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A Framework to Evaluate Community Resilience to Urban Floods: A Case Study in Three Communities

Community resilience is a key index for describing the response of human habitat systems to hazards. Evaluating and enhancing the community resilience requires indicators, identification, and quantitative measurements, especially for urban flooding management. In this study, an advanced index framework for measuring community resilience to urban flooding is proposed, integrating the fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) and the analytic network process (ANP). Seven indicators (public facilities, spatial structure of land use, flood management organizations, rescue capability, accuracy of weather forecasts, vulnerable population, and individual capability) of community resilience are identified using the fuzzy Delphi method. The indicators are classified into four dimensions, and the weights are determined by the analytic network process. This approach is applied to three different types of communities, namely, a newly built neighborhood, an ancient college, and a flood-prone village in the city of Nanning, China, using data collected from questionnaires, interviews, and field investigations. The neighborhood (with a total averaged score of 2.13) has the largest community resilience to urban flooding, followed by the college (1.8), and finally the village (0.91). Flooding management organizations play a leading role in the urban flooding resilience of the neighborhood and college, while the vulnerable population has a great impact on the community resilience of the village. Results of the strategy analysis suggest that science and technology improvement (0.543) is more important than social–economic status improvement (0.325) and built-environment improvement (0.132) for mitigating urban hazards in Nanning. The proposed framework in this study contributes to the interdisciplinary understanding of community resilience for urban flooding and is expected to be applied to sustain urban planning and flood evacuations.
Fast, Rate-Independent, Finite Element Implementation of a 3D Constrained Mixture Model of Soft Tissue Growth and Remodeling

Constrained mixture models of soft tissue growth and remodeling can simulate many evolving conditions in health as well as in disease and its treatment, but they can be computationally expensive. In this paper, we derive a new fast, robust finite element implementation based on a concept of mechanobiological equilibrium that yields fully resolved solutions and allows computation of quasi-equilibrated evolutions when imposed perturbations are slow relative to the adaptive process. We demonstrate quadratic convergence and verify the model via comparisons with semi-analytical solutions for arterial mechanics. We further examine the enlargement of aortic aneurysms for which we identify new mechanobiological insights into factors that affect the nearby non-aneurysmal segment as it responds to the changing mechanics within the diseased segment. Because this new 3D approach can be implemented within many existing finite element solvers, constrained mixture models of growth and remodeling can now be used more widely.
Physical exercise minimizes the toxic triad for cancer: physical inactivity, low fitness, and obesity

The so-called toxic triad of factors linked to cancer, namely obesity, poor cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and physical inactivity, increase the risk of cancer and, when cancer is present, worsen its prognosis. Thus, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle have been linked to an elevated cancer risk whereas regular physical exercise and good CRF diminish this risk. Despite genetic risk factors, there is evidence to show that some lifestyle modifications are capable of reducing the incidence of cancer and its associated morbidity and mortality. Regular physical exercise targeted at maintaining body weight within healthy limits and improving CRF will reduce a person's cancer risk and, once diagnosed, will also improve its prognosis, reducing mortality and the risk of disease recurrence through similar effects. In this review, we describe how physical activity can be used as a pleiotropic, coadjuvant tool to minimize the toxic triad for cancer and update the mechanisms proposed to date for the effects observed.
Photoacoustic imaging of live chicken embryo at multiple developmental stages

Chicken embryo remains a commonly used model for biomedical research due to its ease of availability, accessibility for surgical manipulations, and biological similarities with humans. Although, it is being extensively used for cancer, cardiovascular, and developmental studies, non-destructive imaging of live embryo vasculature with high optical contrast remains a challenge. In this work, photoacoustic tomography of chicken embryos developing in bioengineered eggshell was performed. Chicken embryos at different developmental stages were irradiated with laser pulses at wavelengths 532 nm and 740 nm to acquire cross sectional images at various depths. We have shown a label free method for imaging of live chicken embryo while maintaining its integrity. We demonstrated that our method has the potential to be a powerful non-invasive imaging method for studying vasculature growth and development in chicken embryos.
Catalog of the family Calliphoridae (Diptera: Oestroidea) of Mexico

Calliphoridae is a worldwide distributed family of flies with over 1,500 described species. There are approximately 100 species in the Nearctic region and 130 in the Neotropical region, but in the Mexican territory only few species have been recorded. There is not a previous catalog of Mexican calliphorids. This catalog summarizes taxonomic actualized information of 30 species of 11 genera and three subfamilies of Calliphoridae known up to date in Mexico.
The Evaluation of Teaching the Nursing Process Using Traditional Lecture, Campus Laboratory, Clinical, and the Addition of High Fidelity Human Simulation (HFHS) Unfolding Scenarios.

iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT . vi CHAPTER 1 . 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1 Background . 1 1.2 Purpose of the Study . 2 1.3 Research Questions . 3 1.4 Operational Definitions . 4 1.5 Assumptions . 5 1.6 Limitations. 7 1.7 Significance of the Study to Nursing . 7 1.8 Summary . 7 Chapter 2 . 9 2.0 MANUSCRIPT #1 . 9 The Diffusion of Human Patient Simulation into an Associate Degree in Nursing Curriculum . 9 2.1 Abstract . 9 2.2 Introduction . 9 2.3 Background of the Frameworks . 10 2.4 Exemplar of ADN Program Experience . 15 2.5 Discussion . 23 2.5. 1 Implications for Educators . 23 2.5. 2 Implications for Administration . 23 2.5. 3 Implications for Practice . 24 2.6 Conclusion. 25 Chapter 3 . 28 3.0 Review of the Literature . 28 3.
Seeing Eye to Eye: A Comparison of Audiences’ and Journalists’ Perceptions of Professional Roles and How They Relate to Trust

ABSTRACT The “gap” between journalist and audience expectations could be one reason why news media credibility is generally low. Journalistic expectations are often explored through analysis of the news worker’s role in society. One understudied topic in roles literature is perceptions of newer contextual reporting roles that consider society’s best interests: reporting in a socially responsible manner, alerting the public of threats and opportunities, accurately portraying the world, and contributing to society’s well-being. A representative survey of 1047 U.S. residents demonstrated audience perceptions of these contextual roles and more traditional journalistic roles. Responses were then compared to similar surveys of news professionals. Findings indicate that U.S. audiences diverge from journalists—especially newspaper/online journalists—in their role estimations, including more positive evaluations of adversarial and political roles. However, the order of role preference was largely similar among the groups, and both citizens and journalists highly valued contextual roles. Subsequent analyses showed that audience role perceptions influenced news trust more than demographics such as political ideology. Citizen belief in adversarial and disseminator journalistic roles strongly predicted greater trust in news reports.
Assessing the fire behavior of woods modified by N‐methylol crosslinking, thermal treatment, and acetylation

Wood products are often treated by different techniques to improve their longevity when used as building materials. Most of the time, the goal is to increase their resistance to weathering effects, deformations in material dimensions or biotic decomposition. These wood treatment techniques have a significant impact on pyrolysis and burning behavior. The general effects of three different common wood treatments on flame retardancy were investigated by comparing treated woods with their untreated counterparts and with other kinds of wood. While the acetylation of beech leads to a slightly increased fire hazard, the thermal treatment of wood and crosslinking of cellulose microfibrils dimethyloldihydroxy‐ethyleneurea show a limited flame retarding effect. Switching to woods with a higher lignin content, and thus higher char yield, however, results in a more pronounced improvement in flame retardancy performance. This article delivers a comprehensive and balanced assessment of the general impact of different wood modifications on the fire behavior. Further, it is a valuable benchmark for assessing the flame retardancy effect of other wood modifications.
Can we use it? On the utility of de novo and reference-based assembly of Nanopore data for plant plastome sequencing

The chloroplast genome harbors plenty of valuable information for phylogenetic research. Illumina short-read data is generally used for de novo assembly of whole plastomes. PacBio or Oxford Nanopore long reads are additionally employed in hybrid approaches to enable assembly across the highly similar inverted repeats of a chloroplast genome. Unlike for PacBio, plastome assemblies based solely on Nanopore reads are rarely found, due to their high error rate and non-random error profile. However, the actual quality decline connected to their use has never been quantified. Furthermore, no study has employed reference-based assembly using Nanopore reads, which is common with Illumina data. Using Leucanthemum Mill. as an example, we compared the sequence quality of seven plastome assemblies of the same species, using combinations of two sequencing platforms and three analysis pipelines. In addition, we assessed the factors which might influence Nanopore assembly quality during sequence generation and bioinformatic processing. The consensus sequence derived from de novo assembly of Nanopore data had a sequence identity of 99.59% compared to Illumina short-read de novo assembly. Most of the found errors comprise indels (81.5%), and a large majority of them is part of homopolymer regions. The quality of reference-based assembly is heavily dependent upon the choice of a close-enough reference. Using a reference with 0.83% sequence divergence from the studied species, mapping of Nanopore reads results in a consensus comparable to that from Nanopore de novo assembly, and of only slightly inferior quality compared to a reference-based assembly with Illumina data (0.49% and 0.26% divergence from Illumina de novo). For optimal assembly of Nanopore data, appropriate filtering of contaminants and chimeric sequences, as well as employing moderate read coverage, is essential. Based on these results, we conclude that Nanopore long reads are a suitable alternative to Illumina short reads in plastome phylogenomics. Only few errors remain in the finalized assembly, which can be easily masked in phylogenetic analyses without loss in analytical accuracy. The easily applicable and cost-effective technology might warrant more attention by researchers dealing with plant chloroplast genomes.
Bimodal distribution of the solar wind at 1 AU

