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POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSES IN THE MALE.

GaE~SaE2 NTIL recent years, "postpartum" was one of the major categories by which psychoses were characterized in & Li |the female. Ebaughl states that close analysis of these cases show that they fall into regular reaction types of 15? _e5ESpsag mental disease; that no distinct clinical designation is needed. The current American Psychiatric Association nomenclature has no special designation for postpartum psychoses, and the current standard practice is usually to designate cases of what might have been called "postpartum psychoses" as "schizophrenic reaction, acute, undifferentiated type" or "manic depressive reaction. " However, Hamilton2 in his recent and extensive study of female postpartum psychiatric problems declares, "puerperal patients with dissociative syndromes differ from the great mass of schizophrenic patients in several respects. " According to Hamilton, postpartum psychotics are usually not noted to have had premorbid symptoms. Hamilton believes that postpartum psychotics often have a capacity to think at times with considerable degree of logic and the intermittent ability to relate to other people. He describes postpartum dissociation as mostly ideational with a large proportion of paranoid diagnoses in early cases. Postpartum cases often have elements of delirious and/or affective syndromes. Postpartum psychotics are more likely to have a sudden clearance than nonpuerperal schizophrenia but, for the entire group of postpartum psychotics, the prognosis is poorer than nonpostpartum schizophrenics. However, Hamilton considered these factors characteristic of "postpartum dissociative syndromes," but they can be found in abundance among nonpostpartum schizophrenic and manic depressive reactions as well. Hamilton reports that severe postpartum psychiatric illness, follows about one in a thousand pregnancies, and much has been written about
Aalborg Universitet Lean Transformation of Multinational Concerns

Competitive pressure demands that companies constantly strive to catch up to world class manufacturing performance and practice. Continuous change is a mode of competition for many companies [1]. This is a departure from the punctuated equilibrium model of change in which change is event triggered. This paper reports on exploratory studies from a multinational company adopting centrally managed pilot projects as a transformation mechanism for continuous change towards a lean business system and an organizational culture of continuous improvements (CI).
Examining Sympathetic Nerve Activity with Microneurography during Hypnosis: Untangling the Effects of Central Command

Abstract Using microelectrode recordings of postganglionic sympatheticaction potentials, the authors studied the effects of hypnotic suggestion on sympathetic outflow targeted to skin during static handgrip exercise. All subjects performed sustained handgrip at 33% maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) for 2 minutes during 3 consecutive trials. Two subjects randomly assigned to a hypnosis condition received suggestions that the 2nd trial was more difficult and the last trial was less difficult than the first trial. Two subjects randomly assigned to the control condition received no hypnosis or suggestions about task difficulty. In the nonhypnosis condition, skin sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) increased by 6% from baseline during the 2nd trial and 13% from baseline during the 3rd trial. In the hypnosis condition, skin SNA increased by 25% during the 2nd trial (suggestion of increased difficulty) and returned to baseline during the 3rd condition (suggestion of decreased difficulty). Therefore, the impact of central command on skin SNA is suggested by these results.
Further evidence of a bidirectional overlap between juvenile mania and conduct disorder in children.

OBJECTIVE To investigate systematically the overlap between mania and conduct disorder (CD) in a sample of consecutively referred youths. It was hypothesized that neither CD nor manic symptoms were secondary to the other disorder and that children with the 2 disorders would have correlates of both. METHOD Subjects were consecutively referred children and adolescents meeting DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria on structured diagnostic interview for CD (n = 116), mania (n = 110), and CD + mania (n = 76). RESULTS Of 186 children and adolescents with mania and of 192 with CD, 76 satisfied criteria for both CD and mania, representing 40% of youths with CD and 41% of youths with mania, respectively. Examination of the clinical features, patterns of psychiatric comorbidity, and functioning in multiple domains showed that children with CD and mania had similar features of each disorder irrespective of the comorbidity with the other disorder. CONCLUSIONS The data suggest that when mania and CD co-occur in children, both are correctly diagnosed. In these comorbid cases, CD symptoms should not be viewed as secondary to mania and manic symptoms should not be viewed as secondary to CD.
Inducer-Dependent Nuclear Localization of a Zn(II)2Cys6 Transcriptional Activator, AmyR, in Aspergillus nidulans

AmyR is a Zn(II)2Cys6 transcriptional activator that regulates expression of the amylolytic genes in Aspergillus species. Subcellular localization studies of GFP-fused AmyR in A. nidulans revealed that the fusion protein preferentially localized to the nucleus in response to isomaltose, the physiological inducer of the amylolytic genes. The C-terminal domains of AmyR, designated MH3 (residues 419–496) and MH4 (residues 516–542), were essential for sensing the inducing stimulus and regulating the subcellular localization. The MH2 domain (residues 234–375) located in the middle of AmyR was required for transcriptional activation of the target genes, and the nuclear localization signals were identified within the N-terminal Zn(II)2Cys6 DNA binding motif.
Exotic plant invasions over 40 years of old field successions: community patterns and associations

