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Using the Interactive Systems Framework to Support a Quality Improvement Approach to Dissemination of Evidence‐Based Strategies to Promote Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Planning a Comprehensive Dynamic Trial
Authors: Rapkin Bruce D. , Weiss Elisa S. , Lounsbury David W. , Thompson Hayley S. , Goodman Robert M. , Schechter Clyde B. , Merzel Cheryl , Shelton Rachel C. , Blank Arthur E. , Erb-Downward Jennifer , Williams Abigail , Valera Pamela , Padgett Deborah K. 
Published: May 2012

AbstractDissemination efforts must optimize interventions for new settings and populations. As such, dissemination research should incorporate principles of quality improvement. Comprehensive Dynamic Trial (CDT) designs examine how information gained during dissemination may be used to modify interventions and improve performance. Although CDT may offer distinct advantages over static designs, organizing the many necessary roles and activities is a significant challenge. In this article, we discuss use of the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation to systematically implement a CDT. Specifically, we describe “Bronx ACCESS”, a program designed to disseminate evidence‐based strategies to promote adherence to mammography guidelines. In Bronx ACCESS, the Intervention Delivery System will elicit information needed to adapt strategies to specific settings and circumstances. The Intervention Synthesis and Translation System will use this information to test changes to strategies through “embedded experiments”. The Intervention Support System will build local capacities found to be necessary for intervention institutionalization. Simulation modeling will be used to integrate findings across systems. Results will inform on‐going policy debate about interventions needed to promote population‐level screening. More generally, this project is intended to advance understanding of research paradigms necessary to study dissemination.Special Issue: Advances in Bridging Research and Practice Using the Interactive System Framework for Dissemination and Implementation; Guest Editors: Abraham Wandersman, Paul Flaspohler, Catherine A. Lesesne, Richard Puddy; Action Editor: Emilie Phillips Smith
Practical Implementation Science: Developing and Piloting the Quality Implementation Tool
Authors: Meyers Duncan C. , Katz Jason , Chien Victoria , Wandersman Abraham , Scaccia Jonathan P. , Wright Annie 
Published: May 2012

AbstractAccording to the Interactive Systems Framework for Dissemination and Implementation, implementation is a major mechanism and concern in bridging research and practice. The growing number of implementation frameworks need to be synthesized and translated so that the science and practice of quality implementation can be furthered. In this article, we: (1) use the synthesis of frameworks developed by Meyers et al. (Am J Commun Psychol, 2012) and translate the results into a practical implementation science tool to use for improving quality of implementation (i.e., the Quality Implementation Tool; QIT), and (2) present some of the benefits and limitations of the tool by describing how the QIT was implemented in two different pilot projects. We discuss how the QIT can be used to guide collaborative planning, monitoring, and evaluation of how an innovation is implemented.Special Issue: Advances in Bridging Research and Practice Using the Interactive System Framework for Dissemination and Implementation; Guest Editors: Abraham Wandersman, Paul Flaspohler, Catherine A. Lesesne, Richard Puddy; Action Editor: Emilie Phillips Smith
Stem, branch and leaf biomass‐density relationships in forest communities
Authors: Zhang Wei‐Ping , Jia Xin , Morris E. Charles , Bai Yan‐Yuan , Wang Gen‐Xuan 
Published: May 2012

AbstractDefining and quantifying biomass–density relationships in dense plant stands has been a long‐standing issue in both theoretical and empirical studies. Most existing/traditional studies focus on whole plant individuals, without considering different plant components (e.g., stem, branch and leaf). However, the analysis of biomass–density relationships for different plant parts is linked to those for whole plants, and thus important for understanding plant strategies for utilizing resources and community dynamics. In our study, we investigated standing stem (MS), branch (MB) and leaf (ML) biomass–density relationships, across a range of forest communities in China. The results showed that there was no constant predicted value (e.g., −1/2 or −1/3 for MS; −1/2, −1/3 or 0 for MB and ML) that can describe all the relationships, and that the scaling exponents for stem, branch and leaf biomass varied across different forest types. In particular, standing leaf biomass (leaf biomass per unit area) was not constant in these forest communities. Furthermore, stem biomass–density lines were steeper than corresponding branch and leaf lines across most of these forest communities.
The potential of forgiveness as a response for coping with negative peer experiences
Authors: Flanagan Kelly S. , Vanden Hoek Kristin K. , Ranter Jennifer M. , Reich Holly A. 
Published: May 2012

