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Feasibility and Acceptability of Health Coaching as an Upstream Suicide Prevention Approach: A Pilot Study Among Post-9/11 Veterans

Abstract This pilot study sought to examine the feasibility and acceptability of Whole Health Coaching (WHC) among post-9/11 era veterans with indicators of suicide risk. Participants were 28 post-9/11 veterans with 1 or more diagnoses associated with suicide risk (depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, pain, sleep disorders, or substance use disorders) recruited from primary care clinics. WHC is a patient-centered approach that facilitates goal-setting, articulation of action steps, and goal achievement. Participants received 8 weekly coaching sessions and completed questionnaires at baseline and Weeks 4, 8, and 16. Feasibility and acceptability outcomes were study enrollment and intervention completion rates, a measure of participant satisfaction, and intervention fidelity. Psychological well-being was the primary health outcome. Qualitative interviews with participants provided additional information about feasibility, acceptability, and health outcomes. Twenty-eight (48%) of the 58 eligible patients reached by phone enrolled. Seventy-five percent (n = 21) completed the intervention (≥ 5 sessions). Mean satisfaction with the intervention was 28.2 (32 possible total). Qualitative analyses further supported the acceptability of WHC. Postintervention (Week 8), participants reported nonsignificant improvements in psychological well-being (p = .88; d = 0.04). These findings suggest WHC is an acceptable and feasible modality among veterans with suicide risk indicators.
Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) aircraft mission: Design, execution, and first results

[1] The NASA Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) aircraft mission was conducted in February–April 2001 over the NW Pacific (1) to characterize the Asian chemical outflow and relate it quantitatively to its sources and (2) to determine its chemical evolution. It used two aircraft, a DC-8 and a P-3B, operating out of Hong Kong and Yokota Air Force Base (near Tokyo), with secondary sites in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, Okinawa, and Midway. The aircraft carried instrumentation for measurements of long-lived greenhouse gases, ozone and its precursors, aerosols and their precursors, related species, and chemical tracers. Five chemical transport models (CTMs) were used for chemical forecasting. Customized bottom-up emission inventories for East Asia were generated prior to the mission to support chemical forecasting and to serve as a priori for evaluation with the aircraft data. Validation flights were conducted for the Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (MOPITT) satellite instrument and revealed little bias (6 ± 2%) in the MOPITT measurements of CO columns. A major event of transpacific Asian pollution was characterized through combined analysis of TRACE-P and MOPITT data. The TRACE-P observations showed that cold fronts sweeping across East Asia and the associated warm conveyor belts (WCBs) are the dominant pathway for Asian outflow to the Pacific in spring. The WCBs lift both anthropogenic and biomass burning (SE Asia) effluents to the free troposphere, resulting in complex chemical signatures. The TRACE-P data are in general consistent with a priori emission inventories, lending confidence in our ability to quantify Asian emissions from socioeconomic data and emission factors. However, the residential combustion source in rural China was found to be much larger than the a priori, and there were also unexplained chemical enhancements (HCN, CH3Cl, OCS, alkylnitrates) in Chinese urban plumes. The Asian source of CCl4 was found to be much higher than government estimates. Measurements of HCN and CH3CN indicated a dominant biomass burning source and ocean sink for both gases. Large fractions of sulfate and nitrate were found to be present in dust aerosols. Photochemical activity in the Asian outflow was strongly reduced by aerosol attenuation of UV radiation, with major implications for the concentrations of HOx radicals. New particle formation, apparently from ternary nucleation involving NH3, was observed in Chinese urban plumes.
LIPOFUSCIN (AGING) PIGMENT GRANULES OF THE NEWBORN HUMAN LIVER

We have observed pigmented cytoplasmic granules, with the characteristic staining properties of lipofuscin (ceroid, "wear-and-tear") pigment, in newborn human liver. The pigment is found at the periphery of the lobule in hepatocytes and some bile ductular cells. It is acid-fast, PAS-positive after diastase digestion, slightly argyophilic and sudanophilic, and markedly Schmorl's- and peroxidase positive in paraffin sections. Difficult to see in sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin, the pigment can be detected in unstained sections. The granules also resemble lipofuscin found in adult tissues, in their ultra-structural and enzymatic properties. They are polymorphic, contain granular material of moderate and high electron opacity, and are delimited by a single membrane. Acid phosphatase and β-glucuronidase activities are visualized in the newborn granules, identifying them as lysosomes. The granules also contain copper and, to a much lesser extent, iron. The accumulation of lipofuscin pigment in lysosomes in many tissues correlates well with aging, and this process has been interpreted as a reflection of cellular degeneration or wear-and-tear. However, the presence of lipofuscin granules as a constant component of neonatal liver suggests that they are not a measure of cellular senescence.
On the Design of a Responsive User Interface for a Multi-device Web Service