While exotic plant species often come to dominate disturbed communities, long-term patterns of invasion are poorly known. Here we present data from 40 yr of continuous vegetation sampling, documenting the temporal distribution of exotic plant species in old field succession. The relative cover of exotic species decreased with time since abandonment, with significant declines occurring 20 yr post-abandonment. The number of exotic species per plot also declined with time since abandonment while field-scale richness of exotics did not change. This suggests displacement occurring at small spatial scales. Life history types changed from short-lived herbaceous species to long-lived woody species for both native and exotic plant species. However, shrubs and lianas dominated woody cover of exotic plants while trees dominated native woody cover. The species richness of exotic and native species was positively correlated at most times. In abandoned hay fields, however, the proportion of exotic plant cover per plot was inversely related to total species richness. This relationship suggests that it is not the presence, but the abundance of exotic species that may cause a reduction in community diversity. While the development of closed-canopy forest appears to limit most introduced plant species, several shade-adapted exotic species are increasing within the fields. These invasions may cause a reversal of the patterns seen in the first 40 yr of succession and may result in further impacts on community structure.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPLIT-RING RESONATORS FOR TUNABLE NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY METAMATERIALS BASED ON ANISOTROPIC DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES

The magnetic resonance of various split ring resonators (SRRs) is numerically investigated to analyze the dependence of the resonance frequency on their parameter designs. The behavior of the magnetic resonance frequency in the configuration of the 2-cut singlering SRR (2C-SRR) shows a larger shift in relation to the changes of the SRR size scaling, split width and substrate permittivity. A new magnetic particle formed by the 2C-SRR structure incorporating nematic liquid crystals (LCs) into the multilayered substrate is proposed for the realization of a tunable magnetic metamaterial. When using such inclusions, the tuning range of the magnetic resonance conditions could be as wide as ∼ 1.1GHz via changing the orientation of LC molecules by 90◦.
Bypassing birth centres for childbirth: an analysis of data from a community-based prospective cohort study in Nepal.

BACKGROUND In Nepal, women residing in rural areas tend to bypass local birth centres and deliver at urban hospitals, despite the availability of obstetric care in these centres. This study investigated the incidence of bypassing, characteristics of bypassers and their reasons for bypassing the birth centres. METHODS A prospective cohort study was undertaken in the Kaski district of central Nepal. The 353 pregnant women of 5 months or more gestation recruited from the community had access to local birth centres. They were interviewed at baseline using a structured questionnaire, and were followed up within 45 days post-partum. Comparisons were made between women who delivered at birth centres and those who gave birth at hospital. Logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the factors affecting the risk of bypassing. RESULTS Of the final sample of 258 participants who delivered in a health facility, 181 women (70.2%) bypassed their nearest birth centres to deliver at hospitals. Bypassers tended to be wealthy and have intrapartum complications, but the likelihood of bypassing apparently decreased by higher parity and frequent (four or more) antenatal care visits. Availability of operating facility, adequacy of medical supplies and equipment and competent health staff at the facility were the main reasons for their bypassing decision. CONCLUSIONS The risk of bypassing for childbirth was high in central Nepal. Provision of quality and reliable emergency obstetric services together with well trained and competent staff at birth centres are recommended to reduce bypassing and pressure on the public hospital system.
Ethnic Density is Unrelated to Incidence of Schizophrenia

Data deriving from the Mental Health Enquiry were obtained from the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) for all 186 000 admissions in England in 1981 to test the ‘ethnic density hypothesis'. This hypothesis has been used to explain variations in rates of mental illness between ethnic groups in other countries, and suggests that there is an inverse relationship between the size of ethnic groups and their admission rates. The data analysed in the present paper for the main foreign-born immigrant groups to England not only failed to support the ethnic-density hypothesis, but in some cases, showed a significant positive relationship between group size and admission rates. Some possible reasons for these findings are explored.
BIAS, PRECISION, AND ACCURACY OF FOUR MEASURES OF SPECIES RICHNESS

Species richness is a widely used surrogate for the more complex concept of biological diversity. Because species richness is often central to ecological study and the establishment of conservation priorities, the biases and merits of richness measurements demand evaluation. The jackknife and bootstrap estimators can be used to compensate for the underestimation associated with simple richness estimation (or the sum of species counted in a sample). Using data from five forest communities, we analyzed the simple measure of richness, the first- and second-order jackknife, and the bootstrap estimators with simulation and resampling methods to examine the effects of sample size on estimator performance. Performance parameters examined were systematic under- or overestimation (bias), ability to estimate consistently (precision), and ability to estimate true species richness (accuracy). For small sample sizes in all studied communities (less than ∼25% of the total community), the least biased estimator was the .
Designing a Hierarchical Graph Kernel for Semantic Link Network

