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Fifty years of LIS education in Australia: Research productivity and visibility of LIS educators in higher education institutions

This paper surveys aspects of the research productivity and visibility of Australian Library and Information Studies (LIS) educators as reflected in publications retrieved from eight relevant databases. Searching was restricted to educators serving for at least two years in Australian LIS programs from 1959 to 2008; the records obtained were downloaded and checked for accuracy. The results show that fewer than five percent of educators, generally with long service, produced over one-quarter of all journal articles, while nearly one-third of educators authored no articles. About three-quarters of all journal articles were singleauthored; however, multiple authorship has increased over time, especially since 2000. Nearly one-half of all articles were published in Australian national journals; as these journals were indexed only in national and LIS-specific databases, such databases must be included to obtain a reliable picture of Australian LIS research productivity.
A peer-to-peer collaborative intrusion detection system

Many types of network intrusions occur in multiple networks simultaneously, for example, scanning, worms, and denial-of-service attacks. Most of the current intrusion detection systems work in isolation to detect these attacks. Past research has shown that collaboration between these networks to share suspicious information is an effective way to detect intrusion. However, there are some challenges associated with the idea of collaborative detection, such as scalability and avoidance of a central point of failure. We propose a peer-to-peer approach for collaborative intrusion detection to address these challenges. Our solution proposes secure data sharing between participants from different organizations using a content based peer-to-peer publish/subscribe mechanism. The proposed scheme improves scalability, while avoiding a central point of failure. Our experimental results show improved detection latency and effective load balancing compared to a centralized architecture.
From Simple Receptors to Complex Multimodal Percepts: A First Global Picture on the Mechanisms Involved in Perceptual Binding

The binding problem in perception is concerned with answering the question how information from millions of sensory receptors, processed by millions of neurons working in parallel, can be merged into a unified percept. Binding in perception reaches from the lowest levels of feature binding up to the levels of multimodal binding of information coming from the different sensor modalities and also from other functional systems. The last 40 years of research have shown that the binding problem cannot be solved easily. Today, it is considered as one of the key questions to brain understanding. To date, various solutions have been suggested to the binding problem including: (1) combination coding, (2) binding by synchrony, (3) population coding, (4) binding by attention, (5) binding by knowledge, expectation, and memory, (6) hardwired vs. on-demand binding, (7) bundling and binding of features, (8) the feature-integration theory of attention, and (9) synchronization through top-down processes. Each of those hypotheses addresses important aspects of binding. However, each of them also suffers from certain weak points and can never give a complete explanation. This article gives a brief overview of the so far suggested solutions of perceptual binding and then shows that those are actually not mutually exclusive but can complement each other. A computationally verified model is presented which shows that, most likely, the different described mechanisms of binding act (1) at different hierarchical levels and (2) in different stages of “perceptual knowledge acquisition. ” The model furthermore considers and explains a number of inhibitory “filter mechanisms” that suppress the activation of inappropriate or currently irrelevant information.
Morpho-physiological Criteria Divide Dentatecc Gyrus Interneurons into Classes

GABAergic inhibitory interneurons control fundamental aspects of neuronal network function. Their functional roles are assumed to be defined by the identity of their input synapses, the architecture of their dendritic tree, the passive and active membrane properties and finally the nature of their postsynaptic targets. Indeed, interneurons display a high degree of morphological and physiological heterogeneity. However, whether their morphological and physiological characteristics are correlated and whether interneuron diversity can be described by a continuum of GABAergic cell types or by distinct classes has remained unclear. Here we perform a detailed morphological and physiological characterization of GABAergic cells in the dentate gyrus, the input region of the hippocampus. To achieve an unbiased and efficient sampling and classification we used knock‐in mice expressing the enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) in glutamate decarboxylase 67 (GAD67)‐positive neurons and performed cluster analysis. We identified five interneuron classes, each of them characterized by a distinct set of anatomical and physiological parameters. Cross‐correlation analysis further revealed a direct relation between morphological and physiological properties indicating that dentate gyrus interneurons fall into functionally distinct classes which may differentially control neuronal network activity. © 2013 The Authors. Hippocampus Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Traffic steering in software defined networks

Middleboxes have become ubiquitous in data center as well as wide area networks. Simple routing of flows from ingress to egress along shortest paths has been replaced by policy aware paths that have to pass through the required set of middleboxes. The complex routing is one of the major impetus for the Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm. In this paper, we consider both offline planning and online routing problems in SDN framework. The offline planning problem is one where aggregate demands are specified and the objective is to determine whether there is enough capacity in the network to handle the demands. We develop a fast FPTAS for the problem based on segmentation and lazy dual update. In the online routing problem, flow requests are given one at a time and the objective is to steer the flows to maximize the total amount of traffic accepted over time. We develop a log-competitive algorithm based on time-dependent duals.
Recognizing Intentions in Infant-Directed Speech

