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The Impact of Protracted Conflict on Secondary School Students : A Case Study from North and East Sri Lanka Jaya Earnest

The 20-year-old civil war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has seriously undermined the country's enormous development potential. Approximately 800,000 people, 1/3 of who are children, have been displaced. Nearly 900,000 children live in areas most affected by the ethnic conflict; in addition there are 300,000 displaced children and 2,500 child recruits. The majority of the children in the North East have known nothing but conflict. On 22 February 2002, the United National Front Government entered into a formal ceasefire agreement with the LTTE. The commencement of peace negotiations has increased humanitarian access to many areas in the conflict-affected North and East regions of the country. The impact of the Tsunami of December 2004 has added yet another dimension of complexity to the conflict areas of the East and North. This study utilized qualitative methods to examine the ongoing education process in six districts of protracted conflict in North East Sri Lanka. The research used an interpretive case study approach in which multiple methods included focus group discussions, semi-structured interviews, school visits and collection of documentary data. Questions were designed to explore the secondary students’ understanding, perceptions and attitudes to conflict, displacement, risk and vulnerability. The qualitative findings identified factors which influence the education process and make meaningful interpretations of background, culture and the situation in North East Sri Lanka. The constraints in the implementation of effective education were identified as an acute shortage of teachers, lack of security, lack of resources and limited finances. 1 Save the Children (n.d.). Where we work: Sri Lanka. Retrieved 27-10-2005 http://www.savethechildren. ca/wherewework/southasia/srilanka.html.
Inside the Hybrid Organization: An Organizational Level View of Responses to Conflicting Institutional Demands

This paper explores organizational responses to conflicting institutional demands. An inductive comparative case study of four social enterprises that scaled their organization while embedded in competing social welfare and commercial logics suggests that, when facing competing organizational templates imposed by their institutional environment, organizations attempt to strike a balance at the organizational level by adopting a combination of intact practices from both logics instead of balancing at the practice level by resorting to strategies such as decoupling. In addition, we find an important legitimating effect of founding origins: in a sector where the social welfare logic is ultimately predominant, organizations originating from the social sector benefited from an a priori legitimacy capital, which allowed them to borrow freely from both social and commercial practices. In contrast, organizations emanating from the commercial sector, suffering from an a priori legitimacy deficit, had to display their conformity with social templates in order to secure their acceptance in the field and therefore adopted predominantly social practices. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of hybrid organizations and point to the founding origins of organizations as an important determinant of the pattern of hybridization strategies.
Treatment Options for Rosacea With Concomitant Conditions

ABSTRACT Patients with rosacea frequently present with coexisting skin conditions, such as seborrheic dermatitis, acne, perioral dermatitis, and melasma, which may complicate diagnosis and treatment. This article discusses the presentation, pathophysiology, and management of rosacea with common concomitant skin disorders.
Reydon Symmetry and the Explanation of Organismal Form Commentary on

Golubitsky (this volume) presented three examples in which the concepts of symmetry and symmetry breaking, as well as their mathematical formalizations, played an important role in understanding patterns exhibited by physical and biological systems. These examples concerned patterns occurring in burner flames, in animal locomotion and in visual hallucinations. A striking feature of these examples was that the same general mathematical model of symmetry breaking could be applied in all cases, even though the systems under consideration came from quite different realms. Golubitsky ’s claims were that the mathematics of symmetry and symmetry breaking can help us understand the origins of patterns observed in physical as well as biological systems, and that there is a general “menu of patterns” that encompasses patterns that can be realized in materially very different kinds of systems (this volume; Stewart and Golubitsky , 1993: 186, 207, 218). The philosophical question that Golubitsky ’s claims give rise to pertains to mathematical models in general: If there are general mathematical models that apply to materially very different kinds of systems, physical as well as biological ones, and can help us understand how these systems work, then what exactly is the role of such models in understanding and explaining the phenomena under study? What is the epistemic work that such models do in science? This is a very broad question, which needs to be constrained more. Here, I will only consider one of Golubitsky ’s examples, namely the explanations of organismal traits such as the various locomotive patterns that animals exhibit. Where do mathematical models of the sort discussed by Golubitsky fit into the larger explanatory structure of biological science? I will begin by addressing the role of mathematical models in biology in general.
Subspace adaptation for incremental face learning

This paper introduces a new face recognition approach that allows face variations (produced by aging and other appearance changes) to be dealt with. During the initial learning, a set of MKL subspaces is created for each individual, starting from the feature vectors extracted through a bank of Gabor filters. Then, during the normal system operation, an incremental updating technique can be applied to adjust the subspaces without recalculating the face models from scratch; this makes the method able to cope with gradual changes that occur over time. The results of the experimentation performed on three face databases prove the advantages of the proposed approach with respect to other well-known techniques; in particular, our method achieves better accuracy and higher robustness against face variations.
Levels of Heavy Metals in Some Soup Thickeners Used In Abomege in Ebonyi State , Nigeria OTI

