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Parents' Perceptions of Teenage Pregnancy

The purpose of this study is to shed light on Latino/a parents' perceptions and attitudes about adolescent pregnancy. This study aims to reveal how parental perceptions and attitudes may impact parental communication with their children about teen pregnancy. Considering that parents play in important role in adolescent pregnancy prevention, this research study attempts to shed light on the nature of how parents perceive adolescent pregnancy and communication about teen pregnancy. The goal of this study was to answer the following two questions: 1.What are some of the variables that influence how Latino/a parents of high school students at an urban school perceive teen pregnancy? 2. How do perceptions of teen pregnancy influence how Latino/parents of high school students at an urban school communicate with their children about adolescent pregnancy? Given that this study seeks to provide an understanding of parental perceptions which may influence teen pregnancy, qualitative methods with a phenomenological approach were used. Focus group discussions were conducted with Latino/a parents at a public high school in Chicago in order to obtain a contextual understanding of parents' perceptions and attitudes toward teen pregnancy. A total of eight themes emerged from the data set. Four theoretical constructs were developed from the identified themes.
Language Learning on the World Wide Web

This article considers the use of the World Wide Web in second language learning within a new framework of language learning. Viewing second language learning as peripheral participation, this framework provides a better structure within which the use of networked-based technology can be discussed. The model of new concepts of CALL proposed within the context of the Internet, particularly the Web, is a result of viewing second language acquisition as situated learning. A Web-based project is discussed to illustrate this model. The project, EX•CHANGE, exemplifies the principles of Web-based CALL projects, especially the one conceptualized as Virtual Communities of Language Learners. EX•CHANGE has been in operation for over a year, we have seen much of the expected results -- peripheral participation -- take place. In the past year, EX•CHANGE has become a leading Web-based project for ESL learners. It is hoped that the prototype community of learners piloted through EX•CHANGE can provide some light for future explorations.
Preparation and evaluation of orthodontic setup

INTRODUCTION: An orthodontic or diagnostic setup consists in cutting and realigning the teeth in plaster models, making it an important resource in orthodontic treatment planning. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to provide a detailed description of a technique to build an orthodontic setup model and a method to evaluate it. CONCLUSIONS: Although laborious, orthodontic setup procedure and analysis can provide important information such as the need for dental extractions, interproximal stripping, anchorage system, among others.
Effects of standardized hydro-alcoholic extract of Vaccinium arctostaphylos leaf on hypertension and biochemical parameters in hypertensive hyperlipidemic type 2 diabetic patients: a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical trial

Objective: To study the blood pressure, lipid and glycemic effects and safety of Vaccinium arctostaphylos leaf in the hypertensive hyperlipidemic type 2 diabetic patients. Materials and Methods: The patients took 350 mg standardized plant leaf hydro-alcoholic extract capsule (n=50) or placebo capsule (n=50) three times daily alongside conventional drugs for 2 months. At the baseline and endpoint, systolic and diastolic blood pressures and blood levels of fasting glucose (FG), 2-hr postprandial glucose (2hPPG), glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), total cholesterol (TC), LDL-C, triglyceride, HDL-C, SGOT, SGPT and creatinine were determined in both groups. To evaluate the extract safety, serum SGOT, SGPT and creatinine levels were tested; also, the patients were requested to report any adverse effects. Results: FG, 2hPPG, HbA1c, TC, LDL-C, triglyceride and systolic and diastolic blood pressures were decreased, whereas HDL-C was increased significantly in the extract group compared to those of the placebo group at the endpoint (for all cases, p<0.05). The extract did not significantly influence other parameters and no adverse effects were reported. Conclusion: V. arctostaphylos leaf hydro-alcoholic extract as an adjunct to the conventional drugs has additional antihypertensive as well as anti-dyslipidemic and anti-hyperglycemic effects in hypertensive hyperlipidemic type 2 diabetic patients. Besides, the extract lacks hepatic, renal and patient-reported adverse effects.
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD

El Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS) a través del Centro Nacional de Salud Intercultural (CENSI) con apoyo del Centro Nacional de Salud Pública (CNSP) y el Centro Nacional de Alimentación y Nutrición en coordinación con la Estrategia Nacional de Salud de los Pueblos Indígenas del MINSA organizaron del 8 al 10 de febrero una campaña de salud integral para la comunidad shipiba de la zona de Cantagallo en el distrito del Rimac.
Digital Communication Over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis

noncoherent communication systems, as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links often found in the real world, including single- and multichannel reception with a large variety of types. The book gives many numerical illustrations expressed in large collections of system performance curves, allowing the researchers or system designers to perform trade-off studies of the average bit error rate and symbol error rate. This book is a very good reference book for researchers and communication engineers and may also be a source for supplementary material of a graduate course on communication or signal processing. Nowadays, many new books attach a CD-ROM for more supplementary material. With the many numerical examples in this book, it appears that an attached CD-ROM would be ideal for this book. It would be even better to present the computer program in order to be interactive so that the readers can plug in their arbitrary parameters for the performance evaluation. —H. Hsu
The prevalence of arm oedema following treatment for breast cancer

The prevalence of chronic arm oedema was determined among all 1249 women treated for breast cancer but without tumour recurrence and living and registered in the Worthing District Health Authority area; 1151 women (92%) responded to a validated questionnaire. The mean interval since treatment was 9.5 years. Of 1077 women treated for unilateral breast cancer, 302 (28%) reported arm swelling. There was a significant ( p = 0.01) increase in prevalence with time since treatment in patients who received post-operative radiotherapy. Overall, arm oedema was twice as common among women treated by radiotherapy (odds ratio adjusted for type of operation 2.45, 95% CI 1.86–3.27), and among patients treated by mastectomy compared to lumpectomy (odds ratio adjusted for radiotherapy 2.13, 95% CI 1.13–4.43). Arm oedema is thus a common complication of breast cancer treatment, and patients should be alerted to this possibility at the time of initial treatment.
Maintaining the Chord Ring

This short note gives an active and concurrent topology maintenance protocol for the Chord ring. The protocol maintains predecessors and successors, but not fingers. The protocol is a simple extension of a ring maintenance protocol established in a previous paper. ∗This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CCR–0310970.
SOAP: Cross Platform Web Services Development Using XML

From the Book: Foreword As long as there have been two computers, there has been difficulty getting them to communicate. Dozens, possibly hundreds, of strategies have arisen, each with their own strong and weak points. However, the end result is that still, it is difficult to get two computers to agree on a strategy for communication. Everyone wants everyone else to change to meet their strategy's needs. Thus, we end up with the "Communication Wars," CORBA vs. DCOM, DCOM vs. RMI, messaging vs. RPC, and so on. Into this tangled mass of communication comes SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). SOAP does not try to solve all problems; it only defines a simple, XML-based communication format. However, with this simple goal, and a powerful extensibility mechanism, SOAP bears the promise of being a true cross-everything communication protocol-cross-programming language, cross-operating system, cross-platform. As long as a computer, operating system, or programming language can generate and process XML (that is, text), it can make use of SOAP. Since the initial release, almost every major software vendor has either produced, or announced, an implementation of SOAP. We've seen standalone SOAP, SOAP built into Web servers, application servers, communication tools and even messaging middleware using SOAP. In the future, SOAP will become even more prevalent, as companies and organizations like Microsoft, IBM, Apache, and Sun add even more SOAP support to their applications, operating systems and programming languages. As the SOAP specification winds its way through the W3 standardization process, I'm certain that we will see changes. However, please don't let this stop youfrom experimenting and using SOAP in your applications. Yes, there will be changes, but these should be relatively minor, and each implementation should hide many of these details. I first "met" Scott because of a mailing listDevelopMentor's excellent list devoted to SOAP discussions (http://discuss.develop.com/soap.html if you're interested in joining). There he tirelessly helped others understand what he obviously thought as an important technology. Therefore, I was glad to hear that he was also working on this book. He has packed a great deal of practical development advice into these pages. I also love the fact that he shows a variety of the implementations available, and that they are all communicating nicely. I hope that as you read this book, you see why Scott and I think SOAP is so important. So, whether you are a Java developer using the Apache implementation of SOAP, a VB developer using the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit, or a C# developer using . NET Web Services, or one of the many other implementations available, I hope that you join us in using SOAP in your applications. Perhaps together we can all learn to communicate.  Kent Sharkey . NET Frameworks Technical Evangelist Microsoft Corporation
PSA doubling time predicts the outcome after active surveillance in screening‐detected prostate cancer: Results from the European randomized study of screening for prostate cancer, Sweden section

