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ecReport: a collaborative web tool for reporting R&D projects

Producing periodic progress reports of collaborative R&D projects is usually a tedious, error-prone and costly task that is mainly performed combining a set of isolated tools and manual processes. We present the ecReport system, which is a configurable reporting tool that is especially focused in collaborative EC-funded R&D projects, although it can be used for other purposes. This tool is based on the use of ontologies about different aspects of this type of projects (people, organisations, deliverables, etc.), and gives full support to the acquisition of data for periodic project reports and to the generation of reports from this data, and allows publishing this data in open formats like RDF.
Preparing the Gaudi framework and the DIRAC WMS for multicore job submission

HEP applications need to adapt to the continuously increasing number of cores on modern CPUs. This must be done at different levels: the software must support parallelization, and the scheduling has to differ between multicore and singlecore jobs. The LHCb software framework (GAUDI) provides a parallel prototype (GaudiMP), based on the multiprocessing approach. It allows a reduction of the overall memory footprint and a coordinated access to data via separated reader and writer processes. A comparison between the parallel prototype and multiple independent Gaudi jobs in respect of CPU time and memory consumption will be shown. Furthermore, speedup must be predicted in order to find the limit beyond which the parallel prototype (GaudiMP) does not bring further scaling. This number must be known as it indicates the point, where new technologies must be introduced into the software framework. In order to reach further improvements in the overall throughput, scheduling strategies for mixing parallel jobs can be applied. It allows overcoming limitations in the speedup of the parallel prototype. Those changes require modifications at the level of the Workload Management System (DIRAC).
Health Sciences undergraduate education at the University of Cape Town: A story of transformation

The story of education since the first democratic elections in 1994 is significant in the context of the changes in the country as a whole. The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) has made significant progress in achieving equity of access for students. Remaining challenges include recruiting students from rural areas and achieving gender equality in the allied and rehabilitation professions. The FHS has developed innovative approaches to addressing the diversity of educational preparedness to maintain exit-level clinical competency standards. The comprehensive concept of curriculum has become the Faculty vehicle for placing patients’/clients’ health issues and students’ learning needs at the centre of restructuring. A diverse student body and evolving clinical training platform has created opportunities for new and different dialogues between teachers, students and patients/clients through reflective practice and assessment. The curriculum design principles of inclusiveness, participation and social responsiveness mirror the primary healthcare (PHC) approach. Furthermore, a client/patient-centred approach that strengthens inclusivity and participation has been given impetus with the integration of two of the indigenous languages, most frequently spoken in the Western Cape, and cultural competences into all curricula. Increasing numbers of staff recognise the need to enhance their professional development in educational practice and to acknowledge the implications of the PHC philosophy in their teaching. Developments in undergraduate curricula have significantly realised the intentions of the 1994 FHS’s Assembly to promote a continuous process of reflection and action to align curricula with social responsiveness and changes in the national health and higher education policies.
Surface Modification Technologies Viii

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The proto-lexicon : segmenting word-like units from speech

There is growing evidence from experimental studies that infants start acquiring a vocabulary already when they are between six to nine months old (Bergelson & Swingley, 2012; Parise & Csibra, 2012; Tincoff & Jusczyk, 1999). Clearly, infants must have learned what these words mean prior to their lab visit, that is, learned them in their natural environment. However, as infant speech corpora reveal, there are surprisingly few one-word utterances directed to 6-12-month-olds in maternal speech (excluding exclamations, fillers and social expressions that typically do not combine into phrases): ranging from 2% (Morgan, 1996) to 9% (Brent & Siskind, 2001). Even when parents are explicitly instructed to teach their child certain words, they present these words predominantly in multi-word utterances (Aslin et al., 1996; Johnson et al., 2013). It appears that, for most children, most of the words they hear are presented in continuous speech. As Figure 2.1 demonstrates for a typical infant-directed example from Dutch, words are generally glued together without clear pauses between them to signal word onset and offset (unlike written text, in which words are conveniently separated by spaces). While it is debated whether or not isolated words alone can function as a starting point for vocabulary acquisition (Brent & Siskind, 2001; Depaolis, Vihman & Keren-Portnoy, 2014; Lew‐Williams, Pelucchi & Saffran, 2011; Yang, 2004), it is undeniably true that in order to learn from the input, infants are required to segment the speech stream into separate word-like units from very early on. From adult research, we know that the speech signal contains several cues that assist successful word extraction from speech, but these cues are probabilistic rather than deterministic: no single cue appears sufficient to signal word boundaries (Cutler, 2012). Fortunately, the past two decades have provided us with two experimental methods that allow us to examine when and under what conditions infants can segment words from speech. In what follows next, we will first discuss the main methods (Section 2.1), before we focus on the cues that infants can use to detect words from speech (Section 2.2). Section 2.3 underscores how vital early speech segmentation skill is for subsequent language development, while Section 2.4 ends with future directions.
Role of methyleprednisolone succinate in the management of acute spinal cord injury

