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(2020). Trackly: A Customisable and Pictorial Self-Tracking App to Support Agency in Multiple Sclerosis Self-Care. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20) (Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems).

Self-tracking is an important part of self-care. However, predefined self-tracking approaches can impede people’s agency in managing their health. We investigated a customisable and pictorial self-tracking approach in multiple sclerosis self-management by implementing and conducting a field study of Trackly: a prototype app that supports people in defining and colouring pictorial trackers, such as body shapes. We found that participants utilised the elements of Trackly designed to support agentive behaviour: they defined personally meaningful tracking parameters in their own words, and particularly valued being able to flexibly colour in and make sense of their pictorial trackers. Having been able to support their individual self-care intentions with Trackly, participants reported a spectrum of interrelated experiences of agency, including a sense of ownership, identity, self-awareness, mindfulness, and control. Our findings demonstrate the importance of supporting people’s individual needs and creative capacities to foster mindful and personally meaningful engagement with health and wellbeing data.
Parallel SPARQL Query Processing Using Bobox

—Proliferation of RDF data on the Web creates a need for systems that are not only capable of querying them, but also capable of scaling efﬁciently with the growing size of the data. Parallelization is one of the ways of achieving this goal. There is also room for optimization in RDF processing to reduce the gap between RDF and relational data processing. SPARQL is a popular RDF query language; however current engines do not fully beneﬁt from parallelization potential. We present a solution that makes use of the Bobox platform, which was designed to support development of data-intensive parallel computations as a powerful tool for querying RDF data stores. A key part of the solution is a SPARQL compiler and execution plan optimizer, which were tailored speciﬁcally to work with the Bobox parallel framework. The experiments described in this paper show that such a parallel approach to RDF data processing has a potential to provide better performance than current serial engines.
Diversity of Responding CTL Immunodominance, In Vitro Proliferation, and MHC Class I/Peptide Stability: Implications for

Infection of BALB/c mice with Listeria monocytogenes primes CD8 1 cytotoxic T cells speciﬁc for four different H2-K d -restricted peptides. In vitro restimulation of L. monocytogenes immune splenocytes with each of these peptides resulted in larger T cell responses to p60 217–225 and mpl 84–92 than to LLO 91–99 and p60 449–457. Direct frequency analyses of immune splenocytes, however, revealed that LLO 91–99 and p60 217–225 elicit dominant T cell responses, while p60 449–457 and mpl 84–92 elicit minor, subdominant responses. Restimulation of immune splenocytes with a range of peptide concentrations revealed that T cells with dominant speciﬁcities respond optimally to low peptide concentrations, while T cells speciﬁc for subdominant epitopes expand maximally to high peptide concentrations. This disparity correlates with the stability of H2-K d /epitope complexes: the two dominant epitopes form stable complexes, while the subdominant epitopes form less stable complexes with H2-K d . Interestingly, T cells speciﬁc for LLO 91–99 and p60 217–225 express more complex TCR-V b repertoires than p60 449–457- and mpl 84–92-speciﬁc T cells. Thus, in our system, dominant T cell responses have relatively diverse TCR repertoires and are speciﬁc for peptides that form stable complexes with MHC class I molecules. Determining the precise roles of epitope/MHC class I stability and TCR repertoire in the generation of dominant T cell responses will require further investigation. The Journal of Immunology, 1998, 160: 4441–4448. a the using a microscope. Frequencies of peptide-speciﬁc
Modeling of Ultra-Long Span Bidirectional Raman Transmission Link Using Three-Segment Hybrid Fiber Core Structure

Ultra-long span unrepeatered systems using distributed Raman amplification are cost-effective solutions for bridging moderate transmission distances. However, there are two major limiting factors: nonlinear Kerr effect-induced nonlinear signal distortion and optical signal-to-noise ratio degradation due to spontaneous Raman noise. In this report, we proposed a model of three-segment hybrid fiber effective core area structure and developed a model covering: (1) generalized mathematical formulations, (2) analysis of three-segment Raman amplified link, and (3) simulation model of data transmission. The proposed model showed an improvement of the Raman gain profile, a reduction of the negative impact of the nonlinear Kerr effect, and an enhancement of the optical signal-to-noise ratio. A numerical simulation of the transmission performance of the three-segment hybrid structure was compared to conventional single-segment single fiber core structure on 80 Gb/s differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK) modulated data signals over a propagation distance of 390 km. The required optical signal-to-noise ratio was reduced by 2.71 dB to achieve the target error rate without using forward error correction. The numerical model and simulation of various data rates up to 100 Gb/s consistently showed that an improvement in transmission performance could be achieved by using three-segment hybrid fiber effective core area structure.
Tillers of Prosperity: Land Ownership, Reallocation, and Structural Transformation

