LLukas22/scidocs huggingface dataset:
Deinstitutionalisation and community living: position statement of the Comparative Policy and Practice Special Interest Research Group of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities.

The gradual abandonment of large residential institutions and their replacement by small-scale services to enable people to live well in the community has probably been the most significant policy development in intellectual disability in the post-war period (Mansell and Ericsson, 1996). This process of ‘deinstitutionalisation’ is well advanced in Scandinavia, the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australasia. In these countries, the policy debate about whether to provide institutions or community services is largely resolved. The questions that remain are those of implementation and particularly of whether the kinds of supported accommodation that have been provided replicate institutional features and should themselves be reformed. For many other countries, the debate between institutional and community services has never been particularly important because most people with intellectual disabilities live with their families and services to support them are relatively undeveloped. In these countries, it should be possible to develop community-based services directly, without going through a phase of institutional care. In a third group of countries, the dominant form of service provision remains institutional care and the question of whether and how to replace this remains a matter of debate. For example, many central and eastern European countries provide institutions of very poor quality and currently have proposals to renovate, upgrade and extend them using international funds instead of replacing them with services to support people in the community. The international legal framework sets out the right of disabled people to live in the community. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations, 2006), which came into force in May 2008, recognises this right through Article 19, which entails the provision 1 This position statement was prepared through discussion and consultation with members of the CPP SIRG and approved at the IASSID Council meeting in Singapore, 26 June 2009. 2 The word ‘institution’ has more than one meaning. It can mean a set of arrangements or practices, with associated values, beliefs and conventions. In this sense many social organisations can be described as ‘institutions’. However the sense used here is of the institution as a residential establishment possessing some or all of the negative characteristics associated with the idea of the ‘total institution’ (Goffman, 1968). Journal of Intellectual Disability Research doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2009.01239.x
Extended VIKOR method in comparison with outranking methods

The VIKOR method was developed to solve MCDM problems with conflicting and noncommensurable (different units) criteria, assuming that compromising is acceptable for conflict resolution, the decision maker wants a solution that is the closest to the ideal, and the alternatives are evaluated according to all established criteria. This method focuses on ranking and selecting from a set of alternatives in the presence of conflicting criteria, and on proposing compromise solution (one or more). The VIKOR method is extended with a stability analysis determining the weight stability intervals and with trade-offs analysis. The extended VIKOR method is compared with three multicriteria decision making methods: TOPSIS, PROMETHEE, and ELECTRE. A numerical example illustrates an application of the VIKOR method, and the results by all four considered methods are compared. 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Threshold retinopathy at threshold of viability: the EpiBel study.

AIM
To describe incidence, co-morbidity characteristics, and risk factors associated with threshold retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in survivors with a gestational age (GA) of < or =26 weeks at birth.


METHODS
Retrospective analysis of perinatal data of all inborn survivors in all perinatal centres of Belgium in the period 1999-2000 (EpiBel cohort) believed to be between 22 and 26 weeks GA at time of delivery. Data on survivors who did and survivors who did not develop threshold ROP were compared (chi(2), Mann-Whitney U) and logistic regression was performed.


RESULTS
Of 303 admitted infants 175 (58%) were discharged alive. Incidence of major retinopathy (> or =stage 3) and of threshold ROP was 25.5% and 19.8% in survivors. Associated central nervous abnormalities were documented in six (17%) and associated chronic lung disease in 19 (54%) threshold ROP infants. Threshold ROP without additional morbidity characteristics at discharge was documented in 14 (40%) infants. Besides often reported risk factors, renal insufficiency (creatinaemia>1.5 mg/dl) was a risk factor to develop threshold ROP (p<0.0015) (chi(2)). Days of respiratory support (OR 1.02; 95% CI 1.002 to 1.039), number of transfusions (OR 1.118; 95% CI 1.030 to 1.214), and renal insufficiency (OR 3.31; 95% CI 1.344 to 8.196) remained independent risk factors to develop threshold ROP in this cohort in a stepwise logistic regression model (MedCalc).


