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Transformative Education and Sustainable Tourism: The Influence of a Lecturer’s Worldview

Education plays a central role in shaping societal change toward sustainability. The concept of education for sustainability (EfS) draws on transformative ways of teaching and learning, emphasizing critical reflection on values and the active empowerment of students to make change. Underscored by many tenets of critical pedagogy, EfS is centered on an education platform that helps learners to question their values, beliefs, and assumptions. Little research has explored the role of EfS in tourism higher education and how practicing tourism academics integrate “sustainability” into their teaching practice. This article critically analyzes the relationship between tourism lecturers’ understandings of sustainability and the way sustainability is taught and developed through curriculum. Adopting a conceptual framework of “weak to strong sustainability,” this qualitative, interpretive study explored the ideological perspectives of sustainable tourism lecturers. In-depth interviews were held with 31 Australian tourism academics who were involved in teaching sustainable tourism. The findings revealed quite marked ideological differences in how lecturers positioned and taught sustainable tourism, ranging from a “weaker” economic emphasis to a “stronger” sociocultural/environmental focus. It was also evident that tourism lecturers who held a strong sustainability perspective were more likely to engage with transformative tenets of political agency, critical reflection, and activism in tourism higher education.
THE IMPACT OF VIDEO CHATTING ON IDEALIZATION AND DISILLUSIONMENT FOR LONG DISTANCE DATING COUPLES

OF THESIS THE IMPACT OF VIDEO CHATTING ON IDEALIZATION AND DISILLUSIONMENT FOR LONG DISTANCE DATING COUPLES Previous research indicates a high rate of long distance relationships, especially among young adults. Yet, research in this area is lacking, particularly regarding the role of video chatting. Through the lens of the media richness theory and the hyperpersonal model, this qualitative study explores how video chatting impacts idealization and disillusionment in young adults’ long distance dating relationships. Data was collected through semistructured interviews with both partners of six heterosexual couples. Data was analyzed using the constant comparative approach and following the basic framework of open, axial, and selective coding used in grounded theory research. Results indicate that video chatting helps partners feel close to one another, though partners must still manage the differences between feeling close and actually being close. Couples use idealization and uncertainty management to reduce disillusionment, and couples who anticipate changes manage those changes more successfully. These findings suggest that video chatting mimics in-person communication more accurately than any other technology, though it cannot replace true geographic proximity. Nonetheless, video chatting appears to help minimize disillusionment by promoting healthy idealization for couples who use it throughout their long distance dating relationship.
A Bayesian interactive optimization approach to procedural animation design

The computer graphics and animation fields are filled with applications that require the setting of tricky parameters. In many cases, the models are complex and the parameters unintuitive for non-experts. In this paper, we present an optimization method for setting parameters of a procedural fluid animation system by showing the user examples of different parametrized animations and asking for feedback. Our method employs the Bayesian technique of bringing in "prior" belief based on previous runs of the system and/or expert knowledge, to assist users in finding good parameter settings in as few steps as possible. To do this, we introduce novel extensions to Bayesian optimization, which permit effective learning for parameter-based procedural animation applications. We show that even when users are trying to find a variety of different target animations, the system can learn and improve. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method compared to related active learning methods. We also present a working application for assisting animators in the challenging task of designing curl-based velocity fields, even with minimal domain knowledge other than identifying when a simulation "looks right".
Anaconda: simulation-based synthesis of analog circuits viastochastic pattern search

Analog synthesis tools have traditionally traded quality for speed, substituting simplified circuit evaluation methods for full simulation in order to accelerate the numerical search for solution candidates. As a result, these tools have failed to migrate into mainstream use primarily because of difficulties in reconciling the simplified models required for synthesis with the industrial-strength simulation environments required for validation. We argue that for synthesis to be practical, it is essential to synthesize a circuit using the same simulation environment created to validate the circuit. In this paper, we develop a new numerical search algorithm efficient enough to allow full circuit simulation of each circuit candidate, and robust enough to find good solutions for difficult circuits. The method combines the population-of-solutions ideas from evolutionary algorithms with a novel variant of pattern search, and supports transparent network parallelism. Comparison of several synthesized cell-level circuits against manual industrial designs demonstrates the utility of the approach.
Ash fouling monitoring and key variables analysis for coal fired power plant boiler

