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A Randomised Controlled Trial of the Efficacy and Cost-effectiveness of a Brief Intensified Cognitive Behavioural therapy and/or Pharmacotherapy for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Design and Methods

Anxiety and mood disorders involve a high disease burden and are associated with high economic costs. A stepped care approach intervention and abbreviated diagnostic method are assumed to increase effectiveness and efficiency of the mental healthcare and are expected to reduce economic costs. METHODS Presented are the rationale, design, and methods of a two-armed randomised controlled trial comparing ‘treatment as usual’ (TAU) with a brief intensified cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and/or pharmacotherapy. Eligible participants (n = 500) of five Dutch outpatient Mental Healthcare Centres are randomly assigned to either TAU or to the experimental condition (brief CBT and/or pharmacotherapy). Data on patients’ progress and clinical effectiveness of treatment are assessed at baseline, post-treatment (3 months after baseline), and at 6 and 12 months post-treatment by Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM). Cost analysis is performed on the obtained data. Since few studies have investigated both the clinical and cost effectiveness of a stepped care approach intervention and a shortened diagnostic ROM method in both anxiety and/or mood disorders within secondary mental health care, the results of this study might contribute to the improvement of (cost)-effective treatment options and diagnostic methods for these disorders.
Image Ranking and Retrieving Analysis Using Machine Learning Approach

— he image retrieval system is used for browsing, searching and retrieving images from a large database of digital images. In retrieval, complexity of selecting a query object in single image query is high. The process of image search includes searching of images based on user given keywords. Most of the image retrieval techniques are based on text based image retrievals. But it has certain problems like images are time duplicated, low precision, and irrelevant. The purpose of this survey however, is to provide an overview of the functionality of temporary image retrieval systems in terms of technical aspects: querying, relevance feedback, features, matching measures, indexing data structures, and result presentation. We have reviewed two different techniques text based retrieval and rank using user clicks.
Title : Do suburban-and traditional-neighborhood residents want different things ? Evidence on neighborhood satisfaction and travel behavior

Abstract: Many factors have contributed to the development of sprawling suburbs in the United States over the past few decades, including the fact that suburbs offer features that many households view as advantages. However, a host of problems have also been associated with suburban development, including traffic congestion, high infrastructure costs, lack of social cohesion, and environmental degradation (e.g. Ewing 1997). Citing such problems, the New Urbanism movement has rallied for a return to more traditional-style neighborhoods—those built before World War II, with an orientation to walking and transit rather than private automobiles, and with a mix of residential and commercial land uses (Fulton 1996).
Competitive Interactions between Rice and Caesulia axillaris or Echinochloa crus-galli : A Replacement Series Study

A replacement series study was conducted to evaluate the competition between rice and Caesulia axillaris Roxburgh or Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv at two nutrient levels to investigate that how differences in nutrient availability may change the competitive relationship between rice and weeds. Plants were established in mixture proportions of 4:0, 3:1, 2:2, 1:3 and 0:4 (weed: rice) plants pot -1 . Both weeds were more competitive than rice under high nutrients. C. axillaris exhibited higher Relative Yield (RY) as well Aggressivity (Agr) than rice, whereas E. crus-galli showed comparable RY but greater competitive ability (Agr) than rice. Further, nutrient stress had different effects on both weeds; although, nutrient stress decreased the competition intensity of C. axilaris against rice, it did not change its position in hierarchy ( C. axilaris dominated rice). Whereas E. crus-galli was outcompeted by rice under low nutrient. Thus, our study showed that weeds are better at high nutrient than are the crop. However, the effect of nutrient on weed competitiveness is not straightforward rather it depends on growth traits and nutrient use efficiency of species.
Clinical Images of Laparoscopic Burch Colposuspension

We routinely perform open laparoscopy technique at the inferior margin of the umbilicus using 10-mm port to introduce the laparoscope. Three additional ports are placed under direct vision. The abdomen is insufflated with CO2 to 15 mmHg intraabdominal pressure. The superior edge of bladder is identified by retrograde filling the bladder. A peritoneal incision is made between the umbilical ligaments approximately 3cm superior to the bladder and the retropubic space entered. Anatomical landmarks including the pubic symphysis, bladder neck, obturator neurovascular bundle, Cooper’s ligament and the arcus tendineus fascia pelvis are identified. If the patient has a cystocele, we recommend laparoscopic paravaginal repair prior to performing the laparoscopic Burch. By performing this first, normal anatomic support of the anterior vaginal segment is recreated, decreasing risk of subsequent voiding obstruction due to overcorrection of the paraurethral Burch sutures. The laparoscopic Burch colposuspension is performed using nonabsorbable sutures. The surgeon’s non dominant hand is placed in the vagina and a finger is used to elevate the vagina around the bladder neck area. Blunt dissection is performed to identify the bladder neck and mid-urethra both sides. The first suture is placed 2 cm. laterals to the urethra at the level of the mid-urethra. The full thickness of the anterior vaginal wall except the epithelium is sutured with a figure of eight fashion. Then the needle passed through the ipsilateral Cooper’s ligament. The suture is tied down with a series of extracorporeal knots. The suture should bridge approximately 2-3 cm. to avoid overcorrection. Two sutures on each side is standard and an increased cure rate has been shown compared to one suture on each side [13]. The second suture is placed at the urethrovesical junction approximately 2 cm. lateral to the bladder edge adjacent to the first suture with similar fashion. The procedure is repeated on the opposite side. After completed, cystoscopy is routinely performed to rule out urinary tract injury. After cystoscopy, the anterior peritoneal defect is closed using absorbable suture with continuous fashion.
Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Cross-Correction Features

