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Current evidence for transurethral en bloc resection of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

INTRODUCTION
Despite today's standard procedure for staging and treating non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer by transurethral resection via a wire loop (TURBT), several other publications have dealt with a different concept of en bloc resection of bladder tumors using different energy sources.


MATERIAL AND METHODS
MEDLINE and the Cochrane central register were searched for the following terms: en bloc, mucosectomy, laser, resection, ablation, Neodym, Holmium, Thulium, transitional cell carcinoma.


RESULTS
Fourteen research articles dealing with en bloc resection of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer could be identified (modified resection loops: six, laser: six, waterjet hydrodissection: two).


CONCLUSION
En bloc resection of bladder tumors >1 cm can be performed safely with very low complication rates independent of the power source. By using laser, complication rates might even be decreased, based on their good hemostatic effect and by avoiding the obturator nerve reflex. A further advantage seems to be accurate pathologic staging of en bloc tumors. Randomized controlled trials are still needed to support the assumed advantages of en bloc resection over the standard TURBT with regard to primary targets: First-time clearance of disease, accurate staging and recurrence rates.
Kuijk Bandgap Voltage Reference With High Immunity to EMI

This brief evaluates the effect of conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI) that is injected in the power supply of a classic Kuijk bandgap reference voltage circuit. Two modified Kuijk bandgap topologies with high immunity to EMI are introduced and compared to the original structure. Measurements of a test IC confirm the theoretical analyses.
Does the extraction-site location in laparoscopic colorectal surgery have an impact on incisional hernia rates?

Incisional hernias are a common postoperative complication with abdominal surgery. The major risk factors for their development include wound infection, obesity, and age. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of extraction-site location and technique on incisional hernia rates in laparoscopic colorectal surgery. A prospective study of 208 consecutive patients who underwent laparoscopic colorectal surgery between March 2002 and July 2006 was performed. The study included only patients who had an extraction site on the abdominal wall. Patients were excluded if they were lost to follow-up evaluation or underwent conversion to open procedure. For the 166 patients included in the study, the mean follow-up period was 20.2 ± 14.4 months. Extraction-site incisions were classified into two groups: midline or off-midline. Midline wounds involved sharp division of the linea alba and were closed with a single layer of no.1 Vicryl. Off-midline incisions involved sharp division of the anterior and posterior sheaths with blunt spreading of the muscular layers and were closed in two layers with no. 1 Vicryl. Risk factors including wound infection, body mass index (BMI), age, and diabetes were analyzed. The incisional hernia rate for the entire series was 7.8%. The incisional hernia rate was 17.6% for the midline group (n = 74) and 0% for the off-midline group (n = 92) (p = 0.0002, statistically significant). There was no statistically significant difference in age, BMI, diabetes, follow-up time, or wound infection rate between the two groups. In this series, the midline extraction site resulted in a significantly higher incisional hernia rate statistically than the off-midline extraction sites. The authors therefore have adopted an off-midline blunt muscle-splitting extraction site when performing laparoscopic colorectal surgery.
Comparaison de performance entre OpenStack et OpenNebula et les architectures multi-Cloud : Application à la cosmologie .

