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Creation and Initial Validation of an Insument to Measure Academic Resilience

It is generally believed that resilience—definable as being inordinately unaffeed by sess and/or barriers—may be an important ingredient in academic success (e.g., Bauman, 2002; Bell, 2001; Meyer and Farrell, 1998). Resilience research has yielded important advances in understanding and policy improvements. Research into resilience has led to beneficial changes in school policies (e.g., Bauman, 2002; Bell, 2001; Meyer and Farrell, 1998). It has, for example, led to the advocacy of beer integration of the school with the communi (Freiberg, 1994; Gordon and Wang, 1994; Sanders and Epstein, 2000; Wang, Haertel, and Walberg, 1994), the creation of more effeive educational programs (McClendon, Neles, and Wigfield, 2000), and more efficient improvement of inner-ci schools (Anderson, 1994; Wang and Walberg, 1996). ese gains have come through deeper understandings of the needs, limits, and abilities of adolescents and the faors that facilitate and impede their intelleual and psychological growth (Balfanz, 2000; Franklin, 2000; Wang, Haertel, and Walberg, 1994) In addition, if found to be a valid and universal consu, the concept of resilience may help people in general to aain higher levels of mental health and produivi.
Posterior Predictive Checks for Model Assessment in Occupancy Modeling

Though methodology and motivation for the use of posterior predictive checks has been introduced in some textbooks (e.g. Gelman et al. 2004), the technique is not commonplace in, for example, applied ecological studies using Bayesian techniques. In many studies using Bayesian techniques, the only semblance of model checking is the use of DIC for model selection, but this does not provide practically meaningful information about the quality of the fit. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of posterior predictive checks for model assessment under an occupancy study of small land birds in the Helena National Forest. Occupancy of these birds was recorded at many different sites for several years before the onset of a massive pine beetle epidemic as well as for several years after the onset of the epidemic. We present two rather simple models to describe the occupancy of the bird species at the different sites and demonstrate the use of posterior predictive checks for model assessment and comparison of these two models.
The Causes of Errors in Clinical Reasoning: Cognitive Biases, Knowledge Deficits, and Dual Process Thinking

Contemporary theories of clinical reasoning espouse a dual processing model, which consists of a rapid, intuitive component (Type 1) and a slower, logical and analytical component (Type 2). Although the general consensus is that this dual processing model is a valid representation of clinical reasoning, the causes of diagnostic errors remain unclear. Cognitive theories about human memory propose that such errors may arise from both Type 1 and Type 2 reasoning. Errors in Type 1 reasoning may be a consequence of the associative nature of memory, which can lead to cognitive biases. However, the literature indicates that, with increasing expertise (and knowledge), the likelihood of errors decreases. Errors in Type 2 reasoning may result from the limited capacity of working memory, which constrains computational processes. In this article, the authors review the medical literature to answer two substantial questions that arise from this work: (1) To what extent do diagnostic errors originate in Type 1 (intuitive) processes versus in Type 2 (analytical) processes? (2) To what extent are errors a consequence of cognitive biases versus a consequence of knowledge deficits? The literature suggests that both Type 1 and Type 2 processes contribute to errors. Although it is possible to experimentally induce cognitive biases, particularly availability bias, the extent to which these biases actually contribute to diagnostic errors is not well established. Educational strategies directed at the recognition of biases are ineffective in reducing errors; conversely, strategies focused on the reorganization of knowledge to reduce errors have small but consistent benefits.
Tight control of transgene expression by lentivirus vectors containing second‐generation tetracycline‐responsive promoters

The goal of this study was to design improved regulatable lentivirus vector systems. The aim was to design tetracycline (tet)‐regulatable lentivirus vectors based on the Tet‐on system displaying low background expression in the absence of the doxycycline (DOX) inducer and high transgene expression levels in the presence of DOX.
Heuristics for Static Voltage Scheduling Algorithms on Battery-Powered DVS Systems

The principles for good design of battery-aware voltage scheduling algorithms for both a periodic and periodic task sets on dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) systems are presented. The proposed algorithms are based on greedy heuristics suggested by several battery characteristics and Lagrange multipliers. To construct the proposed algorithms,we use the battery characteristics in the early stage of scheduling more properly. As a consequence, the proposed algorithms show superior results on synthetic examples of periodic and a periodic tasks from the task sets which are excerpted from the comparative work, on uniprocessor platforms. Especially, for some large task sets,the proposed algorithms enable previously unschedulable task sets due to battery exhaustion to be schedulable.
Participation, stance and affect in the organization of activities

