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Classification System for Individualized Treatment of Adult Buried Penis Syndrome
Venue: Plastic and reconstructive surgery

The authors present their experience with reconstructive strategies for men with various manifestations of adult buried penis syndrome, and propose a comprehensive anatomical classification system and treatment algorithm based on pathologic changes in the penile skin and involvement of neighboring abdominal and/or scrotal components.  The authors reviewed all patients who underwent reconstruction of adult buried penis syndrome at their referral center between 2007 and 2015. Patients were stratified by location and severity of involved anatomical components. Procedures performed, demographics, comorbidities, and clinical outcomes were reviewed.  Fifty six patients underwent reconstruction of buried penis at the authors' center from 2007 to 2015. All procedures began with a ventral penile release. If the uncovered penile skin was determined to be viable, a phalloplasty was performed by anchoring penoscrotal skin to the proximal shaft, and the ventral shaft skin defect was closed with scrotal flaps. In more complex patients with circumferential nonviable penile skin, the penile skin was completely excised and replaced with a split thickness skin graft. Complex patients with severe abdominal lipodystrophy required adjacent tissue transfer. For cases of genital lymphedema, the procedure involved complete excision of the lymphedematous tissue, and primary closure with or without a split thickness skin graft, also often involving the scrotum. The authors' overall success rate was 88 percent (49 of 56) defined as resolution of symptoms without the need for additional procedures.  Successful correction of adult buried penis often necessitates an interdisciplinary, multimodal approach.
Active Ageing and Effective Learning for Enhanced Quality of Life

Whilst promoting the European Year for Active Ageing (AA) in 2012, the European Union (EU) revised their definition to mean, growing old in good health. By this definition, no matter the person's age, the goal would be to enjoy a better quality of life as an active member of society. Three aspects which support promotion of Active Ageing are: employment, active participation in society and independent living (Hendrickx, 2012) Within the field of Gerontology, the essence of Active Ageing has taken many different names and forms Many older adults have similar aspirations. In general, they want to be able to do the things that make them happy such as travel, spending time with family (especially grandchildren) and having the ability to maintain their household. The need to combine effective learning in the elderly, with the purpose of motivating intergenerational face to face interaction to encourage social support and accept the physiological changes, is a colossal issue.
The Effect of the Auditors' Rotation on the Accounting Quality in the Case of Romanian Listed Companies under the Transition to IFRS

In assuring the quality of the financial information issued by the listed companies, the role of the financial auditor is to express his own opinion regarding the compliance of the financial statements with a financial reporting framework. In order for this opinion to be a reliable one, the auditor has to develop it considering the specific requirements of competence, ethic judgment and professional ethics. Meeting these requirements supposes significant efforts from the auditors, and also from the professional organization they are affiliated to, as well as the audited companies. We appreciate that the financial auditors' financial independence and objectivity are also assured by their periodical rotation. The scope of this study is to analyze and evaluate the influence of the auditor's rotation on the information value relevance from the individual financial statements and from the consolidated statements that make the subject of financial auditing. The study was carried out on a number of 64 Romanian companies, listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, between 2006 and 2014. The research objectives considered the estimation of the auditor's rotation influence on the value relevance of the reported information of the Romanian BSE listed companies. The results of the study show the fact that the auditor's rotation significantly contributes to the change of the value relevance degree.
THE INFLUENCE OF AUDIT COMMITTEE ATTRIBUTES ON THE QUALITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTING EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN BANKS

This study aims at examining the influence of audit committee attributes on the quality of financial reporting (QFR) in Nigerian banks. The study adopts a content analysis method in realizing the above objectives. The researcher constructed measurement check list was used in extracting data from audited annual reports of ten selected banks for the period 2006 to 2013. The dependent variable of study was the QFR, which was measured using the IFRS qualitative characteristics model. The independent variables consist of audit committee attributes and control variables (board attributes) were gleaned from the corporate governance section of the annual reports. Inferential statistics, namely; correlations and regression analyses were used in analyzing the data and testing the hypotheses raised in the study. The regression analysis result shows a t value of 1.861 at 5% probability level, against the t cal of 2.111. Specifically, the result shows that audit committee independence (p= .017) meeting attendance (p= .040) audit committee size (p= .059) and the existence of a written charter (p= .007) significantly influence the QFR in Nigerian banks. Accordingly, we conclude that certain audit committee attributes namely; independence, meeting attendance, size and the existence of a written charter exert significant influence on the QFR than other attributes.
Hygienic assessment of risk factors for skin infections in athletes wrestlers