One of the most important abilities of human is cluster and classify similar things, which makes people could better understand the nature, easier establish and manage the social society. How to model things like people and how to compute the similarities between models are two major problems need to be solved to make the machine has this ability. For the first problem, the Semantic Link Network (SLN) could be a appropriate choice, however, the challenge is how to compute the similarities between SLNs. In this paper, we design a hierarchical graph kernel for SLNs to solve this challenge. We evaluate the practical performance of our kernels on a task of detecting semantic similar relationships between texts. The result show that the detection results of semantic node hierarchical kernel is most similar to human's.
DETI-interact: Interacting with public displays through mobile phones

This work describes the necessary steps in the development of DETI interact: an information system for the exhibition of informative content from the Department of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics of the University of Aveiro. This system enables users to interact with the contents displayed in a large screen in the lobby of the department through an Android mobile device.
Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem: A Literature Survey

The purpose of this paper is to develop structural classification of Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem (SVRP) by different domains and attributes. This research used a systematic review and meta-analysis on SVRP literatures. This includes browsing relevant researches and publications, screening related articles, identifying domains, attributes and categorising the articles based on the identified domains and attributes. The findings of the study show clear differences on the number of studies under each domain and attribute. Most studied attributes are stochastic customer demand, capacitated vehicle, synthesis data and objective function with cost minimization. Whereas the least studied are maximisation objective function, stochastic service time, and an applied model using stochastic with recurs. The research helps to summarise and map a comprehensive survey on SVRP literatures so that various contributions in the field are organised in a manner that provide a clear view for the readers and identify future research directions. This paper is the first of its kind in the field of SVRP that develop a classification scheme for articles published since 1993 to enhances the development of this newly emerging discipline.
Rectangularity and Tightness: A Normal Form Characterization of Perfect Information Extensive Game Forms

We give an alternative proof of a theorem by Gurvich: A game form G is equivalent to a free extensive game form with perfect information if and only if G is rectangular and tight. It follows that any rectangular and tight game form is Nash solvable. We also present some basic properties of rectangular game forms.
Detecção automática de fibrilação atrial através de modelos Markovianos.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common cardiac arrhythmia and it is mainly characterized by the presence of random RR intervals. In this way, atrial fibrillation has been studied as a stochastic process and it has been often modeled through Markov chains. Following previous studies on this subject, this work models time sequences of heartbeats as a three states Markov process for AF automatic detection. The model was trained and developed using signals from MIT-BIH database. Another consolidated method for AF detection, called “RR Ratios”, was also applied to compare Markov Model’s results. The performance evaluation of both methods was measured through sensitivity (Se) and positive predictive (+P) for AF detection. These two methods – Markov Model and “RR Ratio” – had their coefficients and thresholds optimized in order to maximize the values of Se and +P at the same time. After optimization, both methods were tested with another database, independent of development database. The obtained results were Se = 84,940% and +P = 81,579%, consolidating Markov Models for detecting random heartbeats. LISTA DE ABREVIATURAS E SIGLAS A Batimento Prematuro Atrial AAMI Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation AFIB Fibrilação Atrial AV Nodo Átrio-Ventricular BIH Beth Israel Hospital BPV Batimento Prematuro Ventricular ECG Eletrocardiograma FA Fibrilação Atrial IRV Ritmo Idioventricular J Batimento Prematuro Juncional LA Left Arm LL Left Leg MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology N Batimento Normal ou Ritmo Sinusal Normal NOD Ritmo Juncional AV +P Valor Preditivo Positivo RA Right Arm S Batimento Prematuro Supraventricular SA Nodo Sino-Atrial Se Sensibilidade T Trigeminismo V Batimento Prematuro Ventricular VT Taquicardia Ventricular 1 Estas siglas correspondem às marcações de arritmia realizadas pela base de dados MIT/BIH [18].
Do childhood social circumstances affect overweight and obesity in early adulthood?

