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Accuracy of Megargee's Criminal Offender Infrequency (Fc) Scale in Detecting Malingering Among Forensic Examinees

E. I. Megargee (2004) developed a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) Infrequency scale for use in criminal settings called the Criminal Offender Infrequency (Fc) scale. This study compared Fc with 7 other MMPI-2 validity scales in detecting malingering by obtaining archival data from evaluations of male inmates that used the MMPI-2 and the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS). Participants were placed into groups based on the SIRS results: feigning, honest, or indeterminate. Prediction accuracy analyses were conducted for the MMPI-2 scales in differentiating honest from feigning participants. A cutoff of Fc > 14 produced the highest hit rate of any cutoff on all of the scales examined. Results from this study suggest Fc may be a useful addition to the MMPI-2 for detecting malingering in criminal settings.
Structural basis for selectin mechanochemistry

Selectins are adhesion molecules that resist large tensile forces applied by hydrodynamic forces to leukocytes binding to vessel walls. In crystals, the liganded (high-affinity) and unliganded (low-affinity) conformations differ in orientation between their tandem lectin and EGF domains. I examine how tensile force exerted on a selectin–ligand complex in vivo could favor the more extended, high-affinity conformation. Allostery is transmitted from the EGF–lectin domain interface to the ligand-binding interface on the lectin domain, 30 Å away. Trp-1 of the lectin domain and the long axis of the EGF domain form an L-shaped prybar that is welded together by hydrogen bonds to the Trp-1 α-amino group. Pivoting of the prybar induced by force demolishes an interface between the Trp-1 side chain and the lectin domain at a switch1 region. These changes are transmitted by rigid body movement of the switch2 region to rearrangements in the switch3 region at the ligand binding site. Another switch region corresponds to a single residue in the EGF domain with large effects on ligand binding and rolling adhesion. Allostery in selectins, and the alignment of tensile force on a selectin–ligand complex with the transition pathway for conformational change, explain much of the structural basis for selectin mechanochemistry.
A Landscape of Respect Relations: Television, Status, Houses

ABSTRACT In this article, I focus on residents in predominantly East Indian villages in Guyana to bring out their contextual identities in relation to places, houses, and television. In the status transactions that occur, landscapes of respect relations are formed: place is made “open” for residents to appear in partial contexts which confirm or challenge their respect notions. The houses mark the boundary between inside and outside where those who are visible on dams and roads lose respect. The data illustrates how these boundaries are observed and/or changed vis-à-vis physical arrangements, liming (forms of hanging out), and television. The interactions demonstrate respect notions in practice as status entanglements in relation to the visibility of persons in different settings.
Joint Optimization of Spectro-Temporal Features and Deep Neural Nets for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition

In speech recognition, feature extraction and acoustical model training are traditionally done in two separate steps. Here, instead, we use a framework that combines spectro-temporal feature extraction and the training of neural network based acoustic models into a single process. We found earlier that this approach can be successfully applied for the recognition of speech. In this paper, we propose two further improvements to our method based on recent advances in neural net technology and extend our evaluation to speech conat-minated with new types of noise. By repeating our experiments on TIMIT phone recognition tasks using clean and noise contaminated speech, we can compare the recognition performance of the original framework with our new, modiﬁed framework. The results indicate that both these modiﬁcations sig-niﬁcantly improve the recognition performance of our framework. Moreover, we will show that these modiﬁcations allow us to achieve a substantially better performance than what we got earlier.
The Theory of Navigating Cultural Spaces

xi AND SO IT BEGINS . xii Chapter One: INTRODUCTION . 1 AIM OF THE RESEARCH . 3 PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH . 4 PERSONAL BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY . 5 Locating the Author as Researcher . 5 Assumptions Underpinning the Study . 7 CLARIFYING KEY CONCEPTS . 8 Indian. 8 Immigration . 10 Occupation . 12 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY . 15 Occupational Science . 15 Symbolic Interactionism . 18 Blumer‟s Key Tenets of Symbolic Interactionism . 19 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY . 20 STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS . 22 Chapter Two: SETTING THE SCENE . 24 NEW ZEALAND: AN IMMIGRANT NATION . 24 Polynesian Settlement . 25 European Settlement . 26 Asian Settlement . 27 INDIAN IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND . 29 Growth of the Indian Community . 30 Indian Women . 32 The Indian and Māori Connection . 33 BICULTURALISM: NEW ZEALAND AND TE TIRITI O WAITANGI . 34 Te Tiriti o Waitangi . 35 Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Asian Immigrants . 36 Preservation of Cultural Heritage . 40 Cultural Practices in Everyday Life . 40 Legislation in Practice . 41 CURRENT IMMIGRATION POLICY . 43 NEW ZEALAND SETTLEMENT STRATEGY . 45 SUMMARY . 47
Travioli: A Dynamic Analysis for Detecting Data-Structure Traversals

