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Reading and writing the self as a college student: Fluidity and ambivalence across contexts

The attempt to improve the literacy of young people on vocational courses in further education is a major educational concern. Yet, engagement in pedagogic literacies involves transitions between informal and formal literacies which may or may not make sense to the students making them. Such engagement is related strongly to students’ sense of themselves as readers and writers in a range of contexts outside and inside college. This chapter draws on the Literacies for Learning in Further Education project in the TLRP. The project is finding that students identify with the reading and writing that they do in some contexts, but not in others. Students vary in the extent to which they identify with the roles and positions inscribed in texts and practices they encounter in college. Our aim is to find ways of making the reading and writing associated with their college courses more compatible with their sense of who they are and who they want to become. In this chapter, we explore some of these issues, and open up discussion about how 'literacy practices' are related to 'identity'.
cDNA cloning of human muskelin and localisation of the muskelin (MKLN1) gene to human chromosome 7q32 and mouse chromosome 6 B1/B2 by physical mapping and FISH

Muskelin is a novel intracellular protein, identified in mouse cells, that acts as a mediator of cell spreading and cytoskeletal responses to the extracellular matrix component thrombospondin-1. We report that human muskelin is 98% identical with mouse muskelin at the amino acid level. The human muskelin gene is located at 7q32. The mouse muskelin gene maps syntenically at chromosome 6 B1/B2.
Student Teachers' General and Content-Specific Pedagogical Development within a Mathematics Milieu.

Fourteen elementary and 6 middle level student teachers were observed and interviewed throughout their ini­ tial field placement teaching experience. The Classroom Observation and Performance Assessment for Teachers-Revised (COPAT-R) observation instrument and semistructured interviews were used to compare general and content-specific pedagogical development. Results from interviews found that both groups of stu­ dent teachers perceived themselves as most competent in having lesson plans ready, routines evident, utilizing student-centered instruction, and having effective monitoring and motivational techniques. Conversely, both groups felt least competent in having a system for materials distribution, getting students on task quickly, using a variety of teaching strategies, using critical thinking skills, handling inappropriate behavior effectively and providing guided practice.
A Dataset of Syntactic-Ngrams over Time from a Very Large Corpus of English Books

We created a dataset of syntactic-ngrams (counted dependency-tree fragments) based on a corpus of 3.5 million English books. The dataset includes over 10 billion distinct items covering a wide range of syntactic configurations. It also includes temporal information, facilitating new kinds of research into lexical semantics over time. This paper describes the dataset, the syntactic representation, and the kinds of information provided.
Modeling Wireless Sensor Network nodes using SystemC-AMS

The paper presents a preliminary approach for the modeling and simulation of a complete wireless sensor network with two nodes using SystemC-AMS, an open-source C++ library dedicated to the description of heterogeneous systems containing digital, analog, RF hardware parts as well as embedded software. The WSN node, or mote, detailed herein consists of a physical sensor, a continuous time sigma-delta converter with its associated decimation filter, an ATMEGA128 8-bit microcontroller running the embedded application and a QPSK-based 2.4 GHz RF transceiver. The paper starts with the structural description of the system as a hierarchical set of behavioural modules, then gives an insight on how multi-frequency simulation is handled in SystemC-AMS, and finally presents simulation results that are systematically compared with the Matlab reference in terms of accuracy and simulation time.
Stochastic Analysis of Delayed Mobile Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks

Mobile cloud offloading that migrates heavy computation from mobile devices to powerful cloud servers through communication networks can alleviate the hardware limitations of mobile devices thus providing higher performance and saving energy. Different applications usually give different relative importance to response time and energy consumption. If a delay-tolerant job is deferred up to a given deadline, or until a fast and energy-efficient network becomes available, the transmission time will be extended, which can save energy because a more energy-efficient communication channel and a less energy-restricted computation platform may become available. However, if the reduced service time fails to cover the extra waiting time, this policy may not be competitive. In this paper, we investigate two types of delayed offloading policies, the partial offloading model where jobs can leave from the slow phase of the offloading process and be executed locally on the mobile device, and the full offloading model, where jobs can abandon the WiFi Queue and be offloaded via the Cellular Queue. In both models, we minimize the Energy-Response time Weighted Product (ERWP) metric. Not surprisingly, we find that jobs abandon the queue often when the availability of the WiFi network is low. In general, for delay-sensitive applications the partial offloading model is preferred under a suitable reneging rate, while for delay-tolerant applications the full offloading model shows very good results and outperforms the other offloading model when selecting a large deadline. From the perspective of energy consumption, the full offloading model will always be best, even if the deadline must be extremely long. Only if job response time is of high importance an optimal deadline to abort offloading in the partial offloading model or the WiFi transmission in the full offloading model can be found. For reduction of the energy consumption it will always be better to wait longer rather than compute locally or use the cellular network.
Using Dendrochronology To Measure Radial Growth of Defoliated Trees