Aims: The aim of the study was to examine the association of childhood circumstances with overweight and obesity in early adulthood, to analyse whether the respondent's education and current circumstances mediate these associations, and to explore whether the respondent's health behaviour affects these associations. Design: This was a cross-sectional study with retrospective inquiries. Methods: The study was based on a representative two-stage cluster sample (N= 1894, participation rate 79%) of young adults aged 18—29 years in Finland in 2000. The outcome measure was three-class body mass index (BMI) (normal weight, overweight, and obesity). Multinomial logistic regression was used as the main statistical tool. Results: In women, childhood circumstances (low parental education (relative risk ratio (RRR) = 2.43), parental unemployment (RRR= 2.09) and single-parent family (RRR= 1.99)) increased the risk of overweight (25 ≤ BMI<30), but the effects were largely attenuated by other childhood factors and early adult circumstances. In men, no significant childhood predictors of overweight were found. Single-parent family (RRR=2.32), parental alcohol problem (RRR= 2.71), parental mental health problems (RRR=2.28) and being bullied at school (RRR=3.13) predicted obesity (BMI ≥ 30) in women in the age-adjusted models, and being bullied at school remained a significant predictor after adjusting for all childhood and current determinants. In both genders, the strong association between parental education and obesity remained significant after adjusting for all other determinants (for the lowest educational category, RRR= 3.56 in women, and RRR= 6.55 in men). Conclusions: Childhood factors predict overweight and obesity in early adulthood. This effect is stronger on obesity than on overweight and in women than in men, and it seems to be partly mediated by adult circumstances. The results emphasize the lasting effect of childhood socioeconomic position on adult obesity. When preventive policies are being planned, social circumstances in childhood should be addressed.
A Double-Stranded-RNA Response Program Important for RNA Interference Efficiency

ABSTRACT When recognized by the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) produced in eukaryotic cells results in posttranscriptional gene silencing. In addition, dsRNA can trigger the interferon response as part of the immune response in vertebrates. In this study, we show that dsRNA, but not short interfering RNA (siRNA), induces the expression of qde-2 (an Argonaute gene) and dcl-2 (a Dicer gene), two central components of the RNAi pathway in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. The induction of QDE-2 by dsRNA is required for normal gene silencing, indicating that this is a regulatory mechanism that allows the optimal function of the RNAi pathway. In addition, we demonstrate that Dicer proteins (DCLs) regulate QDE-2 posttranscriptionally, suggesting a role for DCLs or siRNA in QDE-2 accumulation. Finally, a genome-wide search revealed that additional RNAi components and homologs of antiviral and interferon-stimulated genes are also dsRNA-activated genes in Neurospora. Together, our results suggest that the activation of the RNAi components is part of a broad ancient host defense response against viral and transposon infections.
Anger-coping types, blood pressure, and all-cause mortality: a follow-up in Tecumseh, Michigan (1971-1983).

This study examined prospectively (1971-1983) the relationship between anger-coping types, blood pressure, and all-cause mortality in a sample of men and women aged 30-69 (n = 696) of the Tecumseh Community Health Study. Subjects who indicated that they were likely to suppress their anger in response to two hypothetical anger-provoking situations had 1.7 times the mortality risk of those who expressed their anger (95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.03-3.05). Subjects who suppressed their anger when unjustifiably confronted by their spouse had twice the mortality risk of those who expressed their anger (95% CI = 1.13-3.38). For high vs. low suppressed anger towards a policeman, the mortality risk was 1.24 (95% CI = 0.72-2.14). These relationships were invariant across age, sex, and education groups, even when medical risk factors were adjusted for, i.e., smoking, relative weight, blood pressure, coronary heart disease status, forced expiratory volume at one second (FEV1), and chronic bronchitis. However, suppressed anger measures significantly interacted with elevated blood pressure to predict the highest mortality risk. These results suggest that persons with high mortality risk can be identified in part by how they cope with anger, and by the joint effect of anger-coping type (a behavioral trait) and elevated blood pressure (a biologic trait).
The paradox of 20q11.21 amplification in a subset of cases of myeloid malignancy with chromosome 20 deletion

Deletion of the long arm of one chromosome 20 (del(20q)) is a well‐recognized abnormality in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and is presumed to cause loss of a tumor suppressor gene at 20q12. In a previously published series of MDS and AML cases, which had lost this region via unbalanced translocation, around 40% of cases were shown to have additional copies of the chromosome 20 abnormalities, with resulting gain or amplification of the retained parts of chromosome 20, most often 20q11.2. We have used FISH and array comparative genomic hybridization, to define further the retained and amplified regions. We now report targeted amplification of 20q11.21 in four of the 22 cases selected for further study and in one new case. The shortest amplified region of 250 kb in a series of five patients with three to ten copies of the 20q11.21 region contained the complete HCK, TM9SF4, PLAGL2, and POFUT1 genes. By RT‐PCR we have shown that there is correlation between amplification and increased expression of these four genes in most cases. Localized and high level amplification of the common 250 kb region is evidence for activation of an oncogene in this region in these MDS and AML cases. Cases with 20q11.21 amplification tended to have a high proportion of erythroblasts in the marrow, with two cases diagnosed as erythroleukemia (AML‐M6). Chromosome sub‐band 20q11.21 amplification may therefore prove to be a marker of a specific subset of AML/MDS with a significant erythroid component. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.