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Identifying the domains of ideological similarities and differences in attitudes

Liberals and conservatives disagree, but are there some domains where we are more or less likely to observe ideological differences? To map the types of attitudes where we may be more or less likely to observe ideological differences, we draw on two approaches, the elective affinities approach, which suggests individual differences explains differences between liberals and conservatives, and the divergent content approach, which posits the key distinction between ideologues are their value orientations. The goal of the current research was to explore when and why liberals and conservatives disagree. We tested whether ideological differences are more likely to emerge in attitudes characterized by threat, complexity, morality, political ideology, religious ideology, or harm (as compared to objects not characterized by these domains) using both explicit and implicit measures of 190 attitude objects. While all domains predicted ideological differences, the political domain was the only significant predictor of ideological differences when controlling for the other domains. This study provides insight into which attitudes we are most and least likely to find ideological differences.
Reanalysis of Recruitment Estimates of the Peruvian Anchoveta in Relationship to Other Population Parameters and the Surrounding Environment

New recruitment estimates of the Peruvian anchoveta are analysed with respect to other population parameters and the surrounding ocean environment. The inshore and offshore environmental variables differ in their dynamics, and the inshore series vary north to south. For the inshore locations, it is not possible to resolve if a wind-related effect is due to transport or turbulence. The new recruitment estimates differ significantly from the old estimates, partly due to mackerel consumption acting as a surrogate for SST. Models using the monthly data were not possible due to correlations in the populations that could be spurious. On a yearly basis, a nonlinear additive model using parent biomass and transport at Trujflo explained 75% of the variance in the recruitment estimates.
A Comparison of Two Methods of Mesh Fixation during the Rives-Stoppa Technique for Ventral Hernia Repair: Transfascial Sutures vs. Fibrin Sealant. A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study

Introduction The incidence of incisional hernia in the United States is from 10% to 23%. Despite significant advances in many areas of surgery, surgical treatment of ventral and incisional hernias continues to be problematic, with recurrence rates ranging from 5% to 63%, depending on the method of hernia repair [1-3]. Furthermore, lack of long-term follow-up and objective criteria in the literature to determine hernia recurrence may have led to an under estimation of the recurrence rate.
DECOMPOSING CHANGES IN LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH BY AGE, SEX, AND RESIDENCE FROM 1929 TO 2000 IN CHINA*

Life expectancy at birth (LEAB) in China has doubled in the twentieth century from below 35 years to over 70 years. To capture the contribution of types of mortality change to the increase in LEAB, we decompose the changes in LEAB by age, sex, and residence in six periods between 1929 and 2000. Based on available life tables, we perform the decomposition using Arriagas discrete method. The results show dramatic increases in LEAB in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Overall, mortality decline among young ages contributed more to the increase in LEAB. Mortality decline during adulthood and the elder years has contributed to an increasing share of advance in LEAB since 1980. We discuss possible causal pathways between changes in LEAB and historical events and social disruptions such as wars, famine, regime change, womens movement, the Cultural Revolution, economic reform and epidemiological transition in different periods. Paper Presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Population Association, March 29-April 31, 2007, New York * Correspondence: Danan Gu (gudanan@duke.edu) id117128453 pdfMachine by Broadgun Software a great PDF writer! a great PDF creator! http://www.pdfmachine. com http://www.broadgun. com
Adoption Of Precision Farming Technologies: Usa And Eu Situation

Through this article, the author aims to identify the adoption rates and types of precision farming technologies embraced by farmers in the USA and the EU. Research papers in relation to the adoption of precision agriculture technologies were collected and divided into two groups, according to their geographic region: USA and EU. Books, scientific articles, reports and conference papers were reviewed and studied. Likewise, the material about the adoption of precision agriculture technologies was accumulated. The level of adoption in the USA differs from one state to another. The percentage rate of adoption is higher in the Southern States, and the overall adoption of precision agriculture technologies reaches to about 91%. United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany have higher rates of adoption compared with other countries in the EU. Similarly, the percentage rate of adoption is higher in the USA in comparison with EU countries. In the USA prevails a diversification of precision agriculture technologies adopted by US farmers. On the contrary, in the EU, the majority of research papers reported mainly some level of adoption of yield monitors/mapping and variable rate technologies for applying inputs.
Innovative Practices for Knowledge Sharing in Large-Scale DevOps

Agile development methods and DevOps require adaptation during implementation to meet the needs of a constantly changing softwaredevelopment environment. The emergence of knowledge-sharing practices for large-scale DevOps has not been the subject of much research. Our in-depth case study, consisting of 106 interviews at a multinational company operating in a DevOps-at-scale environment, identified a number of innovative practices.
BigEarthNet Dataset with A New Class-Nomenclature for Remote Sensing Image Understanding

