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On Researching the Vehicle Monitoring Platform Based on Spatio-Temporal Indexing Mechanism
Authors: Zhan Shaobin , Liang Yongsheng 
Published: November 2013

Itâ??s the research hotspots that Spatio-Temporal
Indexing Mechanism(STIM) in GIS, especially in vehicles
monitoring and scheduling field. Then, itâ??s more important
how to unite the time and space information, improve the
query efficiency. At the beginning of design system,
constructing Floating Model Indexing Mechanism(FMIM).
It established a three-layers of data query structure, which
can guarantee the effective Spatio-Temporal combination.
According running track of vehicles, vehicle and operation
is proposed based on t-Time Dual-mode Index Mechanism
and T-Period Vehicle Monitoring Index Mechanism. The
related technical has been commercialized, it can efficiently
improve query efficiency. The regulatory platform running
well.
Factorisation of Two-variablep-adicL-functions
Authors: Lei Antonio 
Published: November 2013

Abstract.Letfbe a modular form that is non-ordinary atp. Loeffler has recently constructed four two-variablep-adicL-functions associated withf. In the case whereap= 0, he showed that, as in the one-variable case, Pollack’s plus and minus splitting applies to these new objects. In this article, we show that such a splitting can be generalised to the case whereap≠ 0 using Sprung’s logarithmic matrix.
Ekonomické hlasování a odpovědnost vládních stran ve střední Evropě
Authors: Svačinová Petra 
Published: November 2013

The article presents economic voting theory and its application to the study of electoral behaviour in four Central European countries. The theoretical part describes the reward-punishment model of economic voting and its predictions for electoral behaviour in countries with coalition governance and in internationally open economies during the global economic crisis. The analytical part investigates the existence and features of economic voting (as a P-function) in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Hypotheses about the existence of economic voting in these countries, the higher economic accountability of more responsible coalition partners, and the lower level of economic voting under the perceived influence of the EU on the domestic economy are tested using OLS and binary logistic analysis of European Election Study data (2004 and 2009). As the results show, economic voting was only detected in Hungary (2004 and 2009) and Slovakia (2004). The analysis indicates that, in general, almost all Prime ministers’ parties bear a greater degree of economic accountability; meanwhile, perceptions of EU economic responsibility had no influence on the popularity of government parties in 2009.
Formação de professores em comunicação alternativa para crianças com TEA: contextos em ação
Authors: Passerino Liliana Maria , Bez Maria Rosangela , Vicari Rosa Maria 
Published: November 2013

http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/1984686X10475O presente artigo apresenta um recorte do projeto de pesquisa SCALA – Sistema de Comunicação Alternativa para Letramento de crianças com Autismo. Nele, discutimos um aspecto importante no que se refere à formação de professores para atuarem junto a sujeitos com Transtorno do Espectro Autista (TEA) não oralizados, no seu desenvolvimento sócio-cognitivo. A partir de uma visão geral da área de conhecimento denominada de Comunicação Alternativa discute-se sua a inserção no espaço educativo para utilização com sujeitos com TEA. Aborda a questão da formação específica de professores trazendo para discussão aspectos vinculados com a atual politica governamental na questão de formação de professores. Na sequencia propõe-se uma abordagem sócio-histórica e cultural deste processo, a partir de contextos de ação visando uma reorganização das relações do sujeito com o mundo, e não apenas na ampliação, complementação ou suplementação das funcionalidades de comunicação do sujeito com TEA não oralizado. Finalmente a partir do panorama traçado apresentam-se resultados de pesquisa desenvolvida pelo grupo de pesquisa TEIAS – Tecnologia na Educação para Inclusão e Aprendizagem em Sociedade da UFRGS no âmbito do projeto SCALA. São analisadas duas propostas de formação desenvolvidas numa visão integradora que se sintetiza em três movimentos inter-relacionados: problematização do fazer enquanto a ação pedagógica; pensamento em ação; e análise critica enquanto ação reflexiva.
The Merits of Mannitol in the Repair of Orbital Blowout Fracture
Authors: Shin Kyung Jin , Lee Dong Geun , Park Hyun Min , Choi Mi Young , Bae Jin Ho , Lee Eui Tae 
Published: November 2013

