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Self-Reported Stress and the Deficit Syndrome of Schizophrenia

Abstract Generally speaking, schizophrenia is not associated with diminished positive and negative emotions. Even patients with negative symptoms such as blunted affect have generally not differed in their levels of self-reported emotionality compared to patients without negative symptoms. However, there is evidence to suggest that a subgroup of patients with negative symptoms, those with the deficit syndrome, have a diminished capacity to experience positive and negative emotions. The present study examined whether ratings of the deficit and negative syndrome were associated with lower levels of self-reported stress during a laboratory-based, emotion-induction manipulation. Thirty-six participants with schizophrenia were asked to produce separate affectively positive and affectively negative narratives. Immediately following each narrative, participants were asked to report the level of stress they had experienced while recounting their memories. The deficit syndrome ratings, analyzed in a continuous and a categorical manner, were associated with lower levels of self-reported stress in the affectively negative condition. Moreover, the deficit and negative syndrome ratings significantly differed in their associations to levels of self-reported stress during both tasks, supporting the notion that there are appreciable differences between the two syndromes. Given that stress has been an essential component in conceptualizations of schizophrenia onset and relapse, the possibility of stress-resistant properties associated with the deficit syndrome should be tested in future research.
THE EVOLUTION OF WEBINJECTS

Webinject fi les are now ubiquitous in the banking trojan world as a means to aid fi nancial fraud. What started as private and malware-family-dependent code has blossomed into a full ecosystem where independent coders are selling their services to botnet herders. This specialization phenomenon can be observed in underground forums, where we see a growing number of offers of comprehensive webinject packages providing all the functionalities required to bypass the latest security measures implemented by fiinstitutions. Our research covers the current webinject scene and its commoditization. We will take a look back and show how it has evolved over time, having started with simple phishing-like functionalities and now offering automatic transfer systems (ATS) and two-factor authentication bypass, along with mobile components and fully fl edged web control panels to manage money exfi ltration through fraudulent transfers. Nowadays, a piece of malware that can inject arbitrary HTML content into a browser is all that a resourceful botmaster needs, as he can outsource virtually every other step in the process of performing a successful fraudulent fi nancial transfer. This has been confi rmed by our recent observation of several malware families using the same webinject kits. Our research attempts to answer the question: will we see a consolidation phase, leading to the emergence of a few omnipresent webinject kits, similar to what we have seen in the web exploit kit scene?
A Bioinspired Fair Resource-Allocation Algorithm for TDMA-Based Distributed Sensor Networks for IoT

Many studies on distributed resource-allocation algorithms have been conducted recently because of the increasing number of network nodes and the rapidly changing network environments in the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we propose the multihop DESYNC algorithm, which is a bioinspired Time Division Multiple Access- (TDMA-) based distributed resource-allocation scheme for distributed sensor networks. We define a detailed frame structure for the proposed multihop DESYNC algorithm and a firing message, which acts as a reference for resource allocation. In addition, operating procedures for resource allocation and collision detection avoidance under multihop DESYNC are explained. Simulations show that multihop DESYNC effectively resolves the hidden-node problem and that it fairly shares resources among nearby nodes in multihop networks. Moreover, it achieves better performance than the CSMA/CA algorithm in terms of channel reuse gain and average throughput.
Spatio-Temporal Moving Object Proposals

We present a method that segments moving objects in monocular uncalibrated videos using a combination of moving segment proposal generation and moving objectness ranking. We compute segment proposals in each frame by multiple figure-ground segmentations on optical flow boundaries, we call them Moving Object Proposals (MOPs). MOPs increase the object detection rate by 7\% over static segment proposals. MOPs are ranked by a Moving Objectness Detector (MOD) trained from image and motion fields using a multilayer convolutional network. The MOD discards over/under segmentations and focuses on the moving parts of the scene, but remains agnostic to the object categories contained in the video. Finally, the filtered 2D MOPs are extended into temporally coherent spatio-temporal tubes by label diffusion in a dense point trajectory embedding. Our results on the popular Moseg and VSB100 video benchmarks show the proposed method achieves much higher overlap with ground-truth objects using fewer tube proposals than previous works; further, it reaches levels of ground-truth coverage much beyond the maximum possible with existing supervoxel or trajectory clustering approaches.
Treatment Rehabilitation Countermeasures for Drinking Drivers