This paper presents BigEarthNet that is a large-scale Sentinel-2 multispectral image dataset with a new class nomenclature to advance deep learning (DL) studies in remote sensing (RS). BigEarthNet is made up of 590,326 image patches annotated with multi-labels provided by the CORINE Land Cover (CLC) map of 2018 based on its most thematic detailed Level-3 class nomenclature. Initial research demonstrates that some CLC classes are challenging to be accurately described by considering only Sentinel-2 images. To increase the effectiveness of BigEarthNet, in this paper we introduce an alternative class-nomenclature to allow DL models for better learning and describing the complex spatial and spectral information content of the Sentinel-2 images. This is achieved by interpreting and arranging the CLC Level-3 nomenclature based on the properties of Sentinel-2 images in a new nomenclature of 19 classes. Then, the new class-nomenclature of BigEarthNet is used within state-of-the-art DL models in the context of multi-label classification. Results show that the models trained from scratch on BigEarthNet outperform those pre-trained on ImageNet, especially in relation to some complex classes including agriculture, other vegetated and natural environments. All DL models are made publicly available at this http URL, offering an important resource to guide future progress on RS image analysis.
Overexpression of Epcam and CD133 Correlates with Poor Prognosis in Dual-phenotype Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Background: Dual-phenotype hepatocellular carcinoma (DPHCC) is associated with high rate of post-operative recurrence and low rate of survival, which may reflect the post-operative persistence of cancer stem cells (CSCs). Here we explored the potential correlation between DPHCC and expression of CSCs markers. Methods: In this retrospective study, we included 19 patients with DPHCC and 61 patients with non-DPHCC treated in 2015 by liver resection. Paraffin-embedded tumor tissue specimens were analyzed using immunohistochemistry as well as immunofluorescence double-staining. Rates of recurrence-free survival and overall survival were compared between the two groups using the Kaplan-Meier method, and expression of the CSC markers CD133, CD90, and EpCAM were compared using real-time quantitative PCR and western blotting. Results: Overall survival rates were significantly lower for patients with DPHCC than patients with non-DPHCC at 1 year (78.9% vs 93.4%), 2 years (52.6% vs 72.1%), and 3 years (42.1% vs 67.2%) (P = 0.019). Multivariate Cox proportional hazard modeling identified CK19 positivity (P = 0.016) and multiple nodules (P = 0.023) as independent predictors of poor recurrence-free survival. Independent predictors of poor overall survival were CK19 positivity (P = 0.032), Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage C (P = 0.025) and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) >37 ng/ml (P = 0.016). Expression of CD133 and EpCAM mRNA and protein were significantly higher in DPHCC tissue than non-DPHCC tissue, while CD90 expression was similar between the groups. Conclusions: These results suggest that DPHCC is associated with significantly lower overall survival than non-DPHCC, and that the poor prognosis among DPHCC patients may be related to the presence of CSCs expressing CD133 and EpCAM.
TOURISTS' PERCEPTIONS ABOUT TOURISM IMPACTS A LITERATURE REVIEW

The impacts of tourism on every society are complex and varied in subject. The tourism impacts are significant to different communities, groups and individuals depending upon their values, attitudes and the type of resources available for tourism development. Therefore, building on previous research, this paper examines the tourists' attitudes towards tourism impacts on their visiting destination; effect of socio-economic demographics and functional characteristics on their attitudes and different approaches, methods and statistical tools applied for measuring tourists' perceptions towards tourism development. Review of literature suggests that interactions between visitors and the host community can lead to short and long term positive and negative, individual and cumulative impacts on destinations across the globe. In respect of socio-economic and other functional characteristics of visitors, age, income and life stage have significant effects on tourist behavior and to assesss tourism development, the best approach would be an integrated cost-benefit approach.
Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption: From Theory to Practice

