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University of Birmingham An evaluation of Birmingham Own Health telephone care management service among patients with poorly controlled diabetes. A retrospective comparison with the General Practice Research Database.

Background: Telephone-based care management programmes have been shown to improve health outcomes in some chronic diseases. Birmingham Own Health ® is a telephone-based care service (nurse-delivered motivational coaching and support for self-management and lifestyle change) for patients with poorly controlled diabetes, delivered in Birmingham, UK. We used a novel method to evaluate its effectiveness in a real-life setting. Methods: Retrospective cohort study in the UK. 473 patients aged ≥ 18 years with diabetes enrolled onto Birmingham Own Health ® (intervention cohort) and with > 90 days follow-up, were each matched by age and sex to up to 50 patients with diabetes registered with the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) to create a pool of 21,052 controls (control cohort). Controls were further selected from the main control cohort, matching as close as possible to the cases for baseline test levels, followed by as close as possible length of follow-up (within +/-30 days limits) and within +/-90 days baseline test date. The aim was to identify a control group with as similar distribution of prognostic factors to the cases as possible. Effect sizes were computed using linear regression analysis adjusting for age, sex, deprivation quintile, length of follow-up and baseline test levels. Results: After adjusting for baseline values and other potential confounders, the intervention showed significant mean reductions among people with diabetes of 0.3% (95%CI 0.1, 0.4%) in HbA1c; 3.5 mmHg (1.5, 5.5) in systolic blood pressure, 1.6 mmHg (0.4, 2.7) in diastolic blood pressure and 0.7 unit reduction (0.3, 1.0) in BMI, over a mean follow-up of around 10 months. Only small effects were seen on average on serum cholesterol levels (0.1 mmol/l reduction (0.1, 0.2)). More marked effects were seen for each clinical outcome among patients with worse baseline levels. the limitations of the study design, the results are consistent with the Birmingham Own Health ® telephone care management intervention being effective in reducing HbA1c levels, blood pressure and BMI in people with diabetes, to a degree comparable with randomised controlled trials of similar interventions and clinically important. The effects appear to be greater in patients with poorer baseline levels and the intervention is effective in the most deprived populations.
Acoustic TDOA Propagation Time Estimation

In this report, the design of a subsystem within a localization system for the Bosch DICENTIS wireless conference system will be presented. The localization system will function by means of using acoustic Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) measurements to determine the location of each unit connected to the DICENTIS conference system. By unit, the system on the desk of each attendee in the conference, that contains a microphone and speaker is meant. The task of the subsystem presented is to estimate propagation times of transmitted signals between speakers of each unit in the conference system and the microphones of each unit. The design choice for the type of localization method implemented is based on the gathered information from an initial literature study, the hardware specifications of the Bosch DICENTIS system and the demands for the localization system that were imposed by Bosch. The subsystem will function by transmitting a set of pseudorandom codes, modulated using a type of Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), where two On Off Keying (OOK) signals, modulated at different frequencies, are superimposed. The received and demodulated pseudo-random codes are then correlated with multiple different peak detectors that will correlate with multiple different sets of the transmitted string of pseudo-random codes to gain a higher robustness for the estimated propagation times and a higher accuracy for these estimates. Results show that the the use of multiple different sets of transmitted codes indeed improves the propagation time estimation. The overall system as presented, concerning accuracy and robustness, meets the requirements made by Bosch. However, in future work, optimalization of the system with regard to computation time is required.
Induction of indora expression in pole cells