In all languages studied to date, distinct prosodic contours characterize different intention categories of infant-directed (ID) speech. This vocal behavior likely exists universally as a species-typical trait, but little research has examined whether listeners can accurately recognize intentions in ID speech using only vocal cues, without access to semantic information. We recorded native-English-speaking mothers producing four intention categories of utterances (prohibition, approval, comfort, and attention) as both ID and adult-directed (AD) speech, and we then presented the utterances to Shuar adults (South American hunter-horticulturalists). Shuar subjects were able to reliably distinguish ID from AD speech and were able to reliably recognize the intention categories in both types of speech, although performance was significantly better with ID speech. This is the first demonstration that adult listeners in an indigenous, nonindustrialized, and nonliterate culture can accurately infer intentions from both ID speech and AD speech in a language they do not speak.
Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Experimenting with Extreme Teaching Method – Assessing Students' and Teachers' Experiences

During the course Implementation of Information Systems in Organizational Context we experimented with a reflexive and participative teaching method called eXtreme Teaching. This method proposes a consideration for values, such as respect, communication, feedback, courage, and simplicity , in teaching. We wanted to experiment with an informal teaching method to gain more interaction. During the course, an openly discursive atmosphere was achieved through careful planning and spontaneous performance. In this article, we propose an approach that successful learning experiences are not achieved only by the efforts of teachers but also by students' active participation and interests towards the course issues.
The impact of periodized core training program on accurate service velocity of male tennis players aged 11-13 11-13 yaş arası erkek tenisçilerde periyotlanmış core antrenman programının isabetli servis hızına etkisi

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of periodized core training program on the serve velocity in male tennis players aged 11-13 years. 24 male nationally ranged (age 11.9±1.63, height 154.4±11.32, weight 43±8.76) participated to the study from a professional tennis club. Pre-post-training - control group design was applied and subjects were randomly assigned to Control Group and Training Group. Training Group participated to the core training program consisted of isometric and isotonic core stabilization exercises on stable and nonstable surfaces, three days in a week for 8 weeks in addition to tennis training sessions. Accurate service velocity, was assessed initially and at the end of the 8-week core program for both control and training groups. There was a significant improvement (6.6 %) in the serve velocity for the training group after the experiment, whereas there were no differences in the control group. Core stabilization training improved service velocity for young tennis players. It is recommended tennis coaches to apply periodized core stabilization exercises to young athletes and plan training programs in this way. Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file. OzetBu calismanin amaci 11-13 yas arasi erkek teniscilerde periyodlanmis core antrenman programinin isabetli servis hizina etkisini incelemektir. Calismaya profesyonel bir tenis kulubunden ulusal musabik 24 erkek tenisci (yas 11.9±1.63, boy 154.4±11.32, agirlik 43±8.76) katilmistir. Arastirmada on-test son-test kontrol gruplu model uygulanmis, denekler iki gruba rastgele atanmistir. 12 sporcu Kontrol Grubunu, 12 sporcu ise Deney Grubunu olusturmustur. Deney Grubuna haftanin uc gunu yarim saatlik 8 hafta boyunca toplamda 24 antrenman birimi stabil ve stabil olmayan yuzeylerde izometrik ve izotonik core stabilizasyon egzersizlerinden olusan program, tenis antrenmanlarina ek olarak uygulanmistir. Program oncesi ve sonrasinda her katilimci maksimal hizda 10 servis kullanarak en hizli ve gecerli atislari kaydedilmistir. Core antrenman uygulamasi sonrasi Kontrol Grubunun servis atis hizi degismezken, Deney Grubu servis atis hizini ortalama 120.93 km/s hizdan 128.6 km/s hiza (% 6.6) cikarmistir. Core antrenman uygulamalarinin genc teniscilerde isabetli servis hizini olumlu etkiledigi tespit edilmistir. Tenis antrenorlerinin yuksek siddet icermeyen, core antrenmanlarini ve stabilizasyon uygulamalarini genc sporcularda uygulamasinin yararli olacagi dusunulmekte ve antrenman programlarini buna gore planlamalari tavsiye edilmektedir.
Predictors of Success Among High School Students in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Programs

