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Effects of differences in parenting styles on couple distress and children's perceptions of family support

Title of Thesis: EFFECTS OF DIFFERENCES IN PARENTING STYLE S ON COUPLE DISTRESS AND CHILDREN’S PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILY SUPPORT Tara Brittney Gogolinski, Master of Science, 2012 Thesis Directed by: Instructor/Director Carol Werlinich Department of Family Science Research has been conducted on different aspects of parenting and how it affe cts both the couple’s relationship and the children involved. The literature suggests that an authoritative parenting style is most optimal for children’s outcomes contributi ng to better school achievement, adjustment, and self-efficacy, and proposes that the quality of the parents’ couple relationship affects the experiences of the child(re n). The current study, utilizing a clinical sample of 37 families, explored the relationship be tween differences in parenting styles and the child’s perception of family support and the differences in parenting styles and the couple’s distress level. No signif icant relationships were found among differences in parenting styles and a child’s perception of family support. One significant relationship was found among differences in the permis sive parenting style and mother’s level of relationship distress and father’s l evel of relationship distress. The possible meanings of these findings for this sample are
Further We Travel the Faster We Go

The average travelling speed increases in a nontrivial manner with the travel distance. This leads to scaling-like relations on quite extended spatial scales, for all mobility modes taken together and also for a given mobility mode in part. We offer a wide range of experimental results, investigating and quantifying this universal effect and its measurable causes. The increasing travelling speed with the travel distance arises from the combined effects of: choosing the most appropriate travelling mode; the structure of the travel networks; the travel times lost in the main hubs, starting or target cities; and the speed limit of roads and vehicles.
Propagation of Native Tree Species to Restore Subtropical Evergreen Broad-Leaved Forests in SW China

Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest (EBLF) is a widespread vegetation type throughout East Asia that has suffered extensive deforestation and fragmentation. Selection and successful propagation of native tree species are important for improving ecological restoration of these forests. We carried out a series of experiments to study the propagation requirements of indigenous subtropical tree species in Southwest China. Seeds of 21 tree species collected from the natural forest were materials for the experiment. This paper examines the seed germination and seedling growth performance of these species in a nursery environment. Germination percentages ranged from 41% to 96% and were ≥50% for 19 species. The median length of germination time (MLG) ranged from 24 days for Padus wilsonii to 144 days for Ilex polyneura. Fifteen species can reach the transplant size (≥15 cm in height) within 12 months of seed collection. Nursery-grown seedlings for each species were planted in degraded site. Two years after planting, the seedling survival rate was >50% in 18 species and >80% in 12 species. Based on these results, 17 species were recommended as appropriate species for nursery production in forest restoration projects. Our study contributes additional knowledge regarding the propagation techniques for various native subtropical tree species in nurseries for forest restoration.
An initial usability evaluation of the secure situation awareness system

The importance of situation awareness systems in crisis-management scenarios cannot be emphasised enough. These systems enable entire disaster situations to be mapped out in a real-time fashion thereby aiding significantly in human decision-making and the necessary positioning, management and deployment of resources. As a result of the core role these systems play in responding to crises, it is vital that they are highly usable and optimized for human cognition and experience. In this paper we consider this reality in the context of an initial evaluation of the visualisation interface of a situation-awareness tool called Secure Situation Awareness (SSA). Our evaluation seeks to gather useful feedback from potential end-users on the usability of the tool’s interface to feed into the design and development of interfaces for similar systems.
Non-volatile residuals of newly formed atmospheric particles in the boreal forest