Germ-line development involves the interaction between germline cells and adjacent somatic cells. Studies in a number of organisms have shown that mesodermal cells of the adult ovary and testis support the differentiation of germ-line cells into mature gametes (Kimble and White, 1981; Tres and Kierszenbaum, 1983; Abe, 1988; Lin and Spradling, 1993; Henderson et al., 1994; Tax et al., 1994; Miura et al, 1996). Despite the importance of the somatic cells to gametogenesis, the role of these cells in germ-line development during embryogenesis is not well understood. In many animal groups, the germ line is proposed to be specified autonomously by maternal factors localized in the germ plasm, a histologically distinct region of the egg cytoplasm (Beams and Kessel, 1974; Eddy, 1975). Experimental studies in Xenopus and Drosophila have demonstrated that factors capable of directing germ-line development are localized in the germ plasm (Illmensee and Mahowald, 1974; Ikenishi et al., 1986). However, germ plasmbearing cells do not necessarily differentiate into functional germ cells. Wylie et al. (1985) reported that in Xenopus embryos, germ plasm-bearing cells isolated during their migration toward the genital ridge are unable to become germ line when implanted into ectopic sites. Thus, germ-line development is not simply the consequence of autonomous function of germ plasm, but is also influenced by cellular environment (Wylie et al., 1985). In Drosophila, the germ plasm is localized in the posterior pole region of early embryos and partitioned into the germline progenitors, or pole cells (Mahowald, 1962, 1968; Underwood et al., 1980; Technau and Campos-Ortega, 1986; Hay et al., 1988). During gastrulation, the pole cells move along the dorsal surface of the embryos, along with the posterior midgut rudiment. They then migrate through the midgut epithelium toward the overlying mesodermal layer, where they associate with the dorsolateral mesoderm in parasegments (PS) 10-12 (Boyle and DiNardo, 1995; Boyle et al., 1997; Broihier et al., 1998; Moore et al., 1998a). The dorsolateral mesoderm in PS 10-12 is specified as somatic gonadal precursors (SGPs), and they coalesce with the associating pole cells to form the embryonic gonads (Boyle and DiNardo, 1995; Boyle et al., 1997; Moore et al., 1998a). The physical proximity of pole cells to the mesodermal cells raises the question as to whether germ-line development could be partly controlled by the mesodermal cells. Indeed, several mutations which abolish the gonadal mesoderm affect pole cell migration (Broihier et al., 1998; Moore et al., 1998a, b). For example, in tinman (tin), zinc finger homeodomain protein-1 (zfh-1) double-mutant embryos where the dorsolateral mesoderm is ablated, pole cells pass through the midgut epithelium, but subsequently they are dispersed around the midgut (Broihier et al., 1998; Moore et al., 1998b). Furthermore, in abdominal-A ( abd-A) mutants which fail to specify the dorsolateral mesoderm into SGPs, pole cells 1023 Development 126, 1023-1029 (1999) Printed in Great Britain © The Company of Biologists Limited 1999 DEV3908
Original Contribution Correlates for Human Papillomavirus Vaccination of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in a Managed Care Organization

The authors studied the characteristics of those who initiated the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine versus those who did not. Female members of Kaiser Permanente Southern California aged 9–26 years were identified and assessed for HPV vaccination between October 2006 and March 2008. Multivariable logbinomial regression was used to examine the association of the following factors with vaccine initiation: 1) demographics, 2) provider characteristics, 3) health care utilization, 4) women’s health-related conditions, and 5) selected immune-related conditions. The study included 285,265 females. All analyses were stratified by 2 age groups: 9–17 years and 18–26 years. Black race (relative risk (RR)9–17 years 1⁄4 0.93, RR18–26 years 1⁄4 0.82), having a male primary care provider (RR9–17 years 1⁄4 0.93, RR18–26 years 1⁄4 0.84), and history of hospitalizations were associated with a lower likelihood of vaccine initiation. Higher neighborhood income level, physician office visits, and history of influenza vaccination (RR9–17 years 1⁄4 1.20, RR18–26 years 1⁄4 1.34) were associated with higher HPV vaccine uptake. Those with a history of sexually transmitted diseases were more likely and those with immune-related conditions were not less likely to initiate the HPV vaccine. These findings are helpful for interpreting the results of observational safety studies and providing insights for developing targeted HPV vaccination programs.
On Balanced Planar Graphs, Following W. Thurston

