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Dry Bed Training Method in the Elimination of Bed-Wetting in Two Adults with Autism and Severe Mental Retardation

Night-time bed-wetting, which occurred every night in 2 young women with autism and severe mental retardation, was treated using a dry bed training method. Training was carried out by night staff at the institution or, for a time, at the group home. Bed-wetting was almost completely eliminated over a period of a 2 months. Anecdotal follow-up showed that while the first participant remained dry during the next 9 years with less than 1 accident happening a week, the second participant had several lapses. If these occurrences of bed-wetting were treated with monitored post-training, bed-wetting was kept under control. If the post-training was discontinued, as happened 1 year after the start of the program, the bed-wetting returned to the original nightly occurrence.
Fractionation of the components of role play in a right-hemispheric lesioned signer

Abstract Role play, a narrative device relying critically on the linguistic reference system of American Sign Language (ASL), also appropriates extrasyntactic devices such as signing style idiosyncrasies and facial caricature for the linguistic purpose of differentiating roles. Whereas the spatialized grammatical reference system has been shown to make demands on left hemisphere processing, role play may require right hemisphere processing. To investigate this issue we analysed role play in a 38-year-old, ASL-fluent, female hearing signer (A. S.) with a right parietal–occipital lesion. A. S. correctly reassigned first person reference, signalling attempted use of role play at the sentence level, despite its spatialized realization in ASL. However, she had difficulty with pragmatically appropriate changes in gaze direction, and with the use of caricature and shifts in body position, to distinguish roles. Analysis of the deficits in this right-lesioned signer's use of a single linguistic construction that c.
Continuous Performance Testing in Virtual Time

In this paper we show how program code and performance models can be made to cooperate seamlessly to support continuous software performance testing throughout the development lifecycle. We achieve this by extending our existing VEX tool for executing programs in virtual time so that events that occur during normal execution and those that occur during the simulation of a performance model can be scheduled on a single global virtual time line. The execution time of an incomplete component of an application is thus estimated by a performance model, whilst that of existing code is measured by instrumentation that is added dynamically at program load time. A key challenge is to be able to map some or all of the resources in a performance model to the real resources of the host platform on which the application is running. We outline a continuous performance engineering methodology that exploits our unified framework and illustrate the principles involved byway of a simple Java application development case study.
Title : Interaction Patterns of Trauma Providers Are Associated with Length of Stay Authors :

Background: Trauma-related hospitalizations drive a high percentage of healthcare expenditure and inpatient resource consumption, which is directly related to length of stay (LOS). Robust and reliable interactions between healthcare employees can reduce LOS. However, there is little known if certain patterns of interactions exist and how they relate to LOS and its variability. The objective of this study is to learn interaction patterns and quantify the relationship to LOS within a mature trauma system and long-standing electronic medical record (EMR). Methods: We adapted a spectral co-clustering methodology to infer the interaction patterns of healthcare employees based on the EMR of 5,588 adults hospitalized trauma survivors. The relationship between interaction patterns and LOS was assessed via a negative binomial regression model. We further assessed the influence of potential confounders in the form of age, number of healthcare encounters to date, number of access action types a care provider committed to a patient’s EMR, month of admission, phenome-wide association study codes, procedural codes, and insurance status. Results: Three types of interaction patterns were discovered. The first pattern exhibited the largest quantity of collaboration between employees and was associated with the shortest LOS. Compared to this first pattern, the LOS for the second and third patterns was 0.61 days (p = 0.014) and 0.43 days (p = 0.037) longer, respectively. Although the three interaction patterns dealt with different number of patients in each admission month, our results suggest that they provided care for the similar patients. Discussion: The results of this study indicate there is an association between LOS and the extent to which healthcare employees interact for the care of the injured patient. The findings further suggest that there is merit in ascertaining the content of these interactions, and the factors inducing these differences in interaction patterns within a trauma system.
Milestones in the History of Behavioral Genetics: Participant Observer

: The history of Behavioral Genetics and (now) genomics, viewed in cross-section, is a kaleidoscopic pattern derived from the individual histories of the psychology of individual differences, plant, animal, and human genetics, biology, evolution, anthropology, demography, biometry, sociology, jurisprudence, and some of their neighboring disciplines. There will be positive correlations between any two renditions of the historian’s task, but the idiosyncratic experiences of any two with the listed contributors to the pattern guarantees that the correlations may be modest, without invalidating either one.
Effective Combination of Algebraic Techniques and Decision Diagrams to Formally Verify Large Arithmetic Circuits

