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Checking in on… the MACPosted by Brian Goodman on February 25th, 2011
Alex Varone is the RTC correspondent for the Mid-American Conference.
A Look Back
Overall, Mid-American Conference teams went 5-7 in last weekend's BracketBusters. Not great, but not bad either. Akron, Western Michigan, Buffalo, Ohio and Eastern Michigan picked up confidence boosting non-conference wins. Amongst the weekend's losers, Kent State's seven-point loss at Drexel, and Miami (Ohio)'s one-point loss at James Madison were of the most importance, but likely won't hurt either team too much in terms of potential NCAA Tournament seeding.
Turning to conference action, Kent State was the first team to reach ten league wins after Thursday's victory over Buffalo. But every team in the East Division currently has a winning league record, including Miami, who sits one game behind the Golden Flashes, and Akron, the MAC's hottest team at 8-5. Defending conference champion Ohio also seems to be turning the corner at the right time of year and is a team to watch the rest of the way.
Out in the West Division, the two-team race between Western Michigan and Ball State is headed down to the stretch. Both teams currently sit at 8-5, but don't forget about Central Michigan, which is still two games back at 6-7, but riding a three-game conference win streak into the season's final games.
Star Watch
One of the key questions surrounding Ohio's bid to repeat as Mid-American Conference champions was whether the Bobcats had enough scoring punch around Player of the Year candidate D.J. Cooper. Early in the season, it appeared that Ohio would only go as far as Cooper could take it, but lately, senior forward DeVaughn Washington has emerged as a viable offensive threat and one of the conference's best front line players. After a slow start to the season, Washington has now reached double-figures in sixteen of Ohio's last seventeen games. But over the last nine games, in which Ohio is 7-2, Washington has upped his play even further, averaging 15.4 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.4 steals per contest.
Power Rankings (last week's ranking in parentheses)
1. Kent State (1)
Kent State emerged from a rough four-game road trip in the middle of February with a 2-2 record, the losses being an overtime affair at Miami and the aforementioned BracketBuster at Drexel. After Thursday's home victory over Buffalo, the Golden Flashes have the inside track on the East Division title and the MAC's best overall record. The rest of the schedule isn't easy, with all three remaining games serving as possible slip-ups, but expect to see Kent State as the MAC Tournament's number one seed in a couple of weeks.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 vs. Ohio, 3/1 at Bowling Green, 3/4 vs. Akron
2. Akron (6)
That's six straight wins and counting for the MAC's hottest team. Most impressively, all six of the Zips' wins have been by at least nine points, including Wednesday's 72-55 pounding of Miami (Ohio). Forward Nikola Cvetinovic has been one of the biggest reasons for Akron's late-season surge, as the junior is averaging 13.9 points and 9.6 rebounds per contest over the past month. Akron closes the regular season with a pair of tough road games at Ohio and conference-leader Kent State, but the way this team is playing, no one should want to face the Zips in the MAC Tournament.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 vs. Buffalo, 3/1 at Ohio, 3/4 at Kent State
3. Miami (Ohio) (2)
Even with two straight defeats, including a hard-fought one-point BracketBuster loss at James Madison, Miami is right on Kent State's heels to take the MAC East crown. The RedHawks seem to be at their best when senior forward Nick Winbush is playing well. Winbush, who was named East Division Player of the Week on February 21, had an impressive stretch of games which culminated in a 26 point, 12 rebound performance in a six-point home win over Kent State. But in the aforementioned 17-point loss against Akron, Winbush only hit one-of-seven field goals for just 2 points.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 vs. Bowling Green, 3/2 at Buffalo, 3/4 vs. Ohio
4. Western Michigan (7)
The Broncos are in prime position to capture the West Division regular season title thanks to five wins in their last seven league games. Western Michigan will be favored to win its last three games, but must avoid letdowns in road games at Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan. But the game that will decide the West title is the March 2nd clash with struggling Ball State. Junior guard Demetrius Ward continues to impress down the stretch, having scored in double figures in twelve consecutive games.
A Look Ahead: 2/27 at Eastern Michigan, 3/2 vs. Ball State, 3/5 at Central Michigan
5. Buffalo (3)
Four losses in six games is a red flag for any team at this time of year, as Buffalo now finds itself in a three-way tie for last place in the highly-competitive East Division. But as I wrote in the last Power Rankings, the Bulls are still one of the most efficient teams in the MAC, especially on the offensive end of the floor. Where the Bulls have hurt themselves is with turnovers, as they rank a dreadful 314th in the nation in turnover percentage. If Buffalo can shore that up over the last few weeks of the season, this team will be a tough out in March.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 at Akron, 3/2 vs. Miami (Ohio), 3/5 at Bowling Green
6. Ohio (8)
Don't look now, but Ohio is quietly playing its best basketball of the season. The Bobcats looked doomed after a 1-4 start to conference play, but have recovered to win six of eight to vault back into relevance, the most notable win being a seven-point road win at Buffalo. The MAC Tournament essentially starts now for Ohio, which finishes its season with a contest against each of the top three teams in these Power Rankings.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 at Kent State, 3/1 vs. Akron, 3/4 at Miami (Ohio)
7. Ball State (5)
The more Ball State has descended down these Power Rankings, the more obvious it seems that this team's hot start had a lot to do with a very easy schedule. The Cardinals' only win this season over an East Division opponent was a one-point home victory over Buffalo earlier this month. Good news for Ball State fans, all three remaining games are against West Division competition. But the MAC Tournament in a couple of weeks won't be as easy.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 at Central Michigan, 3/2 at Western Michigan, 3/5 vs. Northern Illinois
8. Bowling Green (4)
Just one win in their last six games, combined with the improved play of the rest of the East Division, has Bowling Green staring at a last-place division finish. The remaining schedule won't do the Falcons any favors, but in many ways, this team has already exceeded expectations. Bowling Green still has a chance to make some noise in the MAC Tournament, but next season should be even better with nearly every key contributor slated to return.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 at Miami (Ohio), 3/1 vs. Kent State, 3/5 vs. Buffalo
9. Central Michigan (10)
As disappointing as Central Michigan has been this season, the Chippewas still have a conceivable shot to win the West Division. Three straight conference wins have the Chippewas only two games back of co-leaders Ball State and Western Michigan, with a home date upcoming against each of them. Sandwiched between those games is a very winnable road game against Toledo, the worst team in the conference.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 vs. Ball State, 3/1 at Toledo, 3/5 vs. Western Michigan
10. Eastern Michigan (11)
Eastern Michigan is anything but a quality basketball team, but something does need to be said for the Eagles defensive efficiency, which has won this team some games this season. In nearly every one of Ken Pomeroy's advanced defensive metrics (most notably adjusted defensive efficiency and effective field goal percentage), Eastern Michigan ranks in at least the top half of the entire nation, and near the very top of the conference.
