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The Influence of Ancient Rus Religious Art Elements on Russian Modern Paintings

Based on the first-hand materials collected when he studied in Moscow State Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, the author undertakes the research on the historical evolution, artistic connotation and the formation of Russian traditional Orthodox art. From the perspective that the root of Russian art lies in the national feelings and the artistic spirit bred by orthodox culture, this paper aims to analyze its influence on modern culture and contemporary value so as to expand research perspectives of the Russian art and enlighten the connotation of in-depth study. Keywords—Russia; nationality; orthodox culture; modern influence
PET/CT scanners: a hardware approach to image fusion.

New technology that combines positron tomography with x-ray computed tomography (PET/CT) is available from all major vendors of PET imaging equipment: CTI, Siemens, GE, Philips. Although not all vendors have made the same design choices as those described in this review all have in common that their high performance design places a commercial CT scanner in tandem with a commercial PET scanner. The level of physical integration is actually less than that of the original prototype design where the CT and PET components were mounted on the same rotating support. There will undoubtedly be a demand for PET/CT technology with a greater level of integration, and at a reduced cost. This may be achieved through the design of a scanner specifically for combined anatomical and functional imaging, rather than a design combining separate CT and PET scanners, as in the current approaches. By avoiding the duplication of data acquisition and image reconstruction functions, for example, a more integrated design should also allow cost savings over current commercial PET/CT scanners. The goal is then to design and build a device specifically for imaging the function and anatomy of cancer in the most optimal and effective way, without conceptualizing it as combined PET and CT. The development of devices specifically for imaging a particular disease (eg, cancer) differs from the conventional approach of, for example, an all-purpose anatomical imaging device such as a CT scanner. This new concept targets more of a disease management approach rather than the usual division into the medical specialties of radiology (anatomical imaging) and nuclear medicine (functional imaging).
The Way Ahead for London ’ s Bus Priority at Traffic Signals

(2008) The way ahead for London's bus priority at traffic signals.
Can an EASYcare based dementia training programme improve diagnostic assessment and management of dementia by general practitioners and primary care nurses? The design of a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND
Early diagnosis of dementia benefits both patient and caregiver. Nevertheless, dementia in primary care is currently under-diagnosed. Some educational interventions developed to improve dementia diagnosis and management were successful in increasing the number of dementia diagnoses and in changing attitudes and knowledge of health care staff. However, none of these interventions focussed on collaboration between GPs and nurses in dementia care. We developed an EASYcare-based Dementia Training Program (DTP) aimed at stimulating collaboration in dementia primary care. We expect this program to increase the number of cognitive assessments and dementia diagnoses and to improve attitudes and knowledge of GPs and nurses.


METHODS
The DTP is a complex educational intervention that consists of two workshops, a coaching program, access to an internet forum, and a Computerized Clinical Decision Support System on dementia diagnostics. One hundred duos of GPs and nurses will be recruited, from which 2/3 will be allocated to the intervention group and 1/3 to the control group. The effects of implementation of the DTP will be studied in a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Primary outcomes will be the number of cognitive assessments and dementia diagnoses in a period of 9 months following workshop participation. Secondary outcomes are measured on GP and nurse level: adherence to national guidelines for dementia, attitude, confidence and knowledge regarding dementia diagnosis and management; on patient level: number of emergency calls, visits and consultations and patient satisfaction; and on caregiver level: informal caregiver burden and satisfaction. Data will be collected from GPs' electronic medical records, self-registration forms and questionnaires. Statistical analysis will be performed using the MANOVA-method. Also, exploratory analyses will be performed, in order to gain insight into barriers and facilitators for implementation and the possible causal relations between the rate of success of the intervention components and the outcomes.


DISCUSSION
We developed multifaceted dementia training programme. Novelties in this programme are the training in fixed collaborative duos and the inclusion of an individual coaching program. The intervention is designed according to international guidelines and educational standards. Exploratory analysis will reveal its successful elements. Selection bias and contamination may be threats to the reliability of future results of this trial. Nevertheless, the results of this trial may provide useful information for policy makers and developers of continuing medical education.


