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Revisit frequency and its association with quality of care among diabetic patients: Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD).

OBJECTIVE
To describe patient and provider characteristics associated with outpatient revisit frequency and to examine the associations between the revisit frequency and the processes and intermediate outcomes of diabetes care.


RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS
We analyzed data from Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD), a prospective, multicenter, observational study of diabetes care in managed care.


RESULTS
Our analysis included 6040 eligible adult participants with type 2 diabetes (42.6% ≥65 years of age, 54.1% female) whose primary care providers were the main provider of the participants' diabetes care. The median (interquartile range) revisit frequency was 4.0 (3.7, 6.0) visits per year. Being female, having lower education, lower income, more complex diabetes treatment, cardiovascular disease, higher Charlson comorbidity index, and impaired mobility were associated with higher revisit frequency. The proportion of participants who had annual assessments of HbA1c and LDL-cholesterol, foot examinations, advised or documented aspirin use, and influenza immunizations were higher for those with higher revisit frequency. The proportion of participants who met HbA1c (<9.5%) and LDL-cholesterol (<130 mg/dL) treatment goals were higher for those with a higher revisit frequency. The predicted probabilities of achieving more aggressive goals, HbA1c <8.5%, LDL-cholesterol <100mg/dL, and blood pressure <130/85 or even <140/90 mmHg were not associated with higher revisit frequency.


CONCLUSIONS
Revisit frequency was highly variable and was associated with both sociodemographic characteristics and disease severity. A higher revisit frequency was associated with better processes of diabetes care, but the association with intermediate outcomes was less clear.
Low frequency of skin reactions in a cohort of patients on raltegravir.

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Multilingual Sentiment and Subjectivity Analysis

Subjectivity and sentiment analysis focuses on the automatic identification of private states, such as opinions, emotions, sentiments, evaluations, beliefs, and speculations in natural language. While subjectivity classification labels text as either subjective or objective, sentiment classification adds an additional level of granularity, by further classifying subjective text as either positive, negative or neutral. To date, a large number of text processing applications have already used techniques for automatic sentiment and subjectivity analysis, including automatic expressive text-to-speech synthesis [1], tracking sentiment timelines in on-line forums and news [22, 2], and mining opinions from product reviews [11]. In many natural language processing tasks, subjectivity and sentiment classification have been used as a first phase filtering to generate more viable data. Research that benefitted from this additional layering ranges from question answering [48], to conversation summarization [7] and text semantic analysis [41, 8]. Much of the research work to date on sentiment and subjectivity analysis has been applied to English, but work on other languages is growing, including Japanese [19, 34, 35, 15], Chinese [12, 49], German [18], and Romanian [23, 4]. In addition, several participants in the Chinese and Japanese Opinion Extraction tasks of NTCIR-6 [17] performed subjectivity and sentiment analysis in languages other than English.1 As only 29.4% of Internet users speak English,2 the construction of resources and tools for subjectivity and sentiment analysis in languages other than English is a growing need. In this chapter, we review the main directions of research focusing on the development of resources and tools for multilingual subjectivity and sentiment analysis. Specifically, we identify and overview three main categories of methods: (1) those focusing on word and phrase level annotations, overviewed in Section 4; (2) methods targeting the labeling of sentences, described in Section 5; and finally (3) methods for document-level annotations, presented in Section 6. We address both multilingual and cross-lingual methods. For multilingual methods, we review work concerned with languages other than English, where the resources and tools have been specifically developed for a given target language. In this category, in Section 3 we also briefly overview the main directions of work on English data, highlighting the methods that can be easily
Antecedents and Consequences of Firms’ Process Innovation Capability: A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework

Process innovation can allow both efficiency and effectiveness gains and is a key source of long-term competitive advantage in manufacturing firms. However, the literature on managing process innovation is broad and fragmented, and it has not yet been systematically reviewed in the scholarly literature. Drawing on a capability-based perspective, the aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the process innovation literature. We synthesize our findings into a conceptual framework displaying the antecedents and consequences of firms' process innovation capability. First, a parsimonious review of the process innovation literature is conducted. Second, a conceptual framework of firms' process innovation capability is developed to synthesize the literature and to advance knowledge about managing process innovation. A principal distinction between a firm's potential and realized process innovation capability is drawn, and it is argued that high-quality realization mechanisms are critical for achieving desired process innovation outcomes. Finally, implications for theory, management practice, and recommendations for future research are provided.
Wrapper Development for Legacy Data Reuse

