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DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH DYNAMIC SIMULATION USING AN EXPLICIT MODEL OF THINKING
Year: 2011

A major skill area of CDIO is Part 2.4 Personal Skills and Attitudes, which subsume skill sets relating to good thinking. This paper takes the position that critical thinking skills can be explicitly taught, much in the same way as other skills. Students need to clearly understand what good thinking actually entails, have opportunities for active and experiential application in real world contexts, as well as receive clear and useful feedback from expert professionals. In this paper, we firstly present our model of thinking, which has been derived from extensive review of the literature and our own research in cognitive modelling engineers as they solve real world problems. The model identifies the key types of thinking involved in such problemsolving as well as the cognitive processes involved. This provides a practical heuristic model of good thinking, which can be taught explicitly and used for purposes of assessing thinking. Secondly, focusing on the chemical engineering context, we outline the various ways in which critical thinking skills can be effectively taught in a range of learning contexts and, in particular, dynamic simulation. Thirdly, we present our research findings on the student learning experience in relation to the development of critical thinking skills from using dynamic simulation to solve chemical engineering problems. The research employs a rigorous qualitative methodology involving observation and in situ and post activity questioning of student performance relating to solving problems. A broad phenomenographic approach was employed to identify the range of variation in student's cognitive approaches and heuristics when solving the problem scenarios presented. Some comparisons are also been made in terms of performance on simulated activities between student groups explicitly taught critical thinking skills and those not explicitly taught these skills. The paper concludes with an optimistic frame on both the explicit teaching of critical thinking and the particularly useful role of dynamic simulation as an effective pedagogic tool for developing the range of critical thinking skills.
High resolution 21 cm observations of low column density gas clumps in the Milky Way halo
Year: 2009

We study the properties of low column density gas clumps in the halo of the Milky Way based on high resolution 21 cm observations.  Using interferometric data from the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) and the Very Large Array (VLA) we studied H I emission at low intermediate and high radial velocities along four lines of sight towards the quasars QSO J0003 2323, QSO B1331+170, QSO B0450 1310, and J081331+254503. Along these sightlines we had previously detected weak CaII and Nan I absorbers in the optical spectra of these quasars.  The analysis of the high resolution H data reveals several compact and cold clumps of neutral gas at velocities similar to the optical absorption. The clumps have narrow H I line widths in the range of 1.8 u FWHM 13.0 km s 1 yielding upper limits for the kinetic temperature of the gas of 70 T max 3700 K. The neutral gas has low H I column densities in the range of 5 x 10 18 3 x 10 19 cm 2 All clumps have angular sizes of only a few arcminutes.  Our high resolution 21 cm observations indicate that many of the Ca and Na absorbers seen in our optical quasar spectra are associated with low column density HI clumps on small angular scales. This suggests that, next to the massive, high column density neutral gas clouds in the halo (the common 21 cm low intermediate and high velocity clouds, LVCs, IVCs, and HVCs) a population of low mass, neutral gas structures exists in the halo and remain mostly unseen in the existing 21 cm all sky surveys of IVCs and HVCs. One of our absorbers may be associated with the Magellanic Stream, two intermediate velocity clouds are probably part of the Intermediate Velocity Spur and the Low latitude IV arch, respectively. The remaining systems could be located either in the lower halo or in the disk of the Milky Way. The estimated thermal gas pressures of the detected H I clumps are consistent with what is expected from theoretical models of gas in the inner and outer Milky Way halos.
A Spanner for the Day After
Venue: SoCG
Year: 2019

We show how to construct (1+\varepsilon) spanner over a set $P$ of $n$ points in \mathbb{R}^d$ that is resilient to a catastrophic failure of nodes. Specifically, for prescribed parameters \vartheta,\varepsilon \in (0,1) the computed spanner $G$ has O\bigl(\varepsilon^ c} \vartheta^ 6} n \log n \log\log n)^6 \bigr) edges, where $c= O(d) Furthermore, for any $k$ and any deleted set $B \subseteq P$ of $k$ points, the residual graph $G \setminus B$ is (1+\varepsilon) spanner for all the points of $P$ except for (1+\vartheta)k$ of them. No previous constructions, beyond the trivial clique with $O(n^2) edges, were known such that only a tiny additional fraction (i.e. \vartheta$ lose their distance preserving connectivity. Our construction works by first solving the exact problem in one dimension, and then showing a surprisingly simple and elegant construction in higher dimensions, that uses the one dimensional construction in a black box fashion.
[Palliative care for children in onco hematology: Role of a specific home care team]
Venue: Bulletin du cancer
Year: 2018

