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Design of a Fault-tolerant IPM Motor for Electric Power Steering

This paper deals with the design of an interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor for power-steering. Such an application requires an imperative fault-tolerant capability, so that a redundant solution with two motors on the same shaft is presented. A ball-screw system converts the rotating movement into the linear movement of the steering rack. In addition the IPM motor has to exhibit very low brake torque after a short-circuit fault. To this purpose, the maximum brake torque is computed. A useful relationship between the maximum brake torque and the motor parameters is found. Such a relationship is used in the design of the motor
Educational Studies And Faith-Based Schooling: Moving From Prejudice To Evidence-Based Argument

Much of the political and public debate about faith-based schooling is conducted at the level of generalised assertion and counter-assertion, with little reference to educational scholarship or research. There is a tendency in these debates to draw upon historical images of faith schooling (idealised and critical); to use ideological advocacy (both for and against) and to deploy strong claims about the effects of faith-based schooling upon personal and intellectual autonomy and the wider consequences of such schooling for social harmony, race relations and the common good of society. This paper will attempt to review some of these controversies in the light of recent educational and research studies. Particular attention will be given to research investigations of Catholic schooling systems in various cultural and political contexts, studies which are largely unknown outside the Catholic community. In addition to reviewing educational studies of faith-based schooling, the paper will offer critical appraisal of the main arguments in the debate and it will also outline a possible research agenda for future inquiry in this sector of educational studies.
Factor Analysis of the Parent Experience of Racial Socialization Scale

This investigation examined the factor structure and validity evidence for the Parent Experience of Racial Socialization Scale (PERS). Exploratory factor analysis found four interpretable factors accounting for 40% of the variance in the racial socialization construct. The identified factors were religion and spirituality, alertness to discrimination, mainstream, and cultural pride and coping. Correlation analyses indicated negative relationships between the newly identified PERS factors religion and spirituality and alertness to discrimination and the Teenagers Experiences of Racial Socialization (TERS) factor Alertness to Discrimination. In contrast, a positive relationship was found for the PERS spirituality and religion factor and the TERS cultural endorsement of the mainstream factor. Recommendations for research methods regarding racial socialization scales are provided.
Characterization of soluble microbial products (SMP) derived from glucose and phenol in dual substrate activated sludge bioreactors

Soluble microbial products (SMP) generated by activated sludge cultures receiving a mixed feed of phenol and glucose were characterized with respect to molecular weight (MW) distribution, octanol‐water partition coefficient (Kow), and Microtox® toxicity. Short‐term batch reactor tests using 14C‐labeled substrates were performed to collect SMP derived from each substrate, while long‐term tests were performed with SMP accumulated over multiple feed cycles using fed‐batch reactors receiving non‐labeled substrates. Yield of SMP in the batch tests, 10%–20% for phenol and 2%–5% for glucose, differed for each substrate and was independent of initial concentration. The MW distribution (MWD) of SMP was independent of feed composition, and was bimodal in the < 1 kDa and 10–100 kDa MW ranges for phenol‐derived SMP and predominantly < 1 kDa for glucose‐derived SMP. In the non‐labeled tests, the fraction of SMP of MW > 100 kDa increased with the proportion of glucose in the feed. The Kow of phenol‐derived SMP was higher compared to glucose‐derived SMP, indicating that the phenol‐derived SMP were more hydrophobic. This was particularly true at an acidic pH, where the Kow was 4.2 ± 1.0 for phenol‐derived SMP versus 0.13 ± 0.13 for glucose‐derived SMP. Toxicity testing indicated that phenol‐derived SMP, exerting a mean Microtox® inhibition of 1%, were less toxic than phenol itself, and showed little correlation between toxicity and concentration. However, glucose‐derived SMP were generally more toxic than glucose itself (a non‐toxic substrate), and the toxicity increased linearly with the concentration of SMP. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
In vitro analysis of promoter activity in Müller cells