Budworms (Choristoneura spp.) have repeatedly defoliated millions of hectares of conifers throughout North America. The seriousness of the problem is underscored by research findings in eastern Canada and the northern U.S. Rocky Mountains that the extent, severity, and frequency of bud worm outbreaks have increased in the 20th century, primarily as a result of human-induced changes in forest structure and composition (Blais 1983, Carlson and others 1983, Fellin and others 1983).
The Perceived Roles of God during Suicide Bereavement

Ten women described their religious lives following the suicide of a family member. Using their audio-recorded and transcribed interviews, this qualitative pilot study describes their perceptions of God's roles in the suicide and their bereavement. Religious traditions and Western culture contain ancient and contemporary Christian teachings regarding suicide and the bereaved respond to them and create their own attributions. The analysis produced four themes: 1) contrary to ancient Christian teaching, God as judge did not deny heaven to their loved one, 2) God was in control, but was not responsible for the suicide, 3) God provided individualized spiritual care, and 4) God brought good out of the tragedy. Larger and more detailed studies are needed to clarify further how theological attributions function within suicide bereavement.
Improving the quality of patient care using reliability measures: a classification tree approach

This paper considers the application and interpretation of new reliability measures for a classification tree‐based medical risk assessment tool. Following the construction of a classification tree reliability measures may then be used to provide an estimate of the precision of the classification and the probability in each terminal node of the classification tree. Identification of unreliable nodes (those that have low precision) in this application may indicate patient groups requiring closer monitoring or scenarios in which further information about the patient is required, thereby providing medical practitioners with an avenue for more informed decision making. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
A NOVEL SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR 3D SURFACE MESHES

We propose a novel method for the problem of 3D surface mesh segmentation. This segmentation method is based on geodesic distance and di erential geometry information such as Gaussian curvature and mean curvature. Mesh segmentation is essential for many applications, e.g., feature detection, model tting, and sub-part analysis, etc. The mesh segmentation problem is de ned as clustering of vertices in a mesh such that vertices in the same cluster must (i) have similar curvature quantities, (ii) connect to each other, and (iii) be close to each other in terms of geodesic distance.
Fastanova: an efficient algorithm for genome-wide association study

Studying the association between quantitative phenotype (such as height or weight) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is an important problem in biology. To understand underlying mechanisms of complex phenotypes, it is often necessary to consider joint genetic effects across multiple SNPs. ANOVA (analysis of variance) test is routinely used in association study. Important findings from studying gene-gene (SNP-pair) interactions are appearing in the literature. However, the number of SNPs can be up to millions. Evaluating joint effects of SNPs is a challenging task even for SNP-pairs. Moreover, with large number of SNPs correlated, permutation procedure is preferred over simple Bonferroni correction for properly controlling family-wise error rate and retaining mapping power, which dramatically increases the computational cost of association study. In this paper, we study the problem of finding SNP-pairs that have significant associations with a given quantitative phenotype. We propose an efficient algorithm, FastANOVA, for performing ANOVA tests on SNP-pairs in a batch mode, which also supports large permutation test. We derive an upper bound of SNP-pair ANOVA test, which can be expressed as the sum of two terms. The first term is based on single-SNP ANOVA test. The second term is based on the SNPs and independent of any phenotype permutation. Furthermore, SNP-pairs can be organized into groups, each of which shares a common upper bound. This allows for maximum reuse of intermediate computation, efficient upper bound estimation, and effective SNP-pair pruning. Consequently, FastANOVA only needs to perform the ANOVA test on a small number of candidate SNP-pairs without the risk of missing any significant ones. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FastANOVA is orders of magnitude faster than the brute-force implementation of ANOVA tests on all SNP pairs.
Detection of Legionnaires disease bacteria by direct immunofluorescent staining

Antisera and fluorescein isothiocyanate conjugates prepared for five strains of the Legionnaires bacteria were tested in both homologous and heterologous staining reactions with 10 isolates of the organism from patients in seven geographic areas. The strains were related but not identical as judged by the results of direct immunofluorescence staining. The conjugates were successfully used to detect Legionnaires disease bacteria in Formalin-fixed lung scrapings, in histological sections, and in fresh lung tissue obtained at biopsy or autopsy. In addition, the labeled antibodies are valuable for staining suspected cultures of the bacterium and for searching for the source of these organisms in soil, water, and other environmental niches. The reagents are highly specific for detecting the Legionnaires organism in clinical specimens.
Combining syntactic patterns and Wikipedia’s hierarchy of hyperlinks to extract meronym relations

