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Personal data anonymization for security and privacy in collaborative environments

Nowadays, more and more applications use sensitive and personal information. Subsequently, hiding identities and respecting citizens' privacy are becoming extremely important. Dedicated to this issue, this paper is organized as follows: after defining the topic through an example of collaborative complex and heterogeneous system, this paper analyzes the most typical anonymization procedures. Afterwards it proposes a rigorous approach to define anonymization requirements, as well as how to characterize, select and build solutions. Finally, a new generic procedure to anonymize and link identities is proposed. We suggest that a critical part of this procedure is carried out in a smart card. According to needs, anonymized data are processed through cryptographic transformations in several organizations. Our solution is suitable to collaborative environments; guarantees the user's consent; resists dictionary attacks; respects the least privilege principle and thus fulfils the legislation requirements. Moreover, it remains flexible, adaptable to different fields, and supports some organizational changes like the merging of several systems
The localization of vasotocin and neurophysin neurons in the diencephalon of the pigeon, Columba livia

Vasotocin (VT)‐ and neurophysin (NP)‐synthesizing neurons were demonstrated by immunocytochemistry in the diencephalon of the pigeon, Columba livia. Three diencephalic regions contain VT‐NP cells: (1) periventricular preoptic area and hypothalamus, including nucleus periventricularis magnocellularis (PVM); (2) lateral preoptic area and hypothalamus; and (3) dorsal diencephalon. The immunoreactive cells in each of these three regions were divided into groups based on cytology and topography. No differences were found in the location of VT and NP cell groups.
Monetary Regimes and Inflation

Exploring the characteristics of inflations and comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day, this book provides an in depth discussion of the subject. It analyses the high and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of political systems and economic relationships, as well as the importance of different monetary regimes in containing them. The differences for the possible size of inflations among monetary regimes like metallic currencies, the gold standard and fiat paper money are discussed. It is shown that huge budget deficits of government have been responsible for all hyperinflations. This revised second edition debates whether a growth of the money supply exceeding that of real Gross Domestic Production is a necessary or sufficient reason for inflation and also includes a new concluding chapter, which explores the long-term tendencies to create, maintain and abolish inflation-stable monetary regimes. Moreover, the conditions for long-term inflation-stable monetary regimes in history are explored.
The weak rate of sphingolipid biosynthesis shown by basal keratinocytes isolated from aged vs. young donors is fully rejuvenated after treatment with peptides of a potato hydrolysate

A new study was carried out to bring more information on the effect of the potato proteins ferment. Basal keratinocytes obtained from freshly excised skin samples of two groups of five donors, a young one (25–36‐year‐old) and an aged one (59–70‐year‐old) were established in culture. The results showed a downward trend in the content of all lipid fractions in untreated keratinocytes of aged donors when compared with young ones. We found major differences in the response of keratinocytes to potato proteins ferment treatment between young and old donors. Whereas the lipid content of cells from young donors increased either moderately or actually decreased in some cases in comparison with the untreated controls, the lipid biosynthesis was strongly stimulated in aged donors’ keratinocytes whose lipid contents globally became close to those found in young donors. However, the changes elicited by potato proteins ferment treatment were not seen at the same extent for all lipid classes. Cholesterol content increased up to three‐fold and alpha‐hydroxy fatty acids were augmented up to seven‐fold, whereas the increase in normal fatty acids was quite moderate. In sphingolipids labelled by incubation of keratinocytes in culture medium containing [14C]‐serine, ceramides and glucosylceramides in cells from aged donors showed the highest uptake of radioactivity, with somewhat less incorporation in sphingomyelin and gangliosides. Therefore, it seems that potato proteins ferment has a much more potent stimulatory activity on the lipid biosynthesis of basal keratinocytes of aged donors, thereby normalizing the cellular lipid content that obviously decreases along with ageing. Although our results were obtained only with basal keratinocytes in this study, potato proteins ferment could be beneficial to maintain an efficient skin barrier in ageing people, provided that the peptides can get through to the basal membrane upon topical application.
Design and Adaptive Sliding-Mode Control of Hybrid Magnetic Bearings

In this paper, a hybrid magnetic bearing (HMB) prototype system is designed and analyzed. Two compact bearings are used to suspend the rotor in five degrees of freedom. Electromagnets are used for axial suspension of the rotor, while permanent magnets are used for the passive radial stability. A brushless DC motor is designed in order to rotate the shaft around its axis. The 3-D finite-element model of the HMB system is established and distribution of magnetic fields in the air gaps and magnetic forces on the rotor under various control currents and displacements is calculated. A nonlinear adaptive sliding-mode controller is designed for the position control of the rotor in axial direction. Since the control characteristics of the active magnetic bearing system are highly nonlinear and time varying with external interference, a radial basis function compensator is designed first, and then, a sliding-mode control law is used to generate the control input. The stability analysis for the designed controller is given based on the Lyapunov theorem. Experimental setup is built to guide the design process. The performance of the HMB system based on the designed control algorithm is evaluated under different operating conditions.
Preoperative Electrocardiograms: Patient Factors Predictive of Abnormalities

