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Sexual health promotion for young people delivered via digital media: a scoping review

Background: Young people are at risk of poor sexual health and are, therefore, in need of comprehensive, effective sexual health education. Young people are confident and constant users of digital technology, such as the internet and mobile phones, and there are many innovative possibilities for sexual health education involving these technologies. Objectives: To summarise evidence on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and mechanism of action of interactive digital interventions (IDIs) for sexual health; optimal practice for intervention development; contexts for successful implementation; research methods for digital intervention evaluation; and the future potential of sexual health promotion via digital media. Design: Literature review of evidence on digital interventions for sexual health for young people, integrating the findings with the views of young people, parents and experts in digital media/sexual health. IDIs are defined as digital media programmes that provide health information and tailored decision support, behaviour-change support and/or emotional support. We focus on sexual well-being for young people aged 13–24 years in the UK. Results: There are many imaginative IDIs for sexual health promotion, but few interventions address issues that are important to young people, such as sexual pleasure and relationships. It is vital to collaborate with young people and to use Behaviour-Change Theory in designing interventions. We located 19 randomised controlled trials of IDIs for sexual health promotion for young people, finding a moderate effect on sexual health knowledge [standardised mean difference (SMD) 0.54, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.17 to 0.92], a small effect on confidence (self-efficacy) (SMD 0.11, 95% CI 0.02 to 0.20) and a positive effect on sexual behaviour (odds ratio 1.28, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.61), but no significant effects on safer sex intention or biological outcomes. One study suggests that IDIs may be as good as face-to-face interventions for sexual health knowledge and safer sex intention. There are no existing data on the cost-effectiveness of IDIs for sexual health promotion. The impact of an IDI will be determined by the proportion of the target population reached, intervention efficacy, adoption in a setting, how well it is delivered and maintenance/sustainability. All of these elements must be addressed for IDIs to be successful. More collaboration is needed to capitalise on the knowledge of users and stakeholders, the design and software skills of the commercial sector and the theoretical expertise and evaluation skills of academia. Conclusions: IDIs are effective for knowledge acquisition and sexual behaviour, and could usefully contribute to sexual health education in schools, in clinic settings and online; however, there are obstacles to overcome, such as access to information technology and ensuring the quality and safety of interventions.
Pathogenic factors and antimicrobial resistance of Staphylococcus epidermidis associated with nosocomial infections occurring in intensive care units

Nosocomial infections constitute an important problem in hospitals, intensive care units (ICU) having the highest incidence of this type of infection. Staphylococci, especially Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus, are among the most important microorganisms associated with nosocomial infections. S. epidermidis is a common skin resident, and can be introduced into the clinical environment by patients and hospital staff. The situation in hospitals is aggravated by the emergence of multiresistant strains. We evaluated 98 hospital S. epidermidis isolates collected at neonatal, pediatric and adult ICUs and 20 S. epidermidis control skin resident isolates from healthy volunteers, for resistance to ten antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents, and other pathogenicity factors. A high frequency (76.5%) of multiresistance was detected in clinical isolates, whereas community isolates were resistant to penicillin and ampicillin only. The frequency of multiresistant strains was 67.7% in the neonatal ICU, 66.6% in the pediatric ICU and 60.8% in the adult ICU, the lower frequency of multiresistant isolates in the adult ICU indicates a higher incidence of community strains in this unit. There were significantly higher frequencies of hemolytic, proteolytic and biofilm-forming isolates in the clinical isolates than the community isolates, indicating a higher incidence of strains with pathogenic potential in the hospital environment. Except for slight correlation with hemolytic activity there was no correlation between antibiotic multiresistance and pathogenicity factors.
On the positioning of multisensor imagery for exploitation and target recognition

Modern image exploitation tasks have evolved from the early single-image, pixel-based and model-less methods to the current multi-image, multisensor, multiplatform, and model-based approaches. In this context, image positioning, which is the process of establishing the precise geometric relationship of an acquired image to the three-dimensional (3-D) world, has become an enabling technique for state-of-the-art multisensor data exploitation. Precise image positioning provides several benefits. Image registration, traditionally formulated as an image-to-image alignment problem, can now be carried out in accordance with interior and exterior sensor geometries. Images from sensors in arbitrary locations and orientations can be positioned with respect to a focal vertical and geocentric coordinate systems. This paper presents techniques for positioning images derived from various sensors such as electro-optical (E-O), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR). Applications to model-supported image exploitation are also discussed.
Zur Frage des Lehrens und Lernens von qualitativ-sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsmethodik

