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Psychosomatic Medicine: A Review of the Discipline

Psychosomatic medicine is not so easy to view as a discipline in its own right as other bodies of medical knowledge and theory. When an area is organized logically around an organ system (e.g. gastroenterology) or a particular theoretical orientation (e.g. psychoanalysis) or specific functions (e.g. epidemiology) boundaries are clear and professional roles are discrete. The term psychosomatic has a quite specific meaning, being derived from the Greek ‘psyche’ meaning soul, spirit or mind and ‘soma’ meaning body, and so suggests ‘pertaining to mind and body’, ‘of mind and body’ or ‘of bodily disease caused or made worse by worry’. However, it has been used in such diverse ways as to sometimes have its usefulness questioned. For some, psychosomatic medicine is that branch of the clinical sciences of medicine which concerns itself with mindlbody and body/mind interactions and the relevance of these to health and disease. For others this concept is too diverse, diffuse and perhaps philosophical attracting an excess of speculative, even bizarre theorizing. For those influenced by Alexander (Alexander et al., 1968) and Dunbar (1943) usage has been effectively confined to the study of psychological and social contributions to a specific group of diseases, viz. duodenal ulcer, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, essential hypertension, neurodermatitis and thyrotoxicosis. Halliday (1943) avoided the constraint of the Dunbar hypothesis by identifying common elements to diseases thought to have significant psychosocial content in their genesis. He gave six criteria which would identify a disease or dysfunctional process as suitable for a psychosomatic analysis. These included: 1. There is an emotional disturbance as a precipitating factor. 2. Some of the conditions are associated with a particular personality type. 3. There is a marked disproportion in the sex incidence in many of the conditions. 4. The different conditions are associated, and might be found together, alternating or in sequence in the same person. There is often a family history of the same or similar disorder. The course of an individual disorder tends to be phasic, with periods of remission and relapse. As Crisp (1963) has pointed out, such criteria would also equally apply to psychoneur.xtic illness. In more recent times, there have been two contradictory trends in definition of the discipline. The first, a reductio ad ahsurdurn, whereby it has been used as synonymous with biofeedback theory and the second, a complex transformation into a unique approach to medicine, whereby psychosomatic medicine aspires to a ‘biology of health and 5 .
A Truthful Double Auction Mechanism for Crowdsensing Systems with Max-Min Fairness

Crowdsensing is regarded as an efficient way to collect a large number of sensing data by using sensor-equipped mobile phones. Most of the existing studies, which concentrate on the crowdsensing task assignment issue, often assume that there is only one data consumer in the system. Obviously, there may exist multiple data consumers in one real crowdsensing system, thus the previous works based on the single data consumer assumption may have many limitations. To tackle this challenge, we mainly focus on the crowdsensing task assignment problem with multiple data consumers, and propose an auction mechanism which can achieve max-min fairness. We first design an approximation transaction set construction mechanism, which can maximize the minimum utilities of data consumers. Then, a second- price-like winner determination and payment calculation mechanism is proposed to ensure the truthfulness. Finally, we prove that the proposed mechanism can achieve the essential economic properties, such as truthfulness, individual rationality and budget balance. The evaluation results corroborate our theoretical analysis, and further indicate that the proposed mechanism is efficient.
GNSS/INS sensor fusion using Kalman filter with covariance adaptation

This paper proposes a new method which estimates the Kalman filter's measurement noise covariance matrix in a loosely coupled GNSS/INS sensor fusion system. The signals received from the satellites are heavily influenced by the environmental conditions, and will cause the noise variance to change dramatically. Thus, estimating the measurement noise to improve the fusion quality is very important. Most of the proposed methods use the moving average method to estimate the measurement noise online from the innovation sequence of the Kalman filter in the window interval. However, those methods can only have a good performance in a quasi-static environment, e.g., freeway where the signals are rarely blocked. In dynamic environments such as the urban area, the satellite signals are often blocked by the buildings, resulting in a large range of the noise variance. This paper proposes to use Savitzky-Golay filter with degree adaptation (ADSG) to estimate the measurement noise. The ADSG filter uses local polynomial regression method to fit the delayed-sample innovation sequence in the window interval, and adjust the polynomial order by the statistics F-test. Experiments show that the proposed method's horizontal position error is about 0.3m, which is better than several existing methods.
Round-robin discrimination model for reranking ASR hypotheses

