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Blood survey of Babesia spp and Theileria spp in Monos cattle, Benin

A cross section study was carried out in the Mono district in Benin to establish the different proportions of Babesia and Theleria in ticks and blood. Blood samples were collected between October and November, 2008, a period of relative abundance of ticks. The investigation covered nine herds (villages) including the farm of Kpinnou, in an agro ecological zone where the people adhere to the same pastoral farming tradition. In total, 756 ticks and 36 drops of blood on filter paper were taken from 36 bovines at a rate of 4 per village. Using morphological identification, identified 166 Rhipicephalus spp. 185 Amblyomma spp. and 405 Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus individuals were collected, corresponding to 53.57% of the vectors. Molecular diagnosis confirmed the results of the morphological identification. Molecular methods were also used for detecting Babesia and Theileria in the bovine blood samples. Different parasites have been identified in varying prevalences: Babesia bigemina (13.89% Babesia bovis (5.56% Theileria mutans (22.22% Theileria ovis (5.56% and other Babesia species (22. 22% No data exists so far for the district, but the results of this study are very similar to those obtained in the neighboring districts.  Cattle, ticks, Rhipicephalus microplus, Babesia bigemina, Babesia bovis, Benin.
Increasing Use of Renewable Energy by Coalition Formation of Renewable Generators and Energy Stores
Venue: EUMAS/AT

Renewable sources are not used to their full potential for electricity generation. Unpredictability of solar and wind power forces renewable generators to bid conservative generation amounts in a day ahead market in order to avoid fees for failure to provide generation. In this paper we propose an approach to increase the use of renewable sources, which allows renewable generators to hedge against generation unpredictability by forming coalitions with energy stores. Inside these coalitions renewable generators purchase availability of energy stores to generate power when needed. Renewable generators use this availability to avoid fees for failure to provide committed generation whenever the current generation is lower than the committed value. We experimentally show that our approach allows renewable generators to commit to 100% of the predicted generation, thus increasing the use of renewable sources. We also show that our approach generates profit incentives for both renewable generators and energy stores to form coalitions.
A clinical approach to diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis
Venue: The Lancet Neurology

Encephalitis is a severe inflammatory disorder of the brain with many possible causes and a complex differential diagnosis. Advances in autoimmune encephalitis research in the past 10 years have led to the identification of new syndromes and biomarkers that have transformed the diagnostic approach to these disorders. However, existing criteria for autoimmune encephalitis are too reliant on antibody testing and response to immunotherapy, which might delay the diagnosis. We reviewed the literature and gathered the experience of a team of experts with the aims of developing a practical, syndrome based diagnostic approach to autoimmune encephalitis and providing guidelines to navigate through the differential diagnosis. Because autoantibody test results and response to therapy are not available at disease onset, we based the initial diagnostic approach on neurological assessment and conventional tests that are accessible to most clinicians. Through logical differential diagnosis, levels of evidence for autoimmune encephalitis (possible, probable, or definite) are achieved, which can lead to prompt immunotherapy.
Hepatotoxicity by herbs: a practical review of a neglected disease.
Venue: Revista de gastroenterologia del Peru organo oficial de la Sociedad de Gastroenterologia del Peru

Herbs are commonly used worldwide for the treatment of various diseases, constituting a multi billion dollar market. Unfortunately, hepatotoxicity induced by herbs is also common. The true incidence and prevalence are not known. There is need for more strict regulations andexperimental and pre clinical studies regarding its efficacy and safety. There is no gold standard for the diagnosis of herbs induced liver injury (HILI) and it constitutes a diagnostic challenge for the clinician, whereestablishing causality could be cumbersome. Clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic cases with mildly abnormal liver tests to fulminant liver failure requiring liver transplantation. In this review, we will discuss the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, challenges and diagnostic approach of HILI and will also present some exemplary cases from the University of Miami, Division of Hepatology.
The Epidemiology of Liver Diseases Unique to Pregnancy in a US Community: A Population Based Study.
Venue: Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association

