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Hegemony and Hidden Transcripts: The Discursive Arts of Neoliberal Legitimation

In this article, I offer a reading of James Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990) from an inverted standpoint: Whereas Scott's focus is on resistance from below, mine is on resistance from above. My case study involves some of the more prominent legal and political responses to the attacks of September 11, 2001—notably the President's Military Order of November 13, 2001, establishing military tribunals for noncitizen detainees charged with terrorism. My analysis supports Scott's thesis regarding the discursivity of resistance while challenging some of his conclusions regarding the form and content of hegemony, as read in the current neoliberal milieu. With respect to the military tribunals, I argue that their establishment represents an extension of executive power rehearsed prior to the attacks, and that the politicization of security in the United States involves institutions and issues that have long antecedents in partisan political terms.
Evolution of deep-crustal normal faults: constraints from thermobarometry in the Grenville Orogen, Ontario, Canada

Abstract The Robertson Lake shear zone (RLSZ) is a low-angle (∼30° dip), plastic to brittle extensional shear zone located in the southeastern Grenville Orogen, Ontario, Canada. Thermobarometric data have been collected to evaluate the effects of extension on regional metamorphic field gradients. Upper greenschist facies metamorphic conditions are preserved in the footwall and upper amphibolite facies metamorphic conditions in the hanging wall. However, steep gradients in metamorphic pressure are present adjacent to the Robertson Lake shear zone. In the footwall pressures increase from 550 MPa to 800 MPa within 8 km of the RLSZ and in the hanging wall pressures decrease from 900 MPa to 500 MPa within 12 km of the RLSZ. The pressure gradients are interpreted to be a product of isostatic flexural rotations in response to extension along the zone. The degree of rotation indicated by the baric gradients in the hanging wall and footwall are compatible and require an initial shear zone orientation of 60–90°, which suggests reactivation of an initially high-angle terrane boundary. Previous studies provide constraints of a depth extent of 40 km for the RLSZ and crustal thickness of 60 km during extension. Thus, extensional rotations were accommodated by decoupling and regional-scale flow in the lower third of the crust.
The Savant Syndrome: A Review of the Literature for the Music Educator.

Though music educators work with students who have a special learning need or a gifted ability on a daily basis, encountering a student who has both can be unexpected. The literature presented here...
Effects of component length and of the transitions among components in multiple schedules.

Pigeons received equal variable-interval reinforcement during presentations of two line-orientation stimuli while five other orientations appeared in extinction. Component duration was 30 seconds for all orientations and the sequence was arranged so that each orientation preceded itself and each other orientation equally often. The duration of one component (0°) was shortened to 10 seconds and the other (90°) was lengthened to 50 seconds. All animals showed large increases in response rate in the shortened component and this increase was recoverable after an interpolated condition in which all components were again 30 seconds in duration. This effect was replicated in a second experiment in which component duration was changed from 150 seconds to 50 seconds and 250 seconds. An examination of local contrast effects during the first experiment showed that the shortened component produced local contrast during subsequent presentations of the lengthened component, just as would a component associated with more frequent reinforcement. When the presentation sequence was changed so that the lengthened component was always followed by the shortened component, response rates generally increased during the lengthened component. When the sequence was arranged so that the shortened component always preceded the longer component, response rate decreased in the former. These effects, as well as the increases in response rate following change in component length, seem not to be the product of local contrast effects among components.
Leaf expansion – an integrating plant behaviour

Leaves expand to intercept light for photosynthesis, to take up carbon dioxide, and to transpire water for cooling and circulation. The extent to which they expand is determined partly by genetic constraints, and partly by environmental conditions signalling the plant to expand more or less leaf surface area. Leaves have evolved sophisticated sensory mechanisms for detecting these cues and responding with their own growth and function as well as influencing a variety of whole-plant behaviours. Leaf expansion itself is an integrating behaviour that ultimately determines canopy development and function, allocation of materials determining relative shoot : root volume, and the onset of reproduction. To understand leaf development, and in particular, how leaf expansion is regulated, we must know at the molecular level which biochemical processes accomplish cell growth. Physiological experimentation focusing on ion fluxes across the plasmamembrane is providing new molecular information on how light stimulates cell expansion in some dicotyledonous species. Genetic analyses in Arabidopsis, corn, and other species are rapidly generating a list of mutations and enzyme activities associated with leaf development and expansion. Combination of these approaches, using informed physiological interpretations of phenotypic variation will allow us in the future to identify genes encoding both the processes causing cell expansion, and the regulators of these events.
Analyzing Formal Verification and Testing Efforts of Different Fault Tolerance Mechanisms

