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A Response to Rowland's, “Will Medical Solutions to Sexual Problems Make Sexological Care and Science Obsolete?”

In his article, Dr. Rowland (2007) has made a call to his “sexological” colleagues to awaken to the fact that they may be dramatically left behind by the contemporary emergence of safe and effective pharmacologic treatments for the majority of DSM-IV sexual dysfunctions. He asks “sexologists” and sex therapists to come together to do evidence-based research to define the critical role of the therapist in achieving “. more clearly defined treatment outcomes. ” He apparently anticipates that such an effort will enable sex therapists to avoid being left behind by the second coming of the medicalization of sexual problems and disorders. I have to admit that I like a lot of what Dr. Rowland has to say. First, he points out that the era of “business as usual” is over. The “languishing” period of the 1980’s and 90’s relative to sexual research is behind us, and has been replaced with a dramatic resurgence of research in sexual medicine led by clinical investigations of new pharmacologic treatments . More importantly, he entreats his colleagues to make a serious commitment of energy, resolve, and willingness to collaborate to demonstrate in explicit terms that their scientific approaches and treatment methods for sexual dysfunctions possess, for want of a better term, “incremental validity. ” That is to say, that they add unique knowledge to our understanding of the nature of sexual problems and contribute distinctively to the efficacy of their treatment. Although I must admit that his “let’s get off of our duffs and do something before we become extinct” flavor resonates with me, I do have several problems with his essay. First, I believe that to some degree there is an “apples and oranges” problem here. I do not pretend to understand what a “neurophysiological sexological investigation” is, but I do know that sex therapy involves a specific series of psychological/behavioral interventions based on the learning theory principles of extinction and new learning. Few
Marlin: Taming the big streaming data in large scale video similarity search

The extreme volume and staggeringly increasing rate inevitably produce unprecedented pressure on any large scale video sharing and hosting systems. Among the efforts to mitigate this pressure, content-based video similarity search is becoming more and more important with the exponential growth of the data size. Though various approaches have been proposed to address this problem, they are mainly focusing on the retrieval accuracy thus bringing video features with high complexity. Due to the complexity of the feature, these systems are based on the assumption that features representing videos have been obtained offline and stored in the database statically. However, the on-call efforts to move the feature extraction and similarity search from offline to online have been ignored in previous work. In this paper, we propose Marlin, a streaming data processing pipeline that efficiently extracts video features and retrieves video similarity information in a large scale video data system. We design a streaming feature extractor to handle the videos streaming into the system and establish the fined-grained resource allocation with a resource-aware data abstraction layer over streaming data to allocate computing resources among the videos with various resource demands. Besides that, we are pipelining the feature extraction and similarity search process with a distributed feature index, which supports real-time query and incremental index update. The experimental and the extensive real-world workload driven simulation results show that the proposed stream processing architecture achieves 25X speedup against the sequential feature extraction algorithm and 23X speedup against the sequential similarity search with a subsecond similarity query latency for a single request.
Examining the relationship between school principals’ instructional leadership behaviors, teacher self-efficacy, and collective teacher efficacy

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between school principals’ instructional leadership behaviors, teacher self-efficacy, and collective teacher efficacy. ,The participants were a total of 427 teachers working in elementary, middle, and high schools located in the Cekmekoy district of Istanbul. The data were gathered through the “Effective School Leadership Scale,” the “Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale,” and the “Collective Efficacy Scale. ” Arithmetic mean, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis were used in the data analysis. ,The results revealed positive and significant relationships between school leadership, teacher self-efficacy, and collective teacher efficacy. In addition, effective school leadership behaviors and teacher self-efficacy perceptions were found to be positive and significant predictors of collective teacher efficacy perceptions. ,School principals can implement practices to enhance teachers’ competence, to make them feel more effective and competent as a group. In this sense, teachers who do not feel competent can be guided by those who have more experience in the profession. Additionally, opportunities through which they can experience success can be created for these teachers.
Algorithms for parallel k-vertex connectivity and sparse certificates

