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This article explores the perceptions of Millennial-age LBGTQ + individuals raised in conservative Christian families (Seventh-day Adventist) about their coming out experiences with family members....

This study examines the family and social expectations of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) clergy children, their mental and emotional health concerns, and the relationship between expectations and emotional health. The study used data triangulation from an online survey (N=120) and four focus groups to answer the research questions. The greatest source of concern came from clergy children’s perceptions about was how the people in their parent’s congregation thought they should behave. In addition, results show that the majority of the respondents expressed some level of concern about anxiety/depression or their emotional health. The findings reveal a statistically significant relationship between the expectations that clergy children recalled and the mental and emotional concerns they experienced. Clergy children expected to attend more church services, reported more concerns about their mental and emotional health. These findings provide a call to action for Christian social workers, particularly those engaged in congregational social work.

This article examines the extent and types of clergy stress, the strategies used in coping with stressors, and the relationship between stressors and coping mechanisms in a sample of 261 Seventh-day Adventist pastors in North America. The results indicate that the most commonly reported stressors in order are: (1) lack of social support, (2) financial stress, and (3) time and workload stress. In terms of coping strategies, pastors sought relief most often through: (1) reflective growth/internal change; (2) social/emotional coping; (3) passive coping; and lastly (4) action-oriented coping. Significant correlational relationships existed between passive coping and financial stress, relocating stress, and congregational stress. In addition, we found significant inverse correlations between coping through reflective growth or internal change and relocating stress and congregational stress. There were no significant relationships with action coping or social/emotional coping and any stressor. Multi-regression analysis reveals that passive coping strategies were significantly related to financial stress. Thus, the greater the financial stress, the more likely pastors were to engage in passive coping strategies. Other coping strategies showed no significant relationships when included in multi-regression analysis. We conclude with recommendations for Church administrators to address structures and practices in place for pastors including an expansion of coping mechanisms to help pastors address their stress.

To increase the interest of young people in the technological and scientific aspects of space research, the European Space Education Resources Office (ESERO) has decided to develop a set of games with space themes. Our group was selected to design and implement a game in virtual reality. In this paper, we describe the main design principles, interaction and navigation techniques, and technological details of the final game titled Moon Base.

Slaughterhouse waste cause environmental problems. Rumen content comprise a lot of enzymes of potential bacteria as bio–activators in the process of making goat manure fertilizer. The study aimed to evaluate the quality of goat manure fertilizer added with rumen content. The materials used were goat manure and cattle rumen contents. The research method uses a Completely Randomized Designed (CRD). The percentages of cattle rumen contents treatments i.e. 0 %, 5 %, 10 % and 15 %. The variables measured were Nitrogen (N), Phosphor (P), Potassium (K), Carbon organic, C/N ratio and moisture content. The results showed, the addition of rumen contents had a very significant effect (p < 0.01) on C organic, P, N, and C/N, but had no significant (p > 0.05) on K and moisture content. The results showed that the best treatment was addition of 15 % rumen, that had N 1.59 %, P 0.15 %, K 0.72 %, C organic 30.60 %, C/N 19.24 %, and moisture content 45.86 %. This content had fulfilled SNI 19–7030–2004 for goat manure fertilizer. It could be concluded that giving rumen contents could increase N, P, K, C organic and decrease C/N and moisture content.

This paper presents a review of various techniques for improving the performance of neural networks on segmentation task using 3D convolutions and voxel grids – we provide comparison of network with and without max pooling, weighting, masking out the segmentation results, and oversampling results for imbalanced training dataset. We also present changes to 3D U-net architecture that give better results than the standard implementation. Although there are many out-performing architectures using different data input, we show, that although the voxel grids that serve as an input to the 3D U-net, have limits to what they can express, they do not reach their full potential.

Several studies demonstrate the impact that childhood abuse has on adult life (Felitti et al., 1998; Galea, 2008). This study sought to examine the impact of childhood abuse on college student life. Physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual abuse were examined in a group of college students from Andrews University and Southern Adventist University. The research team sought to assess whether childhood abuse correlated with challenges for students in the areas of emotional distress, relationship distress, addictive behaviors, spiritual distress, academic problems, and self-indulgence. This research found that nearly all independent variables correlated with one another and with each dependent variable at a statistically significant level (p ≤ .001). The implications of these findings for college students are explored.