Traversal is one of the most fundamental operations on data structures, in which an algorithm systematically visits some or all of the data items of a data structure. We propose a dynamic analysis technique, called Travioli, for detecting data-structure traversals. We introduce the concept of acyclic execution contexts, which enables precise detection of traversals of arrays and linked data structures such as lists and trees in the presence of both loops and recursion. We describe how the information reported by Travioli can be used for visualizing data-structure traversals, manually generating performance regression tests, and for discovering performance bugs caused by redundant traversals. We evaluate Travioli on five real-world JavaScript programs. In our experiments, Travioli produced fewer than 4% false positives. We were able to construct performance tests for 93.75% of the reported true traversals. Travioli also found two asymptotic performance bugs in widely used JavaScript frameworks D3 and express.
Decay Properties of Restricted Isometry Constants

Many sparse approximation algorithms accurately recover the sparsest solution to an underdetermined system of equations provided the matrix's restricted isometry constants (RICs) satisfy certain bounds. There are no known large deterministic matrices that satisfy the desired RIC bounds; however, members of many random matrix ensembles typically satisfy RIC bounds. This experience with random matrices has colored the view of the RICs' behavior. By modifying matrices assumed to have bounded RICs, we construct matrices whose RICs behave in a markedly different fashion than the classical random matrices; RICs can satisfy desirable bounds and also take on values in a narrow range.
Gender Roles and Grief Cycles: Observations on Models of Grief and Coping in Homicide Cases

The literature on bereavement coalesces around three models of grief: (1) stage models; (2) task oriented models; and (3) mental disorders. This paper briefly introduces these dominant paradigms and argues that their implicit gender neutrality ignores a not inconsiderable literature on gender and grief. Furthermore, it presents relevant data from a qualitative study of the families of homicide victims. After reviewing survivors' coping attempts, behavioral adherence to traditional gender roles, and subsequent health problems, it is argued that an observed set of gender-specific grief cycles, and survivors' methods of avoiding them, may be useful in correcting, expanding, and integrating these models in ways that more effectively help the bereaved.
Working Paper No . 2016 / 1 Characteristics of Effective Leadership in Multiteam Systems

LEADERSHIP IN MULTITEAM SYSTEMS 2 WOP Working Paper No. 2016 / 1 Work is more and more structured in teams and so-called Multiteam Systems (MTS). We address the question what constitutes effective leadership in MTS by conducting a qualitative and a quantitative study. The results highlight MTS-specific leadership behaviors above and beyond common leadership concepts.
Copper loss minimizing torque control of IPMSM based on flux variables

The voltage and torque equation are written in terms of flux variables (λd, λq), instead of currents. Also, the voltage and current limits are depicted in the plane of (λd, λq). Then the voltage limits appear as circles centered at the origin, whereas the current limit appear as an ellipse. In the field weakening region, the voltage is utilized to the maximum. Hence, the only thing allowed to change in the field weakening region is the angle of the voltage so as to accommodate changes in speed and torque. In the flux setting, the voltage angle can be determined by an intersection point between the voltage circle and a torque line. That solution will be the copper loss minimizing point. However, it requires to solve a four order polynomial equation. In this work, a Taylor series approximation method is utilized to circumvent the difficulty of solving the fourth order equation. Desired performances were demonstrated by some experimental results.
Religion and Rights : A Dissenting Minority as a Social Movement in Romania

Un «Comité de Défense Chrétienne pour la Liberté de Reli gion et de Conscience» (A. L. R. C.) fut fondé en 1978 en Rouma nie par un groupe comprenant de nombreuses dénominations, avec une majorité de Baptistes.
Robust Target Localization From Binary Decisions in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming important tools in various tasks, including monitoring and tracking of spatially occurring phenomena. These networks offer the capability of densely covering a large area, but at the same time are constrained by the limiting sensing, processing and power capabilities of their sensors. To complete the task at hand, the information collected by the sensor nodes needs to be appropriately fused. In this article we study the problems of estimating the location of a target and estimating its signal intensity. The proposed algorithms are based on the local vote decision fusion (LVDF) mechanism, where sensors first correct their original decisions using decisions of neighboring sensors. These corrected decisions are more accurate and robust and improve detection; however, they are correlated, which makes maximum likelihood estimation intractable. We adopt a pseudolikelihood formulation and examine several variants of localization and signal estimation algorithms based on original and corrected decisions using direct optimization methods, as well as an EM approach. Uncertainty assessments about the parameters of interest are provided using a parametric bootstrap technique. An extensive simulation study of the developed algorithms, along with several benchmarks, establishes the overall superior performance of the LVDF-based algorithms, especially in low signal-to-noise ratio environments. Extensions to tracking moving targets and localizing multiple targets also are considered.
The Factor Structure and Internal Consistency of the Self-Concept and Motivation Inventory: What Face would you Wear? Preschool/Kindergarten Form

