Defining an OWL ontology that could be used to integrate mental-health risk information within a decision support system

In the field of mental health risk assessment, there is no standardisation between the data used in different systems. As a first step towards the possible interchange of data between assessment tools, an ontology has been constructed for a particular one, GRiST (Galatean Risk Screening Tool). We briefly introduce GRiST and its data structures, then describe the ontology and the benefits that have already been realised from the construction process. For example, the ontology has been used to check the consistency of the various trees used in the model. We then consider potential uses in integration of data from other sources. © 2009 IEEE.

Rotating the boards:corporate governance

Can companies resolve groupthink issues and improve their performance by turning over their boards more often, ask Mark Rogers and Amir Satvat.

International session at the BCLA conference

Full text: It seems a long time ago now since we were at the BCLA conference. The excellent FIFA World Cup in Brazil kept us occupied over the summer as well as Formula 1, Wimbledon, Tour de France, Commonwealth Games and of course exam paper marking! The BCLA conference this year was held in Birmingham at the International Convention Centre which again proved to be a great venue. The number of attendees overall was up on previous years, and at a record high of 1500 people. Amongst the highlights at this year's annual conference was the live surgery link where Professor Sunil Shah demonstrated the differences in technique between traditional phacoemulsification cataract surgery and femtosecond assisted phacoemulsification cataract surgery. Dr. Raquel Gil Cazorla, a research optometrist at Aston University, assisted in the procedure including calibrating the femtosecond laser. Another highlight for me was the session that I chaired, which was the international session organised by IACLE (International Association of CL Educators). There was a talk by Mirjam van Tilborg about dry eye prevalence in the Netherlands and how it was managed by medical general practitioners (GPs) or optometrists. It was interesting to know that there are only 2 schools of optometry there and currently under 1000 registered optometrists there. It also seems that GPs were more likely to blame CL as the cause for dry eye whereas optometrists who had a fuller range of tests were better at solving the issue. The next part of the session included the presentation of 5 selected posters from around the world. The posters were also displayed in the main poster area but were selected to be presented here as they had international relevance. The posters were: 1. Motivators and Barriers for Contact Lens Recommendation and Wear by Nilesh Thite (India) 2. Contact lens hygiene among Saudi wearers by Dr. Ali Masmaly (Saudi) 3. Trends of contact lens prescribing and patterns of contact lens practice in Jordan by Dr. Mera Haddad (Jordan) 4. Contact Lens Behaviour in Greece by Dr. Dimitra Makrynioti (Greece) 5. How practitioners inform ametropes about the benefits of contact lenses and overcome the potential barriers: an Italian survey, by Dr. Fabrizio Zeri (Italy) It was interesting to learn about CL practice in different parts, for example the CL wearing population ration in Saudi Arabia is around 1:2 Male:Female (similar to other parts of the world) and although the sale of CL is restricted to registered practitioners there are many unregistered outlets, like clothing stores, that flout the rules. In Jordan some older practitioners will still advise patients to use tap water or even saliva! But thankfully the newer generation of practitioners have been educated not to advise this. In Greece one of the concerns was that some practitioners may advise patients to use disposable lenses for longer than they should and again it seems to be the practitioners with inadequate education that would do this. In India it was found that cost was one barrier to using contact lenses but also some practitioners felt that they shouldn’t offer CLs due to cost too. In Italy sensitive eyes and CL care and maintenance were the barriers to CL wear but the motivators were vision and comfort and aesthetics. Finally the international session ended with the IACLE travel award and educator awards presented by IACLE president Shehzad Naroo and BCLA President Andrew Yorke. The travel award went to Wang Ling, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China. There were 3 regional Contact Lens Educator of the Year Awards sponsored by Coopervision and presented by Dr. J.C. Aragorn of Coopervision. 1. Asia Pacific Region – Dr. Rajeswari Mahadevan of Sankara Nethralaya Medical Research Foundation, Chennai, India 2. Americas Region – Dr. Sergio Garcia of University of La Salle, Bogotá and the University Santo Tomás, Bucaramanga, Colombia 3. Europe/Africa – Middle East Region: Dr. Eef van der Worp, affiliated with the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands The posters above were just a small selection of those displayed at this year's BCLA conference. If you missed the BCLA conference then you can see the abstracts for all posters and talks in a virtual issue of CLAE very soon. The poster competition was kindly sponsored by Elsevier. The poster winner this year was: Joan Gispets – Corneal and Anterior Chamber Parameters in Keratoconus The 3 runners up were: Debby Yeung – Scleral Lens Central Corneal Clearance Assessment with Biomicroscopy Sarah L. Smith – Subjective Grading of Lid Margin Staining Heiko Pult – Impact of Soft Contact Lenses on Lid Parallel Conjunctival Folds My final two highlights are a little more personal. Firstly, I was awarded Honorary Life Fellowship of the BCLA for my work with the Journal, and I would like to thank the BCLA, Elsevier, the editorial board of CLAE, the reviewers and the authors for their support of my role. My final highlight from the BCLA conference this year was the final presentation of the conference – the BCLA Gold Medal award. The recipient this year was Professor Philip Morgan with his talk ‘Changing the world with contact lenses’. Phil was the person who advised me to go to my first BCLA conference in 1994 (funnily he didn’t attend himself as he was busy getting married!) and now 20 years later he was being honoured with the accolade of being the BCLA Gold Medallist. The date of his BCLA medal addressed was shared with his father's birthday so a double celebration for Phil. Well done to outgoing BCLA President Andy Yorke and his team at the BCLA (including Nick Rumney, Cheryl Donnelly, Sarah Greenwood and Amir Khan) on an excellent conference. And finally welcome to new President Susan Bowers. Copyright © 2014 British Contact Lens Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A Characterization of Weakly Lindelöf Determined Banach Spaces