Pre-fabrication design verification and post-fabrication chip testing are two important stages in the product realization process. These two stages consume a large part of resources in the form of time, money, and engineering effort during the process [1]. Therefore, it is important to take into account the design verification (such as through formal verification) effort and chip testing effort when we design a system. This paper analyzes the impact on formal verification effort and testing effort due to adding different fault tolerance mechanisms to baseline systems. By comparing the experimental results of different designs, we conclude that re-execution (time redundancy) is the most efficient mechanism when considering formal verification and testing efforts together, followed by parity code, dual modular redundancy (DMR), and triple modular redundancy (TMR). We also present the ratio of verification effort to testing effort to assist designers in their trade-off analysis when deciding how to allocate their budget between formal verification and testing. Particularly, we find even for a designated fault tolerance mechanism, some small change in structure can lead to dramatic changes in the efforts. These findings have implications for practical industrial production.
p-IVG: Probabilistic Inter-Vehicle Geocast for Dense Vehicular Networks

In this paper, we study the effect of dense vehicular networks on data dissemination. When using intelligent broadcast- ing techniques, such as Inter-Vehicle Geocast, we have discovered the spatial broadcast storm problem in which multiple vehicles will be chosen to re-broadcast frames at nearly the same time, resulting in channel contention and collisions. We present a probabilistic version of IVG (p-IVG) to address this problem. In p-IVG, which vehicles re-broadcast frames is probabilistic depending upon the traffic density surrounding the vehicles. We show that p-IVG solves the spatial broadcast storm problem and that using p-IVG results in improved reception rates, lower channel contention, and most importantly, faster dissemination of data to distant vehicles than IVG. I. INTRODUCTION
Effect of glucocorticoid on prostaglandin production during simulated shock conditions in the perfused cat liver.

Abstract The production of prostaglandins E 2 and F 2α by isolated perfused cat livers was quantitated during separate simulated shock conditions (i.e. ischemia, acidosis and hypoxia). Control livers showed little change in perfusate prostaglandin concentrations over a 150-min perfusion period. Neither ischemia nor acidosis produced significant increases in prostaglandin concentrations in the perfusate after 150 min of perfusion. Hypoxia resulted in a 4.5-fold increase in PGE 2 and a 3.5-fold increase in PGF 2α concentrations during this same period. Lactic acid dehydrogenase and cathepsin D activities were also elevated in the perfusate during hypoxia. Addition of methylprednisolone (10 −3 M) to the perfusate significantly retarded the release of PGE 2 , PGF 2α , and cathepsin D into the perfusate during severe hypoxia, without significantly altering the increase in lactic acid dehydrogenase activity. The action of methylprednisolone on prostaglandin and lysosomal enzyme release in hypoxic livers may be the result of a membrane-stabilizing action of the glucocorticoid. One proposed mechanism for the inhibition by glucocorticoids of the increased prostaglandin production during hypoxia is that endogenous arachidonic acid is stabilized within the cell membrane phospholipids. Thus, less substrate is available for utilization by the prostaglandin synthetase system.
Broadband Characterization of Transient Antennas

The application of pulsed power to transient RF/microwave generation for warhead/projectile payloads is currently a significant research area. In this application, traditional fixed antenna designs have two major drawbacks: the size required for efficient radiation can be prohibitive for frequencies much less than 1 GHz, and the fixed antenna can make the device vulnerable to electromagnetic counterattack. One frequently proposed solution to both issues is the use of transient antennas. To effectively integrate these devices, the various types of transient antennas must be characterized over a wide frequency band during their transient formation period. A testing method being developed at the Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics at Texas Tech University utilizing a broadband transmitter and receiver is described.
The construction of an anatomically based model of the human ventricular conduction system

The authors describe a strategy for the construction of human ventricular conduction system models which is based on real microscopic and macroscopic features, although the model still is much simpler than reality. The model contains almost 35000 individual cylindrical elements, each of whose physical dimensions approximate unit bundles of Purkinje and atrioventricular nodal cells. The model, whose physical appearance closely resembles that of the conduction system, was generated from limited anatomical data in less than 2 min CPU time on an IBM 3090 at the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility. >
Effects of genotypes of maitake (Grifola frondosa) on biological efficiency, quality and crop cycle time.

