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Management of Cytomegalovirus Infection After Renal Transplantation

Since the first successful human renal transplants were performed in the 1950s, cytomegalovirus (CMV) has remained as the major infectious pathogen that has affected allograft and patient survival. Cytomegalovirus disease in renal transplant recipients can have serious direct clinical effects (eg, fever and organ invasion syndromes) and indirect consequences on allograft survival, risk of other opportunistic infections, and patient mortality. All of these effects increase the cost of care. Before the antiviral drug ganciclovir was developed, reduction of immunosuppression and immunoglobulin infusions were the major treatment strategies for CMV disease. Currently, ganciclovir and its prodrug, valganciclovir, are the mainstays of CMV disease treatment, preemptive therapy, and antiviral prophylaxis. However, limitations to the current management for CMV infection in transplant recipients have stimulated interest in developing new treatment strategies and drugs. This article discusses the current concepts and challenges and reviews potential newer options in the management of CMV infection after renal transplantation.
Sur une généralisation des polynomes de Jacobi

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Looking at Pictures: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Art

This text invites the reader to think about the value of paintings. Starting from familar situations such as looking at a poster on the underground, the strands of ordinary thinking about art are developed, refined and sometimes rejected. Concepts of appreciation, artistry, intrinsic value and aestetic education are elaborated and explored. The author uses a wide range of paintings for contemplation and discussion, challenging the reader to think about whether paintings offer any special and lasting value.
A Survey on Classification of Sentiments from Twitter

— Sentiment Analysis or Opinion Mining is the computational study of the attitudes, opinions and emotions of people toward an entity. The 21st century has seen the advent of the online shopping system, which has become a very popular mechanism for users to purchase goods without actually going to stores. These reviews can be referred to by other users to help them decide which products to buy. Applying sentiment analysis to these product reviews can help in understanding the overall reception of the product. Sentiment analysis has increased the interest of many researchers in recent years, since subjective texts are useful for many applications. Sentiment analysis in particular has become a great research field. Studies on sentiment analysis mainly focus on pre-processing, feature extraction and classification model construction. This paper presents a survey on various research and latest development done in sentiment analysis, and also makes an introduction of its application in various fields. And finally discuss some future scope and directions where sentiment analysis could grow.
Viruses And The Evolution Of Life

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Effective planning with expressive languages

Classical planning is concerned with finding sequences of actions that achieve a certain goal from an initial state of the world, assuming that actions are deterministic, states are fully known, and both are described in some modeling language. This work develops effective means of dealing with expressive modeling languages for classical planning. First, we show that expressive languages not only allow simpler problem representations, but also capture additional problem structure that can be leveraged by heuristic solution methods. We develop heuristics that support functions and existential quantification in the problem definition, and show empirically that they can be more informed and cost-effective. Second, we develop a novel width-based algorithm that matches state-of-the-art performance without looking at the declarative representation of actions. This is a significant departure from previous research, and advances the use of expressive modeling languages in planning and the scope and effectiveness of classical planners.
A Privacy Protection Model for Patient Data with Multiple Sensitive Attributes

In this paper, we consider the collaborative data publishing problem for anonymizing horizontally partitioned data at multiple data providers. We consider a new type of "insider attack" by colluding data providers who may use their own data records (a subset of the overall data) to infer the data records contributed by other data providers. The paper addresses this new threat, and makes several contributions. First, we introduce the notion of m-privacy, which guarantees that the anonymized data satisfies a given privacy constraint against any group of up to m colluding data providers. Second, we present heuristic algorithms exploiting the monotonicity of privacy constraints for efficiently checking m-privacy given a group of records. Third, we present a data provider-aware Anonymization algorithm with adaptive m-privacy checking strategies to ensure high utility and m-privacy of anonymized data with efficiency. Finally, we propose secure multi-party computation protocols for collaborative data publishing with m-privacy. All protocols are extensively analyzed and their security and efficiency are formally proved. Experiments on real-life datasets suggest that our approach achieves better or comparable utility and efficiency than existing and baseline algorithms while satisfying m-privacy.
Hepatitis C Virus in Thalassemia

Prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is relatively low in children. However, seroprevalence rates of 10–20% have been reported among children who received repeated transfusion. The development and the severity of liver fibrosis are strongly related to the extent of the liver iron overload and to the presence of chronic hepatitis C (CHC). In CHC, liver iron overload has been suggested as a negative prognos- tic factor exacerbating inflammation with subsequent progression of liver fibrosis and decrease in antiviral therapy effectiveness. CHC may be suspected based on medical history or accidentally discovered abnormal liver functions. Hepatitis C is diagnosed by positive serology for viral antibodies and confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect virus RNA. The treatment of HCV infection in children was difficult due to the limitations of pegylated interferon-α and ribavirin. In 2017, FDA approved the first direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) for children including ledipasvir/sofosbuvir in the adult dose, 90/400 mg, to treat HCV in children and adolescents aged 12 years and older or weighing at least 35 kg. Similarly, giving half the adult fixed-dose of ledipas -vir/sofosbuvir, 45/200 mg, to children aged 6–11 years is still under clinical trials with promising results.
Understanding low levels of condom use between female sex workers and their regular partners: Timing of sexual initiation in relationships as a differentiating factor in Karnataka, South India

ABSTRACT Evidence shows that low condom use is the norm in relationships between female sex workers (FSWs) and their regular partners. We investigated the timing of sexual initiation in a relationship with a regular partner as a critical factor in determining condom use. Three rounds of Integrated Behavioral and Biological Assessment (IBBA) surveys were used to derive whether regular partner relationships began before or after sex work initiation. Of the 7,015 FSWs surveyed, 33% started an intimate partner relationship before sex work initiation, 27% after beginning sex work, and the remaining 40% did not have a regular partner. Condom use was significantly higher in a FSW’s relationship after sex work initiation (p < 0.01), compared to a relationship with a regular partner before sex work. Programmatically, more efforts and resources are necessary toward promoting condom use among FSWs who have regular partner relationships before their initiation of sex work.
Concrete Search with Abstract Matching and Refinement

We propose an abstraction-based model checking method which relies on refinement of an under-approximation of the feasible behaviors of the system under analysis. The method preserves errors to safety properties, since all analyzed behaviors are feasible by definition. The method does not require an abstract transition relation to be generated, but instead executes the concrete transitions while storing abstract versions of the concrete states, as specified by a set of abstraction predicates. For each explored transition the method checks, with the help of a theorem prover, whether there is any loss of precision introduced by abstraction. The results of these checks are used to decide termination or to refine the abstraction by generating new abstraction predicates. If the (possibly infinite) concrete system under analysis has a finite bisimulation quotient, then the method is guaranteed to eventually explore an equivalent finite bisimilar structure. We illustrate the application of the approach for checking concurrent programs. We also show how a lightweight variant can be used for efficient software testing.
Le normal et le pathologique Compte-rendu de la table ronde des XV es Journées francophones d’électro-neuromyographie (15-17 mars 2006, Grenoble)

1 Unité ENMG et pathologie neuromusculaire, département de neurologie, CHU Grenoble. 2 Fédération de neurophysiologie clinique, hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris. 3 Boston VA Medical Center, Harvard-BU Neurology Service, Boston, États-Unis. 4 Laboratoire EEG-EMG, hôpital général, Dijon. 5 Service de neurologie, hôpital universitaire de Genève, Suisse. 6 Médecine physique, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgique. Pourquoi une table ronde sur “le normal et le pathologique” ? Cet intitulé est emprunté au livre du philosophe Georges Canguilhem, publié en 1966 (1), faisant suite à sa thèse de médecine écrite en 1943, Essai sur quelques problèmes concernant le normal et le pathologique. Sa formation médicale a orienté sa pensée philosophique et son enseignement de l’épistémologie à la Sorbonne, avec un intérêt particulier pour les sciences du vivant. Cette réflexion et les questions qu’elle pose restent d’actualité, en médecine et tout particulièrement dans les techniques d’exploration, dont la neurophysiologie. Les questions de normes, de normalité, de normativité sont d’autant plus délicates qu’elles s’appliquent à des techniques supposées détecter des anomalies infracliniques, dont la signification pathologique n’est pas toujours patente et qui compliquent la notion classique de référence à un sujet témoin supposé normal. De fait, à la question récurrente de tout apprenti électroneuromyographiste : “Quelles sont les valeurs normales de tel(s) paramètre(s) ? ”, la réponse ne peut être simple ou univoque et m’a toujours embarrassée, ravivant mon intérêt pour ce thème que, comme Canguilhem, “je tiens pour fondamental”. L’objectif de cette table ronde était donc de poser les questions et d’essayer d’apporter des éléments de réponse dans le domaine de l’électroneuromyographie (ENMG).
Informatics of spike trains in neuronal ensemble

