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Altered Sense of Body Ownership and Agency in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Its Dissociative Subtype: A Rubber Hand Illusion Study

Traumatic experiences have been linked to the development of altered states of consciousness affecting bodily perception, including alterations in body ownership and in sense of agency, the conscious experience of the body as one's own and under voluntary control. Severe psychological trauma and prolonged distress may lead to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Together, symptoms of derealization and, related specifically to the sense of body ownership and agency, of depersonalization (where parts of the body or the entire body itself is perceived as detached and out of control), constitute the dissociative subtype (PTSD+DS). In this study, we explored the Rubber Hand Illusion, an experimental paradigm utilized to manipulate sense of body ownership in PTSD (n = 4) and PTSD+DS (n = 6) as compared to healthy controls (n = 7). Perceived finger location and self-report questionnaires were used as behavioral and subjective measures of the illusion, respectively. In addition, the correlation between the illusion's effect and sense of agency as a continuous feeling of controlling one's own body movements was explored. Here, a lower illusion effect was observed in the PTSD as compared to the control group after synchronous stimulation for both the proprioceptive drift and subjectively perceived illusion. Moreover, by both proprioceptive drift and by subjective ratings, the PTSD+DS group showed a response characterized by high variance, ranging from a very strong to a very weak effect of the illusion. Finally, sense of agency showed a trend toward a negative correlation with the strength of the illusion as subjectively perceived by participants with PTSD and PTSD+DS. These findings suggest individuals with PTSD may, at times, maintain a rigid representation of the body as an avoidance strategy, with top-down cognitive processes weakening the impact of manipulation of body ownership. By contrast, the response elicited in PTSD+DS appeared to be driven by either an increased vulnerability to manipulation of embodiment or by a dominant top-down cognitive representation of the body, with disruption of multisensory integration processes likely in both cases. Taken together, these findings further our understanding of bodily consciousness in PTSD and its dissociative subtype and highlight the supportive role played by sense of agency for the maintenance of body ownership.
Ontological based webpage classification

Current classification techniques use word matching and clustering techniques to classify webpages. These techniques use ad hoc approach of checking and matching the entire keywords in a webpage for classification. These methods are efficient but not without problems. In general, they suffer from the following problems 1) As they use brute force matching for the entire document, they tend to be slow in their operation 2) words in a document may have similar meaning but they may not be identical in their spelling 3) current techniques fail to match and identify phrases efficiently 4) they also fail to consider for word disambiguation. In this paper, we propose a novel and fast ontological-based webpage classification technique to classify a webpage with high accuracy. To speed up our system, we use a segmentation technique that utilizes visual boundary of a region and matches keywords within the region instead of the entire webpage. We also use a fast clustering technique to match keywords and label the page based on the nearest match. Experiment results show that our system is accurate in webpage classification.
Integration of 3 G connectivity in PlanetLab Europe A step of an evolutionary path towards heterogeneous large scale network testbeds

Distributed research testbeds play a fundamental role in the evaluation of disruptive innovations for the Fut ure Internet. In recent years, the main research funding agencies have promoted several initiatives aimed at designing and building open, large scale, realistic experimental fac i ities that could be used to evaluate innovative networking architectures, paradigms and services. In this paper, afte r discussing the main challenges in building such infrastruc tures, we present how, by leveraging the concept of federation, we managed to introduce a first degree of heterogeneity into PlanetLab Europe, a European testbed federated with PlanetLab, by providing UMTS connectivity to PlanetLab Europe nodes. Our contribution is just a first step of an evolutionary path whose further developments will lead to next generation large-scale heterogeneous testbeds for suppor ting experimentally-driven research on the Network of the Future.
Focusing Year 8 Students on Self-Regulating their Learning of Mathematics

This paper tells of a Year 8 intervention in a school where students are reported to typically have low engagement in learning mathematics. Aiming to help students self-regulate their learning of mathematics, a tool was developed for students to set short-term goals and select, and reflect upon, their developing command of related strategies for organisation and persistence. The results from the intervention were mixed, suggesting the tool has most potential to benefit middle and low achieving students.
Multiple regression analyses on anxiety of female students in nursing school

To understand anxiety and its related factors in nursing students.Methods 215 female students in nursing school were investigated with self rating anxiety scale, adolescent self rating life events and coping style questionnaire. Results Compared with norm, the nursing students had higher sore of anxiety. There was positive correlation between anxiety and life events, between anxiety and negative coping while there was negative correlation between anxiety and positive coping. Multiple regression showed that stress of life events, positive coping and negative coping had predictive value for anxiety. positive coping and negative coping affected level of anxiety directly while stress of life events aggravated anxiety by negative coping indirectly. Conclusion Nursing students have higher level of anxiety, which in turn has some relation to life events, negative coping and positive coping.
Combining Multiconfiguration and Perturbation Methods: Perturbative Estimates of Core–Core Electron Correlation Contributions to Excitation Energies in Mg-Like Iron