CONCLUSIONS
Incidence of threshold ROP is high at the limits of viability. Renal insufficiency is a risk factor to develop threshold ROP in this cohort.
On-Site Training in Applied Muscle Tension to Reduce Vasovagal Reactions to Blood Donation

Vasovagal reactions significantly complicate the blood collection process and, more importantly, discourage people who might otherwise donate blood many times from returning. Applied muscle tension is a simple behavioral technique that may reduce vasovagal reactions by maintaining blood pressure. It has been successfully used to treat patients with blood and injury phobias, but has not been applied in the more general, time-limited context of blood collection clinics. Thirty-seven inexperienced blood donors (maximum number of prior donations = 2) attending mobile blood collection clinics were asked to practice applied tension after watching a 2-min instructional video presented on a notebook computer. They were compared with 94 untreated donors with similar donation experience and 47 more experienced blood donors. Treatment reduced the number of symptoms reported on a postdonation questionnaire. It also significantly reduced the amount of medical treatment required (chair reclining) among those who practiced applied tension for the entire period they were in the donation chair.
High prevalence of fragility vertebral fractures in patients hospitalised in Internal Medicine Units. Results of the POINT (Prevalence of Osteoporosis in INTernal medicine) study.

BACKGROUND
Osteoporotic vertebral fractures (VFs) often go unrecognised in both healthy individuals and in pathological conditions. Few data exist on VFs in patients hospitalised in Internal Medicine Units (IMUs), who often suffer from multiple concomitant chronic disorders.


AIM OF THE STUDY
This multicentre cross-sectional study was aimed at assessing the prevalence of VFs in an unselected population of patients referring to IMUs. Correlations between VFs and the main coexisting diseases were also investigated.


METHODS
Information on demographic, clinical and laboratory findings, and on the presence of known risk factors for osteoporosis was recorded. The Genant's semi-quantitative method was used to evaluate, in a central reading centre, the presence and severity of VFs in the thoracic and lumbar spine.


RESULTS
A cohort of 995 patients was evaluated. At least one VF of any grade was found in 47.5% of patients, with similar prevalence between females (48.1%) and males (46.7%). Older age, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and previous diagnosis of osteoporosis showed a significant association with VFs in multivariable analysis. However, 79.7% of the VFs were observed in patients without previous diagnosis of osteoporosis. Moreover, a VF of grade 2 or greater was found in 20.8% of patients.


CONCLUSIONS
Fragility VFs is a very frequent finding in patients hospitalised in IMUs. Consequently, more attention should be devoted in this clinical setting to this comorbidity, which is known to be an additional factor for mortality and, when localised in the thoracic part of the spine, may negatively influence a concomitant respiratory insufficiency.
A novel local ventilation system to reduce the levels of formaldehyde exposure during a gross anatomy dissection course and its evaluation using real-time monitoring.

Formaldehyde has been widely used as a disinfectant and preservative (known as formalin) in medical fields. The use of volatile substances including formaldehyde in buildings causes a particular health effect commonly referred to as Sick-House Syndrome. In 1999, the former Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed that the concentrations of indoor formaldehyde should be less than 80 ppb; a value consistent with that of the WHO indoor air quality guideline. Furthermore, in 2002, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued guidelines for the reduction of formaldehyde concentrations in workplaces, requiring that employers should make efforts to maintain indoor concentrations of formaldehyde below 80 ppb for general workplaces and 250 ppb for specific workplaces where formaldehyde is handled. In 2001, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology took action to deal with the problem of medical and dental students’ exposure to formaldehyde in gross anatomy laboratories. The ministry’s action prompted a number of surveys on the actual conditions pertaining to students’ exposure to gaseous formaldehyde. Those results revealed that the concentrations of formaldehyde might exceed 1,000 ppb in ordinary gross anatomy dissection laboratories. It is necessary to reduce formaldehyde exposure when medical students and lecturers are exposed during gross anatomy dissection courses. However, it is costly to change exhaust fans to larger ones or to install additional exhaust systems. The purpose of this paper was to try to solve this problem of formaldehyde exposure with an effective, practical and low-cost countermeasure.
From Mission to Church

In Building God’s Kingdom Karina Hestad Skeie analyzes Malagasy influence on the nineteenth century Norwegian mission in highland Madagascar. Exploring the encounters' material, spatial and symbolic aspects, the study reveals the complex dynamics of mission encounters.
Radar plots: a useful way for presenting multivariate health care data.

OBJECTIVE
Health care researchers have not taken full advantage of the potential to effectively convey meaning in their multivariate data through graphical presentation. The aim of this paper is to translate knowledge from the fields of analytical chemistry, toxicology, and marketing research to the field of medicine by introducing the radar plot, a useful graphical display method for multivariate data.


STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING
Descriptive study based on literature review.


RESULTS
The radar plotting technique is described, and examples are used to illustrate not only its programming language, but also the differences in tabular and bar chart approaches compared to radar-graphed data displays.


