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Seven-Day Intensity and Intensity Spread Predictions for Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Authors: Tsai Hsiao-Chung , Elsberry Russell L. 
Published: November 2016

Abstract
The extension of the Weighted Analog Intensity Atlantic (WAIA) prediction technique for Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) from 5 to 7 days revealed a need for two modifications. The first modification for the 7-day WAIA was to randomly select 70% of the TCs in the entire 2000–15 sample to be the training set and use the remaining 30% as the independent set. The second modification was to ensure that appropriate analogs were selected for ending storm situations such as landfall, postrecurvature, and nondevelopment or delayed intensification within the 7-day forecast interval. By simply constraining the analog selection such that the intensity at the last matching point with the target TC track does not exceed 50 kt (where 1 kt = 0.51 m s−1), an increasing overforecast bias with forecast interval was almost eliminated in both the training set and the independent set. With these two analog selection modifications, the mean absolute errors, and the correlation coefficients of the 7-day WAIA intensities with the verifying intensities, are essentially constant from 5 to 7 days, which establishes this WAIA as a viable technique for 7-day intensity forecasts of Atlantic TCs.
Predictors of extubation outcomes following myasthenic crisis
Authors: Liu Zhenguo , Yao Shiyuan , Zhou Qian , Deng Zhensheng , Zou Jianyong , Feng Huiyu , Zhu Hua , Cheng Chao 
Published: November 2016

Objective Myasthenic crisis (MC) is considered the most severe adverse event in patients with myasthenia gravis. The present retrospective study was performed to evaluate the predictors of clinical outcomes in patients with MC. Methods The medical charts of 33 patients (19 women, 14 men) with 76 MC attacks from 2002 to 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. Early extubation (≤7 days) and prolonged ventilation (>15 days) during the MC were used to assess patient outcomes. Results Among the 33 patients, 24 (72.7%) had positive acetylcholine receptor antibody test results and 20 (60.6%) experienced recurrent MC attacks (≥2 episodes) during follow-up (median 83.6 months, range 1.5–177 months). Plasma exchange during an MC was significantly associated with early extubation. Male sex, older age (>50 years), atelectasis, and ventilator-associated pneumonia significantly contributed to prolonged ventilation. In 22 patients who underwent thymectomy, both the duration between MC attacks and the mean number of MC attacks were significantly reduced after surgery. Conclusions Plasma exchange during MC attacks was found to be important for early extubation; older patients and those with atelectasis or ventilator-associated pneumonia were more vulnerable to prolonged ventilation. Thymectomy may be useful to prevent recurrence of MC.
Protocolled Redefinition of the Therapeutic Range for Unfractionated Heparin: Lost in Translation?
Authors: Coene Karlien L. M. , van der Graaf Fedde , van de Kerkhof Daan 
Published: November 2016

Background: Protocolled treatment with unfractionated heparin (UFH) is a subject of ongoing debate. Even though international guidelines prescribe calibration of the activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) to 0.3 to 0.7 U/mL anti-Xa activity to establish an UFH therapeutic range, evidence for this approach remains scarce. In this study, we evaluated different strategies to delineate the UFH therapeutic range and analyzed the effects on patient therapeutic classification. Methods: In 109 patient samples, the aPTT was measured with 2 different reagents, both of which used mechanical clot detection. The UFH therapeutic range was determined using 3 previously described methods: calibration of the aPTT to 0.3 to 0.7 U/mL anti-Xa activity, application of 1.5 to 2.5 times the control aPTT, or using 0.3 to 0.7 U/mL anti-Xa activity directly. We also applied the UFH therapeutic range of a second hospital to our patient population. Results: Application of the guideline-prescribed anti-Xa calibration method would result in patients receiving increased UFH dosage in comparison to our previous UFH nomogram. Between-method and between-laboratory variations in aPTT and anti-Xa activity assays are a likely cause of these discrepancies. Additionally, we show that individual patient characteristics, such as weight and UFH treatment duration, likely contribute to the discordance between different strategies to establish an UFH therapeutic range. Conclusion: No consensus is reached between different strategies to define the UFH therapeutic range, which could result in relevant differences in UFH doses applied in patients. Clinicians and laboratory specialists should critically evaluate UFH monitoring protocols and be aware of their shortcomings.
Evaluation of thromboembolic events in cancer patients receiving bevacizumab according to the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report database
Authors: Matsumura Chikako , Chisaki Yugo , Sakimoto Satoko , Sakae Honoka , Yano Yoshitaka 
Published: November 2016

