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Frankenstein's Brain: "The Final Touch"

From the classic Frankenstein of 1931 to Matrix (1999) which offers a version of the philosophical fable of the brain in a vat (Chalmers) and on to Self/less (2015) in which the consciousness of a dying tycoon is transferred to a younger man's body, cinema has variously explored the relationship between personhood and the body by means of fictions concerning the brain and its  From the crude disembodied brains of 1950s B movies to the neuroimaging visuals of 21st century cyberpunk, these films localize individuality essentially in the brain, and make personal identity transcend the body's demise by transplanting the brain (or its contents) into other, typically younger or at least healthier bodies. Drawing credibility from both science and philosophy, they assume that, as Roland Puccetti nimbly put in 1969, "Where goes a brain, there goes a person" (70) Puccetti did not claim that we are our brains, but that since the brain operates as the physical basis of personhood, one cannot be separated from the other. For all intents and purposes, the brain is in such a perspective the somatic limit of the self. In film, as well as in literary works such as Hanif Kureishi's 2002 short novel The Body, about a man in his mid sixties whose brain is transplanted into the body of a thirtysomething, the brain, though material, behaves like the traditional immaterial and immortal soul maturing but not aging, and insuring the personality's survival after death. The non cerebral physical body does not essentially partake in the definition of personal identity. However, its role as brain's repository and as the recipient's interface with the world shapes the hybrid subject's predicament, and generates the motives and imbroglios that drive dramatic action (see Kruger Furhoff on transplantation fictions generally) Frankenstein films deserve a special place in the history of such fictions. At a general level, this is because "Frankenstein" designates "an authentic modern cultural myth" (Marcus 190) Though most frequently associated with the potential dangers of transgressing limits in the life sciences, the story has resonated much more widely "through its extraordinary resistance to simple resolutions and its almost inexhaustible possibilities of significance" (Levine 18) Film has been a major medium for dramatizing the "myth" and its myriad facets and ramifications, and has retained its power even after the decline, noticeable since the 1990s, in the popularity of the "mad scientist" it often portrays (see Frayling
Code migration with statistical machine translation
Venue: SoftwareMining@ASE

In modern software development, developers often need to migrate code written for one platform in a programming language to another language for a different platform. The migration process is often performed manually or semi automatically, in which developers are required to manually define translation rules and API mappings between languages. This talk outlines our research plan and results in investigating Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) in supporting code migration. We will explain the challenges and our solutions to address them, as well as our vision along this direction.
ENHANCING SALES PERFORMANCE THROUGH CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

In the competitive environments of service businesses, the leading organizations attempt to utilize their intangible capital in order to improve their sale performance. Among different determinants of sale performance, this paper is to investigate the effects of customer knowledge management. For this purpose, the simultaneous effects of three dimensions of customer knowledge (knowledge for, about and from customer) on the criteria of sale performance have been investigated. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The population of the research consists of 875 managers and employees of a private bank in Iran. A sample of 270 subjects was selected using random sampling. Data collection tool is a standard questionnaire that was used for the survey. Data analysis has been done through path analysis. The results show that all studied aspects of customer knowledge have positive and significant effects on the International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, United Kingdom Licensed under Creative Common Page 747 sale performance of the bank. This shows the importance of customer knowledge management in banking industry. Finally, according to research findings, some suggestions are presented to enhance sale performance of distribution corporations.
Forward Error Correction for DNA Data Storage
Venue: ICCS

We report on a strong capacity boost in storing digital data in synthetic DNA. In principle, synthetic DNA is an ideal media to archive digital data for very long times because the achievable data density and longevity outperforms today's digital data storage media by far. On the other hand, neither the synthesis, nor the amplification and the sequencing of DNA strands can be performed error free today and in the foreseeable future. In order to make synthetic DNA available as digital data storage media, specifically tailored forward error correction schemes have to be applied. For the purpose of realizing a DNA data storage, we have developed an efficient and robust forwarderror correcting scheme adapted to the DNA channel. We based the design of the needed DNA channel model on data from a proof of concept conducted 2012 by a team from the Harvard Medical School  Our forward error correction scheme is able to cope with all error types of today's DNA synthesis, amplification and sequencing processes, e.g. insertion, deletion, and swap errors. In a successful experiment, we were able to store and retrieve error free 22 MByte of digital data in synthetic DNA recently. The found residual error probability is already in the same order as it is in hard disk drives and can be easily improved further. This proves the feasibility to use synthetic DNA as longterm digital data storage media.
Transdisciplinarity, Community Based Participatory Research, and User Based Information Design Research The D*VERSE Group and Two Projects
Venue: HCI

