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Sexual behavior predictors of satisfaction in a Chinese sample.

INTRODUCTION
Previous multivariate research in Europe found that sexual satisfaction was associated directly with frequency of penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI) but inversely with masturbation and some aspects of non-PVI partnered sex.


AIMS
To examine the associations of sexual satisfaction in a sample from the People's Republic of China, including not only frequencies of various sexual behaviors, but also frequencies of orgasm.


METHODS
Chinese industrial workers (N=158, age over 24 years) completed the sexual satisfaction scale of the Multidimensional Sexuality Questionnaire (MSQ) and a short form of the Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale, and provided details of the one month frequencies of engaging in, and having an orgasm from, PVI, masturbation, and non-PVI partnered sex.


MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Multiple regression prediction of sexual satisfaction from age, social desirability responding, and in separate analyses, frequencies of the sexual behaviors or the corresponding orgasm frequencies.


RESULTS
For men and women, sexual satisfaction was associated with frequency of PVI and of PVI orgasm (the latter for women only), but not other sexual behavior or orgasm frequency. Similar results were obtained for the MSQ satisfaction scale and for a single satisfaction item.


CONCLUSIONS
Despite cultural differences (and our smaller, less diverse sample), the positive prediction of satisfaction from only PVI (and in our sample of women, PVI orgasm) frequency-but not other sexual activities-was similar to that in a Swedish sample. Future research might also examine possible occasional avoidance of ejaculation by some Chinese men.
Quality indicators for palliative care: update of a systematic review.

CONTEXT
In 2007, a systematic review revealed a number of quality indicators referring mostly to palliative care outcomes and processes. Psychosocial and spiritual aspects were scarcely represented. Most publications lacked a detailed description of the development process. With many initiatives and further developments expected, an update is needed.


OBJECTIVES
This update gives an overview of the published quality indicators for palliative care and identifies any new developments since 2007 regarding the number and type of indicators developed and the methodology applied.


METHODS
The same literature search as in the 2007 review was used to identify relevant publications up to October 2011. Publications describing development processes or characteristics of quality indicators for palliative care were selected by two reviewers independently.


RESULTS
The literature search resulted in 435 hits in addition to the 650 hits found in the previous review. Thirteen new publications were selected in addition to the 16 publications selected earlier, describing 17 sets of quality indicators containing 326 indicators. These cover all domains of palliative care as defined by the U.S. National Consensus Project. Most indicators refer to care processes or outcomes. The extent to which methodological characteristics are described varies widely.


CONCLUSION
Recent developments in measuring quality of palliative care using quality indicators are mainly quantitative in nature, with a substantial number of new indicators being found. However, the quality of the development process varies considerably between sets. More consistent and detailed methodological descriptions are needed for the further development of these indicators and improved quality measurement of palliative care.
Discrete event simulation for performance modelling in health care: a review of the literature

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been widely used in modelling health-care systems for many years and a simple citation analysis shows that the number of papers published has increased markedly since 2004. Over the last 30 years several significant reviews of DES papers have been published and we build on these to focus on the most recent era, with an interest in performance modelling within hospitals. As there are few papers that propose or illustrate general approaches, we classify papers according to the areas of application evident in the literature, discussing the apparent lack of genericity. There is considerable diversity in the objectives of reported studies and in the consequent level of detail: We discuss why specificity dominates and why more generic approaches are rare. Journal of Simulation (2010) 4, 42–51. doi:10.1057/jos.2009.25
Test of the depression distress amplification model in young adults with elevated risk of current suicidality

Suicide is a leading cause of death among young adults and the rate of suicide has been increasing for decades. A depression distress amplification model posits that young adults with comorbid depression and anxiety have elevated suicide rates due to the intensification of their depressive symptoms by anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns. The current study tested the effects of anxiety sensitivity subfactors as well as the depression distress amplification model in a very large sample of college students with elevated suicide risk. Participants were 721 college students who were at elevated risk of suicidality (scored>0 on the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation). Consistent with prior work, anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns, but not physical or social concerns, were associated with suicidal ideation. Consistent with the depression distress amplification model, in individuals high in depression, anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns predicted elevated suicidal ideation but not among those with low depression. The results of this study corroborate the role of anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns and the depression distress amplification model in suicidal ideation among a large potentially high-risk group of college students. The depression distress amplification model suggests a specific mechanism, anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns, that may be responsible for increased suicide rates among those with comorbid anxiety and depression.
Evaluation criteria for the district health management information systems: lessons from the Ministry of Health, Kenya.