We propose a novel model training method for reranking problems. In our proposed approach, named the round-robin duel discrimination (R2D2), model training is done so that all pairs of samples can be distinguished from each other. The loss function of R2D2 for a log-linear model is concave. Therefore we can easily ﬁnd the global optimum by using a simple parameter estimation method such a gradient descent method. We also describe the relationships between the global conditional log-linear model (GCLM) and R2D2. R2D2 can be recognized as an expansion of GCLM. We evaluate R2D2 on an error correction language model for speech recognition. Our experimental results using the corpus of spontaneous Japanese show that R2D2 provides an accurate model with a high generalization ability.
Chaos and biological complexity in measles dynamics

Measles epidemiology offers a unique perspective on the construction of models to describe the dynamics of ecological systems. Simple models of measles transmission can generate deterministic chaos by various mechanisms. However, incorporating more biological realism into the model, in the form of age structure and realism in the seasonal forcing function, can suppress complex dynamics. Adding stochastic terms to the models restores complex dynamics, but raises new questions about demographic scale and population structure in these models.
Recommendations Based on Latent Topic Aggregation

During recent years, how to provide personalized services has become an important research issue in library services. The libraries provide more and more personalized services such as customized web interface and reading suggestions. In the traditional approaches, the features of the books that a reader likes are used to construct the profile of the reader to support recommendation of books such as query keywords. But with the fact of the huge holdings in the libraries, the librarians need to effectively help the readers to find the books of interest. Collaborative filtering (CF) is a way to make it possible by use patron’s circulation logs which contain their borrow history as favorite readings. In this paper, we first use Latent Dirichlet Allocation to find the latent topics existing in the circulation logs, then we combine patron reading histories with the generated latent topics to produce a suggestion list for the patron. With the elaborated experiments demonstrated in this paper, it showed good results from the volunteers’ feedback.
Visual Analytics Solutions as 'off-the-Shelf' Libraries

Visual Analytics has brought forward many solutions to different tasks such as exploring topics, understanding user and customer behavior, comparing genomes, or detecting anomalies. Many of these solutions, if not most, are standalone applications with technological contributions which cannot be easily taken for: reuse in other domains, further improvement, benchmarking, or integration and deployment alongside other solutions. The latter can prove specially helpful for exploratory data analysis. This often leads researchers to re-implement solutions and thus to a suboptimal use of skills and resources. This paper discusses further the lack of off-the-shelf libraries for Visual Analytics, and proposes the creation of pluggable libraries on top of existing technologies such as Spark and Zeppelin. We provide an illustrative example of a pluggable, Visual Analytics library using these technologies.
Detection of a luxS-Signaling Molecule in Bacillus anthracis

ABSTRACT Quorum-sensing regulation of density-dependent genes has been described for numerous bacterial species. The partially annotated genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis contains an open reading frame (BA5047) predicted to encode an ortholog of luxS, required for synthesis of the quorum-sensing signaling molecule autoinducer-2 (AI-2). To determine whether B. anthracis produces AI-2, the Vibrio harveyi luminescence bioassay was used. Cell-free conditioned media from vaccine (Sterne) strain 34F2 induced luminescence in V. harveyi reporter strain BB170, indicating its production of AI-2. Cloned BA5047, expressed in Escherichia coli DH5α cells, restored AI-2 activity to these cells. To evaluate whether BA5047 is essential for AI-2 synthesis, it was deleted through allelic exchange with marker rescue; the resulting mutant had no functional luxS activity and had reduced growth in vitro. In the wild-type strain, AI-2 activity was greatest during the exponential phase of growth. In total, these data indicate that BA5047 is a functional luxS ortholog in B. anthracis necessary for growth-phase-specific AI-2 expression. Thus, B. anthracis may utilize extracellular signaling molecules to regulate density-dependent gene expression.
Algorithmes d'approximation parcimonieuse inspirés d'Orthogonal Least Squares pour les problèmes inverses. (Sparse approximation algorithms inspired by Orthogonal Least Squares for inverse problems)

