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Infrabrow excision blepharoplasty: applications and outcomes in upper blepharoplasty in Asian women.

BACKGROUND
To avoid the somewhat operated look while effectively resolving shortcomings inherent in the conventional blepharoplasty technique, the authors propose an infrabrow excision blepharoplasty as a satisfying and useful alternative. The authors' experience during a 3-year period is presented and reviewed.


METHODS
Sixty-four patients were operated on by infrabrow excision blepharoplasty. The indications for the procedure included those patients with one or more of the following criteria: (1) prior infrabrow excision, (2) desire to preserve inborn lid crease lines, (3) multiple prior lid operations related to double-eyelid operation, (4) lateral lid hooding being the primary concern for wanting blepharoplasty, (5) planned or preexisting cosmetic tattoo of the eyebrows, and (6) age group in the late 30s through mid-50s, thus excluding the most severe forms of blepharochalasia. The mean postoperative follow-up period was 13 months, and the photographic results were collected retrospectively and evaluated.


RESULTS
There was no complication related to surgery in terms of the resulting scar and periorbital sensory change. The mean operative time was 35 minutes. Significant flattening of the eyebrow or lid crease discrepancy necessitating additional surgery was not observed. Patient satisfaction was very high in terms of both the aesthetic outcome and patient comfort.


CONCLUSION
Infrabrow excision blepharoplasty can be an easy and satisfying alternative that achieves the same goals as a conventional blepharoplasty in a selected group of patients.
Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents with bipolar disorder: a 1-year open trial.

OBJECTIVE
To describe an adapted version of dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents with bipolar disorder.


METHOD
The dialectical behavior therapy intervention is delivered over 1 year and consists of two modalities: family skills training (conducted with individual family units) and individual therapy. The acute treatment period (6 months) includes 24 weekly sessions; sessions alternate between the two treatment modalities. Continuation treatment consists of 12 additional sessions tapering in frequency through 1 year. We conducted an open pilot trial of the treatment, designed as an adjunct to pharmacological management, to establish feasibility and acceptability of the treatment for this population. Participants included 10 patients (mean age 15.8 +/- 1.5 years, range 14-18) receiving treatment in an outpatient pediatric bipolar specialty clinic. Symptom severity and functioning were assessed quarterly by an independent evaluator. Consumer satisfaction was also assessed posttreatment.


RESULTS
Feasibility and acceptability of the intervention were high, with 9 of 10 patients completing treatment, 90% of scheduled sessions attended, and high treatment satisfaction ratings. Patients exhibited significant improvement from pre- to posttreatment in suicidality, nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior, emotional dysregulation, and depressive symptoms.


CONCLUSIONS
Dialectical behavior therapy may offer promise as an approach to the psychosocial treatment of adolescent bipolar disorder.
Tracking network dynamics: a survey of distances and similarity metrics

5 From longitudinal biomedical studies to social networks, graphs 6 have emerged as a powerful framework for describing evolving inter7 actions between agents in complex systems. In such studies, after 8 pre-processing, the data can be represented by a set of graphs, each 9 graph represents a system’s state at a different point in time or space. 10 The analysis of the system’s dynamics depends on the selection of 11 the appropriate analytical tools. In particular, after specifying prop12 erties characterizing similarities between states, a critical step lies 13 in the choice of a distance between graphs capable of reflecting such 14 similarities. 15 While the literature offers a number of distances that one could 16 a priori choose from, their properties have been little investigated 17 and no guidelines regarding the choice of such a distance have yet 18 been provided. In particular, most graph distances consider that the 19 nodes are exchangeable and do not take into account node identities. 20 Accounting for the alignment of the graphs enables us to enhance 21 these distances’ sensitivity to perturbations in the network and de22 tect important changes in graph dynamics. Thus the selection of an 23 adequate metric is a decisive – yet delicate – practical matter. 24 In the spirit of Goldenberg, Zheng and Fienberg’s seminal 2009 25 review [21], the purpose of this article is to provide an overview of 26 commonly-used graph distances and an explicit characterization of 27 the structural changes that they are best able to capture. To see how 28 this translates in real-life situations, we use as a guiding thread to our 29 discussion the application of these distances to the analysis of both a 30 longitudinal microbiome dataset and a brain fMRI study. We show 31 examples of using permutation tests to detect the effect of covariates 32 on the graphs’ variability. Finally synthetic examples provide intuition 33 as to the qualities and drawbacks of the different distances. Above 34 all, we provide some guidance for choosing one distance over another 35 in certain types of applications. 36 Finally, extending the scope of our analysis from temporal to spatial 37 dynamics, we show an application of these different distances to a 38 network created from worldwide recipes. 39
Asset life cycle management: towards improving physical asset performance in the process industry