Purpose Rational modification of promoter architecture is necessary for manipulation of transgene activity and requires accurate deciphering of regulatory control elements. Identification of minimally sized promoters is critical to the design of viral vectors for gene therapy. To this end, we evaluated computational methods for predicting short DNA sequences capable of driving gene expression in Müller cells. Methods We measured enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) expression levels driven by “full-length” promoters, and compared these data with computationally identified shorter promoter elements from the same genes. We cloned and screened over 90 sequences from nine Müller cell-associated genes: CAR2, CD44, GFAP, GLUL, PDGFRA, RLBP1, S100B, SLC1A3, and vimentin (VIM). We PCR-amplified the “full-length” promoter (~1500 bp), the proximal promoter (~500 bp), and the most proximal evolutionarily conserved region (ECR; 95–871 bp) for each gene, both with and without their respective 5′ untranslated regions (UTRs), from C57BL/6J mouse genomic DNA. We selected and cloned additional ECRs from more distal genomic regions (both 5′ and 3′) of the VIM and CD44 genes, using both mouse and rat (Sprague-Dawley) genomic DNA as templates. PCR products were cloned into the pFTMGW or pFTM3GW lentiviral transfer vectors. Plasmid constructs were transfected into rat (wMC) or human (MIO-M1) Müller cells, and eGFP expression levels were evaluated by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. Selected constructs were also examined in NIH/3T3 and Neuro-2a cells. Results Several ECRs from the nine Müller cell-associated genes were able to drive reporter gene expression as well as their longer counterparts. Preliminary comparisons of ECRs from the VIM and CD44 genes suggested that inclusion of UTRs in promoter constructs resulted in increased transgene expression levels. Systematic comparison of promoter activity from nine Müller cell-expressed genes supported this finding, and characteristic regulation profiles were evident among the different genes tested. Importantly, individual cloned promoter sequences were capable of driving distinct levels of transgene expression, resulting in up to eightfold more cells expressing eGFP with up to 3.8-fold higher mean fluorescence intensity (MFI). Furthermore, combining constructs into single regulatory “units” modulated transgene expression, suggesting that secondary gene sequences provided in cis may be used to fine-tune gene expression levels. Conclusions In this study, we demonstrate that computational and empirical methods, when used in combination, can efficiently identify short promoters that are active in cultured Müller cells. In addition, the pFTM3GW vector can be used to study the effects of combined promoter elements. We anticipate that these methods will expedite the design and testing of synthetic/chimeric promoter constructs that should be useful for both in vitro and in vivo applications.
Final Report : Neural Mechanisms of Recognizing Camouflaged Objects : A Human fMRI Study Report Title

Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Final Report: Neural Mechanisms of Recognizing Camouflaged Objects: A Human fMRI Study Report Title The project had the following three overall goals, all of which have now been accomplished: (1) To characterize the brain mechanisms of camouflage-breaking. (2) To characterize the brain mechanisms of learning to break camouflage, or camouflage learning (3) To characterize the brain mechanisms recognizing partially occluded camouflaged objects. The overall finding of this project is that the camouflage-breaking and camouflage learning both engage a rather unique network of brain regions that is distinct from the networks involved in other closely related phenomena, such as visual search. Moreover, the network actively is predictive of the subject's perceptual reports on a trial-to-trial basis. We are currently in the process of writing up the data for publication. We expect to submit the first of these manuscripts for review in a series of these manuscripts by September 1, 2015. (a) Papers published in peer-reviewed journals (N/A for none) Enter List of papers submitted or published that acknowledge ARO support from the start of the project to the date of this printing. List the papers, including journal references, in the following categories: (b) Papers published in non-peer-reviewed journals (N/A for none) 12.00
The Strategic Prevention of Gun Violence Among Gang‐Involved Offenders

Problem‐oriented policing has been suggested as a promising way to understand and prevent complex gang violence problems. A number of jurisdictions have been experimenting with new problem‐oriented frameworks to understand and respond to gun violence among gang‐involved offenders. These interventions are based on the “pulling levers” deterrence strategy that focuses criminal justice and social service attention on a small number of chronically offending gang members responsible for the bulk of urban gun violence problems. As part of the US Department of Justice‐sponsored Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative, an interagency task force implemented a pulling levers strategy to prevent gang‐related gun violence in Lowell, Massachusetts. Our impact evaluation suggests that the pulling levers strategy was associated with a statistically significant decrease in the monthly number of gun homicide and gun‐aggravated assault incidents. A comparative analysis of gun homicide and gun‐aggravated assault trends in Lowell relative to other major Massachusetts cities also supports a unique program effect associated with the pulling levers intervention.
Experimental Investigations on Airborne Gravimetry Based on Compressed Sensing

Gravity surveys are an important research topic in geophysics and geodynamics. This paper investigates a method for high accuracy large scale gravity anomaly data reconstruction. Based on the airborne gravimetry technology, a flight test was carried out in China with the strap-down airborne gravimeter (SGA-WZ) developed by the Laboratory of Inertial Technology of the National University of Defense Technology. Taking into account the sparsity of airborne gravimetry by the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), this paper proposes a method for gravity anomaly data reconstruction using the theory of compressed sensing (CS). The gravity anomaly data reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem, which can be transformed into a sparse optimization problem. This paper uses the zero-norm as the objective function and presents a greedy algorithm called Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) to solve the corresponding minimization problem. The test results have revealed that the compressed sampling rate is approximately 14%, the standard deviation of the reconstruction error by OMP is 0.03 mGal and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is 56.48 dB. In contrast, the standard deviation of the reconstruction error by the existing nearest-interpolation method (NIPM) is 0.15 mGal and the SNR is 42.29 dB. These results have shown that the OMP algorithm can reconstruct the gravity anomaly data with higher accuracy and fewer measurements.
SoftBeam: Precise tracking of transient faults and vulnerability analysis at processor design time

