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Distortion in Body Schema: The Influence of Body Fat and Mass on Perceptions of Personal Size

Obesity has been linked with a myriad of negative outcomes for both physical and mental health including feeding and eating disorders and cognitive impairments that affect perception of body size. Understanding the cognitive mechanisms and physiological factors that contribute to perception of body size may help us to comprehend how obesity impacts the construction and development of one’s mental body representations. Previous research by Scarpina, Castelnuovo, and Molinari (2014) suggests that, compared to those with a normal Body Mass Index, individuals with a BMI greater than 30 (obese) not only inaccurately estimate tactile and mental distances on their own bodies, they also significantly overestimate these distances. While BMI has been shown to be useful in predicting obesity, it fails to measure adiposity, or body fat. This proposed research project seeks to extend upon this past work by examining the independent effects of adiposity and high BMI on body size perception. I hypothesize that, compared to individuals with 30<BMI and low body fat, individuals with 30<BMI and high body fat will exhibit greater inaccuracy in estimating tactile and mental distances on their own bodies. Additionally, this group is predicted to have greater body-part dissatisfaction and more rapid response times on the distance estimation task. These predicted outcomes would further explain previous research that suggested that high adiposity could have deleterious effects on the function of the peripheral nervous system and the sensory cortices involved in body size perception. DISTORTED BODY SCHEMA
Total phenolic content , antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of stink bean ( Parkia speciosa Hassk . ) pod extracts

Parkia speciosa Hassk. is a stink bean known as “Sataw”. This bean is popular in the Southern part of Thailand and believed by the locals to have the medical properties. Stink bean pod, regarded as waste material, was reported to possess various biological activities. The aim of the present study was to investigate the total phenolic content, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of Sataw-Khao and Sataw-Dan pod extracts. It was found that the extraction yield, total phenolic and total flavonoid contents of Sataw-Dan pod extract were higher than those of Sataw-Khao pod extract. For antioxidant activity, both stink bean pod extracts had potent antioxidant activity by the radical-scavenging DPPH and ABTS methods, and the metal ion chelating assay. In addition, both extracts showed antimicrobial activity against food-borne pathogenic bacteria and food spoilage bacteria. Therefore, stink bean pod extract could be effectively used as a natural preservative.
Constructing a morphophonological analyzer for Lushootseed

This describes ongoing work to construct a finite-state morphophonological analyzer for Lushootseed. The language has a large corpus of transcribed text but no electronic lexical resource is currently available. I describe how the analyzer is being incrementally developed and evaluated by looking at coverage rates as the analyzer is applied to new text. The focus is on the methodology and use-cases for the tool under description but some initial results are also presented.
Study on Medical QoE Evaluation of Wireless Multimedia Transmission in Mobile Healthcare

Wirelessly connected portable multimedia devices of our everyday lives are gaining more and more attention in mobile healthcare (mHealth) by providing increasing sensor and communication capabilities to support e.g. home healthcare, realtime remote patient monitoring, and ubiquitous tele-consultation. In the near future such pervasive and ubiquitous services will supposedly rely on heterogeneous network (HetNet) technologies which comprise a combination of different cell types and different access technologies to ensure advanced communication solutions for critical services and patient-centric, customized, ’care anywhere’ mHealth applications. This paper presents the initial results of a medical Quality of Experience (m-QoE) evaluation procedure performed to analyse multimedia-intensive mHealth applications over heterogeneous mobile network access technologies.
1 Characterization of the Type VI Secretion Systems of P . syringae pathovars phaseolicola and syringae

Pseudomonas syringae is a bacterial plant pathogen that infects a large variety of agricultural crops. Bacteria colonize leaf surfaces and enter plant mesophyll tissue through wounds or stomata. Once inside, P. syringae can alter plant cell signaling pathways and suppress plant defense responses enabling it to grow in the intercellular space in the mesophyll. P. syringae possesses at least two types of virulence factors that suppress plant defense responses: i) small phytotoxin molecules, and ii) effector proteins that are translocated through specialized secretion systems. Gram-negative bacteria possess at least six types of secretion systems. The P. syringae type II and type III secretion systems (T2SS and T3SS) are both involved in secreting proteins that are important for P. syringae pathogenesis. Functions of the other secretion systems have not been explored. This study investigates the role of the newly discovered type VI secretion system (T6SS) in P. syringae interaction with plants. The results show that T6SS genes are expressed in three sequenced strains of P. syringae, P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 (Pst DC3000), P. syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448a (Psp 1448a) and P. syringae pv. syringae B728a (Pss B728a). The T6SSs of Psp 1448a and Pss B728a were also able to secrete the Hcp protein into culture supernatants, showing that they are active. In planta virulence and growth studies revealed that the T6SS may not be essential for Psp 1448a and Pss B728a to cause disease in host plants. However, the T6SS may be involved in regulating biofilm formation, since a mutant Psp 1448a T6SS formed denser
China's capital account convertibility and financial stability

