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Religion and Prejudice: The Role of Religious Fundamentalism, Quest, and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism

Does religion contribute to, or inhibit, prejudice? Although major world religions espouse tolerance and love toward others, empirical evidence provides little support for the effectiveness of such religious teachings, and a considerable body of research suggests that, at a general (and simplistic) level, religion and prejudice are positively correlated. Suggestions that this relationship is actually curvilinear and possibly a result of differences in intrinsic I extrinsic religious orientation are questioned. Recent investigations suggest that conceptualizations of religious fundamentalism and quest offer better ways of distinguishing between more and less prejudiced individuals. Further, the fundamentalism and quest relationships with prejudice are especially meaningful in light of an association with right-wing authoritarianism. Limitations and implications of the related research are discussed. In the end, it would seem that it is not religion per se, but rather the ways in which individuals hold their religious beliefs, which are associated with prejudice.
A multichannel DNA SoC for rapid point-of-care gene detection

Point-of-care diagnostics for detection of genetic sequences require biosensing platforms that are sensitive to the target sequence, and are also fast, mass-manufacturable, and - ideally - disposable. Conventional lab-based methods of detecting DNA sequences rely on optical methods, typically by the addition of fluorescent tags to the target DNA that in turn latches onto a DNA probe sequence only if there is a match between the two. These techniques are cumbersome as they require upfront tagging of the DNA with expensive reagents and laboratory equipment to detect the optical signals. Recently, developments have been made in transferring these optical methods to inexpensive CMOS ICs [1], although the requirement for tagging remains. Magnetic beads offer an alternative means of tagging the DNA and their presence can be detected by the shift in resonant frequency of an on-chip LC tank [2]. There have also been attempts based on “label-free” electrochemical detection using FETs [3,4], but none of these have been implemented in unmodified standard CMOS.
Have We Seen Enough Traces ?

Dynamic specification mining extracts candidate specifications from logs of execution traces. Existing algorithms differ in the kinds of traces they take as input and in the kinds of candidate specification they present as output. One challenge common to all approaches relates to the faithfulness of the mining results: how can we be confident that the extracted specifications faithfully characterize the program we investigate? Since producing and analyzing traces is costly, how would we know we have seen enough traces? And, how would we know we have not wasted resources and seen too many of them? In this paper we address these important questions by presenting a novel, black box, probabilistic framework based on a notion of log completeness, and by applying it to three different well-known specification mining algorithms from the literature: k-Tails, Synoptic, and mining of scenario-based triggers and effects. Extensive evaluation over 24 models taken from 9 different sources shows the soundness, generalizability, and usefulness of the framework and its contribution to the state-of-the-art in dynamic specification mining.
Sowing the Seeds of Violence in Heterosexual Relationships: Early Adolescents Narrate Compulsory Heterosexuality

In this paper, we explore how early adolescents' descriptions of their romantic relationships produce evidence of how precursors to violence are woven into the fabric of such relationships from the very beginning of their experiences of "heterosociality. " We identified Rich's (1983) concept of compulsory heterosexuality as an interpretive framework for analyzing these relationship narratives, examining qualitative data from two samples (combined n= 100) diverse in ethnicity and income to form a dialogue between youth perspectives and theory. We offer adolescents' descriptions, and our interpretations, of several themes, including the conceptualization of boys as sexual predators which normalizes such behaviors, girls' behavior in response to assumed male aggression, and boys' narration of their participation in relational processes which reproduce these beliefs and behaviors.
What does God have to do with my health

Perceptions about God’s involvement in the health of people have always been an issue in Christianity. Conflicting views regarding the transcendent versus immanent nature of Godhave therefore played a prominent part within theological discussions. The purpose of this empirical survey was to explore the extent to which South African Christians directly attribute their health and/or diseases to the hand of God. A total of 3000 structured questionnaires were distributed of which 575 were received back. The IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 21) statistical program was used to analyse the data. Most participants disagreed with the view that God largely determined their health, although the majority did think that diseases (including AIDS) were sent by God, whilst playing down the role of natural causes.In conclusion, one could say that health beliefs amongst South Africans are closely linked to supernatural agents, although the direct role of God is seen mostly in terms of the sending of occasional diseases rather than constant involvement in general health. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The study challenges the applicability of a secularised medical model within the South African context and its relevance for prevention programmes.
Novel Adaptive Power-Gating Strategy and Tapered TSV Structure in Multilayer 3D IC

