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Surgery for Patients With Spontaneous Deep Supratentorial Intracerebral Hemorrhage

AbstractSpontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) is one of the most dangerous cerebrovascular diseases, especially when in deep brain. The treatment of spontaneous deep supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage is still controversial. We conducted a retrospective case-control study using propensity score matching to compare the efficacy of surgery and conservative treatment for patients with deep surpatentorial hemorrhage.We observed the outcomes of consecutive patients with spontaneous deep supratentorial hemorrhage retrospectively from December 2008 to July 2013. Clinical outcomes of surgery and conservative treatments were compared in patients with deep sICH using propensity score matching method. The primary outcome was neurological function status at 6 months post ictus. The second outcomes included mortality at 30 days and 6 months, and the incidence of complications. Subgroup analyses of 6-month outcome were conducted.Sixty-three (22.66%) of the 278 patients who received surgery had a favorable neurological function status at 6 months, whereas in the conservative group, 66 of 278 (23.74%) had the same result (P = 0.763). The 30-day mortality in the surgical group was 19.06%, whereas 30.58% in the conservative group (P = 0.002). There was significant difference in the mortality at 6 months after ictus as well (23.38% vs 36.33%, P = 0.001). The subgroup analyses showed significantly better outcomes for the surgical group when hematoma was >40 mL (13.33% vs 0%, P = 0.005) or complicated with intraventricular hemorrhage (16.67% vs 7.27%, P = 0.034). For complications, the risk of pulmonary infection, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, urinary infection, pulmonary embolus, and need for tracheostomy/long term ventilation in the surgical group was higher than the conservative group (31.29% vs 15.47%, P < 0.001; 6.83% vs 3.96%, P = 0.133; 2.88% vs 1.80%, P = 0.400; 1.80% vs 1.08%, P = 0.476; 32.73% vs 23.38%, P = 0.014). Surgery could reduce the short-term mortality as well as long-term mortality in patients with spontaneous deep supratentorial hemorrhage. Moreover, surgery might improve the functional outcome in patients with large hematoma or with IVH compared with conservative treatment. Surgery might be a beneficial choice for part of the patients with spontaneous deep supratentorial hemorrhage, but further detailed research is still needed.
Conversational Interface Agents for the Semantic Web - a Case Study

The Semantic Web is about to become a rich source of knowledge whose potential will be squandered if it is not accessible for everyone. Intuitive interfaces like conversational agents are needed to better disseminate this knowledge, either on request or even proactively in a context-aware manner. This paper presents work on extending an existing conversational agent, Max, with abilities to access the Semantic Web via natural language communication.
Implications of 2d FGRS Results on Cosmic Structure

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey is the first to observe more than 100,000 redshifts, making possible precise measurements of many aspects of galaxy clustering. The spatial distribution of galaxies can be studied as a function of galaxy spectral type, and also of broad‐band colour. Redshift‐space distortions are detected with a high degree of significance, confirming the detailed Kaiser distortion from large‐scale infall velocities, and measuring the distortion parameter β ≡ Ωm0. 6/b = 0.49 ± 0.09. The power spectrum is measured to ≲ 10% accuracy for k > 0.02 h Mpc−1, and is well fitted by a CDM model with Ωmh = 0.18 ± 0.02 and a baryon fraction of 0.17 ± 0.06. A joint analysis with CMB data requires Ωm = 0.31 ± 0.05 and h = 0.67 ± 0.04, assuming scalar fluctuations. The fluctuation amplitude from the CMB is σ8 = 0.76 ± 0.04, assuming reionization at z ≲ 10, so that the general level of galaxy clustering is approximately unbiased, in agreement with an internal bispectrum analysis. Luminosity dependence of cl.
The emergence of early childhood education outdoor programs in British Columbia: a meandering story

ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence of early childhood education outdoor programs in British Columbia, Canada. The story told follows paths not dissimilar from how one might observe children on a walk to the park. While the park is the destination, it is the journey to the park, of picking up pebbles, looking at flowers, and finding sticks, that enlivens and binds the journey. Through our consideration of stories from a number of outdoor programs, we weave patterns that join their emergence and consider how their stories might sustain and encourage educational action.
An Intercultural Analysis of Differences in Appropriateness Ratings of Facial Expressions Between Japanese and American Subjects

This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact pdxscholar@pdx.edu. Recommended Citation Peschka-Daskalos, Patricia Jean, "An Intercultural Analysis of Differences in Appropriateness Ratings of Facial Expressions Between Japanese and American Subjects" (1993). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4700.
A Framework for Reasoning about Share Equivalence and Its Integration into a Plan Generator

Very recently, Cao et al. presented the MAPLE approach, which accelerates queries with multiple instances of the same relation by sharing their scan operator. The principal idea is to derive, in a first phase, a non-shared tree-shaped plan via a traditional plan generator. In a second phase, common instances of a scan are detected and shared by turning the operator tree into an operator DAG (directed acyclic graph). The limits of their approach are obvious. (1) Sharing more than scans is often possible and can lead to considerable performance benefits. (2) As sharing influences plan costs, a separation of the optimization into two phases comprises the danger of missing the optimal plan, since the first optimization phase does not know about sharing. We remedy both points by introducing a general framework for reasoning about sharing: plans can be shared whenever they are share equivalent and not only if they are scans of the same relation. Second, we sketch how this framework can be integrated into a plan generator, which then constructs optimal DAG-structured plans.
CeA-RVMM serotonergic circuits and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy

Consensus exists on the importance of neural circuit in affecting the clinical outcome after sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). There is growing evidence that the serotonergic neuronal networks have a well-established role in SUDEP. Much progress has been made in our understanding of SUDEP since the seminal experiments of neural circuits. Future studies are that CeM-RVMM serotonergic circuits are poised to integrate multiple synaptic inputs from various sources thought to influence sudden unexpected death in epilepsy by melanocortinergic signaling.
The Role of the Commercial Bank

The chartered banking system is ready to answer the question "Can Private Enterprise Meet the Post-War Needs of This Country" so far as credit is concerned. Far in advance of the time when actual credit is needed for reconversion and postwar expansion the banks of this country are setting up new and additional facilities that will mobilize the banking resources of the nation and make them available to industry, agriculture and business, particularly small business. The growth and prosperity of small business have long been of vital concern to the banks as by far the greater part of the business of all banks, day in and day out, is with small enterprises. Banking itself is small business. Approximately 86 percent of the insured commercial banks of the country have deposits of less than five million dollars and the deposits of 43 percent are less than one million dollars. Being such a major part of the small business economy, bankers know that small business is the backbone of this country and that it must be perpetuated.
Molecular Mechanisms of Action of BPA

Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure has been associated with serious endocrine-disrupting effects in humans and wildlife. Toxicological and epidemiological studies evidenced that BPA increases body mass index and disrupts normal cardiovascular physiology by interfering with endogenous hormones in rodents, nonhuman primates, and cell culture test systems. The BPA concentration derived from these experiments were used by government regulatory agencies to determine the safe exposure levels of BPA in humans. However, accumulating literature in vivo and in vitro indicate that at concentrations lower than that reported in toxicological studies, BPA could elicit a different endocrine-disrupting capacity. To further complicate this picture, BPA effects rely on several and diverse mechanisms that converge upon endocrine and reproductive systems. If all or just few of these mechanisms concur to the endocrine-disrupting potential of low doses of BPA is at present still unclear. Thus, taking into account that the incidence and/or prevalence of health problems associated with endocrine disruption have increased worldwide, the goal of the present review is to give an overview of the many mechanisms of BPA action in order to decipher whether different mechanisms are at the root of the effect of low dose of BPA on endocrine system.
HIGH QUALITY SCALABLE STEREO AUDIO CODING

