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A Comparative Study of Tunneling FETs Based on Graphene and GNR Heterostructures

In this paper, for the first time device characteristics of field-effect tunneling transistors based on vertical graphene-hBN heterostructure (VTGFET) and vertical graphene nanoribbon (GNR)-hBN heterostructure (VTGNRFET) are theoretically investigated and compared. An atomistic simulation based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is employed. The results indicate that due to the presence of an energy gap in GNRs, the ION/IOFF ratio of VTGNRFET can be much larger than that of VTGFET, which renders VTGNRFETs as promising candidates for future electronic applications. Furthermore, it can be inferred from the results that due to smaller density of states and as a result smaller quantum capacitance of GNRs in comparison with that of graphene, better switching and frequency response can be achieved for VTGNRFETs.
Chinese nurses’ perceived barriers and facilitators of ethical sensitivity

Background: An overview of ethical sensitivity among Chinese registered nurses is needed to develop and optimize the education programs and interventions to cultivate and improve ethical sensitivity. Aim: The study was conducted to explore the barriers to and facilitators of ethical sensitivity among Chinese registered nurses working in hospital settings. Research design: A convergent parallel mixed-methods research design was adopted. Participants and research context: In the cross-sectional quantitative study, the Chinese Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire–revised version was used to assess the levels of ethical sensitivity among registered nurses, and the scores were correlated with key demographics, training experiences in ethics, and workplace cultural environments (n = 306). In the qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were used to elicit the nurses’ perceptions of the barriers and facilitators in nurturing ethical sensitivity (n = 15). The data were collected from February to June 2014. Ethical considerations: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Yale University and Central South University. Results: Despite moderately high overall Chinese Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire–revised version scores, the ethical sensitivity among Chinese nurses lags in practice. Barriers to ethical sensitivity include the lack of knowledge related to ethics, lack of working experience as a nurse, the hierarchical organizational climate, and the conformist working attitude. The positive workplace cultural environments and application of ethical knowledge in practice were considered potential facilitators of ethical sensitivity. Discussion: The findings of this study were compared with studies from other countries to examine the barriers and facilitators of ethical sensitivity in Chinese nurses. Conclusion: This mixed-methods study showed that even though the Chinese nurses have moderately high sensitivity to the ethical issues encountered in hospitals, there is still room for improvement. The barriers to and facilitators of ethical sensitivity identified here offer new and important strategies to support and enhance the nurses’ sensitivity to ethical issues.
DNA Vaccination Against Rat Her-2/Neu p185 More Effectively Inhibits Carcinogenesis Than Transplantable Carcinomas in Transgenic BALB/c Mice1 2

The ability of vaccination with plasmids coding for the extracellular and the transmembrane domain of the product of transforming rat Her-2/neu oncogene (r-p185) to protect against r-p185+ transplantable carcinoma (TUBO) cells and mammary carcinogenesis was evaluated. In normal BALB/c mice, DNA vaccination elicits anti-r-p185 Ab, but only a marginal CTL reactivity, and protects against a TUBO cell challenge. Massive reactive infiltration is associated with TUBO cell rejection. In BALB/c mice transgenic for the rat Her-2/neu gene (BALB-neuT), DNA vaccination elicits a lower anti-r-p185 Ab response, no CTL activity and only incompletely protects against TUBO cells, but markedly hampers the progression of carcinogenesis. At 33 wk of age, when control BALB-neuT mice display palpable tumors in all mammary glands, about 60% of immunized mice are tumor free, and tumor multiplicity is markedly reduced. Tumor-free mammary glands still display the atypical hyperplasia of the early stages of carcinogenesis, and a marked down-modulation of r-p185, along with a massive reactive infiltrate. However, BALB-neuT mice protected against mammary carcinogenesis fail to efficiently reject a TUBO cell challenge. This suggests that the mechanisms required for the rejection of transplantable tumors may not coincide with those that inhibit the slow progression of carcinogenesis.
Distribution and Excretion of ( 3 H ] Vincristinein the Rat and the Dog

