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Perceptions of the Slow Food Cultural Trend among the Youth

As they become increasingly aware of the importance of healthy eating and of the serious food imbalance caused by the overconsumption of industrial, ultra processed and superorganoleptic food, consumers are now beginning to turn their attention to food choices guaranteeing both individual health and also of the environment Thus, in recent years we are witnessing the rise of a cultural trend Slow Food. Slow Food has become an international movement that advocates for satisfying culinary pleasure, protects biological and cultural diversity, spread taste education, links green producers to consumers and believes that gastronomy intersects with politics, agriculture and ecology. Slow Food proposes a holistic approach to food problem, where the economic, sociocultural and environmental aspects are interlinked, being pursued as part of an overall strategy. In order to highlight the manner in which the principles of this cultural trend are perceived by the representatives of the new generation of consumers in Romania, exploratory research marketing was conducted among the students in the second year of the master's program Quality Management, Expertise and Consumer Protection, from the Faculty of Business and Tourism from the Buchares t University of Economic Studies The results of this research have shown an insufficient knowledge of Slow Food phenomenon and, especially, the Slow Food network activity in Romania. To show that the Slow Food type of food is a healthier option towards which the future consumer demand should be guided, especially those belonging to the younger generation, an antithetical comparative analysis of the nutritional value of two menus was performed: a suggestive one for the Slow Food feeding style and other one, specific to the fast food style. Slow Food style was considered antithetical to the fast food because many previous studies have shown a preference of the young for the fast food type products, despite the nutritional imbalance they generate. Comparative analysis of nutrition was produced by using the coverage degree method and the results have shown that the Slow Food type menu is a balanced food option. Given the issues that we highlighted, this paper can be a reference point in our endeavor to increase the awareness of the Romanian young people regarding the need to create a sustainable food system, in economic, environmental and socio cultural point of view, as well as their orienting towards natural and healthy food options.
Oviposition Habitat Selection of Dengue Vectors, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Response to Fish Predator.
Venue: Tropical life sciences research

To understand the effects of fish predator's kairomones on Aedes mosquitoes' oviposition, we established an experiment using gravid Aedes females. Kairomones concentrations were established using Hampala macrolepidota. One individual fish was placed inside containers with varying water levels (1 L, 5 L, and 10 L of water) The fish were kept in the containers for 24 hours and were removed immediately at the start of each trial in order to have the kairomones remnants. Twenty gravid adult females of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus were allowed to lay eggs on oviposition site with various treatments: (1) control without any kairomones; (2) kairomone remnant in 1 L of water; (3) kairomone remnant in 5 L of water; and (4) kairomone remnant in 10 L of water. There are significant differences between the numbers of eggs laid by both Aedes species for each different treatment (F 9.131, df 16, p<0.001) However, fewer eggs were laid by Ae. albopictus compared to Ae. aegypti in the presence of kairomone remnants. This suggested that Ae. albopictus are significantly affected by the kairomones itself and have ability to detect the residual kairomone presence from H. macrolepidota.
Fuzzy Granular Neural Network for incremental modeling of nonlinear chaotic systems
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ IEEE)

Evolving intelligent systems are useful for processing online data streams. This paper presents an evolving granular neuro fuzzy modeling framework and an application example on the modeling of the Rossler chaos. The evolving Granular Neural Network (eGNN) is able to deal with new events of nonstationary environments using fuzzy information granules and different types of aggregation neurons. An incremental learning algorithm builds the network topology from spatio temporal features of a data stream. The goal is to obtain more abstract representations of large amounts of data, and thereafter provide accurate one step predictions and insights about the phenomenon that generates the data. Results suggest that eGNN learns successfully from a data stream generated by the Rossler nonlinear equations. Additionally, eGNN has shown to be competitive with state of the art data driven modeling approaches.
Epidemiologie du cancer du poumon en France incidence, mortalite et survie (tendance et situation actuelle)

Resume Introduction Le cancer du poumon, de mauvais pronostic, est le cancer le plus frequent a travers le monde et constitue la premiere cause de deces par cancer. Cet article fournit une estimation de l'incidence, de la mortalite et de la survie en France. Methode Les estimations d'incidence, issues des observations faites par les registres du cancer sont fournies globalement et par type histologique. La survie par histologie et stade est egalement fournie. Resultats En France en 2012, on estime a 28 211 les nouveaux cas chez les hommes et 11 284 chez les femmes, pour un nombre de deces de 21 326 et 8 623. L'incidence ajustee sur l'age montre une stabilite de chez les hommes entre 1980 et 2012, avec une tendance recente a la baisse, et une augmentation chez les femmes. Le risque de deces par cancer a baisse chez les hommes et fortement augmente chez les femmes. L'incidence des adenocarcinomes a augmente entre 1980 et 2012 pour les 2 sexes, devenant le premier type histologique. La survie est pejorative quelle que soit l'histologie. Le stade et l'age sont des facteurs pronostiques majeurs.  Le cancer du poumon demeure un enjeu de sante publique majeur, avec une prevention primaire encore possible (tabagisme) et une prevention secondaire souhaitable, la repartition par stade etant tres defavorable.
Amelioration de la survie a 1 an dans le cancer du poumon en France. Resultats des etudes prospectives en vie reelle, KBP 2000 CPHG et KBP 2010 CPHG