Ash deposition on heat transfer surfaces is still a significant problem in coalfired power plant utility boilers. The effective ways to deal with this problem are accurate on-line monitoring of ash fouling and soot-blowing. In this paper, an online ash fouling monitoring model based on dynamic mass and energy balance method is developed and key variables analysis technique is introduced to study the internal behavior of soot-blowing system. In this process, artificial neural networks are used to optimize the boiler soot-blowing model and mean impact values method is utilized to determine a set of key variables. The validity of the models has been illustrated in a real case-study boiler, a 300 MW Chinese power station. The results on same real plant data show that both models have good prediction accuracy, while the artificial neural networks model II has less input parameters. This work will be the basis of a future development in order to control and optimize the soot-blowing of the coal-fired power plant utility boilers.
Forest Fire Spread and Suppression in DEVS

In this article, the authors discuss modeling and simulation of forest fire spread and suppression using the discrete event system specification (DEVS) cell space approach in DEVSJAVA. The event-based modeling approach enables efficient simulation of cell space and allows one to obtain timely simulation-based predictions of forest fire spread and suppression in uniform and nonuniform environmental conditions. This model represents an advance toward developing a real-time decision support simulation system for predicting forest fire spread and the effects of water-based suppression attempts.
A Physically-grounded and Data-efﬁcient Approach to Motion Prediction using Black-box Optimization

In this paper, we introduce a practical, data-efﬁcient approach for identifying sliding models of objects. In the proposed approach, a robot randomly pokes an unknown object and observes how the object moves under different force magnitudes and directions. Using a physics engine, the robot seeks to identify the inertial and friction parameters of the object by simulating its motion under different values of the parameters and identifying those that result in a simulation that matches observed motions. We describe the proposed method here and report some preliminary experimental results, using a real robot, which are encouraging.
Participant Perceptions of a Peer Wellness and Recovery Education Program

Participant Perceptions of a Peer Wellness and Recovery Education Program Margaret Swarbrick a b , David Roe c , Jay Yudof d & Yaara Zisman c a Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, New Jersey b University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Health Related Professionals, Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling, Scotch Plains, New Jersey c University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel d Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey and NAMI Greater Monmouth, Freehold, New Jersey Published online: 21 Aug 2009.
Extracting and Visualising Biographical Events from Wikipedia

This work presents a proposal for the development of a natural language processing module for event and temporal analysis of biographies as available in Wikipedia. At the current level of development, we restricted the extraction to temporally anchored events as they represent salient information which can be further used to extract additional events and facilitate their chronological ordering and the representation of a person’s timeline. Visualising data about basic facts concerning groups of people helps with historical reasoning and enables comparisons among them.
Verifying component and connector models against crosscutting structural views

The structure of component and connector (C&C) models, which are used in many application domains of software engineering, consists of components at different containment levels, their typed input and output ports, and the connectors between them. C&C views, which we have presented at FSE'13, can be used to specify structural properties of C&C models in an expressive and intuitive way. In this work we address the verification of a C&C model against a C&C view and present efficient (polynomial) algorithms to decide satisfaction. A unique feature of our work, not present in existing approaches to checking structural properties of C&C models, is the generation of witnesses for satisfaction/non-satisfaction and of short natural-language texts, which serve to explain and formally justify the verification results and point the engineer to its causes. A prototype tool and an evaluation over four example systems with multiple views, performance and scalability experiments, as well as a user study of the usefulness of the witnesses for engineers, demonstrate the contribution of our work to the state-of-the-art in component and connector modeling and analysis.
GOBERNABILIDAD SOBRE EL RECURSO HÍDRICO EN COLOMBIA: ENTRE AVANCES Y RETOS

Este trabajo corresponde a una revision general sobre la gestion del agua en Colombia, en la cual se enfatiza la gobernabilidad como un elemento fundamental en este tipo de procesos. Por lo tanto, a partir de la recopilacion y analisis de informacion secundaria, se identifica la evolucion de la gestion del agua en el pais y, en esa medida, los aspectos que permiten evidenciar una crisis de gobernabilidad en esta materia. En tal sentido, inicialmente se plantean algunos aspectos relevantes para abordar el analisis de la gestion integrada del recurso hidrico y la gobernabilidad del agua. Mas adelante, se abordan factores que reflejan que pese a importantes avances en la gestion del agua en el pais, todavia es incipiente un enfoque integral que considere multiples criterios para facilitar la gobernabilidad sobre el recurso hidrico. Asi, se plantea que existe una crisis de gobernabilidad sobre el agua, que se expresa en terminos del desconocimiento de la experiencia y contexto internacional, la descoordinacion y dispersion de la politica del agua, el desconocimiento de las diversas formas locales de gobierno, la percepcion erronea sobre la abundancia y riqueza hidrica del pais y el disimulo o desinteres con que se ignoran las multiples presiones que se ciernen sobre el agua.
The Use of Lexical Context in Question Answering for Spanish

