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Concise Review: Injectable Biomaterials for the Treatment of Myocardial Infarction and Peripheral Artery Disease: Translational Challenges and Progress

Recently, injectable biomaterial‐based therapies for cardiovascular disease have been gaining attention, because they have shown therapeutic potential in preclinical models for myocardial infarction (MI) and peripheral artery disease (PAD). Naturally derived (e.g., alginate, hyaluronic acid, collagen, or extracellular matrix‐based) or synthetic (e.g., peptide or polymer‐based) materials can enhance stem cell survival and retention in vivo, prolong growth factor release from bulk hydrogel or particle constructs, and even stimulate endogenous tissue regeneration as a standalone therapy. Although there are many promising preclinical examples, the therapeutic potential of biomaterial‐based products for cardiovascular disease has yet to be proved on a clinical and commercial scale. This review aims to briefly summarize the latest preclinical and clinical studies on injectable biomaterial therapies for MI and PAD. Furthermore, our overall goal is to highlight the major challenges facing translation of these therapies to the clinic (e.g., regulatory, manufacturing, and delivery), with the purpose of increasing awareness of the barriers for translating novel biomaterial therapies for MI and PAD and facilitating more rapid translation of new biomaterial technologies.
Comparing trust levels of male and female managers: measurement invariance of the behavioural trust inventory

Despite the widely acknowledged need for validated trust measurement instruments and the legal obligation to ensure that psychometric tests are unbiased towards different groups in South Africa, no attempt has ever been made to address the aim of this study, which is to investigate the measurement invariance of the Behavioural Trust Inventory for managers of different genders. A cross-sectional survey with a convenience sample (N = 539) was used. The Behavioural Trust Inventory and a biographical questionnaire were administered. The results showed that a two-factor model (consisting of reliance and disclosure) fitted the data best. Measurement invariance by gender was computed with the establishment of subsequent invariance constraints in the model parameters across groups. Configural, metric, and partial scalar invariances of the two-factor model of the Behavioural Trust Inventory were confirmed across male and female managers. One item that measures one’s willingness to share personal beliefs with a leader demonstrated a lack of scalar invariance for the female group; results for this item should therefore be treated with caution. Finally, latent factor mean analyses revealed no significant differences between male and female managers on the trust scales.
A metalogic programming approach: language, semantics and applications

Abstract This paper presents a logic programming language of novel conception, called Reflective Prolog, which allows declarative metaknowledge representation and metareasoning. The language is defined by augmenting pure Prolog (Horn clauses) with capabilities of self-reference and logical reflection. Self-reference is designed as a quotation device (a carefully defined naming relation) which allows the construction of metalevel terms that refer to object-level terms and atoms. Logical reflection is designed as an unquotation mechanism (a distinguished truth predicate) which relates names to what is named, thus extending the meaning of domain predicates. The reflection mechanism is embodied in an extended resolution procedure which automatically switches the context between levels. This implicit reflection relieves the programmer from having to explicitly deal with control aspects of the inference process. The declarative semantics of a Reflective Prolog definite program P is provided in terms of the leas.
Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners

Shah’s writing allows the women to construct their own narratives, which powerfully demonstrate the complexity and humanity of their experiences. As we might expect, her informants tend not to define themselves as sex workers. Instead, they describe their experiences as migrants and employ categories of class to understand their positions in the labor market. Shah points out that their discussions of class are frequently infused with ‘‘public expression(s) of caste,’’ which she argues signals a fractured experience of modernity (p. 99). This adapted class analysis allows Shah to reframe sex work through a Marxian framework of economic production, departing from the more common lenses of human trafficking and HIV/AIDS. Shah is not alone in making this shift, as she acknowledges, but this book is an important contribution to this emerging area of scholarship. Yet while the ethnographic vignettes effectively illuminate the structural relations and power dynamics that shape the lives of female migrants, Shah’s class analysis could have been further developed with more explicit discussion of the relations of production, structures of power, and emerging forms of consciousness among the migrants/workers. In addition to its sociological reframing of sex work, Street Corner Secrets makes several key contributions to critical urban studies. First, the work provides a usefully gendered analysis of urban informality and the informal economy. It refines the overly broad category of informal workers to demonstrate some of the ways that gender, class, and caste shape how workers navigate the law and its selective enforcement in their pursuit of livelihoods. Second, it offers important insights on the impacts of neoliberal globalization on the economic geography of contemporary Mumbai. The development pressures discussed in Chapter Four are woven throughout the earlier chapters as well, as the context of ‘‘world-class’’ city-making and slum demolitions shapes the lives of female migrants and their economic opportunities. That Shah is able to successfully weave these additional threads into an already detailed tapestry speaks to her effective writing and astute sociological analysis. Street Corner Secrets should be widely ready and celebrated as a contribution to urban ethnography, migration studies, and the political economy of sex work.
Pensions and Household Wealth Accumulation

