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Mythopoetic Perspectives of Men's Healing Work: An Anthology for Therapists and Others

Introduction What is Mythopoetic Men's Work and Theory Building? Parallels Between Mythopoetic Men's Work/Men's Peer Mutual Support Groups and Selected Feminist Theories by Edward Read Barton Beyond the Drum: An Exploratory Study of Group Processes in a Mythopoetic Men's Group by Steve R. Wilson and Eric Mankoski Warriors and Fathers: ONCE WERE WARRIORS and the Mythopoetic Understanding of Men's Violence by Christopher J. Bullock The Mythopoetic Interpretation of Texts: Hermeneutical Considerations by David B. Perrin A Proposed Model for Comparing Writers in the Mythopoetic Branch of the Contemporary Men's Movement by Thomas M. Brunner Silencing the Men's Movement: Gender, Ideology, and Popular Discourse by Joel Morton Reconstructing Masculinity: Images and Life Stories of Men's Mutual Support Group Members by Eric Mankowski Therapeutic Applications The Use of Myth and Quasi-Myth in Therapy by Ross Thomas Lucas Working with Men from a Mythopoetic Perspective: An Integrity Therapy Framework by Nedra R. Lander and Danielle Nahon Object Relations Perspectives of Masculine Initiation by Wesley Goodenough Therapeutic Status of the Mythopoetic Approach: A Psychological Perspective by Daniel J. Richard Research on the ManKind Project, Formerly Known as the New Warrior Network, and the New Warrior Training Adventure (NWTA) Collaborative Research with a Men's Organization: Psychological Impact, Group Functioning, and Organizational Growth by Eric Mankowski, Kenneth I. Maton, Christopher K. Burke, Sharon A. Hoover, and Clinton W. Anderson Heuristic and Ethnographic Study of the Mankind Project: Initiating Men into a "New Masculinity: or a Re-packaging of Dominant Controlling Patriarchy? by Marty Pentz Feminist Roundtable and Conclusion A Feminist Looks at the Men's Movement: Search for Common Ground by Holly Sweet Men and the Search for Common Ground by John Rowan Justice, Joy, and an End to the Gender Wars by Amanda Goldrick-Jones Conclusion Glossary Index
A plea for the majority method in aggregating judgements

The aim of this article is to vindicate the majority method as a procedure that may be suitable for some judgement aggregation problems. The standard literature on judgement aggregation has emphasized that the majority method may fail to meet some restrictions that are considered as binding. For instance, if the number of persons is even, aggregating individual judgements may fail to return a collective judgement. More importantly, using the majority method may lead to a logically inconsistent set of collective judgements. As a consequence, it has been discredited as a suitable judgement aggregation mechanism, while it is known that it meets many attractive properties. In contrast, this article explains how the standard logical consistency restrictions can be weakened in ways that are plausible for some kinds of judgement aggregation problems, in particular when the aggregation aim is of an informational nature rather than using the collective output for decision making. In addition, it is shown that the majority method meets those weak consistency restrictions. Therefore, the article concludes that the use of the majority method can be vindicated at least in addressing such aggregation problems. In order to do so, the article uses a simple variant of the majority method which ranks propositions according to the number of persons that support them, and is closer to the way that the method is used in social choice theory. In addition, it is shown that such a variant satisfies the translation of all the properties that the method meets in that theory, without facing transitivity difficulties such the voting paradox.
Cortex Peptidoglycan Lytic Activity in Germinating Bacillus anthracis Spores

ABSTRACT Bacterial endospore dormancy and resistance properties depend on the relative dehydration of the spore core, which is maintained by the spore membrane and its surrounding cortex peptidoglycan wall. During spore germination, the cortex peptidoglycan is rapidly hydrolyzed by lytic enzymes packaged into the dormant spore. The peptidoglycan structures in both dormant and germinating Bacillus anthracis Sterne spores were analyzed. The B. anthracis dormant spore peptidoglycan was similar to that found in other species. During germination, B. anthracis released peptidoglycan fragments into the surrounding medium more quickly than some other species. A major lytic enzymatic activity was a glucosaminidase, probably YaaH, that cleaved between N-acetylglucosamine and muramic-δ-lactam. An epimerase activity previously proposed to function on spore peptidoglycan was not detected, and it is proposed that glucosaminidase products were previously misidentified as epimerase products. Spore cortex lytic enzymes and their regulators are attractive targets for development of germination inhibitors to kill spores and for development of activators to cause loss of resistance properties for decontamination of spore release sites.
Health status and quality of life of people with multiple sclerosis