Background One of the main concerns in orbital blowout fracture repair is a narrow operation field, due mainly to the innate complex three dimensions of the orbit; however, a deep location and extensive area of the fracture and soft tissue edema can also cause concern. Swelling of the orbital contents progresses as the operation continues. Mannitol has been used empirically in glaucoma, cerebral hemorrhage, and orbital compartment syndrome for decompression. The authors adopted mannitol for the control of intraorbital edema and pressure in orbital blowout fracture repair.
Methods This prospective study included 108 consecutive patients who were treated for a pure blowout fracture from January 2007 to October 2012. For group I, mannitol was administered during the operation. Under general anesthesia, all patients underwent surgery by open reduction and insertion of an absorbable mesh implant. The authors compared postoperative complications, the reoperation rate, operation time, and surgical field improvement between the two groups.
Results In patients who received intraoperative administration of mannitol, the reoperation rate and operation time were decreased; however, the difference was not statistically significant. The total postoperative complication rates did not differ. Panel assessment for the intraoperative surgical field video recordings showed significantly improved vision in group I.
Conclusions For six years, mannitol proved itself an effective, reliable, and safe adjunctive drug in the repair of orbital blowout fractures. With its rapid onset and short duration of action, mannitol could be one of the best methods for obtaining a wider surgical field in blowout fracture defects.
Two-Year Follow-up on the Use of Absorbable Mesh Plates in the Treatment of Medial Orbital Wall Fractures
Authors: You Jae-Pil , Kim Deok-Woo , Jeon Byung-Joon , Jeong Seong-Ho , Han Seung-Kyu , Dhong Eun-Sang , Kim Woo-Kyung 
Published: November 2013

Background Absorbable materials offer many advantages in the reconstruction of orbital walls; however, the possibility of postoperative enophthalmos after complete absorption cannot be excluded. We evaluated the postoperative results of absorbable mesh plates used as onlay implanting on the medial orbital wall to determine whether they are suitable for medial orbital wall reconstruction.
Methods The study included 20 patients with medial orbital wall fractures who were followed up for more than 2 years postoperatively. We used absorbable mesh plates in all of the patients. We measured the following: the changes in the expanded orbital volume by comparing the preoperative and postoperative computed tomography (CT) scans and the degree of clinical enophthalmos.
Results There were no major complications associated with the use of absorbable materials such as infection, migration, or extrusion of mesh plates during the long-term follow-up. The orbital volumetric changes between the preoperative and postoperative CT scans were not statistically significant. However, the expanded orbital volume was not related to the degree of clinical enophthalmos.
Conclusions The reconstructed orbital wall may provide supportive scar tissue to the orbital contents even after the absorbable materials have dissolved completely. Absorbable mesh plates could be another option for the reconstruction of the medial orbital wall.
Fault frictional parameters and material properties revealed by slow slip events at Kilauea volcano, Hawai‘i
Authors: Foster James H. , Lowry Anthony R. , Brooks Benjamin A. 
Published: November 2013

AbstractWe categorize slow slip events at Kilauea Volcano into two distinct families based on GPS measurements of the surface displacement patterns. An event correlation filter confirms that “eastern” and “western” families are statistically distinguishable, with the western family notably self‐similar. The western family exhibits quasi‐periodicity with regular repeat times, while eastern family events are aperiodic or have complicated periodicity. If the decollement is the source fault for both families of events, it must have varying frictional properties at the ~10 km scale of separation. The temporal slip and spatial scaling behavior are consistent with a simplistic rate‐ and state‐dependent frictional formalism provided that the characteristic slip distance for state evolution, Dc, is of the order of millimeters rather than the 10–100 µm typically found in lab studies, and the shear rigidity is around 2 GPa, consistent with fault gouge material.
The occurrence of cirrus clouds associated with eastward propagating equatorial n = 0 inertio‐gravity and Kelvin waves in November 2011 during the CINDY2011/DYNAMO campaign
Authors: Suzuki Junko , Fujiwara Masatomo , Nishizawa Tomoaki , Shirooka Ryuichi , Yoneyama Kunio , Katsumata Masaki , Matsui Ichiro , Sugimoto Nobuo 
Published: November 2013

