Interesting Paths Research Articles

O ano em que a terra parou: o coronavírus e os novos caminhos da teoria social

Com a chegada de novos desafios em 2020, os cientistas sociais trilham dois caminhos interessantes, criativos, embora muitas vezes contraditórios entre si. De um lado, aqueles que incorporam os novos obstáculos dentro de ferramentas e temas clássicos, transformando o inédito em algo previsível, o estranho em familiar, e, do outro, aqueles que apostam na ideia de que as ciências sociais encontraram, em 2020, um limite, uma fronteira, além de uma oportunidade para repensar muitas das suas abordagens O objetivo desse ensaio, portanto, é entender um pouco os contornos dessa segunda abordagem, aqui chamada de Teoria Social Alternativa (T.S.A), além de sugerir suas implicações quando o assunto é o Coronavírus e suas consequências.

Time of Wisdom and time for Wisdom. The role of time perspective on wisdom in old age

Introduction: Wisdom was defined as a deep knowledge about the most relevant questions of life. Other theoretical perspectives maintain that wisdom is related also to the development of post-formal dialectical thinking and to the ability in managing the uncertainty of the future. Several studies have shown that wisdom is related to high level of psychological well-being in old age. This study explored the relationships between wisdom and time perspective in the third and fourth age, after controlling for age, gender and level of education as structural variables. Method: 155 subjects (m. age: 68.69; 67% females and 33% males) filled in the WITHAQ questionnaire (Moraitou & Efklides, 2013) and the S-ZTPI questionnaire (Carelli et al., 2011). Results: Positive correlations emerged between wisdom as post-formal thinking and future positive, negative correlation with present fatalistic. Wisdom as pragmatics of life is positively correlated with past positive and future positive, while wisdom as awareness of future uncertainty show positive correlations with past negative and past positive, future negative and future positive. Three hierarchical regression model that posited each of them a dimension of wisdom as dependent variable highlights time perspective as significant, positive contributor to them. Conclusions: The study highlights the relevance of time perspective for wisdom, opening new interesting paths of both research and interventions aimed at a better comprehension of the mechanisms that link the cognitive and affective relation with time in old age with the unfolding of wisdom in its specific dimensions and at translating these results into concrete therapeutic interventions.

Arachne’s Loom: A public art drawing for Porto Design Biennale 2019

The essay claims that a substantial part of contemporary drawing research has worked on the conceptual boundaries of what drawing is or when it takes place. It reports on a piece of public art on the limits of drawing that illustrates contemporary research issues based on drawings as elements or substantial parts of installations, public art, urban interventions, performances, unconventional media and materials. The piece – Arachne’s Loom – was an installation of 1500 m of black fibre-optic cable displayed across an artificial lake connecting a public library building to five computer heads. It was paired with a wind turbine blade placed in a public square – The Children of Eos – and the two together were presented under the title Hard Design. Curating this intervention was an opportunity to explore in a practical way issues that interweave the materiality/immateriality of graphic elements and that have been an important part of the author’s previous work. The wind turbine blade and cables installed in public spaces set up a number of polarities, two of which are relevant for drawing research: monuments vs. festivals and shapes vs. shapeless. Within the first polarity, a symbolic foundation for public art rooted in ancient myths is discussed. Particular attention is given to the power of Arachne’s myth as a cautionary narrative connected to the origins of both figurative and abstract drawing. Within the second polarity, in opposition to the wind blade’s distinct, ‘pure’ form, the rhizomatic structure of a web-like network of fibre-optic cables is explored in the context of drawing research. The text links philosophical rhizomes, real rhizomes, representations of rhizomes and visual allusions to rhizomes with public art, drawing, drawing as process, the World Wide Web and its extensions. The epilogue frames the piece within Nelson Goodman’s aesthetics, suggesting that further research into the work of this philosopher may open interesting paths for drawing theory.