Large configuration interaction (CI) calculations can be performed if part of the interaction is treated perturbatively. To evaluate the combined CI and perturbative method, we compute excitation energies for the 3 l 3 l ′ , 3 l 4 l ′ and 3 s 5 l states in Mg-like iron. Starting from a CI calculation including valence and core–valence correlation effects, it is found that the perturbative inclusion of core–core electron correlation halves the mean relative differences between calculated and observed excitation energies. The effect of the core–core electron correlation is largest for the more excited states. The final relative differences between calculated and observed excitation energies is 0.023%, which is small enough for the calculated energies to be of direct use in line identifications in astrophysical and laboratory spectra.
Year : 1998 Tariffs , quotas and terms-of-trade : the case of New Zealand Winkelmann

This paper reports quantitative information on the effects of tariffs and quotas on prices of individual goods. The analyses uses the natural experiment provided by a comprehensive unilateral trade policy reform in New Zealand to examine the response of foreign exporters to an incident of liberalisation that is unique in the developed world. The price effects of tariffs and quotas are estimated using a multidestination 7-digit longitudinal product-level dataset on export values and quantities. The effects are found to be by no means equivalent: whereas tariffs display no significant effect, the impact that quantitative restrictions have on the terms-of-trade of the country that imposes them are unequivocally detrimental and quantitatively important. Tariffs, Quotas and Terms-of-Trade: The Case of New Zealand Liliana Winkelmann*, Rainer Winkelmann Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Abstract This paper reports quantitative information on the effects of tariffs and quotas on prices of individual goods. The analyses uses the natural experiment provided by a comprehensive unilateral trade policy reform in New Zealand to examine the response of foreign exporters to an incident of liberalisation that is unique in the developed world. The price effects of tariffs and quotas are estimated using a multidestination 7-digit longitudinal product-level dataset on export values and quantities. The effects are found to be by no means equivalent: Whereas tariffs display no significant effect, the impact that quantitative restrictions have on the terms-of-trade of the country that imposes them are unequivocally detrimental and quantitatively important.
Ternary complexation of carvedilol, β-cyclodextrin and citric acid for mouth-dissolving tablet formulation

Ternary complexation of carvedilol, β-cyclodextrin and citric acid for mouth-dissolving tablet formulation The purpose of this study was to improve the solubility and dissolution rate of carvedilol by forming a ternary complex with β-cyclodextrin and citric acid and to formulate its mouth-dissolving tablets. The rationale for preparing mouth-dissolving tablet of carvedilol was to make the drug available in a soluble form in the mouth, which would facilitate its absorption from the buccal cavity. This would help to overcome its first-pass metabolism and thereby improve bioavailability. Phase solubility studies revealed the ability of β-cyclodextrin and citric acid to complex with carvedilol and significantly increase its solubility. Ternary complexation of carvedilol was carried out with β-cyclodextrin and citric acid by physical mixing, kneading and spray drying methods and the prepared complexes were characterized by Fourier transform infra red spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, powder X-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy and complexation efficiency. The complex obtained by the spray drying method resulted in highest complexation efficiency and a 110-fold increase in the solubility of carvedilol. The mouth-dissolving tablets formulated using the spray dried complex with suitable excipients showed 100 % dissolution within five minutes. Accelerated stability studies of mouth-dissolving tablets carried out as per ICH guidelines revealed that the tablets were stable. Ternarna kompleksacija karvedilola, β-ciklodekstrina i limunske kiseline za razvoj tableta topljivih u ustima Cilj rada bio je poboljšati topljivost i oslobađanje karvedilola stvaranjem ternarnog kompleksa s β-ciklodekstrinom i limunskom kiselinom i razvoj tableta topljivih u ustima. Takve tablete su napravljene s ciljem da se poboljša apsorpcija iz usta i izbjegne efekt prvog prolaza, što bi moglo imati za posljedicu poboljšanu bioraspoloživost. Testovi topljivosti pokazali su da β-ciklodekstrin i limunska kiselina stvaraju kompleks s karvedilolom i značajno povećavaju njegovu topljivost. Ternarna kompleksacija karvedilola s β-ciklodekstrinom i limunskom kiselinom provedena je fizičkim miješanjem, gnječenjem i sušenjem raspršivanjem. Pripravljeni kompleksi karakterizirani su infracrvenom spektroskopijom, diferencijalnom pretražnom kalorimetrijom, rendgenskom difraktometrijom praha, pretražnom elektronskom mikroskopijom i testovima učinkovitosti kompleksacije. Metodom sušenja raspršivanjem topljivost karvenidola povećala se 110 puta, a kompleksacija je bila najučinkovitija. Tablete pripravljene iz tog kompleksa i odgovarajućih pomoćnih tvari potpuno su se otopile unutar pet minuta. Testovi ubrzanog starenja provedeni prema ICH smjernicama pokazali su da su tablete stabilne.
Local unitary equivalence of arbitrary dimensional bipartite quantum states

