The stereotype of the "ideal victim" often determines who is considered deserving of victim status, especially in sexual violence cases. In this Chapter, we explore how is the so-called "ideal victim" stereotype constructed and what are the elements necessary for the perception of "ideal victimhood." We use empirical data from an unmoderated anonymous Estonian online forum that hosts various topic threads from children and young people, including posts about personally experienced sexual violence (N=28) and replies to these posts (N=361). The data was analyzed by combining a discursive psychological approach with qualitative thematic analysis. Results reveal and illustrate how the stereotype is constructed from various elements and characteristics of social scripts, perceived gender roles, and misconceptions about sexuality. We unveil how these social constructions affect responses and attitudes towards sexual abuse victims to provide input for designing prevention efforts that support disclosure and help-seeking.This Chapter will soon appear in the book Child Sexual Abuse and the Media (publisher: NOMOS).


Fractures of the patella usually are transverse. In this study, the results of 20 transverse patellar fractures treated with the modified tension band technique and followed between 1992 and 1999 years were evaluated. There were 5 (25%) female, 15 (75%) male, and the average age was 38.7 years (22 to 70). The causes of patellar fractures were traffic accidents in 12 (60%) cases, falling in 5 (25%) cases and sportive activities in 3 (15%) cases. The mean time from injury to operation was 6.2 days (2 to 12). The average follow-up time was 30 months, ranging from 1 to 8 years. Good result in 11 (55%) cases, fair result in 6 (30%) cases and poor result in 3 (15%) cases were obtained. As a result of this study, it was concluded that the modified tension band technique gave successful results in the treatment of transverse patellar fractures.


To facilitate successful language learning, teachers need to establish positive affect among students yet also engage in the interactive confrontational activity of error correction (Magilow, 1999). To shed more light on the issue, this study aims at the investigation of the error types, corrective feedback moves, and learner uptake, i.e., responses to feedback in Iranian communicatively-oriented EFL classrooms. The database is drawn from transcripts of audio-recordings of the elementary and high intermediate classes of a language institute including almost 12 hours of interaction among the students and teachers. Following the analysis, the errors were coded as grammatical, lexical, phonological or unsolicited use of L1 (first language) and corrective feedback moves as explicit correction, recast, clarification request, metalinguistic clues, elicitation, or repetition. Moreover, the suggested breakdown for uptakes included student-generated repair, repetition, and needs repair. Grammatical errors were the most frequent error type in the entire database (50.5%); however, phonological (26%) and lexical errors (22%) had lower rank error type. Moreover, the results indicated an overwhelming tendency for the teachers to use recasts (50.5%) in spite of their complete ineffectiveness at eliciting student-generated repair. Repetition (96%), metalinguistic feedback (86%), elicitation (67.5%), and clarification request (44%) –the negotiation of form feedback moves- were instead supposed to fulfill this aim.


Watch the VIDEO of the presentation. "Fight academic apartheid to advance equality and quality in the sciences!" "Stop discriminating against Open Access publications in research evaluation." "The next generation of researchers will care less about status and more about relevance." These are some of the voices from Europe's rectors, vice-chancellors, professors, senior and junior researchers on what still needs to be done to achieve more Open Access. Despite seeing significant international and national Open Access policy development across Europe, both the library and academic communities are still having challenges in implementing Open Access policies on various levels. We can anticipate far more OA take-up when the research community and senior administration votes with their feet against traditional publishing practices and for new forms. In addition, these groups have the power to stabilise and strengthen the sustainability of such change by changing the way that research is currently being assessed and evaluated. It is for this reason that SPARC Europe is highlighting the importance of the people in our research communities who are helping make Open Access happen and who are speaking out for such change. SPARC Europe is doing this by bringing champions together in an online showcase, Europe's Open Access Champions. This features a range of academics and senior administrators or champions who are making the case for Open Access amongst their peers. They are generating more momentum for more access to Europe's research results within their research communities. They tell us why and how – in their own words – on the Europe's Open Access Champions site. In the first instance, this presentation will share a range of complementary but also very different views from champions from various research roles, disciplines and countries. What needs to be done to change the current scholarly publishing system in their view? Where does academic integrity come in and how can more OA here potentially affect research careers / employment conditions? Above all, how can the academic community make the necessary change to the way research is currently assessed and evaluated to make OA work? The presentation will then go on to share lessons learnt by various libraries across Europe on what makes a good OA champion. To conclude, this presentation seeks to inspire the open scholarly communication community to engage more with champions from the research community who have the potential to make more rapid Open Access to Europe's research results.


This paper presents a series of numerical analyses performed with the potential theory-based Green Water engineer tool KINEMA3. KINEMA3 was designed to predict wave-induced impact loads on FPSOs in steep irregular waves, and for use in design load analysis. The purpose of the study presented herein is to validate KINEMA3 green water (deck overtopping) predictions in nonlinear irregular waves with results from model tests performed at the TPN (Tanque de Provas Numerico) laboratory at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Comparisons are made for a selection of irregular wave cases, for two choices of anchoring conditions (free floating vessel and fixed vessel) and for three wave headings (180°, 225° and 270°: head, quartering and beam seas, respectively).KINEMA3 statistical green water predictions present a general good agreement with observations from the TPN model tests for all wave cases, headings and mooring conditions. Overall, observed trends for occurrence of green water and standard deviation/maximum of relative wave height are successfully reproduced by KINEMA3. In agreement with model test results, it is predicted that green water occurs more frequently for a free floating vessel and for beam seas.Additional comparisons between KINEMA3 predictions using different FPSO panel models (low-order and high-order models) present negligible differences with respect to green water estimates. The results presented herein demonstrate the robustness of the tool towards the prediction of green water for variable wave headings and sea states, and highlight the capability of KINEMA3 to be employed as an engineering-like tool for fast and multiple estimates of green water in early design studies.This work is a part of the research project "Green Water and Wave Impact on FPSO" carried out for and in cooperation with PETROBRAS.Copyright © 2014 by ASME


Regulatory T cells (Tregs) play essential roles in maintaining immunological self-tolerance and preventing autoimmunity. The adoptive transfer of antigen-specific Tregs has been expected to be a potent therapeutic method for autoimmune diseases, severe allergy, and rejection in organ transplantation. However, effective Treg therapy has not yet been established because of the difficulty in preparing a limited number of antigen-specific Tregs. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have been shown to be a powerful therapeutic method for treating B cell lymphomas, but application of CAR to Treg-mediated therapy has not yet been established. Here, we generated CD19-targeted CAR (CD19-CAR) Tregs from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (hPBMCs) and optimized the fraction of the Treg source as CD4+CD25+CD127lowCD45RA+CD45RO-. CD19-CAR Tregs could be expanded in vitro while maintaining Treg properties, including a high expression of the latent form of TGF-β. CD19-CAR Tregs suppressed IgG antibody production from primary B cell differentiation in vitro via a TGF-β-dependent mechanism. Unlike conventional CD19-CAR CD8+ T cells, CD19-CAR Tregs suppressed antibody production in immunodeficient mice that were reconstituted with hPBMCs with reducing the risk of graft-versus-host disease. Therefore, the adoptive transfer of CD19-CAR Tregs may provide a novel therapeutic method for treating autoantibody-mediated autoimmune diseases.


Introduction: Use of inappropriate drugs in the elderly is a major health care concern. It is likely to increase adverse drug reactions and induce a substantial increase in health care costs. The aim of study was done to evaluate inappropriate drug use in the elderly. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, collecting data were collected from patient's file for 260 patients aged 60 years who were admitted to Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital in 2012. Potentially inappropriate medications were identified based on the 2012 Beers criteria. Results: The mean age of the patients was 75±8.3 years. Overall, 58(22.3%) of the patients were treated with potentially inappropriate medications. The most common inappropriately prescribed medications were benzodiazepines, pethidine, and TCAs. Conclusions: To improve prescription quality in elderly patients in Iran, preparing a scientific criterion or guideline is necessary.


The classical double copy idea relates some solutions of Einstein's theory with those of gauge and scalar field theories. We study the Kerr-Schild-Kundt (KSK) class of metrics in $d$-dimensions in the context of possible new examples of this idea. We first show that it is possible to solve the Einstein-Yang-Mills system exactly using the solutions of a Klein-Gordon type scalar equation when the metric is the $pp$-wave metric which is the simplest member of the KSK class. In the more general KSK class, the solutions of a scalar equation also solve the Yang-Mills, Maxwell and Einstein-Yang-Mills-Maxwell equations exactly albeit with a null fluid source. Hence in the general KSK class, the double copy correspondence is not as clean-cut as in the case of the $pp$-wave. In our treatment all the gauge fields couple to dynamical gravity, and are not treated as test fields. We also briefly study G\"{o}del type metrics along the same lines.