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B26, 46B03, 46B04.

Measurement assisted assembly and the roadmap to part-to-part assembly

Cycle times and production costs remain high in aerospace assembly processes largely due to extensive reworking within the assembly jig. Other industries replaced these craft based processes with part-to-part assembly facilitated by interchangeable parts. Due to very demanding interface tolerances and large flexible components it has not been possible to achieve the required interchangeability tolerances for most aerospace structures. Measurement assisted assembly processes can however deliver many of the advantages of part-to-part assembly without requiring interchangeable parts. This paper reviews assembly concepts such as interface management, oneway assembly, interchangeability, part-to-part assembly, jigless assembly and determinate assembly. The relationship between these processes is then detailed and they are organized into a roadmap leading to part-to-part assembly.

A posztmodern marketing rózsaszirmai

UTÓSZÓ „A lényeg az, hogy mi belül vagyunk a posztmodernizmus kultúráján, oly mértékben, hogy felszínes és semmitmondó elutasítása éppoly lehetetlen, mint amennyire önelégült és romlott, hasonlóképpen felszínes és semmitmondó ünneplése.” (Jameson, 1997:18) A posztmodern filozófia úgy tűnik, nem túlságosan érintette meg a magyar marketing szakmát. Fojtik (1999) cikke után nem igazán lehet azt mondani, hogy elburjánzottak volna a posztmodern ihletésű munkák. Könnyed intellektuális hóbort vagy valami sokkal lényegesebb, amiről a szakma nem vett tudomást? A hazai menedzsmenttudományokban (lásd pl. Bokor, 1994; Gelei, 2002) valamivel jelentősebb nyomot hagyó posztmodern irányzat a magyarországi marketingirodalomban méltatlanul feledésbe merült. Radácsi (2003) a Vezetéstudományban is kiemeli, hogy a hazai menedzsmentkutatások távolról sem mutatják azt az elméleti és gyakorlati sokszínűséget, ami a nemzetközi szakirodalomban már évtizedek óta megfigyelhető. Ez azért is különös, mivel a fogyasztói társadalom, a vásárlás, a reklámok, az üzletek / bevásárló központok, pozicionálás, a modern marketing teljes eszköztára a posztmodern jelenség létrehozója. (Brown, 1995). A posztmodern szerzők meglehetősen sokat példálóznak a modern marketing eredményeivel, vagyis a posztmodern fogyasztókkal, akik posztmodern reklámokat néznek, posztmodern bevásárlóközpontokba járnak, és Brown (1993) szavaival: „vásárolnak, tehát vannak”. Ráadásul a posztmodern gondolatok segíthetnek máshogy megközelíteni egy-egy problémát vagy fejleszthetik bizonyos kritikai kézségek kialakulását. Ebben a cikkben bemutattjuk a posztmodern szókészletet, valamint marketing talaján gyökeret vert posztmodern gondolatokat. A gyakran a filozófiai homály ködébe vesző értelmezések helyett és mellett utánajártunk a kérdés pszichológiai hátterének. Ez mindenképpen egy olyan adalékanyaggal szolgál, amelyre sok esetben