Study by virtue of informed consent and questionnaire survey involved healthy male volunteers: 91 athletes of wrestling and 52 students not doing sports. It was found that most respondents (55% among wrestlers suffered from skin contagions at least once. To do hygienic assessment of risk factors for skin infections in wrestlers there's a recommended "rule of nines" method by A. Wallace which estimates open skin areas (i.e. unprotected by sports outfits) in different types of wrestling. The athletes study results showed high risk of skin infections in this target group, especially in wrestlers. The number of skin infections cases among wrestlers surveyed was 9.5 times higher (p <0.001) than among students not involved in professional sports. The basic risk factors for wrestlers' skin contagions in sport training and competitions processes are: direct factors which include regular contact "skin to skin" during competition; failure to meet body hygiene, clean sportswear and shoes requirements; athletes with obvious signs of infection at competitions and trainings. Indirect factors include regular state of stress due to frequent competitions, daily workouts, etc. Therefore we think it vital to systematically inform all the participants in sport training and competitions process on the existing risks of skin infections for athletes and negative consequences thereof.
Development of a mini core collection from Sri Lankan traditional rice for flowering time variation

Sri Lankan traditional rice germplasm (Oryza sativa indica) consists of a wide variety of morphology and days to flowering (DF) The objective of this research was to develop a mini core collection representing the DF variation of the total collection. Three hundred and eighty four rice accessions from 53 Sri Lankan traditional rice varieties were evaluated for morphological and flowering time variation. The experiment was carried at Rice Research and Development Institute, Bathalagoda, Sri Lanka during the late short day season (Maha) 2012/2013.Three hundred and forty five accessions flowered and 39 accessions did not flower during the experimental period of 210 days. Two principal component analyses (PCA) were performed and subsequently 2 dendograms were developed for flowered and not flowered accessions. Sixty eight percent of total observed variation was explained through 6 principal components (PC's) by DF and fourteen quantitative morphological characters of 345 flowered accessions. Seventy nine percent of total observed variation of not flowered 39 accessions was explained through 4 PC's by 9 quantitative morphological characters. Ninety accessions were selected from 2 dendograms for development of a mini core collection; out of which 85 accessions represented flowered accessions based on minimum and maximum DF variation in each cluster of the dendogram. Five randomly selected accessions represented each cluster of not flowered accessions. Minimum and maximum DF values of both total collection and mini core collection were 56 and 189 days, respectively. Average DF of total flowered collection and mini core collection was 79.16 0.95 and 87.95 3.1, respectively. A similar trend in the regression relationship between DF and plant height and, DF and leaf length of the leaf prior to flag leaf was observed in total flowered collection and mini core collection, indicating the representation of mini core collection for flowering time variation.
Time management in Turkish nurses

Time management is an essential skill for the employees who work in a busy health settings. This was descriptive study and the aim of this study is to determine the importance paid for time management in nursing. in Turkey. Data was collected by searching "Ulakbim National Databases and Turkish Medline and 22 studies out of 365 were included in the assessment. While studies which determine time usage show that nurses do not use their time efficiently, studies which measure time management skill, time management skill of nurses or students is at medium high level. In order to clarify this contradiction, much more studies should be carried out and apart from descriptive studies factors which effect use of time in working environment should be analyzed. This study shows that the issue of time management in nursing is not analyzed as a privileged issue in Turkey and there has not been study that would evaluate time management of nurses.  Nurse, student, time management, work sampling
Long Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network Classifier for Intrusion Detection
Venue: 2016 International Conference on Platform Technology and Service (PlatCon)

Due to the advance of information and communication techniques, sharing information through online has been increased. And this leads to creating the new added value. As a result, various online services were created. However, as increasing connection points to the internet, the threats of cyber security have also been increasing. Intrusion detection system(IDS) is one of the important security issues today. In this paper, we construct an IDS model with deep learning approach. We apply Long Short Term Memory(LSTM) architecture to a Recurrent Neural Network(RNN) and train the IDS model using KDD Cup 1999 dataset. Through the performance test, we confirm that the deep learning approach is effective for IDS.
A case of Kindler syndrome with florid scabies

Kindler syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by congenital blistering and photosensitivity combined with progressive poikiloderma and cutaneous atrophy. The genetic defect has been localized to chromosome 20 and the syndrome results due to mutations in the KIND 1 gene. We report the case of a 12 year old boy with classical features of blistering since infancy, progressive poikiloderma, photosensitivity and characteristic atrophic cigarette paper like appearance of the skin. In addition he had florid scabies with quite a few burrows on palms and in finger webs and numerous papular and pustular lesions on trunk and genitalia.
Frequency of dyslipidemia in patients with psoriasis

