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A Pilot Study of the Correlation between the Numeric Rating Scale used to Evaluate "Geop" and Questionnaires on Pain Perception

Background The word "geop" is a unique Korean term commonly used to describe fright, fear and anxiety, and similar concepts. The purpose of this pilot study is to examine the correlation between the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) score of geop and three different questionnaires on pain perception. Methods Patients aged 20 to 70 years who visited our outpatient pain clinics were evaluated. They were requested to rate the NRS score (range: 0-100) if they felt geop. Next, they completed questionnaires on pain perception, in this case the Korean version of the Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire (PSQ), the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), and the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS). The correlations among each variable were evaluated by statistical analyses. Results There was no statistically significant correlation between the NRS score of geop and the PSQ score (r = 0.075, P = 0.5605). The NRS score of geop showed a significant correlation with the PCS total score (r = 0.346, P = 0.0063). Among the sub-scales, Rumination (r = 0.338, P = 0.0077) and Magnification (r = 0.343, P = 0.0069) were correlated with the NRS score of geop. In addition, the NRS score of geop showed a significant correlation with the PASS total score (r = 0.475, P = 0.0001). The cognitive (r = 0.473, P = 0.0002) and fear factors (r = 0.349, P = 0.0063) also showed significant correlations with the NRS score of geop. Conclusions This study marks the first attempt to introduce the concept of "geop. " The NRS score of geop showed a moderate positive correlation with the total PCS and PASS score. However, further investigations are required before the "geop" concept can be used practically in clinical fields.
Blood and Urinary 18F Pharmaco kinetics Following Parenteral Administration in the Rat

Blood and urinary excretion time courses of 18F administered parenterally to rats were monitored for two hours. The intraperitoneal, subcutaneous, and intravenous routes gave kinetically indistinguishable results after ten minutes following the dose. The blood time course during the first hour following intramuscular dosing showed a relative constancy and suggested a delayed absorption time.
Privacy Panel: Usable and Quantifiable Mobile Privacy

The ever increasing popularity of apps stems from their ability to provide highly customized services to the user. The flip side is that in order to provide such services, apps need access to very sensitive private information about the user. This leads to malicious apps that collect personal user information in the background and exploit it in various ways. Studies have shown that current app vetting processes which are mainly restricted to install time verification mechanisms are incapable of detecting and preventing such attacks. We argue that the missing fundamental aspect here is a comprehensive and usable mobile privacy solution, one that not only protects the user's location information, but also other equally sensitive user data such as the user's contacts and documents. A solution that is usable by the average user who does not understand or care about the low level technical details. To bridge this gap, we propose privacy metrics that quantify low-level app accesses in terms of privacy impact and transforms them to high-level user understandable ratings. We also provide the design and architecture of our Privacy Panel app that represents the computed ratings in a graphical user-friendly format and allows the user to define policies based on them. Finally, experimental results are given to validate the scalability of the proposed solution.
Efficient M-PSK lock detectors and SNR estimators

We present new structures for carrier lock detection for M-PSK (M-ary Phase Shift Keying) receivers. The lock detectors are NDA (Non Data Aided) and are shown to have the following advantages: (1) they have a compact fixed-point hardware implementation suitable for implementation in ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits); (2) they require only 1 sample/symbol; (3) relatively few symbol intervals are needed in order to achieve good detection and false alarm probabilities; and (4) the decision thresholds for the lock detectors are simple to calculate and are resilient to imperfections in the AGC (Automatic Gain Control) circuit. It is shown that the lock detection metric can be used to estimate the channel SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio). Theoretical, simulation, and laboratory results are presented.
Modelling Pathologies in Social Collectives

As social collectives operate through more complexity their coherence suffers and their pathologies become more apparent. Generic modelling of pathologies will be explored in terms of the knowledge cybernetics schema. Two models will develop, one which is transitive in nature and the other lateral. The transitive model distinguishes between different realities in autonomous collectives, and an example is the distinction between thinking and doing. The lateral model distinguishes between different states of being within the same reality. Examples of a lateral schema is the distinction between two competing corporate agents in a given frame of reference seeking the same observable good (e.g., market share), and the more coded example of the interaction between the ideology and ethics of social collectives that affect both the autopathic (endogenous) and sociopathic (exogenous) nature of the pathologies of collectives.
What is Decidable about Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with omega-Regular Objectives

We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with omega-regular conditions specified as parity objectives. The qualitative analysis problem given a POMDP and a parity objective asks whether there is a strategy to ensure that the objective is satisfied with probability 1 (resp. positive probability). While the qualitative analysis problems are known to be undecidable even for very special cases of parity objectives, we establish decidability (with optimal EXPTIME-complete complexity) of the qualitative analysis problems for POMDPs with all parity objectives under finite-memory strategies. We also establish optimal (exponential) memory bounds.
haLF: Comparing a Pure CDSM Approach with a Standard Machine Learning System for RTE