Purpose: The aim of this study was to ascertain the health status and quality of life of a community based cohort of people with multiple sclerosis. Method: A postal questionnaire with self-completed measures of impairment, disability, physical dependency and quality of life was sent to a random sample of 203 people with multiple sclerosis from a population register. The sample was stratified according to five disease courses. The population register is of the prevalent population of 760 people with multiple sclerosis resident in the Leeds Health Authority. The register used multiple sources of ascertainment and is prospectively maintained with new incident cases. Results: The estimated mean age of people with multiple sclerosis is 46 years (SE: 0.85), and mean duration of disease is 14.4 years (SE: 0.69). Almost four in five (78%) are female, and one in six (17%) live alone. Impairments of balance, vision and memory are common and in all cases there is little difference in the frequency between disease course groups. In contrast, impairments of bladder and bowel are more common in those with a progressive disease course. Disability is more common in those with a progressive disease course but all scores on the SF36 Physical Function scale are low and demonstrate the disabling consequences of the disease, irrespective of disease course. These consequences must contribute to the fact that over two-thirds (68%) were not employed at the time of the survey. Quality of life does not differ across disease course groups, but rather varies by age and duration. Conclusions: People with multiple sclerosis experience a range of impairments and disabilities. Those with progressive disease courses experience greater levels of impairment and disability than other groups. There is not a straightforward exchange between health status and quality of life. A measure of subjective quality of life may reflect adjustment to disease, such that, for example, the longer the duration, the older the individual, the more likely the person will report a relatively good quality of life.
Counting 1-Factors in Regular Bipartite Graphs

We show that anyk-regular bipartite graph with 2nvertices has at least(k? 1)k-1kk-2nperfect matchings (1-factors). Equivalently, this is a lower bound on the permanent of any nonnegative integern×nmatrix with each row and column sum equal tok. For anyk, the base (k? 1)k? 1/kk? 2is largest possible.
Multilevel and longitudinal modeling with IBM SPSS

Heck, Thomas, and Tabata (2010) introduce how to develop and analyse multilevel and longitudinal models using SPSS with clear and step-by-step explanations. This book aims to help readers to build and analyse multilevel and longitudinal data, and interpret results with the SPSS Mixed procedure. This is the authors’ second book on multilevel modeling techniques; however, it is the first book on the market to cover these models to such a deep and comprehensive extent with SPSS. The book features chapters devoted to introducing multilevel and longitudinal modeling; preparing and examining multilevel data; building two and three-level multilevel models, examining individual change with longitudinal data using repeated measures ANOVA, and multilevel modeling; examining organizational-level change, and developing more advanced models, such as, multivariate and cross-classified multilevel models. The book begins with an introductory chapter on multilevel and longitudinal modeling using SPSS 18.0. It provides an introduction of currently available software packages for multilevel data analyses, a rational of using SPSS, features of SPSS Mixed procedure and its limitations. It presents a general strategy for developing multilevel models, and it briefly discusses SPSS Mixed syntax and menu command formulation. This chapter provides useful references for readers who wish to delve into methodological issues related to multilevel modeling. Chapter 2 focuses on preparing several types of multilevel and longitudinal data using SPSS. It explains how to set up level 1 and level 2 data sets, and how to merge them into one data set. The basic data management functions in SPSS, such as recoding, computing, matching files, and aggregating data, are reviewed and introduced clearly, which I think is extremely helpful to beginner learners who are not familiar with these functions. For advanced learners, this section can serve as a good review. The chapter also demonstrates how to restructure longitudinal horizontal data (person-level data structure with multivariate variables for each person) to vertical data (person-period data structure, with multiple records nested within each person) to prepare them for multilevel analysis. Data management skills are essential for multilevel modeling, since the data need to be initially prepared with the right structure. This is also a prerequisite for researchers who use specialized packages for multilevel modeling, such as HLM, MLwiN, and Mplus. Thus, Chapter 2 may be helpful for all potential readers. Chapters 3 and 4 take readers through steps of building a two-level and a three-level model, respectively. The authors’ writing style is very effective. Starting from Chapter 3, each chapter features an example of a study, presenting the research questions, the data, clear, step-by-step instructions of how to build a multilevel model using SPSS,
Extracting new relations to improve ontology reuse

