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Combating Social Stigma: An Analysis and Overview of Schizophrenics in Society

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that affects roughly 1% of the population. Victims experience a wide variety and severity of symptoms, ranging from delusions and hallucinations to reduced social interaction and depression. There is no known cure for this disease. Antipsychotic drugs and therapy are used to help minimize the symptoms. With so little known about schizophrenia, many social stigmas have arisen. The general public often believe schizophrenics are dangerous and are scared of them. They also do not know how to interact with a victim of this disease in most circumstances. Through a series of videos, we will deliver the basic information about the disease, dispel harmful stigmas, and give advice on how to interact with victims of schizophrenia.
Elizabeth Pellicano children with autism in mainstream primary schools ' Sometimes I want to play by myself ' : Understanding what friendship means to

Research has shown that friendship impacts the overall experience of mainstream school for autistic children. Using a unique combination of quantitative, qualitative and social network methods, we investigated the extent and nature of autistic children’s friendships from their perspective and from those of their mothers, teachers and classroom peers. Consistent with previous research, children with autism (n = 12), aged between 9 and 11 years, rated their friendships to be of poorer quality than their non-autistic classroom peers (n = 11). There was, however, much variability in autistic children’s ratings, which, unexpectedly, was related to neither children’s cognitive ability nor their theory of mind ability. Encouragingly, the children generally reported satisfaction with their friendships, and although no child was socially isolated, the degree of inclusion in friendship networks varied widely. Furthermore, autistic children’s social motivation emerged as a key factor in parents’ and teachers’ reports in determining both the nature and extent of their friendships. Adults played an active role in supporting children’s friendships, but this sometimes conflicted with what the children wanted. These findings highlight the need to ascertain the perspectives of young people with autism on their friendships and to consider the social and ethical implications of when and how to intervene. Corresponding author: Liz Pellicano, Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University of London, 25 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AA, UK. Email: l.pellicano@ioe.ac. uk 467866 AUT17310.1177/1362361312467866AutismCalder et al. 2012 Special issue article at Institute of Education University of London on August 22, 2013 aut.sagepub. com Downloaded from
Class E inverter using thinned-out method

This paper proposes a new control scheme for the class E inverter. This method generates the output voltage and power by thinning out on-pulses of driving signals which turns switch on and off. The advantages of the proposed scheme are the operation at fixed operating frequency, unnecessity of enlargement of the circuit scale, and suitability for controlling wide output range. Especially, the proposed control scheme keeps high efficiency for class E inverter with low loaded quality factor and low input inductance. We carry out numerical analyses and circuit experiments. The laboratory experiments show that the inverter with low quality factor and a small de-feed inductor maintains the output voltage from 100% to 16% with keeping 68% of power conversion efficiency. The inverter with high quality factor and high de-feed inductor can be controlled output voltage from 100% to 52% with keeping 53% of power conversion efficiency.
Increased Glycemic Variability Is Independently Associated With Length of Stay and Mortality in Noncritically Ill Hospitalized Patients

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between glycemic variability (GV) and both length of stay (LOS) and 90-day mortality in noncritically ill hospitalized patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This study retrospectively analyzed 4,262 admissions to the general medicine or surgery services during a 2 year period. Patients with point-of-care glucose monitoring and a minimum of two glucose values per day on average were selected. GV was assessed by SD and coefficient of variation (CV). Data were analyzed with linear and logistic multivariate regression analysis in separate models for SD and CV. Analysis was performed with generalized estimating equations to adjust for correlation between multiple admissions in some individual cases. RESULTS After exclusions, 935 admissions comprised the sample. Results of adjusted analysis indicate that for every 10 mg/dL increase in SD and 10–percentage point increase in CV, LOS increased by 4.4 and 9.7%, respectively. Relative risk of death in 90 days also increased by 8% for every 10-mg/dL increase in SD. These associations were independent of age, race, service of care (medicine or surgery), previous diagnosis of diabetes, HbA1c, BMI, the use of regular insulin as a sole regimen, mean glucose, and hypoglycemia occurrence during the hospitalization. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that increased GV during hospitalization is independently associated with longer LOS and increased mortality in noncritically ill patients. Prospective studies with continuous glucose monitoring are necessary to investigate this association thoroughly and to generate therapeutic strategies targeted at decreasing GV.
Investor Demand for Ipos and Aftermarket Performance: Evidence from the Hong Kong Stock Market

In this study, we examine the relation between pre-offering demand and aftermarket performance of IPO firms in the Hong Kong stock market. We find that IPOs with high investor demand realize large positive initial returns but negative long-run excess returns, while IPOs with low investor demand realize negative initial returns but positive long-run excess returns. This result suggests that (1) pre-offering demand for IPOs is at least partly driven by investors' over- or underreactions to information about firms' post-issuance prospects, and (2) while high- and low-demand IPOs are not priced at their intrinsic values in early aftermarket trading, eventually their true values are reflected in their pricing.
Hospitalization for acute diverticulitis does not mandate routine elective colectomy.