The introduction of numerous new, web-enabled devices is leading to a change in the mindset in the design of web systems. Increasingly often, they are designed to take into account the special characteristics of different devices. In terms of implementation, designing these responsive web services requires frameworks and guidelines for user interface design for both desktop and mobile devices. In this paper we present a case study which was done during the implementation of open data. Fi service. During the project responsive mobile user interfaces were implemented to existing open source software with preserving as much of the original layouts as possible. We provide some insights to tools and libraries used in building the responsive user interfaces and share some of the findings that work well in customizing existing software. We also provide examples of solutions that wont work so well and look how to solve them properly.
Nutzung von Evidenz im Bildungsbereich. Validierung eines Instruments zur Erfassung von Kompetenzen der Informationsauswahl und Bewertung von Studien

Blomeke, Sigrid [Hrsg. ]; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga [Hrsg. ]: Kompetenzen von Studierenden. Weinheim u.a. : Beltz Juventa 2015, S. 144-166. - (Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, Beiheft; 61) Padagogische Teildisziplin: Empirische Bildungsforschung; Hochschulforschung und Hochschuldidaktik; als elektronischer Volltext verfugbar
Multimodal information seeking dialogues on the world wide web

We have developed the Halpin system to implement our multimodal conversational model for information retrieval. This dialogue-oriented interface allows the access to a digital library database, on the internet, in a natural language way, and gives its oral responses via usual browsers. The results of the first experiments show that the Halpin system provides some interesting dialogues (in particular with the beginners), according to the user's goals and skills, that leads to information retrieval success, while searches with the original user interface (traditional web form) failed.
A comparative study of Feature Selection techniques for Intrusion Detection

Feature Selection plays an important role in Intrusion Detection, where a large number of features extracted from whole data needs to be analyzed. Feature relevance is the basic measurement in feature selection techniques. In this paper, different feature selection techniques are analyzed. By using pre-processed data set, various feature selection techniques are compared. The NSL - KDD dataset is used for the evaluation purpose. Various Feature Selection techniques are applied to NSL-KDD data set for reduced training & test data sets. Naive Bayes Classifier is used to classify in this. We have compared all the experimented results by using different performance metrics like TP rate, FP rate, Precision, ROC area, Kappa Statistic and Classification Accuracy.
Multiple Factor Analysis for Contingency Tables in the FactoMineR Package

Abstract We present multiple factor analysis for contingency tables (MFACT) and its implementation in the FactoMineR package. This method, through an option of the MFA function, allows us to deal with multiple contingency or frequency tables, in addition to the categorical and quantitative multiple tables already considered in previous versions of the package. Thanks to this revised function, either a multiple contingency table or a mixed multiple table integrating quantitative, categorical and frequency data can be tackled.
Tryptophan Content of the Serum Albumin of Normal and of Cadmium-Poisoned Monkeys

In order to characterize further the minialbumins (molecular weight 5,000 to 20,000) found in cadmium-poisoned men and animals, the tryptophan content of albumins found in the serum and urine of cadmium-poisoned monkeys was measured by two methods and compared with that of serum albumin (molecular weight 66,000) of normal animals. Normal serum albumin of the monkey was found to contain 2 residues of trytophan per molecule of the protein, whereas all albumins in the poisoned monkeys, whether of normal size or low-molecular weight, contained less tryptophan, this amino acid being absent entirely in the minialbumins of both serum and urine. Serum albumin of the usual molecular weight (66,000) in the cadmium-poisoned monkeys contained approximately 30% less tryptophan than its normal counterpart in untreated animals. Taken in conjunction with previous observations on the behaviour of minialbumins, which aggregate readily in low-salt media including isotonic saline, it is concluded that approximately 30% of the circulating serum albumin in the poisoned monkeys arose by aggregation of minialbumin molecules. On the basis of the close similarity in amino acid composition, in nearly all other respects, between the various albumins, it is suggested that minialbumin comprises a mixture of peptides derived by fission of the normal albumin molecule along its whole chain length, and that subsequently a peptide containing both tryptophan residues is either deleted metabolically or excluded in the preparation procedures.
S I ] 1 5 O ct 2 00 4 On τ-function of conjugate nets