Arithmetic circuits require a verification process to prove that the gate level circuit is functionally equivalent to a high level specification. This paper presents an automatic equivalence checking technique to verify combinational arithmetic circuits at bit level. In order to efficiently verify gate level arithmetic circuits, we make use of computer algebra based approach so that the circuit and the specification are modeled in polynomial system and the verification problem is formulated as polynomial reduction techniques using Groebner basis of circuit polynomial corresponding ideal. To overcome costly Groebner basis computation as well as intensive polynomial reduction, we make use of a canonical decision diagram named Horner Expansion Diagram (HED), derive a suitable term order to represent and manipulate polynomials efficiently and find repetitive components based on automata. To evaluate the effectiveness of our verification technique, we have applied it to very large arithmetic circuits including multipliers. Preliminary experimental results show that the proposed verification technique is scalable enough so that large multipliers can efficiently be verified in reasonable run time and memory usage.
Failure mode and effects analysis using intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted Euclidean distance operator

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has shown its effectiveness in examining potential failures in products, process, designs or services and has been extensively used for safety and reliability analysis in a wide range of industries. However, its approach to prioritise failure modes through a crisp risk priority number (RPN) has been criticised as having several shortcomings. The aim of this paper is to develop an efficient and comprehensive risk assessment methodology using intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid weighted Euclidean distance (IFHWED) operator to overcome the limitations and improve the effectiveness of the traditional FMEA. The diversified and uncertain assessments given by FMEA team members are treated as linguistic terms expressed in intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (IFNs). Intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging (IFWA) operator is used to aggregate the FMEA team members’ individual assessments into a group assessment. IFHWED operator is applied thereafter to the prioritisation and selection of failure modes. Particularly, both subjective and objective weights of risk factors are considered during the risk evaluation process. A numerical example for risk assessment is given to illustrate the proposed method finally.
Sequential Modeling and Structural Anomaly Analytics in Industrial Production Environments

The analysis of sequential data is a prominent research topic, e.g., for investigating actions, events or log entries. This demonstration paper presents an integrated approach for anomaly analytics in an industrial production scenario. Based on ﬁrst-order Markov chain models, we analyse sequential trails relative to speciﬁc hypotheses in an industrial application context. We summarize the applied method and present its implementation in a data analytics process.
Eplerenone Decreases Inflammatory Foci in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Hearts With Minimal Effects on Blood Pressure

The blood pressure (BP)-lowering effects of mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonists in salt-sensitive rat models of hypertension are well understood. However, studies in salt-independent models have yielded mixed results, and therefore, we measured the hemodynamic effects of MR blockade in spontaneously hypertensive rats. We treated spontaneously hypertensive rats for 8 weeks with 30-300 mg·kg−1·d−1 eplerenone or 20 mg·kg−1·d−1 losartan and monitored BP using radiotelemetry and performed histopathological analyses of the hearts. Eplerenone, in contrast to losartan, caused only a small reduction in systolic BP at the highest dose tested. Both reduced left ventricular wall thickness, although eplerenone was less effective than losartan. Only losartan decreased heart weight. We observed foci of cardiomyopathy characterized by combinations of infiltrating monocytes, necrotic myocytes, and interstitial fibrosis in hearts of control animals. The number of foci seemed to be decreased in hearts of losartan- and eplerenone-treated animals. In a second study, using quantitative histomorphometry, the number of foci was significantly reduced by 20 mg·kg−1·d−1 losartan (by 68%) or by 300 mg·kg−1·d−1 eplerenone (by 50%). Our data support the hypothesis that a direct BP-independent effect on the progression of cardiomyopathy in the heart may be one basis for the cardiac protection afforded by MR antagonism.
In situ visualization of collagen architecture in biological tissues using polarization-resolved Second Harmonic microscopy

Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) has been shown to provide three-dimensional (3D) cell-scale contrasted images of biological tissues. In particular, Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) microscopy has emerged as a unique tool to probe the 3D distribution of collagen fibrils within unstained tissues because this second order coherent nonlinear signal is highly specific for dense non-centrosymmetrical macromolecular structures. Such a 3D imaging technique is of great interest for biological and biomedical studies since collagen is the main component of the extra-cellular matrix in mammals. This structural protein is characterized by triple helical domains, which self-assemble into fibrils that further form fibers, lamellae or other 3D networks responsible for the architecture of organs. This hierarchical organization of collagen is crucial to the biophysical and mechanical properties of tissues (for instance mechanical strength of the tendon, transparency of the cornea,.).
Validating a Korean Version of the Drug Abuse Screening Test-10 (DAST-10)