Among power dissipation components, leakage power has become more dominant with each successive technology node. Power-gating techniques have been widely used to reduce the standby leakage energy. In this work, we investigate a power-gating strategy for through-silicon via (TSV)-based 3D IC stacking structures. Power-gating control is becoming more complicated as more dies are stacked. We combine the on-chip PDN and TSV in a multilayered 3D IC to perform power-gating analysis of the static and dynamic voltage drops and in-rush current. Then, we propose a novel power-gating strategy that optimizes the in-rush current profile, subject to the voltage-drop constraints. Our power-gating strategy provides a minimal wake-up latency such that the voltage noise safety margins are not violated. In addition, the layer dependency of the 3D IC on the power gating is analyzed in terms of the wake-up time reduction. We achieve an average wake-up time reduction of 43% for all cases with our adaptive power-gating method that exploits location (or layer) information regarding the aggressors in a 3D IC. A tapered TSV architecture based on the layer dependency has been analyzed; it exhibits up to 18% wake-up time reduction compared to that of circuits with uniform TSVs.
The Problematic Nature of Dress for Women Managers

Argues that dress is not a straightforward issue for women managers today. It is problematic on a number of different levels. Women receive many messages via the media concerning the importance of their appearance and presentation. The “dressing for success” slogan is problematic as it infers that success is as easy as donning well‐cut clothes. Contends that this argument trivializes the difficulties women managers face when they wish to break the glass ceiling. Highlights the argument that women managers confront a number of dilemmas as they try to maintain a “feminine” but “businesslike” presentation, as well as an “individual” yet socially appropriate style.
Interference mitigation via joint detection in a fading environment

This paper considers the detection problem for fading channels in the presence of interference when both the transmitter of interest and the interferers employ practical modulation schemes. It is shown that, for Rayleigh fading, it is possible to obtain symbol error rates that have the same dependence on the received signal-to-noise ratio as when transmission is interference-free. This is achieved using detectors that employ knowledge on the channel and on the modulation schemes of the interference. Therefore, the use of interference-aware detectors can increase the overall capacity and improve the reliability of wireless systems, justifying the use of additional knowledge on the interferers that is required for implementation as compared to detectors that do not differentiate interference from noise.
Long-range navigation by path integration and decoding of grid cells in a neural network

Neural modelers in the domain of robot navigation, e.g. within the fields of neurorobotics and neuromorphic engineering, can benefit from a wealth of inspiration from neuroscientific research in the hippocampal formation — cell types such as place cells and grid cells provide a window into the inner workings of high-level cognitive processing, and have spawned many interesting computational models. Grid cells are thought to participate in path integration and to implement a general coordinate system, both of which are useful features in a neural navigation model. Continuous attractor networks are a computational model that can embody both aspects of grid cells, and in previous work we showed that a neural network can successfully decode the outputs of such networks in order to implement vector navigation. That work assumes that the grid cell system represents long distances by employing a geometric progression in its spatial scaling of successive submodules, in such a way that “nested” grid cell decoding can be performed. For long-range navigation this requires that the continuous attractor networks can implement sufficiently long geometric progressions of grid scales, but this turns out to trigger the issue of “pinning”. In this paper we demonstrate conditions under which pinning occurs as well as its consequences for the grid cell-based navigation model. We propose and assess several candidate solutions to the problem, in particular based on differential adjustment of neurons' update rates in the model. We finally demonstrate that the system is able to perform long-range navigation using our chosen solution.
Novel Acquired Metallo-β-Lactamase Gene, blaSIM-1, in a Class 1 Integron from Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates from Korea

ABSTRACT Carbapenem resistance mediated by acquired carbapenemase genes has been increasingly reported, particularly for clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. Of 1,234 nonduplicate isolates of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas spp. and Acinetobacter spp. isolated at a tertiary-care hospital in Seoul, Korea, 211 (17%) were positive for metallo-β-lactamase (MBL). Of these, 204 (96%) had either the blaIMP-1 or blaVIM-2 allele. In addition, seven Acinetobacter baumannii isolates were found to have a novel MBL gene, which was designated blaSIM-1. The SIM-1 protein has a pI of 7.2, is a new member of subclass B1, and exhibits 64 to 69% identity with the IMP-type MBLs, which are its closest relatives. All SIM-1-producing isolates exhibited relatively low imipenem and meropenem MICs (8 to 16 μg/ml) and had a multidrug resistance phenotype. Expression of the cloned blaSIM-1 gene in Escherichia coli revealed that the encoded enzyme is capable of hydrolyzing a broad array of β-lactams, including penicillins, narrow- to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins, and carbapenems. The blaSIM-1 gene was carried on a gene cassette inserted into a class 1 integron, which included three additional cassettes (arr-3, catB3, and aadA1). The strains were isolated from sputum and urine specimens from patients with pneumonia and urinary tract infections, respectively. All patients had various underlying diseases. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SmaI-digested genomic DNAs showed that the strains belonged to two different clonal lineages, indicating that horizontal transfer of this gene had occurred and suggesting the possibility of further spread of resistance in the future.
An Active Compensation System for the Temperature Dependence of SiPM Gain

Silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) gain drifts due to temperature variations and this issue can be a source of relevant errors, for instance when the application requires high accuracy in the evaluation of the photopeak position, especially at low signal levels. In this paper we describe a compensation system that exploits a SiPM as temperature sensor and is able to keep the detector gain constant by means of fine adjustment of its bias voltage. The system is based on a feedback loop which measures the average amplitude of the dark pulses generated by the detector and compares it with a fixed reference, thus automatically correcting the device bias voltage and achieving constant amplitude of the dark pulses in presence of temperature variations. The same bias correction can be also applied to compensate the gain fluctuations of a SiPM not involved in the feedback loop, characterized by the same temperature dependence. The experimental results prove the effectiveness of the compensation system: for the SiPM used in the measurements, considering a temperature span of 10°C, the system is able to reduce the corresponding variation of the dark pulse amplitude from about 22% to only 0.78%.
Physiological outflow boundary conditions methodology for small arteries with multiple outlets: A patient-specific hepatic artery haemodynamics case study

Physiological outflow boundary conditions are necessary to carry out computational fluid dynamics simulations that reliably represent the blood flow through arteries. When dealing with complex three-dimensional trees of small arteries, and therefore with multiple outlets, the robustness and speed of convergence are also important. This study derives physiological outflow boundary conditions for cases in which the physiological values at those outlets are not known (neither in vivo measurements nor literature-based values are available) and in which the tree exhibits symmetry to some extent. The inputs of the methodology are the three-dimensional domain and the flow rate waveform and the systolic and diastolic pressures at the inlet. The derived physiological outflow boundary conditions, which are a physiological pressure waveform for each outlet, are based on the results of a zero-dimensional model simulation. The methodology assumes symmetrical branching and is able to tackle the flow distribution problem when the domain outlets are at branches with a different number of upstream bifurcations. The methodology is applied to a group of patient-specific arteries in the liver. The methodology is considered to be valid because the pulsatile computational fluid dynamics simulation with the inflow flow rate waveform (input of the methodology) and the derived outflow boundary conditions lead to physiological results, that is, the resulting systolic and diastolic pressures at the inlet match the inputs of the methodology, and the flow split is also physiological.
Patients with traumatic brain injury relayed neutral or positive self narratives for coping with their changed lives

Methods The investigator conversed with the patients at an independent living centre or participated in their daily living activities to build a rapport and then had >2 semistructured interviews lasting 45–60 minutes with each patient. Patients were asked open ended questions about their background, rehabilitation activities, present situations, and future plans. Patients’ thoughts and feelings about themselves were elicited. The grounded theory method was used to group the emerging remarks and actions into concepts that were compared across patients’ data sets.
A heterogeneous data exchange approach for RFID-based logistics-customs clearance public service platform

The heterogeneous data exchange problem of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based logistics-customs clearance public service platform is discussed in this paper. By analysing the characteristics of the platform, a heterogeneous data exchange approach is presented, in which a Hybridmatching Algorithm based on Block-Dividing Dynamic Weight (HABDDW) is proposed. The crucial idea of HABDDW is to compare the similarities of the structure and expression between two relation pattern trees. When calculating the similarities, HABDDW not only combines element matching with structure matching, but also integrates linguistic matching with semantic matching. That is, the mapping between any pair of exchanged data is established, and a feasible approach is provided to achieve the goal of information sharing among heterogeneous data.
Natural interaction for online documentation in industrial maintenance

This paper presents a novel application of natural interaction techniques for technical documentation navigation in augmented reality maintenance. The objective is to provide technical information where and when needed in order to reduce the time spent in retrieving procedural data from manuals. The system integrates a video and depth camera for user gesture acquisition, a webcam for marker-based tracking and a see through head mounted display for digital information overlay. We designed a novel hand free gesture-based interface to access technical documentation while performing maintenance tasks. We implemented a specific flexible system to prototype natural interfaces using UML configurable state machines. It supports 2D and 3D content navigation, CAD assembly explosion, real time 3D sectioning and operation browsing. We differentiate the interaction metaphors for 2D documents and 3D CAD models in order to be intuitive and easy to learn. A case study and a user test demonstrated the feasibility and the good acceptance of the presented gesture interface.
N Terminus of Type 5 Adenylyl Cyclase Scaffolds Gs Heterotrimer