The volatility of sub-micrometer atmospheric aerosol particles was studied in a rural background environment in Finland using a combination of a heating tube and a scanning mobility particle sizer. The analysis focused on nanoparticles formed through nucleation which were subsequently observed during their growth in the diameter range between 5 and 60 nm. During the 6 days of new particle formation shown in detail, the concentrations of newly formed particles increased up to 10 000 cm −3 . The number of nucleation mode particles measured after volatilization in the heating tube at 280°C was up to 90% of the total number under ambient conditions. Taking into account the absolute accuracy of the size distribution measurements, all ambient particles found in the rural atmosphere could have a non-volatile core after volatilization at 280°C. As the regional new particle formation events developed over time as a result of further vapor condensation, the newly formed particles grew at an average growth rate of 2.4±0.3 nm h −1 . Importantly, the non-volatile cores of nucleation mode particles were also observed to grow over time, however, at a lower average growth rate of 0.6±0.3 nm h −1 . One implication of the volatility analysis is that the newly formed particles, which have reached ambient diameters of 15 nm, are unlikely to consist of sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate, and water alone. A relatively constant ratio between the growth rate of the ambient particles as well as their non-volatile cores indicates that non-volatile matter is formed only gradually in the growing particles. The non-volatile fraction of the particles showed some correlation with the ambient temperature. The composition and formation mechanism of this non-volatile material in nucleation mode particles are, to date, not known.
On the Spikiness of Internet Traffic 1

Internet traffic on a network link appears in various degrees of spikiness. We identify the Slow Start feature of the TCP protocol and the heavy-tailed distribution of the session sizes as the major causes of spikiness, and demonstrate that spikiness is triggered by an interplay between the Slow Start maximum rate and the number of users on the link. We provide an Internet traffic model which simulates the observed spikiness, as well as tools to quantify it.
An extensible OCL virtual machine and code generator

The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is a specification language that is also executable and so a variety of OCL execution capabilities have evolved. Some are interpreted while others use a code generator for an implementation language such as Java. The mapping of much of OCL to Java is obvious and so many implementations pursue the obvious approach but then find that the approach can only support an OCL subset. In this paper we revisit OCL evaluation. We first establish a simple uniform execution framework that applies to the whole of OCL. We call this an OCL Virtual Machine. We then identify how optimizations can bridge the gap between the uniform framework and how applicability predicates can determine when the optimization can be applied without needing to resort to a subset OCL. We finally identify how this uniform framework is extensible to OCL-based languages such as QVT.
Robust Land–Ocean Contrasts in Energy and Water Cycle Feedbacks*

Abstract Building on recent observational evidence showing disproportionate increases in temperature and aridity over land in a warming climate, this study examines simulated land–ocean contrasts in fully coupled projections from the Third Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) archive. In addition to the projection of disproportionate changes in temperature and moisture over land, the analysis reveals contrasts in clouds and radiative fluxes that play a key role in the eventual equilibration of the planetary energy budget in response to forcing. Despite differences in magnitude, the nature of the feedbacks governing the land–ocean contrast are largely robust across models, notwithstanding the large intermodel differences in cloud parameterizations, and suggest the involvement of fundamental constraints. The model responses are consistent with previously proposed ideas maintaining that relative humidity (RH) over land decreases with warming because precipitation and the hydrological cycle are gover.
Etiological Role of Viruses in Outbreaks of Acute Gastroenteritis in The Netherlands from 1994 through 2005

ABSTRACT Acute gastroenteritis is one of the most common diseases worldwide. In developed countries, viruses, particularly noroviruses, are recognized as the leading cause. In The Netherlands, the surveillance of gastroenteritis outbreaks with suspected viral etiologies (as determined by Kaplan criteria) was established by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in 1994. This paper presents an overview of viral gastroenteritis outbreaks reported from 1994 through 2005. A minimum epidemiological data set consisting of the associated setting(s), the probable transmission mode, the date of the first illness and the date of sampling, the number of persons affected, and the number of hospitalizations was requested for each reported outbreak. Stool samples were tested for the presence of norovirus, sapovirus, rotavirus, astrovirus, adenovirus, and Aichi virus by electron microscopy, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and/or reverse transcription-PCR. A total of 6,707 stool samples from 941 gastroenteritis outbreaks were investigated. Noroviruses were detected as the causative agent in 735 (78.1%) of the outbreaks, and rotaviruses, adenoviruses, and astroviruses were found to be responsible for 46 (4.9%), 9 (1.0%), and 5 (0.5%) outbreaks, respectively. Among the gastroenteritis outbreaks in which a mode of transmission was identified, most outbreaks (38.1%) were associated with person-to-person transmission, and the majority (54.9%) of the outbreaks investigated were reported by residential institutions. Since 2002, the total number of outbreaks reported and the number of unexplained outbreaks have increased. Furthermore, the number of rotavirus-associated outbreaks has increased, especially in nursing homes. Despite thorough testing, 115 (12.2%) outbreaks suspected of having viral etiologies remain unexplained. Increases in numbers of reported outbreaks may indicate undefined changes in the criteria for reporting or the emergence of new pathogens.
Financial time series volatility analysis using Gaussian process state-space models

