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Simulating cervical vertebrae motion using elementary contact pairs

This paper describes some actual results from an ongoing project aimed at reproducing human cervical intervertebral motion using parallel manipulators. Described in the paper is the mathematical modelling of a vertebrae pair using multibody methods and impact analysis techniques with elementary contact geometry for the facet joints. The results are compared with existing approaches and with experimental data, showing a good agreement with the latter and an e ciency boost compared to existing approaches by a factor of 350. The investigations are focused on the vertebrae pair C5-C6 but can be easily extended to other vertebrae.
An Algorithm for Allocating Sponsored Recommendations and Content: Unifying Programmatic Advertising and Recommender Systems

Retailing and media platforms recommend two types of items to their users: sponsored items that generate ad revenue and nonsponsored ones that do not. The platform selects sponsored items to maximize ad revenue, often through programmatic auctions, and nonsponsored items to maximize user utility with a recommender system (RS). We develop a binary integer programming model to allocate sponsored recommendations considering dual objectives of maximizing ad revenue and user utility. We propose an algorithm to solve it in a computationally efficient way. Our method is a form of postfiltering to a traditional RS, making it widely applicable in two-sided markets. We apply the algorithm to data from an online grocery retailer and show that user utility for the recommended items can be improved while reducing ad revenue by a small amount. This multiobjective approach unifies programmatic advertising and RS and opens a new frontier for advertising and RS research. We provide an extended discussion of future research topics.
Investigating the Use of Online Learning Resources by the EAP Students in a UK University

This study was undertaken to examine English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students’ perceptions and use of online learning resources (OLR), which are freely and openly available digital materials. The study utilized both quantitative and qualitative research instruments to collect data. EAP students who came to the UK to improve their language and then wished to undertake a postgraduate study there completed pre- and post-questionnaires during the first academic semester. They also replied to semi-structured interview questions after each questionnaire. The findings gave insights into both the students’ awareness to use OLR outside the classroom, and the students’ exercise of learner autonomy through scaffolding from OLR. However, they seemed still dependent on their teacher. The reason of this dependence might be the challenges they faced whilst learning. This study made some recommendations for the design of a scaffolded autonomous e-learning environment in order to benefit from OLR. Keywords: online learning resources, English for academic purposes, e-learning, scaffolding, learner autonomy DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-15-14 Publication date :May 31 st 2019
What Motivates Wheelchair Basketball Spectators? Analysis of Moderating Effects on Intention to Attend Tokyo 2020 Olympic Paralympic Games

In 2013, the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo for their second time. Despite the enthusiasm toward disabled sport or Paralympic games, whether citizens will watch the Paralympic games at sport facilities remains to be determined. Increasing the number of spectators and supporters is critical to attract new sponsors and gain additional revenue. The objectives of this study are two-fold. First, it reveals spectators' demographic attributes and, second, using the Motivational Scale for Disability Sport Consumption (MSDSC), it tests for moderating eŠects on future intentions to spectate the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Paralympic Games. Researchers distributed questionnaires to spectators who attended the 46th Japan Wheelchair Basketball Championship Emperor's Cup on May 19, 2018 (499 valid samples) and May 20, 2018 (487 valid samples). A conˆrmatory factor analysis (CFA) eliminated two items from the model. Next, a multiple regression analysis is conducted to test the relationship between spectator motivation and intention to attend a mega sporting event. The results highlight that there is a considerable diŠerence in the eŠect of the three moderator variables. In conclusion, it is imperative for practitioners to inform spectators about the uniqueness and singularity of wheelchair basketball.
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS’ IMPACT ON PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CURRICULUM DESIGN

rs do not develop curriculum independently of other stakeholders. Instead, the development activity is seen here as a joint effort of both internal and external stakeholders having a common goal of improving curriculum design and practice. In this case, internal stakeholders include the faculty, the students, and the higher education teachers’ own community while external stakeholders refer to the higher education policy and the labour market. The aim of the paper is twofold: Firstly, to analyse and make visible what kind of influence various stakeholders have on curriculum design work in product development education, and secondly, to discuss the ways in which higher education curriculum can be improved as a collaborative process between internal and external stakeholders. The research data was collected from the curriculum development session conducted at the Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Systems on October 2018. The participants in the session were four product development teachers, a couch, a researcher and a research assistant. In the session, the participants aimed at jointly creating a particular flow chart to describe and document the specific competence goals as well as the knowledge, skills, routines, and attitudes the students should learn to achieve those goals. The researcher observed the session and intervened with questions about the various stakeholder roles in the curriculum design work. The three-hour session was recorded on an audio tape and then transcribed. The method of content analysis was used as a qualitative research strategy to analyse the transcription of the session. In conclusion, the paper highlights the importance of collaboration with relevant stakeholders at least at some point of the curriculum design work. By paying attention to different, or even contradictory stakeholder motives and interests, we can achieve a deeper understanding about the nature and dynamics of curriculum design work and therefore about the future of higher education.
Affective Audio Annotation of Public Speeches with Convolutional Clustering Neural Network

