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Towards Automated SLA Management for Service Delivery in SOA-based Environments
Authors: Badidi Elarbi , El Koutbi Mohamed
Published: October 2016

The services landscape is changing with the growing adoption by businesses of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the migration of business solutions to the cloud, and the proliferation of smartphones and Internet-enabled handheld devices to consume services. To meet their business goals, organizations increasingly demand services, which can satisfy their functional and non-functional requirements. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are seen as the means to guarantee the continuity in service provisioning and required levels of service. In this paper, we propose a framework for service provisioning, which aims at providing support for automated SLA negotiation and management. The Service Broker component carries out SLA negotiation with selected service-providers on behalf of service-consumers. Multi-rounds of negotiations are very often required to reach an agreement. In each round, the negotiating parties bargain on multiple SLA parameters by trying to maximize their global utility functions. The monitoring infrastructure is in charge of observing SLA compliance monitoring using measurements obtained from independent third party monitoring services.
A Mobile Cloud Middleware to Support Mobility and Cloud Interoperability
Authors: Akherfi Khadija , Harroud Hamid , Gerndt Michael
Published: October 2016

With the recent advances in cloud computing and the improvement in the capabilities of mobile devices in terms of speed, storage, and computing power, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is emerging as one of important branches of cloud computing. MCC is an extension of cloud computing with the support of mobility. In this paper, the authors first present the specific concerns and key challenges in mobile cloud computing. They then discuss the different approaches to tackle the main issues in MCC that have been introduced so far, and finally focus on describing the proposed overall architecture of a middleware that will contribute to providing mobile users data storage and processing services based on their mobile devices capabilities, availability, and usage. A prototype of the middleware is developed and three scenarios are described to demonstrate how the middleware performs in adapting the provision of cloud web services by transforming SOAP messages to REST and XML format to JSON, in optimizing the results by extracting relevant information, and in improving the availability by caching. Initial analysis shows that the mobile cloud middleware improves the quality of service for mobiles, and provides lightweight responses for mobile cloud services.
Global Awareness Interest of College Students
Authors: Kulturel-Konak Sadan , Konak Abdullah , D'Allegro Mary Lou
Published: October 2016

Professional skills are expected from college students; however, assessing students' professional skill development is challenging. In order to better prepare students for a career in today's global business environment, it is essential students develop interest and knowledge toward global awareness. This research is primarily concerned with the understanding of college students' interest toward global awareness. In order to unveil what factors affect students' interest toward global awareness, a survey was developed and data collected. Analyses of survey results suggested that gender, ethnicity and high involvement activities might positively affect interest toward global awareness.
Different Experiences and Perceptions of Campus Climate Among Minority Students at a Predominantly White Institution
Authors: Rudge Lucila Telles
Published: October 2016

This study examines the differences in experiences and perceptions of campus climate of 38 minority students enrolled in a predominantly White institution (PWI). The study included six focus group sessions, each designated for a specific minority group – African American students, Native American students, gender and sexually diverse students, students with disabilities, Latino-Hispanic students, and International students. About half of the participants reported negative experiences with racism and discrimination on campus whereas the other half reported exactly the opposite. Attribution to discrimination theory was used as a lens to closely analyze participants' discourse.
Luxury via E-commerce
Authors: Maheshkar Chandan
Published: October 2016

Internet has presented a new outlook of a commercial phenomenon and customer preferences. Regularly increasing customer traffic on the web and increased turnovers of web-shops impel the companies dealing in luxuries to think about their endeavors. Internet adoption and continuous increasing e-shops motivates customers to move towards purchasing of luxury products from web-shops; but, it is still facing some structural difficulties such as security, originality of products, genuineness of a web-shop and others. In case of luxury products, most of customers prefer purchasing from physical stores after assuring the self. They don't want to buy every luxury product from e-shops even they have previous experience of buying luxuries online. Prices offered by e-shops are also put forward a cause for online purchase of luxury products. Therefore, this study has attempted to enlighten the factors associated with luxury, issues faced by luxury customers, and perceptions they have for e-commerce.
Enhancing Security Culture through User-Engagement
Authors: Jafari Said
Published: October 2016

This paper presents the survey conducted to assess end-user engagement in building organisation's security. A total of forty-eight (48) responses were collected from fifteen (15) mid-sized business organisations and institutions in Tanzania. The results show that little has been done to facilitate end-user engagement in building secure organisation. Also, the survey showed that old security problem such as passwords sharing still exist. The findings from this paper can be used by security officers and implementers within organisation to build and maintain sustainable secure organisation.
Dynamics of Pledge Behavior of Crowdfunded Projects
Authors: Gera Jaya , Kaur Harmeet
Published: October 2016