CONCLUSION
Radar graphing, a form of radial graphing, could have great utility in the presentation of health-related research, especially in situations in which there are large numbers of independent variables, possibly with different measurement scales. This technique has particular relevance for researchers who wish to illustrate the degree of multiple-group similarity/consensus, or group differences on multiple variables in a single graphical display.
Debugging support for Charm++

Summary form only given. This paper describes a parallel debugger and the related debugging support implemented for CHARM++, a data-driven parallel programming language. Because we build extensive debugging support into the parallel runtime system, applications can be debugged at a very high level.
The effects of amisulpride on five dimensions of psychopathology in patients with schizophrenia: a prospective open- label study

BACKGROUND
The efficacy of antipsychotics can be evaluated using the dimensional models of schizophrenic symptoms. The D2/D3-selective antagonist amisulpride has shown similar efficacy and tolerability to other atypical antipsychotics. The aim of the present study was to determine the efficacy of amisulpride on the dimensional model of schizophrenic symptoms and tolerability in latin schizophrenic patients.


METHOD
Eighty schizophrenic patients were enrolled and 70 completed a prospective open-label 3-month study with amisulpride. The schizophrenic symptoms, psychosocial functioning and side-effects were evaluated with standardized scales.


RESULTS
The patients showed significant improvement in the five dimensions evaluated. Amisulpride (median final dose 357.1 mg/d) was well-tolerated without treatment-emergent extrapyramidal side-effects.


CONCLUSION
Amisulpride showed efficacy on different psychopathological dimensions and was well tolerated, leading to consider this drug a first line choice for the treatment of schizophrenia.
The Overclaiming Questionnaire : A good way to measure faking ? q

We evaluated the validity of the Overclaiming Questionnaire (OCQ) as a measure of job applicants’ faking of personality tests. We assessed whether the OCQ (a) converged with an established measure of applicant faking, Residualized Individual Change Scores (RICSs); (b) predicted admission of faking and faking tendencies (Faking Frequency, Minimizing Weaknesses, Exaggerating Strengths, and Complete Misrepresentation); and, (c) predicted the aforementioned measures as strongly as RICSs did. First, 261 participants were instructed to respond honesty to an extraversion measure. Next, in a mock job application, they filled out the extraversion measure again, as well as the OCQ. The OCQ only weakly predicted RICSs (r = .17), Faking Admission (r = .18), and Faking Frequency (r = .15), and it failed to correlate significantly with Minimizing Weaknesses, Exaggerating Strengths, and Complete Misrepresentation. Moreover, the OCQ performed significantly worse than RICS in predicting Faking Admission, Faking Frequency, Minimizing Weaknesses, Exaggerating Strengths, and Complete Misrepresentation. We urge caution in using the current version of the OCQ to measure faking, but speculate that the innovative approach taken in the OCQ might be more effectively exploited if the OCQ content were tailored to the specific job that applicants are being tested for. Crown Copyright 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Nosocomial spread of ESBL-positive Enterobacter cloacae co-expressing plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance Qnr determinants in one hospital in France.

Service de Bactériologie–Virologie, INSERM U914 ‘Emerging Resistance to Antibiotics’, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine et Université Paris-Sud, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94275 K.-Bicêtre cedex, France; Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine et Université Paris-Sud, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94275 K.-Bicêtre cedex, France
How to Shop for Free Online -- Security Analysis of Cashier-as-a-Service Based Web Stores

Web applications increasingly integrate third-party services. The integration introduces new security challenges due to the complexity for an application to coordinate its internal states with those of the component services and the web client across the Internet. In this paper, we study the security implications of this problem to merchant websites that accept payments through third-party cashiers (e.g., PayPal, Amazon Payments and Google Checkout), which we refer to as Cashier-as-a-Service or CaaS. We found that leading merchant applications (e.g., NopCommerce and Interspire), popular online stores (e.g., Buy.com and JR.com) and a prestigious CaaS provider (Amazon Payments) all contain serious logic flaws that can be exploited to cause inconsistencies between the states of the CaaS and the merchant. As a result, a malicious shopper can purchase an item at an arbitrarily low price, shop for free after paying for one item, or even avoid payment. We reported our findings to the affected parties. They either updated their vulnerable software or continued to work on the fixes with high priorities. We further studied the complexity in finding this type of logic flaws in typical CaaS-based checkout systems, and gained a preliminary understanding of the effort that needs to be made to improve the security assurance of such systems during their development and testing processes.
Web 2.0 in SME Networks - A Design Science Approach Considering Multi-Perspective Requirements

