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Application of Reliable Change Indices to Computerized Neuropsychological Measures of Concussion

Serial assessments of neurocognitive functioning in athletes with concussion are commonly used for return to play decisions. This study provides reliable change indices (RCIs) for computerized tests from 40 NCAA Division I collegiate athletes that suffered a sports-related concussion. The normative data that resulted from the RCIs and subsequent analyses of differences between improved and not improved athletes may aid both clinicians and researchers to assess whether observed change on neuropsychological measures is reliable change or change due simply to practice effects. Hence, the RCIs presented herein provide information that may be used judiciously by a clinician for assessing meaningful change.
Family Support Services in Pediatric Palliative Care

A fundamental premise of pediatric palliative care is that support is provided not only to the ill child but to the family as well. In doing so, a number of services may be offered to family members throughout the child’s illness, at the time of death and into bereavement, such as respite, counseling, expressive therapies, and bereavement support. Support may also be needed for the child’s peers at school, church, or on sporting teams. Evidence on family supportive care in pediatric palliative care research is scarce. The majority of existing studies are undertaken with bereaved parents. Although these studies are insightful, further information is needed to understand families’ needs along the illness trajectory and to determine whether unmet needs exist.
Model-based framework for networks-on-chip design space exploration

With increasing density on circuits, more cores are integrated. Networks-on-chip (NoCs) is emerged as a solution for interconnect. Many router architectures, NoC topologies and routing algorithms are developed to improve NoC design. This brings a large design space to explore. The exploration requires various models and tools to evaluate NoCs. So this paper proposes a model-based framework that can integrate different evaluation together. Each NoC design is processed as one model using Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF). Models can be used in code generation to generate different evaluation models, including ORION, SystemC and LISNoC Verilog description. An execution is further developed to compile, execute and synthesize models. The framework is experimented with both a real multi-media application and random traffic tests. Various aspects of evaluation are reported, including latency, throughoutput, buffer utilization, area, power and so on.
Comparison of saliva sampling methods for measurement of salivary adiponectin levels

We measured salivary adiponectin levels in saliva samples collected in two different ways and compared the results. Using the Salivette system, we collected samples from 30 healthy females into test tubes. Salivary adiponectin levels were evaluated using a commercial enzyme immunoassay kit for plasma but with a slightly modified method. While there was a significant correlation between adiponectin levels in plasma and test‐tube saliva (p<0.05), no correlation between adiponectin levels in plasma and Salivette‐sampled saliva was apparent. These findings suggest that test‐tube sampling is more reliable than use of the Salivette system for measuring salivary adiponectin levels.
FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF THE SOME TRADEMARKS CLEANING FORMULATIONS

Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the chemical stability of Povidone formulations. Method: PVP-I was incorporated into five different trademarks of cleaning formulation designated F1through F5. Chemical stability of months 0,1,2,3 and 4 was checked. pH, color, smell, and foam properties of the obtained cleaning formulations were tested. Results: PVP-I in Shampoo (F1) and hair & body wash (F2) was stable for more than 4 months, while in the shower gel (F3) and liqu stable within the limit period of three month. The body wash (F5) was stable for only one month. The during the entire period of the study. The foam volume and stability was comparable to that obtain smell or color of the cleaning formulations was observed. No sign of precipitate was observed within the entire period of study. Conclusion: Compounding PVP-I into cleaning trademarks in order to achieve should take seriously in consideration this issue
Piezoelectric surgery in oral and maxillofacial surgery

Abstract Introduction Piezoelectric device or piezosurgery device was originally developed for the atraumatic cutting of bone by way of ultrasonic vibrations and as an alternative to the mechanical and electrical instruments that are used in conventional oral surgery. Over the past two decades, an increasing amount of literature has shown that piezoelectric devices are innovative tools and that there is extensive indication of their use in dental implantology and oral and maxillofacial surgery. Recent publications have also shown the benefits of their use in craniofacial surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, head and neck surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, traumatology, and orthopaedics. Key features of piezosurgery include the selective cutting of bone without damaging the adjacent soft tissue (e.g. vessels, nerves or mucosa), providing a clear visibility in the operating field, and cutting with micron sensitivity without the generation of heat. The cutting characteristics of piezosurgery are mainly depending upon the degree of bone mineralization, the design of the insert being used, the pressure being applied on the handpiece and the speed of movement during usage. Therefore, a novice user must know these factors and adapt their operating technique in order to utilize the advantages of piezosurgery. This critical review summarizes the basic operating principles of piezoelectric devices and outlines the application areas in oral and maxillofacial surgery that piezosurgery can be utilized supported by clinical examples. Conclusion Piezosurgery can create clear vision of the surgical area from pressurized irrigation and cavitation effect. Disadvantages can include large initial costs. The number of studies covering this topic is insufficient; thus, further research needs to be conducted to enable us to learn more and clarify any misconceptions.
Dynamics estimation and generalized tuning of stationary frame current controller for grid-tied power converters