The nonlocal properties of arbitrary dimensional bipartite quantum systems are investigated. A complete set of invariants under local unitary transformations is presented. These invariants give rise to both sufficient and necessary conditions for the equivalence of quantum states under local unitary transformations: two density matrices are locally equivalent if and only if all these invariants have equal values.
Rethinking the Concept of Sustainability: Hiroshima as a subject of peace education

Abstract The article discusses a sustainable educational approach for developing a moral value of peace by using a historical event, the bombing of Hiroshima. To make the case, the article uses the care theory of Nel Noddings to discuss the interpersonal aspects of peace education. The article asks how care theory handles tragedies like Hiroshima and it can contribute to a moral value of peace. The idea of caring is also examined, through Hiroshima, from a different angle, of the relationship between nature and human beings. The political position of this article is to expand the idea of sustainability by creating values for peace using material related to the bombing.
Avoiding Over tting with BP-SOMTon

Overrtting is a well-known problem in the elds of symbolic and connectionist machine learning. It describes the deterioration of gen-eralisation performance of a trained model. In this paper, we investigate the ability of a novel artiicial neural network, bp-som, to avoid overrtting. bp-som is a hybrid neu-ral network which combines a multi-layered feed-forward network (mfn) with Kohonen's self-organising maps (soms). During training , supervised back-propagation learning and unsupervised som learning cooperate in nd-ing adequate hidden-layer representations. We show that bp-som outperforms standard back-propagation, and also back-propagation with a weight decay when dealing with the problem of overrtting. In addition, we show that bp-som succeeds in preserving generalisation performance under hidden-unit pruning, where both other methods fail. 1 On avoiding overrtting In machine-learning research, the performance of a trained model is often expressed in its generalisation performance , i.e., its capability to process correctly new instances not present in the training set. When the gener-alisation performance of the trained model is much worse than its performance on the training material (i.e., its ability to reproduce the training material), we speak of overrtting. Overrtting is sometimes due to the sparse-ness of the training material: e.g., the training material does not suuciently cover the characteristics of the clas-siication task. A second cause for overrtting might be a high degree of non-linearity in the training material. In both cases, the learning algorithm might not be able to learn more from the training material than the classi-cation of the training instances itself (see, e.g., Norris, 1989). The issue of avoiding overrtting is well-known in the eld of symbolic and connectionist machine learning In symbolic machine learning, a commonly used heuristic to avoid overrtting is minimising the size of the induced models (cf. Quinlan's (1993) C4.5 and C4.5rules), in the sense of the minimum-description-length (mdl) principle (Rissanen, 1983). For instance, smaller (or less complex) models should restrict the number of parameters to the minimum required for learning the task at hand. In connectionist machine learning (neural networks), avoiding overrtting is closely related to nding an optimal network complexity. In this view, two types of methods of avoiding overrtting (or regularisation) can be distinguished: (i) starting with an undersized network and gradually increasing the network's complexity (Fahlman and Lebi ere, 1990), and (ii) starting with an oversized network and gradually decreasing its complexity (e. In this paper we analyse the overrtting-avoidance behaviour of a novel artiicial neural-network …
Professional Development and Incentives for Teacher Performance in Schools in Mexico

The quality of education is a determining factor in competitiveness. In order to globally compete, Mexico would have to raise its standards beyond its current low achievement. Several innovations at federal and state levels have been developed to raise the quality of basic education. One example is Carrera Magisterial (CM), which is a professional development program that was created as part of the National Agreement for the Modernization of Basic Education in 1992. This program is aimed at raising the quality of basic education through teachers' professional training, new learning presence in schools, and improving working and salary conditions. Lopez-Acevedo evaluates the impact of CM. She shows several important results. First, teacher's enrollment in the CM program has a positive impact on learning achievement. Second, family characteristics are important in explaining students' achievement. Third, investment in primary school teachers is most effective when targeted toward increasing teachers' practical experience and developing content-specific knowledge. And fourth, students in schools with a high degree of supervision on the part of the school principal achieve better scores. This paper - a product of the Poverty Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to understand the factors that contribute to increase the quality of education.
Influence of soundtrack on eye movements during video exploration

Models of visual attention rely on visual features such as orientation, intensity or motion to predict which regions of complex scenes attract the gaze of observers. So far, sound has never been considered as a possible feature that might influence eye movements. Here, we evaluate the impact of non-spatial sound on the eye movements of observers watching videos. We recorded eye movements of 40 participants watching assorted videos with and without their related soundtracks. We found that sound impacts on eye position, fixation duration and saccade amplitude. The effect of sound is not constant across time but becomes significant around one second after the beginning of video shots.
The specificity of family functioning in the perception of adolescents and young adults and their identity formation

