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Mapping intergenerationalities: the formation of youthful religiosities

Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, and spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians and their guardians to explore the influence of intergenerationality on their religious identities, beliefs and practices. Our interest is to ask what these recent developments in the way we approach geographies of youth and age can tell us about the changing geographies of religion and vice versa. Much previous research has assumed a process of simple transmission, a static notion that is countered by interview data we present here. The diverse influences on the religiosity of young people – from institutions, religious leaders, culture, peers as well as the family – mean that intergenerational relations involve multiple and complex subject positions. We explore some of these positions, characterising them as correspondent, compliant, challenging and conflicting. We argue that intergenerational relations need to be understood as part of the site-based practices that are central to the development and experience of young people’s religious identities.
Healthcare Data Access Control Using XACML for Handheld Devices

In the modern health services era, data is accessed by the doctors and nurses using small handheld devices like mobile, Personal Digital Assistants and other electronic handheld devices. Individual’s health related information is normally stored in a central health repository. This data can be accessed by authorized doctors. Data is prone to be exposed to a number of mobile attacks while being accessed. Potential attacks like man-in-the-middle attacks can be seen while accessing the information from the central health repositories using handheld devices. This paper proposes an architecture using XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) policy to control the privacy and data access of health service data accessed through handheld devices.
FinTech - What's in a Name?

FinTech, the word which originates from marriage of “finance” and “technology”, designates currently a novel, innovative and emerging field which attracts attention from the publicity. At the moment there is no universal understanding and definition of FinTech in the research, however, the topic is widely addressed by the English- and German-speaking press. In this study we aim to make insights into how the press and other popular media understand and frame FinTech, discussing definitions that represents the meaning of it for the press, and deliver the conceptual framework to be used in research and scientific literature. In doing so, we also identify drivers of FinTech and put them in the context of financial and digital innovation research. Thereby, we provide objective understanding of FinTech, how it is reflected in the popular media.
La Recherche Sur Les Innovations Managériale En Comptabilite Et Contrôle De Gestion. Proposition D'Un Modèle Théorique Intégrant Les Perspectives De Diffusion, D Adoption Et De Mise En Oeuvre De L Innovation

Cette communication presente une reflexion theorique a propos de la recherche sur les innovations manageriales en general et plus particulierement dans le domaine de la comptabilite et du controle de gestion. Ce type de recherche est compose de trois courants distincts mais complementaires: la diffusion, l'adoption et la mise en œuvre de l'innovation. Apres avoir presente une breve revue de la litterature de ces trois courants, nous proposons de les integrer au sein d'un meme modele theorique.
Premotor Cortex Activation during Observation and Naming of Familiar Tools

Positron emission tomography was used to investigate whether observation of real objects (tools of common use) activates premotor areas in the absence of any overt motor demand. Silent naming of the presented tools and silent naming of their use were also studied. Right-handed normal subjects were employed. Tool observation strongly activated the left dorsal premotor cortex. In contrast, silent tool naming activated Broca's area without additional activity in the dorsal premotor cortex. Silent tool-use naming, in addition to activating Broca's area, increased the activity in the left dorsal premotor cortex and recruited the left ventral premotor cortex and the left supplementary motor area. These data indicate that, even in the absence of any subsequent movement, the left premotor cortex processes objects that, like tools, have a motor valence. This dorsal premotor activation, which further augments when the subject names the tool use, should reflect the neural activity related to motor schemata for object use. The presence of an activation of both dorsal premotor cortex and ventral premotor cortex during tool-use naming suggests a role for these two areas in understanding object semantics.
Kinematics modeling of eight-wheel lunar rover

This paper presents the kinematics modeling method of eight-wheel torsion bar rocker-bogie lunar rover. Forward kinematics modeling consists of the Jacobian matrices of the wheels, it could deduce the position and attitude of the rover. Inverse kinematics modeling could work out the speed of the wheels by using the speed of the rover, so as to get the anticipated position and attitude of the rover. This modeling is the foundation of the rover motion control and autonomous navigation.
HERG Channel Dysfunction in Human Long QT Syndrome

Mutations in HERG are associated with human chromosome 7-linked congenital long QT (LQT-2) syndrome. We used electrophysiological, biochemical, and immunohistochemical methods to study the molecular mechanisms of HERG channel dysfunction caused by LQT-2 mutations. Wild type HERG and LQT-2 mutations were studied by stable and transient expression in HEK 293 cells. We found that some mutations (Y611H and V822M) caused defects in biosynthetic processing of HERG channels with the protein retained in the endoplasmic reticulum. Other mutations (I593R and G628S) were processed similarly to wild type HERG protein, but these mutations did not produce functional channels. In contrast, the T474I mutation expressed HERG current but with altered gating properties. These findings suggest that the loss of HERG channel function in LQT-2 mutations is caused by multiple mechanisms including abnormal channel processing, the generation of nonfunctional channels, and altered channel gating.
The Boom and the Bust: Can Theories from Social Psychology and Related Disciplines Account for One Country's Economic Crisis?

