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Evaluation and histopathological correlation of abnormal uterine bleeding in perimenopausal women

Objectives: To study the causes of abnormal uterine bleeding in perimenopausal women and to correlate their clinical evaluation with ultrasonographic and histopathological examination. Method: This is a retrospective study of 100 perimenopausal women with complaint of abnormal bleeding in the age group ranging from 40 years till 1 year within the menopause, who underwent hysterectomy at Lok Nayak Hospital. The age, parity, menstrual complaints of these patients were noted & clinical diagnosis and ultrasonography were analysed. Finally, histopathology report of the hysterectomy specimen was correlated with the clinical profile of the patient and ultrasonographic findings. Results: Maximum frequency of abnormal uterine bleeding was seen in the age group 40– 45 years. Most of the patients were para 3. Menorrhagia was the commonest complaint & fibroid uterus was responsible for abnormal uterine bleeding in 53% of women. Out of 39 women labelled clinically as dysfunctional uterine bleeding, 8 patients were diagnosed with fibroid uterus on ultrasound & in rest of the 31 patients, no organic cause was found. Out of these 31 patients, 4 patients were diagnosed to have adenomyosis on histopathology & in rest, no gross pathology was detected. Suspected malignancy in all the 3 patients was confirmed on histopathology. Simple endometrial hyperplasia without atypia was present in 19% patients. Conclusion: Clinical, radiological & pathological evaluation correlated well to diagnose fibroids, however clinically as well as ultrasound proved to be of little help in diagnosing adenomyosis.
Transfer Learning in CNNs Using Filter-Trees

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are very effective for many pattern recognition tasks. However, training deep CNNs needs extensive computation and large training data. In this paper we propose Bank of Filter-Trees (BFT) as a trans- fer learning mechanism for improving efficiency of learning CNNs. A filter-tree corresponding to a filter in k^{th} convolu- tional layer of a CNN is a subnetwork consisting of the filter along with all its connections to filters in all preceding layers. An ensemble of such filter-trees created from the k^{th} layers of many CNNs learnt on different but related tasks, forms the BFT. To learn a new CNN, we sample from the BFT to select a set of filter trees. This fixes the target net up to the k th layer and only the remaining network would be learnt using train- ing data of new task. Through simulations we demonstrate the effectiveness of this idea of BFT. This method constitutes a novel transfer learning technique where transfer is at a sub- network level; transfer can be effected from multiple source networks; and, with no finetuning of the transferred weights, the performance achieved is on par with networks that are trained from scratch.
Plenoptic Signal Processing for Robust Vision in Field Robotics

Donald Gilbert Dansereau Doctor of Philosophy The University of Sydney January, 2014 Plenoptic Signal Processing for Robust Vision in Field Robotics This thesis proposes the use of plenoptic cameras for improving the robustness and simplicity of machine vision in field robotics applications. Dust, rain, fog, snow, murky water and insufficient light can cause even the most sophisticated vision systems to fail. Plenoptic cameras offer an appealing alternative to conventional imagery by gathering significantly more light over a wider depth of field, and capturing a rich 4D light field structure that encodes textural and geometric information. The key contributions of this work lie in exploring the properties of plenoptic signals and developing algorithms for exploiting them. It begins by laying the groundwork for the deployment of plenoptic cameras in field robotics applications by proposing a novel camera model and schemes for decoding, calibration and rectification appropriate to compact, lenslet-based devices. The frequency-domain shape of plenoptic signals is elaborated as the intersection of a highly selective 4D hypercone and a 2D fan. This fundamentally four-dimensional hyperfan shape informs the construction of efficient linear filters which maintain depth of field by focusing on a volume rather than a plane. We show these filters to improve contrast in low light and through attenuating media such as murky water and fog, while reducing the impact of occluders such as snow, rain and underwater particulate matter. The properties of a static scene as seen by a mobile plenoptic camera are considered. A geometric derivation yields a series of methods for performing featureless 6-degree-of-freedom visual odometry, generating 3D scene models as a useful by-product. The derivation culminates in a closed-form generalization of optical flow which directly estimates camera motion from first-order plenoptic derivatives. An elegant adaptation of this so-called plenoptic flow to lenslet-based imagery is demonstrated, as well as a simple, additive method for rendering novel views. Finally, the isolation of dynamic elements from a static background is considered, a task complicated by the non-uniform apparent motion caused by a mobile camera. An elegant ii
Improved QR Code Localization Using Boosted Cascade of Weak Classifiers

Usage of computer-readable visual codes became common in our everyday life at industrial environments and private use. The reading process of visual codes consists of two tasks: localization and data decoding. Unsupervised localization is desirable at industrial setups and for visually impaired people. This paper examines localization efficiency of cascade classifiers using Haarlike features, Local Binary Patterns and Histograms of Oriented Gradients, trained for the finder patterns of QR codes and for the whole code region as well, and proposes improvements in post-processing.
Effect of exercise on protein requirements.