Our home care unit (HCU) is specialized for pediatric cancer patients and has a strong palliative care activity. We believe that the introduction of home care services can influence the place of palliative care and of death as well as the length of hospitalization. We aimed at describing characteristics and care course of patients treated in our HCU, and tried to identify some factors contributing to home care at the end of life.  We conducted a retrospective, observational, monocentric study about patients in pediatric onco hematology, treated at least one day in our home care unit, who died between July 1st 2013 and December 31st 2015. Statistical analysis was descriptive and analytic.  A total of 74 patients known by our HCU died during study period. Eight were excluded. Forty three out of 66 patients died at home. During the last 3 months of life, oncology patients have significantly less classical hospitalization, when compared to hematology patients. The implication of general physicians (GP) and nurses and information given to the family increase the possibility for home death. No significant association was found between ages at death, distance between home and hospital, other life conditions and place of death.  Our HCU has a strong palliative care activity and a high rate of children dying at home. Good collaborations between our pediatric onco hematology team and our HCU as well as between our HCU and caregivers optimize palliative care.
The State of Child Welfare in America: 2009
Year: 2009

Child Abuse and Neglect In 2006, of children who were victims of abuse, 64% experienced neglect; 16% were physically abused; 9% were sexually abused; 7% were emotionally maltreated; and 2% were medically neglected. Children ages birth to 1 year have the highest rate of child abuse and neglect at 24.4 per 1,000 children. In 2006, 18.5 per 100,000 male infants and 14.7 per 100,000 female infants died as a result of abuse.
A new knowledge based constrained clustering approach: Theory and application in direct marketing
Venue: Appl. Soft Comput.
Year: 2014

Graphical abstractDisplay Omitted HighlightsThis paper proposes a straightforward way to apply constrained clustering.Soft attribute level constraints are generated based on feature order preferences.Practitioners can formalize and use their a priori knowledge.A methodology implementing this approach is applied in a direct marketing context. Clustering has always been an exploratory but critical step in the knowledge discovery process. Often unsupervised, the clustering task received a huge interest when reinforced by different kinds of inputs provided by the user. This paper presents an approach giving the possibility to incorporate business knowledge in order to guide the clustering algorithm. A formalization of the fact that an intuitive a priori prioritization of the variables might exist, is presented in this paper and applied in a direct marketing context using recent data. By providing the analyst with a new approach offering different clustering perspectives, this paper proposes a straightforward way to apply constrained clustering with soft attribute level constraints based on feature order preferences.
Actividades ludicas como estrategia para afianzar el pensamiento numerico de ninos y ninas del grado tercero del centro educativo rural Madreseca sede Concha Media del municipio de Anori
Year: 2019

Con este proyecto se beneficia la poblacion educativa integrada por estudiantes, profesores y padres de familia del C.E.R. Madreseca sede Concha Media del municipio de Anori Se busco brindar a la comunidad educativa una herramienta pedagogica que involucre el uso de una estrategia ludica, que facilite el aprendizaje de una manera mas dinamica al afianzar el pensamiento numerico para elevar el nivel academico y el gusto por el aprendizaje de matematicas en los estudiantes. Se trabajo la resolucion de problemas; mediante el juego cooperativo como eje motivador para el desarrollo de conocimientos y la adquisicion de capacidades, que mitiguen las dificultades en la comprension y aprendizaje de los conceptos en el area de matematicas, bajo la postura de Jean Piaget con su teoria del desarrollo de la inteligencia de los ninos entre los 7 y 11 anos de edad con su caracterizacion del pensamiento operacional y David Ausubel con el aprendizaje significativo determinando que los conocimientos previos condicionan los nuevos conocimientos del sujeto. Se planteo un tipo de investigacion cualitativo, con un enfoque de investigacion accion participativa, ya que los procesos desarrollados nos permiten reflexionar sobre el quehacer docente y brinda la oportunidad para que la poblacion objeto de estudio participe de manera activa en el proceso mediante la construccion del conocimiento con las estrategias implementadas mediante el plan de intervencion.
Unsupervised Mitral Valve Segmentation in Echocardiography with Neural Network Matrix Factorization
Venue: AIME
Year: 2019

Mitral valve segmentation specifies a crucial first step to establish a machine learning pipeline that can support practitioners into performing diagnosis of mitral valve diseases, surgical planning, and intraoperative procedures. To this end, we propose a totally automated and unsupervised mitral valve segmentation algorithm, based on a low dimensional neural network matrix factorization of echocardiography videos. The method is evaluated in a collection of echocardiography videos of patients with a variety of mitral valve diseases and exceeds the state of the art method in all the metrics considered.
The Impact of Politician's Risk aversion Motivation on Cross border M&A around Political Turnover
Year: 2017