This study reports the outcome of active surveillance in men with PSA screening‐detected prostate cancer (PC), and PSA doubling time (PSADT) was evaluated as a predictor of selecting patients to active treatment or surveillance. On December 31, 1994, 10,000 men were randomized to biennial PSA testing. Through to December 2004, a total of 660 men were diagnosed with PC, of whom 270 managed with initial surveillance. Of these 270 patients, 104 (39%) received active treatment during follow‐up, 70 radical prostatectomy, 24 radiation and 10 endocrine treatment. Those who received active treatment during follow‐up (mean 63 months) were significantly younger (62.6 vs. 65.5 years, p < 0.0001) and had a shorter PSADT (3.7 vs. 12 years, p < 0.0001). PSA relapse was observed in 9 of 70 patients who received RRP during a mean follow‐up of 37 months. Seven of these nine PSA relapses were in the patients with preoperative PSADT < 2 years. None of the 37 operated patients with a PSADT > 4 years had a PSA relapse. In a Cox regression analysis adjusted for PSA, ratio‐free PSA and amount of cancer in biopsy, only the preoperative PSADT was statistically significant predictor of PSA relapse in p = 0.031. The optimal candidate for surveillance is a man with early, low‐grade, low‐stage PC and a PSADT > 4 years. In younger men with a PSADT of less than 4 years, surveillance does not seem to be a justified alternative, and patient should be informed about the risk with such an approach. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
The Drug Information Center at the Manipal Teaching Hospital—Going beyond Drug Information

The drug information center (DIC) at the Manipal Teaching Hospital (MTH), Pokhara, Nepal, was started in November 2003. The DIC provides objective, unbiased information on drugs and therapeutics to health care professionals in the teaching hospital and outside. The DIC is also involved in activities beyond the provision of drug information. The DIC maintains a close liaison with the hospital drug and therapeutics committee and various clinical departments. Postgraduate students are trained in the activities of the DIC. The DIC runs a pharmacovigilance center and a medication counseling center. The resources of the DIC are used for teaching undergraduate medical students and undergraduate pharmacy students of Pokhara University. The DIC is also involved in the Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) program of hospital pharmacists. The DIC publishes a quarterly drug information and pharmacovigilance bulletin. The DIC supports research by members and clinicians and encourages student research. The members liaise with other DICs and organizations.
Development of 10-Year Olds' Mathematical Modelling

This paper addresses the developments of a class of fifth-grade children as they worked modelling problems during the first year of a 3-year longitudinal study. In contrast to usual classroom problems where students find a brief answer to a particular question, modelling activities involve students in authentic case studies that require them to create a system of relationships that is generalisable and re-usable. The present study shows how 10-year-olds, who had not experienced modelling before, used their existing informal mathematical knowledge to generate new ideas and relationships, and how these developments were fuelled by significant social interactions within small group settings.
Automatic road extraction from high resolution remote sensing image by means of topological derivative and mathematical morphology

Automatic road extraction from High Resolution Remote Sensing Image is a challenging problem. In this paper we present a new approach for road automatically extraction which is based on topological derivative and mathematical morphology. This approach for road extraction can be divided into three main steps: using topological derivative for image segmentation, using mathematical morphology for road network identification and filtering. The experimental results show that this approach can effectively extract roads from high-resolution remote sensing image.
Communication strategies used by EFL young learners of sixth graders elementary school at Cita Hati Surabaya in speaking english to their native english speaker teacher

How EFL young learners of sixth graders elementary school are able to maintain their speech when they speak to their native English speaker teacher during lesson in class make the writer wants to know the strategic competence, which consists of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies, they use to offset any inadequacy they might have in grammatical ability and, particularly, vocabulary. In this study, the writer wants to know what kinds of communication strategies occur in EFL young learners? s discourse and grammatical competences. Furthermore, the writer also wants to know what errors they produced due to immediate communication strategies since there are limitations in their second language knowledge. For the analysis, the writer uses communicative competence framework by Canale and Swain, communication strategies theory by Tarone, and the last is error analysis by Ellis and Littlewood. The writer uses descriptive and qualitative approach and the data are taken from the conversation between EFL young learners of sixth graders elementary school in Cita Hati and their native English speaker teacher from Australia. The writer found out that EFL young learners faced breakdown in grammatical competence used approximation and literal translation mostly. While EFL young learners faced breakdown in discourse competence used appeal for assistance and mime-non verbal strategy. None of them combined the strategies. In producing communication strategies, these EFL young learners produced errors of omission and commissions, pronunciation, forms of quantifier, lexical verbs in sentence formation and produced mistakes.
Quantitative Data Analysis—In the Graduate Curriculum