Information-is encoded in the spike trains of neurons in the brain. However, the distribution of information is not uniform over time in a spike train, nor is information carried by neurons individually. Here, based on Receiver-Operating-Characteristics (ROC), the authors developed a method to evaluate the information carried in the spike trains of ensembles of neurons in different time windows across different time scales, While we found that different types of information is carried in different time windows, and in general, including more neurons in the analysis increases the amount of information, but the ratio of the increment decreases with each addition.
Teachers and School Personnel as First Responders following Disasters: Survivors and

Many teachers and school personnel work in the communities in which they live and following disasters and are often dealing with the same recovery issues as students. These individuals may be among the first to respond directly to students’ emotional needs at the same time as they must process their own losses and stressors. The purpose of this study is to understand the contributors to and levels of posttraumatic stress symptoms in a group of teachers and school personnel following Hurricane Katrina. The study included 495 teachers and school personnel (support staff, counselors, and administration) at schools throughout Southeast Louisiana. Surveys were requested by school administration and collected anonymously during staff meetings from December 2006 to September 2007. The majority of participants reported that their homes sustained reparable flood and/or wind damage; however almost one-quarter of the participants had uninhabitable homes. Approximately 25% of the participants had significant symptoms for PTSD and depression. Results suggest that age, previous trauma, Hurricane experiences, current alcohol use, and partner conflict significantly predicted posttraumatic stress symptoms. Results also suggest that previous trauma, hurricane experiences, and partner conflict significantly predicted depression. Findings indicated that for teachers in the present study approximately one-quarter struggled with PTSD (24%) and depression (25%) symptoms following Hurricane Katrina. To assist these individuals with supporting youth during disaster recovery, services must be made available to meet these non-traditional first responders’ emotional needs. In future disaster planning, it is imperative to focus on building teacher and staff supports through school and community activities and developing collaborations with local behavioral health resources and providers.
Perception of Infant Feeding Practices among mothers-to-be:An Urban-based school study

This study on the perception of infant feeding practices was conducted among unmarried girls from two randomly selected Saudi public schools in Al-Khobar. Though it was encouraging to note that the attitude of the, girls was largely in favour of breast feeding, many deficiencies were identified in their knowledge of infant feeding. 67.1 % students were unaware of the importance of colostrum and 70.5% opted for scheduled feeding over demand feeding. To 40.2% girls an optimum duration of 18-24 months for breast Feeding was not desirable. A large proportion of students lacked knowledge on the methods of promoting lactation such as early suckling (51.4%), frequent suckling (40%) and “rooming-in” (37.9%). Only 28% of the girls knew the correct age of introducing solid food. With the present trend of decline in the duration of breastfeeding in Saudi Arabia, the schools could play an important role in training and motivating future mothers for proper infant feeding practices.
Computer Viruses: from Theory to Applications

Part I - Genesis and Theory of Computer Viruses Introduction. - The Formalization Foundations. - The Virus Formalization : F. Cohen and L. Adleman (1984 - 1989). - Taxonomy, Techniques and Tools. - The Antiviral Fight Second part - Computer Viruses by Programming Introduction. - Computer Viruses in Interpreted Programming Language. - Companion Viruses Worms Third Part - Computer Viruses and Applications Introduction. - Computer Viruses and Applications. - BIOS Viruses. - Applied Cryptanalysis of Cipher Systems Conclusion Warning about the CDROM Bibliography Index
PEP: The Personal Energy Plan — A Worksite Approach to Improving Health through Increased Physical Activity and Healthy Eating

Pep: The personal energy plan‐‐ a worksite approach to improving health through increased physical activity and healthy eating Nicole A. Kerr a , Fred Fridinger b & Michèèle Volansky c a Health Communications Specialist for the Nutrition and Physical Activity Communications Team (NuPAC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA b Public Health Educator with the Nutrition and Physical Activity Team (NuPAC), Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA c Research Associate at Westat, Inc., Atlanta, GA
EPILEPTOGENIC LESIONS OF THE BRAIN: A HISTOLOGIC STUDY

This contribution is an analysis of the histologic features of various types of focal non-neoplastic lesions of the brain. The 95 specimens studied were excised at operation in an attempt to cure patients of habitual epileptic seizures. In each case the evidence indicated that the tissue excised was the starting point for the neuronal discharge which produced focal seizures in the patient in question. These lesions have resulted from traumatic injury, healed abscess of the brain, arterial occlusion and focal ischemia. The features which are common to all these different lesions must be important in the etiology of epilepsy. PREVIOUS WORK The meningocerebral cicatrix which produces chronic epilepsy was studied in a series of post-traumatic cases by Foerster and Penfield. 1 They concluded that laceration of the brain results in downward growth of connective tissue from the dura with a rich plexus of vessels which intermingles with astrocytes, the fibers
Meta-Analytic Evidence of Decision Task Effects and Their Effect on Search Outcomes Subject to Human-Computer Interactions in the Context of Web Page Search

