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Changing Student Attitudes Toward Interprofessional Learning and Collaboration: Evidence for the Effectiveness of Partnering with Healthcare Mentors in the Academic Setting.

PURPOSE Individuals living with chronic health conditions serving as healthcare mentors (HCM) allow the creation of high impact, authentic learning experiences. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a 6-hour curricular experience involving HCM in changing student attitudes toward interprofessional learning (IPL) and collaboration (IPC). METHODS Thirty-eight students from clinical psychology, nursing, physical therapy, and social work programs participated in either the learning intervention (n=19) or the control group (n=19). Students in the IPL group examined the HCMs, who were diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, shared the findings during an interprofessional team meeting, and collaboratively developed consensus-based interprofessional care recommendations. The Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale, Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale, and Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale were completed pre- and post-IPL. In addition, discipline-specific focus groups were also conducted. RESULTS The IPL experience resulted in positive changes in student attitudes toward teamwork and collaboration. Teamwork among the students was reportedly characterized by open communication, mutual respect, and the incorporation of ideas from other disciplines. CONCLUSIONS Positively changing students' attitudes and skills for IPC prior to licensure is an important first step in providing coordinated interprofessional care to patients/clients living with chronic health conditions.
Face recognition in patients with social phobia

Abstract Patients with social phobia were compared with normal controls on a task of face recognition. The subjects were instructed to look at 20 photos of persons unknown to them, and to judge the expected quality of contact that would take place with these persons if they were to meet them in real life. Although the social phobics expected a less good contact with these persons than the control subjects did, there was no significant group difference on recognition of high- vs. low-contact faces. The results are discussed in contrast with another study, which showed evidence of recognition bias for critical faces in a group of social phobics.
Blackwell Approachability and No-Regret Learning are Equivalent

We consider the celebrated Blackwell Approachability Theorem for two-player games with vector payos. Blackwell himself previously showed that the theorem implies the existence of a \no-regret" algorithm for a simple online learning problem. We show that this relationship is in fact much stronger, that Blackwell’s result is equivalent to, in a very strong sense, the problem of regret minimization for Online Linear Optimization. We show that any algorithm for one such problem can be eciently converted into an algorithm for the other. We provide one novel application of this reduction: the rst ecient algorithm for calibrated forecasting.
Wenn Therapien vorzeitig scheitern

Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Zu Abbruchen ambulanter Psychotherapien fehlen gesicherte Erkenntnisse uber Haufigkeit, Auftretensmerkmale und Risikofaktoren. Fragestellung: Diese Studie untersucht soziodemografische und klinische Merkmale von Abbrechern im Routinebetrieb einer verhaltenstherapeutischen Hochschulambulanz. Methode: Wir klassifizierten 1391 konsekutive Patienten als Completer sowie qualitatsrelevante und qualitatsneutrale Abbrecher. Ergebnisse: Die Gesamtabbruchrate lag bei 24,6% und 14,1% der Abbruche waren qualitatsrelevant. 56,1% erfolgten innerhalb der ersten 20 Sitzungen. Haufigster Grund war mit 28,1% eine unzureichende Veranderungsmotivation. Am haufigsten brachen Patienten mit Borderline-Personlichkeitsstorungen (30,2%) und anderen Personlichkeitsstorungen (25,0%) ab. Weitere Pradiktoren waren erhohte Psychopathologie (r = 0,18), geringe Therapiemotivation (r = –0,15) und geringe Erfolgserwartung (r = 0,13). Die Vorhersagekraft aller Variablen war jedoch klein. Diskussio.
Effect of lip position and gingival display on smile and esthetics as perceived by college students with different educational backgrounds

Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of education on the perception of female college students on the effect of lip position and gingival display upon smiling and esthetics. Methods A photograph of a smiling subject was altered to show varying degrees of gingival display. Female students, who were studying in different colleges, assessed a total of five images, using a numerical rating scale. Results A total of 440 college students from eight educational faculties (dentistry, dental assistants, medicine, medical technology, nursing, science, arts, and pharmacology) participated in this study. There was no difference found between students’ ratings of the altered images (P<0.05). The perception of a gummy smile was found to be similar among the participants. There was agreement between all participants that 2 mm of gingival display was the most attractive smile, while a 4 mm covering of the teeth by the upper lip was the least attractive. Conclusion Educational influence did not have an effect of the perception of a gummy smile.
Justifying Human Rights: The Roles of Domain, Audience, and Constituency