According to accepted doctrine, agonist-bound G protein-coupled receptors catalyze the exchange of GDP for GTP and facilitate the dissociation of Gα and Gβγ, which in turn regulate their respective effectors. More recently, the existence of preformed signaling complexes, which may include receptors, heterotrimeric G proteins, and/or effectors, is gaining acceptance. We show herein the existence of a preformed complex of inactive heterotrimer (Gαs·βγ) and the effector type 5 adenylyl cyclase (AC5), localized by the N terminus of AC5. GST fusions of AC5 N terminus (5NT) bind to purified G protein subunits (GDP-Gαs and Gβγ) with apparent affinities of 270 ± 21 and 190 ± 7 nM, respectively. GDP-bound Gαs and Gβγ did not compete, but rather facilitated their interaction with 5NT, consistent with the isolation of a ternary complex (5NT, Gαs, and Gβγ) by gel filtration. The AC5/Gβγ interaction was also demonstrated by immunoprecipitation and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and the binding site of heterotrimer Gαs·βγ mapped to amino acids 60 to 129 of 5NT. Deletion of this region in full-length AC5 resulted in significant reduction of FRET between Gβγ and AC. 5NT also interacts with the catalytic core of AC, mainly via the C1 domain, to enhance Gαs- and forskolin-stimulated activity of C1/C2 domains. The N terminus also serves to constrain Gαi-mediated inhibition of AC5, which is relieved in the presence of Gβγ. These results reveal that 5NT plays a key regulatory role by interacting with the catalytic core and scaffolding inactive heterotrimeric G proteins, forming a preassembled complex that is potentially braced for GPCR activation.
The role of the microcirculation in acute kidney injury

Purpose of reviewAlterations of the renal microcirculation can promote the development of acute kidney injury through the interlinked occurrence of renal hypoxia and activation of inflammatory pathways. This review focuses on the recent advances in this area, and discusses the possible therapeutic interventions that might be derived from these insights. Recent findingsEndothelial injury acts as a primary event leading to renal hypoxia with disturbances in nitric oxide pathways playing a major role. The unbalanced homeostasis between nitric oxide, reactive oxygen species and renal oxygenation forms a major component of the microcirculatory dysfunction. Furthermore, injury leads to leukocyte–endothelial interaction that exacerbates renal hypoxia at a microcirculatory level. SummaryKnowledge of the pathophysiological mechanisms of acute kidney injury emphasizes the importance of the role of the microcirculation in its development. Preventive and therapeutic approach should be based on restoring the homeostasis between nitric oxide, reactive oxygen species and renal oxygenation.
Generation and Separation of Closely Separated Dual Baseband Channels for Provisioning of Independent Services in WDM-PON

This letter presents a novel technique that enables simple provisioning of independent services in wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical networks. The technique uses a single laser and modulator for generation and a periodic passive filter for separation of two closely separated baseband channels. We present experimental results of the bit-error-rate performance for the two 1.5-Gb/s independent service channels at a frequency separation of only 6 GHz.
Measurement characteristics of LTE-MIMO antenna for 4 G mobile handy terminal

This paper presents measurement characteristics of LTE-MIMO antenna for 4 G mobile handy terminal. The considered LTE band is the class 13 and 14 in this research. Main antenna is operated reconfigurable by voltage control. The measured bandwidth of proposed antenna has been observed about 53 MHz (746~798 MHz) for VSWR 3:1. The measured isolation between main antenna and sub antenna has been showed about - 13 dB below at LTE band.
Factors underlying metastatic breast cancer patients' perceptions of symptom importance: a qualitative analysis

The symptom literature in cancer has primarily examined symptom severity, frequency and distress. Assessing cancer patients' perceptions of symptom importance-how important it is for them to see improvement in a symptom following an intervention-and factors influencing these judgments would also inform patient-centred care, but this analysis has not been undertaken. This qualitative study aimed to identify factors underlying perceptions of symptom importance among 25 symptomatic metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients. Participants were recruited from a cancer centre in the Midwestern USA. Semi-structured interviews focused on patients' rationale for considering common symptoms (i.e., anxiety, sadness, sleep problems, pain or fatigue) to be important. Thematic analyses revealed five interrelated factors underlying MBC patients' perceptions of symptom importance: activity restriction, concentration difficulties, exacerbation of other physical symptoms, symptom-related long-term health concerns and negative impact on their relationships with others. Patients most frequently stated that a physical or psychological symptom was important because of the resulting activity restriction. Additionally, some patients considered pain to be important because it signalled potential long-term health concerns, such as worsening metastatic disease. Findings suggest that clinicians should take into account MBC patients' perceptions of symptom importance and factors underlying these judgments when making shared treatment decisions.