This paper aims to provide ways to enhance overall performance of crowdfunding platforms by improving success prospects of projects post-launch. Pledge behavior at the initial stages of project launch is a key indicator of project success. So, this work identifies projects to be promoted on basis of their pledge behavior at such a crucial phase. The time series of pledge amount is analyzed to understand dynamics of funding pattern and to predict a project's chances of successful funding. Statistical analysis was performed on two different datasets of projects launched over crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. The results obtained provide better understanding of the funding pattern of successful and unsuccessful projects. On the basis of behavior pattern, projects are classified as overfunded, funded, potential and low potential. To classify a project, Euclidean distance of the target project with median of the funding pattern of different categories is used to find closest category to which a project belongs. This process is effective and less expensive in terms of computation.
Distributed Query Plan Generation using Bacterial Foraging Optimization
Authors: Prakash Jay , Singh Neha , Kumar T.V. Vijay
Published: October 2016

In distributed database systems, relations are replicated and fragmented at multiple sites to ensure easy availability and greater reliability. This leads to an exponential increase in the possible alternatives available for selecting the set of sites, constituting a query plan, for processing. Computing the optimal query plans, from amongst all possible query plans, is a discrete combinatorial optimization problem. This Distributed Query Plan Generation (DQPG) problem has been addressed using Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO) in this paper. Here, a novel BFO based DQPG algorithm (DQPGBFO), which generates the Top-K distributed query plans having the minimum total query processing cost, has been proposed. Experimental comparison of DQPGBFO with the existing Genetic Algorithm (GA) based DQPG algorithm (DQPGGA) shows that the former is able to generate Top-K query plans that have a comparatively lower total cost of processing a distributed query. This, in turn, leads to a reduction in the query response time and thus aids in decision making.
A Methodology of Evaluating Service Value based on the Service Field Concept and Its Application to Evaluation of Attractiveness in Sightseeing
Authors: Xu Shuang , Kosaka Michitaka
Published: October 2016

Much research has been carried out on evaluating service quality. But, there have been no previous methodology which can measure and evaluate service value mathematically. In this paper the authors discuss the concept of a service field and its application to evaluate service value, which is analogous to the electro-magnetic field in physics. For evaluating service value numerically, service value is defined by an inner product of a provider's service attribute vector and a user's requirement attribute vector. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness, the proposed method is then applied to the evaluation of attractiveness in sightseeing. This mathematical model seems to be useful in evaluating the effectiveness of service theoretically.
Agents Oriented Genetic-K-Means (AOGK) System for Plagiarism Detection
Authors: Bouarara Hadj Ahmed , Bouarara Yasmin
Published: October 2016

In the last decade, the plagiarism phenomenon has widely spread and become a topical problem in the modern scientific world, caused by the wide availability of electronic documents online and offline. This work will be devoted to describe a new plagiarism detection system named AOGK « Agents Oriented Genetic-K-means » based on a multi-agents architecture composed of three modules: text parsing to transform documents into vectors; Learning module using genetic algorithms to build a prediction model; Test module using k-means for the final classification of suspicious document; To evaluate their system the authors have used a range of reference metrics (precision, recall, f-measure and entropy) and the benchmark PAN 09. They have compared the results obtained with the performance of other systems found in literature; the authors' aim is the preservation of copyright.
The Empirical Study on the Evolutionary Game Based Agricultural Products Supply Chain
Authors: Sun Jun , Xing Ruben
Published: October 2016

This research paper is to use a method of Evolutionary Game to investigate the relationship between a large supplier and a franchised supermarket in China. The authors would like to go through their empirical study with their filtered answers from the survey using SPSS software on agricultural supply chain for their quality safety factors. Their research is using factor analysis with five target factors which are: the excess return, cost, the relative size of cooperative enterprises, hitchhiking, and overflows income. Applying these factors to the evolutionary game model, analyze the earning status from the both players under their own policies, then make suggestions or proposals for quality and safety issues of agricultural supply chain management.
Causal Analyses of Public Debt and Structural Adjustment
Authors: Ansah John Pastor
Published: October 2016

The impact of structural adjustment program on the economic situation in many African countries can not be overemphasised. Over two decades of implementing neo-liberal economic policies by the Bretton Woods institution, it is of great importance to document the lessons learnt. This paper elicits the structural mechanism representing the intended effect of structural adjustment policies and the unintended effects observed from the implementation of the structural adjustment policies. The assumptions and hypotheses implicit in the main structural adjustment policies, as well as the observed unintended effect of the policies are clearly elicited with a causal loop diagram.
New Discrete Time 2D Chaotic Maps
Authors: Moysis Lazaros , Azar Ahmad Taher
Published: October 2016