To determine whether antibodies to exogenous insulin bind and inactivate endogenous insulin in vivo, technics were devised to isolate and measure directly antibody bound endogenous insulin in the presence of residual exogenous hormone in human and rabbit (leporine) serum. Insulin-antibody fractions in serum were isolated by ultra centrifugation or preferential salt precipitation, insulin was extracted by acid alcohol, and exogenous (bovine) and endogenous (human or leporine insulins) were differentially determined by immunoassay. Insulin in the antibody fraction of normal serum is undetectable (< 10μU. per ml.). In two resistant diabetic patients all measurable insulin proved to be bound to antibody. Exogenous insulin, which was 4 to 5 mU. per ml. seventeen hours after the last insulin treatment, remained elevated for three to sixteen days but disappeared after ten to twenty days. The subjects proved to be capable of secreting endogenous insulin that was almost completely bound to antibody in the serum. High concentrations of bound endogenous insulin (1 to 8 mU. per ml.) persisted for two to five weeks and levels were still elevated after fifty-four days. In immunized rabbits, only bound endogenous insulin was detectable three weeks after bovine insulin was discontinued. Levels remained high (1 to 2 mU. per ml.) for five weeks. Blood sugar was normal at all times, indicating that most of the bound insulin was biologically inactive. In man and rabbits endogenous bound insulin decreased with declining antibody titers, hence did not serve as an antigenic stimulus sufficient to maintain antibody production. Purified insulins, both human and leporine, competitively displaced bovine insulin-I-131 from the antibody sites of human and leporine serum respectively, though they were less effective than purified bovine insulin. It is concluded that the administration of crystalline insulin can produce circulating autoantibodies capable of binding and inactivating large amounts of endogenous hormone in vivo.


Abstract A shield gas flowrate of 15–20 L min−1 is typically specified in metal inert gas welding, but is often adjusted to as high as 36 L min−1 by welders in practice. Not only is this overuse of shield gas wasteful, but uncontrolled high gas flows can lead to significant turbulence induced porosity in the final weld. There is therefore a need to understand and control the minimum shield gas flowrate used in practical welding where cross-drafts may affect the coverage. Very low gas coverage or no shielding leads to porosity and spatter development in the weld region. A systematic study is reported of the weld quality achieved for a range of shield gas flowrates, cross-draft speeds and nozzle diameters using optical visualisation and numerical modelling to determine the shield gas coverage. As a consequence of the study, the shield gas flow has been reduced to 12 L min−1 in production welding, representing a significant process cost saving and reduced environmental impact with no compromise to the final weld quality.


This paper examines the status of corporate governance research on Indian in the Indian and International journals between the period 2000-2010. The paper attempts to understand the nature of global research on corporate governance in top tiered international journals reflects the growing interest in India and whether the research published in the top journals in India reflect the differences vis-a-vis the global discourse on corporate governance. Our analysis of the papers in international and Indian journals indicates that there has been a steady and growing interest in the field of corporate governance in India. The convergence of the importance of certain topics like Performance and regulatory mechanisms between international and Indian journals can be seen as indicative of the presence of the common body of knowledge in the field of corporate governance research. There is however, a need for more empirical research in the Indian context and also the development of theories that are embedded in local realities. Given that the institutional context of an economy impacts significantly the nature of governance practices, more papers that explore the institutional contextual realities of India are needed. This would contribute significantly to deepening the research in a comparative management perspectives.


Background: Exercise rehabilitation programmes, traditionally involving supervised exercise sessions, have had to rapidly adapt to virtual delivery in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to minimise patient contacts. In the absence of an effective vaccine, the pandemic is likely to persist in the medium term and during this time it is important that the feasibility and effectiveness of remote solutions is considered.  We have previously established the feasibility of the Rehabilitation Strategies following Oesophago-gastric Cancer (ReStOre) intervention - a face to face multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme for upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancer survivors. This study will examine the feasibility of a virtually delivered 12-week multi-component ReStOre@Home programme. Methods: This single arm feasibility study will recruit 12 patients who have completed curative treatment for oesophago-gastric cancer. Participants will complete the 12-week ReStOre@Home programme consisting of exercise (aerobic and resistance training), 1:1 dietary counselling and group education sessions through virtual delivery. Underpinned by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Framework, feasibility will be determined by recruitment rates, adherence, retention, incidents, and acceptability. Acceptability will be assessed qualitatively through post-intervention interview and the Telehealth Usability Questionnaire. Secondary outcomes will be assessed pre and post-intervention and will include measures of physical performance (cardiopulmonary exercise test, short physical performance battery, hand grip strength, Godin Leisure Time Questionnaire, and body composition), health related quality of life (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Core Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC-QLQ-C30) and oesophago-gastric cancer specific subscale (EORTC-QLQ-OG25), fatigue (Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20), and venous blood samples will be collected for the UGI Cancer Survivorship Biobank. Discussion: The ReStOre@Home feasibility study will provide important data regarding the amenability of a multidisciplinary programme designed for UGI cancer survivors to virtual delivery. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04603339 (26/10/2020).


Abstract. The timing and the volume of snow and ice melt in Alpine catchments are crucial for management operations of reservoirs and hydropower generation. Moreover, a sustainable reservoir operation through reservoir storage and flow control as part of flood risk management is important for downstream communities. Forecast systems typically provide predictions for a few days in advance. Reservoir operators would benefit if lead times could be extended in order to optimise the reservoir management. Current seasonal prediction products such as the NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction) Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) enable seasonal forecasts up to nine months in advance, with of course decreasing accuracy as lead-time increases. We present a coupled seasonal prediction modelling system that runs at monthly time steps for a small catchment in the Austrian Alps (Gepatschalm). Meteorological forecasts are obtained from the CFSv2 model. Subsequently, these data are downscaled to the Alpine Water balance And Runoff Estimation model AWARE running at monthly time step. Initial conditions are obtained using the physically based, hydro-climatological snow model AMUNDSEN that predicts hourly fields of snow water equivalent and snowmelt at a regular grid with 50 m spacing. Reservoir inflow is calculated taking into account various runs of the CFSv2 model. These simulations are compared with observed inflow volumes for the melting and accumulation period 2015.


In the present study that Authors have investigated the effects of systemic injection of kainic acid on aminoacidergic transmission of different rat brain regions. Kainic acid has been used to produce an experimental model of limbic epilepsy characterized by two different phases (KA1 and KA2). Results obtained show a significant decrease of glutamic and aspartic acids (excitatory aminoacids) and glicine and taurine (inhibitory aminoacids) in both phases at hippocampal level. On the contrary GABA concentration seems to be increased.


The aim of the research is method development and validation of Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for simultaneous determination of Cinitapride hydrogen tartrate and Pantoprazole sodium in its pharmaceutical dosage form. The method is simple, precise, economic, less time consuming and suitable for routine quality control analysis of both the drugs in formulation. The chromatographic separation was achieved on Thermoscientific BDS Hypersil C18 (250 × 4.6 mm, 5μl) column using a mixture of methanol and 0.1% v/v triethylamine (pH 6) in the ratio 85: 15 % v/v at a flow rate of 1.0 ml/min and UV detection at 264 nm. The retention times of Cinitapride and Pantoprazole were found to be 4.73 and 2.86 min respectively. The method shows linearity in the concentration range of 0.5-1.3 μg/ml for both the drugs with r2=0.9922 for Cinitapride and r2 =0.9974 for Pantoprazole. The LOD of Cinitapride and Pantoprazole were found to be 0.00164 μg/ml and 0.00042 μg/ml respectively. The LOQ of Cinitapride and Pantoprazole were found to be 0.00496 μg/ml and 0.00126 μg/ml respectively. The percentage recovery was found to be within the limits. The method for the determination of assay was below 2.0% RSD. Hence the developed HPLC method was applied for the estimation of Cinitapride and Pantoprazole in its pure form as well as in tablet dosage form and results was found to be in good agreement with the labeled claim. The developed method was found to be simple, accurate, precise, and specific and is useful in the quality control of bulk and pharmaceutical formulations.


Background: Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in breast lesions offers accurate results in differentiating benign and malignant lesions. However, its role is unclear when core-needle biopsy (CNB) is available, the latter providing additional information regarding tumor grade, invasion, and hormone receptor status in malignant lesions. In benign breast lesions, especially in BIRADS category 4a and 4b, FNAB, and CNB provide similar pathological information, whereby FNAB may serve as a more rapid and cost-effective investigation. The study was planned to reevaluate the diagnostic accuracy of FNAB in BIRADS category 4a, 4b, and 4c lesions. Materials and Methods: FNAB and biopsy reports of all patients with breast lesions sent between September 1, 2018, and November 30, 2020, were collected and the International Academy of Cytology (IAC) Yokohama category and BIRADS score were recorded for each case. The rate of malignancy and the accuracy of FNAB in diagnosing malignancy were calculated for each BIRADS 4a, 4b, and 4c subgroup. Results: A total of 249 cases of BIRADS 4 lesions had corresponding cytology and histopathology diagnoses. FNAB showed high diagnostic accuracy in all BIRADS groups. A benign categorization was associated with a very low number of false-negative diagnoses, especially in BIRADS 4a lesions. Conclusion: The study reconfirms the excellent accuracy of breast FNAB using the IAC Yokohama system in diagnosing breast malignancies. Furthermore, BIRADS 4a lesions found to be belonging to the cytological benign category may be excluded from CRB and kept on clinical follow-up.


