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Identity in Life Writing of M.E. Jordan's Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land as an Alternative Discussion in Pursuing English Literature Learning for EFL College Students
Year: 2017

EFL college students in Indonesia mostly tend to analyse classic literary works or Young Adult Literature. Actually they have chance to do an alternative discussion on life writing in literature class, for instance on Marry Ellen Jordan's Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land (BMYIAL) published in 2008. It is a life writing written based on the author's life experience during her time working for twelve months in the Australian Indigenous people (AIP) community in Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Australia. Redd (2005) claims that the narrative of Jordan's BMYIAL is very evocative. Moreover, the title of BMYIAL shows a provocative term Balanda. In Jordan's BMYIAL, the term of Balanda literally applies to the non Indigenous population at Maningrida as described by its Indigenous inhabitants. At the same time, the term of Balanda also situates the author's experiences 'out of place' on a land that she identifies as Aboriginal land. In addition, Jordan's BMYIAL is an interesting life narrative because it alludes two issues: the selfidentity of Balanda's and the cultural identity of Australian Indigenous people (AIP) The aim of this paper is to identify both types of identities and to discuss the influence of Balanda's identity upon AIP's cultural identity as a discussion model for EFL college students. Keywords component, formatting, style, styling
Comparison on physiological adaptation and phosphorus use efficiency of upland rice and lowland rice under alternate wetting and drying irrigation
Venue: Plant Growth Regulation
Year: 2018

As one of the most widely promoted water saving irrigation strategies for rice, alternate wetting and drying irrigation (AWD) can not only save water but also increase mineral nutrient use efficiency. In this study, we compared the growth conditions of four rice varieties (two lowland and two upland varieties) under three irrigation regimes: continuously flooded (CF) alternate wetting and moderate soil drying (AWD15) and alternate wetting and severe soil drying (AWD30) AWD15 and AWD30 enabled the plants to receive fewer irrigation events and less irrigation water than CF, thereby saving both water resources and labor. AWD15 reduced redundant vegetative growth, promoted root growth, and increased the root shoot ratio and harvest index. AWD15 increased the grain yield, water use efficiency (WUE) and phosphorus use efficiency (PUE) of upland rice and maintained the grain yield while increasing the WUE and PUE of lowland rice. More developed root systems under AWD helped upland rice to maintain a higher water status than lowland rice when plants were subjected to soil drying, which resulted in superior performance in grain yield in upland rice. AWD30 could not reconcile the demands of higher yield and the desire to reduce irrigation water use because it decreased grain yield. The results indicate that AWD15 irrigation of rice can not only increase rice yield and WUE but also enhance PUE, which can potentially reduce the use of phosphorus fertilizers. The results provide theoretical and technical support for improving rice cultivation.
9000 years of human lakeside adaptation in the Ethiopian Afar: Fisher foragers and the first pastoralists in the Lake Abhe basin during the African Humid Period
Year: 2020

In this study, new approaches are developed for measuring and understanding the reactivity of East African amplifier lakes and the societies that occupied their margins to African monsoon related hydrological changes. Drawing on seven newly discovered archaeological sites in the Lower Awash valley, corresponding to the northern Abhe Lake basin, we present the first Holocene human occupation sequence in the Ethiopian Afar. We reconstitute fluctuating Abhe Lake levels in association with human settlement strategies through correlation of new archaeological and geomorphological data and 37 new radiocarbon dates. The sites cluster into three periods of human occupation of the lake margins separated by intervals that lack archaeological data. These occupation phases span two major humid arid transitions of the African Humid Period (AHP) (including the Younger Dryas (YD, ~12.9 11.7 ka) 8.2 ka, and 4.2 ka arid events) during which Abhe Lake levels varied significantly, and the transition from Later Stone Age (LSA) hunter gatherers to mixed herding hunter gatherer economies. Over a 9000 year period we observe continuity and ruptures in subsistence strategies and material culture techno complexes and correlate these with sedimentary formation processes and changing paleo shorelines. Our study reveals that flexible multiple resource economies were a human response to strongly fluctuating environments, even with the onset of herding and associated pottery traditions unique to the Abhe Lake basin, sometime between 4.8 and 3.3 ka cal. BP. Thorough evaluation of littoral morpho sedimentary data, well dated human settlements and associated economic strategies suggests that major cultural and socio economic changes of populations inhabiting Abhe paleolakeshores were distinctive ecological responses to transformations in the local environment and to fluctuating lake levels.
"Qualitative Research as a Public Good" A Review of Patricia Leavy's The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research
Year: 2020