A Look Ahead: 2/27 vs. Western Michigan, 3/2 at Northern Illinois, 3/5 vs. Toledo
11. Northern Illinois (9)
A once-promising 2-1 start to conference play feels like a long time ago for Northern Illinois, which has not won a conference game in a month and is just 1-10 in its last eleven games. Even the seemingly unstoppable Xavier Silas has tailed off of late, only scoring 23 points combined in the team's last three games.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 at Toledo, 3/2 vs. Eastern Michigan, 3/5 at Ball State
12. Toledo (12)
In a way, Wednesday's 68-56 loss at Western Michigan was a microcosm of Toledo's poor season. Looking to avenge an early loss to Toledo, Western Michigan jumped out to a 43-5 first-half lead over the Rockets (no, that is not a misprint). Toledo rallied to cut the final deficit to only twelve, but Malcolm Griffin, the Rockets' best playmaker, scored only three points and committed ten turnovers in the contest.
A Look Ahead: 2/26 vs. Northern Illinois, 3/1 vs. Central Michigan, 3/5 at Eastern Michigan


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A Comparison of Electrical Pudendal Nerve Stimulation and Pelvic Floor Muscle Training for Female Stress Incontinence
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01763762
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 9, 2013
Last Update Posted : November 20, 2014
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|Condition or disease
|Stress Urinary Incontinence
|Behavioral: Electrical pudendal nerve stimulation Behavioral: PFM training Behavioral: Transvaginal ES
|Not Applicable
Conservative therapy could be considered a choice of treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) as it seems to have no side effects and causes significant and long-term improvement in symptoms. Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) and electrical stimulation are two commonly used forms of conservative treatment for SUI.
PFMT improves the structural support of the pelvis. However, many patients-especially women-have difficulty identifying and isolating their pelvic floor muscles (PFM) and are unable to perform the exercise effectively. Furthermore, patients who can identify the PFM often find that the required daily exercise routine is burdensome. Hence, the primary disadvantage of PFMT is lack of long-term patient compliance.
Electrical stimulation (ES) is a non-invasive, passive treatment that produces a muscle contraction. Transvaginal electrical stimulation (TES) has almost no side-effects and patient compliance in published reports is 70-85%. TES will result in PFM contraction by indirect nerve stimulation, mainly by polysynaptic reflex responses. The indirect stimulation and reflexive contraction may be the reason why the effect of electrical stimulation is not as good as that of PFMT when performed correctly.
By combining the advantages of PFMT and TES and incorporating the technique of deep insertion of long acupuncture needles, we developed electrical pudendal nerve stimulation (EPNS). In EPNS, long acupuncture needles of 0.40 Х 100 or 125 mm were deeply inserted into four sacral points and electrified to stimulate the pudendal nerves (PN) and contract the PFM. CT transverse plane at the coccygeal apex has showed that the position of the lower needle tip is similar to where (adjacent to PN at Alcock's canal) the Bion device is implanted for chronic PN stimulation. Besides the radiographic evidence, simultaneous records of perineal ultrasonographic PFM contraction, vaginal pressure and pelvic floor surface electromyogram in our previous study have proved that EPNS can exactly excite PN,contract the PFM and simulate PFMT. Our previous study has also proved that EPNS has a good therapeutic effect on female SUI. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of EPNS to PFMT with TES in treating female SUI.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|42 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Comparison of the Efficacy of Electrical Pudendal Nerve Stimulation to Pelvic Floor Muscle Training With Transvaginal Electrical Stimulation in Treating Female Stress Incontinence
|Study Start Date :
|January 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2014
Experimental: Electrical pudendal nerve stimulation
At a frequency of 2.5 Hz and an intensity (45~55 mA) as high as the patient can tolerate without discomfort; 60 minutes three times a week for a total of four weeks
Behavioral: Electrical pudendal nerve stimulation
Four sacral points are selected. The two upper points are located about 1 cm bilateral to the sacrococcygeal joint. On the upper points, a needle of 0.40 Х 100 mm is inserted perpendicularly to a depth of 80 to 90 mm to produce a sensation referred to the urethra or the anus. The locations of the two lower points are about 1 cm bilateral to the tip of the coccyx. On the lower points, a needle of 0.40 Х 100 or 125 mm is inserted obliquely towards the ischiorectal fossa to a depth of 90 to 110 mm to produce a sensation referred to the urethra. After the sensation referred to the above regions is produced, each of two pairs of electrodes from a G6805-2 Multi-Purpose Health Device is connected with the two ipsilaterally inserted needles.
