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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Well‐Being: Implications for a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Framework

Objective It has been acknowledged that the mental health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been “bedeviled” by the inappropriate application of non‐Indigenous models of mental health. To enhance Indigenous health and well‐being it is necessary for non‐Indigenous practitioners to find a culturally safe way to enter the negotiated space of cross‐cultural mental health. This will be facilitated through understanding both the points of similarity and divergence in perspectives of mental health across cultures. The current study aimed to explore urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander's understandings of mental health using a social emotional well‐being and cognitive behavioural framework. Method A qualitative research project was conducted with a sample of 19 Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Data were collected via individual semi‐structured interviews and focus groups. Thematic analysis was conducted to identify themes within the data. Results Qualitative: Four themes emerged as reflecting health and well‐being—coping skills, knowledge, social support, and connectedness. The theme of connectedness to country, family and kinship, cultural knowledge, and social networks emerged as reflecting a unique contribution to Indigenous health and well‐being. However, the themes of coping skills, knowledge, and social support shared cross‐cultural meaning. In particular, coping skills identified in the behavioural, emotional, and cognitive domains shared many cross‐culturally applicable avenues for intervention. Conclusions Therapeutic interventions in these domains are already well established within cognitive behaviour therapies. Cross‐cultural understandings within these themes offer clinicians a culturally safe avenue for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well‐being.
Use of CDMA Acoustic Telemetry to Document 3-D Positions of Fish: Relevance to the Design and Monitoring of Aquatic Protected Areas

Knowledge of animal spatial ecology is essential for the design and siting of proposed aquatic protected areas (APAs), as well as the assessment and monitoring of existing ones. Acoustic telemetry is one of the primary tools for the assessment of animal movements in aquatic systems through either manual tracking or the establishment of fixed receiving stations. Recent technological developments in code division multiple access (CDMA) acoustic telemetry now enable the simultaneous real-time monitoring of numerous individual fish at fine time scales providing APA researchers with a robust new tool. Fish can be positioned in three-dimensions with sub-meter accuracy in both deep and shallow waters. Here, we describe a whole-lake environmental observatory that includes a 13-hydrophone acoustic telemetry array that has been used to monitor the position of 22 tagged fish at 15 sec intervals. Although we use a freshwater fish and environment as a case study, this telemetry system is equally useful for marine environments including under-ice. We evaluate the applicability of CDMA MAP technology to address pressing questions in applied APA research. The CDMA MAP system provides the flexibility to collect information at multiple spatialtemporal scales, responding to the varied levels of detail and precision required for different applications in APA research. When combined with the suite of other telemetry and monitoring approaches available, CDMA MAP technology will enable researchers to document the spatial ecology essential for improving APA science. Furthermore, because numerous animals from different trophic levels can be tracked in real time, CDMA MAP technology will also aid in our understanding of complex community-level dynamics consistent with the shift towards ecosystem-based APA management.
Stability and Bifurcations in Neural Fields with Finite Propagation Speed and General Connectivity

A stability analysis is presented for neural field equations in the presence of finite propagation speed along axons and for a general class of connectivity kernels and synaptic properties. Sufficient conditions are given for the stability of equilibrium solutions. It is shown that the propagation delays play a significant role in nonstationary bifurcations of equilibria, whereas the stationary bifurcations depend only on the connectivity kernel. In the case of nonstationary bifurcations, bounds are determined on the frequencies of the resulting oscillatory solutions. A perturbative scheme is used to calculate the types of bifurcations leading to spatial patterns, oscillations, and traveling waves. For high propagation speeds a simple method is derived that allows the determination of the bifurcation type by visual inspection of the Fourier transforms of the kernel and its first moment. Results are numerically illustrated on a class of neurologically plausible systems with combinations of Gaussian excitat.
Analysis of packet interference and aggregated throughput in a cluster of Bluetooth piconets under different traffic conditions