Background:Age is often the sole criterion for determining the need for preoperative electrocardiograms. However, screening electrocardiograms have not been shown to add value above clinical information. This study was designed to determine whether it is possible to target electrocardiograms ordering to patients most likely to have an abnormality that would affect management and if age alone is predictive of significant electrocardiograms abnormalities. Methods:A list was developed of electrocardiograms abnormalities considered significant enough to impact management, as well as a list of patient factors believed to increase cardiovascular risk. electrocardiograms in all patients over 50 yr of age presenting for preoperative evaluation during a 2-month period were reviewed. Results:A total of 1,149 electrocardiograms were reviewed, with 89 patients (7.8%) having at least one significant abnormality. These patients were compared with a group of 195 patients who had electrocardiograms that did not contain significant abnormalities. Patients at higher risk of having a significantly abnormal electrocardiograms that would potentially affect management were those older than 65 yr of age or who had a history of heart failure, high cholesterol, angina, myocardial infarction, or severe valvular disease. Five patients (0.44%) had an abnormal electrocardiograms in the absence of risk factors. The sensitivity of the model is 87.6%. Conclusion:Age greater than 65 yr remains an independent predictor for significant preoperative electrocardiograms abnormalities. The specific clinical risk factors that were found have a high sensitivity and identified all but 0.44% of patients with electrocardiograms abnormalities that may affect preoperative management.
Childhood Autism: An Investigation of Aetiological Factors in Twenty-five Cases

In 1943 Kanner described a disease entity which he referred to as ‘Infantile Autism’. Creak and Ini (1960) found no evidence of psychogenic aetiology in a study of 200 parents of autistic children. Bender (1955) retrospectively studied children seen at Bellevue Hospital for behavioural or developmental disorders and who had been diagnosed as schizophrenic before seven years of age. No preponderance of the sophisticated, intelligent, well-to-do parents as described by Kanner was found; every racial and religious group was represented, Jews predominating slightly. A strong genetic predisposing factor was indicated—40 per cent of the parents were schizophrenic. Stroh (1962) insists that the child's condition cannot be attributed to maternal mishandling, and Wing (1966) has said ‘It is possible to interpret the data to support both environmental and biological theories of primary causation, but on the whole the former argument is very difficult to sustain. ’
Antibiotic regimens for suspected early neonatal sepsis.

BACKGROUND Early acquired infection may cause severe illness or death in the neonatal period. Prompt treatment with antibiotics has shown to reduce mortality. It is not clear which antibiotic regimen is suitable for treatment of presumed early neonatal sepsis. OBJECTIVES To compare effectiveness and adverse effects of antibiotic regimens for treatment of presumed early neonatal sepsis. SEARCH STRATEGY The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2003), MEDLINE (1966 to August 2003), EMBASE (1980 to September 2003) and ZETOC (1993 to August 2003) databases were searched for possible studies. Pharmaceutical companies were contacted for any unpublished data. SELECTION CRITERIA Randomised and quasi-randomised controlled studies comparing antibiotic regimens for the treatment of early neonatal sepsis (both monotherapies and combination therapies). DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Both reviewers screened abstracts and full reports against the inclusion criteria, appraised the quality of and extracted data from papers. For dichotomous outcomes, treatment effect was expressed as relative risk with 95% confidence interval. Meta-analysis was performed using a fixed effect model. MAIN RESULTS Two small studies had compared monotherapy with combination therapy. There was no significant difference in mortality, treatment failure or bacteriological resistance. REVIEWERS' CONCLUSIONS There is no evidence from randomised trials to suggest that any antibiotic regimen may be better than any other in the treatment of presumed early neonatal sepsis. More studies are needed to resolve this issue.
Estimating the Impacts of Brownfield Remediation on Housing Property Values

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Program provides grants to assess and clean up brownfields — properties the "expansion, re-development, or re-use of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. " The highly localized nature of brownfields lends itself well to measuring the value of site remediation with property value hedonics. The application of that technique is, however, complicated by the presence of correlated unobservable determinants of housing prices (both time-invariant and those that vary over time). This report uses a variety of quasi-experimental techniques to overcome this problem. The analysis finds evidence of large increases in property values accompanying cleanup, ranging from 5.1% to 12.8%; a double-difference matching estimator that does not rely on the intertemporal stability of the hedonic price function finds even larger effects, implying that evidence of property value increases is consistent with a willingness to pay interpretation.
Association of HLA-B27 genetic polymorphisms with ankylosing spondylitis susceptibility worldwide: a meta-analysis

