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Determinants of Teachers’ Intentions to Teach Physically Active Physical Education Classes

The purpose of the present investigation was to examine determinants of teachers’ intentions to teach physically active physical education classes (i.e., spend at least 50% of class time with the students engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity). Based on the theories of reasoned action, planned behavior, and self-efficacy, a model was examined hypothesizing that teachers’ intentions were determined by subjective norm, attitude, perceived behavioral control, and self-efficacy. Using hierarchical regression analyses, the theories of reasoned action and planned behavior were supported by accounting for 65% of the variance in intention due to the main effects of attitude and subjective norm, as well as their interaction effects. The role of perceived behavioral control and self-efficacy theory were not supported.
Single fetal death in twin gestations

Abstract Twin pregnancies are at higher risk for fetal mortality when compared with singleton pregnancies. Single fetal demise occurs in 3.7–6.8% of all twin pregnancies and considerably increases the complication rate in the co-twin including fetal loss, premature delivery, and end-organ damage. In this review, we summarize the current information on the etiology of single twin demise, the pathophysiology of injury to the surviving twin, and the preventive and secondary management strategies.
A useful tool to forecast the Euro-area business cycle phases ∗

Based on a novel extension of existing multivariate Markov-switching models, we provide the reader with a useful tool to analyze current business conditions and to make predictions about the future state of the Euro-area economy in real time. Apart from the Industrial Production Index, we find that the European Commission Industrial Confidence Indicator, that is issued with no delay, is very useful to construct the real-time predictions.
Iterative linear regression classification for image recognition

Traditional linear regression classification (LRC) suffers from a small sample size problem that the limited training samples of each class cannot comprehensively reflect different variations of the class. To address the problem, this paper proposes a novel iterative linear regression classification (ILRC) for image recognition. Different from traditional LRC, ILRC not only generates several new subspaces in each iteration but also uses the discrimination idea to optimize the training-set and testing samples. Extensive experiments on five benchmark databases demonstrate that the proposed ILRC classifier achieves better recognition performance than the traditional LRC and several state-of-the-art methods.
Cooperative Professional Development

The conflict between special education teachers and classroom teachers has a significant negative impact on the education of mildly handicapped students. The role of consultant has emerged partially as a response to the tensions generated from this conflict. However, standard models of consultation suffer from two weaknesses: In too many cases, they imply a superior-inferior relationship between the special education and classroom teacher, and they are narrowly focused on problem solving. Cooperative professional development is proposed as an adjunct to or substitute for consultation. Cooperative professional development involves small teams of special education and classroom teachers and uses a variety of approaches to enhance their mutual professional growth.
iTETRIS: Adaptation of ITS Technologies for Large Scale Integrated Simulation

The European Union (EU) Framework Program 7 (FP7) funded project, iTETRIS (An Integrated Wireless and Traffic Platform for Real-Time Road Traffic Management Solutions) targets to extend state of art in simulation of wireless vehicular cooperative systems for evaluation of road traffic management services and applications. In particular, iTETRIS addresses four important and distinct challenges: (a) road traffic and wireless integrated open-source simulation platform, (b) large scale trials, (c) realistic Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication simulation and (d) dynamic, distributed and self-autonomous Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications based on cooperative systems. iTETRIS will provide a standard compliant, open-source integrated communication and traffic platform suited for large scale scenario simulation. This Paper addresses extension of traffic simulator being used in iTETRIS, scalability studies of networking simulator, which have been achieved as project results. Further the paper presents the adaptation of the Intelligent Communications for Transport Systems (ICTS) reference architecture functionalities being developed by the European Telecommunication Standard Institute (ETSI) at its Technical Committee (TC) on ITS.
Predicting Topics of Scientific Papers from Co-Authorship Graphs: a Case Study

In this paper, we present a case study of predicting topics of scientific papers using a co-authorship graph. Co-authorship graphs constitute a specific view on bibliographic data, where scientific publications are modelled as a graph’s nodes, and two nodes are linked by an undirected edge whenever the two corresponding papers share at least one author. We apply a simple collective classification algorithm based on relaxation labelling to the ILPnet2 bibliographic database. The approach is based on the assumption that papers in the same neighbourhood of the co-authorship graph tend to be on the same topics, and that the predicted topic for one node in the graph depends on the actual or predicted topics of the nodes linked to it. We evaluate the performance of this method on the ILPnet2 data in terms of ROC analysis, and explain the results in terms of the co-authorship graph and the position and properties of papers on a certain topic in the graph.
Propagation of PDDL3 Plan Constraints