Philosophical theories of human rights are often concerned with justification. They take rights declared to exist by international law and propose general reasons why they should be recognized by states or by anyone. The reasons proposed may not be reasons for recognizing every single one of the supposed rights mentioned in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but philosophical theories often justify the articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and many of the articles of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). These theories find a single kind of general reason for recognizing many of these different rights, usually stating that general reason in a vocabulary that coheres with the language of the major treaties or with the General Comments of the associated UN treaty bodies. Thus one mainstream justification of human rights obligations is that human dignity or humanity requires the things that the rights are rights to (Donnelly 1985; Nickell 1987) and that humanity or human dignity are undercut or shown contempt when those requirements are ignored or fail to be met. The dignity or humanity of a person is said to be denied, for example, if he or she is imprisoned for no reason, has his or her house seized at the whim of those in power, or is refused access to schooling because of his or her race. To whom are philosophical theories addressed, and what use can be made in practice of the sort of justification that they provide? Are they meant to make explicit the reasons that individuals might give to the authorities for protesting at arbitrary arrest or for having their children turned away at a school gate on account of their skin color? Philosophical theories may imply such reasons, but they are mainly intended to unify and systematize the different goods that human rights are meant to secure, while also basing human rights on some value that can be widely agreed to. Like all unifying schemes philosophical theories are more abstract than what they unify. Being abstract, they are very far from being briefing notes for protesters against particular rights violations or even briefing notes for human rights–respecting governments who are arguing against rogue states in bilateral or multilateral diplomacy. It is probably closer to the truth to say that philosophical
A Case Series of Paediatric Hearing Preservation Cochlear Implantation: A New Treatment Modality for Children with Drug-Induced or Congenital Partial Deafness

Objective: To investigate the use of hearing preservation cochlear implantation in children with partial deafness. Patients and Methods: Five children with either drug-induced or congenital partial deafness were enrolled in a pilot study. The patients ranged in age from 13 months to 14 years. Implantation was performed using a hearing preservation technique. A Flex EAS electrode (MED-EL, Innsbruck, Austria) was used in all full insertions. Results: Low frequency hearing was preserved in all patients with postoperative bone conduction within 10 dB of the preoperative hearing levels. These changes were preserved over the follow-up period of 12 months. There were significant improvements in speech perception. Conclusion: Hearing preservation cochlear implantation is a new effective modality in children with partial deafness.
Accurate Context-Free Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar

The definition of combinatory categorial grammar (CCG) in the literature varies quite a bit from author to author. However, the differences between the definitions are important in terms of the language classes of each CCG. We prove that a wide range of CCGs are strongly context-free, including the CCG of CCG-bank and of the parser of Clark and Curran (2007). In light of these new results, we train the PCFG parser of Petrov and Klein (2007) on CCGbank and achieve state of the art results in supertagging accuracy, PARSEVAL measures and dependency accuracy.
Parameters favouring successful adult pig islet isolations for xenotransplantation in pig‐to‐primate models

Dufrane D, D'hoore W, Goebbels R‐M, Saliez A, Guiot Y, Gianello P. Parameters favouring successful adult pig islet isolations for xenotransplantation in pig‐to‐primate models. Xenotransplantation 2006; 13: 204–214. © Blackwell Munksgaard, 2006
Soft-Output Decoding in Multiple-Head MTR Encoded Magnetic Recording Systems

We present an approach for the soft-output decoding in multiple-head maximum-transition-run (MTR) encoded digital magnetic recording systems. The log-likelihood ratio (LLR) algebra implementation in Boolean logic mappings has been used to propagate the soft-output information through the MTR decoder. MTR code is employed as inner code in concatenation with low-density parity-check (LDPC) in two-track two-head E2PR4 partial response (PR) magnetic recording channel. The overall decoding complexity reduction is offered by proposed simulation scheme, while nearly 1.9dB coding gain is obtained with soft-output decoding on AWGN channel.
Binding of Escherichia coli Hemolysin and Activation of the Target Cells Is Not Receptor-dependent*

Production of a single cysteine substitution mutant, S177C, allowed Escherichia coli hemolysin (HlyA) to be radioactively labeled with tritiated N-ethylmaleimide without affecting biological activity. It thus became possible to study the binding characteristics of HlyA as well as of toxin mutants in which one or both acylation sites were deleted. All toxins bound to erythrocytes and granulocytes in a nonsaturable manner. Only wild-type toxin and the lytic monoacylated mutant stimulated production of superoxide anions in granulocytes. An oxidative burst coincided with elevation of intracellular Ca2+, which was likely because of passive influx of Ca2+ through the toxin pores. Competition experiments showed that binding to the cells was receptor-independent, and preloading of cells with a nonlytic HlyA mutant did not abrogate the respiratory burst provoked by a subsequent application of wild-type HlyA. In contrast to a previous report, expression or activation of the β2 integrin lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 did not affect binding of HlyA. We conclude that HlyA binds nonspecifically to target cells and a receptor is involved neither in causing hemolysis nor in triggering cellular reactions.
Layperson mouth-to-mask ventilation using a modified I-gel laryngeal mask after brief onsite instruction: a manikin-based feasibility trial