To study system reliability of a next-generation system, we undertake a soft error vulnerability study for a next-generation microprocessor design. Starting from design data for the entire processor, we extend the microprocessor verification methodology to study soft error propagation through microprocessor logic into the architected processor state. We use soft error injection into randomly selected latch bits to (1) identify areas for improvement, (2) derate technology susceptibility by architectural, microarchitectural, and logic masking resulting in increased soft error resilience; and (3) identify areas where microarchitectural data corruption can be tolerated as performance degradation without impact on correctness, yielding even greater soft error resilience. Based on these results, we reduce design vulnerability to soft errors by factors ranging from 2 for an execution unit to more than 32 for a memory management unit.
Longitudinal patterns of early development in Canadian late preterm infants

This prospective, longitudinal cohort study examined longitudinal patterns of early development in Canadian children born late preterm. A convenience sample of 82 mothers and their healthy, singleton, late preterm children participated. Mothers completed the Ages and Stages Questionnaires at 4, 8, and 18 months corrected age. Concerns were most commonly reported in the communication and gross motor domains, especially early in development. The proportion of children scoring below the referral cut-off in at least one domain at 4, 8, and 18 months was, respectively, 25.6, 25.6, and 14.6%. Only two children (2.4%) scored below referral cut-off in at least one domain at all three time points. At ages four and eight months, the late preterm sample had significantly lower communication and gross motor scores than the Ages and Stages Questionnaires normative sample. At age four months, there was also a significant difference on the fine motor domain. There were no significant differences at age 18 months. Healthy late preterm children appear to catch up to population norms by age 18 months corrected age. Longer term studies are needed to further clarify early indicators of delay in late preterm children and identity those who require close developmental monitoring.
Malware detection using malware image and deep learning

These days a lot of malware are generated. In order to deal with the new malware, we need new ways to detect malware. In this paper, we introduce a method to detect malware using deep learning. First, we generate images from benign files and malware. Second, by using deep learning, we train a model to detect malware. Then, by the trained model, we detect malware. By using malware images and deep learning, we can detect malware fast since we do not need any static analysis or dynamic analysis.
The other side of Girls Gone Wild: The emotional labor of college women's sexual decision-making

This research concerns the process of college women’s emotional labor in sexual decision-making and how women talk about their sexual decisions via their negotiation of dominant social discourses. The study seeks to determine how the college experience nurtures women’s sexual subjectivity; how it affects their negotiation of sexual messaging and social dominant discourse; and how it impacts the emotional work involved in the process. The study was conducted at three college campuses that vary relative to institutional type (i.e., public vs. private), social class, and race. The research was conducted in fall 2006 at Center State University, and in the spring and summer 2010 semesters at Northeast University and Upper Lake Community College. The qualitative study involved eight focus groups and 20 in-depth interviews and a total of 48 participants. Out of those 48, three women identified themselves as lesbian, three as bisexual, two as asexual, and one as queer. Two women chose not to identify. In regard to racial make-up, 36 women were white and the remainder identified as African American, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Latina, Korean, and Southeast Asian. All participants were of traditional college age (18 to 21), except for three women in their late 20s and early 30s. The forms of emotional labor that emerged were (a) how women understood and talked about the regulatory expectations and social norms of women’s sexuality and how regulation shapes subjectivity, (b) how women’s negotiation of those regulations in juxtaposition with their sexual desire demonstrates sexual subjectivity (c) how college served—and was perceived as—a “bubble” for women to more fully engage in acts of resistance and agency in response to gendered social expectations within a space that nurtured sexual subjectivity. Ultimately, the study focuses on young women’s negotiation of sexuality and the emotional work that their talk reflects; it exposes ways in which women are thoughtful and reflective in their sexual decisionmaking while engaging with their sexual subjectivity. THE OTHER SIDE OF GIRLS GONE WILD: THE EMOTIONAL LABOR OF COLLEGE WOMEN’S SEXUAL DECISION-MAKING
Lifelong learning for facilitating democratic participation in Africa