The Icelandic economy collapsed dramatically in the fall of 2008, making the country one of the first victims of the sharp economic downturn that hit most of the West. The Icelandic crisis may serve as an especially illuminating case study of the psychology of economic booms and busts. We offer an analysis of the buildup and aftermath of the economic crisis in Iceland using theories and findings from social psychology and related disciplines. During the buildup, at the national level we focus on strong national identity, high levels of trust, and system justification. At the group level, we discuss homogeneity of bank employees, group identity, and organizational culture. At the individual level the focus is on motivated reasoning and cognitive heuristics. During the aftermath at the national level, the primary focus is on collective action and the ascent of women into power. At the individual level we discuss changes in values, and report on a study in which we examined people's perceptions of what caused the crisis and how it relates to political ideology. We conclude by considering several behaviors not accounted for in our analysis and some policy implications that can be gleaned from the analysis.
ECG personal identification in subspaces using radial basis neural networks

In this paper an approach for personal biometric identification is presented based on extraction of ECG features and classification with RBFNN. We perform denoising and segmentation on the input signal, after which we realize dimensionality reduction and feature extraction based on PCA transform. The separability of the selected features is improved by applying LDA. The final stage of the proposed approach is classification and recognition of the extracted features with classifier score fusion.
Normative Values for the Nearpoint of Convergence of Elementary Schoolchildren

Background. Nearpoint of convergence (NPC) values of 8 to 10 cm are widely used to diagnose binocular dysfunctions such as convergence insufficiency. However, there are no published age-related normative values in the literature to substantiate these values. Methods. Subjects were 297 schoolchildren in kindergarten, third grade, and sixth grade who had passed a school-based Modified Clinical Technique vision screening. Each child had the NPC break and recovery taken three times using a standardized protocol developed by the Convergence Insufficiency and Reading Study group. The examiners used an Astron International (ACR/21) Accommodative Rule with a movable column of 20/30 letters as the target. Results. For each grade, the distribution of NPC break was right skewed, with a concentration of values between 1 and 6 cm. At least 85% of the subjects in each grade had an NPC break<6 cm. NPC break values (mean ± SD) were 3.3 ± 2.6 cm for kindergartners, 4.1 ± 2.4 cm for third graders, and 4.3 ± 3.4 cm for sixth graders, and the means were found to be statistically different (analysis of variance, p=0.031). NPC recoveries (mean ± SD) for the three groups were 7.3 ± 4.8 cm, 8.7 ± 4.2 cm, and 7.2 ± 3.9 cm, respectively, which were also significantly different (analysis of variance, p=0.027). The recovery distributions were more symmetric and less skewed than those for break. For each grade level, there was a strong positive relationship between NPC recovery and NPC break, but the difference between NPC recovery and break had a low correlation with the NPC break. Summary. Kindergartners had somewhat better NPC breaks than third or sixth graders, whereas no clear age trend was present for NPC recovery. A supporting study using a random sample of clinic patients (aged 10–2 years) suggests that patients with NPC breaks>6 cm are more than twice as likely to be symptomatic than patients with NPC breaks <6 cm. Based on these results and the NPC break distributions in this study, a clinical cutoff value of 6 cm is suggested for patients of elementary school age. A cutoff value in the 6- to 10-cm range is recommended for children of elementary school age in a screening context. The exact value within this range depends on the level of concern with identifying patients who have visual signs and symptoms associated with a receded NPC.
The Testosterone-Derived Neurosteroid Androstanediol Is a Positive Allosteric Modulator of GABAA Receptors