Objective The intention of this manikin-based trial was to evaluate whether laypersons are able to operate an I-gel laryngeal mask (I-gel) modified for mouth-to-mask ventilation after receiving brief on-site instruction. Setting Entrance hall of a university hospital and the city campus of a public technical university, using a protected manikin scenario. Methods Laypersons were handed a labelled, mouthpiece-integrated I-gel laryngeal mask and a corresponding instruction chart and were asked to follow the printed instructions. Outcome measures The overall process was analysed and evaluated according to quality and duration. Results Data from 100 participants were analysed. Overall, 79% of participants were able to effectively ventilate the manikin, 90% placed the laryngeal mask with the correct turn and direction, 19% did not position the mask deep enough and 85% believed that their inhibition threshold for performing resuscitation was lowered. A significant reduction in reluctance before and after the trial was found (p<0.0001). A total of 35% of participants had concerns about applying first aid in an emergency. Former basic life support (BLS) training significantly reduced the time of insertion (19.6 s, 95% CI 17.8 to 21.5, p=0.0004) and increased overall success (p=0.0096). Conclusions Laypersons were able to manage mouth-to-mask ventilation in the manikin with a reasonable success rate after receiving brief chart-based on-site instructions using a labelled I-gel mask. Positioning the mask deep enough and identifying whether the manikin was successfully ventilated were the main problems observed. A significant reduction in reluctance towards initialising BLS by using a modified supraglottic airway device (SAD) may lead to better acceptance of bystander resuscitation in laypersons, supporting the introduction of SADs into BLS courses and the stocking of SADs in units with public automatic external defibrillators.
Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions Related to Protein Complexes Based on Protein Interaction Networks

A method for predicting protein-protein interactions based on detected protein complexes is proposed to repair deficient interactions derived from high-throughput biological experiments. Protein complexes are pruned and decomposed into small parts based on the adaptive k-cores method to predict protein-protein interactions associated with the complexes. The proposed method is adaptive to protein complexes with different structure, number, and size of nodes in a protein-protein interaction network. Based on different complex sets detected by various algorithms, we can obtain different prediction sets of protein-protein interactions. The reliability of the predicted interaction sets is proved by using estimations with statistical tests and direct confirmation of the biological data. In comparison with the approaches which predict the interactions based on the cliques, the overlap of the predictions is small. Similarly, the overlaps among the predicted sets of interactions derived from various complex sets are also small. Thus, every predicted set of interactions may complement and improve the quality of the original network data. Meanwhile, the predictions from the proposed method replenish protein-protein interactions associated with protein complexes using only the network topology.
MAC contention distributions for efficient geo-routing in vehicular networks

In this paper we evaluate a MAC-layer contention-based forwarding scheme for vehicular networks that prioritizes access according to node position. In particular, we consider two schemes that use a geometrically-increasing probability distribution for choosing the contention slots but, in the first case, the distribution is appropriately weighted, and in the second case, vehicles select the window size according to their position. We analytically evaluate the total and per-vehicle success probabilities and the average delay bounds. Our results show that a weighted geometric distribution effectively prioritizes the access based on position for a wide range of vehicle densities, while retaining the benefits of geometrical distributions with respect to success probabilities and delay bounds.
The Motor Protein KIF14 Inhibits Tumor Growth and Cancer Metastasis in Lung Adenocarcinoma

The motor protein kinesin superfamily proteins (KIFs) are involved in cancer progression. The depletion of one of the KIFs, KIF14, might delay the metaphase-to-anaphase transition, resulting in a binucleated status, which enhances tumor progression; however, the exact correlation between KIF14 and cancer progression remains ambiguous. In this study, using loss of heterozygosity and array comparative genomic hybridization analyses, we observed a 30% loss in the regions surrounding KIF14 on chromosome 1q in lung adenocarcinomas. In addition, the protein expression levels of KIF14 in 122 lung adenocarcinomas also indicated that approximately 30% of adenocarcinomas showed KIF14 down-regulation compared with the expression in the bronchial epithelial cells of adjacent normal counterparts. In addition, the reduced expression of KIF14 mRNA or proteins was correlated with poor overall survival (P = 0.0158 and <0.0001, respectively), and the protein levels were also inversely correlated with metastasis (P<0.0001). The overexpression of KIF14 in lung adenocarcinoma cells inhibited anchorage-independent growth in vitro and xenograft tumor growth in vivo. The overexpression and silencing of KIF14 also inhibited or enhanced cancer cell migration, invasion and adhesion to the extracellular matrix proteins laminin and collagen IV. Furthermore, we detected the adhesion molecules cadherin 11 (CDH11) and melanoma cell adhesion molecule (MCAM) as cargo on KIF14. The overexpression and silencing of KIF14 enhanced or reduced the recruitment of CDH11 in the membrane fraction, suggesting that KIF14 might act through recruiting adhesion molecules to the cell membrane and modulating cell adhesive, migratory and invasive properties. Thus, KIF14 might inhibit tumor growth and cancer metastasis in lung adenocarcinomas.
An Examination of the Relationship between Absorptive Capacity and Organizational Learning, and a Proposed Integration