Objective: To see the role of methyleprednisolone succinate in the management of acute spinal cord injury. Methods: A randomized control trial was done including the patients with acute spinal cord injury. They were divided into age and gender matched two groups. Patients with presence of active infection, associated open fracture, those on long term steroid and those who did not give consent to participate in the trial were excluded. One group received methyleprednisolone succinate within 8 hours of injury and another group did not receive the drug. Both the groups were managed nonoperatively. The neurological status of the patients was assessed at presentation, once spinal shock was over, at 6th week and 6th month and after one year according to ASIA scoring. Frankel grading was also assessed in every follow up. Conclusion: Methylprednisolone succinct prevents secondary cord injury to a great extent and hence its administration within 8 hours of injury results in a better functional (motor and sensory) outcome. Keywords: acute spinal cord injury; methyleprednisolone succinate DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.3126/hren.v9i3. 5585 HR 2011; 9(3): 168-172
AN ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN AMBULATORY SCHIZOPHRENICS: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT SCALE (WHOQOL-100) CONCEPTS QUALITY OF LIFE OF AMBULATORY SCHIZOPHRENICS

The name ‘‘schizophrenia’’ indicates ‘‘a fragmented mind’’ and it was coined by Eugen Bleuler. Schizophrenia affects nearly 1 percent of the US population and its estimated annual direct and indirect costs were $100 billion. In the year 1996, the cost of treating schizophrenia has contributed 2.5 percent of total health care expenditures. Schizophrenics occupy 25% of all hospital beds and comprise 40% of all long-term care days. Nearly one-third to half of homeless Americans reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia. The symptoms of schizophrenia include perception (hallucinations); inferential thinking (delusions); fluency of thought and speech (alogia) clarity and organization of thought and speech (‘‘formal thought disorder’’); motor activity (catatonia); emotional expression (affective blunting); ability to initiate and complete goaldirected behavior (avolition), and ability to seek out and experience emotional gratification (anhedonia). All the above described symptoms may not be present in any single patient. It is now believed that multiple regions in the
O papel da autoria dos jovens na relação entre o museu de arte contemporânea e a escola

Esta investigacao versa sobre diversos modos de relacao entre jovens e museus de arte contemporânea, mediados pela escola. Atraves de quatro estudos de casos, foi possivel verificar que os jovens reclamam por praticas mais participativas do que aquelas que tradicionalmente a escola e os museus lhes oferecem. O cumprimento do curriculo e as imposicoes programaticas dos museus constituem constrangimentos a criacao de relacoes pedagogicas entre museus e escolas. Alem disso, a legitimidade para ensinar esta ainda muito centrada na figura docente ou de quem dinamiza as visitas nos museus, enquanto aos alunos e atribuido um papel essencialmente subordinado. E a escola que aprende com o museu, sendo muito raramente criadas oportunidades para que o museu aprenda tambem com a escola. Contudo, a forma como as professoras e as educadoras de museu encaram o conhecimento, a aprendizagem e a arte contemporânea e determinante para o modo como os estudantes aprendem. Se aos jovens for dado um espaco participativo e de autoria na relacao com o museu, isso permitira a criacao propostas alternativas as macro-narrativas, sejam estas provenientes dos museus ou mesmo da propria escola tradicional que perpetua a ordem social. No caso desta investigacao, foram as propostas alternativas concebidas pelos jovens que lhes proporcionaram a realizacao de aprendizagens dotadas de sentido.
APLICACIÓN DE 1-METILCICLOPROPENO, UNA ALTERNATIVA A LA ESTACIONALIDAD DE LA PITAHAYA AMARILLA