Resume Introduction Le college des pneumologues des hopitaux generaux (CPHG) a conduit a 10 ans d'intervalle deux etudes observationnelles prospectives afin d'evaluer les changements survenus dans l'epidemiologie du cancer bronchique primitif (CBP) dont la mortalite a 1 an. Materiel et methodes En 2000 et 2010, tous les patients adultes volontaires suivis dans les services de pneumologie des hopitaux generaux participants etaient consecutivement inclus si leur CBP avait ete diagnostique histologiquement ou cytologiquement entre le 01 janvier et le 31 decembre. Leur statut vital au moins 1 an apres et leur date de deces (si applicable) etaient recueillis. Resultats Respectivement, 5667 et 7051 patients etaient inclus dans l'etude en 2000 et 2010 et le statut vital de 5441 (96,0 et 6981 (99,0 patients connu. Le taux de mortalite a 1 an etait de 61,8 en 2000 et de 56,4 en 2010 (p  Bien que toujours faible (43,6 en 2010) l'esperance de vie a 1 an des patients avec un CBP s'est amelioree en 10 ans. Les resultats a 5 ans devraient permettre de preciser si cette amelioration se maintient au cours du temps.
WHO EMRO Estimation de la fraction attribuable du cancer du poumon liee au tabac au Maroc

The objective of this research was to estimate the attributable fraction (AF) of lung cancer linked to smoking in Morocco. The estimation was based on the SAMMEC (Adult Smoking Attributable Mortality, Morbidity and Economic Costs) method based on the Levin formula to calculate AF linked to tobacco. Data about frequencies, association measures and relative risks were taken from available sources. The AF of lung cancer linked to smoking was about 87% and around 3049 cases of this cancer in men could be avoided if tobacco use could be prevented. About a 10% reduction in smoking prevalence would result in a reduction of 346 lung cancer cases. Our study provides additional important elements for further advocacy to policy makers to implement a tobacco control strategy based on a prevention policy in line with the epidemiological situation which could avoid a huge burden on the country. 1Direction de l'Epidemiologie et de Lutte contre les Maladies, Ministere de la Sante, Rabat (Maroc) (Correspondance a adresser a M. Obtel majdobtel7@yahoo.fr) 2Laboratoire d'Epidemiologie, Recherche Clinique et Sante Publique, Faculte de Medecine et de Pharmacie, Fes (Maroc) 3Departement d'Epidemiologie, Recherche Clinique et Sante Publique, Faculte de Medecine et de Pharmacie, Oujda (Maroc) 4Service de la Prevention et du Controle du Cancer, Division des Maladies non transmissibles, Direction de l'Epidemiologie et de Lutte contre les Maladies, Ministere de la Sante, Rabat (Maroc) 5Axe cancer, INSERM U897 Epidemiologie et Biostatistique, Institut de Sante Publique, d'Epidemiologie et de Developpement (ISPED) Bordeaux (France) Recu 19/11/14 accepte 27/08/15
FERMILAB PUB 16 157 A A History of Dark Matter

Although dark matter is a central element of modern cosmology, the history of how it became accepted as part of the dominant paradigm is often ignored or condensed into a brief anecdotical account focused around the work of a few pioneering scientists. The aim of this review is to provide the reader with a broader historical perspective on the observational discoveries and the theoretical arguments that led the scientific community to adopt dark matter as an essential part of the standard cosmological model.
Constraining the nature of dark matter with the star formation history of the faintest Local Group dwarf galaxy satellites