Active Comparator: PFM training with Transvaginal ES
PFM training: EMG-biofeedback assisted PFMT was performed by specially trained therapists, 20 min three times a week for a total of four weeks. Patients conduct 30 maximal high intensity PFM contractions for 2-6 sec (with 2-6 sec rest), three sessions a day at home for a total of four weeks.
Transvaginal ES: At a current intensity of < 60 mA (as high as possible to get a contraction) and frequencies of 15 Hz and 85 Hz (alternate 3-min periods of stimulation); 20 min three times a week for a total of four weeks.
Behavioral: PFM training
A nerve function reconstruction treatment system (AM1000B; Shenzhen Creative Industry Co.Ltd, China) is used for EMG-biofeedback assisted PFMT.
Behavioral: Transvaginal ES
A neuromuscular stimulation therapy system (PHENIX USB 4,Electronic Concept Lignon Innovation, France) is used for TES
- Stress test [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
- A questionnaire to measure the severity of symptoms and the quality of life in SUI women [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
- Pad test [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|25 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- SUI history
- Positive stress test result
- Urodynamically confirmed SUI
- Postvoid residual urine volume <50ml
Exclusion Criteria:
- Urge incontinence (overactive bladder or detrusor overactivity incontinence)
- Neurogenic bladder
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01763762
|Shanghai research institute of acupuncture and meridian
|Shanghai, China, 200030
|Study Chair:
|Siyou Wang, Master
|Shanghai research institute of acupuncture and meridian
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Meridian
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01763762 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|January 9, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 20, 2014
|Last Verified:
|September 2013
Keywords provided by Shanghai Institute of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Meridian:
Electrical pudendal nerve stimulation
Pelvic floor muscle training
Transvaginal electrical stimulation
Stress urinary incontinence
Comparative study
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Urinary Incontinence
Urinary Incontinence, Stress
Urination Disorders
Urologic Diseases
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Urological Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
Behavioral Symptoms
Elimination Disorders
Mental Disorders


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The following is taken from a 63 year old book published in the early days of the Cold War. Titled Materials on the Trial of Former Serviceman of the Japanese Army Charged with Manufacturing and Employing Bacteriological Weapons (Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1950), the book contains trial summaries and testimony from the Khabarovsk war crimes trial in December 1949.
Derided as just another Stalinist show trial at the time, historians have since confirmed the evidence regarding the crimes prosecuted, including deadly biological experiments on prisoners by special units of the Japanese Imperial Army, the most famous of which was Unit 731.
The selection below is one of the exhibits contained in the book, collected in a section labeled "Documentary Evidence." The book itself has been out of print for decades, and is generally unavailable, except via some few libraries and antiquarian bookstores. The selection included here is on the Japanese Army use of torture. The reader will notice that the Japanese Army demonstrated many of the same techniques and concerns the U.S. showed when it was implementing its own torture program under the CIA and the Department of Defense.
The Japanese torture program included, as described here, use of stress positions, physical attack, and a form of waterboarding. The interrogators were instructed to be aware of possible false information by prisoners in order to get "relief from suffering." They appeared to also be concerned in the truthfulness of information obtained, and the possibility of deception.
Moreover, the Japanese were quite worried about others knowing about the torture. While they do not outright call for the murder of prisoners, one is left to guess at what "measures must be taken" so that prisoners did not talk of the torture "afterwards."
The material from the Khabarovsk trial is consistent with that published in a report by the Supreme Commander of Allied Powers on"Japanese Methods of Prisoner of War Interrogation" (June 1, 1946). Techniques described there include: beatings of various sorts (derided, though, as "the most clumsy method"); threats of "murder, torture, starving, deprivation of sleep, solitary confinement, etc."; psychological threats; water torture, which sometimes resulted in fatalities; attaching a prisoner's thumbs to a "motor car which proceeds to pull him around in a circle until he falls exhausted," and other tortures. Some Japanese soldiers and officers were prosecuted for war crimes after the war for such inhumane and criminal conduct.
What Made the Khabarovsk Trial Special
What makes the selection from the Khabarovsk trial unique is the degree to which the document discusses the importance of hiding the torture, and how to deal with deception. Interestingly, there is no discussion of producing false confessions.
It is noteworthy, too, to understand that thousands of prisoners who were sent to Unit 731 had also been, or were interrogated and/or tortured, at the site where biological experiments on them were done. All the prisoners were killed after the experiments were completed. The results of the experiments were operationalized in biological warfare campaigns by the Japanese in China that killed, recent estimates claim, perhaps as many as half a million people.
In future stories, I will discuss at much greater length aspects of this material that has gone unreported for years. The reasons for such a lack of historical writing is not lack of interest, but the fact that what materials the Japanese did not destroy were kept classified by the Americans for decades as part of an amnesty deal made with the leaders of the Japanese biological warfare program. The deal included a transfer of data on the fatal human experiments to the U.S. Army and intelligence services. Both the Department of Defense and (most likely) the CIA were involved in the decision to give amnesty to the Unit 731 et al. criminals.
