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Stakeholder Theory: A Deliberative Perspective

Organizations routinely make choices when addressing conflicting stakes of their stakeholders. As stakeholder theory continues to mature, scholars continue to seek ways to make it more usable (and relevant), yet proponents continue to debate its legitimacy. Various scholarly attempts to ground stakeholder theory (empirically, instrumentally, or normatively) have not narrowed down this debate. We draw from the work of Juergen Habermas to theoretically advance stakeholder theory, and to provide practical examples to illustrate our approach. Specifically, we apply Habermas’ language-pragmatic approach (which places strong emphasis on dialogue, participation, and procedural justice) to extend stakeholder theory by advancing seven sets of normative axioms (10 axioms in total). We conclude that a deliberative approach, with its focus on the conditions of legitimation and deliberative democracy, has the potential to become a cornerstone of stakeholder theory. The need for global stakeholder discourse and its internalization in corporate structures and institutions is exemplified by a multitude of CSR and stakeholder initiatives that have mushroomed in response to global risk scenarios such as climate change, nuclear warfare, or terrorism. Further research may help to build a functioning global governance system in order to provide guidance for management in the 21st century.
Social Relations in a Secondary School

Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of educational practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relationship between education and society. Including classic work by David Hargreaves, these books became standard texts for actual and intending teachers. Drawing upon comparative material from Israel, France and Germany, titles in this set also discuss the key questions of girls' and special needs education, and the psychology of education.
Multi-Mode antenna specific direction-of-arrival estimation schemes

Classically, phased antenna arrays are utilized for direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation. When size and weight constraints apply, novel multi-mode antennas (MMAs) seem to be an interesting alternative. This paper shows that DoA estimation with MMAs is feasible and accurate. A suitable non-parametric antenna model for the MMA is found. It is then applied to compare the DoA estimation performance of a power-based non-coherent receiver scheme with a coherent receiver. Fundamental limits are derived and simulations are performed to evaluate the performance of the estimation schemes. DoA estimation with MMAs is shown to be possible with reasonable accuracy for the investigated antenna prototype. The coherent receiver scheme clearly outperforms the non-coherent alternative.
Problematizing the Relationship between Rural Small Schools and Communities: Implications for Youth Lives

Small schools are often the hub of many rural communities. In the school space, a multiplicity of social, economic and political relationships are sustained, which enhance the vitality of the community. As such, the relationship between small schools and communities is often presented as a powerful one; however, too often as a harmonious, natural and simple construction. This paper article argues that when education, youth and communities are defined through apparently simple, universal, natural and neutral conceptualizations, these are commonly based on prescribed norms that reflect the dominant values of an hegemonic majority. These homogeneous and universal conceptualizations of education, youth and community serve to legitimize processes of inequality and marginalization, and to undermine the goals these aim to contribute to. This article draws from disciplines such sociology of youth, education, rural studies and political theory to problematize the relationship between small schools and communities in rural spaces by analyzing the intersection of education and youth policies, as constructed by neoliberal policies, and the idea of community as presented by communitarians. It argues for the need to rethink the relationship between small schools and communities towards a more plural and socially just one that overcomes processes of exclusion and marginalization.Les petites ecoles sont souvent au centre des communautes rurales. Une multiplicite de rapports sociaux, economiques et politiques se maintiennent a l’ecole, ce qui augmente la vitalite de la communaute. Le rapport entre les petites ecoles et les communautes est ainsi souvent presente comme un lien puissant; toutefois, il est trop souvent depeint comme une construction harmonieuse, naturelle et simple. Cet article soutient que lorsque l’education, les jeunes et les communautes sont definis par des conceptualisations apparemment simples, universelles, naturelles et neutres, celles-ci sont generalement fondees sur des normes qui refletent les valeurs dominantes d’une majorite hegemonique. Ces conceptualisations homogenes et universelles de l’education, les jeunes et les communautes viennent legitimer les processus d’inegalite et de marginalisation, et compromettent les objectifs auxquels ils voudraient contribuer. Cet article puise dans des disciplines comme la sociologie des jeunes, l’education, les etudes rurales et la theorie politique pour problematiser le rapport entre les petites ecoles et les communautes dans les milieux ruraux et ce, en analysant d’une part, l’intersection de l’education et les politiques touchant les jeunes, telles qu’elaborees par les politiques neoliberales, et d’autre part, l’idee de communaute comme elle est presentee par les partisans du mouvement communautaire. L’article met de l’avant le besoin de repenser le rapport entre les petites ecoles et les communautes de sorte a arriver a une vision davantage pluraliste et socialement equitable qui surmonte les processus d’exclusion et de marginalisation.
Genome-Wide Analysis of the Arabidopsis Leaf Transcriptome Reveals Interaction of Phosphate and Sugar Metabolism1[W]

