group, nor the PR slope H0H72 (0.18±0.31 vs 0.25±0.32), nor the transplant-free survival rate at day 21 (75 vs 86%) differed between groups. Conversely, in the HBV-AIH subgroup, in which ALF was more severe, PR slope H0-H72 was higher in the ALF-5755 arm, the difference being significant in PP analysis (0.048±0.066 vs -0.040±0.099, p = 0.04); the median length of hospitalization was lower in the ALF-5755 group (8 vs 14 days, p = 0.02). Conclusion ALF-5755 was not efficient in a ITT analysis performed on the whole sample; however it led to a significant, although moderate, clinical benefit in a PP analysis of the sub-group of patients with HBV or AIH related SAH. As HBV is the major cause of SAH in Asia and Africa and AIH a growing cause, this study emphasizes the need to pursuit the evaluation of this novel medical treatment of SAH. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01318525
Oceanic influence on the North Atlantic Oscillation and associated northern hemisphere climate variations: 1959–1993

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) exhibits variations at interannual to multidecadal time scales and is associated with climate variations over eastern North America, the North Atlantic, Europe, and North Africa. Therefore, it is very important to understand causes of these NAO variations and assess their predictability. It has been hypothesized, based on observations, that sea surface temperature (SST) and sea‐ice variations in the North Atlantic Ocean influence the NAO. We describe results of an ensemble of sixteen experiments with an atmospheric general circulation model in which we used observed SST and sea‐ice boundary conditions globally during 1949–1993. We show that multiyear NAO and associated climate variations can be simulated reasonably accurately if results from a large number of experiments are averaged. We also show that the ambiguous results of previous NAO modeling studies were strongly influenced by the ensemble size, which was much smaller than that in the present study. The implications of these results for understanding and predictability of the NAO are discussed.
Optimized Detection of Plasmodium falciparum Topoisomerase I Enzyme Activity in a Complex Biological Sample by the Use of Molecular Beacons

The so-called Rolling Circle Amplification allows for amplification of circular DNA structures in a manner that can be detected in real-time using nucleotide-based molecular beacons that unfold upon recognition of the DNA product, which is being produced during the amplification process. The unfolding of the molecular beacons results in a fluorescence increase as the Rolling Circle Amplification proceeds. This can be measured in a fluorometer. In the current study, we have investigated the possibility of using two different molecular beacons to detect two distinct Rolling Circle Amplification reactions proceeding simultaneously and in the same reaction tube by measurement of fluorescence over time. We demonstrate the application of this fluorometric readout method, for automated and specific detection of the activity of the type IB topoisomerase from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in the presence of human cell extract containing the related topoisomerase I from humans. The obtained results point towards a future use of the presented assay setup for malaria diagnostics or drug screening purposes. In longer terms the method may be applied more broadly for real-time sensing of various Rolling Circle Amplification reactions.
Development and Validation of the Teacher RISE Support Scale in Physical Education

Purpose: To develop a measure of student-perceived teacher relation-inferred self-efficacy (RISE) support in physical education in terms of the Teacher RISE Support Scale, through a series of three studies. Methods: In Studies 1 and 2, interviews, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to develop a conceptually sound and psychometrically robust measure for teachers’ RISE-supporting behaviors. In Study 3, the authors examined the concurrent validity of teachers’ RISE support construct in relation to students’ RISE and relevant student outcomes. Results: The three-factor, second-order structure of the Teacher RISE Support Scale was confirmed, with results supporting construct validity and providing evidence of factorial, convergent, and discriminant validity. Furthermore, structural equation modeling supported concurrent validity, showing that students’ perceptions of teacher RISE support correlated positively with RISE and responsibility. Conclusions: Overall, the results provide preliminary evidence for the reliability and validity of the Teacher RISE Support Scale as a measurement for teacher RISE-supporting behaviors in physical education.