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THE ‘EUROPEANIZATION’ OF ELITE FOOTBALL

This paper seeks to make use of Appadurai's characterization of the contemporary global condition in terms of the disjunctive flows of a series of related'social scapes'. This categorization is applied to an analysis of key recent developments within elite professional football, together taken to represent the'Europeanizaton' of the'soccerscape'. The paper then goes on to consider possible meanings and significance of such developments, in particular whether it is possible to argue that they may contribute, or have the potential to contribute to the emergence of a sense of 'Europeanness' among followers of football, especially the young.
A hierarchical model for representation of events in multimedia observation systems

Events are centric to multimedia observation systems, which are meant to capture and process the sensory data and provide decisions about the events occurring in the environment. There are various granularities at which the events occur. For instance, an event can occur for a short time (a few seconds) or over a longer period of time (several minutes). Moreover, multiple events can occur simultaneously as well as they may have relationship with each other. Given the complexity of events, it is important to have an event representation model that can describe events at different levels. This paper presents a hierarchical model for event representation targeted to multimedia observation application. The proposed model defines events at three levels: transient, atomic and compound; and describes how the events at one level are mapped to another level. Moreover, the model also provides explicit representations for three types relationships between events: temporal, causal and spatial. The experiments validate the utility of the proposed model.
DOLPHIN: Integrated Meeting Support across LiveBoards, Local and Remote Desktop Environments

This paper describes DOLPHIN, a fully group aware application designed to provide computer support for different types of meetings: face–to–face meetings with a large interactive electronic whiteboard with or without networked computers provided to the participants, extensions of these meetings with remote participants at their desktop computers connected via computer and audio/video networks and/ or participants in a second meeting room also provided with an electronic whiteboard and networked computers. DOLPHIN supports the creation and manipulation of informal structures (e.g. free hand drawings, handwritten scribbles) as well as formal structures (e.g. hypermedia documents with typed nodes and links) and their coexistence and transformation.
Visual application for the analysis of Web-based information systems usage: a preliminary usability evaluation

This work presents a general description of the methods used in the on-going evaluation of a Visualizer, which is a sub-component of the Web Log Visual Analysis System. We are trying to evaluate some aspects of the user interface and visualization techniques implemented as part of the prototype. Observation and querying techniques were used with two types of users. A general description of those users and methods is presented. Preliminary results were encouraging and provided new ideas and information that will, eventually, allow a more complete and formal evaluation of our application.
A new way of understanding position error in wheeled mobile robots control problem

The problem of path-tracking of wheeled mobile robot (WMR) has been well studied and many algorithms have been presented to solve the problem. However, most of the existed methods are based on Lyapunov function while few works have been done on error analysis of the control law caused by imperfect conditions, especially by inaccurate controlling. In this paper, a discrete-time system model is established to obtain both theoretical and simulative results of a ground robot's position error caused by inaccurate control actions. We provide a general framework to analyze the problem, which enables other position error calculations adopting similar method. As indicated by the experimental results on Pioneer-3DX robots, the theoretical work is valid.
Accelerated iterative transmission CT reconstruction using an ordered subsets convex algorithm

Iterative maximum likelihood (ML) transmission computed tomography algorithms have distinct advantages over Fourier-based reconstruction, but unfortunately require increased computation time. The convex algorithm is a relatively fast iterative ML algorithm but it is nevertheless too slow for many applications. Therefore, an acceleration of this algorithm by using ordered subsets of projections is proposed [ordered subsets convex algorithm (OSC)]. OSC applies the convex algorithm sequentially to subsets of projections, OSC was compared with the convex algorithm using simulated and physical thorax phantom data. Reconstructions were performed for OSC using eight and 16 subsets (eight and four projections/subset, respectively). Global errors, image noise, contrast recovery, and likelihood increase were calculated. Results show that OSC is faster than the convex algorithm, the amount of acceleration being approximately proportional to the number of subsets in OSC, and it causes only a slight increase of noise and global errors in the reconstructions. Images and image profiles of the reconstructions were in good agreement, In conclusion, OSC and the convex algorithm result in similar image quality but OSC is more than an order of magnitude faster.
17Beta-estradiol and anti-estrogen ICI:compound 182,780 regulate expression of lipoprotein lipase and hormone-sensitive lipase in isolated subcutaneous abdominal adipocytes.

