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A Review on Technology Forecasting Methods and Their Application Area

Technology changes have been acknowledged as a critical factor in determining competitiveness of organization. Under such environment, the right anticipation of technology change has been of huge importance in strategic planning. To monitor technology change, technology forecasting (TF) is frequently utilized. In academic perspective, TF has received great attention for a long time. However, few researches have been conducted to provide overview of the TF literature. Even though some studies deals with review of TF research, they generally focused on type and characteristics of various TF, so hardly provides information about patterns of TF research and which TF method is used in certain technology industry. Accordingly, this study profile developments in and patterns of scholarly research in TF over time. Also, this study investigates which technology industries have used certain TF method and identifies their relationships. This study will help in understanding TF research trend and their application area. Keywords—Technology forecasting, technology industry, TF trend, technology trajectory.
Promoting Excellence and Reflective Learning in Simulation (PEARLS): development and rationale for a blended approach to health care simulation debriefing.

STATEMENT
We describe an integrated conceptual framework for a blended approach to debriefing called PEARLS [Promoting Excellence And Reflective Learning in Simulation]. We provide a rationale for scripted debriefing and introduce a PEARLS debriefing tool designed to facilitate implementation of the new framework. The PEARLS framework integrates 3 common educational strategies used during debriefing, namely, (1) learner self-assessment, (2) facilitating focused discussion, and (3) providing information in the form of directive feedback and/or teaching. The PEARLS debriefing tool incorporates scripted language to guide the debriefing, depending on the strategy chosen. The PEARLS framework and debriefing script fill a need for many health care educators learning to facilitate debriefings in simulation-based education. The PEARLS offers a structured framework adaptable for debriefing simulations with a variety in goals, including clinical decision making, improving technical skills, teamwork training, and interprofessional collaboration.
A () quantum field theory

16. In problem 13 of Problem Set 4, you showed that the Lorentz transformation of the Dirac field is ψ(x)→ e−iλμνσμν/4ψ(Λ−1x) and in class we learned that the parity transformation is ψ(x, t) → eγψ(−x, t). Show from these rules that the Dirac bilinears, ψ̄(x)ψ(x), ψ̄(x)γ5ψ(x), ψ̄(x)γ ψ(x), ψ̄(x)γ5γ ψ(x), and ψ̄(x)σψ(x), transform under Lorentz and parity transformations as scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axial vector, and second rank tensor fields respectively. Here ψ̄ ≡ ψ†γ0 is the Dirac adjoint. A useful first step in the solution is to prove that ψ̄(x) → ψ̄(Λ−1x)e+iλμνσμν/4 under Lorentz transformations. Also it is enough to specialize to infinitesimal Lorentz transformations. (The terms pseudoand axial refer to opposite than “normal” parity properties. For a normal 4-vector, the time component is even and the space component is odd under parity. A normal scalar is even under parity.)
Perception of English syllable-final consonants by Chinese speakers and Japanese speakers

This study investigates perception by Mandarin Chinese and Japanese native speakers of English consonants in syllable-final position, and the effect of vowel duration as a cue to voicing in syllablefinal stops. Two experiments were conducted in the study and the results revealed that Mandarin Chinese speakers performed better than Japanese speakers but the position of the consonant in the syllable affects the perception rate. Japanese speakers can perceive the voicing in syllable-final consonants better than Mandarin Chinese speakers; also they may make better use of vowel duration as a cue to perceive voicing in syllable-final stops.
Postnatal penile length and growth rate correlate to serum testosterone levels: a longitudinal study of 1962 normal boys.

OBJECTIVE
Infant boys show a brief activation of their hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis shortly after birth, the physiological significance of which is poorly understood. The objective of the study was to investigate the correlation between endogenous testosterone levels and penile size and growth.


DESIGN
Prospective, longitudinal population-based study taking place at two large primary obstetric centres at the University Hospitals of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Turku, Finland.


METHODS
Infant boys, 728 Danish and 1234 Finnish, underwent clinical examinations at 0, 3, 18 and 36 months in Denmark and at 0, 3 and 18 months in Finland with blood samples taken at 3 months (n = 630). Penile length and growth were registered and reproductive hormones (testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin, oestradiol) were analysed.


RESULTS
Penile length increased from birth (3.49+/-0.4 cm) to 3 years of age (4.53+/-0.51 cm) with the highest growth velocity from birth to 3 months (1.0 mm/month). Penile length and growth were significantly, positively correlated to serum testosterone (r = 0.31 and 0.076, P = 0.006 and 0.001 respectively) and to free testosterone index (r = 0.385 and 0.094, P = 0.0001 and 0.0001 respectively).


CONCLUSIONS
We found that endogenous testosterone was significantly associated with penile size and growth rate in infant boys. Thus, the postnatal surge in reproductive hormones appears to be important for genital growth. Our data may serve as an updated reference for normal penile length in Caucasian boys up to 3 years of age.
Generation of vector beam with space-variant distribution of both polarization and phase.