Twenty-three genotypes of maitake (Grifola frondosa) from Asia, North America and Europe were compared for biological efficiency (BE), quality and crop cycle time. Significant differences among lines were found for BE and crop cycle time when mushrooms were produced on nutrient-supplemented (15% millet, 10% wheat bran and 0.2% gypsum) oak sawdust substrate. Four isolates (WC828, M036, M037, and M040) were found to have the most consistent and highest BEs (38.5%, 39.5%, 35.8%, and 38.9%, respectively) and quality ratings (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.2, respectively, where 1 is highest quality and 4 is lowest quality). A commercial line (M039) used in China had the shortest crop cycle time (8 weeks). Lines deemed to have the best commercial potential were of Asian origin.
Automatic thermal monitoring system (ATHEMOS) for deception detection

Previous work has demonstrated the correlation of periorbital perfusion and stress levels in human beings. In this paper, we report results on a large and realistic mock-crime interrogation experiment. The interrogation is free flowing and no restrictions have been placed on the subjects. We propose a new methodology to compute the average periorbital temperature signal. The present approach addresses the deficiencies of the earlier methodology and is capable of coping with the challenges posed by the realistic setting. Specifically, it features a tandem condensation tracker to register the periorbital area in the context of a moving face. It operates on the raw temperature signal and tries to improve the information content by suppressing the noise level instead of amplifying the signal as a whole. Finally, a pattern recognition method classifies stressful (deceptive) from non-stressful (non-deceptive) subjects based on a comparative measure between the interrogation signal (baseline) and portions thereof (transient response).
Whole Grains and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in a Large Population-based Case-Control Study in the San Francisco Bay Area, California

Epidemiologic data suggest that consumption of whole-grain products may be inversely associated with risk of pancreatic cancer. Grain intake was examined in a population-based case-control study of pancreatic cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area (1995-1999). A 131-item semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire was administered to 532 cases and 1,701 controls. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were computed as estimates of relative risk. Persons who consumed > or =2 servings of whole grains daily had a lower risk of pancreatic cancer than persons who consumed or =2 servings/week vs. or =2 servings/week vs. <1 serving/month) was positively associated with risk (for oatmeal/oat bran, OR = 1.3, 95% CI: 1.0, 1.7; for other cooked breakfast cereals, OR = 2.1, 95% CI: 1.4, 3.3). Dietary fiber was inversely associated with risk (for highest quartile vs. lowest, OR = 0.65, 95% CI: 0.47, 0.89; trend-p = 0.02). These data provide some support for the hypothesis that consuming more whole-grain or high-fiber foods may reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer. Refined grains were not associated with risk.
Differential amplifier based on the feedback pair

A transistorised differential amplifier based on the feedback pair is described. A preliminary analysis is given and the results are compared with measurements over the frequency range 15kc/s-30Mc/s. At the centre of the band the common-mode rejection ratio was 270 : 1. The effects of resistor tolerances and the accurate balancing of the two input impedances are discussed.
The western arctic linkage experiment (WALE): overview and synthesis

Abstract The primary goal of the Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE) was to better understand uncertainties of simulated hydrologic and ecosystem dynamics of the western Arctic in the context of 1) uncertainties in the data available to drive the models and 2) different approaches to simulating regional hydrology and ecosystem dynamics. Analyses of datasets on climate available for driving hydrologic and ecosystem models within the western Arctic during the late twentieth century indicate that there are substantial differences among the mean states of datasets for temperature, precipitation, vapor pressure, and radiation variables. Among the studies that examined temporal trends among the alternative climate datasets, there is not much consensus on trends among the datasets. In contrast, monthly and interannual variations of some variables showed some correlation across the datasets. The application of hydrology models driven by alternative climate drivers revealed that the simulation of regional hyd...
Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte Dysfunction During Influenza Virus Infection in Chinchillas

The increased susceptibility of chinchillas after intranasal inoculation of Streptococcus pneumoniae and influenza A virus to pneumococcal otitis media prompted a study to determine whether infection with influenza virus adversely affects polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMNL) function and thereby impairs host defense. Thirty-four chinchillas were inoculated intranasally with either influenza A virus or sterile saline. The chemotactic, chemiluminescent, and bactericidal activities of the PMNLs were depressed four to eight days after inoculation of the virus compared with the values obtained before inoculation; these activities remained normal in animals inoculated with sterile saline. The maximum reduction in chemotaxis (37%), peak chemiluminescence (53%), and peak bactericidal activity (26%) of the PMNLs was observed on day 6. Phagocytosis remained normal throughout the period after inoculation. Thus, the susceptibility of chinchillas to pneumococcal disease after inoculation with influenza A virus may be due to the impaired chemotactic and oxidative microbicidal activities of PMNLs.
MicroRNAs can regulate human APP levels

A number of studies have shown that increased APP levels, resulting from either a genomic locus duplication or alteration in APP regulatory sequences, can lead to development of early-onset dementias, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Therefore, understanding how APP levels are regulated could provide valuable insight into the genetic basis of AD and illuminate novel therapeutic avenues for AD. Here we test the hypothesis that APP protein levels can be regulated by miRNAs, evolutionarily conserved small noncoding RNA molecules that play an important role in regulating gene expression. Utilizing human cell lines, we demonstrate that miRNAs hsa-mir-106a and hsa-mir-520c bind to their predicted target sequences in the APP 3'UTR and negatively regulate reporter gene expression. Over-expression of these miRNAs, but not control miRNAs, results in translational repression of APP mRNA and significantly reduces APP protein levels. These results are the first to demonstrate that levels of human APP can be regulated by miRNAs.
First direct observation of FEL lasing from λ = 20 to 45 μm