We sought to investigate the influence of 17beta-estradiol (E(2)) on key enzymes of lipogenesis and lipolysis in subcutaneous (SC) abdominal adipocytes isolated from women. In addition, we wished to determine the influence of an anti-estrogen, ICI:compound 182,780 (anti-E), known to act via the estrogen receptor (ER), alone and in combination with E(2). Adipose tissue was obtained from 17 women undergoing elective surgery, with a mean age of 47 years (range, 34 to 62), mean weight of 65.4 kg (range, 58.1 to 75.0), and mean body mass index (BMI) of 25 kg/m(2) (range, 22 to 27). Isolated adipocytes were treated with varying doses of E(2), anti-E, or E(2) in combination with anti-E 10(-8) mol/L for 48 hours. Following treatment, proteins were extracted and the effects on lipogenesis and lipolysis were assessed, using Western blotting to determine the relative expression of the key enzymes of these processes, lipoprotein lipase (LPL; 56 kd), and hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL; 84 kd), respectively. Glycerol release into the medium was also measured as an index of lipolytic activity. The protein expression studies demonstrated that E(2) altered expression of LPL relative to control, with the highest dose significantly reducing LPL expression and the lower doses significantly increasing LPL expression (mean protein expression relative to control +/- SE): E(2) 10(-12) mol/L, 1.79 +/- 0.16 (P <.001); E(2) 10(-7) mol/L, 0.56 +/- 0.08 (P <.05). In contrast, HSL expression was increased relative to control at the higher doses of E(2) but was not significantly altered relative to control at the lower doses: E(2) 10(-12) mol/L, 1.02 +/- 0.14 (P >.05); E(2) 10(-7) mol/L, 1.55 +/- 0.17 (P <.01). Anti-E 10(-8) mol/L alone reduced LPL protein expression relative to control (P <.05) and increased HSL protein expression relative to control (P >.05). In combination with E(2) 10(-7) mol/L, anti-E 10(-8) mol/L did not abrogate the inhibitory effect on LPL expression relative to control (P <.05). Furthermore, E(2) 10(-7) mol/Lin combination with anti-E 10(-8) mol/L, displayed a stimulatory effect on HSL expression relative to control (P <.01). Glycerol release studies following the higher doses of E(2), and also following E(2) 10(-7) mol/L in combination with anti-E 10(-8) mol/L, provided support for the HSL protein expression studies. We conclude that the highest concentration of E(2) (10(-7) mol/L) significantly reduced LPL expression relative to control, while the lower concentrations significantly increased LPL expression relative to control. The highest concentration of E(2) also significantly increased both HSL expression and glycerol release relative to control. The effects of anti-E suggest that the in vitro effects of E(2) on lipogenesis and lipolysis occur, at least in part, through a receptor-mediated pathway. In addition, as recently observed in other tissues, ICI:compound 182,780 does not appear to behave as a pure anti-estrogen in isolated human adipocytes.
A RBFN Perceptive Model for Image Thresholding

The digital image segmentation challenge has demanded the development of a plethora of methods and approaches. A quite simple approach, the thresholding, has still been intensively applied mainly for real-time vision applications. However, the threshold criteria often depend on entropic or statistical image features. This work searches a relationship between these features and subjective human threshold decisions. Then, an image thresholding model based on these subjective decisions and global statistical features was developed by training a Radial Basis Functions Network (RBFN). This work also compares the automatic thresholding methods to the human responses. Furthermore, the RBFN-modeled answers were compared to the automatic thresholding. The results show that entropic-based method was closer to RBFN-modeled thresholding than variance-based method. It was also found that another automatic method which combines global and local criteria presented higher correlation with human responses.
TeGViz: Distributed Tera-Scale Graph Generation and Visualization

