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Impact of Firms’ Cooperative Innovation Strategy on Technological Convergence Performance: The Case of Korea’s ICT Industry

Various strategies and policies have been established to facilitate technological convergence as it becomes increasingly important. However, the current status and progress direction of technological convergence is still not clear, as it is difficult to define and measure convergence phenomena. In this situation, this study examines how technological convergence has continued in Korea’s information and communication technology (ICT) industry, and, further, which cooperative innovation strategies are more effective in technological convergence. In this study, the convergence level of Korean ICT is measured using patent data from 2011 to 2015. Further, this study analyzes the impact of cooperative innovation strategies on Korean ICT convergence. It is believed that, by classifying technological convergence patent applications by the scope of convergence, the declining inter-field and inter-sector technological convergence has caused a decrease in the number of technological convergence patent applications since 2011. An analysis of the correlations between the strategies and performance of technological convergence indicates that ICT firms’ licensing activities play a positive role in creating technologically convergent performance. Specifically, cooperative innovation strategies for not only licensing but also external research contracts and joint research are determined to positively affect performance in inter-sector technological convergence. Meanwhile, only the licensing strategy in inter-field convergence correlates with technological convergence performance. These results will help interpret the driving forces of technological convergence.
The Idea Factory

This article outlines the Idea Factory exercise, an interactive exercise designed to help participants examine group, individual, and organizational factors that affect intergroup conflict. Specific emphasis is placed on exploring the relationship between intra- and intergroup dynamics and identifying managerial practices that foster effective collaboration. The article reviews the relevant literature on intergroup dynamics and includes detailed directions for implementing and debriefing the exercise. The appendixes include facilitator(s) notes, participant instructions, debriefing suggestions, and sample agendas. The article concludes with the results of a participant survey, providing evidence that the Idea Factory exercise achieves its learning objectives.
Improving Reading Skills of Students With Disabilities Using Headsprout Comprehension

Reading comprehension is a critical skill for school success. Struggling readers can benefit from computer-assisted instruction that utilizes components of effective instruction (e.g., frequent practice, immediate feedback). The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Headsprout Comprehension, a computer-assisted reading program, on the reading comprehension of six elementary students with high-incidence disabilities (i.e., learning disabilities, emotional disturbance, and other health impairment–attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (OHI-ADHD). A multiple baseline across participants’ design demonstrated that Headsprout Comprehension was functionally related to substantial increases in reading comprehension for all six participants as measured by Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA) passage comprehension questions and AIMSweb Maze assessments.
The Homogenization of “ Old ” and “ New ” Social Movements : A Comparison of Participants in May Day and Climate Change Demonstrations

We assess whether the distinction between old and new social movements still holds by examining the social class and value orientations of participants in old and new social movement protests. We argue that new cleavages have emerged from globalization, affecting not only electoral politics, but also contentious politics, and thereby having a homogenization effect on the structural basis of movements of the left. Moreover, we hypothesize that traditional cleavages, such as class mediate the homogenization effect of new cleavages. We look at participants in May Day and climate change demonstrations in Belgium and Sweden, two countries that differ in terms of strength of class cleavage. Results show that there is evidence of homogenization between old and new social movements and that this effect is more important when the class cleavage is stronger. EGGERT, Nina, GIUGNI, Marco. The Homogenization of “Old” and “New” Social Movements: A Comparison of Participants in May Day and Climate Change Demonstrations. Mobilization, 2012, vol. 17, no. 3, p. 335-348
Whose hand rocks the cradle? Parallel discourses in the baby room

This article explores the practice narratives of a group of 25 caregivers who work with babies in daycare settings in England and seeks to illustrate awareness of, resistance to and compliance with powerful discourses. It is argued that multiple voices exert an influence over baby room practice, disempowering the caregivers and reducing their capacity to practise in ways that meet the ‘babies’ best interests’. Yet there may also be ways in which they collude in their own oppression. Opportunities to engage in professional dialogue, reflection and critique as a means of conscientizaçāo (conscientization or ‘dialogic cultural action’ as described by Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed [London: Penguin, 1970], 141) are rare. When offered, these may simultaneously increase participants’ awareness of discourses of performativity and inadequacy and heighten feelings of powerlessness, but may also offer a space in which to nourish professional knowledge and understanding and the self-confidence to challenge and resist privileged voices that sustain a hegemony.
Multiphase Shape Optimization Problems