For more information on the deal made between the U.S. and the Japanese described here see Peter Williams and David Wallace, Unit 731: The Japanese Army Secret of Secrets, 1989, Hodder and Stoughton, London; Sheldon H. Harris, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-up, rev. ed. 2002, Routledge, New York; and Daniel Barenblatt, A Plague Upon Humanity: the Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare, 2004, Harper, New York.
The Khabarovsk selection reprinted below appears on pages 235-237 of Materials. I have tried my best to reproduce the material as it is in the book. What is italic or bold here is italic or bold in the book. Extra spacing between letters is as in the printed material. Case has been preserved. Paragraph breaks are by extra lines, while in the book they are by indent.
File No. 48. Pages 90, 112, 113, 124, 125, 126. "Operation Officer's Guide (Part I)." From the files of the Mutankiang J.M.M.
Translated from the Japanese
S t r i c t l y C o n f i d e n t i a l
Seal: "MUTANKIANG J. M. M.
Received June 14, 1945
Inc. No. 9"
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I n c l o s u re
Fundamental Rules for Interrogating War Prisoners
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G e n e r a l R u l e s
1. The present rules relate to cases of interrogation with the view to obtaining information, but do not relate to the interrogation of criminals.
2. Persons who have surrendered, deserters, captured enemy spies, those who illegally cross the frontier, crews of aircraft compelled to make a forced landing or of vessels compelled to come to our shores, escaped war prisoners who had formerly served in our army, the inhabitants of districts we have newly occupied, and also civilian refugees from the sphere of enemy influence, except on special matters, are interrogated in conformity with the methods of investigating and interrogating war prisoners.
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62. Sometimes, depending on circumstances, it is advantageous to resort to torture, but often this may lead to harmful consequences, and therefore, before resorting to it, it is necessary to carefully consider whether this should be done or not. Furthermore, torture must be applied in such a way as not to lead to bad consequences for us.
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63. Torture, the infliction of physical suffering, must be sustained and continued in such a way that there shall be no other way of relief from suffering except by giving truthful information.
Torture is advantageous because of the speed with which it is possible with relative ease to compel persons of weak will to give truthful testimony, but there is the danger that, in order to relieve himself from suffering, or in order to please the interrogator, the person interrogated will, on the contrary, distort the truth.
In the case of persons of strong will, torture may strengthen their will to resist and leave ill-feeling against the empire after the interrogation.
64. In relation to persons of weak will, torture is usually applied in those cases when the person interrogated does not speak the truth in the face of evidence, but there is full reason to suppose that this person will speak frankly if torture is applied.
65. It is necessary to bear in mind that the methods of torture must be such as can be easily applied, as will sustain suffering without rousing feelings of pity, and as will not leave either wounds or scars. However, in those cases when it is necessary to create apprehension of death, the harm caused the person interrogated can be ignored, but this must be done in such a way as not to make it impossible to continue the interrogation.
The following examples of torture may be given:
1. Compelling the person to sit up straight and motionless.
2. Putting pencils between the fingers not far from their bases and tying the tops of the fingers with string and moving them.
3. Putting the person interrogated on his back (it is advisable to raise the feet a little) and dripping water into the nose and mouth simultaneously.
4. Putting the interrogated person on his side and stamping on his ankle.
5. Compelling the interrogated person to stand under a shelf that is too low to enable him to stand straight.
66. In a case when a wound is accidentally inflicted on the person interrogated, it is necessary, taking into account the general situation and the interests of our country, to take resolute measures, taking full responsibility for same.
67. On receiving testimony as a result of applying torture, it must be ascertained whether this testimony is the result of a desire to avoid further suffering and to please the interrogator; in such cases, some corroboration of the truth of the testimony is necessary.
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68. After the application of torture, it is necessary to convince the person who had undergone torture that the torture applied to him was quite a natural measure, or to take such measures as will induce him out of a sense of pride, sense of honor, etc, not to speak of it afterwards. In the case of persons from whom this cannot be expected, measures must be taken as in the case of those upon whom accidental wounds have been inflicted.
69. Nobody must know about the application of torture except the persons concerned with this. Under no circumstances must other prisoners know about it. It is very important to take measures to prevent shrieks from being heard.*
Translated by Senior Interpreter, Master of Historical Sciences
Signed: (PODPALOVA)
*The rest is omitted. – Trans.
Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist living in Northern California, writes regularly on torture and other subjects for The Public Record, Firedoglake and other publications. He also maintains a personal blog, Invictus. His email address is sfpsych at gmail dot com.
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posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 1:50 pm
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I am trying to run a multi-level logistic regression with 8 within predictors (both categorical and continuous) and two between predictors (both categorical). I receive an error message indicating that I have 9 dimensions of integration. I have tried it with fewer predictors (two within, one between) using montecarlo integration. However, when I do this I receive no output. How can I take this forward?
Thanks for your help
Andrew Percy
posted on Monday, August 02, 2004 - 1:55 pm
It sounds like you are having 9 random coefficients in your model, which could mean that you have not only a random intercept but also a random slope for each of the 8 predictors. This is a very complex analysis. It is likely that most of your predictors do not need random slopes, i.e. do not have significant level 2 variances. I would suggest starting with the random intercept model and then add one random slope at a time to see which slopes have significant variances. If this doesn't help, please send your input, output, and data to
Sally Czaja
posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 9:02 am
Can you explain what integration points and dimensions of integration are? If a complex model doesn't converge, how does one decide/justify (1) whether to relax the convergence criteria or specify fewer integration points and (2) how much to do so? I would like to test the interaction of a dichotomous level-2 variable with a 4-category level-1 variable represented by 3 dummy variables but run times are very long. Is there another approach?