ABSTRACTCoping strategies employed by adolescents in response to negative peer experiences are related to their adjustment. This study examines the potential of forgiveness as a coping response for negative peer experiences in early adolescence. Participants were 616 6th through 8th grade students at a middle school (46% girls) who completed self‐report measures of bullying and victimization experiences, general coping strategies in response to bullying, social anxiety, self‐esteem, and a measure of forgiveness to a self‐identified experience of being bullied or hurt by a peer. Forgiveness was positively associated with conflict resolution, advice and support seeking strategies, and negatively associated with revenge seeking. Forgiveness was also positively associated with concurrent self‐esteem and negatively associated with social anxiety. Further, forgiveness was related to social anxiety and self‐esteem after accounting for bullying behavior and victimization experiences, general coping responses, and gender. Developmental considerations of forgiveness and implications for this response are considered.
The acceptability of treatments for depression to a community sample of adolescent girls
Authors: Caporino Nicole E. , Karver Marc S. 
Published: May 2012

ABSTRACTAn efficacious treatment is diminished in value if consumers do not seek it out and adhere to it, making treatment acceptability an important predictor of the effectiveness of treatment. This study examined the acceptability of treatments for depression to 67 female high school students. All participants read a vignette describing a depressed adolescent and rated the acceptability of four single treatments for depression (cognitive‐behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, family therapy, and pharmacotherapy) and three treatment combinations. Psychotherapy approaches were generally more acceptable to adolescents than combinations of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy; and, pharmacotherapy used alone was not acceptable. For interpersonal therapy and family therapy only, treatment acceptability was related to perceived causes of depression. Across all treatments, acceptability was not associated with symptom severity. Implications for increasing the utilization of mental health services in this population are discussed.
Uterine artery, umbilical, and fetal cerebral Doppler velocities after epidural analgesia during labor
Authors: Valentin Morgane , Ducarme Guillaume , Ceccaldi Pierre‐François , Bougeois Bernard , Luton Dominique 
Published: May 2012

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate the effects of epidural analgesia on uterine artery, umbilical, and fetal cerebral Doppler velocities during labor.MethodsIn a prospective study at Beaujon Hospital, Paris, France, between September and December 2010, uterine artery, umbilical, and fetal cerebral Doppler flow velocities were measured in 12 pregnant women during spontaneous labor with epidural analgesia. The data were registered in a period of uterine relaxation before, and 20 and 60 minutes after the first administration of epidural analgesic drugs. The changes in Doppler velocimetry values and fetal heart rate after epidural analgesia were analyzed.ResultsUterine artery velocities, but neither umbilical nor fetal cerebral Doppler velocities, were decreased significantly at 20 minutes and 1 hour after epidural analgesia (P < 0.005). Women with the greatest decrease in uterine artery Doppler flow velocities delivered neonates with the lowest values of umbilical artery blood pH.ConclusionThe data suggest that the Doppler flow velocity of uterine arteries is affected by epidural analgesia during labor. Numerous Doppler flow studies of the effect of neuraxial blockade during labor on umbilical and uterine arteries have been published with incredibly variable and inconsistent results.
A conditionally replicating adenovirus carrying interleukin‐24 sensitizes melanoma cells to radiotherapy via apoptosis
Authors: Jiang Guan , Zhang Kai , Jiang Ai-Jun , Xu Dan , Xin Yong , Wei Zhi-Ping , Zheng Jun-Nian , Liu Yan-Qun 
Published: May 2012

Combinatorial therapy is the current trend of the development of novel cancer treatments due to the high heterogenous nature of solid tumors. In this study, we investigated the effects of the combined use of a conditionally replicating adenovirus carrying IL‐24 (ZD55‐IL‐24) and radiotherapy on the proliferation and apoptosis of melanoma A375 cells in vitro and in vivo. Compared with either agent used alone, ZD55‐IL‐24 combined with radiotherapy significantly inhibited cell proliferation, accompanied with increased apoptosis. Radiotherapy did not affect the expression of IL‐24 and E1A of ZD55‐IL‐24‐treated cells, but increased the expression of Bax, promoted the activation of caspase‐3, while decreasing Bcl‐2 levels. Thus, this synergistic effect of ZD55‐IL‐24 in combination with radiotherapy provides a novel strategy for the development of melanoma therapies, and is a promising approach for further clinical development.
States of secrecy: an introduction
Authors: VERMEIR KOEN , MARGÓCSY DÁNIEL 
Published: May 2012

AbstractThis introductory article provides an overview of the historiography of scientific secrecy from J.D. Bernal and Robert Merton to this day. It reviews how historians and sociologists of science have explored the role of secrets in commercial and government-sponsored scientific research through the ages. Whether focusing on the medieval, early modern or modern periods, much of this historiography has conceptualized scientific secrets as valuable intellectual property that helps entrepreneurs and autocratic governments gain economic or military advantage over competitors. Following Georg Simmel and Max Weber, this article offers an alternative interpretation of secrecy as a tool to organize and to hierarchically order society. In this view, the knowledge content of secrecy is less important than its social-psychological effects. The authors argue that, in many instances, entrepreneurial researchers and governments use scientific secrets as an effective tool to manipulate the beliefs of their competitors and the larger public, and not necessarily to protect the knowledge that they hold.
Dr. George Murray Levick (1876–1956): unpublished notes on the sexual habits of the Adélie penguin
Authors: Russell Douglas G.D. , Sladen William J.L. , Ainley David G. 
Published: May 2012

