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Educational psychologist and special educational needs co-ordinator constructions of effective collaborative working: an exploratory study

The current educational and legislative reforms in the United Kingdom have placed effective multi-agency collaboration at the forefront of the professional agenda e.g., the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice (DfE, 2014) in England; and the draft Additional Learning Needs (ALN) Code of Practice in Wales (Welsh Government, 2015; 2017). Central to this process is a shared understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each multi-agency professional. A wealth of research has illustrated incongruities in the perceptions of the role and practice of educational psychologists (EP) between EPs themselves and school professionals e.g. teachers (Kelly & Gray, 2000; Farrell, Jimerson, Kalambouka & Benoit, 2005). Fewer papers have explored barriers and/or facilitators to effective collaboration between the two professional groups (Davies, Howes, & Farrell, 2008). Fewer papers still have focused on comparing Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators’ (SENCo) and EPs’ perceptions of the role in particular (Ashton & Roberts, 2006). As SENCos are important link colleagues for EPs, responsible for co-ordinating support for children and young people with additional learning needs in their educational setting, a clear understanding of the EP role is integral to effective collaborative working. The current study aims: first, to compare and contrast EP and SENCo perceptions of the effectiveness of roles and/or functions of the EP; and second, to explore perceived facilitators and barriers to effective collaborative working between the two professional groups. A mixed-methods approach was used to collect data using questionnaires and focus groups. Forty-two EPs and seventy-two SENCos returned questionnaires representing data from a variety of geographical locations across Wales. Seven EPs and eleven SENCos took part in four focus groups in both rural and urban regions of Wales. Seven superordinate themes were identified including: (1) Interpersonal Relationships; (2) Understanding of Roles; (3) Value of EP involvement; (4) Clarity of the EP role; (5) The School System; and (6) The Wider Context. The final theme (7) Dream and Design includes EP and SENCo suggestions for future practice. These are discussed in relation to perceived facilitators and barriers and key areas of difference and/or similarity between responses. Implications of the present study for the role of EPs are discussed, together with the future directions for research.
The Moving Pose: An Efficient 3D Kinematics Descriptor for Low-Latency Action Recognition and Detection

Human action recognition under low observational latency is receiving a growing interest in computer vision due to rapidly developing technologies in human-robot interaction, computer gaming and surveillance. In this paper we propose a fast, simple, yet powerful non-parametric Moving Pose (MP) framework for low-latency human action and activity recognition. Central to our methodology is a moving pose descriptor that considers both pose information as well as differential quantities (speed and acceleration) of the human body joints within a short time window around the current frame. The proposed descriptor is used in conjunction with a modified kNN classifier that considers both the temporal location of a particular frame within the action sequence as well as the discrimination power of its moving pose descriptor compared to other frames in the training set. The resulting method is non-parametric and enables low-latency recognition, one-shot learning, and action detection in difficult unsegmented sequences. Moreover, the framework is real-time, scalable, and outperforms more sophisticated approaches on challenging benchmarks like MSR-Action3D or MSR-DailyActivities3D.
Neural Correlates of Finger Gnosis

Neuropsychological studies have described patients with a selective impairment of finger identification in association with posterior parietal lesions. However, evidence of the role of these areas in finger gnosis from studies of the healthy human brain is still scarce. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the brain network engaged in a novel finger gnosis task, the intermanual in-between task (IIBT), in healthy participants. Several brain regions exhibited a stronger blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) response in IIBT than in a control task that did not explicitly rely on finger gnosis but used identical stimuli and motor responses as the IIBT. The IIBT involved stronger signal in the left inferior parietal lobule (IPL), bilateral precuneus (PCN), bilateral premotor cortex, and left inferior frontal gyrus. In all regions, stimulation of nonhomologous fingers of the two hands elicited higher BOLD signal than stimulation of homologous fingers. Only in the left anteromedial IPL (a-mIPL) and left PCN did signal strength decrease parametrically from nonhomology, through partial homology, to total homology with stimulation delivered synchronously to the two hands. With asynchronous stimulation, the signal was stronger in the left a-mIPL than in any other region, possibly indicating retention of task-relevant information. We suggest that the left PCN may contribute a supporting visuospatial representation via its functional connection to the right PCN. The a-mIPL may instead provide the core substrate of an explicit bilateral body structure representation for the fingers that when disrupted can produce the typical symptoms of finger agnosia.
Adaptation locale pour la représentation et le débruitage d ’ image à base de motifs locaux