Abstract The integration of ac-dc power converters to manage the connection of generation to the grid has increased exponentially over the last years. PV or wind generation plants are one of the main applications showing this trend. High power converters are increasingly installed for integrating the renewables in a larger scale. The control design for these converters becomes more challenging due to the reduced control bandwidth and increased complexity in the grid connection filter. A generalized and optimized control tuning approach for converters becomes more favored. This paper proposes an algorithm for estimating the dynamic performance of the stationary frame current controllers, and based on it a generalized and optimized tuning approach is developed. The experience-based specifications of the tuning inputs are not necessary through the tuning approach. Simulation and experimental results in different scenarios are shown to evaluate the proposal.
An adaptive type-II hybrid ARQ/FEC protocol suitable for GSM

To combat errors in data transmission in mobile radio systems, forward error correction (FEC) and automatic repeat request (ARQ) schemes are combined to hybrid type-I ARQ protocols without using disturbed packets. In poor radio conditions type-I ARQ schemes produce a low throughput with a high delay jitter. Due to these unforeseeable channel delays type-I ARQ protocols are critical for use in cases where timing conditions have to be fulfilled as in speech and e.g. FAX-T30 transmission. Type-II hybrid ARQ (HARQ) protocols combine disturbed and retransmitted packets using FEC methods and limit the mean transmission delay by increasing the throughput. A type-II hybrid ARQ with punctured convolutional codes suitable for GSM data traffic and performance was compared to the recommended radio link protocol (type-I). A new type-II hybrid ARQ protocol is proposed which makes use of the state information given by the equalization process to estimate the amount and best location of the redundancy to be retransmitted. <<ETX>>
Sleep and headaches

Key points • There is an intimate relationship between sleep and headaches. • Certain types of headaches may be associated with specific stages of sleep and, thereby, lead to sleep disruption. • Migraine headaches, cluster headaches, paroxysmal hemicrania, hypnic headache, and headache on awakening are the most emblematic sleep-related headache disorders. • Migraine headaches may be provoked by sleep, but the most common association is sleep following a migraine attack. • Proper sleep hygiene is paramount to aid in the prevention of sleep-related headaches.
Power factor correction with a partial power processing converter

When a power system needs power factor correction and fast output voltage regulation, two main possibilities arise: to use two converters connected in cascade or to use a single converter performing both things. In the first case, each converter performs a different function; the first one corrects the power factor and the second one provides fast output voltage regulation. With this option, the total power is processed twice. In the second case, a single converter achieves both specifications. In this case, the power is processed less than twice by the converter looking for a better efficiency. This paper presents a hybrid method to correct the power factor achieving fast output voltage regulation. Two converters are used but the one in charge of reducing the input current harmonic content only process a small part of the total power. Apart from the high efficiency of the system, the main advantage is that the voltage across the bulk capacitor can be equal to the peak input voltage. Furthermore, the second converter is completely independent and can be chosen among all existing converters. The main drawback is that this system is slightly more complex than a single stage converter. A prototype for a 500 W application has been built and tested to study the real performance of this system.
Synthesis of high surface area CuMn2O4 by supercritical anti-solvent precipitation for the oxidation of CO at ambient temperature

A series of high surface area nanocrystalline copper manganese oxide catalysts have been prepared by supercritical anti-solvent (SAS) precipitation using CO2 and tested for the ambient temperature oxidation of CO. The catalysts were prepared by precipitation from an ethanol/metal acetate solution and the addition of small quantities of water was found to result in a mixed acetate precursor with surface areas >200 m2 g−1, considerably higher than those prepared by conventional precipitation methods. The surface area of the final calcined mixed oxide was found to be dependent upon the initial water concentration. XRD and FT-IR analysis indicated that the addition of water promoted the formation of carbonate species in the amorphous acetate precursor, with high resolution TEM and STEM showing the material to consist of spherical agglomerations of fibrous strings of ca. 30 nm length. This is in contrast to the material prepared in the absence of water, using the same SAS methodology, which typically yields quasi-spherical particles of 100 nm size.
EmoAtt at EmoInt-2017: Inner attention sentence embedding for Emotion Intensity

In this paper we describe a deep learning system that has been designed and built for the WASSA 2017 Emotion Intensity Shared Task. We introduce a representation learning approach based on inner attention on top of an RNN. Results show that our model offers good capabilities and is able to successfully identify emotion-bearing words to predict intensity without leveraging on lexicons, obtaining the 13t place among 22 shared task competitors.
Statistical traffic modeling for network intrusion detection