Aims. Here we aim to separate the two main contributions of slow and fast solar wind that appear at 1 AU. Methods. The bi-Gaussian function is proposed as the probability distribution function of the two main components of the solar wind. The positions of the peaks of every simple Gaussian curve are associated with the typical values of every contribution to solar wind. We used the entire data set from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) mission in an analysis of the data set as a whole and as yearly series. Solar cycle dependence is considered to provide more accurate results for the typical values of the different parameters. Results. The distribution of the solar wind at 1 AU is clearly bimodal, not only for velocity, but also for proton density, temperature and magnetic field. New typical values for the main parameters of the slow and fast components of the solar wind at 1 AU are proposed.
The potential role of tap water bacteria in inflammatory bowel disease

Microbial dysbiosis is implicated to play a substantial part in several pathophysiological processes, and one disease receiving great attention in recent years owing to its affiliation with an abnormal microbial state of the gut is inflammatory bowel disease. Being a multifactorial disease, other factors implicated to contribute to its commence include genetics, components of the immune system and environmental factors. Albeit suggestions of tap water serving as an environmental trigger in the aetiology of IBD has been made, its potential impact on the gastrointestinal microbiota remains an untouched area of investigation. Thus, in this study we sought to investigate associations of tap water on the microbiota of gastrointestinal mucosa that could substantiate research conducted to unveil environmental and microbial factors contributing to the onset and/or maintenance of this disease. A total of 426 biopsies and 227 water samples retrieved from 129 and 223 patients respectively, served as material for analysis, and included both adult and pediatric patients from Norwegian IBD and control cohorts. The V3-V4 region of the 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene was amplified using a nested approached to polymerase chain reaction, and sequenced by use of the Illumina MiSeq sequencing platform. Our findings exposed significant associations between tap water and biopsies with respect to an operational taxonomic unit belonging to Enterobacteriaceae at a p-value of 0,016 using Fisher exact as statistical approach. We further disclosed highly significant increases of the same OTU in pediatric IBD sufferers, especially in the ulcerative colitis cohort compared to cohorts of both age groups. This gave a p-value <0,05 when pairwise comparisons with the Conover-Inman method was employed on the median percentagewise prevalence of this OTU. Further analysis by Conover-Inman test also revealed augmented levels of this OTU in biopsies of inflamed origin compared to biopsies of normal state at a p-value of 0,000. Thus, our results serve as important contributors to research on the environmental aspects of IBD, and also with respect to the role of Enterobacteriaceae as a potential microbial key player in the onset and/or maintenance of this disease.
Analyse, développement et évaluation d'une formation médicale en ligne

As part of a project entitled “Evaluation of a context-adapted wiki-based decision aid supporting critically ill patients' decisions about life-sustaining therapies”, funded by the Canadian Frailty Network, the instructional design team of the Society for Life Long Learning (SAVIE) joined the research project to develop an online course for physicians and students considering a number of technical requirements from a needs analysis. The course was developed by rapid prototyping. The learning management system includes xAPI compliant learning objects for a very detailed learning monitoring. These data, combined with a questionnaire for users participating in the experiment, make it possible to evaluate the use and relevance of the course modules. This first experience of learning analytics allows us to evaluate this technical setting (xAPI and LRS) and highlight its possible applications for improving the training system.
Evidence For The Cancer Patients’ Pain Management: An Integrative Review

BACKGROUND: On cancer, pain is one of the most frequent and distressing symptoms, being present in all stages of the disease. Knowing that, this study aimed to analyze the available evidence in the literature about chronic pain management by nurses in adult patients with cancer. METHODS AND FINDINGS: It is an integrative review searched in the PUBMED, LILACS, CINAHL and COCHRANE databases. Nineteen studies met the inclusion criteria proposed in the study, most controlled clinical trials. The articles were analyzed and grouped into three thematic categories: health education (52.6%), clinical practice (36.9%) and complementary therapies (10.5%). CONCLUSION: The nurse has various means for better pain management, promoting effective assistance, minimizing possible barriers, promoting the autonomy of the patient and the ability to self-control, resulting in greater patient satisfaction.
Mild cycles open closed communities to ecological restoration