Capital account convertibility in China is on the rise. Some see the process as a means of circumventing domestic financial sector inefficiency while others view it as potentially exposing China to financial crises. In considering these different viewpoints, this paper attempts to quantify the impact that opening the capital account will have on the volume of China's international capital flows. It is found that were China to fully open its capital account, gross non-FDI capital flows are predicted to rise by around 4.6 percent of GDP. While an increase of this magnitude would present a prudential challenge for Chinaâ€™s monetary authorities, it does not appear to be large enough to seriously call into question financial sector stability, either in China or abroad.
ADAPTABILITY OF BUILDINGS TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENSURING COMFORT UNDER SUMMER CONDITIONS

The impact of climate changes occur not only on environmental systems but also on social systems and life quality. Thus, to eliminate costs associated with adverse effects onclimate change at global and European level, policies are developing setting aim to cease causes through mitigation and reduce vulnerability by an increase in the capacity of adaptation to new challenges. Within this policies, an important role is held by the building sector given that actions such as overheating spaces where people live and conduct different activities may have negative consequences on comfort and human health. Passive measures that contribute to increased adaptability of buildings target thermal massiveness, optimized ventilation, passive cooling systems, adoption of green surfaces, and not least, alter human behavior. This paper presents a case study on two single-family houses with similar geometric and energetic characteristics but different in terms of thermal massiveness. The analysis based on the principles of adaptive comfort concept highlights that thermal massiveness contributes to increased adaptability of buildings to climate change.
PRES Induced by Cyclosporin with Normal Blood Concentrations in a Bone Marrow Recipient

Introduction: Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinic neuroradiological entity. This syndrome occurs in complex conditions as allogenic bone marrow transplantation, organ transplantation and immunosuppressant therapy such as cyclosporin (CsA). The occurrence of PRES is favored by a high concentration of CsA. Therefore, therapeutic monitoring of CsA is necessary to effects due to overdose. The therapeutic range of CsA is between 150-300 ng/mL. We aimed to present a case PRES induced by CsA in bone marrow transplantation with normal cyclosporine blood concentrations. Case: A 26 years old man received an allogenic bone marrow for bone marrow aplasia in January 2013. He was treated by CsA. Mean CsA dose was 2.57 mg/kg/day. CsA mean blood concentration was 295 ng/mL. After 20 days, our patient presented a complex partial seizure and cortical abnormal. He had no history of head injury, epilepsy or hypertension and there was no family history of neurological or psychiatric disorders. Patient’s blood pressure wasn’t measured. CsA was stopped. He received mycophenolate acid and clonazepam. Seizure and abnormal vision vanished 10 days later. Whereas, the patient developed graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Then, mycophenolate acid was stopped 1.5 month later and CsA taken back. CsA mean dose was 1.1 mg/kg/day. Mean CsA blood concentration was 167.71 ng/mL. After two months, the patient developed general seizures and in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) there was a low-density in the subcortical white matter areas. So, CsA was stopped once and for all and the seizures vanished few days later. Conclusion: PRES is responsible for various and no specific neurological symptoms. These symptoms are usually reversible but sometimes fatal. Therapeutic monitoring of CsA was necessary to avoid neurotoxicity depending of concentration but we must remain cautious even if patients have CsA blood concentrations in the therapeutic range.
STRUCTURAL REDUNDANCY IN CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER BUILDINGS

In high timber structures, cross-laminated timber panels are common structural elements. The wall and floor panels are typically connected with steel plates, angle brackets, hold-downs, and screws. Based on analytical research, it seems that panel-to-panel connections give additional stiffness due to structural redundancies resulting from transversal wall and floor elements. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of structural redundancy of common CLT wall-to-floor panel configurations on the global system stiffness. As a first phase, a Finite Element (FE) study is performed to investigate the behavior of a single shear panel subjected to both horizontal and vertical loads. In this paper, the behavior of the FE model is verified with previous tests results of CLT shear walls. The next phase presented in the paper outlines future work of a Finite Element study with different CLT wall configurations with longitudinal and transversal CLT panels connected to each other.
Variability in Performance of Bio logical and Fungicidal Seed Treatments in Corn , Peas and Soybeans

