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Abstract WMP94: Perihematomal Edema and Functional Outcomes in Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Influence of Hematoma Volume and Location

Background and Purpose: Perihematomal edema is associated with poor outcomes following intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Perihematomal edema evolves in the early period after ICH, providing a therapeutic target and window for intervention. We studied the effect of perihematomal edema volume expansion in the first 72 hours (iPHE) and its relationship with functional outcomes. Methods: We used data contained in the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive. We included patients who presented within six-hours of symptom onset, had baseline clinical, radiological and laboratory data, and further computed tomographic scan data at 72 hours and 90-day functional outcomes. We calculated iPHE and used logistic regression analysis to assess relationships with outcome. We adjusted for confounding variables and the primary outcome measure poor day-90 outcome (defined as modified Rankin Scale score of ≥ 3. We performed subgroup analyses by location and volume of ICH. Results: We included 596 patients with ICH. Median baseline hematoma volume was 15.0 mL (IQR: 7.9- 29.2) and median baseline perihematomal edema volume of 8.7 mL (IQR: 4.5- 15.5). Hematoma expansion occured in 122 (34.9%) patients. Median iPHE was 14.7 mL (IQR: 6.6-30.3). The odds of a poor outcome were greater with increasing iPHE (OR: 1.78, CI: 1.12- 2.64 per mL increase). Subgroup analyses showed iPHE was only related to poor functional outcomes in basal ganglia and small (<30 mL) ICH. Conclusion: Absolute increase in PHE over 72 hours was associated with worse functional outcomes following ICH, particularly with basal ganglia ICH and hematomas <30 mL.
Advances in functional protein microarray technology

Numerous innovations in high‐throughput protein production and microarray surface technologies have enabled the development of addressable formats for proteins ordered at high spatial density. Protein array implementations have largely focused on antibody arrays for high‐throughput protein profiling. However, it is also possible to construct arrays of full‐length, functional proteins from a library of expression clones. The advent of protein‐based microarrays allows the global observation of biochemical activities on an unprecedented scale, where hundreds or thousands of proteins can be simultaneously screened for protein–protein, protein–nucleic acid, and small molecule interactions. This technology holds great potential for basic molecular biology research, disease marker identification, toxicological reponse profiling and pharmaceutical target screening.
News Stream Summarization using Burst Information Networks

This paper studies summarizing key information from news streams. We propose simple yet effective models to solve the problem based on a novel and promising representation of text streams – Burst Information Networks (BINets). A BINet can be aware of redundant information, allows global analysis of a text stream, and can be efficiently built and dynamically updated, which perfectly fits the demands of text stream summarization. Extensive experiments show that the BINet-based approaches are not only efficient and can be used in a real-time online summarization setting, but also can generate high-quality summaries, outperforming the state-of-the-art approach.
Three-dimensional Gap Plasmon coupler

In this paper, we have investigated the performance of a nano-optical couplers based on gap plasmon waveguides. The structure consists of rectangular gap Plasmon waveguides in metal films. It is clear that the wave number and correspondingly light confinement and the loss in the waveguides are the most effective parameters in power coupling. Some dependencies of the maximum transfer power on the structure parameters are shown. Simulation results are obtained by the compact-2D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and we could comply them with the results obtained by an analytic method. The considered structures, because of their small coupling length and dimensions are appropriate for use in optical integrated circuits.
Supply voltage glitches effects on CMOS circuits

Among the attacks applied on secure circuits, fault injection techniques consist in the use of a combination of environmental conditions that induce computational errors in the chip that can leak protected informations. The purpose of our study is to build an accurate model able to describe the behaviour of CMOS circuits in presence of deliberated short supply voltage variations. This behaviour depends strongly on the basic gates (combinational logic, registers.) that make up the circuit. In this paper, we show why D-flip-flop are resistant to power supply glitches occurring between clock transitions and we propose an approach to evaluate the basic elements sensitivities towards faults generated by power glitches. Our aimed model will consequently be dependent on this sensitivity
Disciplinary Images of “Korean-Ness”

The purpose of this study is to generate complicated conversations about identity and culture with an examination of various panoptic technologies, including separation, invisibility, control, and productivity. Drawn from Foucault’s panopticism, the author examines how discipline operates as a controlling power in several Korean institutions of schools, the seminary, and the military. This autobiographical self-reflexive research explores disciplinary images of “Korean-ness,” which has been discursively and materially constructed and embodied via panoptic technologies. These counter-narratives do not support for the advancement of the universalized version of the “Korean” identity. Rather, the author theorizes Korean identity as discursive practices in modern power structures, while dealing with the “political ‘double bind’” of (a) individualization through instruments of discipline and (b) the reinforcement of Confucian ideal of proper human relationships. This article provides educators with a lens to examine the ways in which disciplinary power/knowledge operates to control students’ ways of thinking, behaving, and living, in relation to “self,” “others,” and institutions. By opening possibilities to examine cultural identity beyond discovering “true” self, the author emphasizes the analyses of power in its examination of cultural sameness/difference in multicultural curriculum studies.
Predicting performance from personality: Fewer factors produce feebler forecasts