This paper is devoted to the technology of wrappers for legacy data systems reuse. Their characteristics are outlined and a generic wrapper architecture is defined. This architecture is intended to be instanciated for specific legacy data models and systems. A general methodology is proposed to define the architecture components. The methodology is supported by an operational CASE-tool that helps developers to generate wrappers.
Measuring Core Inflation in South Africa

Measures of core inflation convey critical information about an economy. They have a direct effect on the policy-making process, particularly in inflation-targeting countries, and are utilized in forecasting and modelling exercises. In South Africa the price indices on which inflation is based have been subject to important structural breaks following changes to the underlying basket of goods and the methodology for constructing price indices. This paper seeks to identify a consistent measure of core inflation for South Africa using trimmed-means estimates, measures that exclude changes in food and energy prices, dynamic factor models and wavelet decompositions. After considering the forecasting ability of these measures, which provide an indication of expected second-round inflationary effects, traditional in-sample criteria were used for further comparative purposes. The results suggest that wavelet decompositions provide a useful measure of this critical variable. JEL Classifications: C43, E31, E52
What Do Returns to Acquiring Firms Tell Us? Evidence from Firms That Make Many Acquisitions

We study shareholder returns for firms that acquired five or more public, private, and0or subsidiary targets within a short time period. Since the same bidder chooses different types of targets and methods of payment, any variation in returns must be due to the characteristics of the target and the bid. Results indicate bidder shareholders gain when buying a private firm or subsidiary but lose when purchasing a public firm. Further, the return is greater the larger the target and if the bidder offers stock. These results are consistent with a liquidity discount, and tax and control effects in this market. Takeovers are one of the most important events in corporate finance, both for a firm and the economy. Extensive research has shown that shareholders in target firms gain significantly and that wealth is created at the announcement of takeovers ~i.e., combined bidder and target returns are positive!. However, we know much less about the effects of takeovers on the shareholders of acquiring firms. Evidence suggests that these shareholders earn, on average, a zero abnormal return at the acquisition’s announcement, though there is tremendous variation in these returns. Researchers have been unable to successfully explain much of this variation, partially because the announcement of a takeover reveals information about numerous things. For example, Grinblatt and Titman ~2002, p. 708! state that the stock return at the time of the bid cannot be completely attributed to the expected effect of the acquisition on profitability, arguing that, “the stock returns of the bidder at the time of the announcement of the bid may tell us more about how the market is reassessing the bidder’s business than it does about the * Fuller and Netter are from Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Stegemoller is from Kelly School of Business at Indiana University, Indianapolis. We thank Anup Agrawal; Sanjai Bhagat; Michael Goldstein; E. Han Kim; Marc Lipson; David Mauer; Maureen O’Hara; Bill Petty; Annette Poulsen; Raghu Rau; Sheridan Titman; seminar participants at the University of Georgia and Babson College; and participants at the 11th Annual Financial Economics and Accounting Conference and 7th Mitsui Life Symposium on Global Financial Markets at the University of Michigan, the 2001 European Financial Management Association meetings, the 2001 Financial Management Association meetings, and the 2002 American Finance Association meetings for comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper. All errors are our own. THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LVII, NO. 4 • AUGUST 2002
Recognizing Energy-related Activities Using Sensors Commonly Installed in Office Buildings

Automated control based on user activities and preferences could reduce energy consumption of office buildings. In this paper, we investigated generalisation properties of an office activity recognition approach using sensors that are frequently installed in modern and refurbished office buildings. In particular, per-desk passive infrared (PIR) sensors and power plug meters were considered in an evaluation study including more than 100 hours of data from both, a single-person room and a three-user multi-person office room. Layered hidden Markov models (LHMM) were used for the recognition. Results showed that 30 hours and 50 hours of training data were needed to achieve robust recognition of desk activities and estimate people count, respectively. The recognition can be performed independent of a particular occupant desk. In further simulations considering different energy profiles, we show how energy consumption due to lighting and office appliances is related to occupant behaviour. c © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of [name organizer]
Gregory of Tours and Spain