The aim of the present work was to develop a buccoadhesive controlled-release dosage form of timolol maleate (TM) and to evaluate the feasibility of improving the bioavailability of TM via the buccal route. Buccoadhesive disks (BDs) of TM were prepared by the direct compression method using some selective polymers like carbopol 934(CP 934) and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC K4M) in different amounts along with other tablet excipients. The disks were evaluated for thickness uniformity, weight variation, drug content uniformity, hardness, friability and surface pH. The buccal permeability of TM was assessed in one human subject and the drug was found to permeate through the buccal mucosa. The BDs were also evaluated for swelling index and bioadhesion time using rabbit buccal tissues. The swelling index was found to increase with an increase in HPMC and CP content in the disks and none of the disks detached from the rabbit buccal tissues until completely eroded. The in vitro drug release for 12 h in pH 6.6 phosphate buffer using a USP dissolution tester revealed that the rate of drug release was increased when the polymers were incorporated in the disks at low concentrations, but was decreased when incorporated at higher concentrations. When the release data were evaluated by a simple power equation (Mt/M = ktn); it was observed that drug release from most of the formulated BDs followed non-fickian release kinetics. A selected BD formulation was evaluated in vivo in rabbits. The selected BD gave controlled blood level profile with a 50% increase in area-under-the-curve (AUC) value in comparison to oral administration of aqueous drug solution. Egyptian Journal of Biomedical Sciences Vol. 23 (1) 2007: pp. 196-217


Aims The aim of this study was to identify perceived barriers to medication adherence in early adolescents within a school environment. By way of background, 20% of adolescents have a chronic medical condition and the complexity and cost of their treatment is rising.1 2 Adolescents commonly demonstrate poor adherence to prescribed medication; medication adherence in this group is undermined by concerns about side effects and the potential for medication to have a detrimental impact on lifestyle.3 4 Currently there is a paucity of evidence on the adolescent adherence and the management and administration of medicine within a school environment.2 Methods Following ethical approval from the University of Strathclyde and North and South Lanarkshire Education authority, 23 school pupils aged between 12 and 14 years participated in five focus groups in November 2010. Respondents were purposively sampled with respect to gender, age, and socioeconomic characteristics of the school. A semi-structured topic guide was developed on the basis of published literature. Focus groups were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were independently coded by the researchers using an inductive approach to thematic analysis. Results Barriers to medication adherence could be linked to concerns about, 'image', the perceptions of others and bullying. Participants, who did not routinely take medication, hypothesised that do so in school would result in stigma and persecution. Participants provided examples to support this, for example diabetic children had been labelled as problem drug users by peers. Consequently respondents reported that avoiding attention of this type was more important to them than adhering to medication. Participants, who did take medication routinely, reported non-adherence due to fear of being bullied and to prevent the effects medication had on their appearance. Other participants reported hiding medication from peers. Conclusions Prescribers and educators need to consider how to foster medication adherence in schools. Ideally medication devices and dosing regimens should allow students to administer medication inconspicuously. School environments and processes should also permit discreet medication administration.


Since 1980, higher education access and endorsement have grown more dramatically in Asia than in any other area of the world. Both developed and developing nations are witnessing rapid expansion in the higher education sector. Nor is this progress entirely quantitative: a number of Asian universities are on a par with the finest institutions of higher education in the U.S. and Europe. Until now, however, there has been little historical analysis and virtually no comparative analysis of Asian higher education. This volume offers a detailed comparative study of the emergence of the modern university in Asia, linking the historical development of universities in the region with contemporary realities and future challenges. The contributors describe higher education systems in eleven countries-Korea, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Phillippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Japan-and explore similarities and differences through two comparative essays. Each case study includes a discussion of the nature and influence of both indigenous and European educational traditions; a detailed analysis of development patterns; and a close examination of such contemporary issues as population growth and access, cost, the role of private higher education, the research system, autonomy, and accountability.


Action research has an extensive history of being used to improve teaching and learning in many different professional settings, for example, schools, colleges, universities health and social care services. Educational action research embodies a process that necessitates honesty and openness and which lends itself to the betterment of one's practice; in the current e-learning climate, where education is rapidly changing and the role and practice of the educator is evolving yet uncertain, action research has never been more valuable. This article explores and presents how social media have been used to enhance the teaching of action research and also how students gained an understanding, appreciation and an evolving experience of action research. Exploring the intricate relationships between action research, new technologies and the learning that took place during an Understanding Action Research module, this article is written from the perspective that the module team was interested in ensuring that students acquired a fully rounded understanding of action research in order to utilize it in the improvement of their own practice.


This report represents the interim portion of the larger 'pod test scenarios and performance requirements' report, D4.1.4. In effect this document provides a stepping stone between the commencement of the Capri project and the final pod test scenario report. Due to the interim nature of the report it does not provide a complete manual of pod test scenarios and performance outcomes, instead this document provides an extensive examination of the existing knowledge base to bring the Capri project closer to the state of the art. In the world of autonomous vehicle development technologies, techniques move very quickly and it is necessary to look at the entire ecosystem before defining how the Capri project will move forwards with the task of scenarios and performance requirements.
This report does however begin to form a complete framework for pod vehicle testing. It will be discussed in more detail in the body of the report, but it is worth noting that the science of autonomous vehicle verification and validation can sometimes run before it can walk, always looking
at the most difficult challenges and tackling the big questions. This document takes a retrospective look at the complete testing ecosystem; going beyond the specifics of test scenarios to illustrate an overall framework where physical and simulation testing scenarios fit into the wider ecosystem of pod validation and verification (V&V). This report is also necessarily incomplete. In fact, considering the rate of development of autonomous vehicles and the required testing it is almost impossible to cover every technological breakthrough. It is anticipated that this will continued to be updated as the technology and best practices move forward.


Walter Benjamin, born in a bourgeois Berlin Jewish family in 1892, was not only a brilliant literary critic and sociologist of culture, but also one of the most creative modem Marxist thinkers. A friend of Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno, and Gershom Scholem (the well known historian of Jewish mysticism), he wrote his first books on the concept of art criticism in German romanticism and on German baroque drama. A sympathizer of the communist movement, he visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and 1928 but never joined the German Communist Party. Forced into exile by the Nazis in 1933, he lived precariously in France with a stipend from the Frankfurt School, which published in its Journal for Social Research some of his most important essays (on Baudelaire and on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction). Trying to escape the Nazi occupation of France by crossing the Pyrenees in September 1940, he was arrested by the Spanish (Franco) police. Threatened with being turned over to the Gestapo, he preferred to commit suicide. His last writing, the Theses On the Concept of History, is one of the most important documents of revolutionary theory in our times. Known only to a small circle of people during his life, he became, after the 1960s, an increasingly influential thinker for a new generation of radical students and intellectuals in Europe and America.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.


Background: Distraction of the hip joint is a necessary step during hip arthroscopic surgery. The force of traction needed to distract the hip is not routinely measured, and little is known about which patient factors may influence this force. Purpose: To quantify the force of traction required for adequate distraction of the hip during arthroscopic surgery and explore the relationship between hip joint stiffness and patient-specific demographics, flexibility, and anatomy. Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: A total of 101 patients (61 female) undergoing primary hip arthroscopic surgery were prospectively enrolled. A load cell attached to the traction boot continuously measured traction force. Fluoroscopic images were obtained before and after traction to measure joint displacement. The stiffness coefficient was calculated as the force of traction divided by joint displacement. Relationships between the stiffness coefficient and patient demographics and clinical parameters were investigated using a univariable regression model. The regression analysis was repeated separately by patient sex. Variables significant at P < .05 were included in a multivariable regression model. Results: The instantaneous peak force averaged 80 ± 18 kilogram-force (kgf), after which the force required to maintain distraction decreased to 57 ± 13 kgf. In univariable regression analysis, patient sex, alpha angle, hamstring flexibility, and Beighton hypermobility score were each correlated to stiffness. However, patient sex was the only significant variable in the multivariable regression model. Intrasex analysis demonstrated that increased hamstring flexibility correlated with decreased final holding stiffness in male patients and that higher Beighton scores correlated with decreased maximal stiffness in female patients. Conclusion: Male patients undergoing primary arthroscopic surgery have greater stiffness to hip distraction during arthroscopic surgery compared with female patients. In male patients, stiffness increased with decreasing hamstring flexibility. In female patients, increased Beighton scores corresponded to decreased stiffness. The presence of a labral tear was not correlated with stiffness to distraction. These data may be used to identify patients in whom a specific focus on capsular repair and/or plication may be warranted.


Wheel and underbody aerodynamics have become important topics in the search to reduce the aerodynamic drag of the heavy trucks.
This study aims to investigate, experimentally as well as numerically, the local flow field around the wheels and in the wheel housing
on a heavy truck; and how different approaches to modelling the wheel rotation in CFD influences the results. Emphasis is on effects
due to ground simulation, and both moving ground and wheel rotation were requirements for this study.
A 1:4-scale model of part of a heavy truck geometry has been developed. During the model design numerical simulations were used
to optimise the shape, in order to replicate the flow field near the wheel of a complete truck. This was done by changing the flow
angles of the incoming and exiting flows, and by keeping the mass flow rates in to, and out of, the wheel housing at the same ratios as
in a reference full size vehicle. To reduce blockage effects, the model was sectioned to reduce both height and width. In the
experiments, pressure sensors and static pressure taps located in the wheel housing were utilised, and the simulations replicated the
boundary conditions of the wind tunnel experiments, both in terms of the geometry of the model and wind tunnel as well as the
modelling of the ground simulation.
It was found that the wheel wake structures changed significantly when ground simulation was utilised. The main outflow through the
wheel housing was influenced by the wheel rotation and took place further upstream, which resulted in large differences in the flow
field downstream of the wheel. The influence of different strategies for modelling the wheel rotation in CFD was investigated and it
was found that the Sliding Mesh approach was the most accurate method.


