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“Trust Me, I’m a Sub-editor”

In this paper, I focus on one particular player in the newspaper production process, i.e. the sub-editor. I analysed the sub-editing process through participant observation in newsrooms in the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. Looking at both the sub-editors at work (think-aloud protocol) as well as the articles in various stages of production, and informed by (retrospective) interviews, I have compiled a list of six of the sub-editor’s “production values”. These values guide sub-editors whenever they intervene, and help them to transform a news story into an appealing, correct and credible newspaper article. I took the lead from Östgaard’s “factors influencing the flow of news”, but also from Galtung and Ruge’s “news values” which help reporters to determine which “events” are transitioned into “news”. In doing so, I go beyond the limitations of previous research, in which the types of interventions carried out in the sub-editing stage of newswriting were categorised. By identifying the guidelines driving the alterations made by the sub-editor, I aim to move one step closer towards uncovering the intricacies of the sub-editing process. Moreover, I demonstrate how “the rewrite men” add journalistic value to their newspapers, as perhaps their brand’s strongest ambassadors.
FlexGD: A flexible force-directed model for graph drawing

We propose FlexGD, a force-directed algorithm for straightline undirected graph drawing. The algorithm strives to draw graph layouts encompassing from uniform vertex distribution to extreme structure abstraction. It is flexible for it is parameterized so that the emphasis can be put on either of the two drawing criteria. The parameter determines how much the edges are shorter than the average distance between vertices. Extending the clustering property of the LinLog model, FlexGD is efficient for cluster visualization in an adjustable level. The energy function of FlexGD is minimized through a multilevel approach, particularly designed to work in contexts where edge length distribution is not uniform. Applying FlexGD on several real datasets, we illustrate both the good quality of the layout on various topologies, and the ability of the algorithm to meet the addressed drawing criteria.
Alteration of the Thymic T Cell Repertoire by Rotavirus Infection Is Associated with Delayed Type 1 Diabetes Development in Non-Obese Diabetic Mice

Rotaviruses are implicated as a viral trigger for the acceleration of type 1 diabetes in children. Infection of adult non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice with rotavirus strain RRV accelerates diabetes development, whereas RRV infection in infant NOD mice delays diabetes onset. In this study of infant mice, RRV titers and lymphocyte populations in the intestine, mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) and thymus of NOD mice were compared with those in diabetes-resistant BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice. Enhanced intestinal RRV infection occurred in NOD mice compared with the other mouse strains. This was associated with increases in the frequency of CD8αβ TCRαβ intraepithelial lymphocytes, and their PD-L1 expression. Virus spread to the MLN and T cell numbers there also were greatest in NOD mice. Thymic RRV infection is shown here in all mouse strains, often in combination with alterations in T cell ontogeny. Infection lowered thymocyte numbers in infant NOD and C57BL/6 mice, whereas thymocyte production was unaltered overall in infant BALB/c mice. In the NOD mouse thymus, effector CD4+ T cell numbers were reduced by infection, whereas regulatory T cell numbers were maintained. It is proposed that maintenance of thymic regulatory T cell numbers may contribute to the increased suppression of inflammatory T cells in response to a strong stimulus observed in pancreatic lymph nodes of adult mice infected as infants. These findings show that rotavirus replication is enhanced in diabetes-prone mice, and provide evidence that thymic T cell alterations may contribute to the delayed diabetes onset following RRV infection.
Conserved Regulation of p53 Network Dosage by MicroRNA–125b Occurs through Evolving miRNA–Target Gene Pairs

MicroRNAs regulate networks of genes to orchestrate cellular functions. MiR-125b, the vertebrate homologue of the Caenorhabditis elegans microRNA lin-4, has been implicated in the regulation of neural and hematopoietic stem cell homeostasis, analogous to how lin-4 regulates stem cells in C. elegans. Depending on the cell context, miR-125b has been proposed to regulate both apoptosis and proliferation. Because the p53 network is a central regulator of both apoptosis and proliferation, the dual roles of miR-125b raise the question of what genes in the p53 network might be regulated by miR-125b. By using a gain- and loss-of-function screen for miR-125b targets in humans, mice, and zebrafish and by validating these targets with the luciferase assay and a novel miRNA pull-down assay, we demonstrate that miR-125b directly represses 20 novel targets in the p53 network. These targets include both apoptosis regulators like Bak1, Igfbp3, Itch, Puma, Prkra, Tp53inp1, Tp53, Zac1, and also cell-cycle regulators like cyclin C, Cdc25c, Cdkn2c, Edn1, Ppp1ca, Sel1l, in the p53 network. We found that, although each miRNA–target pair was seldom conserved, miR-125b regulation of the p53 pathway is conserved at the network level. Our results lead us to propose that miR-125b buffers and fine-tunes p53 network activity by regulating the dose of both proliferative and apoptotic regulators, with implications for tissue stem cell homeostasis and oncogenesis.
How Home Health Caregivers’ Perceive the Influence of Professionalism on Their Experienced Work Engagement