AbstractCirrus cloud variability associated with n = 0 eastward inertio‐gravity equatorial waves and equatorial Kelvin waves (both with the period of ~4 days) and equatorial Kelvin wave with another periodicity (~16 days) were observed in the tropical Indian Ocean (8.0°S, 80.5°E) in November of 2011 during the Cooperative Indian Ocean experiment on intraseasonal variability in the Year 2011 (CINDY2011)/Dynamics of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) field campaign using balloon‐borne cryogenic frostpoint hygrometers, Vaisala radiosondes, and a shipborne high spectral resolution lidar system. During early to mid‐November, the cirrus cloud appearance corresponded primarily with high supersaturation and high relative humidity caused by the temperature disturbances associated with the ~4 day waves between 12 km altitude and the cold‐point tropopause. The cirrus clouds disappeared under the unfavorable (downward wind and dry) conditions that were caused by the ~4 day waves, although the ~16 day wave was generating favorable conditions. Our multi‐instrument cirrus measurements revealed that we must consider the phases of various overlapping waves when estimating dehydration efficiency caused by cirrus clouds around the cold‐point tropopause.
Ear and Lateral Line of Vertebrates: Organisation and Development
Authors: Harding Molly , McCarroll Matthew , McGraw Hillary , Nechiporuk Alex 
Published: November 2013

Abstract

In vertebrates, perception of movement and sound is accomplished by the lateral line and inner ear sensory systems. These systems sense reverberations, movement and acceleration by transducing mechanical stimuli from the environment into electrical signals by means of mechanosensory hair cells. Vestibular and auditory hair cells have associated sensory neurons that transmit these signals from the periphery to the central nervous system. During development, cranial sensory systems arise from an initially homogeneous population of cells that ultimately give rise to discrete sensory structures. Although the demands for auditory and vestibular sensation differ between species and environments, vertebrates use common cell types, genetic programmes and molecules to achieve the development of these mechanosensory organs. In this article, the structure and function of the mechanosensory hair cells, lateral line and inner ear and how these systems develop across species are discussed, and as well as the innervation of these systems.

Key Concepts:

The vertebrate inner ear is composed of both auditory and vestibular components.

Both the lateral line and the inner ear are derived from embryonic structures known as cranial placodes.

All cranial placodes originate from a homogenous group of cells known as the preplacodal ectoderm.

Hair cells are structurally and functionally similar in both auditory and lateral line systems.

The adult lateral line mediates sensation of movement in the aquatic environment of fishes and frogs.

Embryonic posterior lateral line development is accomplished by the pre‐patterned posterior lateral line primordium.

The lateral line is an experimentally accessible model for studying mechanosensory system development and biology.
Christianity and Genetics
Authors: Messer Neil G 
Published: November 2013

Abstract

It is sometimes assumed that genetics, together with other biological sciences, makes Christian belief increasingly irrelevant and untenable. However, conflict is not the only way of conceiving the relationship between biosciences and Christianity, as an exploration of the three key issues shows. First, genetic and theological explanations of the natural world need not be in competition with each other. Second, Christian understandings of personal identity can incorporate an understanding of genetic influences without being undermined by it. Third, a deterministic account of behaviour incorporating genetic and environmental influences does not deny the possibility of genuine free will and responsibility, but a Christian understanding of sin and salvation will, in any case, reframe debates about free will and responsibility. An exploration of these issues suggests that the relationship between genetics and Christian theology is best understood as some kind of dialogue, in which each has gifts to offer the other.

Key Concepts:

The relationship between genetics and Christianity is not necessarily one of inevitable conflict: other possibilities include independence, dialogue and integration.