This paper analyzes the impact of a large-scale land ownership reform on the reallocation of capital and labor, and structural transformation. In prewar Japan, labor was abundant and capital was scarce in the agricultural sector. Using a novel dataset, I show that the land reform enforced by the Allies after World War II, which redistributed a large area of farmlands from landlords to tenants and promoted equality, led farmers to use more low-cost agricultural machines when they became available and to rely less on family labor for production, resulting in an increase in the outmigration of farmers’ children from rural to urban areas and an increase in agricultural income. Then, I quantify the impact of the factor reallocation on the entire economy using a two-sector neoclassical growth model, and find that (a) both labor and capital reallocation affected economic growth, and (b) the standard of living during the postwar period was significantly lower without such reallocation. These results indicate that not only labor, but also capital, including agricultural machines, is an important factor for structural transformation and that the agrarian institution plays a vital role in this process.
The presence of tumour-in ltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and the ratios between different subsets serve as prognostic factors in advanced hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Jie Wang Fudan University Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital Shu Tian Fudan University Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital Ji Sun Fudan University Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital Jiahao Zhang Fudan University Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital Lan Lin Fudan University Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital chunyan hu (  huchy2003@163.com ) Fudan University Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7679-5450
S TRENGTH AND C ONDITIONING P RACTICES OF M AJOR L EAGUE B ASEBALL S TRENGTH AND C ONDITIONING C OACHES

Ebben, W.P., M.J. Hintz, and C.J. Simenz. Strength and conditioning practices of Major League Baseball strength and conditioning coaches. J. Strength Cond. Res. 19(3):538–546. 2005. —This study describes the results of a survey of the practices of Major League Baseball strength and conditioning (MLB S&C) coaches. The response rate was 70.0% (21 of 30). This survey examines (a) background information, (b) physical testing, (c) flexibility development, (d) speed development, (e) plyometrics, (f) strength/power development, (g) unique aspects, and (h) comments. Results indicate, in part, that coaches assess an average of 3.6 parameters of fitness, with body composition testing being the most commonly assessed parameter. All coaches use a variety of flexibility development strategies. All coaches use speed development strategies, with form running drills being the most common. Twenty of 21 (95.2%) coaches employ plyometric exercises with their athletes. Eighteen of 21 (85.7%) of MLB S&C coaches follow a periodization model (PM). Five of 21 coaches (23.8%) indicated that their athletes use Olympic-style lifts. The squat and its variations and the lunge and its variations were most frequently identified as the first and second most important exercises used to train the athletes. This survey provides detailed information about strength and conditioning practices at the most competitive level of baseball and serves as a review, as well as a source of applied information and new ideas.
A new normal?: women's experiences of biographical disruption and liminality following treatment for early stage breast cancer. Medicine,

Increasing numbers of women are surviving breast cancer, but little is known about the long-term implications of having survived a life-threatening illness and living with embodied reminders of its potential to return. Twenty-four women aged between 42 and 80 (median=51)who had been treated for early stage breast cancer in the UK between 6 months and 29 years previously, were recruited through local media and interviewed. Analysis of their narratives revealed challenges in the post-treatment period that were conceptualised as biographical disruption and liminality. Although no longer ill, an ongoing fear of recurrence combined with embodied changes prevented a return to ‘normal’ i.e. a pre-cancer state in terms of health status, identity and relationships. We argue that following the biographical disruption of breast cancer, a ‘new normal’ entails a continual renegotiation of identities, daily lives and futures as time passes and lives evolve.
Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is now recognized as a major and growing public health problem worldwide. This heart failure subtype disproportion-ately affects women and the elderly and is commonly associated with other cardiovas - cular comorbidities, such as hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. There are uncertainties and debates regarding the definition, diagnosis and pathophysiology with the consequence that all outcome trials performed so far cannot yield an effective treatment as in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Here we present an overview of epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapeutic approaches emerging from large outcome clinical trials. Inhibition to Improve Clinical Status and Exercise Capacity in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (RELAX) trial was conducted to investigate the effect of the PDE-5 inhibi -tor, on exercise capacity in HFpEF [57]. At the end of 24 weeks, long-term PDE-5 inhibition in HFpEF had no effect on maximal or submaximal exercise capacity, clinical status, quality of life, left ventricular remodeling, diastolic function parameters, or pulmonary artery systolic pressure.
Exhumation history of eastern Ladakh revealed by Ar-40 / Ar-39 and fission-track ages : the Indus River-Tso Morari transect