ObjectivesMany publications have evaluated the correlation between HLA-B27 polymorphisms and ankylosing spondylitis (AS), with conflicting results. We carried out this new meta-analysis in order to collect all the relevant studies to further clarify the association of HLA-B27 polymorphisms with AS susceptibility.MethodsRelevant published data were retrieved through Medline, PubMed, Web of Science, CNKI, and the Chinese BioMedical Literature Database on disc. The statistical analysis was conducted using Review Manager Version 5.0 and STATA 11.0. From these data, the odds ratio (OR) with a 95 % confidence interval (95 % CI) was calculated.Results(1) A total of 38 studies, including 3,410 AS cases and 1,735 healthy controls, were collected in this meta-analysis. (2) Our results showed that B2704 was a risk factor but B2703, B2706, B2707, B2727, B2729, and B2747 may be protective factors for AS worldwide. (3) These subtypes, such as B2701, B2702, B2705, B2708–15, B2717–20, B2723–24, B2733, B2735, B2740, B2746, B2749, and B2767, showed no association with susceptibility to AS. There was a huge difference with previous reports for B2702 and B2705. (4) The B2702, B2704 and B2705 subtypes have existed high heterogeneity but no publication bias.ConclusionsThis meta-analysis in our study suggested that B2704 might be a potential risk factor, however, B2703, B2706, and B2707 might be potential protective factors of AS, especially in Asia.
Integration of Medication Management Into Occupational Therapy Practice

Occupational therapy practitioners enable clients to improve performance in everyday occupations. As health care reform precipitates changes across health care service organizations, occupational therapy professionals must seize the opportunity to apply their unique skills and perspective to meet the changing needs of clients and other stakeholders. In this article, we explore the role and distinct value of occupational therapy practitioners in one area of changing need: medication management. We find that occupational therapy practitioners have unique skills that complement the factors affecting medication nonadherence and evidencebased interventions. With reforms to research, teaching, and practice, occupational therapy practitioners can better integrate medication management into regular evaluation and treatment, thereby contributing to broader patient outcomes defined by the Affordable Care Act. Schwartz, J. K. , & Smith, R. O. (2017). The Issue Is—Integration of medication management into occupational therapy practice.
Force Sensorless Admittance Control With Neural Learning for Robots With Actuator Saturation

In this paper, we present a sensorless admittance control scheme for robotic manipulators to interact with unknown environments in the presence of actuator saturation. The external environment is defined as linear models with unknown dynamics. Using admittance control, the robotic manipulator is controlled to be compliant with external torque from the environment. The external torque acted on the end-effector is estimated by using a disturbance observer based on generalized momentum. The model uncertainties are solved by using radial basis neural networks (NNs). To guarantee the tracking performance and tackle the effect of actuator saturation, an adaptive NN controller integrating an auxiliary system is designed to handle the actuator saturation. By employing Lyapunov stability theory, the stability of the closed-loop system is achieved. The experiments on the Baxter robot are implemented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Fibronectin degradation by MMP-2/MMP-9 in the serum of pregnant women and umbilical cord with Toxoplasma gondii infection

It has been suggested that in congenital Toxoplasma gondii infections, the parasite reaches the fetus by crossing the placental barrier. The purpose of this study was to determine the possible relationships between matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and dysfunction of the placental barrier in gravidas infected with T. gondii. We studied 26 umbilical cord sera; 20 and 6 were derived from gravidas seropositive for anti-T. gondii IgG and seropositive for anti-T. gondii IgM (low IgG avidity), respectively. Of 20 cord blood samples, 18 were seropositive for T. gondii IgG, whereas all cord blood samples were seronegative for T. gondii IgM. The other six sera were seronegative for T. gondii IgG, whereas three of six sera were seropositive for T. gondii IgM. Furthermore, T. gondii induced an increase in MMP-2 and -9 secretion in the sera of gravidas and umbilical cords. Moreover, MMP-2 and -9 were interacted with fibronectin. We propose that MMP-2 and -9 may be involved in ECM degradation and placental barrier dysfunction, which facilitates T. gondii transmission to the fetus. Future investigations of the effect of MMPs on migration across epithelial and endothelial barriers will be important to establish the mechanism of transit.
Molecular Profiles of Finasteride Effects on Prostate Carcinogenesis