Ce manuscrit synthetise mon activite de recherche au CRAN entre 2005 et 2013. Les projets menes s'inscrivent dans les domaines des problemes inverses en traitement du signal et des images, de l'approximation parcimonieuse, de l'analyse d'images hyperspectrales et de la reconstruction d'images 3D. Je detaille plus particulierement les travaux concernant la conception, l'analyse et l'utilisation d'algorithmes d'approximation parcimonieuse pour des problemes inverses caracterises par un dictionnaire mal conditionne. Dans un premier chapitre, je presente les algorithmes heuristiques concus pour minimiser des criteres mixtes L2-L0. Ce sont des algorithmes gloutons > definis en tant qu'extension de l'algorithme Orthogonal Least Squares (OLS). Leur developpement est motive par le bon comportement empirique d'OLS et de ses versions derivees lorsque le dictionnaire est une matrice mal conditionnee. Le deuxieme chapitre est une partie applicative en microscopie de force atomique, ou les algorithmes du premier chapitre sont utilises avec un dictionnaire particulier dans le but de segmenter automatiquement des signaux. Cette segmentation permet finalement de fournir une cartographie 2D de differents parametres electrostatiques et bio-mecaniques. Le troisieme chapitre est une partie theorique visant a analyser les algorithmes gloutons OMP (Orthogonal Matching Pursuit) et OLS. Une premiere analyse de reconstruction exacte par OLS en k iterations est proposee. De plus, une comparaison poussee des conditions de reconstruction exacte lorsqu'un certain nombre d'iterations ont deja ete effectuees fournit un eclairage sur le meilleur comportement d'OLS (par rapport a OMP) pour les problemes mal conditionnes. Dans un quatrieme chapitre, je dresse quelques perspectives methodologiques et appliquees dans le domaine de l'analyse parcimonieuse en lien avec les chapitres precedents.
Earthworm assemblages in different intensity of agricultural uses and their 2 relation to edaphic variables 3 4 1

18 The objective of this study was to relate the earthworm assemblage structure with three 19 different soil use intensities, and to indentify the physical, chemical, and 20 microbiological soil variables that are associated to the observed differences in the 21 earthworm assemblage structure between soils. Three soil uses were evaluated: 1Fifty 22 year old naturalized grasslands, low use intensity; 2Recent agricultural fields, 23 intermediate use intensity, and 3Fifty year old intensive agricultural fields, high use 24 intensity. Three different sites for each soil use were evaluated from winter 2008 25 through summer 2011. Nine earthworm species were identified across all sampling 26 sites. The sites shared five species: the native Microscolex dubius, and the introduced 27 Aporrectodea caliginosa, A. rosea, Octalasion cyaneum, and O. lacteum, but they 28 differed in their relative abundances according to the system. The results show that the 29 earthworm community structure is linked to and modulated by soil properties. Both, 30 species abundance and diversity showed significant differences depending on soil use 31 intensity. A PCA principal component analysis showed that species composition is 32 closely related to the environmental variability. The ratio of native to exotic species was 33 significantly lower in the intensive agricultural system when compared to the other two, 34 lower disturbance Systemssystems. Microscolex dubius was shown to be related to the 35 naturalized grasslands and it was associated to soil Ca, pH, Mechanical Resistance, and 36 to microbial respiration. Aporrectodea caliginosa was related to high K levels, low 37 enzymatic activity, slightly low pH, and low Ca, and appeared related to the highly 38 disturbed environment. Eukerria stagnalis and Aporrectodea rosea, commonly found in 39 the recent agricultural system, were related to high soil moisture condition, low pH, low 40 Ca and low enzymatic activity. These results show that earthworm assemblages can be 41 good descriptors indicators of different soil use intensities. In particular, Microscolex 42 dubius, Aporrectodea caliginosa, and Aporrectodea rosea, showed different temporal 43 patterns and species associations, due to the changes in soil properties attributable to 44 soil use intensity, defined as the amount and type of agricultural operations. 45 46
Multidisciplinary Approach for a Patient with Advanced Heart Failure : A Case Report