Fission-track and Ar/Ar ages place time constraints on the exhumation of the North Himalayan nappe stack, the Indus Suture Zone and Molasse, and the Transhimalayan Batholith in eastern Ladakh (NW India). Results from this and previous studies on a north–south transect passing near Tso Morari Lake suggest that the SW-directed North Himalayan nappe stack (comprising the Mata, Tetraogal and Tso Morari nappes) was emplaced and metamorphosed by c. 50–45 Ma, and exhumed to moderately shallow depths (c. 10 km) by c. 45–40 Ma. From the mid-Eocene to the present, exhumation continued at a steady and slow rate except for the root zone of the Tso Morari nappe, which cooled faster than the rest of the nappe stack. Rapid cooling occurred at c. 20 Ma and is linked to brittle deformation along the normal Ribil–Zildat Fault concomitant with extrusion of the Crystalline nappe in the south. Data from the Indus Molasse suggest that sediments were still being deposited during the Miocene.
Teachers’ technology-related self-images and roles: Exploring CALL teachers’ professional identity

Despite the surge of interest in language teachers’ professional identity (TPI) as an integral component of their professional growth (Barkhuizen, 2017; Clarke, 2018) and the increasing interest in the field of computer assisted language learning (CALL) (Nami et al., 2015), there is still a paucity of research on the professional identity of language teachers who integrate technology with language instruction (CALL teachers). To bridge this gap, the present study explored the components that construct CALL teachers’ professional identity (CALLTPI). The data were collected from a set of in-depth, semi-structured interviews investigating perceptions of 24 CALL informants (educators, experts, professors, and teachers) from different contexts and countries about CALL teachers’ roles in technology integration in English language teaching (ELT). Fifteen sub-components were inferred from the thematic analysis of the interview transcripts as compared against the available literature on CALL teacher education and language teachers’ professional identity. These sub-components corresponded to three major components, namely, CALL teachers’ individual identity, classroom-based identity, and agentive identity. The results can provide CALL teacher educators with implications for designing professional development programs with the aim of developing teachers’ professional identity and enhancing the effectiveness of technology integration in ELT.
Validation of seismic performance of an advanced sand constitutive model on experimental work on soil-structure interaction

: There is a growing number of available advanced soil constitutive models aimed at capturing soil cyclic behaviour and their subsequent use in seismic and offshore applications. Nevertheless, detailed validation studies of these soil constitutive models on benchmark experimental works on offshore or seismic soil-structure interaction are still rare. This work presents validation of seismic performance of an advanced elastoplastic sand constitutive model on a large boundary value problem of soil-structure interaction studied previously experimentally. The elastoplastic constitutive model is innovative in a way of using a hyperelastic law inside the yield surface. The finite element numerical results are compared with the experimental work on a group of piles analysed in a flexible soil container filled with dry sand and subjected to simplified seismic loading. In general, the comparisons show a satisfactory match between the results of the simulations and the experiments and confirm the suitability of the investigated soil constitutive model to carry out predictive seismic geotechnical analysis in the future. on the The comparisons with included under two and two pile head Free
Attend It Again: Recurrent Attention Convolutional Neural Network for Action Recognition

Human action recognition in videos is an important task with a broad range of applications. In this study, we improve the performance of recurrent attention convolutional neural network (RACNN) by proposing a novel model, “attention-again”. We consider the nature of video frames as sequences, which will cause the change of regions of interest in the frame, thus we cannot use an attention mechanism similar to that in images. “Attention-again” model is a variant from traditional attention model for recognizing human activities and is embedded in two long short-term memory (LSTM) layers. Different from hierarchal LSTM which change the LSTM structure to combine the hidden states from two LSTM layers, our proposals introduce “attention-again” model to avoid the change of LSTM structure. Furthermore, this model not only learns the relations in each frame, but also obtains the relations among all frames, and these relations instruct the next learning stage. Therefore, our proposed model outperform the baseline and is superior to methods with the same experimental conditions on three benchmark datasets: UCF-11, HMDB-51 and UCF-101. To understand how the model works, we also visualize the region of interest in the frame.
Using LINE as a Platform for Encouraging Students’ Learning and Participation

