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Child Housing Assessment for a Safe Environment (CHASE): a new tool for injury prevention inside the home
Authors: Shields Wendy C , Gielen Andrea C , Frattaroli Shannon , Musci Rashelle J , McDonald Eileen M , Van Beeck E F , Bishai David M 
Published: June 2019

ObjectiveTo develop a tool to assess the safety of the home environment that could produce valid measures of a child’s risk of suffering an injury.MethodsTool development: A four-step process was used to develop the CHASE (Child Housing Assessment for a Safe Environment) tool, including (1) a literature scan, (2) reviewing of existing housing inspection tools, (3) key informants interviews, and (4) reviewing the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to determine the leading housing elements associated with paediatric injury. Retrospective case–control study to validate the CHASE tool: Recruitment included case (injured) and control (sick but not injured) children and their families from a large, urban paediatric emergency department in Baltimore, Maryland in 2012. Trained inspectors applied both the well-known Home Quality Standard (HQS) and the CHASE tool to each enrollee’s home, and we compared scores on individual and summary items between cases and controls.ResultsTwenty-five items organised around 12 subdomains were included on the CHASE tool. 71 matched pairs were enrolled and included in the analytic sample. Comparisons between cases and controls revealed statistically significant differences in scores on individual items of the CHASE tool as well as on the overall score, with the cases systematically having worse scores. No differences were found between groups on the HQS measures.ConclusionProgrammes conducting housing inspections in the homes of children should consider including the CHASE tool as part of their inspection measures. Future study of the CHASE inspection tool in a prospective trial would help assess its efficacy in preventing injuries and reducing medical costs.
Ischaemic stroke etiological classification system: the agreement analysis of CISS, SPARKLE and TOAST
Authors: Zhang Haojie , Li Zixiao , Dai Yunyi , Guo Enhui , Zhang Changqing , Wang Yongjun 
Published: June 2019

Background and purposeThe ideal stroke classification system needs to have validity, high reliability and applicability among different stroke research settings. The Chinese Ischemic Stroke Subclassification (CISS) and the Subtypes of Ischemic Stroke Classification System (SPARKLE) have emerged recently but have not been tested using agreement analysis. As a result, the objective of this study is to investigate the level of agreement among stroke subtype classifications using CISS, SPARKLE and Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST). We also analyse the inter-rater reliability of CISS.MethodsThe data include 623 inpatients who have had an ischaemic stroke, accrued from Beijing Tiantan Hospital between 1 October 2015 and 19 April 2016. According to the diagnostic standards of the three subtype classification systems, 299 inpatients who satisfied the requirements of our study were independently classified with etiological subtypes, and we compared the three subclassifications.ResultsThere was substantial overall agreement among the three classification systems: CISS versus SPARKLE (kappa value=0.684, p<0.001), CISS versus TOAST (kappa value=0.615, p<0.001) and SPARKLE versus TOAST (kappa value=0.675, p<0.001). The inter-rater reliability of CISS was excellent (kappa value=0.857, p<0.001). Furthermore, among the three subtype classification systems, the variance analysis results of the etiological subtypes were not uniform.ConclusionThere were generally substantial agreements among three ischaemic stroke etiological classification systems. CISS is a valid and reliable classification system, with which different stroke research centres can apply and compare data.
Effects of a trauma center on early mortality after trauma in a regional city in Japan: a population-based study
Authors: Takahashi Yuji , Sato Shuntaro , Yamashita Kazunori , Matsumoto Naoya , Nozaki Yoshihiro , Hirao Tomohito , Tajima Goro , Inokuma Takamitsu , Yamano Shuhei , Takahashi Kensuke , Miyamoto Takashi , Inoue Kenichiro , Osaki Makoto , Tasaki Osamu 
Published: June 2019