ABSTRACT There are no screening instruments for adults in the Korean language that are specific to drugs other than alcohol and tobacco. The purpose of this study is to validate the Korean version of the Drug Abuse Screening Test-10 (DAST-10). The Korean version of the DAST-10 was validated with 1,000 adults including general adults and at-risk adults. The results indicated that the Korean version of the DAST-10 was unidimensional similar to its English-language counterpart and showed satisfactory internal consistency reliability and convergent validity. The results also showed that the Korean version demonstrated optimal performance at a cutoff score of 2, which is the same as that of its English-language counterpart. It is expected that as the development of Korean-language instruments measuring alcohol problems contributes to the expansion of related research, the development of the Korean version of the DAST-10 will facilitate research on various topics related to substance abuse in Korea. Validation with Korean adults identified as substance abusers is needed to improve the ability of the Korean version to correctly identify substance-abusing adults.
Augmented-reality visualizations guided by cognition: perceptual heuristics for combining visible and obscured information

One unique feature of mixed and augmented reality (MR/AR) systems is that hidden and occluded objects an be readily visualized. We call this specialized use of MR/AR, obscured information visualization (OIV). In this paper, we describe the beginning of a research program designed to develop such visualizations through the use of principles derived from perceptual psychology and cognitive science. In this paper we surveyed the cognitive science literature as it applies to such visualization tasks, described experimental questions derived from these cognitive principles, and generated general guidelines that can be used in designing future OIV systems (as well improving AR displays more generally). We also report the results from an experiment that utilized a functioning AR-OIV system: we found that in relative depth judgment, subjects reported rendered objects as being in front of real-world objects, except when additional occlusion and motion cues were presented together.
A simple distributed autonomous power control algorithm and its convergence

For wireless cellular communication systems, one seeks a simple effective means of power control of signals associated with randomly dispersed users that are reusing a single channel in different cells. By effecting the lowest interference environment, in meeting a required minimum signal-to-interference ratio of rho per user, channel reuse is maximized. Distributed procedures for doing this are of special interest, since the centrally administered alternative requires added infrastructure, latency, and network vulnerability. Successful distributed powering entails guiding the evolution of the transmitted power level of each of the signals, using only focal measurements, so that eventually all users meet the rho requirement. The local per channel power measurements include that of the intended signal as well as the undesired interference from other users (plus receiver noise). For a certain simple distributed type of algorithm, whenever power settings exist for which all users meet the rho requirement, the authors demonstrate exponentially fast convergence to these settings. >
Fast Finite-Element Analysis of Motors Using Block Model Order Reduction

This paper proposes a model order reduction (MOR) based on the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) to perform a fast analysis of motors. When a POD-based MOR is applied to the motor analysis, the number of basis vectors has to be increased to express the changes in the magnetic fields due to a rotational movement. Its computational efficiency is, thus, greatly deteriorated. To overcome this difficulty, the block-MOR is first applied to a motor analysis. In this method, a parameter space is subdivided into several blocks, which correspond to angular ranges in the motor analysis, in each of which the basis vectors are constructed from snapshotted fields. The computational time of the block-MOR is shown to be shorter than that of the conventional MOR, while the accuracy of both the methods is almost identical.
Rôles des technologies de l'information et de la communication dans le développement de la qualité de la relation client : application à la relation banque/entreprise

