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Disease state index and disease state fingerprint: supervised learning applied to clinical decision support in Alzheimer's disease

Due to scientific and technological advancements, investigations in modern medicine are producing more measurement data than ever before. Since a large amount of information exists, and it is also being produced at ever-increasing rates, no single person can digest all current knowledge of diseases. Data collected from large patient cohorts may contain valuable knowledge of diseases, which could be useful to clinicians when making diagnoses or choosing treatments. Making use of the large volumes of data in clinical decision-making requires ancillary help from information technologies, but such systems have not yet become widely available. This thesis addresses the challenge by proposing a computerbased decision support method that is suited to clinical use. This thesis presents the Disease State Index (DSI), a supervised machine learning method intended for the analysis of patient data. The DSI comprehensively compares patient data with previously diagnosed cases with or without a disease. Based on this comparison, the method provides an estimate of the state of disease progression in the patient. Interpreting the DSI is made possible by its visual counterpart, the Disease State Fingerprint (DSF), which allows domain experts to gain a comprehensive view of patient data and the state of the disease at a quick glance. In the design and development of these methods, both performance and applicability in clinical use were taken into account equally. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a slowly progressing neurodegenerative disease and one of the largest social and economic burdens in the world today, and it will continue to be so in the future. Studies with large patient cohorts have significantly improved our knowledge of AD during the last decade. This information should be made extensively available at memory clinics to maximize the benefits for diagnostics and treatment of the disease. The DSI and DSF methods proposed in this thesis were studied in the early diagnosis of AD and as a measure of disease progression in six original publications. The methods themselves and their implementation within a clinical decision support system, the PredictAD tool, were quantitatively evaluated with regard to their performance and potential benefits in clinical use. The results show that the methods and clinical decision support tool based on these methods can be used to follow disease progression objectively and provide earlier diagnoses of AD. These, in turn, could improve treatment efficacy due to earlier interventions and make drug trials more efficient by allowing better patient selection.
Auction models with resource pooling in modern supply chain management

Purpose In this paper, the main focus is on supply and demand auction systems with resource pooling in modern supply chain from a theoretical modeling perspective. The supply and demand auction systems in modern supply chains among manufacturers and suppliers serve as information sharing mechanisms. The purpose of this paper is to match the supply and demand such that a modern supply chain can achieve incentive compatibility and economic efficiency. The authors design such a supply and demand auction system that can integrate resources to efficiently match the supply and demand. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose three theoretic models of modern supply chain auctions with resource pooling according to the Vickrey auction principle. They are supply auction model with demand resource pooling, demand auction model with supply resource pooling, and double auction model with demand and supply resource pooling. For the proposed auction models, the authors present three corresponding algorithms to allocate resources in the auction process by linear programming, and study the incentive compatibility and define the Walrasian equilibriums for the proposed auction models. The authors show that the solutions of the proposed algorithms are Walrasian equilibriums. Findings By introducing the auction mechanism, the authors aim to realize the following three functions. First is price mining: auction is an open mechanism with multiple participants. Everyone has his own utility and purchasing ability. So, the final price reflects the market value of the auction. Second is dynamic modern supply chain construction: through auction, firm can find appropriate partner efficiently. Third is resources integration: in business practices, especially in modern supply chain auctions, auctioneers can integrate resources and ally buyers or sellers to gain more efficiency in auctions. Originality/value In the paper, the authors propose three theoretic models and corresponding algorithms of modern supply chain auctions with resource pooling according using the Vickrey auction principle, which achieves three functions: price mining, dynamic modern supply chain construction and resources integrating. Besides, these proposed models are much closer to practical settings and may have potential applications in modern supply chain management.
From meme to memegraph: The curious case of Pepe the Frog and white nationalism

This thesis explores Pepe the Frog, a comic book character that became a meme, then went mainstream, and then became appropriated by the Alt-Right in support of the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Users in the Internet have declared this meme a god, others have claimed it as a piece of crypto-art, while White Nationalists use it to propagate their ideology. I draw on McGee’s notion of the ideograph to argue that, in a networked environment characterized by limited attention and heightened speed of circulation, memes have the capacity to ideologically condense publics. This gives rise to what I label the memegraph. The memegraph accounts for the birth, evolution, and constitution of publics around nascent, memetic ideographs. By inspecting the role of time and attention in memetic media, and examining the circulation of verbal and visual arguments, this thesis conceptualizes the role of memetic media in constituting and mobilizing publics, FROM MEME TO MEMEGRAPH: THE CURIOUS CASE OF PEPE THE FROG AND WHITE NATIONALISM A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Fernando Ismael Quinones Valdivia University of Northern Iowa
55. Potential improvement of cheese safety by vaccination of dairy cows: a focus on anaflatoxin B 1