This article explores how the perception of increasing professionalism of home health-care influences caregivers’ experienced work engagement. A qualitative study including 24 interviews, 85 hours of observations and the think-aloud technique was applied in three Danish caregiving organizations. Using a consensual qualitative research approach, analysis of the data suggests that increasing professionalism is experienced among caregivers and influences caregivers’ engagement in three distinct ways: through their identification with their work, psychological safety, and feelings of insecurity. This article contributes by emphasizing an individual perspective of engagement and by providing empirical evidence of links between professionalism and engagement. Additionally, by focusing on relatively low-educated employees, the article highlights how professionalism challenges the perception of caregiving as a job rather than a career. Practically, the findings from the study suggest that caregiving organizations should communicate the reasons for the increasing professionalism so caregivers become aware of potential career options it provides.
Optimizing Test Wrapper for Embedded Cores Using TSV Based 3D SOCs

Core based three-dimensional(3D) integrated circuits (ICs) design is an emerging field of semiconductor industry that promises greater number of devices on chip, increased performance and reduced power consumption. But due to scaling in technology features these chips are more complex and hence testing of these 3D ICs is a challenging task. This paper follows a P1500-style wrapper design for 3D ICs using through silicon vias (TSVs) for testing purpose. It is assumed that the core elements are distributed over several layers of the ICs. As the number of available TSVs are limited due to small chip area, this work is intended to design balanced wrapper chains using available TSVs. In this work we have proposed a polynomial time algorithm of O(N) to design the test wrapper. The results are presented based on the ITC'02 SOC test benchmarks and compared with prior work. Obtained results show that our algorithm provides better utilization of TSVs compared to the work presented in [1].
Design and analysis of tunable analog circuit using double gate MOSFET at 45nm CMOS technology

In this paper, we included designing of low power tunable analog circuits using double gate (DG) MOSFET, where the front gate output is changed by control voltage on the back gate. The DG devices can be used to improve the performance and reduce the power dissipation when front gate and back gate both are independently controlled. In this paper, we included the analysis of the analog tunable circuits such as CMOS Amplifier pair, Schmitt Trigger circuit and Operational trans-conductance Amplifier. Gain, phase and output response of analog tunable circuits have been illustrated in the paper. These circuit blocks are used for low-noise high-performance integrated circuits for analog and mixed-signal applications. The simulation results are predicted by Cadence Virtuoso Tool in 45nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) Technology.
Grapheme-Phoneme Association Skill in High And Low Academic Achievers

Reading and writing are the most basic, most central and the most essential part of learning (Bryant & Bradley, 1983). The National Institute of Child Health & Human development (NICHD) considers reading failure to reflect a national public health problem (Lyon, 2013). Grapheme Phoneme Association (GPA) skill (phonics) is one of the early precursors of reading disability (Justice & Kaderavek, 2004) and is poorer in reading disabled children (Nicholson, 1992). The aim of the present study was to explore the capability of Grapheme Phoneme Association of High Academic Achievers (HAA) - children who scored more than 75 percentile marks and Low Academic Achievers (LAA) - children who scored below 35 percentile marks. The GPA checklist was made which consisted of 21 known phonemes and graphemes divided into three sets (Set I, II and III), each set consisting of seven graphemes. Each grapheme was randomly associated with an arbitrary phoneme. A significant difference between the mean scores of HAA and LAA was found in the GPA task. The Grapheme- Phoneme association checklist can be used to identify reading disability as early as possible and will be helpful for early intervention in reading disability.
Some results on inhomogeneous discriminants

We study generalized Horn-Kapranov rational parametrizations of inhomogeneous sparse discriminants from both a theoretical and an algorithmic perspective. We show that all these parametrizations are birational and prove some results on the corresponding implicit equations. We also propose a combinatorial algorithm to compute the degree of inhomogeneous discriminantal surfaces associated to uniform matrices.
Treatment of Ebola Virus Disease