Pomiar rektangularyzacji krzywej przeżycia – stan wiedzy i analiza wyników

This article is a result of a methodological literature review concerning the compression of mortality and rectangularization of the survival curve concepts. It aims to identify the current state of knowledge – key definitions, existing tools of measurement and analysis of empirical research conducted so far in Europe. The process of gathering and selecting scientific literature is precisely described so that one can easily understand the obtained knowledge synthesis and possibly improve further research. The first part of this paper includes definitions of the rectangularization of the survival curve, its dimensions, and related terminology. Then, 26 measures and indicators of the phenomenon, found in existing scientific literature, are described individually and gathered in a comparative table. Finally, the results of reviewing empirical research of 11 European countries are presented: Sweden, France, Switzerland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Spain, and Poland. The results are further discussed on the example of France. The analysis shows that some of the rectangularization measures are still rarely used empirically, some being only theoretically formulated. Moreover, these studies have small to none representation of some European countries. As a result of this literature review, new interesting paths for further research are formulated.

EL1 BUILDING A CAREER IN NEURO-ONCOLOGY RESEARCH

A young neurosurgeon has several interesting and important possible career paths: clinical care, clinical/translational research and more fundamental research. Each of these has its own requirements for training, talent and commitment. A closer inspection of each of these, however, reveals that they are basically quite similar. From this, several general conclusions can be gleaned and recommendations for optimizing the chances of long-term career success. In this short talk, I will review the aspects of our training program that has allowed each of our Japanese trainees to have remarkable success both while with us in the US and upon their return to Japan. My goal is to explicitly describe and state these as a roadmap for success, particularly in the rapidly developing field involving the application of molecular and genetic technologies to translational and basic neuro-oncology research—but also as more generally applicable principles.

Total-internal-reflection elastic metasurfaces: Design and application to structural vibration isolation

This letter presents the concept of the Total Internal Reflection metasurface (TIR-MS) which supports the realization of structure-embedded subwavelength acoustic shields for elastic waves propagating in thin waveguides. The proposed metasurface design exploits extreme phase gradients, implemented via locally resonant elements, in order to achieve operating conditions that are largely beyond the critical angle. Such artificial discontinuity is capable of producing complete reflection of the incoming waves regardless of the specific angle of incidence. From a practical perspective, the TIR-MS behaves as a sound hard barrier that is impenetrable to long-wavelength modes at a selected frequency. The TIR metasurface concept is first conceived for a flat interface embedded in a rectangular waveguide and designed to block longitudinal S0-type guided modes. Then, it is extended to circular plates in order to show how enclosed areas can be effectively shielded by incoming waves. Given the same underlying physics, an equivalent dynamic behavior was also numerically and experimentally illustrated for flexural A0-type guided modes. This study shows numerical and experimental evidence that, when the metasurface is excited at the target frequency, significant vibration isolation can be achieved in the presence of waves having any arbitrary angle of incidence. These results open interesting paths to achieve vibration isolation and energy filtering in certain prototypical structures of interest for practical engineering applications.

运用从头算分子动力学模拟高温耦合爆轰压力条件下α-RDX的分解机理（英）

The initiation and subsequent decomposition mechanisms of α-RDX crystal under high temperature (3000 K) coupled with detonation pressure (34.5 GPa) were studied by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The crystal structure of RDX was relaxed using two types of van der Waals corrections such as PBEG06 and PBETS functional at ambient conditions. The results indicate that the PBEG06 functional is much suitable for studying α-RDX. Results show that the decomposition of α-RDX is triggered by the homolysis of the C—H bond. The DOS clearly validates that the C—H bond is broken. The elimination reaction of HONO during the decomposition is observed. The primary reactions for producing NO2, NO, N2O, N2, HONO, N2O4, H, O—H, H2O, and CO2 occur at very early stages. After the initiation of RDX, there are three different subsequent decomposition pathways. There are three main interesting subsequent decomposition paths include: (1) the C—N bond hemolysis triggers the other C—N bonds of this ring to break; (2) the dissociation of N—NO2 bond releases NO2 gas; (3) the H radical attacks the O atom to release O—H radical by forming O—H bond.