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that elective colectomy is often required after an episode of acute diverticulitis. HYPOTHESIS Acute diverticulitis initially treated nonoperatively does not require elective colectomy. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Twelve Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Southern California. PATIENTS Three thousand one hundred sixty-five patients with acute diverticulitis. INTERVENTIONS Colectomy or nonoperative treatment with or without percutaneous abscess drainage. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Recurrent diverticulitis. RESULTS Emergency colectomy was performed in 614 patients (19.4%). Nonoperative treatment was initially used in 2551 patients (80.6%). Of these, 185 patients (7.3%) had an elective colectomy and the remaining 2366 patients (92.7%) did not. Factors associated with undergoing elective colectomy compared with nonoperative treatment were younger age of the patient, fewer comorbidities, and percutaneous abscess drainage. Mean follow-up was 8.9 years, with a maximum of 12 years. After nonoperative treatment, 314 patients (13.3%) recurred-222 patients had a single recurrence and 92 patients had a rerecurrence. After adjusting for other variables, older age (hazard ratio, >/=50 years vs <50 years = 0.68; 95% confidence interval, 0.53-0.87) was associated with a lower recurrence, whereas higher comorbidity was associated with higher recurrence. Gender and percutaneous abscess drainage had no influence on recurrence. All 92 rerecurrences were treated nonoperatively. The risk of a rerecurrence (29.3%) was significantly higher than a first recurrence (P<.001). Age, gender, Charlson comorbidity index, and percutaneous abscess drainage did not predict rerecurrence. CONCLUSIONS Very few patients with acute diverticulitis treated nonoperatively have recurrence. Younger age was associated with recurrence. A first recurrence was the only factor that predicted rerecurrences. The low recurrence rate argues against routine elective colectomy after successful nonoperative management of acute diverticulitis.
Physical activity and self-esteem: testing direct and indirect relationships associated with psychological and physical mechanisms

In the present study, we investigated the relationship between physical activity (PA) and self-esteem (SE), while introducing body mass index (BMI), perceived physical fitness (PPF), and body image (BI) in adults (N =264, M =38.10 years). The findings indicated that PA was directly and indirectly associated with SE. BMI predicted SE neither directly nor indirectly, but was directly associated with PPF and both directly and indirectly with BI. Furthermore, PPF was directly related to BI and SE, and a direct association was found between BI and SE. The pattern of results suggests that among a sample of adults, PA is directly and indirectly associated with SE, PPF, and BI, but not with BMI. PA, PPF, and BI appear to play an important role in SE. Accordingly, regular PA should be promoted, in particular, among adults reporting lower SE.
Depletion of Ku70/80 reduces the levels of extrachromosomal telomeric circles and inhibits proliferation of ALT cells

In normal cells, telomeres shorten each time a cell divides ultimately resulting in cell senescence. t In contrast, cancer cells counteract the loss of telomeric DNA either by inducing the expression of telomerase or by activating the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) pathway. ALT cells are characterized by heterogeneous telomeres and the presence of extrachromosomal circular double-stranded DNA molecules containing telomeric repeat sequences. These telomeric circles (t-circles) are thought to be generated through a recombination process and utilized as templates for telomere elongation by rolling-circle-replication, although their precise mechanism of formation and role in telomere maintenance and cell proliferation is largely unknown. Here we show that shRNA-mediated knockdown of the Ku70/80 heterodimer, a factor with functions at both pathological and natural DNA ends, inhibits ALT cell growth and results in a significant decrease in the levels of t-circles without affecting overall telomere length. These findings demonstrate that non homology-based processes contribute to the maintenance of t-circles and proliferation of ALT cells.
Vehicle Seat Vacancy Identification using Image Processing Technique

Image processing technology is very popular at present. It can be applied to various applications for detecting and processing the digital images. Face detection is a part of image processing. It is used for finding the face of human in a given area. Face detection is used in many applications such as face recognition, people tracking, or photography. In this research, face detection technique is used for detecting and counting the number of passengers in electric vehicle via webcam. The webcam is installed in electric vehicle and connected with Raspberry Pi 2 model B. When electric vehicle leaves from the station, webcam will capture passengers images in the seating area. The images will be adjusted and improved to reduce the noise which is done by software application. The images are sent to the server via 3G communication. Then, the server process the images by using face detection technology and counting the number of passengers in electric vehicle. The system obtains the maximum number of passengers in electric vehicle that process through the images then calculates the seat vacancy of the electric vehicle.
Revisiting the optimal scheduling problem

