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MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BRAZIL, 1991-2000

Resumo O presente artigo analisa o crescimento econômico brasileiro em múltiplas dimensões entre 1991 e 2000. Sugere-se uma metodologia que permite lidar simultaneamente com o “problema da unidade de área modificável” (Modifiable Areal Unit Problem MAUP), autocorrelação espacial e incerteza de modelos (model uncertainty). Estes dois últimos problemas têm sido tratados pela literatura empírica de crescimento de maneira isolada focando apenas na questão da auto-correlação espacial ou na questão da incerteza de modelos, enquanto que o MAUP tem sido negligenciado nos estudos sobre crescimento econômico. Com a metodologia proposta, este artigo busca entender como e porque os determinantes do crescimento econômico (incluindo as externalidades espaciais) podem se manifestar de maneira distinta em diferentes escalas espaciais, abrangendo desde a escala municipal até a estadual. A análise empreendida revela que o MAUP distorce as estimações de crescimento econômico para o caso brasileiro. Se uma única regressão é estimada para cada escala espacial, os resultados mudam à medida que a escala é modificada. Entretanto, o teste de robustez executado foi capaz de identificar variáveis que são simultaneamente significantes em diferentes escalas espaciais: maior capital educacional e nível de saúde da população e melhor infra-estrutura local estão relacionados com taxas mais altas de crescimento econômico. Entre outros resultados, este estudo identificou que as externalidades espaciais estão operando predominantemente em escalas espaciais menores. O artigo termina com uma discussão das implicações dos resultados encontrados para políticas que buscam promover o crescimento econômico. Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze Brazilian economic growth in multiple dimensions between 1991 and 2000. This paper suggests a general framework that allows dealing simultaneously with “Modifiable Areal Unit Problem” (MAUP), spatial autocorrelation and model uncertainty. Indeed, the latter two issues have been treated in relative isolation, by focusing only on spatial autocorrelation or on model uncertainty, while MAUP has been neglected by economic growth literature. With this framework, this paper seeks to understand how and why the determinants of economic growth (including spatial spillovers) may manifest themselves differently at different spatial scales, ranging from municipalities to state regions. The analysis reveals that MAUP jeopardizes Brazilian economic growth estimates. If single regression is estimated at the different scales levels, the results change as scale level changes. However, the robustness test was able to identify variables that are simultaneously significant at different spatial scales: higher education and health capital and better local infra-structure are related to higher economic growth rates. Among other results, this paper
Error Propagation in Large Software Projects

In software development, various debugging techniques are used to remove errors that are found in the program. However, in some situations, errors still remain in the code after debugging process. Also, debugging provides no mechanism to nd out pattern of bugs in dierent versions of the project. In this article, our focus is to nd the reasons why these errors propagate in dierent releases of the software and how the developers can focus on it. We focused on extending debugging process by including the functionality of mining software repositories in order to nd out those patterns of errors. Source code as per revision of the projects can be found on the central servers. Our job is to investigate how these errors propagate between dierent revisions of project and to apply the software mining techniques on the repositories to extract the useful information to detect real defects in projects and nding the pattern of errors that propagate in dierent revisions of projects.
An ACT-R Model of an Approach Officer in a Modified Periscope Depth Task

This paper describes the development of an ACT-R computational cognitive model of a submarine Approach Officer (AO) engaged in the decision of determining whether it is safe to take a submarine to periscope depth (PD), and if so, at what heading. The report covers the details of the scenario, a brief overview of the ACT-R cognitive modeling architecture, the implementation of the model, and the data derived from running the model through a series of scenarios. The model presented here provides a platform for examining how differing levels of experience, strategies, and information are likely to affect the performance of an AO confronted with the decision of going to periscope depth.
Human Gesture Recognition with Depth Camera

Human gesture recognition, as one of the most active and promising research areas in computer vision, has attracted a significant amount of attention over the last few years. It has a wide range of applications including human-computer interaction, motion-sensing gaming, video surveillance, rehabilitation, and smart homes. Recently, the introduction of cost-effective depth cameras provides a new way to research motion analysis and gesture recognition. However, it also brings new challenges: how to generate effective gesture representations to characterize the spatiotemporal structures properly using depth cameras, and how to extract and represent meaningful features from the discriminative gesture representations. This thesis aims to solve these challenges with effective and efficient solutions, and evaluate the proposed approaches on four challenging gesture recognition benchmarks. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performances of the proposed approaches. The thesis consists of three parts, in which the proposed approaches are selfcontained but highly correlative. In the first part of the thesis, three novel frameworks are introduced to aid the recognition of human gestures using depth maps. Firstly, an effective approach based on DMHT-PHOG is presented to recognize human gestures in depth videos. For gesture representation, a depth motion history template (DMHT) is proposed to encode the temporal motion along with structural information in a compact and discriminative way. Pyramid histogram of oriented gradients (PHOG) is calculated with different levels of details according to the selected pyramid levels. Secondly, a framework based on spatio-temporal pyramid matching (STPCM) is put forward for gesture recognition using the discriminative motion information from both spatial and temporal aspects. In order to retain the inherent 3D spatial information, a novel cuboid fusion scheme is developed by grouping spatially dependent grids
INTEGRATED CONSUMER DECISION MAKING PROCESS MODEL FOR HOUSE PURCHASING DECISIONS: A CASE STUDY OF FIRST-TIME POTENTIAL HOMEBUYERS IN KLANG VALLEY