Purpose We aimed to examine the risk factors, time of onset, incidence rates, and outcomes of thromboembolic events induced by bevacizumab in patients with cancer using the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency. Methods Adverse event data recorded in the JADER database between January 2004 and January 2015 were used. After screening the data using the generic drug name bevacizumab, patient data were classified into two groups by age and five groups by cancer type. The histories of disorders were also categorized. Arterial thromboembolic event and venous thromboembolic event were classified as “favorable” or “unfavorable” outcomes. Results In total, 6076 patients were reported to have developed adverse events during the sample period, of which 233 and 453 developed arterial thromboembolic event and venous thromboembolic event, respectively. Logistic analysis suggested that the presence of cancer was a significant risk factor for both arterial thromboembolic event and venous thromboembolic event. Age (≥70 years), histories of either hypertension or diabetes mellitus were also risk factors for arterial thromboembolic event. Median cumulative times of onset for arterial thromboembolic event and venous thromboembolic event were 60 and 80 days, respectively, and were not significantly different by the log-rank test. By the chi-square test, the rate of unfavorable outcomes was found to be higher after developing arterial thromboembolic event than after venous thromboembolic event. Conclusion Thromboembolism is a leading cause of mortality in patients with cancer. Patients should be monitored for the symptoms of thromboembolic events right from the initial stages of bevacizumab treatment.
The Association Between Preoperative Hemoglobin A1C and Postoperative Glycemic Variability on 30-Day Major Adverse Outcomes Following Isolated Cardiac Valvular Surgery
Authors: Bardia Amit , Khabbaz Kamal , Mueller Ariel , Mathur Priyam , Novack Victor , Talmor Daniel , Subramaniam Balachundhar 
Published: November 2016

BACKGROUND:
Preoperative hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and postoperative glycemic variability predict major adverse events (MAEs) after coronary artery bypass grafting in a protocolized glycemic control setting. However, the influence of preoperative HbA1c and postoperative glycemic variability in isolated cardiac valvular surgery is unknown. In this study, we sought to establish (a) whether preoperative HbA1c could identify patients at increased risk of MAEs and (b) whether postoperative glycemic variability was associated with MAEs after isolated cardiac valvular surgery.

METHODS:
Patients >18 years of age undergoing isolated valve surgery from January 2008 to December 2013 were enrolled in this prospective, single-center, observational cohort study with IRB approval. Patient demographics, intraoperative data, and postoperative MAEs were extracted from the institutional Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS) database. The primary outcome, MAEs, was a composite of in-hospital death, myocardial infarction, reoperations, sternal infection, cardiac tamponade, pneumonia, stroke, or renal failure. Glycemic variability in the postoperative period was assessed by the coefficient of variation. Patents were stratified by HbA1c levels (<6.5% or ≥6.5%) and assessed using multivariable logistic regression.

RESULTS:
Of the enrolled 763 patients, 109 (14.3%) had a preoperative HbA1c level ≥6.5%. Patients with HbA1c ≥6.5% were older (70 [63–79] vs 66 [56–75], P < .001) and had a higher incidence of dyslipidemia (83.5% vs 57.0%, P < .001) and congestive heart failure (39.5% vs 27.8%, P = .01). The calculated STS risk score for morbidity and mortality was also statistically higher in this group (0.18 [0.13–0.27] vs 0.13 [0.09–0.21], P < .001). The occurrence of MAEs was similar between the 2 groups (13.8% in HbA1c ≥6.5% vs 11.0% in HbA1c <6.5%, P = .40). Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that neither preoperative HbA1c ≥ 6.5% (odds ratio [OR] 1.48, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.78–2.82; P = .23) nor postoperative glycemic variability (CV per quartile; OR 1.05, 95% CI: 0.85–1.30; P = .67) was found to be associated with MAEs. An HbA1c ≥ 6.5% was associated with the increased glycemic variability in the postoperative period (0.173 [0.129–0.217] vs 0.141 [0.106–0.178], P < .0001).

