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The effect of rational emotive parent education program on parents' irrational beliefs and parenting stress Akilci duygusal aile egitim programinin anne babalarin akilci olmayan inanclarina ve anne babalik streslerine etkisi

The aim of the study is to investigate the effects of Rational Emotive Parent Education Program (REPEP) on parents' irrational beliefs and parenting stress. In the study, a semi experimental research design with a pre test, post test and follow up measures on experimental and control group was used. While the first factor shows the independent procedures (like experimental and control groups) other factors show the repetitive measures in various conditions (like pre test, post test and follow up measures) in relation to the dependent variable. It was studied at a state school in spring of 2013 2014 educational years. The experimental group consists of a total of 26 parents, including 4 fathers and 22 mothers. These groups include volunteer parents who scored a half standard deviation above in Parents' Stress Scale (PSS) and Parents' Irrational Beliefs Scale (PIBS) While the experimental group (n=13) received a 7 week Rational Emotive Parent Education Program, the control group (n=13) had no such education. The study results show that upon the experimental practice and follow up processes, there is a decrease not only in parenting stress, but also in irrational beliefs of the experimental group. The results are also in accordance with the related literature. Ozet Bu arastirmanin amaci, Akilci Duygusal Aile Egitim Programinin (ADAEP) anne babalarin akilci olmayan inanclari ve anne babalik stresleri uzerindeki etkisini incelemektir. Arastirmada on test, son test ve izleme olcumlu, deney ve kontrol gruplu yari deneysel bir desen kullanilmistir. Bu desende birinci faktor bagimsiz islem gruplarini (deney ve kontrol) gosterirken, diger faktor bagimli degiskene iliskin farkli kosullardaki tekrarli olcumleri (on test, son test ve izleme olcumu) gostermektedir. Calisma 2013 2014 bahar yariyilinda bir devlet ilkokulunda gerceklestirilmistir. Deney grubu 4 baba, 22 anne olmak uzere 26 ebeveynden olusmaktadir. Deney gruplari Anne Baba Stres Olcegi (ABSO) ile Anne Babalarin Akilci Olmayan Inanclari Olceginden (ABAOIO) ortalamanin yarim standart sapma uzerinde puan alan ve calismaya katilmaya gonullu anne babalardan olusturulmustur. Deney grubuna (n=13) arastirmaci tarafindan gelistirilen 7 haftalik ADAEP uygulanirken kontrol grubuna (n=13) herhangi bir calisma yapilmamistir. Arastirma sonuclari, deneysel islem sureci ve uc aylik izleme donemi sonunda deney grubunda yer alan anne babalarin stres duzeylerinin dustugunu, akilci olmayan inanclarinin azaldigini gostermektedir. Arastirma sonuclari ilgili literaturu destekler niteliktedir.
Strategising for social media: a public accounting practice perspective

This study focused on social media use by accounting firms in Australia. We investigated the social media philosophies, operationalisation and strategic intentions of public practice accounting firms in Australia. A case study approach was undertaken. The research context for this study included two "Big Four" accounting firms and three small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) The websites and social media platforms for these firms were analysed, and interviews were undertaken with their employees. Our research found that the commonly used social media platforms were Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook and their use was indeed guided by specific philosophies. The benefits of social media use informed these philosophies but at the same time, their critical challenges had to be managed to ensure successful social media use. Even though the large accounting firms had extensive planning and use of social media, the smaller firms were also quite active in the social media space relative to the scale of their operations. The assessment of the strategic outcomes of social media use was problematic but our study found increasing use of both quantitative (number of followers, connections and likes, retweets, formal reporting on social media use) and qualitative indicators (anecdotal feedback, case studies, public interest, staff involvement)
Fair, Fast and Frugal Large Scale Matchmaking for VM Placement
Venue: ALGOCLOUD