In a Bluetooth piconet, the Master essentially controls the channel. Due to an absence of coordination between independent Masters while accessing the wireless medium, devices will encounter high packet interference if several piconets are simultaneously operating in the same area. Since even a headset and a mobile phone can be connected with a Bluetooth link forming a piconet, it may not be unusual to find tens of independent piconets in crowded places like airports, international conferences, shopping malls, and so on. Study of packet interference is important because interference affects the throughput of a piconet. Motivated by the fact that applications will benefit, in terms of higher available data rate in one direction, by using multiple-slot packets in an asymmetric manner, in this paper, we present an analytical model of packet interference in a cluster of piconets using multiple-slot packets. Also, considering that all the portable devices can have a Bluetooth interface and people are highly mobile these days, it will not be uncommon to find a cluster of piconets of both the 79-hop and the 23-hop types in the same area. We then present an analytical model of interference of multiple-slot packets in a heterogeneous cluster of Bluetooth piconets. By a heterogeneous cluster we mean some piconets are of the 23-hop type and the rest are of 79-hop type. We show how the aggregate throughput in a cluster of piconets degrade under various traffic scenarios, such as 1-slot, 3-slot, and 5-slot packets in symmetric and asymmetric modes in synchronous and asynchronous conditions of Master clocks. Our analytic model is based on the idea of probabilistic graphs, where a node denotes a piconet and an edge denotes the probability of interference between two nodes. Though the 23-hop system has been phased out, our work gives a general approach to model packet interference in multiple, frequency-hopping systems that need not be Bluetooth systems.
Unsupervised Part of Speech Tagging Without a Lexicon

Unsupervised dependency parsing frequently assume that input sentences have already been labeled with POS tags. Likewise, most unsupervised POS taggers (including those proposed by [1] and [2]) either produce numeric labels on words without providing a mapping to POS tags or they rely on language specific lexical information such as lists reporting the possible tags that some or all of the words can take. However, linguists have devoted decades of research toward identifying features of word order in various languages and toward understanding principles that influence the structure of natural languages in general [3] [4].
A Process Algebraic Approach to Concurrent and Distributed Quantum Computation: Operational Semantics

Full formal descriptions of algorithms making use of quantum principles must take into account both quantum and classical computing components and assemble them so that they communicate and cooperate. Moreover, to model concurrent and distributed quantum computations, as well as quantum communication protocols, quantum to quantum communications which move qubits physically from one place to another must also be taken into account. Inspired by classical process algebras, which provide a framework for modeling cooperating computations, a process algebraic notation is defined, named QPAlg for Quantum Process Algebra, which provides a homogeneous style to formal descriptions of concurrent and distributed computations comprising both quantum and classical parts. On the quantum side, QPAlg provides quantum variables, operations on quantum variables (unitary operators and measurement observables), as well as new forms of communications involving the quantum world. The operational semantics makes sure that these quantum objects, operations and communications operate according to the postulates of quantum mechanics.
Determining Functional/Health Status and Its Relation to Disability in Stroke Survivors

Determining the functional/ health status of stroke survivors poses special difficulties because of cognitive impairments that frequently result from stroke. A possible means of assessing the status of stroke survivors who are cognitively impaired is getting proxy responses from a family member or other caregiver. Proxy agreement was evaluated for two measures of functional/ health status, the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) and the Health Status Questionnaire (HSQ), and a measure of disability, the Functional Independence Measure (FIM). Methods Thirty-eight stroke survivors were administered the measures at follow-up (median time since the stroke, 6 months). Caregivers were instructed to answer as proxies for the stroke survivors in their care. Demographics on age, sex, race, marital status, educational level, side of lesion, and relation of stroke survivor to caregiver were collected. Results Proxy agreement was excellent for the FAI (intraclass correlation,.85) and the FIM (.87), but poor for the HSQ scales (average proxy agreement,.32). Patients' scores were low and positively skewed for the FAI but high and negatively skewed for the FIM. Although Spearman p coefficients between the measures were fairly high for both stroke survivors and proxy respondents, the correlation of scores was substantially weaker when the group of less severely impaired survivors (as established by FIM ratings) was considered separately. Conclusions The FAI and the FIM are useful for assessing the functional/health status of stroke survivors because answers can be obtained by proxy. Future studies should examine the relations between disability and functional/health status, with explicit attention paid to variations in the level of disability in the stroke survivors.
The Effects of Formal Controls on Supervisee Trust in the Manager in New Product Selling: Evidence from Young and Inexperienced Salespeople in China*

How should sales managers enhance the support and commitment of young, inexperienced salespeople during a new product selling? Some scholars have suggested sales managers should use formal controls (i.e., output and process controls) to develop the salespeople’s trust in their benevolence. Drawing on a sample of young, inexperienced salespeople with rather low education selling new products in China’s competitive, volatile, and transitional economic environment, the present study investigates the relationship between output and process controls and supervisee trust (i.e., the salesperson’s trust in the sales manager). The empirical results of the study suggest that process and output controls have differential effects on supervisee trust. Specifically, the results indicate that process control enhances supervisee trust by itself and also under conditions of intense training for new product selling and when market volatility is perceived as high. However, process control hinders supervisee trust when the manager is long-term oriented and engages in participative supervision. It was found that output control engenders supervisee trust when the manager is long-term oriented but hinders supervisee trust when salespeople have undergone intensive training for new product selling. Implications of these results are provided for both researchers and practitioners involved in launching and selling new products.
Education and Women's Labour Market Outcomes in India