A decent home is a basic need for every human. Owning a home has always been a great dream to everyone, it will secure one’s life and give protection to an individual and also the family. However, making large monetary decisions like house purchasing can be a daunting one, especially to first-time buyers where mostly are young starters who just started their working career and hardly earned a good pay. This study is initated based on the previous scenario, and the following objectives help to set the path; 1) to identify the needs and preferences of first time homebuyers, 2) to adapt the researcher’s computerised personal decision aid (ComPDA) model into the Consumer Decision Making Process (CDMP) model in developing a recommendation system for house purchasing, and finally 3) to evaluate the proposed model through expert reviews. All the activities set to achieve the objectives adapt the Design Science Methodology where four main stages involved; 1) problem awareness, 2) suggestion and development, 3) evaluation, and 4) conclusion. There are generally four major outcomes that can be listed out from all the activities; 1) the needs and preferences data of the first time homebuyers in Klang Valley, which have been empirically identified, 2) a new adaptation model of ComPDA in CDMP model known as Computerised Decision Aid for House Purchasing (CDA4HP), 3) the reviews from industry experts about the proposed CDA4HP model, and 4) a prototype of the CDA4HP. All these outcomes have multifold benefits to the related industry as well as the government and policy makers. The proposed model, in particular, could be a beneficial guideline for development of recommendation system that can augment the end result of property developer’s marketing strategy. Besides that, the understanding of homebuyer’s needs and preferences in house purchasing decisions, also enrich the literatures of related area.
Comparative anatomy of the brachial plexus in Coypu ( Myocastor coypus ; Rodentia )

This study reports the morphology of the brachial plexus in the coypu (Myocastor coypus) of the suborder Hystricomorpha, Rodentia, for which no detailed description has been reported. In addition, the morphology of the brachial plexus of the coypu is compared with that of other species in Hystricomorpha. The brachial plexus of the coypu comprises the 5th cervical nerve (C5) to the 1st thoracic nerve (T1), resembling the morphology of the chinchilla, which is the species most closely related to the coypu among the rodents compared here. The present results suggest that two morphological character of the brachial plexus can be successfully used to group Hystricomorpha: 1) the presence or absence of trunks and 2) the presence or absence of the union of the median and ulnar nerves. 1. 〒700-0005 岡山県岡山市北区理大町1-1 岡山理科大学大学院理学研究科動物学専攻動物比較解剖学研究室 Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy, Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama-ken 700-0005, Japan.
Haptic Interface for Middle Phalanx Using Dual Motors

We propose a new haptic interface for the middle phalanx that bi-directionally transmits haptic information on “power grasp. ” This is a primary requirement for interactive tele-operation or telexistence. By using two motors and a belt, this device can sense and display the haptic information of the finger pad of the middle phalanx when grasping an object. Pressure and weight are the most important sensations with grasping. In this paper, we first examine the discrimination ability of the force direction on the middle phalanx to show validity of our proposal. We then examine gravity sensation on middle phalanges, and describe the mechanism of the first prototype.
Distributed Self-Monitoring Sensor Networks Via Markov Switching Dynamic Linear Models

Wireless sensor networks empowered with low-cost sensing devices and wireless communications present an opportunity to enable continuous, fine-grained data collection over a wide environment. However, the quality of data collected is susceptible to the hardware conditions and also adversarial external factors such as high variance in temperature and humidity. Over time, the sensors report erroneous readings, which deviate from true readings. To tackle the problem, we propose an efficient self-monitoring, self-managing and self-adaptive sensing framework based on a dynamic hybrid Bayesian network that combines Hidden Markov Model and Dynamic Linear Model. The framework does not only enable automatic on-line inference of true readings robustly but also monitor the working status of sensor nodes at the same time, which can uncover important insights on hardware management. The whole process also benefits from the derived approximation algorithm and thus supports on-line one-pass computation with minimum human intervention, which make the accurate formal inference affordable for distributed edge processing.
Mediastinal lymph node involvement predicts worse prognosis and lymph node dissection less than 3 during surgery benefits prognosis of Masaoka stage I thymoma