That the Born theory provides an accurate means of calculating solvation energies of ions in water has been demonstrated by Rashin and Honig (Rashin, A. A.; Honig, B. J. Phys. Chem. 1985, 89, 5588). They could fit the experimental solvation energies of a number of salts nicely by a simple increase of 7% in the expected radii of all ions. However, as we demonstrate herein, there is an important previously ignored contribution due to the ionic dispersion self-free energy. The ionic parameters necessary to estimate the different contributions to solvation energy are the ionic radii, the ionic polarizabilities, and the ionization potentials. Whereas the polarizabilities and ionization potentials of a number of salts have recently been derived ab initio (in both vacuum and water), the appropriate choices of radii are less well-known. We pursue two different approaches to assign the ionic radii. In the first approach, we find that an increase of all expected radii by 23% gives reasonable agreement between theory and experiment (to within 6%). In the second approach, we increased the expected radii of six ions separately (10-30%) to obtain a best fit for the nine salts investigated. In this second approach, the deviations between theory and experiment were less than 0.1%. The essential point is that a proper theory must include contributions from both electrostatic (Born) and electrodynamic (dispersion) self-free energies.


Background: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a zoonotic viral disease caused by nonsegmented, enveloped, positive-sense, single-strand ribonucleic acid coronavirus. Recent outbreak started in Wuhan, China, where a new type of coronavirus was isolated from respiratory samples such as bronchoalveolar lavage and sputum of patients developing respiratory symptoms. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on January 20, 2020. On April 6, 1,288,080 were infected with this virus with 70,567 deaths. Computerized tomography (CT) is the investigation of choice for diagnosing, managing, and accessing temporal changes in COVID-19. Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the chest CT findings in documented nCovid-19-positive patients. Methodology: This was a retrospective observational study done in Government Medical College, Chest Disease Hospital from February 20 to April 25, 2020. Forty-eight patients with COVID-19 reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction-positive test were scanned on 64 slice Somatom CT scanner and findings analyzed. All patients with previously underlying chest disease were excluded. Results: The various chest findings in the nCovid-19-positive patients include ground glassing, (81.25%), consolidation (56.25%), nodules (43.75%), halo sign (31.25%), crazy paving pattern (50%), air bronchogram (12.5%), air bubble sign (6.25%), vascular enlargement (25%), reversed halo sign or atoll sign (18.75%), bronchial wall thickening (6.25%), and mosaic attenuation (6.25%). None of the patients had pleural effusion. Conclusion: Characteristic CT findings of COVID-19 can help radiologists in the early diagnosis of symptomatic patients in whom testing is awaited. Bilateral peripheral ground-glass opacities with consolidation in dependent parts of the lung along with the absence of pleural effusion were the most common abnormality.


One of the most crucial problems which are faced by financial institution is high level of non-performing loan. Many analysts have attempted to solve this problem by various strategy and method, but this problem still persists until now on. With regard to the spreading of credit cooperation, now it is time for the credit cooperation manager to minimize the level of non-performing loan to under 5 % as the Indonesia bank stated. On the other hand numerous credit cooperations still cannot hire an analyst because it is expensive, while the decision to approve or not a credit is a key point which determines the probability of non-performing loan. Some requirements which relevant to the credit approval are: amount of loan, time, earning, number of family and personal credit track record. This research uses the data from the "Artha Abadi" Jepara credit cooperation from the year of 2010 to 2014, the number of credit data as many as 2010 which consist of performing and nonperforming loan. This research use the data mining classification method with the model of neural network which is deployed to assess the data processing accuracy with the rapid miner and then continued with the measurement use the confusion matrix, ROC curve. The result of the neural network algorithm after the test of confusion matrix, ROC curve and T-test show a very high accuracies value, and the dominant value of AUC and algorithm. The value of accuracy is 96.95 % with the number of AUC equal to 0.981 and the result of the T test show that the neural network algorithm is the most dominant result. Finally, this research reveals that the high level accuracy of the credit analysis can be done with the relatively cheap cost of computation. Key words: Neural Network, Accuracy, Confusion Matrix, ROC Curve and T-Test


Indonesian kefir grains are potential sources of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) that may act as probiotics with specific functional properties. In this study we explored the potential of the probiotic and cholesterol-lowering effect of LAB isolated from Indonesian kefir grains obtained from Bogor, Bandung, Jakarta, and Yogyakarta. The results revealed that 10 isolates showed considerable survivability at low pH and bile salt with total cell reduction of ~3 log colony-forming units per milliliter after exposure to pH 2.5 and 0.5% (w/v) bile salt for 1 and 3 h, respectively. All strains exhibited strong antimicrobial activities against pathogenic bacteria and were sensitive to a wide spectrum of antibiotics but exhibited weak bile salt hydrolase activity. Identification based on 16S RNA suggested that nine isolates were Lactobacillus kefiri and one was Lactobacillus rhamnosus. The ability of the isolates to reduce cholesterol from the media varied, ranging from 22.08% to 68.75% with the highest reduction shown by L. kefiri JK17. The ability to remove cholesterol from the media decreased greatly in resting and dead cells, ranging from 14.58% to 22.08% in resting cells and from 7.89% to 18.17% in dead cells. It can be concluded that Indonesian kefir grains contain LAB potentially acting as probiotics capable of reducing cholesterol. The cholesterol-lowering effect especially occurs when the cells are metabolically active.


Oligonucleotide primers of arbitrary nucleotide sequences were used in PCR reaction to amplify genomic DNA from the four types of T. congolense : Tsavo-type, Savannah-type, Kilifi-type and West African riverine/ forest-type. Several primers produced significantly different RAPD patterns for the four types of T. congolense . Similarity indices imply that the Kilifi-type and Savannahtype T. congolense (SI; 0.453) are the most closely related evolutionarily among T. congolense whereas the West African riverine/forest-type and Savannah type T. congolense (SI; 0.405) are the most distantly related. RAPD patterns of the four types of T. congolense were also compared with those of other trypanosome species. Similarity indices of this comparison implies that T. evansi and T.b. gambiense (SI; 0.667) are the most closely related whereas Kilifi-type T. congolense and T. b. brucei (SI; 0.315) are the most distantly related. The results further indicate that the T. congolense genotypic groups may be as different as they are from any other trypanosome species studied in this work. Bulletin of Animal Health and Production in Africa Vol. 54(1) 2006: 7-12


We present results of 3D numerical simulations using a finite difference code featuring fixed mesh refinement (FMR), in which a subset of the computational domain is refined in space and time. We apply this code to a series of test cases including a robust stability test, a nonlinear gauge wave and an excised Schwarzschild black hole in an evolving gauge. We find that the mesh refinement results are comparable in accuracy, stability and convergence to unigrid simulations with the same effective resolution. At the same time, the use of FMR reduces the computational resources needed to obtain a given accuracy. Particular care must be taken at the interfaces between coarse and fine grids to avoid a loss of convergence at higher resolutions, and we introduce the use of 'buffer zones' as one resolution of this issue. We also introduce a new method for initial data generation, which enables higher order interpolation in time even from the initial time slice. This FMR system, 'Carpet', is a driver module in the freely available Cactus computational infrastructure, and is able to endow generic existing Cactus simulation modules ('thorns') with FMR with little or no extra effort.


OBJECTIVE: To describe the current sexuality-related nursing practice of oncology nurses. DESIGN: Self-report survey to examine the practice of sexual health with a purposive sample of nurses working in cancer care. SETTING: Six nursing units within a large tertiary care centre were used to recruit study participants. The units included ambulatory care, medical oncology and surgical oncology. PATIENTS: Surveys were delivered to 155 oncology-registered nurses working on the identified nursing units. A response rate of 48% was achieved. RESULTS: The overall scale score (M=103.27) suggests that the oncology nurses who responded to the survey perceived sexuality to be a part of their nursing practice. While the majority of the subscale scores were above the midline, practice was slightly below. CONCLUSIONS: The oncology nurses who participated in the study were somewhat confident, responsible and valued sexuality; however, the delivery of care did not reflect those attributes. Issues raised by the oncology nurses are not limited to this discipline but have broad implications for the delivery of health care.


In Democracy and Education, in the midst of the pivotal chapter on "The Democratic Conception in Education," Dewey juxtaposes his educational aims with those of Plato, Rousseau, Fichte and Hegel. Perhaps Dewey believed that an account of their views would help elucidate his own, or he intended to suggest that his own ideas rivaled or bested theirs. I argue that Dewey's discussion of historical philosophers' aims of education was also designed to critique his contemporaries subtly and by analogy. My analysis of Dewey's critique supports a second argument: one of the reasons Dewey's legacy has been long debated (particularly his relationship to pedagogical progressivism) derives from his reluctance to criticize his contemporaries explicitly and directly. Had Dewey critiqued his fellow American progressives in the same way he did historical European philosophers of the past, his readers would have better understood his relationship to progressive American educational ideas and practices. Yet Dewey's subtle approach also accounts for the creation of a work that genuinely warrants being called a classic – it rises above the educational debates of the early twentieth century to enter into a conversation with its educational ancestry, a conversation that Dewey propelled forward.


BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Abciximab and tirofiban are commonly used for the treatment of thromboembolisms that form during coiling of intracranial aneurysms; however, it is not known which of these inhibitors is safer and more effective. We report the safety and the recanalization rates for intra-arterial abciximab and intra-arterial tirofiban infusion for the treatment of thromboembolisms that form during coiling. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between March 2004 and April 2011, 346 intracranial aneurysms were treated with coiling. Thromboembolisms developed in 22 of these patients and were treated by use of intra-arterial tirofiban (n = 11) or abciximab (n = 11) infusion. RESULTS: In the abciximab group, the thromboembolisms were completely (n = 1) or partially (n = 7) resolved in 8 cases (72.7%) at the time of the final control angiography. Complete (n = 9) or partial (n = 2) resolution was achieved in all cases at the time of follow-up angiography (<3 days after the procedure). In the tirofiban group, thromboembolisms were completely (n = 4) or partially (n = 6) resolved in 10 cases (90.9%) at the time of the final control angiography. Complete (n = 9) or partial (n = 2) resolution was observed in all cases at the time of the follow-up angiography. There were no statistically significant differences between the 2 groups with respect to thrombus resolution (final angiography, P = .311; follow-up angiography, P = .707). No hemorrhagic complications developed in either group. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that tirofiban is more effective than abciximab for the immediate resolution of thromboembolisms, with no statistical significance. Both intra-arterial tirofiban and abciximab exhibited similar safety and recanalization rates.


Introduction: The correction of breast ptosis associated with skin flaccidity is done through mastopexy with the inclusion of an implant. This work's objective was to evaluate the surgical results and the satisfaction of patients who underwent breast ptosis surgery with silicone prosthesis placement. Methods: We selected 22 patients who underwent mastopexy with implant placement, from February to September 2016, at the Plastic Surgery Service of Hospital Heliópolis. Interviews were conducted applying to the patients a questionnaire to verify the degree of satisfaction and changes in the daily routine after surgery. The surgical results evaluation was carried out by three surgeons, who attributed scores to different items. Results: 100% of the interviewees feel satisfied with the surgery, and all reported an improvement in their self-esteem. In the evaluation of surgeries performed with surgeons, about 91% of the results are between regular and good. Conclusion: The degree of patient's satisfaction who underwent mastopexy with insertion was excellent. There was a favorable impact on the quality of life and well-being of the patients evaluated, with the post-surgical result being classified as regular or good. ■ ABSTRACT


E-waste or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) illustrate discarded appliances that utilize electricity for their functioning. Today, the Indian market is engrossed with massive volumes of electrical and electronic goods and gadgets, having tremendously high domestic demand. Consequently, the amount of E-waste being generated in the country is flourishing at an alarming rate, although the management practices and policy initiatives of the same are still in an elementary stage. The current methods of storage, processing, recycling and disposal of E-waste in India have immense potential to harm human health and the environment. Furthermore, the policy level initiatives related to E-waste in India are reasonably recent and inadequate to address the issue. The paper tries to evaluate the current status of E-waste management practices in India. The domination of informal sector in the E-waste recycling business with all its socio-economic, health and environmental implications are dealt with in detail and the dawdling progress of formal recycling units in the country is assessed upon. The paper tries to identify the range of diverse stakeholders in the E-waste management system in India. These stakeholders are significant right from the production of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) to the final disposal of E-waste. The paper concludes that identifying the range of stakeholders in the E-waste management system and constructing a sustainable E-waste management system involving these stakeholders are the needs of the hour.


The study on agricultural information flow has revealed that only 40 per cent farm households access information from one or the other source. The popular information sources among farmers have been reported to be fellow progressive farmers and input dealers, followed by mass media. The public extension system has been found to be accessed by only 5.7 per cent households. Only 4.8 per cent of the small farmers have access to public extension workers as compared to 12.4 per cent of large farmers. The sector-wise study on the type of information, sought has revealed that a majority of the farmers have sought information on seed (32-55%) in the cultivation sector; on health care (26-54 %) in animal husbandry; and on management and marketing (8-46 %) in fisheries. Regarding adoption of information by farmers, input dealers and other progressive farmers have depicted greater influence mainly due to easy and convenient access to these sources. The study has suggested promotion of farmers-led extension and strengthening of public extension services to improve coverage and efficiency of agricultural information delivery systems.


Although the linguistic turn is usually described in historical terms this article aims at combing the significant historical transitions with systematic philosophical considerations. Against the background of earlier rationalistic and empiricist trends particular attention is given to the successive epistemic ideals manifest in the conceptual rationalism of the Enlightenment, followed by the historicism of the 19 th century and subsequently by the linguistic turn. An assessment of these transitions will explore systematic issues, in particular the relationship between universality and what is individual, the difference between functional laws and type laws, and regarding the limits of concept formation the distinction between conceptual knowledge and concept-transcending knowledge. This distinction enables the introduction of a new understanding of the difference between rationalism and irrationalism. Apart from Dilthey the linguistic turn penetrated also the thought of thinkers such as Freud, Wittgenstein, Frankl, Heidegger, Habermas, Dooyeweerd and Gadamer, all of them (implicitly or explicitly) elaborated the initial criticism raised by Herder, Jacobi, Hamann, Heidegger and Gadamer against Kant's Critique of Pure Reason for neglecting language. After briefly referring to the connection between the linguistic turn and the idea of the meaningful construction of reality, the article ends with a concluding remark emphasizing the fact that no single concept-transcending usage of modal (aspectual) terms should be elevated above others or employed at the cost of other equally legitimate idea-statements.


Irish Journal of
Management
Irish Journal of Management • 35(2) • 2016 • 109-113
DOI: 10.1515/ijm-2016-0008
* E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Graham Heaslip
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*, Robert Galavan
2
 and Anne Sigismund Huff
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1
School of Business, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland
2
School of Business, Maynooth University, Ireland
Editorial
Introduction
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and the looming environmental crisis, management researchers have
increasingly addressed the fundamental cultural, economic and organisational challenges that societies across
the world are facing. The unifying theme from the 2012 conference was 'transformation': what new methodologies,
theory-building approaches and areas of investigation does the management academy need to create value for our
stakeholders. Similarly, there is a need to respond to repeated calls for the renewal of management education and
practice. At a time when management may be associated with corporate greed and unethical behaviour, the 15th
Irish Academy of Management (IAM) returned to the fundamentals of management theory to re-consider the merits
of ideas and principles proffered many years ago in equally challenging times. This editorial introduces the special
topic forum on 'Transforming Management Research & Education'. By specifically assessing the current status
of research as well as practice, this paper not only identifies the key issues in current research and proposes an
agenda for future research, but also points out the challenges that scholars will encounter in pursuing the proposed
research agenda.
The special issue seeks to examine transforming management research and education, a key debate in
academia and international business which touches on all disciplines of management. A total of 12 papers were
accepted into the full review process after desk rejections. All papers were reviewed by at least three referees using
a standard double-blind review process. All accepted papers went through at least two revisions, and in some cases,
three revisions. One of the editors was recused from this process when their co-authored paper was reviewed. We
are extremely grateful to our colleagues, across all disciplines of management, who served as referees for this
special issue. Their reviews were detailed and incisive, frequently with useful developmental comments. Without
their participation the special issue would not have achieved the high quality it has. The five papers published in this
special issue responded to the call for papers.


The interpretations of logical expressions found in most introductory textbooks are not suitable for use in software engineering applications because they do not deal with partial functions. More advanced papers and texts deal with partial functions in a variety of complex ways. This paper proposes a very simple change to the classic interpretation of predicate expressions, one that defines their value for all values of all variables, yet is almost identical to the standard definitions. It then illustrates the application of this interpretation in software documentation. >


The parasitic copepod Mytilicola orientalis infesting mussels and oysters was so far
only described in saline waters – such as the North Sea. In April 2018, it was
recorded for the first time at a low salinity location in the Kiel Bight, Baltic Sea.
Two mature females of M. orientalis were found in two separate individuals of
Baltic blue mussels (Mytilus spp.). Prevalence of parasites in the whole sample was
low (3.6%), and no males or eggs were detected. In a second sample from October
2018, another adult female was found indicating spread over larger areas and
longer time periods. The findings of this study further indicated that larvae from
introduced M. orientalis adults can hatch under low saline conditions of Kiel Fjord
and are able to infest and to develop within tissues of Baltic blue mussels. It
therefore may just be a matter of time before the establishment of the full life cycle
of M. orientalis in the Baltic Sea.


Data‐driven science is heralded as a new paradigm in materials science. In this field, data is the new resource, and knowledge is extracted from materials datasets that are too big or complex for traditional human reasoning—typically with the intent to discover new or improved materials or materials phenomena. Multiple factors, including the open science movement, national funding, and progress in information technology, have fueled its development. Such related tools as materials databases, machine learning, and high‐throughput methods are now established as parts of the materials research toolset. However, there are a variety of challenges that impede progress in data‐driven materials science: data veracity, integration of experimental and computational data, data longevity, standardization, and the gap between industrial interests and academic efforts. In this perspective article, the historical development and current state of data‐driven materials science, building from the early evolution of open science to the rapid expansion of materials data infrastructures are discussed. Key successes and challenges so far are also reviewed, providing a perspective on the future development of the field.


