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Promoting posttraumatic growth of cancer patients: Using a positive emotion-focused treatment program

Objective: Recent literature indicates that, in addition to individuals suffering from major life events, eg, loss of loved ones, car accident injuries, disaster victims, patients with major or chronic illness would also experience a variety of positive changes, known as posttraumatic growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996). Studies also found that such changes are related to good psychological adaptation and illness adjustment (Sawyer, Ayers, & Field, 2010). The purpose of this study was to enhance cancer patients` illness adjustment and quality of life. Based upon models of emotional competence and posttraumatic growth, a positive emotion-focused treatment program was designed for cancer patients, and its effects to promote adaptation and life satisfaction were evaluated, and the factors and process leading to these effects were examined. Methods: The study participants were 34 cancer patients, most suffering from blood cancer: 18 had received positive emotion- focused treatment, and the other 16, the control group, received the usual medical care and did not participate in the treatment program. This study was of the pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. Patients answered scales related to emotional symptoms (depression and anxiety), emotional adaptation, emotional competence, and positive/negative impacts of cancer twice about 2-3 months apart. In order to examine what leads to post-traumatic growth, this study measured the specific impacts of being sick with cancer which patients perceived in all aspects of life, including both positive effects (such as better relationships with loved ones) and negative impacts (such as interrupted daily routine), with five areas: physical and mental health, daily life and activity, living environment, social and intimate relationships, and faith and goals. After informed consent, accommodated to the patient`s medical condition and hospitalization schedule, treatment was provided in the ward. The positive emotion-focused treatment program included 8 sessions, each about one hour. In the treatment, (1) at first, understanding and awareness of emotions were introduced, the generation process and meaning of emotions were explained; (2) then, various methods of emotion regulation were taught, but also emphasizing awareness of positive life experience and emotions to facilitate coping with emotional stress in life; (3) next, helping patients reviewing the time since getting sick to ￢reflect the impacts of being sick with cancer on their lives, including exploring what are valued to them, and at the same time, seeing different losses and gains, and to find their own meaning of life; (4) last, setting up life goals and planning in order to facilitate positive actions to improve the quality of life and to rebuild one`s life.
Privacy Preservation in Social Network Analysis

Social networks are in great expansion nowadays. Opposite to many benefits, such as fast access to information, simple interaction among users, or being a perspective data source for decision makers and analysts, they raise many problems related to privacy protection. Vast amount of personal information that are voluntarily provided is disclosed in social networks and prone to misuse. Therefore, in this paper we investigated named erosions of privacy from (1) the viewpoint of data mining techniques used in social network analytic, and from (2) the perspective of different privacy-preserving mechanisms and methods applied to social networks.
Management of Difficult Pediatric Facial Burns: Reconstruction of Burn-Related Lower Eyelid Ectropion and Perioral Contractures

Despite significant burn treatment advances, modern multidisciplinary care, and improved survival after burns, facial burn scars remain clinically challenging. Achieving a successful reconstruction requires a comprehensive approach, entailing many advanced techniques with an emphasis on preserving function and balancing intricate aesthetic requirements. Pediatric facial burns present the same reconstructive challenges seen in adults, with additional developmental and psychologic concerns. In this paper, we describe the basic principals of facial burn care in the pediatric burn population, with a specific focus on lower-eyelid burn ectropion and oral commissure burn scar contracture leading to microstomia. Several cases are demonstrated.
From global to metanational: how companies win in the knowledge economy

