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The Role of the State in the Globalisation of Labour Markets: The Case of the Philippines

The burgeoning literature on ‘globalisation’ tends to identify it as an economic and cultural process, paying little attention to the associated restructuring of the state. Not only does the state sponsor globalisation, but also it ‘globalises' itself in the process. Perhaps the most significant dimension of this new development is where labour markets are integrated with global capital circuits under state sanction. The systematic and state-promoted export of temporary migrant workers has transformed the Philippine state, economy, and society. In this paper I examine the globalisation of labour from the Philippines in terms of its magnitude, its historical development, and its impact on restructuring state functions. I argue that the shift of attention on the part of the state to maintaining the economic functions of international labour circuits tends to undermine its national regulatory function thereby compromising the broad legitimacy of the state. These propositions are examined through a case study of the structuring of the Filipino state in pursuing its well-known labour-export policy.
Mega-Events, Urban Boosterism and Growth Strategies: An Analysis of the Objectives and Legitimations of the Cape Town 2004 Olympic Bid

Mega-events are short-term high-profile events like Olympics and World Fairs that always have a significant urban impact. They re-prioritize urban agendas, create post-event usage debates, often stimulate urban redevelopment, and are instruments of boosterist ideologies promoting economic growth. While mega-events have normally been the preserve of industrial/postindustrial cities, the bid for the 2004 Olympics by Cape Town, South Africa represented the first bid from Africa, and the most successful bid to date from a developing country. The unique theme of the Cape Town bid was human/urban development - a contradiction given the elitist and commercial nature of mega-events - and yet a direct response to problems created by the apartheid city. The developmental aspects of the Cape Town bid are assessed in their South African context in order to ascertain whether development was only a legitimation for business interests (or growth machines) or whether and how the mega-event would contribute to urban restructuring. It is concluded that the bid represented a form of urban/national boosterism that repositioned Cape Town and South African interests in the global economy - particularly relevant given its previous apartheid pariah status. As a pro-growth strategy advocated by political and economic elites, the Olympic bid was less important as a sporting event at the grassroots than as a symbol of expectations of economic betterment. Whether mega-events like the Olympics can carry such far-reaching objectives within their more specific mandates is a matter for further reflection. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2000.
Dopamine receptor binding predicts clinical and pharmacological potencies of antischizophrenic drugs

Tritiated haloperidol and tritiated dopamine label postsynaptic dopamine receptors in mammalian brain. Clinical potencies of butyrophenones, phenothiazines, and related drugs correlate closely with their ability to inhibit tritiated haloperidol binding. These binding methods provide a simple in vitro means for evaluating new drugs as potential antischizophrenic agents.
Automatic Affect Classification of Human Motion Capture Sequences in the Valence-Arousal Model

The problem that we are addressing is that of affect classification: analysing emotions given input data. There are two parts to this study. In the first part, to achieve better recognition and classification of human movement, we investigate that the labels on existing Motion Capture (MoCap) data are consistent with human perception within a reasonable extent. Specifically, we examine movement in terms of valence and arousal (emotion and energy). In part two, we present machine learning techniques for affect classification of human motion capture sequences in both categorical and continuous approaches. For the categorical approach, we evaluate the performance of Hidden Markov Models (HMM). For the continuous approach, we use stepwise linear regression models with the responses of participants from the first part as the ground truth labels for each movement.
Intraventricular hemorrhage expansion in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage

Objective: To evaluate whether delayed appearance of intraventricular hemorrhage (dIVH) represents an independent entity from intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) present on admission CT or is primarily related to the time interval between symptom onset and admission CT. Methods: A total of 282 spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients, admitted February 2009–March 2014 to the neurological intensive care unit of a tertiary care university hospital, were prospectively enrolled in the ICH Outcomes Project. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine associations with acute mortality and functional long-term outcome (modified Rankin Scale). Results: A cohort of 282 ICH patients was retrospectively studied: 151 (53.5%) had intraventricular hemorrhage on initial CT scan (iIVH). Of the remaining 131 patients, 19 (14.5%) developed IVH after the initial CT scan (dIVH). The median times from symptom onset to admission CT were 1.1, 6.0, and 7.4 hours for the dIVH, iIVH, and no IVH groups (Mann-Whitney U test, dIVH vs iIVH, p < 0.001) and median time from onset to dIVH detection was 7.2 hours. The increase in ICH volume following hospital admission was larger in dIVH than in iIVH and no IVH patients (mean 17.6, 0.2, and 0.4 mL). After controlling for components of the ICH score and hematoma expansion, presence of IVH on initial CT was associated with discharge mortality and poor outcome at 3, 6, and 12 months, but dIVH was not associated with any of the outcome measures. Conclusions: In ICH patients, associated IVH on admission imaging is commonly encountered and is associated with poor long-term outcome. In contrast, dIVH on subsequent scans is far less common and does not appear to portend worse outcome.
A Diet Score Assessing Norwegian Adolescents’ Adherence to Dietary Recommendations—Development and Test-Retest Reproducibility of the Score