Examines the application of statistical traffic modeling for detecting novel attacks against computer networks. We discuss the application of network activity models and application models using the 1998 DARPA Intrusion Detection Evaluation data set. Network activity models monitor the volume of traffic in the network, while application models describe the operation of application protocols. By plotting the ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves induced by the traffic activity, we quantify the effectiveness of network activity models in discriminating normal connections from attack connections generated by denial-of-service and probing attacks. It is verified that denial-of-service and probing attacks leave traces on simple network activity models, with rates of false alarm which are comparable to the false alarm rates obtained by the participants of the 1998 DARPA evaluation, in which much more complex detection schemes were utilized. For application models, we use the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to show that attacks using telnet connections in the DARPA data set form a population which is statistically different from the normal telnet connections. The statistics used in our study are the number of bytes from the responder and the responder-originator byte ratio. Again, our results are comparable to those obtained in the DARPA evaluation.
Efficacy of Curcumin in the Modulation of Anxiety Provoked by Sulfite, a Food Preservative, in Rats

Sulfites are used as food preservatives and excessive sulfite might disturb the body systems including the brain. Curcumin shows protective effects on the nervous system toxicity. The present study aimed to evaluate the protective role of curcumin in sulfite-induced anxiety in rats. Male rats were divided into five groups. The rats in groups I to V received distilled water (vehicle of sulfite, 1 mL/d), olive oil (vehicle of curcumin, 1 mL/d), curcumin (100 mg/kg/d), sulfite (25 mg/kg/d), and sulfite+curcumin, respectively, by daily gastric gavage for 8 weeks. At the end of 8 weeks the rats were tested in the elevated plus-maze for anxiety. The results showed that concomitant treatment of curcumin during sulfite consumption prevented the reduction of the time spent in the open arm and entrance to the open arm (the indexes of anxiety). Besides, an increase was found in motor activity of the rats in the sulfite+curcumin group compared to the sulfite-treated animals. Exposure of sulfite in rats can induce anxiety, and curcumin can act as an anti-anxiety agent.
An Overview and Simulation Study of Conventional Flash Memory Floating Gate Device Using Concept F-N Tunnelling Mechanism

The aim of this paper is to present an overview, simulation and modeling study to improve the performance of Flash Memory (FM) devices such as programming speed and programming voltage. To improve the performing of FM device, the tunnel barrier thickness scaling is a major challenge. In current flash devices or conventional flash memory, single silicon oxide (SiO2) was obtained as a tunnel barrier and the thickness is approximately in the 5–10 nm range. Reducing the tunnel barrier below this range, will achieve low programming speed and high programming speed but the charge loss through also large. In order to achieve this research, the basic of semiconductor memory firstly was study include the programming tunneling mechanism and programming operation. Then the both structure techniques were simulated used TCAD software and lastly were model to calculate the electrical behavior like programming speed and programming voltage. The programming speed is calculated from the shift data of threshold voltage by varying the thickness of tunnel barrier and also the size of tunnel window. The models result will be compared to simulation and fabrication process to test the validity and accuracy of the specific W/E with current model develop. KeywordsProgramming speed, F-N Tunneling, Flash Memory Device, Non-Volatile memory Introduction
Protein kinase C and Ca2+–calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II mediate the enlarged reverse INCX induced by ouabain‐increased late sodium current in rabbit ventricular myocytes

What is the central question of this study? What are the effects of protein kinase C (PKC) and Ca2+–calmodulin‐dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) on late sodium current (INaL), reverse Na+–Ca2+ exchange current (reverse INCX) or intracellular Ca2+ levels changed by ouabain? What is the main finding and its importance? Ouabain, even at low concentrations (0.5–8.0 μm), can increase INaL and reverse INCX, and these effects may contribute to the effect of the glycoside to increase Ca2+ transients and contractility. Both PKC and CaMKII activities may mediate or modulate these processes.
Memory loss due to transient hypoperfusion in the medial temporal lobes including hippocampus

ABSTRACT A typical case of transient global amnesia (TGA) was investigated with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with 1.5‐tesler scans. During the amnesic eposide, a marked decrease of cerebral blood flow was observed in the areas confined to the territory of the bilateral posterior cerebral arteries including the hippocampus. After the episode, cerebral blood flow returned to normal and a circumscribed lesion was detected in the middle portion of CA 1 field of the left hippocampus. The SPECT findings prove direct evidence that the medial temporal structures are involved in the establishment of new memories, as well as in process of recalling only recently acquired memories, but not in retrieval of memories acquired long ago. The MRI findings indicate that a unilateral partial damage to CA 1 sector of the hippocampus does not develop a definite memory impairment and that high‐resolution MRI study on the hippocampus is necessary in TGA patients.
Enhanced decentralized robust adaptive control of robots with arbitrarily-switched unknown constraints