In this paper, we describe our submission to the Shared Task #1. We tried to follow the underlying idea of the task, that is, evaluating the gap of full-fledged recognizing textual entailment systems with respect to compositional distributional semantic models (CDSMs) applied to this task. We thus submitted two runs: 1) a system obtained with a machine learning approach based on the feature spaces of rules with variables and 2) a system completely based on a CDSM that mixes structural and syntactic information by using distributed tree kernels. Our analysis shows that, under the same conditions, the fully CDSM system is still far from being competitive with more complex methods.
An Overview of Amalgam: A Machine-learned Generation Module

We present an overview of Amalgam, a sentence realization module that combines machine-learned and knowledgeengineered components to produce natural language sentences from logical form inputs. We describe the decomposition of the task of sentence realization into a linguistically informed series of steps, with particular attention to the linguistic issues that arise in German. We report on the evaluation of component steps and of the overall system.
Social influence in the crowd: Attitudinal and behavioural effects of de‐individuation in conditions of high and low group salience*

The study described here uses the social identity framework suggested by Tajfel and Turner to argue that de-individuation works by altering the salience of personal vs. social identity. Seventy students from science and 38 students from social science faculties were shown a film presenting arguments for and against vivisection, at the end of which they were told that science students had a pro- and social science students an anti-vivisection norm. Subjects were then told that they were being examined either as members of their faculty group or as individual students. They were either de-individuated or individuated. They were required to fill in an attitude questionnaire and to complete three quasi-behavioural measures. It was predicted that the group condition should increase salience of social identity and adherence to the group norm. It was also predicted that de-individuation in the group condition would further increase salience and hence normative behaviour, while in the individual condition de-individuation would decrease salience and hence normative behaviour. The first prediction was upheld on all the measures, and the second was partially confirmed.
Patients With Pain Disorder Show Gray-Matter Loss in Pain-Processing Structures: A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study

Objective: To investigate whether the functional changes in pain disorder might be reflected by structural brain changes. Pain disorder assessed with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) criteria is characterized by persistent and distressing chronic pain at one or more body sites which cannot be fully explained by a physiological process or somatic disorder. Psychological factors are thought to play a major role. Recent neuroimaging studies evidenced altered pain processing in patients suffering from this disorder. Methods: Fourteen right-handed women fulfilling the DSM-IV criteria for pain disorder and 25 healthy age-matched women were investigated with magnetic resonance imaging. In the voxel-based morphometry analysis, we compared both groups for changes of gray-matter density. We included age and Beck Depression Inventory scores as nuisance variables to minimize possible confounding effects of age or depressive comorbidity. Results: In the patient group, we found significant gray-matter decreases in the prefrontal, cingulate, and insular cortex. These regions are known to be critically involved in the modulation of subjective pain experiences. Conclusions: In the context of similar results in patients with other functional pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia and chronic back pain, we suggest that structural changes in fronto-limbic brain circuits represent not only an objective marker of these pain syndromes but also constitute a critical pathophysiological element. These findings represent a further proof of the important role of central changes in pain disorder. DSM-IV = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition; ICD-10 = International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision; VBM = voxel-based morphometry; fMRI = functional magnetic resonance imaging; GM = gray matter; WM = white matter; CSF = cerebrospinal fluid; BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; MNI = standardized reference space defined by the Montreal Neurological Institute; SOMS = screening for somatoform symptoms; PPS = Pain Perception Scale; SCID = Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV disorders.
Observability Study and Observer-Based Interconnected Form for Sensorless Induction Motor

In this paper, the observability analysis of induction motor is studied. The aim is to clarify observability problems found in particular when the motor operates at low frequencies. From this study, a sensorless observer benchmark is defined for sensorless induction motor observers validation. An observer based on interconnected form to estimate the mechanical and magnetic states of sensorless induction motor is designed. Taking into account the parameter uncertainties of induction motor and based on Lyapunov theory, the proof of the observer convergence is given. The proposed observer is tested and validated on reference trajectories of our bench-mark.This benchmark is applied on an experimental set-up located at IRCCyN (Nantes, France). Robustness tests with respect to parameters variations show the applicability of the designed observer
A Critical Role for Network Structure in Seizure Onset: A Computational Modeling Approach

