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Synergizing geriatric research and education in an allied health profession with an older adult community advisory board: development and process outcomes

ABSTRACT Community advisory boards (CABs) have been used to improve research outcomes involving specific communities and populations, including older adults. There is potential to synergize the use of CABs to encompass both research activities and the education of healthcare professionals to help meet increasing demands for a geriatric healthcare workforce in aging populations worldwide. We describe the development and process outcomes of a CAB that synergizes geriatric research and education of students in an allied health profession (occupational therapy). Implementation costs from June 2017–June 2019 were recorded. In-depth interviews were conducted with CAB participants, who were community-dwelling older adults living in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Interview data were analyzed using a constant comparison method based on a grounded theory approach. Themes were derived regarding barriers, facilitators, and benefits of CAB participation for older adults. Fourteen older adults (aged 65 and over) were initially recruited. The total direct cost of CAB implementation was 4050 United States Dollars over two years. Barriers to CAB participation for older adults included unexpected schedule conflicts due to illness and lack of understanding of the research process, while facilitators included accessible meeting spaces, staff support, flexible participation options, and financial support (e.g., transportation). Perceived benefits of CAB participation included gains in social capital, more positive views of research, and social connectedness. Key lessons learned are described and can be used to inform a novel approach to developing and implementing CABs to improve outcomes of geriatric research and education.
Ocean inspired mathematical art

I like to crochet hyperbolic surfaces, wavy sculptures or light features. They are hyperbolic as opposed to flat or spherical, which means that at every point, where the surface is hyperbolic, a neighbourhood looks like a saddle. Daina Taimina’s hyperbolic crochet inventions were the initial impetus for my crocheting. Aesthetically I owe a lot to Eva Hild and her beautiful ceramic surface sculptures. My contribution to the field was to introduce the technique of crocheting around plastic line, as used in handheld lawn mowers. This creates tension in the crocheted surface and makes it warp and keep its shape in three dimensions. The wire should be cut as little as possible, because a cut would disrupt the smooth surface. This regularly creates technical problems which need to be solved. I use a steel Boye hook and Red Heart Yarn. The yarn is inexpensive and comes in many colours. The resulting crochet looks even. I learnt to crochet in elementary school and always liked handcrafts. My parents, both of whom were teachers, brought my brothers and me each year to summer vacations on a North Sea island. There I looked for shells. Later, I found the gentle curves of the beach and the shells again in calculus andmathematics. That was a big reason for me to like math and study it. I very much enjoyed themathematical cabinets at the University of Tübingen, where I got my Bachelors degree. The surfaces I saw in the mathematical cabinets turned up again in the field of topology, in which I got a Ph.D. at Cornell University with David Henderson, the husband of Daina Taimina. The hyperbolic plane can come in infinitelymany variations. The sculptures shown here are first, an ovoid with a hyperbolic spiral running around it (Figure 1). This gives the appearance of parallel fibres. The technical problem was the turnaround at the top and the bottom, which I solved by crocheting around the top and bottom opening of the ovoid. The second image shows three sculptures (Figure 2), twohyperbolic triangles and a long, white algae. The blue and red sculptures are hyperbolic triangles. Such a triangle starts out as a flat disc to which I added a tail by crocheting a number of additional chain stitches in one place. The crochet continues to spiral around this pan. By adding further chain stitches every few rows to this tail, you end up with a sculpture that appears triangular and curvy at the same time. Mathematically this is a realisation of a cutout of the hyperbolic band model.
Adaptive tracking control of uncertain nonlinear system with time delays, external disturbances and dead-zone input

In this work, the tracking control problem of nonlinear system which contains unknown parameters, multiple state delays, external disturbances and the dead-zone input is studied. By introducing a dynamic gain-based adaptive control strategy and employing a new Lyapunov–Krasovskii (L–K) functional, we construct an adaptive tracking controller to ensure the boundedness of all the states and guarantee the tracking error small enough. Two examples are given to verify the correctness of the control theory.
ENTOLOMA PICEINUM, A NEW LIGNICOLOUS SPECIES OF ENTOLOMATACEAE (AGARICALES) FROM THE EUROPEAN RUSSIA

The new species Entoloma piceinum O. V. Morozova, Voronina et Ar- slanov of the section Fernandae (subgenus Nolanea), found at two sites of the Euro- pean Russia (Saint Petersburg and Moscow Region), is described. As a member of the section Fernandae it is characterized by the presence of the intracellular pigment in form of dark brown clots combined with the dark encrusting pigment, and by the clampless hyphae. New species differs from the other members of this section by the combination of the subtomentose to distinctly squamulose pileus with inhabiting Pi- cea abies wood. ITS sequences of both studied specimens have shown their conspeci- fi city in spite of some differences in basidiomata morphology. Keywords: agaricoid basidiomycetes, Entolomataceae, section Fernandae, new species, North Coast of the Neva Bay wildlife refuge, Zvenigorod Biological Station wildlife refuge.
Planning for cooler cities: a plan quality evaluation for Urban Heat Island consideration