The Self-Concept and Motivation Inventory: What Face Would You Wear? Preschool/Kindergarten Form has the potential to be of use in measuring the academic self-concept of preschoolers. This study sought to determine if the theoretical, three-factor structure of the SCAMIN could be recovered in a state-wide sample of kindergarten students. In 1986, 5742 kindergarteners from Tennessee schools participating in the Reduced Pupil/Teacher Ratio Project were given the Preschool/Kindergarten form of the SCAMIN. The sample was drawn from 42 school districts in all geographic regions of Tennessee and represented a mix of inner-city, urban, rural, and suburban schools. The intercorrelation matrix of the 24 SCAMIN items was analyzed by the principal components method and extracted factors were rotated to a varimax solution. An initial analysis suggested the presence of an atheoretical factor, and two items which appeared to be unrelated to any obtained factor. Subsequent refactoring of the SCAMIN resulted in the successful recovery of the expected three factor structure. Cronbach's alpha, for the scales Academic Self-Concept; Achievement Investment; and Achievement Needs were . 666, . 599, and . 598, respectively. The results of this factor analysis of the Early Preschool/Kindergarten Form of the SCAMIN suggest both strengths and weaknesses in the factorial composition of the 24 SCAMIN items. Users of the SCAMIN are cautioned against a naive application of this instrument's scales.
Dynamic viewing pattern exploitation in Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand

Unstructured BitTorrent-like Peer-to-Peer networks have been extensively studied as an important enabling technology for Video-on-Demand. While most studies maintain the pull-based nature of unstructured Peer-to-Peer networks, recent ones are investigating the combination of pull and push operations. The goal of the proposed push/pull protocols is to make more effcient use of the available bandwidth, however, this paper proposes a different use, the exploitation of users' viewing patterns (random seek patterns) in Video-on-Demand applications. As viewing pattern exploitation has not been given signif cant attention so far, we propose a scheme to prioritize chunk distribution based on the video's points of interest.
Carnival visions: digital creativity in teacher education

This paper is a theoretical and analytical account of a digital video‐editing project with student teachers. The work was part of a wider study known as ‘Creative Teachers for Creative Learners’, and investigated how creativity could be integrated within existing structures and courses of initial teacher education. The paper draws on notions of multimodality to explain how resources such as gesture, image, speech, narrative and music were used by student teachers to create meaning within video productions. Participants noted that the digital video project allowed them to think about how to use these resources in formal schooling contexts and how this could contribute to further work on introducing creativity and agency into their teaching practices.
Design and Measurement of a Differential Printed Antenna for a Wireless Sensor Network Node

This letter presents the design and measurement of an antenna integrated into an agricultural sensor network node operating on the 2.4-GHz ISM band using the ZigBee protocol stack. The novel structure, coined bowtie-shaped folded dipole (BSFD), has a differential 100-$\Omega$ input impedance matching a particular controller widely used in wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. This letter also presents a survey of existing WSN antennas to which the proposed design compares favorably. The challenges of testing a differential antenna using conventional single-ended equipment are addressed regarding antenna impedance and radiation pattern measurements. The differential antenna input impedance was confirmed with four different test setups using a conventional vector network analyzer. The radiation pattern of the proposed antenna was measured in-prototype resorting to a spectrum analyzer. The measured patterns show that the proposed antenna has a maximum received power over 4 dB compared to two early versions of the WSN node that used commercial off-the-shelf antenna solutions. The performance was also confirmed in a field test where a BSFD-equipped prototype achieved close to a 300-m range, tripling that typical for ZigBee applications.
Selection and context for action recognition

Recognizing human action in non-instrumented video is a challenging task not only because of the variability produced by general scene factors like illumination, background, occlusion or intra-class variability, but also because of subtle behavioral patterns among interacting people or between people and objects in images. To improve recognition, a system may need to use not only low-level spatio-temporal video correlations but also relational descriptors between people and objects in the scene. In this paper we present contextual scene descriptors and Bayesian multiple kernel learning methods for recognizing human action in complex non-instrumented video. Our contribution is threefold: (1) we introduce bag-of-detector scene descriptors that encode presence/absence and structural relations between object parts; (2) we derive a novel Bayesian classification method based on Gaussian processes with multiple kernel covariance functions (MKGPC), in order to automatically select and weight multiple features, both low-level and high-level, out of a large collection, in a principled way, and (3) perform large scale evaluation using a variety of features on the KTH and a recently introduced, challenging, Hollywood movie dataset. On the KTH dataset, we obtain 94.1% accuracy, the best result reported to date. On the Hollywood dataset we obtain promising results in several action classes using fewer descriptors and about 9.1% improvement in a previous benchmark test.1
Differences in heterosocial behavior and outcomes of ADHD-symptomatic subtypes in a college sample