Our inability to distinguish between low-grade prostate cancers that pose no threat and those that can kill compels newly diagnosed early prostate cancer patients to make decisions that may negatively affect their lives needlessly for years afterward. To reliably stratify patients into different risk categories and apply appropriate treatment, we need a better molecular understanding of prostate cancer progression. Androgen ablation therapy and 5-α reductase inhibitors reduce dihydrotestosterone levels and increase apoptosis. Because of the differing biological potentials of tumor cells, however, these treatments may, in some cases, worsen outcome by selecting for or inducing adaptation of stronger androgen receptor signaling pathways. Reduced dihydrotestosterone also may be associated with altered survival pathways. Complicating treatment effects further, molecular adaptation may be accelerated by interactions between epithelial and stromal cells. The hypothesis that early prostate cancer cells with differing biological potential may respond differently to finasteride treatment is worth testing. Ongoing studies using a systems biology approach in a preoperative prostate cancer setting are testing this hypothesis toward developing more-rational clinical interventions.
Cartilage thickness in cadaveric ankles: measurement with double-contrast multi-detector row CT arthrography versus MR imaging.

PURPOSE To test the accuracy of double-contrast multi-detector row computed tomographic (CT) arthrography for measurement of cartilage thickness in cadaveric ankles and to compare this technique with three-dimensional (3D) fat-suppressed spoiled gradient-echo in the steady state (FS-SPGR) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS Five cadaveric ankles were used. In the ankle specimens, five to nine 1.5-mm-diameter holes were drilled across the joint traversing the tibial subchondral bone, tibial articular cartilage, talar dome cartilage, and talar subchondral bone. The ankle specimens were obtained and used according to institutional policies. Each ankle specimen was imaged first by using 3D FS-SPGR MR imaging with a 1.5-T magnet and then by using double-contrast arthrography followed by CT with a four-detector row scanner (ie, double-contrast multi-detector row CT arthrography). The section thickness used for CT scanning was 1.0 mm reconstructed in 0.5-mm intervals. The MR and CT images obtained in the five specimens were then downloaded to a workstation, where a measurement tool was used to measure the cartilage thickness at each hole. The physical measurement of cartilage thickness at each hole was used as the reference standard with which the MR imaging and CT measurements were compared. Linear regression and correlation analyses were performed by using a statistical computer program. RESULTS Double-contrast arthrography followed by multi-detector row CT, as compared with 3D FS-SPGR MR imaging, enabled more accurate measurement of the physical cartilage thickness in the ankle (P < .001). CONCLUSION In this study of five cadaveric ankles, multi-detector row CT arthrography was more accurate than 3D FS-SPGR MR imaging for measurement of articular cartilage thickness in the ankle.
Amazon Nights II: Electric Boogaloo-Neural Adaptations for Communication in Three Species of Weakly Electric FIsh

Amazon Nights II: Electric Boogaloo Neural adaptations for communication in three species of weakly electric fish Kathryne Allen Sensory systems are the tools by which organisms collect information about the environment. The environments that these systems have evolved to function within shape how they accomplish this task, as each has its own challenges in regards to noise and physical limits of transmission media. In this dissertation, I examine how a unique sensory system, the electrosensory system of three species of weakly electric fishes, is adapted to accomplish the specific task of detecting and accurately encoding conspecific communication. Communication is useful lens for studying how salient signals are filtered from confounding noise and how coding strategies are adapted across species. I specifically show that the physical structure of a signal can dictate how it is encoded by the sensory system, and further demonstrate that different coding strategies are correlated with different perceptual abilities. I then examine how the behavioral use and ethological significance of communication signals also changes which coding strategies are used to encode those signals. Finally, I show that the social context in which signals are received can influence which coding strategies are adopted.
Are Canadian Universities Taking Sustainability Seriously? A Case Study Analysis of Sustainability Initiatives at Three Canadian Campuses and the Lessons Decision-Makers Can Learn from These Efforts

This study attempts to answer the question ‘are universities taking sustainability seriously’? Specifically, this paper examines the extent higher education institutions have institutionalized sustainability into their decision-making processes. It investigates whether universities have incorporated a comprehensive conception of sustainability into visioning, planning, operations, and administration. It also attempts to determine how educational institutions have gone about institutionalizing sustainability and glean best practices that may be applied in other institutional settings. In order to answer the above questions, I present three case studies of sustainability policies and efforts at the following Canadian universities: The University of British Columbia, The University of Calgary, and Carleton University. These case studies examine the plans, actions, and progress at each university to determine if they sufficiently address sustainability considerations. Case studies also attempt to take stock of campus sustainability efforts and highlight achievements and deficiencies. Subsequently, the experience of universities is utilized to uncover and discuss lessons for policymakers and barriers to sustainability. Finally, recommendations are made for overcoming barriers.