Previous studies on the impact of family factors on the identity formation process have focused on various aspects of family environment such as parental behavior (Romano, 2004), parental control (Luyckx et al., 2007), parental support and the quality of relationships between adolescents and their parents (Liberska, 2004), and the level of development of parents' identi- ty (Syed, Seiffge-Krenke, 2012). The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between identity processes and dimensions of family functioning (i.e. cohesion, flexibility, and commu- nication) in the perception of adolescents and young adults. The sample consisted of 119 high school and university students (72 women and 47 men) who completed the Polish versions of Flexibility and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES IV; Olson, 2011), and Dimensions of Iden- tity Development Scale (DIDS; Luyckx et al., 2008). The correlation analysis and ANOVA test showed that different levels and different configurations of family environment characteristics are associated with identity formation processes in young people. The results also suggest that the observed relationship between different aspects of family functioning and identity dimen- sions changes with sex. At the same time, the obtained pattern of correlations in the current study was less systematic than it was expected on the basis of literature, and the directions of these cor- relations were not always congruent with predictions.
Replacing Square Roots by Pythagorean Sums

An algorithm is presented for computing a "Pythagorean sum" a ⊕ b = √a2 + b2 directly from a and b without computing their squares or takinga square root. No destructive floating point overflows or underflows are possible. The algorithm can be extended to computet he Euclidean norm of a vector. The resulting subroutine is short, portable, robust, and accurate, but not as efficient as some other possibilities. The algorithm is particularly attractive for computers where space and reliability are more important than speed.
Design of Vedic IEEE 754 floating point multiplier

Floating point number can co-occurrently develop a prominent range of numbers and a high level of precision. Multiplication of floating point numbers found extensive use in wider range of technological and commercial calculations. It is needed to implement faster multipliers involving limited area and consuming reduced power. An IEEE-754 format established multiplier applying Vedic Urdhva - Tiryagbhyam mathematics will be cultivated to cover both single precision and double precision format floating point numbers in the paper. This paper proposes a floating point multiplier which manages overflow, underflow and rounding. The proposed and conventional floating point multipliers based on Vedic mathematics would be coded in Verilog, Synthesized and Simulated using ISE Simulator. Xilinx Virtex VI FPGA will be used for Hardware realization and Verification. It is proposed to compare resource utilization and timing performance of the proposed multiplier with that of existing as of now.
H.264/AVC UHD decoder implementation on multi-cluster platform using hybrid parallelization method

We propose a new hybrid parallelization method for H.264/AVC decoder for UHD (3840×2160) resolution on the proposed multi-clusters platform. We used 4 clusters to decode UHD video application, which cluster is composed of functional partitioned computing elements (1 DSP core and 3 hardware accelerators). The parallelizing efficiency is improved drastically by adopting frame-level parallelization between clusters. Due to the scalable architecture, we can control the number of cluster according to computing requirement. For example, we can use one cluster for FHD video application and four clusters for UHD application. The experimental results show that the parallelism is close to theoretical value by a 1.4–7.6% margin at 2–4 clusters and H.264/AVC UHD decoder runs under 650MHz.
Lack of specific binding of Shiga-like toxin (verocytotoxin) and non-specific interaction of Shiga-like toxin 2 antibody with human polymorphonuclear leucocytes.

BACKGROUND After gastrointestinal infection with Shiga-like toxin (Stx) producing Escherichia coli, the toxin is transported from the intestine to the renal microvascular endothelium. This is the main target for Stx in humans. Previous studies indicated that polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) could serve as carriers for Stx in the systemic circulation. As at a later stage we could not confirm these data, we performed new studies. METHODS The binding of Stx1 to PMN was determined in vitro (isolated human PMN and whole blood) and in vivo (injection in mice). The specificity of binding of an antibody against Stx2 to PMN from patients with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) was determined. This was compared with binding to PMN from healthy controls, and patients after haemodialysis (HD) or on peritoneal dialysis (PD). Furthermore, PMN were incubated with Stx to study possible activation. RESULTS No specific binding of Stx1 to PMN could be detected. After intravenous injection of the toxin in mice, it was not associated with PMN. The binding of an antibody against Stx2 to PMN was detected in both patients with HUS and patients after HD, but not in patients on PD. Stx was not able to activate PMN. CONCLUSIONS PMN are not acting as transporter for Stx in the pathogenesis of HUS. The interaction of a Stx antibody with PMN from HUS patients is not specific as it can also be observed in patients after HD (possibly due to activation of the PMN). Therefore, binding of Stx antibody to PMN is not reliable as a diagnostic tool for HUS.