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Principles of Group Counseling and Their Applications for Deaf Clients
According to a model developed by Cavanagh (1982), counseling may be perceived as a unique relationship by which the counselor helps others learn to relate to themselves and others in growth producing ways. The effective counselor fosters growth by creating an environment and a relationship that is significantly different from any presently experienced by the client or clients. Underlying principles and goals of individual and group counseling are identified and discussed. One goal of counseling is to help individuals understand that most of their difficulties emanate from within themselves and not from external circumstances. The basic purposes of a therapeutic group are to increase people\u27s knowledge of themselves and others, to assist people in clarifying changes they want to make in their lives, and to help them develop some of the tools necessary to make the changes. Special characteristics of members of the Deaf culture are discussed, with implications for the group counseling process. The identification of ASL as the language of choice has great importance for the Deaf community and any effective counselor must accept it as a legitimate language distinct from English. The counselor must resist any attempt to pathologize deafness and needs to recognize it as an identifying characteristic of a distinct American social group. The utilization of interpreters with counselors not proficient in ASL is considered. Because the presence of a third party in the counseling process entails distancing in the counselor/client relationship, it is preferable to have a counselor skilled in ASL. Because of a shortage of such professionals, the use of an interpreter may be the only viable alternative
Evaluation of CNN-based Single-Image Depth Estimation Methods
While an increasing interest in deep models for single-image depth estimation
methods can be observed, established schemes for their evaluation are still
limited. We propose a set of novel quality criteria, allowing for a more
detailed analysis by focusing on specific characteristics of depth maps. In
particular, we address the preservation of edges and planar regions, depth
consistency, and absolute distance accuracy. In order to employ these metrics
to evaluate and compare state-of-the-art single-image depth estimation
approaches, we provide a new high-quality RGB-D dataset. We used a DSLR camera
together with a laser scanner to acquire high-resolution images and highly
accurate depth maps. Experimental results show the validity of our proposed
evaluation protocol
A Different Challenge for the ALI: Herein of Foreign Country Judgments, an International Treaty, and an American Statute
Symposium: Preparing for the Next Century-A New Restatement of Conflicts
A Different Challenge for the ALI: Herein of Foreign Country Judgments, an International Treaty, and an American Statute
Symposium: Preparing for the Next Century-A New Restatement of Conflicts
Cosmological Density and Power Spectrum from Peculiar Velocities: Nonlinear Corrections and PCA
We allow for nonlinear effects in the likelihood analysis of galaxy peculiar
velocities, and obtain ~35%-lower values for the cosmological density parameter
Om and the amplitude of mass-density fluctuations. The power spectrum in the
linear regime is assumed to be a flat LCDM model (h=0.65, n=1, COBE) with only
Om as a free parameter. Since the likelihood is driven by the nonlinear regime,
we "break" the power spectrum at k_b=0.2 h/Mpc and fit a power law at k>k_b.
This allows for independent matching of the nonlinear behavior and an unbiased
fit in the linear regime. The analysis assumes Gaussian fluctuations and
errors, and a linear relation between velocity and density. Tests using proper
mock catalogs demonstrate a reduced bias and a better fit. We find for the
Mark3 and SFI data Om_m=0.32+-0.06 and 0.37+-0.09 respectively, with
sigma_8*Om^0.6 = 0.49+-0.06 and 0.63+-0.08, in agreement with constraints from
other data. The quoted 90% errors include cosmic variance. The improvement in
likelihood due to the nonlinear correction is very significant for Mark3 and
moderately so for SFI. When allowing deviations from LCDM, we find an
indication for a wiggle in the power spectrum: an excess near k=0.05 and a
deficiency at k=0.1 (cold flow). This may be related to the wiggle seen in the
power spectrum from redshift surveys and the second peak in the CMB anisotropy.
A chi^2 test applied to modes of a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) shows
that the nonlinear procedure improves the goodness of fit and reduces a spatial
gradient of concern in the linear analysis. The PCA allows addressing spatial
features of the data and fine-tuning the theoretical and error models. It shows
that the models used are appropriate for the cosmological parameter estimation
performed. We address the potential for optimal data compression using PCA.Comment: 18 pages, LaTex, uses emulateapj.sty, ApJ in press (August 10, 2001),
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Complete and Prolonged Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in POLE-Mutated Colorectal Cancer
Enid Robertson Logan Faculty Fellowship Fund6 month embargo; published online: 21 June 2019This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Some open questions in "wave chaos"
The subject area referred to as "wave chaos", "quantum chaos" or "quantum
chaology" has been investigated mostly by the theoretical physics community in
the last 30 years. The questions it raises have more recently also attracted
the attention of mathematicians and mathematical physicists, due to connections
with number theory, graph theory, Riemannian, hyperbolic or complex geometry,
classical dynamical systems, probability etc. After giving a rough account on
"what is quantum chaos?", I intend to list some pending questions, some of them
having been raised a long time ago, some others more recent
3D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Viewport
We present a novel approach to infer volumetric reconstructions from a single viewport, based only on an RGB image and a reconstructed normal image. To overcome the problem of reconstructing regions in 3D that are occluded in the 2D image, we propose to learn this information from synthetically generated high-resolution data. To do this, we introduce a deep network architecture that is specifically designed for volumetric TSDF data by featuring a specific tree net architecture. Our framework can handle a 3D resolution of 512³ by introducing a dedicated compression technique based on a modified autoencoder. Furthermore, we introduce a novel loss shaping technique for 3D data that guides the learning process towards regions where free and occupied space are close to each other. As we show in experiments on synthetic and realistic benchmark data, this leads to very good reconstruction results, both visually and in terms of quantitative measures
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