We present here two methods for extraction o, meronymic relation : (a) the first one relies solely on syntactic information. Unlike other approaches based on simple patterns, we determine their optimal combination to extract word pairs linked via a given semantic relation; (b) the second approach consists in combining syntactic patterns with the semantic information extracted from the Wikipedia hyperlink hierarchy ( WHH ) of the constituent words. By comparing our work with SemEval 2007 (Task 4 test set) and WordNet (WN) we found that our system clearly outperforms its competitors.
Necessity Not Choice: Worker and Homeless Adult Perspectives on Shelter Usage

The purpose of this study was to examine workers and homeless adults’ perceptions of barriers that impact homeless adults’ utilization of shelters. The theory underlying this study was that shelter safety and capacity issues served as barriers to utilizing shelters. One focus group of workers and six interviews with homeless adults were conducted to learn about perceptions on shelter usage and barriers to shelter usage, shelter alternatives used by homeless adults, risks of not utilizing shelters, and barriers to exiting homelessness. This study found that homeless adults use shelters out of necessity and that safety and capacity are not barriers to use. A variety of factors were found to contribute to homeless adults’ decisions on whether to use shelters, including safety, shelter location and environment, shelter rules, and autonomy and dignity. Implications for practice and policy include a need for service providers to understand the tradeoff they are asking homeless adults to make in order to use shelters, the role dignity and autonomy play in service utilization, the need for increased advocacy efforts on behalf of the homeless population, examination of shelter policies and rules, more affordable housing, and increased access to affordable housing. PERSPECTIVES ON SHELTER USAGE 2
A critical perspective on corporate social responsibility

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that there are structural and functional limits to corporate social responsibility (CSR) that determine the boundary conditions of corporate social initiatives. The current preoccupation with win-win situations in CSR may not serve societal interests. For CSR to produce social outcomes that are not necessarily constrained by corporate rationality there needs to be a change in the normative framework of public decision making at the institutional level. The author develops a global governance framework for CSR that provides more democratic forms of decision making in the political economy that will enable corporate social responsibility to overcome the constraints imposed by corporate rationality. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper and critique. Findings – The author develops a global governance framework for CSR that provides more democratic forms of decision making in the political economy that will enable corporate social responsibili.
Improved source path localisation in ring applicators and the clinical impact for gynecological brachytherapy

Purpose The path of subsequent dwell positions of an afterloader source being moved through a ring applicator for cervix cancer brachytherapy deviates from an ideal circle and the position of marker wires. This can lead to deviations of several millimetres between real and assumed dwell positions for treatment planning with simplified source path models. The aim of this study was to test video- and autoradiography-based methods for source path determination, and to study the influence of dwell position accuracy on dose-volume histogram (DVH)-parameters. Material and methods Videos of the exact motion of the source wire through three different (r = 26, 30, 34 mm) computed tomography/magnetic resonance (CT/MR) compatible plastic ring applicators were recorded. Observed dwell positions covering the whole length of each applicators channel were used to adjust the circular source path model. The agreement of the true source positions derived from video analysis with those of the corrected circular source path was verified using autoradiography. The impact of an accurate source path definition on dose planning was analysed by simulating clinically relevant uncertainties in 10 clinical treatment plans. Results Depending on the ring size, source path diameters had to be increased by 0.5-1.0 mm in order to achieve acceptable maximum differences between observed and corrected dwell positions (1.3-2.0 mm). Autoradiography analysis showed a positional accuracy within ± 3 mm (extended standard deviation k = 2). For shifts of ± 2.5 mm for even all dwell positions, the systematic and random variation of the D2cm3 for bladder, rectum, and sigmoid was within 3%, while the impact on DVH uncertainties was much smaller for clinical target volume (CTV)HR and gross tumour volume (GTV). Conclusions It is strongly advised to verify the real source path for ring applicators during acceptance testing in order to assure accurate source path definition and dose planning. Autoradiography can be used for source path verification with acceptable accuracy for treatment planning and dose reporting.
A simple reduced size and reconfigurable element for multiband and angular stable frequency selective surface

This paper presents a simple, compact, and reconfigurable patch element geometry for multiband FSS applications. The patch element reconfigurability enables the development of reconfigurable FSS structures. The proposed FSS reconfigurability is theoretically and experimentally investigated through the use of small thin conducting strips on the FSS patch element geometry. Simulation is performed using Ansoft HFSS software. It is shown that the proposed FSS structure in different configurations can be used to cover a wide frequency range, with very good angular stability (with respect to the oblique incidence of plane waves), being suitable for wireless communication applications and cognitive radio. Simulation and measurements results are compared and a good agreement is verified.
Power breakdown analysis for a heterogeneous NoC platform running a video application