nem kerül sor, amikor posztmodern gondolatokról olvasunk. Cikkünkkel szerettünk volna segíteni a tájékozódást a posztmodern irodalom rendkívül terjengős és ingoványos talaján. Fogásokat kerestünk rajta, de nem azért, hogy birkózó módjára magunk alá gyűrjük, sokkal inkább azért, hogy megismerjük. Utólag szeretnénk felhívni olvasóink figyelmét, hogy a tanulmányban sok a definíció. Vállaltuk azt, hogy wittgensteini értelemben „nyelvi játékokat játszottunk”, egy definíció használata ugyanis mindig egy nyelvjáték része. Ez egy posztmodernről szóló cikk, de alapvetően modern stílusjegyekkel: használtunk táblázatot, bekezdéseket, logikus vagy annak látszó szerkezeti megoldásokat. És nincsenek benne befejezetlen monda… Egy kiránduláson vettünk részt, ahol önfeledten bontogattuk ki a posztmodern marketing rózsaszirmait, feltárva a szirmok sokszínűségét és végtelen kavalkádját. Közben azt sem vettük zokon, ha időnként megcsípte orrunkat a méhecske.

A "politikai kormányzás" a média és a közpolitikai napirendek tükrében, 2010 és 2014 között

A tanulmány a Hungarian Comparative Agenda Project adatbázisait használva a médianapirend és a közpolitikai napirend közötti összefüggést vizsgálja, azt feltételezve, hogy a 2010–2014-es kormányzati ciklusban a "politikai kormányzás" hívószavának megfelelően a közpolitika-csinálást messzemenően meghatározták a kormányzat kezdeményezései. Vagyis a médiatematizációnak csekély volt a hatása arra, amiről az országgyűlésben beszéltek és amiről döntést hoztak. Sőt, a kutatás abból indul ki, hogy a politikai kezdeményezések magát a médianapirendet is eluralták, tehát a média csak csekély mértékben volt képes saját agendát létrehozni. Mindez feltehetően a kormányzati stílussal, valamint Magyarország gyenge közpolitikai képességeivel magyarázható.

Estimation of ravine sediment production and sediment dynamics in the lower Le Sueur River watershed, Minnesota

This study focuses on quantifying explicitly the sediment budget of deeply incised ravines in the lower Le Sueur River watershed, in southern Minnesota. High-rate-gully-erosion equations along with the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) were implemented in a numerical modeling approach that is based on a time-integration of the sediment balance equations. The model estimates the rates of ravine width and depth change and the amount of sediment periodically flushing from the ravines. Components of the sediment budget of the ravines were simulated with the model and results suggest that the ravine walls are the major sediment source in the ravines. A sensitivity analysis revealed that the erodibility coefficients of the gully bed and wall, the local slope angle and the Manning’s coefficient are the key parameters controlling the rate of sediment production. Recommendations to guide further monitoring efforts in the watershed and increased detail modeling approaches are highlighted as a result of this modeling effort.