The effect(s) of exercise on dietary protein requirements has (have) been a controversial topic for many years. Although most expert committees on nutrition have not provided an additional allowance of protein for active individuals, a considerable amount of experimental evidence has accumulated during the past 15 years which indicates that regular exercise does in fact increase protein needs. Part of the confusion is due to methodological difficulties and inadequate control of several interacting factors including: diet composition, total energy intake, exercise intensity, duration and training, ambient temperature, gender, and perhaps even age. Although definitive dietary recommendations for various athletic groups must await future study, the weight of current evidence suggests that strength or speed athletes should consume about 1.2-1.7 g protein/kg body weight.d-1 (approximately 100-212% of current recommendations) and endurance athletes about 1.2-1.4 g/kg.d-1 (approximately 100-175% of current recommendations). These quantities of protein can be obtained from a diet which consists of 12-15% energy from protein, unless total energy intake is insufficient. There is no evidence that protein intakes in this range will cause any adverse effects. Future studies with large sample sizes, adequate controls, and performance as well as physiological/biochemical measures are necessary to fine tune these recommendations.
Urinary proteome analysis in hypertensive patients with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.

AIMS Despite the significant heart failure (HF) burden on society, easily applicable screening techniques, particularly for the early detection of asymptomatic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, are lacking. The present study aimed to identify and test a set of urinary polypeptides that may indicate early LV diastolic dysfunction as defined by echocardiography in hypertensive patients in a cross-sectional case-control study nested within the FLEMish study on ENvironment, Genes and Health Outcome (FLEMENGHO). METHODS AND RESULTS To identify potentially discriminating urinary biomarkers for LV diastolic dysfunction, we applied capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry. In the discovery set, we compared 19 hypertensive patients with asymptomatic LV diastolic dysfunction with 19 healthy controls. In the absence of adjustment for multiple testing, 85 urinary peptides were different between cases and controls at a P-value of <0.033. With adjustment for multiple testing, three potential biomarkers remained significantly different between cases and controls (P ≤ 0.02). We combined the 85 potential biomarkers in a high-dimensional model (classifier), which we applied in a blinded manner to an independent test set of 16 hypertensive patients with symptomatic HF and 16 healthy controls. Upon unblinding, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of the HF classification was 0.84 (95% CI: 0.70-0.98; P= 0.001). CONCLUSION In asymptomatic hypertensive patients with LV diastolic dysfunction, we identified a set of urinary polypeptides specific for essential hypertension with LV diastolic dysfunction that subsequently distinguished hypertensive patients with overt HF from healthy controls.
Consumption of fruit, vegetables, sweets and soft drinks are associated with psychological dimensions of eating behaviour in parents and their 12-year-old children

Abstract Objective We investigated associations between consumption of fruits, vegetables, sweets and soft drinks and the psychological dimensions of eating in parents and their children. The role of the parent’s characteristics for their children’s food intake was also explored. Design Food intake patterns were assessed by self-reported consumption of the respective foods. Eating behaviour was measured by the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire and self-esteem by Harter self-perception scale. The participants were 1441 families (mother, father and their 12-year-old child), and additionally 354 mothers and thirty fathers. Results Among parents, reported intake of fruit and vegetables were associated with restrained eating, higher self-esteem, and higher education and age. Intake of sweets was related to more external and less restrained eating, and for mothers also emotional eating. Parent’s intake of soft drink was foremost related to a younger age, and also weakly associated with psychological characteristics. The food intake of parents was more important for the children’s food intake than any other characteristics. However, children’s intake of sweets showed clear-cut positive associations with external eating. Conclusions Psychological dimensions of eating behaviour are associated with patterns of food intake, in particular for consumption of sweets, and are most prominent in the parents. The children’s food intake mirrored their parents’ intake. Being sensitive to external food cues may increase unhealthy food consumption in our society, whereas more restrained eating may indicate proneness or intention to healthier food choices among parents. Emotional eating may imply a proneness to consume sweets for comfort, in particular among mothers.
Direct selling applied to strawberry

