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The application of discrete choice experiments in health economics: a systematic review of the literature

Objectives. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) within health economics. Even though the literature include several reviews of the methodology associated with conducting DCEs and analysing the resultant choice data, a detailed classification of the areas covered by DCEs is lacking. The aim of this paper is to provide, after a brief description of the most important phases of a DCE, a comprehensive categorization of the various areas in which DCEs in health care have been performed. Methods. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify published studies using stated preferences DCEs within a health context between January 1990 and May 2011. Results. 256 DCEs were included in the review. Compared to the 1990-2000 period, the number of DCEs has increased quickly, with experiments carried out in 30 different countries. A growing number of studies primarily investigated patients’ preferences during the years, collecting a greater number of responses in comparison to the baseline period. A significant proportion of publications estimated the benefits of health care services, like specialistic surgical and medical services, generic medical services, services for chronics and elderly people, maternity and childbirth services and diagnostic facilities. Nevertheless, DCEs has also been used to value health outcomes, examine preferences for pharmaceutical products, investigate labour-market choices as well as healthcare systems characteristics and health policies. Conclusions. This paper adds to the body of literature reviewing the growing stock of published DCEs in health economics, providing a new detailed taxonomy of the various areas in which such experiments have been applied. Together with the methodological refinements, future research should continue to explore new contexts of analysis.
Rehabilitating unauthorised touch or why museum visitors touch the exhibits

Abstract In 2014 The Senses and Society published a special issue on “Sensory Museology. ” Registering the emergence of this new multi-disciplinary field, the editor usefully observed that “its most salient trend has been the rehabilitation of touch. ” Arguably, however, touch has only been rehabilitated as an area of study insofar as it is authorised by the museum. Scholars have rarely considered the propensity of visitors to touch museum exhibits when they do not have permission to do so. In this article I suggest that the academic emphasis on authorised forms of contact privileges the institution’s aims and perspective. Conversely, researching unauthorised touch places a higher degree of emphasis on the visitors’ motivations and responses, and has the capacity to bring dominant characterisations of the museum into question. I substantiate and work through these claims by drawing on interview-based research conducted at the British Museum, and by investigating why visitors touch the exhibits without permission, what they touch, and what experiences that encounter enables.
Les grammaires HPSG

L’objectif de cet article est de fournir une presentation simplifiee du modele de grammaires HPSG, Head-driven Phrase structure Grammar, parfois traduit « Grammaire syntagmatique guidee par les tetes ». Tout d’abord, nous evoquerons brievement les acquis qui president a la naissance de HPSG et ses caracteristiques generales, puis nous presenterons l’architecture du formalisme, que nous illustrerons par l’analyse d’une phrase simple. 1. Le patrimoine herite Le modele HPSG apparait a la fin des.
"The Sounds of Deeds": Karl Kraus and Acoustic Quotation

The Viennese satirist Karl Kraus (1874–1936), publisher of the influential periodical The Torch (Die Fackel), enjoyed great notoriety during his lifetime as a writer and performer of theatrical texts, famed for his versatility as a vocal mimic and for his ability to turn his own enemies' words against them through probingly glossed quotations of their writing. In recent decades, however, scholarship has treated Kraus primarily as a print satirist, ignoring or downplaying the fact that language, for Kraus, remained vital and meaningful to the extent that it hewed closely to its origins in embodied acts of individual speech. The purpose of this essay is to renew scholarly interest in Kraus's plays and performances by demonstrating how his use of "acoustic quotation"—a term coined by Elias Canetti to describe Kraus's method of quoting printed text as if it were speech—constituted a distinctive response to mass media's disembodiment of language and lived experience in the early twentieth century.
Sedative, Anxiolytic, Antinociceptive, Anti-inflammatory and Antipyretic Effects of a Chloroform Extract from the Leaves of Urena sinuata in Rodents