Samples of Afzelia Africana, Brachystogia Nigerica and Macuna-sloanei, were collected from Abaomege in Onicha L.G. A of Ebonyi State and were analyzed for heavy metals using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Bulk scientific, VGP 210 model, USA)The results revealed the mean concentration of heavy metals content in Afzelia Africana was found to be Zn (0.42 ± 0.03); Fe (0.42 ± 0.03); Cr (0.02 ± 0.01). Brachystogia Nigerica; Zn (0.16 ± 0.02); Ni (0.62 ± 0.04); Fe (0.43 ± 0.03) and Macuna-sloanei: Zn (0.22 ± 0.01) Ni (0.43 ± 0.03), Fe (0.41 ± 0.03) and Cr (0.03 ± 0.01). It was observed that Pb, As, Cd and Cu were not detected in any of the samples. From the results the level of Ni in Brachystogia Nigerica was the highest concentration recorded. Levels of all the heavy metals in the investigated soup thickners were all below World Health Organisation Maximum Level (WHO ML). Heavy metal in food is known to be toxic to human health at elevated concentration, hence regular monitoring is essential for safety of the consumers.
Universitet Why do people join trade unions ?

In this study the reasons for joining a trade union are analyzed statistically using high quality data from Statistics Denmark comprising the entire Danish workforce combined with European Social Survey data from rounds 1-3. These data enables measuring the effect of union density at the workplace level on union recruitment, which is not done before. Workplace union density is taken to measure the strength of the workplace’s custom of being union member creating an instrumental incentive to join the union. Self-placement on a political left-right scale measures political attitude taken to be a value rational motive. The statistical results indicate that the most important predictor of joining the union is workplace union density and only in a secondary manner does political attitude matter. It is concluded that the normative pressure of one’s colleagues is the dominating reason for joining a trade union.
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The Influence of Behavioral Inhibition/Approach Systems and Message Framing on the Processing of Persuasive Health Messages

Two experiments examine the role of message framing and behavioral inhibition/ approach systems (BIS/BAS) on affect, cognition, attitude, and behavioral intention. The results show that advantage framing yields stronger positive emotions, whereas disadvantage framing produces stronger negative emotions. BIS and BAS show a complex pattern of associations with emotions that is not wholly consistent with either the approach—avoidance or valence aspects of affect. There is an interaction between BIS/BAS and message frame on persuasion such that BIS correlates positively with dominant cognitive response under disadvantage framing, but BAS does so under advantage framing. These findings are contextualized in process models (structural equation modeling) that include anger, fear, attitude, and behavioral intention.
A 206 ∼ 220 GHz CMOS VCO using body-bias technique for frequency tuning

A 206 ~ 220 GHz varactor-free voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is proposed to improve the output power and tuning range. The topology of the VCO is push-push cross-coupled pair. By using body-bias technique, the parasitic capacitor of the cross-coupled pair can be adjusted, and the varactors in the conventional VCO design can be removed. The proposed VCO was designed and implemented in TSMC 65-nm CMOS technology with a chip size of 0.25 × 0.25 mm2. The tuning range is 6.6% (from 206.2 to 220 GHz). The measured phase noise is -66 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. The output power is 1.3 dBm at 216 GHz with 54-mW dc power consumption and its maximum dc-to-RF efficiency is 2.1%. To the best of our knowledge, this varactor-free VCO achieves the highest dc-to-RF efficiency among published CMOS VCOs around 200 GHz.
The Role of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Establishing the Proximity of Tumor Borders to Functional Brain Systems: Implications for Preoperative Risk Assessments and Postoperative Outcomes

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a new MRI imaging technique sensitive to directional movements of water molecules, induced by tissue barriers. This provides a new form of contrast that allows the identification of functional white matter tracts within the brain, and has been proposed as a technique suitable for presurgical planning in brain tumor patients. Resection of primary brain tumors improves survival, functional performance, and the effectiveness of adjuvant therapies, provided that surgically-induced neurological deficits can be avoided. Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) has the potential to establish spatial relationships between eloquent white matter and tumor borders, provide information essential to preoperative planning, and improve the accuracy of surgical risk assessments preoperatively. We present our experience in a series of 28 brain tumor patients where the integration of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and DTI data was used to determine key anatomic spatial relationships preoperatively. Twice as many functional systems were localized to within 5 mm of tumor borders when DTI and fMRI were utilized for preoperative planning, compared to that afforded by fMRI alone. Our results show that the combined use of fMRI and DTI can provide a better estimation of the proximity of tumor borders to eloquent brain systems sub-serving language, speech, vision, motor and premotor functions. Additionally, a low regional complication rate (4%) observed in our series suggests that preoperative planning with these combined techniques may improve surgical outcomes compared to that previously reported in the literature. Larger studies specifically designed to establish the accuracy and predictive value of DTI in brain tumor patients are warranted to substantiate our preliminary observations.
A real-life experimental study on semi-supervised source localization based on manifold regularization