With the increasing numbers of Cloud Service Providers and the migration of the Grids to the Cloud paradigm, it is necessary to be able to leverage these new resources. Moreover, a large class of High Performance Computing (hpc) applications can run these resources without (or with minor) modifications. But using these resources come with the cost of being able to interact with these new resource providers. In this paper we introduce the design of a hpc middleware that is able to use resources coming from an environment that compose of multiple Clouds as well as classical hpc resources. Using the Diet middleware, we are able to deploy a large-scale, distributed hpc platform that spans across a large pool of resources aggregated from different providers. Furthermore, we hide to the end users the difficulty and complexity of selecting and using these new resources even when new Cloud Service Providers are added to the pool. Finally, we validate the architecture concept through cosmological simulation ramses. Thus we give a comparison of 2 well-known Cloud Computing Software: OpenStack and OpenNebula. Key-words: Cloud, IaaS, OpenNebula, Multi-Clouds, DIET, OpenStack, RAMSES, cosmology ∗ ENS de Lyon, France, Email: FirstName.LastName@ens-lyon.fr † ENSI de Bourges, France, Email: FirstName.LastName@ensi-bourges.fr ‡ INRIA, France, Email: FirstName.LastName@inria.fr Comparison on OpenStack and OpenNebula performance to improve multi-Cloud architecture on cosmological simulation use case Résumé : Avec l’augmentation du nombre de fournisseurs de service Cloud et la migration des applications depuis les grilles de calcul vers le Cloud, il est ncessaire de pouvoir tirer parti de ces nouvelles ressources. De plus, une large classe des applications de calcul haute performance peuvent s’excuter sur ces ressources sans modifications (ou avec des modifications mineures). Mais utiliser ces ressources vient avec le cot d’tre capable d’intragir avec des nouveaux fournisseurs de ressources. Dans ce papier, nous introduisons la conception d’un nouveau intergiciel hpc qui permet d’utiliser les ressources qui proviennent d’un environement compos de plusieurs Clouds comme des ressources classiques. En utilisant l’intergiciel Diet, nous sommes capable de dployer une plateforme hpc distribue et large chelle qui s’tend sur un large ensemble de ressources aggrges entre plusieurs fournisseurs Cloud. De plus, nous cachons l’utilisateur final la difficult et la complexit de slectionner et d’utiliser ces nouvelles ressources quand un nouveau fournisseur de service Cloud est ajout dans l’ensemble. Finalement, nous validons notre concept d’architecture via une application de simulation cosmologique ramses. Et nous fournissons une comparaison entre 2 intergiciels de Cloud: OpenStack et OpenNebula. Mots-clés : Cloud, IaaS, OpenNebula, Multi-Clouds, DIET, OpenStack, RAMSES, cosmologie Comparaison de performance entre OpenStack et OpenNebula et les architectures multi-Cloud: Application la cosmologie.3
A diffusion LMS strategy for parameter estimation in noisy regressor applications

We study distributed least-mean square (LMS) estimation problems over adaptive networks, where nodes cooperatively work to estimate and track common parameters of an unknown system. We consider a scenario where the input and output response signals of the unknown system are both contaminated by measurement noise. In this case, if standard distributed estimation is performed without considering the effect of regression noise, then the resulting parameter estimates will be biased. To resolve this problem, we propose a distributed LMS algorithm that achieves asymptotically unbiased estimates via diffusion adaptation. We analyze the performance of the proposed algorithm and provide computer experiments to illustrate its behavior.
Identifying Individual Differences in Gender , Ethnicity , and Personality from Dialogue for Deception Detection

When automatically detecting deception, it is important to model individual differences across speakers. We explore the automatic identification of individual traits such as gender, native language, and personality, using acoustic-prosodic and lexical features from an initial non-deceptive dialogue. We also explore predicting success at deception and at deception detection, using the same features.
Lessons learned from the U.S. nuclear power Plant on-line monitoring programs

The investigation and application of on-line monitoring programs has been ongoing for over two decades by the U.S. nuclear industry and researchers. To this date, only limited pilot installations have been demonstrated and the original objectives have changed significantly. Much of the early work centered on safety critical sensor calibration monitoring and reduction. The current focus is on both sensor and equipment monitoring. This paper presents the major lessons learned that contributed to the lengthy development process including model development and implementation issues, and the results of a recently completed cost benefit analysis.
User Interface Design for E-Learning Software

