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Abstract ED03-03: Leveraging new media to enhance cultural targeting in cancer communications
Authors: Thompson Hayley S. 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
There is growing consensus and evidence that the effectiveness of health communication to reduce cancer disparities is improved by cultural targeting. Cultural targeting is a communications strategy intended to increase the appeal of health-related messaging among a distinct segment of the population and is often applied in interventions with medically underserved racial and ethnic groups. Much of the previous work in this area has addressed cancer communications via traditional media (e.g., brochures, television, etc.). However, the widespread adoption of internet and mobile technologies across communities has led to greater use of new media (e.g., social networking sites, blogs, photo/video sharing sites, etc.), typically characterized by high levels of personal engagement through user-generated and user-driven content and interactivity. Discussions of new media and cancer communications have tended to focus on the accessibility and convenience of related technologies rather than inherent ways in which new media may validate and reinforce cultural values, experiences, and networks. Therefore, this presentation will address 1) common approaches to cultural targeting in cancer communications as well as best practices; 2) applications of new media that support diverse cultural targeting approaches; and 3) results of a systematic literature review assessing the use of new media to address specific racial/ethnic disparities in cancer control.
Citation Format: Hayley S. Thompson. Leveraging new media to enhance cultural targeting in cancer communications. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Sixth AACR Conference: The Science of Cancer Health Disparities; Dec 6–9, 2013; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2014;23(11 Suppl):Abstract nr ED03-03. doi:10.1158/1538-7755.DISP13-ED03-03
Microchilus dressleri, a new name for Microchilus campanensis Kolan. (Orchidaceae)
Authors: Kolanowska Marta 
Published: May 2015

A large number of studies on the Neotropical orchid genus Microchilus Presl (1827: 94) resulted in over 130 new specific epithets within this taxon since 2002 (eg. Ormerod 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013). The name of a new species described in 2014 based on material collected in Panama was identical with the previously published Microchilus campanensis Ormerod (2009: 120). A new name for Microchilus campanensis Kolanowska (2014: 185) is hereby proposed.
Representation of Snow in the Canadian Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System. Part I: Initialization
Authors: Sospedra-Alfonso Reinel , Mudryk Lawrence , Merryfield William , Derksen Chris 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
The ability of the Canadian Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System (CanSIPS) to provide realistic forecast initial conditions for snow cover is assessed using in situ measurements and gridded snow analyses. Forecast initial conditions for snow in CanCM3 and CanCM4 employed by CanSIPS are determined by the response of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) used in both models to forcing from model atmospheric fields constrained by assimilation of 6-hourly reanalysis data. These snow initial conditions are found to be representative of the daily climatology of snow water equivalent (SWE) as well as interannual variations in maximum SWE and the timing of snow onset and snowmelt observed at eight in situ measurement sites located across Canada. The level of this agreement is similar to that of three independent gridded snow analyses (MERRA, the European Space Agency’s GlobSnow, and an offline forced version of CLASS). Total Northern Hemisphere snow mass generated by the CanSIPS initialization procedure is larger for both models (especially CanCM3) than in MERRA, mostly because of higher SWE in regions of common snow cover. Globally, the interannual variability of initial SWE is found to correlate highly with that of MERRA in locations with appreciable snow. These initial values are compared to SWE in freely running CanCM3 and CanCM4 simulations produced without data assimilation of atmospheric fields. Differences in climatological SWE relative to MERRA are similar in the freely running and assimilating CanCM3 and CanCM4 simulations, suggesting that inherent model biases are a major contributor to biases in CanSIPS snow initial conditions.
Roles of Western and Eastern Boundary Reflections in the Interannual Sea Level Variations during Negative Indian Ocean Dipole Events
Authors: Wang Jing , Yuan Dongliang 
Published: May 2015

AbstractThe equatorial wave dynamics of sea level variations during negative Indian Ocean dipole (nIOD) events are investigated using the LICOM ocean general circulation model forced with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast reanalysis wind stress and heat flux from 1990 to 2001. The work is a continuation of the study by Yuan and Liu, in which the equatorial wave dynamics during positive IOD events are investigated. The model has reproduced the sea level anomalies of satellite altimeter data well. Long equatorial waves extracted from the model output suggest two kinds of negative feedback during nIOD events: the western boundary reflection and the easterly wind bursts. During the strong 1998–99 nIOD event, the downwelling anomalies in the eastern Indian Ocean are terminated by persistent and strong upwelling Kelvin waves from the western boundary, which are reflected from the wind-forced equatorial Rossby waves over the southern central Indian Ocean. During the 1996–97 nIOD, however, the reflection of upwelling anomalies at the western boundary is terminated by the arrival of downwelling equatorial Rossby waves from the eastern boundary reflection in early 1997. Therefore, the negative feedback of this nIOD event is not provided by the western boundary reflection. The downwelling anomalies in the eastern basin during the 1996–97 nIOD event are terminated by easterly wind anomalies over the equatorial Indian Ocean in early 1997. The disclosed equatorial wave dynamics are important to the simulation and prediction of IOD evolution.
An Objective Evaluation of an Eleven-Week Supervised Pastoral Education Program
Authors: Grant Gerald 
Published: May 2015

