Influential Article Review - Education and Art

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Manufacturing on Autopilot: Ohio Automation on Manufacturing Wages and Employment

In 2017, automation was forecasted to see a 47% increase in the next two decades (Bughin et al. 2017). With the usage of algorithms, automation can now be used for more than routine tasks and has the ability to replace labor in cognitive tasks, greatly expanding the range of roles in the labor market it could take on (Frey et al. 2017). With this, there will be the subsequent impacts on Ohio’s economy and productivity levels in manufacturing and productivity. Ohio is a main state in manufacturing, and 7.6% of Ohio jobs have a high level of exposure to automation (Exposure to Automation in Ohio 2021). We use data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to create initial data visualizations on Ohio’s manufacturing employment. Through this initial research, we hypothesize a negative correlation between robotic expenditures and manufacturing employment and wages. However, in the future, we hope to run regressions with variables such as robotic expenditures and robot count using data from national manufacturing surveys

Self-Regulation Techniques in Vietnamese Zen Truc Lam Monastery

To find some answers in self-regulation field, we were living and meditating together with Vietnamese monks and nuns. We came to Vietnamese Truc Lam zen monastery together with eleven people, mainly students of psychology from Gdansk University. We stayed three weeks in monastery, and were the first European group, which received the permission from local state administration to stay in closed part of monastery, only used by monks and nuns to practice meditation and living. We got special clothes, special lessons of meditation and the basic outline of the philosophy of science

UPPS-P facets of impulsivity and alcohol use patterns in college and noncollege emerging adults

Background: Alcohol use and related problems reach a peak in emerging adulthood. Impulsivity is a multifaceted construct known to be involved in emerging adult alcohol use. Few studies have examined impulsivity and alcohol use across both college attending and noncollege attending emerging adults. Objectives: To clarify the multifaceted nature of impulsivity and its links to emerging adult alcohol use, this study investigated whether the five distinct facets of the UPPS-P model of impulsivity were predictive of three different behavioral outcomes: alcohol intake, alcohol related problems and binge drinking. In addition, the moderating effects of college attendance were tested. Methods: A community sample comprising 273 Australian college and noncollege attendees (58.6% women; 41.4% men) aged between 18 and 30 years (Mage = 23.71, SD = 2.81). Results: Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that lack of premeditation predicted alcohol intake and binge drinking behavior, whilst positive and negative urgency predicted alcohol related problems. Moderation analyses revealed that the effects of impulsivity on alcohol patterns were consistent for college and noncollege attending emerging adults. Conclusion: These findings highlight the importance of impulsive urgency (both positive and negative) in emerging adult problematic alcohol use, and support the generalizability of college samples to broader emerging adult populations. Emerging adults may use alcohol to avoid negative mood states and further enhance positive mood states. Improved emotional regulation may help both college and non-college emerging adults reduce their alcohol use

Gymnosperms Demonstrate Patterns of Fine-root Trait Coordination Consistent with the Global Root Economics Space

Gymnosperms encompass a diverse group of mostly woody plants with high ecological and economic value, yet little is known about the scope and organization of fine-root trait diversity among gymnosperms due to the undersampling of most gymnosperm families and the dominance of angiosperm groups in recent syntheses. New and existing data were compiled for morphological traits (root diameter, length, tissue density, specific root length [SRL] and specific root area [SRA]), the architectural trait branching ratio, root nitrogen content [N] and mycorrhizal colonization. We used phylogenetic least squares regression and principal component analysis to determine trait-trait relationships and coordination across 66 species, representing 11 of the 12 extant gymnosperm families from boreal, temperate, subtropical and tropical biomes. Finally, we compared the relationship between family divergence time and mean trait values to determine whether evolutionary history structured variation in fine-root traits within the gymnosperm phylogeny. Wide variation in gymnosperm root traits could be largely captured by two primary axes of variation defined by SRL and diameter, and root tissue density and root nitrogen, respectively. However, individual root length and SRA each had significant correlations with traits defining both main axes of variation. Neither mycorrhizal colonization nor root branching ratio were closely related to other traits. We did not observe a directional evolution of mean trait values from older to more recently diverged gymnosperm families. Synthesis. Despite their unique evolutionary history, gymnosperms display a root economic space similar to that identified in angiosperms, likely reflecting common constraints on plants adapting to diverse environments in both groups. These findings provide greater confidence that patterns observed in broad syntheses justly capture patterns of trait diversity among multiple, distinct lineages. Additionally, independence between root architecture and other traits may support greater diversity in below-ground resource acquisition strategies. Unlike angiosperms, there were no clear trends towards increasingly thin roots over evolutionary time, possibly because of lower diversification rates or unique biogeographic history among gymnosperms, though additional observations are needed to more richly test evolutionary trends among gymnosperms

Adverse outcomes from initiation of systemic corticosteroids for asthma : long-term observational study