BACKGROUND
The District Health Management Information Systems (DHMISs) were established by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Kenya more than two decades ago. Since then, no comprehensive evaluation has been undertaken. This can partly be attributed to lack of defined criteria for evaluating them.


OBJECTIVE
To propose evaluation criteria for assessing the design, implementation and impact of DHMIS in the management of the District Health System (DHS) in Kenya.


METHODS
A descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in three DHSs in Kenya: Bungoma, Murang'a and Uasin Gishu districts. Data was collected through focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and documents' review. The respondents, purposely selected from the Ministry of Health headquarters and the three DHS districts, included designers, managers and end-users of the systems.


RESULTS
A set of evaluation criteria for DHMISs was identified for each of the three phases of implementation: pre-implementation evaluation criteria (categorised as policy and objectives, technical feasibility, financial viability, political viability and administrative operability) to be applied at the design stage; concurrent implementation evaluation criteria to be applied during implementation of the new system; and post-implementation evaluation criteria (classified as internal - quality of information; external - resources and managerial support; ultimate - systems impact) to be applied after implementation of the system for at least three years.


CONCLUSIONS
In designing a DHMIS model there is need to have built-in these three sets of evaluation criteria which should be used in a phased manner. Pre-implementation evaluation criteria should be used to evaluate the system's viability before more resources are committed to it; concurrent (operational) - implementation evaluation criteria should be used to monitor the process; and post-implementation evaluation criteria should be applied to assess the system's effectiveness.
Tracking Multiple Vehicles Using a Variational Radar Model

This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible. Abstract—High-resolution radar sensors are able to resolve multiple measurements per object and therefore provide valuable information for vehicle environment perception. For instance, multiple measurements allow to infer the size of an object or to more precisely measure the object’s motion. Yet, the increased amount of data raises the demands on tracking modules: measurement models that are able to process multiple measurements for an object are necessary and measurement-toobject associations become more complex. This paper presents a new variational radar model for vehicles and demonstrates how this model can be incorporated in a Random-Finite-Setbased multi-object tracker. The measurement model is learned from actual data using variational Gaussian mixtures and avoids excessive manual engineering. In combination with the multiobject tracker, the entire process chain from the raw measurements to the resulting tracks is formulated probabilistically. The presented approach is evaluated on experimental data and it is demonstrated that data-driven measurement model outperforms a manually designed model.
Emotions in Text: Dimensional and Categorical Models

Text often expresses the writer's emotional state or evokes emotions in the reader. The nature of emotional phenomena like reading and writing can be interpreted in different ways and represented with different computational models. Affective computing (AC) researchers often use a categorical model in which text data is associated with emotional labels. We introduce a new way of using normative databases as a way of processing text with a dimensional model and compare it with different categorical approaches. The approach is evaluated using four data sets of texts reflecting different emotional phenomena. An emotional thesaurus and a bag-­‐of-­‐words model are used to generate vectors for each pseudo-­‐ document, then for the categorical models three dimensionality reduction techniques are evaluated: Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA), and Non-­‐negative Matrix Factorization (NMF). For the dimensional model a normative database is used to produce three-­‐dimensional vectors (valence, arousal, dominance) for each pseudo-­‐document. This 3-­‐dimensional model can be used to generate psychologically driven visualizations. Both models can be used for affect detection based on distances amongst categories and pseudo-­‐documents. Experiments show that the categorical model using NMF and the dimensional model tend to perform best. 1. INTRODUCTION Emotions and affective states are pervasive in all forms of communication, including text based, and increasingly recognized as important to understanding the full meaning that a message conveys, or the impact it will have on readers. Given the increasing amounts of textual communication being produced (e.g. emails, user created content, published content) researchers are seeking automated language processing techniques that include models of emotions. Emotions and other affective states (e.g. moods) have been studied by many disciplines. Affect scientists have studied emotions since Darwin (Darwin, 1872), and different schools within psychology have produced different theories representing different ways of interpreting affective phenomena (comprehensively reviewed in Davidson, Scherer and Goldsmith, 2003). In the last decade technologists have also started contributing to this research. Affective Computing (AC) in particular is contributing new ways to improve communication between the sensitive human and the unemotionally computer. AC researchers have developed computational systems that recognize and respond to the affective states of the user (Calvo and D'Mello, 2010). Affect-­‐sensitive user interfaces are being developed in a number of domains including gaming, mental health, and learning technologies. The basic tenet behind most AC systems is that automatically recognizing and responding to a user's affective states during interactions with a computer, …
Lithographic performance of a new generation i-line optical system: a comparative analysis