This paper is devoted to the analysis of multiphase shape optimization problems, which can formally be written as $\min \{{g}((F_1(\Omega_1),\dots ,F_h(\Omega_h))+ m|\bigcup_{i=1}^h\Omega_i| :\ \Omega_i \subset D,\ \Omega_i\cap \Omega_j =\emptyset\},$ where $D\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ is a given bounded open set, $|\Omega_i|$ is the Lebesgue measure of $\Omega_i$, and $m$ is a positive constant. For a large class of such functionals, we analyze qualitative properties of the cells and the interaction between them. Each cell is itself a subsolution for a (single-phase) shape optimization problem, from which we deduce properties like finite perimeter, inner density, separation by open sets, absence of triple junction points, etc. As main examples we consider functionals involving the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian of each cell, i.e., $F_i=\lambda_{k_i}$.
Perceived Effectiveness of Mainstreaming in Iowa and Kansas Schools

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived status of mainstreaming among music educators in Iowa and Kansas. A questionnaire was developed with items concerning years and type of teaching experience; area of music instruction; amount of educational preparation in special education; extent of instructional support in main-streaming students into regular music classes; the extent to which musical and nonmusical goals are primary concerns of music educators; the degree of difficulty in mainstreaming students with various handicapping conditions; and the perceived success of mainstreaming. Results of the study revealed the following: (1) slight differences among general, choral, and instrumental music specialists in their perceptions regarding mainstreaming; (2) no significant difference in responses among music educators with varied experience in working with mainstreamed students; (3) a low level of educational preparation for most music educators working with mainstreamed students; (4) a positive correlation between perceived success in mainstreaming and extent of instructional support; (5) consensus that students with certain types of handicapping conditions are more difficult to integrate into the music classroom; and (6) lack of consensus in primary instructional objectives for handicapped students.
Birds of Wasulu: Freedom of expression and expressions of freedom in the popular music of Southern Mali

Wassoulou is a type of semi‐acoustic music that has been popular in Mali since the 1970s. This paper, an ethnography of wassoulou, traces its roots to the music of masquerade and the hunters’ traditions of the Wasulu region in the south, and explores the ways in which the cultural worlds of these traditions are evoked through the music. Wassoulou performers are called birds (kono) and occupy a social r61e that allows them to comment on social issues with impunity, with gender playing an important part
Aalborg Universitet Dynamic Modeling of Renal Blood Flow in Dahl Hypertensive and Normotensive Rats

A method is proposed in this paper which allows characterization of renal autoregulatory dynamics and efficiency using quantitative mathematical methods. Based on data from rat experiments, where arterial blood pressure and renal blood flow are measured, a quantitative model for renal blood flow dynamics is constructed. The mathematical structure for the dynamics is chosen as a “grey-box model,” i.e. the model structure is inspired from physiology, but the actual parameters is found by numerical methods. Based on a number of experiments, features are extracted from the estimated parameters, which describe myogenic responses and tubuloglomerular feedback responses separately. The method is applied to data from normoand hypertensive Dahl rats, and a discriminator that separates data from normotensive Dahl R rats and hypertensive Dahl S rats is constructed.
Am I an Athlete or a Student? Identity Salience and Stereotype Threat in Student–Athletes

Recent research has documented the pervasive effects of social identities on task performance. Our research examines the influence of the tasks themselves on the salience of competing identities. In Study 1, student-athletes were primed with their athlete identity, their student identity, or no identity. Consistent with research on stereotype threat, those primed with their athlete identity had lower self-regard and performed less well on a challenging math test than did those primed with their student identity. For participants who received no identity prime, performance varied by task: They provided self-ratings similar to participants in the athlete-prime condition but showed test performance similar to participants in the student-prime condition. A second study provided further evidence that the performance of these two tasks elicited different identities among student-athletes.
The relationship between leader-member exchange, organizational inflexibility, perceived organizational support, interactional justice and organizational citizenship behaviour

It has been proposed that issues of organizational behaviours should be incorporated in the study for predicting subordinate citizenship behaviour. This research had one objective: to assess the impact of four behaviours ‐ leader-member exchange, organizational inflexibility, perceived organizational support and interactional justice ‐ on organizational citizenship behaviour. The subjects of this study were all full-time employees with their managers who working in the educational organization in Iran. This study surveyed 220 respondents. The sampling frame of the respondents was obtained from educational organization in Shiraz city in Iran. Data were collected on a structured questionnaire containing standard scales of transformational leadership behaviours, LMX, and organizational citizenship behaviours. After establishing the psychometric properties of the scales, hypotheses were tested through statistical analysis of the data. Results indicate that four variables are more likely to predict citizenship behaviour.
Comparison of cardiovascular risk factors and drug use in 14544 French patients with a history of myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke and/or peripheral arterial disease

