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Assessing the Relationship between Vector Indices and Dengue Transmission: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

Background Despite doubts about methods used and the association between vector density and dengue transmission, routine sampling of mosquito vector populations is common in dengue-endemic countries worldwide. This study examined the evidence from published studies for the existence of any quantitative relationship between vector indices and dengue cases. Methodology/Principal Findings From a total of 1205 papers identified in database searches following Cochrane and PRISMA Group guidelines, 18 were included for review. Eligibility criteria included 3-month study duration and dengue case confirmation by WHO case definition and/or serology. A range of designs were seen, particularly in spatial sampling and analyses, and all but 3 were classed as weak study designs. Eleven of eighteen studies generated Stegomyia indices from combined larval and pupal data. Adult vector data were reported in only three studies. Of thirteen studies that investigated associations between vector indices and dengue cases, 4 reported positive correlations, 4 found no correlation and 5 reported ambiguous or inconclusive associations. Six out of 7 studies that measured Breteau Indices reported dengue transmission at levels below the currently accepted threshold of 5. Conclusions/Significance There was little evidence of quantifiable associations between vector indices and dengue transmission that could reliably be used for outbreak prediction. This review highlighted the need for standardized sampling protocols that adequately consider dengue spatial heterogeneity. Recommendations for more appropriately designed studies include: standardized study design to elucidate the relationship between vector abundance and dengue transmission; adult mosquito sampling should be routine; single values of Breteau or other indices are not reliable universal dengue transmission thresholds; better knowledge of vector ecology is required.
Automotive exhaust gas sensing systems

Gas sensors have become an integral component of control systems for internal combustion engines to provide information for feedback control of air-to-fuel ratio (A/F) to achieve improved vehicle performance and fuel economy as well as decreased levels of emission. Increasingly stringent limits on evaporative emissions as well as the requirement of having on-board diagnostics (OBD), which includes catalyst monitoring, necessitate the monitoring of exhaust gas constituents [i.e., carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HCs), and oxides of nitrogen (NO/sub x/)]. The different sensing requirements, testing procedures, environmental parameters, and need for microsystem-based realizations are discussed.
Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)

Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) is an experimental delay-based congestion control algorithm that seeks to utilize the available bandwidth on an end-to-end path while limiting the consequent increase in queueing delay on that path. LEDBAT uses changes in one-way delay measurements to limit congestion that the flow itself induces in the network. LEDBAT is designed for use by background bulk-transfer applications to be no more aggressive than standard TCP congestion control (as specified in RFC 5681) and to yield in the presence of competing flows, thus limiting interference with the network performance of competing flows. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
Design of a Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese

Compilation of a 100 million word balanced corpus of written Japanese, known as BCCWJ, is underway. This paper describes the design issues of this corpus. The corpus consists of three component sub-corpora differing in the sampling population and sampling technique. Two of them are compiled using the standard technique of random sampling. The third sub-corpora contains various mini corpora designed for special research purposes; this last sub-corpora will include at least 5 million word mini corpus of internet text.
Paper 1 : Promoting Children ' s Social Emotional Learning in Conflict-Affected Settings : Differential impacts by gender and refugee status in Niger

Diverse stakeholders are increasingly investing in and implementing SEL programs in humanitarian contexts (USAID, 2017). Despite extensive research providing strong evidence that school-based SEL programs can improve children’s cognitive, social-emotional, and academic skills (Durlak. Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011), emerging evidence from crisis contexts have shown mixed evidence at best (Aber, Torrente et al., 2017; Aber, Tubbs et al., 2017b; Education in Emergencies: Evidence for Action, 2017; Tubbs Dolan & WeissYagoda, 2017). Most evaluations in crisis contexts focus on whether the program works for children on average (Weiss, Bloom, & Brock, 2014). Little is known whether the program works differently for different groups of children, or how low and/or highly variable dosage and implementation quality of these programs in crisis-affected contexts would affect the impacts.
THE EVALUATION OF HEDGING EFFECTIVENESS IN INDEX FUTURE FOR IRANIAN LIGHT CRUDE OIL PRICE BASED ON MV-GARCH MODELS *

In order to the evaluation of hedging effectiveness in this paper we evaluate efficiency of Iran’s light crude oil price volatility in one month to four months cross hedge contracts in New York Stock Exchange (NYMEX) using MD-GARCH, BEKK-GARCH, CCC-GARCH, ECM-MD, ECM-BEKK, ECM-CCC pattern. By estimating the optimal dynamic hedge in weekly crude oil price during January 2000 to January 2012, we found that by using MD-GARCH we can cover the volatility risk of Iranian light crude oil through one month to four month NYMEX contracts by 67/85 percent. Among the six mentioned, for futures one month, three months and four months contract CCC GARCH model and for two months, MD GARCH model has the highest efficiency. It should be mentioned that the efficiency of equal position in the cash market and futures (hedge rate 1) is higher than selected strategies in all contracts of one month to four month.
Declining Effect of Latitude on Melanoma Mortality Rates in the United States A Preliminary Study