In this paper, we revisit the problem of determining the minimum-length schedule that satisfies certain traffic demands in a wireless network. Traditional approaches for the determination of minimum-length schedules are based on a collision channel model, in which neighboring transmissions cause destructive interference if and only if they are within the "interference region" of the receiving nodes. By contrast, here we adopt a more realistic model for the physical layer by requiring that a threshold be exceeded by the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) for a transmission to be successful. Further we include aspects of the routing problem and utilize column generation for carrying out the computations.
Ball dynamics simulation on OpenHRP3

This paper describes an improvement on Open-HRP3, an integrated software platform for robot simulations and software developments, in order to achieve realistic simulations with the dynamics of a ball interacting with the environment and with a humanoid robot. Previously, the only way to simulate the dynamics of a ball was by using the model of a polyhedron consisting of many faces and vertices. As a consequence, the ball rolled erratically and bounced in a unnatural way. The improvement consists in treating this polyhedron as a sphere when it comes to detect its collision with the environment modeled by meshes. We have developed a different algorithm, so that the dynamics engine of OpenHRP3 can simulate realistically the ball's dynamics, by using an original method capable of showing much more accurate results than the previous one used by this software platform, which used the model of a polyhedron.
Investigating the Relationship between Workaholism and Occupational Stress and Life Quality among Female Teachers at Elementary Schools (A Case Study of Torbat-e Jam)

This article aimed at investigating the relationship between workaholism, occupational stress and life quality among female teachers at elementary schools in Torbat-e Jam (a city in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran). The methodology employed for the study was descriptive and correlational. The population of the research was composed of all the female teachers- 387 teachers- at elementary schools in Torbat-e Jam. The sampling technique of this study was multi-stage cluster sampling, that is to say, of 15 elementary schools 12 elementary schools were selected and from each school 16 teachers were randomly (ballot) chosen. 190 questionnaires were distributed and the Cochran formula was applied to calculate the sample size. The instrument of the study included three questionnaires namely, Robinson's workaholism questionnaire (1999), Steinmetz's occupational stress (1977) and the life quality questionnaire (SF-36). The results of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the occupational stress and workaholism (r=0.30) and between sub-scales of obsessive-compulsive orientations (r=0.37) and control (r=0.40) at the level of p≤0.01. In addition, a negative and significant relationship was found between life quality and workaholism (r=-0.33) and sub-scales of obsessive-compulsive orientations (r= -0.32) at the level of p≤ 0.01.
Bayesian estimation of the basic reproduction number in stochastic epidemic models

In recent years there has been considerable activity in the development and application of Bayesian inferential methods for infectious disease data using stochastic epidemic models. Most of this activity has employed computationally intensive approaches such as Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. In contrast, here we address fundamental questions for Bayesian inference in the setting of the standard SIR (Susceptible-Infective-Removed) epidemic model via simple methods. Our main focus is on the basic reproduction number, a quantity of central importance in mathematical epidemic theory, whose value essentially dictates whether or not a large epidemic outbreak can occur. We specifically consider two SIR models routinely employed in the literature, namely the model with exponentially distributed infectious periods, and the model with fixed length infectious periods. It is assumed that an epidemic outbreak is observed through time. Given complete observation of the epidemic, we derive explicit expressions for the posterior densities of the model parameters and the basic reproduction number. For partial observation of the epidemic, when the entire infection process is unobserved, we derive conservative bounds for quantities such as the mean of the basic reproduction number and the probability that a major epidemic outbreak will occur. If the time at which the epidemic started is observed, then linear programming methods can be used to derive suitable bounds for the mean of the basic reproduction number and similar quantities. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the practical consequences of our findings. In addition, we also examine the implications of commonly-used prior distributions on the basic model parameters as regards inference for the basic reproduction number.
Quantitative and Molecular Genetic Analyses of Mutations Increasing Drosophila Life Span

Understanding the genetic and environmental factors that affect variation in life span and senescence is of major interest for human health and evolutionary biology. Multiple mechanisms affect longevity, many of which are conserved across species, but the genetic networks underlying each mechanism and cross-talk between networks are unknown. We report the results of a screen for mutations affecting Drosophila life span. One third of the 1,332 homozygous P–element insertion lines assessed had quantitative effects on life span; mutations reducing life span were twice as common as mutations increasing life span. We confirmed 58 mutations with increased longevity, only one of which is in a gene previously associated with life span. The effects of the mutations increasing life span were highly sex-specific, with a trend towards opposite effects in males and females. Mutations in the same gene were associated with both increased and decreased life span, depending on the location and orientation of the P–element insertion, and genetic background. We observed substantial—and sex-specific—epistasis among a sample of ten mutations with increased life span. All mutations increasing life span had at least one deleterious pleiotropic effect on stress resistance or general health, with different patterns of pleiotropy for males and females. Whole-genome transcript profiles of seven of the mutant lines and the wild type revealed 4,488 differentially expressed transcripts, 553 of which were common to four or more of the mutant lines, which include genes previously associated with life span and novel genes implicated by this study. Therefore longevity has a large mutational target size; genes affecting life span have variable allelic effects; alleles affecting life span exhibit antagonistic pleiotropy and form epistatic networks; and sex-specific mutational effects are ubiquitous. Comparison of transcript profiles of long-lived mutations and the control line reveals a transcriptional signature of increased life span.
Heat shock gene regulation by nascent polypeptides and denatured proteins: hsp70 as a potential autoregulatory factor