Some form of dialogue is the most satisfactory way to think of the relationship between Christianity and genetics.

Explanation of the natural world is not a zero‐sum game: science deals mostly with ‘efficient’ causes, whereas religious explanations are often concerned with ‘formal’ and ‘final’ causes.

Traditionally, Christians have thought of personal identity in terms of the soul, though alternative accounts of human personhood such as ‘nonreductive physicalism’ are also proposed by theologians in dialogue with the biosciences.

Even a deterministic account of human thought and behaviour would not exclude the possibility of genuine freedom and moral responsibility, but in any case this discussion is complicated and enriched by a Christian account of sin and salvation.

Dialogue with genetics and other biological sciences can help Christian theology understand more fully what it means for humans to be physically embodied creatures.

Genetics, like other sciences, raises ethical questions that it does not in itself have the moral resources to address, and Christianity has resources of moral wisdom to offer for deliberation on these questions.
Bounded‐error state and parameter estimation of tip‐tilt disturbances in adaptive optics systems
Authors: Khemane Firas , Abbas‐Turki Mohamed , Durieu Cécile , Raynaud Henri‐François , Conan Jean‐Marc 
Published: November 2013

SUMMARYThe main objective of this paper was to estimate tip‐tilt disturbances in adaptive optics systems. In a bounded‐error context, set inversion methods based on interval analysis are used to guarantee both state and parameter estimation of tip‐tilt disturbances. Consequently, two methods are performed. The first method is based on contraction–bisection, and the second one is based only on contraction. Both methods are thus compared, and results are discussed according to computational time and pessimism introduced on each estimated parameter. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Variable approaches to genetic counseling for microarray regions of homozygosity associated with parental relatedness
Authors: Grote Lauren , Myers Melanie , Lovell Anne , Saal Howard , Sund Kristen Lipscomb 
Published: November 2013

AbstractSNP microarrays are capable of detecting regions of homozygosity (ROH) which can suggest parental relatedness. This study was designed to describe pre‐ and post‐test counseling practices of genetics professionals regarding ROH, explore perceived comfort and ethical concerns in the follow‐up of such results, demonstrate awareness of laws surrounding duty to report consanguinity and incest, and allow respondents to share their personal experiences with results suggesting a parental relationship. A 35 question survey was administered to 240 genetic counselors and geneticists who had ordered or counseled for SNP microarray. The results are presented using descriptive statistics. There was variation in both pre‐ and post‐test counseling practices of genetics professionals. Twenty‐five percent of respondents reported pre‐test counseling that ROH can indicate parental relatedness. The most commonly reported ethical concern was disclosure of findings suggesting parental relatedness to parents of the patient; only 48.4% reported disclosing parental relatedness when indicated. Fifty‐seven percent felt comfortable receiving results suggesting parental consanguinity while 17% felt comfortable receiving results suggesting parental incest. Twenty percent of respondents were extremely/moderately familiar with the laws about duty to report incest. Personal experiences in post‐test counseling included both parental acknowledgement and denial of relatedness. This study highlights the differences in genetics professionals' pre‐ and post‐test counseling practices, comfort, and experiences surrounding parental relatedness suggested by SNP microarray results. It identifies a need for professional organizations to offer guidance to genetics professionals about how to respond to and counsel for molecular results suggesting parental consanguinity or incest. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Screening of TGFBR1, TGFBR2, and FLNA in familial mitral valve prolapse
Authors: Aalberts Jan J.J. , van Tintelen J. Peter , Oomen Toon , Bergman Jorieke E.H. , Halley Dicky J.J. , Jongbloed Jan D.H. , Suurmeijer Albert J.H. , van den Berg Maarten P. 
Published: November 2013