Terms of trade on Croatian agricultural and food market will be changed with the entry of Croatia into the WTO. The product supply, quantitatively and qualitatively will increase and the selling prices will decline. Those new market conditions will demand domestic producers to increase the competitiveness of their products. Therefore we aimed our research towards farmers markets as one possible way of new marketing strategy. During the period of 15 days we organised a strawberry farmers market on one of the most frequent places in the city of Zagreb. On five stalls, all producers were selling their strawberries with equal price, to avoid price competitiveness. The market opening time, from 6 a.m. till 8 p.m. , was an additional competitive advantage in reference to the main competitive selling channel, the opendoor market. The results of our research have shown that the sales volume on the farmers market is manifold larger compared to opendoor markets. Furthermore, the farmers achieve relatively high prices and almost the twice much revenue when selling on farmers markets than when selling to a middleman. According to a survey carried out with the end-customers, the farmers market was judged as very good. The survey results indicated that the Croatian consumers prefer domestic over imported products. The products quality and the favourable selling place additionally increase consumers preferences for the farmers markets.
Handbook of Supply Chain Management

SUPPLY CHAIN OVERVIEW Introduction to the Supply Chain Supply Chain Management - The "Right" Way Drivers of Supply Chain Change SCM and Strategy SCM Assessment Tools Linking the Supply Chain with the Customer Globalization and Supply Chain Design THE SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGE - FIVE TASKS FOR MANAGEMENT Task 1: Designing Supply Chains for Strategic Advantage (Chapters 8 through 12) Task 2: Implementing Collaborative Relationships (Chapters 13 through 16) Task 3: Forging Supply Chain Partnerships (Chapters 17 through 21) Task 4: Managing Supply Chain Information Task 5: Removing Cost from the Supply Chain (Chapters 22 through 31) The Beginning - Scoping the Supply Chain Strategy Businesses within the Business Supply Chains as Activity Systems Applying QFD in Activity System Design The Supply Chain and New Products Foundation for Supply Chain Change Functional Roles in Supply Chain Change Supply Chain Project Management - A Team Framework Institutional Supply Chain Changes Collaborative Relationships Emerging Partnership Model Planning for Partnerships Stage 3: Supply Chain Implementation The Extended EnterpriseTM at Chrysler Supply Chain Process Management Supply Chain Process Evaluation Supply Chain Process Documentation Supply Chain Technology Applications Cost and the Supply Chain Root Cause - Clarity Root Cause - Variability Root Cause - Design Root Cause - Information Root Cause - Weak Links SUPPLY CHAIN METHODOLOGIES ABC Implementation 3C Alternative to MRP II Supply Chain Prestudy From Purchasing to Strategic Sourcing - A Roadmap Implementing Enterprise Software towards the Multicompany Environment Selecting Supply Chain Software SUPPLY CHAIN CASE STUDIES Lessons from a Failed Supply Chain Initiative Semiconductor Equipment: Supply Chain Links Bicycle Manufacturer: Internet Strategy Supply Chain Management in Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul Operations Adapting to a New Supply Chain Role Performance Improvement through Metrics for Buyers Wholesale Grocer: Supply Chain "Streamlining" Consolidation Centers in the Lean Supply Chain
Extremely high origin of the right coronary artery from the ascending aorta

Coronary artery anomalies, especially variations in the level of origin, are frequent. In most cases, the origin lies just a few millimeters superior to the supravalvular ridge; ectopic origins of more than one centimeter above this border are rare. We report a case in which the right coronary artery arises from the ascending aorta 38 mm above the supravalvular ridge. Clin. Anat. 5:369–372, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The quality of reporting of phase II and III trials for new antipsychotics: a systematic review

Background The findings of the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) study and the Cost Utility of the Latest Antipsychotic Drugs in Schizophrenia Study (CUtLASS) called previous trials of antipsychotics into question, including pre-licensing trials. Concerns regarding methodological robustness and quality of reporting increased. This systematic review aimed to examine the quality of reporting of phase II and III trials for new antipsychotics in the aftermath of the CATIE and CUtLASS studies. Method Electronic searches were conducted in EMBASE, Medline and Cochrane databases and also ClinicalTrials.gov for antipsychotic trials (published between January 2006 and February 2012). Phase II and III randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for iloperidone, asenapine, paliperidone, olanzapine, lurasidone and pomaglumetad methionil were selected for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. The reporting of the methodology was evaluated in accordance with Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. Results Thirty-one articles regarding 32 studies were included. There was insufficient reporting of design in 47% of studies and only 13% explicitly stated a primary hypothesis. Exclusion criteria were poorly reported for diagnosis in 22% of studies. Detail regarding comparators, particularly placebos, was suboptimal for 56% of studies, and permitted concomitant medication was often not reported (19%). Randomization methods were poorly described in 56% of studies and reporting on blinding was insufficient in 84% of studies. Sample size calculations were insufficiently reported in 59% of studies. Conclusions The quality of reporting of phase II and III trials for new antipsychotics does not reach the standards outlined in the CONSORT guidelines. Authors often fail to adequately report design and methodological processes, potentially impeding the progress of research on antipsychotic efficacy. Both policymakers and clinicians require high quality reporting before decisions are made regarding licensing and prescribing of new antipsychotics.
The Analysis of Influencing Factors and Promotion Strategy for the Use of Mobile Banking/L'ANALYSE D'INFLUENCER DES FACTEURS ET LA STRATÉGIE DE PROMOTION POUR L'USAGE DES OPÉRATIONS BANCAIRES MOBILES