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research offers both a retrospective and prospective view of the field. Its 34 chapters provide a wide variety of philosophical/theoretical approaches, research strategies and methodological tools in qualitative research and provide insight into the history of the field, ethics, and innovative streams of thoughts and methods. In this review, several chapters are reviewed to illustrate the wealth and depth of this handbook and its contribution to the field is discussed.
Sex scripts and power: a framework to explain urban women's HIV sexual risk with male partners.
Venue: The Nursing clinics of North America
Year: 2006

The risk of sexual transmission of HIV may be perceived to be real among young urban women; however, the risk of losing a male partner if one doesn't engage in unprotected sex may be perceived to be greater. Sex script theory, and Barrett's theory of power as knowing participation in change, are integrated into a framework to explain young adult urban women's sex scripted response of unprotected sex as a normative relationship promoting behavior. It is proposed herein that by associating high power sex scripts that involve health promoting behaviors into the familiar sex scripts, new HIV risk reducing behavior may be integrated into normative sex scripts because these are designed to fulfill familiar relationship needs.
Assessment of vibration dissociation coupling models for hypersonic nonequilibrium simulations
Year: 2017

The fidelity of three widely used two temperature vibration dissociation coupling models, including the Park model (1988) the Macheret Fridman model (1994) and the coupled vibration dissociation vibration (CVDV) model (1963) is numerically investigated via a comparison with state specific results and existing shock tube data for oxygen flows. Under the hypothetical condition where a Boltzmann distribution corresponding to a vibrational temperature is assumed, it is found that the CVDV model with a proper parameter is capable of providing the most accurate results, whereas the Park and Macheret Fridman models present similar prediction accuracy for which the nonequilibrium dissociation rate coefficients could be as much as three orders of magnitude lower than state specific values. However, for actual postshock flows with intensive vibrational excitation and dissociation processes, the CVDV model still shows significant discrepancies relative to state specific results and experimental data, presenting a much lower vibrational temperature and a higher degree of dissociation. The essential cause for the disagreement lies in the existence of non Boltzmann distributions observed when the incubation period is over and dissociation starts to dominate. Recommendations on further modification of two temperature vibration dissociation coupling models are presented.
SynBioWave a real time communication platform for molecular and synthetic biology
Venue: Bioinform.
Year: 2010

Synthetic Biology is advanced by many users and relies on the assembly of genetic elements to devices, systems and finally genomes. SynBioWave is a software suite that enables multiple distributed users to analyze and construct genetic parts in real time collaboration. It builds on Google Wave and provides an extensible robot robot user communication framework, a menu driven user interface, biological data handling including DAS and an internal database communication. We demonstrate its use by implementing robots for gene data retrieval, manipulation and display. The initial development of SynBioWave demonstrates the power of the underlying Google Wave protocol for Synthetic Biology and lays the foundation for continuous and user friendly extensions. Specialized wave robots with a manageable set of capabilities will divide and conquer the complex task of creating a genome in silico. AVAILABILITY The robot is available at SynBioWave@appspot.com, the source code at http:/synbiowave.sourceforge.net
Risk Management and Security Practice in Customs Supply Chain: Application of Cross ABC Method to the Moroccan Customs
Year: 2014

It is widely assumed that the case of Customs Supply Chain is classified as a complex system, due to not only the variety and large number of actors, but also their complex structural links, and the interactions between these actors, that's why this system is subject to various types of Risks. The economic, political and social impacts of those risks are highly detrimental to countries, businesses and the public, for this reason, Risk management in the customs supply chain is becoming a crucial issue to ensure the sustainability, security and safety. The main characteristic of customs risk management approach is determining which goods and means of transport should be examined? To what extend? And where future compliance resources should be directed? The purposes of this article are, firstly to deal with the concept of customs supply chain, secondly present our risk management approach based on Cross Activity Based Costing (ABC) Method as an interactive tool to support decision making in customs risk management. Finally, analysis of case study of Moroccan customs to putting theory into practice and will thus draw together the various elements of a structured and efficient risk management approach.
Condition Monitoring of Wind Turbine Gearboxes Through On site Measurement and Vibration Analysis Techniques
Year: 2019

Condition monitoring of gear based mechanical systems undergoing non stationary operation conditions is in general very challenging. In particular, this issue is remarkable as regards wind energy technology because most of the modern wind turbines are geared and gearbox damages account for at least the 20% of their unavailability time. In this work, a new method for the diagnosis of gearbox damages is proposed: the main idea is that vibrations are measured at the tower, instead that at the gearbox. This implies that measurements can be performed without impacting on the wind turbine operation, as desirable by the point of view of wind turbine practitioners. A test case study is discussed: it deals with a wind farm owned by Renvico, featuring 6 wind turbines with 2 MW of rated power each. The vibration measurements at a wind turbine suspected to be damaged and at reference wind turbines are processed through a multivariate Novelty Detection algorithm in the feature space. The application of this algorithm is justified by univariate statistical tests on the time domain features selected and by a visual inspection of the data set via Principal Component Analysis. Finally, a novelty index based on the Mahalanobis distance is used to detect the anomalous conditions at the damaged wind turbine.
Surgical resection using retroperitoneal approach for solitary fibrous tumor in the pelvis.
Venue: Oncology letters
Year: 2011

