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Yoga might be an alternative training for the quality of life and balance in postmenopausal osteoporosis.

AIM
Osteoporotic vertebra and hip fractures are major causes of dysfunction, disability, mortality and impaired life quality in the ageing population. In the postmenopausal period, exercises prevent rapid bone loss and increase muscle strength, mobility and flexibility thereby decreasing the risk of falls and fractures. Yoga exercises, which have been an inseparable part of Eastern culture for hundreds of years, are now being used in the field of osteoporosis rehabilitation. Yoga has a positive effect on balance, posture, flexibility, and life quality resulting from its effects on balance, stretching, relaxation and strengthening. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of yoga exercises in postmenopausal osteoporotic women on balance and life quality and to compare the results with a classic osteoporosis exercise program.


METHODS
Twenty-six postmenopausal osteoporotic women over 55 years of age were included in the study. A neuromuscular test battery and the QUALEFFO as a life quality index were used for the assessment of balance and life quality, respectively.


RESULTS
The results showed that yoga education has a positive effect on pain, physical functions, social functions, general


CONCLUSION
In conclusion, yoga appears to be an alternative physical activity for the rehabilitation of osteoporotic subjects.
Effect of Psychiatric Illness on Acute Care Utilization at End of Life From Serious Medical Illness.

CONTEXT
Little is known about psychiatric illness and utilization of end-of-life care.


OBJECTIVES
We hypothesized that preexisting psychiatric illness would increase hospital utilization at end of life among patients with chronic medical illness due to increased severity of illness and care fragmentation.


METHODS
We reviewed electronic health records to identify decedents with one or more of eight chronic medical conditions based on International Classification of Diseases-9 codes. We used International Classification of Diseases-9 codes and prescription information to identify preexisting psychiatric illness. Regression models compared hospital utilization among patients with and without psychiatric illness. Path analyses examined the effect of severity of illness and care fragmentation.


RESULTS
Eleven percent of 16,214 patients with medical illness had preexisting psychiatric illness, which was associated with increased risk of death in nursing homes (P = 0.002) and decreased risk of death in hospitals (P < 0.001). In the last 30 days of life, psychiatric illness was associated with reduced inpatient and intensive care unit utilization but increased emergency department utilization. Path analyses confirmed an association between psychiatric illness and increased hospital utilization mediated by severity of illness and care fragmentation, but a stronger direct effect of psychiatric illness decreasing hospitalizations.


CONCLUSION
Our findings differ from the increased hospital utilization for patients with psychiatric illness in circumstances other than end-of-life care. Path analyses confirmed hypothesized associations between psychiatric illness and increased utilization mediated by severity of illness and care fragmentation but identified more powerful direct effects decreasing hospital use. Further investigation should examine whether this effect represents a disparity in access to preferred care.
Modeling Player Retention in Madden NFL 11

Video games are increasingly producing huge datasets available for analysis resulting from players engaging in interactive environments. These datasets enable investigation of individual player behavior at a massive scale, which can lead to reduced production costs and improved player retention. We present an approach for modeling player retention in Madden NFL 11, a commercial football game. Our approach encodes gameplay patterns of specific players as feature vectors and models player retention as a regression problem. By building an accurate model of player retention, we are able to identify which gameplay elements are most influential in maintaining active players. The outcome of our tool is recommendations which will be used to influence the design of future titles in the Madden NFL series.
The evaluation of psychiatric drug therapy on oral lichen planus patients with psychiatric disorders.

OBJECTIVES
Current treatments of oral lichen planus are palliative, not curative. Because psychiatric disorders significantly influence the development and severity of oral lichen planus, the use of psychiatric drug therapy may be an adjunct in treatment. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of drug therapy of psychiatric disorders in oral lichen planus.


STUDY DESIGN
Our controlled clinical study consisted of forty-six patients with oral lichen planus and psychiatric disorders who were randomly divided into two groups. Both groups were given topical corticosteroids and the study group received additional psychiatric drug therapy. Patients were monitored for a period of 6 months. Response to treatment was evaluated in each group and was compared with the other group using Mann-Whitney tests. We evaluated the correlation between psychiatric disorders and the recovery of oral lesions using Spearman's correlation coefficient analysis.