CONCLUSIONS:
This study did not show an association between preoperative HbA1c and postoperative glycemic variability with MAEs after isolated cardiac valvular surgery. Specifically, lack of association between postoperative glycemic variability and MAEs is noteworthy and is in contrast to our previous finding in CABG patients. Future studies should focus a targeted glycemic variability reduction in CABG patients and evaluate the reduction in MAEs, without risk of employing a one-size fits all approach when approaching other cardiac procedures.
System of Labor Activities with the Use of ICT in Occupational Standards for Teachers. Module �Subject Learning. Technology�
Authors: ���������  , Nekrasova G. , ��������  , Novikova Natalya 
Published: November 2016

The article considers relevant issues of the implementation of occupational standards for teachers. It analyses teacher�s activity in the area of information
and communication technologies (ICT). By the example of live pedagogical situations, the article shows that ICT play f signifi cant role in organizing
process of education and fundamentally change the nature of teacher�s professional activity with the development of Information-oriented Society.
Occupational standards for teachers were examined and analyzed for the purpose of detecting the place of labor activities in the area of ICT at the
level of generalized fundamental labor functions. Technology teacher activities went through an in-depth analysis and changes in professional task
of technology teachers in educational Information Environment were described. The grounds for and the list of labor activities with the use of ICT in
occupational standards for teachers, Module �Subject learning. Technology�, are given for the fi rst time.
Education Quality Assessment by Students
Authors: ���������  , Burlakova I. , ��������  , Chugarova G. 
Published: November 2016

Questions of education quality have the key positions on the educational services market. The problem of education quality assessment and the problem
of education compliance with the requirements of the state and society remain relevant today. Education quality assessment is conducted to ensure quality
control and provide objective information to all stakeholders. The tasks of the education quality assessment are: objective monitoring and evaluation
of educational achievements of students; conducting of systematic and comparative analysis of educational service quality; informing of educational
service consumers; determination of the eff ectiveness of the educational process and the eff ectiveness of training programs. Assessment of the education
quality involves: assessment of students individual achievements; quality assessment activities of educational organizations; assessment of the education
system quality as a whole.
Vegetarianism and Eating Disorder Risk Behavior in Adolescents from São Paulo, Brazil
Authors: Estima Camilla CP , Philippi Sonia T , Leal Greisse VS , Pimentel Carolina VMB , Alvarenga Marle S 
Published: November 2016

Objective: To evaluate eating disorders risk behaviors and unhealthy weight control practices among adolescents who consider themselves as vegetarians and those who are omnivorous.Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 12 technical schools in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The sample included 1167 adolescents (51% female), aged 14 to 19 (mean age, 16). Adolescents stated whether they were currently vegetarian, and the sample was dichotomized as vegetarian and non-vegetarian. The two groups were compared as regards weight status, eating disorder risk behavior, unhealthy weight control methods and the perception of healthy eating.Results: About 4% of the sample was currently vegetarian, most of them female (70.8%), and females were 2.89 times more likely to be vegetarian than males. No relationship was found between the vegetarian status and unhealthy weight control behavior; however the vegetarian group considered their diet to be healthier than the non-vegetarian group (P=.04).Conclusions: The frequency of vegetarianism, as well the frequency of eating disorder risk behaviors had no association in this adolescent sample from São Paulo, Brazil.
A Practical Millimeter-Wave Holographic Imaging System with Tunable IF Attenuator
Authors: Zhu Yu‐Kun , Yang Ming‐Hui , Wu Liang , Sun Yun , Sun Xiao‐Wei 
Published: November 2016