—We propose and evaluate a secure-multiparty-computation (MPC) solution, in the semi-honest model with dishonest majority, based on multiparty homomorphic encryption (MHE). To support this solution, we introduce a multiparty version of the Brakerski-Fan-Vercauteren lattice-based homomorphic cryptosystem, implement it in an open-source library, and evaluate its performance. We show that such MHE-based MPC solutions have several advantages over current approaches: Their public transcripts and non-interactive circuit-evaluation capabilities enable a broad variety of computing paradigms, ranging from the traditional peer-to-peer setting to cloud-outsourcing and smart-contract technologies. Exploiting these properties, the communication complexity of MPC tasks can be reduced from quadratic to linear in the number of parties, thus enabling secure computation among thousands of parties. Additionally, MHE-based approaches can outperform the state-of-the-art even for a small number of parties. We demonstrate this for three circuits: component-wise vector multiplication with application to private-set intersection, private input selection with application to private-information retrieval, and multiplication triples generation . For the ﬁrst circuit evaluated among eight parties, our approach is 8.6 times faster and requires 39.3 times less communication than the state-of-the-art approach. The input selection circuit over eight thousand parties completed in 61.7 seconds and required 1.31 MB of communication per party.
TEST ANXIETY AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT OF PASCHIM MEDINIPUR, WEST BENGAL

Test Anxiety is an important issue for Secondary Students, because they take the first board examinations at the Secondary level. So the Students are terrified to take the exam. The Test Anxiety expressed in the form of General Test Anxiety, Physical Symptoms/Reactions, Thought Disruptions and Afraid/Fear. Through the present study an attempt has been made by the investigators to assess the level of Test Anxiety among the Students of Secondary level of Paschim Medinipur District in West Bengal in relation to some personal and socio-demographic variables. The investigators have used Descriptive Survey method for the present study. The sample consists of 332 Students who studied at Secondary level from various Secondary Schools of Paschim Medinipur in West Bengal. The stratified random sampling technique has been used for the selection of sample in the present study. The investigators have developed a self made questionnaire followed by Likert’s five point scale i.e. Always, Often, Sometimes, Rare and Not at all. For the analysis of data Mean, S.D. , t-test, ANOVA, Correlation and graph have been used by the investigators in the present study. The results of the study explore that Test Anxiety of the Students is being Moderate in the district of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal at Secondary Level. It is also revealed that the result is significant difference among the Secondary School Students in respect to their level of Test Anxiety on the basis of their Guardians’ Educational Qualification in the district of Paschim Medinipur. Test Anxiety has a negative impact on Students’ life when one’s Test Anxiety will increase; the Academic Performance of that person will be decreased.
Huge Haul Temporal Convolutions for Action Recognition: A Survey

: Regular human activities most recent a few seconds and show trademark patio-worldly structure. Ongoing techniques Endeavour to catch the architecture as well as determine all the activity portrayals by some standard systems. Parallel portrayals, be that as it may, are commonly learned at the dimension of a couple of video outlines neglecting to show activities with complete fleeting degree. Here in our research we propose the video and graphic portrayals utilizing visual systems with high level haul worldly convolutions (LTC). Further we exhibit LTC-CNN mechanisms that expanded transient degrees that empowers the exactness for activity acknowledgment. In addition to we consider the effect for various less portrayals, for example, crude estimations for video pixels as well as optical stream mechanisms that show the significance for high calibre optical stream approximation for schooling exact activity mechanisms. We address the cutting edge performance of two types of testing criterion for human activity acknowledgment.
An approach to the Winograd Schema Challenge based on semantic classification of events and adjectives

The Winograd Schema Challenge is an interesting problem that can be considered as an alternative to the renowned Turing test for measuring the intelligence of artificial agents. Originally proposed by Hector Levesque in 2011, the challenge gained significant popularity among the researchers of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). It is a special class of coreference resolution problem and the challenge involves finding the correct referent for a given pronoun or possessive adjective in a short text. The Winograd Schema was proposed to encourage human-like reasoning and therefore the problems were carefully designed so that the statistical methods which solely depend on lexical correctness and word associativity without any logical reasoning will not be able to solve these problems reliably. The designers encouraged the use of commonsense based logical methods to solve the Winograd Schema. However, at present, in terms of accuracy, the most advanced logical methods are far from human-like accuracy and also significantly outperformed by the statistical methods. The major challenge for the logical methods is the difficulty of finding a general model for the Winograd Schema. The objective of this research is to introduce a commonsense based logical method that can achieve competitive accuracy with the statistical methods on a specific form of the Winograd Schema problems. Our approach is based on semantic classification of common verbs and adjectives, creating a commonsense knowledge base, and using the knowledge base to align the pronoun with the correct referent. We have evaluated the performance of our approach and compared the accuracy with the state of the art statistical approach on two benchmark problem sets: WSCL and WSCR.
Corporate Social Responsibility in Higher Education: A Study of Some Private Universities in Vietnam