The primary goal of rehabilitative programs for drunk driving offenders is to reduce the probability of subsequent drinking and driving. Punishment, such as licensing penalties, lines, and incarceration, is also designed to prevent subsequent drinking and driving either by making the consequences of arrest so unpleasant and costly as to discourage the offense or by eliminating the offenders’ capacity to drive (by putting them in jail or by invalidating their drivers’ licenses).
Does attachment style influence social support or the other way around? A longitudinal study of Early Head Start mothers

Understanding the association between attachment style and social support is important for informing programs that seek to improve outcomes for families by intervening with either or both of these systems. The present study examines whether increasing levels of social support among 181 low-income, primarily African American mothers leads to changes in their self-reported attachment style, or whether attachment style influences the extent to which they perceive others as supportive. Results suggest that whereas scores on the avoidant attachment dimension were relatively stable and led to decreasing perceptions of social support over time, scores on the anxious dimension were more malleable, at least under conditions of low stress. For mothers who experienced fewer stressful life events, increasing social support led to decreased attachment anxiety over time. However, when life stress was high, social support had no such positive influence. Implications for the need to attend to mothers' attachment styles in providing appropriate and effective intervention are discussed.
Chest impact experiments aimed at producing aortic rupture

There are a number of proposed mechanisms of traumatic aortic rupture. These experiments involved three different chest impacts that may be associated with aortic rupture. Eleven unembalmed cadavers were repressurized and impacted by a 24–34 kg mass at 8.6–14.9 m/sec. Three impact orientations were studied with the torso axis: (1) 30–45° up from horizontal and impact 28–45° clockwise of the midsagittal axis, (2) 105–130° up from horizontal and impact 15° counterclockwise, and (3) 75° up from horizontal and impact 15° counterclockwise. Spinal acceleration was measured at T1, T8, and T12 and chest compression was determined by high‐speed video. Detailed autopsy determined injuries. Impact loads averaged 9.65 ± 2.45 kN and resulted in 52.8 ± 5.4% chest compression and 3.53 ± 0.94 m/sec Viscous response. The resultant spinal acceleration was 124.5 ± 105.4 g at T1, 141.3 ± 80.5 g at T8 and 89.3 ± 39.1 g at T12. The severity of impact resulted in multiple rib fractures and severe chest injury averaging AIS = 4.2 ± 1.0. There were four cases of heart laceration and one transection of the ascending aorta 20 mm from the cusp of the aortic valve. The impacts were severe enough that aortic rupture was expected; however, only one occurred. In retrospect, the position of the heart and aorta in the upright cadaver may not have been representative of the position during human injury, thus reducing the incidence of aortic rupture in these experiments. Clin. Anat. 24:339–349, 2011. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Pulmonary , gastrointestinal and urogenital pharmacology Abediterol ( LAS 100977 ) , an inhaled long-acting β 2-adrenoceptor agonist , has a fast association rate and long residence time at receptor ☆

This study describes the association rate and residence time of abediterol, a novel long-acting β2-adrenoceptor agonist (LABA) in Phase II development for treatment of asthma and COPD, in comparison with indacaterol, olodaterol, vilanterol and salmeterol, for both human β1and β2-adrenoceptors. Abediterol association and dissociation rates were monitored directly by using its tritiated form. Moreover, association was determined indirectly using experimental Ki and koff obtained from assays performed with unlabelled compound. Dissociation was also studied indirectly by measuring the association rate of H-CGP12177 to beta adrenoceptors previously occupied by unlabelled compounds. Abediterol shows a fast association for the β2-adrenoceptor (kon 1.4 × 10± 1.8 × 10 M min) while its dissociation rate is between 30 and 64 times slower than that of the reference LABA compounds tested, with a residence time of 91.3±13.3 min (measured directly) and 185.5± 7.5 min (measured indirectly). Abediterol shows kinetic selectivity for the β2over the β1-adrenoceptor, with a dissociation rate from the β1-adrenoceptor similar to the other LABA compounds tested. In conclusion, abediterol is a potent LABA with a fast association rate and a long residence time at β2adrenoceptors. These data are in agreement with the onset and duration of action of abediterol shown in hu-
ASIC BIST synthesis: a VHDL approach