BackgroundAlthough the effects of the trauma center(TC) were researched in several studies, there have been few studies on changes in the regional mortality due to the implementation of a TC. An emergency medical center (EMC) and TC were implemented at Nagasaki University Hospital (NUH) for the first time in the Nagasaki medical region of Japan in April 2010 and October 2011, respectively, and they have cooperated with each other in treating trauma patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on the early mortality at population level of a TC working in cooperation with an EMC.MethodsThis is a retrospective study using standardized regional data (ambulance service record) in Nagasaki medical region from April 2007 through March 2017. We included 19,045 trauma patients directly transported from the scene. The outcome measures were prognosis for one week. To examine the association between the implementation of the EMC and TC and mortality at a region, we fit adjusted logistic regression models.ResultsThe number of patients of each fiscal year increased from 1492 in 2007 to 2101 in 2016. The number of all patients transported to NUH decreased until 2009 to 70, but increased after implementation of the EMC and TC. Overall mortality of all patients in the region improved from 2.3% in 2007 to 1.0% in 2016.In multivariate logistic regression model, odds ratio of death was significantly smaller at 2013 and thereafter if the data from 2007 to 2011 was taken as reference.ConclusionsImplementation of the EMC and TC was associated with early mortality in trauma patients directly transported from the scene by ambulance. Our analysis suggested that the implementation of EMC and TC contributed to the improvement of the early mortality at a regional city with 500000 populations.Level of evidenceLevel III.
Pulling RANK on Cancer: Blocking Aire-Mediated Central Tolerance to Enhance Immunotherapy
Authors: Su Maureen A. , Anderson Mark S. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
A major breakthrough in cancer treatment occurred with the development of strategies that overcome T-cell tolerance toward tumor cells. These approaches enhance antitumor immunity by overcoming mechanisms that are normally in place to prevent autoimmunity but simultaneously prevent rejection of tumor cells. Although tolerance mechanisms that restrict antitumor immunity take place both in the thymus and periphery, only immunotherapies that target peripheral tolerance mechanisms occurring outside of the thymus are currently available. We review here recent gains in our understanding of how thymic tolerance mediated by the autoimmune regulator (Aire) impedes antitumor immunity. It is now clear that transient depletion of Aire-expressing cells in the thymus can be achieved with RANKL blockade. Finally, we discuss key findings that support the repurposing of anti-RANKL as a cancer immunotherapy with a unique mechanism of action.
Graph Management Systems: A Qualitative Survey
Authors: Nolé Maurizio , Sartiani Carlo 
Published: June 2019

In the recent years many real-world applications have been modeled by graph structures (e.g., social networks, mobile phone networks, web graphs, etc.), and many systems have been developed to manage, query, and analyze these datasets. These systems could be divided into specialized graph database systems and large-scale graph analytics systems. The first ones consider end-to-end data management issues including storage representations, transactions, and query languages, whereas the second ones focus on processing specific tasks over large data graphs. In this paper we provide an overview of several graph database systems and graph processing systems, with the aim of assisting the reader in identifying the best-suited solution for her application scenario.
Notice of Retraction Coupled Tree Parity Machines: Synchronized Secured Session Key based Encryption in Online Transaction
Authors: Sarkar Arindam , Dey Joydeep , Karforma Sunil , Bhowmik Anirban 
Published: June 2019

Notice of Retraction-----------------------------------------------------------------------After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of APTIKOM's Publication Principles.We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting ij.aptikom@gmail.com.----------------------------------------------------------------------- In this paper, tree parity synchronized session key validation followed by encryption has been proposed for online data communication. Tree Parity Machine transmitting systems at both ends accepted an identical input vector, generated an output bit, validated the weight vector and the networks were trained accordingly based on the output bit which was used to form a protected variable length secret key. Existence of a better degree of coupling between the two topological same tree parity machines has been reflected in this paper. Instead of sharing the entire weight vector, the proposed technique guided the partial transmission and validation of session key. A string of sub key has been derived from the synchronized session key for initial ciphering matrix. The plain text was encrypted through single columnar transposition ciphering at first round of encryption followed by successive cascaded XORing of TPM generated session key. If size of the final block of plain text was less than the size of the key then this block was treated unaltered. Recipient used identical generated session key for performing deciphering process for getting the plain text. Brute force attacks analysis has been implemented which determines a higher amount of time to decrypt by the intruders. Such long computational operations were not feasible by any of randomly selected fast networks at the intruders’ terminals.
Comparison of Parametric representations of Birdcall in Gaussian Mixture model
Authors: Mohanty Ricky , Singh Solanki Sandeep 
Published: June 2019