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Nazis by Kraut: A Playful Application of Moral Self-Licensing

Doing something moral gives one a license to do something immoral. This form of moral compen-sation is called “moral self-licensing”. Interestingly, the moral behavior can take place in another domain than the subsequent immoral behavior. For example, buying eco-friendly products gives one a license to steal. This article is based on the idea that a healthy diet has a moral dimension. As a consequence, consuming a healthy product should give one a license for immoral behavior. This research supports this hypothesis on a playful study. This study shows that drinking sauerkraut juice contributes to a stronger support of Nazi-esque right wing ideology than drinking either nothing or a less-healthy beverage (Nestea).
D supersymmetric Yang-Mills on curved manifolds

We study 7D maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on curved manifolds that admit Killing spinors. If the manifold admits at least two Killing spinors (SasakiEinstein manifolds) we are able to rewrite the supersymmetric theory in terms of a cohomological complex. In principle this cohomological complex makes sense for any K-contact manifold. For the case of toric Sasaki-Einstein manifolds we derive explicitly the perturbative part of the partition function and speculate about the nonperturbative part. We also briefly discuss the case of 3-Sasaki manifolds and suggest a plausible form for the full non-perturbative answer.
Constructive Disruption in Medical Education

In recent years, many major innovations in healthcare and medical education have been experienced. Technology has called for a change in most of the societal norms. Critics and advocates have varying opinions toward the online education, some believe that it literary disrupts the traditional learning while others term it as an essential tool for development. Due to intricate nature of some medical topics as well as varying global privileges, most students are forced to seek information online. This has led to the emerging technologies which serve as a tool for supplementing medical education. Some institutions have come forward to make education freely accessible to third world countries through web-based programs. Most offer education through an informal approach. However, they offer certificates to their distant learner. This paper explores how online learning supplements medical learning and especially in the higher education platforms, ultimately leads to the constructive disruption, which is certainly not destructive.
Technology and the Implementation of CRM in Norwegian Football

Purpose: This article aims to identify how understanding technology’s role in CRM implementations can benefit sales and marketing. Methodology: The research was designed to investigate the CRM-implementation taking place in the Norwegian top football division. A qualitative study was used and the research design centred around four semi-structured interviews with representatives from actors involved in the implementation. A structurational model was applied to analyse and understand the empirical data gathered. Findings: It was found that technology affects various actors in the implementation process, and that there is a lack of unified understanding when it comes to the purpose of CRM Further the findings suggests that understanding the role of technology will benefit sales and marketing by giving them an understanding of how new technology will be received in the organisation. Research limitations/implications: One could argue that the model, location and organisation are not optimal for generalizing across the sport industry. However, the research sheds new light on CRM research and offers a new perspective to CRM implementation studies. Practical Implications: Understanding the nature of technology and its role in the implementation of CRM is managerially beneficial as it can be used to identify the technology’s potential in the organisation, prepare human agents in an effective manner, and identify knowledge gaps within the firm. Originality: A mid-implementation process case was analysed by applying a modified structiorational model divided into two dimensions.
Non-invasive fiber optic probe encapsulated into PolyDiMethylSiloxane for measuring respiratory and heart rate of the human body

This article describes the design and the functional verification of fiber optic system with an innovative non-invasive measuring probe for monitoring respiratory and heart rate. The measuring probe is based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG), and it is encapsulated in the PolyDiMethylSiloxane polymer (PDMS). PDMS offers a unique combination of suitable properties for the use in biomedical applications. The main advantages include inert to human skin and immunity to electromagnetic interference. The measuring probe is a part of contact strip which is placed on the chest of the patient. The measurement is based on sensing the movements of the thoracic cavity of the patient during breathing. Movement (mechanical stress) is transferred to FBG using the contact strip. Respiratory and heart rate are analyzed using the spectral evaluation of the measured signals. This monitoring method is fully dielectric; thus the absolute safety of the patient is ensured. The main contributions of the article are a design of non-invasive probe encapsulated into a PDMS polymer and implementation of the probe for humans using a contact strip. This combination forms an essential element of the measuring system. The set of experimental measurements verified functionality with respect to the position of the patient. Performed experiments proved the functionality of the presented solution so it can be utilized for further research in biomedical applications.
- 0501 All-fiber Polarimetric Electric Field Sensing Using Liquid Crystal Infiltrated Photonic Crystal Fiber

