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FRI0652-HPR Spinal Mobility in Long Standing Ankylosing Spondylitis. Application of Newly Developed Reference Intervals on Clinical Data

Background A hallmark of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is the progressive decline of spinal mobility. Recently published reference intervals (RI) for spinal mobility measurements in healthy individuals offer new possibilities to assess impairment during the course of the AS disease (1). Objectives To evaluate the development of subnormal spinal mobility among patients with AS with regards to disease duration. Methods The cohort comprised all patients born 1937 or later with a validated (modified NY criteria) AS diagnosis 1980–2015 at the Rheumatology department in Västerbotten, whom had one or more registered spinal mobility measurement (n=232). The first subnormal value (lower than the 2.5th percentile of healthy individuals) regarding 10 cm Schober test, lateral spinal flexion, chest expansion, and cervical rotation, respectively, using the age-, sex- and length specific reference intervals, was defined as outcome. The follow-up started at the first measurement and ended at the date of the outcome, the study end (June 30, 2015), death or the time point for the last visit + 2 years. The results were presented by Kaplan-Meier curves. Results The median (range) of the total disease duration during follow-up was 31 (5–61) years. 3706 examinations were evaluated, with a median of 24 examinations/patient, or median (range) 1.0 (0.1–2.8) examinations/year of follow-up. The proportion of patients with subnormal mobility increased by disease duration for all measurements. Lumbar mobility was most impaired, but after 15–20 years half of the patients still had mobility measurements within the normal range (Figure 1). Conclusions Preserved spinal mobility is common in long-standing AS. However, the results indicated a continuous progression of spinal stiffness also after 20 years of AS disease. References Ramiro S, van Tubergen A, Stolwijk C, et al. Ann Rheum Dis 2015;74:1218–1224. Disclosure of Interest B. Sundström: None declared, L. Ljung Paid instructor for: Educational activities for BMS, Pfizer. Abbvie, S. Wållberg-Jonsson: None declared
Concept Map in Photosynthesis and Its Effects on Achievement and Self-Classroom Management.

The study assessed the effect of concept map on achievement and classroom management of 7th grade students. Three elementary schools were purposively selected in Silchar town of Assam, India. The 7th grade students (n = 36), of ‘School I’ was assigned to lecture cum discussion approach, 34, students (n = 34) of ‘School II’ was assigned to Spider Concept Map Approach (SCMA) and the 30 participants (n=30) of ‘School III’ was assigned to Hierarchical Concept Map Approach (HCMA). Pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design used to assess the effect of concept map on the achievement and classroom management of students. Pre map test was assigned to both the experimental and comparison group and after three weeks instruction post map test was administered. In addition to these, Concept Map Classroom Management Scale was assigned among all the participants of both experimental and comparison groups to response. The individual pre and post spider concept map and hierarchical concept map, and Concept Map Classroom Management Scale (CMCMS) scores were analyzed through ANCOVA and post hoc Tukey-Kramer Multiple Comparisons. It was resulted that both spider concept map & hierarchical concept map training students in association with those in the comparison group demonstrated significantly better in the performance of photosynthesis and respiration concepts as well as self-classroom management.
First subadult specimen of Psephochelys polyosteoderma (Sauropterygia, Placodontia) implies turtle‐like fusion pattern of the carapace

Placodonts are a group of turtle‐like animals, including placochelyids that are restricted entirely to the Triassic Tethyan realm. Their fossil remains are rare compared with other contemporaneous marine reptiles. Here, we report the first subadult specimen of the placochelyid Psephochelys polyosteoderma from south‐western China. It is the most complete specimen of this taxon known. The new fossil is referred confidently to Psephochelys polyosteoderma on the basis of the narrow and spatulate rostrum, toothless premaxillae, and carapace composed of small and numerous armour plates with relatively smooth surfaces. The new specimen provides additional anatomical information for Psephochelys polyosteoderma including the presence of transverse processes on the dorsal vertebrae lacking anteroposterior expansion, and a phalangeal formula in the pes of 1‐2‐3‐4‐2. The phylogeny of placodonts, especially the family Placochelyidae, is revised based on a character matrix incorporating additional postcranial characters. This resulted in a better‐resolved tree when compared with previous studies, with Psephochelys as a derived genus within Placochelyidae. On comparison with the adult holotype specimen, the incompletely developed armour in the new specimen reveals a fusion pattern of the carapace beginning with the axial and marginal regions. This surface fusion pattern resembles the ontogenetic process in the embryonic turtle shell, hinting at a possible deep homology with their common diapsid ancestor.
Effects of sustained inflation pressure during neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation of asphyxiated piglets