Background: Patients with a history of advanced heart failure (HF) and repeated hospitalizations place a heavy financial burden on health systems in western countries. Although multidisciplinary HF management programs are recommended for patients at high risk of hospital readmission, not many studies of their benefits in individual cases have been reported. Case Presentation: In this report, we present the case of a 79-year-old man with highly symptomatic advanced stage D heart failure corresponding to NYHA functional Class IV and with frequent re-hospitalizations despite optimized guideline-directed medical therapy and cardiac resynchronization treatment. He joined our heart failure management program for follow-up. The specialized multidisciplinary strategy reduced both the number and duration of his HF re-hospitalizations and improved his quality of life at this so-called end-stage phase of the disease. Conclusions: A multidisciplinary approach, including nurse-based interventions, for patients with advanced heart failure included in a heart failure management program is an important tool for improving their quality of life and for reducing costly hospital readmissions.
The Impact of Sustainable Tourism and Good Governance on Biodiversity Loss in Malaysia

The importance of forest in providing the natural habitat for plants and animals; storing hundreds of billions of tons of carbon; buffering against flood and drought; stabilizing soils, influencing climate change and providing food and home for the indigenous people has led the international community to protect them from further destruction in the future. In addition, the sustainable tourism is a key source of income and employment for local communities, which, in turn, provide strong incentives to protect biodiversity. For such reasons, and given the capacity limits of environmental resources coupled with the quantitative growth of tourism, there is an urgent need for the development of tourism to take biodiversity seriously. In this study we investigate the impact of sustainable tourism and good governance indicators on biodiversity loss in Malaysia for the period 1996 to 2012. In this study we employed the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Dynamic OLS (DOLS) and Fully-Modified OLS (FMOLS) which is efficient in small sample to estimate the long-run model of biodiversity loss (proxy by deforestation rates). Interestingly, our results found that good governance and sustainable tourism do contribute in mitigating biodiversity loss in Malaysia.
Standardization of an opsonophagocytic assay for the measurement of functional antibody activity against Streptococcus pneumoniae using differentiated HL-60 cells

Host protection against pneumococcal disease i primarily mediated by phagocytosis. We developed and standardized an opsonophagocytic assay using HL-60 cells (human promyelocytic leukemia cells). Fifty-five serum samples were analyzed for the presence of functional antibody against seven pneumococcal serogroups or serotypes (4, 6B, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F, and 23F) by using differentiated HL-60 cells (granulocytes) and peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs). Six of the 55 serum samples were from unvaccinated adult volunteers, 31 serum samples were from adults who received one dose of the 14-valent or the 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine, and 18 serum samples were from 16-month-old infants who received four doses of an investigational 7-valent polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine. The results of an opsonophagocytic assay with HL-60 cells correlated highly with those of an assay with PBLs as effector cells (median r for seven serotypes = 0.87: P < 0.01). Opsonophagocytic titers were compared with the immunoglobulin G antibody concentrations determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The r values for serogroups or serotypes 4, 6B, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F, and 23F were 0.61, 0.60, 0.67 0.90, 0.61, 0.39, and 0.57, respectively, when HL-60 cells were used as effector cells and 0.56, 0.47, 0.61, 0.90, 0.71, 0.31, and 0.62, respectively, when PBLs were used. The assay requires small amounts of serum (40 microliters per serotype), making this test suitable for assaying infant sera. Culturable cells aid in assay standardization and likely reduce donor-to-donor variability. This standardized assay, in combination with the standardized ELISA, can be used to evaluate current and developing pneumococcal vaccines, in which functional opsonophagocytic antibody activity may correlate with protection against pneumococcal disease.
Association between selected dietary scores and the risk of urothelial cell carcinoma: A prospective cohort study