TRIAL REGISTRATION
ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT00459784.
A Mw 6 . 3 earthquake scenario in the city of Nice ( southeast France ) : ground motion simulations

The southern Alps–Ligurian basin junction is one of the most seismically active zone of the western Europe. A constant microseismicity and moderate size events (3.5 < M < 5) are regularly recorded. The last reported historical event took place in February 1887 and reached an estimated magnitude between 6 and 6.5, causing human losses and extensive damages (intensity X, Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik). Such an event, occurring nowadays, could have critical consequences given the high density of population living on the French and Italian Riviera. We study the case of an offshore Mw 6.3 earthquake located at the place where two moderate size events (Mw 4.5) occurred recently and where a morphotectonic feature has been detected by a bathymetric survey. We used a stochastic empiriJ. Salichon · C. Kohrs-Sansorny · F. Courboulex Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur Nice-Sophia Antipolis University, CNRS, Nice, France E. Bertrand LCPC-CETE Méditerranée, Nice, France J. Salichon (B) · E. Bertrand (B) · F. Courboulex (B) Géoazur, 250 rue Albert Einstein, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne, France e-mail: salichon@geoazur.unice.fr e-mail: etienne.bertrand@developpement-durable.gouv.fr e-mail: courboulex@geoazur.unice.fr cal Green’s functions (EGFs) summation method to produce a population of realistic accelerograms on rock and soil sites in the city of Nice. The ground motion simulations are calibrated on a rock site with a set of ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) in order to estimate a reasonable stress-drop ratio between the February 25th, 2001, Mw 4.5, event taken as an EGF and the target earthquake. Our results show that the combination of the GMPEs and EGF techniques is an interesting tool for site-specific strong ground motion estimation.
The Impact of Selected Aerobic Aquatic Exercises on the Depression and Happiness Levels of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis ( M . S )

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (M.S) is one of the most common chronic diseases of the central nervous system. The chronic nature of the disease, lack of prognosis, lack of any definitive cure and affecting the individual in the young age will cause several mental disorders in patients, including depression and low rate of happiness. Objective: Evaluation the effect of aquatic exercise programs on depression and happiness levels of the patients with multiple sclerosis (M.S). Methodology: In this quasi-experimental research, 40 patients with M.S. with grades 1 to 4 were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The exercise program was performed for the experimental group for eight weeks, three sessions per week with 50-60 percent of the maximum heart rate. The depression and happiness rates were evaluated using the Beck Depression questionnaire and the Oxford Happiness questionnaire at intervals before and after the exercise. Analysis of the data was performed by independent t test, and the data normalization was evaluated using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Results: The test group, regarding the depression level (p < 0.001) and happiness level (p < 0.002) after exercise had significant changes compared to the pre-exercise time. Thus, the mean differences for depressions and happiness levels of these two groups were obtained respectively as 4.65 and -7.80. Conclusion: Regular aquatic exercise provides more productive emotional communications and also causes the improvement of depression and increased happiness in M.S. patients. Hence, doing these exercises is recommended as an effective non-pharmacologic therapy method in addition to drug therapy. [Mohammad Bagher Toorang. Evaluation of Golshan Shabestari and Raz mashahed’s characteristics. Life Sci J 2012;9(4):234-240] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 34
Vital pulp therapy in vital permanent teeth with cariously exposed pulp: a systematic review.

INTRODUCTION
This systematic review aims to illustrate the outcome of vital pulp therapy, namely direct pulp capping, partial pulpotomy, and full pulpotomy, in vital permanent teeth with cariously exposed pulp.


METHODS
Electronic database MEDLINE via Ovid, PubMed, and Cochrane databases were searched. Hand searching was performed through reference lists of endodontic textbooks, endodontic-related journals, and relevant articles from electronic searching. The random effect method of weighted pooled success rate of each treatment and the 95% confidence interval were calculated by the DerSimonian-Laird method. The weighted pooled success rate of each treatment was estimated in 4 groups: >6 months-1 year, >1-2 years, >2-3 years, and >3 years. All statistics were performed by STATA version 10. The indirect comparison of success rates for 4 follow-up periods and the indirect comparison of clinical factors influencing the success rate of each treatment were performed by z test for proportion (P < .05).


RESULTS
Overall, the success rate was in the range of 72.9%-99.4%. The fluctuation of the success rate of direct pulp capping was observed (>6 months-1 year, 87.5%; >1-2 years, 95.4%; >2-3 years, 87.7%; and >3 years, 72.9%). Partial pulpotomy and full pulpotomy sustained a high success rate up to more than 3 years (partial pulpotomy: >6 months-1 year, 97.6%; >1-2 years, 97.5%; >2-3 years, 97.6%; and >3 years, 99.4%; full pulpotomy: >6 months-1 year, 94%; >1-2 years, 94.9%; >2-3 years, 96.9%; and >3 years, 99.3%).


