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Foamed bleomycin sclerosis of airway venous malformations: The role of interspecialty collaboration

To assess clinical outcomes of patients with airway venous malformations treated with percutaneous sclerotherapy (VMPS). We highlight the role of foamed bleomycin as a less inflammatory sclerosant and the importance of collaboration between interventional radiology and otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (OHNS).
IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

This file is a DRAFT chapter intended to be part of the NIST Computer Security Handbook. The chapters were prepared by different parties and, in some cases, have not been reviewed by NIST. The next iteration of a chapter could be SUBSTANTIALLY different than the current version. If you wish to provide comments on the chapters, please email them to roback@ecf.ncsl. gov or mail them to Ed Roback/Room B154, Bldg 225/NIST/Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
The Measurement of School-to-work Transitions as Processes

ABSTRACT Measuring individual transitions means capturing a process with a specific time dimension. The established analysis of school-to-work transitions focuses on single status changes, such as those between education and unemployment. As longitudinal datasets became increasingly available, the periodical character of transitions has deserved attention, mostly in terms of studies that used event history models. But even these kinds of studies continued to focus on single status changes, which are not determined by theory but by the respective research question, or by data availability. Hence, the analysis of micro-level transitions remains selective, because there is no common idea how to explore them. As a result, school-to-work transition research is in danger to overlook important aspects of this life-course trajectory. This paper argues that the reason is the missing theoretical definition of a transition. Given the growing complexity of school-to-work transitions, the status change concept becomes inappropriate for their analysis. The predominance of hypothesis-testing methods together with an underrepresentation of explorative methods lead to a disregard of the process character of school-to-work transitions. This considerably limits the gain of new scientific insights. Recent methodological developments regarding the explorative analysis of longitudinal processes, namely sequence analysis, offer the possibility to cope with the complexity of school-to-work transitions. The paper aims at comparing the advantages and drawbacks of two methods in analysing transitions, and advocates a combined research design between explorative and hypothesis-testing methods.
Parallel-beams/lever electrothermal out-of-plane actuator

We report on the design, modeling, fabrication and testing of a powerful electrothermal actuator allowing for various modes of movement and exhibiting forces large enough to be usable in a micro-tribotester. The performance of the actuator has been simulated combining numerical and analytical calculations, and then the results were compared with experiments performed in ambient conditions and in vacuum. Theoretical results and measurements are consistent if the temperature dependence of the properties of the polycrystalline Si is taken into account. The temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity and the linear thermal expansion coefficient of the Boron doped polycrystalline Si have been derived from experimental results and self-consistent numerical calculations. We delimited the reversible and irreversible actuation regions of the electrothermal actuator, thus the so-called “plastic deformation” for actuation at high electrical power can be avoided.
Language Matters in Global Communication

In the past few decades, it has become widely accepted that the lingua franca of international business is English; witness the way companies increasingly choose English as their official corporate language. Although this would seem to facilitate communication, this article argues that the choice of language(s) used is a delicate issue, highlighting the complexities of any split into native/nonnative speakers, and thus requiring considerable people management skills. This article discusses research from the Helsinki School of Economics on language and communication in multinational corporations based in non-English speaking countries. It suggests a reconceptualization of English lingua franca as business English lingua franca (BELF), and argues that BELF is a mostly oral language through which power is wielded in multinationals, and perceptions of self and others created. Moreover, it is not a “cultureless” language, but rather creates new operational cultures. Language choice thus has implications for management, HR, and employee satisfaction.
ModVis: An information visualization tool for gene module discovery

The repeated grouping of genes across module sets produced by different module discovery methods may prove to be biologically significant in the area of functional genomics. To ease in the exploration of these overlapping groups of genes, we introduce ModVis, a software tool that allows for the interactive visualization of module discovery data, with an emphasis on the overlap between data sets derived from different methods. Our tool provides a high-level overview of multiple module sets, displaying the modules in each set, and the location and magnitude of the overlap between sets. The tool’s more-detailed visualization displays a heat map for a particular gene module, and organizes the heat maps for its overlapping modules so that the individual genes involved in the overlap become readily apparent.
How do therapists respond to client feedback? A critical review of the research literature

