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StorHouse.com - The Data Management Service Provider

FileTek? s StorHouse.com is a data management service that provides intelligent SQL database retrieval to an enterprise? s historical data. The data is duplexed for availability and performance reasons and stored on a storage hierarchy (I.e. RAID, JBOD and Tape Farm Libraries). StorHouse.com provides solution and strategy unicity to the business and technical problems associated with storage and databases issues in DOT.com enterprises and applications. StorHouse.com is the enabling business solution while StorHouse/Relational Manager is the enabling technology to address very large database and large-scale storage problems for Web and generic applications. StorHouse and StorHouse.com are unique in their ability to store, manage, and access data volumes ranging from relatively small (100 GBs) to very large (over a petabyte). Specifically, this paper describes and analyzes StorHouse.com proposed solution for \bullet Cost-effective use of active storage hierarchy \bullet Using SQL to retrieve and query up to petabytes (and more) of historical data \bullet An economic model to capture, preserve mine and convert historical data into strategic information. \bullet Analysis of the service provider business model with real world cost justification of StorHouse.com. \bullet Step-wise refinement, usage and incorporation of existing database systems into a central data store or federated database architecture. In summary, StorHouse.com is a service that uses StorHouse/Relational Manager to cost-effectively exploit an active storage hierarchy. Oracle, SQL Server 7 and DB2 transparent federation can be use to develop and deploy web applications. We include an analysis StorHouse.com economic model since we believe this addresses the hidden economic, frequently unarticulated barrier that applications face when developing an enterprise data management solution where all historical data is stored, analyzed and converted into useful information.
How Useful Are Multimodal Texts in Motivating Vietnamese Primary School Children in Learning English Vocabulary

Motivating young learners in learning vocabulary is not easy, especially in the context that children learning English at weekends in language schools in Vietnam feel stressful and tired after schooldays at their primary schools. But if we fail to do that, we are unable to help them improve their language skills. As a result, this action research examined the roles of multimodal texts in motivating Vietnamese primary school children in learning English vocabulary. It was conducted in two classes at a language school where the researcher has been teaching English for five years and a conclusion was withdrawn that in spite of challenges facing the teachers multimodality engaged the primary school children, both boys and girls, at different ages in learning vocabulary.
Querying Regular Graph Patterns

Graph data appears in a variety of application domains, and many uses of it, such as querying, matching, and transforming data, naturally result in incompletely specified graph data, that is, graph patterns. While queries need to be posed against such data, techniques for querying patterns are generally lacking, and properties of such queries are not well understood. Our goal is to study the basics of querying graph patterns. The key features of patterns we consider here are node and label variables and edges specified by regular expressions. We provide a classification of patterns, and study standard graph queries on graph patterns. We give precise characterizations of both data and combined complexity for each class of patterns. If complexity is high, we do further analysis of features that lead to intractability, as well as lower-complexity restrictions. Since our patterns are based on regular expressions, query answering for them can be captured by a new automata model. These automata have two modes of acceptance: one captures queries returning nodes, and the other queries returning paths. We study properties of such automata, and the key computational tasks associated with them. Finally, we provide additional restrictions for tractability, and show that some intractable cases can be naturally cast as instances of constraint satisfaction problems.
eRS: A System to Facilitate Emotion Recognition in Movies

We present eRS, an open-source system whose purpose is to facilitate the workflow of emotion recognition in movies, released under the MIT license. The system consists of a Django project and an AngularJS web application. It allows to easily create emotional video datasets, process the videos, extract the features and model the emotion. All data is exposed by a REST API, making it available not only to the eRS web application, but also to other applications. All visualizations are interactive and linked to the playing video, allowing researchers to easily analyze the results of their algorithms. The system currently runs on Linux and OS X. eRS can be extended, to integrate new features and algorithms needed in the different steps of emotion recognition in movies.
Modelling farmer decision-making: concepts, progress and challenges

Decisions made by farmers may have large influences beyond the farm boundary, and for this reason they are often of interest to Government and the public. The process of adoption of new technologies and policies has received considerable academic attention over many years, and this has highlighted the role of social influences in decision-making. In addition a range of purely economic-based models of farmer decision-making have been developed in order to predict potential changes in agriculture and land use under future policy and market scenarios. Since the 1990s these traditional approaches to understanding decision-making have been supplemented by an increasing input from psychology. As a result of this work it is clear that farmers' decisions are influenced by a range of factors which may be grouped under six headings: socio-demographics of the farmer, psychological make up of the farmer, the characteristics of the farm household, structure of the farm business, the wider social milieu and the characteristics of the innovation to be adopted. This paper presents a short review of the quantitative methods that seek to integrate insights from economics and social science within theoretical frameworks derived from psychology. Suggestions for further work include more empirical study in farmer decision-making related to animal health and welfare, the role of the farmers' own health status in decision-making and the formal integration of economic and psychological variables in simulation models.
Are Property Rights Relevant for Development Economics? On the Dangers of Western Constructivism