Let f : S 2 → S 2 be an orientation-preserving branched covering map of degree d ≥ 2, and let Σ be an oriented Jordan curve passing through the critical values of f . Then Γ := f −1 (Σ) is an oriented graph on the sphere. In a group email discussion in Fall 2010, W. Thurston introduced balanced planar graphs and showed that they combinatorially characterize all such Γ, where f has 2d−2 distinct critical values. We give a detailed account of this discussion, along with some examples and an appendix about Hurwitz numbers.
Fermionic α -vacua

A spin one-half particle propagating in a de Sitter background has a one parameter family of states which transform covariantly under the isometry group of the background. These states are the fermionic analogues of the alpha-vacua for a scalar field. We shall show how using a point-source propagator for a fermion in an alpha-state produces divergent perturbative corrections. These corrections cannot be used to cancel similar divergences arising from scalar fields in bosonic alpha-vacua since they have an incompatible dependence on the external momenta. The theory can be regularized by modifying the propagator to include an antipodal source.
Review of Women ' s Studies on Women ' s Work

"My wife does not work", says Ramakrishna to the census enumerator. While he is answering the enumerator's questions, his wife Kamala is cooking the mid-day meal, preparing tea for him and the guest and feeding the infant. Early that morning, she ground five kilos of flour, pounded the rice, carried four pots of water from the well, milked, fed and cleaned their three buffaloes and went to the dairy co-operative centre to deliver the milk. In the afternoon, she will go to their paddy field to weed, to cut fodder for the buffaloes and to collect firewood from the nearby forest. In the evening, she will go once again to fetch water and then prepare the evening meal. Kamala is one of millions of Indian women who "do not work”, according to her husband and the statistics. What then is she doing? Is there something wrong with the perceptions of women's activities and with the statistics on women's work?
Analysis of semi buried cylindrical water tank by finite element method and classical approach

Classical approach is mostly where the access to finite element software is expensive, but it is limited to some structures with non-uniformity and it is time consuming. This paper explains the results from classical and finite element analysis of water tank by considering fixed base and free base loading condition. Thereafter, there are the comparison of the results (hoop stresses) obtained from finite element method with those obtained from classical approach. The comparison shows that the good results of finite element analysis are obtained when the tank is meshed into more elements.
Fe b 20 09 Group field theory and simplicial quantum gravity

We present a new Group Field Theory for 4d quantum gravity. It incorporates the constraints that give gravity from BF theory, and has quantum amplitudes with the explicit form of simplicial path integrals for 1st order gravity. The geometric interpretation of the variables and of the contributions to the quantum amplitudes is manifest. This allows a direct link with other simplicial gravity approaches, like quantum Regge calculus, in the form of the amplitudes of the model, and dynamical triangulations, which we show to correspond to a simple restriction of the same.
OS AND HF ISOTOPE CONSTRAINTS ON THE ORIGINS OF OLIVINE MELILITITES FROM WESTERN SOUTH AFRICA

Olivine melilitites are the product of melting carbonated, hydrous, garnet-bearing mantle at fairly great depths (approximately 60-120 km; e.g., Brey, 1978) The petrologic and geochemical similarities between olivine melilitites and Group 1 kimberlites have long been noted (e.g., Boctor and Yoder, 1986), and in many respects olivine melilitites appear to be chemically transitional between Group 1 kimberlites and magmas of the alkali basalt clan (including nephelinites and basanites; e.g., Alibert et al., 1983). In South Africa, the boundary between melilitites and kimberlites, in terms of geographical location and chemical and isotopic composition, is especially gradational. We have collected Hf and Os isotope data for a suite of olivine melilitites and related rocks from western South Africa to complement our ongoing major, trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic studies. Our objectives are to use the Hf and Os and other isotopic tracers to constrain the mineralogical and chemical composition of the mantle source regions of these rocks and whether they correlate with factors such as lithospheric thickness or age. We further wish to determine to what extent the source compositions and mixing systematics revealed by the melilitites may be analogous to those of southern African Group 1 kimberlites.
Analytical framework 2 for the assessment and modelling 3 of multi-junction solar cells in the outdoors 4