As small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face new challenges in a complex and dynamic competitive environment, they need to cooperate due to their restricted resources and limited capacities. At this, Enterprise 2.0 is seen as a supporting approach. To this date, there is a lack of academic publications concerning recommendations for the application of Web 2.0 artifacts in SME-networks. This paper aims at bridging this gap by suggesting a conceptual base following the design science approach. Based on technical and organizational requirements resulting from exploratory interviews with representatives of SMEs participating in a regional SME-network, we transfer the requirements in a prototypic concept. This developed artifact provides a basis for a field test to evaluate the concept and for further research.
Motivators, Barriers and Concerns in Adoption of Electronic Filing System: Survey Evidence from Malaysian Professional Accountants

Worldwide, electronic filing (e-filing) system and its’ adoption has attracted much attention, however, scholarly study on accounting professionals’ acceptance of e-filing system is scant. Approach: This study aimed (i) to examine factors that motivated professional accountants to use e-filing (ii) to solicit their usage experience and (iii) to assess the barriers to adoption and other compliance considerations. The questionnaire survey was administered on 700 professionals from tax practice and commercial sectors who attended “Budget 2008” Tax Seminars, organized by the Malaysian Institute of Accountants in Peninsular Malaysia. In total, 456 usable responses from accounting and tax professionals were collected and analyzed. Results: The survey found out of 456 respondents, just 23.7% had used e-filing in 2007 to file personal tax return forms. Majority of the e-filers opted to use e-filing for the sake of convenience (55.8%), in faith to get faster tax refund (16.8%) and speed of filing (15.9%). For those who did not use e-filing, the key impediments were concerned over the security and did not trust of e-filing system. Some (4.8%) were unable to access to the e-filing website. Overall, just 26.1% of the professionals surveyed had confidence in the IRBM in managing the e-filing system successfully. Majority (41.2%) thought that ‘speedy tax refund’ to be the most desirable incentive to motivate individuals to use e-filing. Conclusion: As the IRBM is counting on professional accountants to promote the usage of e-filing system, this study provided important insights to the IRBM to developing marketing and business strategies to motivate professional accountant in business to use e-filing in order to accelerate the diffusion of e-filing system in a developing country like Malaysia.
A modified Artificial Bee Colony algorithm for real-parameter optimization

Swarm intelligence is a research field that models the collective intelligence in swarms of insects or animals. Many algorithms that simulates these models have been proposed in order to solve a wide range of problems. The Artificial Bee Colony algorithm is one of the most recent swarm intelligence based algorithms which simulates the foraging behaviour of honey bee colonies. In this work, modified versions of the Artificial Bee Colony algorithm are introduced and applied for efficiently solving real-parameter optimization problems. 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
12-2 A 2 . 6-GHzE . 2-GHz Frequency Synthesizer in 0 . 4pm CMOS Technology

a 0.4-pm digit l CMOS technology entails many difficulties This paper describes the design of a CMOS frequency synthesizer targeting wireless local area network applications in the 5-GHz range. Based on an integer-N architecture, the synthesizer produces a 5.2-GHz output as well as the quadrature phases of a 2.6-GHz carrier. Fabricated in a 0.4-pm digital CMOS technology, the circuit provides a channel spacing of 23 MHz at 5.2 GHz while exhibiting a phase noise of -115 dBdHz at 2.6 GHz and -100 dBdHz at 5.2 GHz at 10-MHz offset. The reference sidebands are at -50 dBc at 2.6 GHz and the power dissipation from a 2.6-V supply is 47 mW. at both the architecture and the circuit level. The high center frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), the poor quality of inductors due to skin effect and substrate loss, the limited tuning range, the nonlinearity of the VCO inputloutput characteristic, the high speed required of the dual-modulus divider, the mismatches in the charge pump, and the implementation of the loop filter are among the issues encountered in this design. In order to relax some of the synthesizer requirements, the transceiver and the synthesizer have been designed concurrently. Fig. 1 shows the transceiver architecture [2] and
Ten Years of Research in the Analysis of Graphics Documents : Achievements and Open Problems

Our research group has been investigating various aspects of graphics recognition techniques for more than ten years. We have worked on map analysis, symbol recognition, dimension analysis and the conversion of engineering drawings toCAD models. Lately, we are also conducting research on the interpretation of architectura l drawings. In addition, we have built up a software platform of generic tool for graphics document image analysis, and we have participated in many international activities around the topic of graphics recognition. In this paper, we present some of our achievements and results from these ten years, and we propose a number of open problems, which we think are good challenges in the coming years, for ourselves and for other teams.