This paper describes the prototype developed by the Language Technologies Laboratory at INAOE for Spanish monolingual QA evaluation task at CLEF 2004. Our approach is centered in the use of context at a lexical level in order to identify possible answers to factoid questions. Such method is supported by an alternative one based on pattern recognition in order to identify candidate answers to definition questions. The methods applied at different stages of the system and prototype architecture for question answering are described. The paper shows and discusses the results achieved with this approach.
Health psychology’s role in sexual health care

This article provides an overview of the current and potential role of health psychology in sexual health care. Research, which applies various behaviour change techniques, is reviewed alongside one of the most extensively used theories, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (see Conner and Sparks 2009). This paper aims to link theory to practice giving the reader an indication of the range of work that health psychologists are involved in, and how this could be applied to sexual healthcare practice which supports positive behaviour change.
Studies on the effect of the anti-phagocytic agent cytochalasin B on Leishmania-macrophage interaction.

Mouse peritoneal exudate cells were cultured on coverslips in Eagle's Basal Essential Medium. The adhering cells were infected with promastigotes of three different species of Leishmania. After 8 h incubation, the macrophages were fixed and stained, and a total of one hundred cells were counted. The rates of infection of macrophages were respectively 53.5 +/- 5% for L. enriettii, 52.3 +/- 5% for L. donovani and 11.7 +/- 2% for L. tropica. When cytochalasin B at concentrations of 2.5, 5 and 10 microgram/ml and Leishmania promastigotes were added to the adhering cells at the same time, the drug did not have any effect on the uptake of the organisms by the macrophages. However, when the cells were treated for a 2-h period with the drug and then were infected with the promastigotes, only 1-2% of the cells were infected. On the other hand, when cytochalasin B-treated cells which had lost their phagocytic ability were washed and then were infected with the promastigotes, some degree of cellular infection was observed. It was concluded that infection of mouse p.e. c. by three different species of Leishmania which were used in our study was by phagocytosis rather than active penetration of the organisms into the cells. It was also of interest to note that although our outbred strain of mice gets infected easily with L. tropica, the p.e. c. of these animals phagocytosed L. tropica with least efficiency in comparison with L. donovani and L. enriettii.
Human Metapneumovirus Infections in Hospitalized Children

We evaluated the percentage of hospitalizations for acute respiratory tract infections in children <3 years of age attributable to human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and other respiratory viruses in a prospective study during winter and spring 2002. We used real-time polymerase chain assays and other conventional diagnostic methods to detect HMPV, human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV), and influenza viruses in nasopharyngeal aspirates of children. HMPV was detected in 12 (6%) of the 208 children hospitalized for acute respiratory tract infections, HRSV in 118 (57%), and influenza A in 49 (24%). Bronchiolitis was diagnosed in 8 (68%) and pneumonitis in 2 (17%) of HMPV-infected children; of those with HRSV infection, pneumonitis was diagnosed in 99 (84%) and bronchiolitis in 30 (25%). None of the HMPV-infected children was admitted to an intensive-care unit, whereas 15% of those with HRSV or influenza A infections were admitted. HMPV is an important cause of illness in young children with a similar, although less severe, clinical presentation to that of HRSV.
Perceptions of communication and education about sexuality among Muslim immigrant girls in the US

This research explored how Muslim immigrant girls' communication and education about sexuality was mediated through their mothers and school‐based sexuality education (SBSE) classes. Thirty mothers and their 38 daughters living in Illinois participated in focus group discussions and individual semi‐structured interviews that gauged girls' and mothers' perceptions regarding communication about sexuality and SBSE. Thematic analysis showed that little communication regarding sexuality happened between mothers and daughters, and that which did occur was confined primarily to the risks premarital sexual relationships posed to the social order. Furthermore, participants reported that although SBSE classes were informative, they perceived that these classes marginalized Muslim girls' experiences and decisions to abstain from premarital sex by primarily emphasizing prevention from sexually transmitted infections and diseases. Given these perceptions, some participants opted not to attend SBSE classes. This resear.
Development of Spontaneous Seizures after Experimental Status Epilepticus: Implications for Understanding Epileptogenesis

Summary: This report examines several concepts concerning the latent period to the first convulsive seizure, subsequent increases in seizure frequency, and possible mechanisms of epileptogenesis after kainate‐induced status epilepticus. Previous data concerning the latent period and seizure progression from intermittent and continuous behavioral monitoring are compared, and hypothetical mechanisms of acquired epilepsy are discussed. Data involving electrographic recordings with tethered animals or with radiotelemetry are assessed in terms of their potential for addressing different hypotheses concerning the latent period and progressive changes in seizure frequency. Experimental analyses of the time course of occurrence of spontaneous seizures are interpreted in terms of possible cellular mechanisms underlying epileptogenesis.
Dose-response changes in plasma cortisol and lymphocyte glucocorticoid receptors following dexamethasone administration in combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder.

