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A multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of chronic pain : a case report

INTRODUCTION Pain, although essential for survival, is the second most common reason for people seeking medical care (Turk and Okifuji, 1998). The fragmented and unimodal approach of conventional medicine often delivers poor outcomes for the client (Turk and Okifuji, 1998). Turk and Okifuji (1998) concluded that multidisciplinary pain centres delivered care that not only improved overall functioning, but was also cost effective in treating patients with chronic pain. Further research on multidisciplinary treatment for chronic pain has been mainly directed at low back and neck pain. Jensen et al (2005) concluded from their longitudinal study that multidisciplinary rehabilitation for women with chronic neck or back pain had a substantial rehabilitation impact and was “a cost effective method for improving health and increasing return to work. ” The New Zealand Accident Rehabilitation and Insurance Corporation (ACC) has multidisciplinary pain management services for chronic pain (ACC website) with the aim of delivering a service that will enable the claimant to regain independence and/or a return to work. This approach utilises a team of professionals including doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychologists with the common goal of working together with claimants to return them to maximum function. This case report reviews the multidisciplinary assessment, rehabilitation and outcomes of a lady who developed chronic regional pain after an injury to her foot.
The neural networks and their application to optimize energy production of hydropower plants system

This study presents results of the artificial neural network (ANN) application aimed at he optimization of utilizating the hydropower plants system on the Moravice River for energy production. The objective of this research included a proposal of operational rules of reservoir management in real time in order to obtain maximum hydropower energy. The research results indicate that the proposed technique based upon ANN employment and other methods of artificial intelligence can be more effective and rapid than other methods.
Decision Support System for Selection and Ranking Security Alternatives

Nowadays, there is wide range of alternatives for hardware and software available in the market; this would create a complex problem for agencies decision makers to select the best tools, software and hardware. When it comes to the information security, alternatives selection is become one of the most important issues. During the network security design, a number of hardware, software, need to be selected in order to make the required design. This design would increase the security and the acceptance of the decision makers. Selection of software and hardware are classified as a daily multi-attribute problem with conflicting criteria. Performance, reliability, usability and other features would play important roles in the selection process. In this paper, we proposed a framework for security tools selection using hybrid of TOPSIS and AHP; AHP is used to calculate the criteria weight while TOPSIS is used with the calculated weight to rank the available security hardware and/or software alternatives. According to the ranking result, the decision maker can select the best alternative with respect to his/her preference
Research on the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Government Service Innovation

In this research, the thinking is carried out in accordance with logical order. The results of this study show that: the four dimensions of transformational leadership have different effects on the service innovation of government departments. On the basis of the results, this paper puts forward four specific strategies and methods to achieve and improve the service innovation of government departments, and discusses the shortcomings of this study and future research directions.
Cite as: Alon A. and Vidovic M. 2015. Sustainability performance and assurance: Influence on reputation. Corporate Reputation Review, 18(4), 337-352. SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE AND ASSURANCE: INFLUENCE ON REPUTATION

The positive impact of sustainability on reputation has been assumed but not sufficiently examined. This study probes the veracity of these claims by applying legitimacy and signaling perspectives to examine whether sustainability performance and assurance contribute to corporate reputation. We find superior sustainability performance has a positive association with sustainability reputation. Companies with better performance are also more likely to obtain external assurance of their sustainability disclosure, but assurance does not directly affect reputation. Assurance appears to be a managerial tool associated with the congruence of internal processes rather than a differentiating signal to external stakeholders.
Parallelization, Customization and Automation

In order to meet today’s ever-increasing computing needs and overcome power density limitations, the computing industry has halted simple processor frequency scaling and entered the era of parallelization, with tens to hundreds of computing cores integrated in a single processor, and hundreds to thousands of computing servers connected in a warehouse-scale data center. However, such highly parallel, general-purpose computing systems still face serious challenges in terms of performance, power, heat dissipation, space, and cost. We believe that we need to look beyond parallelization and focus on domain-specific customization to provide capabilities that adapt architecture to application in order to achieve significant power-performance efficiency
The Molecular Genetics of the Benign Epilepsies of Infancy