We present a sound, though incomplete, and tractable propagation procedure for PDDL3 trajectory constraints, with the aim of providing an inexpensive unsatisfiability test for sets of such constraints. The propagator is supported by (tractable) methods that derive additional constraints from the problem description. It is applied to compute lower bounds on penalty for problems with soft trajectory constraints (preferences).
Gene therapy for rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a severe autoimmune systemic disease. Chronic synovial inflammation results in destruction of the joints. No conventional treatment is efficient in RA. Gene therapy of RA targets mainly the players of inflammation or articular destruction: TNF‐α or IL‐1 blocking agents (such as anti‐TNF‐α monoclonal antibodies, soluble TNF‐α receptor, type II soluble receptor of IL‐1, IL‐1 receptor antagonist), antiinflammatory cytokines (such as IL‐4, IL‐10, IL‐1), and growth factors. In this polyarticular disease, the vector expressing the therapeutic protein can be administered as a local (intra‐articular injection) or a systemic treatment (extra‐articular injection). All the main vectors have been used in experimental models, including the more recent lentivirus and adeno‐associated virus. Ex vivo gene transfer was performed with synovial cells, fibroblasts, T cells, dendritic cells, and different cells from xenogeneic origin. In vivo gene therapy is simpler, although a less controlled method. Clinical trials in human RA have started with ex vivo retrovirus‐expressing IL‐1 receptor antagonists and have demonstrated the feasibility of the strategy of gene therapy. The best target remains to be determined and extensive research has to be conducted in preclinical studies. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Issues in Interviewing Inmates

Based on research the author conducted in 2006 at a men's medium-security correctional facility and on the author's experiences during that research, this article provides some insight into the issues associated with interviewing inmates. Included are discussions of gaining access to prison, negotiating Institutional Review Boards, the construction of study concepts and instruments, inmate identity, and institutional influence. Emphasizing narrative and interactionist approaches, the author's goal is to help researchers understand their role in the interview process and the author introduces an organizational interview tool called “identity moments,” wherein researchers can facilitate the retrospective and interpretative practice of building meaning through narrative. The purpose of the author's work is to provide some critical insights into conducting prison research so that future researchers might have a head start.
Neoliberal environmentality: Towards a poststructuralist political ecology of the conservation debate

This article proposes a Foucaultian poststructuralist framework for understanding different positions within the contemporary debate concerning appropriate biodiversity conservation policy as embodying distinctive ‘environmentalities’. In a recently-released work, Michel Foucault describes a neoliberal form of his familiar concept ‘governmentality’ quite different from conventional understandings of this oft-cited analytic. Following this, I suggest that neoliberalisation within natural resource policy can be understood as the expression of a ‘neoliberal environmentality’ similarly distinct from recent discussions employing the environmentality concept. In addition, I follow Foucault in describing several other discrete environmentalities embodied in competing approaches to conservation policy. Finally, I ask whether political ecologists’ critiques of mainstream conservation might be viewed as the expression of yet another environmentality foregrounding concerns for social equity and environmental justice and call for more conceptualisation of what this might look like.
Varenicline-induced manic episode in a patient with bipolar disorder.

A 63-year-old man with a history of bipolar disorder had been stable while receiving valproic acid for 5 years. The patient was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit and met criteria for a manic episode. He began exhibiting manic symptoms one week after starting varenicline (1 mg, twice daily) for smoking cessation. There was reported compliance with valproic acid, and his level on admission was 59.7. The patient had a negative urine drug screen; all other laboratory studies were normal. There were no other changes in his medication regimen, and he did not smoke cigarettes while on varenicline or after his admission to the hospital. Varenicline was discontinued upon admission. The patient continued receiving valproic acid, up to a dose of 2 g per day. He was also started on olanzapine, up to 10 mg daily at bedtime. Within one week of admission, the patient was euthymic, without psychotic or manic symptoms.
The Conditions of Temperature and Humidity of the Air between the Skin and Shirt of Man

Methods for measuring the temperature and humidity of the air beneath the shirt are described. Conditions of temperature and humidity under the shirt are described, for a resting person, with external temperatures varying between 0° C. and 41° C. , under different atmospheric humidities. The air beneath the shirt varied between 23° C. and 37° C. , and 23 and 70 per cent. relative humidity. The saturation deficiency of the air beneath the shirt varied very little—only between 13 and 18 mm. —in all the observations taken. I am indebted to Dr P. A. Buxton for many helpful suggestions and for reading the manuscript. Also to Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, F.R. S. , for drawing my attention to literature on the earlier work.
Extracellular Glutamate Concentration in Hippocampal Slice