Context: Urena sinuate L. (Malvaceae) is a well-known medicinal plant and it is used in traditional medicine systems. Objectives: The current study unravels the neuropharmacology, antinociceptive, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects of the chloroform extract of Urena sinuata leaves (CEUS) in rodents and also to determine the possible mechanism of antinociception which is involved in its acute toxicity and phytochemical studies. Materials and Methods: Neuropharmacological activities of CEUS were performed by hole cross, open field test, elevated plus-maze test and Thiopental Na induced sleeping time test. For the analgesic activity of CEUS, different methods like hot plate test, acetic acid induced test, formalin-induced test, tail immersion test and glutamate-induced nociception were used. Additionally, a possible mechanism of nociception was identified by cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) and ATP-sensitive K+ channel pathway analysis. Carrageenan-induced rat paw edema and cotton pellet-induced granuloma test were conducted to detect anti-inflammatory activity and brewer's yeast induced pyrexia test for antipyretic activity. Before 60 min of subjection to the respective test, the extracts (200 and 400 mg/kg) were given orally. Results: The obtained results showed that CEUS produced significantly (p < 0.05) neuropharmacological, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic activity with low or no toxicity. Moreover, in all the thermal and chemical-induced nociception models, antinociceptive response was exhibited. Furthermore, it involved cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) as well as ATP-sensitive K+ channel pathway mediated antinociceptive effect. Conclusions: These data show that CEUS has significant neuropharmacological, antiinflammatory and antipyretic effects that appear to have a relation with the inhibition of the glutamatergic system. Thus, the leaves of Urena sinuata could be used in the treatment of several types of inflammation in intestines and bladder. COX: Cyclooxygenase; NSAID: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; cGMP: Cyclic guanosine monophosphate; PGE: Prostaglandins; ICDDR,B: International centre for diarrheal disease and research, Bangladesh; CEUS: Chloroform extract of Urenasinuata; h: Hour; min, minutes; sec: Second; kg: Kilogram; Gram; μg: Microgram; liter; ml, millilitre; µL: liter; microgram per milliliter; mg/kg: Milligram per kilogram; %, b.w. : celsius; Angstrom; Calorie; kcal: al: alliori mean; sodium chloride; p.o. : administration;
The Importance Of Video Analysis And Statistical Programs In Junior Football Training

Sports performance has today a very high level of requirements, being no longer enough classical training and collaboration between the coach and his athlete. This has led to a greater use of information technology, a performance measurement apparatus and usage of software designed to quantify their performance, identify and improve ahtlete's training level. The statistical analysis software S.P.S.S. , quantifies and ranks the performance of a footballer, while the video analysis helps to correct technical or tactical errors. There was a number of 12 "Junior C" subjects belonging to the club Ceahlaul Piatra Neamt. The aim of the study was the improvement of the technique and biomechanics of striking the ball but also the increase of the percentage of successful passes and shots on goal. Subjects had to perform during five training sessions a total of 10 passes at distances of 3, 5 and 10 m to a fixed point and a total of 10 shots from distances of 11, 15 and 20 m from target. The research results revealed a significant improvement in biomechanics of hitting the ball both in the passes with the flat and shoots with full shoe of distance. We observed an increase to 100% of success passes to 5 m and shots of 15 m, and a significant improvement in the percentage of successful passes at a distance of 10 m up to 90% and increasing the percentage of successful shots at a distance of 20 m up to 80%. © 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy. org.uk
AUDIOVISUALIDADE EM MÚSICA: PROCESSOS PERCEPTIVOS E COGNITIVOS

Tanto o sistema auditivo, como o sistema visual, ambos localizados em regioes bem proximas no cerebro, codificam frequencias (sonoras e luminosas) que entram em nosso sistema sensorial, no caso a visao e a audicao, em informacoes para o cerebro, dando-nos condicoes de saber com o que estamos nos relacionando. A substituicao sensorial e empregada para suprir a perda de uma modalidade sensorial, convertendo a informacao do sentido prejudicado por outro sentido nao acometido. A integracao audiovisual e um tema pouco abordado na literatura musical. Nos estudos sobre musica e neurociencias este tem sido um assunto constante. Os aportes destes estudos trazem diversas hipoteses que se referem a sinestesia audiovisual, percepcao de objetos pela audicao musical, manifestacao da linguagem e percepcao de emocoes pela visualizacao da performance musical. Dessa forma, o proposito deste artigo e apresentar algumas desses aportes e discutir de que forma elas podem auxiliar os musicos, professores de musica e musicoterapeutas na sua pratica de trabalho e na formulacao de novas hipoteses de pesquisa.
Resistance and accommodation: factors for the (non-) adoption of machine translation among professional translators