Although the importance of property rights as the engine of growth remains beyond dispute, this article tries to show that the crucial issue is not so much the definition of the allegedly ‘optimal’ property right system, as the understanding of the ideological elements that justify property rights in the first place – entrepreneurship and self-responsibility. Unless one clearly perceives the nature of the ideological structure that legitimises the rules of the game in a given society, it is virtually impossible to understand why growth-conducive property-right systems fail to emerge and be accepted. Put differently, property rights are certainly necessary for growth. But they are no tools for policy-making. Getting them right – or transferring them from other contexts - is not enough, especially if their assignment and enforcement remains a top-down process, whereby local politicians or international technocrats suggest and enforce institutional arrangements experienced elsewhere.
A Review on P2P Video Streaming

The main objective of this article is to provide an overview of P2P based Video-on-Demand and live streaming services. The article starts with an introduction to media streaming and its simplified architecture. Various solutions offering video streaming in the context of widespread usage of Internet are discussed. This is followed by a short introduction to P2P networks and its applications. A broad discussion on various P2P streaming schemes and P2P streaming applications are the main focus of this chapter. Finally, the security issues and solutions for P2P video streaming are discussed briefly.
Sensitivity and validity of a functional test for agility performance in water polo players

The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and validity of the Functional Test for Agility Performance (FTAP) in water polo players. Six elite junior (aged 16.33±0.82 years) male players and 65 competitive men (aged 18.1±4.3 years) who were classified in three groups (G1-3), participated in different phases of the test. The scores accomplished in FTAP at two periods (initial and final) were compared. They were correlated with the scores in Sprint/Agility Test and differences between standards of competition (G1-3) were assessed. Performance differences were assessed using the paired t-test and Pearson’s correlation was used to determine the association with agility time in the Speed/Agility Test. Differences between standards of competition were assessed using ANOVA. The final Functional Test for Agility Performance was performed in fewer seconds compared to initial (p=.002, r=.94). No significant correlation was found between Functional Test for Agility Performance and Speed/Agility Test (r=.42, p=.40), as expected and evidencing the discriminant validity. Differences were found between G1 and G3 (p<.001) and G2 and G3 (p=.008). The Functional Test for Agility Performance showed adequate sensitivity and validity, and thus is a decision-making test that can be used to assess training and expertise.
Growth Factors and Decidualization in Vitro a

Growth factors are believed to act as local regulators of endometrial cyclic activity, but there is limited information on their regulation of decidual differentiation and function. Cell cultures of human endometrial stroma treated with progesterone (P) undergo morphologic, proliferative and secretory changes characteristic of decidualizing endometrium. In the presence of P, different growth factors can stimulate cell proliferation, but decidual differentiation is induced specifically by EGF, as shown by the production of prolactin (PRL), fibronectin, laminin, and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 1 (IGFBP-1). The present study investigates the effects of the insulin-like growth factors (IGF-I, IGF-II) on decidualization in vitro, as indicated by a P-dependent growth response and by the secretion of PRL and IGFBP-1. IGFs were required together with EGF and P to stimulate stromal cell proliferation. In contrast, PRL (38 +/- 4 ng/day/10(6) cells) and IGFBP-1 (26 +/- 3 micrograms/day/10(6) cells) were secreted by in vitro decidualized cells in the absence of exogenous IGFs. However, IGFs regulated both IGFBP-1 and PRL secretion in a dose-dependent biphasic manner. Stimulation of IGFBP-1 (200-250%) and PRL (243-324%) peaked at 1 ng/ml for IGF-I, and 10 ng/ml for IGF-II, followed by inhibition at higher peptide concentrations (ED50s 3 and 30 ng/ml, respectively). Maximal physiological doses (100 ng/ml) of IGF-I and IGF-II virtually abolished IGFBP-1 secretion (1% and 2% of basal levels, respectively), but did not cause total suppression of PRL secretion (8% and 22% of basal levels). IGF-induced mitogenesis was inversely correlated with endogenous IGFBP-1 levels in in vitro decidualized stromal cultures. Our studies show that growth factor interactions regulate decidual function, and that specific cellular functions associated with the decidual response are differentially regulated by growth factor interactions. Our findings support a role for the IGF system in autocrine/paracrine interactions during decidualization and early pregnancy. It is speculated that IGF-II may constitute one of the embryonic signaling mechanisms during early postimplantation stages.
Multi-attribute Procurement Auctions and Negotiations: An Experimental Comparison