This paper describes the practical aspects of an automated design process and tool environment developed to rapidly and effectively include BIST into ASIC designs. An overview of the BIST architecture is given describing BIST capabilities for ASIC mission logic, embedded and external memory, devices, and an interconnect BIST capability used to assist module/PCB BIST. A high level synthesis approach is employed using the VHDL language in a way unique to its intended purpose. An automatic means for instantiating VHDL BIST structures into an ASIC design is described. Other automated phases of the development cycle are discussed including testability enhancement of the ASIC core and test stimulus generation for foundry, factory, and field test. Results are presented for 6 ASIC designs ranging in gate count from 56 k-164 k gates (complexity from controllers to data processors).
Beam-laser lifetime measurements of Yb II energy levels.

Laser excitation of a fast beam of ${\mathrm{Yb}}^{+}$ ions has been used to make measurements of the radiative lifetimes of eight Yb ii energy levels, four of which were excited via transitions from the ion-trap metastable level 4${\mathit{f}}^{13}$6${\mathit{s}}^{2}$ $^{2}$${\mathit{F}}_{7/2}^{\mathit{o}}$. Comparison is made with the lifetimes that may be derived from the semiempirical pseudorelativistic Hartree-Fock calculation by Fawcett and Wilson [At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 48, 241 (1991)], the agreement being within 50% for seven of the eight levels considered.
Interest in Cross-Boundary Cooperation: Identification of Distinct Types of Private Forest Owners

This article presents quantitative results from a study that evaluated private forest (PF) owner interest in cross-boundary cooperation. The intent was to reveal subgroups, referred to here as segments, of PF owners that align with different forms and levels of cooperative activities. Segmentation analysis used 783 mail-back surveys from Franklin County, Massachusetts, PF owners in spring 2002. The analysis indicates that there are four segments of PF owners in Franklin County, each maintaining a distinct level of interest in proposed forms of cooperation. Two segments define positive interest in cooperation (General Cooperators, 27%; Conservation Cooperators, 21%), and the other two represent apathy (Neutralists, 27%), and disinterest (Non-Cooperators, 24%). Furthermore, each segment presents a unique profile of items and scales that measure personal values and attitudes about cross-boundary cooperation and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Segment profiles show a strong association between interest in cooperation and profiling variables such as age, affluence, personal values, and attitudes. By identifying the specific needs and wants among PF owners, these findings can help in the development of responsive initiatives to promote cross-boundary cooperation in Franklin County. Furthermore, the outlined segmentation analysis could aid PF owner studies identify and describe key segments and determine interest in cross-boundary cooperation. FOR . S CI. 52(1):10-22.
Application of feedback‐controlled bolus plus infusion (FC‐B/I) method for quantitative PET imaging of dopamine transporters with [18F]β‐CFT‐FE in conscious monkey brain

The competitive inhibition of dopamine transporters (DAT) with cocaine, a specific DAT inhibitor, was evaluated with a feedback‐controlled bolus plus infusion (FC‐B/I) method using animal positron emission tomography (PET) in the living brain of conscious monkey. 2β‐Carbomethoxy‐3β‐(4‐fluorophenyl)‐8‐(2‐[18F]fluoroethyl) nortropane ([18F]β‐CFT‐FE; Harada et al. [2004] Synapse 54:37–45) was used for this study because it provided specific, fast, and reversible kinetic properties to DAT in the striatum. In FC‐B/I method, the real‐time image reconstruction was started just after intravenous bolus injection of [18F]β‐CFT‐FE to generate a time‐activity curve in the striatum, and the infusion rate was adjusted to achieve an equilibrium state of the striatal radioactivity concentrations by means of a feedback‐control algorithm. The first equilibrium state in the brain was reached within 20 min after the infusion start. Intravenous administration of cocaine at the doses of 0.02, 0.1, and 0.5 mg/kg shifted the equilibrium radioactivity level to the second equilibrium state in a dose‐dependent manner, while no significant alterations was observed in the cerebellum. The present results demonstrated that the combined use of FC‐B/I method and PET probe with fast kinetics like [18F]β‐CFT‐FE could be useful to assess the occupancy of drugs in the living brain with PET. Synapse, 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Program rozwoju obszarow wiejskich na lata 2007-2013

