Assessing Speech-Language Pathologists’ Knowledge and Use of Language Acquisition through Motor Planning

Many individuals who are nonverbal require augmentative and alternative communication devices to communicate. The purpose of this research was to assess speech-language pathologists’ knowledge of a particular method of implementing augmentative and alternative communication devices known as language acquisition through motor planning (LAMP). Further, this research was designed to determine the percentage of speech pathologists who have used LAMP during their careers as well as the perceived level of success speech pathologists have found with LAMP. Mississippi speech-language pathologists were used as the sample for this study. A survey was created electronically via the online survey development software, “Survey Monkey,” and distributed electronically via email. A total of forty-two speech pathologists responded to this survey. The data from the survey provided information regarding speech pathologists’ knowledge of LAMP, the prevalence of its use, the populations with which speech pathologists have used LAMP, and the perceived degree of success speech pathologists have found with LAMP

Efficient And Scalable Evaluation Of Continuous, Spatio-temporal Queries In Mobile Computing Environments

A variety of research exists for the processing of continuous queries in large, mobile environments. Each method tries, in its own way, to address the computational bottleneck of constantly processing so many queries. For this research, we present a two-pronged approach at addressing this problem. Firstly, we introduce an efficient and scalable system for monitoring traditional, continuous queries by leveraging the parallel processing capability of the Graphics Processing Unit. We examine a naive CPU-based solution for continuous range-monitoring queries, and we then extend this system using the GPU. Additionally, with mobile communication devices becoming commodity, location-based services will become ubiquitous. To cope with the very high intensity of location-based queries, we propose a view oriented approach of the location database, thereby reducing computation costs by exploiting computation sharing amongst queries requiring the same view. Our studies show that by exploiting the parallel processing power of the GPU, we are able to significantly scale the number of mobile objects, while maintaining an acceptable level of performance. Our second approach was to view this research problem as one belonging to the domain of data streams. Several works have convincingly argued that the two research fields of spatiotemporal data streams and the management of moving objects can naturally come together. [IlMI10, ChFr03, MoXA04] For example, the output of a GPS receiver, monitoring the position of a mobile object, is viewed as a data stream of location updates. This data stream of location updates, along with those from the plausibly many other mobile objects, is received at a centralized server, which processes the streams upon arrival, effectively updating the answers to the currently active queries in real time. iv For this second approach, we present GEDS, a scalable, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based framework for the evaluation of continuous spatio-temporal queries over spatiotemporal data streams. Specifically, GEDS employs the computation sharing and parallel processing paradigms to deliver scalability in the evaluation of continuous, spatio-temporal range queries and continuous, spatio-temporal kNN queries. The GEDS framework utilizes the parallel processing capability of the GPU, a stream processor by trade, to handle the computation required in this application. Experimental evaluation shows promising performance and shows the scalability and efficacy of GEDS in spatio-temporal data streaming environments. Additional performance studies demonstrate that, even in light of the costs associated with memory transfers, the parallel processing power provided by GEDS clearly counters and outweighs any associated costs. Finally, in an effort to move beyond the analysis of specific algorithms over the GEDS framework, we take a broader approach in our analysis of GPU computing. What algorithms are appropriate for the GPU? What types of applications can benefit from the parallel and stream processing power of the GPU? And can we identify a class of algorithms that are best suited for GPU computing? To answer these questions, we develop an abstract performance model, detailing the relationship between the CPU and the GPU. From this model, we are able to extrapolate a list of attributes common to successful GPU-based applications, thereby providing insight into which algorithms and applications are best suited for the GPU and also providing an estimated theoretical speedup for said GPU-based application

« et pour ce recite Valere… »La place de l’Antiquité dans l’arsenal intellectuel d’un grand prélat français du XVe siècle : Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388-1473)

Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388-1473) est l’auteur d’épîtres politiques qui ont, pour l’heure, assez peu retenu l’attention de la critique littéraire. Son recours massif aux citations d’autorité, prises dans la Bible, les Pères, le droit et les écrivains classiques, est un trait caractéristique de son style. Celles-ci sont une manière privilégiée d’actualiser des parcelles de sagesse antique et de les projeter dans le champ de prises de positions politiques. L’Antiquité se met dès lors au service de la France de Charles VII, elle est utilisée par Jean Juvénal pour défendre et promouvoir sa conception d’un monde largement tributaire d’une conception providentialiste de l’Histoire.Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388-1473) is the author of political epistles which have, for the time being, hardly attracted the attention of literary criticism. His massive recourse to the quotations of auctoritates, taken in the Bible, the Fathers, the law and the classic writers, is a characteristic feature of his style. They are a privileged way to actualize some remnants of ancient wisdom and project them into the field of political positions. Antiquity is serving Charles VII’s France, it is used by Jean Juvénal to defend and promote his conception of a world largely dependent on a providentialist conception of history

Christine de Pizan, Heures de contemplacion sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, éd. et trad. Liliane Dulac et René Stuip

« Du point de vue de l’histoire littéraire, il ne semble […] pas légitime de détacher de l’œuvre entière de Christine de Pizan certains poèmes, que le goût moderne juge particulièrement réussis parce que pathétiquement subjectifs, pour faire de l’auteure la devancière de Louise Labé, Marceline Debordes-Valmore ou Louise de Vilmorin » notait, en 1984, Friedrich Wolfzettel. Grâce soit donc rendue à Liliane Dulac, René Stuip et Earl Jeffrey Richards, qui contribuent, par leur travail admirable, ..

De Transe au Moulin du diable : Fouad Boussouf et la Compagnie Massala. Entretien avec Fouad Boussouf

Dans ses derniers spectacles, le chorégraphe Fouad Boussouf explore deux versants de l’accélération. Dans un premier texte, Inès Cazalas évoque Transe, créé en 2013 à la suite des « printemps arabes » et repris en avril 2016 à Ramallah, qui mêle la poésie de Mahmoud Darwich à un rituel organique collectif. Récusant la terminologie conservatrice de la « contagion » révolutionnaire, la transe est apparue comme un vocabulaire apte à transposer les violences historiques, les processus politiques et les bouleversements sociaux en cours : son accélération est un transport spirituel et corporel qui ouvre de nouveaux espaces-temps libérateurs, à la fois tangibles et inconnus, tout en étant traversée de discontinuités et de conflictualités. Dans un second, Catherine Coquio évoque Le Moulin du diable, créé en 2015 en reprenant l’expression que Bourdieu avait entendue chez les paysans kabyles, qui désignaient ainsi l’horloge imposant le temps des colons français. Ce dernier spectacle traite par un humour grinçant ce qu’Hartmut Rosa appelle la « famine temporelle » : le rituel déréglé d’un capitalisme dérégulé déforme les corps et contraint à la disjonction individuelle et au délire grimaçant. Enfin, dans l’entretien mené avec elles deux, Fouad Boussouf revient sur les différents langages chorégraphiques qu’il mêle dans ses créations, sur ses rapports contradictoires avec l’accélération, et sur la manière dont un phénomène social ultracontemporain fait retrouver un fondamental de la danse.In his latest shows, the choreographer Fouad Boussouf explores two aspects of acceleration. In the first text, Inès Cazalas evokes Transe [Trance], created in 2013 following the Arab Spring, and put on again in April 2016 in Ramallah, and which blends the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish with a collective organic ritual. Challenging the conservative terminology of revolutionary ‘contagion’, the trance appears as a vocabulary capable of transposing historical violence, political processes and social upheaval currently in progress: its acceleration is a spiritual and bodily transport, which opens up new and liberating space-times, at once tangible and unknown, while at the same time being crossed by discontinuity and conflict. In the second text, Catherine Coquio evokes Le Moulin du diable [The Devil’s Mill], created in 2015 and taking up the expression that Bourdieu had heard when among Kabyle peasants, which designated the clock indicating the time imposed by the French colonists. This show treats, using dark humour, what Hartmut Rosa calls ‘temporal famine’: the unsettled ritual of a deregulated capitalism which deforms the body and forces one into individual disjunction and grimacing delirium. Finally, in the interview carried out with both Cazalas and Coquio, Fouad Boussouf comes back to the different choreographical languages that he mixes into his creations, and to their contradictory relationships to acceleration, and on the way in which an ultracontemporary social phenomenon recovers something fundamental to dance