Three benign epilepsy syndromes with autosomal dominant inheritance are recognised in infancy. These are Benign Familial Neonatal Epilepsy (BFNE), Benign Familial NeonatalInfantile Epilepsy (BFNIE) and Benign Familial Infantile Epilepsy (BFIE). These disorders were previously known as Benign Familial Neonatal Seizures, Benign Familial NeonatalInfantile Seizures and Benign Familial Infantile Seizures, respectively (Berg et al., 2010). They were recently renamed by the International League Against Epilepsy Classification Committee. The three disorders differ in their average ages of onset but age of onset distributions overlap between the syndromes. Ages of onset vary within syndromes and within families affected with any of the syndromes. BFNE patients have lateralised motor seizures with a mean age of onset of around 3 days of age and a mean age of seizure offset of 3 months of age. Subsequent neurological development usually proceeds normally. However, about 15% of patients have later seizures or epilepsy and occasional cases deteriorate into severe epileptic encephalopathies with intellectual disability (Dedek et al., 2003; Borgatti et al., 2004; Steinlein et al., 2007). The benign form of the disorder was originally described in an Austrian family by Rett and Teubel (1964). Since then numerous BFNE families have been described, many with potassium channel subunit mutations, to provide a well established range of presentations. BFIE was originally described by Watanabe and colleagues in 1987, and is sometimes referred to as Watanabe syndrome. Watanabe observed that a subgroup of infants with generalised motor seizures had subsequent normal development and became seizure-free by 3 years of age. Similar families were subsequently described by Vigevano and colleagues (1992). Onset of seizures in BFIE occurs between 4 and 6 months of age with seizure offset generally occurring by 12 months of age. Seizures are generally not seen in later life. However, some cases develop paroxysmal dyskinesia or paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis in adolescence. This is known as infantile convulsions and choreoathetosis (ICCA) syndrome. BFNIE patients have similar seizures to those seen in BFNE and BFIE, with the average age of onset intermediate between the other two. Although BFNIE differs from these disorders in the average age of seizure onset, the age of onset distribution which can range within a single family from 3 days up to 13 months of age (Herlenius et al., 2007), significantly
Neuropsychological evaluation of visuo-spatial neglect. Is there a relation between quantitative and qualitative methods?

Visuo-spatial neglect is one of the most frequent neuropsychological disorders after a brain damage. Clinical Neuropsychologists work everyday with persons with this specific attentional syndrome either for assessment and rehabilitation. Scientific literature provides a wide amount of instruments in particular for neuropsychological evaluation and most of them are based upon quantitative methodology, that is they are aimed to provide numerical values in order to assess neglect in terms of impairment. On the other hand, very few instruments lead to an evaluation of neglect in terms of disability. In this work we want to provide a brief description of the most used tests arguing for a relation between quantitative methods, as assessment of impairment, and qualitative methods, as instruments for disability. Finally, we give some suggestions, on the base of our experience, to enforce qualitative methodology in neglect assessment.
The benefits and costs of alternative strategies to improve educational outcomes

This paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the levels of human capital investments and the returns to those investments in developing countries. These returns are substantial and are pervasive across demographic groups. Returns are comparable between men and women and between urban and rural residents. The study shows that 23% of children in developing countries do not complete the fifth grade and of these, 55% started school but dropped out. We argue that eliminating dropouts is the most cost effective way to make progress on the goal of Universal Primary Education. Of the various mechanisms we can use, mechanisms that stimulate schooling demand have the strongest evidence of success to date and are the most cost effective.
Prediction of forest fires using Artificial neural networks

In this paper, we present an application of artificial neural networks to the real-world problem of predicting forest fires. The neural network used for this application is a multilayer perceptron whose architectural parameters, i.e., the number of hidden layers and the number of neurons per layer were heuristically determined. The synaptic weights of this architecture were adjusted using the backpropagation learning algorithm and a large set of real data related to the studied problem. We also present and discuss some examples of illustrating results that show the performance and the usefulness of the resulting neural system. Mathematics Subject Classification: 68T05
The Evidence for Gamma Ray Photosynthesis

Limited data indicate that gamma rays can support photosynthesis. Pure cultures of a photosynthetic bacte- rium, Rhodopseudomonas capsulata, and an alga, Anacystis nidulans, were ex- posed for several days, without light, to continuous gamma rays from a Co-60 source at the University of Missouri Re- search Reactor. Both organisms remained green and, within limits, increased in proportion to the radiation flux. The re - sults indicate microbial use of the energy of ionizing radiation in deep sea vents, hydrocarbon utilization, prebiotic reac- tions, and early life metabolism. *� *� * Introduction. � "Thelongermyexperi- mentscontinued,� themoremysterious� thewholesubjectseemed. "�ThiswasO.F. �
Candida Emergence in Adult Critically Ill Patients and the Administration of SystemicAntifungal Treatment

Introduction Candida is the third most common pathogen in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with an infection rate 17% and account for 70% to 90% of all invasive mycoses [1,2]. Invasive candidiasis has been associated with poor clinical outcomes, with crude and attributable mortality ranging from 40-70% and 10-40% respectively [3]. Additionally, a shift toward nonalbicans Candida species (NCA) has been observed recently [4,5]. In this prospective, observational study, we sought to investigate possible risk factors for Candida emergence in adult critically ill patients, along with the distribution of Candida species according to the time spent in ICU. Moreover, we assessed the characteristics of patients with Candida isolation according to the administration of systemic antifungal treatment (SAT) or not.
Investigation of the Behaviour of the Pedicle Screw-Vertebral Bone Complex , When Subjected to Pure Pull-Out Loads