Economists have long suggested that higher private pension benefits “crowd out” other sources of household wealth accumulation. We exploit detailed information on pensions and lifetime earnings for older workers in the 1992 wave of the Health and Retirement Study and employ an instrumental-variable (IV) identification strategy to estimate crowd-out. The IV estimates suggest statistically significant crowd-out: each dollar of pension wealth is associated with a 53–67 cent decline in nonpension wealth. With less precision, we use an instrumental-variable quantile regression estimator and find that most of the effect is concentrated in the upper quantiles of the wealth distribution.
Embodied Computation

At the core of architecture is the physical construct, its form, scale and materiality as it relates to the humans that inhabit it. We will explore the concept of embodied computation as it relates to architectural body and the changes that computation can bring to it. In comparison to the more established anthropomorphic robotics approach, the architectural body is much larger in scale and surrounds us. This is in contrast to the anthropomorphic object to object interaction so ingrained in human computer interaction. We will explore computational principles that steer formal processes, that become embedded in physical form through sensing feedback and control, or through acting upon the world as a computational social construct.
A Clamor in the Public Mind: Opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts

AT the height of their success in the spring of 1798, as the Federalists in Congress were designing a new naturalization bill, an act to regulate aliens, a new law to criminalize seditious writing, talk, and behavior, and various taxes and war measures to prepare for conflict with France, they claimed repeatedly that "all Americans" were united in support of the administration. President John Adams encouraged such sentiments, asserting that "all America appears to declare, with one heart and one voice," its "determination to vindicate . the honor of our nation. " Adams and his allies were enthusiastic and triumphal as hun dreds of memorials of support poured into Philadelphia. As one news paper declared, the wide support for Adams "created an enthusiastic Americanism that will prove" the salvation of the country. As another noted, unanimity would be key in any attempt to "fix the country in a settled and positive state by immediately declaring war. "1 The claims of unanimity were wishful thinking. Even on the day of President Adams's national fast, a day when twelve hundred youth of Philadelphia presented him with a patriotic memorial, a "fray" created confusion in the capital during which "it was dangerous going out. " On the same day, Adams was hanged and burned in effigy in front of the meetinghouse in North Stamford, Connecticut, deep in the Federalist
Intra-abdominal Pressure and Trunk Muscular Activities during Abdominal Bracing and Hollowing

Abstract This study examined the difference in intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) between abdominal bracing and hollowing in relation to trunk muscular activities. IAP with a pressure transducer placed in the rectum and surface electromyograms for rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, and erector spinae during the 2 tasks were obtained in 7 young adult men. The difference between IAP at rest and its peak value (ΔIAPmax) showed high intra- and inter-day repeatability, and was significantly greater in abdominal bracing (116.4±15.0 mmHg) than in abdominal hollowing (9.9±4.5 mmHg). The trunk muscular activities at ΔIAPmax were significantly higher in abdominal bracing than in abdominal hollowing, and in the internal oblique than in the other 3 muscles. In both abdominal bracing and hollowing, the changes in IAP during the tasks were linearly correlated with those in trunk muscular activities, but the slope of the regression line for the relationship differed between the 2 tasks. The current results indicate that 1) abdominal bracing is an effective maneuver to elevate IAP compared with abdominal hollowing, and 2) in the 2 tasks, the changes in IAP are linked with those in trunk muscular activities, but the association is task-specific.
Examining the Positive and Negative Effects of Guanxi Practices