Ontologies reuse in biomedicine faces several challenges, which include the complexity of the domain and the articulation of different vocabularies, many of them with thousands of terms. Those ontologies are still subject to changes to improve their quality and to solve existing deficiencies. Among them, we highlight the problem of concepts that should be related, according to their definition, but are not explicitly connected through relations in the ontology. This could hinder ontology comprehension and limit the scope of the domain represented by the vocabulary, which can eventually encourage the development of new ontologies instead of reusing existing ones. Due to these issues, the adoption of ontology tools to support the discovery of implicit relations, intra and inter ontologies, is strongly recommended. Although there are tools geared to find new relationships in ontologies, such tools fail to consider the specific rationale used to organize the knowledge related to a specific domain. This paper proposes an approach for information extraction in ontologies, which uses the definition and nomenclature of each concept to extract implicit information that can complement the knowledge they contain. This increase in knowledge allows an increase in the quality and semantics of ontologies, and thus improves several processes, including the reuse. We have applied the approach to the biomedical domain and, as a result, we have discovered a set of possible new relations for a single ontology as well as relations between two different ontologies.
The effects of post-entry work experiences on the disengagement of graduates and the moderating role of expectations

Researchers have examined the role of post-entry experiences upon outcome variables of graduates but few have studied the indirect effects of pre-entry expectations. It was hypothesized that experiences would directly influence disengagement, whereas expectations would moderate. Five hundred and twenty (520) graduates were surveyed. Results partially supported both hypotheses. It has long been accepted that the majority of recently hired university graduates will voluntarily move within four or five years (Schein, 1964) and that write-off values are considerable for each entrant who quits. Although firms may reduce the turnover rate through financial inducements, this hides the cost of people retained who become disaffected (Andersson, 1996; Nicholson & Arnold, 1991) as early as six months after being hired (Price, 2002). From the point of view of industry, this outcome accounts for a significant waste of human resources. Researchers have therefore shown a considerable interest in factors that influence how graduates respond to confirmed expectations and positive post-hire experiences However, much remains to be learned about the separate and joint effects of expectations and experiences on outcome variables. This paper, conducted with 520 recently hired university graduates, aims to fill this gap by attempting to pursue two objectives: (1) to determine if post-entry work experiences are powerful in changing the disengagement of graduates; and (2) to test the moderating role of pre-entry expectations on the relationships between post-entry work experiences and disengagement of graduates. Work engagement is emerging as a dynamic process, which can be quickly abandoned. According to Marcum (1999), engagement is rooted in various components such as interest, competence, challenge, and job involvement. Disengagement conversely refers to initiate action, unwillingness to get involved or to exert effort for the organization (Bentein, Vandenberghe & Stinglhamber, 2000), as well as lack of identification with organizational values and awareness that compensation for effort is insufficient (Wils, Labelle, Guérin & Tremblay, 1998). For the disengaged, the decision to join-up has the character of irrevocability.
Blueprints for Smell: Defining the Architecture of the Necklace Olfactory System