The gradient of mortality from melanoma of the skin with latitude among US whites was estimated from the slopes of semilogarithmic models fitted to the state-specific mortality rates and the latitudes of the states' capital cities. The upward gradient of mortality from north to south for malignant melanoma of the skin has been decreasing since 1950-1959, when data first became available, through 1960-1969, 1970-1979, and 1988-1992. By the early years of the 21 st century, rates of melanoma mortality in the contiguous United States are expected to be unaffected by latitude. For the country as a whole, melanoma mortality rates have been rising for many years. This rise has become progressively slower, such that national rates have been projected to stabilize in the near future. While increasing geographic mobility has probably played a role in reducing the latitude effect, melanoma mortality rates may have reached levels at which increased exposure of US whites to sunlight has little incremental effect. Am J Epidemiol 1997;146:413-17.
SEISMIC RISK ANALYSIS OF DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS : A FEASIBILITY STUDY

The seismic risk assessment of spatially distributed infrastructures systems is gaining increasing research relevance. To date, data communication networks are less investigated than other networks, yet evidently important. This study focuses on framing the simulation-based probabilistic seismic risk analysis of data communication infrastructures systems and testing its feasibility in a real case study; i.e., the interuniversity data network of the Campania region (southern Italy), which develops for 280 km in a region that ranks among the highest seismically-hazardous in Italy. The framework includes: (i) the probabilistic characterization of seismic input in terms of transient and permanent ground deformation hazard; (ii) the framing of the vulnerability of the network’s components; (iii) a preliminary performance analysis of the network. The paper illustrates the multidisciplinary needs and the challenges of the seismic analysis of data networks, and provides the implementation of the probabilistic simulation approach, possibly useful for further, more advanced, studies on the same topic.
ANAEROBIC TREATMENT OF POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG) -CONTAINING WASTEWATER IN A FIXED-BED REACTOR

This paper presents the suitability of anaerobic treatment of PEG-containing wastewater as a pre-treatment in order to recover the potential energy in the form of biogas. Polyethylene glycols (PEGs) are polymers composed of repeating sub-units of identical structure, called monomers, and are the most commercially important polyethers. PEGs are liquid or low-melting solids, depending on their molecular weights. It is prepared by polymerization of ethylene oxide. PEGs are non-toxic and are widely used in the manufacture of cosmetics, water-soluble lubricants, antifreeze agents for automobile radiators, and pharmaceutical, in the conservation treatment of ancient wood and in the production of non-ionic surfactants. Therefore, millions of tons of PEGs are manufactured or involved in industrial processes worldwide every year. Most of them reach conventional wastewater treatment systems after industrial utilization. A batch-assay test was performed in order to examine the degradability and the methane production potential of PEG-containing wastewater. A laboratory-scale fixed bed reactor made from glass column was also used in this study in order to determine the maximum loading rate during continuous feeding mode. Mesophilic condition (37 °C) and synthetic wastewaters were applied in both experiments. In the batch-assay tests, most of the organic matters (mainly PEG) were degraded and converted to biogas after 70 hours of incubation. A methane production potential of approx. 0.36 m∙kg CODadded or 0.60 m ∙kgPEGadded was observed in this batch-assay test. During the continuous-feeding mode in the fixed-bed reactor, an OLR of 8 kg-COD∙m∙d was considered as the maximum OLR with more than 90% of the COD in the wastewater was eliminated. Considering the performance of the laboratory-scale reactor (i.e. COD elimination and biogas production), it can be concluded that anaerobic treatment is a suitable method for the treatment of PEG-containing wastewater.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES IN YOUTH AND SPORTS DEPARTMENTS OF EAST AZERBAIJAN PROVINCE

The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between information technology and knowledge management and the productivity of managers and employees of Youth and Sports Departments in East Azerbaijan province. The research population (n=178) included all managers and employees working in Youth and Sports Departments of East-Azerbaijan province. Out of which, 22 subjects were managers and 114 subjects were employees. According to the nature of study, the research method is based on correlation and is applied study concerning purpose, which was done in the field. To collect data, three types of questionnaires were used which were IT questionnaire of Fathi (2010) (consisting of 36 questions with 5-point Likert scale), knowledge management questionnaire of Askari (2012) (consisting of 42 questions with 5-point Likert scale) and the questionnaire of employees’ productivity. The obtained reliability for the questionnaires of IT, knowledge management and organizational performance (productivity) were 0.85 and 0.79, respectively. Cronbach’s Alpha was used for internal reliability of questions, which was calculated 0.87. To analyze data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between information technology (IT) and managers’ productivity, there is a significant relationship between the reinforcement of senior management support systems and employees’ productivity, there is a significant relationship between knowledge creation and managers’ productivity, there is a significant relationship between knowledge management and employees’ productivity, there is a significant relationship between network systems and employees’ productivity and there is a significant relationship between knowledge application and managers’ productivity.
Formalizing style to understand descriptions of software architecture