Thank you.
posted on Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 3:18 pm
Integration is a complex topic. It is described briefly in the Mplus User's Guide. If you are having convergence problems, you probably need more rather than less integration points or a model that fits your data better. You can use the INTEGRATION option to ask for more integration points. An interation between a level 2 and level 1 variables implies that the level 1 variable has a random slope explained by the level 2 variable.
posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 3:12 pm
If I'm doing a numerical integration problem in Mplus 3.12 with the TECH8 output option and with STARTS=10 1.
Shouldn't Mplus produce 10 sets of starting values (based on the start values I provide), and then pick the best overall set of start values for the final stage iterations ?
In my current run of Mplus, it appears that Mplus finds two random sets of start values that are superior to the start values I provide (the absolute value of the LLIKELIHOOD for one of the Mplus-perturbed sets of values is smaller than the one I specified).
Yet when the numerical integration module progresses to the final stage iterations, as best I can tell via the TECH8 output, Mplus reverts to the start values I provided.
Since numerical integration can be very computation intensive -- is there a way I can request that Mplus just use the best of the 10 perturbed start values ?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 1:57 am
If this is the case, then the other ones failed. You can try the OPTSEED option of the ANALYSIS command to request the best seed and then see if it does actually fail. If not, please send your output, data, and license number to
posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 1:17 pm
Following up on your response -- should better start values give (potentially) better perturbed values; or are the random starts purely random ?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 12:07 am
The pertubations are based on starting values. The starting values can be the Mplus default values or user specified values. They are never random starting values. If you are not clear on what the start values should be, you should use the defalt starting values.
posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 11:23 pm
To follow up Bengt's post from Aug 2, 2004, how does one determine if the variance in a random slope is significant? Obviously the residual variances are printed on the output, along with their standard errors. This, however, only considers the unexplained variance. Is there a way to look at the entire variance for each slope along with its standard error?
My application involves a categorical level-1 dependent variable with two random slopes and a random intercept. I would like to examine additional random slopes, but the computational demands of this are too high.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:35 am
Any rnadom parameter has both a mean and a variance and both of these parameters have standard errors. If this does not answer your question, please send your output and license number to
so I can see your model.
David Bard
posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 4:25 pm
I'm trying to run a nonlinear economic 'risk-value' model using Mplus' Multilevel syntax. I'm trying to trick Mplus to do this using a variety of phantom variables, linear and nonlinear constraints, and the algorithm=integration estimator. I'm not sure what's happening exactly, but the program runs for approximately 35 iterations and then closes without explanation or error messages. The output window does not open automatically, but when manually opened contains only the syntax, INPUT READING TERMINATED NORMALLY, and the title of the project. Here is my syntax. Any thoughts?
TITLE: Study1_JDB
JDB Model for Predicting Certainty Equivalency Responses
FILE IS C:\Documents and Settings\dbard\Diss\tradeoff_mplus.dat;
NAMES ARE SubId CE MeanOut Exp1 Exp2 Exp3 Exp4 Exp5;
USEV = SubId CE Meanout Exp1 Exp2 Exp4;
Within = Exp1 Exp2 Exp4;
Cluster IS SubId;
TYPE = twolevel random;
Enw by
Epw by
Ew by
Enw on Exp1*1.5 (E1)
Exp2*1 (E2);
Epw on Exp4*1.5 (E4)
Exp1*1 (E5);
Ew on Enw*.8 (d)
Epw*.2 (e);
s1 | CE on Ew ;
[s1*.5] (s1);
Model Constraint:
E1 = 100**Thn;
E2 = 50**Thn;
E4 = 50**Thp;
E5 = -100**Thp;
s1 = 2.71828**(-Pha);
d = 1 - e;
Tech1 Tech8;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 5:29 pm
I think you should send your input, data, partial output, and license number to
so we can see what is happening. It is not possible to tell without this information.
posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 9:39 am
In running multilevel models in Mplus, provided that the dimensions of integration is reasonable -- is it always preferable to go with the default integration option vs. Monte Carlo?
The User's Guide seems to suggest this is the case; but I wanted to make clear. My ad hoc experimentation with Mplus seems to indicate that the default method gives smaller SEs (and is more stable) than MC.
(And, if numerical integration is preferable to MC, would you be able to provide a reference regarding why this is so -- is it because MC convergence is harder to diagnose, for example?).
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 6:18 am
We recommend using the default INTEGRATION setting of STANDARD. We recommend using the setting of MONTECARLO only when it is requrired. Note that numerical integration is used in both cases. It is the type of numerical integration that changes. You want enough integration points for a precise estimate. With Monte Carlo integration, the loglikelihood may not be precise. Offhand I don't know of a reference for this.
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Specs: Should be able to sink at least 5A per ch. Able to combine all 4 ch to aggregate into a single high current ch.
Testing current measurement with an INA169 high side shunt sensor. I might use the ACS712-20A hall effect sensor instead.
Li-ion batts makes great power source. They can easily source high current. These are sanyo cells I've salvaged from a lenovo laptop battery pack.
