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Interdisciplinary Healthcare Teams

Interdisciplinary healthcare teams have emerged in response to dilemmas that arise when healthcare professionals operate in their own silos. The benefits of interdisciplinary teams has been widely touted as the answer to patient safety and other desirable health outcomes. The 2001 Institute of Medicine report identified six dimensions for quality 21st century healthcare: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable. This paper explores the dynamics of interdisciplinary care teams in healthcare organizations in the United States. It is hypothesizes that, when an interdisciplinary care team model is used, patient outcomes and staff satisfaction will improve. Based on the review of the existing research literature, the impacts of interdisciplinary teams on the key patient outcomes is examined: inpatient length of stay (LOS), readmission rates, medical errors and team communication, rates of Adverse Drug Events (ADEs. Further the impact of interdisciplinary teams on staff attitudes and satisfaction, interdisciplinary collaboration, and overall patient satisfaction are examined for their subsequent impact on healthcare outcomes. In this review, some clear benefits of interdisciplinary care were found relative to a decline in length of stay, decrease in adverse drug events, and improvements in staff communication with other team members. There was no positive relationship with readmission rate and not all professionals experienced the same degree of satisfaction with communications within the team.
A quantitatively‐based methodology for the evaluation of chemical hormesis

Abstract The recent creation of a chemical hormesis database revealed approximately 350 studies qualitatively judged to show high, moderate, or low evidence of hormesis. A quantitative methodology was subsequently developed to more rigorously evaluate an experiment's capacity to demonstrate hormesis. Criteria were established and assigned point values based on: 1) the number of experimental doses below the high NOEL (i.e., within the hormetic zone); 2) experimental determination or estimation of the high NOEL; 3) the statistical significance of the stimulatory response; 4) the magnitude (percentage of control value) of the stimulatory response; and 5) the reproducibility of data by other studies. Evidence of hormesis was assessed by comparing the summation of point values to point ranges established for six evidence categories: high, moderate‐high, moderate, low‐moderate, low, and no‐low. Due to the emphasis on rigorous study design and statistical analysis criteria, 53% of the experiments received total .
A New Implementation of Graphical Password Scheme for Captcha Based Security System

: Passwords play a significant task in computer security to validate human users. Users rely on graphical passwords because it offers more security than the text-based passwords. The human brain is superior in recollecting a picture than textual characters. A new methodology called CaRP (Captcha as gRaphical Password) is used which is based on hard AI problems for security purposes. CaRP is both captcha and graphical password scheme. CaRP have many applications in practical security which overcomes various security problems suchas online guessing attacks, rely attacks and shoulder surfing attacks. Carp offers an innovative methodology to address the familiar image hotspot problem in well-liked graphical password systems such as pass points. Carp also offers security and usability and thus improve online security.
Design and Implementation of a Mobile Device Management System Based on SEAndroid

— Mobile devices store large amounts of personal information and corporate data, therefore, it is very important to protect the private information of smartphones. In this research, we implements a mobile device management (MDM) system for Android devices, it is consisted of an android system app and a server software. The proposed MDM system can manage security of Android devices by means of extended the classes of Android application context, the Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) policy analysis and the SELinux policy update on the kernel layer. Our MDM system can remotely grant or revoke app’s permissions, also remotely install or remove applications on the devices. The MDM system app was developed using Google’s Android Open Source Project (ASOP) and we field trial our design with Google Nexus 7 II tablet with Android 6.
Quality assurance for cyclic direct simple shear tests for evaluating liquefaction triggering characteristics of cohesionless soils Assurance de la qualité des essais cycliques de cisaillement direct simple pour l’évaluation de l’initiation de la liquéfaction des sols sans cohésion