Purpose – Asset management is often one of the last options to maximise cost savings in a competitive global economy due to its intrinsic complexity, especially in many developing countries. Asset management in the process industry must consider the commissioning, operational and end-of-life phases of physical assets when commencing a design and implementation project. However, current asset management models show inefficiencies in terms of addressing life cycle costs comprehensively, as well as other aspects of sustainable development. An asset life cycle management (ALCM) model is subsequently proposed for assets in the process industry, which integrates the concepts of generic project management frameworks and systems engineering with operational reliability in order to address these inefficiencies. Design/methodology/approach – Experiences within a large petrochemical company in South Africa are used as a case study to demonstrate and discuss the different components of the proposed ALCM model. Findings – Operational reliability and systems engineering are the means to achieve optimum value from physical assets over a facility's lifetime. Thereby, activities are identified that should be completed during each stage of the project life cycle. The application of performance measurements for the operation and support stages is proposed to influence decision making in the process industry. Originality/value – Specific issues pertaining to the ALCM model are highlighted to ensure optimal practicality and incorporation of the model with other management practices in the process industry.
Natural conservationists? Evaluating the impact of pastoralist land use practices on Tanzania's wildlife economy

The land management practices of pastoralist Maasai communities have a major bearing on landscapes and wildlife habitats in northern Tanzania and play a key role in maintaining habitat for one of the world's most spectacular assemblages of terrestrial large mammals. Pastoralists manage lands according to locally devised rules designed to manage and conserve key resources such as pastures and water sources. Dry season grazing reserves are an important part of traditional land management systems in many pastoralist communities, providing a ‘grass bank’ for livestock to consume during the long dry season when forage invariably becomes scarce and domestic animals are stressed for water and nutrients. Because of the scale and importance of northern Tanzania's wildlife-based tourism industry, and its indirect dependence on communal lands under the authority of pastoralists, these land use practices have an important economic dimension. By conserving large proportions of northern Tanzania's wildlife ecosystems, local pastoralist communities collectively make an important contribution to the national and regional economy. Using data regarding the degree to which wildlife depends on pastoralist lands in different ecosystems, and the relative importance of different areas in terms of generating revenue for the northern safari circuit, the annual value of pastoralist land uses to the wildlife-based tourism industry in northern Tanzania is estimated at approximately US $83.5 million. The economic value of pastoralists' contribution to wildlife conservation highlights the importance of Tanzanian policies in land, livestock, tourism, and wildlife sectors prioritizing measures that promote communal rangeland management and support traditional land use practices.
Clinical results with the 31 mm CoreValveª in large aortic annuli: the importance of implantation technique.

AIMS
The CoreValve Revalving System (CRS) (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) is currently available in four sizes: 23 mm, 26 mm, 29 mm and 31 mm. Aim of our study was to assess the acute clinical results after implantation of a 31 mm CRS.


METHODS AND RESULTS
We assessed device safety, procedural success and 30-day outcomes of 76 consecutive patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) from January 2012 to September 2013, for severe aortic valve disease. The device sizes used were 26 mm in 21 (28%), 29 mm in 20 (26%) and 31 mm in 35 (46%) patients. Patients who received the 31 mm CRS were significantly younger, predominantly male, with higher STS scores and lower left ventricular ejection fraction. Device success was obtained in 70 cases (92%) in the overall population, without significant differences among groups. Procedural, fluoroscopy and revalving time and procedural outcomes did not differ. A significant reduction in transaortic gradient was obtained in all groups. We observed a low incidence of paraprosthetic leak in the 31 mm group. Permanent pacemaker implantation, bleeding, vascular and renal complications were similar among groups. Time of hospitalisation in CRS 31 mm patients did not differ from the other groups and 30-day outcomes were comparable.


CONCLUSIONS
The 31 mm CRS can be safely implanted in patients with complex aortic valve disease, large annuli and dilated left ventricles.
A computational linguistics motivated mapping of ICPC-2 PLUS to SNOMED CT

BACKGROUND
A great challenge in sharing data across information systems in general practice is the lack of interoperability between different terminologies or coding schema used in the information systems. Mapping of medical vocabularies to a standardised terminology is needed to solve data interoperability problems.


METHODS
We present a system to automatically map an interface terminology ICPC-2 PLUS to SNOMED CT. Three steps of mapping are proposed in this system. The UMLS metathesaurus mapping utilises explicit relationships between ICPC-2 PLUS and SNOMED CT terms in the UMLS library to perform the first stage of the mapping. Computational linguistic mapping uses natural language processing techniques and lexical similarities for the second stage of mapping between terminologies. Finally, the post-coordination mapping allows one ICPC-2 PLUS term to be mapped into an aggregation of two or more SNOMED CT terms.