Successful procurement involves vendor selection through appropriate market mechanisms. The advancement of information technologies has enabled different mechanisms applicable to similar procurement situations. Advantages and disadvantages of using such mechanisms remain unclear. The present study compares multi-attribute auctions and multi-bilateral negotiations in e-procurement. It carries out online experiments to examine and compare the effects of these mechanisms on the process and outcomes. The results show that auctions are more efficient than negotiations in terms of the process, while the two mechanisms outperform each other on the outcomes. Auctions outperform negotiations in the buyer's gains with the sacrifice of the supplier's profit. The buyer and supplier reach more optimal but less efficient contracts in auctions than in negotiations, and the contracts are more balanced in negotiations than in auctions. The findings provide implications for practice and future research in selection and use of these mechanisms.
Traumatic Injury and Identity: Incorporating Traumatic Episodes into the Life Story

TRAUMATIC INJURY AND IDENTITY: INCORPORATING TRAUMATIC EPISODES INTO THE LIFE STORY Abbey K. Valvano Marquette University, 2012 With an increasing number of traumatic injury survivors, a better understanding of post-trauma meaning-making processes is needed, including improvement in our understanding of post-trauma narrative reconstruction. This project aimed to identify emergent themes within the life story narratives of spinal cord injured veterans and to both generate and test hypotheses regarding how emergent themes related to an indicator of post-trauma wellness. Seven themes were revealed within two specific sections of the life story interview. Findings revealed that individuals who author their life narratives in such a way as to demonstrate altruism and generativity showed significantly higher wellness. Further, narratives with a greater mention of faith, as well as those with imagined futures reflecting a more affirming tone, tended to be authored by individuals with higher levels of wellness. Results help to further our understanding of how those who have been traumatically injured construct their post-injury identity and inform our understanding of resiliency in a traumatic injury population.
A Chlamydia pneumoniae Component That Induces Macrophage Foam Cell Formation Is Chlamydial Lipopolysaccharide

ABSTRACT Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is associated with atherosclerotic heart and vessel disease, but a causal relationship between this pathogen and the disease process has not been established. Recently, it was reported that C. pneumoniae induces human macrophage foam cell formation, a key event in early atheroma development, suggesting a role for the organism in atherogenesis. This study further examines C. pneumoniae-induced foam cell formation in the murine macrophage cell line RAW-264.7. Infected RAW cells accumulated cholesteryl esters when cultured in the presence of low-density lipoprotein in a manner similar to that described for human macrophages. Exposure of C. pneumoniae elementary bodies to periodate, but not elevated temperatures, inhibited cholesteryl ester accumulation, suggesting a role for chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (cLPS) in macrophage foam cell formation. Purified cLPS was found to be sufficient to induce cholesteryl ester accumulation and foam cell formation. Furthermore, the LPS antagonist lipid X inhibited C. pneumoniae and cLPS-induced lipid uptake. These data indicate that cLPS is a C. pneumoniae component that induces macrophage foam cell formation and suggest that infected macrophages chronically exposed to cLPS may accumulate excess cholesterol to contribute to atheroma development.
Measuring the success of intervention programmes designed to increase the participation rate by women in computing

Many intervention programmes to encourage greater female participation in computer education and careers have been conducted in the last twenty years. These intervention programmes take considerable time, effort and money to design and implement. If success were to be measured by an increase in the percentage of female students undertaking computing courses then these programmes would have to be considered a failure. This paper describes a research project which examined fourteen intervention programmes in detail. From the perspective of the programme champions each of the intervention programmes was considered successful, even when this success was restricted to specific areas or limited to small groups of individuals. Formal evaluation appeared to have been an afterthought rather than a priority of many of the programme champions. Some programmes appeared to be less effective due to the lack of targeted and clear goals or predetermined evaluation criteria. It is recommended that during the initial planning phase for intervention programmes a clear objective is to consider what a successful programme would look like and what the evaluation criteria would be. Further work is needed to understand how intervention programmes can be better designed and evaluated so that their impact and success can be expanded.
Principles and Virtues

Principle ethics can be described as a set of prima facie obligations one considers when confronted with an ethical dilemma. Virtue ethics focuses on character traits and nonobligatory ideals that facilitate the development of ethical individuals. Within the context of the assumption that the major responsibilities or primary goals of professionals are to be competent and to serve the common good, we suggest that integrating these complementary ethical perspectives provides a coherent structure for enhancing the ethical competence of psychologists and counselors and the level of public trust in the character and actions of these professions and their members. Virtue ethics, rooted in the narratives and aspirations of specific communities, can be particularly helpful to professionals in discerning appropriate ethical conduct in multicultural settings and interactions. We propose that future directions for research and instruction be expanded from quandary ethics to encompass issues of character
Composition of trabecular and cortical bone