ABSTRACT City strategic plans and enabling policies provide a framework for and inform future development across multiple scales. An exemplar city strategic plan will be one based on evidence, enabled by complementary policy outcomes, and built on the knowledge of the existing landscape. This study evaluated the plan quality of eighteen metropolitan strategic plans for city members in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative. A protocol was developed containing thirty-two indicators to assess plans capacity to act as a strategic planning tool to develop, analyse and implement strategies for the Urban Heat Island (UHI) and climate change mitigation and adaptation. The evaluation indicated that strategies addressing the UHI are rarely included in metropolitan plans. Strategic plans showed a lack of evidence-base to inform the potential actions. Urban warming is often linked to extreme weather events anticipated under climate change, not the UHI as a systemic and increasing phenomenon. We recommend that the pathway to addressing UHI mitigation and adaptation may lie in its nexus to aspects of climate change that concurrently can serve to support liveable and resilient cities.
A formula for Type III sums of squares

Abstract Type III methods were introduced by SAS to address difficulties in dummy-variable models for effects of multiple factors and covariates. They are widely used in practice; they are the default method in several statistical computing packages. Type III sums of squares (SSs) are defined by a set of instructions; an explicit mathematical formulation does not seem to exist. An explicit formulation is derived in this paper. It is used to illustrate Type III SSs and to establish their properties in the two-factor ANOVA model.
Negativity makes us polarized: a longitudinal study of media tone and opinion polarization in Hong Kong

ABSTRACT Public opinion polarization has recently become a prominent social problem in many societies, but whether negative media tone is a possible culprit for opinion polarization remains unclear. Using opinion-polling data on approval ratings of Chief Executive from the Public Opinion Program at the University of Hong Kong, we examined the longitudinal relationship between media tone and opinion polarization in Hong Kong. Opinion polarization is conceptualized as the dispersion and the bimodality of opinion distribution, and is operationalized by opinion distribution variance, kurtosis and a composite score. Positive and negative media tones are coded using computerized text analysis programs. Time series analysis suggests that negative news media tone Granger causes opinion polarization but the reverse causal relationship does not hold. In addition, positive news media tone is not related to opinion polarization.
Socio-cultural disparities in the quality of children's interactions in preschools

ABSTRACT To date, there is little evidence regarding how well children from socially and educationally disadvantaged families succeed in interacting with other children and teachers in preschools. This paper aims to address this limitation by analysing the relationships between the quality of children's interactions in preschools and indicators of socio-cultural disparities, e.g. migrational and educational background. The data used in this research is based on 241 children at the age of 3–4 years in preschools in Germany. Children's individual interaction quality was measured using the standardised observational instrument Individualised Classroom Assessment Scoring System. Background characteristics of the observed children are available through interviews with parents (e.g. socio-economic status of the family, home learning environment of the children). Only small disparities in the quality of the children's interactions were found. Based on these findings, implications for research and educational practice are discussed.
Bacteria Effect On Health and Human-Review

Microbes are an important component of the microbiology eco-system in the human gut, which is colonized by 1014 bacteria , ten times more than the human cells. Gut bacteria take an important role in human health, like supplying essential nutrients, synthesizing vit. K, aiding in the digestion of cellulose, and promoting angiogenesis and enteric nerve function. However, they can also be potentially harmful due to the change of their composition when the gut ecosystem undergoes abnormal changes in the light of the use of antibiotics, illness, stress, aging, bad dietary habits, and lifestyle. Dysbiosis of the gut bacteria communities can cause many chronic diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, cancer, and autism.
An assessment of the reproductive performance of estrus synchronized West African Dwarf (WAD) does using medroxyl-progestrone acetate (MPA)

This study was carried out to assess the reproductive performance of cycling West African Dwarf does as well as to assess the efficacy of medroxyl-progestrone acetate, an estrus synchronizing drug, that has the advantage of being administered orally and intramuscularly. The experiment was laid out in a completely randomized design using 40 cycling does divided into five experimental treatment groups. The results of the experiment show that estrus behavior in the does was significantly (P 0.05) affected by the drug. These results show that there is good prospect in the use of medroxyl-progestrone acetate orally and intramuscularly in synchronizing estrus in cycling WAD does.
Performance evaluation of FFT_PCA Method based on dimensionality reduction algorithms in improving classification accuracy of OLI data