Users expect future handheld devices to provide extended multimedia functionality and have long battery life. This type of application imposes heavy constraints on performance and power consumption and forces designers to optimize all parts of their platform. Evaluating the overall platform power breakdown is therefore critical to determine where to spend the efforts on power optimization. Surprisingly, few studies exist on that topic and decisions generally rely on common belief. We have realized a complete power breakdown for a realistic platform to identify the major power bottlenecks. This paper presents this power assessment of a realistic heterogeneous network on chip platform including processors, network and data/instruction memory hierarchy, running a video processing chain from camera to display. Our power breakdown identifies the main bottlenecks in the memory hierarchy and the foreground memory, and shows that global interconnect is not that critical for a well-optimized application mapping.
From telemedicine technology to telemedicine services

The aim of this study was to design and pilot test ICT-supported rehabilitation services across twelve health care institutions and four different diagnosis groups (i.e. acute hip, arthritis, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) starting from a multimodal service platform that offers four different telemedicine technologies: 1) teleconsultation, 2) activity coaching, 3) web-based exercising and 4) health monitoring. Results showed that using the same technologies, different telemedicine services can be developed with different clinical purposes. Results also show that different implementation strategies are needed for different patient groups, or even within different patient groups, to get the services implemented in everyday care. Evaluation of the ICT-supported rehabilitation services in everyday care showed that the ICT support is being accepted and highly used by the patient. However, the use of the ICT support by care professionals was dramatically low. Future studies should focus on full-scale implementation in clinical practice, on education of the health care professionals as well as large-scale trials.
Effect of Film-Forming Alginate/Chitosan Polyelectrolyte Complex on the Storage Quality of Pork

Meat is one of the most challenging food products in the context of maintaining quality and safety. The aim of this work was to improve the quality of raw/cooked meat by coating it with sodium alginate (A), chitosan (C), and sodium alginate-chitosan polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) hydrosols. Antioxidant properties of A, C, and PEC hydrosols were determined. Subsequently, total antioxidant capacity (TAC), sensory quality of raw/cooked pork coated with experimental hydrosols, and antimicrobial efficiency of those hydrosols on the surface microbiota were analysed. Application analyses of hydrosol were performed during 0, 7, and 14 days of refrigerated storage in MAP (modified atmosphere packaging). Ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and (2,2-diphenyll-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) analysis confirmed the antioxidant properties of A, C, and PEC. Sample C (1.0%) was characterized by the highest DPPH value (174.67 μM Trolox/mL) of all variants. PEC samples consisted of A 0.3%/C 1.0% and A 0.6%/C 1.0% were characterized by the greatest FRAP value (~7.21 μM Fe2+/mL) of all variants. TAC losses caused by thermal treatment of meat were reduced by 45% by coating meat with experimental hydrosols. Application of PEC on the meat surface resulted in reducing the total number of micro-organisms, psychrotrophs, and lactic acid bacteria by about 61%, and yeast and molds by about 45% compared to control after a two-week storage.
Neighborhood Characteristics Associated with the Availability of Alcohol Outlets in Quebec, Canada

Objectives. The objectives of this study were to examine the spatial accessibility to alcohol outlets in Quebec and to assess the association between neighborhood level characteristics and availability of alcohol outlets. Methods. The Tobit Model was used to assess the association between neighborhood level characteristics and the availability of alcohol outlets within 500, 1000, 2000, and 3000 metres, respectively. Results. Alcohol outlets were found to be most available in the two largest metropolitan areas of the province of Quebec (Montréal and Québec City). Within 1000 metres, alcohol outlets are more available in neighbourhoods with the following characteristics: highest concentration of men, least materially deprived highest concentration of persons aged 20 years or more, and location either in a metropolitan area or in a small town. Finally, the number of bars with video lottery terminals increases with the level of social and material deprivation. Conclusion. In Québec, there is no rule governing the location of alcohol outlets. Thus, there is an abundant literature indicating that the regulation of alcohol outlet density could be an effective means of controlling risk attributable to alcohol consumption.
A Guide to Jane, an Open Source Hierarchical Translation Toolkit

A Guide to Jane, an Open Source Hierarchical Translation Toolkit Jane is RWTH's hierarchical phrase-based translation toolkit. It includes tools for phrase extraction, translation and scaling factor optimization, with efficient and documented programs of which large parts can be parallelized. The decoder features syntactic enhancements, reorderings, triplet models, discriminative word lexica, and support for a variety of language model formats. In this article, we will review the main features of Jane and explain the overall architecture. We will also indicate where and how new models can be included.