The purpose of this study was to explore heterosocial relational outcomes in a college-aged sample showing symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Using questionnaires and a behavioral observation task, dating, sexual, and social outcomes were examined in three groups: 24 non-ADHD controls, 27 ADHD-combined (ADHD/C) Type, and 13 ADHD-Primarily Inattentive (ADHD/IA) Type. The ADHD/IA group shoed a consistent pattern of passivity and inexperience and was perceived relatively negatively by female confederates, whereas the ADHD/C group reported increased sexual drive and early dating experience. The effects of externalizing comorbidity differed by DSM-IV ADHD subtype. These findidngs indicate that ADHD-symptomatic adults differ by DSM-IV subtype in the manifestation of heterosocial deficits. Results suggest specific and divergent types of psychosocial intervention with ADHD/C versus ADHD/IA clients
For Personal Use. Only Reproduce with Permission from the Lancet Publishing Group. by Way of Explanation the Numbers in the Annex Judging Health Systems: Reflections on Who's Methods

The " attainment " indicator values in WHO's World Health Report 2000, whatever their conceptual merits, are spurious: only 39 percent are based on actual country-level observations of appropriate variables—only 18.5 percent, for indicators other than disability-adjusted life expectancy. 61 percent are imputations from regressions based on real data for a few countries. Furthermore, the " responsiveness " indicators are not comparable across countries; and in three cases the values obtained from expert informants were discarded in favour of imputed values, without persuasive justification. The indexes of composite attainment and " performance " for ranking countries are also meaningless, because they are based on these imputations. WHO member governments were not informed of the methods and sometimes suffered unjust criticism over the published rankings. If judgements about performance are worth pursuing, they should be based on real data, represent methodological consensus among governments, be built up from assessments at much less aggregated levels, and be useful for public policy. Readers of the World Health Organisation's World Health Report 2000 [1] will have noticed that although many numbers are presented in the ten Annex tables, there is scant reference in the text to the indicators used to describe " attainments " or " performance " , or their implications for health systems. One critic, remarking on this, says that " Fortunately,…the report appears to make very little connection between the results of the performance analysis and the implications for undertaking [the] functions [of health systems]. " [2]. Part of the reason is that the text authors were told essentially nothing about how some of the indicators were estimated until near the end of production of the Report, and the Annex was sent to the printer some time after the text. Two exceptions to this separation should be noted. First, I participated in many of the discussions concerning the " fair financing " indicator and co-authored two WHO Discussion Papers describing its logic and construction [3-4]. Second, Chapter 2 of the Report, which I wrote, offers brief explanations of all the different indicators, with somewhat more detail being provided in the Explanatory Notes to the Annex. Chapter 2 was the last to be written, and reflects what I learned from several of the team working on the Annex, who are listed under " Working Groups " on p. 206 of the Report, in the last weeks of text production. What follows concerns …
Development of a high throughput equilibrium dialysis method.

The identification of large numbers of biologically active chemical entities during high throughput screening (HTS) necessitates the incorporation of new strategies to identify compounds with drug-like properties early during the lead prioritization and development processes. One of the major steps in lead prioritization is an assessment of compound binding to plasma proteins, because it affects both the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the compound in vivo. Equilibrium dialysis is the preferred method to determine the free drug fraction, because it is less susceptible to experimental artifacts. However, even low-volume standard equilibrium dialysis is currently not amenable to the HTS format. Those considerations dictate the development of a high throughput equilibrium dialysis device, without compromising the analytical quality of the data. The present paper demonstrates successful development of a 96-well format equilibrium dialysis plate. Plasma protein binding of three drugs, propranolol, paroxetine, and losartan, with low, intermediate, and high binding properties, respectively, were chosen for assay validation. The data indicate that the apparent free fraction obtained by this method correlates with the published values determined by the traditional equilibrium dialysis techniques.
The 6th OOPSLA workshop on domain-specific modeling

Domain-Specific Modeling raises the level of ion beyond programming by specifying the solution directly using visual models to express domain concepts. In many cases, final products can be generated automatically from these high-level specifications. This automation is possible because both the language and generators fit the requirements of only one domain. This paper introduces Domain-Specific Modeling and describes the related workshop.
Participative Decision Making: An Experimental Study in a Hospital

Participative decision making was introduced into a hospital subsystem where several situational factors favored the success of such a program. Over the 18-month period of the study, attitudes improved, absence rates declined, and productivity increased. Absence and productivity rates in the comparison groups did not change during the study period. Performance differences between the experimental and comparison groups were significant practically as well as statistically.