Synaptic glutamate transients resulting from vesicular exocytosis are superimposed on a low baseline concentration of glutamate in the extracellular space. Reported values of baseline glutamate concentrations range up to 4 μm. If glutamate were present tonically at low micromolar concentrations, many receptors, especially the high-affinity NMDA receptors (NMDARs), would be activated or desensitized, altering neuronal excitability. Using NMDARs expressed by CA1 pyramidal cells in acute hippocampal slices to monitor extracellular glutamate, we find that its baseline concentration is much lower, near 25 nm. In addition, superfusion of low micromolar concentrations of glutamate had no effect on neurons, indicating that glutamate transport prevents access to receptors within the slice. However, equipotent concentrations of NMDA, a nontransported agonist, depolarized neurons dramatically. We suggest that ambient concentrations of glutamate in vivo are also in the nanomolar range and are too low to cause significant receptor activation.
Education, practice and research. Knowledge and attitudes to knowledge of Swedish social workers

This article deals with the knowledge base and methodological orientation of Swedish social workers and their attitudes to different sources of knowledge as a basis for practice. By means of a survey, 412 social workers in 12 municipalities responded to questions about their education, further training, the periodicals and books read and their views about the knowledge required for their tasks. The response rate was 93%. The data were analysed with quantitative techniques, including logistic regression analysis and show the following results: (1) The methods used in practice differ from what might be expected considering the content of social work education; (2) The Swedish methodological repertoire differs somewhat from that described in the Anglo-Saxon literature; (3) Different areas of social work display quite dissimilar images. Social workers in child welfare are closest to a coherent knowledge base, while those dealing with social assistance are least well off in this respect; and (4) Overall, there is an obvious lack of a common and up-dated knowledge base. Less than 1 in 10 read research-oriented periodicals and relevant books more than once or twice a year. These results are discussed in relation to the quality of social work education, social workers' attitudes to research-based knowledge, the research itself and the organisational setting of social work practice.
What's All The Buzz about?

Although the influential role of word-of-mouth communication has been known for decades, a more recent phenomenon is the emergence of explicit organizational efforts to stimulate “buzz” (contagious talk about a brand, service, product, or idea). Buzz marketing organizations either pay people, or seek volunteers, to try new brands and then have agents “talk them up” among their social networks. This article contends that the practice of buzz marketing is usefully framed within the study of everyday communication, which has shown considerable growth in the field of communication studies over the past decade. This framework provides a reliable scientific source and basis on which to base further claims about the effectiveness and ethics of buzz marketing.
THE ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS NEW DIMENSIONS AT A MILLIMETER TO A FERMI AND SUPERSTRINGS AT A TeV

Recently, a new framework for solving the hierarchy problem has been proposed which does not rely on low energy supersymmetry or technicolor. The gravitational and gauge interactions unite at the electroweak scale, and the observed weakness of gravity at long distances is due the existence of large new spatial dimensions. In this letter, we show that this framework can be embedded in string theory. These models have a perturbative description in the context of type I string theory. The gravitational sector consists of closed strings propagating in the higher-dimensional bulk, while ordinary matter consists of open strings living on D3-branes. This scenario raises the exciting possibility that the LHC and NLC will experimentally study both ordinary aspects of string physics such as the production of narrow Regge-excitations of all standard model particles, as well more exotic phenomena involving strong gravity such as the production of black holes. The new dimensions can be probed by events with large missing energy carried off by gravitons escaping into the bulk. We finally discuss some important issues of model building, such as proton stability, gauge coupling unification and supersymmetry breaking.
On the Correlation Distribution for a Ternary Niho Decimation

In this paper, let $n=2m$ and $d=3^{m+1}-2$ with $m\geq2$ and $\gcd(d,3^n-1)=1$. By studying the weight distribution of the ternary Zetterberg code and counting the numbers of solutions of some equations over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{3^n}$, the correlation distribution between a ternary $m$-sequence of period $3^n-1$ and its $d$-decimation sequence is completely determined. This is the first time that the correlation distribution for a non-binary Niho decimation has been determined since 1976.
Capital Costs: Lottery Funding in Britain and the Consequences for Museums

Funding for London museums has increased enormously in recent years. The lottery has contributed hundreds of millions of pounds for capital developments; central government revenue in the tens of millions goes to funding free admission to the national museums and galleries. The research described in this paper focuses on museums that opened lottery-funded capital projects in 2000, and on the relationship between this additional funding and museum attendance. The authors found that the extra money led to extra visits—and for the first time attempted to calculate what those visits cost. This research also looks at whether people chose improved museums over other museums, and briefly investigates the impact on attendance of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease and the downturn in tourism following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Where Does Handwriting Fit In?