In this paper, we aimed to review empirical studies on therapists’ experiences with feedback procedures, with a focus on the feedback conversation. A thematic analysis of the citations and descriptions in the identified empirical studies was conducted. Therapists’ experiences could be categorized into four themes: (1) adoption of a meta-perspective on the therapeutic process and practice; (2) emergence of incentives to move beyond one’s personal and professional comfort zone; (3) greater awareness of children’s and adolescents’ perspectives during therapy; and (4) influence of structured feedback on collaboration with clients. The themes relate to therapy-specific issues as well as to overall theoretical issues. Given the widespread use of feedback procedures, surprisingly little research has been published on therapists’ experience with them. This review reveals a strong need to examine, both theoretically and empirically, the extra interactions that arise with the inclusion of a feedback procedure in therapy.
Use of transabdominal ultrasound-guided amniocentesis for detection of equid herpesvirus 1-induced fetal infection in utero.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate transabdominal ultrasound-guided amniocentesis for detection of equid herpes-virus 1 (EHV-1)-induced fetal infection in utero. ANIMALS 4 Welsh Mountain mares. PROCEDURE Pregnant mares were inoculated intranasally with EHV-1 during the ninth month of gestation. Amniocentesis was initiated on postinoculation day (PID) 12, and was performed at 2- to 3-day intervals in standing mares under deep sedation. Amniotic fluid samples were tested by virus isolation (VI), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and immunoperoxidase cytologic examination (IC) for detection of EHV-1. RESULTS Exposure to EHV-1 in the ninth month of gestation resulted in nasal shedding of infective virus, establishment of cell-associated viremia, and seroconversion. Equid herpesvirus 1 was detected by VI, PCR, and IC in amniotic fluid collected on PID 14 from 1 mare and on PID 16 and 17 from a second mare. Specimens of amniotic fluid from a third mare were VI negative until PID 18, when collections ceased, although this mare subsequently aborted an EHV-1-infected fetus on PID 28. The fourth mare aborted an EHV-1 infected fetus on PID 14. The 2 mares with VI-positive amniotic fluid were each carrying an EHV-1 infected fetus in utero, confirmed by examination of the uterus, placenta, and fetus, using specific immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. Endothelial cells in the endometrium and allantochorion were often virus-infected, with accompanying vascular lesions. The fetus had been infected via the chorionic vasculature in the first and fourth mares, and by inhalation of infected amniotic fluid in the second mare. CONCLUSION Amniocentesis permits specific detection of EHV-1-induced fetal infection in utero. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Amniocentesis may have a clinical role in the specific identification and isolation of mares carrying virus-infected fetuses during EHV-1-induced abortion epizootics.
A Cross‐Cultural Study of Personality: Icelandic Children and English Children

Abstract: Haraldsson, E. & Eysenck, S. B. G. 1987. A Cross‐Cultural Study of Personality: Icelandic Children and English Children. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 31, 123‐127. 621 boys and 604 girls were given an Icelandic translation of the 97‐item Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Although some items were found inappropriate for use in Iceland, a viable scoring key was found and all reliabilities, except perhaps for Psychoticism, were satisfactory. Indices of factor comparison showed very clearly identical factors in both countries. A comparison of Icelandic and British norms, using only items common to both, suggests very little difference between the groups. Icelandic girls scored higher on the Lie scale than British girls, and Icelandic boys slightly lower on the Psychoticism scale than British boys. 1. We wish to thank all the children at the schools who took part in this study. We are indebted to Jon Petursson and Jorundur Olafsson who administered the test, to Paul Barrett for.
Crime Prediction Based On Crime Types And Using Spatial And Temporal Criminal Hotspots

This paper focuses on finding spatial and temporal criminal hotspots. It analyses two different real-world crimes datasets for Denver, CO and Los Angeles, CA and provides a comparison between the two datasets through a statistical analysis supported by several graphs. Then, it clarifies how we conducted Apriori algorithm to produce interesting frequent patterns for criminal hotspots. In addition, the paper shows how we used Decision Tree classifier and Naive Bayesian classifier in order to predict potential crime types. To further analyse crimes datasets, the paper introduces an analysis study by combining our findings of Denver crimes dataset with its demographics information in order to capture the factors that might affect the safety of neighborhoods. The results of this solution could be used to raise awareness regarding the dangerous locations and to help agencies to predict future crimes in a specific location within a particular time.
Bayesian face recognition using support vector machine and face clustering

In this paper, we first develop a direct Bayesian based support vector machine by combining the Bayesian analysis with the SVM. Unlike traditional SVM-based face recognition method that needs to train a large number of SVMs, the direct Bayesian SVM needs only one SVM trained to classify the face difference between intra-personal variation and extra-personal variation. However, the added simplicity means that the method has to separate two complex subspaces by one hyper-plane thus affects the recognition accuracy. In order to improve the recognition performance we develop three more Bayesian based SVMs, including the one-versus-all method, the hierarchical agglomerative clustering based method, and the adaptive clustering method. We show the improvement of the new algorithms over traditional subspace methods through experiments on two face databases, the FERET database and the XM2VTS database.
Developing User Interfaces for Wearable Computers: Don't Stop to Point and Click