RESULTS
Decrease in the size of the lesions was significantly greater in the study group after six months, but this difference was not significant in relationship to the pain experienced and the kind of lesion. Spearman's correlation coefficient analysis demonstrated that, in the sixth month, there was a significant and direct relationship between recovery from the psychiatric disorders and response to treatment of OLP lesions, particularly as it pertained to the kind of lesion.


CONCLUSION
The present study indicates that the combination of psychiatric drug therapy and routine treatment methods were effective in reducing the size of the lesions, but did not have any significant effect on the symptoms.
Manifest sharing with session types

Session-typed languages building on the Curry-Howard isomorphism between linear logic and session-typed communication guarantee session fidelity and deadlock freedom. Unfortunately, these strong guarantees exclude many naturally occurring programming patterns pertaining to shared resources. In this paper, we introduce sharing into a session-typed language where types are stratified into linear and shared layers with modal operators connecting the layers. The resulting language retains session fidelity but not the absence of deadlocks, which can arise from contention for shared processes. We illustrate our language on various examples, such as the dining philosophers problem, and provide a translation of the untyped asynchronous Ï-calculus into our language.
Basic Approaches in Recommendation Systems

Recommendation systems support users in finding items of interest. In this chapter, we introduce the basic approaches of collaborative filtering, contentbased filtering, and knowledge-based recommendation. We first discuss principles of the underlying algorithms based on a running example. Thereafter, we provide an overview of hybrid recommendation approaches which combine basic variants. We conclude this chapter with a discussion of newer algorithmic trends, especially critiquing-based and group recommendation.
HAHE: Hierarchical Attentive Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding

Given the intractability of large scale HIN, network embedding which learns low dimensional proximity-preserved representations for nodes in the new space becomes a natural way to analyse HIN. However, two challenges arise in HIN embedding. (1) Dierent HIN structures (also known as meta-paths) with dierent semantic meanings play dierent roles in capturing relationships among nodes in HIN, how can we learn personalized preferences over dierent meta-paths for each individual node in HIN? (2) With the number of large scale HIN increasing dramatically in various web services, how can we update the embedding information of new nodes in an ecient way? Existing HIN embedding methods only learn a global preference rather than personalized preference over each meta-path, therefore can not capture the personalized importance of meta-path to each node. Neither can they eciently compute the embedding for each new node without traversing the whole HIN. To tackle these challenges, we propose a Hierarchical Aentive Heterogeneous information network Embedding (HAHE ) model which is capable of learning personalized meta-path preferences for each node as well as updating the embedding information for each new node eciently with only its neighbor node information. e proposed HAHEmodel extracts the semantic relationships among nodes in the semantic space based on dierent meta-paths and adopts a neighborhood aention layer to conduct weighted aggregations of neighborhood structure features for each node, enabling the embedding information of each new node to be updated eciently. Besides, a meta-path aention layer is also employed to learn the personalized meta-path preferences for each individual node. Extensive experiments on several real-world datasets show that our proposed HAHEmodel signicantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of various evaluation metrics. ACM Reference format: Sheng Zhou1, Jiajun Bu1, Xin Wang2, Jiawei Chen1, Binbin Hu3, Defang Chen1, Can Wang1. 2016. HAHE: Hierarchical Aentive Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding. In Proceedings of ACM Conference, Washington, DC, USA, July 2017 (Conference’17), 12 pages.
Mangrove restoration without planting

Tropical shorelines are often occupied by stretches of mangrove forests. Despite the wide range of ecological and socio-economic benefits provided by mangrove ecosystem (Lewis, 2005; Bosire et al., 2008), over the past decades the mangrove hasbecomea plant in peril. The area of the world’s mangrove forests has decreased by 35% during the last two decades of the 20th century (Valiela et al., 2001). Vast areas of mangrove forests have been cleared for urban development, industrialisation, agricultural land reclamation, timber and charcoal production and shrimp farming. Mangrove forests are still declining at such an alarming rate, particularly in developing countries, that these ecosystems may completely disappear within the next 100 years (Duke et al., 2007).
Simulation of spiking neural networks -- architectures and implementations

The fast simulation of large networks of spiking neurons is a major task for the examination of biology-inspired vision systems. Networks of this type label features by synchronization of spikes and there is strong demand to simulate these e,ects in real world environments. As the calculations for one model neuron are complex, the digital simulation of large networks is not e>cient using existing simulation systems. Consequently, it is necessary to develop special simulation techniques. This article introduces a wide range of concepts for the di,erent parts of digital simulator systems for large vision networks and presents accelerators based on these foundations. c © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights
A comparison of machine learning techniques for customer churn prediction

Article history: Received 13 January 2015 Received in revised form 20 February 2015 Accepted 10 March 2015
Labia minora reconstruction using clitoral hood flaps, wedge excisions, and YV advancement flaps.