Little is known in the United States about the epidemiology of liver diseases that develop only during (are unique to) pregnancy. We investigated the incidence of liver diseases unique to pregnancy in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and long term maternal and fetal outcomes.  We identified 247 women with liver diseases unique to pregnancy from 1996 through 2010 using the Rochester Epidemiology Project database. The crude incidence rate was calculated by the number of liver disease cases divided by 35,101 pregnancies.  Of pregnant women with liver diseases, 134 had preeclampsia with liver dysfunction, 72 had hemolysis associated increased levels of liver enzymes and low platelet (HELLP) syndrome, 26 had intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, 14 had hyperemesis gravidarum with abnormal liver enzymes, and 1 had acute fatty liver of pregnancy. The crude incidence of liver diseases unique to pregnancy was 0.77% Outcomes were worse among women with HELLP or preeclampsia than the other disorders of women with HELLP, 70% had a premature delivery, 4% had abruptio placentae, 3% had acute kidney injury, and 3% had infant death. Of women with preeclampsia, 56.0% had a premature delivery, 4% had abruptio placentae, 3% had acute kidney injury, and 0.7% had infant death. After 7 median years of follow up (range, 0 18 years) 14% of the women developed recurrent liver disease unique to pregnancy; the proportions were highest in women with initial hyperemesis gravidarum (36% or intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (35% Women with preeclampsia were more likely to develop subsequent hepatobiliary diseases.  We found the incidence of liver disease unique to pregnancy in Olmsted County, Minnesota, to be lower than that reported from Europe or US tertiary referral centers. Maternal and fetal outcomes in Olmsted County were better than those reported from other studies, but fetal mortality was still high (0.7% 3.0% Women with preeclampsia or HELLP are at higher risk for peripartum complications and subsequent development of comorbidities.
Global epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease Meta analytic assessment of prevalence, incidence, and outcomes
Venue: Hepatology

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major cause of liver disease worldwide. We estimated the global prevalence, incidence, progression, and outcomes of NAFLD and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) PubMed/MEDLINE were searched from 1989 to 2015 for terms involving epidemiology and progression of NAFLD. Exclusions included selected groups (studies that exclusively enrolled morbidly obese or diabetics or pediatric) and no data on alcohol consumption or other liver diseases. Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cirrhosis, overall mortality, and liver related mortality were determined. NASH required histological diagnosis. All studies were reviewed by three independent investigators. Analysis was stratified by region, diagnostic technique, biopsy indication, and study population. We used random effects models to provide point estimates (95% confidence interval [CI] of prevalence, incidence, mortality and incidence rate ratios, and metaregression with subgroup analysis to account for heterogeneity. Of 729 studies, 86 were included with a sample size of 8,515,431 from 22 countries. Global prevalence of NAFLD is 25.24% (95% CI: 22.10 28.65) with highest prevalence in the Middle East and South America and lowest in Africa. Metabolic comorbidities associated with NAFLD included obesity (51.34% 95% CI: 41.38 61.20) type 2 diabetes (22.51% 95% CI: 17.92 27.89) hyperlipidemia (69.16% 95% CI: 49.91 83.46% hypertension (39.34% 95% CI: 33.15 45.88) and metabolic syndrome (42.54% 95% CI: 30.06 56.05) Fibrosis progression proportion, and mean annual rate of progression in NASH were 40.76% (95% CI: 34.69 47.13) and 0.09 (95% CI: 0.06 0.12) HCC incidence among NAFLD patients was 0.44 per 1,000 person years (range, 0.29 0.66) Liver specific mortality and overall mortality among NAFLD and NASH were 0.77 per 1,000 (range, 0.33 1.77) and 11.77 per 1,000 person years (range, 7.10 19.53) and 15.44 per 1,000 (range, 11.72 20.34) and 25.56 per 1,000 person years (range, 6.29 103.80) Incidence risk ratios for liver specific and overall mortality for NAFLD were 1.94 (range, 1.28 2.92) and 1.05 (range, 0.70 1.56)  As the global epidemic of obesity fuels metabolic conditions, the clinical and economic burden of NAFLD will become enormous. (Hepatology 2016;64:73 84)
Achieving a Carbon Neutral Society without Industry Contraction in the Five Major Steel Producing Countries

This study analyzed the direct and indirect CO 2 emissions of the energy intensive basic metals industry, in particular steels, using the distributions of various energy sources, including coal/peat, oil, and electricity, from an input output table. An analysis of five major steel producing countries indicated that direct CO 2 emissions increased 1.4 fold and that indirect CO 2 emissions increased by more than two fold between 1995 and 2010. The elasticity of the CO 2 emissions and the total energy costs indicated that Korea, Japan, and Germany are sensitive to energy sources from the electric power industry, whereas China and the US are more sensitive to energy sources pertaining to the coal and oil industry. Using the available forest area and photosynthesis, the potential neutralization ability of CO 2 was estimated using the eco CO 2 index. The US yielded the highest CO 2 neutralization ability of 66.1% whereas Korea yielded a CO 2 neutralization ability of 15% Future trends of the 2030 eco CO 2 index revealed China and Korea will rapidly lose their neutralization ability resulting in a net negative neutralization ability if left unabated. The significant decline in the eco CO 2 index for the basic metals industry may be inhibited by utilizing bamboo wood charcoal for pulverized coal injection (PCI) in the steelmaking process.
Surface forces between colloidal particles at high hydrostatic pressure.
Venue: Physical review. E