Public speaking is a critical skill in daily communication. While more practicing such as rehearsal is helpful to improve such a skill, lack of personalized feedback limits the effectiveness of practicing. Therefore, we formulate the task of personalized feedback as an affective audio annotation problem by learning knowledge from online public speech videos. Considering the great success of deep learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks in a wide range of applications including speech recognition and object recognition, we propose a novel convolutional clustering neural network (CCNN) to solve this multi-label classification problem. Instead of aggregating the features of different channels through pooling, we introduce a novel clustering layer to derive intermediate representation for improved annotation performance. In order to evaluate the performance of our proposed method, we purposely built an affective audio annotation dataset by collecting more than 2,000 video clips from the TED website. Experimental results on this dataset demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms traditional CNN-based approaches with a lower hamming loss for affective annotation.
Emotional Wellbeing of Older Adults within Aware Homes – Detection and Intervention

Supporting positive emotional wellbeing is a critical challenge in an ageing population. Aware homes have significant potential to enhance the lives of older adults, extending the period of healthy ageing, through monitoring their health and wellbeing, detecting decline and applying interventions to arrest this decline. Our research aims to create a new method of preventative care based on early prediction of changes in emotional state and, based on this early detection, use novel "human-in-the-loop" intervention methods specific to the needs of the individual to improve the quality of life of the older person before severe problems arise. This paper discusses our research involving older adults who live in aware homes. We discuss our approach in detecting changes in emotional wellbeing, combining behavioural data from embedded sensors in the home with self-report data from the residents. We also discuss the challenges involved in interventions to support emotional wellbeing.
Understanding the mechanisms

Functional Anatomy of Muscle: Muscle, Nociceptors and Afferent Fibers. - Peripheral Mechanisms of Muscle Pain: Response Behavior of Muscle Nociceptors and Factors Eliciting Local Muscle Pain. - Central Nervous Mechanisms of Muscle Pain: Ascending Pathways, Central Sensitization, and Pain-Modulating Systems. - Referral of Musculoskeletal Pain. - Increased Muscle Tone as a Cause of Muscle Pain. - Reorganized Motor Control Due to Muscle Pain.
The prevention of overtraining with the monitoring training loads: case of football

The aim of this paper is to use a training load quantification tool (RPE) to evaluate if the training load programmed by the coach is appropriate to the characteristics of these footballers. The study was conducted at the football section of the Sale Sports Association, Morocco, on a sample of 8 football players who practice in the club of the Association, aged between 18 and 21 years, the study was established during a mesocycle in a period from 18/03/2019 to 20/04/2019. For the quantification of the training load (TL) we chose the (RPE) tool, where each footballer must give his own perception of the effort felt in each training session, taking into consideration also the duration of the session. This will allow us to calculate the intensity of the session estimated, on a scale from 0 to 10. Based on the results of the quantification of training load for the 8 footballers, we note that in the majority of the cases, the acute load (AL) is higher than the chronic load (CL) at the end of each week. On the other hand, for the monotony index (MI) that provides information on the negative adaptations of training and overtraining, we note that it present a high value among the majority of footballers (1.8UA<2.1UA). For the average of the ratio of the training load: acute/chronic, we note that for the first three footballers the training loads are higher compared to the others. The monitoring training load help to better conceptualize the adaptations of the athlete to the training, and also allows the prediction of the performance.
Characteristics of capillary rise in copper braids with surface modification

ABSTRACT In this work we investigated the effects of surface modification on the capillary rise of the copper braids. The hydrophobic surfaces of the copper braids were modified to be hydrophilic. Significant improvements in capillary rise were then observed after surface modification. The effects of gravity on the capillary rise were also investigated. In contrast to the constant vertical capillary rise for the hollow tubes, the experimental results show that the vertical capillary rise of the copper braids decreases with increasing inclined angles. The finite impregnation distances in the copper braids placed horizontally are also observed. A revised model is proposed to explain such characteristics of copper braids.
Seeking help when transgender: Exploring the difference in mental and physical health seeking behaviors between transgender and cisgender individuals in Ireland