Abstract In recent experiments at Los Alamos, we directly observed for the first time free-electron-laser (FEL) fundamental wavelengths from 20 to 45 μm. Our 1988 facility's demonstrated wavelength span now extends from 9 to 45 μm. Upgrades are in progress to increase this span. This wavelength region uniquely complements existing FEL applications facilities.
Nazi “Chic”? German Politics and Women's Fashions, 1915–1945

(1997). Nazi “Chic”? German Politics and Women's Fashions, 1915–1945. Fashion Theory: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 29-58.
Post/neo/liberalism in relational perspective

Abstract Within a decade of the new millennium new left governments in many countries across Latin America developed new constitutions that bespeak a new, postneoliberal era, supplanting neoliberal hegemony. Debates about postneoliberalism-as-governance or as a discourse lack resolution. Drawing from Foucault's lecture series The Birth of Biopolitics, which engages the relation between neoliberalism and liberalism, as well as from his general analytic approach, we cast postneoliberalism, neoliberalism, and liberalism in relational terms relative to principles not time periods, and offer precision on how different discourses co-exist and become mutually entangled and politicized in the context of neoliberal practices. We reference points in our argument with empirical research in various Latin American contexts, and in the penultimate section we thread the argument through current dynamics in one context, Nicaragua. Although overall we concur with the critical literature about the neoliberal character of pink-tide governments in practice, in the final section we depart from the prevailing approach that focuses on formal government as the bellwether of change and conclude by drawing attention to prospects for postneoliberal practices in the microspaces of daily life. Drawing from Foucault's late scholarship on ethics and mindful of the longstanding role of informality in Latin American political economy, we clarify how postneoliberal values can materialize in everyday life while formal governmental actions and policies persist as neoliberal amid liberal, postneoliberal, as well as socialist discourses.
The Moderation of Blood Alcohol Levels on Higher Odds of Survival among American Indians with Violent, Blunt-Force Traumatic Brain Injuries

This study assessed the moderation of blood alcohol level (BAL) and American Indian race on survival of patients with violent traumatic brain injury (TBI). An initial logistic regression model indicated that those who were American Indian and insured had higher odds of survival and those with higher injury severity scores and low-medium BAL were less likely to survive. A second logistic regression model including a relationship between American Indians and BAL found that American Indians had a higher odds of survival which tripled when they have no BAL. Low-medium and high BAL were associated with less likelihood of survival among White patients.
World Power and the Strategic Trap of Territorial Commitments

Long cycle theorizing argues that systemic leadership depends upon the creation and maintenance of a global network of bases to support sea, and later aerospace, based capabilities of global reach. Control over, and responsibility for, extensive amounts of territory tends to be counterproductive to the extent that territorial commitments drain attention and resources from the global network. After briefly illustrating the existence of this strategic dilemma in the 16th and 17th centuries, we concentrate on the empirical relationship between onsets of British imperial warfare and the ratio of navy to army budgets between 1671 and 1913. As anticipated, the longitudinal relationship between imperial warfare, an indirect indicator of expanding territorial commitments, and the budgetary primacy of sea-power concerns is found to be negative and statistically significant. We interpret this finding to be supportive of the view that expanding territorial commitments can constitute a strategic trap for system leaders, and as such, a partial explanation for the decline of their ability to function as leaders. We conclude with some suggestions about how this historical problem may relate to the contemporary foreign policy problems of the current system leader, the United States.
Decision Making in Dynamic Environments: Fixation Errors and Their Causes:

One of the goals of naturalistic studies of human decision making is to reveal the cognitive loads or task difficulties imposed on the decision maker in real work environments. Fixation errors or c...
Reconceptualizing qualitative research: methodologies without methodology

Attempting to summarize the 2015 book Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research: Methodologies without Methodology is a disarming challenge as author Koro-Ljungberg is both describing and writing with...
Sex, race, gender, and the presidential vote

AbstractRacial resentment has been shown to have a significant impact on voting by whites in recent presidential elections, and a much larger impact than the traditional gender-gap measure based on the male-female dichotomy. This analysis will use data from the American National Election Studies [ANES] to compare broader indicators of race and gender applicable to the Democratic and Republican parties as well as to respondents’ opinions of appropriate roles for women. Since the 1980s the parties have diverged considerably on abortion and women’s issues, and voters now view the Democrats as more supportive than Republicans of equality for women and reproductive rights. Perceptions of party differences on women’s issues strongly influenced vote choice, 1988–2008, and in 2008 had greater impact on whites’ votes than opinions on aid to blacks, abortion, gay marriage, or the economy. Although racial resentment was a strong predictor of the white vote in 2012 as in previous years, presidential voting was also s...
Purification and characterization of hepatic glutathione S-transferases of rhesus monkeys. A family of enzymes similar to the human hepatic glutathione S-transferases