\Lambda$ Warm Dark Matter (WDM) has been proposed as alternative scenario to \Lambda$ cold dark matter (CDM) motivated by discrepancies at the scale of dwarf galaxies, with less small scale power and realized by collisionless particles with energies in the range $1 3$ keV. We present a new approach to constrain the viability of such WDM models using star formation histories of the dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) in the Local Group. We compare their high time resolution star formation histories (SFHs) obtained with HST based color magnitude diagrams with the range of possible collapse redshifts of their dark matter halos expected in CDM and in different WDM scenarios. The collapse redshift is inferred after determining a plausible infall mass of the subhalo. This is based on the current mass of individual dwarf inferred from stellar kinematics combined with results of cosmological simulations providing information on the subhalo evolution. Since WDM subhalos close to the filtering mass scale form significantly later than CDM, we show that they are in the first place difficult to reconcile with a truncation of star formation occurring as early as $z\geq 3$ The Ultra Faint Dwarfs (UFDs) provide the most stringent constraints. Using 6 UFDs with the best determination of the SFHs, we show that we can exclude a 1 keV warm particle to a 2 \sigma$ confidence interval consistently with other methods reported in the literature. For some objects the $2$ keV model is also excluded. We discuss the various caveats of the method, most notably the low number of dwarfs with accurately determined star formation histories and the uncertainties in the determination of the infall mass of the subhalos. Our preliminary analysis serves as a pathfinder for future investigations that will combine upcoming accurate SFHs for more local dSphs with direct analysis of WDM cosmological simulations with baryons.
Robust depth estimation for light field via spinning parallelogram operator
Venue: Comput. Vis. Image Underst.

We propose a spinning parallelogram operator (SPO) for depth estimation on EPI.We apply the SPO to both synthetic and real light field camera images.The SPO is proved to be insensitive to occlusion, noise, spatial aliasing.The SPO has no requirement for depth range and angular resolution. Removing the influence of occlusion on the depth estimation for light field images has always been a difficult problem, especially for highly noisy and aliased images captured by plenoptic cameras. In this paper, a spinning parallelogram operator (SPO) is integrated into a depth estimation framework to solve these problems. Utilizing the regions divided by the operator in an Epipolar Plane Image (EPI) the lines that indicate depth information are located by maximizing the distribution distances of the regions. Unlike traditional multi view stereo matching methods, the distance measure is able to keep the correct depth information even if they are occluded or noisy. We further choose the relative reliable information among the rich structures in the light field to reduce the influences of occlusion and ambiguity. The discrete labeling problem is then solved by a filter based algorithm to fast approximate the optimal solution. The major advantage of the proposed method is that it is insensitive to occlusion, noise, and aliasing, and has no requirement for depth range and angular resolution. It therefore can be used in various light field images, especially in plenoptic camera images. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state of the art depth estimation methods on light field images, including both real world images and synthetic images, especially near occlusion boundaries.
Dexmedetomidine protects against lung ischemia reperfusion injury by the PI3K/Akt/HIF 1a signaling pathway
Venue: Journal of Anesthesia

PurposeTo evaluate the role of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (Akt)/hypoxia inducible factor 1a (HIF 1a) signaling pathway in the protection by dexmedetomidine against lung ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) in rats.MethodsForty eight male Sprague Dawley rats weighing 250 350 g were randomly divided into six groups (n 8 each group) sham group, IRI group, low dose dexmedetomidine group (LD group) high dose dexmedetomidine group (HD group) combined low dose dexmedetomidine and LY294002 group (LDL group) and combined high dose dexmedetomidine and LY294002 group (HDL group) A 30 min ischemia was induced by occluding the hilum of the left lung, followed by a 120 min reperfusion by removing occlusion of the hilum. After the left lung was removed, the wet/dry weight ratio (W/D) of the lung tissues was determined. Pathological changes of lung tissues were evaluated by light and electron microscopes and the expression of p Akt and HIF 1a in the lung tissues was determined by western blotting.ResultsCompared with the sham group, both the W/D ratio and lung injury were significantly increased, the p Akt expression was down regulated and HIF 1a expression was up regulated in the five experimental groups. Compared with the LD and LDL groups, both the W/D ratio and lung injury were decreased, but the expression of p Akt and HIF 1a was increased in the HD and HDL groups.ConclusionsAdministration of dexmedetomidine before ischemia can provide a protection against lung IRI by re installing the PI3K/Akt/HIF 1a signaling pathway.
The impact of hotel design uniqueness on booking intention and willingness to pay

Hotel customers are increasingly demanding more unique, modern designs and personalized services, but the literature has rarely explored how customers' perceptions of hotel uniqueness relate to their purchasing decisions. To address this gap in the literature, this study tries to understand how hotel customers interpret hotel designs and translate them into their expectations and behaviors. Hotel customers book a room before reaching their destination; therefore, making visually appealing hotel images available online is the most reliable way to begin creating a unique booking experience. The results of this study indicate that customers' perceived uniqueness of hotel property design contributes to developing design related value perceptions (i.e. aesthetic, social, and functional) and that those value perceptions, in turn, eventually increase both booking intention and willingness to pay. Those relationships differ by the purpose of travel (business vs. leisure) As such, the findings clearly suggest that each design related value perception needs to be separately understood to increase customer willingness to pay and booking intention.
Learning socially normative robot navigation behaviors with Bayesian inverse reinforcement learning
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Mobile robots that navigate in populated environments require the capacity to move efficiently, safely and in human friendly ways. In this paper, we address this task using a learning approach that enables a mobile robot to acquire navigation behaviors from demonstrations of socially normative human behavior. In the past, such approaches have been typically used to learn only simple behaviors under relatively controlled conditions using rigid representations or with methods that scale poorly to large domains. We thus develop a flexible graph based representation able to capture relevant task structure and extend Bayesian inverse reinforcement learning to use sampled trajectories from this representation. In experiments with a real robot and a large scale pedestrian simulator, we are able to show that the approach enables a robot to learn complex navigation behaviors of varying degrees of social normativeness using the same set of simple features.
How to do the history of the self