Since its inception, the concept of absorptive capacity has been closely linked with notions of organizational learning. Yet the precise nature of the relationship between these two concepts has never been established. This relationship is examined in a variety of ways, and it is suggested that the literature on these two concepts shares a conceptual affinity which needs to be delineated. It is suggested that absorptive capacity (a dynamic capability) is a concrete example of organizational learning that concerns an organization's relationship with new external knowledge. Using the 4I Model for organizational learning (Crossan, M.M., Lane, H.W. and White, R.E. (1999). An organizational learning framework: from intuition to institution. Academy of Management Review, 24, 522–537) and Zahra and George's conceptualization of absorptive capacity (Zahra, S.A. and George, G. (2002). Absorptive capacity: a review, reconceptualization, and extension. Academy of Management Review, 27, 185–203), this paper proposes an integration of the two concepts.
Sometimes I Cry: The Experience of Loneliness for Men with AIDS

Among the psychosocial dimensions of HIV disease, loneliness is worthy of examination. This study examines the way the accepted typology of loneliness – emotional isolation, social isolation, and existential loneliness – is revealed in the narratives of AIDS patients. The analysis of the narratives focuses on the meaning of story selection and story content, including plot, characterization, and cues for interpretation and demonstrates that the typology can be identified in first-person accounts as well as in quantitative studies. The nine plot lines, three for each loneliness category identified, extend and enrich the loneliness construct and suggest practical ways for caregivers to improve their care of people with AIDS.
Tropical Indian Ocean Variability in the IPCC Twentieth-Century Climate Simulations

The twentieth-century simulations using by 17 coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation models (CGCMs) submitted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) are evaluated for their skill in reproducing the observed modes of Indian Ocean (IO) climate variability. Most models successfully capture the IO’s delayed, basinwide warming response a few months after El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) peaks in the Pacific. ENSO’s oceanic teleconnection into the IO, by coastal waves through the Indonesian archipelago, is poorly simulated in these models, with significant shifts in the turning latitude of radiating Rossby waves. In observations, ENSO forces, by the atmospheric bridge mechanism, strong ocean Rossby waves that induce anomalies of SST, atmospheric convection, and tropical cyclones in a thermocline dome over the southwestern tropical IO. While the southwestern IO thermocline dome is simulated in nearly all of the models, this ocean Rossby wave response to ENSO is present only in a few of the models examined, suggesting difficulties in simulating ENSO’s teleconnection in surface wind. A majority of the models display an equatorial zonal mode of the Bjerknes feedback with spatial structures and seasonality similar to the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) in observations. This success appears to be due to their skills in simulating the mean state of the equatorial IO. Corroborating the role of the Bjerknes feedback in the IOD, the thermocline depth, SST, precipitation, and zonal wind are mutually positively correlated in these models, as in observations. The IOD–ENSO correlation during boreal fall ranges from 0.43 to 0.74 in the different models, suggesting that ENSO is one, but not the only, trigger for the IOD.
Leseverständnis ohne Lesen

Zusammenfassung. Wiederholt wurden Zweifel an der Konstruktvaliditat von multiple-choice-Leseverstandnistestaufgaben geausert. Diese bestehen ublicherweise aus den drei Teilen “Text”, “Fragen” und “Antworten”. In drei aufeinander aufbauenden Feldexperimenten (N1 = 371, N2 = 349, N3 = 402) bearbeiteten Schuler der 7. bis 9. Klassenstufe verschiedene Leseverstandnistestversionen, in denen sukzessive zentrale Komponenten eliminiert wurden: “Original”, “ohne Text”, “ohne Fragen”, “ohne Text und ohne Fragen”. Mit abnehmendem Informationsgehalt wurden die Aufgaben erwartungsgemas schwieriger. Jedoch losten die Schuler in den Versionen “Original”, “ohne Text” und “ohne Fragen” deutlich und in der Version “ohne Text und ohne Fragen” teilweise mehr Aufgaben “richtig”, als bei reinem Raten zu erwarten ware. Dies kann in den Versionen, in denen kein Text vorgegeben wurde, nicht auf “Lesen” zuruckgefuhrt werden. Verbale Intelligenz erwies sich als bedeutsamer Pradiktor der Leseverstandnistestleistung. Die Relevanz de.