It was recently suggested that the electrostatic double layer force between colloidal particles might weaken at high hydrostatic pressure encountered, for example, in deep seas or during oil recovery. We have addressed this issue by means of a specially designed optical trapping setup that allowed us to explore the interaction of a micrometer sized glass bead and a solid glass wall in water at hydrostatic pressures of up to 1 kbar. The setup allowed us to measure the distance between bead and wall with a subnanometer resolution. We have determined the Debye lengths in water for salt concentrations of 0.1 and 1 mM. We found that in the pressure range from 1 bar to 1 kbar the maximum variation of the Debye lengths was <1 nm for both salt concentrations. Furthermore, the magnitude of the zeta potentials of the glass surfaces in water showed no dependency on pressure.
Reimagining organisational change leadership

Reimagining organisational change leadership requires revisiting the seminal work of Kurt Lewin and James M Burns. Being the 20th century's most influential organisational change and leadership scholars, both radically reimagined their respective fields. However, often misinterpreted, misunderstood and even misrepresented, their true recommendations were largely ignored. In this article, we discuss why this is so. Despite three decades of transformation and organisational change leadership discourse, leadership is still in crisis. Working towards an alternative to the current orthodoxy, we reimagine organisational change leadership as a utilitarian consequentialist process.
Assessing IT Management's Performance: A Design Theory for Strategic IT Benchmarking
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Given the continued economic pressure on information technology (IT) organizations, the effective and efficient delivery of IT remains a crucial issue for IT executives in order to optimize their department's performance. Due to company specifics, however, an absolute assessment of IT organizations' performance has often proven difficult in the past. Consequently, many IT executives revert to comparative assessments such as IT benchmarking. IT benchmarking has been increasingly used to support IT management, also on a strategic level. While past research on such strategic IT benchmarking (SITBM) often focused on process models and optimal peer group composition, many practitioners repeatedly report problems with identifying or developing suitable methods for collecting the data needed for SITBM. We introduce a design theory for SITBM methods and illustrate how we derived the theory from an SITBM project over a period of ten years. During that time, the method from which we abstract our design theory was applied in 102 different companies. We contribute to practice and theory by not only reporting a field tested method for SITBM, but also by providing a design theoretical basis on how to develop such a method as a blueprint for IT managers that want to set up an SITBM.
Lies that feel honest: Dissociating between incentive and deviance processing when evaluating dishonesty
Venue: Biological Psychology

This study investigated neural responses to evaluations of lies made by others. Participants learned about other individuals who were instructed to privately roll a die twice and report the outcome of the first roll to determine their pay (with higher rolls leading to higher pay) Participants evaluated three types of outcomes: honest reports, justifiable lies (reporting the second outcome instead of the first) or unjustifiable lies (reporting a different outcome than both die rolls) Evaluating lies relative to honest reports was associated with increased activation in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) insula and lateral prefrontal cortex. Moreover, justifiable lies were associated with even stronger activity in the dorsal ACC and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex compared to unjustifiable lies. These activities were more pronounced for justifiable lies where the deviance from the real outcome was larger. Together, these findings have implications for understanding how humans judge misconduct behavior of others.
JSPU Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers (4th Ed.

The Japanese Society of Pressure Ulcers(JSPU)has compiled an English version of the updated third edition of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers. The guidelines set forth here include a collection and discussion of medical issues specific to Japan as well as new evidence from research conducted abroad. Clinical questions (CQs)and their analyses were organized in the order of treatment followed by prevention: topical agents, dressings, surgical intervention, general management, rehabilitation, risk assessment, skin assessment, skin care, repositioning, support surfaces, patient education, outcome management, and QOL/pain. Each recommendation was assigned one of five ratings(A, B, C1, C2 and D) A CQ discussing the so calledXwrap therapyYused in Japan was also included. As a new approach, algorithms and flow charts were prepared for each topic. The present guidelines provide the best and most comprehensive recommendations currently available to health care professionals worldwide.
Managerial capabilities of housing developers: building the competitive advantage of a firm

