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Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT) and Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS): Validity and Responsiveness

Background Although preliminary studies have established a good psychometric foundation for the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT) for a broad population of youth with disabilities, additional validation is warranted for young children. Objective The study objective was to (1) examine concurrent validity, (2) evaluate the ability to identify motor delay, and (3) assess responsiveness of the PEDI-CAT Mobility domain and the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS). Methods Fifty-three infants and young children (<18 months of age) admitted to a pediatric postacute care hospital and referred for a physical therapist examination were included. The PEDI-CAT Mobility domain and the AIMS were completed during the initial physical therapist examination, at 3-month intervals, and at discharge. A Spearman rank correlation coefficient was used to examine concurrent validity. A chi-square analysis of age percentile scores was used to examine the identification of motor delay. Mean score differences from initial assessment to final assessment were analyzed to evaluate responsiveness. Results A statistically significant, fair association (rs=.313) was found for the 2 assessments. There was no significant difference in motor delay identification between tests; however, the AIMS had a higher percentage of infants with scores at or below the fifth percentile. Participants showed significant changes from initial testing to final testing on the PEDI-CAT Mobility domain and the AIMS. Limitations This study included only young patients (<18 months of age) in a pediatric postacute hospital; therefore, the generalizability is limited to this population. Conclusions The PEDI-CAT Mobility domain is a valid measure for young children admitted to postacute care and is responsive to changes in motor skills. However, further item and standardization development is needed before the PEDI-CAT is used confidently to identify motor delay in children <18 months of age.
Pragmatic Implementation of a Stratified Primary Care Model for Low Back Pain Management in Outpatient Physical Therapy Settings: Two-Phase, Sequential Preliminary Study

Background The effectiveness of risk stratification for low back pain (LBP) management has not been demonstrated in outpatient physical therapy settings. Objective The purposes of this study were: (1) to assess implementation of a stratified care approach for LBP management by evaluating short-term treatment effects and (2) to determine feasibility of conducting a larger-scale study. Design This was a 2-phase, preliminary study. Methods In phase 1, clinicians were randomly assigned to receive standard (n=6) or stratified care (n=6) training. Stratified care training included 8 hours of content focusing on psychologically informed practice. Changes in LBP attitudes and beliefs were assessed using the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physiotherapists (PABS-PT) and the Health Care Providers Pain and Impairment Relationship Scale (HC-PAIRS). In phase 2, clinicians receiving the stratified care training were instructed to incorporate those strategies in their practice and 4-week patient outcomes were collected using a numerical pain rating scale (NPRS), and the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI). Study feasibility was assessed to identify potential barriers for completion of a larger-scale study. Results In phase 1, minimal changes were observed for PABS-PT and HC-PAIRS scores for standard care clinicians (Cohen d=0.00–0.28). Decreased biomedical (−4.5±2.5 points, d=1.08) and increased biopsychosocial (+5.5±2.0 points, d=2.86) treatment orientations were observed for stratified care clinicians, with these changes sustained 6 months later on the PABS-PT. In phase 2, patients receiving stratified care (n=67) had greater between-group improvements in NPRS (0.8 points; 95% confidence interval=0.1, 1.5; d=0.40) and ODI (8.9% points; 95% confidence interval=4.1, 13.6; d=0.76) scores compared with patients receiving standard physical therapy care (n=33). Limitations In phase 2, treatment was not randomly assigned, and therapist adherence to treatment recommendations was not monitored. This study was not adequately powered to conduct subgroup analyses. Conclusions In physical therapy settings, biomedical orientation can be modified, and risk-stratified care for LBP can be effectively implemented. Findings from this study can be used for planning of larger studies.
Evolutionary colourisation of greyscale images

We introduce an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) for 'colourising' greyscale images by evolving a colour 'square patches' transfer process between a source, colour image and a target, greyscale image. The presented EA attempts to automatically choose colour patches from a source image and add their chromatic information to the achromatic values of the target image patches. The proposed EA uses first- and second-order statistics for luminance and texture matching. The genes that can represent best matching over all EA parents are recombined in a single multi-sexual recombination to form a single offspring. Then, mutation forms all other offspring. The results demonstrate the potential of our simple EA in colourising a variety of images, provided that the source and target images semantically belong to the same class.
Vestibular Rehabilitation After Traumatic Brain Injury: Case Series