Typical usage scenarios for wearable computers are support of users doing a certain task, e.g. aircraft repair or military applications. If the user is moving while using the wearable some restriction for the user interface apply. In this paper we present some of these restrictions and suggest a wearable user interface taking these findings into account. 1 Introduction The term "Wearable Computer" is used for a wide range of personal technologies, such as watches and mobile phones with enhanced
Theoretical and Empirical Framework of Measuring Mismatch on a Labour Market

The main emphasis of this article is focused on the growing problem of structural unemployment in selected group of transition countries. Namely, if a certain region has a greater degree of unemployment rate than the frictional one, and if another region shows greater number of available vacancies than in conditions of frictional unemployment, it is referred to as structural disequilibrium or mismatch. Such unemployment is called structural unemployment. The estimates clearly show that the mismatch explains only a portion of unemployment and could be considered as a factor of increased unemployment. The empirical study refers to measuring the structural unemployment caused by regional mismatch in selected transition countries by known theoretical methods of mismatch indicators. The empirical findings of the cross-country data sets suggest that the values for the particular mismatch indicators differ in a great extent. Therefore, it is very hard to estimate the real size of structural unemployment. The measured values for all mismatch indicators cannot give a uniform conclusion, but they show corresponding trend.
Real-time area-based haptic rendering and the augmented tactile display device for a palpation simulator

Although people usually contact a surface with some area rather than a point, most haptic devices allow a user to interact with a virtual object at one point at a time and likewise most haptic rendering algorithms deal with such situations only. In a palpation procedure, medical doctors push and rub the organ's surface, and are provided the sensation of distributed pressure and contact force (reflecting force) for discerning doubtable areas of the organ. In this paper, we suggest real-time area-based haptic rendering to describe distributed pressure and contact force simultaneously, and present a haptic interface system to generate surface properties in accordance with the haptic rendering algorithm. We represent the haptic model using the shape-retaining chain link (S-chain) framework for a fast and stable computation of the contact force and distributed pressure from a volumetric virtual object. In addition, we developed a compact pin-array-type tactile display unit and attached it to the PHANToMTM haptic device to complement each other. For the evaluation, experiments were conducted with non-homogenous volumetric cubic objects consisting of approximately 500 000 volume elements. The experimental results show that compared to the point contact, the area contact provides the user with more precise perception of the shape and softness of the object's composition, and that our proposed system satisfies the real-time and realism constraints to be useful for a virtual reality application.
Microbial electron transport and energy conservation – the foundation for optimizing bioelectrochemical systems

Microbial electrochemical techniques describe a variety of emerging technologies that use electrode–bacteria interactions for biotechnology applications including the production of electricity, waste and wastewater treatment, bioremediation and the production of valuable products. Central in each application is the ability of the microbial catalyst to interact with external electron acceptors and/or donors and its metabolic properties that enable the combination of electron transport and carbon metabolism. And here also lies the key challenge. A wide range of microbes has been discovered to be able to exchange electrons with solid surfaces or mediators but only a few have been studied in depth. Especially electron transfer mechanisms from cathodes towards the microbial organism are poorly understood but are essential for many applications such as microbial electrosynthesis. We analyze the different electron transport chains that nature offers for organisms such as metal respiring bacteria and acetogens, but also standard biotechnological organisms currently used in bio-production. Special focus lies on the essential connection of redox and energy metabolism, which is often ignored when studying bioelectrochemical systems. The possibility of extracellular electron exchange at different points in each organism is discussed regarding required redox potentials and effect on cellular redox and energy levels. Key compounds such as electron carriers (e.g., cytochromes, ferredoxin, quinones, flavins) are identified and analyzed regarding their possible role in electrode–microbe interactions. This work summarizes our current knowledge on electron transport processes and uses a theoretical approach to predict the impact of different modes of transfer on the energy metabolism. As such it adds an important piece of fundamental understanding of microbial electron transport possibilities to the research community and will help to optimize and advance bioelectrochemical techniques.
“Are We Talking About the Same Person Here?”