VM placement, be it in public or private clouds, has a decisive impact on the provider's interest and the customer's needs alike, both of which may vary over time and circumstances. However, current resource management practices are either statically bound to specific policies or unilaterally favor the needs of Cloud operators. In this paper we argue for a flexible and democratic mechanism to map virtual to physical resources, trying to balance satisfaction on both sides of the involved stakeholders. To that end, VM placement is expressed as an Equitable Stable Matching Problem (ESMP) where each party's policy is translated to a preference list. A practical approximation for this NP hard problem, modified accordingly to ensure efficiency and scalability, is applied to provide equitable matchings within a reasonable time frame. Our experimental evaluation shows that, requiring no more memory than what a high end desktop PC provides and knowing no more than the top 20% of the agent's preference lists, our solution can efficiently resolve more than 90% of large scale ESMP instances within N \sqrt{N} rounds of matchmaking.
Extraccion de electrodos transvenosos de dispositivos electronicos implantables cardiacos: ?quien, cuando, como y donde?

El uso de dispositivos electronicos implantables cardiacos (DEIC) ha aumentado a lo largo de las dos ultimas decadas. En paralelo, se ha incrementado la necesidad de extraer dispositivos y electrodos. El posterior desarrollo de instrumentos, tecnicas y normas para la extraccion de electrodos transvenosos (EET) ha mejorado tanto la seguridad como la eficacia de estas intervenciones, que sin embargo siguen siendo complejas y requieren un equipo adecuadamente formado y unas instalaciones que cuenten con instrumentos y estrategias para abordar las posibles complicaciones con peligro para la vida, en el caso de que se produzcan. En esta revision resumida, analizamos la cuestion de las EET haciendo especial hincapie en lo que son sus elementos clave: a) cualificacion del operador principal; b) indicaciones de la intervencion y factores a tener en cuenta en la toma de decisiones; c) instrumentos, y d) tecnicas; es decir, quien, cuando, como y donde.
Estimation of auditory compression and filter shape of elderly listeners using notched noise masking

Notched noise (NN) masking and the compressive GammaChirp (cGC) auditory filter have recently been used to estimate auditory compression and filter shape simultaneously with young normal hearing (NH) listeners. This paper reports an extension of the paradigm to measure compression and filter shape in elderly listeners with a range of hearing losses. Six elderly listeners (65 75 year old, male) participated in a compact NN experiment with one probe frequency, 2.0 kHz. There were 21 NN conditions chosen to maximize sensitivity to compression in the mid level range. The listeners' hearing levels (HLs) at 2.0 kHz ranged from 10 to 50 dB. The cGC filter was fitted to the threshold data to derive level dependent filter shapes of individuals and their cochlear compression functions. The slope of the central portion of the compression function was normal for all of the listeners except the one with the 50 dB HL, whose slope was close to unity >0.8 dB/dB) The filter bandwidths were marginally wider than those of.
Approximate core allocations and integrality gap for the bin packing game
Venue: Theor. Comput. Sci.

A cooperative (uniform) bin packing game is an N person game, where the player set consists of k bins of capacity 1 each and n items of sizes a 1 a n The value of a coalition of players is defined to be the maximum total size of items in the coalition that can be packed into the bins of the coalition. We aim at finding a multiplicative core allocation with as small as possible, thus approximating the core as closely as possible. Our main result shows that the 1/4 core is nonempty for all instances of the uniform bin packing game.
SiGe BiCMOS based technology platforms for mm wave and radar applications
Venue: 2016 21st International Conference on Microwave, Radar and Wireless Communications (MIKON)

In this work different SiGe BiCMOS based technology platforms for mm wave and radar applications are presented. Based on the evolution of IHP BiCMOS technologies the performance improvement for SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) in the past decades in comparison to scaled RF CMOS technologies is shown. We depict that an increase of the processing effort of only 35% deliver a SiGe HBT device performance improvement of >170% compared to IHPs first high speed HBT generation. Moreover the co integration of new modules with the SiGe BiCMOS baseline technology is reviewed. The monolithic integration of an additional RF MEMS switch module is shown and we discuss different packaging approaches for the integrated device. Furthermore a SiGe BiCMOS/InP bipolar heterogeneous integration platform is presented. All shown technologies had proven their usefulness for radar applications and different examples from F band up to the 240 GHz range are reviewed.
The vertical structure of upper ocean variability at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain during 2012 2013
Venue: Journal of geophysical research. Oceans