A new generation i-line optical stepper utilizing the established benefits of the 1x Wynne-Dyson lens design has been developed for mix-and-match lithography. Based on the advantages of cost of ownership and high throughput capability, the Ultratech 2244i was specifically designed as a cost effective approach to complement high NA reduction steppers in a mix-and-match environment, especially for high volume DRAM and ASIC manufacturing. This system features an ultra-large image field of 22 x 44mm with a 0.32 numerical aperture lens with an illumination bandwidth of 20 nanometers (355 to 375nm). As a result, this system provides 0.8μm manufacturing capability. These features provide improved critical dimension (CD) interference effects and superior depth-of-focus for the 2244i.
Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia

An exploratory study was conducted of elementary school children searching a full-text electronic encyclopedia on CD-ROM. Twenty-eight third and fourth graders and 24 sixth graders conducted two assigned searches, one open-ended, the other one closed, after two demonstration sessions. Keystrokes captured by the computer and observer notes were used to examine user information-seeking strategies from a mental model perspective. Older searchers were more successful in finding required information, and took less time than younger searchers. No differences in total number of moves were found. Analysis of search patterns showed that novices used a heuristic, highly interactive search strategy. Searchers used sentence and phrase queries, indicating unique mental models for this search system. Most searchers accepted system defaults and used the AND connective in formulating queries. Transition matrix analyses showed that younger searchers generally favored query refining moves and older searchers favored examining title and text moves. Suggestions for system designers were made and future research questions were identified.
Full-endoscopic interlaminar and transforaminal lumbar discectomy versus conventional microsurgical technique: a prospective, randomized, controlled study.

STUDY DESIGN
Prospective, randomized, controlled study of patients with lumbar disc herniations, operated either in a full-endoscopic or microsurgical technique.


OBJECTIVE
Comparison of results of lumbar discectomies in full-endoscopic interlaminar and transforaminal technique with the conventional microsurgical technique.


SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA
Even with good results, conventional disc operations may result in subsequent damage due to trauma. Endoscopic techniques have become the standard in many areas because of the advantages they offer intraoperatively and after surgery. With the transforaminal and interlaminar techniques, 2 full-endoscopic procedures are available for lumbar disc operations.


METHODS
One hundred seventy-eight patients with full-endoscopic or microsurgical discectomy underwent follow-up for 2 years. In addition to general and specific parameters, the following measuring instruments were used: VAS, German version North American Spine Society Instrument, Oswestry Low-Back Pain Disability Questionnaire.


RESULTS
After surgery 82% of the patients no longer had leg pain, and 14% had occasional pain. The clinical results were the same in both groups. The recurrence rate was 6.2% with no difference between the groups. The full-endoscopic techniques brought significant advantages in the following areas: back pain, rehabilitation, complications, and traumatization.


CONCLUSION
The clinical results of the full-endoscopic technique are equal to those of the microsurgical technique. At the same time, there are advantages in the operation technique and reduced traumatization. With the surgical devices and the possibility of selecting an interlaminar or posterolateral to lateral transforaminal procedure, lumbar disc herniations outside and inside the spinal canal can be sufficiently removed using the full-endoscopic technique, when taking the appropriate criteria into account. Full-endoscopic surgery is a sufficient and safe supplementation and alternative to microsurgical procedures.
Heifer rearing conditions affect length of productive life in Swedish dairy cows.

Associations between rearing conditions and the risk of culling in dairy cows were studied by survival analysis. Data were collected from 1039 Swedish Red cows, 1029 Swedish Holsteins, and 56 cows of other milk or cross-breeds, representing all female animals born in 109 Swedish herds during 1998. Length of productive life was defined as the number of days from 1st calving to culling. The applied Weibull proportional hazards model included time-independent effects of breed, housing from 3 to 7 months of age, number of housing changes before calving, grazing before 1st calving, herd median age at 1st calving, age at 1st calving, cow housing, herd lactational incidence risk of veterinary-reported clinical mastitis, and the random effect of herd. Time-dependent effects were year, month, the interaction year by month, parity, number of breedings, pregnancy status, the interaction parity by pregnancy status, herd mean milk-production level, relative milk yield within breed-parity, and veterinary-reported clinical mastitis. The lactation was divided into six stages in which pregnancy status was assumed to be known by the farmer and culling could occur. Median productive life time in culled cows was 780 d and 14% of the records were censored due to terminated data collection. An individual calving age of 28.2-30.9 months was associated with the highest culling risk, 1.2-fold higher than calving at < or = 25.3 months, whereas the risk decreased almost linearly with a higher herd median age at 1st calving. Housing in slatted pens with >7 calves from 3 to 7 months was associated with a 1.7-fold increase in risk, relative to litter pens. If a cow had changed housing system 4 times before 1st calving it increased the risk of culling 1.4 times, relative to two housing changes. These results show that rearing factors affect the productive life time of dairy cows in Swedish family operations.
Emotional disorders: cluster 4 of the proposed meta-structure for DSM-V and ICD-11.