Assessment of adolescents’ dietary habits is challenging. Reliable instruments to monitor dietary trends are required to promote healthier behaviours in this group. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to assess adolescents’ adherence to Norwegian dietary recommendations with a diet score and to report results from, and test-retest reliability of, the score. The diet score involved seven food groups and one physical activity indicator, and was applied to answers from a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) administered twice. Reproducibility of the score was assessed with Cohen’s Kappa (κ statistics) at an interval of three months. The setting was eight lower-secondary schools in Hordaland County, Norway, and subjects were adolescents (n = 472) aged 14–15 years and their caregivers. Results showed that the proportion of adolescents consistently classified by the diet score was 87.6% (κ = 0.465). For food groups, proportions ranged from 74.0% to 91.6% (κ = 0.249 to κ = 0.573). Less than 40% of the participants were found to adhere to recommendations for frequencies of eating fruits, vegetables, added sugar, and fish. Highest compliance to recommendations was seen for choosing water as beverage and limit the intake of red meat. The score was associated with parental socioeconomic status. The diet score was found to be reproducible at an acceptable level. Health promoting work targeting adolescents should emphasize to increase the intake of recommended foods to approach nutritional guidelines.
Prevalence of mutations causing retinitis pigmentosa and other inherited retinopathies

Inherited retinopathies are a genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous group of diseases affecting approximately one in 2000 individuals worldwide. For the past 10 years, the Laboratory for Molecular Diagnosis of Inherited Eye Diseases (LMDIED) at the University of Texas‐Houston Health Science Center has screened subjects ascertained in the United States and Canada for mutations in genes causing dominant and recessive autosomal retinopathies. A combination of single strand conformational analysis (SSCA) and direct sequencing of five genes (rhodopsin, peripherin/RDS, RP1, CRX, and AIPL1) identified the disease‐causing mutation in approximately one‐third of subjects with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) or with autosomal dominant cone‐rod dystrophy (adCORD). In addition, the causative mutation was identified in 15% of subjects with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). Overall, we report identification of the causative mutation in 105 of 506 (21%) of unrelated subjects (probands) tested; we report five previously unreported mutations in rhodopsin, two in peripherin/RDS, and one previously unreported mutation in the cone‐rod homeobox gene, CRX. Based on this large survey, the prevalence of disease‐causing mutations in each of these genes within specific disease categories is estimated. These data are useful in estimating the frequency of specific mutations and in selecting individuals and families for mutation‐specific studies. Hum Mutat 17:42–51, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
P2I-4 Experimental Study of the Non Linearity from Ultrasonic Transducers

The quantitative evaluation of the non linearity from a material is a characterization method currently used in various applications such as NDE or medicine. Such a measurement must be performed using a set of devices exempted of non linearity themselves. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the non linear behavior of transducers. A measurement method is proposed to evaluate the second harmonic generation in an ultrasonic transducer submitted to a high electrical excitation. Displacement at the surface of the transducer is measured by a laser probe, while the real electrical excitation is acquired. The method is based on measurement of fundamental and harmonic quantities on the acoustical axis of the transducer for aluminum samples of various thicknesses. The experimental set up includes a high power filter to avoid second harmonic electrical excitation. However, the possibility to take into account the presence of component at twice the fundamental frequency is considered in the proposed method. Then the second harmonic generation due to the loaded transducer itself is compared to the generation in a solid sample
Modular algorithms for heterogeneous modal logics via multi-sorted coalgebra

State-based systems and modal logics for reasoning about them often heterogeneously combine a number of features such as non-determinism and probabilities. In this paper, we show that the combination of features can be reflected algorithmically, and we develop modular decision procedures for heterogeneous modal logics. The modularity is achieved by formalising the underlying state-based systems as multi-sorted coalgebras and associating both a logical and algorithmic description with a number of basic building blocks. Our main result is that logics arising as combinations of these building blocks can be decided in polynomial space provided this is also the case for the components. By instantiating the general framework to concrete cases, we obtain PSpace decision procedures for a wide variety of structurally different logics, describing, for example, Segala systems and games with uncertain information.
The Stepfather in the Family