This paper will discuss how the confluence between community based participatory research and user based information design is an effective approach to researching science in the public interest as seen through their application to the conceptual and methodological frameworks of two projects by the transdisciplinary research team D*VERSE (Detroit Integrated Vision for Environmental Research through Science and Engagement) D*VERSE, an example of team science, tackles complex scientific issues with community residents working as "citizen scientists." One project assesses the health and environmental effects on residents of the southwest Detroit community of storing open piles of petcoke (a by product of the shale oil fracking process) on the Detroit River; the second project focuses on the impact of air quality on asthmatic Detroit teenagers. This paper will also suggest a set of guidelines that other researchers might use to create research clusters similar to D*VERSE.
A community based case control study of prevalence and pattern of cognitive impairments in patients with epilepsy residing in South Eastern Nigeria
Venue: Journal of neurosciences in rural practice

Epilepsy is the commonest neurological disorder encountered in Sub Saharan Africa. The quality of life of patients with epilepsy (PWEs) is adversely affected by cognitive impairments.  This study investigated the prevalence and pattern of cognitive impairments in PWE in Ukpo community located in a South Eastern state in Nigeria using Community Screening Interview for Dementia (CSID) and a computer assisted cognitive test battery (FePsy)  Fifty one PWEs were studied and compared with 51 age sex and level of education matched healthy controls. Diagnosis of epilepsy was confirmed clinically with eye witness corroboration. Sociodemographic data and information on epilepsy variables were obtained with the aid of a questionnaire. Cognitive domains assessed include language, memory, orientation, attention, psychomotor speed and constructional praxis.  The prevalence rate of cognitive impairment using total CSID score was 19.6% Analysis of CSID scores revealed significant impairment in language (17.6% memory (29.4% orientation (15.7% attention (7.8% and constructional praxis (15.7% compared to healthy controls. A similar pattern was observed with FePsy but with better sensitivity indices for detecting cognitive impairment.  This study indicated significant prevalence rate of cognitive impairment among treatment naive PWE with profound affectation of memory, mental speed and language. In addition, the FePsy was found to be more sensitive and specific in assessment of cognitive function in PWE.
Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Established Community Based Eccentric Viewing Rehabilitation Training Model the EValuation Study.
Venue: Investigative ophthalmology visual science

This study evaluated the community based eccentric viewing (EV) training offered across the United Kingdom by the Macular Society. Volunteer trainers deliver free one to one training, usually in learners' homes. They also share information about lighting, magnification, social support, and low vision technology.  The audio recorded reading performance of learners was compared before and after training. Telephone questionnaires were used to assess life satisfaction, amount of reading performed, and health and vision related quality of life. Learners were also interviewed to obtain their subjective opinions.  A total of 121 learners completed all stages of the study. There was no significant change in maximum reading speed. A statistically significant (P 0.001) but small improvement in both critical print size and threshold print size was found, but frequency and duration of reading did not increase. There was a borderline significant (P 0.022) increase in "life satisfaction" for the learners, but a highly significant (P 0.001) decrease in their "positive affect." There was no change in health or vision related quality of life, or in the difficulty experienced in performing everyday tasks. However, according to learner interviews, 72% felt they had achieved a positive outcome from the training, and 75% felt they had received helpful advice in addition to the EV training.  The lack of improvement of reading speed and modest improvement in threshold print size should be interpreted in the context of the unique features of this EV program, since many learners who would seem to have limited scope for improvement still undertake the training.
Postures professionnelles des conseillers en evolution professionnelle

Ce texte etudie la professionnalisation des professionnels du conseil invites a mobiliser de nouvelles postures professionnelles dans le cadre de la loi sur le conseil en evolution professionnelle. Apres une reflexion sur la specificite de l'activite de conseil, sur l'idee meme d'evolution professionnelle, les concepts de posture professionnelle et de gestes professionnels sont etudies. Le dispositif de recherche formation, co construit avec les formes (12 professionnels) comprend 10 situations d'analyse de pratique. Les resultats de cette recherche exploratoire montrent l'importance des postures et des gestes professionnels dans l'accompagnement des acteurs. Si l'activite de conseil est comprise avec les postures et les gestes professionnels qui la structurent, elle reste encore a approfondir du point de vue de la dynamique interactive entre le conseiller et le beneficiaire du conseil.
Postures et gestes professionnels de formateurs dans l'accompagnement professionnel d'enseignants du premier degre