Global gene expression was analyzed in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) by microarrays comprising 21,500 genes. Leaf segments derived from phosphorus (P)-starved and P-replenished plants were incubated with or without sucrose (Suc) to obtain tissues with contrasting combinations of P and carbohydrate levels. Transcript profiling revealed the influence of the two factors individually and the interactions between P- and sugar-dependent gene regulation. A large number of gene transcripts changed more than 2-fold: In response to P starvation, 171 genes were induced and 16 repressed, whereas Suc incubation resulted in 337 induced and 307 repressed genes. A number of new candidate genes involved in P acquisition were discovered. In addition, several putative transcription factors and signaling proteins of P sensing were disclosed. Several genes previously identified to be sugar responsive were also regulated by P starvation and known P-responsive genes were sugar inducible. Nearly 150 genes were synergistically or antagonistically regulated by the two factors. These genes exhibit more prominent or contrasting regulation in response to Suc and P in combination than expected from the effect of the two factors individually. The genes exhibiting interactions form three main clusters with different response patterns and functionality of genes. One cluster (cluster 1) most likely represents a regulatory program to support increased growth and development when both P and carbohydrates are ample. Another cluster (cluster 3) represents genes induced to alleviate P starvation and these are further induced by carbohydrate accumulation. Thus, interactions between P and Suc reveal two different signaling programs and novel interactions in gene regulation in response to environmental factors. cis-Regulatory elements were analyzed for each factor and for interaction clusters. PHR1 binding sites were more frequent in promoters of P-regulated genes as compared to the entire Arabidopsis genome, and E2F and PHR1 binding sites were more frequent in interaction clusters 1 and 3, respectively.
Development of a Student Interest in Mathematics Scale for Gifted and Talented Programming Identification

The study’s purpose was to develop and validate a scale for assessing interest in mathematics among elementary students as part of an identification protocol for gifted and talented programming. Lohman recommends assessment of interest as a critical element within the ideal approach to identification. Hidi and Renninger’s Four-Phase Interest Development Model was identified as the theoretical model most closely aligned to identified interest factors. Their model along with current research literature informed and guided the creation of the measure. Items were created to assess emotion, value, perceived knowledge, and behavioral engagement in and outside of school. Three waves of data were collected utilizing second through sixth graders. The first exploratory factor analysis (EFA) resulted in the deletion of one factor. The second EFA reaffirmed the four-factor structure; in addition, the number of items was reduced. The confirmatory factor analysis resulted in a good model fit, supporting factor validity.
Occult malignancy in patients with venous thromboembolism: risk indicators and a diagnostic screening strategy

Background : The study was designed to analyse the risk indicators for a possible underlying malignancy and to evaluate whether extensive cancer screening is necessary in all patients with venous thromboembolism or not. Methods : In total, 126 patients with idiopathic deep venous thrombosis, and 121 patients with secondary deep venous thrombosis of lower extremity and without a known malignancy were studied. A diagnostic screening workup including a clinical history, physical examination, complete blood count, blood sedimentation rate, basic biochemistry panel including hepatic and renal function tests, prostate-specific antigen, a chest X-ray and an abdominopelvic ultrasonography was performed for all patients. Results : Suspicious findings suggesting an underlying cancer, previous history of venous thromboembolism, bilateral venous thrombosis and associated thrombosis in unusual sites were significantly more common in patients with idiopathic venous thrombosis. A malignancy was detected in 10 of the 126 patients (7.9%) without a known risk factor for deep venous thrombosis. During the follow-up period, a diagnosis of malignancy was established in two patients in the same group. Conclusion : The risk of an underlying malignancy in patients with idiopathic venous thromboembolism is significantly higher. A moderate screening strategy has the capacity to identify the majority of the malignancies in such patients. We advocate simple laboratory tests, a chest X-ray and an abdominopelvic ultrasonography in order to search for an occult malignancy. A more extensive screening strategy may be considered for patients with suspicious findings for cancer, recurrent or bilateral venous thromboembolism and associated thrombosis in unusual sites.
How Do Verbal Distractors Influence Age-Related Operation Span Performance? A Manipulation of Inhibitory Control Demands

This study examined how different verbal distractors influence (age-related) performance in the operation span working memory task. Forty-six older (M = 68 years, SD = 3.82) and 49 younger adults (M = 27 years, SD = 3.02) performed a conventional operation span task version and three versions with non-related, conceptually related, or phonologically related distracting words. Thus, the amount of inhibitory control demands varied across the task versions. Age effects were found for all versions. Furthermore, age effects in the versions with distracting words were even larger than in the conventional version, indicating that a decline in the ability to inhibit irrelevant verbal information can partly explain age effects in working memory performance.
Topics, Tasks & Beyond: Learning Representations for Personalization