Studies investigating the association of food and nutrient consumption with the risk of urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) have produced mixed results. We used three common dietary scores, the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS), the Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI‐2010) and the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) to assess the evidence of an association between diet and the risk of UCC. Over a median follow‐up time of 21.3 years, 379 incident UCC cases were diagnosed. Dietary scores were calculated using data from a 121‐item food frequency questionnaire administered at baseline. We used Cox models to compute hazard ratios (HR) for the association between dietary scores (per one standard deviation) and UCC risk. In order to reflect overall adherence to a healthy diet, a metascore was constructed by summing the quintiles of each of the three scores. None of the dietary scores was associated with the risk of UCC overall. A healthier diet was found to be inversely associated with the risk of invasive (MDS: HR = 0.86, 95% CI: 0.74–1.00, metascore: HR = 0.84, 95% CI: 0.71–0.98), but not superficial disease (heterogeneity between subtypes p = 0.04 and p = 0.03, respectively). Results were consistent but weaker for the DII and the AHEI‐2010. We found some evidence of effect modification by smoking, in particular for the metascore (Current: HR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.58–1.01, Former: HR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.64–0.92, Never: HR = 1.01, 95% CI: 0.81–1.26, p for heterogeneity = 0.05). A healthy diet may be protective against the risk of invasive, but not superficial, UCC. Promoting healthy dietary habits may help lower the risk of invasive UCC, especially for current and former smokers.
Glutathione: Glutathione Sulfide Redox Imbalance in Early Impaired Fasting Glucose

Aim : The current study aims to examine the balance between glutathione and glutathione sulfide and how this was disturbed in patients with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) level. The study also included 8-hydroxy-2’-deoxyguanosine to provide a more comprehensive picture of the overall redox state. Methodology : A cross-sectional analysis of ninety medication free participants without reported history of cardiovascular disease and/or diabetes mellitus was undertaken with data collected from the Diabetes Complications Research Initiative database at Charles Sturt University. Fasting blood glucose, HbA1c and cholesterol as standard markers for diabetes mellitus and associated complications were measured in addition to the emerging biomarkers glutathione (GSH), glutathione disulfide (GSSG), and urinary 8hydroxy-2’-deoxyguanosine (8OHdG).
Shape and thermal effects of metal films on stress-induced bending of surface micromachined curved grating

In this study, the shape and thermal effects of metal films on the stress-induced bending of micromachined curved grating are systematically investigated. The characterization of the curved grating with different shape has been performed to observe out-of-plane deformation. A finite-element model has been established to analyze such a deformation. Furthermore, the influence of postprocessing temperature on the residual stress of the metal films is examined. Experimental indicates that the postprocessing temperature and residual stress reveal a close relationship. As postprocessing temperature increases, the residual stress of the metal increases, resulting in a larger out-of-plane deformation of the curved grating. The proposed curved grating can be applied to optical measurement applications.
The Micro Mechanism of Entrepreneurial Decision Making: Causal Model Validation

According to 277 entrepreneurial questionnaires, this article testified the causal model of micro mechanism on the entrepreneurial decision making. The result of structural equation modeling indicated entrepreneurial alertness and prior knowledge were the direct factor to the entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. They influenced the entrepreneurial decision via the variables of opportunity recognition. Thus, opportunity recognition played a mediating role in the full