This report concerns a case of solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) for which surgical resection was performed using a retroperitoneal approach. A 41 year old man was referred to our hospital with urinary retention. Abdominal ultrasound sonography (US) and computed tomography (CT) showed a hypervascular mass lesion in the pelvis. Transrectal biopsy showed SFT. Surgical resection was carried out using a retroperitoneal approach and preserving the neural network related to urinary and erectile functions. Based on immunohistochemical findings, the tumor was diagnosed to be malignant SFT in the pelvic cavity. Urinary function improved post operation. There was no change to IIEF 5 and it continued to function well. The patient showed no sign of recurrence 12 months after surgery and required no additional therapy.
Reviewing Literature in Bioethics Research: Increasing Rigour in Non Systematic Reviews
Venue: Bioethics
Year: 2015

The recent interest in systematic review methods in bioethics has highlighted the need for greater transparency in all literature review processes undertaken in bioethics projects. In this article, I articulate features of a good bioethics literature review that does not aim to be systematic, but rather to capture and analyse the key ideas relevant to a research question. I call this a critical interpretive literature review. I begin by sketching and comparing three different types of literature review conducted in bioethics scholarship. Then, drawing on Dixon Wood's concept of critical interpretive synthesis, I put forward six features of a good critical interpretive literature review in bioethics: answering a research question, capturing the key ideas relevant to the research question, analysing the literature as a whole, generating theory, not excluding papers based on rigid quality assessment criteria, and reporting the search strategy.
Occurrence of Staphylococcus aureus in swine and swine workplace environments on industrial and antibiotic free hog operations in North Carolina, USA: A One Health pilot study
Venue: Environmental research
Year: 2018

&NA; Occupational exposure to swine has been associated with increased Staphylococcus aureus carriage, including antimicrobial resistant strains, and increased risk of infections. To characterize animal and environmental routes of worker exposure, we optimized methods to identify S. aureus on operations that raise swine in confinement with antibiotics (industrial hog operation: IHO) versus on pasture without antibiotics (antibiotic free hog operation: AFHO) We associated findings from tested swine and environmental samples with those from personal inhalable air samplers on worker surrogates at one IHO and three AFHOs in North Carolina using a new One Health approach. We determined swine S. aureus carriage status by collecting swab samples from multiple anatomical sites, and we determined environmental positivity for airborne bioaerosols with inhalable and impinger samplers and a single stage impactor (ambient air) cross sectionally. All samples were analyzed for S. aureus, and isolates were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility, absence of scn (livestock marker) and spa type. Seventeen of twenty (85% swine sampled at the one IHO carried S. aureus at >1 anatomical sites compared to none of 30 (0% swine sampled at the three AFHOs. All S. aureus isolates recovered from IHO swine and air samples were scn negative and spa type t337; almost all isolates (62/63) were multidrug resistant. S. aureus was recovered from eight of 14 (67% ambient air and two (100% worker surrogate personal air samples at the one IHO, whereas no S. aureus isolates were recovered from 19 ambient and six personal air samples at the three AFHOs. Personal worker surrogate inhalable sample findings were consistent with both swine and ambient air data, indicating the potential for workplace exposure. IHO swine and the one IHO environment could be a source of potential pathogen exposure to workers, as supported by the detection of multidrug resistant S. aureus (MDRSA) with livestock associated spa type t337 among swine, worker surrogate personal air samplers and environmental air samples at the one IHO but none of the three AFHOs sampled in this study. Concurrent sampling of swine, personal swine worker surrogate air, and ambient airborne dust demonstrated that IHO workers may be exposed through both direct (animal contact) and indirect (airborne) routes of transmission. Investigation of the effectiveness of contact and respiratory protections is warranted to prevent IHO worker exposure to multidrug resistant livestock associated S. aureus and other pathogens. HighlightsWe characterized worker exposure on 1 industrial and 3 antibiotic free hog operations.Drug resistant S. aureus was detected in hogs and air on the industrial hog operation.Drug resistant S. aureus was not detected on the antibiotic free hog operations.Future One Health studies should target worker safety strategies to reduce exposure.
The Reactor: A fast and sample efficient Actor Critic agent for Reinforcement Learning
Venue: ICLR
Year: 2018