Accurate understanding of a user's interests, preferences and behaviours is possibly one of the most critical research challenges faced while developing personalized systems for behavior targeting and information access. We intend to develop comprehensive latent variable models for web search personalization which jointly models user's topical interests along with user's click based relevance preferences while at the same time taking into account user's intended search tasks along with information about other similar users. We further augment this model by incorporating topic-level relevance parameters, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the first attempt at modeling result ranking preferences at the topic level. Additionally, we intend to explore the possibility of modeling users in terms of the search tasks they perform thereby coupling users' topical interests with their search task behavior to learn user representations. Finally, we wish to evaluate the proposition of extending user representations to hierarchical structures as an alternative to existing flat representations. The evaluation of these alternative approaches for user modeling is based on their performance on a variety of tasks such as collaborative query recommendations, user cohort modeling and search result personalization. This proposal provides the motivation to pursue these research directions, summarizes key research problems being targeted, glances through potential ways of tackling these research challenges and highlights some initial results obtained.
Synapses formed by olivocochlear axon branches in the mouse cochlear nucleus

Cochlear nucleus branches of thick olivocochlear axons were labeled by injections of horseradish peroxidase into the spiral ganglion of the cochlear basal turn in mice. Six labeled axons were traced by light microscopy, and selected portions of seven branches were sectioned serially for electron microscopic examination. Axonal branches most frequently terminated near certain granule cell regions of the ventral cochlear nucleus. This article describes terminals, synapses, and postsynaptic elements of these olivocochlear branches.
When Delays Improve Memory

Memory is critical for learning, cognition, and cognitive development. Recent work has suggested that preschool-age children are vulnerable to catastrophic levels of memory interference, in which new learning dramatically attenuates memory for previously acquired knowledge. In the work reported here, we investigated the effects of consolidation on children’s memory by introducing a 48-hr delay between learning and testing. In Experiment 1, the delay improved children’s memory and eliminated interference. Results of Experiment 2 suggest that the benefit of this delay is limited to situations in which children are given enough information to form complex memory structures. These findings have important implications for understanding consolidation processes and memory development.
A Newborn With Abdominal Pain

This multidisciplinary dialogue of a case of abdominal pain in a neonate reveals an unusual and potentially life threatening diagnosis. A previously healthy 3-week-old boy presented with 5 hours of marked fussiness, abdominal distention, and poor feeding. He was afebrile and well perfused. His examination was remarkable for localized abdominal tenderness and distention. He was referred to the emergency department in which an abdominal radiograph revealed gaseous distention of the bowel with a paucity of gas in the pelvis. Complete blood cell count and urinalysis were unremarkable. His ongoing fussiness and abnormal physical examination prompted consultation with surgery and radiology. Our combined efforts ultimately established an unexpected diagnosis.
Cost per fall: a potentially misleading indicator of burden of disease in health and residential care settings.

RATIONALE Little scrutiny has been applied to how 'cost per fall' values have been calculated and applied. This paper presents discourse discussing how the cost of fall statistic could potentially be misleading when applied to inpatient health or residential care settings and provides estimates of the cost of falls and cost of falls per person. METHOD Burden of disease was estimated using a decision tree approach. Data informing the decision tree were drawn from a retrospective audit of 545 falls in a residential care facility, a visual observation study of 46 residents from the same facility and a cohort study of 186 residents from nine different facilities in Australia. Acute care and transportation costs were extracted from the retrospective audit using incident reports and care note review. The distribution of falls per person and associations between falls, fractures and change in resident mobility were extracted from the cohort study. The association between resident mobility and the amount of time required to perform toileting, transfer and dressing activities was extracted from the visual observational study. RESULTS The minimum 'cost per fall' was estimated to be $AUD 841 and the maximum was $AUD 1024. The 'cost of falls per person' estimate was $AUD 1887 (2008 base year). CONCLUSIONS This cost per fall estimate was substantially lower than three previous internationally derived estimates possibly as a consequence of how fall data were collected and modelled in these studies. Cost of falls per person may be a preferable statistic for future use.
Mining New Word Translations from Comparable Corpora

New words such as names, technical terms, etc appear frequently. As such, the bilingual lexicon of a machine translation system has to be constantly updated with these new word translations. Comparable corpora such as news documents of the same period from different news agencies are readily available. In this paper, we present a new approach to mining new word translations from comparable corpora, by using context information to complement transliteration information. We evaluated our approach on six months of Chinese and English Gigaword corpora, with encouraging results.
Characterization of a human ovarian adenocarcinoma line, IGROV1, in tissue culture and in nude mice.