We present an idea to generate an arbitrary space-variant vector beam with structured polarization and phase distributions. The vector beams are synthesized from the left- and right-hand polarized light, each carrying different phase distributions. Both the phase and the state of polarization of vector beams can be tailored independently and dynamically by a spatial light modulator.
Markers of inappropriate placement in acute psychiatric inpatient care: a five hospital study

Background: Previous researchers in the UK have measured the prevalence of the `inappropriateness' of acute adult psychiatric inpatient placements by eliciting the judgements of health professionals. We extended the methodology by identifying inpatient sub-groups with stable characteristics that were associated with elevated risk of inappropriate placement, and by calculating the level of that risk. Methods: A 1-day census was taken in five hospitals. Using a structured instrument, consultant psychiatrists recorded judgements on current placements, recommended alternative placements and stated why alternatives had not been used. Judgements were obtained for 100% of the 261 inpatients. Risk ratios and adjusted odds ratios were calculated to identify sub-groups that were at high risk. Results: Eighty-eight inpatients were inappropriately placed, a point prevalence of 34% (95% CI 28–40%). Consultants recorded that services outside hospital, if available, could have supported most of these inpatients as an alternative to at least part of their hospital stay. Diagnostic rather than socio-demographic or administrative characteristics, in particular primary diagnoses of substance-related disorder, personality disorder, anxiety/stress, and schizophrenia with co-morbid substance misuse, were the strongest markers of elevated risk. Conclusions: The point prevalence of inappropriate placement within the British mental health-care system is considerable. Diagnostic categories are reasonable pragmatic markers. Further research should aim to identify a strong marker of risk within the numerically large sub-group of schizophrenia without substance misuse.
Hashigo: A Next-Generation Sketch Interactive System for Japanese Kanji

Language students can increase their effectiveness in learning written Japanese by mastering the visual structure and written technique of Japanese kanji. Yet, existing kanji handwriting recognition systems do not assess the written technique sufficiently enough to discourage students from developing bad learning habits. In this paper, we describe our work on Hashigo, a kanji sketch interactive system which achieves human instructor-level critique and feedback on both the visual structure and written technique of students’ sketched kanji. This type of automated critique and feedback allows students to target and correct specific deficiencies in their sketches that, if left untreated, are detrimental to effective long-term kanji learning.
A Type System for Preventing Data Races and Deadlocks in Java Programs

This paper presents a new static type system for multithreaded programs; well-typed programs in our system are guaranteed to be free of data races and deadlocks. Our type system allows programmers to partition the locks into a fixed number of equivalence classes and specify a partial order among the equivalence classes. The type checker then statically verifies that whenever a thread holds more than one lock, the thread acquires the locks in the descending order. Our system also allows programmers to use recursive treebased data structures to describe the partial order. For example, programmers can specify that nodes in a tree must be locked in the tree-order. Our system allows mutations to the data structure that change the partial order at runtime. The type checker statically verifies that the mutations do not introduce cycles in the partial order, and that the changing of the partial order does not lead to deadlocks. We do not know of any other sound static system for preventing deadlocks that allows changes to the partial order at runtime.
Predicting Social Links for New Users across Aligned Heterogeneous Social Networks

Nowadsys, many new users are keeping joining in the online social networks every day and these new users usually have very few social connections and very sparse auxiliary information in the network. Prediction social links for new users is very important. Different from conventional link prediction problems, link prediction for new users is more challenging due to the lack of information from the new users in the network. Meanwhile, in recent years, users are usually involved in multiple social networks simultaneously to enjoy the specific services offered by different social networks. The shared users of multiple networks can act as the "anchors" aligned the networks they participate in. In this paper, we propose a link prediction method called SCAN-PS (Supervised Cross Aligned Networks link prediction with Personalized Sampling), to solve the social link prediction problem for new users. SCAN-PS can use information transferred from both the existing active users in the target network and other source networks through aligned accounts. In addition, SCAN-PS could solve the cold start problem when information of these new users is total absent in the target network. Extensive experiments conducted on two real-world aligned heterogeneous social networks demonstrate that SCAN-PS can perform well in predicting social links for new users.
Autonomous indoor navigation of a stock quadcopter with off-board control