This study presents the characterization of variability in temperature, salinity and oxygen concentration, including the vertical structure of the variability, in the upper 1000 m of the ocean over a full year in the northeast Atlantic. Continuously profiling ocean gliders with vertical resolution between 0.5 and 1 m provide more information on temporal variability throughout the water column than time series from moorings with sensors at a limited number of fixed depths. The heat, salt and dissolved oxygen content are quantified at each depth. While the near surface heat content is consistent with the net surface heat flux, heat content of the deeper layers is driven by gyre scale water mass changes. Below ~150m, heat and salt content display intraseasonal variability which has not been resolved by previous studies. A mode 1 baroclinic internal tide is detected as a peak in the power spectra of water mass properties. The depth of minimum variability is at ~415m for both temperature and salinity, but this is a depth of high variability for oxygen concentration. The deep variability is dominated by the intermittent appearance of Mediterranean Water, which shows evidence of filamentation. Susceptibility to salt fingering occurs throughout much of the water column for much of the year. Between about 700 900 m, the water column is susceptible to diffusive layering, particularly when Mediterranean Water is present. This unique ability to resolve both high vertical and temporal variability highlights the importance of intraseasonal variability in upper ocean heat and salt content, variations that may be aliased by traditional observing techniques.
ISOLATION AND SCREENING OF POTENTIAL PHOSPHATE SOLUBILIZING BACTERIA PSB FROM TIDAL SALINE SOILS OF BANGLADESH

Phosphorus is one of the major nutrients which play an indispensable biochemical role in photosynthesis, respiration, energy storage and transfer, cell division, cell enlargement and several other processes in the living plant. Many soil bacteria and fungi have the ability to solubilize phosphate minerals and make it available to plants. Thus, an attempt was made to isolate and screen potential phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) which can able to solubilize phosphate and be used as biofertilizer in future. Rice rhizosphere soil samples from the different sites of Khulna and Patuakhali district were collected and each sample was enriched in Pikovskaya's medium, pH 7.5 at 27 degC for 5 days. Nine isolates (DMP1, DMP2, DMP3, KNP4, KNP5, KNP6, KKP7, KKP8 and KKP9) were screened using Pikovskaya's liquid medium. All the isolates were oval to rod shaped, motile and gram positive and gram negative. Biochemical tests indicated that they were obligate aerobes, catalase and starch hydrolysis positive. The phosphate released by the isolate ranged from 4.048 mg/L to 21.128 mg/L. The results revealed that the KNP4, KKP7, KNP5, DMP3 and DMP2 isolates had potential to solubilize the insoluble phosphate in the salt affected soil.  Biochemical; Biofertilizer; PSB;  Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Dumki, Patuakhali8602, Bangladesh Phone: +88
A new control strategy of the filling phase for wet dual clutch transmission

The traditional filling control strategy mainly relies on a large number of calibrations and is an open loop control. In order to avoid cumbersome calibrations and improve the control precision, a systematic approach of the filling control for wet dual clutch transmission is established in this paper. First, a model of the electro hydraulic actuator for the wet dual clutch transmissions is presented and validated by the experiments. Then, an analytic solution method is developed for the filling control. To obtain the analytic solution of the filling pressure trajectory in the filling phase, the nonlinear mathematic model for wet clutches is transformed into a model in linear space by the feedback linearization, and then the optimal filling pressure trajectory is obtained based on Pontryagin's Minimum Principle. Furthermore, to improve the control accuracy of a variable force solenoid, a closed loop control based on adaptive generalized predictive control algorithm is applied to the developed model of the electro hydraulic actuator to track the optimal filling pressure trajectory. The simulation results indicate that the control strategy is effective for solving the filling control problem.
Supervisor control strategy of synchronizer for wet DCT based on online estimation of clutch drag torque