How can we generate and visualize tera-scale graphs efficiently? Although there are several graph generators available, they lack scalability, and require additional time to upload graphs for further analysis in distributed systems. Visualizing a massive graph from a graph generator is another challenge since the amount of information in the graph exceeds the resolution of a typical screen. In this paper, we proposes TeGViz, a distributed Tera-scale graph generation and visualization tool. TeGViz consists of two modules: graph generation and visualization. The graph generation module TeG generates a wide range of graphs including Erdos-Renyi random graph and realistic graphs including R-MAT and Kronecker directly on distributed systems. Thanks to our carefully designed parallel algorithms, TeG outperforms competitors in terms of scalability. The visualization module Net-Ray summarizes graphs using spy plot, distribution plot, and correlation plot to find regularities and anomalies effectively and makes it easy to understand generated graphs.
A Physiological Stimulating Factor of Water Intake during and after Dry Forage Feeding in Large-type Goats

When ruminants consume dry forage, they also drink large volumes of water. The objective of this study was to clarify which factor produced when feed boluses enter the rumen is mainly responsible for the marked increase in water intake in the second hour of the 2 h feeding period in large-type goats fed on dry forage for 2 h twice daily. Six large-type male esophageal- and ruminal-fistulated goats (crossbred Japanese Saanen/Nubian, aged 2 to 6 years, weighing 85.1±4.89 kg) were used in two experiments. In experiment 1, the water deprivation (WD) control and the water availability (WA) treatment were conducted to compare changes in water intake during and after dry forage feeding. In experiment 2, a normal feeding conditions (NFC) control and a feed bolus removal (FBR) treatment were carried out to investigate whether decrease in circulating plasma volume or increase in plasma osmolality is mainly responsible for the marked increase in water intake in the second hour of the 2 h feeding period. The results of experiment 1 showed that in the WA treatment, small amounts of water were consumed during the first hour of feeding while the majority of water intake was observed during the second hour of the 2 h feeding period. Therefore, the amounts of water consumed in the second hour of the 2 h feeding period accounted for 82.8% of the total water intake. The results of experiment 2 indicated that in comparison with the NFC control, decrease in plasma volume in the FBR treatment, which was indicated by increase in hematocrit and plasma total protein concentrations, was higher (p<0.05) in the second hour of the 2 h feeding period. However, plasma osmolality in the FBR treatment was lower (p<0.05) than compared to the NFC control from 30 min after the start of feeding. Therefore, thirst level in the FBR treatment was 82.7% less (p<0.01) compared with that in the NFC control upon conclusion of the 30 min drinking period. The results of the study indicate that the increased plasma osmolality in the second hour of the 2 h feeding period is the main physiological stimulating factor of water intake during and after dry forage feeding in large-type goats.
Configuration management at massive scale: system design and experience

The development and maintenance of network device configurations is one of the central challenges faced by large network providers. Current network management systems fail to meet this challenge primarily because of their inability to adapt to rapidly evolving customer and provider-network needs, and because of mismatches between the conceptual models of the tools and the services they must support. In this paper, we present the Presto configuration management system that attempts to address these failings in a comprehensive and flexible way. Developed for and used during the last 5 years within a large ISP network, Presto constructs device-native configurations based on the composition of configlets representing different services or service options. Configlets are compiled by extracting and manipulating data from external systems as directed by the Presto configuration scripting and template language. We outline the configuration management needs of large-scale network providers, introduce the PRESTO system and configuration language, and reflect upon our experiences developing PRESTO configured VPN and VoIP services. In doing so, we describe how PRESTO promotes healthy configuration management practices.
Using a statistical metrology framework to identify systematic and random sources of die- and wafer-level ILD thickness variation in CMP processes

A statistical metrology framework is used to identify systematic and random sources of interconnect structure (ILD thickness) variation. Electrical and physical measurements, TCAD simulations, design of experiments, signal processing, and statistical analysis are integrated via statistical metrology to deconvolve ILD thickness variation into constituent variation sources. In this way, insight into planarization variation is enabled; for a representative CMP process we find that die-level neighborhood interactions are comparable to die-level feature-dependent effects, and within each die, die-level variation is greater than wafer-level variation. The characterization of variation sources via statistical metrology is critical for improved process control, interconnect simulation, and robust circuit design.
IL-15 Overexpression Promotes Endurance, Oxidative Energy Metabolism, and Muscle PPAR (cid:1) , SIRT1, PGC-1 (cid:2) , and PGC-1 (cid:3) Expression in Male Mice