In today's environment of high-stakes testing, handwriting is a skill that is often overlooked in order to focus on other areas of the curriculum. However, research indicates that handwriting is tied to academic achievement, especially composition and literacy skills. This article provides strategies that can be used to support students with disabilities in the areas of handwriting, motor skill development, and practice during functional tasks.
Toward an Anthropological Analysis of New Sport Cultures: The Case of Whiz Sports in France

The paper presents an anthropological analysis of whiz sports from a new standpoint in the social sciences. This standpoint ignores the existing split between a science of society and a science of the individual. This approach also offers a new way of thinking the “collective. ” The concept of transitional space defined by Winnicott is put forward as a central concept that permits consideration of the individual/group interface.
Acquired versus innate prey capturing skills in super-precocial live-bearing fish

Live-bearing fish start hunting for mobile prey within hours after birth, an example of extreme precociality. Because prenatal, in utero, development of this behaviour is constrained by the lack of free-swimming sensory-motor interactions, immediate success after birth depends on innate, evolutionarily acquired patterns. Optimal performance however requires flexible adjustment to an unpredictable environment. To distinguish innate from postnatally developing patterns we analysed over 2000 prey capture events for 28 metallic livebearers (Girardinus metallicus; Poeciliidae), during their first 3 days after birth. We show that the use of synchronous pectoral fin beats for final acceleration and ingestion is fixed and presumably innate. It allows for direct, symmetrical control of swimming speed and direction, while avoiding head yaw. Eye movements and body curvatures, however, change considerably in the first few days, showing that eye-tail coordination requires postnatal development. The results show how successful prey captures for newborn, live-bearing fish are based on a combination of fixed motor programmes and rapid, postnatal development.
Automatic Liquid Handling for Life Science

Liquid handling plays a pivotal role in life science laboratories. In experiments such as gene sequencing, protein crystallization, antibody testing, and drug screening, liquid biosamples frequently must be transferred between containers of varying sizes and/or dispensed onto substrates of varying types. The sample volumes are usually small, at the micro- or nanoliter level, and the number of transferred samples can be huge when investigating large-scope combinatorial conditions. Under these conditions, liquid handling by hand is tedious, time-consuming, and impractical. Consequently, there is a strong demand for automated liquid-handling methods such as sensor-integrated robotic systems. In this article, we survey the current state of the art in automatic liquid handling, including technologies developed by both industry and research institutions. We focus on methods for dealing with small volumes at high throughput and point out challenges for future advancements.
Knowledge Discovery through SysFor - a Systematically Developed Forest of Multiple Decision Trees

Decision tree based classification algorithms like C4.5 and Explore build a single tree from a data set. The two main purposes of building a decision tree are to extract various patterns/logic-rules existing in a data set, and to predict the class attribute value of an unlabeled record. Sometimes a set of decision trees, rather than just a single tree, is also generated from a data set. A set of multiple trees, when used wisely, typically have better prediction accuracy on unlabeled records. Existing multiple tree techniques are catered for high dimensional data sets and therefore unable to build many trees from low dimensional data sets. In this paper we present a novel technique called Sys-For that can build many trees even from a low dimensional data set. Another strength of the technique is that instead of building multiple trees using any attribute (good or bad) it uses only those attributes that have high classification capabilities. We also present two novel voting techniques in order to predict the class value of an unlabeled record through the collective use of multiple trees. Experimental results demonstrate that SysFor is suitable for multiple pattern extraction and knowledge discovery from both low dimensional and high dimensional data sets by building a number of good quality decision trees. Moreover, it also has prediction accuracy higher than the accuracy of several existing techniques that have previously been shown as having high performance.
Compression of Cognitive Flexibility and Adjustment of Students with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Typically Developing Students

Results: The results of the multivariate analysis of variance (M-ANOVA) showed that the mean scores of cognitive flexibility, emotional, educational and social adjustment were significantly higher in the students with DCD (P<001). The results of multivariate regression analysis also showed that a 25% variance in cognitive flexibility and adjustment that can explain the variance of DCD in people with such a disorder (p<.001). Conclusions: The results of the present study provide further evidence on low cognitive flexibility and adjustment observed in students with DCD.