Thirteen forms of glutathione S-transferase were purified from the livers of female rhesus monkeys (Macaque mulatta). Most (74.7%) of the activity in the hepatic cytosol adhered well to the GSH affinity column and could be eluted only with the addition of GSH to the eluting buffer. The predominant isoenzymes (n = 5) in this 'high-affinity' fraction had alkaline pI values (greater than 9.0) and contained a subunit with an Mr value of 24,000. All of these isoenzymes had high organic peroxidase activity and, on the basis of amino acid analysis, substrate specificities and affinity for non-substrate ligands, appear to belong to the family of glutathione S-transferases that have been termed alpha [Mannervik, Alin, Guthenberg, Jensson, Tahir, Warholm & Jornvall (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82, 7202-7206]. Also within the high-affinity fraction was an isoenzyme with an acidic (5.8) pI value. This acidic isoenzyme was composed of a unique subunit (Mr 23,000). The N-terminal sequence (ten residues) of this acidic enzyme was identical with that of a human form that is referred to as pi. The predominant form of enzyme in the 'low-affinity' (eluted from the GSH affinity column with an increase in buffer pH) fraction was a homodimer of a 26,000-Mr subunit. It had an alkaline pI (greater than 9.0) but it lacked organic peroxidase activity. The N-terminal sequence (ten residues) of this enzyme was identical with that of a human enzyme referred to as mu. The substrate specificities and affinity for non-substrate ligands of this monkey enzyme also were similar to those of the human enzyme. In conclusion, the liver cytosol of rhesus monkeys contains a number of glutathione S-transferase isoenzymes that are very similar to the human hepatic enzymes.
Efficient Evaluation of Authorizations for Video Data

With ever increasing volume of video data, ensuring effective access control to video content has become one of the most important and pressing problems in the domain of information security. The traditional access control mechanisms are inadequate due to the complex nature of video access control where the requirements are not only to restrict access to videos based on their IDs, but also ensuring security of content within the videos (e.g., people, objects and events). For example, even if two users have access to the same video, they might not have access to the same objects or sequence of frames. While there is significant work in the area of video access control models, it is primarily limited to specification and does not satisfactorily address evaluation. In this paper, we present a novel way to overlay authorizations on the video context indexing structure to allow efficient evaluation of authorizations.
Proteomic approaches to identify and characterize alterations to the mitochondrial proteome in alcoholic liver disease.

Mitochondrial dysfunction is recognized as a contributing factor to a number of diseases including chronic alcohol induced hepatotoxicity. While there is a detailed understanding of the metabolic pathways and proteins of the liver mitochondrion, little is known of how changes in the mitochondrial proteome contribute to the development of hepatic pathologies. In this short overview the insights gained from study of changes in the mitochondrial proteome in alcoholic liver disease will be described. Profiling the liver mitochondrial proteome has the potential to shed light on the alcohol-mediated molecular defects responsible for mitochondrial and cellular dysfunction. The methods presented herein demonstrate the power of using complementary proteomics approaches, i.e. 2-D IEF/SDS-PAGE and BN-PAGE, to identify changes in the abundance of mitochondrial proteins following chronic alcohol consumption. This proteomic data can then be integrated into a logical and mechanistic framework to further our understanding of the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of alcohol induced liver disease.
Intracranial atherosclerosis and cerebral small vessel disease in intracerebral hemorrhage patients.

Abstract Background The association between cerebral small vessel diseases (cSVD) and intracranial atherosclerosis is debated and conflicting results have been reported. We sought to investigate this association in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), due to severe cSVD. Methods Consecutive ICH patients were divided into those meeting criteria for cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and those with deep hypertensive ICH consistent with hypertensive cSVD (HTN-SVD). White matter hyperintensity volumes (WMH) and microbleed counts (MB) were measured on MRI. CTA was rated for severity of intracranial carotid calcifications and for presence of > 50% intracranial stenosis (ICS). Associations of intracranial atherosclerosis severity with type of SVD (CAA vs HTN-cSVD) and with imaging and clinical markers of cSVD burden were analyzed. Results The cohort included 253 CAA and 90 HTN-SVD patients. In multivariable models, the type of cSVD (CAA vs. HTN-cSVD) was not associated with calcification severity (OR = 1.04, 95% CI [0.62–3.5], p = 0.37) or presence of ICS (OR = 0.84, 95% CI [0.21–2.74], p = 0.78). We found no association between intracranial atherosclerosis (calcifications and stenoses) and parenchymal markers of cSVD severity (WMH and MB, adjusted p ≥ 0.2 for all comparisons) and no association with presence of dementia before ICH (adjusted p ≥ 0.2 for both comparisons). Conclusions We found no association between intracranial atherosclerosis and parenchymal or clinical consequences of cSVD, suggesting that cSVDs while sharing some risk factors are not influenced by upstream larger vessel pathologies.
Where Should Saliency Models Look Next