La professionnalite du formateur accompagnant les debuts dans le metier d'enseignants du premier degre est etudiee du point de vue des postures professionnelles mobilisees. Comme expression primordiale de l'agir (Merleau Ponty, 1960) la posture professionnelle engloberait des gestes professionnels qui faconnent les interactions plus ou moins propices, plus ou moins opportunes, plus ou moins efficaces en situation de formation. A la suite des travaux issus de l'ethnologie, de la phenomenologie et de l'anthropologie historique allemande, cet article propose une analyse a grains fins de postures et gestes professionnels de formateurs dans des situations d'accompagnement professionnel. Le present texte prend appui sur une recherche collaborative conduite avec 13 formateurs du premier degre autour de 10 situations d'analyse de pratiques.
Edge Weight Prediction in Weighted Signed Networks
Venue: 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)

Weighted signed networks (WSNs) are networks in which edges are labeled with positive and negative weights. WSNs can capture like/dislike, trust/distrust, and other social relationships between people. In this paper, we consider the problem of predicting the weights of edges in such networks. We propose two novel measures of node behavior: the goodness of a node intuitively captures how much this node is liked/trusted by other nodes, while the fairness of a node captures how fair the node is in rating other nodes' likeability or trust level. We provide axioms that these two notions need to satisfy and show that past work does not meet these requirements for WSNs. We provide a mutually recursive definition of these two concepts and prove that they converge to a unique solution in linear time. We use the two measures to predict the edge weight in WSNs. Furthermore, we show that when compared against several individual algorithms from both the signed and unsigned social network literature, our fairness and goodness metrics almost always have the best predictive power. We then use these as features in different multiple regression models and show that we can predict edge weights on 2 Bitcoin WSNs, an Epinions WSN, 2 WSNs derived from Wikipedia, and a WSN derived from Twitter with more accurate results than past work. Moreover, fairness and goodness metrics form the most significant feature for prediction in most (but not all) cases.
Educating Nurses for Ethical Practice in Contemporary Health Care Environments.
Venue: The Hastings Center report

Because health care professions exist to provide a good for society, ethical questions are inherently part of them. Such professions and their members can be assessed based on how effective they are in developing knowledge and enacting practices that further the health and well being of individuals and society. The complexity of contemporary health care environments makes it important to prepare clinicians who can anticipate, recognize, and address problems that arise in practice or that prevent a profession from fulfilling its service goals and obligations. Different health care professions have evolved distinct perspectives about appropriate goals for, and the purposes of, their clinicians, even when the goal of improving health and well being for society is shared across professions. While medicine and nursing goals are shared in principle, they differ in the particulars. Given the centrality to nursing of ethical questions, the profession has a collective responsibility to help clinicians at all levels of practice become ethically savvy and to reinforce their moral agency as needed. Both knowledge of nursing ethics and knowledge of the interdisciplinary field of bioethics are critical to nursing work.
Work in Progress: The Incorporation of Hands On, Team Based Design Challenges in a Large Enrollment Introductory Biomedical Engineering Course

Jennifer Choi is currently a Lecturer with potential for security of employment (LPSOE) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at UC Davis. In addition to teaching core undergraduate courses, Jennifer is aimed at integrating engineering design principles and hands on experiences throughout the curriculum, and playing an active role in the senior design course. She has interests in engineering education, curricular innovation, as well as impacting the community through increased K 12 STEM awareness and education. Prior to joining UC Davis, Jennifer taught in the BME Department at Rutgers University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Advanced Technologies and Regenerative Medicine, LLC. She received her doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University, M.S. degree from Syracuse University, and B.S. degree from Cornell University.
A Novel System in Package with Fan Out WLP for High Speed SERDES Application
Venue: 2016 IEEE 66th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC)

A novel multi chips Fan out Wafer Level Package (FOWLP) with fine pitch Cu pillar bumps was presented to accommodate volumes of I/O requirements on a BGA organic substrate. Due to the manufacturing limitation, cost and reliability consideration of fine pitch BGA substrate, chips with extremely fine pitch RDL routing (width/space=2/2um) and a 2.nD wafer level carrier was integrated as system in package (SiP) to resolve I/O capacity issue. Besides, multi chips with small die size connected through wafer level RDL was also developed to resolve low yield issue of large chip in advanced wafer process. In this paper, a comprehensive design methodology was introduced to cover fan out WLP interconnection and BGA substrate design. A test vehicle built in TSMC N16 process was presented to verify the design methodology. With fully consideration on signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) hundreds of interconnection I/Os with 4Gbps speed were achieved. Besides, high speed SERDES with 25Gbit/sec data rate was also verified to enable high speed and high bandwidth data center application.
Conscious distance monitoring and perceived exertion in light deprived cycling time trial
Venue: Physiology Behavior