Program Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich na lata 2007-2013 jest instrumentem realizacji polityki Unii Europejskiej w zakresie rozwoju obszarów wiejskich (ROW). Cele: poprawa konkurencyjności rolnictwa i leśnictwa przez wspieranie restrukturyzacji , rozwoju i innowacji, poprawa środowiska naturalnego i terenów wiejskich przez wspieranie gospodarowania gruntami, poprawa jakości życia na obszarach wiejskich oraz popierania różnicowania działalności gospodarczej. Program jest wdrażany poprzez realizację Osi: Oś 1 Poprawa konkurencyjności sektora rolnego i leśnego, Oś 2 poprawa środowiska naturalnego i obszarów wiejskich, Oś 3 Jakość życia na obszarach wiejskich i różnicowanie obszarów wiejskich, Oś 4 Leader.
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Adaptive Sequencing of Movement Primitives

This paper introduces a control concept for motion generation of redundant robots based on combinations of movement primitives (MP). It addresses the question of how to create continuous and smooth sequences of actions or transitions between different motion skills while avoiding the necessity of recurrent planning. MPs are defined on task coordinates and modeled as dynamical systems with attractor behavior featuring additional signals to ease their coordination. Sequences and transitions between skills are realized in a unified way as bifurcating dynamical systems based on continuous-time recurrent neural networks. The neural output is used as activation signal for MPs. It is shown how the parameters of these dynamical systems can be chosen to generate a desired behavior. First results are shown in a physical simulation environment on a high-DoF robot with human-like upper body. The system can create smooth transients of MPs in sequences as well as during changes of strategies, notably showing more than only local adaptation capabilities. Keywords: adaptive control, movement primitives, dynamical systems
Autonomous positioning based on pulsar timing model

The general pulsar timing model and the time difference of arrival (TDOA) model were discussed. Taking into account low complexity and real time requirement, an autonomous positioning algorithm which be of MLE closed-form solution was introduced by selecting the liner TDOA expression and the first-order timing forecast model. Also, an improved method for the ambiguity resolution was put forward in case of the internal clock of the spacecraft can be considered stable enough to be a valid reference and a previous coarse knowledge of the spacecraft position is acquired. At last, the positioning simulation was done and results indicate the feasibleness of this technique in finding the 3D location of the spacecraft.
Gut ischemia/reperfusion activates lung macrophages for tumor necrosis factor and hydrogen peroxide production.

BACKGROUND Gut ischemia followed by reperfusion (I/R) is implicated as a prime initiating event in the mechanism of multiple organ failure after trauma and hemorrhagic shock. Several lines of evidence indicate that macrophages are involved in this prime event. Our purpose was to evaluate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production and phagocytosis by lung macrophages in a gut I/R model of multiple organ failure in rats. METHODS In the experimental group (I/R), Wistar rats (n = 35) were anesthetized and subjected to a median laparotomy, and the superior mesenteric artery was clamped for 45 minutes followed by 60 minutes of reperfusion. In the control group (LAP) (n = 37), animals underwent sham laparotomy. After the period of reperfusion, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) was performed and the resulting BAL cells were assayed for H2O2 production using the horseradish peroxidase-mediated red phenol oxidation method. TNF release was determined using the L929 cells bioassay. Zymosan phagocytosis by BAL macrophages was quantitated using phase microscopy. RESULTS H2O2 release in BAL cells of I/R rats (19.90 +/- 7.98 nmol/L/2 x 10(5) cells) is statistically higher than in the LAP group (10.92 +/- 5.01 nmol/L per 2 x 10(5) cells) (p = 0.0155), and the TNF production by BAL cells of the I/R group (38.09 +/- 20.79 units per 10(6) cells) was significantly higher than that of LAP rats (17.16 +/- 13.35 units per 10(6) cells) (p = 0.0281). Phagocytic activity of BAL mac. Macrophages of I/R rats was not statistically different from LAP animals. CONCLUSION These results suggest that BAL macrophage play a role in the mechanism of acute lung injury after trauma and hemorrhagic shock.
Ultrasound assessment of spleen size in collegiate athletes