From the Publisher: Becoming a global company once meant penetrating markets around the world. But the demands of the knowledge economy are turning this strategy on its head. Today, the challenge is to innovate by learning from the world . This book provides a blueprint for companies ready to embrace this new globalization challenge. In From Global to Metanational , international business and strategy experts Yves Doz, Jose Santos, and Peter Williamson introduce a radically different kind of company-the metanational-defined by three core capabilities: being the first to identify and capture new knowledge emerging all over the world; mobilizing this globally scattered knowledge to out-innovate competitors; and turning this innovation into value by producing, marketing, and delivering efficiently on a global scale. The authors explain why traditional global strategies are no longer sufficient to differentiate leading competitors, what the knowledge economy means for managers, and why opportunities to leverage globally dispersed knowledge are growing. Most important, they outline exactly how managers can build a metanational advantage for their own organizations by: * Prospecting for and accessing untapped pockets of technology and emerging consumer trends from around the world * Leveraging knowledge imprisoned in a multinational's local subsidiaries * Mobilizing this fragmented knowledge to generate innovations, profits, and shareholder value Drawing from the experiences of pioneering metanationals including STMicroelectronics, ARM, Acer, Nokia, Shiseido, and PolyGram, the book shows how today's multinationals can use their existing global networks to gain an important head start in the global game-and how newcomers can leapfrog traditional competitors by rapidly building a new-style metanational corporation. Must-reading for every leader-from the CEO of a new global venture, to the executive of a currently successful multinational, to the founder of an e-business startup getting ready to "go global"-this pathbreaking book shows how to reshape strategies to compete and win in the global knowledge economy. "From Global to Metanational brings fresh insights to the management of multinational enterprise in today's knowledge-intensive economy. Moving beyond the traditional view of promoting international expansion to win market access, this thoughtful yet practical book describes the next level of how companies must compete in the global arena. Written by three of the world's leading thinkers in the field of international management, this book will change the thinking of executives and scholars alike. " Christopher Bartlett, Daewoo Professor of Business Management and Chair of the Program for Global Leadership, Harvard Business School Author Biography: Yves Doz is Timken Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. Jose Santos is Professor of International Management at INSEAD. Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management and Asian Business at INSEAD's Euro-Asia Centre. [EBK1]
Detection of the period of voice based on wavelet

The quality analysis of pathological voice is not only a kind of objective evaluation for the human voice, but also an objective evidence for the application of voice disease diagnosis and the judgment of therapy. In this paper, the pathological voice quality analysis system is composed of five parts, which are voice recording, voice signal processing, and extraction of voice characteristic parameters, choice of these features and evaluation of voice quality. Firstly, this paper gives a brief introduction to the pathological voice quality analysis's background and purpose. Besides, it also details some methods of voice signal processing. For detection of voice period, vague fundamental frequency of voice is extracted firstly by using Fourier transform, and then the accurate detection of the voice period through EGG and wavelet transformation is performed. This method of period detection is highly accurate and practicable. Based on the period of voice, many features of voice such as the fundamental frequency, frequency perturbation, and amplitude perturbation can be extracted. This database is built by collecting healthy and pathological voice samples from Shengjing Hospital and related references. After analyzing the collected voice signals, the result shows that the pathological voice quality analysis system has the well evaluation performance in the practical application. These evaluation results reflect the quality of voice signal and can be used to assistant judge the treatment of voice disease and the recovery condition of treatment.
Rawls, de la justicia al derecho como sujeto político Rawls, From Justice to Right as Political Subject

In an article published in 1985, 14 years after the appearance of his Theory of Justice, Rawls seeks to make explicit the extent to which his conception of justice can dispense with any type of metaphysical origin. Although it cannot carry out an ex - haustive analysis of Rawls's political theory, the article examines the assumptions and consequences of this statement, according to which the principles of justice operate in a purely political framework. The question on which the discussion is based and structured is that regarding the political subject in Rawls.
Race/Ethnicity Has No Effect on Outcome for Breast Cancer Patients Treated at an Academic Center with a Public Hospital

Background: African American women have a higher breast cancer mortality rate than Caucasian women. To understand this difference, socioeconomic status (SES) needs to be controlled, which can be achieved by evaluating outcome within a population that is underinsured or low SES. We elected to examine the effect of race/ethnicity on outcome of patients with operable breast cancer by evaluating outcome in a population with low SES and similar access to care. Methods: From a prospective breast cancer database created in 1998, we examined outcome for 786 patients with stage 0 to III breast cancer treated up to September 2008. Patients were treated at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and E.A. Conway Hospital and the majority received standard definitive surgery as well as appropriate adjuvant treatment. Primary endpoints were cancer recurrence and death. Statistical analysis performed included Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards model, independent-samples t test, and χ2 test. P ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Sixty percent of patients were African American and over two thirds of patients were classified as either free care or Medicaid. The 5-year overall survival (OS) for African American and Caucasian patients was similar (81% and 84%, respectively; P = 0.23). On multivariate analysis, race/ethnicity was not an independent predictor of OS (P = 0.5); OS for the entire cohort was comparable with what was reported in the National Cancer Data Base. Conclusion: In a predominantly indigent population, race/ethnicity had no effect on breast cancer outcome. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009;18(8):2157–61)
Distributed hybrid control strategy for multiple wind farms under symmetrical and asymmetrical faults