Politics is increasingly recognized as an important influencing factor for firms' cross border M&A. Yet the specific influence mechanism remains vague. In this study, we investigate the impact of politician' intervention on cross border M&A activity through the lens of political turnover in China. We find there is a reduced risk of cross border M&As preceding political turnover, followed by an increase in the risk of cross border M&As directly after turnover events. And the effect is more significant for non stated owned enterprises. Our findings prove that it is politicians' risk avoiding motivation that leads to lower risk of cross border M&As around political turnover, rather than firms' responsive strategy to political uncertainty. In addition, we also provide evidence that besides risk aversion, promoted politicians have more incentive to achieve a desired performance of cross border M&As, but not for politicians non promoted. Our paper highlights that risk averse motivation of politicians around
RPnet: A Deep Learning approach for robust R Peak detection in noisy ECG
Venue: 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBC)
Year: 2020

Automatic detection of R peaks in an Electrocardiogram signal is crucial in a multitude of applications including Heart Rate Variability (HRV) analysis and Cardio Vascular Disease(CVD) diagnosis. Although there have been numerous approaches that have successfully addressed the problem, there has been a notable dip in the performance of these existing detectors on ECG episodes that contain noise and HRV Irregulates. On the other hand, Deep Learning(DL) based methods have shown to be adept at modelling data that contain noise. In image to image translation, Unet is the fundamental block in many of the networks. In this work, a novel application of the Unet combined with Inception and Residual blocks is proposed to perform the extraction of R peaks from an ECG. Furthermore, the problem formulation also robustly deals with issues of variability and sparsity of ECG R peaks. The proposed network was trained on a database containing ECG episodes that have CVD and was tested against three traditional ECG detectors on a validation set. The model achieved an F1 score of 0.9837, which is a substantial improvement over the other beat detectors. Furthermore, the model was also evaluated on three other databases. The proposed network achieved high F1 scores across all datasets which established its generalizing capacity. Additionally, a thorough analysis of the model's performance in the presence of different levels of noise was carried out.
The deployable element, a new closure joint construction method for immersed tunnel
Year: 2018

A new closure joint construction of immersed tunnel, the deployable element, was developed in Island and Tunnel Project of Hong Kong Zhuhai Macao Bridge. The method shortens installation time at sea, enables positive connection and waterstop under water, and makes the work reversible. In this paper, the author presents the concept and critical issues of design and construction of this method. Further, its improvements for future application were discussed.
HIGH POWER OVER MODE BENT WAVEGUIDES FOR CIRCULAR TM01 AND COAXIAL TEM MODE TRANSMISSION
Year: 2017

Three bent waveguides are proposed and investigated, two for circular waveguide TM01 mode and one for coaxial TEM mode. For high power handling capacity, all of them are over mode waveguides. In the bend, circular or coaxial waveguides transmitting only sector waveguide TE11 modes are split into several same sector waveguides by metal plates and metal rod. These sector waveguides are grouped by their lengths. Length differences of sector waveguides lead to phase differences of the sector waveguide TE11 modes after bending. Due to requirements of mode conversion, the phase difference regulated by radii of circular waveguide and metal rod must be 2np, n 0, 1, 2, Since the phase difference is independent of bend radius, the radius could be as small as possible. One of the prototypes is experimentally verified, and the test results of the VSWR show that simulation has good match to experiment. Insertion loss is 0.2 dB at 8.4 GHz, which proves the feasibility of the prototype.
Transcriptome characterization and development of functional polymorphic SSR marker resource for Himalayan endangered species, Taxus contorta (Griff)
Venue: Industrial Crops and Products
Year: 2019

Taxus contorta is an important medicinal plant currently listed as endangered in IUCN Red Data List. It produces an anticancer drug, paclitaxel which is well known in the industrial sector. Due to habitat destruction and overexploitation, it is at the verge of extinction. Genomic and transcriptomic data for this species is scarce which has hampered its genomic studies. Moreover, large scale polymorphic informative codominant marker resource is also scarce which hinders its population and landscape genetic analysis. Here, we generated a reference transcriptome for this species which would facilitate the understanding of the functional elements and promote genomic research in this species. Also, a robust polymorphic SSR marker resource was characterized which can be used in conservation of this species. More than 100 million paired end raw reads were obtained through Illumina sequencing. A total of 129,869 unigenes with mean sequence length of 1244 nt were obtained from 209,860 de novo assembled transcripts. Of these, 35,752 transcripts were assigned 5971 unique GO terms. Around 40,386 transcripts were found to have 2163 unique Pfam Ids. Pathway analysis against KEGG database yielded 3721 unique enzyme numbers. Screening of the transcripts for microsatellite regions yielded 7041 SSRs. Among the 100 SSRs selected for characterization on 30 genotypes, 37 polymorphic markers showed a total of 214 alleles with mean of 5.78 alleles per locus. Mean effective number of alleles (Ne) was found to be 3.64 and average PIC value of 0.64 was observed. Observed heterozygosity (0.57) was found to be lower than expected (0.69) This effective polymorphic SSR marker resource will act as valuable tool for deciphering its genetic diversity.
The Quality of Local Government Financial Statement and Its Determinant Factors
Year: 2021