In this research, we compared and contrasted the effects of managers’ interpersonal level guanxi practice and group level guanxi practice on employees’ procedural justice perceptions. Results indicated that interpersonal guanxi practice was associated with increased employee fairness perceptions whereas group level guanxi practice (the sense that guanxi is used often to make human resource decisions within a management group) was negatively related to perceived fairness. Thus, while individuals may like the personal favors of managers’ interpersonal guanxi practice, their sense of justice is undermined by the broad use of guanxi. In addition, group level guanxi practice moderated the relationship between interpersonal guanxi practice and procedural justice such that this relationship was stronger in work units with high levels of group level guanxi practice. Thus, when employees see many others affected by guanxi, their sense of justice is even more strongly influenced by interpersonal guanxi practice.
Moderating Effect of Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Career Capital and Career Success 黃柏翔

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of career capital and psychological capital on individual’s career success. Data were collected from 260 recruiters in career fairs on university campus in Taiwan via paper-based questionnaires. The data were analyzed by using hierarchical regression to test the effect of career capital on career success, and the moderating effect of psychological capital on the relationship between career capital and career success. The results showed that career capital had a positive effect on career success after controlling for gender, age, position, and job tenure. In addition, psychological capital positively moderated the relationship between career capital and career success. This study included discussion, implications, and limitations.
Demonstration of a Power Amplifier Linearization Based on Digital Predistortion in Mobile Wimax Application

Spectrally efficient linear modulation techniques are used in the third generation systems and their performance is strongly dependent on the linearity of the transmission system, Also, the efficiency of the amplifier to be used has to be maximized, which means that it must work near saturation. Newer transmission formats, with wide bandwidths, such as multi carrier wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), wireless local area network (WLAN), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), are especially vulnerable to PA nonlinearities, due to their high peak-to-average power ratio, corresponding to large fluctuations in their signal envelopes. In order to comply with spectral masks imposed by regulatory bodies and to reduce BER, PA linearization is necessary. A number of linearization techniques have been reported in recent years (Cripps, 1999;Kennington, 2000; kim & Konstantinou, 2001;Wright & Durtler 1992;Woo, et al. 2007; Nagata, 1989). One technique that can potentially compensate for power amplifier (PA) nonlinearities in such an environment is the adaptive digital predistortion technique. The concept is based on inserting a non-linear function (the inverse function of the amplifier) between the input signal and the amplifier to produce a linear output. The digital predistortion (DPD) requires to be adaptive because of variation in power amplifier nonlinearity with time, temperature and different operating channels and so on. Another limitation of predistortion is the dependence of amplifier’s transfer characteristic’s on the frequency content of the signal or defined as changes of the amplitude and phase in distortion components due to past signal values, that is called memory effects. The memory effects compensation is an important issue of the DPD algorithm in addition to correction of power amplifier (PA) nonlinearity especially when the signal bandwidth increases. Many studies are involved in this technique but many of them suffer from limitations in bandwidth, precision or stability (Cavers, 1990;Wright & Durtler 1992;Nagata, 1989). In this reseach a new technique of adaptive digital predistortion that is the combination of two techniques, the gain based predistorter (Cavers, 1990) and memory polynomial model 9
ESBL E. coli Urosepsis Resulting in Endogenous Panophthalmitis Requiring Evisceration of the Eye in a Diabetic Patient

A primary infection in a remote site resulting in vision threatening complications like panophthalmitis in a person who is not immune-compromised is rare. We report a case of endogenous bilateral bacterial endophthalmitis progressing into panophthalmitis in one eye requiring evisceration of that eye. A patient admitted with severe ESBL E. coli urosepsis was effectively treated with source control (bilateral DJ stenting for hydroureteronephrosis) and antibiotics. She was found to have features suggestive of bilateral conjunctivitis which progressed to panophthalmitis possibly due to delay in appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Diagnosis requires a very high index of suspicion if eye involvement is noted in a patient with features of bacteraemia and early intervention could possibly produce better outcomes. To our knowledge, this is the first case of ESBL E. coli urosepsis complicated by microbiologically confirmed panophthalmitis.
Changes in attributions as a consequence of training for challenging and complex behaviour for carers of people with learning disabilities: a systematic review.