Test @ 12v,5A
Ambient temp 28°c
Case temp 85°c
Heatsink temp 40°c
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Fiona Morgan and Ryan Thornburg issued a call to arms for citizens to become the media in today's Raleigh News and Observer. Thornburg expanded the idea with a list of steps that communities can take to fill the gaps in news as legacy institutions operate with smaller staffs.
The call to action is remarkable in these respects: It comes from two people in academia, without financial interest in seeing more citizen participation in the media, and it calls for journalistic thinking from ordinary people. It also focuses on North Carolina and local civic news.
When news organizations, local governments or new marketing websites ask for participation from ordinary people these days, many folks react with cynicism:
"Oh, they just want free content."
And for coders who can help parse data, the cynicism is even greater. These folks get paid to code, and we're asking them to work for free?
But the call to action from people outside the media shows the civic pain at a time when distrust of institutions runs high. Morgan and Thornburg also bring theory down to specifics.
Their ideas echo projects proposed through the Knight News Challenge as well as the mission of the newly named Knight School of Communication at Queens University in Charlotte.
What I don't want to see from their call to action: Yet another conference. We have plenty, even in North Carolina, planned for 2011.
What I would like to see: Specific projects or small meetups, with cross-discipline teams, aimed at small slices of the news ecosystem that are uncovered now.
Demos, not memos. Or even blog posts.
At the same time, we have to find ways to pay ourselves for the work. Foundations and nonprofits can jump-start projects, but finding business models is part of the challenge.
Fiona Morgan's study of the news ecosystem in the Triangle. The report is long, but worth at least skimming for an understanding that news comes from a complex system rather than one place.


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MEMPHIS - Memphis Foods LLC, the owner of a Memphis KFC restaurant, violated federal law by subjecting a teenage employee to sexual harassment and retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced yesterday.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, the 16-year-old female worked as a crew member for the KFC restaurant on Winchester Road in Memphis. About two months after she began working there, the KFC's 54 year-old store manager began making unwelcome and offensive comments and physical contacts. The EEOC further charges that the company retaliated against the minor by removing her from the work schedule and firing her within weeks after she reported the harassment to other management officials.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in the U.S. District Court for Western District of Tennessee, Western Division, (Civil Action No. 2:13-cv-02712) after first attempting to reach a voluntary pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The lawsuit asks the court to grant a permanent injunction preventing Memphis Foods from engaging in or condoning sexual harassment; and award appropriate back wages, compensatory and punitive damages.
"Sexual harassment and retaliation in the workplace are always unconscionable, especially when minors are targeted and victimized," said Katharine W. Kores, director of the EEOC's Memphis District Office, which serves Tennessee, Arkansas and Northern Mississippi. "This agency considers the protection of minors in the workplace an important priority for eradicating employment discrimination."
Memphis Foods LLC is an Arkansas limited liability company that owns and operates KFC and Taco Bell Restaurants throughout the greater Memphis area. Overall, the company operates more than 60 restaurants in Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri.
The EEOC recently updated its Youth@Work website (at http://www.eeoc.gov/youth/), which presents information for teens and other young workers about employment discrimination. The website also contains curriculum guides for students and teachers and videos to help young workers learn about their rights and responsibilities in the workforce.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws that prohibit employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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Which Spring Sport Has You Most Excited? — Sports Survey of the Day
Springtime means we have a ton of different options on our sports radar. Which one has fans most excited?
Baseball fans have been waiting all winter for the season to begin, and it's finally here. Though early in the season, the games are very exciting so far. Hopefully it means baseball fans are in for a great ride in 2013.
In golf, the Masters is under way as of Thursday morning, and it's arguably one of sports greatest traditions (certainly if you ask Jim Nantz). It's the one golf tournament that everyone is watching, as the best in the world seek to claim that coveted green jacket.
Over in the NBA, the season in winding down and teams are gearing up for the playoffs. The playoffs seem to last forever, but they're exciting nonetheless.
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The Lady Bisons soccer team is heading east to South Carolina for its opening weekend with a Friday night game at South Carolina State in Orangeburg at 6 and a Sunday afternoon match with Winthrop at 1 p.m. in Rock Hill.
"I'm excited about our first games," said Lady Bisons coach Jenger Parrish. "We didn't play South Carolina State last season. They added a bunch of freshmen last year so I expect we will see a completely different team than the one we saw two seasons ago.
"We played Winthrop here last season, and we stayed with them for the first three-quarters of the game. Then the problems with our injuries began. I don't expect this game to be any different. It should be a good, competitive game that could go either way."
Parrish isn't certain if it is a positive or a negative to open the season on the road.
"Our first weekend of games always comes at the end of the first week of classes," said Parrish. "So in one way it is good to get them away from everything that is going on around here so they can focus on the games."
Freshman midfielder Brandi Bresheres from Manchester, Tenn., has impressed Parrish in preseason workouts. She will start in the midfield this weekend. Freshman Cally Warren, from Vadnais Heights, Minn., will also get a starting nod on defense.
"Brandi is not intimidated when she is on the field," said Parrish. "She works hard. She does what she is supposed to do."
Also putting in solid workouts is sophomore midfielder Sasha Sack from Lincoln, Neb., who proved last season she has the toughness to play the game.
"Sasha has realty taken steps to really become a good player mentally," Parrish said. "She has always been a good player, but sometimes last season she would get too emotional. This season she is working to keep her head in the game, not just her feet. A year of maturity has made a huge difference."


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Once long ago, during my year as an old-fashioned rewrite-man at the National Enquirer, the demonic man who owned and ran the tabloid as if it and its journalists were a figment of his over-active imagination sent a reporter around the world in search of utopia.