A cell line, IGROV1, originating from an ovarian carcinoma of a 47-year-old woman was established in tissue culture and in nude mice. Maintained in monolayer cultures, IGROV1 cells exhibited a 20-h doubling time and highly tumorigenic properties. The s.c. injection of 2 X 10(6) cultured cells into nude mice gave rise to fast growing tumors, while the i.p. route induced a peritoneal carcinomatosis with ascites which killed the animals in 2 months. The epithelial morphology of IGROV1 cells was retained during in vitro and in vivo passages, as judged by both the light and the electron microscopes. Two cytogenetic markers characterize IGROV1 cells: a paracentric inversion of chromosome 3, and a translocation between chromosomes 2 and 5. The constitutional karyotype of the patient was normal. These characteristics make the IGROV1 cell line a suitable experimental model for the treatment of human ovarian carcinomas and for biological studies of human solid tumors.
Low Noise Inverter for Poly Phase Microgrid System

The inverter is a power electronics device which changes DC voltage to AC voltage or vice versa. The synchronous phase inverter is used in the microgrid system to connect the renewable energy sources of minimum phase error. For a high-efficiency power transmission and distribution system, a three-phase inverter is used. The electronic switches of the inverter are controlled by a controller circuit which can be a two-level pulse width modulation (PWM), phase lock loop (PLL) controller, etc. A fixed reference DC voltage and current generators are used for a stable input-output voltage and current to reduce the higher harmonic distortions. An LC lowpass filter has been designed and simulated for the input and output of the system by using MATLAB2014a. The input filter is utilized to reduce the AC ripple component in the DC input supply, and the output filter is used to reduce the higher frequency harmonic distortion from the inverter output supply to maintain the IEEE standard THD
Offline Mathematical Expression Recognition

In academic area, LTEX is widely used. But it takes people a large amount of time to write the code for formulas and mathematical expressions. Besides this, people often don’t know how to write some special mathematical symbols and then need to go to do a search. Therefore, it is very useful to have some tool that can translate a math formula image into LTEX code. With such a tool, when one wants to insert some math formula in LTEX, they only need to write formulas on paper, take pictures of them then our tool will give out the code. This can save the researchers a large amount of time. In addition, another very promising application is to help people solve equation. At now when people want to get some assist in solving an equation, most will go to wolframalpha.com and type the equation in the system. The typing process is awful. It will be so great if there is a software to handle this process automatically. Some studies have shown that on-line methods can get better result than offline ones[6]. In intuition, it is obvious because on-line method store strokes as data which have more information than offline method. The advantage of offline method is that which has much wider applications. For example, one of our project goal is to take photo of hand written mathematical expression and the program will recognize it. In this case, the goal cannot be achieved by using on-line. That is why we choose offline approach.
Construct Validity of the Three Motor-Reduced Subscales of the Developmental Test of Visual Perception — Adolescent and Adult (DTVP-A): A Rasch Analysis Model Evaluation

Background: The Developmental Test of Visual Perception — Adolescent and Adult (DTVP-A) is a test used by therapists even though its construct validity has not been thoroughly assessed. Purpose: This study evaluated the scalability/interval level measurement, unidimensionality, lack of differential item functioning (DIF) and hierarchical ordering of the items of the three motor-free subscales (Figure-Ground, Form Constancy and Visual Closure) of the DTVP-A. Method: The motor-free visual perceptual performance scores from a sample of 221 participants aged 20+ years (49 adults with and 172 adults without neurological impairment) were used to complete a Rasch analysis of the DTVP-A's three motor-free subscales. Results: On the DTVP-A Figure-Ground (FG) subscale, items FG2 and FG6 demonstrated Rasch model misfit, while no item exhibited DIF. On the Form Constancy (FC) subscale, items FC1, FC2, FC4 and FC6 were misfitting, while items FC3 and FC11 exhibited DIF based on gender. Visual Closure (VC) subscale items VC2, VC3, VC13 and VC15 exhibited misfit with the Rasch model requirements, while VC1 and VC5 demonstrated DIF. When all three subscales were analysed together as one Total Motor-Reduced Visual Perception Scale, items FC2, FC1, FC4, VC12, VC15, FC17 and FG6 demonstrated Rasch model misfit, while items VC1, VC2, VC5 and FC11 exhibited DIF based on gender. Conclusion: The construct validity, scalability, hierarchical ordering and lack of DIF requirements were met by the majority of the motor-free DTVP-A items. However, items FG6, FC1, FC2, FC4 and FC11 appeared to be particularly problematic. Given the fact that a number of items exhibited Rasch analysis model misfit or DIF, clinicians need to take this into consideration when using the three motor-free DTVP-A subscales individually or collectively to assess clients.