This paper investigates the internal factors, specifically the managerial capabilities, of Malaysian housing developers. Issues of strategic management in housing development have received limited attention from real estate industry commentators. In this qualitative study, 10 semi structured snowball interviews were performed for the purposes of data collection. Categories of housing developer capabilities include business planning and strategy, marketing, project management, financial management, and networking. These interviews shed light on the capabilities of real estate practitioners. Given the small number of interviewees, the results of this study must be treated with caution, but should provide ample basis for future in depth studies in this area. This study expands upon the current real estate literature, arguing that the intangible resources of a firm must be used in concert to sustain superior performance, and elucidates the effects of housing developers' managerial capabilities on the success of their business.
Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Review of Mechanical Properties

This article reviews published data on the mechanical properties of additively manufactured metallic materials. The additive manufacturing techniques utilized to generate samples covered in this review include powder bed fusion (e.g. EBM, SLM, DMLS) and directed energy deposition (e.g. LENS, EBF3) Although only a limited number of metallic alloy systems are currently available for additive manufacturing (e.g. Ti 6Al 4V, TiAl, stainless steel, Inconel 625/718, and Al Si 10Mg) the bulk of the published mechanical properties information has been generated on Ti 6Al 4V. However, summary tables for published mechanical properties and/or key figures are included for each of the alloys listed above, grouped by the additive technique used to generate the data. Published values for mechanical properties obtained from hardness, tension/compression, fracture toughness, fatigue crack growth, and high cycle fatigue are included for as built, heat treated, and/or HIP conditions, when available. The effects of test.
Codifying systemic design: A toolkit

In this paper we want to reflect on the use of toolkits as a codification strategy to fuel an expanding practice of 'systemic design' This critical reflection is rooted in the real life experience of bringing together two different sets of skills in the development of a Systemic Design Toolkit. Designers and concept driven system thinkers belong to different epistemic communities. While these fields of practice are arguably in the process of converging, in actual practice it proves to be a challenge to transcend their governing epistemological differences. What pragmatically unites these practitioners is their ambition to successfully codify a vast and layered knowledge base. A Systemic Design Toolkit is argued to offer promise as a 'boundary object' between the epistemic communities involved in creating the toolkit (the designers on the one hand and the conceptual system thinkers on the other) and between the toolkit developers and toolkit users. The paper closes with a tentative list of design criteria for systemic design toolkits.
Recipe for success: lessons learnt from using xAPI within the connected learning analytics toolkit
Venue: LAK

An ongoing challenge for Learning Analytics research has been the scalable derivation of user interaction data from multiple technologies. The complexities associated with this challenge are increasing as educators embrace an ever growing number of social and content related technologies. The Experience API (xAPI) alongside the development of user specific record stores has been touted as a means to address this challenge, but a number of subtle considerations must be made when using xAPI in Learning Analytics. This paper provides a general overview to the complexities and challenges of using xAPI in a general systemic analytics solution called the Connected Learning Analytics (CLA) toolkit. The importance of design is emphasised, as is the notion of common vocabularies and xAPI Recipes. Early decisions about vocabularies and structural relationships between statements can serve to either facilitate or handicap later analytics solutions. The CLA toolkit case study provides us with a way of examining both the strengths and the weaknesses of the current xAPI specification, and we conclude with a proposal for how xAPI might be improved by using JSON LD to formalise Recipes in a machine readable form.
Antiresorptive agent related osteonecrosis of the jaw: Position Paper 2017 of the Japanese Allied Committee on Osteonecrosis of the Jaw
Venue: Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism

Antiresorptive agent related osteonecrosis of the jaw (ARONJ) is an intractable, though rare, complication in cancer patients with bone metastases and patients with osteoporosis who are treated with antiresorptive agents, including bisphosphonates and denosumab. Despite the more than 10 years that have passed since the first cases of bisphosphonate related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ) were reported, our understanding of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of ARONJ remains limited, and data supported by evidence based medicine are still sparse. However, the diagnosis and staging of ARONJ, identification of risk factors, and development of preventive and therapeutic approaches have advanced significantly over the past decade. The Position Paper 2017 is an updated version of the Position Paper 2010 of the Japanese Allied Committee on Osteonecrosis of the Jaw, which now comprises six Japanese academic societies. The Position Paper 2017 describes a new diagnostic definition for ARONJ, as proposed by the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) summarizes our current understanding of the pathophysiology of ARONJ based on a literature search, and suggests methods for physicians and dentists/oral surgeons to manage the disease. In addition, the appropriateness of discontinuing antiresorptive medications (drug holiday) before, during, and after invasive dental treatments is discussed extensively. More importantly, the manuscript also proposes, for the first time, the importance of interactive communication and cooperation between physicians and dentists/oral surgeons for the successful treatment of ARONJ. The Position Paper 2017 is intended to serve as a guide for improving the management of ARONJ patients in Japan.