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Text messaging reminders for influenza vaccine in primary care: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (TXT4FLUJAB)

Introduction The UK government recommends that at least 75% of people aged under 64 with certain conditions receive an annual influenza vaccination. Primary care practices often fall short of this target and strategies to increase vaccine uptake are required. Text messaging reminders are already used in 30% of practices to remind patients about vaccination, but there has been no trial addressing their effectiveness in increasing influenza vaccine uptake in the UK. The aims of the study are (1) to develop the methodology for conducting cluster randomised trials of text messaging interventions utilising routine electronic health records and (2) to assess the effectiveness of using a text messaging influenza vaccine reminder in achieving an increase in influenza vaccine uptake in patients aged 18–64 with chronic conditions, compared with standard care. Methods and analysis This cluster randomised trial will recruit general practices across three settings in English primary care (Clinical Practice Research Datalink, ResearchOne and London iPLATO text messaging software users) and randomise them to either standard care or a text messaging campaign to eligible patients. Flu vaccine uptake will be ascertained using routinely collected, anonymised electronic patient records. This protocol outlines the proposed study design and analysis methods. Ethics and dissemination This study will determine the effectiveness of text messaging vaccine reminders in primary care in increasing influenza vaccine uptake, and will strengthen the methodology for using electronic health records in cluster randomised trials of text messaging interventions. This trial was approved by the Surrey Borders Ethics Committee (13/LO/0872). The trial results will be disseminated at national conferences and published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. The results will also be distributed to the Primary Care Research Network and to all participating general practices. Trial registration number This study is registered at controlled-trials.com ISRCTN48840025, July 2013.
Beliefs about the meaning and measurement of intelligence: A cross-cultural comparison of American, British and Malaysian undergraduates

This study examined lay beliefs about intelligence cross-culturally using a questionnaire based on an expert summary of what is known about intelligence. Two hundred and thirty five university undergraduates in Malaysia, 347 undergraduates in Britain and 137 undergraduates in the US rated for agreement 30 items about the nature, measurement, between-group differences and practical importance of intelligence. An exploratory factor analysis revealed three factors: (1) stability, reliability and validity of intelligence tests; (2) practical importance of intelligence and (3) source and stability of within-group intelligence. While the overall factor structure did not vary a great deal between groups, there were significant cross-cultural differences on the mean scores for Factors 1-3. Explanations for cross-cultural differences in implicit theories of intelligences are considered, and limitations of the study discussed.
Severity of Stress Induced Factors Among Students in Tertiary Institutions in llorin Metropolis

The thrust of this study was to assess the serverity of ten main stress induced factors among students in tertiary institutions in llorin metropolis. A total of 600 respondents participated in the study. The findings revealed that financial, family, infrastructure! , academic and social relationship stress induced factors were ranked as highly experienced-while physical and health, personal psychological, administrative, future Concerns and moral and religious stressors were ranked as lowly experienced. It was therefore suggested that counselling centers be established in Nigerian institutions of higher learning to assist students to identify the main sources of their stresses and learn appropriate coping strategies. Nigerian Journal of Guidance and Counselling Vol. 6 (1&2) 1998: pp. 89-104
In Other (People's) Words: Plagiarism by university students--literature and lessons

This paper reviews the literature on plagiarism by students, much of it based on North American experience, to discover what lessons it holds for institutional policy and practice within institutions of higher education in the UK. It explores seven themes: the meaning and context of plagiarism, the nature of plagiarism by students, how do students perceive plagiarism, how big a problem is student plagiarism, why do students cheat, what challenges are posed by digital plagiarism and is there a need to promote academic integrity? It is concluded that plagiarism is doubtless common and getting more so (particularly with increased access to digital sources, including the Internet), that there are multiple reasons why students plagiarise and that students often rationalise their cheating behaviour and downplay the importance of plagiarism by themselves and their peers. It is also concluded that there is a growing need for UK institutions to develop cohesive frameworks for dealing with student plagiarism that are based on prevention supported by robust detection and penalty systems that are transparent and applied consistently.
Deterministic Equivalents for the Performance Analysis of Isometric Random Precoded Systems