AIM This paper reviews the evidence for changes in carers' attributions regarding the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities as a consequence of carer training in challenging and complex behaviour. METHOD Papers were included in the review if they reported outcomes for carer training on the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities and used a measure of carer attribution of the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities. The characteristics of the scales used and the content and length of training are considered as possible factors affecting changes in attribution. RESULTS Eleven papers were reviewed, most studies using behavioural curricula for their training, and none explicitly set out to change attributions. Eight of the 11 papers reviewed reported changes in attribution although core characteristics of training did not distinguish those papers that reported such changes and those that did not. CONCLUSIONS Changes in beliefs and attributions occur even though these are not identified as a focus within the training provided. The present authors suggest that the formulation processes involved in behavioural training may play a key part in changing attributions as a consequence of this training. The present authors discuss the potential for more focussed intervention designed to change attributions and for better alignment of measures to specific attribution change expected as a result of specific training approaches.
A design protocol for tailoring ice-templated scaffold structure

In this paper, we show, for the first time, the key link between scaffold architecture and latent heat evolution during the production of porous biomedical collagen structures using freeze-drying. Collagen scaffolds are used widely in the biomedical industry for the repair and reconstruction of skeletal tissues and organs. Freeze-drying of collagen slurries is a standard industrial process, and, until now, the literature has sought to characterize the influence of set processing parameters including the freezing protocol and weight percentage of collagen. However, we are able to demonstrate, by monitoring the local thermal events within the slurry during solidification, that nucleation, growth and annealing processes can be controlled, and therefore we are able to control the resulting scaffold architecture. Based on our correlation of thermal profile measurements with scaffold architecture, we hypothesize that there is a link between the fundamental freezing of ice and the structure of scaffolds, which suggests that this concept is applicable not only for collagen but also for ceramics and pharmaceuticals. We present a design protocol of strategies for tailoring the ice-templated scaffold structure.
Split Pectoralis Major Flaps for Mediastinal Wound Coverage:: A 12-Year Experience

Poststernotomy mediastinitis is an infrequent but highly dangerous complication following median sternotomy. Typically, such wounds are debrided aggressively of necrotic and foreign materials with subsequent flap reconstruction. Between December 1989 and January 2002, 69 patients were referred to the University of Maryland division of plastic surgery for mediastinal wound coverage. A total of 105 flaps of various types were used. Fifty-eight percent of the patients received a single flap. Ninety percent of the flaps used were pectoralis major flaps, whereas only 10% of the flaps were rectus abdominis, latissimus dorsi, or omentum flaps. Ten patients (14.5%) required reoperation. The most common comorbidity was diabetes mellitus. Those patients with diabetes mellitus were 9.1 times more likely to require reoperation after their sternal reconstruction compared with nondiabetic patients (95% confidence interval, 2.1–40.4). Four patients (5.8%) died less than 30 days from their flap procedure. The flap of first choice used in this series is the pectoralis major turnover flap, which is harvested in its entirety and split in the direction of its muscle fibers. Taking the entire muscle allows better coverage of the lower portion of the incision, resulting in far less frequent need for abdominal flaps and their associated morbidity.
Stereotypical attitudes amongst black students at a rural historically black South African university

This study investigated stereotypical attitudes towards race amongst Black students (N=274) attending a historically Black South African university (females=62%; mean age of 22.15 years; SD=3.00 years). Data on group stereotyping by race were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. The data were analysed for themes using discourse analysis. The findings indicated that Black students from a rural background stereotyped those from urban centres as lacking in African culture and being overly westernised. Conversely, rural Blacks from urban settings stereotyped those from rural areas as respectful, cultured and materially poor. Regardless of geographical origin, the Black students perceived English-speaking Whites as competent and friendly, while Afrikaans-speaking Whites were stereotyped as racist, aggressive and hardworking. The Black students perceived Indian South Africans as unethical and deceitful whilst Coloureds were noted to lack culture and to be aggressive. Findings suggest stereotypical racist language or discourse to be persistent among a student population with historical disadvantage.