Abstract Background: While there is growing awareness of the need to support the physical and mental wellbeing of transgender people, some may be reluctant to seek help from healthcare professionals. Little is understood about the mechanisms that influence help-seeking behavior in this group. Aims: This study aimed to compare transgender and cisgender participants in their likelihood to seek help for both physical and mental health conditions, and to explore whether this help-seeking behavior is predicted by a range of sociodemographic and psychological variables. Methods: 123 participants living in Ireland (cisgender= 67; transgender= 56) completed a questionnaire which included demographic questions, as well as measures of optimism (LOT-R), self-esteem (RSES), psychological distress (GHQ-12), attitudes towards seeking psychological help (ATSPPH-SF), and attitudes towards seeking help for a physical health problem (Attitudes Towards Seeking Medical Help Scale- Action/Intervention subscale). Associations between predictor variables and mental and physical health seeking were explored using correlation analysis and stepwise regressions. Results: Transgender participants were less likely to seek help for a physical health issue than cisgender participants, but did not differ in mental health help-seeking behaviors. Results suggest that this may be due to differences in optimism, self-esteem and psychological distress. Transgender participants had significantly lower optimism and self-esteem, which were two factors linked to poorer physical health seeking behaviors. Optimism also emerged as a significant predictor in mental health seeking behaviors. Discussion: The lack of a significant difference for mental health help-seeking between the transgender and cisgender participants is encouraging, as it suggests that there is less stigma surrounding mental illness than expected, however findings also contradict previous findings suggesting that physical health is less stigmatized. This could be due to stigma relating to gender-specific healthcare and suggests that healthcare professionals should acknowledge the specific healthcare needs and concerns among transgender individuals.
ระบบสารสนเทศ: มุมมองจากแนวคิด Singerian

Since Weber (2004) raised the provocative issue of the fallacious divide between positivism and interpretivism in IS research methodologies, his argument has generated only a few responses. This paper discusses how the limitations of these two established research paradigms may be overcome from the perspective of research approach, consisting of psychological and strategic dimensions of the research activities. Based on this, we propose a Singerian approach in synthesizing the two different research paradigms, as an alternative to engaging with the continuing philosophical problems. By elaborating on a new understanding of a research approach, this paper contributes not only to a balanced understanding of different research strategies that may be applied in IS and other management studies, but also lends itself to a realistic and better designing of research process of them.
Creating an ethical organizational environment: The relationship between ethical leadership, ethical organizational climate, and unethical behavior

Correspondence MaribethKuenzi,Management andOrganizationsDepartment, SouthernMethodistUniversity, 6210BishopBoulevard,Dallas, TX75275. Email:mkuenzi@cox.smu. edu Abstract The purpose of this research is to provide a richer lens on the ethical organizational environment by examining the relationship between ethical leadership and unit-level unethical behavior through ethical organizational climate (EOC), with collective moral identity as a boundary condition. In testing our theoretical model, we first develop and validate a measure of EOC to address concerns with existing measures of ethical climate. Second, we examine the role of collective moral identity as a moderator of the relationship between EOC and unit unethical behavior. We discuss implications regarding the importance of developing a more comprehensive conceptualization of EOC.
Classroom Intercultural Competence in Teacher Education Students, Interns, and Alumni

Classroom Intercultural Competence in Teacher Education Students, Interns, and Alumni by Christine Kelso Holland University of North Florida Department of Leadership, School Counseling, and Sport Management The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the impact of a student teaching internship upon the classroom intercultural competence (CIC) of teacher education students and alumni. Phase I employed quantitative methodology to compare the intercultural competence as measured by Ross, Thornson, McDonald, and Arrastia’s (2009) Cross Cultural Competence Inventory (3CI) for three groups. The 3CI is a 63item survey that uses corresponding questions to assess intercultural competence. Survey items are scored with a 6-point, strongly agree-to-strongly disagree Likert scale (Thornson, 2010). The three groups included teacher education students enrolled in a field observation course, students enrolled in their student teaching internship, and teacher education alumni currently teaching in the Jacksonville metropolitan area. Participants’ 3CI scores were used as a diagnostic tool to facilitate the recognition of factors relative to their overall intercultural competence. Three quantitative research questions were tested: 1. Is there a statistically significant difference between matched pairs of intern’s CIC as measured by the scales and subscales of the 3CI (Ross et al., 2009) after students complete their field observation experience as compared to their pre-field observation scores? This question was not supported (t(116) = 1.07; p > . 05).
JOB SATISFACTION EMPLOYEES HOSPITAL

The design of this research applies descriptive research and correlation research with etchical leadership, organizational commitment and job satisfaction as dependent variables. The primary data is taken from respondents which are employees of the Private hospital at Jakarta Barat. As conclusion, the are has influence positive and significance of etchical leadership toward organizational commitment, the are has influence positive and significance of etchical leadership toward job satisfaction, the are has influence positive and significance of organizational commitment toward job satisfaction, the are has influence positive and significance of etchical leadership toward job satisfaction with organizational commitment as mediating variable.
Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) Majors' Perceptions and Opinions of Appropriate Instructional Practices: A Qualitative Approach