In March 2014, the largest Ebola outbreak in history exploded across West Africa. As of November 14, 2014, the World Health Organization has reported a total of 21,296 Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases, including 13,427 laboratory‐confirmed EVD cases reported from the three most affected countries (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone). As the outbreak of EVD has spread, clinical disease severity and national EVD case‐fatality rates have remained high (21.2–60.8%). Prior to 2013, several EVD outbreaks were controlled by using routine public health interventions; however, the widespread nature of the current EVD outbreak as well as cultural practices in the affected countries have challenged even the most active case identification efforts. In addition, although treatment centers provide supportive care, no effective therapeutic agents are available for EVD‐endemic countries. The ongoing EVD outbreak has stimulated investigation of several different therapeutic strategies that target specific viral structures and mechanisms of Ebola viruses. Six to eight putative pharmacotherapies or immunologically based treatments have demonstrated promising results in animal studies. In addition, agents composed of small interfering RNAs targeting specific proteins of Ebola viruses, traditional hyperimmune globulin isolated from Ebola animal models, monoclonal antibodies, and morpholino oligomers (small molecules used to block viral gene expression). A number of EVD therapeutic agents are now entering accelerated human trials in EVD‐endemic countries. The goal of therapeutic agent development includes postexposure prevention and EVD cure. As knowledge of Ebola virus virology and pathogenesis grows, it is likely that new therapeutic tools will be developed. Deployment of novel Ebola therapies will require unprecedented cooperation as well as investment to ensure that therapeutic tools become available to populations at greatest risk for EVD and its complications. In this article, we review several agents and strategies that are now under active development.
ScholarWorks The Morphology of Nine Radio-Selected Faint Galaxies from Deep The Morphology of Nine Radio-Selected Faint Galaxies from Deep Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Hubble Space Telescope Imaging

Using the HST WFPC2 we perform deep I -band imaging of 9 radio-selected (F(8 . 5 GHz) ≥ 14 µ Jy) faint galaxies from the Roche, Lowenthal and Koo (2002) sample. Two are also observed in V using HST STIS. Six of the galaxies have known redshifts, in the range 0 . 4 < z < 1 . 0. Radial intensity proﬁles indicate that 7 are disk galaxies and 2 are bulge-dominated. Four of the six with redshifts have a high optical surface brightness in comparison with previous studies of disk galaxies at similar redshifts (e.g. Lilly et al. 1998). The HST imaging reveals that 2 of the 9 galaxies are in close interacting pairs and another 5 show morphological evidence of recent interactions – two are very asymmetric ( A asym ∼ 0 . 4) and, three have large, luminous rings resembling the collisional starburst rings in the Cartwheel galaxy. For the two ring galaxies with redshifts, we measure ring radii of 7.05 and 10.0 h − 1 50 kpc, which suggest post-collision ages 0.1–0.2 Gyr. One has a fainter inner ring, like the original Cartwheel. The remaining two appear to be late-type barred galaxies and relatively undisturbed. Our HST imaging conﬁrms the high incidence of interactions and dynamical disturbance in faint radio-selected galaxies, as reported by e.g. Windhorst et al. (1995) and Serjeant. et al. (2000). In the great majority of these galaxies the high radio luminosities are probably the result of interaction-triggered starbursts. However, one interacting galaxy is a very radioluminous giant elliptical, with red V − I colours, a normal surface brightness and no evidence of star-forming regions, so its radio source is probably an obscured AGN. The mixture of observed morphologies suggests that enhanced radio luminosities often persist to a late stage of interaction, i.e. at least ∼ 0 . 2 Gyr after the perigalactic encounter.
Viewpoints: a framework for object oriented database modelling and distribution

The viewpoint concept has received widespread attention recently. Its integration into a data model improves the flexibility of the conventional object-oriented data model and allows one to improve the modelling power of objects. The viewpoint paradigm can be used as a means of providing multiple descriptions of an object and as a means of mastering the complexity of current database systems enabling them to be developed in a distributed manner. The contribution of this paper is twofold: to define an object data model integrating viewpoints in databases and to present a federated database system integrating multiple sources following a local-as-extended-view approach.
Becoming a global activist through local social forum participation, or how to learn to ‘speak global politics’

ABSTRACT The literature on social forum activists’ gatherings takes for granted the fact that participants are engaged in global struggles. By comparing ten local social forums (LSFs) in France and Quebec, we show that whether one becomes a ‘global activist’ is an empirical question. More specifically, the article argues that the way LSFs are practised either facilitates or limits the process of becoming a global activist. More specifically, it shows that (1) the topography of events is important to ensure moments of non-planned meeting among participants and the possibilities of building a shared sense of belonging and (2) the formats of events vary in their explicit will to encourage talking (global) politics.
Offender profiling and criminal differentiation