Das Lehren und Lernen qualitativer Methoden ist nicht unabhangig vom Selbstverstandnis qualitativer Sozialforschung zu sehen. Wir unterscheiden zwischen einer paradigmatischen und einer situativ-pragmatischen Sichtweise. Mit diesen beiden Auffassungen verbindet sich auch ein unterschiedliches Verstandnis der Vermittelbarkeit qualitativer Methoden. Eine pragmatische Auffassung geht eher mit der Annahme der Lehrbarkeit qualitativer Methoden im Sinne einer Technik einher, wahrend sich mit einer paradigmatischen Auffassung eher die (konstruktivistisch gepragte) Vorstellung eines gemeinsamen Einubens methodischen Handwerks verbindet. Schlieslich ist hier auch der institutionelle Stellenwert qualitativer Prozeduren zu berucksichtigen, insbesondere in Relation zur Stellung quantitativer Methodenlehre in diversen Lehrund LernKontexten.
Indian Sign Language Recognition System in Marathi Language Text

Sign languages are natural language that used to communicate with deaf and mute people.It is a significant way of communication between normal and deaf and dumb people,which does not require an interpreter. The main objective of this project is to develop a system that helps hearing and speech impaired people to convey their messages to ordinary people. There is much different sign language in the world. But the main focused of system is on Indian Sign Language (ISL) which is on the way of standardization in that the system will concentrated on hand gestures only. Hand gesture is very important part of the body for exchange ideas, messages, thoughts among deaf and dumb people. The proposed system will recognize the Indian hand sign language of words and sentences and translate the signs into Marathi text with images which have been extracted from the input videos. The process will be divided into three parts i.e. preprocessing, feature extraction, classification]. It will initially identify the gestures from Indian Sign language. Finally, the system processes that gesture to recognize character with the help of classification.
Modeling Dengue Transmission and Vaccination

Dengue is one of the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral diseases in the world and inflicts significant health, economic and social burdens on populations. In this dissertation, I studied different aspects of modeling of dengue and vector-borne diseases in general. Among various dengue models that have appeared in literature, some explicitly model the mosquito population, while others model them implicitly. In spite of extensive use of both modeling approaches, little guidance exists for which type of model should be preferred. I developed a Bayesian approach that uses a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to fit disease models to epidemiological data and used it to explore how well these models explain observed incidence and to find good estimates for the epidemiological parameters for dengue. I fitted dengue hemorrhagic fever data from Thailand to both type of models and found using Akaike Information Criterion that explicitly incorporating the mosquito population may not be necessary in modeling dengue transmission. On comparing my estimates of the basic reproduction number, R0, with other estimates in literature, I found a wide variability in R0 estimates among studies. This variability in R0 estimate for dengue transmission is not well understood. By fitting a simple dengue model to dengue incidence for varying R0 values, I found a logarithmic type relationship between population immunity levels and R0, which may be a reason for the variability in R0 estimates. The result also highlighted the importance of finding better estimates of
Behavioural strategy for indoor mobile robot navigation in dynamic environments

Development of behavioural strategies for indoor mobile navigation has become a challenging and practical issue in a cluttered indoor environment, such as a hospital or factory, where there are many static and moving objects, including humans and other robots, all of which trying to complete their own specific tasks; some objects may be moving in a similar direction to the robot, whereas others may be moving in the opposite direction. The key requirement for any mobile robot is to avoid colliding with any object which may prevent it from reaching its goal, or as a consequence bring harm to any individual within its workspace. This challenge is further complicated by unobserved objects suddenly appearing in the robots path, particularly when the robot crosses a corridor or an open doorway. Therefore the mobile robot must be able to anticipate such scenarios and manoeuvre quickly to avoid collisions. In this project, a hybrid control architecture has been designed to navigate within dynamic environments. The control system includes three levels namely: deliberative, intermediate and reactive, which work together to achieve short, fast and safe navigation. The deliberative level creates a short and safe path from the current position of the mobile robot to its goal using the wavefront algorithm, estimates the current location of the mobile robot, and extracts the region from which unobserved objects may appear. The intermediate level links the deliberative level and the reactive level, that includes several behaviours for implementing the global path in such a way to avoid any collision. In avoiding dynamic obstacles, the controller has to identify and extract obstacles from the sensor data, estimate their speeds, and then regular its speed and direction to minimize the collision risk and maximize the speed to the goal. The velocity obstacle approach (VO) is considered an easy and simple method for avoiding dynamic obstacles, whilst the collision cone principle is used to detect the collision situation between two circular-shaped objects. However the VO approach has two challenges when applied in indoor environments. The first challenge is extraction of collision cones of non-circular objects from sensor data, in which applying fitting circle methods generally produces large and inaccurate collision cones especially for line-shaped obstacle such as walls. The second challenge is that the mobile robot cannot sometimes move to its goal because all its velocities to the goal are located within collision cones. In this project, a method has been demonstrated to extract the colli-
Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy. By Nancy S. Love. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2016.