Real time large scale point cloud segmentation is an important but challenging task for practical application like autonomous driving. Existing real time methods have achieved acceptance performance by aggregating local information. However, most of them only exploit local spatial information or local semantic information dependently, few considering the complementarity of both. In this paper, we propose a model named Spatial-Semantic Incorporation Network (SSI-Net) for real time large scale point cloud segmentation. A Spatial-Semantic Cross-correction (SSC) module is introduced in SSI-Net as a basic unit. High quality contextual features can be learned through SSC by correct and update semantic features using spatial cues, and vice verse. Adopting the plug-and-play SSC module, we design SSI-Net as an encoder-decoder architecture. To ensure efficiency, it also adopts a random sample based hierarchical network structure. Extensive experiments on several prevalent datasets demonstrate that our method can achieve state-of-the-art performance.
A LOW POWER FULLY AUTONOMOUS WIRELESS HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM FOR URINARY TRACT INFECTION SCREENING

Seo, Weeseong Ph.D., Purdue University, May 2019. A Low Power Fully Autonomous Wireless Health Monitoring System For Urinary Tract Infection Screening. Major Professor: Byunghoo Jung. Recent advancements of health monitoring sensing technologies are enabling plethora of new applications in a variety of biomedical areas. In this work, we present a new sensing technology that enables a fully autonomous monitoring of urinary tract infection (UTI). UTI is the second most common infection in the human body caused by bacterial pathogens, and costs millions of dollars each year to the patients and the health care industry. UTI is easily treatable using antibiotics if identified in early stages. However, when early stage identification is missed, UTI can be a major source of serious complications such as ascending infections, loss of kidney function, bacteremia, and sepsis. Unfortunately, the limitations of existing UTI monitoring technologies such as high cost, time-intensive sample preparation, and relatively high false alarm rate prohibit reliable detection of UTI in early stages. The problem becomes more serious in certain patient groups such as infants and geriatric patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, who have difficulties in realizing the symptoms and communicating the symptoms with their caregivers. In addition to the aforementioned difficulties, the fact that UTI is often asymptomatic makes early stage identifications quite challenging, and the reliable monitoring and detection of UTI in early stages remain as a serious problem. To address these issues, we propose a diaper-embedded, self-powered, and fully autonomous UTI monitoring sensor module that enables autonomous monitoring and detection of UTI in early stages with minimal effort. The sensor module consists of a paper-based colorimetric nitrite sensor, urine-activated batteries, a boost dc-dc
Detecting Steel Cord Discontinuities in Tire Tread X-Ray Images: A Preliminary Study

—During the manufacturing of tires or due to exces- sive use, steel-cord belt plies may get damaged, single wires or even entire cords may break. Steel cord discontinuities do not always cause visibly detectable degeneration on the surface of the tire, nevertheless, in these cases non-destructive testing methods can still reveal defects inside the tire. In this paper we propose a simple yet efﬁcient method to detect discontinuities of steel-cord belt plies in the tread area of tires, using automatic analysis of X-ray images.
Energy and spectral efficiency of secure massive MIMO downlink systems

Spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, and security are cornerstones for the upcoming 5G systems. In this study, the issue of how the energy and spectral efficiency of multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (Ma-MIMO) systems are affected in the presence of a secrecy constraint is addressed. The performance of the two most prominent linear precoding techniques, the matched filter (MF) and zero-forcing (ZF) precoders, for secure downlink multiuser Ma-MIMO in the presence of multi-antenna passive eavesdropper is investigated. The authors consider three performance metrics, namely, the achievable ergodic secrecy rate, the secrecy spectral efficiency (SSE), and the secrecy energy efficiency (SEE), assuming perfect and imperfect channel state information. The tradeoff between SSE and SEE is also studied. Moreover, the authors derive tight lower bounds on the achievable ergodic secrecy rate for MF and ZF precoding techniques. The derived lower bounds provide insights on the tradeoff between the SSE and SEE. It is shown that ZF precoder outperforms MF precoder at high transmit power, whereas at very low transmit power, MF outperforms ZF. Moreover, it is shown that using large number of transmit antennas can improve the SSE and the SEE with orders of magnitude compared to a single-input single-output system.
Interfaces in service modularity: a scoping review