We consider a general wireless channel model for different types of code-division multiple access (CDMA) and space-division multiple-access (SDMA) systems with isometric random signature/precoding matrices over frequency-selective and flat fading channels. We derive deterministic approximations of the Stieltjes transform, the mutual information and the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the output of the minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE) receiver and provide a simple fixed-point algorithm for their computation, which is proved to converge. The deterministic approximations are asymptotically tight, almost surely, but shown by simulations to be very accurate for even small system dimensions. Our analysis requires neither arguments from free probability theory nor the asymptotic freeness or the convergence of the spectral distribution of the involved matrices. The results presented in this work are, therefore, also a novel contribution to the field of random matrix theory and might be useful to further applications involving isometric random matrices.
Robust Face Detection and Tracking Using Pyramidal Lucas Kanade Tracker Algorithm

In this paper, we present a face detection and tracking algorithm in real time camera input environment. The entire face tracking algorithm is divided into two modules. The first module is face detection and second is face tracking. To detect the face in the image, Haar based algorithm is used. On the face image, Shi and Thomasi algorithm is used to extract feature points and Pyramidal Lucas-Kanade algorithm is used to track those detected features. Results on the real time indicate that the proposed algorithm can accurately extract facial features points. The algorithm is applied on the real time camera input and under real time environmental conditions.
Collision of Trapped Topoisomerase 2 with Transcription and Replication: Generation and Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks with 5′ Adducts

Topoisomerase 2 (Top2) is an essential enzyme responsible for manipulating DNA topology during replication, transcription, chromosome organization and chromosome segregation. It acts by nicking both strands of DNA and then passes another DNA molecule through the break. The 5′ end of each nick is covalently linked to the tyrosine in the active center of each of the two subunits of Top2 (Top2cc). In this configuration, the two sides of the nicked DNA are held together by the strong protein-protein interactions between the two subunits of Top2, allowing the nicks to be faithfully resealed in situ. Top2ccs are normally transient, but can be trapped by cancer drugs, such as etoposide, and subsequently processed into DSBs in cells. If not properly repaired, these DSBs would lead to genome instability and cell death. Here, I review the current understanding of the mechanisms by which DSBs are induced by etoposide, the unique features of such DSBs and how they are repaired. Implications for the improvement of cancer therapy will be discussed.
Lifelong Learning: A Postmodern Condition of Education?

In recent years, there has been much discussion of the significance of postmodernism and postmodernity for the study and practice of adult education. At the same time, lifelong learning has emerged as a significant strand of policy around the globe, reconfiguring the institutions and purposes of education. This article examines the complication of lifelong learning with some of the changes associated with the postmodern condition, in particular, the growth of performativity alongside a certain "unruliness" of knowledge. The article also suggests that lifelong learning signifies that the loss of mastery is associated with postmodern notions of ambivalence and incredulity. The article argues that given their interrelationship, lifelong learning can be constructed as a postmodern condition of education.
A ug 2 00 2 Perturbations and Stability of Black Ellipsoids

We study the perturbations of two classes of static black ellipsoid solutions of four dimensional vacuum Einstein equations. Such solutions are described by generic off–diagonal metrics which are generated by anholonomic transforms of diagonal metrics. The analysis is performed in the approximation of small eccentricity deformations of the Schwarzschild solution. We conclude that such anisotropic black hole objects may be stable with respect to the perturbations parametrized by the Schrodinger equations in the framework of the one–dimensional inverse scattering theory. Pacs 04.20. Jb, 04.70. -s, 04.70. Bw MSC numbers: 83C15, 83C20, 83C57
The efficacy and safety of 10 mg vortioxetine in the treatment of major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Background Vortioxetine is an investigational multimodal antidepressant. We conducted this meta-analysis to assess the efficacy and safety of 10 mg vortioxetine in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). Methods Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and ClinicalTrials.gov were systematically reviewed to assess the treatment effects and safety profiles of patients with MDD who were treated with 10 mg vortioxetine. The outcome measures included response rate, remission rate, changes from baseline in Montgomery–Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS), Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (24-items) (HAM-D24), Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S), and Clinical Global Impression-Improvement (CGI-I) scores. Results were expressed with risk ratio or weighted mean difference with 95% confidence intervals. Pooled results were calculated using a fixed-effects model or a random-effects model according to the heterogeneity among included trials. Results Six RCTs with a total of 1,801 patients met the inclusion criteria and were included in this meta-analysis. The 10 mg vortioxetine dose significantly increased the response rate and remission rate in the treatment of MDD compared with placebo. Moreover, there was a statistically significant reduction from baseline in the MADRS, HAM-D24, CGI-S, and CGI-I scores with 10 mg vortioxetine vs placebo. The incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events such as nausea, vomiting, constipation, and hyperhidrosis was higher in the 10 mg vortioxetine group than in the placebo group. Conclusion Vortioxetine 10 mg can significantly increase the response rate and remission rate, and reduce the MADRS, HAM-D24, CGI-S, and CGI-I scores in patients with MDD with an acceptable risk of treatment-emergent adverse events. Further well-conducted, large-scale trials are needed to validate these findings.
Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models