A novel adaptive and exemplar-based approach is proposed for image restoration and representation. The method is based on a pointwise selection of small image patches of fixed size in the variable neighborhood of each pixel. The main idea is to associate with each pixel the weighted sum of data points within an adaptive neighborhood. This method is general and can be applied under the assumption that the image is a locally and fairly stationary process. In this paper, we focus on the problem of the adaptive neighborhood selection in a manner that it balances the accuracy of approximation and the stochastic error, at each spatial position. Thus, the new proposed pointwise estimator automatically adapts to the degree of underlying smoothness which is unknown with minimal a priori assumptions on the function to be recovered. Finally, we propose a practical and simple algorithm with no hidden parameter for image denoising. The method is applied to both artificially corrupted and real images and the performance is very close, and in some cases even surpasses, to that of the already published denoising methods. Also, the method is demonstrated to be valuable for applications in fluorescence microscopy. Key-words: exemplar-based methods, estimation, bias-variance trade-off, restoration, denoising, nonlinear filtering, detection, fluorescence microscopy
Characteristics of tropical and subtropical atmospheric moistening derived from Lagrangian mass balance constrained by measurements of HDO and H2O

Regional tropospheric water balance depends on local mixing rates, moistening and precipitation efficiency associated with cloud processes, and large‐scale moisture advection. Conventional data sets are insufficient to disentangle how these processes affect the regional humidity, and models are limited by their need to parameterize many of the pertinent mechanisms, including precipitation efficiency, evaporation of cloud condensate, and mixing rates. This study provides new insight by constraining a Lagrangian mass balance model with satellite measurements of specific humidity and the HDO/H2O ratio in water vapor. Seasonal estimates of mixing rates, moistening efficiency, isotopic composition of source waters, and effective isotopic fractionation in clouds are calculated. Analysis shows that the water source is dominated by cloud evaporation in the dry subtropics, subcloud rainfall recycling in the humid subtropics, and convective detrainment and postcondensational exchange during tropical monsoons. Moistening efficiency is shown to be as twice as strong over the wintertime subtropics as over other regions. Over monsoonal areas, however, moistening efficiency decreases during times of most intense mixing, since postcondensational exchange and convective recycling effects act to dehydrate and isotopically deplete the local water sources. A robust relationship is found between precipitation efficiency derived from rainfall profile measurements and differences in effective and equilibrium isotopic fractionation rates, suggesting that isotopic observations might enable estimates of this illusive parameter to be inferred directly. In spite of the simple modeling framework employed, the results provide insight in to the gains that can be expected by assimilating satellite observations of isotope ratios into more comprehensive, isotope‐enabled general circulation models.
Exploring gaps between MSW students’ experiences and expectations of field supervision in a Chinese setting

Abstract The quality of field supervision is essential to prepare social work students for professional practice. This qualitative study explored the experiences and expectations of 22 MSW students who received their field supervision at social work professional organizations in mainland China. Findings indicate that there are significant differences between the actual supervision that students received and their expectations with regard to the structure and content of supervision. This study contributes to the literature by clarifying further what the lack of time for supervision and the lack of professional supervision mean in China’s context.
Two-dimensional trust rating aggregations in service-oriented applications

In most existing trust evaluation studies, a single value is computed based on the ratings given to a service provider to indicate the current trust level. This is useful but may not represent the trust features well under certain circumstances. Alternatively, a complete set of trust ratings can be transferred to a service client for local trust calculation. But this obviously creates a big overhead in communication as the data set usually has a large size covering a long service history. In this paper, we present a novel two-dimensional aggregation approach consisting of both vertical and horizontal aggregations of trust ratings. The vertical aggregation calculates the aggregated rating representing the trust level for the services delivered in a small time period. The horizontal aggregation applies our proposed optimal algorithm to determine the minimal number of time intervals, within each of which a trust vector with three values can be calculated to represent all the ratings in that time interval and retain the trust features well. Hence, a small set of trust vectors can represent a large set of trust ratings. This is significant for large-scale trust rating transmission and trust evaluation. Experiments have been conducted to illustrate the properties of our proposed approach.
Bandwidth Reservation On Wireless Networks with RTS/CTS Signalling

There is a growing number of applications that nowadays need Quality of Service guarantees in order to provide their services correctly. Among these applications, we may cite Voice over IP, video-conference, video-on-demand etc. More recently, the spread of wireless networks, and more precisely, ad-hoc networks brought the attention to the need of a mechanism that enables these kinds of services to run properly in such networks. This paper presents a mechanism to provide flow-based Quality of Service on the top of 802.11-based wireless networks taking into account the use of RTS/CTS signalling.
Decitabine Effect on Tumor Global DNA Methylation and Other Parameters in a Phase I Trial in Refractory Solid Tumors and Lymphomas