Lawrence never defines what he means by genres such as “dub,” “electronic dub,” “reggae,” “funk,” and terms I was less familiar with such as “band music,” which Lawrence uses to refer to white music that incorporates guitars and is frequently performed live. “Band music” seems to refer less to a musical style, such as “rock,” though, and more in opposition to much of the other music played in nightclubs at the time, i.e. solo artists, producer-driven and studio-constructed electronically manufactured songs, and rap and turntablism. This ambiguity sometimes makes it difficult to tell what differences exist between various sounds and styles. As a professor of cultural studies at the University of East London, Lawrence’s focus on the social rather than the musical is perhaps understandable. And Lawrence has set up future scholars interested in more analytical work in a stellar fashion by providing such a well-written, impeccably researched history. One of the book’s highlights (carried over from his earlier history of the 1970s) is the inclusion of extensive playlists in nearly every chapter, showing the nuanced differences between the various styles and influences. After reading descriptions of each club and its habitués, it’s satisfying to be able to recreate the atmosphere through the actual tunes played there. By considering the contributions of DJs and nightclub culture as central to an understanding of the larger evolution of popular music in the 1980s, Lawrence has done a great service to US music studies. He has contributed to the restoration of the role disco and funk played in the creation of hip hop, shown how graffiti art allowed both visual and musical African American artists a foothold into what had been primarily white spaces, and recovered the contributions of so many gay men, many of whom died in during theworst years of the AIDS epidemic, to the historical narrative. Life and Death enriches our understanding of the musical cultures of New York City during a time of great change and upset and reevaluates common misperceptions of the era, presenting future scholars with exciting avenues of exploration and a renewed excitement for a neglected aspect of popular music.
Adjusting Fitts’ Paradigm for Small Touch-Sensitive Input Device with Large Group of Users

Fitts’ paradigm is a classic theory to describe the relationship between movement time, distance and accuracy for rapid aimed movement. Generally speaking, it describes the Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff (SAT) along task condition as well as along users. A controlled factorial experiment is conducted for small touch-sensitive input device to observe SAT relationship within task condition and large number of users. Fitts’ paradigm did not successfully model the SAT relationship, due to ambiguous definition of accuracy index and lack of variables to reflect subject bias. Fitts’ paradigm was adjusted by revising accuracy index appropriate for direct finger input, and by introducing a trajectory variable to keep track of the subject bias. It raised the model fit (R2) from 0.523 to 0.833 for a model of task condition.
APPLICATION OF THE ALLOMETRIC SCALE FOR THE SUBMAXIMAL OXYGEN UPTAKE IN RUNNERS AND ROWERS

Background: The aim of the current study was to determine the allometric exponents for runners and rower's metabolic cost, while also verifying the relation of performance with and without the allometric application. Methods: Eleven runners (age: 22.3±10.4 years; height: 174±8.8 cm; body mass: 61.7±9.3 kg; maximum oxygen uptake ( · VO2max): 56.3±3.9 ml . kg -1. min -1 ) and fifteen rowers (age: 24±5.4 years; height: 185.5±6.5 cm; body mass: 83.5±7.2 kg; · VO2max: 61.2±3.4 ml . kg -1. min -1 ) carried out a specific progressive maximum test. The allometric exponent was determined from the logarithmic equation Log y = Log + b Log x, where x is the mass, y is the VO2max (l . min -1 ), a is one constant and b is the allometric exponent. The data were analyzed using descriptive and comparative statistics (independent T test of the Student), with p<0.05 (SPSS version 13.0). Results: The allometric exponent of the rowers was 0.70 and that of the runners was 1.00. Significant differences were found between the fat mass percentage, with higher value for rowers, suggesting that this variable may influence the behavior of the allometric exponent and consequently of the basal metabolic rate. Conclusions: Scaling may help in understanding variation in aerobic power and in defining the physiological limitations of work capacity.
IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTIVE ZONE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS

Mobile Ad hoc wireless Networks (MANETs) that do not need any fixed infrastructure. They are characterized by dynamic topology due to node mobility, limited channel bandwidth, and limited battery power of nodes. The key challenge in the design of ad hoc networks is the development of dynamic routing protocols that can efficiently find routes between two communicating nodes. Thus, many ad hoc routing protocols have been proposed in recent years. All these routing protocols attempt to provide a high data packet delivery ratio and low routing control traffic at the same time. These routing protocols can be classified into three categories: proactive, reactive and hybrid routing protocols.
Standard of Prevention in the Real World: A Qualitative Study of Principal Investigators in HIV Biomedical Prevention Trials