Traditionally vaccines are evaluated as stand-alone treatments and are not considered as part of a chain of interventions for cheese safety improvement. However, specific immunization against zoonotic pathogens which cause mastitis or salmonellosis in cows has shown potential as preharvest tool to act in concert with other more classical strategies in further decreasing human exposure to milk- and cheese-borne pathogens. Recently, specific vaccination was used in the attempt to decrease the amount of the intestinal population of zoonotic pathogens which are not harmful for cattle, like enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains. These vaccines are not designed to prevent illness in the animal, but could significantly decrease the amount of the pathogen present in milking environment, thus in milk and possibly in cheese. Vaccines focusing on public, rather than animal, health represent fairly new ground for research that has also shown potential to reduce the risks for consumers resulting from chemical contamination of milk and dairy products. The effectiveness of vaccination was demonstrated in reducing AFB 1 carry over as AFM 1 in milk of dairy cows, following ingestion of contaminated feed. Therefore, vaccination seems to hold promise as an important pre-harvest intervention for safety assurance in early stages of milk and cheese production chain.
MESLEKİ VE TEKNİK ANADOLU LİSESİ ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN OKULA BAĞLILIĞI İLE SINIF İÇİ ÇATIŞMA YAŞAMA NEDENLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the commitments of students in the vocational and technical high schools to their schools and the reasons of class conflicts. The population of this study was 4070 students studying in nine, eleventh and eleventh grade of eight public Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools in Duzce city center in 2017-2018 academic year. The sample is composed of 1039 students studying in nine, eleventh and eleventh grade selected from the research population by stratified sampling method.In order to examine gender, class and field variables of the relationship between vocational and technical Anatolian students' school loyalties and the reasons of class conflicts, the Student's School Engament Scale which was adapted by Önen (2014) and the In-Class Conflict Reasons Scale developed by Argon (2009) . Percentage and frequency analysis for descriptive statistics, t-test for independent groups in comparison with Journal of Social And Humanities Sciences Research (JSHSR) 2019 Vol:6 Issue:41 pp:2331-2338 Jshsr.com Journal of Social and Humanities Sciences Research (ISSN:2459-1149) editor.Jshsr@gmail.com 2332 gender variables, one-way ANOVA in comparison with class and field variables, Pearson Moments Product Correlation Coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis techniques were used to predict the causes of class conflicts.
Parenting children with health issues : essential tools, tips, and tactics for raising kids with chronic illness, medical conditions & special healthcare needs

Does your child have a health condition which requires special medical or dietary care? Whatever the health issue, you will learn the essential parenting skills you need to help your child comply with medical requirements, cope well with health challenges, and live a hope-filled life. Get practical and compassionate answers to your toughest questions as you discover effective ways to communicate about medical issues with children of all ages. This book will teach you how to: encourage your child to love life despite health challenges; handle refusal to take medication and do medical treatments; skilfully respond to your child's special emotional needs; avoid power struggles and other common parenting traps; promote responsibility without nagging or lecturing; navigate sibling, family and couple relationship issues; and enable your child to make good self-care decisions.
The Relationship Between Preferred Reading Strategies and Language Achievement On the IELTS Reading Module of Students at Thai Nguyen University

The study tries to find the correlation between preferred reading strategies and language achievement of non-English majored students at two institutions at Thai Nguyen Universities; The International School and the Foreign Language Faculty. The participants are required to achieve IELTS 5.0-5.5 academic version for graduation. The study employs the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory, version 4.0 (MARSI) as a tool for data collection. The SPSS version 20.0 is used to analyze the data as well as to find out the preferred reading strategies of the students. The result of an IELTS which is adapted from Cambridge IELTS preparation 12 is used to compare the language achievement among different reading strategy users. The results of the study show that students use most reading strategies at moderate and high levels, except for GRS1, GRS2, GRS3 and PSRS3. The most preferred strategies include PSRS7, PSRS8, SRS1, SRS2, SRS6, SRS7, SRS9. The reading achievement is affected by GRS and PSRS. There is no significant different between the use of SRS and the reading achievement.
Errors of entrepreneur in Nigeria: the blue ocean strategy as panacea

Nigeria’s harsh economy has posed business planning challenges to many small and medium scale entrepreneurs. In a bid to thrive, some of these business entrepreneurs often commit errors along the path of entrepreneurship. While most errors are helpful to the business, others are harmful. The blue ocean strategy (BOS) is an up-to-the-minute approach of thoughts; a bold, recent path to winning the future. This study conceptualizes with empirical data the common errors of a number of the entrepreneur in Nigeria and highlights the BOS as a panacea. The paper identified two objectives; to determine the effect of planning error on entrepreneurs’ success in Nigeria and the effect of Blue Ocean Strategy on the Success of Entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Statistically, two research questions and hypotheses were formulated. The descriptive statistics of simple frequency count and simple percentage were used for description and analysis.
Causality between public debt, public debt service and economic growth: Evidence from South Africa