The purpose of this study was to determine through the use of objective tests, whether there were significant conceptual changes as well as changes in attitudes, interests, values, understanding, and ways of relating among 14 students who had followed an eleven-week supervised pastoral education program at the Montreal Pastoral Institute during the summer of 1972. Pre- and post-training scores for The Adjective Check List (ACL), The Sixteen Personality Questionnaire (16PF), and The Semantic Differential showed that the ACL was the most useful instrument in detecting positive significant changes (8 scales beyond the five-percent level). On the 16PF, only two factors showed a significant difference and on The Semantic Differential, only one of the nine concepts was significantly different. The reasons for individual changes were related to highly personalized factors; the pre-training MMPI scores were helpful in determining the processes operating to produce changes—especially on the ACL.
Pastoral Care and Chronic Disaster Victims: The Buffalo Creek Experience
Authors: Jordan Craig 
Published: May 2015

A concern for the demands of the Law and for the message of the forgiveness of sins does not characterize the way most modern, progressive, clinically educated pastors tend to view or practice their ministry with troubled persons. But if our pastoral care is to become more fully responsive and responsible to our theological heritage, and more profoundly related in a Christian way to the persons we serve, it will be necessary to recover the centrality of the doctrine of Law and Gospel in pastoral care and counseling. This article attempts to show why and how it might be done. This article focuses on the threefold nature of chronic disaster trauma in the Buffalo Creek context and the pastoral care response to it. The introduction sketches the events of the disaster and the living conditions of the past years. Attention is then centered on unresolved grief, disaster trauma, and loss of community. Case material is used to portray features of these various forms of disaster hurt and to show the interrelatedness of psychic, social, and religious issues. The paper then portrays the pastoral care response to disaster victims. The style of ministry is described, and the assumptions of the ministry are listed. Conclusions are then made on the basis of the experience of the past two years. These conclusions emphasize the need for a comprehensive pastoral care effort which is attentive to social issues in disaster as well as intrapsychic ones and is sensitive to the cultural and religious setting.
Quantitative assessment of background parenchymal enhancement in breast MRI predicts response to risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy: preliminary evaluation in a cohort of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers
Authors: Wu Shandong , Weinstein Susan P , DeLeo Michael J , Conant Emily F , Chen Jinbo , Domchek Susan M , Kontos Despina 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
Introduction
We present a fully automated method for deriving quantitative measures of background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) from breast dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) and perform a preliminary evaluation of these measures to assess the effect of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) in a cohort of breast cancer susceptibility gene 1/2 (BRCA1/2) mutation carriers.

Methods
Breast DCE-MRI data from 50 BRCA1/2 carriers were retrospectively analyzed in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and with institutional review board approval. Both the absolute (| |) and relative (%) measures of BPE and fibroglandular tissue (FGT) were computed from the MRI scans acquired before and after RRSO. These pre-RRSO and post-RRSO measures were compared using paired Student’s t test. The area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) was used to evaluate the performance of relative changes in the BPE and FGT measures in predicting breast cancer that developed in these women after the RRSO surgery.

Results
For the 44 women who did not develop breast cancer after RRSO, the absolute volume of BPE and FGT had a significant decrease (P < 0.05) post-RRSO, whereas for the 6 women who developed breast cancer, there were no significant changes in these measures. Higher values in all BPE and FGT measures were also observed post-RRSO for the women who developed breast cancer, compared with women who did not. Relative changes in BPE percentage were most predictive of women who developed breast cancer after RRSO (P < 0.05), whereas combining BPE percentage and |FGT| yielded an AUC of 0.80, higher than BPE percentage (AUC = 0.78) or |FGT| (AUC = 0.66) alone (both P > 0.02).

Conclusions
Quantitative measures of BPE and FGT are different before and after RRSO, and their relative changes are associated with prediction of developing breast cancer, potentially indicative of women who are more susceptible to develop breast cancer after RRSO in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers.
Titanium surface modification by using microwave-induced argon plasma in various conditions to enhance osteoblast biocompatibility
Authors: Seon Gyeung Mi , Seo Hyok Jin , Kwon Soon Young , Lee Mi Hee , Kwon Byeong-Ju , Kim Min Sung , Koo Min-Ah , Park Bong Joo , Park Jong-Chul 
Published: May 2015

Abstract

Background
Titanium is a well proven implantable material especially for osseointegratable implants by its biocompatibility and anti-corrosive surface properties. Surface characteristics of the implant play an important role for the evolution of bone tissue of the recipient site. Among the various surface modification methods, plasma treatment is one of the promising methods for enhance biocompatibility. We made microwave-induced argon plasma at atmospheric pressure to improve in titanium surface biocompatibility.