Background and Purpose There has been an increasing focus on vestibular rehabilitation (VR) after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in recent years. However, detailed descriptions of the content of and patient responses to VR after TBI are limited. The purposes of this case series are (1) to describe a modified, group-based VR intervention and (2) to examine changes in self-reported and performance-based outcome measures. Case Description Two women and 2 men (aged 24–45 years) with mild TBI, dizziness, and balance problems participated in an 8-week intervention consisting of group sessions with guidance, individually modified VR exercises, a home exercise program, and an exercise diary. Self-reported and performance-based outcome measures were applied to assess the impact of dizziness and balance problems on functions related to activity and participation. Outcomes The intervention caused no adverse effects. Three of the 4 patients reported reduced self-perceived disability because of dizziness, diminished frequency and severity of dizziness, improved health-related quality of life, reduced psychological distress, and improved performance-based balance. The change scores exceeded the minimal detectable change, indicating a clinically significant change or improvement in the direction of age-related norms. The fourth patient did not change or improve in most outcome measures. Discussion A modified, group-based VR intervention was safe and appeared to be viable and beneficial when addressing dizziness and balance problems after TBI. However, concurrent physical and psychological symptoms, other neurological deficits, and musculoskeletal problems might influence the course of central nervous system compensation and recovery. The present case series may be useful for tailoring VR interventions to patients with TBI. Future randomized controlled trials are warranted to evaluate the short- and long-term effects of VR after TBI.
Hypocholesterolemia in Sickle Cell Anemia: What is the Reason behind it?

There are some possibilities to explain the hypocholesterolemia of SCA patients. First comes the hemolytical stress where chronic hemolysis and increased erythropoietic activity are important in the consumption of plasma pool of cholesterol and development of hypocholesterolemia in SCA patients [5]. Oxidative stress can be another reason for hypocholesterolemia in SCA. In a recent study of our group a significant negative correlation was found between plasma cholesterol and hemolysate MDA levels of steady state SCA patients [6]. This data may indicate a decrease of either erythrocyte or plasma lipoprotein cholesterol perhaps due to a hypermetabolic state in response to oxidative stress.
Language extensions to study data structures for raster graphics

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The role of transformational leadership on implementing manufacturing strategy: an empirical study

Leaders exhibiting transformational behaviours introduce advanced technologies in the key functions of the organisations (for example, production and operations management functions) and implement strategies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Studies investigating the associations between transformational leadership and manufacturing strategy are rarely documented in the operations management literature. In this direction, the purpose of this study is to investigate at what extent transformational leadership behaviours explain the implementation of manufacturing strategy with the help of data collected from 172 Indian manufacturing companies. Results of exploratory factor analysis showed that these companies implement manufacturing strategy in the forms of flexibility, quality and cost strategy. Results of hierarchical regression analyses proved that certain transformational leadership components have positive associations with flexibility, quality and cost strategy. Implications for theory and practice are also offered.
Information system to detect the presence of whitefly previously

The whitefly is a very difficult plague to combat. It operates in various types of culture and each year has led to major losses to farmers across the nation. To combat the whitefly, pesticides or agrochemicals increasingly powerful are being used. One consequence is the contamination of soils, rivers and also risks to consumer health, particularly crops of tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, beans and many others. One way to combat the whitefly is to find ways to combat these pests when the attack is at the beginning. For this purpose, an information system will be built in order to detect the growth of this plague and also give conclusions about the behaviour of this plague in different environments and culture (rice, bean, cucumber, corn and so on). With the system identifying the growth of the plague and also how to spread, then it is possible to combat the plague before it spreads. Thus, fewer pesticides are inserted into the soil and indirectly into the rivers. Thus, it also allows the reduction of costs fighting this plague and also reduce production losses. This paper describes this information system and also the technology involved.
Effects of service quality dimensions including usability on perceived overall quality, customer satisfaction, and return intention in different hospital types

A modified SERVQUAL approach, including usability as the sixth service quality dimension, has been used to evaluate the effect of service quality dimensions on perceived overall quality, customer satisfaction, and return intention for four different hospital types operating in Turkey: public, private, university, and military hospitals. The proposed research model was tested with 284 patients from different hospital types, and results indicated that usability is an insignificant factor in perceived overall quality, customer satisfaction, and return intention prediction for all hospital types. Results revealed that service quality dimensions having an impact on perceived overall quality, customer satisfaction, and return intention vary among hospital types.
Bayesian Methods in Animal Breeding Theory

This paper proposes the Bayesian approach as a conceptual strategy to solve problems arising in animal breeding theory. General elements of Bayesian inference, e.g., prior and posterior distributions, informative vs noninformative priors, likelihood functions, finite samples, "memory" properties and integration of nuisance parameters are illustrated with animal breeding examples. Shrinkage estimators are discussed from a Bayesian viewpoint. A general framework for estimation of breeding value with or without selection or assortative mating, including the situation where variances and covarianees are unknown, is presented. Selection indexes, best linear unbiased prediction, nonlinear merit functions, nonlinear models and estimation of genetic parameters are discussed from a Bayesian perspective. (
The forgotten children: children admitted to a county asylum between 1854 and 1900