Fusions of panchromatic and multispectral images create new permission to gainspatial and spectral information together. This paper focused on hybrid image fusionmethod FFT-PCA, to fuse OLI bands to apply Dimensionality Reduction (DR)methods (PCA, ICA and MNF) on this fused image to evaluate the effect of thesemethods on final classification accuracy. A window of OLI images from ArdabilCounty was selected to this purpose and preprocessing method like atmospheric andradiometric correction was applied on this image. Then panchromatic (band8) andmultispectral bands of OLI were fused with FFT-PCA method. Three dimensionalityreduction algorithms were applied on this fused image and the training data forclassification were selected from DRs Output. A total of eight classes include bareland, rich range land, water bodies, settlement, snow, agricultural land, fallow andpoor range land were selected and classified with support vector machine algorithm.The results showed that classification based on dimensionality reduction algorithmswas quite good on OLI data classification. Overall accuracy and kappa coefficient ofclassification images showed that ICA, PCA and MNF methods 86.9%, 89%, 96.8%and 0.84, 0.91, 0.96 respectively. The MNF based image classification has higherclassification accuracy between two others. PCA and ICA have lower accuracy thanMNF respectively.
Assessing the Validity of the Trauma Inventory for Partners of Sex Addicts (TIPSA)

Abstract The purpose of this study was to both provide additional evidence of the psychometric properties of the Trauma Inventory for Partners of Sex Addicts (TIPSA), and add empirical evidence for the application of betrayal trauma theory outside the context of complex and/or historical trauma. It was hypothesized that reliability coefficients for TIPSA would exceed 0.70; TIPSA and PTSD Checklist for DSM 5 (PCL-5) scores would be significantly positively correlated; TIPSA and Composite Codependency Scale (CCS) scores would not be significantly correlated; and neither Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) nor Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCE) scores would be significantly correlated with, or have a significant effect on, TIPSA or PCL-5 scores. All reliability estimates were above 0.70, and correlation between TIPSA and PCL-5 produced a Pearson’s r of 0.851 (p = 5.541 E-55), which indicated a large effect size. Correlations with additional measures produced statistically significant, yet small to weak, effect sizes (CCS: r = 0.292; ACE: r = −0.173; BCE: r = 0.244). This evidence established convergent validity of TIPSA as a measure of trauma symptoms, divergent validity of TIPSA as a measure of codependency, and added empirical evidence for utilizing betrayal trauma theory in this context.
A Portfolio Strategy Design for Human-Computer Negotiations in e-Retail

ABSTRACT Human–computer negotiation has the potential to play an important role in today’s highly dynamic online environment, especially in business-to-consumer e-commerce transactions. However, the lack of research on effective automated negotiation algorithms to respond to human buyers’ strategic and/or tactic offers has limited the development of automated human–computer negotiation systems for real-world applications. Intelligent software agents that are capable of dynamically adjusting their negotiation strategy in response to human buyers’ offers can greatly improve the negotiation experience of human buyers. In this study, guided by design science principles, we design a portfolio strategy model, which implements four negotiation strategies (i.e., time-dependent, behavior-dependent, dynamic time-dependent, and impasse resolution) as the core of our software agent for negotiating with human buyers. To evaluate this novel model, we implement a prototype of the system and compare it with three benchmark single-strategy models (i.e., competitive, collaborative, and selection) in human–computer negotiation experiments. The results show that our model not only enables the software agent to outperform its human counterpart but also significantly increases the settlement ratio and the joint outcome of both parties.
Standardized object-based dual CNNs for very high-resolution remote sensing image classification and standardization combination effect analysis

ABSTRACT Advances in the object-based convolutional neural network (CNN) have demonstrated the superiority of CNNs for image classification. However, any object-based CNN, regardless of its model structure, only stacks the square images with different scales when extracting features. The impact of background information around the segmented object (the number of pixels around the segmented object) for the classification accuracy is neglected. In addition, blurred object boundaries and feature representation, as well as huge computational redundancy, restrict the application for very high-resolution remote sensing image (VHRI) classification. To solve these problems, a novel standardized object-based dual CNN (SOD-CNN) is proposed for VHRI classification. First, based on geographic object-based image analysis, the image is segmented into homogeneous regions. Second, these less-segmented objects are over-segmented into superpixels with high compactness to provide crisp and accurate boundary delineation at the pixel level. Third, four standardization methods are developed to limit the number of pixels around the segmented object. The standardized less-segmented object and over-segmented object are fed into two different CNNs to capture different perspectives of features at local and global scales. Finally, feature fusion based on the full connection is performed to integrate the class-specific classification results. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified by using two VHRI, which achieved excellent classification accuracy, consistently outperforming the benchmark comparisons. The overall and per-class classification accuracy was investigated under different standardization combinations. We found that (1) the proposed standardization method not only reduced redundancy of information in the object-based CNN but also highlighted the features of segmented objects; (2) different segmented objects had different optimal standardization combinations; and (3) the classification accuracy was reasonably controlled by the foundation number of training samples.
Investigation on the electrical and optical properties of forsterite Mg2SiO4 under pressure up to 30 GPa