Undrained or constant volume direct simple shear (CDSS) tests are commonly used to evaluate the liquefaction triggering characteristics of cohesionless soils. However, while the American Society for Testing of Materials (ASTM) has developed standards for monotonic direct simple shear testing, they have not developed a standard for CDSS. As a result, herein the authors review their test database and assign “grades” A-D to different aspects of the tests, e.g.: accumulated shear strain and imposed shear stress on the specimen during the consolidation phase, and maximum axial strain that occurs during the cyclic phase of constant volume CDSS testing. Additional grades are also assigned to the tests based on unusual behaviors in the stress paths. Acceptance criteria based on the cumulative test scores are then proposed for “high” quality tests. The slope of the relationship between cyclic stress ratio (CSR) and number of cycles to liquefaction (NL) is influenced by the exclusion of tests using the acceptance criteria, even though the excluded tests were of sufficient quality to have been included in most published studies. RÉSUMÉ: Les essais de cisaillement direct simple à volume constant ou non drainé (CDSS) sont couramment utilisés pour évaluer les caractéristiques d’initiation de la liquéfaction des sols sans cohésion. La société américaine pour les essais de matériaux (ASTM) a élaboré une norme pour les essais de cisaillement direct simple monotones, mais il n'y a pas de norme similaire pour les CDSS. En conséquence, les auteurs examinent ici leurs bases de données de tests qu'ils ont compilée et leur attribuent des «notes» A-D selon certains critères : la contrainte de cisaillement accumulée et la contrainte de cisaillement imposée sur le spécimen lors de la phase de consolidation, et la contrainte axiale maximale survenant pendant la phase cyclique du test CDSS à volume constant. Les tests sont également filtrés en fonction de comportements inhabituels dans les stress-paths. La pente de la relation entre le rapport de contrainte cyclique (CSR) et le nombre de cycles à la liquéfaction (NL) est altérée du fait de l’exclusion de données d’essais ayant reçu des «notes» inférieures. La note D serait généralement considérée comme étant de qualité suffisante pour être incluse dans la plupart des études.
A Novel Hybrid Watermarking scheme with Image authentication based on frequency domain, 2- Level SVD using chaotic map

INTRODUCTION: In order to protect the owner’s visual multimedia data, various watermarking methods have introduced in the last few years. In image watermarking techniques, a secret watermark image inserted into another image. OBJECTIVES: The main aim of this paper is to implement an image watermarking technique having high security from stealing the information hidden in image and make the resultant image more robust against various attacks. METHODS: In this paper, frequency domain based techniques like DWT, DCT has used with 2 Level SVD and a new 3D discrete hyper chaotic map. The digital signature and other image parameters have appends in the watermark image to ensure the security and copyright protection of the original image using RSA, Arnold transforms, and SHA-1, techniques. At the receiver side, digital signature and information parameters have retrieved from the watermark image and identify to detect whether an unauthorized person attacks the watermark image or not. To verify the originality of image, the extracted information parameter, and the hash value of the extracted watermark have compared with the original value of the parameters and source hash value of the watermark image, respectively. The secret key used in the proposed scheme that makes the system more robust and adds security to the system. It helps to authenticate the originality of the received image. RESULTS: We compare the result with the present scheme proposed by Lin at el. The experiments have conducted to check various standard image processing attacks, and the watermark extraction process generates a high-quality image after different attacks. The primary purpose of the suggested watermarking scheme is to ensure reversibility and high security. CONCLUSION: The experimental outcomes confirmed that not only the recommended scheme attained higher robustness and imperceptibility in comparison to our earlier scheme. The Watermark image also recovered successfully with the known secret key.
Assessing the Relationship Between Narcissism, Neuroticism, and Leadership Skills

ASSESSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NARCISSISM, NEUROTICISM, AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS by Krista M. Brooker Understanding personality traits that are related to leadership skills is important in order to hire effective leaders. Research has seldom examined the relationship between narcissism, neuroticism, and leadership skills. Therefore, the present study was conducted to examine the relationship between narcissism, neuroticism, and leadership skills (human skills and conceptual skills). It was hypothesized that narcissism would be positively related to human skills and conceptual skills. It was also hypothesized that neuroticism would be negatively related to human skills and conceptual skills. A total of 145 employees participated in the self-report survey. Results showed that there was no relationship between narcissism and leadership skills. Results also indicated that neuroticism was negatively related to human skills and conceptual skills. Results implied the more neurotic employees were, the fewer leadership skills they had. When subsamples were created for age, there was no relationship between neuroticism and leadership skills for respondents younger than 25 years old, but the relationship was negative for employees 25 years or older. Based on these findings, there is a need for research examining additional demographic variables and the relationship between neuroticism and leadership skills.
BIO-AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PROMISING RICE LINES DERIVED FROM A CROSS BETWEEN ASOMINORI JAPONICA AND IR24 INDICA AT THREE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the adaptability of four promising rice lines, viz. IAS5, IAS37, IAS63, and DCG66, in both the Spring and Summer seasons of 2017 in Son La, Hanoi and Nghe An. The results showed that the growth durations of the lines varied depending on the growing areas. In each region, the growth durations of the IAS lines were shorter than that of IR24 variety, but only DCG66 had a short growth duration. The plant heights of the lines were equivalent to that of IR24, except for DCG66 which had significantly taller plants. The flag leaf lengths of the lines in the Summer were longer than in the Spring, but the flag leaf widths did not differ between seasons. Grain yields of the lines in the Spring season were higher than in the Summer season. The average grain yields of the IAS lines were not significantly different compared to those of IR24 across locations, but the grain yield of DCG66 was 13.6-33.5% and 15.9-34.7% higher than that of IR24 across three locations in Spring and Summer season, respectively. There were significant differences in the grain size of the studied lines, and among those only IAS63 was classified as having a long grain size. The amylose contents of the lines were around 24.2-30.5%, and thus the lines were classified as belonging to the hard rice group. Overall, the results showed that all the lines were able to adapt across the three locations, and DCG66 could be a new source of genes for breeding programs involving rice varieties with a short growth duration and large panicles.
The Evolution of Housing Typologies for Older Adults in The Netherlands From 1945 to 2016: An Analysis in the Context of Policy, Societal, and Technological Developments