Objectives: To determine normal spleen dimensions in a healthy collegiate athletic population. Methods: 631 Division I collegiate athletes from one university participated in the study. During pre-participation examinations, demographic data collected were collected from volunteer athletes including sex, race, measurement of height and weight, and age. Subjects also completed a medical history form to determine any history of mononucleosis infection, platelet disorder, sickle cell disease (or trait), thalassaemia, or recent viral symptoms. Subjects then underwent a limited abdominal ultrasound examination, where splenic length and width were recorded. Results: Mean (SD) splenic length was 10.65 (1.55) cm and width, 5.16 (1.21) cm. Men had larger spleens than women (p<0.001). White subjects had larger spleens than African-American subjects (p<0.001). A previous history of infectious mononucleosis or the presence of recent cold symptoms had no significant affect on spleen size. In more than 7% of athletes, baseline spleen size met current criteria for splenomegaly. Conclusions: There is a wide range of normal spleen size among collegiate athletes. Average spleen size was larger in men and white athletes than in women and black athletes. A single ultrasound examination for determination of splenomegaly is of limited value in this population.
The impact of oxidative stress on Par2, Ptgs2 genes expression in rat duodenal epithelial cells under conditions of prolonged gastric hypochlorhydria and with administration of multiprobiotic -

Development of dysbiosis is a key consequence of long hypoacidity, in which there is colonization of the gastrointestinal tract by pathogenic microflora that forms source of sustainable endogenous infection and leads to inflammation. The prevalence of free-radical processes of antioxidant defense system is an important pathogenetic link in the origin and development of various disorders. Because reactive oxygen species are important for transcription of Ptgs2 gene, the relationship between oxidative stress, antioxidant element and PAR2-mediated signaling pathways may take place under conditions of dysbiotic changes due to hypochlorhydria. To evaluate the intensity of free radical processes and their impact on Par2, Ptgs2 genes expression in rat duodenal epithelial cells under conditions of prolonged gastric hypochlorhydria and with administration of multiprobiotic. Four experimental groups were created with 8 rats in each. One group was a control, while others were injected with acid suppressant omeprazole or multi-strain probiotic preparation or with both compounds simultaneously for 28 days. Protein oxidative modification products, free SH-groups, metallothioneins content were measured in villus and crypt epithelial cells with standard biochemical assays. Level of Par2, Ptgs2 genes mRNA was determined with semi-quantitative RT-PCR. Prolonged inhibition of acid secretion in stomach was accompanied by significant elevation of free radical processes (intensification of protein oxidative modification, free SH-groups pool reduction, changes of metallothioneins concentration) and elevation of Par2 and Ptgs2 genes expression levels in rat duodenal epithelial cells. Reduction of free radical processes intensity; restoration of redox balance and the normalization of Par2, Ptgs2 gene expression pattern in the duodenum upon the simultaneous administration of the multiprobiotic Symbiter were observed. Par2 overexpression leads to activation Ptgs2 on the background of free radical processes over the antioxidant defense system in the development of inflammation in the duodenum through dysbiotic changes in the conditions of prolonged hypochlorhydria.
Hyperplasia and Hypertrophy of Pacinian Corpuscles: A Case Report

Abstract:The proliferation of Pacinian corpuscles is a rare benign lesion that occurs frequently in the fingers of hands, with the only clinical sign of pain when a drastic temperature change happens. A case of an extremely rare lesion in which we observed hypertrophy and hyperplasia of Pacinian corpuscles has been reported.