ABSTRACT Despite considerable advances in machine translation (MT), adoption by professional translators still meets with resistance. Research on the human factors associated with MT (non-)adoption is required to understand this state of affairs. We investigate whether two specific groups of professional translators use MT, what reasons they advance for its use/non-use and what factors might explain the reasons given. Participants advanced an equally diverse set of reasons for using MT as for not using it, and this was strongly linked to text type, language pair, quality and trust. Using an agency theory lens, we found evidence of Pickering’s dialectics of resistance and accommodation in the focus group data. We also found that one group of translators is more open to the use of MT, and suggest that the socio-technical context of deployment might explain this finding.
Design of robust model-based tracking controllers via parametric programming

In this paper a method is presented for deriving the explicit robust model-based optimal control law for constrained linear dynamic systems. The controller underlying structure is derived off-line via parametric programming before any actual process implementation takes place. The proposed control scheme guarantees feasibility under the presence of uncertainties and disturbances, and steady state offset elimination by augmenting the model dynamics with a set of integral states and explicitly incorporating in the design stage a set of feasibility constraints.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, the Oral Contraceptive Pill and Pregnancy

This paper summarizes our current knowledge of the role of the oral contraceptive pill in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBO), followed by a review of fertility in women and men. IBD and pregnancy, including the impact on the fetus and the mother with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, is considered. The safety of drug treatment during pregnancy, the outcome of surgical treatment during pregnancy and the problems that may be encountered during pregnancy in patients with an ileostomy or ileo-anal pouch are discussed, followed by a review of the short and long term prognosis of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease partition.
The Secret Daily Teachings

All around the world, The Secret is helping millions achieve the lives of their dreams. Now, with The Secret Daily Teachings, Rhonda Byrne takes readers through the next vital steps in living The Secret. With 365 brand new insights that build on powerful truths, Byrne illuminates facets of the law of attraction that lead to more joy, abundance, and blessings—every single day of the year. This beautifully designed book has removable pages so readers can share their favorite teachings or take their most cherished inspirations with them as they go about the day. The Secret Daily Teachings supports readers in harnessing the hidden, untapped power of the Universe within themselves. Remember, as one of the daily teachings says, “No matter where you are, no matter how difficult things may appear to be, you are always being moved toward magnificence. Always. ”
Image analysis and modeling in ophthalmology