Why Elizabeth Eisenstein might have been a technological determinist: And why, in the end, it does not really matter

Abstract This article makes the case for Elizabeth Eisenstein’s continuing relevance by returning to the question of technological determinism, a fraught issue in the historical study of communication generally and in discussions of Eisenstein’s work specifically. After reviewing the arguments against technological determinism, I propose that, even were we to concede that Eisenstein was a determinist, the questions raised by her study of the printing press continue to provoke interesting paths of research for historians of the early modern age. Perhaps her most important contribution has been to highlight the fact that technological artefacts can be considered social actors (or ‘agents of change’). I illustrate this point by an example from the time period: the mediated treatment of an annual sporting event, the Dover Games, which took place in the Cotswold Hills from about 1612 to 1642. Thus, while it is important to take into account the criticisms of Eisenstein’s work (and this is true whether we consider her to be a technological determinist or not), her style of historical investigation remains relevant for study into how print, and indeed other media technologies, has affected the evolution of our social environment.

Analysis of Energy Efficiency Measures and Retrofitting Solutions for Social Housing Buildings in Spain as a Way to Mitigate Energy Poverty

Energy poverty is a common issue in social housing all over Europe, with a harder impact in Southern European countries. Social housing buildings play an important role in energy poverty. They are usually owned and managed by public institutions and usually share common characteristics and issues. Behavioural changes and energy retrofitting are interesting paths forward but some solutions do not fit well in this type of housing due to socioeconomic reasons. This paper makes a thorough analysis of possible energy efficiency measures in social housing buildings, characterizing them by energy and economic savings and investment and proposing different methods of prioritization. A rational approach of behavioural and retrofitting solutions that best fit into this particular housing type is delivered, with the aim to increase the thermal comfort of the residents and mitigate the energy poverty issue. Results show that there is a wide range of domestic efficiency measures to be applied in this type of dwellings at none or low costs, bringing annual savings per average dwelling of about 510 €/year (55% of initial energy costs) including measures both at domestic level, and at building level with a final aggregated payback of the investments to be about 1.5 years.

Political Ideology and Consumer Research beyond Complaining Behavior: A Response to the Commentaries

Abstract Two commentaries on our article offer interesting and useful paths for pushing forward the research stream we have developed. Jost, Langer, and Singh suggest delving more deeply into underlying psychological motives while extending our finding to consumer boycotting behavior, and Crockett and Pendarvis suggest broadening the scope to consider the sociocultural context in which complaining occurs. We discuss these two complementary approaches. Building on these ideas, we offer five research themes we believe are fruitful avenues for exploring the interface between consumer research and political ideology. As an illustration of one of these themes, we use three county-level datasets to explore whether and how political ideology and social vulnerability combine to influence a number of prosocial behaviors.

Diseño de una aplicación móvil que actualiza procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje permitiendo la adquisición de conocimientos en capacidades físicas condicionales y deportes

This article shows how ninth grade students from Eduardo Umaña Mendoza school in Bogotá, find dynamic and interesting paths in the teaching-learning process when comparing the results of a pre and post survey that inquiries about physical capacities and sports. The intervention is an implementation of a mobile application that proposes interactive and current paths in the educational process. The results are compared with quantitative statistical methods and it is concluded that the application affects efficiently the acquisition of knowledge in physical capacities and sports of ninth grade students, compared to a control group, and that the implementation of a mobile application has more significance than the traditional model.

Colonization dynamic of various crop residues by Fusarium graminearum monitored through real-time PCR measurements.

To evaluate the effect of the type of crop residues on the colonization dynamic of Fusarium graminearum in soil. The ability of F.graminearum to survive in the presence of various crop residues was assessed on Petri dishes and in microcosms. These microcosms comprised soil that had or had not been previously disinfested with or without amendment with various crop residues. The colonization dynamic of F.graminearum was monitored through real-time PCR. Fusarium graminearum development was higher in disinfested soil than in non-disinfested one. The fungal growth was enhanced to various extents according to the type of crop residues, except for mustard residues which inhibited it. The biochemical and physical properties of the residues were likely to account for the differences in the survival of F.graminearum. Fusarium graminearum is a poor competitor in soil but it can use maize, wheat, and rape residues to ensure its survival. Conversely alfalfa, which is assimilated by micro-organisms very easily, avoids long-lasting survival of the fungus. And finally, mustard producing glucosinolates could be used as an intermediate crop to reduce the inoculum amount. This study is contributing to the knowledge about F.graminearum saprotophic abilities and proposes interesting paths to limit its survival in soil.