rHJVCR. The [3H]VCRused in these studies was prepared by Dr. James P. Kutney of the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia) by means of catalytic ex change (5, 9). This method involves the addition of unla beled VCR to a vacuum apparatus containing tritiated tn fluonoacetic acid. After standing at room temperature for 48 hr, labeled VCR was extracted with methylene chloride. Pure labeled VCR was then obtained through recrystalliza tion in methanol. By this method the tnitium appears in the aromatic rings of the VCR molecule and is therefore not available for exchange. A similar synthetic route for prepa nation of [3H]VCR has been recently reported by Owellen and Donigian (10). The initial specific activity of this aromat ically labeled VCR was 53.2 mCi/mmole. The radiochemical purity was greater than 95% by TLC as described elsewhere (10). Injection solutions were prepared immediately prior to use by adding nonradioactive VCR sulfate to [@H]VCRsul fate to give a final specific activity of 44 MCi/mg. Animalsand Tissues. Male and femaleSprague-Dawley rats (200 to 250 g) and female beagle dogs (8 to 10 kg) were obtained from NIH stocks. In all cases, [3H]VCR was given i.v. as the sulfate in distilled water. Following the adminis tnation of VCR, rats were placed in metabolism cages and urine and feces were collected separately at 24, 48, and 72 hr. Separate groups of rats were sacrificed at 1, 6, 16, and 24 hr after injection of [3H]VCR and the various tissues were removed and assayed for tnitium. Tissue levels in dogs were determined at 4 hr after administration of VCR. Blood sam pIes were obtained from rats (50 @l from cut tail vein) and dogs (1.0 ml from femoral artery) under pentobarbital anes thesia. CSF was obtained by cisternal puncture from a separate group of anesthetized dogs. Bile cannulations were performed on dogs and rats anesthetized with pento barbital. Gallbladder ligations were performed on the dogs. The animals remained anesthetized throughout the collec tionperiod. The CSF, bile, and urine were assayed for tnitium by counting an aliquot of each sample in Aquasol (New Eng land Nuclear, Boston, Mass). Tnitium levels in the blood, tissues, and feces were determined by first oxidizing the samples to tnitiated water in a Packard Model 306 sample oxidizer (Packard Instrument Co., Downers Grove, III.). Rat
Adenovirus pneumonia in infants and factors for developing bronchiolitis obliterans: A 5‐year follow‐up

To describe clinical, pulmonary function, and chest tomography profiles in a 5‐year follow‐up of infants with adenovirus pneumonia and determine the factors that potentially contributed to the development of bronchiolitis obliterans (BO). We prospectively assessed 45 hospitalized infants with adenovirus pneumonia with additional follow‐up for 5 years. At the end of the study, pulmonary function by impulse oscillometry technique (IOS) and chest tomography were performed in the 38 surviving patients (mean 5.7 years of age). We divided the population between those who developed chest tomography evidence of BO and those who did not. Most of the children developed adenovirus infection before 2 years of age. During the 5 years of follow‐up, almost half (47.4%) developed BO. Children who developed BO had significantly more respiratory compromise (intensive care admission, need for mechanical ventilation and for oxygen therapy, and systemic corticosteroid and beta agonist use) during their adenovirus pneumonia episode than those who did not develop BO. Only 33.3% of children with BO had normal impedance compared with 85% in the no BO group. Children who developed BO had significantly higher levels of Zrs, R5, X5 and predicted Zrs, R5, and X5 and frequency. However, there were no differences in the beta 2 agonist response between the children with and without BO (94% vs. 80%, respectively). This study represents the spectra of adenovirus pneumonia ranging from relatively mild to severe and fatal cases. Children with severe pulmonary compromise are usually more prone to develop BO. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2006, 41:947–953. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Disparities in the respiratory burst between human and rat neutrophils

The importance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in neutrophil (PMN)‐mediated injury to host tissues has been strongly implicated in a number of animal models. Peculiarities of the laboratory rat PMN, including an apparent paucity of superoxide release, prompted us to examine disparities in the respiratory burst between human and rat PMNs. Using isolated PMNs, we examined oxygen consumption, superoxide release, nitrate/nitrite release, and dihydrorhodamine (DHR) oxidation in response to an array of soluble stimuli. Our findings confirm that intact rat PMNs release little superoxide in comparison to human PMNs when primed and activated by soluble stimuli. For example, PMA‐activated human PMNs released superoxide at 10.1 ± 2.7 times the rate of rat PMNs (P < 0.01). However, measurements of oxygen consumption, cell‐associated oxidant production (by DHR oxidation) and release of superoxide from electroporated cells suggests that rat PMNs generate oxidants at rates equivalent to human PMNs but preferentially release them in an intracellular compartment. Implications for the study of PMN‐ mediated oxidant injury in animal models are discussed. J. Leukoc. Biol. 65: 211–216; 1999.
How the financial crisis has changed the research agenda on banking regulation