Ultrasound Biomicroscopic Imaging of the Anterior Chamber Angle Maria Cecilia Aquino and Paul Chew Automated Glaucoma Identification Using Retinal Fundus Images: A Hybrid Texture Feature Extraction Paradigm Muthu Rama Krishnan Mookiah, U Rajendra Acharya, Chandan Chakraborty, Lim Choo Min, Eddie Y K Ng, and Jasjit S Suri Ensemble Classification Applied to Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation: Theory and Implementation Muhammad Moazam Fraz and Sarah A Barman Computer Vision Algorithms Applied to Retinal Vessel Segmentation and Quantification of Vessel Caliber Muhammad Moazam Fraz and Sarah A Barman Segmentation of the Vascular Network of the Retina Ana Maria Mendonca, Behdad Dashtbozorg, and Aurelio Campilho Automatic Analysis of the Microaneurysm Turnover in a Web-Based Framework for Retinal Analysis Noelia Barreira, Manuel G Penedo, Sonia Gonzalez, Lucia Ramos, Brais Cancela, and Ana Gonzalez A-Levelset-Based Automatic Cup-to-Disc Ratio Measurement for Glaucoma Diagnosis from Fundus Image Jiang Liu, Fengshou Yin, Damon Wing Kee Wong, Zhuo Zhang, Ngan Meng Tan, Carol Cheung, Mani Baskaran, Tin Aung, and Tien Yin Wong The Singapore Eye Vessel Assessment System Qiangfeng Peter Lau, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu, and Tien Yin Wong Quantification of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Digital Fundus Images Hasan Mir, Hasan Al-Nashash, and U Rajendra Acharya Diagnostics Instruments for Glaucoma Detection Teik-Cheng Lim, U Rajendra Acharya, Subhagata Chattopadhyay, Jasjit S Suri, and Eddie Y K Ng Automated Cup-to-Disc Ratio Estimation for Glaucoma Diagnosis in Retinal Fundus Images Irene Fondon, Carmen Serrano, Begona Acha, and Soledad Jimenez Arteriovenous Ratio Calculation Using Image-Processing Techniques Manuel G Penedo, Sonia Gonzalez, Noelia Barreira, Marc Saez, Antonio Pose-Reino, and Maria Rodriguez-Blanco Survey on Techniques Used in Iris Recognition Systems Nagarajan Malmurugan, Shanmugam Selvamuthukumaran, and Sugadev Shanmugaprabha Formal Design and Development of an Anterior Segment Eye Disease Classification System Oliver Faust, Chan Wei Yan, Muthu Rama Krishnan Mookiah, U Rajendra Acharya, Eddie Y K Ng, and Wenwei Yu Modeling of Laser-Induced Thermal Damage to the Retina and the Cornea Mathieu Jean and Karl Schulmeister Automatization of Dry Eye Syndrome Tests Manuel G Penedo, Beatriz Remeseiro, Lucia Ramos, Noelia Barreira, Carlos Garcia-Resua, Eva Yebra-Pimentel, and Antonio Mosquera Thermal Modeling of the Ageing Eye Anastasios Papaioannou and Theodoros Samaras A Perspective Review on the Use of In Vivo Confocal Microscopy in the Ocular Surface Sze-Yee Lee, Andrea Petznick, Shakil Rehman, and Louis Tong Computational Modeling of Thermal Damage Induced by Laser in a Choroidal Melanoma Jose Duarte da Silva, Alcides Fernandes, Paulo Roberto Maciel Lyra, and Rita de Cassia Fernandes de Lima Index
RAPID DISSOLVE ORAL DOSAGE FORMS- A DETAIL REVIEW

In the current scenario of novel drug delivery system, much emphasis has been given to effective dosage form in term of producing steady level concentration in plasma for controlled release drug delivery system and rapid release drug for quick effects. In case of allergy, chemotherapeutics side effect treatment, pain medicines and pediatric as well as geriatrics drug delivery prefers rapid response of drug. Numbers of drug from above categories have been formulated in rapid release tablet or film. With the use of natural polymers and superdisintegrants it is feasible to prepare these dosage forms to dissolve within 1min with minimum quantity of water. The aim of present review is to give complete detailed including all formulation aspects and evaluation parameters of rapid dissolve tablets and films. This review is first of its kind, as per our knowledge, which compiles complete information in one article. Rapid dissolve formulation have very high acceptance rate due to patient friendly formulation. Several technologies have been developed and patented. This review also covers patented technology.
La biodiversité, une notion-clef du rapport cognitif à la réalité

La notion de biodiversite revet un statut reellement particulier. Elle trouve naturellement sa place dans des discours scientifiques mais, contrairement a la plupart des concepts scientifiques, elle joue un role-clef dans une serie vaste et heterogene de disciplines. Elle sort meme du champ des sciences au sens large pour investir des spheres dans lesquels les concepts scientifiques trouvent rarement leur place : celle du discours politique et celle du discours vernaculaire. Nous proposons ici une hypothese d'explicitation de la notion et nous montrons que prendre au serieux son statut pragmatique permet de mettre au jour la caracteristique qui conditionne l'omnipresence et l'unicite du terme ainsi que la transdisciplinarite de la notion. Cette caracteristique, qui est son caractere cognitif fractal, garantit la possibilite d'un enseignement de la biodiversite et en renforce la necessite.
Total body water and dry weight estimation by using multi-frequency tetrapolar bioelectrical impedance

El punto de cohorte de la Resistencia dada por la bioimpedancia de 550 permite determinar que pacientes con valores por debajo de este son sintomaticos con una alta sensibilidad 73% y una especificidad de 50%. Para el agua total corporal es posible utilizar la ecuacion Ramirez-Almanza pues tiene una buena correlacion mediana (0.76)con el indice de impedancia de Kushner. La VGS-MIS es el mejor metodo de valoracion encontrada hasta ahora para paciente renal porque involucra diferentes parametros fisicos, nutricionales, clinicos y bioquimicos.
A Study Of Prerequisites For Successful ERP Implementations From The Project Management Perspective