This research aims to investigate the influence of human resource competency, implementation of government accounting standard, internal control system, and utilization of information technology towards quality of local government financial statement on OPD in Gunungkidul Regency. The test variables are human resource competency, implementation of government accounting standard, internal control system, and utilization of information technology. The population of this research is OPD in Gunungkidul Regency. The sample of this research included 32 OPD in Gunungkidul Regency with the 113 respondents in total. The respondents are coming from employees that involved in accounting function financial administration. The data collected through questionnaire and analyzed using multiple linear analysis. The data in this study were tested using SPSS 15.0 software. Based on the analysis that have been made, the results are human resource competency and utilization of information technology significantly influence towards quality of local government financial statement. While, the implementation of government accounting standard and internal control system are not significantly influence towards quality of local government financial statement.
Emotion and personality factors influence the neural response to emotional stimuli
Venue: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year: 2012

Lindquist et al. assess the neural evidence for locationist versus psychological construction accounts of human emotion. A wealth of experimental and clinical investigations show that individual differences in emotion and personality influence emotion processing. These factors may also influence the brain's response to emotional stimuli. A synthesis of the relevant neuroimaging data must therefore take these factors into consideration.
Barriers Against the Introduction of Teleworking and Survey for Workers on Their Work Contents
Venue: HCI
Year: 2019

Telework is attracting attention as one of new ways of working in Japan. Telework is a way of working that works without entering the company, but some companies are actually introducing it based on its merits, but the telework's notoriousness and penetration rate is still low in Japan. We conducted two surveys in companies that are considering introducing telework. First of all, I investigated anxiety, frustration, etc. concerning employees' introduction of telework. Next, we conducted an investigation on the actual work content. It aimed to clarify the barriers of teleworking by knowing the tendency of business contents. As a result, it was shown that insufficient infrastructure development, concern about dilution of communication, and a decrease in work efficiency are the major causes of introduction barriers, and the work contents can be classified into seven categories.
Can horror movies induce PTSD like syndrome?
Venue: Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental
Year: 2019

We reported a case of a 10 year old girl who developed a PTSD like syndrome after watching a horror movie. After 6 years, the now 16 year old patient still fulfilled the DSM IV criteria for PTSD, except for the trauma itself. We reviewed the scientific literature for case reports of PTSD like syndrome induced by horror movies and found 13 cases. In only two was the presence of the DSM criteria confirmed. Watching horror movies may thus trigger PTSD like syndromes in vulnerable viewers
Short circuit protection in DC ship grids based on MMC with full bridge modules
Venue: 2015 International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles (ESARS)
Year: 2015

DC grids offer highly efficient distribution of electric energy, eliminating components and optimizing the use of cables. Efficient generation, however, is still based on AC generators. Power electronic devices link generators and grid and customize energy flow to the loads. Efficient distribution with low losses demands high voltage, e.g. in the range of 10 kV for ship size grids. Such voltages challenge power electronics as well as protective devices: Short circuit protection with fast auto reclosing in a context where fuses are not applicable has to be solved. This paper proposes modular multilevel converters (MMC) with full bride (4QC) modules and demonstrates fault mitigation in controlled MMC operation by measurement results. The associated control separates asset characteristic defining the steady state and transient behaviour and converter near control operating in the subtransient and transient regime. The feasibility of the approach is demonstrated by selected measurement results.
Commentary and Review on Sacred Geometry
Year: 2016

This formula was designed to discover and analyze the compatibility/incompatibility of individuals and groups of individuals based on fingerprint classifications found in the Henry System of Fingerprint Classification and Filing. In particular, the Primary Classification which depicts the distribution of whorl type patterns across a ten set of fingerprints. A given Primary Classification is therefore examined according to the geometric position that it maintains on a chart of the 1024 classifications. Nevertheless, in order for geometric analysis to be accurate, the dimensions of the Primary Classification Chart must be specific. Commentary and Review on Sacred Geometry