— Motion trajectories provide rich spatio-temporal information about an object's activity. Developing scalable activity recognition algorithms based on this high dimensionality cue is an extremely challenging task. This paper presents novel classification algorithms for recognizing object activity using object motion trajectory. The trajectory information can be obtained using a tracking algorithm on data streams available from a range of devices including motion sensors, video cameras, haptic devices, etc. In the proposed classification system, trajectories are segmented at points of change in curvature and the subtrajectories are represented by their Principal Component Analysis (PCA) coefficients. We first present a framework to robustly estimate the multivariate probability density function (PDF) based on PCA coefficients of the subtrajectories using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM). We show that GMM-based modeling alone cannot capture the temporal relations and ordering between underlying entities. To address this issue, we use Hidden Markov Models (HMM) with a data-driven design in terms of number of states and topology (e.g. left-right versus ergodic). Different classes of object motions are modeled by a Continuous HMM (i.e. state observations are drawn from a continuous PDF) per class, where the state PDFs are represented by GMMs. Experiments using a database of over 5700 complex trajectories (obtained from UCI-KDD data archives and Columbia University Vision Group) subdivided into 85 different classes demonstrate the superiority of our proposed HMM-based scheme using PCA coefficients of subtrajectories in comparison with other techniques in the literature.
Inhibition of Light- or Glutamate-Induced mPer1Expression Represses the Phase Shifts into the Mouse Circadian Locomotor and Suprachiasmatic Firing Rhythms

mPer1, a mouse gene, is a homolog of theDrosophila clock gene period and has been shown to be closely associated with the light-induced resetting of a mammalian circadian clock. To investigate whether the rapid induction of mPer1 after light exposure is necessary for light-induced phase shifting, we injected an antisense phosphotioate oligonucleotide (ODN) to mPer1 mRNA into the cerebral ventricle. Light-induced phase delay of locomotor activity at CT16 was significantly inhibited when the mice were pretreated withmPer1 antisense ODN 1 hr before light exposure.mPer1 sense ODN or random ODN treatment had little effect on phase delay induced by light pulses. In addition, glutamate-induced phase delay of suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) firing rhythm was attenuated by pretreatment with mPer1antisense ODN, but not by random ODN. The present results demonstrate that induction of mPer1 mRNA is required for light- or glutamate-induced phase shifting, suggesting that the acute induction of mPer1 mRNA in the SCN after light exposure is involved in light-induced phase shifting of the overt rhythm.
OptiKit : An Open Source Kit for Simulation of On-Chip Optical Components

This paper presents the design of OptiKit – an open source kit for simulating passive optical devices in embedded photonics based chips. OptiKit includes models for waveguides, parallel waveguides, multiple MMI devices, Y junctions, directional couplers, and waveguide bends. We describe the structure, basic physics, possible applications of each device, and the details of the devices included in OptiKit. Each device has been optimized for performance, and power, and has been tuned appropriately. All the devices can be simulated using the optical simulation software, RSoft, and its results can subsequently be incorporated in a traditional EDA based flow.
An Experimental Program for the Psychopathic Delinquent: Looking in the "Correctional Wastebasket"

Attempts at treating psychopathic offenders. in correctional institutions have generally met with frustration and failure. Re search with this type of individual has suggested a different approach, one which is action-oriented and employs non-verbal techniques. To test the efficacy of this approach a demonstration project was conducted at the National Training School for Boys. Comparisons between this program and the regular institution counseling approach support the de-emphasizing of verbal ther apy in favor of novel and exciting activities to more effectively manage the psychopath.
Capacity analysis for MIMO beamforming based cooperative systems over time-selective links with full SNR/one-bit feedback based path selection and imperfect CSI

This paper presents an analysis for the ergodic capacity of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming based cooperative wireless communication system considering the effect of node mobility and channel estimation errors. Closed form expressions are derived for the ergodic capacity of a path selection based decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocol considering the availability of both full SNR and only one-bit feedback for path selection. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the impact of node mobility and imperfect channel estimates on the ergodic capacity of the MIMO beamforming based DF cooperative path selection scheme and verify the analytical results derived.
Neuropsychological perspectives on delinquency