Endurance exercise initiates a pattern of gene expression that promotes fat oxidation, which in turn improves endurance, body composition, and insulin sensitivity. The signals from exercise that initiate these pathways have not been completely characterized. IL-15 is a cytokine that is up-regulated in skeletal muscle after exercise and correlates with leanness and insulin sensitivity. To determine whether IL-15 can induce any of the metabolic adaptations associated with exercise, substratemetabolism,endurance,andmolecularexpressionpatternswereexaminedinmaletrans-genicmicewithconstitutivelyelevatedmuscleandcirculatingIL-15levels.IL-15transgenicmiceran twice as long as littermate control mice in a run-to-exhaustion trial and preferentially used fat for energy metabolism. Fast muscles in IL-15 transgenic mice exhibited high expression of intracellular mediators of oxidative metabolism that are induced by exercise, including sirtuin 1, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)- (cid:1) , PPAR- (cid:2) coactivator-1 (cid:3) , and PPAR- (cid:2) coactivator-1 (cid:4) . Muscle tissue in IL-15 transgenic dehydrogenase control Soleus digitorum longus in liquid N 2 and homogenized in Bio-Plex lysis buffer (Bio-Rad) containing pro-tease inhibitors. Soluble protein fractions were assayed for protein content by the bicinchoninic acid method. Equal amounts of proteinwereloadedontoSDS-PAGEgels,separated,andblotted onto 0.45- (cid:5) m nitrocellulose (Bio-Rad) using transfer buffer without SDS. Membranes were blocked and incubated with pri-mary antibodies diluted 1 rinsed, and incubated with horseradishperoxidase-conjugatedsecondaryantibodies(1:1000– Bands were visualized using luminol Cruz) on autoradiography film (ISC and were digitized using UN-SCAN-IT gel version 5.1 (Silk Scien-tific, Orem, UT). Background-corrected signal (density (cid:3) area) for each band was normalized to GAPDH or tubulin. PGC-1 and PGC-1 (cid:4) relative mobility
Constraint cascading style sheets for the Web

Cascading Style Sheets have been introduced by the W3C as a mechanism for controlling the appearance of HTML documents. In this paper, we demonstrate how constraints provide a powerful unifying formalism for declaratively understanding and specifying style sheets for web documents. With constraints we can naturally and declaratively specify complex behavior such as inheritance of properties and cascading of conflicting style rules. We give a detailed description of a constraint-based style sheet model, CCSS, which is compatible with virtually all of the CSS 2.0 specification. It allows more flexible specification of layout, and also allows the designer to provide multiple layouts that better meet the desires of the user and environmental restrictions. We also describe a prototype extension of the Amaya browser that demonstrates the feasibility of CCSS.
In Vivo Small-Animal PET/CT of EphB4 Receptors Using 64Cu-Labeled Peptide

Many solid tumors overexpress EphB4 receptor, a member of the ephrin receptor tyrosine kinase family. Noninvasive imaging of EphB4 could potentially increase early detection rates, monitor response to therapy directed against EphB4, and improve patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a novel 64Cu-labeled peptide with high receptor binding affinity for PET of EphB4 receptors. Methods: The EphB4-binding peptide TNYLFSPNGPIARAW (TNYL-RAW) was conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) and DOTA. DOTA-TNYL-RAW was labeled with 64Cu with high labeling efficiency. The binding affinity of TNYL-RAW and its derivatives to purified recombinant EphB4 was determined using surface plasmon resonance technology. In vitro binding of both FITC-TNYL-RAW and 64Cu-DOTA-TNYL-RAW to cancer cells was assessed by fluorescent microscopy and a radioactivity count method. In vivo biodistribution and small-animal PET/CT were performed in mice bearing EphB4-expressing CT26 and PC-3M tumors as well as EphB4-negative A549 tumors. Results: TNYL-RAW and its derivatives displayed high binding affinity to EphB4, with equilibrium dissociation constant of 1.98–23 nM. In vitro, both FITC-TNYL-RAW and 64Cu-DOTA-TNYL-RAW were selectively taken up by CT26 and PC-3M cells but not by A549 cells. Binding of FITC-TNYL-RAW and 64Cu-DOTA-TNYL-RAW to CT26 and PC-3M cells could be blocked by an excess amount of TNYL-RAW. In vivo, 64Cu-DOTA-TNYL-RAW showed significantly higher uptake in PC-3M tumors than in A549 tumors, with percentages of injected dose per gram of tumor of 0.84 ± 0.09 and 0.44 ± 0.09 at 24 h after radiotracer injection, respectively. Small-animal PET/CT clearly revealed deposition of 64Cu-DOTA-TNYL-RAW in CT26 and PC-3M tumors but not in A549 tumors. Furthermore, uptake of 64Cu-DOTA-TNYL-RAW in both CT26 and PC-3M tumors could be blocked by cold TNYL-RAW. Conclusion: The expression of EphB4 receptors can be noninvasively interrogated by small-animal PET/CT using 64Cu-DOTA-TNYL-RAW.
A Mostly-Clean DRAM Cache for Effective Hit Speculation and Self-Balancing Dispatch