Purpose: By hypomethylating genes, decitabine may up-regulate factors required for chemotherapeutic cytotoxicity. Platinum-resistant cells may have reduced expression of the copper/platinum transporter CTR1. Experimental Design: Thirty-one patients with refractory malignancies received decitabine 2.5 to 10 mg/m2 on days 1 to 5, and 8 to 12 or 15 to 20 mg/m2 on days 1 to 5. Tumor was assessed for DNA methylation (by LINE assays), apoptosis, necrosis, mitoses, Ki67, DNA methyltransferase (DNMT1), CTR1, and p16. Results: Febrile neutropenia was dose limiting. One thymoma patient responded. Decitabine decreased tumor DNA methylation (from median 51.2% predecitabine to 43.7% postdecitabine; P = 0.01, with effects at all doses) and in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (from 65.3-56.0%). There was no correlation between tumor and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Patients starting decitabine ≤3 versus >3 months after last prior cytotoxic or targeted therapy had lower predecitabine tumor CTR1 scores (P = 0.02), higher p16 (P = 0.04), and trends (P = 0.07) toward higher tumor methylation and apoptosis. Decitabine decreased tumor DNMT1 for scores initially >0 (P = 0.04). Decitabine increased tumor apoptosis (P < 0.05), mitoses (if initially low, P = 0.02), and CTR1 (if initially low, P = 0.025, or if ≤3 months from last prior therapy, P = 0.04). Tumor CTR1 scores correlated inversely with methylation (r = −0.41, P = 0.005), but CTR1 promoter was not hypermethylated. Only three patients had tumor p16 promoter hypermethylation. P16 scores did not increase. Higher blood pressure correlated with lower tumor necrosis (P = 0.03) and a trend toward greater DNA demethylation (P = 0.10). Conclusions: Exposure to various cytotoxic and targeted agents might generate broad pleiotropic resistance by reducing CTR1 and other transporters. Decitabine decreases DNA methylation and augments CTR1 expression through methylation-independent mechanisms.
Present Status and Perspectives on the Use of Alkylresorcinols as Biomarkers of Wholegrain Wheat and Rye Intake

Alkylresorcinols (ARs) were first proposed as potential biomarkers of wholegrain wheat and rye intake a decade ago. Since then there has been a considerable body of research which suggests that ARs do meet most criteria of a biomarker of these foods. Results from human studies on plasma AR and their plasma and urinary metabolites strongly indicate that these compounds are responsive to whole grain wheat and rye intake and are correlated with various measures of AR consumption. This review briefly summarises work on the bioactivities of AR and focuses on aspects related to their use as biomarkers of whole grain wheat and rye intake. Evidence suggests that they thus far broadly fulfil the criteria to act as biomarkers of these cereals. However, there are still gaps in the knowledge on factors relating to the wide interindividual variation, and application to different epidemiological cohorts. Overall, ARs are highly promising biomarkers of whole grain wheat and rye intake and add to our increasing understanding of whole grains and health.
Constrained hypothesis testing and the Cramér-Rao bound

The classical Wald and Rao test statistics are asymptotically equivalent to the generalized likelihood ratio test statistics, while not requiring parameter estimation under both hypotheses, and so they provide lower complexity test statistics. In this paper we develop corresponding variations of the Wald and Rao test for nested hypothesis testing under parameter constraints. The resulting tests incorporate the constrained Cramér-Rao bound formulation from Stoica and Ng, and unify some asymptotic hypothesis testing results. Examples will illustrate key ideas and test performance.
Centrum Voor Wiskunde En Informatica the Tyft/tyxt Format Reduces to Tree Rules

REPORTRAPPORT The tyft/tyxt format reduces to tree rules Abstract. Groote and Vaandrager 5] introduced the tyft/tyxt format for transition system speciications (TSSs), and established that for each TSS in this format that is well-founded, the strong bisimulation it induces is a congruence. In this paper, we construct for each TSS in tyft/tyxt format an equivalent TSS that consists of tree rules only. As a corollary we can give an aarmative answer to an open question, namely whether the well-foundedness condition in the Congruence Theorem of 5] can be dropped. These results extend to tyft/tyxt with negative premises and predicates.
Gestión del tiempo en alumnado universitario con diferentes niveles de rendimiento académico

In this work, we have analyzed the relationship between time management and academic performance in university students. Our initial hypothesis is that students with high level of skills in time management achieve better learning outcomes. The sample consisted of 496 freshman students from two Colombian Universities. We have used a Spanish version of the Time Management Behavior Questionnaire (TMBQ) and we have taken the students’ average academic grades from their first year in the university. To complement this, four focus groups were carried out with students with low or high performance levels, allowing us to know their perspectives about time management. Results show a weak relationship between both variables utilized, in accordance with the results of previous studies. Students with higher grades present better time management than students with low grades, particularly in the sub-scale about perceptions of time control. Group discourses allow us to identify better auto-regulatory time management behaviors in high level performance students. Consequently, we recommend training freshman undergraduates in time management strategies.
Sequence similarity network reveals the imprints of major diversification events in the evolution of microbial life