In this work we present a new agent architecture, called Reactor, which combines multiple algorithmic and architectural contributions to produce an agent with higher sample efficiency than Prioritized Dueling DQN (Wang et al. 2016) and Categorical DQN (Bellemare et al. 2017) while giving better run time performance than A3C (Mnih et al. 2016) Our first contribution is a new policy evaluation algorithm called Distributional Retrace, which brings multi step off policy updates to the distributional reinforcement learning setting. The same approach can be used to convert several classes of multi step policy evaluation algorithms designed for expected value evaluation into distributional ones. Next, we introduce the \b{eta} leave one out policy gradient algorithm which improves the trade off between variance and bias by using action values as a baseline. Our final algorithmic contribution is a new prioritized replay algorithm for sequences, which exploits the temporal locality of neighboring observations for more efficient replay prioritization. Using the Atari 2600 benchmarks, we show that each of these innovations contribute to both the sample efficiency and final agent performance. Finally, we demonstrate that Reactor reaches state of the art performance after 200 million frames and less than a day of training.
Role Congruity Theory: Perceptions of Fairness and Sexism in Sport Management
Year: 2015

This study applied three dimensions of organizational justice distributive justice, procedural justice, and interpersonal justice to high school athletics to determine if the fairness perceptions held by head coaches towards their athletic director differed based upon the sex of the athletic director or sex of the coach, after controlling for the level of ambivalent sexism of the coach. If fairness perceptions did differ significantly, the findings would support the notion that attitudes towards women in leadership roles were less positive than attitudes towards men even after controlling for sexist attitudes, thus supporting role congruity theory of prejudice toward women in leadership roles. The results indicated the fairness perceptions held by the coaches differed depending upon the sex of the coach and sex of the athletic director. After controlling for the coaches' sexist attitudes, male coaches' perceptions of distributive justice of female athletic directors was significantly lower than female coaches' perceptions.
Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause specific death.
Venue: The New England journal of medicine
Year: 2011

The extent to which diabetes mellitus or hyperglycemia is related to risk of death from cancer or other nonvascular conditions is uncertain.  We calculated hazard ratios for cause specific death, according to baseline diabetes status or fasting glucose level, from individual participant data on 123,205 deaths among 820,900 people in 97 prospective studies.  After adjustment for age, sex, smoking status, and body mass index, hazard ratios among persons with diabetes as compared with persons without diabetes were as follows: 1.80 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.71 to 1.90) for death from any cause, 1.25 (95% CI, 1.19 to 1.31) for death from cancer, 2.32 (95% CI, 2.11 to 2.56) for death from vascular causes, and 1.73 (95% CI, 1.62 to 1.85) for death from other causes. Diabetes (vs. no diabetes) was moderately associated with death from cancers of the liver, pancreas, ovary, colorectum, lung, bladder, and breast. Aside from cancer and vascular disease, diabetes (vs. no diabetes) was also associated with death from renal disease, liver disease, pneumonia and other infectious diseases, mental disorders, nonhepatic digestive diseases, external causes, intentional self harm, nervous system disorders, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Hazard ratios were appreciably reduced after further adjustment for glycemia measures, but not after adjustment for systolic blood pressure, lipid levels, inflammation or renal markers. Fasting glucose levels exceeding 100 mg per deciliter (5.6 mmol per liter) but not levels of 70 to 100 mg per deciliter (3.9 to 5.6 mmol per liter) were associated with death. A 50 year old with diabetes died, on average, 6 years earlier than a counterpart without diabetes, with about 40% of the difference in survival attributable to excess nonvascular deaths.  In addition to vascular disease, diabetes is associated with substantial premature death from several cancers, infectious diseases, external causes, intentional self harm, and degenerative disorders, independent of several major risk factors. (Funded by the British Heart Foundation and others.
Bi lingual Intent Classification of Twitter Posts: A Roadmap
Venue: SEDA
Year: 2018

A core advantage of social media platforms is the freedom that comes with the way users express their opinions and share information as they deem fit, in line with the subject of discussion. Advances in text analytics have allowed researchers to adequately classify information expressed in natural language text, which emanates in millions per minute, under well defined categories like "hate" or "radicalized" content which provide further insight into intent of the sender. This analysis is important for social media intelligence and information security. Commercial intent classifications have witnessed several research attentions. However, social intent classification of topics in line with hate, radicalized posts, have witnessed little research effort. The focus of this study is to develop a roadmap of a model for automatic bilingual intent classification of hate speech. This empirical model will involve the use of bi gram words for intent classification. The feature extraction will include expected cross entropy, while topic modeling will use supervised context based n gram approach. Classification will be done using ensemble based approach which will include the use of Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machine. This study will also discuss the differences between the concept of fake news, stance and intent identification. We anticipate that the proposed roadmap, if implemented, will be useful in the classification of intent as it relates to hate speech in bilingual twitter post. The proposed model has the potential to improve intent classification and that could be useful in hate speech detection, which can avert social or security problems.