Chaotic behavior is a term that is attributed to dynamical systems whose solutions are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This means that small perturbations in the initial conditions can lead to completely different trajectories in the solution space. These types of chaotic dynamical systems arise in various natural or artificial systems in biology, meteorology, economics, electrical circuits, engineering, computer science and more. Of these innumerable chaotic systems, perhaps the most interesting are those that exhibit attracting behavior. By that, the authors refer to systems whose trajectories converge with time to a set of values, called an attractor. This can be a single point, a curve or a manifold. The attractor is called strange if it is a set with fractal structure. Such systems can be both continuous and discrete. This paper reports on some new chaotic discrete time two dimensional maps that are derived from simple modifications to the well-known Hénon, Lozi, Sine-sine and Tinkerbell maps. Numerical simulations are carried out for different parameter values and initial conditions and it is shown that the mappings either diverge to infinity or converge to attractors of many different shapes.
An Interactive Space as a Creature
Authors: Bernardet Ulysses , Aleixandri Jaume Subirats , Verschure Paul F.M.J.
Published: October 2016

Interacting with an animal is a highly immersing and satisfactory experience. How can interaction with an artifact can be imbued with the quality of an interaction with a living being? The authors propose a theoretical relationship that puts the predictability of the human-artifact interaction at the center of the attribution of agency and experience of “flow.” They empirically explored three modes of interaction that differed in the level of predictability of the interactive space's behavior. The results of the authors' study give support to the notion that there is a sweet spot of predictability in the reactions of the space that leads users to perceive the space as a creature. Flow factors discriminated between the different modes of interaction and showed the expected nonlinear relationship with the predictability of the interaction. The authors' results show that predictability is a key factor to induce an attribution of agency, and they hope that their study can contribute to a more systematic approach to designing satisfactory and rich interaction between humans and machines.
Preparing for the Forthcoming Industrial Revolution
Authors: Antonova Albena
Published: October 2016

Virtual worlds (VW) propose an immersive environment and sophisticated infrastructure for active learning and complex competence development. While recently the interest toward VW declined, it is expected the release of virtual/augmented reality hardware equipment to bring new impulse for its further explorations in education. The present research aims to discuss the challenges behind VW implementation in the educational process from three main perspectives. First, there will be identified the main benefits of applying virtual worlds for knowledge acquisition and development of complex competences. The second perspective discovers how virtual worlds can be used to transform the educational process, developing a new set of learning and training experiences. Finally, virtual worlds will be analyzed from a disruptive technology point of view, discovering its strengths and limitations for education. At the end, the discussion provides a general framework for assessing the VW benefits for education and its expected further development.
Rate of speech and emotional-cognitive regulation in the psychotherapeutic process: a pilot study
Authors: Tonti Marco , Gelo Omar C.G.
Published: October 2016

This study investigates the relationship between a clientâ€™s rate of speech (ROS) and emotional-cognitive regulation during a psychotherapy session. The ROS was measured in words per second on the timed transcript of a single session of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Emotional-cognitive regulation was assessed using the therapeutic cycles model on emotional tone (ET), abstraction (AB), and their combination in emotion-abstraction patterns (EAPs). The results were mostly consistent with our hypotheses and showed that: i) the ROS negatively correlated with the conjoined ET and AB; and ii) the ROS in the connecting EAP (high ET and high AB) was significantly lower than in other EAPs. The results support the hypothesis that a significant reduction in the clientâ€™s ROS may be a reliable marker of in-session change processes. Clinical implications and future developments are discussed.
Impact of tyloxapol to combat acute phase response in comparison with betamethasone and flunixin meglumine following an ovine experimentally induced endotoxemia model
Authors: Heidari Seyed Mohammad Mehdi , Badiei Khalil , Chalmeh Aliasghar , Pourjafar Mehrdad , Rahmani Shahraki Alireza , Nazifi Saeed , Zamiri Mohammad Javad
Published: October 2016

Systemic inflammatory responses to circulating lipopolysaccharide lead to high mortality rates in affected animals and thus effective treatments of this situation are crucial. However, despite different endotoxemia therapeutic regimens, the lack of an effective treatment still remains a clinical problem in sheep. Tyloxapol is a potential pro- and anti-inflammatory molecule to treat endotoxemia in farm animals. Hence, the present study was an attempt to clarify the antiendotoxic effects of tyloxapol in comparison with betamethasone and flunixin meglumine in experimentally induced endotoxemia in sheep. Thirty clinically healthy 1-year old Iranian fat-tailed ewes were randomly divided into 6 equal experimental (n=5) groups, comprising Negative and Positive control, Flunixin meglumine, Betamethasone, Tyloxapol 1 and Tyloxapol 2. Phenol extracted lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli serotype O55:B5 was infused at 2 μg/kg intravenously. Ninety min after endotoxemia induction, Flunixin meglumine (2.2 mg/kg), betamethasone (1 mg/kg) and tyloxapol (200 and 400 mg/kg) were injected to respective groups, over 60 min along with intravenous fluids. Blood samples were collected from all ewes prior and 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6, 24 and 48 hours after lipopolysaccharide injection and sera and plasmas were separated, subsequently. Haptoglobin, serum amyloid A, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interferon-gamma, superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase were measured in all samples. Serum concentrations of haptoglobin, serum amyloid A, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interferongamma in Flunixin meglumine group were found to be lower than other experimental ones after hour 3. Serum levels of haptoglobin, serum amyloid A, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interferon-gamma in Tyloxapol groups were significantly lower and higher than Betamethasone and Flunixin meglumine ones, respectively. Superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activities in Flunixin meglumine group were significantly higher than other experimental groups after administration of drugs. In conclusion, the efficacy of tyloxapol was significantly higher and lower than betamethasone and flunixin meglumine, respectively. Furthermore, tyloxapol doesn’t induce its effects by dose dependent manner and its anti- and pro-inflammatory effects at 200 and 400 mg/kg were statistically similar.
“IDENTIFYING HIGH-RISK CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA: A PATHOGENESIS-ORIENTED APPRAISAL OF PROGNOSTIC AND PREDICTIVE FACTORS IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH CHEMOTHERAPY WITH OR WITHOUT IMMUNOTHERAPY.”
Authors: Martinelli Sara , Cuneo Antonio , Rigolin Gian Matteo
Published: October 2016