Background: Thymoma size, stage, and postoperative therapies affect patient survival. First, the current study attempted to reveal the relationship between mediastinal lymph node involvement (LNI) and thymoma patient survival. Second, this study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of lymph node dissection (LND) during surgery. Methods: Thymoma patients with LND during surgery were enrolled in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program database (SEER). Survival, based on age, tumor size, Masaoka stage, and LNI status, was analyzed via univariate and multivariate analysis. The efficacy of adjuvant therapies and LND was analyzed by stratification analysis in each WHO pathologic grade. Results: In all 399 patients, old age, advanced clinical stage, and positive LNI predicted significantly worse overall survival (OS) (P = 0.044, 0.012, 0.032). Postoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy showed significant benefits for positive LNI patients (P = 0.003, 0.020), but adjuvant treatments did not affect the OS of negative LNI patients. Moreover, Masaoka Stage I patients receiving less than 2 lymph nodes removed with LND had significantly better OS than those with more than 3 (P = 0.038). However, in advanced stage, different numbers of LND did not affect patient OS. Conclusion: Diagnostic age, clinical stage, and LNI status were shown to be independent risk factors for OS. Compared with old age, advanced stage, and positive LNI patients, younger, local stage and negative LNI patients showed significantly better prognoses. Radiotherapy or chemotherapy significantly improved positive LNI patient OS. Stage I patients dissecting 1 or 2 lymph nodes manifested significantly better OS than those dissecting lymph nodes more than 3.
SoC-Trace Infrastructure

Execution traces are a powerful instrument for debugging and profiling embedded applications. The SoC-Trace project aims at developing an open-source trace management infrastructure able to exploit multi-core embedded-systems execution traces. This document describes the first prototype of the trace management infrastructure, clarifying its objectives and describing its system and software architectures. The infrastructure provides, in the first place, a generic data-model representing the main concepts needed for trace management. Furthermore, the infrastructure provides a relational-database implementation of this model and a software library to interface with the database in a convenient way. The proposed prototype allows the user to deal with traces of different formats, to access them through a common interface and finally to save analysis results. Providing shared and reusable mechanisms, the trace management infrastructure facilitates the cooperation among different tools, thus creating an innovative and complex trace analysis environment.
Revision 1 1 Location and Stability of Europium in Calcium Sulfate and its Relevance to 2 Rare Earth Recovery from Phosphogypsum Waste

Location and Stability of Europium in Calcium Sulfate and its Relevance to 2 Rare Earth Recovery from Phosphogypsum Waste 3 Radha Shivaramaiah, Wingyee Lee, Alexandra Navrotsky, Dechao Yu, Paul Kim, 4 Haohan Wu, Zhichao Hu, Richard Riman and Andrzej Anderko 5 1 Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory and NEAT ORU, University of California Davis, 6 Davis, California 95616 7 2 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New 8 Jersey, 607 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855 9 3 OLI Systems, Inc., 240 Cedar Knolls Road, Suite 301, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey 07927 10
On-board Planning for Robotic Space Missions using Temporal PDDL

The desire for persistent autonomy in ambitious robotic space missions has seen renewed interest in the use of on-board planning. This poses particular challenges in terms of the limited computational power of radiation-hardened hardware, and also the need to integrate with functions external to the planner itself. In this paper, we discuss the development of a forward-chaining temporal planner for use in this setting. We present results illustrating its lightweight resource foot-print compared to contemporary planners, and its application to two proposed robotic space scenarios.
DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONAL MARKERS FOR QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS UNDERLYING RICE QUALITY COMPONENTS

Three locus (GS3, Chalk5 and Wx) controlling grain size, grain chalkiness and amylose content (AC) have been cloned and can be used to improve rice quality by molecular marker-assisted selection (MAS). At present, identification of the above-mentioned alleles need DNA sequencing or restriction enzyme digestion, which were laborious, time-consuming tasks. Developing functional markers harboring the advantage of rapid, simple and low cost will contribute to rice quality improvement by MAS. Tetra-primer ARMS-PCR technology is an economical method for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) scoring, however, its utilization is limited due to low amplification efficiency and inaccuracy extension caused by distinct melting temperature (Tm) difference existing between four primers in one PCR system. In this paper, we developed a set of functional markers using tetra-primer ARMS-PCR technology, and we also put forward corresponding solving schemes on low amplification efficiency and inaccuracy extension caused by Tm difference. The results showed that five markers were developed through adjusting the location of deliberate mismatch bases introduced, three markers (GS3ARMS, Chalk5-ARMS, Waxy-ARMS) could identify different alleles for each loci holding the advantage of rapid, simple and low cost. Further, we analyzed the alleles distribution on rice varieties derived from Northeast China. All of these works could provide foundations for rice quality improvement utilizing the suitable genes (QTLs) by MAS.
On the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults 1