Results
Various states of emission spectra from excited species-argon, nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms were observed. The electron energy band structures are the unique characteristics of atoms and functional groups. Microwave-induced argon plasma treatment changed the titanium surface to be very hydrophilic especially on the 5 s short treatment and 30 s, 90 s long treatment samples that detected by contact angle measurement. MC3T3-E1 attachment and proliferation assay significantly increased in 5 s at short treatment, 30 s, and 90 s at long treatment after 5 days incubation.

Conclusions
Result indicated that microwave-induce argon plasma treatment would be an effective method to modify titanium surface for enhancing cell-material interactions.
Dilogarithm identities for conformal field theories and cluster algebras: Simply laced case
Authors: Nakanishi Tomoki 
Published: May 2015

AbstractThe dilogarithm identities for the central charges of conformal field theories of simply laced type were conjectured by Bazhanov, Kirillov, and Reshetikhin. Their functional generalizations were conjectured by Gliozzi and Tateo. They have been partly proved by various authors. We prove these identities in full generality for any pair of Dynkin diagrams of simply laced type based on the cluster algebra formulation of the Y-systems.
Lowest weights in cohomology of variations of Hodge structure
Authors: Peters Chris , Saito Morihiko 
Published: May 2015

AbstractLetXbe an irreducible complex analytic space withj:U ↪ Xan immersion of a smooth Zariski-open subset, and let 𝕍 be a variation of Hodge structure of weightnoverU. Assume thatXis compact Kähler. Then, provided that the local monodromy operators at infinity are quasi-unipotent,IHk(X, 𝕍) is known to carry a pure Hodge structure of weightk+n, whileHk(U, 𝕍) carries a mixed Hodge structure of weight at leastk+n. In this note it is shown that the image of the natural mapIHk(X, 𝕍) →Hk(U, 𝕍) is the lowest-weight part of this mixed Hodge structure. In the algebraic case this easily follows from the formalism of mixed sheaves, but the analytic case is rather complicated, in particular when the complementX — Uis not a hypersurface.
Finite symplectic actions on the K3 lattice
Authors: Hashimoto Kenji 
Published: May 2015

AbstractIn this paper, we study finite symplectic actions on K3 surfaces X, that is, actions of finite groups G on X which act on H2,0(X) trivially. We show that the action on the K3 lattice H2(X, ℤ) induced by a symplectic action of G on X depends only on G up to isomorphism, except for five groups.
Computing certain Gromov-Witten invariants of the crepant resolution of ℙ(1, 3, 4, 4)
Authors: Boissière Samuel , Mann Étienne , Perroni Fabio 
Published: May 2015

AbstractWe prove a formula computing the Gromov-Witten invariants of genus zero with three marked points of the resolution of the transversal A3-singularity of the weighted projective space ℙ(1,3,4,4) using the theory of deformations of surfaces with An-singularities. We use this result to check Ruan’s conjecture for the stack ℙ(1,3,4,4).
Morphology Control of Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework by Addition of Amino Acid l-Histidine
Authors: Gu Xiaoli , Zhou Kang , Feng Yi , Yao Jianfeng 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
Amino acid l-histidine was introduced to the preparation of zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-L with controllable morphologies. Thick leaf-like particles (2–3 µm in length) with a thickness of about 1 µm were prepared, and their crystallinity decreased when less l-histidine was used. The decreased amount of water in the precursor solution resulted in a morphology change from a leaf-like structure to irregular microsized particles. The regulation of ZIF crystal morphology will lead to more versatile applications of ZIFs as functional materials in separation and adsorption.
Detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Sputum using Selective Enrichment Broth and Ashdown’s Medium at Kampong Cham Provincial Hospital, Cambodia
Authors: Nhem Somary , Letchford Joanne , Meas Chea , Thann Sovanndeth , McLaughlin James C. , Baron Ellen Jo , West T. Eoin 
Published: May 2015