This paper focuses on the methods of automatic classifications of birds into different species based on feature extraction methods & audio recordings of their sounds. The recognition system uses Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to model 14 poultry bird species calls. Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) parameters & wavelet parameters are used for feature vector extraction. The paper briefly explains the methods & also evaluates the performance of these methods in Gaussian Mixture Model classification .The results depicts the performance of Gaussian Mixture Model classification using wavelet was more efficient in terms of percentage of accuracy at around 80% and computation was also faster.
Individual and Combined Impact of Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation on Ischemic Stroke Outcomes
Authors: Pana Tiberiu A. , McLernon David J. , Mamas Mamas A. , Bettencourt-Silva Joao H. , Metcalf Anthony K. , Potter John F. , Myint Phyo K. 
Published: June 2019

Background and Purpose—
We aimed to determine individual and combined effects of atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) on acute ischemic stroke outcomes: in-hospital mortality, length-of-stay, and poststroke disability; long-term mortality and stroke recurrence.

Methods—
Prospective cohort study of patients with acute ischemic stroke admitted to a UK center with a catchment population of ≈900 000 between 2004 and 2016. Exposure groups were patients with neither AF nor HF (reference group), those with AF but without HF, those with HF but without AF, and those with AF+HF. Logistic and Cox regressions were used to model in-hospital and long-term outcomes, respectively.

Results—
A total of 10 816 patients with a mean age±SD =77.9±12.1 years, 48% male were included. Only 30 (4.9%) of the patients with HF but not AF were anticoagulated at discharge. Both AF (odds ratio, 1.24 [95% CI, 1.07–1.43]), HF (odds ratio, 1.40 [1.10–1.79]), and their combination (odds ratio, 2.23 [1.83–2.72]) were associated with increased odds of in-hospital mortality. All 3 exposure groups were associated with increased length-of-stay, while only AF predicted increased disability (1.36 [1.12–1.64]). Patients were followed for a median of 5.5 and 3.7 years for mortality and recurrence, respectively. Long-term mortality was associated with AF (hazard ratio, 1.45 [95% CI, 1.33–1.59]), HF (2.07 [1.83–2.36]), and their combination (2.20 [1.96–2.46]). Recurrent stroke was associated with AF 1.50 (1.26–1.78), HF (1.33 [1.01–1.75]), and AF with HF (1.62 [1.28–2.07]).

Conclusions—
The AF-associated excess risk of stroke recurrence was independent of comorbid HF. HF without AF was also associated with a significant risk of recurrence. Anticoagulation for secondary stroke prevention in patients with HF without AF may require further evaluation in a clinical trial setting.
Between Artefacts, Fragments, and Texts: An Analysis of 4Q266 Column I
Authors: Tucker James M. , Porzig Peter 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
In this article, we propose a new reconstruction of column I of 4Q266 (4QDa), which is part of our new edition of the Damascus Document. Our proposed reconstruction results from a careful assessment of previous reconstructions of this column, as it pertains to fragment 1b and its relationship to frag. 1a. Specifically, we argue that the DJD line 1 reading of ב]נ֯י̇ אור לה̇נז֯ר֯ מדר֯[כי is better understood as a scribal gloss and not as the first line of the column. We conclude the article by discussing the compositional history of the Damascus Document, especially in terms of how our new reconstruction relates to the Cairo Genizah Codex CD A.
Is All That Glitters the Lex Oppia?
Authors: Ehrman Radd K. 
Published: June 2019