Animals must extract salient information from complex environments in order to generate adaptive behaviors. Mice have evolved multiple olfactory subsystems that enable detection and discrimination of a vast range of chemical stimuli. Although distinct olfactory subsystems detect overlapping subsets of odor space, the specific perceptual functions of each subsystem – and how subsystems interact with one another – remains largely unknown. The GC-D “necklace” olfactory subsystem detects odorants from mates, predators, and food, suggesting it may play an important role in mediating innate behaviors. However, this subsystem is also required for a specific form of olfactory social learning. Olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) of the GC-D subsystem detect odorants via molecular mechanisms distinct from those of conventional OSNs. Consistent with a specialized role in olfactory processing, the GC-D subsystem also exhibits atypical anatomical organization: GC-D OSNs are concentrated within isolated regions of the nasal epithelium, and unlike canonical OSNs – whose axons converge onto a small number of isolated foci (called glomeruli) within the olfactory bulb (OB) – GC-D neurons project axons to a “necklace” of 25-40 seemingly interconnected
Douglass C. North's Contributions to Economics and Economic History

Modern economic analysis was founded by the Scottish philosophers of the 18th century in their general analysis of the determination of observed facts in society. At the center of their analysis was a desire to understand the interaction of human beings. The ingenious invention of the idea of a "spontaneous order", mechanisms through which a good result was achieved without an authority giving central commands, is one of the greatest insights in human intellectual history. Adam Smith's invisible hand turned out to be so successful in economic analysis that 100 years later, the whole profession almost unconsciously neglected other methods of coordinating human interaction. With the construction of the general equilibrium model by Leon Walras, the price mechanism moved to center stage in economic analysis and became ever more refined through the analyses of Hicks, Samuelson, and Arrow-Debreu. Other forms of human relations than the price system, such as rules and principles, political decisions and collective group actions, were crowded out by disciplines such as law, political science and sociology. The classical authors, Smith, Mill, and Marshall, in their broad analysis, made some allowance for these factors, but they have since been purged from pure economics. One exceptional man, Joseph Schumpeter, in his monumental work History of Economic Analysis (1954)1 argued for the role of economic history and sociology, but in vain. Schumpeter writes: "What distinguishes the 'scientific' economist from all the other people who think, talk, and write about economic topics is a command of techniques that we class under three heads: history, statistics, and 'theory'.
Novel strategy for optimal sequential application of clinical criteria, immunohistochemistry and microsatellite analysis in the diagnosis of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer

Clinical criteria, microsatellite analysis (MSA) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) are important diagnostic tools for identification of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) patients who are likely to carry pathogenic germline mutations in mismatch repair genes. Based on MSA and IHC results and subsequent mutation analyses of 1,119 unrelated index patients meeting the Amsterdam II criteria or the classical Bethesda guidelines, we analyzed the value of these tools to predict MLH1 and MSH2 mutations with the aim of establishing optimal strategies for their most efficient sequential use. The overall prevalence of pathogenic germline mutations in our cohort was 20.6% (95% CI = 18.3–23.0%) and 61.8% (95% CI = 56.8–66.6%), respectively, after MSA/IHC‐based preselection. IHC was highly predictive (99.1%) and specific (99.6%) with regard to MSA. However, 14 out of 230 mutations (6%) escaped detection by IHC. Thus, IHC cannot be recommended to substitute MSA fully. Nonetheless, IHC is important to indicate the gene that is likely to be affected. To combine both methods efficiently, we propose a novel screening strategy that provides 2 alternative ways of sequential IHC and MSA application, either using IHC or MSA in the first place. A logistic regression model based on the age of the index patient at first tumor diagnosis and the number of fulfilled HNPCC criteria is used to allocate individual patients to that alternative pathway that is expected to be least expensive. A cost analysis reveals that about 25% of the costs can be saved using this strategy. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Intelligent Anti-Money Laundering Solution Based upon Novel Community Detection in Massive Transaction Networks on Spark