AIMS AND METHOD To assess the part that the 19th century asylums played in the development of the discipline of child psychiatry. Admissions to the Worcester County Asylum between the years 1854 and 1900 were screened to identify children aged 16 and under. An item sheet was used to record details of the admission. RESULTS One-hundred and ninety-five children were admitted. Risk of suicide and dangerousness were routinely recorded, family history rarely. It was not possible to make retrospective diagnoses. The death rate was high and contact with the family was minimal post admission. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS Children were treated exactly like the adult patients, and therefore asylums did not contribute significantly to the development of the discipline of child psychiatry.
Statistical validation of multiple classifiers over multiple datasets in the field of pattern recognition

Classification is a machine learning technique which is used to categorise the different input patterns into different classes. To select the best classifier for a given dataset is one of the critical issues in pattern classification. Using cross-validation approach, it is possible to apply candidate algorithms on a given dataset and best classifier is selected by considering various evaluation measures of classification. But computational cost associated with this approach is trivial in nature. There are a lot of tests described in the literature but they are specifically used on different and non-related datasets. But, in pattern recognition domain the datasets are taken from the same testing samples and hence are related in nature. In this paper, we propose the use of two non-parametric tests, namely Mann-Whitney U test for comparison of two classifiers and Kruskal-Wallis H test with the corresponding post-hoc tests for comparison of multiple classifiers on multiple datasets. The tests have been fruitfully applied on the datasets of handwritten digit recognition problem taken from UCI Machine Learning Database Repository (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn). The results show that both the tests provide a better solution than previously proposed tests.
The pleasure of the holder: media art, museum collections and paper money

When the artist Julian Rosefeldt exhibits video projections of cast Graeco-Roman sculptures, exhibition-goers experience a crisis in resemblance and equivalence between a gallery installation and museum artefacts. On the face of it media magic seems to supersede, even eliminate, the experiential force of collection-holding. This article compares media and artefactual exhibiting practices by combining semiotic analysis, art theory and Georg Simmel's sociology of money. In the late 18th century, as European museums began to display plaster reproductions of classical sculpture and historic architectural details, economists worried that paper money would sever the representational force of monetary signifiers from the intrinsic value of the bullion they signify. Perhaps Rosefeldt defers promises like a banknote? Perhaps museums postpone the 'pleasure of the holder' like a bank reserve? In both cases, this article argues, the technologies of reproduction and repetition (old and new) tell us a great deal about the semantics of objects.
Automated validation of structured large databases: an illustration of material code bulk validation

The accumulation of data and henceforth the storage is growing at an exponential phase owing to the decrease in the memory costs and increasingly complex business processes. With the increased data, typically there would be an increase in the complexity of validating the data. Often, the complexity and effort in validation of large scale databases grows nonlinearly with the increase in database size (Lee et al., 1999). In this paper, we discuss a novel methodology for bulk validation of large scale structured databases. The approach we propose is generic and has been tested in a real time environment. We present an illustration of validation on a material codes validation problem faced by a Fortune 100 enterprise. The demonstration would highlight the heterogeneity, and scale-scope of data validation related problems and henceforth tackling these problems effectively via application of machine learning techniques on Big Data.
Miltefosina oral para el tratamiento de la leishmaniasis

La perdida de la eficacia, las dificultades para su administracion y el incremento en la frecuenciay la severidad de los efectos secundarios de las sales de antimonio pentavalente han forzadola busqueda de un medicamento que pueda remplazarlas en el tratamiento de la leishmaniasis.Los estudios adelantados con medicamentos inyectables, orales y topicos han arrojadoresultados inconsistentes y de poca utilidad en el Nuevo Mundo. Desde 1998 lahexadecilfosfocolina (miltefosina) viene siendo utilizada con exito en India en enfermos conleishmaniasis visceral y en 1999 se iniciaron los estudios clinicos en Colombia en pacientescon leishmaniasis cutanea. A la fecha se han tratado mas de 2.500 pacientes en India(leishmaniasis visceral por L. donovani ) y Colombia (leishmaniasis cutanea por L. panamensis)y se han logrado tasas de curacion superiores a 91% a la dosis recomendada de 2,5 mg / kgpeso / dia durante 28 dias continuos, sin que haya diferencia en la respuesta entre pacientesnuevos y los que presentan fallas o recaidas despues de recibir antimoniales. En Guatemalala respuesta fue de 53% ( 33% para L. braziliensis, 60% para L. mexicana) mientras que la deL. tropica en Afganistan fue de 63%. Pacientes con leishmaniasis cutanea difusa, leishmaniasismucosa y con co-infeccion por HIV+, han tenido una buena respuesta inicial pero deberecordarse la tendencia a recaer que tienen estos pacientes. Entre el 35% al 60% de lospacientes presentan reacciones adversas gastrointestinales leves y 10% al 20% hacenelevacion leve de transaminasas y creatinina.
A hybrid genetically-bacterial foraging algorithm converged by particle swarm optimisation for global optimisation