Recent clinical work has implicated network structure as critically important in the initiation of seizures in people with idiopathic generalized epilepsies. In line with this idea, functional networks derived from the electroencephalogram (EEG) at rest have been shown to be significantly different in people with generalized epilepsy compared to controls. In particular, the mean node degree of networks from the epilepsy cohort was found to be statistically significantly higher than those of controls. However, the mechanisms by which these network differences can support recurrent transitions into seizures remain unclear. In this study, we use a computational model of the transition into seizure dynamics to explore the dynamic consequences of these differences in functional networks. We demonstrate that networks with higher mean node degree are more prone to generating seizure dynamics in the model and therefore suggest a mechanism by which increased mean node degree of brain networks can cause heightened ictogenicity.
The Metaphor as a Mediator Between Semantic and Analogic Modes of Thought

Anthropologists have overlooked the importance of the metaphor in human culture. Core etaphors can help us identify ultimate cosmic constructs underlying a given social or religious world view. But, even more centrally, metaphors can serve as key data in our attempts to understand how a cultural system adapts to and incorporates sensated experience from the physical world. Metaphors thus provide both a "reality" principle and a "tool" for change. Their special status rests on the way in which a metaphor moves between two different types of thought (Fernandez, CA, 1974). A variety of comments which E. R. Leach and C. Levi-Strauss have made on this issue are summarized, and it is pointed out that both men have underestimated the possibilities for images to develop meaning at the level of affect and motor experience alone, without recourse to opposition or to categorical contrast. Along similar lines, it is argued that many authors mistakenly attempt to isolate metaphoric from metonymic thought. This is take.
DETERMINING A SERIES OF WHOLE WHEAT DIFFERENCE THRESHOLDS FOR USE IN A GRADUAL ADJUSTMENT INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE CHILDREN'S LIKING OF WHOLE‐WHEAT BREAD ROLLS

ABSTRACT The first objective of this research was to determine if elementary school-aged children preferred refined bread to whole-wheat bread. The second objective was to set a series of difference threshold steps that could be used for an intervention to gradually and undetectably increase whole-wheat flour content in a bread roll. We conducted a taste test with 103 elementary school children in which they rated their liking of bread rolls containing various levels of whole wheat. The rolls with lower levels of whole wheat were liked better than the rolls with higher levels. We established difference thresholds for whole-wheat flour in rolls over the range of 0–100% whole wheat using ascending forced-choice tests. From these thresholds, we established the following series of concentrations (%): 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21, 26, 32, 38, 47, 59, 72 and 91. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS The series of whole wheat concentrations we determined can be used in an intervention to gradually increase the whole-wheat content of bread rolls. More broadly, they could be used by any foodservice operation, manufacturer or cook that wants to gradually increase the whole-wheat content of bread or related products and have that increase remain undetected by consumers. This strategy of gradually increasing whole-wheat content has the potential to markedly increase the consumption of whole grains, thus, improving health.
Postnatal social support group needs and explanatory models of Iraqi Arabic speaking women in the year following the birth of their baby in Perth, Western Australia

Abstract The aim of the current research was to explore the nature and type of support required in a postnatal support group intervention for Iraqi women. A further aim was to understand Iraqi Arabic speaking mothers’ explanatory models surrounding motherhood, relevant to the appropriate design of a culturally sensitive support group. The qualitative research involved semi structured interviewing from which data was extracted and categorised into relevant themes using an interpretative phenomenological approach (Smith, 1995). In depth interviews were conducted with 7 Iraqi Arabic speaking mothers. A number of major themes emerged, suggesting key aspects to include in a perinatal social support group for Iraqi women based on their explanatory model of their mental health. Themes included: significance of motherhood; physical and emotional difficulties confronted; postnatal health care experiences and negotiating motherhood in a new country; and receptivity to the provision of a support group intervention. Findings will be used to design and evaluate a perinatal social support group for Iraqi women and, potentially, provide a generic family model of intervention for mothers from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in the year following the birth of their baby.
Parental Consent and the Ethics of Research with Foster Children

Prior to writing this article, the two authors (Bogolub, US and Thomas, UK) conducted separate qualitative research studies with foster children. After briefly describing their individual studies, the two authors engage in a cross-cultural dialogue based on their differing perspectives on the importance of birth parent consent for foster children’s research participation. The authors’ differences appear largely, although not exclusively, related to contrasts between a US academic culture, which often stresses the fiduciary relationship between parents and developing children, and a UK academic culture, which places more emphasis on children’s competence and independence. Conclusions center on the importance of cross-cultural dialogue as a way to promote considered decisions about the overlapping methodological and ethical questions that inevitably arise when doing research with children, particularly those involved with the child welfare system.
SIXTH-ORDER VACUUM-POLARIZATION CONTRIBUTION TO THE LAMB SHIFT OF MUONIC HYDROGEN