Research has shown that students in Advanced Placement (AP) classes and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs experience higher levels of stress compared to students in general education classes. Elevated stress can serve as a risk factor for students’ academic and mental health problems. Given the documented stress of these students, additional investigations are needed to more fully understand how students experience these curricula and the factors associated with positive student outcomes. Thus, we set out to identify factors associated with success among AP/IB students, with an emphasis on exploring potentially malleable factors that could be targeted with existing or newly developed interventions. Data were collected via self-report measures and school records from 2,379 students (Grades 9-12) enrolled in AP or IB in 20 school programs in one state. We examined the relationships among 34 predictors (e.g., stressors, coping styles, student engagement, family factors, school factors, and demographic features) of success. Success was represented by five outcomes in two domains: mental health (life satisfaction, psychopathology, school burnout) and academic (GPA, AP/IB exam scores). Better outcomes in both domains were associated with higher levels of achievement motivation and cognitive engagement, as well as lower levels of parent–child conflict, stress from major life events, and use of avoidance coping strategies. Higher levels of affective engagement, use of approach coping, and authoritative parenting were robust predictors of positive mental health outcomes and unrelated (in multivariate analyses) to academic outcomes. Findings have implications for subsequent development of intervention efforts targeting factors associated with student success.
In defence of measurement: a comment on Phiddian et al.

The policy perspective entitled “Counting culture to death” by Phiddian, Meyrick, Barnett and Maltby (2017) (hereafter PMBM) derives from a well-known distrust of measurement in any form, a view that quantification is the enemy of judgement, that it is used only for instrumental purposes, to serve special interests, or to further some political agenda. In the cultural arena, such views can be seen as anti-intellectual insofar as they stand in the way of serious efforts by scholars in the humanities and social sciences to understand what we mean when we say that culture or art has value. This is a fundamental question that cannot be dismissed by asserting that all responses to art are subjective and individual and therefore cannot be measured. People are making absolute and comparative judgements about art all the time, and it is a legitimate exercise for researchers, art practitioners, policymakers and others to try to make some sense of how these judgements are made and what they imply. The arguments advanced in the paper can be grouped under two questions: first, is it possible to assess the quality or value of cultural phenomena using quantitative measurement, as methods such as Culture Counts attempt to do? And second, once a set of measurements is derived, how are the data likely to be used, or more particularly, misused? In regard to the first question, there is no doubt as to the important role that quality considerations play in the decision-making of arts companies, cultural institutions and arts funding agencies. Statements of the objectives that all such organisations strive to pursue will invariably be driven by two principal motives: achieving the highest possible artistic standards, and making work available to the widest possible audience. Given the first of these drivers, it is not surprising that the issue of how to assess the quality standards of what is being done has always been a significant matter. Of necessity quality judgements are being made almost daily, and inevitably they will require some ranking – for a theatre company planning next year’s season, for example, does project A align better with our artistic goals than project B? The foundations on which these practical real-world choices are based have their counterpart in the scholarly discourse, exemplified by the long-running debate about cultural value. Readers of this journal will no doubt be familiar with the intrinsic/instrumental distinction that motivated concerns for the interpretation of value in the early 2000s (McCarthy, Ondaatje, Zakaras, & Brooks, 2005; Holden, 2006), and more recently with the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Cultural Value project (Crossick & Kaszynska, 2017). In the field of cultural economics, the distinction between economic value and cultural value is accepted as separating out the latter as a concept that is explicitly not financial, but related to the sorts of quality criteria that might be used by the theatre company in the example above (Hutter & Throsby, 2008).
The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels

'League table' information on school effectiveness in England generally relies on either a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school, e.g. mean exam scores, or on estimates of the average value added by each school. These approaches assume that the information parents and policy-makers need most to judge school effectiveness is the average achievement level or gain in a particular school. Yet schools can be differentially effective for children with differing levels of prior attainment. We present evidence on the extent of differential effectiveness in English secondary schools, and find that even the most conservative estimate suggests that around one quarter of schools in England are differentially effective for students of differing prior ability levels. This affects an even larger proportion of children as larger schools are more likely to be differentially effective.
Analysis of Empirical MAP and Empirical Partially Bayes: Can They be Alternatives to Variational Bayes?