A certificate for the k-vertex connectivity of a graph G = (V, E) is a subset E’ of E such that (V, E’) is k-vertex connected iff G is k-vertex connected. Let n = IV[ and m = IEI. A certificate is called sparse if it has size lE’I = O(kn). We show that sparse certificates for undirected graphs can be computed by executing k breadth first searches in sequence. This directly gives an efficient algorithm on the distributed model of computation. Using certificates of size O(k2 n), we show that the k-vertex connectivity of an undirected graph can be tested on the CRCW PRAM model in a parallel running time of O(k2 log n) using k3n2cr(k2n, n)/(log n) processors. For k >3 and m > k2n, this improves on previous deterministic parallel algorithms (for dense graphs and for constant k >4 the number of processors improves by a factor of roughly n). We also give sequential algorithms for finding (undirected) sparse certificates ‘(on-line”, and for finding -. certificate es of size <2 k2 n for directed graphs,
The Economics of Science and Technology: An Overview of Initiatives to Foster Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth

List of Tables. List of Figures. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. An Historical Perspective. 3. Economic Growth and Technological Change. 4. Dimensions of R&D. 5. The Entrepreneurial Process. 6. Government's Role in Innovation. 7. The Patent System. 8. Tax Incentives. 9. Research Collaborations. 10. Public/Private Partnerships. 11. Infrastructure Technology. 12. An Integrated Entrepreneurial Process. 13. Labor Market for R&D Scientists and Engineers. 14. Public Accountability. 15. Conclusions. References. Index.
Trend Trading: Timing Market Tides

Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I TREND TRADING PSYCHOLOGY. Chapter 1. Elements of an Edge. Chapter 2. What Can an Equity Trader Learn from a Futures Trend Follower? Chapter 3. Equity Trend Following in Action. PART II TREND TRADING TACTICS. Chapter 4. Three-Dimensional Technical Analysis. Chapter 5. Structuring a Trend Trade. Chapter 6. Structuring a Trend Trading Portfolio. Chapter 7. Out of the Box: Further Possibilities. Epilogue. Appendix: Trend Trading Worksheets and Checklists. Notes. Bibliography. Recommended Reading. Additional Resources. Index.
Pro-Poor Tourism: From Leakages to Linkages. A Conceptual Framework for Creating Linkages between the Accommodation Sector and ‘Poor’ Neighbouring Communities

The concept of pro-poor tourism (PPT) has in recent years received attention from academia, key industry and donor organisations. While several ‘How to…? ’ manuals have been written, little emphasis has so far been given to situating the PPT debate within the general literature on tourism and development. This paper contributes to the PPT debate by linking macro-economic concepts such as leakages and multipliers to micro-economic action opportunities for the mainstream accommodation sector in developing countries. As such it brings together the well-established tourism literature on economic impacts on the macro level with the more recent PPT literature that focuses on action on the ground. A conceptual framework for analysing and developing linkages between the accommodation sector and ‘poor’ neighbouring communities is suggested. This framework is based deductively on a critical review of the literature, coupled with first-hand experience in PPT action-research. It is suggested that PPT action opportunities encompass both core and non-core activities within the accommodation sector. Bringing together a wide range of past and present research, four types of potential linkages are proposed which are (1) employment; (2) sourcing and procurement; (3) SMME development and outsourcing; and (4) other types of partnerships such as donations.
Inherited long QT syndrome: Phenotype and therapy to use and avoid

Patients with long QT syndrome are most commonly of three types. It is important to understand several points about this potentially lethal syndrome: 1. What precipitates the syndrome? 2. What channelopathies are involved? 3. What are the characteristic T-wave abnormalities seen in patients with long QT syndrome? 4. What therapy should be initiated? 5. Who needs an ICD? Table I summarizes several key features of the different long QT syndromes.
Psychiatric Genomics and Mental Health Treatment: Setting the Ethical Agenda

Realizing the benefits of translating psychiatric genomics research into mental health care is not straightforward. The translation process gives rise to ethical challenges that are distinctive from challenges posed within psychiatric genomics research itself, or that form part of the delivery of clinical psychiatric genetics services. This article outlines and considers three distinct ethical concerns posed by the process of translating genomic research into frontline psychiatric practice and policy making. First, the genetic essentialism that is commonly associated with the genomics revolution in health care might inadvertently exacerbate stigma towards people with mental disorders. Secondly, the promises of genomic medicine advance a narrative of individual empowerment. This narrative could promote a fatalism towards patients' biology in ways that function in practice to undermine patients' agency and autonomy, or, alternatively, a heightened sense of subjective genetic responsibility could become embedded within mental health services that leads to psychosocial therapeutic approaches and the clinician-patient therapeutic alliance being undermined. Finally, adopting a genomics-focused approach to public mental health risks shifting attention away from the complex causal relationships between inequitable socio-economic, political, and cultural structures and negative mental health outcomes. The article concludes by outlining a number of potential pathways for future ethics research that emphasizes the importance of examining appropriate translation mechanisms, the complementarity between genetic and psychosocial models of mental disorder, the implications of genomic information for the clinician-patient relationship, and funding priorities and resource allocation decision making in mental health.
Migrant Workers in the International Hotel Industry

