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Evaluation of a Physician Education Intervention to Improve Primary Care for Low‐Back Pain II: Impact on Patients

A physician education intervention was previously found to have significantly improved perceived physician knowledge, confidence, and patient-reassuring behavior in the treatment of low-back pain. This study examined whether this intervention, presented in a health maintenance organization clinic, had an effect on patient outcomes. Outcomes of care for 148 patients seen for low-back pain before the intervention were compared with outcomes of care for 157 patients seen after the intervention. Patients were telephoned 2–4 weeks after their back-pain visit and were asked about symptom improvement, amount of disability, and satisfaction with care. Satisfaction was measured with a three-dimensional instrument for low-back pain developed specifically for this study, which was found to be valid and reliable. The preintervention and postintervention patient cohorts were similar in terms of key baseline variables. Despite its apparent benefit to physicians, the intervention did not result in significant improvements in any patient outcomes, even for the subset of patients whose physicians had perceived the greatest benefit.
Learning to Track: Online Multi-object Tracking by Decision Making

Online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has wide applications in time-critical video analysis scenarios, such as robot navigation and autonomous driving. In tracking-by-detection, a major challenge of online MOT is how to robustly associate noisy object detections on a new video frame with previously tracked objects. In this work, we formulate the online MOT problem as decision making in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), where the lifetime of an object is modeled with a MDP. Learning a similarity function for data association is equivalent to learning a policy for the MDP, and the policy learning is approached in a reinforcement learning fashion which benefits from both advantages of offline-learning and online-learning for data association. Moreover, our framework can naturally handle the birth/death and appearance/disappearance of targets by treating them as state transitions in the MDP while leveraging existing online single object tracking methods. We conduct experiments on the MOT Benchmark [24] to verify the effectiveness of our method.
An Episodic Analysis of Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior in a Racially Diverse Sample of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men

Many studies have examined the relations between drug use and sexual behaviors; however, few have utilized episodic data to examine the co-occurrence of both behaviors within the same episode. This study surveyed 403 racially and ethnically diverse gay, bisexual, and other young men who have sex with men (YMSM; ages 18–29) in New York City. Men were surveyed about their sexual behavior and concurrent use of illicit substances and alcohol during their most recent sexual encounter with their main and/or casual partner(s). Logistic regression models were built to analyze predictors of unprotected oral and anal intercourse with main and casual partners. Results suggest that use of inhalant nitrates and alcohol increased the odds of men engaging in unprotected receptive anal intercourse (URAI) and men who identified as middle or high socioeconomic status (SES) were at lower odds of engaging in URAI with their main partner. Use of other illicit substances was not associated with unprotected sexual intercourse. These findings indicate a need to further consider the role of licit substances used by YMSM as a means of further reducing the incidence of HIV infection in this population. In addition, the high rates of unprotected anal intercourse among men reporting a main partner has the potential to be a significant source of HIV risk, and should be further explored among YMSM.
New Ocean Winds Satellite Mission to Probe Hurricanes and Tropical Convection

AbstractThe Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a new NASA earth science mission scheduled to be launched in 2016 that focuses on tropical cyclones (TCs) and tropical convection. The mission’s two primary objectives are the measurement of ocean surface wind speed with sufficient temporal resolution to resolve short-time-scale processes such as the rapid intensification phase of TC development and the ability of the surface measurements to penetrate through the extremely high precipitation rates typically encountered in the TC inner core. The mission’s goal is to support significant improvements in our ability to forecast TC track, intensity, and storm surge through better observations and, ultimately, better understanding of inner-core processes. CYGNSS meets its temporal sampling objective by deploying a constellation of eight satellites. Its ability to see through heavy precipitation is enabled by its operation as a bistatic radar using low-frequency GPS signals. The mission will depl.
Functional adaptation to traumatic brain injury: Recovery of function following left hemisphere damage acquired in adulthood

Abstract We report a case of a subject (HA) who suffered a very severe head injury in a road traffic accident In 1944 (aged 21 years). She subsequently made an excellent recovery and had not suffered any long-term sequelae to this until she exhibited psychotic symptomatology in 1971, when she developed temporal lobe epilepsy with marked paranoid delusional ideas. This has been well-controlled over the years with sodium valproate, but when HA has stopped this of her own volition there has been a marked deterioration in her condition, and she has ended up wandering the country trying to evade her persecutors. On her recent admission to psychiatric services in 1995, brief cognitive testing revealed her to be fully orientated in time, place and person, with a good general knowledge and able to perform well on simple tests of concentration and recent memory. Physical examination was unremarkable and the neurological examination identified no focal abnormality. However, an MRI scan revealed that the left tempor.
New regionalism and the European Union : dialogues, comparisons and new research directions