Gregory’s narrative about Spain and Spanish matters is focused largely on religious issues, even when these involved diplomacy and warfare. Distinctions like these, however, were not those the bishop of Tours would have made or recognized. A good example of his approach is his description of the campaign conducted in 531 by Childebert I (ca 511–558) against the Visigothic king Amalaric (a. 526–531), prompted by the latter’s ill-treatment of his wife, Chlothild, who was the Frankish monarch’s sister.1 While recording the death of Amalaric in Barcelona in a version that conflicts with Spanish accounts, Gregory gives very few details of the military events, which are almost incidental to his narrative, but instead includes precise figures for the 60 chalices, 15 patens and 20 gold and bejeweled Gospel covers that Childebert carried off as loot to distribute amongst various episcopal and monastic churches in Francia.2 Similarly, Gregory reports on how the Arian bishop of Narbonne died of despair when he failed to prevent the inhabitants of the province of Narbonensis accepting Catholicism following the conversion of the Visigothic king Reccared in 587 (Hist. 9.15). However, the Spanish hagiographic text known as the Vitas Patrum Emeretensium indicates that this episcopal bitterness took the more concrete form of a revolt, in which Bishop Athalocus joined the Narbonese counts Granista and Wildigern in a failed rising against the king – a dimension
Supply Chain Coordination with Contracts

1 This paper is an invited chapter to be published in the Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science: Supply Chain Management, edited by Steve Graves and Ton de Kok and published by North-Holland. I would like to thank the many people that carefully read and commented on the ...rst draft of this manuscript: Ravi Anupindi, Fangruo Chen, Charles Corbett, James Dana, Ananth Iyer, Ton de Kok, Yigal Gerchak, Mark Ferguson, Marty Lariviere, Serguei Netessine, Ediel Pinker, Nils Rudi, Sridhar Seshadri, Terry Taylor and Kevin Weng. I am, of course, responsible for all remaining errors. Comments, of course, are still quite welcomed.
Accident detection and reporting system using GPS, GPRS and GSM technology

Speed is one of the basic reasons for vehicle accident. Many lives could have been saved if emergency service could get accident information and reach in time. Nowadays, GPS has become an integral part of a vehicle system. This paper proposes to utilize the capability of a GPS receiver to monitor speed of a vehicle and detect accident basing on monitored speed and send accident location to an Alert Service Center. The GPS will monitor speed of a vehicle and compare with the previous speed in every second through a Microcontroller Unit. Whenever the speed will be below the specified speed, it will assume that an accident has occurred. The system will then send the accident location acquired from the GPS along with the time and the speed by utilizing the GSM network. This will help to reach the rescue service in time and save the valuable human life.
Maltreatment and Family Dysfunction in Childhood and the Subsequent Adjustment of Children and Adults

The adjustment problems associated with sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological maltreatment, neglect, and witnessing family violence during childhood were examined in three studies. Study 1 demonstrated significant overlap between maltreatment types in parent reports (N = 50) of maltreatment experiences of their child aged 5–12 years. Parental sexual punitiveness, traditionality, family adaptability and family cohesion significantly predicted scores on 4 maltreatment scales and children's externalizing behavior problems. Level of maltreatment predicted internalizing, externalizing, and sexual behavior problems. In Study 2, significant overlap was found between adults' retrospective reports (N = 138) of all 5 types of maltreating behaviors. Parental sexual punitiveness, traditionality, family adaptability, and family cohesion during childhood predicted the level of maltreatment and current psychopathology. Although child maltreatment scores predicted psychopathology, childhood family variables were better predictors of adjustment. Study 3 demonstrated that child maltreatment scores predicted positive aspects of adult adaptive functioning (N = 95).
Psychological characteristics and perceptions of stuttering of adults who stutter with and without support group experience.

PURPOSE
To compare adults who stutter with and without support group experience on measures of self-esteem, self-efficacy, life satisfaction, self-stigma, perceived stuttering severity, perceived origin and future course of stuttering, and importance of fluency.


METHOD
Participants were 279 adults who stutter recruited from the National Stuttering Association and Board Recognized Specialists in Fluency Disorders. Participants completed a Web-based survey comprised of various measures of well-being including the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale, a measure of perceived stuttering severity, the Self-Stigma of Stuttering Scale, and other stuttering-related questions.