The organization of embodied participation frameworks, stance and affect is investigated using as data a sequence in which a father is helping his daughter do homework. Through the way in which they position their bodies toward both each other and the homework sheet that is the focus of their work the two contest the interactive and cognitive organization of the activity they are pursuing together. The father insisted that their work be organized in a way that would allow him to demonstrate the practices required to solve her problems. However the daughter refused to rearrange her body to organize the participation framework that would make this possible, and demanded instead that Father tell her the answers. When the daughter consistently refused to cooperate Father eventually walked out, but returned later, and they constructed a very different affective and cognitive alignment. Such phenomena shed light on range of different kinds of epistemic, moral and affective stances that are central to both the organization of cognition and action, and to how participants constitute themselves as particular kinds of social and moral actors in the midst of the mundane activities that constitute daily family life.
Long-term follow-up of 246 adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: functional outcome.

OBJECTIVE To examine the clinical and functional outcome of adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) using the recent World Health Organization/International League Against Rheumatism (ILAR) classification. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred and fifty-nine adults with long-standing JIA (average disease duration 28.3 yr) were eligible for the study; 246 (95%) attended for an interview, clinical examination and notes review and 231 (89.2%) returned a comprehensive functional and psychosocial self-assessment questionnaire. RESULTS Of all patients, 43.3% had active arthritis clinically and 54.4% on laboratory measures (C-reactive protein). Clinical inflammation was less common in systemic-onset JIA. The percentage of all patients with severe disability (Health Assessment Questionnaire score >1.5) was 42.9. Uveitis occurred frequently in the oligoarticular-onset and enthesitis-related subsets. Over 30% of the extended oligoarticular group with uveitis developed glaucoma compared with none of the enthesitis group. CONCLUSIONS Adults with JIA often have significant levels of disability, often related to continuing active disease over prolonged periods. There is a clear need for good transition from paediatric to high-quality adult rheumatology care.
On the use of orientation filters for 3D reconstruction in event-driven stereo vision

The recently developed Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) sense visual information asynchronously and code it into trains of events with sub-micro second temporal resolution. This high temporal precision makes the output of these sensors especially suited for dynamic 3D visual reconstruction, by matching corresponding events generated by two different sensors in a stereo setup. This paper explores the use of Gabor filters to extract information about the orientation of the object edges that produce the events, therefore increasing the number of constraints applied to the matching algorithm. This strategy provides more reliably matched pairs of events, improving the final 3D reconstruction.
A New Approach for Inferring User Search Goals using user ’ s implicite Feedback

— Different users may have dissimilar search purpose when they submit large topic and ambiguous query, to a search engine. The inference and analysis of user search goals is an important point in terms of improving performance of search engine. A novel approach is used to infer user search goals by analyzing search engine query logs. First, we propose frameworks that are used to find out different user search goals for a user submitted query. After that we use K-means algorithm for clustering the proposed pseudo documents generated from feedback session . The Feedback sessions are implement by using user click-through data and efficiently reflect the information needs of users for that query. Second step is that generation of pseudo documents from feedback session. Finally clustering of pseudo documents is done. For clustering purpose we use a algorithm which is K-means algorithm. K-means algorithm is easiest algorithm for pseudo document clustering other than other clustering algorithm. In proposed novel approach new criterion " Classified Average Precision (CAP) " is used for evaluate the performance of inferring user search goals. I. INTRODUCTION An ambiguous query is a query that has a specific meaning and covers a narrow topic. Many ambiguous query cover broad topic but it is problematic, when user enters such ambiguous query to search engine. We know that different user may have different search goals when they submit the same query. Different users may want to get information about different aspects for the same query. For example, when the query " sun " is submitted to a search engine, at that time some users want to get information about a UK newspaper, while some other users want to learn about the natural knowledge of the sun. Through this paper, the basic aim is to finding the number of diverse user search goals for a query and assigning some keywords to each goal automatically. First Feedback sessions are constructed from user click-through logs that can efficiently reflect the information needs of users. In second step, we propose an approach that can generate pseudo-documents from feedback session to better represent the feedback sessions for clustering. The feedback session is a set of series of clicked and un-clicked URLs and ends with the last URL that was clicked in a session from user click-through logs. Then, next step is that clustering of pseudo documents using simple K-Means algorithm, and depict each cluster with …
Communication Patterns in Mean Field Models for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks are usually composed of a large number of nodes, and with the increasing processing power and power consumption effi- ciency they are expected to run more complex protocols in the future. These pose problems in the field of verification and performance evaluation of wireless net- works. In this paper, we tailor the mean-field theory as a modeling technique to analyze their behavior. We apply this method to the slotted ALOHA protocol, and establish results on the long term trends of the protocol within a very large network, specially regarding the stability of ALOHA-type protocols.
Current Harmonic Compensation in Dual Three-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines

Jussi Karttunen Current Harmonic Compensation in Dual Three-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Lappeenranta 2017 80 pages Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis 751 Diss. Lappeenranta University of Technology ISBN 978-952-335-097-7, ISBN 978-952-335-098-4 (PDF) ISSN-L 1456-4491, ISSN 1456-4491 Dual three-phase electric machines can bring significant benefits over conventional threephase machines in many applications. Although increasing the phase number of the electric machine can deliver significant advantages, it also introduces problems with stator current harmonics. In dual three-phase machines, even a small voltage excitation of certain frequency components can produce significant corresponding stator current harmonics. Current harmonics cause adverse effects such as additional losses, which degrade the efficiency of the machine. Thus, the target is usually to eliminate the harmonics. The established solution to eliminate current harmonics is to use some current harmonic compensation method. In the literature, a variety of methods have been suggested for the purpose. The objective of this doctoral dissertation is to show that in addition to the traditional methods, an inverse-based current harmonic controller can be effectively used to eliminate stator current harmonics in dual three-phase machines. Further, it is demonstrated that, compared with the traditional methods, the inverse-based structure of the proposed controller is very advantageous in the theoretical analysis. Another novel approach for harmonic compensation is obtained by recognizing that the current harmonics can be modelled as caused by a lumped disturbance signal. Hence, it is possible to use a disturbance-observer-based control to eliminate the current harmonics. The results show that the disturbance observer provides a high-performance alternative to the conventional harmonic compensation solutions. The well-known current harmonic compensation methods reported in the literature and the new approaches developed in this doctoral dissertation are extensively compared in terms of stability and performance. A detailed theoretical analysis of the methods is given by using a modern multi-input multi-output technique based on a structured singular value analysis. In addition, the performance of the methods is studied with experimental results. The main contribution of this dissertation is to establish the most favourable current harmonic compensation method for dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous machines. All in all, the results show that the current harmonics can be eliminated robustly and efficiently with the right type and parameters of the harmonic compensation.
A Content Analysis Investigating Relationships Between Communication and Business Continuity Planning

This study provides an exploratory content analysis of business continuity planning (BCP) literature. The researchers systematically sampled multiple databases and codified artifacts using a set of variables developed by the research team. Based on the analysis, arguments are presented concerning the nature of BCP, the state of the BCP literature, and the nature of the conversations taking place in regard to BCP among academics, government/legal institutions, the media, and trade industries. Finally, the researchers demonstrate gaps in the current knowledge on BCP and suggest future directions for applied and theoretical research.
Effects of bilingualism on cognition

Positive Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism and . So, what does this mean in terms of the effects of bilingualism on cognitive development? Bilingualism and Cognitive Development The number one concern for most parents considering a bilingual educational tract for their child is whether or not introducing a second language at a young age will cause confusion during a critical language learning time.
Overview of recent advances in numerical tensor algebra

We present a survey of some recent developments for decompositions of multi-way arrays or tensors, with special emphasis on results relevant for applications and modeling in signal processing. A central problem is how to find low-rank approximations of tensors, and we describe some new results, including numerical methods, algorithms and theory, for the higher order singular value decomposition (HOSVD) and the parallel factors expansion or canonical decomposition (CP expansion).
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Induction of the Angiogenic Phenotype Requires Ras Activation*

We investigated the role of Ras in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-mediated signal transduction and the promotion of angiogenic changes primary endothelial cells. We find that VEGF potently induces Ras activation and that this step is essential for the stimulation by VEGF of several cellular changes associated with angiogenesis, including proliferation, migration, and branching morphogenesis in three-dimensional culture. Inhibition of Ras signaling induced subtle changes in the actin architecture but had no effect on the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) or p38 signaling pathways. In contrast, activation of ERK was largely dependent on Ras. Although inhibiting ERK activity completely suppressed cell proliferation and partially blocked in vitrodifferentiation, neither ERK nor PI3K activity was required for VEGF-induced migration. These data provide the first direct demonstration that inhibition of Ras signal transduction is anti-angiogenic. Interestingly, VEGF signal transduction bifurcates both upstream and downstream of Ras, with different Ras-dependent signals controlling endothelial cell proliferation and migration, essential components of the angiogenic response.
Use of paroxetine for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders in the elderly: a review