The main factors that influence the mobile banking’ s promotion are specifically analyzed based on the three-factor theory, namely the external environmental factors, internal factors of consumers and marketing factors. It can come to a conclusion that culture, perception of risk, marketing factors are the three main factors that affect mobile banking’ s marketing. Then the effective countermeasures are put forward as well in the paper. Key words: Mobile banking; Consumer behaviour; MarketingResume: Les facteurs de canalisation qui influencent la promotion d'operations bancaires mobile sont specifiquement analyses bases sur la theorie de trois-facteur, a savoir les facteurs environnementaux externes, facteurs internes des consommateurs et facteurs de vente. Elle peut arriver a une conclusion que la culture, perception de risque, lancant des facteurs sur le marche sont les trois facteurs principaux qui affectent la gestion bancaire mobile. Alors les contre-mesures efficaces sont aussi bien proposes dans le papier. Mots cles: Operations bancaires mobiles; Comportement du consommateur; Commercialisation
Unbundling generation and transmission services for competitive electricity markets

Ancillary services are those functions performed by the equipment and people that generate, control, and transmit electricity in support of the basic services of generating capacity, energy supply, and power delivery. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) defined such services as those `necessary to support the transmission of electric power from seller to purchaser given the obligations of control areas and transmitting utilities within those control areas to maintain reliable operations of the interconnected transmission system. ` The nationwide cost of ancillary services is about $12 billion a year, roughly 10% of the cost of the energy commodity. More important than the cost, however, is the necessity of these services for bulk-power reliability and for the support of commercial transactions. FERC`s landmark Order 888 included a pro forma tariff with provision for six key ancillary services. The Interconnected Operations Services Working Group identified another six services that it felt were essential to the operation of bulk-power systems. Several groups throughput the United States have created or are forming independent system operators, which will be responsible for reliability and commerce. To date, the electricity industry (including traditional vertically integrated utilities, distribution utilities, power markets and brokers, customers, and state and federal regulators) has paid insufficient attention to these services. Although the industry had made substantial progress in identifying and defining the key services, much remains to be doe to specify methods to measure the production, delivery, and consumption of these services; to identify the costs and cost-allocation factors for these services; and to develop market and operating rules for their provision and pricing. Developing metrics, determining costs, and setting pricing rules are important because most of these ancillary services are produced by the same pieces of equipment that produce the basic electricity commodity. Thus, the production of energy and ancillary services is highly interactive, sometimes complementary and sometimes competing. In contrast to today`s typical time-invariant, embedded-cost prices, competitive prices for ancillary services would vary with system loads and spot prices for energy.
Balancing customization and standardization in knowledge intensive business services: The use of modular service architectures

While the mainstream literature on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) has long emphasized their customized nature and their role in exploring new knowledge to satisfy each client's needs, recent research has argued that competition is inducing KIBS firms to standardize their offer. In this paper, we concentrate on a particular type of KIBS firms, third-party logistic service providers (TPLs), and analyze how two TPLs face the customization-standardization trade-off by using service architectures. We find that TPLs do not trade off customization for standardization, instead they manage to pursue both simultaneously relying on modular services, which constitutive elements are standard procedures. Service modularity enables the TPL to exploit its existing knowledge base while only some knowledgeable clients prompt TPLs to explore new procedures. Overall, our results suggest that service customization and knowledge exploration can be separated. TPLs should manage their customer relationships using a portfolio approach, balancing supply relationships in which they replicate existing services with partnership-based relationships with competent customers in which they develop new procedures. Managing the temporal separation between exploration and exploitation consequently becomes a core competence.
Non-Maturing Assets and Liabilities of Banks: Valuation and Risk Measurement

Non-maturing banking products are important asset and liability positions of banks. Their complexity inter alia arises from a non-trivial pass-through from market to product rates which makes the valuation and risk analysis challenging for both banks and banking supervisors. Based on a large data set, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the valuation and interest rate risk measurement of these products in the risk-neutral valuation framework of Jarrow and van Deventer (1998). We apply 6 term structure models and 4 interest rate pass-through models and estimate for each of these 24 model combinations the value and interest rate risk of 13 non-maturing product categories for up to 400 German banks on an individual bank level. We find that the choice of the term structure and the pass-through model is of limited importance for the valuation of non-maturing banking products. For ranking banks according to the interest rate risk of their products the pass-through process is of specific relevance. When the level of the interest rate risk is to be estimated, additionally an advanced term structure model should be chosen.