Recently, large breakthroughs have been observed in saliency modeling. The top scores on saliency benchmarks have become dominated by neural network models of saliency, and some evaluation scores have begun to saturate. Large jumps in performance relative to previous models can be found across datasets, image types, and evaluation metrics. Have saliency models begun to converge on human performance? In this paper, we re-examine the current state-of-the-art using a fine-grained analysis on image types, individual images, and image regions. Using experiments to gather annotations for high-density regions of human eye fixations on images in two established saliency datasets, MIT300 and CAT2000, we quantify up to 60% of the remaining errors of saliency models. We argue that to continue to approach human-level performance, saliency models will need to discover higher-level concepts in images: text, objects of gaze and action, locations of motion, and expected locations of people in images. Moreover, they will need to reason about the relative importance of image regions, such as focusing on the most important person in the room or the most informative sign on the road. More accurately tracking performance will require finer-grained evaluations and metrics. Pushing performance further will require higher-level image understanding.
Electrically-small folded cylindrical helix antenna for Wireless Body Area Networks

The emerging technology of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is promising for many applications such as continuous, remote, healthcare monitoring. Practical WBAN implementation requires compact low-power devices. Therefore, an electrically-small antenna is needed. This paper presents wearable folded cylindrical helix (FCH) antennas designed at the 433 MHz and the 915 MHz medical frequencies. Their performance is simulated in FEKO software and compared with the conventional monopole. The antenna transmission loss is investigated on a simplified human phantom model. It is found that the FCH has similar transmission performance as the monopole while the height is significantly reduced.
Related Topics in Shape Analysis of Curves

Previously we have developed theory and computational solutions for shape analysis associated with curves in Euclidean spaces. We end this textbook by presenting some related topics that fall outside the main framework. These miscellaneous topics do not fit an organized theme but are bunched together in this chapter for convenience. They include: (1) Investigate the use of shape in conjunction with other features, such as scale, pose, and position, to characterize curves. (2) Extend the group of shape-invariant transformations, from the similarity group to the affine group, in the case of planar closed curves. While most shape analysis works consider similarity transformations (rigid motions and global scales) as the main shape-preserving transformations, some applications, including imaging, may require us to nullify affine distortions of curves. (3) Develop techniques for analyzing trajectories on nonlinear Riemannian manifolds. While we have studied only the Euclidean curves so far, there is also a strong need for analyzing curves on other, perhaps nonlinear, domains. One may not use the word shape for characterizing the desired properties of these curves, but this analysis should be invariant at least to parameterizations of these trajectories.
Myelopathy due to Heroin Addiction

This is a myelopathy due to cocaine and/or heroin addition, whether by intravenous use or intranasal insufflation or smoking or inhalation.
Query localization techniques for on-demand routing protocols in ad hoc networks

Mobile ad hoc networks are characterized by multi-hop wireless links, absence of any cellular infrastructure, and frequent host mobility. Design of efficient routing protocols in such networks is a challenging issue. A class of routing protocols called on-demand protocols has recently found attention because of their low routing overhead. We propose a technique that can reduce the routing overhead even further. The on-demand protocols depend on query floods to discover routes whenever a new route is needed. Our technique utilizes prior routing histories to localize the query flood to a limited region of the network. Simulation results demonstrate excellent reduction of routing overheads with this mechanism. This also contributes to a reduced level of network congestion and better end-to-end delay performance of data packets.
Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing, Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we interact with our environment in domains as diverse as health, transportation, office buildings and our homes. In smart building environments, information captured about the building and its inhabitants will aid in development of services that improve productivity, comfort, social interactions, safety, energy savings and more. However, by collecting and sharing information about building's inhabitants and their activities, these services also open the door to privacy risks. In this paper, we introduce a framework where IoT Assistants capture and manage the privacy preferences of their users and communicate them to privacy-aware smart buildings, which enforce them when collecting user data or sharing it with building services. We outline elements necessary to support such interactions and also discuss important privacy policy attributes that need to be captured. This includes looking at attributes necessary to describe -- (1) the data collection and sharing practices associated with deployed sensors and services in smart buildings as well as (2) the privacy preferences to help users manage their privacy in such environments.
Geographic Dimensions of Relocation Activity: A Comparative Analysis of Intrametropolitan and Out-of-State Relocation Activity