Every week, the reporter would send in a dispatch doing his best to make the case that a forgotten village in the Himalayas or a pristine beach in the South Pacific, or an overlooked outpost at the headwaters of the Amazon, or a village in the south of France, was the most perfect place on Earth.
He was on the road for more than a year, but the response was always the same: a long series of unanswerable questions shattered each and every place he claimed was utopia. Finally, they brought the guy home and summarily fired him for having failed in his mission.
Having spent a million or two of the boss' money for the time of his life, he didn't complain at all.
The moral of the story is simple: There is no utopia, no ideal society outside the pages of fiction and film where apocalyptic visions of dystopias — not utopias — have become a dime a dozen, many of them using Los Angeles as the setting for the exploration of humanity's dark fantasy future
The irony is hard to miss in that the vision of L.A. as a sun-kissed paradise that brought so many of us here only to find a city that is becoming more dark than light, a city of ostentatious beauty and vast stretches of grim grittiness, of endless expressions of enormous wealth surrounded by a churning sea of poverty and decay.
I spent 30 years here as a newspaperman doing what I could to tell the stories and the stories behind the stories of a city that was becoming increasingly dysfunctional, its infrastructure aging, its public services declining, its civic and political leadership paying lip service to the needs and values of ordinary folks while mostly serving themselves and their narrow interests.
When I got old and no longer had a newspaper as my outlet to sound the alarm in blazing headlines and fiery editorials, I blogged about what I saw, and then I got a call offering me the chance to write a Sunday column about Glendale and its neighboring communities.
That was two years ago last week. It has been an eye-opening experience that has helped me to understand better the suburb-envy so many people I meet in middle-class L.A. communities have, why the "it-is-time-to-get-out-of-town" sentiment is reaching a crescendo.
Los Angeles elections come up in March, and the likelihood is that three reprocessed city elected officials will hold down the mayor, controller and city attorney posts and the City Council will be made up of eight state legislators, five City Hall staffers and two ex-cops without a single ordinary citizen or anyone with real experience in the private-sector holding office.
These are the highest-paid municipal officials in America, earning $180,000, plus free cars, pensions and staffs of 18 to 20 with huge personal slush funds supplied by donors and taxpayers. Public service to them has become selfish service; the public story is a fiction that has little or nothing to do with what is really going on in back rooms.
Contrast that with the part-time citizen-elected officials in Glendale, Burbank and other suburban communities where the professionals are the city managers and the bureaucrats — not the politicians.
We're not talking about utopian communities, but cities that work by solving problems and muddling through tough times. They are run by part-time citizen politicians who cost a tiny fraction of L.A.'s professional pols and are closely tied to the civic and business communities, high and mighty power brokers representing nearly 300,000 people each.
In the big city, bureaucrats can only whisper the truth under their breath when no one's looking because they have been so politicized they are at risk of losing their jobs if they utter even a single word that is out of step.
It's very different in the tri-city area, where I've found nearly every official I've spoken to is open and forthcoming, and they actually seem to want their bosses — the public — to understand what they are trying to do and why.
The result is they have made real progress in balancing their budgets in these tough economic times, even winning substantial concessions from employee unions, while L.A. is being sucked down by fiscal quicksand toward bankruptcy, even as it faces tens of billions of dollars in costs to repair the broken streets and sidewalks and the unfunded employee pensions and healthcare costs.
In Glendale, people get upset about a 3% rate increase and the transfer of electricity revenue to the General Fund. In L.A., they hiked the electricity revenue transfer from 5% to 8% and are increasing utility rates three times faster than Glendale, yet the voices of the few are drowned out by the power of the political machine.
No, your cities are not utopias. But they sure look good to this old San Fernando Valley resident and a lot of other L.A. residents.
There are a lot of problems that would be solved better and faster if you got more involved and paid better attention, especially with city elections coming in April.
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I wanted a legume component, so chana dal got incorporated into the korma, and I added some hot dried red chilies because I wanted more heat. This is one of the tastiest kormas I have ever made and a fine way to get your vegetables on the table.
Serve with rice for a healthy and balanced vegetarian meal.
Spicy Vegetable Korma with Chana Dal in a Cashew Coconut Tomato SauceIf you like this recipe, you might also enjoy:
2/3 cup of chana dal (or yellow split peas), soaked for at least three hours
2 tablespoons of ghee, or a mixture of butter and oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 tomatoes, finely chopped
2 1/4 cups of water
1 large potato, diced
1 large carrot, diced
2/3 cup of peas (fresh or frozen)
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1/4 teaspoon of cayenne
1 1/2 teaspoons of sea salt
handful of dry curry leaves (optional)
For the paste:
1/2 cup of dried coconut
1/4 cup of cashews
1 teaspoon of coriander seeds
1 teaspoons of cumin seeds
3 - 4 whole dried red chilies
2 green chilies, seeded and chopped
1 inch piece of ginger, peeled and chopped
For the tadka:
1 teaspoon of black mustard seeds
2 teapoons of urad dal, rinsed
pinch or two of asafoetida
2 - 3 whole dried red chilies
Begin by making the paste. Soak the coconut in 1/2 cup of hot water for 10 - 15 minutes. Drain. Soak the cashews in some warm water for 10 - 15 minutes. Drain. Dry roast the cumin seeds, coriander seeds, and dried red chili over medium heat for a few minutes. Transfer the coconut, cashews and roasted seeds to a food processor or blender along with the ginger and green chilies. Process until you have a fairly smooth paste. Add a bit of water if desired.