The research study in this paper develop an idea of Hybrid Control Approach (HCA) for electric grid interfaced Multiple Wind Farms (MWFs). The Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) based MWFs are considered for documented study in this paper. The main attention and focus were drawn towards Rotor Side Converter(RSC) Control. A case study of 27MW grid tied MWFs under symmetrical and asymmetrical faults is carried out in MATLAB/Simulink. In order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed cascaded control strategy, simulation results were compared with PI controller. We effectively reduce rotor side over currents with proposed control approach. The simulation results for electromagnetic torque, further demonstrated enhanced overall performance of the MWFs with proposed control scheme.
Toward flexible calibration of head-mounted gaze trackers with parallax error compensation

Although the mobile head-mounted gaze tracker (HMGT) has gained its great success in human-machine interactions, the real implementation of HMGT still poses several significant challenges. The parallax error and the tedious calibration procedure, as two of these challenges, will be addressed in our proposed two-step calibration method. In the first step, instead of fixating at several pre-defined calibration points successively, the user is only required to change his or her head pose while gazing at one calibration marker with allowance of short-period distractions. Users can continuously change head poses or keep each of their head poses for 1∼2 seconds before changing to the next head pose. Then the traditional Gaussian process (GP) regression considering the dominant linear trend and a sparse GP regression using pseudo-inputs are applied for above two kinds of head motions to register input space of glint-pupil vectors with output space of image gaze points, respectively. Besides, the heat map, the correlation test and blob analysis are made use of to detect users' distractions and eye blinks during the calibration phase. The second step involves recovering the epipolar geometry set up by HMGT and eyeballs. To this end, a nonlinear optimization problem is formulated to search for the geometry parameter set which could well explain the detected parallax errors resulted from varying the depth of the calibration point. Then the real image gaze point can be straightforwardly estimated as the intersection of two epipolar lines calculated from binocular data. The simulation and experimental results validate the effectiveness of our proposed calibration method.
Book review: The social development of leadership and knowledge: A reflexive inquiry into research and practice

scholars or students who are working on the particular topic of the chapter and need to learn more. Scholars of work-related topics, such as work–family intersection, might find the book beneficial as well. Although the book does not directly focus on family, it does mention the relation between work and family, and the changes in their quality of the relationship as work has evolved over time. From my point of view, other than those in academia, the book is beneficial to managers who hear the word “work” so often that they might ignore its historical advancements, its changing nature, and the implications such a historical and deep understanding might have on their decisions in workplace settings. Each chapter ends with a comprehensive summary, although in some chapters it exceeds what could be called a summary, which is beneficial for those who need to get a general idea about the material but are pressed for time.
Rough set theory applied to pattern recognition of Partial Discharge in noise affected cable data

This paper presents an effective, Rough Set (RS) based, pattern recognition method for rejecting interference signals and recognising Partial Discharge (PD) signals from different sources. Firstly, RS theory is presented in terms of Information System, Lower and Upper Approximation, Signal Discretisation, Attribute Reduction and a flowchart of the RS based pattern recognition method. Secondly, PD testing of five types of artificial defect in ethylene-propylene rubber (EPR) cable is carried out and data pre-processing and feature extraction are employed to separate PD and interference signals. Thirdly, the RS based PD signal recognition method is applied to 4000 samples and is proven to have 99% accuracy. Fourthly, the RS based PD recognition method is applied to signals from five different sources and an accuracy of more than 93% is attained when a combination of signal discretisation and attribute reduction methods are applied. Finally, Back-propagation Neural Network (BPNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) methods are studied and compared with the developed method. The proposed RS method is proven to have higher accuracy than SVM and BPNN and can be applied for on-line PD monitoring of cable systems after training with valid sample data.
Commentaries on “Informatics and Medicine: From Molecules to Populations”

Summary Objective: To discuss interdisciplinary research and education in the context of informatics and medicine by commenting on the paper of Kuhn et al. “Informatics and Medicine: From Molecules to Populations”. Method: Inviting an international group of experts in biomedical and health informatics and related disciplines to comment on this paper. Results and Conclusions: The commentaries include a wide range of reasoned arguments and original position statements which, while strongly endorsing the educational needs identified by Kuhn et al., also point out fundamental challenges that are very specific to the unusual combination of scientific, technological, personal and social problems characterizing biomedical informatics. They point to the ultimate objectives of managing difficult human health problems, which are unlikely to yield to technological solutions alone. The psychological, societal, and environmental components of health and disease are emphasized by several of the commentators, setting the stage for further debate and constructive suggestions.
Early T‐cell responses in tuberculosis immunity