Neuropsychological studies of delinquents have revealed characteristic deficits in skills that require verbal mediation, conceptual integration, impulse control, anticipation of consequences of actions, and the utilization of feedback from behavior to modify maladaptive response patterns. Formulations of this impairment pattern in terms of frontal lobe and left hemisphere dysfunction are reviewed. The role of verbal mediation in the development of a stable personality and the capacity for self-control is discussed. It is proposed that the neuropsychodynamic profile of the delinquent is dominated by an inability to form a self-referential conceptual classification system and that this predisposes to behavioral disinhibition under conditions of stress or interpersonal conflict. The relationship between language development, moral cognition, and social behavior is examined and therapeutic and dispositional implications are discussed. Finally, the general role of neuropsychological models in personality and social theory is addressed. Language: en
On race and philosophy

On Race and Philosophy is a collection of essays written and published across the last twenty years, which focus on matters of race, philosophy, and social and political life in the West, in particular in the US. These important writings trace the author's continuing efforts not only to confront racism, especially within philosophy, but, more importantly, to work out viable conceptions of raciality and ethnicity that are empirically sound while avoiding chauvinism and invidious ethnocentrism. The hope is that such conceptions will assist efforts to fashion a nation-state in which racial and ethnic cultures and identities are recognized and nurtured contributions to a more just and stable democracy.
What Human Capital, Which Migrants? Returned Skilled Migration to Slovakia from the UK 1

This article contributes to the understanding of skilled labor migration by exploring some of the differences in the economic behavior of three contrasting groups of returned skilled labor migrants from Slovakia to the United Kingdom: professionals and managers; students; and au pairs. Formal professional experiences and training provide only limited understanding of the value of working/studying abroad. Instead, there is a need to look at particular competences, such as interpersonal skills and self-confidence, as well as the role of social recognition. The empirical results also emphasize the importance of spatiality and temporality when analyzing skilled labor migration.
Smoking and obesity among pregnant women in Iceland 2001-2010.

BACKGROUND The prevalence of smoking during pregnancy in Western societies has decreased in the last decades, whereas prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased. Our objective was to study secular trends and patterns of smoking and body weight among pregnant women in Iceland, during a period of dramatic changes in the nation's economy. METHODS On the basis of the Medical Birth Registry, we used a random sample of 1329 births between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2010. Information on smoking, body mass index and background factors during pregnancy was retrieved from the Medical Birth Register and maternity records. Trends in smoking, overweight, obesity and body mass index were assessed using logistic and linear regression analyses. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the annual odds of smoking and obesity and by socio-demographic characteristics. RESULTS We found a decrease in the prevalence of continued smoking during pregnancy from 12.4% in 2001 to 7.9% in 2010 [odds ratio (OR) = 0.94, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.88-1.00)], particularly among women with Icelandic citizenship [OR = 0.92, 95% CI (0.86-0.98)], whereas no changes in obesity [OR = 1.02, 95% CI (0.96-1.07)] were observed. The highest prevalence of maternal smoking and obesity was observed in 2005-06. CONCLUSION Our results indicate that smoking during pregnancy decreased among Icelandic women in 2001-10, whereas an initial increase in obesity prevalence seemed to level off towards the end of the observation period. Interestingly, we found that both of these maternal risk factors reached their highest prevalence in 2005-06, which coincides with a flourishing period in the nation's economy.
The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism

Communism, once heralded as the "radiant future" of all humanity, has now become part of Eastern Europe's past. What does the record say about the legacy of communism as an organizational system? Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs consider this question from the standpoint of the Hungarian working class. Between 1983 and 1990 the authors carried out intensive studies in two core Hungarian industries, machine building and steel production, to produce the first extended participant-observation study of work and politics in state socialism. "A fascinating and engagingly written eyewitness report on proletarian life in the waning years of goulash communism. A richly rewarding book, one that should interest political scientists in a variety of subfields, from area specialists and comparativists to political economists, as well as those interested in Marxist and post-Marxist theory. " Elizabeth Kiss, "American Political Science Review" "A very rich book. It does not merely offer another theory of transition, but also presents a clear interpretive scheme, combined with sociological theory and vivid ethnographic description. " Ireneusz Bialecki, "Contemporary Sociology" "Its informed skepticism of post-Communist liberal euphoria, its concern for workers, and its fine ethnographic details make this work valuable. " "akos Rona-Tas, "American Journal of Sociology""