For the efficient synthesis of divergent nitrogen-containing compounds of pharmaceutical and agricultural importance, the development of efficient, complementary, and new synthetic methodologies is essential. One of the key subjects is how to introduce nitrogen atoms in to organic molecules. This review summaries our recent efforts on this issue, focusing on the use of carbamates, acylhydrazines, and ammonia as nitrogen sources.


We consider a distributed beamforming problem where nodes are restricted to sending binary phases to a receiver that has access to a one-bit feedback channel. Our simplified model allows us to prove a rigorous lower bound on the running time and to explore algorithmic techniques and analyses. We demonstrate both upper and lower bounds on the convergence time that are linear in the number of nodes in the system. Our upper bound is given by analyzing a simple randomized algorithm. We also discuss methods for accurately approximating the convergence time numerically that apply to this algorithm, as well as more general algorithms. Finally, we investigate modifications of the basic algorithm which improve the constant factor in the running time.


Despite their high spectral efficiencies, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems suffer from high cost and complexity due to multiple radio frequency chains at both link ends. A possible solution is to select a subset of the available antennas at transmitter and/or receiver based on maximal capacity or minimal error rates. In this letter, we propose a receive antenna selection algorithm based on the minimization of the union bound on the vector error rate. By relaxing the antenna selection variables from discrete to continuous, we arrive at a convex optimization problem. Efficient numerical methods such as interior-point algorithms can be applied to solve this optimization problem with polynomial complexity.


Given the current impact of COVID-19, the learning experiences of Pasifika students within tertiary education has implicated their social and emotional wellbeing. Engaging in a Tongan learning approach, such as fakalukuluku, can present a viable learning practice for tertiary students' learning experiences. This paper presents the perspectives of four Tongan-born and raised researchers and educators who completed their tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on our experiences and reflections, we propose the Tongan concept of fakalukuluku as an approach to help elevate students' academic achievement in tertiary education. Our paper conceptualises and unfolds perspectives of fakalukuluku, as a cultural practice that is appropriate, collaborative, and accorded learning stability because of its spiritual dimensions as being paramount to students' success. We propose that a strong family and community support, the utilising of university learning support and the students' spiritual beliefs can help Tongan students in tertiary education succeed.


As a wide variety of quantum computing platforms become available, methods for assessing and comparing the performance of these devices are of increasing interest and importance. Inspired by the success of single-qubit error rate computations for tracking the progress of gate-based quantum computers, this work proposes a quantum annealing single-qubit assessment (QASA) protocol for quantifying the performance of individual qubits in quantum annealing computers. The proposed protocol scales to large quantum annealers with thousands of qubits and provides unique insights into the distribution of qubit properties within a particular hardware device. The efficacy of the QASA protocol is demonstrated by analyzing the properties of a D-Wave 2000Q system, revealing unanticipated correlations in the qubit performance of that device. A study repeating the QASA protocol at different annealing times highlights how the method can be utilized to understand the impact of annealing parameters on qubit performance. Overall, the proposed QASA protocol provides a useful tool for assessing the performance of current and emerging quantum annealing devices.


The conventional distribution network is becoming an active grid due to widespread integration of distributed energy resources (DERs). This integration raises great concerns about security of the power system considering the growing interactions between the transmission and active distribution systems. One way to ensure stability of the integrated power system is prediction of critical contingencies which can jeopardize the power system security. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate transient stability contingency ranking in power grids considering the uncertainties raised by DERs of active distribution networks. To this end, probabilistic transient stability prediction framework is provided, in which the probability density function of transient stability condition is calculated based on the normalized stability indicators. The normalized stability indicators are based on the rotor angle and rotor speed. The normalized stability indicators are only utilized in the case of using fault data for prediction. Based on the proposed scheme, the instability of generators is anticipated through the proposed probabilistic transient stability prediction framework. Also, the effects of the probable topology changes on the line overload and also the voltage profile are investigated. Finally, the performance of the proposed method is validated and compared with the time domain simulation under various operating conditions.


There has been tremendous growth in wireless technology in the last decade. This advancement has changed people do business in mobile environment (M-Business). This is where M-Commerce or Ubiquitous Commerce (U-Commerce) step in which promises to allow shoppers to purchase goods and have services using mobile phones, wearable PCs and handhelds and in the same way brings challenges for both individuals and society. This paper is intended to bring out the facts about the feasibility of m-commerce today; the strength and opportunities, the weaknesses and threats lying ahead. The highlight of this paper is the SWOT / TOWS matrix from which in future, the researchers may spell-out the ways to achieve the success of M-Commerce in the long-term.


The purpose of this study was to describe the process of treatment decision making for parents of children with cancer who no longer lived together. Fifteen biological parents and stepparents of eight children with cancer who had made a major treatment decision in the past were interviewed. Using grounded theory techniques, the process of stepping up, stepping back, being pushed, and stepping away in making treatment decisions was described by parents. The process depicted differing levels of parent involvement based on the parent's position in the family, involvement with the child before diagnosis, and stage of treatment. Psychosocial consequences for biological parent were linked to their decision making responsibility for the ill child. Stepparent effects were linked to interpersonal conflicts amongst the parents. Parents described a largely adaptive process of making treatment decisions for their children with cancer; including the additional burdens and challenges they faced because of their specific family circumstances. The findings from this study have implications for helping to better prepare nurses and other health care providers to care for similar families.


On the basis of technologies of gas atomization, supersonic gas atomization, surface effect of electric charge and jet, we design a new-style device of two fluids atomization with the combination of solid atomization and electric field utilizing a LAVAL nozzle, a delivery tube of sectional type and the electrical field dispersion technique. The soldering tin of 63 A was atomized with the air, and the powder prepared was analyzed by optical granularity analyzer, nanometer magnetic particles and Zeta potential analyzer. The results show that the particle size with less than 8μm can reach 75%; the average particle size is 1.7612μm, and the first peak in the distribution curve is about 500 nm, which is an order of magnitude smaller than that the existing reported peak. The compound atomization device can refine the particle size of powers effectively, improve uniformity, yielding rate, and the purity of atomized powders and has a significant effect on atomizing, thus provides powerful supports for preparing ultra fine metal powders with high efficiency and low energy consumption and has a good prospect in application.


SUMMARY

The effects of mercury concentration, pH, and chloride concentration on mercury adsorption by goethite were measured. With increasing pH, mercury adsorption increased rapidly at first, until a maximum was reached, and then decreased slowly. In the absence of chloride, the maximum was just below pH 4. With increasing chloride concentration, the maximum moved to higher pH values. This behaviour contrasts with that of the other heavy metals for which, beyond a certain pH, adsorption increases rapidly with further increase in pH.

The results were described by a model in which HgOH+ and HgCl+ ions were adsorbed and the electric potential of the reacting surfaces decreased with increasing pH. The maxima in the adsorption corresponded to maxima in the concentration of HgOH+. Although a good description of the results was obtained, there were consistent discrepancies. These suggested that the charge component of the model was unable to produce the correct relationship between electric potential and pH.

The results indicated that mercury adsorption was controlled by the same principles as adsorption of the other heavy metals. However, mercury's lower pK for dissociation and its higher affinity for chloride mean that the effects of pH on the ions present in solution are different, and this is the cause of the different behaviour.


E-mobility is an emerging means of transportation, mainly due to the environmental impact of petroleum-based fuel vehicles and oil prices' peak. However, electric vehicles face several challenges by the nature of technology. Consequently, electric vehicles have a limited travel range and are extremely heavy. In this research, an investigation is carried out on different measures to reduce the DC-link capacitor size in the drive train of an electric vehicle. The investigation is based on software simulations. The DC-link capacitor must be dimensioned with regards to relevant points of operation, which are defined by the rotation speed and torque of the motor as well as the available DC-link voltage. This also includes the field-oriented control (FOC). In order to optimally operate a three-phase inverter in the electric drive train, a suitable type and sizing of the capacitor was studied based on mathematical equations and simulations. Two measures were examined in this study: firstly, an auxiliary passive notch filter introduced in the electric drive train circuit is explored. Based on this measure, an advanced modulation scheme exploiting the control of individual currents within segmented windings of the PMSM is investigated in detail. It was seen that saw-tooth carrier modulation used in the parallel three-phase inverter is found to reduce DC-link capacitor size in the electric drive train circuit by 70%.


Pair programming is a collaborative learning approach in computer science in which students (or employees) work closely with a partner on the same programming task. A long-standing question within pair programming is whether certain combinations of students lead to greater learning, effort, and/or performance. Earlier studies have explored the role of prior programming experience, including the discrepancy between partners' experience, as a potentially important factor in shaping these outcomes. However, the previous findings are highly inconsistent, which may result from divergent (and often suboptimal) ways of defining previous experience or skill, problems with self-selection into pairs, and small sample sizes that often yield nonsignificant results. The present study sought to improve on all of these limitations through an examination of 587 undergraduates who each participated in three different randomly assigned pairings. Not surprisingly, students' own programming experience was positively related to understanding concepts from lab, confidence in the finished product, and overall interest in computer science. However, students who worked with a more experienced partner actually had poorer outcomes, including lower effort exerted on the assignment, perceptions that their partner gave more effort than they did, less time in the driving role (i.e., typing out the assignment), lower understanding of concepts from lab, and less interest in computer science overall. The partner's experience is unrelated to other outcomes, including confidence in the finished assignment, feeling productive during lab session, and average grades received during the pairing. These results provide important considerations for the assignment of students to pairs.