RESULTS
A total 5,971 of all 7,410 ICPC-2 terms (80.58%) were mapped to SNOMED CT using the three stages but with different levels of accuracy. UMLS mapping achieved the mapping of 53.0% ICPC2 PLUS terms to SNOMED CT with the precision rate of 96.46% and overall recall rate of 44.89%. Lexical mapping increased the result to 60.31% and post-coordination mapping gave an increase of 20.27% in mapped terms. A manual review of a part of the mapping shows that the precision of lexical mappings is around 90%. The accuracy of post-coordination has not been evaluated yet. Unmapped terms and mismatched terms are due to the differences in the structures between ICPC-2 PLUS and SNOMED CT. Terms contained in ICPC-2 PLUS but not in SNOMED CT caused a large proportion of the failures in the mappings.


CONCLUSION
Mapping terminologies to a standard vocabulary is a way to facilitate consistent medical data exchange and achieve system interoperability and data standardisation. Broad scale mapping cannot be achieved by any single method and methods based on computational linguistics can be very useful for the task. Automating as much as is possible of this process turns the searching and mapping task into a validation task, which can effectively reduce the cost and increase the efficiency and accuracy of this task over manual methods.
Communication Networks of Visible Light Emitting Diodes with Intra-Frame Bidirectional Transmission

Unlike traditional radio frequency communication of consumer devices, the "optical antenna" direction of Visible Light Communication (VLC), i.e., the Field-Of-View (FOV), varies greatly from device to device. This encompasses wide FOVs of ambient infrastructure and directional FOVs of light emitted by low-end embedded devices. This variety of light wave propagation can severely affect the transmission reliability, despite ``pointing'' devices to each other may seem enough for a reliable link. In particular, the fact that FOVs are unknown makes traditional access protocols in VLC unreliable in presence of interference among nodes of different FOVs and exacerbates the hidden-node problem. In this paper, we propose a Carrier Sensing Multiple Access/Collision Detection&Hidden Avoidance (CSMA/CD-HA) Medium Access Control protocol for a network where each node solely uses one Light Emitting Diode (LED) to transmit and receive data. The CSMA/CD-HA can enable in-band intra-frame bidirectional transmission with just one optical antenna. The key idea is to exploit the intra-frame data symbols without emission of light to introduce an embedded communication channel. This approach enables the transmission of additional data while receiving in the same optical channel and it makes the communication robust to different types of FOVs. We build a software-defined embedded platform running on Linux operating system, implement the CSMA/CD-HA protocol, and evaluate its performance through experiments. Results show that collisions caused by hidden nodes can be reduced and our protocol can increase the saturation throughput by nearly up to 50% and 100% under the two-node and four-node scenarios, respectively.
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An Efficient, Fully Adaptive Deadlock Recovery Scheme: DISHA

This paper presents a simple, efficient and cost effective routing strategy that considers deadlock recovery as opposed to prevention. Performance is optimized in the absence of deadlocks by allowing maximum flexibility in routing. Disha supports true fully adaptive routing where all virtual channels at each node are available to packets without regard for deadlocks. Deadlock cycles, upon forming, are efficiently broken by progressively routing one of the blocked packets through a deadlock-free lane. This lane is implemented using a central "floating" deadlock buffer resource in routers which is accessible to all neighboring routers along the path. Simulations show that the Disha scheme results in superior performance and is extremely simple, ensuring quick recovery from deadlocks and enabling the design of fast routers.
Two-Level Ambient Oscillation Modal Estimation From Synchrophasor Measurements

This paper proposes a decentralized two-level structure for real-time modal estimation of large power systems using ambient synchrophasor data. It introduces two distributed algorithms that fit the structure well, namely, 1) decentralized frequency domain decomposition and 2) decentralized recursive stochastic subspace identification. As opposed to present-day oscillation monitoring methodologies, the bulk of the algorithmic computations is done locally at the substation level in the two-level framework. Substation modal estimates are sent to the control center where they are grouped, analyzed, and combined to extract system modal properties of local and inter-area modes. The framework and the proposed algorithms provide a scalable methodology for handling oscillation monitoring from a large number of substations efficiently. The two-level structure and the two decentralized algorithms are tested using simulated data from standard test systems and from archived real power system synchrophasor data.
Adiponectin and Lipoprotein Particle Size

OBJECTIVE
Adiponectin has been postulated to affect lipid and insulin signal transduction pathways. We evaluated the relationships of plasma adiponectin with lipoprotein mean particle size and subclass concentrations, independent of obesity and insulin sensitivity.


RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
A cross-sectional analysis of 884 young Israeli adults who participated in the population-based Jerusalem Lipid Research Clinic (LRC) study was conducted. Lipoprotein particle size was assessed using proton nuclear magnetic resonance.