This paper proposes an efficient, low complexity, scalable audio coder based on a combination of two embedded coding algorithms: the SPIHT (set partitioning in hierarchical trees) coding algorithm [1] and an embedded, nested binary set partitioning (NBSP) algorithm. The SPIHT algorithm, considered to be the premier state-of-the-art algorithm in still image compression, is used for the low frequency subbands in a wavelet packet audio signal decomposition, while the NBSP algorithmencodes the high frequency audio subbands. Both left and right channels are encoded together to form a single embedded stereo audio bitstream, that can be truncated at any point to produce an optimal lower rate and quality bitstream for delivery to lower quality user services. Using standard MPEG test materials, we evaluate the performance of the proposed encoder compared to the MPEG II standard audio coder through informal listening tests at bit rates of 48Kbs/sec and 64Kbs/sec per channel. We conclude that our coder is comparable with MPEG II at 48Kbs/sec and better at 64 Kbs/sec per channel. The algorithm also features exact bit rate control, progressive transmission and low complexity for both the encoder and decoder. These features show its potential for interactive audio transmission over networks.
SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS OF HOT LINES CONSTRAINING CORONAL HEATING IN SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS

Extreme-ultraviolet observations of warm coronal loops suggest that they are bundles of unresolved strands that are heated impulsively to high temperatures by nanoflares. The plasma would then have the observed properties (e.g., excess density compared with static equilibrium) when it cools into the 1–2MK range. If this interpretation is correct, then very hot emission should be present outside of proper flares. It is predicted to be very faint, however. A critical element for proving or refuting this hypothesis is the existence of hot, yet faint plasmas which should be at amounts predicted by impulsive heating models. We report on the first comprehensive spectroscopic study of hot plasmas in active regions (ARs). Data from the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer on Hinode were used to construct emission measure (EM) distributions in quiescent ARs in the 1–5 MK temperature range. The distributions are flat or slowly increasing up to approximately 3 MK and then fall off rapidly at higher temperatures. We show that AR models based on impulsive heating can reproduce the observed EM distributions relatively well. Our results provide strong new evidence that coronal heating is impulsive in nature.
Abelian dominance and adjoint sources in lattice QCD.

Certain properties of maximal abelian projection are derived which suggest that the fundamental and adjoint SU(2) string tensions are reproduced by singly and doubly charged abelian Wilson loops, respectively. Thus, abelian dominance, which has been observed for color sources (quarks) in the fundamental representation, can be extended to higher representations. Numerical evidence in support of this conjecture also for adjoint quarks is presented. The difference between maximal abelian and local projections is elucidated and the role of non-Wilson-like terms in the effective abelian action is discussed.
Discrimination by Parallel Observers: The Algorithm

Abstract The main result of the paper is a constructive proof of the following equivalence: two pure λ -terms are observationally equivalent in the lazy concurrent λ -calculus iff they have the same Levy–Longo trees. An algorithm which allows to build a context discriminating any two pure λ -terms with different Levy–Longo trees is described. It follows that contextual equivalence coincides with behavioural equivalence (bisimulation) as considered by Sangiorgi. Another consequence is that the discriminating power of concurrent lambda contexts is the same as that of Boudol–Laneve's contexts with multiplicities.
Oblivious Sorting of Secret-Shared Data

In this research report we give an overview of methods for obliviously sorting data that has been protected using secret sharing. Oblivious sorting is an important primitive in privacypreserving data analysis, as it can impose order on secret-shared data, simplifying the construction of data transformation and aggregation algorithms. In this work, we compare several published sorting methods with a novel implementation based on sorting networks. We evaluate the theoretical performance and discuss the practical implications of the different approaches.
Retailer Web Site Influence On Customer Shopping: Exploratory Study on Key Factors of Customer Satisfaction