Reaching a competitive advantage in banking industry requires the establishment of relationship quality. Nevertheless, the majority of business relationships models are static and do not predict the potential impact of one parameter’s evolution in a given relationship. At the same time, information and communication technologies constitute a major shift in banking industry. This led us to ask about the effects ICT can have on relationship quality. Based on an empirical study conducted in Tunisian business-to- business banking industry, we show that ICT play a positive role in favour of relationship quality. This result enables Tunisian banks to enhance their thought about implementing more sophisticated technologies.
Survey of Clustering Schemes in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are a specific kind of wireless networks that can be quickly deployed without pre- existing infrastructures. They are used in different contexts such as collaborative, medical, military or embedded applications. However, MANETs raise new challenges when they are used in large scale network that contain a large number of nodes. Subsequently, many clustering algorithms have emerged. In fact, these clustering algorithms allow the structuring of the network into groups of entities called clusters creating a hierarchical structure. Each cluster contains a particular node called cluster head elected as cluster head according to a specific metric or a combination of metrics such as identity, degree, mobility, weight, density, etc. MANETs has drawbacks due to both the characteristics of the transmission medium (transmission medium sharing, low bandwidth, etc.) and the routing protocols (information diffusion, path finding, etc.). Clustering in mobile ad hoc networks plays a vital role in improving resource management and network performance (routing delay, bandwidth consumption and throughput). In this paper, we present a study and analyze of some existing clustering approaches for MANETs that recently appeared in literature, which we classify as: Identifier Neighbor based clustering, Topology based clustering, Mobility based clustering, Energy based clustering, and Weight based clustering. We also include clustering definition, review existing clustering approaches, evaluate their performance and cost, discuss their advantages, disadvantages, features and suggest a best clustering approach.
A PROSODIC LABELING SYSTEM FOR MANDARIN SPEECH DATABASE

A working database needs tools to transcribe and label at both phonetic and prosodic levels. While the proposed phonetic transcription system is a simplified from of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) following the SAMPA guidelines; the prosodic labeling system is an elaborated form of the ToBI (Tone and Break Indices) framework adopted for Mandarin. In particular, the proposed prosodic labeling system possesses the capability to label two kinds of prosody related phenomena: one correlates directly to specific acoustic parameters that can be measured automatically, namely, speech rate, speech volume, pitch level and pitch range; the other correlates to perceived temporal grouping and relative prominence, namely, breaks and emphases. Some preliminary findings with respect to the labeling system will be reported; these findings will also be utilized for subsequent design of software that aimed automatic transcription and labeling of Mandarin speech. Though the design is language dependent, we believe the findings may very well have cross-linguistic implications.
The pragmatics of margin comments: An empirical study

This paper describes the design and rationale behind a classification scheme for English margin comments. The scheme’s design was informed by pragmatics and pedagogy theory, and by observations made from a corpus of 24,387 margin comments from assessed university assignments. The purpose of the scheme is to computationally explore content and form relationships between margin comments and the passages to which they point. The process of designing the scheme resulted in the conclusion that margin comments require more work to understand than utterances do, and that they are more prone to being misunderstood.
Terrorism , Democracy , and Credible Commitments 1

What explains the variation in terrorism within and across political regimes? We contend that terrorism is most likely to occur in contexts in which governments cannot credibly restrain themselves from abusing their power in the future. We consider a specific institutional arrangement, whether a state has an independent judiciary, and hypothesize that independent judiciaries make government commitments more credible, thereby providing less incentive for the use of terrorism. Using a recently released database that includes transnational and domestic terrorist events from 1970 to 1997, we estimate a set of statistical analyses appropriate for the challenges of terrorism data and then examine the robustness of the results. The results provide support for the credible commitment logic and offer insights into the different ways that political institutions increase or decrease terrorism.
When all hypotheses are right: A multifocal account of dyslexia

Many hypotheses have been proposed about the brain underpinnings of developmental dyslexia, but none of them accommodates the variable deficits observed. To address the issue of anatomical deficits in dyslexia; total and partial volumes, lateralization indices (LI), and local gray matter volumes (LGMV) were measured. Analyses were performed in large samples of control and dyslexic subjects, and in correlation with their performance on phonological, reading, and spelling tests. Results indicate an absence of net differences in terms of volumes but significant continuities and discontinuities between groups in their correlations between LI, LGMV, and performances. Structural connectivity also highlighted correlations between areas showing (dis)continuities between control and dyslexic subjects. Overall, our data put forward the idea of a multifocal brain abnormalities in dyslexia with a major implication of the left superior temporal gyrus, occipital‐temporal cortices, and lateral/medial cerebellum, which could account for the diverse deficits predicted by the different theories. Hum Brain Mapp, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Snakes and ladders? The differing career patterns of male and female accountants

It has been argued by Lepine (1992) and others that certain distinct career patterns are typical of the careers of women managers and that these may not correspond to a typical male model of a continuous, linear progression. Considers the career patterns of male and female accountants. It shows that male accountants are more likely than female accountants to follow a continuous linear path and that this type of career path has higher remuneration levels. This may partly explain differences in salary levels between male and female accountants but does not explain differences in salary levels found within particular career patterns. Assesses the effect of this cultural emphasis on those, both men and women, whose careers exhibit different characteristics.