We present an enhanced autonomous indoor navigation system for a stock quadcopter drone where all navigation commands are derived off-board on a base station. The base station processes the video stream transmitted from a forward-facing camera on the drone to determine the drone's physical disposition and trajectory in building hallways to derive steering commands that are sent to the drone. Off-board processing and the lack of on-board sensors for localizing the drone permits standard mid-range quadcopters to be used and conserves the limited power source on the quadcopter. We introduce improved and new techniques, compared to our prototype system [1], to maintain stable flights, estimate distance to hallway intersections and describe algorithms to stop the drone ahead of time and turn correctly at intersections.
Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing, Second Edition

is book covers the topic of temporal tagging, the detection of temporal expressions and the normalization of their semantics to some standard format. It places a special focus on the challenges and opportunities of domain-sensitive temporal tagging. After providing background knowledge on the concept of time, the book continues with a comprehensive survey of current research on temporal tagging. e authors provide an overview of existing techniques and tools, and highlight key issues that need to be addressed. is book is a valuable resource for researchers and application developers who need to become familiar with the topic and want to know the recent trends, current tools and techniques, as well as different application domains in which temporal information is of utmost importance. Due to the prevalence of temporal expressions in diverse types of documents and the importance of temporal information in any information space, temporal tagging is an important task in natural language processing (NLP), and applications of several domains can benefit from the output of temporal taggers to provide more meaningful and useful results. In recent years, temporal tagging has been an active field in NLP and computational linguistics. Several approaches to temporal tagging have been proposed, annotation standards have been developed, gold standard data sets have been created, and research competitions have been organized. Furthermore, some temporal taggers have also been made publicly available so that temporal tagging output is not just exploited in research, but is finding its way into real world applications. In addition, this book particularly focuses on domain-specific temporal tagging of documents. is is a crucial aspect as different types of documents (e.g., news articles, narratives, and colloquial texts) result in diverse challenges for temporal taggers and should be processed in a domain-sensitive manner.
SUVmax of 18FDG PET/CT as a predictor of high-risk endometrial cancer patients.

OBJECTIVE
To evaluate SUVmax in the assessment of endometrial cancer preoperatively with particular focus on myometrial invasion (MI), cervical invasion (CI), FIGO stage, risk-stratification and lymph node metastases (LNM).


METHODS
A total of 268 women with endometrial cancer or atypical endometrial hyperplasia underwent FDG PET/CT imaging before surgical treatment. SUVmax of the primary tumour was compared with histological prognostic factors.


RESULTS
SUVmax was significantly higher in patients with high FIGO stages (p<0.0001), deep MI (p=0.002), CI (p=0.04), LNM (p=0.04) and high risk tumours (p=0.003). Linear regression found that SUVmax was dependent of MI (p=0.001, 95% CI 2.863-11.098), CI (p=0.001, 95% CI 2.896-11.499), risk (p=0.004, 95% CI 0.077-0.397), LNM (p=0.04, 95% CI 0.011-0.482) and FIGO stage (p<0.0001, 95% CI 0.158-0.473).


CONCLUSIONS
Preoperative PET/CT scanning and SUVmax measurements of the primary tumour may provide additional clinical and prognostic information about MI, CI, LNM and high risk disease in patients with endometrial cancer and allow for individualization of patient care. However, the sensitivity and specificity of the SUVmax in staging endometrial cancer is not high enough to reliably replace surgical staging.
Port Hinterland Intermodal Container Flow Optimisation with Green Concerns: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

The closer link between ports and supply chain leads to a growing research area port hinterland intermodal development. Focusing on the literature with mathematical models, the purpose of this paper is to categorize and analyse earlier research contributions on intermodal container flow optimization, to identify the research trends and gaps, and to suggest future research directions. Results show that future research should focus on global intermodal container flow optimisation, addressing the approaches of ports integrating into such global intermodal chain taken green issues into account. There is substantial need for research addressing greening the intermodal network and sustainable development. Providing cost effective solutions alone in optimisation problem is rather traditional and one-sided. Those market players possessing commercially viable capabilities and also environmental responsibilities would gain a competitive advantage in future dynamic business environment. Bi-objective or multi-objective optimisation would be more suitable to actual situations.
Emotion-regulation skills as a treatment target in psychotherapy.

BACKGROUND
Deficits in emotion-regulation skills have been shown to be integral to the development and maintenance of a wide range of mental disorders.


AIM
To evaluate the importance of these skills as a treatment target in psychotherapeutic interventions.


METHOD
Nine specific emotion-regulation skills were assessed in a sample of 289 inpatients before and after cognitive-behavioural treatment. Self-reports of success in pretreatment skills application were first compared to those of 246 non-clinical controls. Pretreatment skills application and change in skills application during therapy were then related to a variety of outcome measures. Finally, the effects of integrating a brief training of general emotion-regulation skills into the CBT-based treatment were evaluated in a controlled trial.


RESULTS
Uni- and multivariate analyses identified the skills of acceptance, tolerance, and active modification of negative emotions as particularly important for current mental health and treatment outcome. Replacing parts of the standard CBT treatment with the emotion-regulation training enhanced the effects of the CBT treatment on skills application and on other measures of mental health.