ABSTRACTA previously unpublished four-page pamphlet by Dr. George Murray Levick R.N. (1876–1956) on the ‘Sexual habits of the Adélie penguin’ was recently rediscovered at the Natural History Museum (NHM) at Tring. It was printed in 1915 but declined for publication with the official expedition reports. The account, based upon Levick's detailed field observations at Cape Adare (71°18′S, 170°09′E) during the course of the British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition 1910, commented on frequency of sexual activity, autoerotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks, non-procreative sex and homosexual behaviour. His observations were however accurate, valid and, with the benefit of hindsight, deserving of publication. Here we publish the pamphlet in its entirety, reinterpret selected observations and comment on its significance as a forgotten work by the pioneer of research on Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron and Jacquinot 1841) biology.
A redundant dynamic model of parallel robots for model-based control
Authors: Zubizarreta Asier , Cabanes Itziar , Marcos Marga , Pinto Charles 
Published: May 2012

SUMMARYThe use of extra sensors in parallel robots can provide an increase in control performance, making it possible to fully exploit the potential of these mechanisms. In this paper, a comprehensive redundant dynamic modelling procedure for the six-degree-of-freedom Gough platform is presented. The proposed methodology makes it possible to define the model in terms of all sensorized joint variables in order to implement redundant information-based control, and an example, the Extended Computed Torque Control (Extended CTC) approach, is developed. This, applied to parallel robots, ensures better dynamic performance than the traditional CTC approach. In order to validate dynamic modelling, a two-step procedure is used in this paper. First, the redundant dynamic model is validated by comparing its dynamic performance with the previous research in the field. Second, an exhaustive study is carried out that demonstrates the advantages of the redundant dynamic model when used in the Extended CTC approach.
Set-Shifting in Adults with ADHD
Authors: Halleland Helene Barone , Haavik Jan , Lundervold Astri J. 
Published: May 2012

AbstractDifficulties related to inhibition and set-shifting have been suggested as possible endophenotypes of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, such difficulties have not been consistently found in studies using standard neuropsychological tests. This has been partly explained by the complexity of these tests and the need to include contrast measures which control for more basic functions. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether difficulties related to inhibition and set-shifting in adult ADHD patients could be revealed by the Color Word Interference Test (CWIT) from the Delis Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS). A clinically recruited group of adults with ADHD (n = 60) obtained significantly lower scores than population derived controls (n = 60) on both primary summary (p < .001) and contrast measures (p = .004) of set-shifting. The differences between the groups remained statistically significant after controlling for intellectual function and working memory (p = .003). However, no significant differences between the groups were observed on any measure of inhibition. The study indicates that adults with ADHD have specific difficulties with set-shifting as measured by the CWIT, difficulties that probably also reflect problems related to executive function in their daily life. (JINS, 2012, 18, 1–10)
‘I don't have to go to the gym because I ate very healthy today’: the development of a scale to assess diet-related compensatory health beliefs
Authors: Poelman Maartje P , Vermeer Willemijn M , Vyth Ellis L , Steenhuis Ingrid HM 
Published: May 2012

AbstractObjectiveNutritional interventions to decrease energy intake, aimed at portion sizes and front-of-package labelling, are effective only if people do not compensate for their reduced energy intake. Since several observational studies indicate that these interventions could prompt compensation behaviour, it is important to assess underlying beliefs. Therefore, the purpose of the two studies reported here was to develop a Diet-related Compensatory Health Beliefs Scale (Diet-CHBS).DesignCross-sectional surveys were conducted for the scale development. Study 1 provided data on the factor analysis and convergent validity, while Study 2 assessed the Diet-CHBS’ test–retest reliability.SettingsVU University Amsterdam (Study 1) and twenty-five worksite cafeterias in the Netherlands (Study 2).SubjectsStudy 1 was conducted among 179 students and their parents; Study 2 was conducted among 119 worksite cafeteria visitors.ResultsThe results of Study 1 showed that the scale consisted of the hypothesized factors of compensation beliefs with regard to portion sizes (α = 0·73), front-of-package health logos (α = 0·77) and exercise (α = 0·75). The scale's overall Cronbach's α was 0·82. The Diet-CHBS had a Pearson correlation of 0·32 with a general health compensatory beliefs scale, signifying satisfactory convergent validity. Study 2 showed that the intra-class correlation coefficient between T1 and T2 was 0·69, indicating adequate test–retest reliability.ConclusionThe Diet-CHBS is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing diet-related compensatory health beliefs in response to nutritional interventions. It is important to take such beliefs into account in further intervention studies aimed at preventing overweight and obesity.
Living with the loss of a child: Mothers in the criminal justice system
Authors: Lewin Linda C. , Farkas Kathleen J. 
Published: May 2012