BACKGROUND
Labia minora reduction (labioplasty, labiaplasty) is the most common female genital aesthetic procedure. The majority of labia reductions are performed by trimming the labial edges. Many of these women present with (1) asymmetry; (2) scalloping of the labial edges with wide, occasionally painful scars; and (3) abrupt termination and distortion of the clitoral hood at its normal junctions with the clitoral frenula and the upper labium. Reconstruction can usually be performed with wedge excisions, labial YV advancement, and touch-up trimming. Reconstruction of a labial amputation, however, required the development of a new clitoral hood flap.


METHODS
Twenty-four clitoral hood flaps were performed on 17 patients from June of 2006 through May of 2010. An island clitoral hood flap randomly based on the dartos fascia of the lower clitoral hood and medial labium majus is transposed to the ipsilateral labial defect to reconstruct a labium. Of the 10 patients with unilateral flaps, nine of the patients had previous bilateral labial reductions. Reconstruction of the opposite side in these nine women was performed using one or a combination of the following: wedge excisions, YV advancement flaps, or controlled touch-up trimming.


RESULTS
All 24 flaps survived, with four minor complications. Five patients underwent revision of a total of seven flaps, but only two were for complications. As experience increased, revisions for aesthetic improvement became less common.


CONCLUSION
Reconstruction of labia minora defects secondary to trimming labia reductions is very successful using a combination of clitoral hood flaps, wedge excisions, and YV advancements.
Developing a unified framework of the business model concept

Received: 2 February 2009 Revised: 8 September 2009 2nd Revision: 9 January 2010 3rd Revision: 2 March 2010 Accepted: 4 March 2010 Abstract Recent rapid advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have highlighted the rising importance of the Business Model (BM) concept in the field of Information Systems (IS). Despite agreement on its importance to an organization’s success, the concept is still fuzzy and vague, and there is little consensus regarding its compositional facets. Identifying the fundamental concepts, modeling principles, practical functions, and reach of the BM relevant to IS and other business concepts is by no means complete. This paper, following a comprehensive review of the literature, principally employs the content analysis method and utilizes a deductive reasoning approach to provide a hierarchical taxonomy of the BM concepts from which to develop a more comprehensive framework. This framework comprises four fundamental aspects. First, it identifies four primary BM dimensions along with their constituent elements forming a complete ontological structure of the concept. Second, it cohesively organizes the BM modeling principles, that is, guidelines and features. Third, it explains the reach of the concept showing its interactions and intersections with strategy, business processes, and IS so as to place the BM within the world of digital business. Finally, the framework explores three major functions of BMs within digital organizations to shed light on the practical significance of the concept. Hence, this paper links the BM facets in a novel manner offering an intact definition. In doing so, this paper provides a unified conceptual framework for the BM concept that we argue is comprehensive and appropriate to the complex nature of businesses today. This leads to fruitful implications for theory and practice and also enables us to suggest a research agenda using our conceptual framework. European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 359–376. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.21; published online 11 May 2010
The ecological future of cities

The discipline of urban ecology arose in the 1990s, primarily motivated by a widespread interest in documenting the distribution and abundance of animals and plants in cities. Today, urban ecologists have greatly expanded their scope of study to include ecological and socioeconomic processes, urban management, planning, and design, with the goal of addressing issues of sustainability, environmental quality, and human well-being within cities and towns. As the global pace of urbanization continues to intensify, urban ecology provides the ecological and social data, as well as the principles, concepts and tools, to create livable cities.
Weight, body image and bullying in 9-year-old children.

AIM
To explore the association between weight and bullying; considering victims and perpetrators as two aspects of bullying, and subjective perception and objective measurement as two aspects of weight.


METHODS
This study is based on the first wave of data collection from Growing Up in Ireland - the National Longitudinal Study of Children. The two-stage sample design included a sample of 910 primary schools in Ireland, from which a sample of 8568 nine-year-old children and their families was randomly selected. Analysis is based on statistically reweighted data to ensure that it is representative of all 9-year-olds in Ireland.