Lifelong learning has come to be internationally recognized as a framework in the development of sustainable education. However, in spite of rhetoric and its endorsement in some nations’ policy documents, lifelong learning is not operationalized and Africa continues to be plagued by social maladies such as HIV/AIDS, capacity poverty, low quality education, global marginalization and ineffective governance. The article argues that post‐colonial Africa transited from concern with service delivery, went through structural adjustment policies to focusing on African renaissance. It indicates that some countries have embraced lifelong learning as policy framework but have not made sufficient efforts to translate that in their teaching and learning. It contents that lifelong learning in Africa can only be effective if African communities are encouraged to make concerted efforts to embrace principles such as deliberative democracy, multiculturalism, decentralization of decision‐making and helping to redirect the agenda of civil society as a way to use lifelong learning to enhance public participation in Africa.
Telecommuting as a Transportation Planning Meaure: Initial Results of California Pilot Project

The travel impact of home telecommuting -- the performance of work at home possibly using telecommunications technology -- is evaluated using travel diary survey results from California's State Employee Telecommute Pilot Project. The data obtained from 185 state workers and their household members indicate that telecommuting reduces working trips as expected, and no indication is present that telecommuting induces new nonwork trips. In addition, the results suggest that family members of telecommuters may also reduce nonwork trips. The analysis offers strong empirical support for telecommuting as a means to mitigate traffic congestion and improve air quality.
Occupational risk factors of lung cancer in São Paulo, Brazil.

OBJECTIVES This study estimated the risk of occupational exposure for lung cancer in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, the largest urbanized and industrialized area in Brazil. METHODS In this hospital-based case-referent study of 398 cases and 860 referents, the cases were matched to referents according to age, gender, and hospital and personally interviewed for information on lifetime job history, smoking habits, passive smoking exposure, cancer in relatives, socioeconomic status, and migratory history. The analysis concerned industrial titles and occupational categories. With the use of a job-exposure matrix, exposure to asbestos, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, arsenic, dust, nickel and chromium was assessed. RESULTS For the men in the 56 industrial and 122 occupational categories examined, an excess risk of lung cancer was found in the machinery industry [odds ratio (OR) 1.62, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.02-2.55). In pottery manufacturing the risk (OR 2.21, 95% CI 1.00-4.87) was increased for workers exposed > or = 10 years (OR 6.43, 95% CI 1.12-37.01). Textile workers employed for > or = 10 years with a latency of > or = 40 years had an elevated risk (OR 21.93, 95% CI 1.96-245.0). In the analysis using the job-exposure matrix no risk was detected for the specific lung cancer carcinogens examined. For the women, no significantly elevated risk was observed. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study revealed risks of lung cancer for men in the machinery industry and for pottery and textile workers with long-term exposure.
Hockey Violence: A Test of Cultural Spillover Theory

Cultural spillover theory holds that the more a society tends to legitimate the use of violence to attain ends for which there is widespread social approval, the greater the likelihood of illegitimate violence. This study was a test of cultural spillover theory as it applies to hockey violence. Based on data from a representative sample survey of Toronto hockey players and a comparison group of nonplayers, we tested the proposition that violence in hockey “spills over” into violence in other social settings. The results offer support for a cultural spillover explanation of hockey violence. Older players in highly competitive select-leagues were more likely to approve of violence and to act violently in other social settings than were younger select-league players, house-league players, and nonplayers of all ages.
Trabeculated ( Non-Compacted ) and Compact Myocardium in Adults : The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Background—A high degree of non-compacted (trabeculated) myocardium in relationship to compact myocardium (T/M ratio >2.3) has been associated with a diagnosis of left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC). The purpose of this study was to determine the normal range of the T/M ratio in a large population-based study and to examine the relationship to demographic and clinical parameters. Methods and Results—The thickness of trabeculation and the compact myocardium were measured in eight LV regions on long axis cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) steady-state free precession cine images in 1000 participants (551 women; 68.1±8.9 years) of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis cohort. Of 323 participants without cardiac disease or hypertension and with all regions evaluable 140 (43%) had a T/M ratio >2.3 in at least one region; in 20/323 (6%), T/M>2.3 was present in more than two regions. Multivariable linear regression model revealed no association of age, gender, ethnicity, height and weight with maximum T/M ratio in participants without cardiac disease or hypertension (p>0.05). In the entire cohort (n=1000) LVEF ( =-0.02/%; p=0.015), LVEDV ( =0.01/ml; p=<0.0001) and LVESV ( =0.01/ml; p<0.001) were associated with maximum T/M ratio in adjusted models while there was no association with hypertension or myocardial infarction (p>0.05). At the apical level T/M ratios were significantly lower when obtained on shortcompared to long-axis images (p=0.017). Conclusions—A ratio of trabeculated to compact myocardium of more than 2.3 is common in a large population based cohort. These results suggest reevaluation of the current CMR criteria for LVNC may be necessary.