The operation of an all-fiber polarimetric electric field sensor based on nematic liquid crystal infiltrated photonic crystal fiber is demonstrated. A section less than 1 mm long of a selectively infiltrated polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber is used as the probe. The transmission properties are studied for different lengths of the infiltrated section of the fiber subjected to an electric field. It is shown that the phase birefringence of the fiber can be controlled by adjusting the length of the infiltrated section subjected to an electric field, which allows for the sensor to have a linear transmittance response with the applied electric field intensity. The sensor is operated in the telecommunication window at 1550 nm and can be used for the fabrication of allfiber electric field sensors for high and low electric field environments with an appropriate choice of liquid crystal material for infiltration and with optimization of the infiltration length.
R&D Managers' Adaptation of Firms' HRM Practices

The heads of R&D departments are those most responsible for the adaptation of firms' human resource management (HRM) practices to the idiosyncrasies of their departments. From their description, this paper analyzes the HRM practices in R&D departments and the adaptation achieved in four different firms. The data suggest that the main adaptations are produced primarily in recruiting and organizing the work of R&D personnel. In contrast to suggestions in the specialized literature, less adaptation is found in other HRM practices analyzed (managerial support and degree of delegation, compensation and career plans). Psychological theories of procedural justice and social comparison can improve our understanding of such results. The organizational structure affects the reference group for such comparisons and, consequently, the R&D managers' capacity to adapt such practices. Based on these arguments, the delegation of HRM practices to R&D departments will enhance the degree of adaptation of such policies.
Efficient Implementation of Full Adder for Power Analysis in CMOS Technology

In recent days, the real-time application and fast arithmetic operations require highly efficient arithmetic hardware architecture to improve the system performances. The adder plays a vital role in digital circuits, the earlier hardware architecture using conventional CMOS and transmission logic gate based full adder design. Moreover, the techniques using more number of transistors and consume larger power and delay so we proposed the techniques pass-transistor logic and transmission gate based hybrid pass logic. The hybrid technique is used to reduce the number of the transistor, so the delay and power consumption will be reduced when compared with the earlier techniques. The proposed technique design was implemented using 16 transistors in 180nm CMOS technology and it consumes 8.2075nW power and the delay reduced to 5.0146ns
OUTLIERS AND MULTILEVEL MODELS

This paper will consider some problems relating to outliers in multilevel models drawing on research into two data sets including progress in secondary and higher education and university admissions. In particular, it will be demonstrated that when a contaminating process generates outliers, they can lead to unnecessarily complex models. In these cases, it is necessary to consider carefully the nature of the data and the processes that are being modelled. For example, do variables measure the same thing for different sub-populations in the data set?
Financial globalization and financial development in Latin America

Este articulo examina el impacto de la globalizacion financiera sobre el desarrollo financiero en America Latina. Se elabora una prueba empirica con nuevos indicadores de globalizacion y desarrollo financieros, mas cercanos al marco teorico y conceptual, y se emplea un modelo de datos de panel dinamico. El principal resultado sugiere, en general, que la globalizacion financiera no tiene una relacion positiva y significativa con el proceso de crecimiento y desarrollo del sistema financiero en America Latina, aunque favorece el gobierno corporativo y fomenta la diversificacion del riesgo.
The Common Ownership Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence

This paper surveys the recent literature that examines the relationship between ownership of firms in the financial space, and the strategic decisions made by firms in product markets. Of primary concern is the common ownership hypothesis, which suggests that when large investors own shares in many firms within the same industry, those firms have an incentive to soften competition by producing fewer units, raising prices, reducing investment, innovating less, or limiting entry into new markets. The core of the idea is quite simple: firms maximize shareholder value, but shareholders hold stakes in competitors; thus, firms may want to maximize some combination of their own profits and their competitors’ profits to maximize the value of their investors’ portfolios. The implications of this possibility are enormous: if firms place positive weight on rivals’ profits when making strategic decisions, the entire economy of publicly-traded firms may have incentives to soften competition, resulting in significant harm to consumers.