This study was funded by AstraZeneca. We thank Aruni Seneviratna and Shreyasee Pradhan for their contributions to the project management for this study and Derek Skinner for his contributions to the data acquisition and handling. Writing and editorial support was provided by Elizabeth V. Hillyer, DVM, supported by the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute Pte. Ltd (OPRI).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Xcast6 Treemap Islands - Revisiting Multicast Model

International audienceDue to the complexity and poor scalability, IP Multicast has not been used on the Internet. Recently, Xcast6 - a complementary protocol of IP Multicast has been proposed. However, the key limitation of Xcast6 is that it only supports small multicast sessions. To overcome this, we propose Xcast6 Treemap islands (X6Ti) - a hybrid model of Overlay Multicast and Xcast6. In summary, X6Ti has many advantages: support large multicast groups, simple and easy to deploy on the Internet, no router configuration, no restriction on the number of groups, no multicast routing protocol and no group management protocol. Based on simulation, we compare X6Ti with IP Multicast and NICE protocols to show the benefits of our new model

Xcast6 Treemap Islands - A Mixed Model of Application and Network Layer Multicast

IP multicast is a protocol that deals with group communications with the aim of reducing traffic redundancy in the network. However, due to difficulty in deployment and poor scalability with a large number of multicast groups, IP multicast is still not widely deployed and used on the Internet. Recently, Xcast6 and Xcast6 Treemap, the two network layer multicast protocols, have been proposed with complementary scaling properties to IP multicast: they support a very large number of active multicast sessions. However, the key limitation of these protocols is that they only support small multicast group. In this paper, we propose Xcast6 Treemap island - a hybrid model of Application Layer Multicast (ALM) and Xcast6 that can work for large multicast group. Our model has several key advantages: ease of deployment, efficiency in bandwidth savings, no control message between end-host and router, zero multicast forwarding state at router and no need for a multicast address allocation protocol. In addition, this model is a potential service from which an ISP can get new revenue. Finally, in simulation section, we have made a comparison with IP multicast and NICE protocol to show the feasibility of our new model.Le multicast a été inventé pour gérer les communications de groupes tout en réduisant la charge de trafic redondant sur le réseau. Actuellement, le multicast n'est pas largement déployé et utilisé sur l'Internet, principalement en raison des problèmes de passage à l'échelle avec un grand nombre de groupes. Récemment, Xcast6 et Xcast6 Treemap, ont été proposés pour pallier à ce problème: ces deux protocoles peuvent gérer un très grand nombre de groupes actifs. Toutefois, la principale restriction de ces protocoles est qu'ils ne fonctionnent qu'avec des groupes de très petite taille (avec peu de membres). Dans ce papier, nous proposons Xcast6 Treemap Island- un modèle hybride entre Application Layer Multicast (ALM) et Xcast6 qui peuvent gérer des groupes de grande taille. Les avantages principaux de noetr modèles sont les suivants : facilité de déploiement, utilisation efficace de la bande-passante, suppression des messages de contrôle et aucune nécessité d'un protocole d'allocation d'adresses multicast. Nous montrons la faisabilité et l'efficacité de notre proposition par des simulations où nous comparons notre proposition, un protocole IP multicast traditionnel, et le protocole NICE pour ALM

WFPC2 Images of the Central Regions of Early-Type Galaxies - I. The Data

We present high resolution R-band images of the central regions of 67 early-type galaxies obtained with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Our sample strikingly confirms the complex morphologies of the central regions of early-type galaxies. In particular, we detect dust in 43 percent of all galaxies, and evidence for embedded stellar disks in a remarkably large fraction of 51 percent. In 14 of those galaxies the disk-like structures are misaligned with the main galaxy, suggesting that they correspond to stellar bars in S0 galaxies. We analyze the luminosity profiles of the galaxies in our sample, and classify galaxies according to their central cusp slope. To a large extent we confirm the clear dichotomy found in previous HST surveys: bright, boxy ellipticals with shallow inner cusps (`core' galaxies) on one hand and faint, disky ellipticals with steep central cusps (`power-law' galaxies) on the other hand. The advantages and shortcomings of classification schemes utilizing the extrapolated central cusp slope are discussed, and it is shown that this cusp slope might be an inadequate representation for galaxies whose luminosity profile slope changes smoothly with radius rather than resembling a broken power-law. In fact, we find evidence for an `intermediate' class of galaxies, that cannot unambiguously be classified as either core or power-law galaxies, and which have central cusp slopes and absolute magnitudes intermediate between those of core and power-law galaxies.Comment: 44 pages, 7 Postscript figures. Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. The associated Appendix with figures of luminosity profiles, contour plots and isophotal parameters for all galaxies is available at http://www.astro.washington.edu/rest/centralpro

Healthcare resource utilization and costs associated with incremental systemic corticosteroid exposure in asthma

Editorial support was provided by Mike Jaqua, PhD, and AlanSaltzman, PhD, of JK Associates, Inc., and Michael A. Nissen, ELS, ofAstraZeneca. This support was funded by AstraZeneca.Peer reviewedPublisher PD