CONCLUSION
Incorporating interventions that directly target general emotion-regulation skills may improve the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions.
Topical hyaluronic acid vs. standard of care for the prevention of radiation dermatitis after adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer: single-blind randomized phase III clinical trial.

PURPOSE
To determine the efficacy of an emulsion containing hyaluronic acid to reduce the development of ≥ Grade 2 radiation dermatitis after adjuvant breast radiation compared with best supportive care.


METHODS AND MATERIALS
Women with breast cancer who had undergone lumpectomy and were to receive whole-breast radiotherapy to 50 Gy with a 10- to 16-Gy surgical bed boost were enrolled in a prospective randomized trial to compare the effectiveness of a hyaluronic acid-based gel (RadiaPlex) and a petrolatum-based gel (Aquaphor) for preventing the development of dermatitis. Each patient was randomly assigned to use hyaluronic acid gel on the medial half or the lateral half of the irradiated breast and to use the control gel on the other half. Dermatitis was graded weekly according to the Common Terminology Criteria v3.0 by the treating physician, who was blinded as to which gel was used on which area of the breast. The primary endpoint was development of ≥ Grade 2 dermatitis.


RESULTS
The study closed early on the basis of a recommendation from the Data and Safety Monitoring Board after 74 of the planned 92 patients were enrolled. Breast skin treated with the hyaluronic acid gel developed a significantly higher rate of ≥ Grade 2 dermatitis than did skin treated with petrolatum gel: 61.5% (40/65) vs. 47.7% (31/65) (p = 0.027). Only one patient developed Grade 3 dermatitis using either gel. A higher proportion of patients had worse dermatitis in the breast segment treated with hyaluronic acid gel than in that treated with petrolatum gel at the end of radiotherapy (42% vs. 14%, p = 0.003).


CONCLUSION
We found no benefit from the use of a topical hyaluronic acid-based gel for reducing the development of ≥ Grade 2 dermatitis after adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. Additional studies are needed to determine the efficacy of hyaluronic acid-based gel in controlling radiation dermatitis symptoms after they develop.
An exploratory analysis of hospital perspectives on real time information requirements and perceived benefits of RFID technology for future adoption

Auto identification and data capture (AIDC) technologies, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) has been promising for real time traceability, communication, identification and location of goods, assets and people. Despite this promising trend, health care sector has not fully embraced RFID technology. The purpose of this study is to understand how RFID technology can be beneficial for meeting hospital real time asset and people management information requirements prior to adoption of the technology. Data collected from 81 operation directors shows that the hospital real time information requirements are significantly linked to perceived efficiency and patient satisfaction benefits of RFID. Furthermore, causal path analysis shows that the RFID enablers of staff capabilities/readiness for technology and investment in information systems (IS) contribute to the perceived efficiency and patient satisfaction benefits of RFID. Among the barriers not implementing RFID technology, cost is found the most significant. The significant association between hospital information requirements and perceived benefits of RFID technology shows that if hospital needs are understood, user acceptance of AIDC is likely. Moreover, staff readiness for technology and investment in IS prior to RFID adoption plays a significant role in how hospitals can benefit from RFID. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Meaning in life and mortality.

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this exploratory study was to see if meaning in life is associated with mortality in old age.


METHODS
Interviews were conducted with a nationwide sample of older adults (N = 1,361). Data were collected on meaning in life, mortality, and select control measures.


RESULTS
Three main findings emerged from this study. First, the data suggest that older people with a strong sense of meaning in life are less likely to die over the study follow-up period than those who do not have a strong sense of meaning. Second, the findings indicate that the effect of meaning on mortality can be attributed to the potentially important indirect effect that operates through health. Third, further analysis revealed that one dimension of meaning-having a strong sense of purpose in life--has a stronger relationship with mortality than other facets of meaning. The main study findings were observed after the effects of attendance at religious services and emotional support were controlled statistically.


DISCUSSION
If the results from this study can be replicated, then interventions should be designed to help older people find a greater sense of purpose in life.
Replicated File Management in Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Large-scale systems spanning geographically distant sites are potentially appropriate environments for distributed applications supporting collaboration. In this paper, we examine the possibility of using such systems as repositories for replicated files to facilitate low-latency data sharing. Asynchrony in communication and computation, complex combinations of site and communication failures, and in particular, network partitions that characterize these systems make the design of algorithms to operate on them a difficult task. We show that view-synchronous communication is not only an appropriate conceptual model for reasoning about large-scale distributed systems, it is also an effective programming model. We support these claims by developing algorithms for managing replicated files with one-copy serializability as the correctness criteria. 1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Piazza Porta S. Donato 5, Bologna 40127 (Italy). Tel. +39 51 354430, Fax: +39 51 354490, E-mail: ozalp@dm.unibo.it 2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Pisa, Via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 Pisa (Italy), Email: falberto,gianlucag@iet.unipi.it