AbstractA practical millimeter-wave (mmw) holographic imaging system with tunable intermediate frequency (IF) attenuator has been developed. It can be used for the detection of concealed weapons at security checkpoints, especially the airport. The system is utilized to scan the passenger and detect the weapons hidden in the clothes. To reconstruct the three dimensions (3-D) image, a holographic mmw imaging algorithm based on aperture synthesis and back scattering is presented. The system is active and works at 28–33 GHz. Tunable IF attenuator is applied to compensate the intensity and phase differences between multi-channels and multi-frequencies.
The Analysis of Parametric Sensitivity Based on Designing and Optimization of a New Microwave Heating System
Authors: Chen Hua , Zhang Jin , Fan Zebin , Peng Jinhui , Ju Shaohua 
Published: November 2016

AbstractMicrowave-assisted heating technology has become a popular alternative to conventional heating technologies because of its many advantages. However, the matching performance of microwave heating system is of particular concern because it provides an important index of the utilization efficiency of microwave energy. In this work, a new microwave heating system is designed by the theory of optical resonator in first. Then the comprehensive analysis of the mutual coupling of high sensitive geometrical and material parameters were investigated based on this new microwave heating system at 2.45 GHz. It is demonstrated that the thickness of materials dramatically influences microwave energy absorption efficiency and should be carefully considered and perhaps given priority. Moreover, it is shown that matching performance is the best when the titanium concentrates thickness at about 0.075 m.
Producing Shared Attention/Awareness in High School Tutoring
Authors: Pirini Jesse 
Published: November 2016

AbstractDuring the activities of everyday life social actors always produce multiple simultaneous higher level actions. These necessarily operate at different levels of attention and awareness. Modal density is a methodological tool that can be used to analyse the attention/awareness of social actors in relation to higher level actions they produce, positioning actions in the foreground, midground and background of attention. Using modal density to analyse an opening and a closing in high school tutoring sessions, I show social actors transitioning into and out of producing the same higher level actions at the foreground of their attention/awareness. Through this analysis I identify two potentially unique aspects of one-to-one tutoring. Firstly I show one way that a tutor helps a student take on the practices of being a good student, and secondly I show the influence that students have over tutoring. I argue that movements into and out of a shared focus of attention are potentially useful sites for analysis of social interaction.
“Every Teacher, a Caring Educator”: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of a Teacher Recruitment Video in Singapore
Authors: Jessie Ng Wan Qing , Peter Teo Chin Soon 
Published: November 2016

AbstractVideos are increasingly being used by organizations and corporations all over the world, both private and public, as an effective mode of communication to purvey their goods and services. One such organization is Singapore’s Ministry of Education (MOE), which has produced a series of video advertisements aimed at teacher recruitment. As official discourses, they represent one channel through which the MOE constructs and articulates its ideals and expectations of the teaching profession in Singapore. In recent years, the focus of the video advertisements has been on the “caring teacher.” This study aims to uncover the ideologies surrounding the construction of the caring teacher by investigating how teacher identity and agency are articulated through a teacher recruitment video. A multimodal discourse framework (
Cross-Cultural Perspective: An Attempt at Bimodal Reflection
Authors: Girunyan Gayane 
Published: November 2016

AbstractIn the multilingual and multicultural world, what is communicated is not restricted to informative content, or even figurative language but involves aspects of cultural identity; connotations and complex images, to interpret which creative effort and a cross-cultural perspective are required. The phraseological layer of any language is illustrative of such cases. As for the cross-cultural perspective, such factors as openness, reserving strategy, and recognition of paradox are decisive along with shared cultural codes, awareness of the differences between traditions, and motivation to know them. Moreover, as the cognitive and stylistic analysis of such linguistic data in English and Armenian shows, the cross-cultural perspective not only highlights the phenomena in the shared semiotic space but also enables reflection on one’s own background and identity. In particular, it becomes obvious that the evaluative elements arising from the complex (and sometimes paradoxical) associations between extensive conceptual domains resound with a new force, or could be succinctly explained when viewed against another language and/or medium. The association-based installations presented in the paper as visualizations of the states “Between Thought and Image” are meant to suggest that too
Multimodal Humor in Plenary Lectures in English and in Spanish
Authors: Fortanet-Gómez Inmaculada , Ruiz-Madrid Noelia 
Published: November 2016