1. Introduction: Regions, Regionalism and Comparisons Alex Warleigh-Lack and Nick Robinson 2. Studying Regions Comparatively: Back to the Future? Ben Rosamond and Alex Warleigh-Lack 3. Learning from the New Regionalism? What, if Anything, can Insights from New Regionalist Scholarship Offer for Studies of European Integration? Nick Robinson 4. Africa Meets Europe: Towards Comparative Regionalism Fredrik Soderbaum 5. East Asian Regionalism and the European Experience: Differences in Leadership, Possible Lessons Jeff Loder, Jean Michel Montsion and Richard Stubbs 6. Institutions, Culture or Ethics? The Logic of Regionalism in Europe and East Asia William A. Callahan 7. The Demise of New Regionalism: Reframing the Study of Contemporary Regional Integration in Latin America Nicola Phillips and German C. Prieto Corredor 8. The Experience Of European Integration And The Potential For Integration In South America Andres Malamud and Philippe C. Schmitter 9. Consequences of Regionalism: the Politics of North American Trade Mark Aspinwall 10. The OMC in Comparative Perspective: Learning and Community Building in the OECD and Nordic Council of Ministers Peter Nedergaard and Francesco Duina 11. Interregionalism, a Critique: The Four Levels of EU-ASEAN Relations David Camroux 12. The Parliamentary Dimension of Regionalism: Comparing Experiences in Europe's Neighbourhood Stelios Stavridis & Panagiota Manoli 13. EU and its Neighbours: A Wider Europe through Asymmetrical Interregionalism or Through Dependencia Sub-regionalism? Charalambos Tsardanidis 14. Conclusions: Learning or Comparison in the Study of Regions? Fruitful Dialogues and Future Research Directions Nick Robinson and Alex Warleigh-Lack
Use of Assistive Technology With Young Children With Disabilities

The purpose of this study was to provide state-of-the-art descriptive information regarding preparation needs, concerns, and perceived barriers to the use of assistive technology for young children with disabilities. Surveys were completed by 62 early childhood special education professionals in 2 southeastern states. The findings indicated that respondents had frequent and significant concerns about their knowledge and utilization of assistive technology. Furthermore, training areas were identified that address the concerns and barriers regarding assistive technology. Implications for preservice and inservice preparation, service delivery systems, and research are discussed.
New Kids on the Block: My First Time in a Political Community

A historic election in 2008 brings up new questions about why there is a generational difference in political engagement. Younger generations became more involved in the latest election, and it is important for scholars to understand why this change occurred. In an effort to begin this conversation, the researchers asked young citizens to talk about their choice to vote or not vote, and to become more involved or ignore campaign 2008. Through a focus group investigation and an analysis of citizens’ responses, the researchers hope to further understand young citizens. Two themes found within the discussions are consistent with previous research: community and efficacy. However, this study explains some of the ways that these two motivations for action might be interlinked.
ALPRENOLOL AS MAINTENANCE THERAPY FOR THE PROTECTION AGAINST ARRHYTHMIA RELAPSE IN PATIENTS WITH DC‐CONVERTED CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

There is a constant search for new drugs, free from side‐effects, to maintain sinus rhythm following DC‐conversion of atrial fibrillation. Adrenergic β‐receptor blockers have been tried with rather disappointing results, possibly due to the relatively low dosage used. The present trial Was performed in order to evaluate the efficacy of a dose almost twice the one earlier used. By incrementing the dose, alprenolol 100 mg q.i. d. was given to 66 patients and 75 mg q.i. d. to two others. No patient converted spontaneously on alprenolol. After DC‐conversion 80% of the patients reverted to sinus rhythm. Further follow‐up showed a relapse rate of 17% after 24 hours, 65% after one month, 79% after three months, and 85% after six months. In comparison with previously reported studies, these figures are all higher than usual. Possible reasons for this are discussed. The incidence of post‐conversion arrhythmias remained low despite uninterrupted digitalis therapy. Sinus node depression following DC‐conversion, as has been reported in propranolol studies, did not occur, and in our experience it is not necessary to discontinue alprenolol prior to DC‐conversion. Ten patients who relapsed were subsequently treated with a combination of alprenolol and quinidine, but the results were disappointing. In a few cases treatment was stopped with the onset of bradycardia due to sinus node depression. Although generally, adrenergic β‐receptor blockade appears ineffective in preventing relapse following DC‐conversion, it should be considered in selected cases where it may prove to be a valuable alternative, as illustrated by one of the treated patients.
Scrutinizing and Supplementing Children’s Trade Books about Child Labor