We study a potential introduced by Darboux to describe conjugate nets, which within the modern theory of integrable systems can be interpreted as a τ-function. We investigate the potential using the non-local ¯ ∂ dressing method of Manakov and Zakharov, and we show that it can be interpreted as the Fredholm determinant of an integral equation which naturally appears within that approach. Finally, we give some arguments extending that interpretation to multicomponent Kadomtsev–Petviashvili hierarchy.
Area efficiency improvement of CMOS charge pump circuits

approved: Un-Ku Moon In this thesis, the literature relating to charge pump dc-dc converters and their uses is reviewed. Charge pumps are useful in many circuits, including lowvoltage circuits, dynamic random access memory circuits, switched-capacitor circuits, EEPROM's and transceivers. The important issues relating to charge pump design are power efficiency, output voltage ripple and area efficiency. This thesis describes the operation of three types of charge pump circuits. Power efficiency theory of charge pumps is discussed in detail. A method of estimating the output ripple of a charge pump from the size of the capacitors used is described. The optimal distribution of available capacitance for minimizing output ripple or maximizing power efficiency is derived. The tradeOffs between output ripple, power efficiency and total capacitance are discussed. The considerations involved in the design of charge pump circuits are described. A new charge pump circuit that uses two cascoded buffer transistors to improve the area efficiency is proposed. An implementation consisting of one of each of the three types of charge pumps was simulated for a 0.35-micron CMOS process. The simulation results verify the improved area efficiency of the double cascode charge pump. Redacted for Privacy
Constrained distributed optimization based on population dynamics

This paper proposes a novel methodology for solving constrained optimization problems in a distributed way, inspired by population dynamics and adding dynamics to the population masses. The proposed methodology divides the problem into smaller problems, whose feasible regions vary over time achieving an agreement to solve the global problem. The methodology also guarantees attraction to the feasible region and allows to have few changes in the decision-making design, when the network suffers the addition or removal of nodes. Simulation results are presented in order to illustrate several cases.
Automatic Removal of Ocular Artifacts in the EEG without an EOG Reference Channel

This paper presents a method for removing electroocular (EOG) artifacts in the electroencephalogram (EEG). The procedure is based on blind source separation (BSS) and, in contrast to methods already available in the literature, it is completely automated and does not require the availability of peri-ocular EOG electrodes. The proposed approach removed most EOG artifacts in 6 long-term EEG recordings containing epilectic seizures without distorting the recorded ictal activity
Gödel FL_0 with Greatest Fixed-Point Semantics

We study the fuzzy extension of FL0 with semantics based on the Godel t-norm. We show that gfp-subsumption w.r. t. a finite set of primitive definitions can be characterized by a relation on weighted automata, and use this result to provide tight complexity bounds for reasoning in this logic.
Combined local features selection for face recognition based on Naïve Bayesian classification

Face recognition is a very popular biometric solution in the literature. Several solutions are presented to meet the needs of individual's verification or identification. There are three types of face recognition approaches: local, global and hybrid. In this paper, we proposed a local approach for face recognition based on combined features selection methods like Genetic algorithm, Gramdt Shmidt algorithm, mRmR features selection algorithm and naïve Bayesian classifier. Our proposed approach will be compared with some face recognition systems based on global features. A comparative study is given in this paper based on Recognition rates and Execution times. Our Face recognition system, which is based on naïve Bayesian classifier and tested on ORL face database, has showed 78.75% recognition rate and interesting execution times compared to global approaches.
Querying the World Wide

1 The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous , distributed collection of documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technology currently used for searching the Web depends on sending information retrieval requests to "index servers" that index as many documents as they can nd by navigating the network. One problem with this is that users must be aware of the various index servers (over a dozen of them are currently deployed on the Web), of their strengths and weaknesses, and of the peculiarities of their query interfaces. A more serious problem is that these queries cannot exploit the structure and topology of the document network. In this paper we propose a query language, WebSQL, that takes advantage of multiple index servers without requiring users to know about them, and that integrates textual retrieval with structure and topology-based queries. We give a formal semantics for WebSQL using a calculus based on a novel \virtual graph" model of a document network. We propose a new theory of query cost based on the idea of \query locality," that is, how much of the network must be visited to answer a particular query. We give an algorithm for characterizing WebSQL queries with respect to query locality. Finally , we describe a prototype implementation of Web-SQL written in Java.
A Response to Albouy's "A Reexamination Based on Improved Settler Mortality Data"

In a recent comment, David Albouy claims that the data series we constructed for European settler mortality in Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2001) suffers from “inconsistencies, questionable judgements, and errors. ” He proposes two series, for “barracks” and “campaigns,” that he claims are better measures of settler mortality, and shows his recodings weaken or eliminate the first-stage relationship between settler mortality and institutions today. In this note we show that his claims are without foundation. Our original coding of the data was not inconsistent, questionable, or erroneous. Instead, Albouy’s results are entirely driven by inconsistent, incorrect, selective, and/or unreasonable revisions to our original data, particularly, but not exclusively, for Africa. ∗We thank Francisco Gallego and Tarek Hassan for excellent research assistance and David Autor and Jerry Hausman for discussion and comments. We are also most grateful for helpful discussions with Stephen Greenberg and other reference librarians at the National Library of Medicine.
A technique for building databases of annotated and realistic human silhouettes based on an avatar