Melioidosis, infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, is increasingly reported in Cambodia. We hypothesized that implementation of an enhanced sputum testing protocol in a provincial hospital diagnostic microbiology laboratory would increase detection of B. pseudomallei. We tested 241 sputum specimens that were deemed acceptable for culture, comparing culture in selective enrichment broth followed by sub-culture on Ashdown’s medium to standard culture methods. Two specimens (0.8%) were positive for B. pseudomallei using the enhanced protocol whereas one specimen (0.4%) was positive using standard methods. Given the low numbers of positive specimens, we could not conclusively determine the utility of the enhanced sputum testing protocol. However, the ramifications of identification of B. pseudomallei are substantial, and the benefit of the enhanced testing protocol may be more apparent in patients selected based on risk factors and clinical presentation. Promoting clinician awareness of the infection and encouraging utilization of diagnostic microbiology services are also likely to be important factors in facilitating identification of melioidosis.
Evaluating Venture Technical Competence in Venture Capitalist Investment Decisions
Authors: Aggarwal Rohit , Kryscynski David , Singh Harpreet 
Published: May 2015

Although much research emphasizes the importance of venture technical competence for venture success and, therefore, the importance of venture technical competence in venture capitalist (VC) investment decisions, we know little about why some VCs may be better than others at assessing the technical competence of ventures. We gathered unique and proprietary data from 33 VCs and 308 ventures that sought Series A funding from those VCs. We show that VC assessment of ventures predicts VC investment, and venture technical competence predicts subsequent venture failure. This means that VCs that overassess ventures are more likely to invest in firms that are more likely to fail. We then show that higher VC technical competence leads to lower errors in assessment, but that greater similarity between the VC and venture in technical competence leads to higher assessments, ceteris paribus. We thus conclude that VC competence enhances the accuracy of VC assessments, but similarity in technical competence between VCs and ventures may lead to positive assessment bias. This paper was accepted by Sandra Slaughter, information systems.
Temporal and spatial patterns of Cl- and Na+ concentrations and Cl/Na ratios in salted urban watersheds
Authors: Long David T. , Voice Thomas C. , Chen Ao , Xing Fangli , Li Shu-Guang 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
The study of sodium and chloride in the environment has a long history with a particular focus on road salting in urban areas. In many studies, spatial scales are limited (e.g., city) and temporal measurements are coarse (e.g., monthly), with the result that our understanding of the hydrogeochemical dynamics is constrained. Through a unique set of spatial and temporal measurements from the State of Michigan we a) examine the spatial distribution of chloride across a broad geographic area, b) explore the temporal behavior of chloride and sodium over hydrologic events capturing snowmelt and rain through salting seasons, c) evaluate the use of chloride/sodium ratios as a tool for linking sources to concentrations, and d) develop a conceptual framework for processes responsible for their environmental concentrations. Results show 1) the short-term and local impact of urban areas on chloride concentrations is clearly delineated, 2) concentration and ratio variations over the hydrographs differ during salting and post-salting periods, 3) chloride/sodium ratios do not clearly indicate a halite source and can be very high (&gt;5) and this is interpreted to be due to the different environmental behaviors of the two ions, and 4) during salting periods, chloride and sodium are quickly removed from the landscape during first flush and diluted as event water begins to dominate, but in post salting periods, only chloride is diluted. We also find evidence for upwelling of brine in some locations. These two solutes are easily measured indicators of human influences on water quality and it is recommended that they routine be included in water quality assessments. However, we suggest more research is necessary to better understand their cycling on shorter time scales and then how this knowledge can be used to inform our understanding of other chemical cycles in the environment.
Symptoms and functional status of palliative care patients in Iceland
Authors: Gestsdottir Bryndis , Hjaltadottir Ingibjorg , Gudmannsdottir Gudrun Dora , Jonsson Palmi V , Gunnarsdottir Sigridur , Sigurdardottir Valgerdur 
Published: May 2015

Background: Palliative care patients experience many debilitating symptoms and functional loss, but few longitudinal studies on the subject are available. Aims: To assess the symptoms and functional status of patients admitted to specialised palliative care, to investigate whether changes occur over the admission period, and to establish whether symptoms and physical and cognitive function differ, based on the service setting. In addition, to participate in the development of the interRAI Palliative Care instrument (interRAI PC). Methods: A prospective longitudinal study (N=123) was conducted at three time points: at admission to specialised palliative care, 14 days post-admission, and at discharge or death. The interRAI PC version 8 was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics were used, together with the Friedman statistical test and Wilcoxon post-hoc test. Results: Patients experienced a wide spectrum of symptoms; the most frequent were fatigue, loss of appetite, pain, difficulty sleeping, insufficient nutritional intake and nausea. Some symptoms stayed relatively stable over time, but others increased, while physical and cognitive function decreased over time. The interRAI PC version 8 proved comprehensive and simple to use. Conclusions: Patients experienced a significant symptom burden and functional loss from admission to discharge or death. Symptoms indicating progressive deterioration became more frequent and severe, while physical and cognitive function decreased at all levels. Overall, inpatients had more symptoms and functional decline than home-care patients. The interRAI PC version 8 proved valuable in collecting clinical information and detecting changes over time as other interRAI suite instruments.