The objective of this paper is to improve the performance of the synchronizer control strategy by considering the effect of clutch drag torque. The research of synchronization process in wet dual clutch transmission is performed in this paper. The significant effect of clutch drag torque is analyzed by adding a complex clutch drag torque module to synchronizer model. This paper focuses on the development of original estimation method of clutch drag torque. The estimation method offers an effective way to obtain accurate clutch drag torque, and it is applied to develop a new supervisor control strategy. Results have demonstrated that the estimation method has satisfied efficiency and accuracy and the control strategy improves the performance of the synchronizer mechanism significantly.
Surgical Regenerative Treatments for Peri Implantitis: Meta analysis of Recent Findings in a Systematic Literature Review
Venue: Journal of oral maxillofacial research

The purpose of the present study was to systematically review the literature on the surgical regenerative treatment of the peri implantitis and to determine an effective therapeutic predictable option for their clinical management.  The study searched MEDLINE and EMBASE databases from 2006 to 2016. Clinical human studies that had reported changes in probing depth (PD) and/or bleeding on probing (BOP) and/or radiologic marginal bone level (RBL) changes after peri implantitis surgical treatment at 12 month follow up or longer were included accordingly to PRISMA guidelines.  The initial search obtained 883 citations. After screening and determination of eligibility, 18 articles were included in the review. The meta analysis of selected studies revealed that the weighted mean RBL fill was 1.97 mm (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.58 to 2.35 mm) PD reduction was 2.78 mm (95% CI 2.31 to 3.25 mm) and BOP reduced by 52.5% (95% CI 41.6 to 63.1% Defect fill in studies using and not using barrier membranes for graft coverage was 1.86 mm (95% CI 1.36 to 2.36 mm) and 2.12 mm (95% CI 1.46 to 2.78 mm) correspondingly. High heterogeneity among the studies regarding defects morphology, surgical protocols, and selection of biomaterials were found.  All included studies underlined an improvement of clinical conditions after the surgical regenerative treatment of peri implantitis, however, there is a lack of scientific evidence in the literature regarding the superiority of the regenerative versus non regenerative surgical treatment. The presence of a barrier membrane or submergence in the regenerative procedure does not seem to be fundamental in order to obtain clinical success of the surgery.
Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Objective Cognitive Function in Aging: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis of Recent Cross Sectional Findings
Venue: Neuropsychology Review

Research investigating how subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs) might reliably indicate impairments in objective cognitive functioning has produced highly varied findings, and despite attempts to synthesise this literature (e.g. Jonker et al. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15, 983 991, 2000; Reid and MacLullich Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 22(5 6) 471 485, 2006; Crumley et al. Psychology and Aging, 29(2) 250 263, 2014) recent work continues to offer little resolution. This review provides both quantitative and qualitative synthesis of research conducted since the last comprehensive review in 2006, with the aim of identifying reasons for these discrepancies that might provide fruitful avenues for future exploration. Meta analysis found a small but significant association between SCCs and objective cognitive function, although it was limited by large heterogeneity between studies and evidence of potential publication bias. Often, assessments of SCCs and objective cognitive function were brief or not formally validated. However, studies that employed more comprehensive SCC measures tended to find that SCCs were associated independently with both objective cognitive function and depressive symptoms. Further explicit investigation of how assessment measures relate to reports of SCCs, and the validity of the proposed 'compensation theory' of SCC aetiology, is recommended.
Internal Branding Process: Exploring the Role of Mediators in Top Management's Leadership Commitment Relationship