ABSTRACT We report first-principles studies the structural, electronic, and optical properties of the forsterite Mg2SiO4 in orthorhombic structure, including pressure dependence of structural parameters, band structures, density of states, and optical constants up to 30 GPa. The non-uniform pressure dependence of the lattice parameters may also mean that the forsterite Mg2SiO4 undergoes anisotropic compression. Meanwhile, the pressure dependence of the electronic band structure, density of states and partial density of states of forsterite Mg2SiO4 up to 30 GPa were presented. Moreover, the evolution of the dielectric function, absorption coefficient ( ), reflectivity ( ), and the real part of the refractive index ( ) at high pressure are also presented. According to our work, we found that the optical properties of forsterite Mg2SiO4 undergo a blue shift with increasing pressure.
An Evidence-Based Objective Study Protocol for Evaluating Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Indices Following Concussion: The Neary Protocol

Introduction: The prevalence and incidence of sport-related concussion have continued to increase over the past decade, and researchers from various backgrounds strive for evidenced-based clinical assessment and management. When diagnosing and managing a concussion, a battery of tests from several domains (e.g., symptom reporting, neurocognitive, physiology) must be used. In this study, we propose and develop an objective, evidence-based protocol to assess the pathophysiology of the brain by using non-invasive methods. Methods: Contact sport athletes (n = 300) will be assessed at the beginning of the season in a healthy state to establish baseline values, and then prospectively followed if a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) occurs on approximately days 1–2, 3–5, 7–10, 21, 30, and subsequently thereafter, depending on the severity of injury. The protocol includes spontaneous measurements at rest, during head postural change, controlled breathing maneuvers for cerebrovascular reactivity, a neurovascular coupling stimuli, and a baroreflex/autoregulation maneuver. Physiological data collection will include cerebral blood flow velocity, cerebral oxygenation, respiratory gases for end-tidal oxygen and carbon dioxide, finger photoplethysmography for blood pressure, seismocardiography for cardiac mechanics, and electrocardiography. Conclusion, Limitations, and Ethics: The protocol will provide an objective, physiological evidence-based approach in an attempt to better diagnose concussion to aid in return-to-play or -learn. Ethics approval has been granted by the University Research Ethics Board.
Sorption of Simazine and S-Metolachlor to Soils from a Chronosequence of Turfgrass Systems

Abstract Pesticide sorption by soil is among the most sensitive input parameters in many pesticide-leaching models. For many pesticides, organic matter is the most important soil constituent influencing pesticide sorption. Increased fertility, irrigation, and mowing associated with highly maintained turfgrass areas result in constant deposition of organic material, creating a soil system that can change drastically with time. Changes in soil characteristics could affect the environmental fate of pesticides applied to turfgrass systems of varying ages. Sorption characteristics of simazine and S-metolachlor were determined on five soils from bermudagrass systems of increasing ages (1, 4, 10, 21, and 99 yr) and compared to adjacent native pine and bare-ground areas. Surface soil (0 to 5 cm) and subsurface soil (5 to 15 cm) from all sites were air-dried and passed through a 4-mm sieve for separation from plant material. Using a batch-equilibrium method, sorption isotherms were determined for each soil. Data were fit to the Freundlich equation, and Kd (soil sorption coefficient) and Koc (organic carbon sorption coefficient) values were determined. Sorption and soil system age were directly related to organic matter content in the soil. Sorption of both herbicides increased with age of the soil system and was greatest on the surface soil from the oldest bermudagrass soil system. Herbicide sorption decreased at greater soil depths with lower organic matter. Greater amount of 14C–simazine sorbed to subsurface soil of the oldest turfgrass system compared to 14C–S-metolachlor. Results indicate that as bermudagrass systems age and accumulate higher organic matter levels increased herbicide sorption may decrease the leaching potential and bioavailability of simazine and S-metolachlor. Nomenclature: Simazine; S-metolachlor; bermudagrass; Cynodon dactylon [(L.) Pers. ].