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) displays an extremely variable clinical behaviour. Accurate prognostication and prediction of response to treatment is important in an era of effective first-line regimens and novel molecules for high risk patients. Because a plethora of prognostic biomarkers were identified, but few of them were validated by multivariable analysis in comprehensive prospective studies, we applied in this survey stringent criteria to select papers from the literature in order to identify the most reproducible prognostic/predictive markers. Each biomarker was analysed in terms of reproducibility across the different studies with respect to its impact on time to first treatment (TTFT), progression free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), response to treatment and transformation into Richter’s syndrome (RS). We were able to identify the following biomarkers as the most reliable in guiding risk stratification in the daily clinical practice: 17p-/TP53 mutations, IGHV unmutated configuration, short telomeres and 11q-. However, the method for measuring telomere length was not validated yet and 11q- was predictive of inferior OS only in those patients who did not receive FCR-like combinations. Stage and lymphocytosis were predictive of shorter TTFT and age, high serum thymidine kinase levels and poor performance status were predictive of shorter OS. Using our stringent criteria no parameter was found to independently predict for inferior response to treatment or development of RS.
Reflection on pastoral care in Africa: Towards discerning emerging pragmatic pastoral ministerial responses
Authors: Magezi Vhumani
Published: October 2016

Pastoral care takes different forms in responding to people’s needs in their context. Accordingly, over the centuries it has evolved in response to emerging needs. Historical developments in pastoral care are well-documented. However, pastoral care in Africa has a short and unsystematically documented history. Scholarly discussions on pastoral care concerning the continent tend to be considered under African theological frameworks. Notwithstanding the already existing weaknesses in African theological discussion, pastoral care in Africa has remained fragmented with diverse and seemingly knee-jerk approaches in guiding individuals who provide pastoral care. In view of this, this article firstly aims to provide a broad overview and initiate a discussion on the current challenges in pastoral care in Africa. Secondly, it aims to reveal some gaps worth pursuing by scholars in the discipline. Thirdly, it sheds some light on approaches employed by pastoral practitioners in pastoral ministry practice. In doing so, this article opens the lid on some perspectives adopted in ministry work on the frontlines, that is, providing pastoral care to people in their communities – particularly church communities. This article first outlines the problem to be addressed followed by an overview of pastoral care in Africa. It then proceeds to address potential research opportunities within the discipline. Finally, it highlights some emerging approaches in providing pastoral care in the communities. This article does not focus on one particular pastoral care issue, but gives an overview of the situation relative to pastoral care in Africa and the emerging responses.
Dynamics of a Modified Predator-Prey System to allow for a Functional Response and Time Delay
Authors: Liu Wei , Jiang Yaolin
Published: October 2016

A modified predator-prey system described by two differential equations and an algebraic equation is discussed. Formulae for determining the direction of a Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions are derived differential-algebraic system theory, bifurcation theory and centre manifold theory. Numerical simulations illustrate the results, which includes quite complex dynamical behaviour.
A Fully Discrete Spectral Method for Fisher’s Equation on the Whole Line
Authors: Jiao Yu-Jian , Wang Tian-Jun , Zhang Qiong
Published: October 2016

A generalised Hermite spectral method for Fisher's equation in genetics with different asymptotic solution behaviour at infinities is proposed, involving a fully discrete scheme using a second order finite difference approximation in the time. The convergence and stability of the scheme are analysed, and some numerical results demonstrate its efficiency and substantiate our theoretical analysis.
Resource Control and The Politics of Revenue Allocation in Nigerian Federation
Authors: Egugbo Chuks Cletus
Published: October 2016