BACKGROUND Our previous studies have suggested that combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have alterations in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning that are different from the well-documented biological changes observed in major depressive disorder and following exposure to stress. METHODS In the present study, we examined cortisol and lymphocyte glucocorticoid receptor number before and after the administration of 0.50 and 0.25 mg of dexamethasone in 14 combat veterans with PTSD, 12 combat veterans without PTSD, and 14 nonpsychiatric healthy men. All subjects were medication free at the time of testing and none met diagnostic criteria for major depression or substance dependence. RESULTS Combat veterans with PTSD suppressed cortisol to a greater extent than did combat veterans without PTSD and normal controls in response to both doses of dexamethasone. Differences in cortisol suppression could not be attributed to substance dependence history or differences in dexamethasone bioavailability. Combat veterans with PTSD showed a larger number of baseline glucocorticoid receptors compared with normal men. Combat veterans without PTSD also had a larger number of baseline glucocorticoid receptors compared with normal men and in fact were comparable to combat veterans with PTSD on this measure. However, only veterans with PTSD showed a decrease in lymphocyte glucocorticoid receptor number following dexamethasone administration. CONCLUSION The data support the hypothesis of an enhanced negative feedback sensitivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in PTSD.
UnLynx: A Decentralized System for Privacy-Conscious Data Sharing

Abstract Current solutions for privacy-preserving data sharing among multiple parties either depend on a centralized authority that must be trusted and provides only weakest-link security (e.g., the entity that manages private/secret cryptographic keys), or leverage on decentralized but impractical approaches (e.g., secure multi-party computation). When the data to be shared are of a sensitive nature and the number of data providers is high, these solutions are not appropriate. Therefore, we present UnLynx, a new decentralized system for efficient privacy-preserving data sharing. We consider m servers that constitute a collective authority whose goal is to verifiably compute on data sent from n data providers. UnLynx guarantees the confidentiality, unlinkability between data providers and their data, privacy of the end result and the correctness of computations by the servers. Furthermore, to support differentially private queries, UnLynx can collectively add noise under encryption. All of this is achieved through a combination of a set of new distributed and secure protocols that are based on homomorphic cryptography, verifiable shuffling and zero-knowledge proofs. UnLynx is highly parallelizable and modular by design as it enables multiple security/privacy vs. runtime tradeoffs. Our evaluation shows that UnLynx can execute a secure survey on 400,000 personal data records containing 5 encrypted attributes, distributed over 20 independent databases, for a total of 2,000,000 ciphertexts, in 24 minutes.
Wireless power supply to artificial retina using poly-Si thin-film transistor

We are developing artificial retinas using poly-Si thin-film transistors (TFTs), which is suitable for the epiretinal implant on the curved human eyeballs. In this study, we have evaluated the wireless power supply to the artificial retinas using poly-Si TFTs. From simulation, it is found that the transmission efficiency can be 0.43 % currently. This value should be improved but acceptable because our artificial retina consumes very low power.
Detection in capillary electrophoresis

A review of the four major, on‐line, capillary electrophoresis (CE) detection modalities is presented. It is shown that each detection method, fluorescence, absorbance (conventional and nonconventional), electrochemical and refractive index, have distinct advantages and limitations when applied to analysis in a CE format. Various aspects of CE detection are considered and a perspective regarding the applicability of the technique is provided. It is shown that because of widely varying detection limits (ranging from single molecule to 10—5 M) and detection scheme complexity, the particular application should dictate the selection of detection methodology in CE.
Autonomic QoS-Aware resource management in grid computing using online performance models

As Grid Computing increasingly enters the commercial domain, performance and Quality of Service (QoS) issues are becoming a major concern. The inherent complexity, heterogeneity and dynamics of Grid computing environments pose some challenges in managing their capacity to ensure that QoS requirements are continuously met. In this paper, an approach to autonomic QoS-aware resource management in Grid computing based on online performance models is proposed. The paper presents a novel methodology for designing autonomic QoS-aware resource managers that have the capability to predict the performance of the Grid components they manage and allocate resources in such a way that service level agreements are honored. The goal is to make the Grid middleware self-configurable and adaptable to changes in the system environment and workload. The approach is subjected to an extensive experimental evaluation in the context of a real-world Grid environment and its effectiveness, practicality and performance are demonstrated.