Abstract This study aims to examine housing typologies for older adults in the light of three qualitatively examined exogenous factors: policy, societal developments, and technology. The developments in inpatient and assisted ambulatory housing facilities for older adults have been mapped from 1945 to 2016 using quantitative data. Using these data, five transition periods can be distinguished. Within the first transition periods, policy factors were tremendously important, while within the later ones, societal influence empowered by technological change became the primarily driving factor. This research shows that the classification of inpatient, assisted ambulatory housing, and outpatient housing may no longer be applicable in its current form.
EFFECTS OF REYNOLDS NUMBER ON THE ONSET OF

This paper discusses the effects of Reynolds number on the passage of leading-edge vortex separation onset above blunt-edged delta wing VFE-2 configurations. The VFE-2 model differentiated by its leading edge radii namely medium and large-edged wings were fabricated and tested in UTM-Low Speed Wind Tunnel, (UTM-LST). The tests in this study were performed at speeds of 18, 36.1 and 54.2 m/s correspond to Reynolds numbers of 1×10 6 , 2×10 6 and 3×10 6 based on the mean aerodynamic chord. The correlation between the leading-edge pressure coefficients on the onset of leading edge primary separation is discussed in this paper. The experimental results obtained from surface pressure measurements carried out on the upper surface of the model showed that higher Reynolds number can delay the formation of the primary vortex towards the aft portions of the wing.
Noncontact Debonding Identification in Adhesive Joint using Guided Waves

This study proposes a debonding identification method in adhesive joints by utilizing a complete noncontact laser ultrasonic measurement system. This measurement system consists of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser for ultrasonic wave generation and a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) for ultrasonic wave detection. The distance between the two laser beams, shot for wave generation and detection, is kept as a constant and they are synchronously scanned over the target adhesive joint. Energy features is then extracted from the acquired ultrasonic waves to present the difference induced by debonding problem. This proposed method has following advantages over the existing techniques: (1) it owns higher and more stable signal to noise ratio; and (2) debonding identification can be realized by spatial comparison and without relying on any baseline data got from pristine condition. It is successfully demonstrated by detecting debonding problem in several adhesive joint specimens.
Insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis: uniform or diverse?

Resistance to the insecticidal proteins produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been documented in more than a dozen species of insect. Nearly all of these cases have been produced primarily by selection in the laboratory, but one pest, the diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella), has evolved resistance in open-field populations. Insect resistance to Bt has immediate and widespread significance because of increasing reliance on Bt toxins in genetically engineered crops and conventional sprays. Furthermore, intense interest in Bt provides an opportunity to examine the extent to which evolutionary pathways to resistance vary among and within species of insect. One mode of resistance to Bt is characterized by more than 500-fold resistance to at least one Cry1A toxin, recessive inheritance, little or no cross-resistance to Cry1C, and reduced binding of at least one Cry1A toxin. Analysis of resistance to Bt in the diamondback moth and two other species of moth suggests that although this particular mode of resistance may be the most common, it is not the only means by which insects can attain resistance to Bt.
A collaborative physical layer security scheme

High level of security is essential in wireless 5G communications. The last few years there has been an increase in research interest in the potential of the radio channel’s physical properties to provide communications security. These research efforts investigate fading, interference, and path diversity to develop security techniques for implementation in 5G New Radio (NR). In this paper, we propose a collaborative scheme to existing physical layer security schemes, taking advantage of the characteristics of the OFDM technique. An OFDM symbol includes the pilot subcarriers, typically essential for the pilot channel estimation process performed at the legitimate receiver. In this work we propose the positions of the subcarriers to change on every OFDM symbol following a probability distribution known only to the legitimate transmitter and legitimate receiver. An eavesdropper, does not have access to the information of the pilot subcarriers positions so, it performs blind channel estimation. The theoretical analysis is based on the information theoretic problem formulation and is confirmed by simulations. The performance metrics used are the secrecy capacity and the outage probability. The proposed scheme is very simple and robust, strengthening security in multimedia applications.
NLRP2, an Inhibitor of the NF-κB Pathway, Is Transcriptionally Activated by NF-κB and Exhibits a Nonfunctional Allelic Variant1