Cloud-management infrastructure plays an important role as a part of cloud computing stacks, serving as the resource manager of cloud platforms. The complexity of cloud-management infrastructure makes its high availability (HA) one of the most critical requirements. Various technologies have been developed to increase the reliability and availability of cloud management infrastructure, however, little work focused on quantitative analysis of its availability. In this paper, we designed a new availability benchmarking method for cloud management infrastructure. By using our measurement method, a private cloud customer or public cloud provider can estimate the availability of deployment of its cloud management stack. We have evaluated our method on Open Stack cloud infrastructure. We show that with various HA technologies and configurations, the availability of the cloud management infrastructure can be greatly different.


We design two parallel schemes, based on Schwarz Waveform Relaxation (SWR) procedures, for the numerical solution of the Kolmogorov equation. The latter is a simplified version of the Fokker-Planck equation describing the time evolution of the probability density of the velocity of a particle. SWR procedures decompose the spatiotemporal computational domain into subdomains and solve (in parallel) subproblems, that are coupled through suitable conditions at the interfaces to recover the solution of the global problem. We consider coupling conditions of both Dirichlet (Classical SWR) and Robin (Optimized SWR) types. We prove well-posedeness of the schemes subproblems and convergence for the proposed algorithms. We corroborate our findings with some numerical tests. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. 35K55, 65M12, 65M55. The dates will be set by the publisher.


The Aurivillius phases in the Bi-Fe-Ti-O system showing multiferroic properties arouse an increasing interest due to their wide potential applications in electronics. These compounds were usually prepared by high temperature solid-state reaction method using respective oxide powders mixed in required stoichiometry. An excess of bismuth oxide was often added due to its evaporation during heat treatment. The mixture of the oxide powders were calcined in air between 700 and 900°C for several or even for several dozen hours. In the present paper the Bi6Fe2Ti3O18 Aurivillius phase was prepared by direct solid state reaction between respective oxides and by co-precipitation – calcination method. Mixture of the oxides and co-precipitated gels were calcined at different temperatures and X-ray diffraction analysis was used for identification of phase composition of the products.


This paper presents a new type of land market analysis relevant to cities with plural tenure systems as in West Africa. The methodology hinges on a systemic analysis of land delivery channels, which helps to show how land is initially made available for circulation, how tenure can be formalized incrementally, and the different means whereby households can access land. The analysis is applied to the area of Bamako in Mali, where information was collected through (i) interviews with key informants, (ii) a literature review on land policies, public allocations, and customary transfers of land, (iii) a press review on land disputes, and (iv) a survey of more than 1,600 land transfers of un-built plots that occurred between 2009 and 2012. The analysis finds that land is mostly accessed through an informal customary channel, whereby peri-urban land is transformed from agricultural to residential use, and through a public channel, which involves the administrative allocation of residential plots to households. The integrated analysis of land markets and land institutions stresses the complexity of procedures and the extra-legality of practices that strongly affect the functioning of formal and informal markets and make access to land costly and insecure, with negative social, economic, and environmental impacts over the long term.


In this paper, we propose a shape reconstruction and image restoration method for paper documents with curved surfaces or fold lines by using a stereo vision system. Characters in images of thick book's pages acquired with an image scanner are difficult to recognize because they are deformed under the influence of curved surface. Therefore, 3-D shape reconstruction of the book's surface is executed from the result of the stereoscopic measurement by putting the book upward, and an image of a flat surface is recovered from the curved or folded surface. The validity of the proposed method is shown through experiments.


Nao Brown is 'Hafu': half Japanese, half English. She suffers with OCD, but not the hand-washing, overly tidy type that people joke about. Nao suffers from violent morbid obsessions and a racing, unruly mind. She works part time in a 'designer' vinyl toy shop, whilst struggling to get her own design and illustration career off the ground. She's looking for love - the perfect love. But in meeting the man of her dreams, she realises that - dreams can be quite weird. Nao meditates in an attempt to quieten her mind and open her heart and it's through this that she comes to realise that things aren't so black and white after all. In fact, they're much more...brown.


Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is a widely consumed food crop and a primary protein source for many of the indigenous inhabitants of the Andean region of South America. The objective of this study was to develop a collection of reproducible and highly informative microsatellite markers for quinoa. A total of 1276 clones were sequenced from three microsatellite-enriched (CA, ATT, ATG) libraries. Four hundred fifty-seven (36%) of the clones contained unique microsatellites. The most common repeated motifs, other than CA, AAT, and ATG, were GA and CAA. Flanking primers were designed for 397 microsatellite loci and screened using a panel of diverse quinoa accessions and one accession of C. berlandieri Moq., a wild relative of quinoa. Two hundred eight (52%) of the microsatellite markers were polymorphic among the quinoa accessions. An additional 25 of the microsatellite markers (6%) were polymorphic when the C. berlandieri accession was included in the analysis. Only in rare instances (nine) did a microsatellite amplify in quinoa and not in C. berlandieri. The number of observed alleles ranged from 2 to 13, with an average of four alleles detected per locus. Heterozygosity values ranged from 0.20 to 0.90 with a mean value of 0.57. Sixty-seven markers (32%) were highly polymorphic (H ≥ 0.70). These microsatellites markers are an ideal resource for use in managing quinoa germplasm, trait mapping and marker-assisted breeding strategies. The wide cross-species transportability of these markers may extend their value to research involving other Chenopodium species.


This research deals with analytical methods for (16) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), nitrate and nitrite determination in Iraqi vegetables. Some PAHs are of proven carcinogenic activity; consequently, they exceed the limits of concentrations which approved by the European Food Safety Authority. Nitrate and nitrite also determined in Iraqi vegetables compared with the European specifications. There is no recommendations for the allowable limits of nitrate and Nitric in the fresh vegetables. The analytical determination for PAHs is carried out by high performance liquid chromatography, with ultraviolet (UV) detector, while the analytical determination for nitrate and nitrite is carried out by UV/Vis. Spectrometer.


: The number of pregnant women uncovered by medical insurance is increasing in the maternity of Saint-Pierre Hospital (44% increase over a 3 year period). During the academic year 92-93, this situation was present in 9.8% of the mothers; 98% of these patients were foreigners. The majority of pregnancies were not or poorly followed. Admissions occurred very often in emergency situations. The lack of prenatal care in this population with a very low socio-economic level led to a six-fold increase in perinatal mortality after exclusion of congenital malformations (58.4% versus 8.7%). This high mortality rate was mainly due to extreme prematurity (birthweight between 500 and 1500 g).


Power to substitute natural gas (PtSNG) is a promising technology to store intermittent renewable electricity as synthetic fuel. Power surplus on the electric grid is converted to hydrogen via water electrolysis and then to SNG via CO2 methanation. The SNG produced can be directly injected into the natural gas infrastructure for long-term and large-scale energy storage. Because of the fluctuating behaviour of the input energy source, the overall annual plant efficiency and SNG production are affected by the plant operation time and the standby strategy chosen. The re-use of internal (waste) heat for satisfying the energy requirements during critical moments can be crucial to achieving high annual efficiencies. In this study, the heat recovery from a PtSNG plant coupled with wind energy, based on proton exchange membrane electrolysis, adiabatic fixed bed methanation and membrane technology for SNG upgrading, is investigated. The proposed thermal recovery strategy involves the waste heat available from the methanation unit during the operation hours being accumulated by means of a two-tanks diathermic oil circuit. The stored heat is used to compensate for the heat losses of methanation reactors, during the hot-standby state. Two options to maintain the reactors at operating temperature have been assessed. The first requires that the diathermic oil transfers heat to a hydrogen stream, which is used to flush the reactors in order to guarantee the hot-standby conditions. The second option entails that the stored heat being recovered for electricity production through an Organic Rankine Cycle. The electricity produced is used to compensate the reactors heat losses by using electrical trace heating during the hot-standby hours, as well as to supply energy to ancillary equipment. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the technical feasibility of the proposed heat recovery strategies and how they impact on the annual plant performances. The results showed that the annual efficiencies on an LHV basis were found to be 44.0% and 44.3% for the thermal storage and electrical storage configurations, respectively.


Abstract. Many ecosystems experience drastic changes to soil nutrient availability associated with fire, but the magnitude and duration of these changes are highly variable among vegetation and fire types. In pyrogenic pine savannas across the southeastern United States, pulses of soil inorganic nitrogen (N) occur in tandem with ecosystem-scale nutrient losses from prescribed burns. Despite the importance of this management tool for restoring and maintaining fire-dependent plant communities, the contributions of different mechanisms underlying fire-associated changes to soil N availability remain unclear. Pulses of N availability following fire have been hypothesized to occur through (1) changes to microbial cycling rates and (2) direct ash deposition. Here, we document fire-associated changes to N availability across the growing season in a longleaf pine savanna in North Carolina. To differentiate between possible mechanisms driving soil N pulses, we measured net microbial cycling rates and changes to soil δ15N before and after a burn. Our findings refute both proposed mechanisms: we found no evidence for changes in microbial activity, and limited evidence that ash deposition could account for the increase in ammonium availability to more than 5–25 times background levels. Consequently, we propose a third mechanism to explain post-fire patterns of soil N availability, namely that (3) changes to plant sink strength may contribute to ephemeral increases in soil N availability, and encourage future studies to explicitly test this mechanism.