The Single Factor of Personality (SFP) is the idea that personality can be summarised most parsimoniously not by 5 big factors, but by the smallest possible number: just one factor. Supporters of the SFP claim it predicts overall work performance. This session presents thorough analyses to see if the SFP lives up to its claims; we investigated whether the SFP, a 5 Factor model, or a 16 Factor model turned out to be a better predictor of work engagement, work performance, salary and promotion.
Hostility and Change in Cognitive Function Over Time in Older Blacks and Whites

Objective: To test whether the level of hostility predicted the rate of cognitive decline in a community of older blacks and whites and whether the association varied as a function of race. Methods: Over 4800 persons from a defined community in Chicago completed up to three structured interviews at approximately 3 year intervals over a period of up to 8.8 years (mean = 4.4 years). At the baseline interview, hostility was assessed with 8-items from the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale. Cognitive function was assessed at each interview with four cognitive function tests from which a composite measure of cognition was formed. Mixed effects models were used to assess change in cognition and its relation to hostility, controlling for age, sex, education, and race. Results: The average score on the hostility scale at baseline was 3.0 (SD = 2.1). Higher levels of hostility were associated with lower cognitive scores (estimate = −0.028, SE = 0.004, p < .001). Cognition declined at a rate of 0.051 U per year on average, but hostility was not related to the rate of decline. Results were unchanged after controlling for depressive symptoms, chronic health, neuroticism, and social and cognitive activity patterns, or when persons with cognitive impairment at baseline were excluded. The association was similar in blacks and whites. Conclusion: The results suggest that hostility is associated with level of cognitive function in older persons but not related to cognitive decline. SES = socioeconomic status; MMSE = mini-mental state examination; SD = standard deviation; SE = standard error.
A Little Acceptance Goes a Long Way

Social rejection hurts, causing aggression even against innocent people. How can the sting of social rejection be reduced? Based on social impact theory, the authors predicted that aggression would decrease as a power function of the number of people accepting the participant. In Experiment 1, participants included by 0, 1, 2, or 3 players in an online ball-tossing game could aggress against an innocent stranger by requiring him or her to eat very spicy hot sauce. In Experiment 2, participants socially accepted by 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 other people could aggress against an innocent stranger by administering loud noise. In both experiments, aggression and unpleasant emotions decreased as a power function according to the number of people accepting the participants, with each additional acceptor having a decreasing incremental effect. Acceptance from others numbs the pain of social rejection, making rejected people less likely to lash out against innocent others.
New treatments for atopic dermatitis

Atopic dermatitis now affects 15% to 20% of chil­ dren in developed countries, and prevalence in cities in developing countries undergoing rapid demographic changes is quickly following suit.1 Most cases of atopic dermatitis in a given community are mild, but children with moderate to severe disease can have continuous itching and associated loss of sleep. The social stigma of a visible skin disease can also be soul destroying for both patient and family. A few studies have suggested that some degree of prevention of the disease is possible,2 although these measures have not been taken up widely. In the absence of any treatment that is known to alter the clinical course of the disease, most treatment is aimed at reducing symp­ toms and signs. After a relative lull of almost 40 years, new drugs—tacrolimus and pimecrolimus—have appeared that offer different approaches to managing this miserable disease. Do they work? Are they safe? And how do they compare with existing treatments?
Knowledge Portals: Ontologies at Work

Knowledge portals provide views onto domain-specific information on the World Wide Web, thus helping their users find relevant, domain-specific information. The construction of intelligent access and the contribution of information to knowledge portals, however, remained an ad hoc task, requiring extensive manual editing and maintenance by the knowledge portal providers. To diminish these efforts, we use ontologies as a conceptual backbone for providing, accessing, and structuring information in a comprehensive approach for building and maintaining knowledge portals. We present one research study and one commercial case study that show how our approach, called seal (semantic portal), is used in practice.
Hope and advance care planning in patients with end stage renal disease: qualitative interview study