Recently, we have presented a semi-supervised approach for sound source localization based on manifold regularization. The idea is to estimate the function that maps each relative transfer function (RTF) to its corresponding position. The estimation is based on an optimization problem which takes into consideration the geometric structure of the RTF samples, which is empirically deduced from prerecorded training measurements. The solution is appropriately constrained to be smooth, meaning that similar RTFs are mapped to close positions. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive experimental study with real-life recordings to examine the algorithm performance in actual noisy and reverberant conditions. The influence of the amount of training data as well as changes in the environmental conditions are also being examined. We show that the algorithm attains accurate localization in such challenging conditions.
A Review on Facial Expression Recognition Techniques

Facial expression is in the topic of active research over the past few decades. Recognition and extracting various emotions and validating those emotions from the facial expression become very important in human computer interaction. Interpreting such human expression remains and much of the research is required about the way they relate to human affect. Apart from H-I interfaces other applications include awareness system, medical diagnosis, surveillance, law enforcement, automated tutoring system and many more. In the recent year different technique have been put forward for developing automated facial expression recognition system. This paper present quick survey on some of the facial expression recognition techniques. A comparative study is carried out using various feature extraction techniques. We define taxonomy of the field and cover all the steps from face detection to facial expression classification. Keywords—facial expression,FACS, multimodal, HMM, __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________
Response of Rabbiteye Blueberries to Chemical Thinning Agents

Sciences, and Spiers is director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Small Fruit Research Station in Poplarville, Mississippi. This research report was published by the MSU Office of Agricultural Communications, a unit of the Division of Agriculture Forestry and Veterinary Medicine. The thinning potential of various chemicals sprayed on ‘Tifblue’ rabbiteye blueberry was examined under field conditions in 1991 and 1992. Chemicals used were 7-benzylamino purine (BA), gibberellic acid (GA 3 ), 2naphaleneacetic acid (NAA), 1-naphthyl N-methylcarbamate (carbaryl). BA at 75 mg/L and the combination of carbaryl at 400 mg/L and BA at 25 mg/L reduced fruit set in 1991 and 1992. Combinations of carbaryl and GA 3 reduced fruit set, but the response depended on GA 3 concentration and varied from year to year. GA 3 , NAA, and carbaryl also reduced fruit set, but results were inconsistent. In 1991, greater thinning occurred when treatments were sprayed 10 days after corolla drop (ACD). BA at 25 mg/L increased fruit diameter at first harvest in 1991, and carbaryl at 400 mg/L increased fruit diameter in 1991 and 1992. Fruit diameter was increased in the presence and absence of thinning, depending on year and application time. Yield and return bloom were not influenced by any of the treatments. Vol. 23, No. 15 Research Report March 2005
össbauer spectroscopy evidence for the lack of iron magnetic moment in uperconducting

Superconducting FeSe has been investigated by measurements of the magnetic susceptibility versus temperature and Mössbauer spectroscopy at various temperatures including strong external magnetic fields applied to the absorber. It was found that isomer shift exhibits sharply defined increase at about 105 K leading to the lowering of the electron density on iron nucleus by 0.02 electron a.u. −3. Above jump ACS: 4.70. −b 4.25. Ha 6.80. +y eywords: in the electron density is correlated with the transition from the P4/nmm to the Cmma structure, while decreasing temperature. Mössbauer measurements in the external magnetic field and for temperatures below transition to the superconducting state revealed null magnetic moment on iron atoms. Hence, the compound exhibits either Pauli paramagnetism or diamagnetic behavior. The principal component of the electric field gradient on the iron nucleus was found as negative on the iron site. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ron-based superconductor össbauer spectroscopy
Ubiquitous Commerce : The New World of Technologies