The migrant workers’ presence in the hotel industry has the potential to benefit host countries and employers at destination in bringing new skills, knowledge and innovation as well as a competitive advantage to many companies. Migrant workers can also benefit from their migration experience via higher earnings (wage gaps between the country of origin and destination) as well as the acquisition of skills (technical, occupational and soft skills). However, many migrant workers accept low paid and casual work; their employment is oftentimes seasonal. Segmentation of the labour market, stereotyping and discrimination make the foreign(-born) workforce more vulnerable than the local one. Especially where migrant workers have little or no education or training, they face a heightened risk of exploitation. Training opportunities are therefore crucial for migrant workers. As stressed at the Global Dialogue Forum on New Developments and Challenges in the Hospitality and Tourism Sector that was held at the ILO in November 2010, “the future HCT workforce will have greater diversity of gender, ethnic background and age profile. To be effective, approaches to skills development for the sector should be part of long-term national growth strategies so that skills development, the industry’s HR needs and overall national labour market policies are linked”.
Avoidable mortality in long-stay psychiatric patients of Northern Finland

The aim of the present study was to examine mortality due to avoidable and unavoidable causes, unnatural deaths, and mortality possibly related to the use of psychotropic drugs. Mortality of 253 long-stay psychiatric patients from Northern Finland were monitored over a 9-year period and characterized according to standardized mortality rates (SMRs). Deaths due to avoidable causes included about 30% of all deaths, SMRs being 1.9 times (males) and 3.2 times (females) higher than those of the general population. The risk of unnatural deaths was also elevated, with SMRs amounting to 3.9 in males and 8.5 in females. An increased mortality risk, possibly related to the use of psychotropic drugs, was noticed. The physical care of long-stay psychiatric patients seems not to reach the same level that the general population enjoys. Continuous attention to the physical health of psychiatric patients is important, but new strategies and specific intervention methods should not be neglected. The concept of “avoidable mortality” is a useful, but rarely used indicator of the quality of the medical care in psychiatric populations. However, the concept needs regular updates from the whole field of medicine. From the psychiatric point of view, it was suggested that suicides be regarded as avoidable deaths.
Designing an Ontology-based Health Information System: A systematic Approach

Ontology as a creative tool plays an essential role in acquisition and organization of knowledge and its representation in a special field. The important point is that ontology is usually applied in designing information systems and is useful for providing healthcare in design of health information systems by providing a comprehensive model of information and process needs. This comprehensive review study is based on existing resources and articles. Considering that a special methodology is used for creation and development of ontology in each domain, therefore, a methodology was presented for designing ontology of health information systems in the conducted studies and based on the general model by Pinto and Martin. The general model was changed in healthcare in order to support design and evaluation of information systems. This systematic approach includes the following three groups; stages, activity, and output. These stages include: specification, conceptualization, formalization, implementation, evaluation and maintenance. It should be noted that two main challenges are observed in designing ontology-based health information systems: designing useful and accurate comprehensive ontologies in healthcare systems, the second challenge is how ontologies should be coordinated with designing and evaluating health systems.Accepting a framework based on ontology provides a strong opportunity for integration and analysis of supervision system data and allows for executing rules based on evaluation in domain of health information systems. [Marziye Meraji, Farahnaz Sadoughi, Maryam Ahmadi, Mohsen Kahani. Designing an Ontology-based Health Information System: A systematic Approach. Life Sci J 2013; 10(7s): 735-740] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite. com. 115
Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease and women. Now an equal opportunity disease.