RESULTS
Significantly (P < 0.001) more girls were overweight or obese (33.1%: 23.1% overweight and 10% obese) than boys (25.2%: 18.3% and 6.9%). Children who were body mass index (BMI) classified as overweight or obese were significantly (P < 0.001) more likely to be victimised when compared with children whose BMI was not classified as overweight or obese. BMI-classified thinness was not significantly associated with victimisation; however, the body image of being skinny or very skinny was significantly (P = 0.015) associated with being victimised. Bullying perpetration was not associated with BMI-derived weight classification but was significantly (P < 0.001) associated with the child's own self-description of weight.


CONCLUSIONS
Overall body image was found to have a stronger association with victimisation and bullying perpetration than objective BMI-derived weight classification. Further research investigating the mediating role of body image in the relationship between weight, victimisation and bullying is necessary to better understand this association.
A two-layer sparse coding model learns simple and complex cell receptive fields and topography from natural images

The classical receptive fields of simple cells in the visual cortex have been shown to emerge from the statistical properties of natural images by forcing the cell responses to be maximally sparse, i.e. significantly activated only rarely. Here, we show that this single principle of sparseness can also lead to emergence of topography (columnar organization) and complex cell properties as well. These are obtained by maximizing the sparsenesses of locally pooled energies, which correspond to complex cell outputs. Thus, we obtain a highly parsimonious model of how these properties of the visual cortex are adapted to the characteristics of the natural input.
Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics. First Revision.

Objective: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on revising the existing international recommendations in health informatics/medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this field, to further develop existing educational activities in the various nations and to support international initiatives concerning education in biomedical and health informatics (BMHI), particularly international activities in educating BMHI specialists and the sharing of courseware. Method: An IMIA task force, nominated in 2006, worked on updating the recommendations' first version. These updates have been broadly discussed and refined by members of IMIA's National Member Societies, IMIA's Academic Institutional Members and by members of IMIA's Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education. Results and Conclusions: The IMIA recommendations center on educational needs for health care professionals to acquire knowledge and skills in information processing and information and communication technology. The educational needs are described as a three-dimensional framework. The dimensions are: 1) professionals in health care (e.g. physicians, nurses, BMHI professionals), 2) type of specialization in BMHI (IT users, BMHI specialists), and 3) stage of career progression (bachelor, master, doctorate). Learning outcomes are defined in terms of knowledge and practical skills for health care professionals in their role a) as IT user and b) as BMHI specialist. Recommendations are given for courses/course tracks in BMHI as part of educational programs in medicine, nursing, health care management, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, health record administration, and informatics/computer science as well as for dedicated programs in BMHI (with bachelor, master or doctor degree). To support education in BMHI, IMIA offers to award a certificate for high-quality BMHI education. It supports information exchange on programs and courses in BMHI through its Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education.
Reducing children's television-viewing time: a qualitative study of parents and their children.

OBJECTIVES
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children over age 2 years spend < or = 2 hours per day with screen media, because excessive viewing has been linked to a plethora of physical, academic, and behavioral problems. The primary goal of this study was to qualitatively explore how a recommendation to limit television viewing might be received and responded to by a diverse sample of parents and their school-age children.


METHODS
The study collected background data about media use, gathered a household media inventory, and conducted in-depth individual and small group interviews with 180 parents and children ages 6 to 13 years old.


RESULTS
Most of the children reported spending approximately 3 hours per day watching television. The average home in this sample had 4 television sets; nearly two thirds had a television in the child's bedroom, and nearly half had a television set in the kitchen or dining room. Although virtually all of the parents reported having guidelines for children's television viewing, few had rules restricting the time children spend watching television. Data from this exploratory study suggest several potential barriers to implementing a 2-hour limit, including: parents' need to use television as a safe and affordable distraction, parents' own heavy television viewing patterns, the role that television plays in the family's day-to-day routine, and a belief that children should spend their weekend leisure time as they wish. Interviews revealed that for many of these families there is a lack of concern that television viewing is a problem for their child, and there remains confusion about the boundaries of the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics.


CONCLUSIONS
Parents in this study expressed interest in taking steps toward reducing children's television time but also uncertainty about how to go about doing so. Results suggest possible strategies to reduce the amount of time children spend in front of the screen.