RESULTS
Participants with support group experience as a whole demonstrated lower internalized stigma, were more likely to believe that they would stutter for the rest of their lives, and less likely to perceive production of fluent speech as being highly or moderately important when talking to other people, compared to participants with no support group experience. Individuals who joined support groups to help others feel better about themselves reported higher self-esteem, self-efficacy, and life satisfaction, and lower internalized stigma and perceived stuttering severity, compared to participants with no support group experience. Participants who stutter as an overall group demonstrated similar levels of self-esteem, higher self-efficacy, and lower life satisfaction compared to averages from normative data for adults who do not stutter.


CONCLUSIONS
Findings support the notion that self-help support groups limit internalization of negative attitudes about the self, and that focusing on helping others feel better in a support group context is linked to higher levels of psychological well-being.


EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
At the end of this activity the reader will be able to: (a) describe the potential psychological benefits of stuttering self-help support groups for people who stutter, (b) contrast between important aspects of well-being including self-esteem self-efficacy, and life satisfaction, (c) summarize differences in self-esteem, self-efficacy, life satisfaction, self-stigma, perceived stuttering severity, and perceptions of stuttering between adults who stutter with and without support group experience, (d) summarize differences in self-esteem, self-efficacy, and life satisfaction between adults who stutter and normative data for adults who do not stutter.
The Box-Cox transformation technique : a review

Box & Cox (1964) proposed a parametric power transformation technique in order to reduce anomalies such as non-additivity, non-normality and heteroscedasticity. Although the transformation has been extensively studied, no bibliography of the published research exists at present. An attempt is made here to review the work relating to this transformation.
Cockroach allergy and allergen-specific immunotherapy in asthma: potential and pitfalls.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW
To provide a summary and discussion of cockroach allergy and clinical trials of cockroach allergen immunotherapy.


RECENT FINDINGS
Cockroach allergen exposure among sensitized children is increasingly recognized as a key factor contributing to asthma morbidity. Recent trials suggest that cockroach immunotherapy holds promise as a treatment strategy with studies demonstrating immunomodulatory and clinical effects. However, a few obstacles need to be overcome to realize the full potential of this treatment modality as cockroach-allergic patients often exhibit complex sensitization patterns to multiple cockroach-associated proteins, and an immunodominant allergen has not been identified. These factors have made it difficult to produce standardized cockroach allergen extracts that are potent and provide the broad allergen profiles needed for optimal treatment. There have been important advances in the identification and cloning of cockroach allergens, and several strategies are being developed to provide therapeutic cockroach allergen products with enhanced clinical efficacy.


SUMMARY
Allergen immunotherapy has the capability of modulating the immune response to cockroach allergen and has potential as a valuable treatment modality. Further studies of the clinical efficacy, along with the development of improved therapeutic products, are needed to advance our knowledge and realize the full potential of this promising therapy.
A ray tracing method for predicting path loss and delay spread in microcellular environments

The ability to predict path l~ss and delay spread is crucial for determining coverage and for planning interference reduction strategies in wireless radio system design. This paper presents a promising theoretical method tci accurately predict these channel characteristics in micro cells.; The method uses modified geometrical optics to evaluate average path loss and delay spread. Quantitative building data, such as lo~ation, height, and electrical properties are employed to determine_ the individual multipath component amplitudes and delays. Preliminary verification of the technique against measured data has 'been conducted. The results illustrate that accurate path loss predi.ction is possible, with predicted values being within 5 dB of the measured values. As a result of this study, a computer program is being developed to automate the prediction process. The technical issues required for automated propagation prediction are presented in !his paper. The ray optics model, computer ray tracing techniques, and building data requirements are also described. Comparisons between simulations and measurements are provided here. ·
Techniques for File System Simulation

SUMMARY Careful simulation-based evaluation plays an important role in the design of file and disk systems. We describe here a particular approach to such evaluations that combines techniques in workload synthesis, file system modeling, and detailed disk behavior modeling. Together, these make feasible the detailed simulation of I/O hardware and file system software. In particular, using the techniques described here is likely to make comparative file system studies more accurate. In addition to these specific contributions, the paper makes two broader points. First, it argues that detailed models are appropriate and necessary in many cases. Second, it demonstrates that detailed models need not be difficult or time consuming to construct or execute.