Objective Sustained inflation (SI) during chest compression (CC = CC+SI) significantly reduces time to return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) compared to 3:1 compression-to-ventilation ratio during neonatal resuscitation. However, the optimal peak inflation pressure (PIP) of SI during CC+SI to improve ROSC and hemodynamic recovery in severely asphyxiated piglets is unknown. Aim To examine if different PIPs of SI during CC+SI will improve ROSC and hemodynamic recovery in severely asphyxiated piglets. Intervention and measurements Twenty-nine newborn piglets (1-3 days old) were anesthetized, intubated, instrumented and exposed to 30-min normocapnic hypoxia followed by asphyxia. Piglets were randomized into four groups: CC+SI with a PIP of 10 cmH2O (CC+SI_PIP_10, n=8), a PIP of 20 cmH2O (CC+SI_PIP_20, n=8), a PIP of 30 cmH2O (CC+SI_PIP_30, n=8), and a sham-operated control group (n=5). Heart rate, arterial blood pressure, carotid blood flow, cerebral oxygenation, and respiratory parameters were continuously recorded throughout the experiment. Main results Baseline parameters were similar between all groups. There was no difference in asphyxiation (duration and degree) between intervention groups. PIP correlated positively with tidal volume and inversely with exhaled CO2 during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Time to ROSC and rate of ROSC were similar between piglets resuscitated with CC+SI_PIP_10, CC+SI_PIP_20, and CC+SI_PIP_30 cmH2O: median (IQR) 75 (63-193) sec, 94 (78-210) sec, and 85 (70-90) sec; 5/8 (63%), 7/8 (88%), and 3/8 (38%) (p=0.56 and p=0.12, respectively). All piglets that achieved ROSC survived to four hours post-resuscitation. Piglets resuscitated with CC+SI_PIP_30 cmH2O exhibited increased concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1β and tumour necrosis factor-α in the frontoparietal cerebral cortex (both p<0.05 vs. sham-operated controls). Conclusions In asphyxiated term newborn piglets resuscitated by CC+SI, the use of different PIPs resulted in similar time to ROSC, but PIP at 30 cmH2O showed a larger VT delivery, lower exhaled CO2 and increased tissue inflammatory markers in the brain.
Unions and corporate social responsibility in a liberal market context: The case of Ford’s shutdown in Australia

Within many coordinated market economies, labour unions have demonstrated to be key actors in shaping corporate social responsibility. Researchers have, however, paid surprisingly little attention to the role of unions in shaping corporate social responsibility strategies and responses in liberal market contexts. This article extends the emerging research on unions and corporate social responsibility through a case study which investigates union influences over corporate social responsibility within the liberal market context of Australia. We conceptualise the role of unions in corporate social responsibility in this context through an industrial relations lens with particular reference to collective bargaining. Drawing on qualitative data, the case study examines the Ford Motor Company’s recent closure of its Australian assembly operations which was hailed by a wide range of stakeholders as an exemplar of ‘best practice’ in their assistance of displaced workers. We conclude that, while highly socially responsible, Ford’s actions were far from voluntary but influenced by a combination of union influence and a ‘subsidised’ corporate social responsibility, where the state, unable and/or powerless to legislate good corporate social behaviour, chose to financially underwrite its cost to the firm. The study represents one of the first studies to demonstrate how unions shape corporate social responsibility strategies of firms in liberal market contexts and how ‘subsidised’ corporate social responsibility becomes an alternative political solution within such a context.
A triangulation for passive design strategies in public hospital