House price cycles in Australia’s four largest capital cities

The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we propose a threshold cube equation, augmented with the optimal number of autoregressive terms, to model the likely future path of house prices in Australia’s four major capital cities. The proposed framework can be adopted to simulate house prices in other cities experiencing similar price cycles (spirals) such as London and Vancouver. Second, using a proprietary dataset not publicly available (1995m12–2015m10), we use the proposed model to simulate house prices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, which have been on a steep upward trajectory since 2013. To check the sensitivity and robustness of our results, we evaluate the model in terms of the out-of-sample accuracy for two separate 12-month periods. We find that the forecasting performance of the model appears to be reasonable. Then we use the model to provide the ex ante future path of house prices during the next twelve months (2015m11–2016m10). Although we do not seek to forecast all see-saw changes in property prices, based on the historical length of boom and bust cycles in the past, some interesting overall price paths are detected. It is observed that during the next year house prices in all capital cities will start plateauing with some likely moderate falls. This downward price adjustment is particularly more noticeable in Perth.

Abstract 773: Analysis of oncogene affected networks in tumorigenesis of lung cancer

Abstract Genetic abnormality is one of major causes of tumorigenesis by driving the progressive transformation of normal human cells into highly malignant derivatives. Tracing the downstream pathways through which and how the effects of the oncogenic-activating mutations are transmitted is an important and challenging problem in studying disease mechanisms, diagnoses and treatments. In this study, we designed a network-based computational method, called MAXMAP, to not only predict mutation downstream affected pathways, but also quantitatively measure the dynamics of the pathway genes. We first constructed a heterogeneous network by integrating protein-protein interaction networks and signaling and regulatory networks from available up-to-date curated databases, as well as RNASeq expression data. The RNAseq dataset of these mutated cell lines has 18,096 genes whereas the Protein Protein Interaction and Signalling, regulation dataset has 14,864 genes. We then used the maximal information flow method to globally optimize the effects from the mutations to target downstream genes. The method was applied to analyze the biological network dynamics that is caused by single (TP53), double (TP53+KRAS) and triple (TP53+KRAS+STK11) mutations of HBEC30KT, an immortalized lung cell line, and revealed the core dynamical subnetworks of these mutations. Only the triple mutant is known to have tumor-like properties and as shown in earlier studies these sequential mutation accumulations lead to tumorigenesis in mouse xenograft models. The experimental validation of a small subnetwork was performed using transient knock down of the pathway genes and expression was verified using qPCR. We showed the dynamical subnetworks through which a gene, SLC7A5 was affected by sequential single, double or triple mutations. We have experimentally validated the predicted small subnetwork for SLC7A5 which is an important transporter of neutral amino acids. It is associated with bladder and bile duct adeno carcinomas and overexpressed in lung cancers. We selected the subnetwork affected due to the single mutation (TP53) for validation, including THBS1, TNFRSF11B and MAPK1 and SLC7A5. Hence, using the MAXMAP method we have successfully identified a dynamical subnetwork affected by changes in the known network of genes. These results suggest that this computational method may allow us to predict drug targets or biomarkers or to study interesting alternative paths and predict the most likely path leading to certain phenotypic outcomes. Citation Format: Adwait Sathe, Yong Chen, Hyuntae Yoo, Michael Q. Zhang. Analysis of oncogene affected networks in tumorigenesis of lung cancer. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2016 Apr 16-20; New Orleans, LA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2016;76(14 Suppl):Abstract nr 773.

스텔스 게임 레벨 디자인 툴의 개선

In the stealth game design, level designers are to develop many interesting game environments with a variety of difficulties. J. Tremblay and his co-authors developed a Unity-based level design tool to help and automate this process. Given a map, if the designer inputs several game factors such as guard paths and velocities, their vision, and the player's initial and goal positions, then the tool visualizes simulation results including (clustered) possible paths a player could take to avoid detection. Thus with the help of this tool, the designer can ensure in realtime if the current game factors result in the intended difficulties and players paths, and if necessary adjust the factors. In this note, we present our improvement on this tool in two aspects. First, we integrate a function that if the designer inputs some vertices in the map, then the tool systematically generates and suggests interesting guard paths containing these vertices of various difficulties, which enhances its convenience and usefulness as a tool. Second, we replace the collision-detection function and the RRT-based (player) path generation function, by our new collision-check function and a Delaunay roadmap-based path generation function, which remarkably improves the simulation process in time-efficiency.