The social foraging behaviour of Escherichia coli bacteria and the effectiveness of genetic operators have recently been combined to develop a hybridised algorithm for distributed optimisation and control. The classical algorithms have their importance in solving real-world optimisation problems. Hybridisation of two algorithms is gaining popularity among researchers to explore the area of optimisation. This paper proposes a novel algorithm which hybridises the best features of three basic algorithms, i.e., genetic algorithm (GA), bacterial foraging (BF) and particle swarm optimisation (PSO) as genetically bacterial swarm optimisation (GBSO). The hybridisation is carried out in two phases; first, the diversity in searching the optimal solution is increased using selection, crossover and mutation operators. Secondly, the search direction vector is optimised using PSO to enhance the convergence rate of the fitness function in achieving the optimality. The proposed algorithm is tested on a set of functions which are then compared with the basic algorithms. Simulation results were reported and the proposed algorithm indeed has established superiority over the basic algorithms with respect to the set of functions considered and it can easily be extended for other global optimisation problems.
Rome II: the Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment: a Multinational Consensus

Rome II: the Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment: a Multinational Consensus . 2nd edn. Edited by Drossman DA, Corazziari E, Talley J, et al . (Pp 800; illustrated; $79.95) USA: Degnon Associates, 2000. ISBN 0965683729 (PB). While medical students can confidently hold forth on the mechanisms of the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, a condition affecting one in a million of the population, they rarely have much to say about functional GI disorders (FGIDs), which can affect up to a quarter of the population at some stage in their life. Part of the reason is that this is a complex area, which requires the integration of pathophysiology with psychology, and even sociology. FGIDs also suffer from having no objective measurable abnormalities, so that classifications must of necessity be symptom based. The Rome process is a valiant attempt to make this area of study less confused, more consistent, and scientifically respectable. As such, it undoubtedly has had a major impact, and Rome criteria are now used for the entry into most clinical trials …
A Study on the Occurrence of Poultry Diseases in Sylhet Region of Bangladesh

A pathological investigation on the occurrence of poultry diseases in Sylhet region of Bangladesh was conducted during the period from November 2001 to October 2002. A total of 1352 sample of either dead or sick birds were brought from different Upazillas of Sylhet region. Diagnosis of different disease conditions was made on the basis of the history, age of birds, clinical signs, gross and microscopic lesions. The diagnosed diseases included Infectious Bursal disease (IBD) (24.26%), Newcastle Disease (ND) (6.73%), Infectious Bronchitis (0.29%), Omphalitis (2.81%), Fowl Cholera (0.44%), Salmonellosis (6.73%), Colibacillosis (5.17%), Necrotic enteritis (0.44%), Aspergillosis (17.53%), Infectious Coryza (0.37%), Chronic respiratory disease (CRD)/Mycoplasmosis (5.32%), Coccidiosis (9.46%) and deficiency disorders/stress condition (1.03%). In general, the highest number of cases were recorded in the age group of 8-21 days (42.60%), followed by 22-35 days age group (26.62%), 0-7 days age group (26.10%), 36-60 days age group (1.03%) and over 60 days age group (3.62%) of Poultry. Distribution and proportionate incidence of poultry disease of Bangladesh reveals that the poultry diseases occur mostly in rainy season (56.36%), followed by summer (28.11%) and the least in winter season (15.53%).
Colonial Morphology Of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

To the Editor. — We have read recently with great interest the article by Brown and Kraus (228:862, 1974) regarding the recognition of the five colony types of Neisseria gonorrhoeae . The color photography truly enhances the morphological differences of the colony types. Our observations agree with those of Brown and Kraus, and we are happy that, for the first time, there has been a clear indication in the literature of dark and light types 1 and 2. We have previously found type 1 and 2 gonococci to have variants, and we have designated the lighter variants types la and 2a. Under our experimental conditions, each of the colony types 1, la, 2, and 2a has reproduced true to the characteristics of the original types, and was shown, therefore, to be a stable variant . Of interest to us, and not previously mentioned, is the fact that on prolonged incubation, types 1 and