The history of the self is a flourishing field. Nevertheless, there are some problems that have proven difficult to overcome, mainly concerning teleology, the universality or particularity of the self and the gap between ideas and experiences of the self. In this article, I make two methodological suggestions to address these issues. First, I propose a 'queering' of the self, inspired by recent developments in the history of sexuality. By destabilizing the modern self and writing the histories of its different and paradoxical aspects, we can better attend to continuities and discontinuities in the history of the self and break up the idea of a linear and unitary history. I distinguish 4 overlapping and intersecting axes along which discourses of the self present themselves: (1) interiority and outer orientation; (2) stability and flexibility; (3) holism and fragmentation; and (4) self control and dispossession. Second, I propose studying 4 'practices of self' through which the self is created, namely: (1) techniques of self; (2) self talk; (3) interpreting the self; and (4) regulating practices. Analysing these practices allows one to go beyond debates about experience versus expression, and to recognize that expressions of self are never just expressions, but make up the self itself.
Industry use of virtual reality in product design and manufacturing: a survey
Venue: Virtual Reality

In 1999, Fred Brooks, virtual reality pioneer and Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published a seminal paper describing the current state of virtual reality (VR) technologies and applications (Brooks in IEEE Comput Graph Appl 19(6):16, 1999) Through his extensive survey of industry, Brooks concluded that virtual reality had finally arrived and "barely works" His report included a variety of industries which leveraged these technologies to support industry level innovation. Virtual reality was being employed to empower decision making in design, evaluation, and training processes across multiple disciplines. Over the past two decades, both industrial and academic communities have contributed to a large knowledge base on numerous virtual reality topics. Technical advances have enabled designers and engineers to explore and interact with data in increasingly natural ways. Sixteen years have passed since Brooks original survey. Where are we now? The research presented here seeks to describe the current state of the art of virtual reality as it is used as a decision making tool in product design, particularly in engineering focused businesses. To this end, a survey of industry was conducted over several months spanning fall 2014 and spring 2015. Data on virtual reality applications across a variety of industries was gathered through a series of on site visits. In total, on site visits with 18 companies using virtual reality were conducted as well as remote conference calls with two others. The authors interviewed 62 people across numerous companies from varying disciplines and perspectives. Success stories and existing challenges were highlighted. While virtual reality hardware has made considerable strides, unique attention was given to applications and the associated decisions that they support. Results suggest that virtual reality has arrived: it works! It is mature, stable, and, most importantly, usable. VR is actively being used in a number of industries to support decision making and enable innovation. Insights from this survey can be leveraged to help guide future research directions in virtual reality technology and applications.
Acquisition of PrtS in Streptococcus thermophilus is not enough in certain strains to achieve rapid milk acidification

The acquisition of prtS by Streptococcus thermophilus strains allowed hydrolysis of caseins into peptides and then to increase their growth in milk. This leads to faster milk acidification, which is important in dairy industry. However, some strains harboring the same allele of prtS present different acidification rates, which could be explained by a difference in the regulation of prtS expression. We chose two strains with the same allele of prtS (including the same promoter region) one, PB302, is with high acidification rate while the other, PB18O, is without. They exhibited similar growth in M17, but not in milk, where PB302 showed better growth. The expression of prtS and activity of PrtS were lower in PB18O, in the two media tested. We demonstrated that other genes known to be involved in carbon and nitrogen metabolism were overexpressed in PB302. Interestingly, these genes were overexpressed in milk compared to M17. Nearly all these genes possessed a putative CodY box in their promoter region. Taken together, difference of gene expression detected in PB302 between milk (low peptide medium) and M17 (rich peptide medium) and presence of a putative CodY box is a feature of the transcriptional pattern of CodY regulated genes. Altogether, our results propose that acquisition of prtS is not enough in certain strains to achieve rapid milk acidification. High transcriptional level of dtpT, amiF, ilvC, ilvB, bcaT, livJ, ackA, codY, and prtS in fast acidifying strain suggests that this transcriptional pattern could be required for fast milk acidification in Streptococcus thermophilus.