The monitoring of distance is crucial to calculate the metabolic requirement and the ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) for a given exercise bout. Visual cues provide valuable information for distance estimation, navigation and orientation. The present study investigated if light deprivation may affect the conscious monitoring of distance, RPE and associative thoughts to exercise (ATE) during a 20 km cycling time trial (TT20km) Eleven male, endurance cyclists performed two TT20km in illuminated control and light deprived laboratory. They were asked to self report RPE and ATE when they perceived they had completed each 2km.  The light deprivation resulted in elongated perceived distance at each actual 2km, rather than in illuminated control trial (P<0.05) Although there was no difference in RPE when it was plotted as a function of the perceived distance, RPE was lowered in light deprived environment when it was plotted as a function of the actual distance (P<0.05) Additionally, ATE was lowered during TT20km in light deprivation (P<0.01) however, pacing and performance were unaffected in light deprived environment.  Results suggest that pacing and performance were regulated through a system which was unaffected in light deprived environment, despite the altered conscious distance monitoring and perceptive responses.
Wiener Ingham type inequality for Vilenkin groups and its application to harmonic analysis
Venue: Period. Math. Hung.

An important trigonometric inequality essentially due to Wiener but later on made precise by Ingham concerning the lacunary trigonometric sums $f(x)\sum A_ke^{in_kx}$f(x)=Akeinkx, where $A_k$$Ak's are complex numbers, $n_{ k} n_k$$n k= nk and {n_k\{nk} satisfies the small gap condition (n_{k+1} n_k)\ge q\ge 1$(nk+1 nk)=q>=1 for $k=0,1,2,\ldots $k=0,1,2, says that if I is any subinterval of \pi \pi p,p] of length |I|=2\pi (1+\delta /q>2\pi /q$|I|=2p(1+d)/q>2p/q then \sum |A_k|^2\le A_{\delta |I| 1}\int _I|f|^2$|Ak|2<=Ad|I| 1I|f|2, |A_k|\le A_{\delta |I| 1}\int _I|f||Ak|=Ad|I| 1I|f| wherein $A_{\delta $Ad depends only on \delta $d. Such an inequality is proved here in the setting of the Vilenkin groups G. The inequality is then applied to generalize the Bernstein, Szasz and Stechkin type results concerning the absolute convergence of Fourier series on G.
The rolling circle amplification and next generation sequencing approaches reveal genome wide diversity of Kenyan cassava mosaic geminivirus

Rolling circle amplification is a simple approach of enriching populations of single stranded DNA plant begomovirus genomes (genus, Begomovirus; family, Geminiviridae) This is an innovative approach that utilizes the robustness of the bacteriophage phi29 DNA polymerase used in circle amplification, together with deep sequencing using Illumina Miseq and bioinformatics to assess population diversity of begomoviruses in naturally infected cassava. The approach is suitable for detecting rare members in a population in begomoviral populations in situation where mixtures of isolates, strains, and multiple species occur. The main objectives were to increase the sensitivity of detection of next generation sequencing by enriching it using rolling circle amplification then determination of the diversity of the cassava mosaic geminivirus. This was done by total nucleic acids isolated from sy mptomatic, field cassava infected plants, then using rolling circle amplification to multiply the less abundant viral sequences. Enriched and non enriched virus libraries were subjected to deep sequencing using Illumina Miseq. Using bioinformatic CLC Genomics 5.5.1 software programs the quality assessment of reads and contig assembly of viral sequences. This was done through de novo and reference guided assembly. The identity and diversities of the begomoviral sequences were compared with sequences in Sanger sequencing of viral components deposited in the NCBI Gene Bank. In this study we have demonstrated that RCA increases the chances of detecting the virus by approximately 10 to 1000 fold and wide genome diversity of cassava mosaic geminivirus in various cassava growing zones in Kenya were detected. In conclusion, this approach described herein is simple and will enhance the exploration of begomovirus diversities from cassava infected plants, irrespective of their viral abundance. This will make it possible for routine screening of field samples as the cost of deep sequencing NGS is decreasing and the advances of bioinformatic software development become enhanced. This is the first report of the RCA Illumina NGS approach to explore cassava infected with begomoviruses under field conditions and their diversities. Key words Illumina Miseq sequencing, geminivirus, ssDNA viruses, viral sequence enrichment, de novo genome assembly, rolling cycle amplification (RCA)