State and national initiatives place an increased emphasis on both students’ exposure to diverse texts and teachers’ integration of English/language arts and history/social studies. The intent is for students to critically examine diverse accounts and perspectives of the same historical event or era. Critical examination can be accomplished through teachers’ purposeful juxtaposition of age-appropriate, engaging trade books and relevant informational texts, such as primary source materials. To guide interested elementary and middle level teachers, researchers can evaluate trade books for historical representation and suggest divergent or competing narratives that compel students to scrutinize diverse perspectives. Researchers can locate germane primary sources and modify them in ways that maintain their historicity. As students read, they scrutinize, contextualize, and corroborate sources, which enables them to actively construct historical understandings. We examined children’s literature centered on child labor. We juxtaposed trade books targeting elementary students with those intended for middle level students. While our findings revealed various forms of historical misrepresentation, child labor trade books appear far more historically representative than those centered on slavery.
The Influence of Print on Social and Cultural Change

Tracing the sociocultural influence of any technology is fraught with problems. First, many of the influences cited are likely to be too large and diffuse to be tested under experimental conditions in the laboratory. Second, the technology is likely to be, at most, an accessory to many other influencing factors rather than a singular cause. Third, insofar as the technology can be isolated as a factor of influence, the direction of the influence is often two way. The technology may cause changes in sociocultural states, but existing sociocultural states are also likely to result in the technology being used and evolved in unanticipated ways.
Developing football expertise: a football-specific research review

About 265 million people regularly play football, of which only 0.04% play in a professional league. This suggests that reaching expertise specifically in football is difficult and highly competitive. In recent decades, research on the development of football expertise has increased substantially. However, most of these studies have focused on isolated aspects of the developmental process, and consequently there has been a lack of overview of how these different aspects interact to produce football experts. The aim of this study is to review available research on the development of expertise specific for football. The review is limited to papers found in the electronic SportDiscus database. The 2007 Developmental Model of Sport Participation (DMSP) has been used as the conceptual framework. The results highlight the importance of football-specific practice in early developmental phases in becoming an expert in football. It is also proposed that football-specific nuances may need to be applied to the DMSP in order to make the debate of early specialization versus diversification sufficiently valid for this particular context. Consequences for practice engagement and future research are discussed.
Complexity of Inconsistency-Tolerant Query Answering in Datalog+/- under Cardinality-Based Repairs

Querying inconsistent ontological knowledge bases is an important problem in practice, for which several inconsistencytolerant query answering semantics have been proposed, including query answering relative to all repairs, relative to the intersection of repairs, and relative to the intersection of closed repairs. In these semantics, one assumes that the input database is erroneous, and the notion of repair describes a maximally consistent subset of the input database, where different notions of maximality (such as subset and cardinality maximality) are considered. In this paper, we give a precise picture of the computational complexity of inconsistencytolerant (Boolean conjunctive) query answering in a wide range of Datalog± languages under the cardinality-based versions of the above three repair semantics.
Insulation with Solidarity as a Political Condition for Implementation of Polarized Development Strategy: the South Korean Experience and its Theoretical Implications

Abstract Polarized development strategy was a standard policy tool in the development of underdeveloped countries during the 1960s and 1970s and today it continues to be so in its evolved forms. For polarized development strategy to be successful, it is critical that the central state be insulated from local growth alliances that attempt to take resources into their own backyards, even if that is against the interest of the national economy as a whole. At the same time, if the state is completely insulated, it will not have enough political support to maintain its power and implement policies. Therefore, solidarity with a small number of regions is also important. This paper demonstrates this point through a theoretical discussion of polarized development strategy and an empirical analysis of South Korea's experience.
Have you made up your story? The effect of suspicion and liars' strategies on reality monitoring

The impact of Veracity, Suspicion (weak or strong) and Strategy (making up a story or using past experiences) on Reality Monitoring (RM) scores was examined. A total of 158 undergraduate students were interviewed twice about the possession of an object. In one interview they were asked to lie, and in the other to tell the truth (Veracity factor). In both conditions, suspicion was raised in the second half of the interview: Participants were accused of lying by the interviewer and asked to repeat their account (Raised Suspicion factor). At the end of the interview participants were asked whether their lies were totally made up or whether they described an event that they had experienced previously (Strategy factor). Results revealed that truth tellers and liars' speech differed from each other in accordance with RM theory, even when the interviewer was suspicious and even when liars fabricated a story by describing events that they had previously experienced. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Language: en
Urinary mercury after administration of 2,3‐dimercaptopropane‐1‐sulfonic acid: correlation with dental amalgam score