User interface (UI) is point of interaction between user and computer software. The success and failure of a software application depends on User Interface Design (UID). Possibility of using a software, easily using and learning are issues influenced by UID. The UI is significant in designing of educational software (e-Learning). Principles and concepts of learning should be considered in addition to UID principles in UID for e-learning. In this regard, to specify the logical relationship between education, learning, UID and multimedia at first we readdress the issues raised in previous studies. It is followed by examining the principle concepts of e-learning and UID. Then, we will see how UID contributes to e-learning through the educational software built by authors. Also we show the way of using UI to improve learning and motivating the learners and to improve the time efficiency of using e-learning software. Keywords—e-Learning, User Interface Design, Self learning, Educational Multimedia
Space-based assessment of glacier fluctuations in the Wakhan Pamir, Afghanistan

Alpine glaciers directly and indirectly respond to climate and play a significant role in mountain geodynamics. Many glaciers around the world have been found to be retreating and downwasting, although these patterns are highly variable due to variations in local topography, regional climate and ice-flow dynamics. Unfortunately, limited information is available on glacier fluctuations in the Wakhan Pamir of Afghanistan, and no data exist from there in the World Glacier Monitoring Services (WGMS) database. Our general circulation model (GCM) climate simulations represent a double carbon-dioxide-loading scenario, and results suggest that glaciers in this region should be downwasting and retreating. Therefore, as part of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project, we evaluated ASTER and Landsat MSS data to assess glacier fluctuations from 1976–2003, in the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan. We sampled 30 alpine valley, compound alpine valley or cirque-type glaciers of varying size and orientation. Results indicate that 28 glacier-terminus positions have retreated, and the largest average retreat rate was 36 m year−1. Satellite image analysis reveals non-vegetated glacier forefields formed prior to 1976, as well as geomorphological evidence for apparent glacier-surface downwasting after 1976. Climatic conditions and glacier retreat have resulted in U. K. Haritashya (B) Department of Geology, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469, USA e-mail: haritauk@notes.udayton.edu M. P. Bishop · J. F. Shroder · H. N. N. Bulley Department of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 6001 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE 68182, USA A. B. G. Bush Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada 6 Climatic Change (2009) 94:5–18 disconnection of tributary glaciers to their main trunk, the formation of high-altitude lakes, and an increased frequency and size of proglacial lakes. Collectively, these results suggest increased hazard potential in some basins and a negative regional mass balance.
Systematic review: cardiovascular safety profile of 5-HT4 agonists developed for gastrointestinal disorders

BACKGROUND
The nonselective 5-HT(4) receptor agonists, cisapride and tegaserod have been associated with cardiovascular adverse events (AEs).


AIM
To perform a systematic review of the safety profile, particularly cardiovascular, of 5-HT(4) agonists developed for gastrointestinal disorders, and a nonsystematic summary of their pharmacology and clinical efficacy.


METHODS
Articles reporting data on cisapride, clebopride, prucalopride, mosapride, renzapride, tegaserod, TD-5108 (velusetrag) and ATI-7505 (naronapride) were identified through a systematic search of the Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase and Toxfile. Abstracts from UEGW 2006-2008 and DDW 2008-2010 were searched for these drug names, and pharmaceutical companies approached to provide unpublished data.


RESULTS
Retrieved articles on pharmacokinetics, human pharmacodynamics and clinical data with these 5-HT(4) agonists, are reviewed and summarised nonsystematically. Articles relating to cardiac safety and tolerability of these agents, including any relevant case reports, are reported systematically. Two nonselective 5-HT(4) agonists had reports of cardiovascular AEs: cisapride (QT prolongation) and tegaserod (ischaemia). Interactions with, respectively, the hERG cardiac potassium channel and 5-HT(1) receptor subtypes have been suggested to account for these effects. No cardiovascular safety concerns were reported for the newer, selective 5-HT(4) agonists prucalopride, velusetrag, naronapride, or for nonselective 5-HT(4) agonists with no hERG or 5-HT(1) affinity (renzapride, clebopride, mosapride).