4 Physical education (PE) teachers are responsible for helping students learn in their 5 classes. Unfortunately, many students have been exposed to games and activities that were 6 inappropriate, thus negatively affecting their learning in PE class. Inappropriate instructional 7 practices have been a common occurrence for many students. One group that can help curb the 8 inclusion of inappropriate instructional practices are Physical Education Teacher Education 9 (PETE) majors. This study investigated PETE majors’ beliefs of certain instructional practices 10 that have been implemented in PE games and activities. Many of the instructional practices were 11 inappropriate. The PETE majors’ felt that dodge ball, relay games, and elimination tag were 12 appropriate for students to participate in. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
A Half-Cut Compact Monopole Antenna for SFCW Radar-Based Concrete Wall Monitoring With a Passive Cooperative Target

Stepped frequency continuous wave (SFCW)-based radar with passive cooperative target is a promising nondestructive method to monitor the concrete temperature change. By burying a surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor in the concrete to act as the cooperative target, the physical properties of the concrete can be measured by analyzing the reflections of the probing SFCW signal. Because the SAW sensor should be connected to an antenna to convert the electromagnetic wave into the acoustic wave, a half-cut compact monopole antenna is designed and fabricated in this letter. Taking the advantages of corrugated edge and half-structure technologies, the size of the monopole antenna decreases significantly without sacrificing the performance, which makes the SAW sensor together with antenna suitable to be inserted into the concrete. The experimental results show that the proposed antenna can work well with the SAW sensor in the concrete and the proposed method can measure the temperature change in concrete continuously.
What Do Our Hospitality Students Want? An Examination of Written Comments from Teaching Evaluations

ABSTRACT Teaching evaluations play a significant role in determining retention, promotion, and tenure. Most of these decisions are based upon an actual quantitative score derived from standard questions. This qualitative study goes beyond the numerical scores and examines 1849 written comments taken from one academic year. Through a content analysis, 4 dimensions along with 23 themes emerged: 1) Course Management and Delivery(Teaching Style, Knowledge, Organization, Engagement, Pace, Staying on Topic, Communication, Responsive/Assistance; 2) Course Policies (Attendance, Workload, Exams, Grading, Group Projects, Industry Application); 3) Support Materials (Guest Speakers, Demonstration/Examples, Technology, PowerPoint, Textbook); 4) Personal Traits (Care, Challenging, Success, Attributes). These dimensions provide context to the quantitative scores in an effort to support educators as they attempt improve on specific content areas in the classroom.
Epidemiology of Malignant Tumors among HIV-infected Population in China

HIV/AIDS population is known has higher risk of many malignant tumors, but cancer spectrum among HIV/AIDS population in China has not been reported, and risk factors of Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) among HIV-infected Chinese population remains unknown. This dissertation study describes the spectrum of malignancies among HIV/AIDS population in China, 2008-2011, and explores associated factors of KS both in the national HIV/AIDS cohort and in a hospital-based case-control study among HIV-infected Uyghur people in Xinjiang, China.In part I, we used cohort data of national HIV/AIDS surveillance and information system during 2008-2011 to calculate standardized incidence rates (to China census 2010) and standardized incidence ratios (with China tumor registry 2008) of all reported cancers. Totally 3819 cancer reports were found from 399,451 subjects with followed-ups between 2008 and 2011. Higher risk was found in both AIDS-defining cancers (KS, lymphomas and cervical cancer) and non-AIDS-defining cancers (lung, liver, stomach, etc.) Comparing with western countries, HIV/AIDS population in China had lower risk of Kaposi Sarcoma, lymphomas, similar risk of female cervical cancer but higher risk of non-AIDS-defining cancers including lung, liver, and stomach cancers. In part II, we analyzed risk factor of KS in the national HIV/AIDS cohort using Cox proportional hazard model. Being male (Hazard Ratio, HR 1.68, 95%CI 1.13-2.40), Uyghur ethnic (HR 5.30, 95%CI 3.68-7.64), HIV transmission route (heterosexual vs. intravenous drug use, HR 1.75 95%CI 1.12-2.74), lower CD4 cell count at HIV diagnose (comparing with subjects with CD4 ≥ 350/μL at HIV diagnosis, HR for CD4<200/μL was 4.07, and 3.27 for CD4 200~349/μL). Antiretroviral treatment was found a protective factor of KS, with HR 0.39 95%CI 0.27-0.56. Sub-set cohort of Uyghur results were similar.In part III, we established a hospital-based matched case-control study among HIV-infected Uyghur people and got 39 KS cases and 93 controls. Using conditional logistic regression models, we found HIV transmission route (heterosexual vs. intravenous drug use, Odds Ratio, OR 0.37, 95%CI 0.14-1.00) was risk factor of KS while antiretroviral treatment was protective (OR 0.13, 95%CI 0.03-0.72). Bayesian analysis with priors from Part II and sensitivity analysis found posterior ORs of HIV transmission routes and ART were consistent with national HIV-infected Uyghur cohort.