Abstract Objective To understand hope in the context of advance care planning from the perspective of patients with end stage renal disease. Design Qualitative in-depth interview study. Setting Outpatient department of a university affiliated nephrology programme. Participants 19 patients with end stage renal disease purposively selected from the renal insufficiency, haemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis clinics. Results Patients' hopes were highly individualised and were shaped by personal values. They reflected a preoccupation with their daily lives. Participants identified hope as central to the process of advance care planning in that hope helped them to determine future goals of care and provided insight into the perceived benefits of advance care planning and their willingness to engage in end of life discussions. More information earlier in the course of the illness focusing on the impact on daily life, along with empowerment of the patient and enhancing professional and personal relationships, were key factors in sustaining patients' ability to hope. This helped them to imagine possibilities for a future that were consistent with their values and hopes. The reliance on health professionals to initiate end of life discussions and the daily focus of clinical care were seen as potential barriers to hope. Conclusions Facilitated advance care planning through the provision of timely appropriate information can positively enhance rather than diminish patients' hope. Current practices concerning disclosure of prognosis are ethically and psychologically inadequate in that they do not meet the needs of patients.
Machine Vision Based Lumber Grain Measurement

In this paper, measurement of wood grains is discussed. A number of image processing techniques are first applied to images of all four long surfaces of sawn lumber. This gives us the rates and directions of the visible grains, which enables us to estimate the actual thickness and 3D directions of wood fibers. These are very important indicators about the strength of the subject. In these experiments, we consider boards sawn from the heart side of the trunks of spruce trees. It is shown, how the position of the wood core can be estimated to few mm accuracy by only analyzing the grains seen on the surface. Also, we show how the measurements of fiber direction and density of annual growth correlate with the measured strength of the lumber.
Toward intelligent assistance for a data mining process: an ontology-based approach for cost-sensitive classification

A data mining (DM) process involves multiple stages. A simple, but typical, process might include preprocessing data, applying a data mining algorithm, and postprocessing the mining results. There are many possible choices for each stage, and only some combinations are valid. Because of the large space and nontrivial interactions, both novices and data mining specialists need assistance in composing and selecting DM processes. Extending notions developed for statistical expert systems we present a prototype intelligent discovery assistant (IDA), which provides users with 1) systematic enumerations of valid DM processes, in order that important, potentially fruitful options are not overlooked, and 2) effective rankings of these valid processes by different criteria, to facilitate the choice of DM processes to execute. We use the prototype to show that an IDA can indeed provide useful enumerations and effective rankings in the context of simple classification processes. We discuss how an IDA could be an important tool for knowledge sharing among a team of data miners. Finally, we illustrate the claims with a demonstration of cost-sensitive classification using a more complicated process and data from the 1998 KDDCUP competition.
Rational Design of Protein Stability: Effect of (2S,4R)-4-Fluoroproline on the Stability and Folding Pathway of Ubiquitin

Background Many strategies have been employed to increase the conformational stability of proteins. The use of 4-substituted proline analogs capable to induce pre-organization in target proteins is an attractive tool to deliver an additional conformational stability without perturbing the overall protein structure. Both, peptides and proteins containing 4-fluorinated proline derivatives can be stabilized by forcing the pyrrolidine ring in its favored puckering conformation. The fluorinated pyrrolidine rings of proline can preferably stabilize either a Cγ-exo or a Cγ-endo ring pucker in dependence of proline chirality (4R/4S) in a complex protein structure. To examine whether this rational strategy can be generally used for protein stabilization, we have chosen human ubiquitin as a model protein which contains three proline residues displaying Cγ-exo puckering. Methodology/Principal Findings While (2S,4R)-4-fluoroproline ((4R)-FPro) containing ubiquitinin can be expressed in related auxotrophic Escherichia coli strain, all attempts to incorporate (2S,4S)-4-fluoroproline ((4S)-FPro) failed. Our results indicate that (4R)-FPro is favoring the Cγ-exo conformation present in the wild type structure and stabilizes the protein structure due to a pre-organization effect. This was confirmed by thermal and guanidinium chloride-induced denaturation profile analyses, where we observed an increase in stability of −4.71 kJ·mol−1 in the case of (4R)-FPro containing ubiquitin ((4R)-FPro-ub) compared to wild type ubiquitin (wt-ub). Expectedly, activity assays revealed that (4R)-FPro-ub retained the full biological activity compared to wt-ub. Conclusions/Significance The results fully confirm the general applicability of incorporating fluoroproline derivatives for improving protein stability. In general, a rational design strategy that enforces the natural occurring proline puckering conformation can be used to stabilize the desired target protein.
Spatial and temporal information fusion for crop condition monitoring