Variational Bayesian (VB) learning is known to be a promising approximation to Bayesian learning with computational efficiency. However, in some applications, e.g., large-scale collaborative filtering and tensor factorization, VB is still computationally too costly. In such cases, looser approximations such as MAP estimation and partially Bayesian (PB) learning, where a part of the parameters are point-estimated, seem attractive. In this paper, we theoretically investigate the behavior of the MAP and the PB solutions of matrix factorization. A notable finding is that the global solutions of MAP and PB in the empirical Bayesian scenario, where the hyperparameters are also estimated from observation, are trivial and useless, while their local solutions behave similarly to the global solution of VB. This suggests that empirical MAP and empirical PB with local search can be alternatives to empirical VB equipped with the useful automatic relevance determination property. Experiments support our theory.
Costs of moderate to severe chronic pain in primary care patients – a study of the ACCORD Program

Background The economic burden of chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) remains insufficiently documented in primary care. Purpose To evaluate the annual direct health care costs and productivity costs associated with moderate to severe CNCP in primary care patients taking into account their pain disability. Materials and methods Patients reporting noncancer pain for at least 6 months, at a pain intensity of 4 or more on a 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst possible pain) intensity scale, and at a frequency of at least 2 days a week, were recruited from community pharmacies. Patients’ characteristics, health care utilization, and productivity losses (absenteeism and presenteeism) were documented using administrative databases, pharmacies’ renewal charts, telephone, and self-administered questionnaires. Patients were stratified by tertile of pain disability measured by the Brief Pain Inventory questionnaire. Results Patients (number =483) were, on average, 59 years old, mainly women (67.5%), and suffered from CNCP for a mean of 12 years at an average pain intensity of 6.5±1.9. The annual direct health care costs and productivity costs averaged CAD $9,565 (±$13,993) and CAD $7,072 (±$11,716), respectively. The use of complementary health care services accounted for almost 50% of the direct health care costs. The mean adjusted total direct health care costs (considering pain-related hospitalizations only) and productivity costs increased with more pain disability: low disability, CAD $12,118; moderate, CAD $18,278; and severe, CAD $19,216; P=0.001. Conclusion The economic burden of CNCP is substantial and increases with the level of pain disability, which suggests the need for and potential benefits of improving CNCP management through specific and adapted treatment plans targeting the impact of pain on daily functioning.
Machine Translation for Cross-Language Social Media

User-generated content available in weblogs and social media a) contains high noise levels, b) is domain independent, c) is generated fast, d) is available in large quantities and d) is inherently focused on information content and knowledge sharing. Thanks to the new Internet culture, which emphasizes accessibility, openness and active participation, communication needs are less stringent but require faster response and must preserve information content. These properties make user-generated content suitable for machine translation and, more specifically, hybrid machine translation, which combines knowledge representation with statistical modeling. In this article we present a qualitative study of data extracted from the Social Media Dataset: we analyze how naturally occurring phenomena can affect machine translation quality and we show how new hybrid approaches may successfully preserve semantics while at the same time achieving near-optimal levels of linguistic fluency.
Hacia una anotación de dependencias enriquecida de corpus españoles

We present a cost-effective strategy for the creation of a mid-size fine-grained Spanish dependency tree bank of surface-, deep-syntactic and semantic structures as defined in the Meaning-Text Theory. The strategy starts from a small seed dependency corpus, the AnCora corpus, whose annotation is considerably more coarse-grained than our target annotation. We show that this discrepancy can be bridged largely by automatic means. This allows us to develop the resources with limited human effort within a limited period of time. We also propose a preliminary evaluation of the actual amount of work that the annotation process requires.
Acquisition of glial cells missing 2 Enhancers Contributes to a Diversity of Ionocytes in Zebrafish

Glial cells missing 2 (gcm2) encoding a GCM-motif transcription factor is expressed in the parathyroid in amniotes. In contrast, gcm2 is expressed in pharyngeal pouches (a homologous site of the parathyroid), gills, and H+-ATPase–rich cells (HRCs), a subset of ionocytes on the skin surface of the teleost fish zebrafish. Ionocytes are specialized cells that are involved in osmotic homeostasis in aquatic vertebrates. Here, we showed that gcm2 is essential for the development of HRCs and Na+-Cl− co-transporter–rich cells (NCCCs), another subset of ionocytes in zebrafish. We also identified gcm2 enhancer regions that control gcm2 expression in ionocytes of zebrafish. Comparisons of the gcm2 locus with its neighboring regions revealed no conserved elements between zebrafish and tetrapods. Furthermore, We observed gcm2 expression patterns in embryos of the teleost fishes Medaka (Oryzias latipes) and fugu (Fugu niphobles), the extant primitive ray-finned fishes Polypterus (Polypterus senegalus) and sturgeon (a hybrid of Huso huso × Acipenser ruhenus), and the amphibian Xenopus (Xenopus laevis). Although gcm2-expressing cells were observed on the skin surface of Medaka and fugu, they were not found in Polypterus, sturgeon, or Xenopus. Our results suggest that an acquisition of enhancers for the expression of gcm2 contributes to a diversity of ionocytes in zebrafish during evolution.