In this article, we propose an Enhanced Decentralized Robust Adaptive Control (EDRAC) strategy that guarantees global stable performance for robots under arbitrarily-switched and unknown constraints. The EDRAC strategy is a synergy of the concepts of the decentralized control, finding a Common Lyapunov Function (CLF), and the Sliding Mode Control (SMC). The decentralization in the control action is realized through decomposing the joints dynamics into two parts; a function of the specific joint variables and another one in term of the all joints variables. The first term is assumed to be known and the latter is compensated through adapting its upper bound in the control loop hence relaxing the need for knowing part of the robot dynamics and simplifying the control strategy. The CLF guarantees global stable performance under arbitrary constraints switching, and the SMC makes the EDRAC strategy robust against possible parameters drift. Simulation is performed for a two link robot interacting with two switching constraints and the efficiency of the EDRAC strategy is shown.
A vector projection method for predicting the specificity of GalNAc‐transferase

The specificity of UDP‐Gal‐NAc:polypeptide N‐acetylgalactosaminytransferase (GalNAc‐transferase) is consistent with the existence of an extended site composed of nine subsites, denoted by P4, P3, P2, P1, P0, P1′, P2′, P3′, and P4′, where the acceptor at P0 is being either Ser or Thr. To predict whether a peptide will react with the enzyme to form a Ser‐ or Thr‐conjugated glycopeptide, a vector projection method is proposed which uses a training set of amino acid sequences surrounding 90 Ser and 106 Thr O‐glycosylation sites extracted from the National Biomedical Research Foundation Protein Database. The model postulates independent interactions of the 9 amino acid moieties with their respective binding sites. The high ratio of correct predictions vs. total predictions for the data in both the training and the testing sets indicates that the method is self‐consistent and efficient. It provides a rapid means for predicting O‐glycosylation and designing effective inhibitors of GalNAc‐transferase. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The Relation between Prior Knowledge and Students' Collaborative Discovery Learning Processes.

In this study we investigate how prior knowledge influences knowledge development during collaborative discovery learning. Fifteen dyads of students (pre-university education, 15-16 years old) worked on a discovery learning task in the physics field of kinematics. The (face-to-face) communication between students was recorded and the interaction with the environment was logged. Based on students' individual judgments of the truth-value and testability of a series of domain-specific propositions, a detailed description of the knowledge configuration for each dyad was created before they entered the learning environment. Qualitative analyses of two dialogues illustrated that prior knowledge influences the discovery learning processes, and knowledge development in a pair of students. Assessments of student and dyad definitional (domain-specific) knowledge, generic (mathematical and graph) knowledge, and generic (discovery) skills were related to the students' dialogue in different discovery learning processes. Results show that a high level of definitional prior knowledge is positively related to the proportion of communication regarding the interpretation of results. Heterogeneity with respect to generic prior knowledge was positively related to the number of utterances made in the discovery process categories hypotheses generation and experimentation. Results of the qualitative analyses indicated that collaboration between extremely heterogeneous dyads is difficult when the high achiever is not willing to scaffold information and work in the low achiever's zone of proximal development.
An application of a halftone pattern coding in augmented reality

In this work, we will present a coding system using a halftone pattern (with black and white pixels) capable to be integrated into markers that encode information that can be retrieved a posteriori and used in the creation of augmented reality applications. These markers can be easily detected in a photo and the encoded information is the basis for parameterizing various types of augmented reality applications.
Protection against homologous but not heterologous challenge induced by inactivated feline immunodeficiency virus vaccines

Whole inactivated virus vaccines from the FL4 cell line protected against challenge with homologous feline immunodeficiency virus (Petaluma strain) but not against a heterologous FIV isolate (GL-8) which is distinct from the Petaluma strain in virus neutralization. Protection was associated with a type-specific neutralizing antibody response and was retained when the challenge virus was propagated in an unrelated cell line.
CMOS Open-Gate Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistors for Ultrasensitive Dopamine Detection

Open-gate ion-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFETs) are presented in this paper to provide a real-time ultrasensitive dopamine (DA) detection in the femtomolar (fM) range. The polysilicon gates of p-type FETs fabricated in a 0.35-μm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process were removed by a convenient post-CMOS process to expose the gate oxide for surface functionalization and biomolecule immobilization. The measured current value increased due to the produced negative charges from binding of the 4-carboxyphenylboronic acid and DA molecules. The thin gate oxide, as the sensing interface, significantly enhances the detection limit, which is comparable to or better than most nanowire-based ISFETs. A self-oscillating readout circuit was used to convert the ISFET current to a digital output for the measurement of multiple sensors, showing the strength of the CMOS-based approach for sensor integration.