CONCLUSIONS
Vital permanent teeth with cariously exposed pulp can be treated successfully with vital pulp therapy. Current best evidence provides inconclusive information regarding factors influencing treatment outcome, and this emphasizes the need for further observational studies of high quality.
Expressing Argumentative Discussions in Social Media Sites

Among the activities that people participate in on the Social Web are argumentative discussions and decision making. This paper analyzes a series of use-cases (from the perspective of social media sites) that share the presence of such argumentative discussions and where the structure of online discussions can be represented in SIOC. Our goal is to externalize implicit argumentation structures hidden in the usergenerated content. For capturing it and making it explicit, we propose a SIOC Argumentation ontology module as a formal representation.
An analysis of shared leadership, diversity, and team creativity in an e-learning environment

In response to rapid change and fierce competition, creativity is an imperative factor to develop and implement innovation. Hence, most firms have pursued diverse strategies to promote individual and team creativity in the workplace. Shared leadership is a voluntarily, informally emergent structure beyond vertical leadership. A team is composed of individual members, and shared leadership and demographic diversity exist within the team, influencing team creativity. In this respect, we introduced shared leadership as a social network perspective as well as diversity into a team creativity model. In sum, we examined the influence of shared leadership and diversity on knowledge sharing and the subsequent effects on team creativity. Our results showed that role diversity directly influences team creativity, with shared leadership and knowledge sharing positively contributing to team creativity. Thus, knowledge sharing had a partially mediating role between shared leadership and team creativity. Apart from our hypotheses, the present results implied that if gender diversity (as a differentiated factor) is not a minority status, knowledge sharing may have a fully mediating effect between gender diversity and team creativity. 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Effect of Intra-articular Injection of AOD9604 with or without Hyaluronic Acid in Rabbit Osteoarthritis Model.

BACKGROUND
To investigate the effects of AOD9604 intra-articular injections with or without hyaluronic acid (HA) in a collagenase-induced knee osteoarthritis (OA) rabbit model.


DESIGN
Mature New Zealand white rabbits (n=32) were randomly administered 2 mg collagenase type II twice in each knee joint. Weekly injections of 0.6 mL saline (Group 1), 6 mg HA (Group 2), 0.25 mg AOD9604 (Group 3), and 0.25 mg AOD9604 with 6 mg HA (Group 4) were administered for 4-7 weeks after the first intra-articular collagenase injection. The degree of cartilage degeneration was assessed using morphological and histopathological findings, and the degree of lameness was observed at 8 weeks after the first collagenase injection.


RESULTS
Mean gross morphological and histopathological scores were significantly higher in Group 1 than in Groups 2, 3, and 4, and the scores were significantly lower in Group 4 than in Groups 2 and 3. The lameness period in Group 4 was significantly shorter than those in Groups 1, 2, and 3. The lameness period in Group 1 was significantly longer than those in Groups 2 and 3.


CONCLUSION
Intra-articular AOD9604 injections using ultrasound guidance enhanced cartilage regeneration, and combined AOD9604 and HA injections were more effective than HA or AOD9604 injections alone in the collagenase-induced knee OA rabbit model.
Cultural Otherness: Correspondence with Richard Rorty

This volume comprises a number of letters between author Anindita Niyogi Balslev and philosopher Richard Rorty. The letters explore ways to generate a creative and critical crosscultural discourse not only by challenging stereotypes about cultures and subcultures in general and traditions of thought in particular, but by being careful not to abolish the common ground on which stereotypes can be addressed.
Chinese Handwriting Recognition Competition

This paper describes the Chinese handwriting recognition competition held at the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013). This third competition in the series again used the CASIAHWDB/OLHWDB databases as the training set, and all the submitted systems were evaluated on closed datasets to report character-level correct rates. This year, 10 groups submitted 27 systems for five tasks: classification on extracted features, online/offline isolated character recognition, online/offline handwritten text recognition. The best results (correct rates) are 93.89% for classification on extracted features, 94.77% for offline character recognition, 97.39% for online character recognition, 88.76% for offline text recognition, and 95.03% for online text recognition, respectively. In addition to the test results, we also provide short descriptions of the recognition methods and brief discussions on the results. Keywords—Chinese handwriting recognition competition; isolated character recongition; handwritten text recognition; offline; online; CASIA-HWDB/OLHWDB database.
A pharmacist-led follow-up program for patients with coronary heart disease in North Norway–a qualitative study exploring patient experiences