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in education is an essential topic of dedicated researchers in many countries. However, it is a new and luxury topic in Vietnam. In this article, the authors explored CSR in higher education, especially the private universities in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The paper emphasized what goals, roles, responsibilities of the private universities towards society are and how they influence their members in a system like stakeholders, subordinates, students, and employers are. The research results brought practical values that there is a positive relationship between CSR of the private universities and CSR of these four members.
Duration : 30 months D 6 . 1 : State-ofthe-art in Self-Healing and Patch Generation

As software maintenance processes still rely on human expertise and manual intervention, they usually require important efforts in terms of time and costs. Research has been conducted in the past recent years in order to try to overcome this issue by considering systems that would maintain themselves. This concept gave birth to Autonomic Computing (AC), which aims to transfer and automate part of the maintenance processes to the system itself. Self-healing is one of the properties that AC seeks to equip system with. Self-healing aims for the system to automatically recover from faults, possibly fixing them through patch generation. This document introduces self-healing approaches as well as other research areas that are very related to this concept, such as fault-tolerance, Automatic Diagnosis and Automatic Repair. The latter contains works related to automatic patch generation. This document has been produced in the context of the FastFix Project. The FastFix project is part of the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program for research and development and is as such funded by the European Commission. All information in this document is provided "as is" and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability. For the avoidance of all doubts, the European Commission has no liability is respect of this document, which is merely representing the authors view.
Perception of Public Basic School Teachers on the Factors Influencing Teacher Attrition and Retention in the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region of Ghana

This study investigated the factors influencing teacher attrition and retention in public basic schools in the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A descriptive survey design was used in the conduct of the study where through proportionate stratified random and convenience sampling techniques, 515 teachers were sampled and participated in the study. The instruments included a structured questionnaire and semi-structured interview guide. Data collected were analyzed using both descriptive statistics like mean and standard deviation as well as inferential statistics such as multiple regression with the aid of Version 22 of SPSS. The qualitative data were analyzed through the thematic approach. The study revealed that the teachers identified remuneration and conditions of service factors to predominantly influence their quit intentions more than school environment factors and personal factors. The study showed that retention strategies such as improved salary and remuneration, provision of housing scheme, regular in-service training for teachers, scholarships for further studies, improved classroom environment and teacher involvement in decision making to be likely to boost their retention. Generally, it was revealed that teachers demographic variables such as marital status, years of teaching experience and level of teaching significantly predicted their quit intentions. It was further revealed that there was a positive correlation between the predictors (sex, age, rank, academic qualification, marital status, teaching experience, and level of teaching) and retention strategies as these demographic variables contributed significantly to retention strategies. It was therefore recommended that the Ghana Education Service through the Atiwa Education Directorate should ensure improved remuneration and conditions of service and school environment should be improved since these are among the top reasons discovered as being behind teacher turnover.
Pt, Pd, Cu and Sulfur Contents of the Platreef on the Farm Townlands, Northern Bushveld Complex

In much of the northern limb of the Complex, the ultramafic rocks of the Lower and Lower Critical Zones are not developed (Viljoen and Schurman, 1999, and references therein). Here, the basal rocks of the Complex consist of a relatively thin (up to 250 m) package of texturally heterogenous pyroxenites, norites, and gabbros, that contain numerous xenoliths of the floor rocks. This is overlain by a thick (up to 2000 m) package of gabbro and 3000 m of magnetite gabbros and diorites. Buchanan et al. (1981) and others correlated the basal sequence with the Upper Critical Zone, whereas the overlying gabbros and magnetite gabbros-diorites were correlated with the Main and Upper Zones, respectively. The basal Upper Critical Zone rocks are variably sulfide-mineralized and are referred to as the Platreef in the literature. Three distinct layers are usually distinguished (Viljoen and Schurmann, 1999, and references therein). The basal A-reef commonly consists of coarse-grained norite and gabbro and contains little sulfides. The Band Creefs are more pyroxenitic. The bulk of the mineralization and the highest grades are found in the B-reef. Little quantitative data have been published concerning sulfide and metal contents. The most comprehensive summary available is by Viljoen and Schurmann (1999). They report that the sulfides occur largely in disseminated form, with minor pods and veins of massive sulfide being more abundant towards the basal contact of the Breef. In Fig. 1 and 2 I present new quantitative metal and S data from a Platreef intersection on the farm Townlands where the reef overlies shale. Pt/Pd is lower than elsewhere in the Northern limb, at around 0.5. Pt+Pd tenors of the sulfides are between 10 and 60 ppm. The data show the development of three distinct intrusive phases that are separated by shale interlayers. The latter do not appear to represent xenoliths as sulfide contents are markedly different below and above the layers.