Paroxetine is a potent selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) with indications for the treatment of depression, obsessive– compulsive disorder, panic disorder and social phobia. It is also used in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, post‐traumatic stress disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder and chronic headache. There is wide interindividual variation in the pharmacokinetics of paroxetine in adults as well as in the elderly with higher plasma concentrations and slower elimination noted in the latter. Elimination is also reduced in severe renal and hepatic impairment, however, serious adverse events are extremely rare even in overdose. A Pub Med search was used to collect information on the efficacy and tolerability in elderly patients. There are few studies of depression in the elderly and only one study in the old–old. In anxiety disorders including general anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder and social anxiety, there are no studies at all in the elderly. However, the safety of the drug allows its prescription in the elderly. In summary, paroxetine is well tolerated in the treatment of depression in those between the ages of 65 and 75, although few studies have examined its use in those of 75 and older. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Young audiences and live theatre, Part 1: Methods, participation and memory in audience research

Abstract The ‘liveness’ of theatre performances is often presented as central to its definition, particularly when making contrasts with non-live performances on film or television. Yet there is little empirical research exploring whether there is a distinct character to the experience of theatre that is determined by its live performance. Addressing this need, this is the first of two linked papers presenting research resulting from an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded investigation into ‘Young Audiences and Live Theatre’. In this first paper the methodological narrative behind the project is examined, concentrating on the importance of process and approach in determining the kinds of knowledge that can result from audience research. The paper explores how a participative ethos and memory-based workshop exercises were employed to engage the young audience members as active researchers into their own experiences and thereby begin to reach their own understandings of the liveness of theatre performances.
The Effects of Musical Tempo and Dynamic Range on Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Adults: A Counterbalanced, Within-Subjects Study

Music therapists often use music to facilitate changes in physiological functioning. In order to better inform the selection and creation of such music, this study explored the influence of tempo and dynamic range on heart rate variability. Two guitar improvisations were digitally recomposed to create fast and slow (90 and 60 beats per minute) as well as narrow and wide dynamic range conditions, while all other elements of the recordings were held constant. It was hypothesized that faster tempo and wider dynamic ranges would cause an increase in physiological arousal, indicated by decreased heart rate variability. It was also predicted that participants (N = 32) would perceive selections with slower tempos and smaller dynamic range as more relaxing. No significant differences were found in heart rate variability for either condition. The narrow dynamic range condition produced an elevation in average heart rate, contrary to expectations based upon previous clinical recommendations. Participants did not perceive any condition as more relaxing, but perception of relaxation level weakly correlated to increased heart rate variability. The results from this study suggest that wider dynamic range is not necessarily contraindicated for music for relaxation, and that participant input is important in choosing music for relaxation.
Epithelial Proinflammatory Response and Curcumin-Mediated Protection from Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1

Staphylococcus aureus initiates infections and produces virulence factors, including superantigens (SAgs), at mucosal surfaces. The SAg, Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 (TSST-1) induces cytokine secretion from epithelial cells, antigen presenting cells (APCs) and T lymphocytes, and causes toxic shock syndrome (TSS). This study investigated the mechanism of TSST-1-induced secretion of proinflammatory cytokines from human vaginal epithelial cells (HVECs) and determined if curcumin, an anti-inflammatory agent, could reduce TSST-1-mediated pathology in a rabbit vaginal model of TSS. TSST-1 caused a significant increase in NF-κB-dependent transcription in HVECs that was associated with increased expression of TNF- α, MIP-3α, IL-6 and IL-8. Curcumin, an antagonist of NF-κB-dependent transcription, inhibited IL-8 production from ex vivo porcine vaginal explants at nontoxic doses. In a rabbit model of TSS, co-administration of curcumin with TSST-1 intravaginally reduced lethality by 60% relative to 100% lethality in rabbits receiving TSST-1 alone. In addition, TNF-α was undetectable from serum or vaginal tissue of curcumin treated rabbits that survived. These data suggest that the inflammatory response induced at the mucosal surface by TSST-1 is NF-κB dependent. In addition, the ability of curcumin to prevent TSS in vivo by co-administration with TSST-1 intravaginally suggests that the vaginal mucosal proinflammatory response to TSST-1 is important in the progression of mTSS.