Summary: Tuberculosis (TB) has plagued mankind for millennia yet is classified as an emerging infectious disease, because its prevalence in the human population continues to increase. Immunity to TB depends critically on the generation of effective CD4+ T‐cell responses. Sterile immunity has not been achieved through vaccination, although early T‐cell responses are effective in controlling steady‐state infection in the lungs. Although such early T‐cell responses are clearly protective, the initiation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) T‐cell response occurs much later than is the case following other aerogenic infections. This fact suggests that there is a critical period, before the activation of the T‐cell response, in which Mtb is able to establish infection. An understanding of the factors that regulate early T‐cell activation should, therefore, lead to better control of the disease. This review discusses recent work that has investigated the early development of T‐cell immunity following Mtb infection in the mouse.
UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ DEPARTAMENTO ACADÊMICO DE ELETRÔNICA PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA

SILVA, José Lourenço Kutzke Morais. Analysis of correlation methods to assess trampled related to neuromuscular activation. 2015. 97 f. Dissertação – PósGraduação em Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná. Curitiba, 2015 The foot and ankle disorders are prevalent in the general population and one of the main reasons for primary care consultations. The prevalence of disorders of treading, assessing the severity of the biomechanical deformity, as well as evaluating the progress of treatment, are usually identified only by clinical and radiological analysis. However, in practice, the diagnosis made only with this approach, excluding the evaluation of the plantar muscle recruitment associated with dysfunctions seem to be sufficient to choose the most appropriate treatment, whereas the effective functioning of the foot, also depends on the correct functioning the musculoskeletal system. Thus, this study aimed to identify the most effective method of analysis of the medial longitudinal arch through baropodometry associated with electromyographic evaluation surface. We studied 43 healthy subjects of both sexes aged between 18 and 25, through baropodometry, being adopted four analysis methods of the medial longitudinal arch consisted of: Arch Index Plantar Chippaux-Smirak, Clarke angle , evaluation Cavanagh-Rodgers, and Viladot. After the evaluation, the above ratings were subjected to Pearson correlation Spermann and being compared with the recruitment of the anterior tibialis muscles, peroneus longus and gastrocnemius bilaterally. These values were determined by Surface electromyographic analysis (rms) in microvolts unit. It was found that the recruitment of the gastrocnemius muscles (medial and lateral) had low correlation with all methods. Have the peroneus longus muscles (0.308) and anterior tibialis (-0.308) showed only low correlation with Clarke analysis method. So with these figures presented it is clear that the Clarke method is unreliable for the analysis of the medial longitudinal arch, as well as the gastrocnemius muscles are not very active in the formation of this. Already ChippauxSmirak and Viladot classification are more suitable for evaluation of ALM, the first of which stands out from the second, as the values for the anterior tibialis (53.9 ± 9.6) and peroneus longus (48, 5 ± 4.9) were more similar when evaluated the normal parameters for the classification of the medial longitudinal arch. Therefore it was found that the Chippaux-Smirak method was the most effective classification to be adopted computed baropodometric analysis for classification of ALM.
Short-term training attenuates muscle TCA cycle expansion during exercise in women.

Muscle glycogenolytic flux and lactate accumulation during exercise are lower after 3-7 days of "short-term" aerobic training (STT) in men (e.g., Green HJ, Helyar R, Ball-Burnett M, Kowalchuk N, Symon S, and Farrance B. J Appl Physiol 72: 484-491, 1992). We hypothesized that 5 days of STT would attenuate pyruvate production and the increase in muscle tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates (TCAI) during exercise, because of reduced flux through the reaction catalyzed by alanine aminotransferase (AAT; pyruvate + glutamate <--> 2-oxoglutarate + alanine). Eight women [22 +/- 1 yr, peak oxygen uptake (Vo2 peak) = 40.3 +/- 4.6 ml. kg-1. min-1] performed seven 45-min bouts of cycle exercise at 70% Vo2 peak over 9 days (1 bout/day; rest only on days 2 and 8). During the first and last bouts, biopsies (vastus lateralis) were obtained at rest and after 5 and 45 min of exercise. Muscle glycogen concentration was approximately 50% higher at rest after STT (493 +/- 38 vs. 330 +/- 20 mmol/kg dry wt; P <or= 0.05), and net glycogenolysis and lactate accumulation were reduced after 5 min of exercise by 59 and 49%, respectively (P <or= 0.05). The net increase in four measured TCAI was approximately 40% lower (P <or= 0.05) during exercise after training (1.68 +/- 0.60 vs. 2.71 +/- 0.44 mmol/kg dry wt), and the net decrease in glutamate concentration was attenuated (P <or= 0.05). We conclude that 1). the contraction-induced increase in flux through AAT is reduced after 5 days of aerobic training and 2). the muscle glycogenolytic response during exercise after STT in women is similar to that in men.