This paper explores the causality between public debt and economic growth, and betweenpublic debt service and economic growth in South Africa covering the period 1970 ? 2017. Thestudy employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach tocointegration and the multivariate Granger-causality test. The empirical results indicate thatthere is unidirectional causality from economic growth to public debt, but only in the short run.However, the study fails to establish any causality between public debt service and economicgrowth, both in the short run and in the long run. In line with the empirical evidence, the studyconcludes that it is economic growth that drives public debt in South Africa, and that the causalrelationship between public debt and economic growth is sensitive to the time frameconsidered. The paper recommends that South Africa should prioritise the implementation ofappropriate policies and strategies that could drive economic growth in order to uphold asustainable public debt level.
Security risk management in IoT environment

Abstract The internet of things (IoT) devices envision great usage in military, civilian contexts, smart grids to smart cities and internet of battlefields to internet of vehicles. The digitally connected devices sharing high volume data pervasively imbibe several security and privacy concerns. As various wireless technologies are growing, the IoT devices usage is also growing. The miniaturization revolution has resulted in smart objects era. The IoT devices are resource constrained which follow many challenges of data security. IoT technology utilizes embedded sensors for gathering personal information, which imposes privacy challenges. The research work deals with the identification and mitigation ofthesecurity vulnerabilities by an intelligent and smart software vendor, which enumerates common vulnerabilities in its database and provides the possible solution for mitigating the same. The research puts emphasis on various security and privacy risks, attacks, threats, vulnerabilities, IoT vision, and protocol stack, supporting technologies, architecture and applications areas. The CVE (common vulnerability enumeration) method is employed to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities. A deep analytical study has been performed for describing IoT vision, protocols, technologies, architecture, applications and security/privacy risks, attacks and threats. The results indicate how the security vulnerability identification helps in prioritizing business decisions by vulnerabilities quantification. We posit the smart vendor potential for IoT software security vulnerability mitigation by querying with the database as per vulnerability identification and making the developers enable for quantification and prioritization of vulnerabilities by providing various levels to them.
The encyclopedia of clinical psychology

Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty/researchers; professionals/practitioners;general readers. Choice * Includes well over 500 A-Z entries of between 500 and 7,500 words in length covering the main topics, key concepts, and influential figures in the field of clinical psychology * Serves as a comprehensive reference with emphasis on philosophical and historical issues, cultural considerations, and conflicts * Offers a historiographical overview of the ways in which research influences practice * Cites the best and most up-to-date scientific evidence for each topic, encouraging readers to think critically 5 Volumes www.encyclopediaclinicalpsychology. com
Responding to student plagiarism in Western Australian universities: the disconnect between policy and academic staff

ABSTRACT Maintaining academic integrity is an area of major importance for today’s institutions of higher learning. Despite universities having in place academic integrity policies and procedures, findings from semi-structured interviews with 26 academics from four, public Western Australian universities suggest that responses to incidences of student plagiarism are inconsistent and not aligned with the responses expected of them by their institution as set out in these institutional documents. Using thematic analysis, an SIA model is proposed which categorises the reasons for these inconsistencies under Student, Academic and Institutional factors. It suggests that if academics prioritise the student and themselves, their responses are more likely to be inconsistent and not aligned with the responses expected from them by their institution. Recommendations to help develop a shared understanding of plagiarism include online, academic integrity modules for all staff. This shared understanding will lead to more consistent and aligned responses which in turn will help maintain the reputation of the institution and the integrity of its awards.
Does locus-of-control influence efficacy of nonpharmacologic approaches to pain control

DOES LOCUS OP CONTROL INFLUENCE EFFICACY OF NONPHARMACOLOGIC APPROACHES TO PAIN CONTROL by MARY PATRICIA LANGE December, 1990 Adviser: Donald Marcotte, Ph.D. Major: Evaluation and Research Degree: Doctor of Philosophy This study is a mixed 2 X 3 X 2 factorial model of experimental design. One hundred twenty seven patients who were scheduled to undergo a laporatomy (midline incision) at a large teaching hospital were solicited for inclusion into the study. Following consent, the patient's locus of control was determined and then randomly assigned to one of three groups of pain relief: pharmacologic (medication only), cognitive-behavioral or somatophysiologic.They were further randomly assigned to the method of pharmacologic dosing, patient controlled analgesia (PCA) or intermittent (INT) dosing. Patients assigned to the cognitive-behavioral group received positive auditory stimulation of a tape recorded message while under general anesthesia. The message suggested that their discomfort would be minimal, that they would want to participate in activities directed toward recovery, etc. Patients assigned to the somatophysiologic group had the use of a transcutaneous nerve stimulator (TENS) postoperatively. It was hypothesized the patient's pain perception, amount of analgesia utilized and complication rate would be effected
An analysis of the food security of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua

Food insecurity affects two billion people worldwide, but food security scholarship and policy has tended to be too focused on the amount of available food, rather than whether populations are able to access and use the available food consistently. Studies have also typically focused on the global or national scale, meaning local issues are sometimes ignored. There is also no consensus on how food security should be measured. This thesis investigates the food security of the Rama indigenous group of Nicaragua who are located in the Caribbean Coast region of Nicaragua. It provides a fine-grained understanding of the determinants of their food security and what affects their vulnerability. It uses an adaptation of an Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA) tool called the Household Economy Analysis (HEA) and assesses its usefulness for conducting research of this type. A total of 110 household surveys and 41 semistructured interviews, along with dietary surveys with nine families, were conducted across three Rama communities. The thesis makes three major insights. Firstly, it shows there is considerable heterogeneity within the Rama community meaning there are differences in householdlevel vulnerability to threats. This heterogeneity is partly determined by the geographies of access that households have to natural resources, markets and jobs, as well as differences in cultural values and endowments. Secondly, the thesis shows it is likely that global food insecurity is being underestimated because current measures of food security tend not to capture the nuances of household-level food insecurity. Thirdly, the thesis shows the need for a systems-based approach to food security. Current resilience theory has difficulties taking into account heterogeneity at the household level, meaning important socio-economic and/or environmental factors that can cause household-level inequality are missed. A more holistic, geographically-specific understanding of food security could provide a fruitful approach to trial new conceptions of resilience theory.
A natural-resource-based perspective of SSCM in the Scottish food sector

Building upon a review of the Scottish food sector, the need for improvements in sustainability is evidenced. An exploration of these issues in literature leads to the naturalresource-based view (NRBV) of the firm (Hart, 1995) which in promoting competitive and sustainable strategies via several innovative strategies resonates with modern business. However in spite of its significance and positive academic support the NRBV falls victim to a twenty year theory-practice gap, limiting its value to the Scottish food sector. Offering some resolve are synergies between NRBV and SSCM strategies, which along with SSCM’s prominent position in industry imply some potential in the practical realisation of the NRBV. Adopting a qualitative methodological approach by means of literature and industry reviews and multiple case studies, this paper proposes a study assessing the value of a natural-resource-based perspective of SSCM in the Scottish food sector in an attempt to overcome the theory-practice gap and answer industry calls for competitive sustainability.
Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Akıllı Telefon Oyun Tercihleri ile Cinsiyet, Gelir ve Akıllı Telefon Kullanım Alışkanlıkları Arasındaki İlişkiler Üzerine İnceleme

Bu calisma, universite ogrencilerinin akilli telefon oyun tercihleri ile cinsiyet, gelir ve akilli telefon kullanim sikligi arasindaki iliskileri belirlemek amaciyla yapilmistir. Calisma grubunu Istanbul Gelisim Universitesi ve Kocaeli Universitesi’nde farkli fakultelerde okuyan 405 ogrenci olusturmaktadir. Veri toplama amaci ile Durdu, Tufekci ve Cagiltay (2005) tarafindan yapilan “Universite Ogrencilerinin Bilgisayar Oyunu Oynama Aliskanliklari ve Oyun Tercihleri” adli calismada uygulanan anket formu, akilli cep telefonlari dikkate alinarak guncellenip kullanilmis ve katilimcilara toplamda 29 soru yoneltilmistir. Calisma sonucunda cinsiyet ile daha fazla oyun oynama arasinda anlamli bir iliski bulunmus ve erkek katilimcilarin kadinlara oranla oyunlarini gelistirmek veya seviyelerini yukseltmek icin daha fazla para harcadiklari gorulmustur. Arastirmada literaturu destekler nitelikte, hareket ve seruven turunde oyunlarin en fazla tercih edilen oyun turleri oldugu bulgusuna ulasilmistir. Katilimcilarin cogu stres atmak amaciyla oyun oynadiklarini ifade etmistir. Ayrica ailenin aylik geliri ile akilli telefon kullanmaya baslama yasi arasinda anlamli bir iliski oldugu, ancak ailenin aylik geliri ile akilli telefona oyun yukleme arasinda herhangi bir iliski bulunmadigi elde edilen bulgular arasindadir.