RESULTS
In multivariable linear regression models that included sex, BMI, waist circumference, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance, and leptin, adiponectin was associated with mean LDL size (standardized regression coefficient B = 0.20; P < 0.001), VLDL size (B = -0.12; P < 0.001), and HDL size (B = 0.06; P = 0.013). Adiponectin was inversely related to large VLDL (P < 0.001) but positively to small VLDL (P = 0.02), inversely related to small LDL (P < 0.006) but positively to large LDL (P < 0.001), and positively related to large HDL (P < 0.001) subclass concentrations.


CONCLUSIONS
Adiponectin is favorably associated with lipoprotein particle size and subclass distribution independent of adiposity and insulin sensitivity.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinomas.

BACKGROUND
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) associated with pulmonary lipiodol embolism is a rare complication of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE). We performed a survey of ARDS associated with pulmonary lipiodol embolism after TACE.


METHODS
A retrospective analysis of the cases of all patients with hepatic tumors who received transcatheter arterial embolization or TACE between January 2006 and December 2006 was performed. The diagnosis of pulmonary lipiodol embolism was confirmed by chest computed tomography (CT).


RESULTS
The diagnosis of ARDS associated with pulmonary lipiodol embolism was confirmed in 4 patients. All had large (> or =5 cm) and hypervascular tumors. There was no evidence of hepatocellular carcinoma arteriovenous shunting in any of our patients as determined by angiography and multidetector CT. The volumes of lipiodol infused in the 4 patients were 50, 20, 30, and 20 mL. Only 2 patients received injections of carcinostatic agents. The onset of respiratory symptoms occurred between 1 hour and 4 days after TACE. Respiratory symptoms consisted of dyspnea and tachypnea. Chest CT scans revealed linear high-density shadows, suggestive of lipiodol retention in both lungs of all patients.


CONCLUSION
Pulmonary lipiodol embolism after TACE can occur within a short time frame. Whether or not there is intrahepatic arteriovenous shunting detected by multidetector CT and angiography, clinicians should avoid high doses of iodized oil and carcinostatic agents. We suggest that CT should be used for the diagnosis of pulmonary lipiodol embolism.
A Design Tool for the Multilevel Description and Simulation of Systems of Interconnected Modules

We suggest a methodology and a language to permit the study of a system's behavior (functional validation, evaluation of global performances, critical situations). Every system is regarded as an interconnection of communicating modules functioning in a synchronous or asynchronous manner. The control section and the data section of each module are described separately in terms of respectively non-procedural and procedural sub-languages.
Relationship of gestation protein and feed intake level over a five-parity period using a high-producing sow genotype.

High-producing Landrace-Large White crossbred gilts (n = 50) involving 198 farrowings were used to evaluate dietary gestation protein (13 vs 16% CP) and gestation feed intakes (Control vs High), and their interaction, over a five-parity period on sow reproductive performance. Gestation feed intake for Control was 1.81 kg/d during parity 1, increasing by .09 kg for each successive parity. The daily feed intake for High was greater by .13 kg or approximately 450 kcal ME at each respective parity. The experiment was a 2 x 2 in a randomized complete block design conducted in two replicates with parity nested within sow groups. Sow weights and backfat thickness were determined at various intervals. A lactation diet containing .90% lysine in parity 1 and .80% lysine during parities 2 to 5 was fed to all sows from farrowing to weaning (21 d). Sow and pig weights, feed intakes, and colostrum and 21-d milk samples were collected during each lactation. The High feed intake and the 13% protein diet resulted in greater (P < .01) backfat thicknesses, and the effects were additive. Backfat thickness declined quadratically (P < .01) by parity and from late gestation to the rebreeding period of the following parity. The High feed intake resulted in a larger litter size (P < .01), whereas dietary gestation protein concentration had no effect on parturition performance. Sows in each parity consumed more (P < .01) feed from 0 to 7 d postpartum and for the overall 21-d lactation period (P < .01) for parity 1 when the 16% gestation protein had been fed. Gestation feed intake regimens did not affect lactation feed intake. Neither gestation variable affected colostrum or 21-d milk fat, but concentrations declined (P < .01) in all groups after parity 2. Parity 1 litters were heavier at 14 and 21 d, with larger litter gains from 0 to 14 and 0 to 21 d when gestating sows had been fed the 16% protein and the High feed intake combination compared to the other sow treatment groups. From parity 2 to 5, litter weights and gains were similar for all treatment groups. This resulted in a three-way interaction response (P < .05) for these variables. These results suggest that primiparous sows required a greater gestation protein concentration and greater feed intake than generally recommended, but the 13% CP diet at the High feed intake was effective in older sows.