Developments in mobile communications and ubiquitous computing have heralded an era of ubiquitous commerce (ucommerce). This paper studies the concept of ubiquitous computing and its adaption to commerce with new issues associated. With the rapid advancement in field of networking and communications, no aspect of human life is untouched. Commercial activities are also affected by the new advancements. Any time/ always/ anywhere service providing is the key to this ultimate or ubiquitous commerce. Commerce that offers unique and personalized service to every customer individually using ubiquitous networks is called u-commerce. U-commerce is abbreviation that stands for ubiquitous commerce, also called ubicomp or ultimate commerce. U-commerce represents the next phase of commence, which is initiated by electronic commerce (e-commerce) and propagated by mobile commerce (m-commerce). In this paper, we look into the basic construct or building blocks of U-commerce and what are the obstacles faced in its implementations. U-commerce is combination of ecommerce, m-commerce, television, voice and silent commerce. It can be seen as extension of current types of commerce, but not as their replacement. Main u-commerce characteristics are described using the four u-constructs: ubiquity, universality, uniqueness, and unison. Although U-commerce brings many benefits the principal obstacle to u-commerce development and adoption are customer concerns for their privacy protection.
Bevacizumab plus interferon alfa compared with interferon alfa monotherapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma: CALGB 90206.

PURPOSE Bevacizumab is an antibody that binds to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and has activity in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Interferon alfa (IFN) is a historic standard first-line treatment for RCC. A prospective, randomized phase III trial of bevacizumab plus IFN versus IFN monotherapy was conducted. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with previously untreated, metastatic clear-cell RCC were randomly assigned to receive either bevacizumab (10 mg/kg intravenously every 2 weeks) plus IFN (9 million U subcutaneously three times weekly) or the same dose and schedule of IFN monotherapy in a multicenter phase III trial. The primary end point was overall survival (OS). Secondary end points were progression-free survival (PFS), objective response rate (ORR), and safety. RESULTS Between October 2003 and July 2005, 732 patients were enrolled. The prespecified stopping rule for OS has not yet been reached. The median PFS was 8.5 months in patients receiving bevacizumab plus IFN (95% CI, 7.5 to 9.7 months) versus 5.2 months (95% CI, 3.1 to 5.6 months) in patients receiving IFN monotherapy (log-rank P < .0001). The adjusted hazard ratio was 0.71 (95% CI, 0.61 to 0.83; P < .0001). Bevacizumab plus IFN had a higher ORR as compared with IFN (25.5% [95% CI, 20.9% to 30.6%] v 13.1% [95% CI, 9.5% to 17.3%]; P < .0001). Overall toxicity was greater for bevacizumab plus IFN, including significantly more grade 3 hypertension (9% v 0%), anorexia (17% v 8%), fatigue (35% v 28%), and proteinuria (13% v 0%). CONCLUSION Bevacizumab plus IFN produces a superior PFS and ORR in untreated patients with metastatic RCC as compared with IFN monotherapy. Toxicity is greater in the combination therapy arm.
Anthracofibrosis Involving Lung Parenchyma: CT Findings and Long-Term Follow-Up

Objective To describe computed tomographic (CT) findings of anthracofibrosis involving lung parenchyma. Methods Retrospectively reviewed CT findings of 34 patients with anthracofibrosis involving lung parenchyma, showing deposition of anthracotic pigmentation with focal fibrotic lesions on histologic examination. Results Types included nodules (41.2%), masses (55.9%), and fibrotic consolidation (2.9%). The mean size was 26.8 mm. The most common location was right upper lobe (n = 10). Satellite nodules were identified in 5 patients, calcification was identified in 11 patients, necrotic low attenuation was identified in 9 patients, and marginal spicule was identified in 26 patients (76.5%). The CT images showed airway manifestation of anthracofibrosis in 13 patients, nodal manifestation in 11 patients, and inactive tuberculosis in 14 patients. Initial radiologic diagnosis included tuberculosis (n = 10), lung cancer (n = 9), organized pneumonia (n = 7), nonspecific pulmonary nodule (n = 7), and anthracofibrosis (n = 1). Conclusion Anthracofibrosis involving lung parenchyma appears as a nodule, mass, or fibrotic consolidation, surrounded by long spicule. It may be the spectrum of bronchial anthracofibrosis involving small airway of lung parenchyma.
Generative Hydrology Network Analysis A parametric approach towater infrastructure based urban planning

Urban water systems need to be dimensioned well to be economical and distribute water in a good quality to all consumers. Their pipe sizes are dependent on demand and location of consuming nodes. Within uncertain development of cities, planning sustainable hydraulic networks is challenging. This paper explores, how the definition of urban design parameters can be supported using parametric urban design models and computational water network analysis. For the latter we developed new components for Grasshopper based on the open accessible water analysis tool EPANET. In two example cases we demonstrate potential applications of this tool for water-sensitive planning of emerging cities to find optimal positions for water sources or pipe diameters. In subsequent research, this could be used to derive probability-based recommendations for the dimensioning of a water network within uncertain growth.