nitial recognition of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAG) lung disease in HIV (patients ts first occurred because of its similarity to tuberculosis. The hallmark was upper lobe cavitary disease. Sputum samples contained a large number of organisms on acid-fast smear and culture, and excretion of the organisms was continuous. In multiple studies of disease treatment beginning in 1979,'' male subjects represented 71 to 100 percent of the patients and most were heaa y smokers with underlying chronic obstructive lung disease. Not all patients with positive sputum cultures for MAG had evidence of cavitation, however. The radio-graphic features in these patients were considered nonspecific and were generally considered to relate to other pre-existing diseases (usually bronchiectasis). The number of organisms on acid-fast smear and sputum culture was generally lower than with cavitary disease, and excretion of the organisms was often intermittent. The concept of " colonization " was introduced to explain these findings, although no data were really provided other than circumstantial to demonstrate that tissue invasion had not taken place. The site of the " colonization " was not defined: endo-bronchial, oral, pharyngeal, etc. The use of enhanced pulmonary drainage using therapies designed to improve the condition of patients with bronchiectasis appeared to decrease sputum excretion of the organism, at least temporarily.5 This approach was not unrealistic as the chest radiographs and clinical symptoms most mimicked bronchiectasis. Prince et a! 6 in 1989 were one of the first groups in print to call attention to the clinical features and long-term followup of patients with this noncavitary form of disease. Another feature of these patients was the absence of underlying lung disease, which was the selection factor used by these authors to choose their 21 cases. Nineteen of 21 (90 percent) patients had interstitial/nodular disease on chest x-ray film, and 17 of 21 (81 percent) of the patients were women. The majority of patients (13 of 21) were nonsmokers, with the remainder being exsmokers with a mean smoking history of < 10 pack years. The benign nature of this form of infection was dispelled by the finding that 4 of 18 patients with at least 1 year of followup died of their MAG lung disease. Reich and Johnson4 reported on a series of patients with MAG lung disease identified over a 12-year period. Among these 29 patients were 6 patients (21 percent of the total) who presented with isolated lingula or middle lobe …
New authentication concept using certificates for big data analytic tools

Companies analyse large amounts of data on clusters of machines, using big data analytic tools such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink to analyse the data. Big data analytic tools are mainly tested regarding speed and reliability. Efforts about Security and thus authentication are spent only at second glance. In such big data analytic tools, authentication is achieved with the help of the Kerberos protocol that is basically built as authentication on top of big data analytic tools. However, Kerberos is vulnerable to attacks, and it lacks providing high availability when users are all over the world. To improve the authentication, this work presents first an analysis of the authentication in Hadoop and the data analytic tools. Second, we propose a concept to deploy Transport Layer Security (TLS) not only for the security of data transportation but as well for authentication within the big data tools. This is done by establishing the connections using certificates with a short lifetime. The proof of concept is realized in Apache Spark, where Kerberos is replaced by the method proposed. We deploy new short living certificates for authentication that are less vulnerable to abuse. With our approach the requirements of the industry regarding multi-factor authentication and scalability are met.
Sensitivity of CyGNSS Bistatic Reflectivity and SMAP Microwave Radiometry Brightness Temperature to Geophysical Parameters Over Land Surfaces

This paper presents an assessment of the correlation between CyGNSS-derived global navigation satellite systems reflectometry (GNSS-R) bistatic reflectivity, <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\Gamma _{rl}}$</tex-math></inline-formula>, and soil moisture active passive (SMAP) derived brightness temperature, <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T{}_I/2$</tex-math></inline-formula>, over land surfaces. This parametric study is performed as a function of soil moisture content (SMC), vegetation opacity <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\tau $</tex-math></inline-formula>, and albedo <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\omega $</tex-math></inline-formula>. Several target areas, classified according to the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) land cover types, are selected to evaluate potential differentiated geophysical effects on “active” (as many transmitters as navigation satellites are in view) and passive approaches. Although microwave radiometry has potentially a better sensitivity to SMC, the spatial resolution achievable from a spaceborne platform is poor, ∼40 km. On the other hand, GNSS-R bistatic coherent radar pixel-size is limited by half of the first Fresnel zone, which provides about ∼150 m of spatial resolution (depending on the geometry). The main objective of this “active”/passive combination is twofold: a) downscaling the SMC, b) complement the information of microwave radiometry with GNSS-R data to improve the accuracy in SMC determination. The Pearson linear correlation coefficient of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\Gamma _{rl}}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T{}_I/2$</tex-math></inline-formula> obtained over Thailand, Argentinian Pampas, and Amazon is ∼−0.87, ∼−0.7, and ∼−0.26, respectively, while the so-called tau–omega model is used to fit the data. Results over croplands are quite promising and deserve special attention since the use of GNSS-R could benefit agricultural and hydrological applications because of: a) the high spatio-temporal sampling properties, b) the high spatial resolution, and c) the potential combination with microwave radiometry to improve the accuracy of the measurements.