A large data set of input RAW photos for 3D reconstruction of historical paper model of Prague is presented in this paper. The data acquisition process and its organisation are described in detail together with color and camera calibration algorithms used. Moreover, a complete reconstruction work-flow together with several cultural heritage applications are briefly presented. The subject of this 3D reconstruction has been the Langweil model of Prague, originally created in the first half of 19th century. Three parts of this model with different characteristics are afforded for computer scientists through the internet.

The role of human in the Industrie 4.0 vision is still considered as irreplaceable. Therefore, user interfaces of cyber-physical systems involved in the production automation need to be well designed and taking into consideration the industrial application requirements. With the advances in augmented and virtual reality data visualization and novel interaction techniques like mid-air gestures, these approaches seem to be suitable for integration into the industry environment. This paper describes the implementation of an augmented reality application for smart glasses with mid-air gestures and smart phone with touch interaction to compare and evaluate the usage of such interfaces in a production cell comprising an industrial robot. This research has been (partially) supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic under the research program TE01020415 (V3C – Visual Computing Competence Center). This work is also (partially) funded by the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation –COMPETE 2020 and by FCT – Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

This paper presents a novel interactive approach for adding depth information into hand-drawn cartoon images and animations. In comparison to previous depth assignment techniques our solution requires minimal user effort and enables creation of consistent pop-ups in a matter of seconds. Inspired by perceptual studies we formulate a custom tailored optimization framework that tries to mimic the way that a human reconstructs depth information from a single image. Its key advantage is that it completely avoids inputs requiring knowledge of absolute depth and instead uses a set of sparse depth (in)equalities that are much easier to specify. Since these constraints lead to a solution based on quadratic programming that is time consuming to evaluate we propose a simple approximative algorithm yielding similar results with much lower computational overhead. We demonstrate its usefulness in the context of a cartoon animation production pipeline including applications such as enhancement, registration, composition, 3D modelling and stereoscopic display.

An intuitive image-based 3D reconstruction tool based on inaccurate user strokes is presented in this paper. The combination of fast image segmentation method together with user knowledge about reconstructed scene forms a novel low-polygonal editor suitable for architecture reconstruction. The user interaction is minimized thanks to propagation of strokes among input photographs. The final model geometry is created by innovative algorithm. The input to the tool is a set of calibrated photographs together with a sparse pointcloud. The output is a structured low-poly 3D model.

The reconstruction of 3D objects from a point-cloud is based on sufficient separation of the points representing objects of interest from the points of other, unwanted objects. This operation called segmentation is discussed in this paper. We present an interactive unstructured point-cloud segmentation based on graph cut method where the cost function is derived from euclidean distance of point-cloud points. The graph topology and direct 3D point-cloud segmentation are the novel parts of our work. The segmentation is presented on real application, the terrain reconstruction of a complex miniature paper model, the Langweil model of Prague.

This study was conducted to determine whether family medicine residents' documentation of patient and family alcohol problems corresponded with patients' assessments. A random sample of 180 patient charts from a university-based family practice was audited and 78% (n = 140) of these patients participated in telephone interviews. Of those who participated in the telephone interview, 40% (n = 56) reported a positive family history of drinking problems, 28% (n = 39) indicated that they were currently concerned about the alcohol use of someone in their family, and 24% (n = 34) reported that at least one family member currently had an alcohol problem. Ninety-six percent (n = 134) of the subjects indicated that they believed physicians should ask about family alcohol problems and 91% (n = 128) believed physicians could be helpful in alcohol treatment at least some of the time. The audit of the 180 medical records indicated that residents charted a positive family history on 13% (n = 23) of the records and noted impact upon the family due to a member's drinking in 2% (n = 4) of the records. The study revealed that residents frequently did not identify alcohol problems or related family difficulties and highlighted the need for training and education in this area.