INTERESTING SPATIO-TEMPORAL REGION DISCOVERY COMPUTATIONS OVER GPU AND MAPREDUCE PLATFORMS

Abstract. Discovery of interesting paths and regions in spatio-temporal data sets is important to many fields such as the earth and atmospheric sciences, GIS, public safety and public health both as a goal and as a preliminary step in a larger series of computations. This discovery is usually an exhaustive procedure that quickly becomes extremely time consuming to perform using traditional paradigms and hardware and given the rapidly growing sizes of today’s data sets is quickly outpacing the speed at which computational capacity is growing. In our previous work (Prasad et al., 2013a) we achieved a 50 times speedup over sequential using a single GPU. We were able to achieve near linear speedup over this result on interesting path discovery by using Apache Hadoop to distribute the workload across multiple GPU nodes. Leveraging the parallel architecture of GPUs we were able to drastically reduce the computation time of a 3-dimensional spatio-temporal interest region search on a single tile of normalized difference vegetative index for Saudi Arabia. We were further able to see an almost linear speedup in compute performance by distributing this workload across several GPUs with a simple MapReduce model. This increases the speed of processing 10 fold over the comparable sequential while simultaneously increasing the amount of data being processed by 384 fold. This allowed us to process the entirety of the selected data set instead of a constrained window.

O COTIDIANO E A HISTÓRIA: CONSTRUINDO NOVOS OLHARES NA ADMINISTRAÇÃO

O objetivo deste artigo é discutir as possíveis contribuições de estudos que fazem confluir história e cotidiano para a construção de novos olhares sobre a Administração. Para atender a esse objetivo, debatemos a aproximação entre a Administração e a história e os estudos sobre o cotidiano como opção para se produzirem olhares alternativos dentro da Administração. Concluímos reiterando que a construção desses diálogos pode abrir trilhas interessantes para o desenvolvimento de conhecimentos autorrefletidos e que estejam posicionados política, social e geograficamente.

Reflections on supervision in psychotherapy

The aim of the author is to share his reflections on supervision as a central topic in therapists' education and training programs. The concept of supervision, its functions and effects on the training process along with the contributions of different theoretical models to its evolution are addressed. Supervision alliance, the roles of supervisor and supervisee, evaluation as a central component and the influence of socioeconomic factors are discussed. The conclusions depict the most interesting paths for development in the near future and the areas where research needs to be further conducted along with the subjects most worthy of efforts in the supervision field.

Cyber Security Education, Qualifications and Training

The rise in significance of cyber security has led to an increase in the range of interesting career paths that can be followed in this area. Inevitably there has also been an explosion in the diversity of available cyber security education, qualifications and training, most of which is targeted at those seeking to engage with this promising job market. In this article, some guidelines are provided on how to select appropriate education, qualifications and training in cyber security, alongside a review of some of the many current offerings and how to differentiate between them. While the focus is on the UK cyber security sector, many of the observations have wider relevance.

Profiling selected paths with loops

Path profiling records the frequency of each path in an executed program. To accomplish profiling, probes are instrumented in the program and executed as the program runs. So, the number of probes has a significant impact on the efficiency of a profiling technique. By profiling only the interesting paths, existing techniques try to improve the profiling efficiency by reducing the number of probes and optimize path encodings for efficient storage. However, they lack accuracy, waste time on running uninteresting paths, and can mainly deal with acyclic paths. In this article, a novel technique called Profiling Selected Paths (PSP) is introduced to profile selected paths, which enables custom selection for both acyclic and cyclic paths and increases the execution efficiency by early termination on uninteresting paths. Theoretical analysis and experimental evaluation indicate that PSP performs better than existing techniques.