The real-time interpretation of video scenes and human motion is a research field with a lot of applications. A widely used pre-processing step is the background subtraction, which highlights silhouettes. In addition, example-based and learning-based approaches are attractive for the interpretation of complex scenes. But to be effective, such techniques need to be trained on samples of realistic human silhouettes. This paper presents a method to automatically build databases of artificial, realistic, and annotated human silhouettes. Our method, based on a 3D human avatar, allows to save additional data with the silhouettes, and to highlight the different body parts. These supplementary data may be application-driven. To help in evaluating the relevance of automatically generated databases, we suggest some practical solutions based on a visual signature of the databases.
MATLAB Software for Supervised Classication in Remote Sensing and Image Processing

We present MATLAB software for the supervised classication of images. By supervised we mean that the user has in hand a representative subset of the pixels in the image of interest. A statistical model is then built from this subset to assign every pixel in the image to a best t group based on reectance or spectral similarity. In
Bargaining by Heterogeneously Responsive Individuals

I study the process of bargaining over a pie of fixed size under the Nash demand game protocol. Motivated by the argument that the manner in which bargaining unfolds often depends on antecedents, I embed the bargaining process in a recurrent framework where individuals obtain random samples from the demands made in the past and respond to this information in a manner that is dictated by their respective behavioural traits. I pursue two specific issues: firstly, is there a behavioural trait (i.e. manner of responding to past information) that outperforms any other behavioural trait in the bargaining game, and secondly, to assess the evolutionary stability of behavioural traits in the bargaining game. In context of the first question, using a bargaining framework where individuals described by a particular behavioural trait bargain with individuals described by another behavioural trait, I find that a population of 'wildly optimistic' individuals obtains almost the entire pie against a population comprised of 'almost any other' behavioural type. Secondly, using a playing-the-field model of bargaining I find that all behavioural traits are unstable, i.e. there exists no state where all the incumbent behavioural traits always obtain a higher fitness than any mutant behavioural trait.The only state where any behavioural trait can co-exist with any other behavioural trait is when each individual demands exactly half of the pie. This demonstrates the importance of the equal-splitting norm for co-existence of various behavioural traits. I also prove a hardwired behaviour-responsive behaviour equivalence theorem, which shows that the analysis of evolutionary stability of a population comprising of various behavioural traits is equivalent to the analysis of evolutionary stability of an invariant population level strategy profiles.
MMSE based greedy eigenmode selection for AF MIMO relay channels

In this paper, we consider a dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay system, where there is one source, one destination and K relay nodes. We propose a minimum mean squared error (MMSE)-based eigenmode selection algorithm to choose several relay nodes to minimize MSE. We use eigenmode-based definitions for the equivalent backward and forward channels, and extend the present MMSE-based selection scheme to multiple power amplifier configuration. According to the closed form expression of MSE, we iteratively select eigenmode pairs to minimize the MSE. Simulation results show that our scheme outperforms the existing ones.
Query Answering over Incomplete and Uncertain RDF ∗

While incompleteness and uncertainty naturally arises in real-world RDF data, the RDF model itself provides little support for incomplete and uncertain data. In this paper, we introduce practical extensions of the RDF model to represent incompleteness and/or uncertainty. We adopt the semantics of certain answers as the meaningful query answers in the presence of incompleteness and uncertainty, and we investigate the computational complexity of computing the certain answers to several fragments of SPARQL under our models. We determine that the problem is hard in general, and motivated by this intractability result, we develop a heuristic algorithm for query answering in the presence of uncertain data. Our algorithm can be implemented over any RDF query evaluation engine, and it can potentially be extended to handle both incompleteness and uncertainty together.
Risk management analysis with the help of lightning strike mapping around 500 k-v grid station using artificial intelligence technique

Lightning has been one of the major problems for insulation design of power systems and it is still one of the main causes of forced outages in transmission and distribution lines. It is necessary to protect the power apparatus from over volts in electric system caused by lightning over voltages. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, such as expert system (ES), fuzzy logic (FL), and artificial neural network (ANN), and genetic algorithm (GA), techniques can solve complex engineering problems which are difficult to solve by traditional methods. This research focuses on (AI) technique i.e. fuzzy logic on mapping the lightning strike area around 500 k-v Grid station based on; level of strike (high, medium, low) and category of lightning (positive cloud-to-ground, negative cloud-to-ground, flash). Predefined areas around 500k-v Sheikh muhammadi Grid station Peshawar is chosen as a case study. This research will be helpful in risk management and lightning protection analysis by determining the area and characterizing the lightning strikes around the Grid station.