The sixth-order electron-loop vacuum-polarization contribution to the $2P_{1/2} - 2S_{1/2}$ Lamb shift of the muonic hydrogen ($\mu^{-} p^+$ bound state) has been evaluated numerically. Our result is 0.007608(1) meV. This eliminates the largest uncertainty in the theoretical calculation. Combined with the proposed precision measurement of the Lamb shift it will lead to a very precise determination of the proton charge radius.
Sentiment Lexicon Construction with Representation Learning Based on Hierarchical Sentiment Supervision

Sentiment lexicon is an important tool for identifying the sentiment polarity of words and texts. How to automatically construct sentiment lexicons has become a research topic in the field of sentiment analysis and opinion mining. Recently there were some attempts to employ representation learning algorithms to construct a sentiment lexicon with sentiment-aware word embedding. However, these methods were normally trained under document-level sentiment supervision. In this paper, we develop a neural architecture to train a sentiment-aware word embedding by integrating the sentiment supervision at both document and word levels, to enhance the quality of word embedding as well as the sentiment lexicon. Experiments on the SemEval 2013-2016 datasets indicate that the sentiment lexicon generated by our approach achieves the state-of-the-art performance in both supervised and unsupervised sentiment classification, in comparison with several strong sentiment lexicon construction methods.
Into the Tourist's Mind: Understanding the Value of the Heritage Experience

Abstract The individual consumer of heritage has, up until recently, been neglected in much heritage management. The heritage visitor is nevertheless, an important evaluator of the service experience being provided at cultural heritage attractions. A survey of 1200 domestic tourists visiting three major British cultural heritage attractions examined the emotive and psychological processes experienced by tourists in their interaction with the attraction settings and how these experiences were valued or seen as beneficial. The paper concludes by outlining the notion of ‘insightful’ tourism as an appropriate paradigm for the study of the essentially personal emotive and symbolic context associated with cultural tourism encounters, from which visitors derive valued insight, appreciation and meaning of life
FLATNESS – BASED CLUTCH CONTROL FOR AUTOMATED MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS

Control of the clutch position is a crucial point for automating manual transmissions. Here, an electrohydraulic clutch position control system is considered. Based on the flatness approach, a nonlinear feedforward control is designed, which is combined with a linear feedback control and implemented on a standard transmission control unit. Experiments with a Mercedes–Benz Sprinter and a Mercedes–Benz CLK prove that this new control system is significantly superior to conventional control concepts, and provides an accurate trajectory tracking of the clutch position. Copyright 2002 IFAC
Channel modelling and performance of non-line-of sight ultraviolet scattering communications

The solar-blind ultraviolet (UV) spectrum has useful properties for wireless communication and sensing. Strong atmospheric scattering in the UV spectrum enables non-line-of-sight (NLOS) communication. The authors present recent experimental and analytical results in NLOS UV channel modelling, including impulse response and path loss. The authors further study the NLOS UV link performance for short-range communication scenarios based on our theoretical modelling results. Relations between power limitation and channel bandwidth limitation are examined. Some link budget results are analysed for long-range communication links up to 5 km.
Tpr, a large coiled coil protein whose amino terminus is involved in activation of oncogenic kinases, is localized to the cytoplasmic surface of the nuclear pore complex

From a panel of monoclonal antibodies raised against fractions of rat liver nuclear envelopes (NEs), we have identified an antibody, RL30, which reacts with novel nuclear pore complex (NPC) antigens that are not O-glycosylated. By immunofluorescence staining of cultured cells, RL30 reacts exclusively with the NE in a punctate pattern that largely coincides with that of identified NPC proteins. RL30 labels only the cytoplasmic surface of the NPC in immunogold electron microscopy, predominantly in peripheral regions nearby the cytoplasmic ring. In immunoblots of isolated rat liver NEs and cultured rat cells, RL30 recognizes a 265-kD band, as well as a series of 175-265-kD bands in rat liver NEs that are likely to be proteolytic products of p265. Sequencing of peptides from the 175- and 265-kD RL30 antigens of rat liver revealed that they are both closely related to human Tpr, a protein whose amino-terminal 150-250 amino acids appear in oncogenic fusions with the kinase domains of the met, trk, and raf protooncogenes. We found that in vitro translation of human Tpr mRNA yields a major 265-kD band. Considered together, these data indicate that the 265-kD RL30 antigen in the NPC is the rat homologue of Tpr. Interestingly, Tpr contains an exceptionally long predicted coiled coil domain (approximately 1600 amino acids). The localization and predicted structure of Tpr suggest that it is a component of the cytoplasmic fibrils of the NPC implicated in nuclear protein import. Immunofluorescence microscopy shows that during NPC reassembly at the end of mitosis, Tpr becomes concentrated at the NE significantly later than O-linked glycoproteins, including p62. This indicates that reassembly of the NPC after mitosis is a stepwise process, and that the Tpr-containing peripheral structures are assembled later than p62.