The Texas A&M Transportation Institute's (TTI's) often-cited Urban Mobility Report (UMR) provides transportation decision-makers with urban-area congestion statistics and trends. Data and their availability have continued to evolve rapidly over the years that this report has been produced, and TTI researchers have updated the UMR methodology as new data sources and information become available. The objectives of this project were to (a) investigate the UMR methodology assumptions related to the daily volume distributions for trucks and possible methodology improvements, and (b) investigate the UMR methodology related to the benefits of transit ridership and transit delay reduction calculations and possible methodology improvements. To satisfy the first objective, TTI researchers collected vehicle classification data from Georgia, Texas, Washington, and Colorado. While there were only 36 sites used to investigate potentially new truck distribution graphs, the results indicate that trucks have a different time-of-day distribution than a distribution created from all vehicles together. Because the sample size of these findings is relatively low, researchers hope to investigate these findings on larger samples prior to making methodological changes in the UMR. To satisfy the second objective, TTI researchers collaborated with public transit experts at the University of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research. Chapter 4 provides several proposed methodological improvements to the transit benefits methodology for the 2013 UMR, including (a) explicitly accounting for the miles traveled by roadway-based transit vehicles operating in mixed traffic conditions, and (b) more accurately accounting for the potential shift to private passenger vehicles in a post-transit environment by transit riders for the passenger miles they have actually traveled by transit. Researchers plan to incorporate these proposed changes into the 2013 UMR. Chapter 4 also documents future improvement opportunities for the short term and long term.


Background Non-drinkers have been repeatedly shown to have worse health than moderate drinkers in later life particularly as regards conditions such as coronary heart disease, leading some researchers to suggest that moderate alcohol consumption has beneficial effects on health. However the causal direction between non-drinking and worse health has been contested. Whether poor health is associated with non-drinking among young adults in relation to social and health factors will be investigated. Such a finding would imply that poor health may precede non-drinking even at early stages of the life course. Methods We performed logistic regression analysis of cross-sectional national survey data on 18 to 34 year olds, collected from The Health Survey for England 2006 and 2008. Data was collected through face to face interviews and is self-reported. Logistic regression analysis of longitudinal data collected from the National Child Development Study 1958 were also conducted. This is a follow up study to assess whether poor health at age 16 is associated with non-drinking at age 23, and whether these people are more likely to abstain at subsequent age sweeps. Results HSE 06 & 08: Having a limiting longstanding illness during early adulthood increased the odds of being a non-drinker 1.74 times for men (p<0.01), and 1.45 times for women (p<0.01). In both men and women belonging to the lowest income quintile or having no qualifications was associated with increased odds of being a non-drinker (p<0.001) indicating that the social gradient in non-drinking begins at an early age. Men and women aged 18 to 34 years with the lowest activity levels were also more likely to be non-drinkers (p<0.01). NCDS: Preliminary analysis reveals that non-drinkers at age 23 have higher rates of medical conditions at age 16 as assessed by a medical officer such as having a mental condition (p<0.001) a physical condition and heart and haematological condition (p<0.01). Conclusion Young adults who have a limiting longstanding illness are more likely not to drink alcohol even after adjusting for a range of social and demographic measures. Studies on the putative health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption later in life need to take account of early life history. Further analysis using longitudinal data will explore whether poor health precedes non-drinking right at the start of drinking history and whether people with poor health continue to abstain from alcohol at older ages.


We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts, and present evidence that managers undertake actions – in the form of sales management – to take advantage of these shortcuts. Specifically, we exploit a regulatory provision wherein a firm's primary industry is determined by the highest sales segment. Exploiting this regulation, we provide evidence that investors classify operationally nearly identical firms vastly differently depending on their placement around this sales cut-off. Moreover, managers appear to exploit this by manipulating sales to be just over the cutoff in favorable industries. Further evidence suggests that managers then engage in activities to realize large, tangible benefits from this opportunistic action.


The aim of this paper is to present a new original qualitative research method called the Discount Focus Subgroup (DFSG) method, which originated in and was developed from information systems research. This paper synthesizes previous work on DFSG method to provide a more coherent picture of the method's applications, procedures, and strengths. It discusses why the DFSG is an innovative method and how it is distinct from the existing traditional qualitative group-based methods (e.g. focus group, brainstorming, and joint application development). The paper also provides a critical evaluation of the method by highlighting the limitations and dilemmas that a researcher might encounter when applying it and demonstrating how these pitfalls can be avoided or lessened. It finally offers directions for future research to further develop this method. This paper presents useful methodological guidelines to researchers who intend to use this method in their research projects.


Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathies include chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) and paraprotein-associated demyelinating neuropathy. This review summarises the evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for the treatment of these conditions. It leads to the conclusions that: 1) steroids are beneficial in CIDP but not MMN and their efficacy in paraproteinaemic demyelinating neuropathy (PDN) is uncertain; 2) intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) produces short-term benefit in CIDP, MMN and IgM PDN. Its effect in IgG or IgA PDN has not been tested in RCTs; 3) plasma exchange (PE) also produces short-term benefit in CIDP and IgG or IgA PDN but probably not in MMN; 4) there is almost no information from RCTs concerning the possible benefits of immunosuppressive agents; and 5) volunteers are needed to write Cochrane systematic reviews of IVIg for MMN and of interventions for PDN associated with IgG and IgA.


This article examines how video can be used to help preservice and inservice teachers learn to notice what is happening in their classrooms. Data from two related studies are presented. In the first study, middle-school mathematics teachers met monthly in a video club in which they shared and discussed excerpts of videos from their classrooms. In the second study, a group of preservice high-school mathematics and science teachers used a new video analysis support tool called VAST to examine excerpts of video from their own and others' classrooms. In both cases, there were changes over time in what the teachers noticed and in how they interpreted these events. This research adds to the theoretical understanding of the role of video in teacher education and also provides direction for the development of new forms of video-based professional development activities. ********** Video has become an important tool for working with both novice and veteran teachers. This is particularly true in mathematics and science education, where many new video-based and multimedia programs have recently been developed. In some cases, video is used to demonstrate new ways that teachers can explore specific content areas with students (e.g., Hatfield & Bitter, 1994). In other cases, video is used to illustrate particular classroom processes such as discourse or problem solving (Corwin, Price, & Storeygard, 1996). Common to both of these approaches is an emphasis on helping teachers learn what to do in the classroom. In contrast, this research examines how video can help teachers learn to notice, that is, to develop new ways of "seeing" what is happening in their classrooms. This approach is based on the assertion that the ability to notice is critical in the context of current mathematics and science education reforms that require teachers to make pedagogical decisions in the midst of instruction (American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS], 1993; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM], 2000). For example, teachers are supposed to pay close attention to the ideas that students raise and then use these ideas as the basis for the lesson-in-progress. This adaptive style of instruction calls for teachers to be skilled at noticing and interpreting classroom interactions. Even veteran teachers who may already be experienced at seeing what is happening in their classrooms need to find ways to focus their attention on new aspects of classroom interactions (Smith, 1996). This article reports on two related studies that used video to support teachers' ability to notice and interpret classroom interactions. In both cases, changes took place in what the teachers noticed and in how they interpreted these events. This research adds to our theoretical understanding of the role of video in teacher education and also provides direction for the development of new forms of video-based professional development activities. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES The nature of expertise has been the focus of research for many years. From this research, key features of expert thought and action have been identified. For example, experts have well-structured knowledge systems in their area of expertise, as well as the ability to use that knowledge flexibly (Schoenfeld, 1985). In addition, experts typically make use of automated responses to tasks with which they have become familiar, easing the cognitive load for these tasks (Greeno & Simon, 1988). Experts also have the ability to recognize complexities within situations that they examine (Goodwin, 1994). Thus, rather than focusing on superficial aspects of a task, experts tend to focus on substantive issues and meaningful patterns (Chi, Feltovich, & Glasser, 1981). In studying teaching expertise in particular, many of these same issues have been investigated. For example, a great deal of research has explored the organization of teacher knowledge and how this knowledge is accessed (Ball, 1991; Ma, 1999; Putnam, 1987; Sherin, 2002). …


Background: Near-barrier fusion can be strongly affected by the coupling between relative motion and internal degrees of freedom of the collision partners. The time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory and the coupled-channels (CC) method are standard approaches to investigate this aspect of fusion dynamics. However, both approaches present limitations, such as a lack of tunnelling of the many-body wave function in the former and a need for external parameters to describe the nucleus-nucleus potential and the couplings in the latter. Method: A method combining both approaches is proposed to overcome these limitations. CC calculations are performed using two types of inputs from Hartree-Fock (HF) theory: the nucleus-nucleus potential calculated with the frozen HF method, and the properties of low-lying vibrational states and giant resonances computed from the TDHF linear response. Results: The effect of the couplings to vibrational modes is studied in the $^{40}$Ca$+^{40}$Ca and $^{56}$Ni$+^{56}$Ni systems. This work demonstrates that the main effect of these couplings is a lowering of the barrier, in good agreement with the fusion thresholds predicted by TDHF calculations. Conclusions: As the only phenomenological inputs are the choice of the internal states of the nuclei and the parameters of the energy density functional used in the HF and TDHF calculations, the method presented in this work has a broad range of possible applications, including studies of alternative couplings or reactions involving exotic nuclei.