Ancient transitions, such as between life that evolved in a reducing versus an oxidizing atmosphere precipitated by the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) ca. 2.4 billion years ago, fundamentally altered the space in which prokaryotes could derive metabolic energy. Despite fundamental changes in Earth’s redox state, there are very few comprehensive, proteome-wide analyses about the effects of these changes on gene content and evolution. Here, using a pan-proteome sequence similarity network applied to broadly sampled lifestyles of 84 prokaryotes that were categorized into four different redox groups (i.e., methanogens, obligate anaerobes, facultative anaerobes, and obligate aerobes), we reconstructed the genetic inventory of major respiratory communities. We show that a set of putative core homologs that is highly conserved in prokaryotic proteomes is characterized by the loss of canonical network connections and low conductance that correlates with differences in respiratory phenotypes. We suggest these different network patterns observed for different respiratory communities could be explained by two major evolutionary diversification events in the history of microbial life. The first event (M) is a divergence between methanogenesis and other anaerobic lifestyles in prokaryotes (archaebacteria and eubacteria). The second diversification event (OX) is from anaerobic to aerobic lifestyles that left a proteome-wide footprint among prokaryotes. Additional analyses revealed that oxidoreductase evolution played a central role in these two diversification events. Distinct cofactor binding domains were frequently recombined, allowing these enzymes to utilize increasingly oxidized substrates with high specificity.
The immersive museum

Technological developments open new opportunities to meet the increasing expectations of museum visitors. Although these technologies provide many new possibilities, individual challenges and limitations are rife. Museums should aim to unify many such technologies in order to capture visitor attention, engage interaction and facilitate social activities. By incorporating exhibits, objects, devices and people into a network of interconnected systems, new patterns, interaction types and social relations are expected to emerge. The goal of the research described in this paper is to explore the behavioural patterns emerging from visitors' interaction within the museum environment, how these patterns can be utilised in order to create new engaging and social experiences and how unifications of new technologies can contribute to engaging visitor interactions.
Distance Field Reinitialization for Localized Level Set Methods Diploma

Bibliography 83 Preface Since their introduction by Osher and Sethian [14], level set methods have been used to solve a wide range of problems, including, but not limited to • Photolithography Development, Etching and Deposition in Semi-conductor Manufacturing (see [2]), • Robotic Navigation with Constraints (see [9]). More examples of applications, further references, and a survey can be found in [17, 19]. Also, at the end of this introduction, some figures illustrate the wide area of usage for level set methods. The idea of the level set method is to embed the interface Γ, bounding a (possibly multiple connected) region Ω, as the zero level set of a continuous function Φ (x, t) in one higher dimension, i.e., Γ(t) = { x | Φ (x, t) = 0}. Φ is initialized to be negative inside Ω, positive outside Ω, and zero on Γ(t). Topological breaking and merging thus are well-defined and easily performed. Figure 1 shows such a level set function Φ (x, t). Adalsteinsson and Sethian point out in [1] that the drawback of the level set method, as devised in [14], stems from the expense. Since the interface is embedded as the level set of a higher dimensional function, the increase in computational labor required to solve the problem in a higher dimension can be considerable. This is due to the fact that the equations for the velocity field, which underlie physical laws of motion, have to be recomputed and solved throughout space as well. There are, though, some physical problems, e.g. multiphase incompressible fluid dynamics [20], where the extra dimension of the level set function adds only a small fraction of extra computing time. 1 2 PREFACE Some effort has been made in order to ease the computational labor required by the higher dimensional level set function. Adalsteinsson and Sethian [1] localized the method by defining a so-called tube around the interface that is to be tracked, where the computations take place. For points outside the tube the level set function will not be propagated through time. This " narrow band approach " lowers the computational labor per time step, because only parts of the domain have to be updated. Peng et al. introduced a different approach for localization of the level set method in [15]. They used only the values of the level set function and not the explicit location of points in the domain for …
The Effect of Aging upon the Cell Population of the Mouse Periodontium

This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact ecommons@luc.edu. a debt of gratitude for lhis guidance in this investigation and his counsel in the preparation of I\. he manuscript. These efforts were given with extreme generosity and sincerely appreciated. I am grateful for the oppor-unity to obtain a biologically oriented orthodontic education in a very stimulating environment.ment, counsel and helpful advice. His technical assistance in animal handling was most valuable. To my wonderful parents for· their understanding, patience and financial assistance they have provided during all my years of school. It was with their love and guidance that I was moved toward the professional life and without their great personal sacrifices my education lWould not have been possible.