This study touches on passive design elements used at the preparatory design stage of public hospital in Malaysia. Passive design is an aspect of sustainable architecture that needs to be understood and adopted in an environmentally sensitive architectural design. The most common problem is that the designers do not have proper guidelines for passive design to help them in designing a public hospital. Currently there is no comprehensive guidelines on passive design or sustainable architecture that may help designers. This consequently affects the increase of energy usage in hospitals. The intent of this study is to furnish evidence that the initial process of systematic design and guidance is essential in planning for a sustainable public hospital environment. In this study, the researcher uses a mixed method to obtain outcome for guideline. Through this method, a combination of qualitative and quantitative metadata to foster effective interventions to improve the quality of environmental friendly hospital design. The conclusions obtained from this study are to assist in the process of more efficient public hospital design. In addition to making these passive design guidelines as helpful in providing explanations and working to ensure that the guideline produced has credibility and meet the criteria.
A comparative study of nature and types of hallucination across different kinds of psychosis

Introduction: Hallucination is a fundamental psychiatric symptom often regarded as a hallmark of psychosis. It can be found in schizophrenia, other psychoses (including delusional disorder, acute and transient psychosis, post-partum psychosis), affective disorders, dementia, substance induced psychotic disorders, and delirium. Aims and objective: This study is a systematic attempt to study and compare the nature and types of hallucination across three different study groups, namely schizophrenia, mania, and other psychosis. Materials and methods: The study was conducted in a total of 90 randomly selected patients of schizophrenia, mania, and other psychotic disorders, i.e. 30 in each study group. The nature and types of hallucination were assessed by using the Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Results and observation: Hallucination was found in 66.67% cases of schizophrenia and 53.33% cases of other psychosis while in case of mania only 13.33% had hallucination. Hallucinations of schizophrenia were more prominent with frequency of hallucination being present every weeks. In majority of cases of schizophrenia (53.33%) and other psychosis (33.33%), sound was more or less like real voices whereas special quality of sound (not much like real voices) was found in majority of mania (ten per cent) patients. Conclusion: In mania, auditory hallucination is comparatively rare as compared to schizophrenia or other psychosis. Hallucinations in schizophrenia were found to be more mood incongruent as compared to mania and other psychosis.
Barriers and Facilitators to Adoption of a Lay-Delivered Community-Based Strength Training Program for Women in Rural Areas

ABSTRACT Background: Limited access to fitness programs for rural older adults make lay or volunteer delivery approaches potentially desirable to extend reach. However, factors affecting adoption of such approaches are not well explored. Purpose: This study sought to identify barriers and facilitators affecting adoption of a volunteer lay delivery approach for the community-based StrongWomen strength training program conducted through rural county Extension offices. Methods: Educators implementing the program, identified as adopters (n = 6) and nonadopters (n = 13) of the lay delivery approach, participated in semistructured interviews, which were recorded, transcribed, and coded. The socialecological model (SEM) as an organizing framework revealed barriers and facilitators at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and community levels. Results: Barriers included lack of appropriate facilities, limited time, passive leader recruitment approaches, volunteer training proximity, and perceived lack of confidence among potential volunteers. Retired or part-time employment status, education level, comfort in leadership positions, communication of need for volunteers, and active recruitment approach were facilitators. Discussion: Barriers and facilitators can be attributed to differences in educator approaches, participant characteristics, and institutional and community factors. Translation to Health Education Practice: Identification of modifiable factors promoting or inhibiting adoption of lay-led approaches may assist others seeking to implement similar delivery strategies to extend reach.
FULL-KV: Flexible and Ultra-Low-Latency In-Memory Key-Value Store System Design on CPU-FPGA