In this paper, we pose the question: to what extent is education responsible for the differential labour market outcomes of women and men in urban India? In particular, we investigate the extent to which education contributes to women's observed lower labour force participation and earnings than men, and whether any contribution of education to the gender wage differential is explained by men and women's differential educational endowments or by labour market discrimination. Our findings suggest that women do suffer high levels of wage discrimination in the Indian urban labour market, but that education contributes little to this discrimination: the wage-disadvantage effect of women's lower years of education than men is entirely offset by the wage-advantage effect of women's higher returns to education than men's. The data also indicate that, for both men and women, returns to education rise with education level, confirming the findings of other recent educational rate of return studies in India and elsewhere.
Path Model for a Level-Zero Extremal Weight Module over a Quantum Affine Algebra (Combinatorial Representation Theory and Related Topics)

We give a path model for a level zero extremal weight module over a quantum affine algebra. By using this result, we prove a branching rule for an extremal weight module with respect to a Levi subalgebra. Furthermore, we also show a decomposition rule of Littelmann type for the concatenation of path models for an integrable highest weight module and a level zero extremal weight module in the case where the extremal weight is minuscule.
Antibodies to Infliximab and Adalimumab in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Clinical Remission: A Cross-Sectional Study

Objective. To investigate if antibodies towards biological TNF-α inhibitors (anti-TNFi Abs) are present in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in clinical remission and to relate any anti-TNFi Abs to circulating level of TNF-α inhibitor (TNFi). Methods. Patients with RA, treated with infliximab or adalimumab, and in clinical remission (DAS28(CRP) < 2.6) were included from 6 out-patient clinics. In blood samples, presence of anti-TNFi Abs was determined by radioimmunoassay, and concentration of bioactive TNFi was measured by a cell-based reporter gene assay. Results. Anti-TNFi Abs were present in 8/44 patients (18%) treated with infliximab and 1/49 patients (2%) treated with adalimumab (p = 0.012). In the former group, anti-TNFi Abs corresponded with low levels of TNFi (p = 0.048). Anti-TNFi Ab-positive patients had shorter disease duration at initiation of TNFi therapy (p = 0.023) but were similar for the rest of the compared parameters. Conclusions. In RA patients in clinical remission, anti-TNFi Abs occur frequently in patients treated with infliximab, while they occur rarely in patients treated with adalimumab. Presence of anti-infliximab Abs is accompanied by low or undetectable levels of infliximab. These data suggest that continued infliximab treatment may be redundant in a proportion of RA patients treated with infliximab and in clinical remission.
Longitudinal Relations between Emotional Awareness and Aggression in Early Adolescence: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation

LONGITUDINAL RELATIONS BETWEEN EMOTIONAL AWARENESS AND AGGRESSION IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMOTION DYSREGULATION By Benjamin V. Rosen, M.S. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016 Major Director: Terri Sullivan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology High prevalence rates exist for physical (i.e., threatened or actual physical force) and relational (i.e., actions meant to harm another’s social relationships) aggression within early adolescence, and these behaviors lead to detrimental social, physical, and mental health outcomes. Thus, there is a need to identify risk and protective processes related to these subtypes of aggression, especially those that can inform violence prevention efforts. Prior studies including early adolescents have shown emotion dysregulation to be a risk factor for aggression. However, few studies have incorporated the emotional competence process of poor emotional awareness, which may be a risk factor for emotion dysregulation and, in turn, for aggression. Furthermore, little research has assessed relations between subtypes of emotion dysregulation (i.e., anger and sadness) and physical and relational aggression. The current study examined longitudinal relations between poor emotional awareness and these subtypes of emotion dysregulation and aggression, as well as concurrent pathways between the emotion dysregulation and aggression variables. Exploratory tests for gender differences were also conducted. Rating scales were collected from 528 sixth graders (51% girls, 49% boys; missing data n = 8) and their teachers over a six month period in the fall and spring of the school year. Across the full sample, 65% of students identified as African-American, 19% European-American, 2%, Hispanic Latino, 11% Multiracial, and 3% as “Other”(missing data n = 8). Results indicated no significant differences by gender in the strength of relations between study variables. Poor emotional awareness was not directly related to changes in subsequent frequency of physical or relational aggression. However, poor emotional awareness at Time 1 was associated with later rates of anger and sadness dysregulation. Furthermore, an indirect effect was found for poor emotional awareness on both physical and relational aggression via anger dysregulation, and this was true for studentand teacher-rated outcomes. Sadness dysregulation showed a negative concurrent association with teacher-rated physical aggression; and there was an indirect effect of poor emotional awareness on teacher-rated physical aggression via sadness dysregulation. Study findings have important implications for theoretical treatises, youth violence prevention programs, and future directions for research, which are all discussed.
Modeling Litho-Constrained Design Layout