The Internet/World Wide Web (Web) is a critical medium for the sharing of business information between retail firms and their customers (business-to-customer or B2C). Although electronic commerce (e-commerce) has received considerable research attention, little research has examined the effect of e-commerce’s Web presentations on retail customer shopping experiences. This twophase study explored customer reactions to Web retailers’ presentations of their products/services, attempting to identify Web-site characteristics that contribute to customer satisfaction arising from the Web-based shopping experience. Findings from use of the qualitative method of existential phenomenology were explored further with quantitative analyses including logistic regression. Findings suggest that two key elements in “positive” retail Web sites are convenience of site use and simplicity of site design for the customer’s access to information about product/service characteristics and customer-service policies.
Effect of rock phosphate solubilization using mycorrhizal fungi and phosphobacteria on two high yielding varieties of Sesamum indicum L.

The interactive potential benefits of inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) Glomus fasciculatum (Thax. sensu Gerd.) Gerd. and Trappe to TSES 1 and Acaulospora laevis Gerd. and Trappe to TSES 4 varieties of Sesamum indicum L. with phosphate solubilizing bacteria in the presence of different doses of Rock phosphate (0, 15, 30, 45 kg ha ) conducted in earthen pots in a completely randomized block -1
DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SELF EMULSIFYING DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR LORNOXICAM

Aim of the present work was to develop and evaluate a solid self-emulsifying drug delivery system (SEDDS) for oral poorly water-soluble drug lornoxicam. The liquid (SEDDS) consisted of capmul MCM as oil phase, tween 20 as surfactant and PEG 400 as co-surfactant. Oil, surfactant and co-surfactant were selected on the basis of solubilisation capacity of drug and emulsification ability of surfactant and co-surfactants. The formulations were optimized by constructing the pseudo-ternary phase diagram. The liquid formulation was solidified by laboratory scale spray dryer, using Aerosil 200 as solid carrier. The solid SEDDS shows greater drug release thus, solid SEDDS improves the oral bioavailability and may provide the useful solid dosage form for oral poorly water soluble drugs.
An Event Network for Exploring Open Information

In this paper, an event network is presented for exploring open information, where linguistic units about an event are organized for analysing. The process is divided into three steps: document event detection, event network construction and event network analysis. First, by implementing event detection or tracking, documents are retrospectively (or on-line) organized into document events. Secondly, for each of the document event, linguistic units are extracted and combined into event networks. Thirdly, various analytic methods are proposed for event network analysis. In our application methodologies are presented for exploring open information.
RDIS: Tolerating Many Stuck-At Faults in Resistive Memory

With their potential for high scalability and density, resistive memories are foreseen as a promising technology that overcomes the physical limitations confronted by charge-based DRAM and flash memory. Yet, a main burden towards the successful adoption and commercialization of resistive memories is their low cell reliability caused by process variation and limited write endurance. Typically, faulty and worn-out cells are permanently stuck at either `0' or `1'. To overcome the challenge, a robust error correction scheme that can recover from many hard faults is required. In this paper, we propose and evaluate RDIS, a novel scheme to efficiently tolerate memory stuck-at faults. RDIS allows for the correct retrieval of data by recursively determining and efficiently keeping track of the positions of the bits that are stuck at a value different from the ones that are written, and then, at read time, by inverting the values read from those positions. RDIS is characterized by a very low probability of failure that increases slowly with the relative increase in the number of faults. Moreover, RDIS tolerates many more faults than the best existing scheme-by up to 95 percent on average at the same overhead level.
Untethering the Nuclear Envelope and Cytoskeleton: Biologically Distinct Dystonias Arising from a Common Cellular Dysfunction