In this paper, we propose a novel nonparametric modeling framework for financial time series data analysis, and apply it to the problem of time varying volatility modeling. Existing parametric models have a rigid-form transition function and they often have over-fitting problems when model parameters are estimated using maximum likelihood methods. These drawbacks effect the models' prediction performance. To solve this problem, we take Bayesian nonparametric modeling approach. By adding Gaussian process prior to the hidden state transition process, we extend the standard state-space model to a Gaussian process state-space model. We introduce the Gaussian process regression stochastic volatility (GPRSV) model and instead of using maximum likelihood methods, we use Monte Carlo inference algorithms. We demonstrate performance of our model and inference methods with both simulated and empirical financial data.
Conditional Effects in Graphplan

Graphplan has attracted considerable interest because of its extremely high performance, but the algorithm's inability to handle action representations more expressive than STRIPS is a major limitation. In particular, extending Graphplan to handle conditional effects is a surprisingly subtle enterprise. In this paper, we describe the space of possible alternatives, and then concentrate on one particular approach we call factored expansion. Factored expansion splits an action with conditional effects into several new actions called components, one for each conditional effect. Because these action components are not independent, factored expansion complicates both the mutual exclusion and backward chaining phases of Graphplan. As compensation, factored expansion often produces dramatically smaller domain models than does the more obvious full-expansion into exclusive STRIPS actions. We present experimental results showing that factored expansion dominates full expansion on large problems.
DETERMINING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES AND BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS OF BASKETBALL REFEREES

Öz: Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türkiye Basketbol Federasyonunda görev yapan basketbol hakemlerin pozitif psikolojik durumlarının ve temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlarının belirlenmesidir. Yöntem: Araştırmaya 39’u kadın (29.49 ± 7.19 years) ve 214’ü erkek (28.53 ± 6.05) olmak üzere toplam 253 kişi katılmıştır. Araştırmada ölçüm araçları olarak, “Kısaltılmış Proaktif Kişilik Ölçeği” (Akın ve ark., 2011), “Öznel Zindelik Ölçeği” (Akın ve ark., 2012), “İyilik Hali Ölçeği” (Akın ve Fidan, 2012) “Öznel Mutluluk Ölçeği” (Akın, 2011) ve “Temel Psikolojik İhtiyaçlar Ölçeği” (Kesici Üre ve ark., 2002) kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada elde edilen verilerin analizinde, tanımlayıcı istatistikler ile Pearson korelasyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Veriler SPSS 16.0 programında analiz edilmiş ve anlamlılık düzeyi 0.05 olarak belirlenmiştir. Bulgular: Araştırmada elde edilen bulgular incelendiğinde, hakemlerin proaktif kişilik, öznel zindelik, psikolojik iyi oluş ve öznel mutluluktan oluşan pozitif psikolojik durumlarının temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlar ölçeğinin tüm alt boyutlarıyla pozitif yönde anlamlı ilişkiler kurduğu tespit edilmiştir (p<05). Ayrıca hakemlerin yaşı ile temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlar ölçeğinin yeterlik (r: -160; p<0.05) ve ilişkili olma (r: -170: p<0.05) alt boyutlarıyla negatif yönde anlamlı bir ilişki bulunmuştur. Sonuç: Sonuç olarak, hakemlerin temel psikolojik ihtiyaçlarının artmasıyla birlikte, pozitif psikolojik durumlarında da bir artışın olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu da, hakemlerin daha özerk, daha yeterli ve sosyal olarak daha fazla ilişkiler kurma ihtiyacı hissettikleri sonucunu ortaya çıkarmıştır.
Migrating haemulid fishes as a source of nutrients and organic matter on coral reefs1