Testosterone modulates seizure susceptibility, but the underlying mechanisms are obscure. Recently, we demonstrated that testosterone affects seizure activity via its conversion to neurosteroids in the brain. Androstanediol (5α-androstan-3α,17β-diol) is an endogenous neurosteroid synthesized from testosterone. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the seizure protection activity of androstanediol remains unclear. Here, we show that androstanediol has positive allosteric activity as a GABAA receptor modulator. In whole-cell recordings from acutely dissociated hippocampus CA1 pyramidal cells, androstanediol (but not its 3β-epimer) produced a concentration-dependent enhancement of GABA-activated currents (EC50 of 5 μM). At 1 μM, androstanediol produced a 50% potentiation of GABA responses. In the absence of GABA, androstanediol has moderate direct effects on GABAA receptor-mediated currents at high concentrations. Systemic doses of androstanediol (5–100 mg/kg), but not its 3β-epimer, caused dose-dependent suppression of behavioral and electrographic seizures in mouse hippocampus kindling, which is a model of temporal lobe epilepsy. The ED50 value for antiseizure effects of androstanediol was 50 mg/kg, which did not produce sedation/motor toxicity. At high (2× ED50) doses, androstanediol produced complete seizure protection that lasted for up to 3 h after injection. The estimated plasma concentrations of androstanediol producing 50% seizure protection in the kindling model (10.6 μM) are within the range of concentrations that modulate GABAA receptors. These studies suggest that androstanediol could be a neurosteroid mediator of testosterone actions on neuronal excitability and seizure susceptibility via its activity as a GABAA receptor modulator and that androstanediol may play a key role in men with epilepsy, especially during the age-related decline in androgen levels.
Estimating the cardinality of RDF graph patterns

Most RDF query languages allow for graph structure search through a conjunction of triples which is typically processed using join operations. A key factor in optimizing joins is determining the join order which depends on the expected cardinality of intermediate results. This work proposes a pattern-based summarization framework for estimating the cardinality of RDF graph patterns. We present experiments on real world and synthetic datasets which confirm the feasibility of our approach.
Difficulties and complexities encountered in the design of transverse flux machines

Transverse flux switched reluctance motors enable the application of a large MMF per pole to a machine with a large number of poles. This paper will investigate the difficulties of building these machines and their advantages and shortcomings. Electrical, magnetic and mechanical difficulties are investigated and ways to overcome these difficulties are fully explained. A novel hybrid construction technique is advocated in which both laminations and powdered iron is used together. The laminations are employed in regions of high saturation where the fields are laminar and the powdered iron in regions where the field is truly three dimensional. A prototype machine has been designed and fully tested and this was reported by the author in a previous paper. Some of complexities in building these machines are not encountered in any other type of machine because of the specific designs employed in these machines. Problems encountered in designing the laminations and the frames are also reported and solutions are found.
Core Muscle Activation in One-Armed and Two-Armed Kettlebell Swing

Abstract Andersen, V, Fimland, MS, Gunnarskog, A, Jungård, G-A, Slåttland, R-A, Vraalsen, ØF, and Saeterbakken, AH. Core muscle activation in one-armed and two-armed kettlebell swing. J Strength Cond Res 30(5): 1196–1204, 2016—The aim of the study was to compare the electromyographic activity of rectus abdominis, oblique external, and lower and upper erector spinae at both sides of the truncus in 1-armed and 2-armed kettlebell swing. Sixteen healthy men performed 10 repetitions of both exercises using a 16-kg kettlebell in randomized order. For the upper erector spinae, the activation of the contralateral side during 1-armed swing was 24% greater than that of the ipsilateral side during 1-armed swing (p < 0.001) and 11% greater during 2-armed swing (p = 0.026). Furthermore, the activation in 2-armed swing was 12–16% greater than for the ipsilateral side in 1-armed swing (p < 0.001). For rectus abdominis, however, 42% lower activation of the contralateral side was observed during 1-armed swing compared with ipsilateral sides during 2-armed swing (p = 0.038) and 48% compared with the ipsilateral side during 1-armed swing (p = 0.044). Comparing the different phases of the swing, most differences in the upper erector spinae were found in the lower parts of the movement, whereas for the rectus abdominis, the differences were found during the hip extension. In contrast, similar muscle activity in the lower erector spinae and external oblique between the different conditions was observed (p = 0.055–0.969). In conclusion, performing the kettlebell swing with 1 arm resulted in greater neuromuscular activity for the contralateral side of the upper erector spinae and ipsilateral side of the rectus abdominis, and lower activation of the opposite side of the respective muscles.
A highly parallel method for transient stability analysis

A simple but powerful method for solving the transient stability problem with a high degree of parallelism is implemented. The transient stability is seen as a coupled set of nonlinear algebraic and differential equations. By applying a discretization method such as the trapezoidal rule, the overall algebraic-differential set of equations is transformed into a unique algebraic problem at each time step. A solution that considers every time step, not in a sequential way, but concurrently, is suggested. The solution of this set of equations with a relaxation-type indirect method gives rise to a highly parallel algorithm. The parallelism consists of a parallelism in space (that is in the equations at each time step) and a parallelism in time. Another characteristic of the algorithm is that the time step can be changed between iterations using a nested iteration multigrid technique from a coarse time grid to the desired fine time grid to enhance the convergence of the algorithm. The method has been tested on various size power systems, for various solution time periods, and various types of disturbances. It is shown that the method has good convergence properties and can significantly increase computational efficiency in a parallel-processing environment. <<ETX>>
Pediatric Magnetic Resonance Enterography: Focused on Crohn's Disease