In high customer contact services, employees are an imperative part of a company's service quality. While the effect of employee commitment on brand supportive behaviors has already been studied, it remains unclear what drives employees' brand commitment. This study explores the brand oriented leadership of top management as an important driver of internal branding process and an indirect predictor of employees' commitment. Moreover, three mediators are examined in relation to how brand oriented leadership affects brand commitment. Using a sample of 226 hospitality employees working in a European hotel chain, our results indicate that employee brand knowledge, employee brand fit, and psychological contract fulfillment fully mediate the relationship between brand oriented leadership and brand commitment. The results support the importance of top management's leadership in internal branding and its role in achieving employees' emotional attachment to the brand. We also suggest that, for leadership to enhance commitment, leaders must compel employees to possess brand relevant knowledge, share similar brand values, and perceive their psychological contract as being fulfilled.
b amylase 1 (BAM1) degrades transitory starch to sustain proline biosynthesis during drought stress.
Venue: Journal of experimental botany

During photosynthesis of higher plants, absorbed light energy is converted into chemical energy that, in part, is accumulated in the form of transitory starch within chloroplasts. In the following night, transitory starch is mobilized to sustain the heterotrophic metabolism of the plant. b amylases are glucan hydrolases that cleave a 1,4 glycosidic bonds of starch and release maltose units from the non reducing end of the polysaccharide chain. In Arabidopsis, nocturnal degradation of transitory starch involves mainly b amylase 3 (BAM3) A second b amylase isoform, b amylase 1 (BAM1) is involved in diurnal starch degradation in guard cells, a process that sustains stomata opening. However, BAM1 also contributes to diurnal starch turnover in mesophyll cells under osmotic stress. With the aim of dissecting the role of b amylases in osmotic stress responses in Arabidopsis, mutant plants lacking either BAM1 or BAM3 were subject to a mild (150mM mannitol) and prolonged (up to one week) osmotic stress. We show here that leaves of osmotically stressed bam1 plants accumulated more starch and fewer soluble sugars than both wild type and bam3 plants during the day. Moreover, bam1 mutants were impaired in proline accumulation and suffered from stronger lipid peroxidation, compared with both wild type and bam3 plants. Taken together, these data strongly suggest that carbon skeletons deriving from BAM1 diurnal degradation of transitory starch support the biosynthesis of proline required to face the osmotic stress. We propose the transitory starch/proline interplay as an interesting trait to be tackled by breeding technologies aimingto improve drought tolerance in relevant crops.
Authoritative School Climate and Student Academic Engagement, Grades, and Aspirations in Middle and High Schools

This study tested the theory that an authoritative school climate characterized by disciplinary structure and student support is conducive to positive academic outcomes for middle and high school students. Multilevel multivariate modeling at student and school levels was conducted using school surveys completed by statewide samples of 39,364 students in Grades 7 and 8 in 423 middle schools and 48,027 students in Grades 9 through 12 in 323 high schools. Consistent with authoritative school climate theory, both higher disciplinary structure and student support were associated with higher student engagement in school, higher course grades, and higher educational aspirations at the student level in both samples. At the school level, higher disciplinary structure was associated with higher engagement, and higher student support was associated with higher engagement and grades in both samples. Overall, these findings add new evidence that an authoritative school climate is conducive to student academic success in middle and high schools.
Finding feasible solutions for multi commodity flow problems
Venue: 2016 35th Chinese Control Conference (CCC)

Many transportation, communications, and logistics problems can be formulated as large multi commodity flow problems, which are often solved using the traditional column generation method. During the application of the column generation, one needs to find initial solutions, so called feasible columns in a first step. In order to determine these feasible columns and also solve dependent price problems within an acceptable time, this paper proposes several novel methods: Two methods by solving the global problem and two methods by finding the shortest and widest paths are proposed to compute the initial columns. Furthermore, we propose two methods by finding the shortest paths with commodities and sources (SPC and SPS) for solving price problems. Several well known network instances are used as case studies in our evaluation to test the efficiency of each method. It is shown that the widest path method is the best for finding initial columns. For solving the price problems, the preference of the two path finding methods depend on the network structure.