9 The assessment of multi-junction solar cells often relies on numerically intensive computations. 10 Specifically, the power conversion efficiency strongly depends on the interplay between optical and 11 electrical properties of different materials. Here, a compact and highly accurate analytical framework 12 is proposed, facilitating the analysis of multi-junction solar cells; explicit yet simple analytical equations 13 allow to assess the power conversion efficiency as a direct function of the cell’s parameters, without 14 restrictive assumptions. They are first used to compare the performance of the industrial state-of-the15 art to multi-junction approaches. Therefore, minute data products are obtained from free satellite16 services for different climatic zones over 14 years. Any variations in the operating temperature, 17 sunshine duration, Sun’s position, meteorological condition or atmospheric chemistry are thereby 18 accounted for. Similarly, a strong site dependency is found for perovskite-on-silicon tandem cells under 19 real-world conditions. For this, a scattering-matrix treatment is formulated based on incoherent 20 sunlight as the relevant case. While this study gives new theoretical insights about the impact of the 21 cell’s parameters on the conversion efficiency, it also presents a powerful analytical tool for the design 22 and assessment of more efficient solar cells in the outdoors. 23
Efficacious Anti-cancer Property of Liver from Peels Extract of Egyptian Citrus reticulata

Cancer is one of human fatal diseases. Drug development for cancer intervention has many limitations in applications and often associated with serious of side effects. Recent development of natural product based and therapeutically sound anti-cancer agents have gained popularity in the field of functional foods, in which a few have minimal toxicity toward the prevention and treatment of cancer. Their structures were elucidated because of spectroscopic evidence. The cytotoxicity activity of 70% ethanolic extract of Citrus rutaceae peels were tested against colon carcinoma (HCT), human hepatocellular liver carcinoma (HepG2), human breast carcinoma (MCF7) cell lines and mouse fibroblast cell line NHK as normal cells. This assay gave spot on structure Citrus rutaceae peels and derived extract have demonstrated potent efficacious properties against liver cancer due in large part to the rich content of phenolic compounds such as flavonoids and coumarine compounds that, present in citrus peels. This study summarizes the results of currently available data regarding the in vivo anti-cancer activity of citrus peel phenolic compounds and identifies opportunities for subsequent human clinical trials to assess preventive and therapeutic effects in the near future according to Beijing Academy of Food Sciences.
Privacy-Preserving Tampering Detection in Automotive Systems

: Modern auto-vehicles are built upon a vast collection of sensors that provide large amounts of data processed by dozens of Electronic Control Units (ECUs). These, in turn, monitor and control advanced technological systems providing a large palette of features to the vehicle’s end-users (e.g., automated parking, autonomous vehicles). As modern cars become more and more interconnected with external systems (e.g., cloud-based services), enforcing privacy on data originating from vehicle sensors is becoming a challenging research topic. In contrast, deliberate manipulations of vehicle components, known as tampering, require careful (and remote) monitoring of the vehicle via data transmissions and processing. In this context, this paper documents an efﬁcient methodology for data privacy protection, which can be integrated into modern vehicles. The approach leverages the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) as a core data transformation algorithm, accompanied by ﬁlters and additional transformations. The methodology is seconded by a Random Forest-based regression technique enriched with further statistical analysis for tampering detection in the case of anonymized data. Experimental results, conducted on a data set collected from the On-Board Diagnostics (OBD II) port of a 2015 EUR6 Skoda Rapid 1.2 L TSI passenger vehicle, demonstrate that the restored time-domain data preserves the characteristics required by additional processing algorithms (e.g., tampering detection), showing at the same time an adjustable level of privacy. Moreover, tampering detection is shown to be 100% effective in certain scenarios, even in the context of anonymized data.
Transferability of Inexpensive Air Quality Monitoring Sensors