CONCLUSIONS
5-HT(4) agonists for GI disorders differ in chemical structure and selectivity for 5-HT(4) receptors. Selectivity for 5-HT(4) over non-5-HT(4) receptors may influence the agent's safety and overall risk-benefit profile. Based on available evidence, highly selective 5-HT(4) agonists may offer improved safety to treat patients with impaired GI motility.
2Q: A Low Overhead High Performance Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm

In a path-breaking paper last year Pat and Betty O’Neil and Gerhard Weikum pro posed a self-tuning improvement to the Least Recently Used (LRU) buffer management algorithm[l5]. Their improvement is called LRU/k and advocates giving priority to buffer pages baaed on the kth most recent access. (The standard LRU algorithm is denoted LRU/l according to this terminology.) If Pl’s kth most recent access is more more recent than P2’s, then Pl will be replaced after P2. Intuitively, LRU/k for k > 1 is a good strategy, because it gives low priority to pages that have been scanned or to pages that belong to a big randomly accessed file (e.g., the account file in TPC/A). They found that LRU/S achieves most of the advantage of their method. The one problem of LRU/S is the processor *Supported by U.S. Office of Naval Research #N00014-91-E 1472 and #N99914-92-J-1719, U.S. National Science Foundation grants #CC%9103953 and IFlI-9224691, and USBA #5555-19. Part of this work was performed while Theodore Johnson was a 1993 ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at the National Space Science Data Center of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. t Authors’ e-mail addresses : ted@cis.ufi.edu and
Efficacy of a Weight Loss Intervention for African American Breast Cancer Survivors.

Purpose African American women with breast cancer have higher cancer-specific and overall mortality rates. Obesity is common among African American women and contributes to breast cancer progression and numerous chronic conditions. Weight loss interventions among breast cancer survivors positively affect weight, behavior, biomarkers, and psychosocial outcomes, yet few target African Americans. This article examines the effects of Moving Forward, a weight loss intervention for African American breast cancer survivors (AABCS) on weight, body composition, and behavior. Patients and Methods Early-stage (I-III) AABCS were randomly assigned to a 6-month interventionist-guided (n = 125) or self-guided (n = 121) weight loss program supporting behavioral changes to promote a 5% weight loss. Anthropometric, body composition, and behavioral data were collected at baseline, postintervention (6 months), and follow-up (12 months). Descriptive statistics and mixed models analyses assessed differences between groups over time. Results Mean (± standard deviation) age, and body mass index were 57.5 (± 10.1) years and 36.1 (± 6.2) kg/m2, respectively, and 82% had stage I or II breast cancer. Both groups lost weight. Mean and percentage of weight loss were greater in the guided versus self-guided group (at 6 months: 3.5 kg v 1.3kg; P < .001; 3.6% v 1.4%; P < .001, respectively; at 12 months: 2.7 kg v 1.6 kg; P < .05; 2.6% v 1.6%; P < .05, respectively); 44% in the guided group and 19% in the self-guided group met the 5% goal. Body composition and behavioral changes were also greater in the interventionist-guided group at both time points. Conclusion The study supports the efficacy of a community-based interventionist-guided weight loss program targeting AABCS. Although mean weight loss did not reach the targeted 5%, the mean loss of > 3% at 6 months is associated with improved health outcomes. Affordable, accessible health promotion programs represent a critical resource for AABCS.
Mechanisms of Phosphate-induced Disease Resistance in Cucumber

Certain phosphate salts are known inducers of systemic acquired resistance (SAR). In the present study, a local spray application of dipotassium hydrogenphosphate (K2HPO4) was effective in inducing a high level of systemic protection in cucumber plants against anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum lagenarium. Resistance induction by K2HPO4 was associated with localized cell death in cucumber leaves treated with the phosphate salt. The cell death observed, subsequently resulted in the appearance of macroscopically visible, necrotic spots. Appearing lesions resembled those provoked by tobacco necrosis virus (TNV) during a hypersensitive response (HR) that leads to pathogen-induced activation of SAR. Phosphate-mediated cell death was preceeded by a rapid generation of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide. As a further consequence of phosphate application, a local and systemic increase in free and conjugated salicylic acid (SA) levels was detected. The phosphate-induced responses were also identified with a similar time range in cucumber leaves that had been pre-inoculated with TNV. In contrast, none of these responses was triggered by application of the commercial plant activator benzo[1,2,3]thiadiazole-7-carbothioic acid-S-methyl ester (BTH), which nevertheless was highly effective in inducing SAR in cucumber against anthracnose. In conclusion, the chemical SAR inducer K2HPO4 and the biological inducer TNV share some common early steps in signal transduction leading to SAR in cucumber, which differ from those involved in BTH-mediated SAR.
Design and Stability Criteria of Networked Predictive Control Systems With Random Network Delay in the Feedback Channel