How to cite this paper: Lopes, J. D. (2018). How the financial crisis has changed the research agenda on banking regulation. Journal of Governance & Regulation, 7(3), 3746. http://doi.org/10.22495/jgr_v7_i3_p5 Copyright © 2018 The Authors This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ISSN Print: 2220-9352 ISSN Online: 2306-6784 Received: 16.08. 2018 Accepted: 03.10. 2018 JEL Classification: G28, G01 DOI: 10.22495/jgr_v7_i3_p5 The effects of the financial crisis, which began in 2007, were many and various. This paper examines those effects in the banking regulation and supervision research agendas. The crisis, as the most important economic and social event of the beginning of this century, has triggered debates in multiple spaces and across frameworks, in politics, the media, social networks, and elsewhere. As the crisis was focused in the financial sector, it is natural for the published academic investigation of the regulation of this sector to have suffered changes. With this paper, the author tries to understand the impact of the financial crisis started in 2007 in the research published about banking regulation. This study, using a 323-article sample, determined that there was a change in the volume of published investigations, evident after 2011. This indicates a time lag between the onset of the crisis and the growth of interest in its inherent themes. This study also testifies to a change in interest focuses, with new themes emerging, such as politics, Basel III, systemic risk, and regulatory capture. Further, the keywords with value at risk, Basel II, Basel Capital Accords, and market discipline lost some ground in literature.
Response-based interactive motion generation

We demonstrate a response-based motion generation system capable of naturally response to the external disturbance while tracking a reference motion. Our approach associates the data-driven motion synthesis technique with the response simulation result. For a rapid approximation of the character response, we introduce both the simplified joint model and skeleton model for simulation, and adopt forward dynamics to estimate the angle disturbances. We design a corresponding control mechanism for our skeleton model to balance against disturbance, using the adjustments of key joints' movement. According to the response simulation, a multi-resolution maximum a posteriori estimation is proposed to search for the matched parameters and principal component analysis based on our response motion database is used for the final motion synthesis. Results for following different reference motions in presence of a variety of disturbances are demonstrated. Our approach shows its advantage in rapid generation of interactive and natural-looking motion for character animation.
Structural Organization of the Corpus Callosum Predicts Attentional Shifts after Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied over the right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) in healthy participants has been shown to trigger a significant rightward shift in the spatial allocation of visual attention, temporarily mimicking spatial deficits observed in neglect. In contrast, rTMS applied over the left PPC triggers a weaker or null attentional shift. However, large interindividual differences in responses to rTMS have been reported. Studies measuring changes in brain activation suggest that the effects of rTMS may depend on both interhemispheric and intrahemispheric interactions between cortical loci controlling visual attention. Here, we investigated whether variability in the structural organization of human white matter pathways subserving visual attention, as assessed by diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography, could explain interindividual differences in the effects of rTMS. Most participants showed a rightward shift in the allocation of spatial attention after rTMS over the right intraparietal sulcus (IPS), but the size of this effect varied largely across participants. Conversely, rTMS over the left IPS resulted in strikingly opposed individual responses, with some participants responding with rightward and some with leftward attentional shifts. We demonstrate that microstructural and macrostructural variability within the corpus callosum, consistent with differential effects on cross-hemispheric interactions, predicts both the extent and the direction of the response to rTMS. Together, our findings suggest that the corpus callosum may have a dual inhibitory and excitatory function in maintaining the interhemispheric dynamics that underlie the allocation of spatial attention. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) controls allocation of attention across left versus right visual fields. Damage to this area results in neglect, characterized by a lack of spatial awareness of the side of space contralateral to the brain injury. Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the PPC is used to study cognitive mechanisms of spatial attention and to examine the potential of this technique to treat neglect. However, large individual differences in behavioral responses to stimulation have been reported. We demonstrate that the variability in the structural organization of the corpus callosum accounts for these differences. Our findings suggest novel dual mechanism of the corpus callosum function in spatial attention and have broader implications for the use of stimulation in neglect rehabilitation.
Validity of the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS): does craving predict drinking behavior?

OBJECTIVE The Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS), a 14-item, self-report questionnaire, was developed to measure alcohol-related craving. The OCDS may provide a measure of the state of illness among alcohol-dependent individuals and may have value in predicting subsequent drinking behavior. The present study was conducted to evaluate the factor structure and the concurrent, construct, and predictive validity of the OCDS. METHODS Data on desire to drink and on drinking behavior were obtained from 127 alcohol-dependent subjects who participated in a 12-week outpatient pharmacotherapy trial and a 3-month posttreatment follow-up. RESULTS Principal components analysis of the OCDS indicated that three factors best described its structure: obsessions, drinking control and consequences, and alcohol consumption. Data also supported the concurrent and discriminant validity of the OCDS. However, the OCDS total score showed limited validity in predicting drinking during a posttreatment follow-up period. Furthermore, the only empirically derived factor that predicted drinking during this period was the alcohol consumption factor. CONCLUSIONS As might be expected, the OCDS questions on drinking behavior predict subsequent drinking behavior. However, the instrument does not appear to provide a general measure of alcohol-related illness. The utility of the OCDS in studies of alcoholism treatment outcome requires clearer definition.
The Perceptions of Parents and Students Towards Implementation of Fully Privately Run Public Schools in Malaysia