Presumptive Identification of the Fungal Communities in Cystic Fibrosis Patients' Sputum Using Amplicon Length Heterogeneity Polymerase Chain Reaction

This thesis would not have been possible without the aid of my family, friends, laboratory members, and professors. First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Kalai Mathee for allowing me to enter her lab in August 2007 and enabling to embark on this journey. This experience has transformed me into more mature scientist, teaching me how to ask the right questions and the process needed to solve them. I would also like to acknowledge Dr. Lisa Schneper. She has helped me throughout the whole process, by graciously giving me input at every step of the way. I would like to express gratitude to Dr. Jennifer Richards for all her input in writing the thesis. She has been a great teacher and being in her class has been a pleasure. Moreover, I would like to thank all the committee members for their constructive criticism throughout the process. When I entered the lab in August, there was one person who literally was by my side, Melissa Doud. Without your input and guidance I would not have even been able to do these experiments. I would also like to thank you and Dr. Light for allowing me to meet some cystic fibrosis patients. It has allowed me to put a face on the disease, and help the patients' fight. For a period before I had entered the lab, Ms. Doud had an apprentice, who started the fungal aspect of the project, Caroline Veronese. Her initial work has enabled me to prefect the protocols and complete the ITS 1 region.One very unique aspect about Dr. Mathee's lab is the camaraderie. I would like to thank all the lab members for the good times in and out of the lab. These individuals have been able to make smile and laugh in parties and lab meetings. I would like to individually thank Balachandar Dananjeyan, Deepak Balasubramanian, and V arinderpal Singh Pannu for all the PCR help and Natalie Maricic for the laughs and being a great classmate. Last, but not least, I would like to acknowledge my family and friends for their support and keeping me sane: Cecilia, my mother, Mohammad, my father, Amir, my older brother, Billal, my younger brother, Ouday Akkari and Stephanie De Bedout, my best friends.

Hidden Communication Deficits in Children with Autism and Early Behavioral Interventions

Taking a behavioral systems approach to autism, early hidden communicative deficits are introduced as precursors of autistic development. This paper argues that early identification of communication (language and cognition) impairments followed by intensive behavioral interventions, as early as infancy, may have the most preventive effect on the development of autism.

The Literary Experience of Young Adults with Narratives: Towards Becoming a Person

The literary experience allows for subjectivities of individuals to flourish, a characteristic which makes this experience essential to readers’ self-concept development. This paper gives an overview of the empirical and theoretical literature that relates the literary experience (including both narrative literature and narratives of the self) to readers’ personal growth.

Vegetarians: A Typology for Foodservice Menu Development

There is currently a lack of research about the needs of vegetarians, from a practitioner or academic perspective. This paper contributes to filling this research gap, by discussing the needs of vegetarians who dine out and their current difficulties in participating in the dining experience, in the present context. Specifically, it is argued that the typology of vegetarians presented in this paper, based on their motivations to adopt the chosen diet, might prove useful for restaurants in order to understand the vegetarian guest and develop menu items and services that will better cater to their needs. Recommendations for practitioners and future research areas are presented.

Global Assemblages, Resilience, and Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene

In this paper, we argue that the Anthropocene is an epoch characterized not only by the anthropogenic dominance of the Earth's ecosystems but also by new forms of environmental governance and institutions. Echoing the literature in political ecology, we call these new forms of environmental governance “global assemblages”. Socioecological changes associated with global assemblages disproportionately impact poorer nations and communities along the development continuum, or the “Global South”, and others who depend on natural resources for subsistence. Although global assemblages are powerful mechanisms of socioecological change, we show how transnational networks of grassroots organizations are able to resist their negative social and environmental impacts, and thus foster socioecological resilience.

Peridynamic modeling of composite laminates under explosive loading

Peer reviewed

Modelling of Stress-Corrosion Cracking by Using Peridynamics

Acknowledgement The authors are grateful to Prof. Siegfried Schmauder and Prof. Erdogan Madenci for the useful discussions that occurred throughout the realization of this study and acknowledge the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) for the financial support. A special thanks go to the anonymous reviewers, whose time and contribution have been highly appreciated. Results were obtained using the EPSRC funded ARCHIE-WeSt High Performance Computer (www.archie-west.ac.uk). EPSRC grant no. EP/K000586/1.