AbstractHumor is present in most instances of human to human interaction and has often been studied by discourse analysis (Long and Graesser 2009). These studies have taken several perspectives but have often ignored the multimodal aspect of humor even more if the genres selected have been in oral academic discourse. In this paper we focus on a genre that has rarely been studied, the conference plenary lecture. Taking as a theoretical model Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) we look at the semiotic resources employed by two senior researchers: one Spanish, Dr. Jose Manuel Blecua and one British, Dr David Crystal. They were plenary speakers in two different conferences. In their speeches Dr. Blecua dealt with Spanish as a Foreign language and Dr. Crystal with English as a Foreign language. Although there does not seem to have been any point of contact between them, their lectures show a number of similarities especially with regard to the semiotic resources they use in order to produce humor.
Drei außergewöhnliche spätwikingerzeitliche Schwertfunde aus Skandinavien
Authors: Mattes Julia 
Published: November 2016

Zusammenfassung:Drei ungewöhnliche wikingerzeitliche Schwerter von seltener Morphologie wurden in Skandinavien entdeckt: Im Jahre 1968 fand man in einem Frauengrab in Finnland zwei Schwerter. Eine dieser zwei Waffen ist so ausgefallen, dass sie keinem bislang bekannten Typus entspricht und bis heute einzigartig ist. Erst nach einer norwegischen Ausgrabung 2011 bekam das Schwert aus Finnland ein verwandtes Exemplar, welches sich ebenfalls in seiner Art ungewöhnlich präsentiert. Nicht nur die Artefakte werfen Fragen über ihre einstige Verwendung auf. Auch die jeweiligen Grabbeigaben geben Anlass zur Diskussion über den sozialen Status der Bestatteten und deren mögliche kriegerische Aktivitäten. In einem Fall handelt es sich evtl. um eine Kriegerin respektive sogar den Teilnehmer eines Raub- oder Kriegszugs nach England. Darüber hinaus spiegeln die Schwerter in einzigartiger Weise die Übergangszeit vom Heiden- zum Christentum im 11. Jh.
The new antiquarianism?
Authors: Barrett John C. 
Published: November 2016

Christopher Witmore (2014: 215) recently observed that “things go on perturbing one another when humans cease to be part of the picture. A former house may be transformed through relations with bacteria, hedgehogs, water, compaction”; and if the materials that archaeologists confront are material memories (cf. Olivier 2011) from which a past is to be recalled in the future, thenThe kind of memory that things hold often tells us little of whether materials strewn across an abandonment level resulted from the reuse of a structure as a sheepfold, a series of exceptional snow storms, the collapse of a roof made of olive wood after many years of exposure to the weather (rapports between microbes, fungi, water and wood), the cumulative labors of generations of badgers, children playing a game in a ruin, or the probing roots of oak trees(Witmore 2014: 215).In other words, the things that archaeologists confront bear the memories of their own formation without the necessity of a human presence, and the traditional and often exclusive priority given to a human agency in the making of those things and in giving them meaning is simply misplaced. Things get on “just fine” without the benefit of human intervention and interpretation (Witmore 2014: 217). Should archaeology therefore allow that it is not a discipline concerned with excavating the indications of the various past human labours that once acted upon things, and should it eschew the demand to “look beyond the pot, the awl or a stone enclosure for explanations concerning the reasons for their existence” (Witmore 2014: 204)? Consequently, is archaeology now a matter of following the things themselves to wherever they might lead—what Witmore characterises as the New Materialisms—and if so, are we now to practise archaeology “not as the study of the human past through its material remains, but as the discipline of things” (Witmore 2014: 203)?