ABSTRACTSo far only mutations in the filamin A gene (FLNA) have been identified as causing familial mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Previous studies have linked dysregulation of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF‐β) cytokine family to MVP. We investigated whether mutations in the TGF‐β receptors genes type I (TGFBR1) and II (TGFBR2) underlie isolated familial MVP cases. Eight families with isolated familial MVP were evaluated clinically and genetically. Ventricular arrhythmias were present in five of the eight families and sudden cardiac death occurred in six patients. Tissue obtained during mitral valve surgery or autopsy was available for histological examination in six cases; all demonstrated myxomatous degeneration. A previously described FLNA missense mutation (p.G288R) was identified in one large family, but no mutations were discovered in TGFBR1 or TGFBR2. An FLNA missense mutation was identified in one family but we found no TGFBR1 or TGFBR2 mutations. Our results suggest that TGFBR1 and TGFBR2 mutations do not play a major role in isolated myxomatous valve dystrophy. Screening for FLNA mutations is recommended in familial myxomatous valvular dystrophy, particularly if X‐linked inheritance is suspected. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Maize dependence or market integration? Caries prevalence among indigenous maya communities with maize‐based versus globalized economies
Authors: Vega Lizama Elma Maria , Cucina Andrea 
Published: November 2013

ABSTRACTThe relationship between diet and oral health is widely known, yet data on dental caries prevalence is lacking for many indigenous groups with traditional or rapidly modernizing diets. This research documents caries prevalence in two Maya communities from northern Yucatán (Mexico) with significantly different levels of market integration, subsistence, and diet: Yalsihón, with a traditional, maize‐based subsistence economy, and Dzilam, with access to globalized food markets. Each sample was subdivided by sex into 15–19, 20–24, and 25–30 years‐of‐age classes. Caries prevalence was considered separately both when the lesion affected the enamel superficially (grade 1+) and when it reached the dentin (grade 2+). In both villages, females of all age classes manifest more caries than males. Results show higher prevalence of caries at Dzilam than at Yalsihón, except for grade 1+ caries among 15–19‐year‐old males and grade 2+ caries among 15–19‐year‐old females. Though differences are not significant, earlier pregnancies among 15–19‐year‐old females at Yalsihón could be a causative factor. A survey indicated a more balanced diet at Yalsihón despite a heavier intake of maize than at Dzilam. Striking differences were documented in the ingestion of soda and globalized foods; sodas were virtually absent at Yalsihón, while at Dzilam they were ingested daily in great quantities. The decline in oral health at Dzilam is inferred to result from consumption of industrially processed foods and drinks, while a traditional diet leads to less caries despite daily heavy consumption of maize, which must be considered when interpreting caries rates in archaeological samples. Am J Phys Anthropol 153:190–202, 2014. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Early versus delayed treatment of primary epistaxis in the United States
Authors: Villwock Jennifer A. , Goyal Parul 
Published: November 2013

BackgroundEpistaxis treatment is variable. This study sought to determine demographic, management, and outcome differences in patients treated with early (<24 hours) vs late ligation or embolization.MethodsThis study was a retrospective review of the 2008 to 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) for patients admitted with epistaxis. Hospital and patient demographics and outcomes were compared between early vs late surgical intervention. Multivariate models analyzed the economic measures (length of stay and hospital charges) between early and late treatment.ResultsOf 57,039 cases of primary epistaxis identified in the NIS database, 4662 (8.2%) received ligation or embolization. There was no significant influence of early treatment on the odds of mortality, stroke, blindness, or blood transfusion. The total charges and length of stay were significantly reduced for early surgical intervention using embolization or ligation. Two predictors of early intervention were common to both ligation and embolization: (1) weekday admission (p < 0.001; odds ratio [OR], 1.856), and (2) admission to a non‐Midwest hospital (p < 0.001; OR, 3.276). Additional predictors of early intervention with ligation included: (1) admission to an urban hospital; (2) admission to a nonteaching hospital; (3) black race; and (4) income >$39,000. The odds of embolization within the first 24 hours were lowered with each additional chronic condition (p = 0.017; OR, 0.912).ConclusionEfficient and effective healthcare delivery is paramount given the potentially life‐threatening nature of epistaxis and the current economic environment. Delayed intervention significantly increased hospital charges and length of stay. Rapid identification and treatment may prove to be a cost‐saving measure.