AbstractObjective:Bereaved mothers have expressed the need to maintain a bond with their children who have died, to retain control over the funeral rituals, and to express their loss to others who are empathetic. This study describes grief over the loss of a child in women who have been or are currently incarcerated, and the influence of the women's family members.Method:This descriptive qualitative study consisted of open-ended interview questions to encourage the women to describe their experience in their own words. A purposive sample (N = 10) was recruited from a prison re-entry program and a county jail.Results:All of the participants described maladaptive responses such as the use of alcohol and drugs, restricted family support, and dysfunctional coping. None of the participants had received focused bereavement services.Significance of Results:The descriptive perspective from the participants can inform clinicians who work with women who have a history of involvement with the criminal justice system, and recommends that they should inquire about the women's children and experiences with loss. Community re-entry and jail/prison counselors should provide access to confidential and group-based therapeutic support, including Compassionate Friends.
Young mare volcanism in the Orientale region contemporary with the Procellarum KREEP Terrane (PKT) volcanism peak period ∼2 billion years ago
Authors: Cho Yuichiro , Morota Tomokatsu , Haruyama Junichi , Yasui Minami , Hirata Naru , Sugita Seiji 
Published: May 2012

The crater retention ages of the mare deposits within the Orientale multi‐ring impact basin are investigated using 10‐m resolution images obtained by the SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft, in order to constrain the volcanic history of the Moon around the nearside‐farside boundary. Precise crater‐counting analyses reveal that mare deposits in the Orientale region are much younger than previously estimated: ∼2.9 Ga mare basalt in the eastern part of Mare Orientale and ∼1.8–2.2 Ga mare deposits in Lacus Veris and Lacus Autumni, maria along the northeastern rings of the basin. The latter age estimates indicate that the Orientale region experienced volcanic activities ∼2 billion years after the basin‐formation impact. The dominance of a uniform surface age across the mare deposits in the peripheral regions strongly suggests that these volcanic eruptions are contemporary with the elevated volcanic activity episode proposed for the Procellarum KREEP Terrane on the lunar nearside at ∼2 Ga and that this activity peak is much more widespread than previously estimated. The longevity of mare volcanism in the Orientale region further suggests high initial temperatures and/or high content of heat‐producing elements in the underlying mantle of this region.
Improving sub‐daily strain estimates using GPS measurements
Authors: Reuveni Yuval , Kedar Sharon , Owen Susan E. , Moore Angelyn W. , Webb Frank H. 
Published: May 2012

We present an improved GPS analysis strategy that reduces the noise level of GPS‐based sub‐daily strain measurements by a factor of ~5 or more and improves sub‐daily resolution of positions and baseline estimates by a factor of ~2–5. These improvements are accomplished by reducing the key sources of error due to diurnal effects from path delays caused by reflections and refractions of the GPS signal near the receiver (multipath), and from tropospheric delays. Errors due to poorly determined tropospheric path delays are mitigated by using the tropospheric parameters estimated in static positioning runs as fixed values. The multipath effects are treated as periodic errors and are mitigated by a modified sidereal filter applied to the phase prior to processing. This combination of path error modeling results in sub‐daily strain resolution on the order of ~0.1μstrain for a ~100 km baseline.
The Influence of Reduced Audible Bandwidth on Asynchronous Double-Vowel Identification
Authors: Valentine Susie , Lentz Jennifer J. 
Published: May 2012

Purpose
In this study, the authors sought to determine whether reduced audible bandwidth associated with hearing loss contributes to difficulty benefiting from an onset asynchrony between sounds.

Method
Synthetic double-vowel identification was measured for normal-hearing listeners and listeners with hearing loss. One vowel (Target 2) was 250 ms in duration, and one (Target 1) varied in duration. The vowels had the same offset, and an onset asynchrony between the vowels ranged between 0 and 200 ms. Listeners identified both vowels in their perceived order. The scoring metrics used were as follows: Target 1 correctly identified in the correct position, Target 2 correctly identified in the correct position, ordered double-vowel identification, and unordered double-vowel identification. The same experiment was conducted with vowels low-pass filtered at 900 Hz simulating reduced audible bandwidth.

Results
For all scoring metrics, increases in onset asynchrony led to better vowel identification. Listeners with hearing loss benefited less from onset asynchrony than normal-hearing listeners only for Target 2 identification. Filtering the vowels reduced onset asynchrony benefit for all scoring categories and for both groups.

Conclusion
Results implicate reduced audible bandwidth in difficulties of listeners when using onset asynchrony for sound segregation. Therefore, listeners with a reduced audible bandwidth may have communication difficulties in natural environments.