AbstractThe lex Oppia of 215 bc is known largely through Livy’s report of the debate centering on its repeal 20 years later. The details of the legislation are somewhat sketchy but it has become a focal point for discussing fragments of the fabulae togatae which refer to gold and purple. In this piece pertinent fragments of the Barbatus of Titinius are examined to see whether or not perceived allusions to the law are sound.
ATΗΣ ΑΤΕΡ. A Note on Sophocles, Antigone 2-6
Authors: Agosto Mauro 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
In this paper the author deals with Sophocles’ Antigone 2-6 suggesting two slight changes in Ant. 3 (ὁµοῖον pro ὁποῖον) and Ant. 4 (οὖσ᾽ ἄτης ἄτερ pro οὔτ᾽ ἄτης ἄτερ) and he argues in defence of the transmitted words ἄτης ἄτερ. He also discusses Earle’s interpretation of τῶν ἀπ᾽ Οἰδίπου (l. 2) and the translation of νῷν ἔτι ζώσαιν τελεῖ (l. 3).
In addition, he points out the exact attribution of some conjectures.
The Changing Opportunities of Professionalization for Graduate Occupations
Authors: Tholen Gerbrand 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
In recent times, rapidly changing occupational contexts have altered professional trajectories. While sociologists have emphasized that abstract knowledge acquired in higher education is an important characteristic of professionalism, it is not clear whether the expansion of higher education has affected the possibility of individuals and groups to monopolize their university credentials. In this article the author argues that the emergence of new graduate occupations and the growth of a university-educated labour force have made occupational closure in the professions more difficult. The changing relationship between education, skills, jobs and credentials limits possibilities for the creation and maintenance of professionalization trajectories as a professional status and a professional knowledge base becomes harder to achieve. Due to the decreasing opportunities of using formal educational credentials to achieve professional closure, aspiring occupations will have to rely more on what is called ‘symbolic closure’.
Esotericist Reading Communities and the Early Circulation of the Sufi Occultist Aḥmad al-Būnī’s Works
Authors: Gardiner Noah 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The Ifrīqiyan cum Cairene Sufi Aḥmad al-Būnī (d. ca 622/1225 or 630/1232-1233) is a key figure in the history of the Islamicate occult sciences, particularly with regard to the “science of letters and names” (ʿilm al-ḥurūf wa-l-asmāʾ). Drawing on textual and manuscript evidence, this paper examines the role of esotericism—religious secrecy and exclusivity—in al-Būnī’s thought and in the promulgation and early circulation of his works in Egypt and environs. It is argued that al-Būnī intended his works only for elite Sufi initiates, and that, in the century or so after his death, they indeed circulated primarily in “esotericist reading communities,” groups of learned Sufis who guarded their contents from those outside their own circles. This tendency toward esotericism, and the eventual exposure of al-Būnī’s texts to a wider readership, are contextualized in relation to broader developments in late-medieval Mediterranean culture.
Physiognomy (ʿilm-i firāsat) and Ottoman Statecraft: Discerning Morality and Justice
Authors: Lelić Emin 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
In the tenth/sixteenth century six treatises on physiognomy (ʿilm-i firāsat)—a science widely considered able to predict inner moral dispositions (aḫlāq-i bāṭina) based on external appearances (aḥwāl-i ẓāhira)—were written for the Ottoman court. In a world in which statecraft and politics were ultimately based on questions of morality (aḫlāq), physiognomy was presented as a particularly useful skill for the Ottoman court due to its ability to evaluate inner moral character with scientific precision. Based on such knowledge, a partial conception of justice could be implemented with an instrumental coating of impartiality. Moreover, men with prized moral qualities could be selected for the ruling elite. The science also offered the sultan and his court a modus operandi for attaining self-knowledge and, if combined with moral self-disciplining (riyāḍat), a way to acquire divine characteristics.
In Defense of Geomancy: Šaraf al-Dīn Yazdī Rebuts Ibn Ḫaldūn’s Critique of the Occult Sciences