A quantitative research study collects numerical data that must be analyzed to help draw the study’s conclusions. Teaching quantitative data analysis is not teaching number crunching, but teaching a way of critical thinking for how to analyze the data. The goal of data analysis is to reveal the underlying patterns, trends, and relationships of a study’s contextual situation. Learning data analysis is not learning how to use statistical tests to crunch numbers but is, instead, how to use those statistical tests as a tool to draw valid conclusions from the data. Three major pedagogical goals that must be taught as part of learning quantitative data analysis are the following: (a) determining what questions to ask during all phases of a data analysis, (b) recognizing how to judge the relevance of potential questions, and (c) deciding how to understand the deep-level relationships within the data.
Classification of natural image based on BP neural network

This paper establishes a multi-output BP neural network.It aims at to overcome the considerable gap between image low-level features and high-level semantic features.This method analyzes low-level features and extractes the images main color,gray level co-occurvence matrix and monent invariant vector.Use the vector as the network's imput and the expections as its output,the system trains the network with improved BP algorithm.The arithmetic joines the monentun factor and learning rate adap-tion,when the training is over,this network can classify natural images.So it has established the mapping between the low-level features and high-level semantic features.In addition,the improved arithmetic has increased the rate and the stability.The experi-ment proves that it has obtained the high accuracy.
A prototype Internet experiment system for control engineering

This paper describes an Internet experiment system for control engineering that is comprised of an experiment system and a computer-aided teaching system. The experiment system was set up in a laboratory and connected to the Internet so that students could do experiments on their own personal computers anywhere anytime. The computer-aided teaching system was implemented by building a database on a server to which students had free access, and which they could then use to store and share information on their experiments.
Learning experiences of Taiwanese BN conversion course students in Australia

For overseas qualified nurses (OQNs), a Bachelor of Nursing (BN) conversion course appears to be the best means of ensuring registration in Australia. However, the experience of the BN conversion course is not just that of becoming registered. Literature related to international nursing students and learning experiences emphasizes the major academic adjustment English as a second language (ESL) students have to make when studying. This thesis attempts to move beyond this narrow focus and broadens the debate by looking at the inter-relational factors of language, culture, learning and working perspectives in order to discover a better understanding of the most important aspects of OQNs (Taiwanese nurses) studying in Australia. This thesis applied a exploratory qualitative descriptive design (Parse, Coyne & Smith 1985). The researcher individually interviewed a total of twenty-six Taiwanese OQNs by using a semi-structured interview method. A qualitative approach was undertaken using snowball and purposive sampling techniques to access participants. Taiwanese participants living in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Taiwan were selected. All participants had completed a RN-BN conversion course and were eligible for registration in Australia. Face to face semi-structured interviews of forty-five to sixty minutes in length were conducted. All interviews were transcribed verbatim, with participants allowed to speak Mandarin during the interview. The transcriptions were translated to English by the researcher and verified by competent bilingual people. Three sections emerged and are discussed in this thesis including: Escaping and Dream Seeking, Frustration and Compromising and Evaluating. According to these three stages, the overarching theme is understanding the disparity: expectations of
LightBox: Full-stack Protected Stateful Middlebox at Lightning Speed

Running off-site software middleboxes at third-party service providers has been a popular practice. However, routing large volumes of raw traffic, which may carry sensitive information, to a remote site for processing raises severe security concerns. Prior solutions often abstract away important factors pertinent to real-world deployment. In particular, they overlook the significance of metadata protection and stateful processing. Unprotected traffic metadata like low-level headers, size and count, can be exploited to learn supposedly encrypted application contents. Meanwhile, tracking the states of 100,000s of flows concurrently is often indispensable in production-level middleboxes deployed at real networks. We present LightBox, the first system that can drive off-site middleboxes at near-native speed with stateful processing and the most comprehensive protection to date. Built upon commodity trusted hardware, Intel SGX, LightBox is the product of our systematic investigation of how to overcome the inherent limitations of secure enclaves using domain knowledge and customization. First, we introduce an elegant virtual network interface that allows convenient access to fully protected packets at line rate without leaving the enclave, as if from the trusted source network. Second, we provide complete flow state management for efficient stateful processing, by tailoring a set of data structures and algorithms optimized for the highly constrained enclave space. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that LightBox, with all security benefits, can achieve 10Gbps packet I/O, and that with case studies on three stateful middleboxes, it can operate at near-native speed.
On the white Gaussian multiple-access relay channel

The spectral efficiency of mobile radio networks can be improved by allowing each mobile station to act as a relay for one other mobile station. One can expect further performance improvement if each relay aids not just a single mobile station, but many simultaneously. We attempt to quantify this improvement by introducing the multiple-access relay channel (MARC) and deriving capacity results for it. Capacity outer and inner bounds for it are derived.