The analysis of the failure mechanisms of spinal fixation systems and the stress distribution patterns within vertebral bodies constitutes an indispensable demand for the clinical evaluation of these systems. In this paper the influence of various parameters on the failure of fixation systems due to the pull-out phenomenon of the fixation screws is explored. To achieve this goal a Finite Element Model of the human lumbar vertebral bone and of the transpedicular fixation screw is designed simulating the main characteristics of commercial fixation pedicle screws. The parameters studied include the type of the bone-screw interface as well as some geometrical characteristics of the screws and the vertebral bone. The analysis revealed the different behavior of the pedicle screwvertebral bone system and the different stress diffusion mechanisms activated according to the interface type. It was, also, concluded that the performance of pedicle screws under pull-out loads could be improved by increasing the thread depth.
Quantum transport and electroweak baryogenesis

We review the mechanism of electroweak baryogenesis. Our focus is on the derivation of quantum transport equations from first principles within the Schwinger–Keldysh formalism. We emphasize the importance of the semiclassical force approach, which provides reliable predictions in most models. In light of recent electric dipole moment measurements and given the results on new physics searches from collider experiments, the status of electroweak baryogenesis is discussed in a variety of models.
Tilburg University Codes as hybrid regulation

In this contribution we focus on codes as a particular form of civil regulation that is adopted by non-state actors to regulate internal behaviors. Governments increasingly encourage codes and forms of civil regulation in order to protect or to advance governmental objectives in the public interest. We will argue that codes and with it civil regulation – have better chances of serving the public interest if (1) government, private actors and stakeholders agree on the norms in the standard-setting process, (2) if the codes are binding and (3) there are mechanisms to enforce compliance.
Nutritional Assessment of Chenopodium Album L . ( Imbikicane ) Young Shoots and Mature Plant-Leaves Consumed in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

The aim of this study was to determine the nutritional content of Chenopodium album young shoots and mature plant-leaves locally consumed in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Young shoots and mature plant-leaves of C. album were analysed for proximate, vitamins and mineral composition according to AOAC standard analytical procedures. The mean values for carbohydrates, protein and fibre in the young shoots were 4.0, 32.2 and 37.0 (g/100g) while those for the mature plants were 7.0, 29.2 and 36.5 (g/100g) respectively. The calcium, potassium and magnesium content of young shoots was 12991, 45799 and 7982 (mg/1000g) while those for the mature plants were 18213.2, 49028.6 and 13821.5 (mg/1000g) respectively. Sodium was 48.8 and 68.0 (mg/100g) in young shoots and mature plants respectively. The microelements of Fe, Zn, Cu in the young shoots were 218.1, 26.2 and 14.0 (mg/1000g) while for the mature plant, they were 120.4, 23.0 and 9.1 (mg/1000g) respectively. Arsenic was 1.8mg/1000g, Sb and Sn measured <0.05mg/1000g and Cr measured 0.9mg/L in both young shoots and mature plants. The measurements for vitamin C were 5.6 and 5.2(mg/100g) while β-carotene measured 46 and 68 (μg/100g) in young shoots and mature plants respectively. Generally, the nutrient content of young shoots and mature plant-leaves were similar (P>0.05). These results indicate that C. album young shoots and mature plants could serve as potential sources of important dietary nutrients for the alleviation of problems associated with malnutrition in South Africa.
Measuring cluster masses with CMB lensing: a statistical approach

We present a method for measuring the masses of galaxy clusters using the imprint of their gravitational lensing signal on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. The method first reconstructs the projected gravitational potential with a quadratic estimator and then applies a matched filter to extract cluster mass. The approach is well-suited for statistical analyses that bin clusters according to other mass proxies. We find that current experiments, such as Planck, the South Pole Telescope and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, can practically implement such a statistical methodology, and that future experiments will reach sensitivities sufficient for individual measurements of massive systems. As illustration, we use simulations of Planck observations to demonstrate that it is possible to constrain the mass scale of a set of 62 massive clusters with prior information from X-ray observations, similar to the published Planck ESZ-XMM sample. We examine the effect of the thermal (tSZ) and kinetic (kSZ) Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signals, finding that the impact of the kSZ remains small in this context. The stronger tSZ signal, however, must be actively removed from the CMB maps by component separation techniques prior to reconstruction of the gravitational potential. Our study of two such methods highlights the importance of broad frequency coverage for this purpose. A companion paper presents application to the Planck data on the ESZ-XMM sample.
Explorations in Quantum Channels