The software architecture of most systems is usually described informally and diagrammatically by means of boxes and lines. In order for these descriptions to be meaningful, the diagrams are understood by interpreting the boxes and lines in specific, conventionalized ways. The informal, imprecise nature of these interpretations has a number of limitations. In this article we consider these conventionalized interpretations as architectural styles and provide a formal framework for their uniform definition. In addition to providing a template for precisely defining new architectural styles, this framework allows for analysis within and between different architectural styles.
CameraMatch: automatic recognition of subjects using smartphones-toward entertaining photo sessions

We seek to increase both the enjoyment in a photo session and the amount of information of a photo by appending Manga iconography to photos automatically. By reducing the number of dimensions in a video to that of a photo, a user can easily understand events and the context of the video in less time. However, it is not easy to realize such a system. In this paper, toward automatic Manga iconography generation, we report on our feasibility study in which we attempted to associate subjects in a video with their smartphones.
Efficient Neural Architecture Search on Low-Dimensional Data for OCT Image Segmentation

Typically, deep learning architectures are handcrafted for their respective learning problem. As an alternative, neural architecture search (NAS) has been proposed where the architecture's structure is learned in an additional optimization step. For the medical imaging domain, this approach is very promising as there are diverse problems and imaging modalities that require architecture design. However, NAS is very time-consuming and medical learning problems often involve high-dimensional data with high computational requirements. We propose an efficient approach for NAS in the context of medical, image-based deep learning problems by searching for architectures on low-dimensional data which are subsequently transferred to high-dimensional data. For OCT-based layer segmentation, we demonstrate that a search on 1D data reduces search time by 87.5% compared to a search on 2D data while the final 2D models achieve similar performance.
Non-Ergodic Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses

A method is developed that relaxes the ergodic assumption in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), accounting for the impacts on both the median and aleatory standard deviation of a ground-motion predication equation. Impacts on both intraand inter-event residuals are addressed. The aleatory variability is separated from the systematic source, path and site effects using a strong motion data set from Taiwan with multiple recordings at each site and multiple earthquakes within small regions. Systematic site effects are accommodated by scale factors at individual sites. Systematic sourceand path-effects are accommodated through models of their spatial covariance that are used to generate stochastic spatially correlated simulations of the path and source effects for applications to other regions with sparse data. Example hazard calculations show up to a factor of four increase in epistemic uncertainty without site-specific data.
The menstrual cycle does not affect human immunodeficiency virus type 1 levels in vaginal secretions.

To determine whether the menstrual cycle affects human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 levels in vaginal secretions, vaginal lavage samples were collected at 7, 14, and 21 days after initiation of menses, to compare virus levels during the follicular, ovulatory, and luteal phases. During 33 menstrual cycles in 25 women, HIV-1 RNA levels in vaginal secretions ranged from . 05). These results suggest that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle do not have a significant effect on HIV-1 RNA levels in vaginal secretions.
INVESTIGATING EFFECTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS ON SUCCESS OF MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTION PROJECTS : CASE STUDY OF MAPNA BOILER CO . , MACHINESAZI ARAK CO . AND AZARAB CO

Today the use of project management information system (PMIS) is one of the major and influential factors in the timely and successful implementation of manufacturing projects so that by making proper flow of information to the managers such as project managers and executive managers help to the proper and timely implementation of projects. In the most of success models of information systems (IS), factors are being considered that influence on the use and user satisfaction. While manufacturing projects due to their complex and procedural nature, which at the same time are composed of several different activities, requires other important factors. Factors such as reporting, identifying the critical activities and their effect on the quality of information and quality of project management are considered to evaluate the effectiveness of information flow in the project. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to present a model to study the effects of Project Management Information System on the success of manufacturing project. Therefore, after reviewing various models of PMIS and identifying the major and effective factors on efficient project management, the conceptual model presented and then relationships by using the structural equation modeling method and Lisrel investigated. Results of research on three large projectoriented company in Iran showed that information systems project management with consideration of factors such as "reporting costs", "updating", "identifying critical activities and limitation of resources", "providing comprehensible and graphical inputs", "quality of information", " project management quality" and finally "the success of manufacturing projects" is effective.
Changes in the relationship between stimulation pulse duration and force output with fatigue for human quadriceps muscles