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Scientific literature shows that prevention of CHD is inadequate. The clinical pharmacist’s role in patient-centred care has been shown favourable in a large amount of studies, also in relation to reduction of risk factors related to CHD. We developed and piloted a pharmacist-led follow-up program for patients with established CHD after hospital discharge from a hospital in North Norway. The aim of the present study was to explore how participants in the follow-up program experienced the program with regard to four main topics; medication knowledge, feeling of safety and comfort with medications, the functionality of the program and the clinical pharmacist’s role in the interdisciplinary team. We performed semi-structured thematic interviews with four patients included in the program. After verbatim transcribing, we analysed the interviews using “qualitative content analyses” by Graneheim and Lundman. Trial registration http://www.clinicaltrials.gov : NCT01131715. All participants appreciated the follow-up program because their medication knowledge had increased, participation had made them feel safe, they were reassured about the appropriateness of their medications, and they had become more involved in their own medication. The participants reported that the program was well structured and the clinical pharmacist was said to be an important caretaker in the health-care system. The importance of collaboration between pharmacists and physicians, both in hospital and primary care, was emphasized. Our results indicate that the follow-up program was highly appreciated among the four participants included in this study. The results must be interpreted in the context of the health care system in Norway today. Here, few pharmacists are working in hospitals or in close relation to the general practitioners. In addition, physicians are short of time in order to supply appropriate medication information, both in hospital and primary care. Involving pharmacists in follow-up of patients with CHD seems to be highly appreciated among patients and may be a step towards improving patient care. The study is limited by the low number of participants.
A randomized study of epirubicin monotherapy every four or every two weeks in advanced breast cancer. A Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group study.

PURPOSE
To evaluate the impact on the response rate in patients with advanced breast cancer (ABC) of the doubling of the dose intensity (DI) of epirubicin monotherapy.


PATIENTS AND METHODS
From January 1991 until April 1996, 167 patients with ABC were randomized to receive epirubicin (110 mg/m2) either every four (81 patients, group A) or every two weeks (86 patients, group B). Filgrastim (5 micrograms/kg/daily) was administered prophylactically on days 2-12 of each cycle.


RESULTS
The two groups were equally balanced in terms of major patient and tumor characteristics. Even though the median cumulative dose of epirubicin was identical in the two groups (651 mg/m2), the median DI of epirubicin was doubled in group B (27.2 vs. 52.9 mg/m2/wk, respectively). The complete response (CR) rate was significantly increased in group B (5%, 95% CI: 0.16%-9.84% vs. 17%, 95% CI: 8.9%-25.08%, P = 0.011), although overall response rates were similar (49% vs. 53%, P = 0.5957). Also, there was no significant difference in the incidence of grade 3-4 toxicity between the two groups. After a median follow-up of 25 months (range, 0.43-43.3+) no significant difference was observed in the duration of response (median, 10 months vs. 8.5 months, P = 0.5130), time to progression (median, 7.2 months vs. 7.4 months, P = 0.2970) or survival (median, 14.6 months vs. 14.9 months, P = 0.4483). Logistic regression analysis showed that performance status was a significant variable for response (P = 0.0068) and multivariate analysis using the Cox proportional hazards model revealed that performance status was significant for survival (P = 0.0049), while the presence of multiple metastases (P = 0.0020) was significant for time to progression.


CONCLUSION
Doubling the planned DI of epirubicin monotherapy significantly increases the CR rate but has no influence on time to progression or survival in patients with ABC.
Noradrenaline and dopamine neurons in the reward/effort trade-off: a direct electrophysiological comparison in behaving monkeys.

Motivation determines multiple aspects of behavior, including action selection and energization of behavior. Several components of the underlying neural systems have been examined closely, but the specific role of the different neuromodulatory systems in motivation remains unclear. Here, we compare directly the activity of dopaminergic neurons from the substantia nigra pars compacta and noradrenergic neurons from the locus coeruleus in monkeys performing a task manipulating the reward/effort trade-off. Consistent with previous reports, dopaminergic neurons encoded the expected reward, but we found that they also anticipated the upcoming effort cost in connection with its negative influence on action selection. Conversely, the firing of noradrenergic neurons increased with both pupil dilation and effort production in relation to the energization of behavior. Therefore, this work underlines the contribution of dopamine to effort-based decision making and uncovers a specific role of noradrenaline in energizing behavior to face challenges.
Composite right-/left-handed interdigital leaky-wave antenna on a substrate integrated waveguide

The successful concept of a composite right-/left-handed (CRLH) leaky-wave antenna based on a periodically loaded and dielectrically-filled rectangular hollow waveguide as proven in [1]-[4] is realised by single layer printed technology, which simplifies fabrication substantially. The clue is the constitution of one cell with an interdigital series capacitor, which produces an enhanced series capacitance. The eigenvalues are determined by the method presented in [5] to circumvent a rather time-consuming simulation with a fully numerical eigenmode solver. The dispersion results are moreover validated by the estimation technique Matrix-Pencil (MP) [6] and the input reflection as well as the radiation behaviour of a fabricated prototype is measured.