We investigated how interrater agreement in personality judgment is affected by the perceivers’ affection or dislike regarding the targets. A total of 209 perceivers judged the personalities of 15 targets by means of 30 adjectives. The targets were public figures (e.g., the Pope), which enabled gathering a large number of ratings by perceivers differing in liking. Shared liking was associated with strong increases, and large liking differences were associated with strong decreases, in profile correlations. Shared antipathy was also associated with lower agreement. The greater agreement between judgments of liked targets was largely due to the perceivers characterizing targets positively, whereas judgments of disliked targets were not affected by (shared) negativity to the same extent. The perceivers’ attitudes toward the targets constitute an important factor in person perception and need to be taken into account more systematically in research studies.
An End-User's Perspective on Application Management

We present an end-user’s perspective on managing Internet applications. The end-user’s perspective can: (1) guide the definition of metrics for which management data must be collected, (2) limit the amount of data collected for end-to-end management of applications, and (3) enable management by end-users themselves. To explore concepts of management from an end-user’s perspective, we have prototyped a tool, Amadeus, that enables management by end-users. Amadeus tracks end-user actions and correlates them with performance and business metrics. We describe the motivation and architecture for Amadeus. Two salient points about the architecture are: (1) data collection is triggered by end-user’s interactions with applications (as opposed to a periodic polling scheme), and (2) application monitoring does not require source code access to applications. We illustrate our approach using the Lotus Notes email application.
Uranium Reduction by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans Strain G20 and a Cytochrome c3 Mutant

ABSTRACT Previous in vitro experiments with Desulfovibrio vulgaris strain Hildenborough demonstrated that extracts containing hydrogenase and cytochrome c3 could reduce uranium(VI) to uranium(IV) with hydrogen as the electron donor. To test the involvement of these proteins in vivo, a cytochrome c3 mutant of D. desulfuricans strain G20 was assayed and found to be able to reduce U(VI) with lactate or pyruvate as the electron donor at rates about one-half of those of the wild type. With electrons from hydrogen, the rate was more severely impaired. Cytochrome c3 appears to be a part of the in vivo electron pathway to U(VI), but additional pathways from organic donors can apparently bypass this protein.
The Varied Dimensions of Law, Policy, and Treatment of Convicted Sex Offenders

A seemingly endless struggle continues to exist over policy prescriptions for convicted sex offenders. The oversimplified answer is to enact more punitive measures, however futile they may be, to appease a misinformed populace. This review essay looks at three titles that examine the policy justifications for sex offenders and explain the expensive and irrational measures taken in both American and British society to try to gain some control over this class of criminal and mental health cases.
Renewing the War on prostitution: The spectres of ‘trafficking’ and ‘slavery’

The 1990s saw government initiatives restricting immigration in many countries, and a good deal of popular unease. Associated policies have targeted sex workers, as with the Policing and Crime Bill that is currently in its Third Reading in the House of Commons (UK). In the name of ‘victims’ of a trade organised by ‘evil’ traffickers, this Bill seeks further sanctions against all of those involved. This editorial asks whether initiatives during the current recession might not seem to succeed but for the wrong reasons. Immigrants are already leaving the UK in search of a living while local workers, who were promised safer working conditions in the wake of the murder of five women in Ipswich (2006), will be punished more and more. With its apparently humanitarian efforts to ‘stop the traffic’, the UK government will turn out to have replaced our ‘slaves’ from abroad with home-grown substitutes, and effectively solidified and further excluded an underclass. This situation suggests striking parallels with the panic over white slavery during the last comparable period of globalisation culminating in the First World War.
Efficient Designing Approach of Different Synchronous Cyclic Code Counters by Sequential Circuit Elements of a Novel Reversible Gate

Reversible logic is widely being considered as the probable logic design style for implementation in modern nanotechnology, optical computing and quantum computing with least impact on physical entropy as because of its less power dissipation as well as distinct output assignment for each distinct input. A reversible circuit maps each output vector into a unique input vector, and vice versa. This paper proposes a new reversible gate. This paper represents various classical operations of this proposed reversible gate. It also represents different sequential circuit elements of reversible gate and its application in designing different synchronous cyclic code counters. The proposed reversible gate is better for designing reversible counter compared to those gates reported in the literature in terms of garbage output, quantum cost and complexity of gates. These synchronous reversible counters give the initial threshold to construct the more complex structure having reversible sequential circuits as a primary component and which can implement more complex operations using quantum computers. Since the output of a sequential circuit depends not only on the present inputs but also on the past input conditions, the construction of sequential elements using reversible logic gates is quite complex than that of a combinational circuit. This paper proposes reversible D flip flop, JK flip flop, T flip flop and also represents two types of 4 bit synchronous cyclic code decade counter (SCCDC) and a 4 bit synchronous gray cyclic code counter (SGCCC) using proposed reversible T flip flop. A comparison between these designs in terms of garbage output, number of gates, constant input and total logical calculation also has been made.