Air pollution is the world's largest environmental burden on health, associated with 7 million premature deaths globally each year. Inexpensive air quality monitors are a growing requirement for air quality monitoring systems for public health evaluation. Prototype sensor-based air quality monitoring devices, which measure PM2.5, NO, NO2, O3, and CO, were evaluated against reference grade devices at two different locations to test transferability. CO, NO, and PM2.5 transferred well between measurement sites while NO2 and O3 experienced linear biases from the reference when the location was changed. Mixed calibration using data from both locations improved calibration across the board. NO2 and O3 were improved by combining calibration sets, however they failed to maintain that improvement when deployed at a third testing location. As both NO2 and O3 are key components of the AQHI, these sensors should not be used for urban health evaluations until these transference issues are resolved.
Large-Scale Cloud Disturbances Associated with Equatorial Waves: Part II: Westward-Propagating Inertio-Gravity Waves@@@Part II 西進慣性重力波

the of The dominant and the propagation speed is 20 -30m s-1 to the The equivalent depth of -20m was from the composite analysis and from the spectral analysis. Significant correlation of 1.5-2.5-day-period mode with the total cloud variance suggests that this mode always accompanies equatorial activity.
NDT_A_256446 1965..1974

1Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia; 2Department of Neurology, King’s College Hospital, London, UK; 3Department of Neuropsychiatry, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK; 4Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King’s College London, London, UK Background: A 2011 survey of neurologists’ attitudes to conversion disorder found a tacit acceptance of the psychological model but significant ambivalence around its relationship to feigning. These issues are under increased scrutiny as the DSM-5 revision removed both the requirement for a psychological formulation and the exclusion of feigning from the diagnostic criteria. Whether those attitudes are shared with psychiatrists is unknown. Methods: An online survey of the Section of Neuropsychiatry, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and the Faculty of Neuropsychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), on their understanding and management of conversion disorder in February 2019. Statistical comparisons are made with our previous survey of Neurologists. Results: A total of 52 Australian and 131 UK-based members completed the survey which revealed similarities but also clear differences from their neurological colleagues. The psychiatrists strongly endorsed a psychogenic model for conversion disorder, and the conversion model in particular, though many models were employed. They felt a psychiatric assessment was essential to the diagnosis of conversion disorder, and they often disagreed with the diagnosis in neurology referrals of putative conversion disorder. Most felt that a psychiatric formulation was supportive, and many that it was necessary to the diagnosis. They saw feigning as usually present to a degree but were more comfortable with discussing this than neurologists. Conclusion: Psychiatrists use psychosocial models for conversion disorder and see an overlap with feigning. They believe psychiatrists are essential for the diagnostic process and would not usually support a diagnosis without a psychiatric formulation.
「Globalization, firms and products」

Recent years have witnessed that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter amid globalization. Span of control (Span) has broadened and the number of levels (Layer) within firms has declined. Motivated by these changes in the world, international trade theory has recently incorporated a rich organizational model into trade and heterogeneous firm contexts. However, empirical evidence for this theory has been so far limited because of the constrained data availability. This paper fills a part of this gap by exploiting a unique firm-level organization data in Japan, by which we can ascertain the relationship between a firm’s organization and its characteristics. The globalization of firms which is measured by the foreign sales ratio has a positive link with Span, but it has a negative link with Layer. IT investment is also negatively related with Layer.
Public Integrity Auditing with User Revocation in Cloud Data

-In up to date instances, some study believes the challenge of comfortable with efficient public data integrity auditing for unified dynamic data. On the other hand, these techniques are still no longer relaxed beside the collusion of cloud storage server as good as revoked group clients for the duration of person revocation in sensible cloud storage system. In this paper, we found out that the collusion attack within the exiting scheme. An effective public integrity auditing scheme with relaxed workforce user revocation based on vector commitment plus verifier-local revocation group signature. We designed a concrete scheme with a new constitution known as Decrypt key, which presents effectivity and reliability assurance for convergent key administration on mutually user along with cloud storage sides. The design is to use de-duplication to the convergent keys to affect secret sharing approaches.