Using Multivariate Concept Mapping to Examine Counselor Educators’ Implicit Model of the Profession’s Functions

This study employed multivariate concept mapping to examine counselor educator’s implicit conceptualizations of their possible professional functions. It was important as counselor educator’s implicit and explicit understanding of the field affect both the curriculum of counseling programs and the attitudes they convey to their students in the classroom. This approach netted seven discrete clusters of counseling functions. These clusters arrayed on two dimensions that were labeled cognitive versus affective and process focused versus structured interventions. Implications for counselor educators include suggestions for using counselor educator’s implicit maps of the professions many functions to individualize professional socialization, develop professional synergy and build social reciprocity. Using Multivariate Concept Mapping to Examine Counselo

UFSS 2016 Book of Abstracts

The 2016 Urban Food Systems Symposium (UFSS), the first of its type, was held to bring together a national and international audience of academic and research-oriented professionals to share and gain knowledge on urban food systems and the role they play in global food security. The symposium included knowledge on: urban agricultural production, local food systems distribution, urban farmer education, urban agriculture policy, planning and development, food access and justice, and food sovereignty. The abstract book includes the invited speakers and the contributed oral and poster speakers for the 2016 UFSS

UFSS 2016 Program Book

The 2016 Urban Food Systems Symposium (UFSS), the first of its type, was held to bring together a national and international audience of academic and research-oriented professionals to share and gain knowledge on urban food systems and the role they play in global food security. The symposium included knowledge on: urban agricultural production, local food systems distribution, urban farmer education, urban agriculture policy, planning and development, food access and justice, and food sovereignty. The program book provides the full program of plenary talks, concurrent oral and poster sessions, and tours for the 2016 UFSS

Study of errors in the integration of the two-body problem using generalized Sundman's anomalies

[EN] As is well known, the numerical integration of the two body problem with constant step presents problems depending on the type of coordinates chosen. It is usual that errors in Runge-Lenz's vector cause an artificial and secular precession of the periaster although the form remains symplectic, theoretically, even when using symplectic methods. Provided that it is impossible to preserve the exact form and all the constants of the problem using a numerical method, a possible option is to make a change in the variable of integration, enabling the errors in the position of the periaster and in the speed in the apoaster to be minimized for any eccentricity value between 0 and 1. The present work considers this casuistry. We provide the errors in norm infinite, of different quantities such as the Energy, the module of the Angular Moment vector and the components of Runge-Lenz's vector, for a large enough number of orbital revolutions.Lopez Orti, JA.; Marco Castillo, FJ.; Martínez Uso, MJ. (2014). Study of errors in the integration of the two-body problem using generalized Sundman's anomalies. SEMA SIMAI Springer Series. 4:105-112. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06953-1_11S1051124Brower, D., Clemence, G.M.: Celestial Mechanics. Academic, New York (1965)Brumberg, E.V.: Length of arc as independent argument for highly eccentric orbits. Celest. Mech. 53, 323–328 (1992)Fehlberg, E., Marsall, G.C.: Classical fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Runge–Kutta formulas with stepsize control. Technical report, NASA, R-287 (1968)Ferrándiz, J.M., Ferrer, S., Sein-Echaluce, M.L.: Generalized elliptic anomalies. Celest. Mech. 40, 315–328 (1987)Gragg, W.B.: Repeated extrapolation to the limit in the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 2, 384–403 (1965)Janin, G.: Accurate computation of highly eccentric satellite orbits. Celest. Mech. 10, 451–467 (1974)Janin, G., Bond, V.R.: The elliptic anomaly. Technical memorandum, NASA, n. 58228 (1980)Levallois, J.J., Kovalevsky, J.: Géodésie Générale, vol. 4. Eyrolles, Paris (1971)López, J.A., Agost, V., Barreda, M.: A note on the use of the generalized Sundman transformations as temporal variables in celestial mechanics. Int. J. Comput. Math. 89, 433–442 (2012)López, J.A., Marco, F.J., Martínez, M.J.: A study about the integration of the elliptical orbital motion based on a special one-parametric family of anomalies. Abstr. Appl. Anal. 2014, ID 162060, 1–11 (2014)Nacozy, P.: The intermediate anomaly. Celest. Mech. 16, 309–313 (1977)Sundman, K.: Memoire sur le probleme des trois corps. Acta Math. 36, 105–179 (1912)Tisserand, F.F.: Traité de Mecanique Celeste. Gauthier-Villars, Paris (1896)Velez, C.E., Hilinski, S.: Time transformation and Cowell’s method. Celest. Mech. 17, 83–99 (1978

Robust Mixing for Ab-Initio Quantum Mechanical Calculations

We study the general problem of mixing for ab-initio quantum-mechanical problems. Guided by general mathematical principles and the underlying physics, we propose a multisecant form of Broydens second method for solving the self-consistent field equations of Kohn-Sham density functional theory. The algorithm is robust, requires relatively little finetuning and appears to outperform the current state of the art, converging for cases that defeat many other methods. We compare our technique to the conventional methods for problems ranging from simple to nearly pathological.Comment: 32 Pages, 4 figure

Escherichia coli Frameshift Mutation Rate Depends on the Chromosomal Context but Not on the GATC Content Near the Mutation Site

Different studies have suggested that mutation rate varies at different positions in the genome. In this work we analyzed if the chromosomal context and/or the presence of GATC sites can affect the frameshift mutation rate in the Escherichia coli genome. We show that in a mismatch repair deficient background, a condition where the mutation rate reflects the fidelity of the DNA polymerization process, the frameshift mutation rate could vary up to four times among different chromosomal contexts. Furthermore, the mismatch repair efficiency could vary up to eight times when compared at different chromosomal locations, indicating that detection and/or repair of frameshift events also depends on the chromosomal context. Also, GATC sequences have been proved to be essential for the correct functioning of the E. coli mismatch repair system. Using bacteriophage heteroduplexes molecules it has been shown that GATC influence the mismatch repair efficiency in a distance- and number-dependent manner, being almost nonfunctional when GATC sequences are located at 1 kb or more from the mutation site. Interestingly, we found that in E. coli genomic DNA the mismatch repair system can efficiently function even if the nearest GATC sequence is located more than 2 kb away from the mutation site. The results presented in this work show that even though frameshift mutations can be efficiently generated and/or repaired anywhere in the genome, these processes can be modulated by the chromosomal context that surrounds the mutation site