NLRP2 has been shown to inhibit the NF-κB signaling pathway, and thus may contribute to modulate the inflammatory response, where NF-κB plays a major role. In this study, we report that expression of NLRP2 is induced upon differentiation of CD34+ hemopoietic progenitors into granulocyte or monocyte/macrophages. We also found that NLRP2 was up-regulated following differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells toward adipocytes. Notably, stimulation of HEK293T cells with TNF-α or overexpression of the p65 subunit of NF-κB resulted in up-regulation of NLRP2 and the formation of NF-κB-NLRP2 promoter complexes. Moreover, ectopic expression of p65 but not of other transcriptional regulators induced transactivation of the NLRP2 promoter. Thus, NLRP2 may control NF-κB activation through a regulatory loop. Nucleotide changes within the NACHT domain of other NLRP proteins have been associated with hereditary fever syndromes and chronic inflammatory diseases. We identified five single nucleotide polymorphisms present in the NACHT domain of NLRP2 by sequencing genomic DNA from 319 healthy controls. The frequencies of the rare alleles varied between 0.2 and 10%. Of note, one of these variants, I352S was unable to block the transcriptional activity of NF-κB and the formation of NF-κB-DNA-binding complexes following stimulation with TNF-α. Overall, our findings provide molecular insight into the expression of NLRP2 by NF-κB and suggest that a polymorphism within the NACHT domain of NLRP2 may contribute to the amplification of inflammatory responses due to a reduction of inhibitory signals on the NF-κB pathway.
First Time Miss : Low Overhead Mitigation for Shared Memory Cache Side Channels

Cache hit or miss is an important source of information leakage in cache side channel attacks. An attacker observes a much faster cache access time if the cache line has previously been filled in by the victim, and a much slower memory access time if the victim has not accessed this cache line, thus revealing to the attacker whether the victim has accessed the cache line or not. For machines with private caches, this leakage can be mitigated by scheduling the victim and potential attackers on different cores, or flushing the private caches after a use. However, the latter is less practical for the large last-level cache. In this work, we propose a novel yet simple mitigation approach for cross-core attacks, called FTM (first time miss) approach. In this approach, in order to hide a cache hit to a shared cache, we make it to behave like a miss when it is accessed the first time by a thread. It is simulated by buffering the cache line for a time similar to the memory access time (i.e. like a miss penalty), and then sending it to the private cache. The next access onwards, it is safe to allow cache hits on this cache line because the attacker has already accessed it once, and expects it to be filled anyway. Thus, all of the cache lines appear to be accessed only by the attacker, and the access patterns of the victim can be hidden. The hardware overhead for the FTM scheme is minimal because it only needs a small per core buffer. Simulation-based evaluation on SPEC and PARSEC benchmarks shows low performance hit (< 0.1%) because of low number of first time misses in most application programs.
Reliability Augmentation of Requests with Service Function Chain Requirements in Mobile Edge-Cloud Networks

Provisioning reliable network services for mobile users in a mobile edge computing environment is the top priority for most network service providers, as unreliable or severely failed services will result in tremendous loss on their revenues and consumers. In this paper, we study a novel service reliability augmentation problem in a Mobile Edge-Cloud (MEC) network, where mobile users request various network services through issuing requests with service function chain (SFC) requirements and reliability expectations, and an admitted request may not meet its reliability expectation initially. To enhance its service reliability to reach its expectation, it is a common practice to make use of redundant backups, that is to place redundant VNF instances of each Virtual Network Function (VNF) in its SFC in case its primary VNF instance fails. In this paper, we aim to augment the reliability of each admitted request as much as possible with the ultimate objective to reach its reliability expectation, subject to computing capacity on each cloudlet in the network. To this end, we first formulate a novel service reliability augmentation problem. We then deal with the problem for the admitted request under the assumption that all the secondary VNF instances of each primary VNF instance in its SFC must be placed into the cloudlets no more than l hops from the cloudlet of the primary VNF instance, where 1 ≤ l ≤ n − 1 and n is the number of cloudlets in the network, for which we propose an integer linear program (ILP) solution, and develop a randomized algorithm with a provable approximation ratio while a moderate resource constraint violation. We also devise an efficient heuristic algorithm for the problem without any resource constraint violation. We finally evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithms through experimental simulations. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms are promising, and their empirical results are superior to their analytical counterparts.