Juvenile french and white grunts (Haemulon jlavolineatum and Haemulon plumierl) rest over coral colonies during the day and feed only at night in surrounding seagrass beds. We examined the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, particulate organic carbon, and calories which these fishes deposited over the coral colonies that were their resting sites. Weight-specific rates of nitrogen excretion by grunts decreased with increasing fish size. Rates of phosphorus excretion were not related to fish size. Excretory products were rich in nitrogen (molar N:P = 48), primarily ammonium, whereas fecal material was richer in phosphorus (N:P = 8). Feces leached over half of their phosphorus content within the first day. Half of the daily excretion and defecation occurred during the first 4 h after grunts returned to the reef, in which time they doubled the amount of NH. ,+ available to corals under calm conditions. Seasonal patterns of nutrient and particulate organic carbon (caloric) input to coral colonies varied with grunt biomass on the colony. The maximum input to colonies of Porites jiircata from grunts occurred during August, which coincided with the time of highest coral growth rate. Grunts deposited an average of 164 and 251 mg m-2 d-’ of particulate organic carbon (feces) on the P. furcata and Acropora palmata colonies over which they rested, an energy supplement to the colonies of 0.8 and 1.2 kcal m-2 d-l. Rates of nutrient and organic matter input from grunts are comparable to or greater than rates observed in other naturally or artificially enriched ecosystems.
Objeto nulo e pronome pleno na retomada anafórica em PB: uma análise em corpora escritos com características de fala

Neste trabalho, apresentaremos os resultados de nossa investigação sobre o fenômeno da retomada anafórica de objeto direto em PB analisando dois corpora escritos que apresentam características de oralidade e tentam se aproximar da fala: um corpus constituído de histórias em quadrinhos infantis e outro contendo postagens do Twitter. Investigamos esses corpora com dois objetivos: o primeiro é comparar duas hipóteses sobre a distribuição entre objetos nulos e pronomes (uma que leva em consideração os traços de animacidade e especificidade do antecedente do elemento anafórico e outra que considera o traço de gênero semântico do antecedente). Nosso segundo objetivo é determinar a distribuição entre objetos nulos, clíticos pronominais e pronomes plenos de 3ª pessoa na retomada anafórica de objetos diretos, para verificar se essa distribuição se aproxima mais ao que se reporta, na literatura, a estudos de língua falada ou escrita.
A generalized form of the InSAR phase unwrapping problem based on a compressed sensing technique

This paper deals with the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) phase unwrapping problem. The proposed appraoch is based on the relationship between the gradient vectors of the observed wrapped phase and the true phase respectively, when the Itoh condition is satisfied. Since this relationship is violated by the residu pixels in the observed wrapped phase, we propose, in this paper, a general problem formulation which takes into account the estimation error due to these residu values. The main idea is based on compressed sensing technique to estimate the true phase and the estimation error simultaneously. To obtain a sparsity representation of the unknown true phase image, we use the curvelet transform orthobasis dictionary and the error is assumed to be a sparse signal. Finally, the minimization of the result l1 problem is insured by the Basis Pursuit algorithm (BP). The proposed unwrapping approach shows high performance when tested and validated with simulated and real interferograms and compared with two recent similar algorithms.
Genetic Rodent Models of Obesity-Associated Ovarian Dysfunction and Subfertility: Insights into Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinopathy affecting women and a leading cause of female infertility worldwide. Defined clinically by the presence of hyperandrogenemia and oligomenorrhoea, PCOS represents a state of hormonal dysregulation, disrupted ovarian follicle dynamics, and subsequent oligo- or anovulation. The syndrome’s prevalence is attributed, at least partly, to a well-established association with obesity and insulin resistance (IR). Indeed, the presence of severe PCOS in human genetic obesity and IR syndromes supports a causal role for IR in the pathogenesis of PCOS. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this causality, as well as the important role of hyperandrogenemia, remain poorly elucidated. As such, treatment of PCOS is necessarily empirical, focusing on symptom alleviation. The generation of knockout and transgenic rodent models of obesity and IR offers a promising platform in which to address mechanistic questions about reproductive dysfunction in the context of metabolic disease. Similarly, the impact of primary perturbations in rodent gonadotrophin or androgen signaling has been interrogated. However, the insights gained from such models have been limited by the relatively poor fidelity of rodent models to human PCOS. In this mini review, we evaluate the ovarian phenotypes associated with rodent models of obesity and IR, including the extent of endocrine disturbance, ovarian dysmorphology, and subfertility. We compare them to both human PCOS and other animal models of the syndrome (genetic and hormonal), explore reasons for their discordance, and consider the new opportunities that are emerging to better understand and treat this important condition.
An affordable optical head tracking system for desktop VR/AR systems