There is considerable controversy as to whether dental amalgams may cause systemic health effects in humans because they liberate elemental mercury. Most such amalgams contain as much as 50% metallic mercury. To determine the influence of dental amalgams on the mercury body burden of humans, we have given volunteers, with and without amalgams in their mouth, the sodium salt of 2,3‐dimercaptopropane‐1‐sulfonic acid (DMPS), a chelating agent safely used in the Soviet Union and West Germany for a number of years. The diameters of dental amalgams of the subjects were determined to obtain the amalgam score. Administration of 300 mg DMPS by mouth increased the mean urinary mercury excretion of the amalgam group from 0.70 to 17.2 μg and that of the nonamalgam group from 0.27 to 5.1 μg over a 9‐h period. Two‐thirds of the mercury excreted in the urine of those with dental amalgams appears to be derived originally from the mercury vapor released from their amalgams. Linear regression analysis indicated a highly significant positive correlation between the mercury excreted in the urine 2 h after DMPS administration and the dental amalgam scores. DMPS can be used to increase the urinary excretion of mercury and thus increase the significance and reliability of this measure of mercury exposure or burden, especially in cases of micromercurialism. —Aposhian, H. V. ; Bruce, D. C. ; Alter, W. ; Dart, R. C. ; Hurlbut, K. M. ; Aposhian, M. M. Urinary mercury after administration of 2,3‐dimercaptopropane‐1‐sulfonic acid: correlation with dental amalgam score. FASEB J. 6: 2472‐2476; 1992.
Explaining the Intention to Use Technology among Student Teachers: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)

Purpose – This paper aims to examine pre‐service teachers' self‐reported intention to use technology by employing the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as the research framework.Design/methodology/approach – In total, 157 student teachers completed a survey questionnaire measuring their responses to four constructs in the TPB. These were administered at the beginning of the course in which technology was taught and used. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used as the technique for data analysis.Findings – The results of this study showed that attitude toward usage and subjective norms were significant predictors of behavioral intention to use technology while perceived behavioral control was not. Overall, this study found that the three explanatory variables in the TPB explained about 40 percent of the variance in behavioral intention to use technology.Originality/value – This study contributes to the growing interests among researchers in using models to explain users' intention to use technology. Whi.
Analisis Perbandingan Pengaruh Endorser terhadap Sikap pada Merek Shampo Sunsilk dan Shampo Pantene

Two big player that PT. Unilever Indonesia Tbk with the mainstay Sunsilk product and PT. Procter & Gamble that sells Pantene product stringent to supply the indonesian needs of shampoo. One of that with appearing of endorser in advertising to influence positif attitude of consumer to shampoo brand. This study used to analyzed the comparing endorser effect influence towards brand attitude (attitude toward brand) shampoo Sunsilk and shampoo Pantene in university student of Management of Economic Faculty of State University of Surabaya with 19-24 years old and 62 respondent for shampoo Sunsilk brand and 62 respondent for shampoo Pantene brand. Data were analyzed with simple linear regression.The result of research show, there are positif endorser effect toward brand attitude in both of shampoo brand whereas endorser effect toward brand attitude shampoo Sunsilk higher than endorser effect toward brand attitude shampoo Pantene
`Making Moosic': The Development of Personal Relationships on Line and a Comparison to their Off-Line Counterparts

Despite the rapid development of the Internet over the past decade and the associated media hyperbole about cyberspace relationships, there is a paucity of systematic research examining the prevalence, type and development of personal relationships in on-line settings. This research examines relational topography in real-time text-based virtual environments known as MOOs (Multi-User Dimensions, Object Oriented). Current users of MOOs (235) completed a survey on MOO relationships, with 155 also completing a survey on offline relationships. Almost all survey respondents (93.6%) had formed ongoing personal relationships on MOOs. The most commonly reported types of relationships were close friendships, friendships and romances. The majority of relationships formed (83.6%) was with members of the opposite sex. Levels of relational development (interdependence, depth, breadth, code change, commitment, predictability/understanding, network convergence) were typically moderate to high. Most relationships had migrated to other virtual environments, and a third had resulted in face-to-face meetings. On average, MOO relationships were found to be more developed than newsgroup relationships, but less developed than off-line relationships. It was concluded that MOOs provide an inherently social and powerful context for the formation of personal relationships, many of which will transfer to other settings.