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. When hot, toss in the onion and stir and fry until it is translucent. Add the tomatoes to the pot and cook for another 5 minutes or until they thicken up and have a sauce-like consistency. Now drain the chana dal and add to the pot along with 2 1/4 cups of water. Simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the chana dal is just tender. Add the carrots, potato and peas (if fresh), turmeric and cayenne. Continue to simmer until the vegetables are tender. You can add more water to achieve your desired consistency.
Now add the ground paste to the pot and the sea salt. Reduce the heat to medium low and cook for another 10 - 15 minutes. If you are using frozen peas, add them, and the curry leaves, to the pan near the end of the cooking time.
To prepare the tadka, heat a few teaspoons of oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. When hot, toss in the mustard seeds, urad dal, dried red chilies and the asafoetida. Stir and fry until the mustard seeds begin to pop and the urad dal turns a reddish colour. Immediately pour into the vegetable pot, stir and cover and let sit for 5 minutes to allow the flavours to blend.
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Apparently rookie quarterback Geno Smith isn't the only member of the New York Jets seeing big things for the team this season.
Smith said the Jets would be playoff-bound following being selected by the Jets in the second round of the NFL Draft in April. Now receiver Stephen Hill has echoed Smith's prognostication for the Jets this season.
Hill spoke with the NFL Network recently and said he sees the Jets playing well into January.
"Oh yes, definitely," Hill said when asked if the Jets would make the playoffs. "We will be in the playoffs and deep in the playoffs."
It would be the first trip to the playoffs for the Jets in three seasons after going 6-10 last year and 8-8 in 2011. For the Jets to make Smith and Hill's predictions a reality, they'll have to win more than one game against teams with winning records. A 35-9 victory over the Indianapolis Colts were their only such victory a season ago.
Hill appeared in 11 games for the Jets as a rookie last season. After a big opening week against the Buffalo Bills with five catches for 89 yards and two touchdowns, Hill struggled to find consistency before landing on injured reserve in December. He finished the season with 21 catches for 252 yards and three touchdowns.


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JayPat wrote:tvaldivi wrote:I see it Warriors in 6 or Mavs in 7. If it goes to 7, winning that last game in Dallas would be awfully tough. The key I think to to the series is the Warriors winning one of the first two games, if they could come to Oracle tied 1-1 I like our chances a lot!
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Oh yeah, just wait 'til Games 3 and 4 hit the Oracle. Thought it was loud before? We'll see.


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SEATTLE — Declining student participation and a down economy prompted Seattle University to cancel its decade-long personal training rec center program.
"The cost was $50 per hour, $30 per half hour, and so that became cost ineffective for the students," Kristen Christopher, Seattle University strength and fitness coordinator, told the school's student newspaper.
During the fall of 2008, the personal training program began seeing a decline in participation, reflecting industry-wide economic trends, former trainer Carol Lorenz told student reporters. During the past school year, the program had no more than four students in it at a given time, Christopher said, compared with about 1,200 daily visitors to the center. Christopher also told the newspaper that the personal training program probably would be reinstated in a new format, using student trainers who charge students lower rates.


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Many thanks to Jerry Brown for text, images, and enthusiasm.
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The following text and selected figures are based mainly on excerpts from a chapter entitled Permafrost and Periglacial Environments by J. Alan Heginbottom (Canada), Jerry Brown (USA), Ole Humlum (Norway) and Harald Svensson (Denmark). It is scheduled for publication later in 2008 in the U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386-A edited by Richard S. Williams, Jr. and Jane G. Ferrigno.
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Permafrost constitutes one of the major components of the perennial cryosphere, complementing ice sheets, ice caps, and other glaciers on land; snow patches; and sea ice and ice shelves of the polar oceans. Unlike ice and snow covers that are easily observed by the human eye and on satellite imagery, permafrost terrains are not as easily detected from their surface characteristics. Indirect indicators of present-day and ancient permafrost include surface features such as sorted and non-sorted patterned ground, pingos, ice-wedge polygons, and thermokarst features; such features range in size from small, pitted terrain to large deep lakes. Ice wedge polygons, pingos, and rock glaciers are indicators of an underlying, perennially frozen substrate.
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Do you have Windows XP, for instance? Then you can't directly upgrade to Windows 7: you'll have to perform a fresh installation, then reinstall and reconfigure all your applications.
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And even then, not everything will be transferred. Laplink themselves point out a lengthy list of potential migration problems. Some programs may not be compatible with Windows 7; copy-protected software may need reinstallation; hardware drivers won't be moved; music files may require their licences to be transferred; system tools (antivirus, desktop search) should be reinstalled manually.
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For many in the criminal justice system, the last-ever meeting between victim and offender will take place in the courtroom. But a clinical program in the UW Law School works to extend victim-offender contact and communication for positive ends.
The current edition of On Wisconsin, the quarterly magazine of the UW Alumni Association, has a feature story on UW's Restorative Justice Project, a program in the Law School's Remington Center.
Restorative justice often is conceived of as a victim-oriented model; however, RJP director Pete DeWind BS'82, JD'90 says offenders often find value in the program as well. And students in the clinic say it helps them in a variety of ways, from real-world experience dealing directly with clients, to helping them understand the workings of the criminal justice system.
The full article is available here.
Submitted by UW Law School News on November 15, 2010
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