Para Colombia, la pitahaya amarilla es una fruta considerada como producto promisorio exportable, debido a su sabor y precios de venta en el mercado internacional. Sin embargo, es una fruta estacional con dos picos marcados de produccion, lo que genera fluctuacion en los precios y la imposibilidad de ofertar fruta continuamente en los mercados internacionales. Se ha encontrado que analogos competitivos del etileno como el 1-metilciclopropeno (1-MCP) aplicado en poscosecha sobre frutas y hortalizas, retarda algunos procesos relacionados con la maduracion y la senescencia. Su efecto es variable y depende de la concentracion del compuesto, del tiempo de exposicion, de la variedad de la fruta, de las caracteristicas morfologicas y fisiologicas, del grado de madurez, de las condiciones del cultivo y almacenamiento. Aun no se conoce el efecto que pueda tener el 1-MCP sobre la pitahaya, este compuesto aplicado en precosecha y/o poscosecha podria retardar el proceso de maduracion de fruta y esto permitiria romper en parte su marcada estacionalidad. Por lo anterior se evaluo el efecto de la aplicacion en precosecha y en poscosecha de soluciones acuosas de 200 y 400 μgL -1 de 1-MCP, con tiempo de exposicion de 10 minutos, sobre la maduracion de pitahaya amarilla entera en estado de madurez 3. Se midieron cambios en la respiracion, color, firmeza, contenido de azucares solubles, acidez, pH y perdida de peso. Los resultados demostraron que aplicaciones en precosecha de 200 y 400 μgL -1 de 1-MCP, retardan la maduracion y senescencia de la pitahaya y los cambios en la acidez, conservando su firmeza y disminuyendo la perdida de peso. Lo anterior sugiere que el uso de este compuesto puede romper parcialmente la estacionalidad de la fruta y abre la posibilidad de ofertar fruta en epocas diferentes al tiempo de cosecha
A method for automatically generating the emotional vectors of emoticons using weblog articles

In recent years, reputation analysis services using weblogs, message boards, and community web sites have been developed. To improve the accuracy of the reputation analysis, we have to extract emotions or reactions of writers of documents accurately. Emoticons (Emojis) are often used in weblogs, and in many cases these emoticons have the role of modalities of writers of weblog articles. That is, to estimate emotions represented by emoticons is important for reputation analysis. In this study, we propose a method to create emotional vectors of emoticons automatically using the collocation relationship between emotional words and emoticons which is derived from many weblog articles.
The Heuristic extraction algorithms for freeman chain code of handwritten character

Handwriting character recognition (HCR) is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret handwritten input. In HCR, there are many representation schemes and one of them is Freeman’s chain code (FCC). Chain code is a sequence of code directions of a character and connection to a starting point which is often used in image processing. The main problem in representing a character using FCC is that the results of the extractions depend on the starting points. Unfortunately, the studies about FCC extraction using one continuous route and to minimize the length of chain code to FCC from a thinned binary image (TBI) have not been widely explored. To solve this problem, heuristic algorithms are proposed to extract the FCC to correctly represent the characters. This paper proposes two heuristics algorithms that are based on randomized and enumeration algorithms to solve the problems. As a problem solving technique, the randomized-based algorithm makes the random choices while the enumeration-based algorithm enumerates all possible candidates for a solution. The performance measurements of the algorithms are the route lengths and computation times. The experiments on the algorithms are performed based on the chain code representation derived from established previous works of Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) dataset which consists of 126 upper-case letter characters. The experimental results show that the route lengths for both algorithms are similar but the computation times of the enumeration-based algorithm is higher than the randomized-based algorithm. This is because the enumeration-based algorithm considers all branches in route walk.
Exploring Multimodal Input Fusion Strategies

Human-computer interaction is a discipline that aims at enabling the interaction between humans and computational machines. In the last years, several efforts have been made to make this interaction more intuitive and natural. In this direction, multimodal interaction has emerged as the future paradigm of human-computer interaction. In order to enable a natural dialogue between users and computer systems, in multimodal systems the two main challenges to face are: to combine and integrate information from different input modalities (fusion process) and to generate appropriate output information ( fission process). Our specific concern in this chapter is with the fusion of multiple input modalities.
Radioprotective Effect of Vitamin C as an Antioxidant

Vitamin C is known as a potent antioxidant. We studied vitamin C as a radioprotective agent, focusing on its antioxidative effect. When the body is exposed to radiation, free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced and oxidize cell components, resulting in cell damage. Vitamin C has the potential to scavenge these radical products, thereby protecting against radiation-induced cell damage. We investigated the effects of vitamin C on radiation-induced gastrointestinal (GI) syndrome in mice. The mice received whole-body irradiation followed by bone marrow transplantation 24 h after exposure. Despite avoiding bone marrow failure, the mice eventually died of GI syndrome. Pretreatment with per os administration of high-dose vitamin C effectively mitigated radiation-induced GI syndrome and improved mouse survivals, while per os post-treatment with vitamin C was ineffective, presumably due to impaired absorption from the radiation-damaged intestine. We also investigated the effect of post-exposure treatment with intraperitoneal administration of vitamin C on radiation-induced bone marrow dysfunction in mice. Intraperitoneal administration with high-dose vitamin C, even at 24 h after whole-body irradiation, was still effective in avoiding bone marrow dysfunction, thereby increasing mouse survival after radiation. In conclusion, administration of high-dose vitamin C effectively reduced the radiation lethality in mice.
Las Concepciones de los Docentes sobre Competencias en Lectura y Escritura en la Formación de los estudiantes en áreas diferentes a Lengua Castellana.