Background Atherothrombosis is a systemic disease affecting coronary, cerebral, and lower limb arteries, and requiring secondary prevention measures. Design Data from three observational studies carried out in 1999-2000 (ECLAT1, APRES, PRISMA) were pooled to describe the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and the patterns of drug use in atherothrombotic patients. Methods General practitioners and cardiologists engaged in a private practice and evenly distributed in France recruited consecutive patients who had a history of at least one atherothrombotic event: myocardial infarction (MI), ischaemic stroke, and/or peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Results The sample was composed of 14 544 patients (men: 75.0%, age 75 or older: 31.0%). At least one of the four major risk factors (smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes) was present in 94.3% of the sample. Prevalence of drug use was: 78.8% (antiplatelet agents), 48.5% (statins), 36.7% (beta-blockers), and 33.4% [angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors]. After adjustment for confounders, statins were taken in a significantly larger extent in patients with a history of isolated MI than in those with a previous ischaemic stroke or PAD, or in patients who suffered from both MI and ischaemic stroke. Isolated MI (as compared with ischaemic stroke and PAD) was significantly and independently associated with a higher probability to take antiplatelet agents, beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors. Conclusions At least one conventional risk factor was observed in almost all atherothrombotic patients. Use of preventive drugs was lower in patients with a history of ischaemic stroke or PAD, and should increase, accordingly to the results of recent randomized controlled trials.
Automatically Repairing Network Control Planes Using an Abstract Representation

The forwarding behavior of computer networks is governed by the configuration of distributed routing protocols and access filters---collectively known as the network control plane. Unfortunately, control plane configurations are often buggy, causing networks to violate important policies: e.g., specific traffic classes (defined in terms of source and destination endpoints) should always be able to reach their destination, or always traverse a waypoint. Manually repairing these configurations is daunting because of their inter-twined nature across routers, traffic classes, and policies. Inspired by recent work in automatic program repair, we introduce CPR, a system that automatically computes correct, minimal repairs for network control planes. CPR casts configuration repair as a MaxSMT problem whose constraints are based on a digraph-based representation of a control plane's semantics. Crucially, this representation must capture the dependencies between traffic classes arising from the cross-traffic-class nature of control plane constructs. The MaxSMT formulation must account for these dependencies whilst also accounting for all policies and preferring repairs that minimize the size (e.g., number of lines) of the configuration changes. Using configurations from 96 data center networks, we show that CPR produces repairs in less than a minute for 98% of the networks, and these repairs requiring changing the same or fewer lines of configuration than hand-written repairs in 79% of cases.
Evaluating Surgeon-Specific Performance for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Importance Several identified factors have raised questions concerning the quality of care for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS), including the presence of large geographic variation in the rates and extent of surgery, poorly defined indications, and lack of ESS-specific quality metrics. Combined with the risk of major complications, ESS represents a high-value target for quality improvement. Objective To evaluate differences in surgeon-specific performance for ESS using a risk-adjusted, 5-year ESS revision rate as a quality metric. Design, Setting, and Participants This retrospective study used a population-based administrative database to study adults (≥18 years of age) with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) who underwent primary ESS in Alberta, Canada, between March 1, 2007, and March 1, 2010. The study period ended in 2015 to provide 5 years of follow-up. Interventions Endoscopic sinus surgery for CRS. Main Outcomes and Measures Primary outcomes were the 5-year observed and risk-adjusted ESS revision rate. Logistic regression was used to develop a risk adjustment model for the primary outcome. Results A total of 43 individual surgeons performed primary ESS in 2168 patients with CRS. Within 5 years after the primary ESS procedure, 239 patients underwent revision ESS, and the mean crude 5-year ESS revision rate was 10.6% (range, 2.4%-28.6%). After applying the risk adjustment model and 95% CI to each surgeon, 7 surgeons (16%) had lower-than-expected performance and 2 surgeons (5%) had higher-than-expected performance. Three variables had significant associations with surgeon-specific, 5-year ESS revision rates: presence of nasal polyps (odds ratio [OR], 2.07; 95% CI, 1.59-2.70), more annual systemic corticosteroid courses (OR, 1.33; 95% CI, 1.19-1.48), and concurrent septoplasty (OR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.55-0.89). Conclusions and Relevance Evaluating surgeon-specific performance for ESS may provide information to assist in quality improvement. Although most surgeons had comparable risk-adjusted, 5-year ESS revision rates, 16% of surgeons had lower-than-expected performance, indicating a potential to improve quality of care. Future studies are needed to evaluate more surgeon-specific variables and validate a risk adjustment model to provide appropriate feedback for quality improvement.
Low Prevalence Search for Cancers in Mammograms: Evidence Using Laboratory Experiments and Computer Aided Detection

