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A psychoanalytic approach to language delay: When autistic isn't necessarily autism

This paper describes family work with four children from different ethnic backgrounds presenting with autistic features in the context of delayed or deviant language development and, in one case, elective mutism. It begins by describing how psychoanalytic approaches to language development have tended to see the process as underpinned by symbol formation as a compensation for loss of the object. This is contrasted with an approach which, following Bion, emphasizes language development as an aspect of a broad process concerned with enabling emotional experience to become thought. I also emphasize the significance of the survival and development of the self in achieving separation. In the case studies, the paper highlights the degree of trauma in the parents' backgrounds, which had impeded them from containing their children's developmental anxieties. The parents' telling their stories was both valuable to them and enabled them to become more emotionally available to their children. In all cases the work promoted language development and autistic features disappeared or waned considerably after relatively brief intervention. The conclusions discuss the relevance of these findings to the autistic child population, and the value of child psychotherapy to differential diagnosis within the autistic spectrum.
Victimization, Inequality and Welfare During an Economic Recession. A Study of Self-Reported Victimization in Sweden 1988-99

At the beginning of the 1990s, Sweden found herself in an economic crisis that led to a worsening of living conditions and increases in the level of inequality between different social groups. The object of this article is to describe the levels of victimization that have been experienced by a number of different social groups. The central focus is directed at the way victimization is linked to other forms of welfare problem. The analysis focuses on the period 1988-99, examining both differences in levels of problems experienced, and trends over time, among groups whose level of well-being and financial situation have developed in different directions.
XML data integration with OWL: experiences and challenges

XML has evolved to the format of choice for exposing data over the Web. Together with mature and maturing standards for querying XML (XSLT, XPath, and XQuery) the basic infrastructure for integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources is there. However, the versatility of XML as a data model and the unrestricted expressive power of XML query languages can lead to rather complex integration architectures, where low level syntactic heterogeneities and semantic heterogeneities are overcome all at once by means of complex query expressions. This paper explores how the Web Ontology Language OWL can be used as a more abstract modelling layer on top of XML data sources, described by an XML Schema, to which extent the semantic relationships provided by OWL can be used for mapping heterogeneous data sources to a common global schema, and how the inference mechanisms of OWL can be used to check the consistency of such mappings. Moreover, it introduces a query language for OWL as a natural extension of XQuery, and describes how these queries against a global schema are translated to XQueries against the original data sources.
Effects beyond click-through: Incidental exposure to web advertising

While Web advertising tends to be based on a direct response model, there is a growing debate about the brand building potentials of Web ads. Click-through rates (CTR) are disappointingly low, but Web ads can be effective at brand building in an environment where Web ads are outside of consumers' attentional focus. With this in mind we conducted two experiments. The first experiment examined the effects of incidental exposure to banner ads. Subjects who were incidentally exposed to banner ads reported greater priming effects induced by implicit memory, more favorable Aad, and greater likelihood for the advertised brand to be included in a consideration set over no exposure to the ad. These effects were found without significant improvement on explicit memories (i.e. recall and recognition) and click-through intention. The second experiment to assess the conditions conducive to incidental exposure examined two advertising strategies: format (animated vs. static) and placement (congruency vs. incongruency). Findings suggest that the level of congruency between an advertised product and Webpage content play significant roles in affecting consumers' responses to incidentally exposed banner ads. This paper examines the results of these two experiments before discussing the implications for the role of Web ads on brand building and directions for future research.
Negotiating Acts of Citizenship in an Era of Neoliberal Reform: The Game of School Closures

In Ontario, the landscape of public education has changed quite rapidly during the past decade. Critics argue that neoliberal policies concerning privatization and marketization in the education system have produced different outcomes for different groups. One of the most sensitive issues during these years has been the closure of schools. Over three years (1999–2002) nearly 200 schools were closed in Ontario. These many changes, however, have not gone uncontested and communities have adapted to these circumstances in different ways. Acts of citizenship range from coping independently to challenging these changes collectively. This article examines the failures and successes of various acts of citizenship in challenging neoliberal governmental rationalities. More specifically, it traces the difficult process of school closure negotiations using examples from Toronto. Based primarily on participant observation carried out over a year, it examines the politics of the community consultation process among a heterogeneous ‘family of schools’ amid mixed incomes and varying capacities and needs. Through these case studies it explores whether these acts are inclusionary or exclusionary, homogenizing or diversifying, positive or negative. The evolution of the planning process is examined at three different periods (1998, 1999, 2000), demonstrating the slow and steady construction, advancement and legitimization of neoliberal policy, and correspondingly the spaces and citizens it makes and unmakes through this process. The article concludes with a framework of collective action highlighting relational aspects of citizenship that lead to positive or negative consequences for civil society.
A New Image Encryption Method Based on Knight's Travel Path and True Random Number