Low performance in Reading comprehension and textual production of the students in the educational institution Agustin Nieto Caballero led to think the commitment of all teachers in this situation. This research was done with the aim of understanding which are the conceptions of competence in reading and writing teachers in areas other than language. A qualitative approximation of the discourses and practices of teachers where done, with three instruments: semi structured interviews, planning analysis and classroom observations. To compare the findings with principles, conceptual historical tour, it was concluded that teachers take the reading and writing as a skill set already developed as theoretical content exclusive area of Spanish language training with few links with other subjects.
Cost Analysis and Supply Utilization of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is one of the highest volume surgeries performed annually. We hypothesized that there is a statistically significant intradepartmental cost variance with supply utilization variability amongst surgeons of different subspecialty. This study sought to describe laparoscopic cholecystectomy cost of care among three subspecialties of surgeons. This retrospective observational cohort study captured 372 laparoscopic cholecystectomy cases performed between June 2015 and June 2016 by 12 surgeons divided into three subspecialties: 2 in bariatric surgery (BS), 5 in acute care surgery (ACS), and 5 in general surgery (GS). The study utilized a third-party software, Surgical Profitability Compass Procedure Cost Manager and Crimson System (SPCMCS) (The Advisory Board Company, Washington, DC), to stratify case volume, supply cost, case duration, case severity level, and patient length of stay intradepartmentally. Statistical methods included the Kruskal-Wallis test. Average composite supply cost per case was $569 and median supply cost per case was $554. The case volume was 133 (BS), 109 (ACS), and 130 (GS). The median intradepartmental total supply cost was $674.5 (BS), $534 (ACS), and $564 (GS) (P<0.005). ACS and GS presented with a higher standard deviation of cost, $98 (ACS) and $110 (GS) versus $26 (BS). The median case duration was 70 min (BS), 107 min (ACS), and 78 min (GS) (P<0.02). The average patient length of stay was 1.15 (BS), 3.10 (ACS), and 1.17 (GS) (P<0.005). Overall, there was a statistically significant difference in median supply cost (highest in BS; lowest in ACS and GS). However, the higher supply costs may be attenuated by decreased operative time and patient length of stay. Strategies to reduce total supply cost per case include mandating exchange of expensive items, standardization of supply sets, increased price transparency, and education to surgeons.
Afectación pulmonar en la leptospirosis

Hemos realizado una revision retrospectiva de una serie de 5 casos de leptospirosis, en 3 de los cuales se detecto afectacion pulmonar, ingresados entre 1998 y 2004 en nuestro hospital. Los 5 pacientes presentaron criterios confirmados de leptospirosis. Cuatro cumplian criterios de sindrome de Weil y el restante, de leptospirosis anicterica. Los 3 pacientes con secuelas pulmonares ingresaron en la unidad de cuidados intensivos por presentar insuficiencia respiratoria grave. Los 5 casos evolucionaron favorablemente con tratamiento antibiotico, 3 con doxiciclina y 2 con doxiciclina asociada a penicilina G. En conclusion, en la leptospirosis hay complicaciones pulmonares graves que requieren con frecuencia ingreso en la unidad de cuidados intensivos. El estado de gravedad es independiente del sindrome clinico: variante anicterica o sindrome de Weil. Por ultimo, a pesar de la gravedad en su forma de presentacion, en nuestra experiencia la evolucion es favorable con tratamiento medico, sin necesidad de ventilacion mecanica invasiva.
User manual for Meta-Essentials: Workbooks for meta-analyses

markdownabstractMeta-Essentials is a set of workbooks that facilitate the integration and synthesis of effect sizes from different studies and provide figures, tables, and statistics that might be helpful for interpreting them. Meta-Essentials generates (“overall” or “meta”) statistical information regarding a set of studies of the same phenomenon based on the statistical information from each separate study. The workbooks and a pdf-version of this user manual can be downloaded from [meta-essentials](http://www.erim.eur.nl/research-support/meta-essentials).
Testicular metastasis as the first symptom of colon cancer - a case report

Colon cancer develops relatively slowly, while hepatic metastases are the most common form of distant failure. The testicle is not as common site for colon cancer spread, as it has been in the case of other solid malignancies. We present the case of a 76-year-old patient, admitted with painless enlargement of left testicle. He underwent orchidectomy and the pathological examination of the surgical specimen revealed metastatic G2 adenocarcinoma, possibly originating from the alimentary tract. Further diagnostic procedures demonstrated an egzophytic tumor in the splenic flexure of the colon, which was operated and found to be primary G2, T4N1M1 adenocarcinoma. No macroscopically discernible distant metastases were found within the abdominal cavity. Even though metastases to the testes are rare, they should be considered in clinical practice - especially in older men with symptoms suggesting the presence of a non-testicular malignancy.