The Nigerian state became a federation in 1954 by virtue of the Lyttleton Constitution. Since then, it has witnessed so much vicissitudes. At inception, agriculture was the mainstay of the country’s economy and the principle of derivation featured prominently in revenue allocation. This principle was downplayed when crude oil replaced agricultural products as the mainstay of the economy. This and other factors brought about the resource control agitation. The agitation for resource control by the governors of the South-South states stemmed from the perceived skew nature of federal practice in Nigeria that tilted in favour of the non-oil producing areas particularly the Northern part of the country. This paper recommends amongst others that the federation should be restructured in a way that would ensure that an equitable formula is adopted in sharing revenue and also the minorities should be fully carried along in terms of governance of the country.Key Words: Federalism, Resource Control, Revenue Allocation, Derivation, Political Economy, Agitation, Constitution, Niger-Delta Region
The Impact of Militancy and Cult Groups’ Activities on Rundele Community Development in Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Authors: Goddey Wilson
Published: October 2016

Our study examined the activities of militants and cult groups in Rundele community, and its impact on Rundele community development. The study was carried out in Rundele community of Ikwerre ethnic nationality in Rivers State, Nigeria within the period of 2000-2016. Cult groups, militancy and community development were conceptualised in the study. Both primary and secondary data were used to achieve the objectives of the study. The study adopted expectancy theory as its theoretical framework of analysis, emphasizing that the cult groups and militants were motivated in their activities due to the expected rewards from their actions. The findings showed that Rundele as one of the communities in the Niger Delta region had intensive militants’ and cult groups activities, and their activities had significant impact on Rundele community development.Key Words: Community development, expectancy, militancy, cult group, activities
An Examination of Brenhoma Cultural Heritage in Asare Konadu’s A Woman In Her Prime
Authors: Nnaji Patience Onyinyechi , Ebibi Johnson Ojeka , Aaron Vera Anap
Published: October 2016

Literature is an important field of study in which the learner develops taste for good writing, expression, creativity and the likes. The learner also develops ability to read independently through literature. His outlook to life is broadened by the study of literature as he is exposed to the philosophies and experiences of different authors and to different cultures. One of the goals of the teaching of literature in English according to Uwaifo (1979) is to help students appreciate their own culture and those of others. Uwaifo’s view succinctly captures the essence of this paper which examines Brenhoma cultural heritage exposed by Asare Konadu in A woman in Her Prime. The paper specifically beams its searchlight on Brenhoma cultural heritage paying particular attention to their sacrifices, omen, purifications, beliefs and funeral rites among others. The study aims to heighten the reader’s consciousness that literature is not only an instrument that provides insights about life but also mirrors the society in its entirety.
Wage- versus profit-led growth in the context of globalization and public spending: the political aspects of wage-led recovery
Authors: Onaran Özlem
Published: October 2016

This paper presents the empirical evidence about the impact of the simultaneous race to the bottom in labour's share on growth after taking global interactions into account based on the post-Kaleckian theoretical framework developed by Bhaduri and Marglin (1990). The world economy and large economic areas are likely to be wage-led; and parameter shifts in different periods are unlikely to make a difference in this finding. The effects that can come from a wage-led recovery on growth and hence employment are positive, however they are also modest in magnitude. We then present an alternative scenario based on a policy mix of wage increases and public investment. A coordinated mix of polices in the G20 targeted to increase the share of wages in GDP by 1–5 per cent in the next 5 years and to raise public investment in social and physical infrastructure by 1 per cent of GDP in each country can create up to 5.84 per cent more growth in G20 countries. The final section addresses the political aspects and barriers to a wage-led recovery.
The theory of output in the modern classical approach: main principles and controversial issues*
Authors: Trezzini Attilio , Palumbo Antonella
Published: October 2016

An approach to the theory of output and growth which combines the classical theory of value and distribution with Keynes's principle of effective demand originates from the theoretical contribution of Piero Sraffa. The paper addresses the main lines of this ‘classical–Keynesian’ approach. It also expounds the main questions that animate the debate within the approach.
Evaluation of a Pilot Asthma Care Program for Electronic Communication between School Health and a Healthcare System’s Electronic Medical Record
Authors: Taylor Yhenneko , Tapp Hazel , Ludden Thomas , Shade Lindsay , Burton Beth , Courtlandt Cheryl , Dulin Michael , Reeves Kelly
Published: October 2016

Objective Asthma is a common childhood chronic lung disease affecting greater than 10% of children in the United States. School nurses are in a unique position to close gaps in care. Indeed, effective asthma management is more likely to result when providers, family, and schools work together to optimize the patient’s treatment plan. Currently, effective communication between schools and healthcare systems through electronic medical record (EMR) systems remains a challenge. The goal of this feasibility pilot was to link the school-based care team with primary care providers in the healthcare system network via electronic communication through the EMR, on behalf of pediatric asthma patients who had been hospitalized for an asthma exacerbation. The implementation process and the potential impact of the communication with providers on the reoccurrence of asthma exacerbations with the linked patients were evaluated.