Internet is an important part in the daily life of people in many ways, which allows the people in any corner of the world to share all types of information. Image encryption is used to transmit sensitive multimedia information in unsecured networks to provide high degree of confidentiality. In this paper, a new image encryption method is proposed based on novel implementation of pixel scan, utilizing the Knight’s Travel Path, and true random number. The Knight’s travel path is a pattern in which the path of a Knight around a chess board is taken without revisiting any node. This travel path pattern is used to permute the pixel positions of the original image to obtain the scrambled image. The scrambled image is further XORed with the random key numbers to get the cipher image. To change the pixel values of the scrambled image, true random numbers are generated from the amplitude values of a chosen noise audio file. Decryption is performed to confirm the reception of the sent image. The proposed method resists the statistical, differential, and entropy attacks significantly which have been demonstrated with various standard images.
Protein surface hydration mapped by site-specific mutations

Water motion at protein surfaces is fundamental to protein structure, stability, dynamics, and function. By using intrinsic tryptophans as local optical probes, and with femtosecond resolution, it is possible to probe surface-water motions in the hydration layer. Here, we report our studies of local hydration dynamics at the surface of the enzyme Staphylococcus nuclease using site-specific mutations. From these studies of the WT and four related mutants, which change local charge distribution and structure, we are able to ascertain the contribution to solvation by protein side chains as relatively insignificant. We determined the time scales of hydration to be 3–5 ps and 100–150 ps. The former is the result of local librational/rotational motions of water near the surface; the latter is a direct measure of surface hydration assisted by fluctuations of the protein. Experimentally, these hydration dynamics of the WT and the four mutants are also consistent with results of the total dynamic Stokes shifts and fluorescence emission maxima and are correlated with their local charge distribution and structure. We discuss the role of protein fluctuation on the time scale of labile hydration and suggest reexamination of recent molecular dynamics simulations.
Myc Localizes to Histone Locus Bodies during Replication in Drosophila

Myc is an important protein at the center of multiple pathways required for growth and proliferation in animals. The absence of Myc is lethal in flies and mice, and its over-production is a potent inducer of over-proliferation and cancer. Myc protein is localized to the nucleus where it executes its many functions, however the specific sub-nuclear localization of Myc has rarely been reported. The work we describe here began with an observation of unexpected, punctate spots of Myc protein in certain regions of Drosophila embryos. We investigated the identity of these puncta and demonstrate that Myc is co-localized with coilin, a marker for sub-nuclear organelles known as Cajal Bodies (CBs), in embryos, larvae and ovaries. Using antibodies specific for U7 snRNP component Lsm11, we show that the majority of Myc and coilin co-localization occurs in Histone Locus Bodies (HLBs), the sites of histone mRNA transcription and processing. Furthermore, Myc localizes to HLBs only during replication in mitotic and endocycling cells, suggesting that its role there relates to replication-dependent canonical histone gene transcription. These results provide evidence that sub-nuclear localization of Myc is cell-cycle dependent and potentially important for histone mRNA production and processing.
Hedging and Coordinated Risk Management : Evidence from Thrift Conversion 1 First Draft : May 1995 Current Draft : December 1995