Purpose. The psychological hypotheses that form the foundations for ‘Offender Profiling’ are identified and the research that has tested them is reviewed. Argument. ‘Offender profiling’ is taken to be the derivation of inferences about a criminal from aspects of the crime(s) s/he has committed. For this process to move beyond deduction based on personal opinion and anecdote to an empirically based science a number of aspects of criminal activity need to be distinguished and examined. The notion of a hierarchy of criminal differentiation is introduced to highlight the need to search for consistencies and variations at many levels of that hierarchy. However, current research indicates that the key distinctions are those that differentiate, within classes of crime, between offences and between offenders,. This also leads to the hypothesis of a circular ordering of criminal actions, analogous to the colour circle, a ‘radex’. The radex model, tested using Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) procedures, allows specific hypotheses to be developed about important constituents of criminal differentiation: Salience; MDS analyses reveal the importance of the frequency of criminal actions as the basis on which the significance of those actions can be established. Models of Differentiation; the research reviewed mainly supports distinctions between criminals in terms of the forms of their transactions with their explicit or implicit victims, Consistency; offenders have been shown to exhibit similar patterns of action on different occasions. The most reliable examples of this currently are in studies of the spatial behaviour of criminals. Inference; under limited conditions it is possible to show associations between the characteristics of offenders and the thematic focus of their crimes.
Design and implementation of an efficient wear-leveling algorithm for solid-state-disk microcontrollers

Solid-state disks (SSDs) are storage devices that emulate hard drives with flash memory. They have been widely deployed in mobile computers as disk drive replacements. Flash memory is organized in terms of erase blocks. With the current technology, a block can reach the end of its lifetime after thousands of erasure operations. Wear leveling is a technique to evenly erase the entire flash memory so that all blocks remain alive as long as possible. This study introduces a new wear-leveling algorithm based the observation that, under a real-life mobile PC's workload, most erasure operations are contributed by a small fraction of blocks. Our key ideas are 1) moving rarely updated data to a block that is extraordinarily worn and 2) avoiding repeatedly involving a block in wear-leveling activities. This study presents a successful implementation of the proposed wear-leveling algorithm using about 200 bytes of RAM in an SSD controller rated at 33 MHz. Evaluation results show that this algorithm achieves even wear of the entire flash memory while reducing the overheads of extra flash-memory operations.
The Topology of Danish Interbank Money Flows 1

This paper presents the …rst topological analysis of Danish money market ‡ows. We analyze the structure of two networks with di¤erent types of transactions. The …rst network is the money market network, which is driven by banks'behaviour on the interbank market, the second is the network of customer driven transactions, which is driven by banks' customers' transactions demand. We show that the structure of these networks di¤er. This paper adds to the new and growing literature on network topological analysis of payment systems.
Silencing of MAP4K4 by short hairpin RNA suppresses proliferation, induces G1 cell cycle arrest and induces apoptosis in gastric cancer cells

Gastric cancer (GC) is the second most common cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Previous studies suggest that mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase isoform 4 (MAP4K4) is involved in cancer cell growth, apoptosis and migration. In the present study, bioinformatics analysis and reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction were performed to determine if MAP4K4 was overexpressed in GC. The knockdown of MAP4K4 by RNA interference in GC cells markedly inhibited cell proliferation, which may be mediated by cell cycle arrest in the G1 phase. The silencing of MAP4K4 also induced cell apoptosis by increasing the ratio of Bax/Bcl-2. In addition, Notch signaling was markedly reduced by MAP4K4 silencing. The results of the present study suggested that inhibition of MAP4K4 may be a therapeutic strategy for GC.
Cross-anchoring for binding tactile and visual sensations via unique association through self-perception

Binding is one of the most fundamental cognitive functions, how to find the correspondence of sensations between different modalities such as vision and touch. Without a priori knowledge on this correspondence, binding is regarded to be a formidable issue for a robot since it often perceives multiple physical phenomena in its different modal sensors, therefore it should correctly match the foci of attention in different modalities that may have multiple correspondences each other. Learning the multimodal representation of the body is supposed to be the first step toward binding since the morphological constraints in self-bodyobservation would make the binding problem tractable. The multimodal sensations are expected to be constrained in perceiving own body so as to configurate the unique parts in the multiple correspondence reflecting its morphology. In this paper, we propose a method to match the foci of attention in vision and touch through the unique association by cross-anchoring different modalities. Simple experiments show the validity of the proposed method, and future issues are discussed.
Towards Real-time Emergency Response using Crowd Supported Analysis of Social Media

This position paper outlines an ongoing research project that aims to incorporate crowdsourcing as part of an emergency response system. The proposed system's novelty is that it integrates crowdsourcing into its architecture to analyze and structure social media content posted by microbloggers and service users, including emergency response coordinators and victims, during the event or disaster. An important challenge in this approach is identifying appropriate tasks to crowdsource, and adopting effective motivation strategies. Author Keywords Emergency response, social media, crowdsourcing, text mining.