Species loss is a global issue. With up to a million species at risk and insufficient protected area to maintain the world's biodiversity, humanity will increasingly need to rely on species re‐introductions to locally restore diversity and function. However, such restoration attempts are bound to fail when ecological communities get locked in a closed state that is resistant to recovery. It is presently unknown how to repair these closed systems. We use mathematical models to identify ways out of this problem. We first show how ecological communities may enter a closed state, to then explain how to open them up again for restoration of their original diversity. We find that restoration is often still possible shortly after initial species loss, as (1) the secondary extinctions that produce closure have not happened yet and (2) mild population fluctuations still allow successful repair during a transient postdisturbance phase. However, after this typically short window of opportunity for restoration, the system enters a new equilibrium, which may be a closed state. Our analysis shows how to take ecological communities out of the closed state: Appropriate management of carrying capacities produces a regime of mild population fluctuations that opens a window for successful species re‐introductions. These windows can be perpetually recurring or permanently open. Such opportunities for repair can be absent under regimes of wild cycles or perfect stability. We conclude that mild cycles may open windows of opportunity for the repair of communities that have become resistant to recovery.
A new role of hippocampus during logical reasoning and belief bias in aging

Reasoning requires initial encoding of the semantic association between premises or assumptions, retrieval of these semantic associations from memory, and recombination of information to draw a logical conclusion. Currently-held beliefs can interfere with the content of the assumptions if not congruent and inhibited. This study aimed to investigate the role of the hippocampus and hippocampal networks during logical reasoning tasks in which the congruence between currently-held beliefs and assumptions varies. Participants of younger and older age completed a series of syllogistic reasoning tasks in which two premises and one conclusion were presented and they were required to decide if the conclusion logically followed the premises. The belief load of premises was manipulated to be either congruent or incongruent with currently-held beliefs. Our whole-brain results showed that older adults recruited the hippocampus during the premise integration stage more than their younger counterparts. Functional connectivity using a hippocampal seed revealed that older, but not younger, adults recruited a hippocampal network that included anterior cingulate and inferior frontal regions when premises were believable. Importantly, this network contributed to better performance in believable inferences, only in older adults group. Further analyses suggested that, in older adults group, the integrity of the left cingulum bundle was associated with the higher correct rejection of believable premises more than unbelievable ones. Using multimodal imaging, this study highlights the importance of the hippocampus during premise integration and supports the compensatory role of the hippocampal network during a logical reasoning task among older adults.
The application and prospects of organoid technique in esophageal cancer research

Esophageal cancer is a common gastrointestinal tumor. The morbidity and mortality of esophageal cancer in China were 18.85/100,000 and 14.11/100,000, respectively. China is one of the regions with high incidence and high mortality of esophageal cancer in the world. Among them, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is more common with difficult of early diagnosis. Therefore, there is a great space for research and exploration of early diagnosis and early treatment. Many factors restrict the research on the developing mechanism, drug discovery and screening as well as individualized treatment of esophageal cancer. The lack of an ideal tumor model is one of the important restrictive factors. Organoid is a novel product of 3D culture technology in vitro with the advantages of maintaining the structure, function, genome and drug sensitivity of in situ tissue, and is an excellent tumor research model with such advantages as easy to be operated, relatively low cost, and can be used in conjunction with other advanced technologies. Therefore, esophageal cancer organoid has gradually gained the attention of the academic world, and is expected to be widely used in the field of esophageal cancer research. The present review focuses on the applications and prospects of organoid in the research of esophageal cancer. DOI: 10.11855/j.issn. 0577-7402.2019. 11.15
Sepsis por Staphylococcus aureus: estudio descriptivo de 61 casos

Entre marzo de 1987 y marzo de 1993 se presentaron 61 casos bien definidos de sepsis por S. aureus en el servicio de Medicina Interna del Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paul (HUSVP). El 88% fueron estafilococcemias adquiridas en la comunidad; la mortalidad general se aproximó al 15% y fue mayor en los pacientes de 50 o más años de edad (62.5% vs. 7.5%, p<0.001). Más del 85% presentaron complicaciones graves por siembras distantes del S. aureus (artritis osteomielitis, complicaciones del sistema nervioso central, o por siembras centrales (neumonía, endocarditis, pericarditis) independientemente de la edad o del origen intra o extrahospitalario de la infección. Este hallazgo contrasta significativamente con el mínimo porcentaje de complicaciones metastásicas y morbilidad general (menos del 3% de las estafilococcemias) informadas en series recientes de países desarrollados. Múltiples razones explican este comportamiento diferente en nuesto medio.