Explorations in Quantum Channels John G. Gardiner Department of Physics and Astronomy, BYU Bachelor of Science The idea of separating the universe into a system to be studied and an environment to be ignored is important to much of physics. We explore this idea in the context of quantum systems, where it is captured by the concept of a completely positive trace-preserving map, or quantum channel. We demonstrate the usefulness of the quantum channel formalism by using it to solve the problem of optimally cloning an unknown qubit, given only its purity. We find that knowing just the purity of a qubit does not give any advantage in cloning it. The simplest quantum channels are those whose input and output are single qubits. We introduce a set of these single-qubit quantum channels that are particularly simple and have straightforward physical interpretations. The question arises whether all single-qubit channels are a composition of channels from this set. We show that, in general, they are not, suggesting the complexity of the evolution of even the smallest quantum systems.
Concentrations of platelet 2-adrenoceptors, lymphocyte muscarinic receptors, and blood monoamines in dogs (Canis familiaris) affected by canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome

Canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS) is a neurodegenerative disorder of aged dogs characterized by a progressive decline in cognitive function. In humans and laboratory animals a variety of neurotransmitter abnormalities have been described in patients affected by age-related dementia. Specifically, the regulatory role of the catecholaminergic, serotonergic and cholinergic systems have been outlined. The aim of the present study was to measure blood monoamine levels, platelet 2-adrenergic receptors and lymphocyte muscarinic receptors in healthy adult and old dogs and in dogs affected by canine cognitive dysfunction. Based on clinical and behavioral examination, 40 dogs were divided into three groups: healthy adults (n=14), old dogs (n=17), and old dogs affected by canine cognitive dysfunction (n=9). A significant reduction in plasma levels of norepinephrine and dopamine was observed both in aged (0.16±0.02 ng/mL; P<0.01 and 0.11±02 P<0.01 respectively) and CDS dogs (0.14±0.03 ng/mL; P<0.05 and 0.10±00.005 P<0.01 respectively) compared to adults (0.29±0.04 ng/mL and 0.15±0.02 respectively). No significant differences were observed among groups for 2-adrenergic receptor concentrations. Canine lymphocytes express two distinct classes of muscarinic receptors, characterized by high (HA) and low (LA) affinity for H-N-methyl-scopolamine. A significant age-dependent decrease in HA muscarinic receptors was observed. However, no differences were found between old (87.65±11.08 sites/cellx10) and CDS dogs (90.17±6.75 sites/cellx10 ). As far as LA muscarinic receptors are concerned, CDS dogs showed a significant increase (393.48±63 sites/cellx10; P<0.05) with respect to adults (188.84±16.50 sites/cellx10 ). Our results suggest that the reduction in HA muscarinic receptor binding sites could be representative of the physiological ageing process, whereas the increase in lymphocyte LA muscarinic receptor levels could be related to the cognitive decline.
Glucose-6-Phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in children from 0 to 14 years hospitalized at the Pediatric Hospital David Bernardino, Luanda, Angola

The Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common enzymatic defect in the world. The most common clinical manifestations are acute hemolytic anemia associated with drugs, infections, neonatal jaundice and hemolytic non-spherocytic chronic anemia. The main aim of this study was to determine the frequency of major genetic variants of G6PD leading to enzyme deficiency in children from 0 to 14 years at a Pediatric Hospital in Luanda, Angola. A cross-sectional and descriptive analytical study covered a total of 194 children aged from 0 to 14 years, of both genders and hospitalized at the Pediatric Hospital David Bernardino, Luanda between November and December, 2011. The G202A, A376G and C563T mutations of the G6PD gene were determined by real-time PCR with Taqman probes. The disabled A-/A- genotype was detected in 10 girls (10.9%). Among the boys, 21 (20.6%) presented the genotype A-. Considering all the samples, the A- variant was observed in 22.4% of cases. The Mediterranean mutation was not detected in the Angolan sample. Furthermore, no association was found between genotype and anemia, nutritional state and mucosa color. A significant association, however, was observed with jaundice. Based on the results obtained, there is a clear need to identify those with the disabled genotype in the Angolan population in order to avoid cases of drug-induced anemia, particularly in the treatment of malaria, so prevalent in Angola.
HPSO Algorithm with High Speed Convergent based on Particle Health Degree

Standard particle swarm optimization algorithm has two drawbacks in engineering application when particles dimension was high; first is premature convergent and second is low convergent sp eed. Counting these drawbacks we proposed a novel algorithm with high convergent speed in high dimensional search place based on particle health degree, and we provided particle health degree concept and computation method. The algorithm through dynamic monitoring particle health when the particle health value was lower than given threshold value, we separately use mutation operation on these particles. This method can not only protect the health particles keep searching the optimum value but also therapy the ill-health particles and enhance the ability of searching optimum value and jumping out the local optimum. We used many benchmark functions to test our algorithm, and compete with Standard PSO algorithm and nonlinear inertia weight variation (WPSO). Test results show that the algorithm we proposed has higher convergent speed and searching efficiency.