Methods By engaging stakeholders from the school system and the healthcare system, we were able to collaboratively design a communication process and implement a pilot which demonstrated the feasibility of electronic communication between school nurses and primary care providers. Outcomes data was collected from the electronic medical record to examine the frequency of asthma exacerbations among patients with a message from their school nurse. The percent of exacerbations in the 12 months before and after electronic communication was compared using McNemar’s test.

ResultsThe pilot system successfully established communication between the school nurse and primary care provider for 33 students who had been hospitalized for asthma and a decrease in hospital admissions was observed with students whose school nurse communicated through the EMR with the primary care provider.

Conclusions Findings suggest a collaborative model of care that is enhanced through electronic communication via the EMR could positively impact the health of children with asthma or other chronic illnesses.

Citation: Reeves KW, Taylor Y, Tapp H, Ludden T, Shade LE, Burton B, Courtlandt C, Dulin M. Evaluation of a pilotasthma care program for electronic communication between school health and a healthcare system’s electronic medicalrecord.
Promenade in three movements. About the chapel in Neviges by Gottfried Böhm
Authors: Hidalgo Arellano José Ángel
Published: October 2016

Gracias a arquitectos como Gropius, Mies, Schwarz y Van der Laan o el propio Dominikus Böhm, Gottfried Böhm se sitúa en un observatorio privilegiado de la arquitectura, el arte y la liturgia cuando a principios de los años 60 recibe el encargo de construir la iglesia de Neviges. El artículo analiza la obra alrededor de tres ejes: la relación con el expresionismo alemán (Scheerbart y Taut), la lectura (y la respuesta) que se hace del contexto (tipología, paisaje y escala) y la incorporación de la nueva liturgia católica (iconografía, espacio y luz).
Pekka Pitkänen. Capilla de la Santa Cruz. Turku, 1967
Authors: Castellanos Gómez Raúl , Domingo Calabuig Débora
Published: October 2016

El análisis de la Capilla de la Santa Cruz (1967) de Pekka Pitkänen en el cementerio de Turku (Finlandia) demuestra la afi nidad entre un conjunto de edifi cios religiosos coetáneos, próximos geográfi camente, y construidos con el material del momento: el hormigón armado. Las iglesias de Viljo Revell o Aarno Ruusuvuori integran una familia de proyectos entre los que la obra de Pitkänen reclama un lugar relevante, mientras que la comparación con la cercana capilla de la Resurrección (1941) de Erik Bryggman contribuye a desvelar la evolución de la arquitectura sacra fi nlandesa entre dos de sus casos más paradigmáticos.
Capilla de la Piedra. Cieneguilla, Lima. Perú
Authors: Héctor Loli Rizo Patrón Arquitecto , Álvarez de la Piedra Ximena
Published: October 2016

La Capilla de la Piedra se ubica al margen del rio Lurín y al lado del cerro Lomas de Castilla, en el distrito de Cieneguilla, al este de la ciudad de Lima. La zona se caracteriza por un contexto natural de vegetación desértica, en contacto con las primeras estribaciones de la cordillera de los Andes. El encargo consistió en proyectar dentro de un terreno campestre, una capilla de uso privado para una pareja que valora la soledad. El emplazamiento, alejado de la vivienda preexistente, aísla de lo cotidiano y provoca un recorrido para aproximarse al proyecto. La línea generadora del recorrido deriva de una forma de la naturaleza: el caracol.
Impact of temperature dependence on the possible contribution of organics to new
particle formation in the atmosphere
Authors: Yu Fangqun , Luo Gan , Nadykto Alexey B. , Herb Jason
Published: October 2016

Abstract. Secondary particles formed via new particle formation (NPF) dominate cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) abundance in most parts of the troposphere and are important for aerosol indirect radiative forcing (IRF). Laboratory measurements have shown that certain organic compounds can significantly enhance binary nucleation of sulfuric acid and H2O. According to our recent study comparing particle size distributions measured in nine forest areas in North America with those predicted by a global size-resolved aerosol model, current H2SO4-Organics nucleation parameterizations appear to significantly over-predict NPF and particle number concentrations in summer. The lack of the temperature dependence in the current H2SO4-Organics nucleation parameterization has been suggested to be a possible reason for the observed over-prediction. In this work, H2SO4-Organics clustering thermodynamics from quantum-chemical studies has been employed to develop a scheme to incorporate temperature dependence into H2SO4-Organics nucleation parameterization. We show that temperature has a strong impact on H2SO4-Organics nucleation rates, and may reduce nucleation rate by ~ one order of magnitude per 10 K of the temperature increase. The particle number concentrations in summer over North America based on the revised scheme is a factor of more than two lower, in much better agreement with the observations. With the temperature-dependent H2SO4-Organics nucleation parameterization, the summer month CCN concentrations in the lower troposphere in the northern hemisphere are about 10–30 % lower and the aerosol first IRF about 0.5–1.0 W/m2 less negative compared to the temperature independent one. This study highlights the importance of the temperature effect and its impacts on NPF in global modeling of aerosol IRF.
Effects of low oxygen concentrations on aerobic methane oxidation in seasonally hypoxic coastal waters
Authors: Steinle Lea , Maltby Johanna , Treude Tina , Kock Annette , Bange Hermann W. , Engbersen Nadine , Zopfi Jakob , Lehmann Moritz F. , Niemann Helge
Published: October 2016