We present an affordable optical head tracking system for desktop-like VR/AR environments. The generic and specific head tracking requirements for these type of environments are de ned, as well as the relaxations such environments put on head tracking systems. The presented head tracker is based on two low-cost, commodity FireWire cameras that track a simple 3D dot pattern. It is shown that the tracker provides high accuracy, an update rate of 30 updates per second, a low computational load, and a moderate delay of 66 ms. It is competitive to commercially available, moderate-cost head tracking systems yet for substantially lower costs.
Dynamic Component Composition

This paper presents an approach to dynamic component composition that facilitates creating new composed components using existing ones at runtime and without any code generation. The dynamic abilities are supported by extended type notion and implementation based on additional superstructure provided with its Java API and corresponding JavaBeans components. The new component composition is performed by building the composed prototype object that can be dynamically transformed into the new instantiable type (component). That approach demonstrates interrelations between prototype-based and class-based component-oriented programming. The component model proposed can be used when implementing user-defined types in declarative languages for event-driven applications programming.
Multi-view mosaic algorithm of path analysis by multiple cameras

In this paper, we first intruded the scale invariant feature transform(SIFT) and Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithms, and then we applied the SIFT algorithm based on RANSAC to wide area target tracking by multi-camera, and the experiment proved that the algorithm perform very well in this situation. It gives more intuitive results, which is better than signal view. So it is very beneficial to wide area tracking and path analysis.
Iterative Multi-user Detection with FEC on Correlated Multipath Channels

Mark C. Reed Ascom Systec AG Applicable Research and Technology Gewerbepark, Maegenwil CH-5506 e-mail: mark.reed@ascom.ch WWW: http://www.ascom.ch/art Abstract | This paper investigates a multipleaccess communication receiver system that receives coded data modulated using DS-CDMA. We specifically test the receiver on Rayleigh distributed, correlated fading channel with multi-path. We describe an iterative receiver that improves the initial signal estimates, and therefore reduces the multiple access interference(MAI). Simulation results show that the performance approaches that obtained when only one users signal is received.
Vertical distribution of Galactic disk stars ? II. The surface mass density in the Galactic plane

High resolution spectral data of red clump stars towards the NGP have been obtained with the high resolution spectrograph Elodie at OHP for Tycho-2 selected stars. Combined with Hipparcos local analogues, we determine both the gravitational force law perpendicular to the Galactic plane and the total surface mass density and thickness of the Galactic disk. The surface mass density of the Galactic disk within 800 pc derived from this analysis is (jzj<800 pc)= 76 Mpc 2 and, removing the dark halo contribution, the total disk mass density is0= 67 Mpc 2 at solar radius. The thickness of the total disk mass distribution is dynamically measured for the first time and is found to be 390 +330 pc in relative agreement with the old stellar disk scaleheight. All the dynamical evidences concerning the structure of the disk (its local volume density - i.e. the Oort limit-, its surface density and its thickness) are compatible with our current knowledge of the corresponding stellar disk properties.