Criminals are using every means available to launder the profits from their illegal activities into ostensibly "legitimate" assets. Meanwhile, most commercial anti-money laundering systems are still rule-based, which cannot adapt to the ever-changing tricks. Although some machine learning methods have been proposed, they are mainly focused on the perspective of abnormal behavior for single accounts. Considering money laundering activities are often involved in gang criminals, these methods are still not intelligent enough to crack down on criminal gangs all-sidedly. In this paper, a systematic solution is presented to find suspicious money laundering gangs. A temporal-directed Louvain algorithm has been proposed to detect communities according to relevant anti-money laundering patterns. All processes are implemented and optimized on Spark platform. This solution can greatly improve the efficiency of anti-money laundering work for financial regulation agencies.
Biosynthesis and Metabolism of Arginine in Bacteria

INTRODUCTION . 315 BIOSYNTHESIS OF ARGININE . 315 Enzymatic Steps and Regulation of Metabolic Flow . 315 From glutamate to arginine . 315 N-Acetylglutamate synthetase . 316 N-Acetylglutamate 5-phosphotransferase . 317 N-Acetylglutamate 5-semialdehyde reductase . 317 N-Acetylornithine aminotransferase . 317 N-Acetylornithinase . 318 Ornithine acetyltransferase . 318 OTCase . 318 Argininosuccinate synthetase . 319 Argininosuccinase . 319 Biosynthesis of carbamoylphosphate . 319 Enterobacterial CPSases . 319 P. aeruginosa CPSase . 320 B. subtilis CPSase . 321 Other procaryotic CPSases . 321 Control of Gene Expression in E. coli. 321 Genetic organization . 321 Levels of control . 321 Formation of active repressor . 322 Structure of control regions and the repression response . 323 Bipolar argECBH operon and divergent transcription . 324 carAB operon and cumulative repression . 325 Arginyl-tRNA synthetase . 325 Concluding remarks . 326 Control of Enzyme Synthesis in Other Procaryotes . 326 Bacteria lacking or showing limited repression control . 326 Pseudomonas spp.326 Bacteria with extensive repression control . 327 S. typhimurium . 327 B. subtilis . 327 Transport of Arginine and Related Metabolites . 328 CATABOLISM OF ARGININE . 328 Arginase Pathway . 328 ADI Pathway . 330 Control of energy provision . 331 Arginine Succinyltransferase Pathway . 332 Arginine Transaminase, Oxidase, and Oxygenase Pathways . 333 Arginine Decarboxylase Pathway . 335 Lactic bacteria. 335 E. coli. 335 Klebsiella spp. 336 Pseudomonas and Aeromonas spp. 336 Conversion of arginine into putrescine . 336 Enzymes of putrescine utilization . 337 Other Pathways of Arginine, Citrulline, and Ornithine Utilization . 337 Bacteria with Multiple Pathways . 338 EVOLUTIONARY CONSIDERATIONS . 339 Biological Significance of Gene Organization . 339 Lack of Attenuation Control . 339 Chromosomal Rearrangements Involving Arginine Genes . 340 Cryptic argM Gene of E. coli . 340 Origin of CPSases. 340
A Cross-National Investigation into the Filial Piety and Motivations for Parenthood among Vietnamese and Korean College Students

This study empirically examined the effects of filial piety on motivations for parenthood among Vietnamese and Korean college students, who represent a generation of young adults and prospective parents in both countries. The Vietnamese data were collected from 325 college students enrolled in three universities located in Hanoi and Korean data were collected from 216 students from a single large university in Seoul. Student respondents were asked to complete the self-administered questionnaire including ‘ Filial Piety Scale ’ and ‘ Motivations for Parenthood Scale. ’ The results revealed that the Vietnamese students reported a significantly higher level of ‘ general filial piety ’ than their Korean counterparts. Vietnamese and Korean participants showed no significant difference in total motivations for parenthood. Among the five sub-factors of motivations for parenthood, however, the Vietnamese students were more likely to place a value on the expansion of self-motivation while their Korean counterparts considered the motivation to strengthen biological family ties to be more salient. Finally, after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the more filial Vietnamese and Korean college students were towards their parents, the more child-related motives they held in general. The results are discussed in relation to each country ’ s degree of modernization and to recommend prospective family planning and population policies in Vietnam based on the experiences of Korea industrialization. that Influence Motivations for Parenthood