Background: UNAIDS guidelines require that participants in HIV prevention trials are provided with “state-of-the-art” risk reduction measures. Published data showing that new HIV prevention strategies are highly, but not completely, effective problematize “standard of prevention” packages that provide access to condoms and counseling only. This qualitative study asks how principal investigators on HIV prevention studies determine appropriate standards of prevention. It builds on previous work mapping standards of care in HIV prevention trials by investigating how decisions were arrived at, in addition to reporting what was decided. Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 principal investigators of biomedical HIV prevention trials. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed thematically using predetermined categories derived from the ethics literature and spontaneous coding. Results: A spectrum of views was given by informants as to how standard of prevention should be determined, ranging from an ethical requirement to include newly validated technologies as soon as feasible, to a perceived need to reduce the prevention package to make it more like real life, thus enabling subsequent trials to test interventions against basic prevention packages. Each informant argued her position with reference to keeping the size and cost of studies reasonable, the need for conclusive data on the effectiveness of preventive interventions, perceived duties to trial participants, and regulatory requirements. Some saw reconsent as the critical issue in ongoing trials when relevant data from other studies were released. Conclusions: There was no ethical consensus about the standard of prevention among principal investigators. Rational arguments were made to support disparate positions. These results suggest a need to examine and articulate the ways that the narrow aims and obligations of a research study sit within the broader context of disease burden and inequitable access to health care in the resource-poor world in order to address how future research should proceed.
Uso do meio Roswell Park Memorial Institute como conservante de córneas de camundongos Swiss

As celulas do endotelio da cornea apresentam a importante funcao de bomba e barreira, mantendo assim a cornea transparente. Portanto, o proposito deste estudo foi investigar o meio de cultura de tecidos RPMI como forma de preservacao de corneas de camundongos mantidas sob refrigeracao. Imediatamente apos a retirada do meio de preservacao, as corneas foram processadas para microscopia de luz e eletronica de varredura para analise da integridade e forma da celula endotelial. As corneas tornaram-se inviaveis a partir do dia 4 de conservacao, apresentando alteracoes morfologicas, sinais de morte celular e espessura estromal aumentada, indicando edema importante. Conclui-se que o meio RPMI nao e viavel para conservacao de corneas com a finalidade de ceratoplastia penetrante, embora se acredite que, por se manter esteril, a cornea podera ser utilizada para enxertos lamelares.
Structural Change and Interaction Behavior in Multimodal Networks

Abstract : This work presents the results of research focused on mining information from multi-network interactions for the purpose of link prediction. Multi-networks are a generalization of multimodal networks. Multi-network link prediction was evaluated on the HEP-th (theoretical high-energy physics) authorship multinetwork. Achievements include 1) a novel iterative procedure for estimating unified multinetwork node similarity based only on the network structure information; 2) label propagation algorithm to perform adjacency propagation through the similarity matrices to produce a ranking of potential new links. The work also researched modelling engagingness and responsiveness behaviors in email networks and messaging networks. Several quantitative models for measuring user engagingness and responsiveness behaviors were defined.
Tierless web programming in ML

Eliom is a dialect of OCaml for Web programming in which server and client pieces of code can be mixed in the same file using syntactic annotations. This allows to build a whole application as a single distributed program, in which it is possible to define in a composable way reusable widgets with both server and client behaviors. Eliom is type-safe, as it ensures that communications are well-behaved through novel language constructs that match the specificity of Web programming. Eliom is also efficient, it provides static slicing which separates client and server parts at compile time and avoids back-and-forth communications between the client and the server. Finally, Eliom supports modularity and encapsulation thanks to an extension of the OCaml module system featuring tierless annotations that specify whether some definitions should be on the server, on the client, or both. This thesis presents the design, the formalization and the implementation of the Eliom language.
Paredes blancas, una alternativa digna: pintura natural base cal y nopal

La pobreza economica, se presenta como desigualdad tanto en zonas de grandes urbes como en zonas rurales de nuestro pais. Un marcado cinturon de pobreza es el que visualmente se manifiesta en las primeras, delimitado por estructuras de obra negra que pintan el ambiente de gris o rojo tabique indiferenciadamente en el mejor de los casos; el mismo aspecto triste de las viviendas ocurre en el campo. Sin embargo, la posibilidad de tenir de color albo las opacas estructuras rescatando los saberes y la tradicion en el uso de ciertos materiales, que en muchas ocasiones se encuentran en desuso, suele estar presente. Toda practica posee un valor de uso pero tambien esta cargada de valor simbolico. La vivienda es mas que paredes, pisos y techos; es un espacio social. En ese sentido, esta propuesta multidisciplinaria sugiere recuperar el uso tradicional del nopal como un ingrediente natural en la pintura base cal para vivienda y como una forma de mejorar la calidad de vida y bienestar de las personas que las habitan, en el sur del estado de Guanajuato.