BACKGROUND
The extant major psychiatric classifications DSM-IV, and ICD-10, are atheoretical and largely descriptive. Although this achieves good reliability, the validity of a medical diagnosis would be greatly enhanced by an understanding of risk factors and clinical manifestations. In an effort to group mental disorders on the basis of aetiology, five clusters have been proposed. This paper considers the validity of the fourth cluster, emotional disorders, within that proposal.


METHOD
We reviewed the literature in relation to 11 validating criteria proposed by a Study Group of the DSM-V Task Force, as applied to the cluster of emotional disorders.


RESULTS
An emotional cluster of disorders identified using the 11 validators is feasible. Negative affectivity is the defining feature of the emotional cluster. Although there are differences between disorders in the remaining validating criteria, there are similarities that support the feasibility of an emotional cluster. Strong intra-cluster co-morbidity may reflect the action of common risk factors and also shared higher-order symptom dimensions in these emotional disorders.


CONCLUSION
Emotional disorders meet many of the salient criteria proposed by the Study Group of the DSM-V Task Force to suggest a classification cluster.
A Jerte valley cherry product provides beneficial effects on sleep quality. Influence on aging.

OBJECTIVE
In the present work, we evaluated the effect of the intake of a Jerte Valley cherry-based product (JVCP), compared to a placebo product, on sleep quality, urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (aMT6-s) levels and the serum concentration of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and interleukin-8 (IL-8).


DESIGN
This was a blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover study.


SETTING
University of Extremadura (Spain).


PARTICIPANTS
Ten young (20-30 years old), ten middle-aged (35-55 years old), and ten elderly (65-85 years old) participants.


INTERVENTION
A placebo (Kool-Aid®) or JVCP (patent no. ES 2342141 B1) were consumed twice a day, as lunch and dinner desserts.


MEASUREMENTS
Actigraphic monitoring was used to record and display the temporal patterns of the individuals' activity and rest. Urinary aMT6-s and serum cytokines (IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-8) were also determined.


RESULTS
The consumption of the JVCP improved the nocturnal rest, measured by sleep efficiency, number of awakenings, total nocturnal activity, sleep latency, assumed sleep, actual sleep time and immobility. Moreover, it was detected an increase in both the levels of aMT6-s found in first-void morning urine and the concentrations of serum pro-somnogenic cytokines obtained from samples collected at the acrophase of the melatonin rhythm (1.00 am) in all experimental age groups after the JVCP consumption. Generally, better results were obtained with advancing age.


CONCLUSION
The ingestion of the JVCP may contribute to establish a high-quality sleep and be used as a potential nutraceutical tool to prevent sleep disorders with the advance of age.
Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Case Story of Anna. II. Patient Diary as a Tool in Treatment

In spite of extreme childhood sexual and violent abuse, a 22-year-old young woman, Anna, healed during holistic existential therapy. New and highly confrontational therapeutic tools were developed and used to help this patient (like acceptance through touch and acupressure through the vagina). Her vulva and introitus were scarred from repeated brutal rape, as was the interior of her mouth. During therapy, these scars were gently contacted and the negative emotional contents released. The healing was in accordance with the advanced holistic medical toolbox that uses (1) love, (2) trust, (3) holding, and (4) helping the patient to process and integrate old traumas. The case story clearly revealed the philosophical adjustments that Anna made during treatment in response to the severe childhood abuse. These adjustments are demonstrated by her diary, where sentences contain both the feelings and thoughts of the painful present (the gestalt) at the time of the abuse, thus containing the essence of the traumas, making the repression of the painful emotions possible through the change in the patient's philosophical perspective. Anna's case gives a unique insight into the process of traumatization (pathogenesis) and the process of healing (salutogenesis). At the end of the healing, Anna reconnected her existence to the outer world in a deep existential, suicidal crisis and faced her choice of life or death. She decided to live and, in this process, assumed existential responsibility, which made her able to step out of her mental disease. The advanced holistic toolbox seems to help patients heal even from the worst childhood abuse. In spite of the depth of the existential crisis, holistic existential therapy seems to support existential responsibility well and thus safe for the patients.