This paper derived a method of modeling litho-constrained layout in design stage. The model applies directly on design layout and does not require mask-synthesis steps. Results show we can capture design-relevant litho "hot-spots" within a matter of an hour on a large full-chip data. This method proves that the hot- spot information is embedded in original design layout and can be extracted with strong signal. This method enables a designer to correct real hot-spots before tape-out. It provides a mechanism to quantify the sensitivity of layout configuration to lithography printability and to guide OPC to focus on litho-sensitive regions.
Hypercapnic exposure in Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome reveals central nervous system respiratory control mechanisms

Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (CCHS) patients show impaired ventilatory responses and loss of breathlessness to hypercapnia, yet arouse from sleep to high CO 2 , suggesting intact chemoreceptor afferents. The syndrome provides a means to differentiate brain areas controlling aspects of breathing. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine brain structures responding to inspired 5% CO 2 / 95% O 2 in 14 CCHS patients and 14 controls. Global signal changes induced by the challenge were removed on a voxel-by-voxel basis. A priori-defined volume-of-interest time trends (assessed with repeated measures ANOVA), and cluster analysis based on modeling each subject to a step function (individual model parameter estimates evaluated with t-tests, corrected for multiple comparisons) revealed three large response clusters to hypercapnia distinguishing the two groups, extending from the: 1) posterior thalamus through the medial midbrain to the dorsolateral pons, 2) right caudate nucleus, ventrolaterally through the putamen and ventral insula to the mid-hippocampus, 3) deep cerebellar nuclei to the dorsolateral cerebellar cortex bilaterally. Smaller clusters and defined areas of group signal differences in the midline dorsal medulla, amygdala bilaterally, right dorsal-posterior temporal cortex, and left anterior insula also emerged. In most sites, early transient or sustained responses developed in controls, with little, or inverse change in CCHS subjects. Limbic and medullary structures regulating responses to hypercapnia differed from those previously demonstrated to mediate loaded breathing ventilatory response processing. The findings demonstrate the significant roles of cerebellar and Respiratory control in hypercapnia 2 basal ganglia sites in responding to hypercapnia, and illustrate thalamic and midbrain participation in breathing control.
Application of a Conductive Polymer Electronic-nose Device to Identify Aged Woody Samples

The identification of aged woody samples is often a difficult task as a result of weathering and physical deterioration over time which removes or obscures distinguishing anatomical features and characteristics required for visual taxonomic determinations. Fortunately, the chemical characteristics of aged woods usually are preserved better than physical characteristics if the wood remains dry in storage. All wood types, determined by the particular plant species from which woody samples are derived, produce and release a unique complex of volatile organic compounds that distinguish individual wood types when headspace volatiles (containing these unique chemical mixtures) are collectively analyzed using an electronic gas-sensing device such as an electronic nose. The advantage of electronic-nose devices over conventional analytical-chemistry instruments, typically used in laboratory chemical analyses, is that the woody source (plant species) from which headspace volatiles are derived may be identified without having to identify individual chemical compounds present in the headspace analyte mixture. Methods were developed for a conductive polymer type electronic nose gas- sensing device, the Aromascan model A32S, to accurately identify aged woody samples derived from wood pieces held in dry storage for long periods of time. An aroma library was developed using diagnostic aroma profile databases (electronic aroma signature patterns) from known woods of numerous tree species. The A32S electronic nose was capable of distinguishing between 44 wood types, providing correct identification determinations at frequencies ranging from 92- 99%. The distribution of aroma class components, defined by wood type for each sample analyzed, also could be determined to indicate the relatedness of volatile aroma components that each sample analyte had in common with individual wood aroma classes. This information was useful for determining the taxonomic relatedness of wood types (plant species) based on the headspace volatiles that were produced. Furthermore, principal component analysis provided precise statistical numerical values (quality factors of significance) that indicated the chemical relatedness between wood volatiles based on pairwise comparisons of organic chemical mixtures from individual wood types.