This paper is concerned with the design of networked control systems (NCSs) with random network delay in the feedback channel and gives stability criteria of closed-loop networked predictive control systems. The principle of predictive control is adopted to overcome the effects of network time delay. The necessary and sufficient conditions on the stability of the closed-loop NCS are derived, which provides useful analytical stability criteria. The closed-loop networked predictive control system with bounded random network delay is stable if the corresponding switched system is stable. Simulation and real-time results give an illustration of the proposed control strategies
The meaning of personality test scores.

The process of reexamining the methodological and metatheoretical assumptions of personality psychology over the past two decades has been useful for both critics and practitioners of personality research. Although the field has progressed substantially, some critics continue to raise 1960s-vintage complaints, and some researchers perpetuate earlier abuses. We believe that a single issue--construct validity--underlies the perceived and actual shortcomings of current assessment-based personality research. Unfortunately, many psychologists seem unaware of the extensive literature on construct validity, This article reviews five major contributions to our understanding of construct validity and discusses their importance for evaluating new personality measures. This review is intended as a guide for practitioners as well as an answer to questions raised by critics. Because the problem of construct validity is generic to our discipline, these issues are significant not only for personality researchers but also for psychologists in other domains. Walter Mischel's 1968 book stimulated 20 years of careful examination of the methodological and metatheoretical assumptions of personality psychology. This reappraisal has been useful for both critics and practitioners of measurement-based personality research. Within the personality research establishment, things seem to have returned to normal; people are comfortable once again with the notions that (a) personality assessment is an appropriate methodology in many areas of personality, clinical, and industrial psychology, and (b) there is stability to personality descriptors over time and occasions. Nonetheless, plus (a change, plus c'est la m~me chose: On one hand, 1960s-vintage criticisms continue to come up (i.e., test scores are contaminated by social desirability; validity coefficients are modest; there is no stable core to personality). On the other hand, some personality researchers continue to invite reproof by perpetuating abuses about which critics legitimately complain. Landy (1986) documented the confusion that still surrounds the testing enterprise despite 20 years of soul searching. We believe that a single issue underlies the perceived and actual shortcomings of current assessmentbased personality research. When critics complain and when personality researchers fail, construct validity is usually at the heart of the matter. A review of the notion of construct validity may serve as a guide for practitioners as well as an answer to many of the questions that seem to bother critics of measurement-based personality research (cf. Kagan, 1988). Drawing on Landy's essay, in this article we argue that (a) all validity is construct validity; (b) the process of test validation is hypothesis testing; and (c) measurement-based research is formally identical with any other type of legitimate scientific in-
Numerical solutions for fractional reaction-diffusion equations

Fractional diffusion equations are useful for applications in which a cloud of particles spreads faster than predicted by the classical equation. In a fractional diffusion equation, the second derivative in the spatial variable is replaced by a fractional derivative of order less than two. The resulting solutions spread faster than the classical solutions and may exhibit asymmetry, depending on the fractional derivative used. Fractional reaction–diffusion equations combine the fractional diffusion with a classical reaction term. In this paper, we develop a practical method for numerical solution of fractional reaction–diffusion equations, based on operator splitting. Then we present results of numerical simulations to illustrate the method, and investigate properties of numerical solutions. We also discuss applications to biology, where the reaction term models species growth and the diffusion term accounts for movements. c © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.