Functional movements often require repetitive activation of muscles. Muscle fatigue causes the decline in force output and may result in inability of the muscle to produce sufficient forces to allow continued performance. Clinically, stimulation intensity is increased to overcome the decline in force due to muscle fatigue during FES. The precise control of muscle force is needed to maximize performance and minimize fatigue during FES; however, changes in the human skeletal muscle force-intensity relationship with fatigue have not been previously reported. The purpose of this study is to investigate the changes in the force-intensity relationship with fatigue. Right quadriceps muscles of 9 healthy adults were tested isometrically. Preand post-fatigue force responses to 60-Hz stimulation trains at different pulse durations were recorded and analyzed. Our results showed an exponential relationship between force output and stimulation pulse duration and that the normalized force-intensity relationship did not change with fatigue. Thus, although the force-intensity relationship is dynamic, the fact that the normalized forceintensity relationship did not change with fatigue can help clinicians identify appropriate stimulation intensity to precise control muscle force during the application of FES.
Preparation for pacemaker or implantable cardiac defibrillator implants in patients with high risk of thrombo-embolic events: oral anticoagulation or bridging with intravenous heparin? A prospective randomized trial

Aims Current guidelines recommend stopping oral anticoagulation (OAC) and starting heparin infusion before implanting/replacing a pacemaker/implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) in patients with high risk for thrombo-embolic events. The aim of this study was to demonstrate that the maintenance of OAC during device implantation/replacement is as safe as bridging to intravenous heparin and shortens in-hospital stay. Methods and results A cohort of 101 consecutive patients with high risk for embolic events and indication for implant/replacement of a pacemaker/ICD were randomized to two anticoagulant strategies: bridging from OAC to heparin infusion (n = 51) vs. maintenance of OAC to reach an INR = 2 ± 0.3 at the day of the procedure (n = 50). Haemorrhagic and thrombo-embolic complications were evaluated at discharge, 15 and 45 days after the procedure. A total of 4/51 patients (7.8%) from heparin group and 4/50 (8.0%) from the OAC group developed pocket haematoma following the implant (P = 1.00). One haematoma in each group required evacuation (1.9 vs. 2%, P = 1.00). No other haemorrhagic events or embolic complications developed during the follow-up. Duration of the hospital stay was longer in the heparin group [median of 5 (4–7) vs. 2 (1–4) days; P < 0.001]. Conclusion Implant of devices maintaining OAC is as safe as bridging to heparin infusion and allows a significant reduction of in-hospital stay.
A kind of prediction from string phenomenology: extra matter at low energy

We review the possibility that the Supersymmetric Standard Model arises from orbifold constructions of the E8×E8 Heterotic Superstring, and the phenomenological properties that such a model should have. In particular, trying to solve the discrepancy between the unification scale predicted by the Heterotic Superstring (≈gGUT × 5.27 × 1017GeV) and the value deduced from LEP experiments (≈2 × 1016GeV), we will predict the presence at low energies of three families of Higgses and vector-like colour triplets. Our approach relies on the Fayet–Iliopoulos breaking, and this is also a crucial ingredient, together with having three Higgs families, to obtain in these models an interesting pattern of fermion masses and mixing angles at the renormalizable level. Namely, after the gauge breaking some physical particles appear combined with other states, and the Yukawa couplings are modified in a well-controlled way. On the other hand, dangerous flavour-changing neutral currents may appear when fermions of a given charge receive their mass through couplings with several Higgs doublets. We will address this potential problem, finding that viable scenarios can be obtained for a reasonable light Higgs spectrum.
Amendment history : Corrigendum ( March 2017 ) miR-107 promotes tumor progression by targeting the let-7 microRNA in mice and humans

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) influence many biological processes, including cancer. They do so by posttranscriptionally repressing target mRNAs to which they have sequence complementarity. Although it has been postulated that miRNAs can regulate other miRNAs, this has never been shown experimentally to our knowledge. Here, we demonstrate that miR-107 negatively regulates the tumor suppressor miRNA let-7 via a direct interaction. miR-107 was found to be highly expressed in malignant tissue from patients with advanced breast cancer, and its expression was inversely correlated with let-7 expression in tumors and in cancer cell lines. Ectopic expression of miR-107 in human cancer cell lines led to destabilization of mature let-7, increased expression of let-7 targets, and increased malignant phenotypes. In contrast, depletion of endogenous miR-107 dramatically increased the stability of mature let-7 and led to downregulation of let-7 targets. Accordingly, miR-107 expression increased the tumorigenic and metastatic potential of a human breast cancer cell line in mice via inhibition of let-7 and upregulation of let-7 targets. By mutating individual sites within miR-107 and let-7, we found that miR-107 directly interacts with let-7 and that the internal loop of the let-7/miR-107 duplex is critical for repression [. ] Research Article Oncology