In-memory key-value store (IMKVS) has gained great popularity in data centers. However, big data brings great challenges in performance and power consumption because of the general-purpose Von Neumann computer architecture. Remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology supporting zero-copy networking could partly alleviate the problem but is still not efficient for KVS. To overcome this problem, we present a flexible and ultra-low-latency IMKVS system named FULL-KV, based on a CPU-FPGA heterogeneous architecture. The FPGA serves as a KVS accelerator that can bypass the CPU and implement both the network stacks and the KVS processing with a highly parallel hardware architecture. The system latency of FULL-KV can achieve as low as 1. 5μs/2. 2μs for the PUT/GET operation, which is 3.0x/1.5x faster than current state-of-the-art hardware-based KVS systems. Besides, FULL-KV can support 4x larger values (up to 4M bytes). Given a total Ethernet bandwidth of 20Gbps, the peak throughput of the single-node FULL-KV can reach 26.0 million key-value operations per second (Mops). In the two-node test system with a commercial Ethernet switch, the peak throughput can reach 52Mops, manifesting the system scalability and practicability.
Lower Gray Matter Density in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Putamen Can Be Traceable in Chronic Heroin Dependents After Over Three Months of Successful Abstinence

Background: In recent years, a few studies have addressed the effect of chronic heroin use on brain structure with respect to volume and shape; however, the literature in this field is sparse and further studies are necessary to generate robust replications. Objectives: In this study, we intended to assess gray matter density (GMD) differences between successfully abstinent heroin dependents and healthy subjects. Indirect evidences for the causal role of drug use in the GMD differences are also targeted here by testing the hypothesis on the correlation between GMD differences and duration of drug use. Patients and Methods: Using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and voxel-based morphology (VBM) technique, changes in gray matter volume and density were evaluated in 18 abstinent heroin dependents and 20 age-, education- and gender-matched healthy subjects. Heroin dependents were all male, and at least 3 months successfully abstinent (mean abstinence duration = 9.2 ± 5.2 months). Results: Decreased GMD in the right anterior cingulate cortex and bilateral putamen were found in abstinent heroin dependents in comparison to controls, corrected for multiple comparisons (P < 0.05). Also, partial correlation analysis, corrected for age, showed negative correlations between total intracranial volume (TIV) and total GMD (r = -0.61 and -0.44, respectively) with the duration of opiate usage in heroin dependents. GMD in the right putamen also had negative correlation with the duration of drug abuse (r = -0.49) and a weak negative correlation was observed between left putamen density and duration of drug abuse (r = -0.42). Examination of the negative correlation between the duration of drug abuse before the age of 25 years and total GMD, while controlling for age, showed weak negative results (r = - 0.44). Conclusion: Specific structural changes were noticeable in prefrontal and striatal areas in the heroin dependents even after a period of successful abstinence. Our results on the interaction between duration of drug use and some of these structural changes provides preliminary ideas for reciprocal cause and effect roles for brain structural changes and heroin abuse. These findings might also imply that brain structures are unable to return to normal state and cannot recover spontaneously even after months of abstinence. This evidence reminds us of the importance of neurorehabilitation interventions after termination of drug use.
Anticarcinogenic and antitumorigenic effect of garlic and factors affecting its activity: A review

Garlic (Allium satium) belongs to family Liliaceae, contains various chemical compounds which are helpful in prevention and treatment of different types of cancer. Both oil and water-soluble allyl sulfur compounds from garlic have been found to possess antitumorigenic properties. Generally, oil-soluble allyl sulfur compounds are more effective antiproliferative agents than their water-soluble counterparts. The ability of these compounds to suppress proliferation is associated with a depression in cell cycle progression and the induction of apoptosis. This depression in cell division coincides with an increase in the percentage of cells blocked in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle. A depression in p34 cdc2 kinase may account for this blockage in cell division. Preclinical and clinical studies suggested that allicina compound responsible for the antitumour and antitumorigenic effect. Part of the protection from these compounds probably inhibit the enzyme cytochrome P450 2E1. This enzyme activates a number of xenobiotic substances, including carcinogens such as nitrosamines, hydrazines and halogenated hydrocarbons. This review will focus on evidence that garlic is anticarcinogenic and antitumorigenic and identify some dietary components that should be considered as important variables when assessing the true anticancer potential of garlic and the factor affecting its activity.
PREVALÊNCIA DE RECURSOS ERGOGÊNICOS FARMACOLÓGICOS E SUPLEMENTOS ALIMENTARES EM PRATICANTES DE MUSCULAÇÃO