Crohn's disease is a chronic idiopathic inflammatory disease of the intestines characterized by frequent relapse and remission. It often develops in children and adolescents, who are vulnerable to repeated exposure to ionizing radiations. Magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) is an increasingly important radiation-free imaging modality that is used to evaluate pediatric patients with Crohn's disease. MRE can evaluate extraluminal and extraintestinal abnormalities as well as the status of the bowel wall. In addition, MRE has an advantage in the evaluation of the small bowel involvement. MRE can be used for the initial diagnosis of Crohn's disease, and can aid in the assessment of disease activity and complications such as penetrating and fibrostenotic diseases. The aims of this article are to review the MRE technique for obtaining diagnostic and high-quality images and to discuss interpretations of imaging findings in patients with Crohn's disease.
Grammatical categories and the nature-nurture debate

The linguistic mainstream typically describes first-language acquistion as a process involving innate species- and domain-specific abilities. Such accounts of syntactic development conceive the primary linguistic input as too limited for language acquisition to take place. The present paper discusses word categorization skills and strategies in small children. Recent empirical evidence shows that very young English-learning children are able to extract salient phonological features of words in their language and use them for accurate word categorization. In addition to this, young children also appear to use statistical regularities from fluent speech in order to group grammatically similar words together. Of special importance to these findings are the observations made by studies analyzing categorization outside the linguistic domain and/or the human species. Crucially, these findings note that not only linguistic input is probabilistic in nature. The upshot of these studies is that the ability to deal with probabilistically sequenced elements is neither (a) domain-specific, since it also applies to other domains of human perception and cognition, nor (b) is it species-specific, since this skill has also been found in some bird species and primates like cotton-top tamarins.
ON THE BIAS OF THE PORTMANTEAU STATISTIC

The portmanteau statistic is based on the first m residual autocorrelations, and is used for diagnostic checks on the adequacy of a fitting model. In this paper, we propose a modified portmanteau statistic with a correction factor that allows for the use of small values of m and eliminates the positively biased random variable for the chi-squared approximation. For this modification we take a dierent approach to that suggested by Ljung (1986). The power of the portmanteau statistic and the Lagrange multiplier test statistics are also examined, and their empirical behaviour is clarified in terms of asymptotic theory.
Escherichia coli O157:H7 requires colonizing partner to adhere and persist in a capillary flow cell.

UNLABELLED The ability of a strain of waterborne Escherichia coli O157:H7 to colonize a glass flow cell and develop microcolonies when grown alone and with Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 was examined. When introduced alone, planktonic E. coil were unable to attach to the glass surface. When introduced simultaneously with P. aeruginosa (co-inoculation), the two species coadhered to the surface. When E. coliwere introduced into a flow cell precolonized with a P. aeruginosa biofilm (precolonized), 10-fold more cells were retained than in the co-inoculated case. Both species were monitored nondestructively by time-lapse confocal microscopy, direct microscopy of the filtered effluent, and effluent plate counts. While more E. coli initially adhered in the precolonized system, E. coli microcolony formation occurred only in the co-inoculated system, where E. coil comprised 1% of the total surface-associated biovolume but greater than 50% of the biovolume near the edges of the flow cell. The hydrodynamics in the flow cell were evaluated using the finite volume analysis program CFX, revealing that shear stress was likely important in both initial attachment and steady-state colonization patterns. This research elucidates key factors which promote retention and subsequent biofilm development of E. coli 0157:H7. INTRODUCTION Bacteria exist in nature primarily in communities known as biofilms. These biofilms are usually characterized by differentiated structures, exhibit a different phenotype than their planktonic counterparts, and in nature most often consist of multispecies consortia (1, 2). An important process in shaping the formation and structure of some multispecies biofilms is the ability of certain species to coaggregate. In this process, planktonic cells adhere to genetically distinct cells in a biofilm or to other planktonic cells (3), thereby increasing biofilm formation. This process is growth-phase-dependent and is turned on and off by cells, suggestive that it may also play a role in dispersal and dissemination (4). Due to these and other complexities of the biofilm mode of growth, multiple species can coexist despite one organism having a much higher growth rate than another (5-7). In many cases, bacteria have been shown to gain a fitness advantage when residing in a mixed-species versus single-