We provide an explanation for hedging as a means of allocating rather than reducing risk. We argue that firms facing a total risk constraint optimally allocate risk by reducing (increasing) exposure to risks providing zero (positive) economic rents. Our evidence suggests that mutual thrifts which convert to stock institutions reduce interestrate risk through improved balance sheet maturity matching and increased derivatives use at the time of conversion. This interest-rate risk reduction is followed by slower growth in credit risk. Post-conversion, risk management activities are significantly related to growth capacity and management compensation structure attained at conversion. Hedging and Coordinated Risk Management: Evidence from Thrift Conversions This paper proposes an approach for analyzing risk-management decisions when the payoffs to a firm’s portfolio are exposed to multiple sources of risk. In practice, firms reduce some risks while remaining exposed to, or even seeking, other sources of risk. For example, Merck & Co., Inc., states that reducing risk with respect to foreign exchange exposure stabilizes cash flows which allows the firm to increase risk by making investments in research and development (Lewent and Kearney, 1990). This paper provides an explanation for this observed coordination of risk management activities and evidence of this behavior in the savings and loan industry. We consider the situation in which multiple risks are bundled within particular assets or liabilities. The risk of a firm’s assets and liabilities are made up of many components such as input and output price risk, foreign exchange risk, interest-rate risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, market risk, and political risk. Firms are unable to acquire these risks separately in the spot markets. In such a case, firms that are constrained with respect to total risk coordinate their management of these multiple risks. The optimal allocation may include increasing one source of risk while decreasing another within the purchased bundle.l Specific predictions about optimal risk allocation require structure on the definition of “risk. ” We segregate risk into two types based on a firm’s information advantage with respect to the source of risk. Firms earn rents or economic profits for bearing risk about which the firm has a comparative information advantage (compensated risk). By contrast, there are zero economic rents associated with homogeneous risks such as unexpected changes in foreign currency rates or commodity prices (hedgeable risk). If compensated and hedgeable risks are bundled, then the firm’s portfolio problem is constrained since changes in compensated risk must be associated with The term “allocation” is typically used in the existing literature to describe allocation of risk across parties with different risk preferences. (See Mason, 1995.) By contrast, we use the term “allocation” to represent the allocation of total risk between multiple sources such as interest-rate risk or credit risk.
Effect of Entrepreneur Network and Entrepreneur Self-efficacy on Subjective Performance

The article presents results of a study on the impact of entrepreneurial demographic characteristics (age, experience and education), entrepreneurial network structure (size, density and centrality), entrepreneurial network types (competitive and supportive) and entrepreneurial self-efficacy on subjective performance. The sample consisted of 148 micro and small enterprises in a textile handicraft and handloom cluster in Kutch, Gujarat, India. Regression analysis results suggested that size, density, centrality, entrepreneur self-efficacy, competitive network and supportive network predicted subjective performance significantly and together they accounted for about 56 per cent of the variance in the dependent variable. However, the unique contribution of the demographic variables and supportive network was not significant. Results are explained in the light of the theory of social capital and the entrepreneur cognitive theory. The research has implications for policymaking, research and entrepreneurship training and education.
A Review of Crime-Causation Theory and Its Application

Crime control policies are inextricably connected to efforts to understand the causes of crime. As theories of crime causation change, so-imperfectly and with delay-do efforts to contain, prevent, and respond to criminal acts. A tendency to isolate crime control policy from theory has recently developed, influenced in part by the belief that "nothing works," that we do not know how to reduce the future criminality of convicted offenders. The tendency is unfortunate and uninformed. Research and theory in many disciplines and from many perspectives have identified a number of basic notions about crime which can inform criminal policy. Those basic notions-including concern for social ties, social learning, and perceived risks and opportunities-can be integrated into a theory of "differential anticipation" which provides a sound foundation for sensible and hopeful public policies.
Characteristics of the Creative Person

Faculty members in colleges and universities offer creativity courses in a variety of fields of study with the goal of infusing greater creativity into their respective professions. Each teacher strives toward this goal with instructional actions defined by a point of view or personal perspective. To what extent is the perspective of those teaching creativity classes influenced by the literature describing what is needed to be creative? The purpose of this study was twofold: First, it was an attempt to identify the relevant characteristics of a creative person and, second, to use this list of characteristics as a point of reference for a comparison between the perceptions of college faculty (N = 101) and the number of citations related to each characteristic identified. The list of potential characteristics was generated from a content analysis of 67 college course syllabi and used to develop the instrument to collect the reactions of a group of professors identified as teachers of creativity in an American college or university. The list of characteristics served as search descriptors to conduct several database searches yielding a citation count for each characteristic. Results indicate an overall Spearman rho correlation of . 520, which will account for about 25% of the variance. Rank order of important characteristics of creative persons are imagination, openness to experience, inquisitiveness or curiosity, intuition, idea finding, tolerance for ambiguitym independence, innovation, insight, and others. Implications for the conditions of differences are discussed in terms of an indicative history, current academic themes, and a potential research agenda.
Hdm2 Nuclear Export, Regulated by Insulin-like Growth Factor-I/MAPK/p90Rsk Signaling, Mediates the Transformation of Human Cells*