Abstract. Coastal seas may account for more than 75 % of global oceanic methane emissions. There, methane is mainly produced microbially in anoxic sediments from where it can escape to the overlying water column. Aerobic methane oxidation (MOx) in the water column acts as a biological filter reducing the amount of methane that eventually evades to the atmosphere. The efficiency of the MOx filter is potentially controlled by the availability of dissolved methane and oxygen, as well as temperature, salinity, and hydrographic dynamics, and all of these factors undergo strong temporal fluctuations in coastal ecosystems. In order to elucidate the key environmental controls, specifically the effect of oxygen availability, on MOx in a seasonally stratified and hypoxic coastal marine setting, we conducted a 2-year time-series study with measurements of MOx and physico-chemical water column parameters in a coastal inlet in the southwestern Baltic Sea (Eckernförde Bay). We found that MOx rates always increased toward the seafloor, but were not directly linked to methane concentrations. MOx exhibited a strong seasonal variability, with maximum rates (up to 11.6 nmol l−1 d−1) during summer stratification when oxygen concentrations were lowest and bottom-water temperatures were highest. Under these conditions, 70–95 % of the sediment-released methane was oxidized, whereas only 40–60 % were consumed during the mixed and oxygenated periods. Laboratory experiments with manipulated oxygen concentrations in the range of 0.2–220 µmol l−1 revealed a sub-micromolar oxygen-optimum for MOx at the study site. In contrast, the fraction of methane-carbon incorporation into the bacterial biomass (compared to the total amount of oxidised methane) was up to 38-fold higher at saturated oxygen concentrations, suggesting a different partitioning of catabolic and anabolic processes under oxygen-replete and oxygen-starved conditions, respectively. Our results underscore the importance of MOx in mitigating methane emission from coastal waters and indicate an organism-level adaptation of the water column methanotrophs to hypoxic conditions.
The Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP v1.0)
contribution to CMIP6
Authors: Gillett Nathan P. , Shiogama Hideo , Funke Bernd , Hegerl Gabriele , Knutti Reto , Matthes Katja , Santer Benjamin D. , Stone Daithi , Tebaldi Claudia
Published: October 2016

Abstract. Detection and attribution (D&A) simulations were important components of CMIP5 and underpinned the climate change detection and attribution assessments of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The primary goals of the Detection and Attribution Model Intercomparison Project (DAMIP) are to facilitate improved estimation of the contributions of anthropogenic and natural forcing changes to observed global warming as well as to observed global and regional changes in other climate variables; to contribute to the estimation of how historical emissions have altered and are altering contemporary climate risk; and to facilitate improved observationally constrained projections of future climate change. D&A studies typically require unforced control simulations and historical simulations including all major anthropogenic and natural forcings. Such simulations will be carried out as part of the DECK and the CMIP6 historical simulation. In addition D&A studies require simulations covering the historical period driven by individual forcings or subsets of forcings only: such simulations are proposed here. Key novel features of the experimental design presented here include firstly new historical simulations with aerosols-only, stratospheric-ozone-only, CO2-only, solar-only, and volcanic-only forcing, facilitating an improved estimation of the climate response to individual forcing, secondly future single forcing experiments, allowing observationally constrained projections of future climate change, and thirdly an experimental design which allows models with and without coupled atmospheric chemistry to be compared on an equal footing.
Clinical Use of Self-Compassion Within Mindfulness-Based Biofeedback in the Treatment of Veterans and Spouses: A Case Study
Authors: Klich Urszula
Published: October 2016

Treatment of veterans necessitates the understanding of the cultural framework within which they operate. A clinical approach that is centered on teaching self-regulation while modeling self-compassion can assist veterans to assimilate into the civilian world. Compassion, recently emerging as a critical variable in the therapeutic benefit of mindfulness-based techniques, can be combined with biofeedback in order to maximize the advantageous psychological and physical changes that are seen with both. This article will present treatment considerations in a case in which compassion-based strategies within mindfulness-based biofeedback treatment were used with a veteran and his spouse.
Taking Human Performance to the Next Level (with FLARE)
Authors: Khazan Inna
Published: October 2016