Authors: Melvin-Koushki Matthew 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The late 8th/14th century saw a renaissance of high occultism throughout Islamdom—a development alarming to puritan scholars. This includes Ibn Ḫaldūn (d. 808/1406), whose anti-occultist position in the Muqaddima is often assumed to be an example of his visionary empiricism; yet his goal is simply the recategorization of all occult sciences under the twin rubrics of magic and divination, and his veto persuades more on religious and social grounds than natural-scientific. Restoring the historian’s argument to its original state of debate with the burgeoning occultist movement associated with the Mamluk sultan Barqūq’s (r. 784/1382-791/1389 and 792/1390-801/1399) court reveals it to be not forward-thinking but rather conservative, fideist and indeed reactionary, as such closely allied with Ibn Qayyim al-Ǧawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) puritanical project in particular; and in any event, the eager patronage and pursuit of the occult sciences by early modern ruling and scholarly elites suggests that his appeal could only fall on deaf ears. That it also flatly opposed the forms of millennial sovereignty that would define the post-Mongol era was equally disqualifying. I here take Šaraf al‑Dīn ʿAlī Yazdī (d. 858/1454), Ibn Ḫaldūn’s younger colleague and fellow resident in Cairo, as his sparring partner from the opposing camp: the Timurid historian was a card-carrying occultist and member of the Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ network of neopythagorean-neoplatonic-monist thinkers then gaining prominence from India to Anatolia via Egypt. I further take geomancy (ʿilm al-raml) as a test case, since Yazdī wrote a tract in defense of the popular divinatory science that directly rebuts Ibn Ḫaldūn’s arguments in the Muqaddima. To set the stage for their debate, I briefly introduce contemporary geomantic theory and practice, then discuss Ibn Ḫaldūn’s and Yazdī’s respective theories of occultism with a view toward establishing points of agreement and disagreement; I also append a translation of Yazdī’s tract as a basis for this comparison.
Predestination and Free Will in Mudejar Polemics: The Kitāb al-Mujādala maʿa-l-Yahūd wa-l-Naṣārā [The book called the disputation with the Jews and the Christians] and its Historical and Intellectual Background
Authors: Colominas Aparicio Mònica 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Predestination and free will were two issues widely debated in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, and were subject to different interpretations by Muslims, Christians and Jews. A case in point is the Kitāb al-Mujādala maʿa-l-Yahūd wa-l-Naṣārā [The book called the disputation with the Jews and the Christians], a Mudejar polemic of which the only known manuscript was copied in 808 H (= 1405 CE). I use the discussion of predestination and free will to illustrate the polemical use of these two concepts in this treatise. I also examine how the author addresses his discourse to a learned Mudejar audience by placing the acquisition of proper knowledge of philosophy at the center of the debate. This article uses examples from the Kitāb al-Mujādala to argue that the author’s worldview is not exceptional but seems to be connected with that of contemporary Christians and Jews. Moreover, it is indebted to the legacy of Almohad thought among Muslims living in the Iberian Peninsula.
Swearing by God: Muslim Oath-Taking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Iberia
Authors: Vicens Belen 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
This paper examines Muslim oaths found in Christian legal texts in late medieval and early modern Iberia, especially in the Crown of Aragon. Whereas lawmakers in Castile used Castilian to record Muslim oaths, in the kingdoms of Aragon and Valencia these formulas appeared in Arabic, though written in Latin characters. This paper traces the evolution of these Arabic formulas during four centuries, from the abbreviated forms of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, such as “baylle ylloe,” to the more elaborate forms of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which include references to the qibla (the direction of prayer), the Qurʾān, and Ramadan. Comparing these formulas with those found in Muslim legal compilations produced in Christian Iberia shows that despite different emphases (on location, timing, and manner of oath taking), both Christian and Muslim legal texts recognized and established that Muslims swear by God. Although attitudes towards Muslims grew increasingly hostile in the latter Middle Ages, this analysis of Muslim oaths shows that Arabic continued to mediate the legal interaction between the two communities and that Islamic rituals, as mentioned in the oaths, were still very much a part of the multicultural landscape of late medieval and early modern Iberia.
Reflections on the Debate: What Does Philosophy Have to Do with the Cognitive Study of Religion?
Authors: Visala Aku 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Why should the study of religion in general and cognitive study of religion in particular be interested in philosophy in the first place, and vice versa? The paper offers some responses to the debate between John Shook and his respondents. It will suggest that such debates are useful, as it is a philosophical task to reflect upon the basic assumptions, inference patterns and theories of the study of religion. Furthermore, cognitive study of religion and other approaches in the study of religion should be of great interest to philosophers of religion. The paper puts the debate in a larger context of the dialogue of philosophy and cognitive science of religion and introduces two central themes: debates about psychological explanations and debunking arguments.