como objetivo central identificar a prevalência de consumo de recursos ergogênicos farmacológicos e suplementos alimentares em praticantes de musculação, em Paranacity-PR. Para tanto, foram selecionados ( n= 117) praticantes experientes de musculação, sendo 49 do sexo masculino e 68 do sexo feminino. Á vista disso, (86,3%) destes alunos relataram fazer musculação, enquanto (13,7%) realizavam apenas treinamento aeróbio durante 3x na semana. Em adição, também se verificou a administração de esteroides anabólicos androgênicos em praticantes de musculação (12%), sendo a maior parte adquirida em farmácias sem receita médica (6,8%). Destarte, o presente estudo ressalta a necessidade de ações preventivas e educativas junto a população em estudo, com o intuito de empregar estratégias a fim de orientar os profissionais de saúde, tendo em vista os problemas acarretados pelo uso inadequado de EAA . Medicina baseada em evidências; Suplementos.
Empirical Comparisons of Deep Learning Networks on Liver Segmentation

: Accurate segmentation of CT images of liver tumors is an important adjunct for the liver diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases. In recent years, due to the great improvement of hard device, many deep learning based methods have been proposed for automatic liver segmentation. Among them, there are the plain neural network headed by FCN and the residual neural network headed by Resnet, both of which have many variations. They have achieved certain achievements in medical image segmentation. In this paper, we firstly select five representative structures, i.e., FCN, U-Net, Segnet, Resnet and Densenet, to investigate their performance on liver segmentation. Since original Resnet and Densenet could not perform image segmentation directly, we make some adjustments for them to perform live segmentation. Our experimental results show that Densenet performs the best on liver segmentation, followed by Resnet. Both perform much better than Segnet, U-Net, and FCN. Among Segnet, U-Net, and FCN, U-Net performs the best, followed by Segnet. FCN performs the worst.
Implementation of encoder and decoder for LDPC codes based on FPGA

This paper proposes a parallel cyclic shift structure of address decoder to realize a high-throughput encoding and decoding method for irregular-quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (IR-QC-LDPC) codes, with a dual-diagonal parity structure. A normalized min-sum algorithm (NMSA) is employed for decoding. The whole verification of the encoding and decoding algorithm is simulated with Matlab, and the code rates of 5/6 and 2/3 are selected respectively for the initial bit error ratio as 6% and 1.04%. Based on the results of simulation, multi-code rates are compatible with different basis matrices. Then the simulated algorithms of encoder and decoder are migrated and implemented on the field programmable gate array (FPGA). The 183.36 Mbps throughput of encoder and the average 27.85 Mbps decoding throughput with the initial bit error ratio 6% are realized based on FPGA.
SURVEILLANCE OF SELECTED DISEASES IN FREE-RANGINGELK ( CERVUS ELAPHUS NELSONI ) IN NEBRASKA, 1995-2009

Sera samples were collected from 21 free-ranging, captured female elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) in 199596, and tissue and sera samples were collected from 415 hunter-harvested elk from 1995 to 2006 and tested for selected diseases. Titers for Anaplasma marginale were detected in 81 of 436 (19%) elk. Occurrence of antibodies to anaplasmosis increased from 4 to 40 elk from 2002 to 2006. Titers for bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) were detected in 18 of346 (5%) samples. Titers for Leptospira interrogans serovars were detected in 21 of289 (7%) of samples from 1995 to 2004. Titers for bluetongue virus (BTV) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) were detected in 65 of 370 (18%) sampled elk during 1995-2006. Biologists collected obex tissues from 566 elk from 1997 to 2009 and found evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWO) in one elk in 2009. No brucellosis was detected. Due to the prevalence of several diseases in elk in Nebraska, we recommend that surveillance efforts continue.