WHAT obligation does a stepfather have for his stepchild? This question, raised from time to time by a case worker in planning for the treatment of one of her families, calls for a study of the legal position of the stepfather in relation to his stepchild. Although social workers are usually informed about the relation between the parent and his child, as to the stepparent? his obligations and his rights regarding his stepchild? their knowledge is usually vague. The question may be raised as to why such information has any value for a case worker. The problem arises so seldom that many case workers have not even become aware of it. There is little demand for this information. While it is no doubt true that in a large number of cases the legal position of the stepfather in relation to his stepchild is not important, in certain ones exact knowledge as to the stepfather's obligation becomes fundamental in planning for the family. In one situation, mentioned by a worker who was giving service to a family, a middle-aged colored woman complained that her "no 'count" second husband just never gave her money, or at least not more than a dollar or two a week, and she and her two boys couldn't get along on that. These two sons were both in school; one, age eleven, was about to finish grammar school and just had to have "nice clothes for junior high. " The mother had suffered from heart trouble for several years and had been receiving help from the relief agency prior to her marriage to her second husband. She and her two sons got along comfortably then with a regular income, even though small. However, when Mr. Black joined the family while he was temporarily out of work, and married the mother, the relief
Chronic Peripheral Arteriopathy Is Associated with Seropositivity to Chlamydia pneumoniae

Abstract The study was carried out to clarify the correlation between Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The level of specific antibodies of the 133 consecutive patients suffering from PAD at 2nd stage of Leriche's classification were compared with 60 healthy controls by using a commercial Micro-IF Test. A higher incidence of serological evidence of C. pneumoniae infection was found in the patients (106/133) than in controls (6/60). These results are in agreement with other findings that measured the infection in atheromasic plaques. A strong cause-effect relationship between bacterial infection and peripheral arterial disease was not found, but the raised seropositivity level could be considered as a target for medical therapy of PAD.
Maximal Likelihood Correspondence Estimation for Face Recognition Across Pose

Due to the misalignment of image features, the performance of many conventional face recognition methods degrades considerably in across pose scenario. To address this problem, many image matching-based methods are proposed to estimate semantic correspondence between faces in different poses. In this paper, we aim to solve two critical problems in previous image matching-based correspondence learning methods: 1) fail to fully exploit face specific structure information in correspondence estimation and 2) fail to learn personalized correspondence for each probe image. To this end, we first build a model, termed as morphable displacement field (MDF), to encode face specific structure information of semantic correspondence from a set of real samples of correspondences calculated from 3D face models. Then, we propose a maximal likelihood correspondence estimation (MLCE) method to learn personalized correspondence based on maximal likelihood frontal face assumption. After obtaining the semantic correspondence encoded in the learned displacement, we can synthesize virtual frontal images of the profile faces for subsequent recognition. Using linear discriminant analysis method with pixel-intensity features, state-of-the-art performance is achieved on three multipose benchmarks, i.e., CMU-PIE, FERET, and MultiPIE databases. Owe to the rational MDF regularization and the usage of novel maximal likelihood objective, the proposed MLCE method can reliably learn correspondence between faces in different poses even in complex wild environment, i.e., labeled face in the wild database.
The Solo Female Travel Experience: Exploring the ‘Geography of Women's Fear’

Increasingly, it is recognised that the qualities of human experience are informed not only by the physical world, but also by our understandings of the social constructs that shape our realities. This broader way of thinking allows a conception of space as metaphorical and relational, rather than merely as a physical location or a singularly definable absolute. Drawing from leisure theory on constraints, feminist discourses on leisure/tourism, and the work of ‘new’ cultural geographers, this paper empirically explores Valentine's (1989) concept of the ‘geography of women's fear’, as it applies to solo international travel. In-depth interviews with a group of solo female travellers revealed that these women perceived travel fears relating to others’ perceptions, a susceptibility to vulnerability, a sense of restricted access, and a feeling of conspicuousness.
Friedman's 'Methodology' for Economics: A Critical Examination

Recent remarks by philosophers of science make it plain that Milton Friedman’s characterization of the conceptual situation of economics (and especially microeconomics) retains wide currency, if not acceptance. For example, Agassi notes that ’Friedman’s methodological view is today widely quoted in the literature as the official view in the profession-whatever this may mean’. ’ Boland writes: ’Roughly speaking all economists can be divided into two groups-those who agree with Milton Friedman and those who do not’. 2 Moreover, the principle expression of Friedman’s views, ’The Methodology of Positive Economics’3 has made its way into at least one widely known recent anthology: Professor Brodbeck’s Readings In The Philosophy of Tlae Social Sciences. Friedman’s methodological writings have occupied the attention of some economists, who have tried to refute it with largely indifferent success. Philosophers have, surprisingly, taken little notice of the view. I suspect their failure to carefully scrutinize and criticize it has allowed the view’s continued acceptance by philosophically minded economists. In this paper I propose to show that despite its wide currency, Friedman’s position embodies a number of methodologically stultifying features, and is incompatible with widely accepted (indeed truistic) views about the nature of scientific theories; further it rests in some of its claims on arguments to which grave objection can be made and in others on completely unjustified assertions. Friedman’s views are advanced in support of the conservation of classical microeconomics. In what follows I shall consider
Degradation by proteases Lon, Clp and HtrA, of Escherichia coli proteins aggregated in vivo by heat shock; HtrA protease action in vivo and in vitro