– Using online discussion forums and peer-to peer interactive learning currently becomes a common instructional proposition. Such social discourse is educationally adopted to enhance learning and through ideas interchanged in an online setting. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of LINE as an instructional tool complementing language practice to express opinions in an EFL course. In order to examine factors related to student learning performance in the online discussion activity, data were collected from learning score, quantity of interaction, as well as attitude from 83 students. Frequency, mean, and correlation coefficients were employed to analyze. The findings revealed students’ positive attitude toward the online activity, with the highest mean score indicating an enjoyable learning environment. The students’ learning outcome showed positive correlation with frequency of their interaction; however, it was disassociated with their attitude toward the assigned online task. Furthermore, students’ engagement in the learning disclosed no relation with their attitude toward the online educational experience. The finding of the study can be beneficial for online activity course designs in the future. Apparently, student participation is considered a vital variable; thus, motivation strategies are to be carefully planned to facilitate effective online learning.
The Effect of miR-106b-5p Expression in The Production of iPS-Like Cells from Mice SSCs during The Formation of Teratoma and The Three Embryonic Layers

Objective According to the mounting data, microRNAs (miRNAs) may play a key role in reprogramming. miR-106b is considered as an enhancer in reprogramming efficiency. Based on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), cell treatments have a huge amount of potential. One of the main concerns about using iPSCs in therapeutic settings is the possibility of tumor formation. It is hypothesized that a procedure that can reprogram cells with less genetic manipulation reduces the possibility of tumorigenicity. Materials and Methods In this experimental study, miR-106b-5p transduced by pLV-miRNA vector into mice isolated spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) to achieve iPS-like cells. Then the transduced cells were cultured in specific conditions to study the formation of three germ layers. The tumorigenicity of these iPS-like cells was investigated by transplantation into male BALB/C mice. Results We show that SSCs can be successfully reprogrammed into induced iPS-like cells by pLV-miRNA vector to transduce the hsa-mir-106b-5p into SSCs and generating osteogenic, neural and hepatoblast lineage cells in vitro as a result of pluripotency. Although these iPS-like cells are pluripotent, they cannot form palpable tumors in vivo. Conclusion These results demonstrate that infection of hsa-mir-106b-5p into SSCs can reprogram them into iPSCs and advanced germ cell lineages without tumorigenicity. Also, a novel approach for studying the generation of iPSCs and the application of iPS or iPS-like cells in regenerative medicine is presented.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EMPATHY IN COUNSELLING

: The objective of this research is to investigate how empathy is constructed. The literature displays substantial evidence that empathy is a key component of the therapeutic alliance across theories and that empathy is required in the counselling process. Also taking into account the various interpretations of empathy in psychotherapy and counselling, as well as Carl Roger's contribution to the creation and understanding of empathy. Some authors examine some lasting challenges in the study of empathy in Empathy Considered: New Directions in Counseling. Some people see of empathy as a tighter contagion in which the therapist feels some of what the client feels, while others think of it as a hermeneutic process for understanding the other's thinking. Rogers (1957) encourages empathy. The importance of empathy in counselling was strengthened and has proven to be constant when unconditional positive regard was used as a core component of treatment.
BIOCONTROL EFFICACY OF NATIVE Metarhizium rileyi TO VARIOUS LIFE STAGES OF Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

The efficacy of an entomopathogenic fungus (EPF) was investigated as a potential biological control agent against onion armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), which is an important lepidopterous insect pest infesting onion crop in the Philippines. The pathogenic effect of a native isolate of Metarhizium rileyi was assessed against the pre-imaginal stages of S. exigua such as eggs, various larval instars, prepupa, and pupa by exposure to conidial concentrations of M . rileyi in laboratory bioassays. The EPF showed no significant effect on the hatchability of S. exigua eggs, but later caused mortality to the neonates from hatched treated eggs. Various instars of S. exigua larvae were all susceptible to M. rileyi with infection usually initiated at 4 days after treatment (DAT) and peaked at 6 to 7 DAT. Higher conidial concentrations caused higher and faster larval mortality as compared to lower concentrations with mean time to mortality of 6.2 to 7.1 days. There was no trend observed on the lethal concentration (LC 50 ) values that ranged from 5.59 x 10 5 to 5.95 x 10 6 conidia/ml relative to various instars. Adult emergence of prepupae and pupae was not significantly affected but abnormalities were observed in adults. Our findings revealed the infectivity of native M . rileyi against S . exigua and suggest its potential as biological control agent against this major economic insect pest of onion.
ENERGY SAVING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK: A CROSS LAYER APPROACH

Sensor networks are currently one of the most active and exciting research areas in computer networks, because of its usage in application areas such as air traffic control, battlefield management, biomedical application, civil engineering application etc. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of research on energy saving in wireless sensor networks with cross layer design. We first focus on the main reasons for energy consumption, and discuss the main directions to energy conservation in WSNs (Wireless sensor networks) applied with cross layer design. Cross layer interaction means allowing communication of layers with any other possibly nonadjacent layers in the protocol stack. One of the major concerns areas in sensor networks is power saving. Finally we conclude the paper with insights for research direction about energy conservation in WSNs.