Over the years, research on relocation activity has provided insights about the characteristics of firms and regions that drive relocation. The spatial dimensions of these relocation decisions, how...
A Subjective and Objective Study of Stalling Events in Mobile Streaming Videos

Over-the-top mobile adaptive video streaming is invariably influenced by volatile network conditions, which can cause playback interruptions (stalling or rebuffering events) and bitrate fluctuations, thereby impairing users’ quality of experience (QoE). Video quality assessment models that can accurately predict users’ QoE under such volatile network conditions are rapidly gaining attention, since these methods could enable more efficient design of quality control protocols for media-driven services such as YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, and many others. However, the development of improved QoE prediction models requires data sets of videos afflicted with diverse stalling events that have been labeled with ground-truth subjective opinion scores. Toward this end, we have created a new mobile video quality database that we call LIVE Mobile Stall Video Database-II. Our database contains a total of 174 videos afflicted with distortions caused by 26 different stalling patterns. We describe the way we simulated the diverse stalling events to create a corpus of distorted videos, and we detail the human study we conducted to obtain continuous-time subjective scores from 54 subjects. We also present the outcomes of our comprehensive analysis of the impact of several factors that influence subjective QoE, and report the performance of existing QoE-prediction models on our data set. We are making the database (videos, subjective data, and video metadata) publicly available in order to help the advance state-of-the-art research on user-centric mobile network planning and management. The database may be accessed at http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/LIVEStallStudy/liveMobile.html .
Remember Port Royal: Acadian pseudo-history and Jansenism in Henry Ketcham’s annotated Evangeline (1900)

Ron McFarland’s 2010 study of Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847) recalls the largely forgotten role of the poem as a pedagogical aid in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century ...
Using the Cycloid as an Introduction to Transformations of E and B Fields

The transformations of electric and magnetic fields are usually introduced by viewing systems such as a long, straight current-carrying wire and a parallel plate capacitor in two different reference frames. These well-known examples show that magnetism is a necessary consequence of augmenting electrostatics with relativity. Because they require the full apparatus of Lorentz contraction and Lorentz transformation of forces, they are often postponed until the upper-division undergraduate electrodynamics course.
Las ansiedades de la globalización: venta de antidepresivos y crisis económica en la Argentina

En agosto de 2001, en diversos diarios de Buenos Aires aparecieron notas sobre “La semana de los desordenes de ansiedad”, una campana de informacion destinada a que los pacientes acudieran a hospitales para consultar a expertos. “Uno de cada cuatro argentinos sufre de ellos” proclamaba un articulo: “ataques de panico, fobias: los especialistas dicen que estan incrementandose y que pueden estar influenciados por factores tales como la inseguridad o la incertidumbre respecto del futuro” (Cecchi 2001). La referencia a la incertidumbre y a la inseguridad era apropiada: el pais entraba en su cuarto ano de recesion, la tasa de desempleo habia alcanzado el 20%, el indice denominado riesgo-pais se elevaba a un nivel record dia tras dia. La campana fue exitosa mas alla de las expectativas de sus promotores: los hospitales de la ciudad se vieron inundados de pacientes que se quejaban de sintomas de estres. Los articulos periodisticos no mencionaban que la campana habia sido co-financiada por la empresa farmaceutica nacional Bago, productora de Tranquinil, una variedad del alprazolam. Dado que en el mercado argentino esta prohibida la venta directa de medicamentos al publico, una alternativa era “hacer crecer el mercado” logrando que tanto los medicos clinicos como los pacientes se percataran de la enfermedad. En un articulo sobre el rol de la creciente crisis economica en las ventas cada vez mayores de tranquilizantes aparecido dos meses despues en el diario Clarin, el gerente de ventas de Bago informaba que agosto habia sido un mes de crecimiento record de las ventas de Tranquinil. Cuadernos de Antropologia Social No 18, pp. 35-66, 2003 © FFyL UBA ISSN: 0327-3776
The Nurse's Duty to Report Child Abuse Versus the Attorney's Duty of Confidentiality: The Nurse Attorney's Dilemma

Nurses are specifically identified as mandatory reporters in a majority of state child protection statutes. The nurse's statutory duty to report child abuse conflicts with the duty to keep patient information confidential. State legislatures statutorily resolved this dilemma in deciding that the nurse's duty to report child abuse trumps the nurse's duty of confidentiality. The duty of the nurse attorney to report child abuse is not as clear, however, particularly when the information is gained through the confidential communications of an attorney-client relationship. The mandatory reporting versus duty of confidentiality conflict exists for nurse attorneys in states like Massachusetts that do not specifically identify or exclude attorneys under the child protection statute. Under these statutory schemes, the question remains as to whether or not the nurse attorney has a statutory duty to report a reasonable belief of child abuse. In balancing the nurse attorney's statutory and professional duties, it may be determined that nurse attorneys are discretionary, not mandatory, reporters of child abuse.
Context-Based Event Processing Systems

The concept of context has recently emerged as one of the major abstractions in event processing modeling with presence in event processing products. In this chapter we discuss the notion of context as a first class citizen within event processing modeling, and discuss its implementation in event processing products and models that arise from the current state-of-the practice
A "Model" for Active Learning and Leadership Development: International Model NATO.