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I receptor activation leads to enhanced proliferation and cell survival via the MAP kinase and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-signaling pathways. Upon stimulation by IGF-I, the Hdm2 oncoprotein is phosphorylated by AKT, leading to its rapid nuclear translocation and subsequent inhibition of p53. We now show that IGF-I stimulation regulates the nuclear export of Hdm2 and p53 via the MAP kinase pathway. Inhibition of p38 MAPK or MEK via pharmacological means or expression of dominant negative proteins inhibited the cytoplasmic accumulation of Hdm2 and increased Hdm2 and p53 protein levels, whereas constitutively active p90Rsk promoted the nuclear export of Hdm2. Expression of constitutively active p90Rsk with E1A, oncogenic H-Ras, and hTERT resulted in the anchorage-independent growth of normal human fibroblasts. Our findings link p90Rsk-mediated modulation of Hdm2 nuclear to cytoplasmic shuttling with the diminished ability of p53 to regulate cell cycle checkpoints that ultimately leads to transformation.
Positive effects of opinion‐count on job satisfaction of team members in business enterprises

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the central role of communication within teams and jobs satisfaction of the participants in business enterprises. “How communication in the team affects job satisfaction of the team member” shaped the design of the study in developing several propositions.Design/methodology/approach – The paper opted for an exploratory study using semi‐structured interviews at two locations, Singapore and Dalian, China. The respondents had taken part in one team, at least, in the past. These respondents were professionals, junior managers, and sales/marketing executives. The data were organized according to the contextual framework developed in the study. The contextual frame was developed by combing attention‐structure with the four phases in a typical team. The concepts and developed constructs were mapped to reach testable propositions.Findings – The paper provides an empirical insight on the relationship between formal teams and their members’ job satisfaction. The fin.
3D Floorplanning with Thermal Vias

3D circuits have the potential to improve performance over traditional 2D circuits by reducing wirelength and interconnect delay. One major problem with 3D circuits is that their higher device density due to reduced footprint area leads to greater temperatures. Thermal vias are a potential solution to this problem. This paper presents a thermal via insertion algorithm that can be used to plan thermal via locations during floorplanning. The thermal via insertion algorithm relies on a new thermal analyzer based on random walk techniques. Experimental results show that, in many cases, considering thermal vias during floorplanning stages can significantly reduce the temperature of a 3D circuit
Avaliação do conhecimento dos profissionais do bloco cirúrgico quanto ao gerenciamento dos resíduos sólidos em saúde

Objetivou-se identificar o conhecimento dos profissionais do bloco cirurgico quanto ao gerenciamento dos residuos solidos em saude. Trata-se de um estudo de abordagem quantitativa, transversal, descritivo, tipo inquerito CAP (conhecimento, atitude e pratica). Realizado no bloco cirurgico de um hospital publico do municipio de Fortaleza, vinculado ao Ministerio da Educacao. Processou-se a coleta de dados nos meses de setembro e outubro de 2011 e a amostra foi composta de 50 profissionais que desenvolviam atividades no setor no periodo no periodo avaliado. Para analise dos dados utilizou-se o coeficiente de correlacao entre o conhecimento, atitude e pratica com dados sociodemograficos dos profissionais. O estudo mostrou a falta de conhecimento dos entrevistados a respeito dos residuos solidos em saude e o interesse deles em adquiri-lo, de modo a refletir positivamente em acoes que contribuam na promocao da saude no meio ambiente. Percebe-se ser fundamental que essas acoes estejam voltadas para os profissionais que produzem esses residuos, por meio de medidas educativas que favorecam o conhecimento e reflitam em sua atitude e pratica diante do descarte adequado do lixo produzido.
Glossolalia: Behavioral Science Perspectives on Speaking in Tongues

Glossolalia or "speaking in tongues" has evoked much speculation as to its causes and meanings. Primarily occurring in instances of religious fervor, glossolalia's recent linkage to psychopathic behavior has prompted numerous studies by social and behavioral scientists. This book summarizes and interprets all of the research done on this phenomenon. The authors explore the different types and settings of glossolalic expression in contemporary Western religion and consider the phenomenon from the perspectives of sociology, psychology, and linguistics. Numerous case studies are included as well as an abundance of the authors' own research on the subject. Glossolalia will be of particular interest to those in the fields of sociology and psychology and to those engaged in counseling glossolalic individuals.