Most cases of early onset DYT1 dystonia in humans are caused by a GAG deletion in the TOR1A gene leading to loss of a glutamic acid (ΔE) in the torsinA protein, which underlies a movement disorder associated with neuronal dysfunction without apparent neurodegeneration. Mutation/deletion of the gene (Dst) encoding dystonin in mice results in a dystonic movement disorder termed dystonia musculorum, which resembles aspects of dystonia in humans. While torsinA and dystonin proteins do not share modular domain architecture, they participate in a similar function by modulating a structural link between the nuclear envelope and the cytoskeleton in neuronal cells. We suggest that through a shared interaction with the nuclear envelope protein nesprin-3α, torsinA and the neuronal dystonin-a2 isoform comprise a bridge complex between the outer nuclear membrane and the cytoskeleton, which is critical for some aspects of neuronal development and function. Elucidation of the overlapping roles of torsinA and dystonin-a2 in nuclear/endoplasmic reticulum dynamics should provide insights into the cellular mechanisms underlying the dystonic phenotype.
TANGIBLE ASSETS REVALUATION AND THE FAIR VIEW

Each year in preparation of annual financial statements must be evaluated the entity’s assets to be presented, so that these assets to be recorded in the financial statements at fair value need regular revaluation. Revaluations should be made with sufficient regularity so that the accounting value to does not differ substantially from that which would be determined using fair value at balance sheet date, so is guarateed the true and fair view of the financial statements. The study contains an analysis of the selected sample of 57 entities that responded to the questionnaire sent, with regard to: revaluation of assets of the entity, the reason of revaluation and the notion of true and fair view.
Content distribution system based on adaptive cooperation between P2P and OCS network

Recently, optical network technologies are actively researched and developed. However, adaptive cooperation of optical network with network applications is not considered deeply. On the other hand, as a content distribution system, P2P(Peer-to-Peer) has attracted attention. Currently, content delivery with P2P is based on IP network, and its application to optical network has not been considered. Therefore, we consider adaptive cooperation between P2P and optical network, especially OCS(Optical Circuit Switching) network for high feasibility to distribute contents more efficiently.
B 2 B Interoperability using Business-Driven Integration : Conceptual Framework and Case Study

The interoperability among companies and the business-to-business (B2B) message exchange are key aspects of the growth of businesses: in the next years the companies that are able to cooperate with each other will be winners. The use of B2B messages modifies a company’s method of operation and, of course, its internal business process. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework to solve the two types of problems that arise in the B2B field: one is more methodological, aimed at choosing guidelines oriented to the integration of business processes and the definition of business messages; the other is more technological, aimed at choosing an infrastructural solution more suitable for the development of message exchanges. The paper also defines a case study in order to show the feasibility of the conceptual framework. Using a specific case study, the paper will show the methodological and technological choices and how ontologies are the glue for different standards and notations involved in business-driven integration problems. Using BPMN notation, we design in this paper a business process that involves different business messages. The paper also presents a REST implementation of the business message exchange.
Sparse tensor discriminative locality alignment for gait recognition

Gait recognition is a rising biometric technology which aims to distinguish people purely through the analysis of the way they walk, while the problem is that the dimensionality of the gait data is too high, so it is necessary to carry on dimensionality reduction task. Up to date, in the area of computer vision and pattern recognition, various dimensionality reduction algorithms have been employed for gait data, including the conventional vector representation based methods principal components analysis (PCA) and, locality preserving projection (LPP), and the recently proposed multi-linear subspace learning based approaches such as multilinear principal component analysis (MPCA). In this paper, inspired by the advantages of the tensor representation and manifold learning, we propose a novel sparse tensor discriminative locality alignment for human gait feature representation and dimensionality reduction algorithm, and subsequently apply the refined feature for gait recognition by a lazy classifier of the KNN. The proposed method adopts sparse multi-way projection based on the high-order version of discriminative locality alignment, by which the class separability is enhanced and the potential model overfitting is simultaneously avoided. Extensive experiments on the University of South Florida (USF) HumanID Gait Database show that the proposed method achieves better recognition rate compared with some existing classical dimensionality reduction algorithms.