People miss a large proportion of targets when they only appear rarely. This Low Prevalence (LP) Effect could lead to serious consequences if it occurred in the real-world task of searching for cancers in mammograms. Using a novel mammogram search task, we asked participants to search for a prespecified cancer (Experiments 1–2) or a range of masses (Experiments 3–5) under high or low prevalence conditions. Experiment 1 showed that an LP Effect occurred using these stimuli. Experiment 2 tested an overreliance hypothesis and showed that the use of Computer Aided Detection (CAD) led to fewer missed cancers with a valid CAD prompt yet, a large proportion of cancers were missed when CAD was incorrect. Experiment 3–5 showed that false alarms also increased when searching for a range of masses and that CAD reduced miss errors when it correctly cued the target but increased miss errors and false alarms when it did not. Furthermore, when a mass fell outside the CAD prompt it was more likely to be misidentified. No LP Effect was observed with the addition of CAD when people were asked to search for a range of targets. Theories and implications for mammogram search are discussed.
SELLER REPUTATION AS A DETERMINANT OF PRICE IN ONLINE AUCTIONS : THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM GIFT CARD SALES

This study examines the impact of a seller’s reputation on sale price in online auctions. A model of bidding behavior demonstrates how a faulty reputation signal, in terms of its ability to convey information to potential bidders, may cause the bidder with the highest valuation of the item to lose the auction to a bidder with a lower valuation. Data from 2,002 auctions of gift cards provide evidence that the reputation component, as currently formulated by eBay, has a very small, though significant, impact on price. The lack of information contained in the reputation score may be responsible for its ineffectiveness, and several possibilities for improvement are presented.
Searching for the Peach Blossom Shangri-La: Student Engagement of Men and Women SMET Majors

This study examined the extent to which women and men majoring in science, math, engineering, and technology (SMET) fields engaged in a broad array of effective educational practices. Women in SMET fields were generally as, or more, engaged in educationally fruitful activities as their male counterparts. The results of this study, when combined with other research, suggest that women may experience greater gender parity in math and science fields in college than in either high school or the post-college SMET workplace.
Use of Procalcitonin Assays to Predict Serious Bacterial Infection in Young Febrile Infants.

IMPORTANCE The procalcitonin (PCT) assay is an accurate screening test for identifying invasive bacterial infection (IBI); however, data on the PCT assay in very young infants are insufficient. OBJECTIVE To assess the diagnostic characteristics of the PCT assay for detecting serious bacterial infection (SBI) and IBI in febrile infants aged 7 to 91 days. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A prospective cohort study that included infants aged 7 to 91 days admitted for fever to 15 French pediatric emergency departments was conducted for a period of 30 months (October 1, 2008, through March 31, 2011). The data management and analysis were performed from October 1, 2011, through October 31, 2014. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The diagnostic characteristics of the PCT assay, C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration, white blood cell (WBC) count, and absolute neutrophil cell (ANC) count for detecting SBI and IBI were described and compared for the overall population and subgroups of infants according to the age and the duration of fever. Laboratory test cutoff values were calculated based on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. The SBIs were defined as a pathogenic bacteria in positive culture of blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, or stool samples, including bacteremia and bacterial meningitis classified as IBIs. RESULTS Among the 2047 infants included, 139 (6.8%) were diagnosed as having an SBI and 21 (1.0%) as having an IBI (11.0% and 1.7% of those with blood culture (n = 1258), respectively). The PCT assay offered an area under the curve (AUC) of ROC curve similar to that for CRP concentration for the detection of SBI (AUC, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.75-0.86; vs AUC, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.75-0.85; P = .70). The AUC ROC curve for the detection of IBI for the PCT assay was significantly higher than that for the CRP concentration (AUC, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.83-0.99; vs AUC, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.65-0.89; P = .002). Using a cutoff value of 0.3 ng/mL for PCT and 20 mg/L for CRP, negative likelihood ratios were 0.3 (95% CI, 0.2-0.5) for identifying SBI and 0.1 (95% CI, 0.03-0.4) and 0.3 (95% CI, 0.2-0.7) for identifying IBI, respectively. Similar results were obtained for the subgroup of infants younger than 1 month and for those with fever lasting less than 6 hours. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE The PCT assay has better diagnostic accuracy than CRP measurement for detecting IBI; the 2 tests perform similarly for identifying SBI in febrile infants aged 7 to 91 days.
Quality Improvement in Neurology: AAN Parkinson Disease Quality Measures

# {#article-title-2} To the Editor: The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) quality measures represent an important advance in attempting to ensure that all patients with Parkinson disease (PD) receive holistic, optimal care.1 However, the need for regular assessment of the caregiver was not mentioned in this article. There is physical and psychological stress associated with caregiving for patients with PD and related disorders, arguably the most neglected aspect of PD care. The latter stages of PD, especially when accompanied by dementia and psychosis, are demanding for the caregiver, who is often compromised by sleep deprivation, his or her own medical problems, and physical …