For A Study Of Prerequisites For Successful ERP Implementations From The Project Management Perspective Difficulties with implementations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software are widely documented. A review of selected literature published between January 1995 and May 2001 identifies fifteen prerequisite elements that can facilitate successful ERP implementations. These elements are related to specific project management problem areas, using grounded theory coding analysis and constant comparison. Results of the analysis are presented for project managers as a list of recommendations related to project scope, quality, time, cost and expectations.
Represent Changes of Knowledge Organization Systems on the Semantic Web

Traditional knowledge organization systems (KOS) including thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject heading systems, name authorities, and other lists of terms and codes have been playing important roles in indexing, information organization, and retrieval. With the advent of the semantic web, a large number of them have been converted into Linked Open Data (LOD) datasets. Since the Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) and SKOS eXtension for Labels (SKOS-XL) are languages for representation of knowledge organization systems, they have been applied to knowledge organization systems. In this article, the issues surrounding changes, versioning control, and evolution of KOS are investigated. From KOS services providers and consumers perspectives, this study focuses on representation of changes on the semantic web.
An Energy Efficient FPGA Hardware Architecture for the Acceleration of OpenCV Object Detection

An Energy Efficient FPGA Hardware Architecture for the Acceleration of OpenCV Object Detection Braiden Brousseau Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2012 The use of Computer Vision in programmable mobile devices could lead to novel and creative applications. However, the computational demands of Computer Vision are illsuited to low performance mobile processors. Also the evolving algorithms, due to active research in this field, are ill-suited to dedicated digital circuits. This thesis proposes the inclusion of an FPGA co-processor in smartphones as a means of efficiently computing tasks such as Computer Vision. An open source object detection algorithm is run on a mobile device and implemented on an FPGA to motivate this proposal. Our hardware implementation presents a novel memory architecture and a SIMD processing style that achieves both high performance and energy efficiency. The FPGA implementation outperforms a mobile device by 59 times while being 13.5 times more energy efficient.
Nouvelles activités économiques et dynamique métropolitaine : le cas de la périphérie Sud de Chennai

Chennai (ex Madras) est l'une des quatre grandes megapoles indiennes au premier rang de la metropolisation et appartient a la troisieme puissance economique federale. Capitale de l'Etat indien le plus urbanise, c'est un cas d'etude interessant qui permet de comprendre l'impact de la globalisation et des nouvelles strategies de croissance post-liberalisation sur les recompositions metropolitaines. Grâce a la volonte affichee du gouvernement du Tamil Nadu de developper des secteurs economiques tels que l'informatique et l'automobile, du fait des economies d'agglomeration liees a la reorganisation des anciennes activites (chimie, siderurgie, textile et cuir), en raison d'un niveau d'education eleve et de la presence d'emplois qualifies, Chennai s'inscrit desormais dans le mouvement de la globalisation, d'autant qu'elle est la metropole indienne qui a attire le plus d'investissements directs etrangers ces dernieres annees. Cette internationalisation croissante, accompagnee d'une planification urbaine incitative, a favorise une specialisation des territoires le long des couloirs urbains. La strategie de creation de toutes pieces de nouveaux parcs industriels, de zones economiques speciales, d'instituts d'enseignement et de recherche comme de townships (petites villes fermees), participe aux processus de deconcentration et de redeploiement des fonctions tant economiques que residentielles, de la ville-centre vers les franges urbaines ; elle concourt a un developpement urbain de type polycentrique.
RDMA Durable Write Commit

This document specifies extensions to RDMA protocols to provide capabilities in support of enhanced remotely-directed data consistency. The extensions include a new operation supporting remote commitment to durability of remotely-managed buffers, which can provide enhanced guarantees and improve performance for low- latency storage applications. In addition to, and in support of these, extensions to local behaviors are described, which may be used to guide implementation, and to ease adoption. This document would extend the IETF Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol (RDMAP), RFC5040, and RDMA Protocol Extensions, RFC7306.