Heat shock genes encode proteins (hsp's) that play important structural roles under normal circumstances and are essential to the cells' ability to survive environmental insults. Evidence is presented herein that transcriptional regulation of hsp gene expression is linked with the regulation of overall protein synthesis as well as with the accumulation of proteins denatured by stressful events. The factor that connects the three processes appears to be one of the hsp's, presumably a member(s) of the hsp70 family. Biochemical experiments demonstrate that complexes containing hsp70 and heat shock transcription factor, the specific regulator of hsp gene activity, are formed in the cells.
Deep Stochastic Configuration Networks: Universal Approximation and Learning Representation

This paper focuses on the development of randomized approaches for building deep neural networks. A supervisory mechanism is proposed to constrain the random assignment of the hidden parameters (i.e., all biases and weights within the hidden layers). Full-rank oriented criterion is suggested and utilized as a termination condition to determine the number of nodes for each hidden layer, and a pre-defined error tolerance is used as a global indicator to decide the depth of the learner model. The read-out weights attached with all direct links from each hidden layer to the output layer are incrementally evaluated by the least squares method. Such a class of randomized leaner models with deep architecture is termed as deep stochastic configuration networks (DeepSCNs), of which the universal approximation property is verified with rigorous proof. Given abundant samples from a continuous distribution, DeepSCNs can speedily produce a learning representation, that is, a collection of random basis functions with the cascaded inputs together with the read-out weights. Simulation results with comparisons on function approximation align with the theoretical findings.
Multivariate Analysis and Geovisualization with an Integrated Geographic Knowledge Discovery Approach

The discovery, interpretation, and presentation of multivariate spatial patterns are important for scientific understanding of complex geographic problems. This research integrates computational, visual, and cartographic methods together to detect and visualize multivariate spatial patterns. The integrated approach is able to: (1) perform multivariate analysis, dimensional reduction, and data reduction (summarizing a large number of input data items in a moderate number of clusters) with the Self-Organizing Map (SOM); (2) encode the SOM result with a systematically designed color scheme; (3) visualize the multivariate patterns with a modified Parallel Coordinate Plot (PCP) display and a geographic map (GeoMap); and (4) support human interactions to explore and examine patterns. The research shows that such "mixed initiative" methods (computational and visual) can mitigate each other's weakness and collaboratively discover complex patterns in large geographic datasets, in an effective and efficient way.
Théorème de Paley—Wiener pour les fonctions de Whittaker sur un groupe réductif p-adique

Résumé Soit G un groupe réductif p-adique et U0 le radical unipotent d'un sous-groupe parabolique minimal de G. Nous introduisons une transformation de Fourier pour l'espace des fonctions de Whittaker lisses sur G et à support compact modulo U0. Nous en déterminons l'image. La preuve suit celle d'Heiermann pour les fonctions sur le groupe. Au cours de la preuve, une formule d'inversion est prouvée. Celle-ci permet de montrer qu'une représentation lisse irréductible de G, qui possède modèle de Whittaker dans les fonctions de Whittaker à support compact modulo U0, est cuspidale. Ce travail nous a donné l'opportunité de préparer un cadre pour l'analyse harmonique sur les espaces symétriques réductifs p-adiques: B-matrices et terme constant, propriétés des paquets d'ondes. Abstract Let G be a p-adic reductive group and let U0 be the unipotent radical of a minimal parabolic subgroup of G. We introduce a Fourier transform defined on the space of smooth Whittaker functions on G which are compactly supported modulo U0. We determine its image. The proof follows the proof of Heiermann for the functions on the group. During the proof, we establish an inversion formula. This formula allows us to prove that an irreducible smooth representation of G, which has a Whittaker model in the space of smooth Whittaker functions on G which are compactly supported modulo U0, is cuspidal. This work gave us the opportunity to prepare a framework for the study of harmonic analysis on p-adic reductive symmetric spaces: B-matrices and constant term; a study of wave packets.