Die-stacking technology allows conventional DRAM to be integrated with processors. While numerous opportunities to make use of such stacked DRAM exist, one promising way is to use it as a large cache. Although previous studies show that DRAM caches can deliver performance benefits, there remain inefficiencies as well as significant hardware costs for auxiliary structures. This paper presents two innovations that exploit the bursty nature of memory requests to streamline the DRAM cache. The first is a low-cost Hit-Miss Predictor (HMP) that virtually eliminates the hardware overhead of the previously proposed multi-megabyte Miss Map structure. The second is a Self-Balancing Dispatch (SBD) mechanism that dynamically sends some requests to the off-chip memory even though the request may have hit in the die-stacked DRAM cache. This makes effective use of otherwise idle off-chip bandwidth when the DRAM cache is servicing a burst of cache hits. These techniques, however, are hampered by dirty (modified) data in the DRAM cache. To ensure correctness in the presence of dirty data in the cache, the HMP must verify that a block predicted as a miss is not actually present, otherwise the dirty block must be provided. This verification process can add latency, especially when DRAM cache banks are busy. In a similar vein, SBD cannot redirect requests to off-chip memory when a dirty copy of the block exists in the DRAM cache. To relax these constraints, we introduce a hybrid write policy for the cache that simultaneously supports write-through and write-back policies for different pages. Only a limited number of pages are permitted to operate in a write-back mode at one time, thereby bounding the amount of dirty data in the DRAM cache. By keeping the majority of the DRAM cache clean, most HMP predictions do not need to be verified, and the self balancing dispatch has more opportunities to redistribute requests (i.e., only requests to the limited number of dirty pages must go to the DRAM cache to maintain correctness). Our proposed techniques improve performance compared to the Miss Map-based DRAM cache approach while simultaneously eliminating the costly Miss Map structure.
Evaluation of risk factors in cesarean delivery among multiparous women with a history of vaginal delivery.

OBJECTIVE To predict the risk of cesarean delivery (CS) for multiparous women who have undergone previous vaginal delivery. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective observational study was performed, among multiparous pregnancies that were between 38 and 41 gestational weeks and had a singleton, vertex presentation fetus. Women's physical activity score, obstetric history, intrapartum and postpartum events were assessed. Multivariable logistic regression was used to explore risk factors associated with CS. RESULTS Of the 245 total 83.7% had spontaneous labor and 16.3% were induced. Seventy-five percent of the induced women required CS, whereas only 19.5% of those with spontaneous labor required CS (p<0.001). The logistic regression analysis model included maternal weight gain, physical activity score, cervical dilatation, and fetal weight as the predictors of CS. We detected 7 (10%) maternal complications in women who underwent intrapartum CS. CONCLUSION Labor induction is significantly associated with increased risk of cesarean delivery among previously vaginally delivered women and maternal weight gain, physical activity score, cervical dilatation, and fetal weight are most accurate parameters in the prediction of the risk of CS delivery. Intrapartum CS has an increased risk of maternal morbidity.