Thermally aggregated, endogenous proteins of Escheri‐chia coli form a distinct fraction, denoted S, which is separable by sucrose‐density‐gradient centrifugation. It was shown earlier that DnaK, DnaJ, IbpA and IbpB heat‐shock proteins are associated with the S fraction. Comparison of the rise and decay of the S fraction in mutants defective for heat‐shock proteases Lon (La), Clp, HtrA (DegP, Do) and in wild‐type strains made studies of proteolysis and the function of the heat‐shock response possible in vivo. Different timing and the extent of action of particular proteases was revealed by the initial size and decay kinetics of the S fraction. The proteases Lon, Clp, and HtrA all participated in removal of the aggregated proteins. Mutation in the gene encoding ClpB caused the most prominent effect (47% stabilization of the S fraction). The correlation between the disappearance of the S fraction and proteolytic activity was supported by the result of the in vitro reaction. Approximately one third of the isolated S fraction was converted to trichloroacetic acid‐soluble products by the purified HtrA protease. Mg2+ ions stimulated the reaction, in contrast to the reaction of the HtrA protease with casein. The digestion of the aggregated proteins, unlike the digestion of casein, by HtrA protease in vitro was inhibited by added DnaJ, which might reflect protection of the aggregated proteins in vivo by DnaJ from excessive degradation. One might expect that such an activity of DnaJ would promote denatured protein renaturation versus proteolysis. Moreover, among the aggregated proteins that are discernible by electrophoresis, none could be identified as being more susceptible than any other to HtrA degradation. The separation pattern of these proteins before and after the in vitro digestion did not show a difference corresponding to the loss of about 30% of constituting proteins. This was interpreted as recognition by the HtrA protease of a state of protein denaturation rather than specific amino acid sequences in particular proteins. We conclude that the fraction consisting of proteins heat‐ aggregated in vivo (i.e. the S fraction) contains endogenous substrates for the heat‐shock proteases tested. Their use for in vitro reaction reveals information that is in some respects different from that obtained with exogenous substrates such as casein.
A Priori Data-Driven Multi-Clustered Reservoir Generation Algorithm for Echo State Network

Echo state networks (ESNs) with multi-clustered reservoir topology perform better in reservoir computing and robustness than those with random reservoir topology. However, these ESNs have a complex reservoir topology, which leads to difficulties in reservoir generation. This study focuses on the reservoir generation problem when ESN is used in environments with sufficient priori data available. Accordingly, a priori data-driven multi-cluster reservoir generation algorithm is proposed. The priori data in the proposed algorithm are used to evaluate reservoirs by calculating the precision and standard deviation of ESNs. The reservoirs are produced using the clustering method; only the reservoir with a better evaluation performance takes the place of a previous one. The final reservoir is obtained when its evaluation score reaches the preset requirement. The prediction experiment results obtained using the Mackey-Glass chaotic time series show that the proposed reservoir generation algorithm provides ESNs with extra prediction precision and increases the structure complexity of the network. Further experiments also reveal the appropriate values of the number of clusters and time window size to obtain optimal performance. The information entropy of the reservoir reaches the maximum when ESN gains the greatest precision.
An Overview of SAL

To become practical for assurance, automated formal methods must be made more scalable, automatic, and cost-effective. Such an increase in scope, scale, automation, and utility can be derived from an emphasis on a systematic separation of concerns during verification. SAL (Symbolic Analysis Laboratory) attempts to address these issues. It is a framework for combining different tools to calculate properties of concurrent systems. The heart of SAL is a language, developed in collaboration with Stanford, Berkeley, and Verimag for specifying concurrent systems in a compositional way. Our instantiation of the SAL framework augments PVS with tools for abstraction, invariant generation, program analysis (such as slicing), theorem proving, and model checking to separate concerns as well as calculate properties (i.e., perform, symbolic analysis) of concurrent systems. We. describe the motivation, the language, the tools, their integration in SAL/PAS, and some preliminary experience of their use.