This paper is intended to provide a scoping review on interfaces in service modularity. There is little detailed understanding of this concept despite its attributed importance. We identified 12 papers, showing that interfaces in service modularity are an area still open to research, especially with regard to interfaces that cross organisational boundaries. We found common themes in the available literature: the nature of interfaces, service fragmentation and predefined interfaces. Further research is needed on interfaces in service modularity, especially for complex services with components that stem from multiple, autonomous organisations. More specifically, there is a need for more studies that explore in detail how interfaces manifest themselves, and how they can be addressed to improve complex service provision. In addition, we argue why healthcare could be an interesting domain in which to conduct those studies. Our paper’s contribution comprises a detailed description of interfaces in service modularity, the dissemination of summarised research findings and suggestions for potential future research.
Journal Pre-proof Telephone delivered Incentives for Encouraging adherence to Supervised methadone consumption (TIES): study protocol for a feasibility study for an RCT of clinical and cost effectiveness

The majority of people receiving treatment for their heroin addiction, are prescribed methadone; for which there is an extensive evidence base. When treatment starts, people take their daily dose of methadone under supervision at a community pharmacy. Supervision guarantees methadone is taken as directed by the individual for whom it has been prescribed, helps to ensure individuals take their correct dose every day, and safeguards against diversion and overdose. However, individuals often fail to attend the pharmacy to take their methadone. Each missed dose is of concern. If a patient misses their daily dose of methadone, they will start to experience opiate withdrawal and cravings and are more likely to use heroin. If future trial evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of using telephone delivered incentives (praise and modest financial rewards via text messaging) to encourage adherence with supervised consumption of methadone in community pharmacies. Three drug services (each with two or three community pharmacies supervising methadone consumption that will enrol 20 individuals, a total of 60 participants) will be recruited and randomly allocated to deliver either i) telephone delivered incentives, ii) telephone delivered reminders or iii) no telephone system. Acceptability, recruitment, follow-up, and suitable measures of clinical and cost effectiveness will be assessed. Findings from this feasibility study will be assessed against stated progression criteria and used to inform a future confirmatory trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of telephone delivered incentives to encourage medication adherence.
Liquid-PhaseReactionsStartedby RehydratingLyophilizedReagentsin a CentrifugalAnalyzer

in the disposable rotor of the SAM microcentnfugal analyzer, various lyophilized reagents are predistnbuted in 24 33-L cuvets, for determination of multiple analytes in one specimen (e.g., for patient profiles). We evaluated a prototype of this system, which can be used at 25, 30, or 37#{176}C;absor-bance readings at 340, 405, and 500 nm varied linearly up to 2.0 A. Starting the reactions by rehydrating the reagents with diluted serum is adequate because absorbance readings do not begin until 180 s after initiating the rehydration. Analytical performances of kinetic determinations at 30 #{176}Cshowed good accuracy and correlation with other methods for creatine kinase, amylase, aspartate aminotransferase, and gamma-glutamyltransferase. Kinetic determinations for urea, and equilibrium determinations with blank corrections for glucose, cholesterol, and triglycerides gave excellent results for glucose and correct results for the other analytes. This compact analyzer combines the analytical performances of a centrifugal analyzer with the practicability of instruments having predistributed reagents.
COTTON STAND COUNT USING UAS IMAGERY AND DEEP LEARNING

Stand count is critical for growers to make decisions for replanting and other site-specific management to avoid yield loss. This study applied and compared two object detection models, MobileNets and CenterNet, in cotton stand count using unmanned aerial system (UAS) images. The results showed that the overall mean precision and recall for the CenterNet model were higher than those for the MobileNets model. The CenterNet trained model had an R2 value of 0.60 and the MobileNets trained model had an R2 value of 0.48. The accuracy for the CenterNet model was 61% and for the MobileNets model was 46%. The results indicate that the CenterNet model has a better overall performance on cotton plant detection and counting.
In-Process Monitoring of Material Cross-Contamination Defects in Laser Powder Bed Fusion