Woods Hole Road MS #22, Woods Hole, MA 02543, email: mbehn@whoi.edu, phone: 508-289-3637, fax: 508-457-2187. On the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults 1 Mark D. Behn, Margaret S. Boettcher, and Greg Hirth 2 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA 3 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA 4 5 6 Abstract: 7 We use 3-D finite element simulations to investigate the upper mantle temperature 8 structure beneath oceanic transform faults. We show that using a rheology that 9 incorporates brittle weakening of the lithosphere generates a region of enhanced mantle 10 upwelling and elevated temperatures along the transform, with the warmest temperatures 11 and thinnest lithosphere predicted near the center of the transform. In contrast, previous 12 studies that examined 3-D advective and conductive heat transport found that oceanic 13 transform faults are characterized by anomalously cold upper mantle relative to adjacent 14 intra-plate regions, with the thickest lithosphere at the center of the transform. These 15 earlier studies used simplified rheologic laws to simulate the behavior of the lithosphere 16 and underlying asthenosphere. Here, we show that the warmer thermal structure 17 predicted by our calculations is directly attributed to the inclusion of a more realistic 18 brittle rheology. This warmer upper mantle temperature structure is consistent with a 19 wide range of geophysical and geochemical observations from ridge-transform 20 environments, including the depth of transform fault seismicity, geochemical anomalies 21 along adjacent ridge segments, and the tendency for long transforms to break into a series 22 of small intra-transform spreading centers during changes in plate motion. 23
THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS SELF-MONITORING AND SELF-ESTEEM LEVEL

The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship among self efficacy beliefs, self monitoring and self esteem level. In this scope primarily it is examined the effect of self-efficacy beliefs on self-monitoring and self-esteem. We also examined the effect of self-esteem on self-monitoring. In addition, we set out to examine whether or not self-efficacy beliefs, self-monitoring and self-esteem vary according to demographic characteristics. An application was made upon 703 students studying at a public university. The research sample comprises the students of a public university in the Marmara region. Data analysis was performed with SPSS 21. In this scope frequency analysis, factor analyses, reliability tests, Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test, Mann-Whitney U tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests, correlation analyses and logistic regression tests were performed. Consequently, selfefficacy belief was determined to be a significant effect on self-monitoring and self-esteem levels.
Ju l 2 01 9 Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Cellular V 2 X Communication in Dense Vehicular Networks

Cellular Vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication is a major V2X solution proposed and developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Our previous work has studied scalability aspects of C-V2X and demonstrated its potential for accommodating large numbers of vehicles in dense vehicular scenarios. However, existing studies in the scientific literature mostly have a network-level approach to the problem and do not assess the temporal and spatial dynamics of C-V2X networks in heavy network load situations. In this work we shed light on the spatio-temporal characteristics of these networks and investigate the effectiveness of the congestion control algorithm in dense vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) in terms of settling time, stability, and reliability to be employed for the purpose of safety-critical vehicular applications, where latency plays a major role.
How Children Learn to Disappear Causative Errors

In English, some verbs like break can occur both as an intransitive (e.g., the vase broke) or as a causative transitive (e.g., John broke the vase). Many verbs display this property, known as the causative alternation, but not all verbs that occur as an intransitive have a causative transitive counterpart (e.g., fall, disappear). Adults are well-aware of this restriction, but children, on the other hand, make overgenerlization errors (Bowerman 1982; Pinker 1989) by extending the causative form to intransitive only verbs. Some of these errors can be seen in (1).
EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDIES OF OVER-COOLING TRANSIENTS IN FLUORIDE-SALT COOLED HIGH-TEMPERATURE REACTORS

The prototypical primary coolant for Fluoride-Salt Cooled High-Temperature reactor (FHR), flibe (2LiFBeF2), has a freezing point of 459°C and a boiling point greater than 1400°C at atmospheric pressure. FHRs operate in the temperature range of 600°C to 700°C, so they have a significant margin to coolant boiling and a relatively smaller margin to freezing. Furthermore, the ultimate heat sink during accident scenarios is ambient air or water, both of which are far below the freezing point of salt. Therefore, overcooling transients that lead to freezing of the salt merit investigation. The use of simulant fluids, already successfully applied in thermal-hydraulics experiments, needs the definition of the flibe change of phase phenomenology to be extended to study transients that involve freezing. In this view, the eventual distortions that the different simulants introduce into the thermalhydraulic behavior of the system during overcooling transient have to be identified. This paper provides a discussion of the up-to-date flibe equilibrium phase diagram and preliminary experimental results of non-equilibrium phenomena in flibe and simulant fluids freezing. These studies will be object of future work at University of Wisconsin Madison, together with the investigation on the impact of overcooling phenomena on FHR salt-to-air heat exchanger and on the stability of the natural and forced circulation loops, which is introduced in this paper.