This paper introduces a comprehensive methodology for achieving optimal human performance in a variety of professional settings, including highly challenging ones. This methodology harnesses the power of empirically validated biofeedback and mindfulness techniques. As part of this methodology, I present a step-by-step approach to training, including an easy-to-use technique called FLARE.
Neurofeedback and Mindfulness in Peak Performance Training Among Athletes
Authors: Ford Noel L. , Wyckoff Sarah N. , Sherlin Leslie H.
Published: October 2016

Years of research have demonstrated that biofeedback, neurofeedback, and mindfulness, individually and in various combinations, have been employed to effectively improve sport performance. The present article discusses the literature supporting the combination of these techniques, the neurophysiologic measures that support the use of these techniques for performance enhancement, and practical methods for implementing a combination of biofeedback and mindfulness with athletes. Finally, a case study is presented to offer practical steps on implementing mindfulness and biofeedback for the purpose of performance enhancement.
Ligações Viga-Viga de Concreto Preformado sob Torção
Authors: Oliveira Dênio Ramam , Luczynski Mikhail , Macêdo Alcebiades
Published: October 2016

São apresentadas análises do comportamento experimental de oito conjuntos de vigas de concreto armado simulando a ligação viga-viga, submetida a esforços de torção, flexão e cisalhamento, sendo quatro conjuntos maciços e quatro preformados. A principal variável de estudo foi a taxa geométrica de armadura de pele no combate ao esforço de torção e à ruptura da ligação. As vigas apresentaram seções transversais de 150 mm x 400 mm e comprimentos de 1.800 mm e 600 mm para os trechos bi-engastados e em balanço, respectivamente. Os resultados experimentais mostraram que o comportamento dos outros conjuntos em relação aos de referência foram satisfatórios, viabilizando a utilização da armadura de pele como armadura adicional para reforço da ligação utilizando o sistema preformado.
Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty: Equivalent Outcomes in Low and High Functioning Patients
Authors: Alzahrani Mohammad Mesfer , Smith Karen , Tanzer Dylan , Tanzer Michael
Published: October 2016

Objective:

Previous studies suggest that patients with poorer physical function prior to undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) have a lower postoperative functional outcome. We sought to determine if the preoperative level of function was predictive of the outcome in patients undergoing THA using modern perioperative protocols and surgical techniques.

Methods:

A prospective cohort study design evaluated the preoperative and 2-year postoperative health-related quality of life (HRQoL) scores of 200 patients who underwent THA. The cohort was divided into two groups according to the median preoperative Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) physical function scores.

Results:

Both high and low function groups had significant improvements in the HRQoL scores (P < 0.001). However, this improvement was substantially greater in the low function group, resulting in no difference in the HRQoL outcomes of the two groups at final follow-up.

Conclusion:

This study contradicts the previously held belief that patients with worse function before THA do not do as well as those with less preoperative disability.

Level of Evidence:

Level II.
Students’ Preferences and Attitude toward Oral Error Correction Techniques at Yanbu University College, Saudi Arabia
Authors: Alamri Bushra , Fawzi Hala Hassan
Published: October 2016

Error correction has been one of the core areas in the field of English language teaching. It is “seen as a form of feedback given to learners on their language use” (Amara, 2015). Many studies investigated the use of different techniques to correct students’ oral errors. However, only a few focused on students’ preferences and attitude toward oral error correction techniques, which determine students’ success in language learning. This quantitative research explored teachers’ and students’ preferences as well as students’ attitude toward the use of oral error correction techniques in the language classroom. The participants of the study were English language students and English language teachers at Yanbu University College (YUC) in Yanbu Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. A classroom observation checklist and questionnaires were used to collect the data. The study findings revealed that recast and explicit correction are the preferred techniques by the majority of the students and teachers. The findings also indicated that students have positive attitude toward oral error correction. As the classroom observation revealed that recast was highly used by teachers, it is recommended that teachers should also use other techniques to correct students’ oral errors. In addition, it is recommended that before correcting students’ oral errors teachers should always take into account the purpose of the activity and the proficiency level of students.
The Impact of Breast Cancer on Female Sexuality: An Integrative Literature Review
Authors: Castelo Ana Rita P , Oriá Mônica Oliveira B , Chaves Anne Fayma L , Bezerra Karine C , Fernandes Ana Fátima C , Vasconcelos Camila Teixeira M , Moreira Camila B
Published: October 2016

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to conduct an integrative literature review on the impact of breast cancer (CA) on female sexuality.METHODS: The search was performed online in November 2014 using the following databases: Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Scopus, PubMed, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS) and the Cochrane Library. The search results consisted of 13 articles.SYNTHESIS: Most studies have shown that women have less lubrication and a decrease in desire, which directly affect their quality of life. Moreover, 70% of the articles described limitations of the studies, the most cited of which were as follows: small sample size because of the feeling that participants considered the theme to be embarrassing, the altered emotional state decreased willingness to participate in the study, and the non-participation of husbands in the study reduced the impact on marital intimacy.CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that breast cancer has a negative impact on the sexual function of women who are affected by this disease.