The goal of this work is to detect the onset of material cross-contamination in laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) process using data from in situ sensors. Material cross-contamination refers to trace foreign materials that may be introduced in the powder feedstock used in the process due to reasons such as poor cleaning of the machine after previous builds or inadequate quality control during production and storage of the powder. Material cross-contamination may lead to deleterious changes in the microstructure of the AM part and consequently affect its functional properties. Accordingly, the objective of this work is to develop and apply a spectral graph theoretic approach to detect the occurrence of material cross-contamination in real-time as the part is being built using in-process sensors. The central hypothesis is that transforming the process signals in the spectral graph domain leads to early and more accurate detection of material cross-contamination in L-PBF compared to the traditional delay-embedded Bon-Jenkins stochastic time series analysis techniques, such as autoregressive (AR) and autoregressive moving average (ARMA) modeling. To test this hypothesis, Inconel alloy 625 (UNS alloy 06625) test parts were made at Edison Welding Institute (EWI) on a custom-built L-PBF apparatus integrated with multiple sensors, including a silicon photodetector (with 300 nm to 1100 nm optical wavelength). During the process, two types of foreign contaminant materials, namely, tungsten and aluminum particulates, under varying degrees of severity were introduced. To detect cross-contamination in the part, the photodetector sensor signatures were monitored hatch-by-hatch in the form of spectral graph transform coefficients. These spectral graph coefficients are subsequently tracked on a Hotelling T2 statistical control chart. Instances of Type II statistical error, i.e., probability of failing to detect the onset of material cross-contamination, were verified against X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans of the part to be within 5% in the case of aluminum contaminant particles. In contrast, traditional stochastic time series modeling approaches, e.g., ARMA, had corresponding Type II error exceeding 15%. Furthermore, the computation time for the spectral graph approach was found to be less than one millisecond, compared to nearly 100 ms for the traditional time series models tested.
A Tailored SEPIC Converter with High Stagnant Gain for PV Module

A high static gain dc-dc converter based on the modified SEPIC converter with high efficiency for low input and high output voltage applications. The magnetic coupling allows elevating the static gain maintaining a reduced switch voltage. Closed loop control of modified SEPIC converter enables better load regulation. This voltage multiplier increases the static gain of the converter and also acts as a non-dissipative clamping circuit for the output diode.
Modularity and Integration in the Skull of Canis lupus (Linnaeus 1758): A Geometric Morphometrics Study on Domestic Dogs and Wolves

The skull shape variation in domestic dogs exceeds that of grey wolves by far. The artificial selection of dogs has even led to breeds with mismatching upper and lower jaws and maloccluded teeth. For that reason, it has been advocated that their skulls (including the teeth) can be divided into more or less independent modules on the basis of genetics, development or function. In this study, we investigated whether the large diversity of dog skulls and the frequent occurrence of orofacial disproportions can be explained by a lower integration strength between the modules of the skull and by deviations in their covariation pattern when compared to wolves. For that purpose, we employed geometric morphometric methods on the basis of 99 3D-landmarks representing the cranium (subdivided into rostrum and braincase), the mandible (subdivided into ramus and corpus), and the upper and lower tooth rows. These were taken from CT images of 196 dog and wolf skulls. First, we calculated the shape disparity of the mandible and cranium in dogs and wolves. Then we tested whether the integration strength (measured by RV-coefficient) and the covariation pattern (as analysed by Partial Least Squares analysis) of the modules subordinate to the cranium and the mandible can explain differing disparity results. We show, contrary to our expectations, that the higher skull shape diversity in dogs is not explained by less integrated skull modules. Also the pattern of their covariation in the dog skull can be traced back to similar patterns in the wolf. This shows that existing differences between wolves and dogs are at the utmost a matter of degree and not absolute.
Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Leverage change, debt capacity, and stock prices Leverage change, debt capacity, and stock prices

We document a significantly negative effect of the change in a firm’s leverage ratio on its stock prices. This effect cannot be explained by popular asset pricing factors or firm characteristics. We find that the negative effect is stronger for firms with limited debt capacity. Moreover, firms with an increase in leverage ratio tend to have less future investment, even after controlling for growth option and target leverage. These findings are consistent with a dynamic view of the pecking-order theory that an increase in leverage reduces firms’ safe debt capacity and may lead to future underinvestment, thus reducing firm value. This effect of debt capacity is not subsumed by the default risk, since the return pattern also exists among financially healthy firms and portfolios sorted by change in leverage ratio show no obvious pattern in future expected returns after the immediate price change. Additional tests show that the price effect cannot be fully explained by the tradeoff or the market timing theories. Abstract We document a significantly negative effect of the change in a firm’s leverage ratio on its stock prices. This effect cannot be explained by popular asset pricing factors or firm characteristics. We find that the negative effect is stronger for firms with limited debt capacity. Moreover, firms with an increase in leverage ratio tend to have less future investment, even after controlling for growth option and target leverage. These findings are consistent with a dynamic view of the pecking-order theory that an increase in leverage reduces firms’ safe debt capacity and may lead to future underinvestment, thus reducing firm value. This effect of debt capacity is not subsumed by the default risk, since the return pattern also exists among financially healthy firms and portfolios sorted by change in leverage ratio show no obvious pattern in future expected returns after the immediate price change. Additional tests show that the price effect cannot be fully explained by the tradeoff or the market timing theories.