AbstractThis article discusses international simulation “models” as vehicles for active student learning and leadership development. Drawing on his role as the faculty sponsor of his school’s deleg...
A novel computational green infrastructure design framework for hydrologic and human benefits

Abstract Increased storm-water runoff and flooding and poor ecosystem health have brought increasing attention to catchment-wide implementation of green infrastructure (e.g., bioswales, rain gardens, permeable pavements, tree box filters, urban wetlands and forests, stream buffers, and green roofs) to replace or supplement conventional storm water management practices and create more sustainable urban water systems. Current green infrastructure (GI) practice aims at mitigating the negative effects of urbanization by restoring pre-development hydrology and ultimately addressing water quality issues at an urban catchment scale. However, the benefits of GI extend well beyond local storm water management, as urban green spaces are also major contributors to human health. Considerable research in the psychological sciences have shown significant human health benefits from appropriately designed green spaces, yet impacts on human wellbeing have not yet been formally considered in GI design frameworks. This work develops a novel computational green infrastructure (GI) design framework that integrates storm water management requirements with criteria for human wellbeing. A supervised machine-learning model is created to identify specific patterns in urban green spaces that promote human wellbeing; the model is linked to RHESSYS hydrological model to evaluate GI designs in terms of both water resource and human health benefits. An application of the framework to tree-based GI design in Dead Run Watershed, Baltimore, MD, shows that image-mining methods are able to capture key elements of human preferences that could improve GI design. The results also show that hydrologic benefits associated with tree-based features are substantial, indicating that increased urban tree coverage and a more integrated GI design approach can significantly increase both human and hydrologic benefits.
An unusual vermiform giant arachnoid granulation.

Abstract Arachnoid granulations are outpouchings of arachnoid membrane which extend into the dural sinuses or calvarium, surrounded by a capsule of dense connective tissue. Within dural sinuses, these appear as well-defined, nodular, rounded, or ovoid structures of focal localization. However, it is important to be aware of their variability in presentation in order to correctly identify them and distinguish them from other dural sinus pathology, especially a misdiagnosis of venous sinus thrombosis with risks of unnecessary anticoagulation, intravascular thrombolysis/thrombectomy, or invasive intracranial pressure monitoring. Here we demonstrate a case of a previously unreported giant intrasinus arachnoid granulation of an unusual vermiform morphology, unduly elongated up to 6 cm in length, involving a significant segment of the superior sagittal sinus. The proof of this diagnosis was the radiologic appearance on multiple modalities and an unchanged appearance over the long-term.
Perception and Comprehension of the Extended Forecast Graphic: A Survey of Broadcast Meteorologists and the Public

AbstractThere have been multiple efforts in recent years to simplify visual weather forecast products, with the goal of more efficient risk communication for the general public. Many meteorological...
The second heart sound

Abstract The second heart sound can provide important diagnostic information. Although the entire auscultatory examination should be performed with equal care, close attention to the second heart sound may be particularly rewarding. The fact that the interval between the two components of the second heart sound, the intensity of the aortic and pulmonic components of the second heart sound, and/or the relationship between the two components of the second heart sound during the phases of respiration correlate with the severity of the anatomic and hemodynamic disturbances in many pathologic states is of great value to the clinician.
Nasopharyngeal Hyalinizing Clear Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

BackgroundHyalinizing clear cell carcinomas (HCCCs) are rare, low-grade, malignant tumors which most often arise from the minor salivary glands primarily in palate and tongue but can arise in any l...
Using LEGO robots for traditional projects in the artificial intelligence course

We will discuss how to use LEGO robots to assign projects on traditional topics in AI, such as search, expert systems and neural networks. We will discuss the design, logistics, implementation options, and guidelines for hardware, software and props for the projects. Participants will work through the Java solutions of two projects - complete, compile, download and execute them on LEGO robots to get a hands-on feel. This approach is designed to minimize demands on space, time, money and infrastructure of the instructor and the institution.
Myosin heavy chain isoform and metabolic profile differ in beef steaks varying in tenderness.

Abstract Our objective was to investigate possible differences in muscle fiber characteristics of beef longissimus lumborum (LL) steaks varying in tenderness (very tender vs. intermediate tender). Therefore, the relative abundance of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoforms and activity/abundance of several glycolytic and oxidative enzymes were compared between the two steak groups. Greater (P