A technique was devised for obtaining marrow‐free trabecular bone so that the trabecular and cortical bone composition of dog, steer, monkey and man could be studied. Vertebral body was cut in the frontal plane into slices 2 mm thick with an electric band saw. The cortical bone encrircling each slice was trimmed off with a cleaver, leaving intact a lacy slice of trabecular bone. The marrow substance was washed away by fine and powerful jets of tap water obtained from an adjustable nozzle. Marrow washing was discontinued when no trace of red color was visible on holding the slice in front of a strong light source.
The Electrocardiogram in Heart Disease Detection: A Comparison of the Multiple and Single Lead Procedures

In a study of a group of 2000 volunteers in a New England community the authors compare the relative merits of the 12-lead and a simplified lead I electrocardiogram in the detection of heart disease. The contribution the electrocardiograph would make if included in a heart disease screening program is evaluated. A possible heart disease screening method is suggested.
A Cost-Effective 3 D Interaction Approach for Immersive Virtual Reality

One of the main factors that has impeded the proliferation of immersive virtual reality systems in mainstream society has been the price involved in setting up such systems. This paper presents the design of an inexpensive 6 degree-of-freedom optical tracking approach which is suitable for 3D interaction in an immersive headmounted display virtual reality system, along with various design issues that have to be considered in setting up such an input system. The method described here involves the use of a camera in conjunction with computer vision software in order to track the position and orientation of fiducial markers. The user can interact with 3D content in the virtual environment by manipulating these physical markers in an area around the user.
Learning styles of psychiatrists and other specialists

AIMS AND METHOD To describe how the Learning Styles Inventory was used to assess the preferred learning styles of a group of senior and specialist registrars from different specialities attending a management course. RESULTS Of the 272 doctors studied, the learning styles of psychiatrists ( n =42) emerged as significantly different to the group as a whole, favouring reflective observation and concrete experience rather than active experimentation or abstract conceptualisation. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS Knowledge of learning styles can help improve interactions with other specialities that adopt different learning strategies, and assist with the individual psychiatrist9s lifelong learning. To engage the interest of medical students, psychiatrists may need to consider different teaching approaches in line with the prevalent learning style.
Raman study of ion-induced defects in N-layer graphene

Raman scattering is used to study the effect of low energy (90 eV) Ar + ion bombardment in graphene samples as a function of the number of layers N. The evolution of the intensity ratio between the G band (1585 cm − 1) and the disorder-induced D band (1345 cm − 1) with ion fluence is determined for mono-, bi-, tri- and ∼ 50-layer graphene samples, providing a spectroscopy-based method to study the penetration of these low energy Ar + ions in AB Bernal stacked graphite, and how they affect the graphene sheets. The results clearly depend on the number of layers. We also analyze the evolution of the overall integrated Raman intensity and the integrated intensity for disorder-induced versus Raman-allowed peaks.
Brokering knowledge mobilization networks: Policy reforms, partnerships, and teacher education

Educational researchers and policy-makers are now expected by funding agencies and their institutions to innovate the multidirectional ways in which our production of knowledge can impact the classrooms of teachers (practitioners), while also integrating their experiential knowledge into the landscape of our research. In this article, we draw on the curriculum implementation literature to complicate our understandings of knowledge mobilization (KMb). Policy implementation, we suggest, can be understood as one specific type of KMb. We draw on different models for KMb and curriculum implementation and develop a relational model for KMb. Utilizing our model we critically reflect on the specific successes and challenges encountered while establishing, building, and sustaining the capacity of our KMb network. Our findings suggest that faculties of education are uniquely positioned to act as secondary brokers for the implementation of policy reforms within public education systems. To this end, we discuss how a relational KMb network is a “best practice” for establishing and sustaining partnerships among policy makers, educational researchers, and public school practitioners.
Polarization-sensitive absorption of THz radiation by interacting electrons in chirally stacked multilayer graphene

We show that the opacity of a clean multilayer graphene flake depends on the helicity of the circular polarized electromagnetic radiation. The effect can be understood in terms of the pseudospin selection rules for the interband optical transitions in the presence of exchange electron–electron interactions which alter the pseudospin texture in momentum space. The interactions described within a semi-analytical Hartree–Fock approach lead to the formation of topologically different broken symmetry states characterized by Chern numbers and zero-field anomalous Hall conductivities.