Hysteretic response of chemical vapor deposition graphene field effect transistors on SiC substrates

Graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) fabricated by chemical vapor deposition graphene deposited onto SiC substrates exhibit sensitivity to broadband visible light. The hysteretic nature of this GFET type was studied utilizing a new current-voltage measurement technique in conjunction with current-time measurements. This measurement method accounts for hysteretic changes in graphene response and enables transfer measurements that can be attributed to fixed gate voltages. Graphene hysteresis is shown to be consistent with electrochemical p-type doping, and current-time measurements clearly resolve a hole to electron to hole carrier transition in graphene with a single large change in gate voltage. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC

High performance FPGA and GPU complex pattern matching over spatio-temporal streams

The wide and increasing availability of collected data in the form of trajectories has led to research advances in behavioral aspects of the monitored subjects (e.g., wild animals, people, and vehicles). Using trajectory data harvested by devices, such as GPS, RFID and mobile devices, complex pattern queries can be posed to select trajectories based on specific events of interest. In this paper, we present a study on FPGA- and GPU-based architectures processing complex patterns on streams of spatio-temporal data. Complex patterns are described as regular expressions over a spatial alphabet that can be implicitly or explicitly anchored to the time domain. More importantly, variables can be used to substantially enhance the flexibility and expressive power of pattern queries. Here we explore the challenges in handling several constructs of the assumed pattern query language, with a study on the trade-offs between expressiveness, scalability and matching accuracy. We show an extensive performance evaluation where FPGA and GPU setups outperform the current state-of-the-art (single-threaded) CPU-based approaches, by over three orders of magnitude for FPGAs (for expressive queries) and up to two orders of magnitude for certain datasets on GPUs (and in some cases slowdown). Unlike software-based approaches, the performance of the proposed FPGA and GPU solutions is only minimally affected by the increased pattern complexity

Multicentre observational study on multisystem inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 in Argentina

Background: The impact of the pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in low- and middle-income countries remains poorly understood. Our aim was to understand the characteristics and outcomes of PIMS-TS in Argentina. Methods: This observational, prospective, and retrospective multicenter study enrolled patients younger than 18 years-old manifesting PIMS-TS, Kawasaki disease (KD) or Kawasaki shock syndrome (KSS) between March 2020 and May 2021. Patients were followed-up until hospital discharge or death (one case). The primary outcome was pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission. Multiple logistic regression was used to identify variables predicting PICU admission. Results: Eighty-one percent, 82%, and 14% of the 176 enrolled patients fulfilled the suspect case criteria for PIMS-TS, KD, and KSS, respectively. Temporal association with SARS-CoV-2 was confirmed in 85% of the patients and 38% were admitted to the PICU. The more common clinical manifestations were fever, abdominal pain, rash, and conjunctival injection. Lymphopenia was more common among PICU-admitted patients (87% vs. 51%, p < 0.0001), who also showed a lower platelet count and higher plasmatic levels of inflammatory and cardiac markers. Mitral valve insufficiency, left ventricular wall motion alterations, pericardial effusion, and coronary artery alterations were observed in 30%, 30%, 19.8%, and 18.6% of the patients, respectively. Days to initiation of treatment, rash, lymphopenia, and low platelet count were significant independent contributions to PICU admission. Conclusion: Rates of severe outcomes of PIMS-TS in the present study agreed with those observed in high-income countries. Together with other published studies, this work helps clinicians to better understand this novel clinical entity.Fil: Vainstein, Eduardo. Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. 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Sébastien Cazalas, « Viriliter age ». Éloquence, éthique et politique dans la France des Valois : les épîtres de Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388-1473)

L’œuvre politique de Jean Juvénal des Ursins (1388-1473), avocat du roi Charles VII avant d’accomplir une prestigieuse et longue carrière d’évêque, est un fabuleux observatoire d’un siècle où tout était à (re-)construire, où la force du dire, régénéré par la crise, retrouvait sa potentialité performative. L’état de déréliction morale et spirituelle de la France à la fin du règne de Charles VI, le roi fou, la catastrophe financière, politique et militaire, atteignent une ampleur sans précédent..