Web page customization is receiving significant attention in Management Information Systems practice, as website principals scramble to learn about their visitors from the nature of their activity on the site. These and other considerable efforts to learn about users are requisite to manipulating site characteristics and measuring resulting search outcomes based on user activity. Even when we know why web page information should be changed, we still do not know what to change in order to help users search for information. Empirical variances across similar tasks have complicated our search for a small set of underlying principles that can describe human decision-making behaviors (Payne 1982). That is, we lack generalized empirical evidence of the expected effectiveness of web page customizations. This report describes work on a meta-analytic study of the relationships between decision task effects and individual search behaviors in the context of web page usage.
Vision for Space Robots on a Parallel Distributed Architecture

This article reports on two main contributions: the introduction of a parallel distributed architecture for robot vision, and robust robot vision techniques and their computationally efficient parallel implementation for grasping a polyhedral object in 3~D space. The parallel distributed architecture for robot vision is based on transputers (message-passing parallel processors) and vector signal processors. Vision algorithms including straight line detec~ tion, binocular stereo correspondence, surface reconstruction, motion estimation, rec~ ognition, and localization have been implemented in the OCCAM parallel programming language and run in adequate processor network topologies. The integration of the Robot Vision System into the DLR Telerobotics Ground Station and its application in the framework of the first German space robotics experiment ROTEX ("RObotics Technology EX~ periment") to the task of grasping a floating object, the DLR FreeFlyer, under wgravity is presented. For this task a hybrid approach to parallelism has been adopted involving geometric and algorithm parallelism. The integration of the whole set of robust robot viSion techniques for this task is reported for the first time in this article. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Bacterial contamination of frequently touched surfaces in computers in health care settings: a comparative study

This study was conducted to detect and compare the presence of bacteria, specifically the pathogens Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus (methicillin resistant and sensitive), on computer high-touch surfaces (keyboards and mouse) used at a university dental clinic, teaching hospital outpatient clinics, and a university health science centre students’ computer laboratories.Moistened sterile swab samples were obtained from 178 computers and cultured on MacConkey and mannitol salt agars, and then incubated for 48 hours at 37˚C. Representative colonies on the media were chosen, sub-cultured for purity and the species were identified using VITEK-2 and confirmed with VITEK MS when necessary. Of a total of 178 computer surfaces screened in the three locations, 97 (54.5%) were contaminated with bacteria. The differences in the total bacterial contaminations were statistically significant (P=0.001) between students’ computer laboratories (72.9%), hospital outpatient clinics (61.5%), and university dental clinics (32.8%). Staphylococcus aureus was detected on two computer keyboards and mice at two locations, the university dental clinics and the teaching hospital outpatient clinics. In addition, a sample from the teaching hospital’s outpatient clinic contained E. coli. No methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was detected in all locations. In conclusion, computer keyboards and mice in various settings were contaminated with bacteria. Dental, medical, and university students’ laboratories settings had different overall bacterial contamination on computer keyboards and mice, but no detectable differences in S. aureus and E. coli was evident.
A Combined Surface/volume Scattering Retracking Algorithm for Ice Sheet Satellite Altimetry

Here we develop an algorithm that is based upon a combined surface/volume scattering model that can be used to retrack individual altimeter waveforms over the ice sheets. Because the combined model is non-linear, an iterative least-squares procedure is used to fit the combined model to the return wave- forms. The retracking algorithm is comprised of two distinct sections. The algorithm's first section generates initial model parameter estimates from a filtered altimeter waveform. The second section uses the initial estimates, the theoretical model, and the waveform data to generate corrected parameter estimates. Then, based upon the convergence of the mean-squared error of the model fit to the waveform, or the convergence of the model parameters themselves, the algorithm repeats itself using the corrected estimates in place of the initial estimates, or terminates with the final model parameters. This retracking algorithm can be used to assess the accuracy of elevations produced from current retracking algorithms when sub- surface volume scattering is present. This is extremely important so that repeated altimeter elevation measurements can be used to accurately detect changes in the mass balance of the ice sheets. In addition, by analyzing the distribution of the model parameters over large portions of the ice sheet, regional and seasonal variations in the near-surface properties of the snowpack can be quantified.