Crop growth condition information is critical for crop management and yield estimation. In order to monitor crop conditions from space, high spatial and temporal resolution remote sensing data are required. Data fusion approach provides a way to generate such data set from multiple remote sensing data sources. In this paper, the Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model (STARFM) was used to generate daily Landsat-like surface reflectance over central Iowa from 2001 to 2014. The fused Landsat-MODIS results were compared to the actual Landsat observations. Constrains and limitations of data fusion approaches were discussed. Data fusion results will be applied to map crop condition at field scales. Crop condition results will be compared to the Crop Progress reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
On Visual Law: Visual Legal Communication Practices and Their Scholarly Exploration

Digital visual media have implications for the law. Also, the interest in visual legal communication is growing both within and outside the legal context. In light of these observations, this paper addresses various related questions: Is there already a trend toward visual legal communication practices? If there is, what does this trend look like? If no such trend exists at present, what might it look like in future? Do the established disciplines of applicable law and/or the basic legal disciplines explore these sensory legal communication practices? If they do, which specific legal disciplines are these? The principal findings of this paper are: first, a trend toward visual legal communication practices exists, and these practices manifest themselves both within and outside the legal context. Second, whereas these practices are interconnected, delimiting them from each other sometimes proves difficult. Third, the established disciplines of applicable law and/or the basic legal disciplines explore most visual legal communication practices. No single legal discipline, however, covers all these practices. Instead, most disciplines refer only to specific visual legal communication practices. In addition, these disciplines explore these practices merely as a sideline. In other words, their main research focus lies elsewhere. Consequently, these phenomena need to be studied more intensively. There is a strong need for a legal discipline capable of exploring all visual legal communication practices. Visual law should be assigned this task.
Student-Athletes’ Attitudes and Beliefs Towards Social Media

The purpose of this study was to identify the attitudes and beliefs of student athletes towards social media. To address this question, student athletes completed a survey focused specifically on: the image they present on social media profiles, content included, and their thoughts on the social media education provided by their athletic department. Student athlete (SA) responses were also compared to non-athletes (NA) for a better understanding of social media profiles. Frequencies showed strong similarities in a number of content shared or not shared, like humorous photos (SA 74.1% and NA 73.3%) and sexy photos (SA 82.4% and NA 82.6%). Differences were also present in a Man Whitney U-test. The significant differences all scored below p<0.05 in the content of birthdays, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, athletic photos, and personal beliefs and values. Data also showed the need for student athlete education in social media. Data showed a large miscommunication between athletic departments and student athletes as 60% of student athletes believed there was a social media policy in place when in fact there is not. Additionally, regarding the image student athletes believe they present on social media, there was a divide between characteristics that presented a positive (fun, friendly, humorous etc.) and negative (irresponsible, immature, offensive etc.) image. However, future research is needed to show athletes perceptions of appropriateness and effective social media education. iv Table of
We Believe! Online Representations of the Olympic Winner as a Mythic Hero

This article 1 is a study of the doping scandal that broke out in April 2011 and concerned the esteemed Estonian sportsman and Olympic gold medal winner, Andrus Veerpalu. The current analysis is based on the material col- lected from the Estonian online media throughout two years, from April 2011 to March 2013, during which Andrus Veerpalu's court case was actively followed by the Estonian sports circles and laymen alike. We will analyse how the image of Andrus Veerpalu as a national hero (almost as a demigod) is constructed on the Internet and how it relates to analogous stories about athletes from earlier times (e.g., to folk stories about Georg Lurich). In the current case, the main reason why the majority of the nation sup- ported Andrus Veerpalu was because they believed in him. This pervading thread emerged right after the news spread, and was present in various contexts: the online comments of the articles that dealt with the scandal, Facebook community posts in the group entitled "We believe in Andrus Veerpalu" ("Usume Andrus Veerpalu"), which was created to show solidarity with the sportsman, etc. All this indicated the high status of the athlete and laid a foundation for a sincere and positive discourse. This was in opposition to the negative discourse of irony, which questioned the honesty of the athlete and foregrounded subversive emotions like indifference and superiority towards the topic. The analysis will address the emergence of the Olympic hero as a national myth, and point at various narra- tives that deal with the scandal through the present-day genres of urban legends, conspiracy stories, and Internet humour.
The Development and Maintenance of Mental Toughness in the World’s Best Performers

Eleven superelite participants (7 performers, 2 coaches and 2 sport psychologists) were interviewed regarding the development and maintenance of mental toughness. Findings revealed that this process occurred over four distinct career phases: three developmental phases, and one maintenance phase. Factors influencing development and maintenance included: skill mastery, competitiveness, successes, international competitive experience, education and advice, the use of psychological skills, access to an understanding social support network, and reflective practice. In addition, positive and negative critical incidents were perceived by participants to act as catalysts in initiating or enhancing specific components of mental toughness. Practical implications highlight the importance of a mental toughness attitude/mindset to development, while future directions are discussed in relation to measurement and intervention strategies.