The National Education Blueprint (2013-2025) launched in 2012 that forms eleven (11) shifts to reform the national education system to attain desired student outcomes and be comparable to international education standard. Among the strategies highlighted by the ministry of education in realising this aspiration is to procure the private sectors involvement. Presently, the involvement by the private sector whilst the trust school, in Malaysia is considered as a “weak form public-private partnership model” and it was argued to has “lacks of scalability”. The “strong form public-private partnership model” is proposed to be deliberated. Therefore, this study aims to examine the perception of parents and students toward implementing “strong form public-private partnership model” or in this study known as fully privately run public schools (FPRPS) in urban area, Malaysia. The study was performed using quantitative approaches through structural self–administrated closed ended questionnaire survey method. Two sets of questionnaires were distributed to parents and students of 13 schools in three districts Bangsar-Pudu in Kuala Lumpur Federal territory, Hulu Langat and Petaling Utama in Selangor Darul Ehsan. The finding indicates most of the parents are ready and willing to accept the FPRPS implementation. They perceive the implementation of FPRS could offers huge potential benefits to their children. These includes improvement in students’ skill, academic performance, infrastructures, facilities, and efficiency in learning. Nevertheless, those potential benefit are not the only dimension highlighted by the parent and students, high school fees is perceived to be imposed to the students which may give impact to the lower income students on access to education. Therefore, careful attention need to be taken to avoid any exacerbated inequalities that may cause from FPRPS implementation. Appropriate strategic framework and regulation of FPRPS need to be carefully examined to minimize challenges in managing cost-quality tradeoff problem in education.
Computer Vision Techniques for Supporting Blind or Vision Impaired People: An Overview

For the blessing of modern technology, especially in mobile technology improvement and handheld devices etc. and the incorporation of artificia l intelligence, the blind/vision impaired people’ lives are becoming colorful. They are now thinking about themselves quite differently because of these handy tools that are going to be in reality which were only in heart’s desire. Many researchers feel interest to do something for blind/vision impaired people. In this situation it can be claimed that computer vision with mobile technology is the best option for them. Mobile devices are small in size with less power consumption and their computational power has increased a lot in this age. Thus a lot of research & applications are made by some great researchers. In this paper, computer vision techniques to support blind or vision impaired people are addressed and different procedures of various researchers are discussed. This paper emphasized to depicts a comparative survey on a variety of procedures in this arena. A range of techniques are compared here that have been prepared for supporting blind or vision impaired people. Some promising approaches with significant points are indicated here and particular concentration is dedicated to describe different methods from raw level to similar like high experienced, so that in future one can get considerable instruction for further analysis.
Is hypnotic responding the strategic relinquishment of metacognition

According to the ‘cold control theory’ of Dienes and Perner (2007) hypnotic responding is intimately linked to metacognition. Specifically, we proposed that what makes a hypnotic response hypnotic is the intentional performance of a (physical or mental) action while having inaccurate higher order thoughts to the effect that one was not intending the action. That is, the essence of hypnosis is a strategic lack of metacognition. In this chapter, I explore this idea in three ways. First, I argue that individual differences in first-order abilities, e.g. ability to attend to the world or inhibit information, are unrelated to hypnotisability; however, the tendency to be aware of one's mental states while performing a simple task is related to hypnotisability. Second, I argue that impairing the brain region involved in metacognition (specifically the brain region involved in maintaining accurate higher order thoughts) enhances hypnotisability. Third, I argue that hypnotised subjects have no abilities they don't have any way; the essence of hypnosis is not the existence of any first-order abilities but the fact one's actions feel involuntary. Overcoming pain seems a counterexample, but debatably, the only quality that hypnosis adds to one's ability to overcome pain is the feeling that the pain goes away by itself.
Shades of Gray and Colour Constancy

Colour constancy is a central problem for any visual system performing a task which requires stable perception of the colour world. To solve the colour constancy problem we estimate the colour of the prevailing light and then, at the second stage, remove it. Two of the most commonly used simple techniques for estimating the colour of the light are the Grey-World and Max-RGB algorithms. In this paper we begin by observing that this two colour constancy computations will respectively return the right answer if the average scene colour is grey or the maximum is white (and conversely, the degree of failure is proportional to the extent that these assumptions hold). We go on to ask the following question: “ Would we perform better colour constancy by assuming the scene average is some shade of grey? ”. We give a mathematical answer to this question. Firstly, we show that Max-RGB and Grey-World are two instantia-tions of Minkowski norm. Secondly, that for a large cali-brated dataset L6 norm colour constancy works best over-all (we have improved the performance achieved by a sim-ple normalization based approach). Surprisingly we found performance to be similar to more elaborated algorithm.