To determine the frequency of dyslipidaemia in psoriatic patients.  A cross sectional study was carried out in the Department of Dermatology, Jinnah hospital, Lahore for the duration of six months. A total of 120 patients suffering from psoriasis, of any severity, belonging to either sex and with age between 15 70 years were included in the study. All patients in the study were investigated for total cholesterol, triglycerides, low density lipoproteins and high density lipoproteins after 12 14 hours of overnight fasting.  The mean age of the patients was 38.59 13.86 years. There were 78 (65% male and 42 (35% female patients. The mean duration of psoriasis was 5.46 4.49 years. The mean PASI score was 14.98 8.95. There were 67 (55.8% patients having dyslipidaemia and 53 (44.2% patients had normal lipid levels. 34 (28.3% patients had raised total cholesterol >200mg/dl) 32 (26.7% raised low density lipoprotein cholesterol >130 mg/dl) 44 (36.7% hypertriglyceridemia >150mg/dl) and 35 (29.2% patients had reduced high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels <40mg/dl)  It is concluded from this study that patients of psoriasis have a high incidence of dyslipidaemia, as it was found in 55.8% of psoriatic patients.
Non auditory Effect of Noise Pollution and Its Risk on Human Brain Activity in Different Audio Frequency Using Electroencephalogram Complexity
Venue: Iranian journal of public health

Noise pollution is one of the most harmful ambiance disturbances. It may cause many deficits in ability and activity of persons in the urban and industrial areas. It also may cause many kinds of psychopathies. Therefore, it is very important to measure the risk of this pollution in different area.  This study was conducted in the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences from June to September of 2015, in which, different frequencies of noise pollution were played for volunteers. 16 channel EEG signal was recorded synchronously, then by using fractal dimension and relative power of Beta sub band of EEG, the complexity of EEG signals was measured.  As the results, it is observed that the average complexity of brain activity is increased in the middle of audio frequency range and the complexity map of brain activity changes in different frequencies, which can show the effects of frequency changes on human brain activity.  The complexity of EEG is a good measure for ranking the annoyance and non auditory risk of noise pollution on human brain activity.
A model of customer centric banking practices for corporate clients in Bangladesh

Customer centric banking envisions that banks should meet both tangible and intangible satisfaction criteria of their customers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the customer centric banking practices that drive satisfaction of corporate customers in Bangladesh.  Financial managers from a sample of 112 non financial listed companies were interviewed. The study employed a structured questionnaire using Likert scales. Exploratory factor analysis followed by multiple regression analysis were used to test the effects of both tangible and intangible factors.  The findings of the study indicate that customer centric banking is primarily influenced by intangible factors. Among six bank selection criteria analyzed in this study, corporate image, commitment, compassion and consistency are the four significant intangible factors that drive corporate customer satisfaction. The two tangible factors: cost benefit and convenience were not significant determina.
RadarMAC: Mitigating Radar Interference in Self Driving Cars
Venue: 2016 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)

Self driving cars typically rely on a set of radars for mapping the environment to avoid obstacles and operate safely. Currently, the radar parameters are uncoordinated and can interfere with each other. This results in inefficient use of the spectrum and, more importantly, in dangerous blinding of the radars especially in dense urban settings, posing a barrier to widespread deployment of self driving cars. We present RadarMAC the first system architecture and dynamic radar parameter assignment algorithms for radar interference mitigation in self driving cars. We characterize the degrees of freedom for vehicular radar parameters, and model the channel parameter assignment problem as one of dynamically coloring the corresponding time varying interference graph. RadarMAC guarantees interference free radar operations within a defined capacity region. Using extensive simulations, we demonstrate that RadarMAC significantly outperforms the state of the art random assignment scheme commonly used today with off the shelf radars in terms of safety and spectrum efficiency metrics in both dense and sparse settings. Finally, we identify a set of research challenges in medium access control for vehicular radars.
Hedging capabilities of bitcoin. Is it the virtual gold

This paper sets out to explore the hedging capabilities of bitcoin by applying the asymmetric GARCH methodology used in investigation of gold. The results show that bitcoin can clearly be used as a hedge against stocks in the Financial Times Stock Exchange Index. Additionally bitcoin can be used as a hedge against the American dollar in the short term. Bitcoin thereby possess some of the same hedging abilities as gold and can be included in the variety of tools available to market analysts to hedge market specific risk.
The Failure of Covered Interest Parity: FX Hedging Demand and Costly Balance Sheets

The failure of covered interest parity (CIP) or, equivalently, the persistence of the cross currency basis, in tranquil markets has presented a puzzle. Focusing on the basis against the US dollar (USD) we show that the CIP deviations that are not due to transaction costs or bank credit risk can be explained by the demand to hedge USD forward. Fluctuations in FX hedging demand matter because committing the balance sheet to arbitrage is costly. With limits to arbitrage, CIP arbitrageurs charge a premium in the forward markets for taking the other side of FX hedgers' demand. We find that measures of FX hedging demand, combined with proxies for the risks associated with CIP arbitrage, improve the explanatory power of standard regressions.
Upgrade of the Budapest neutron activation analysis laboratory
Venue: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

Just 1 year after the Budapest Research Reactor went critical on 29 March 1959, the Neutron Activation Analysis laboratory started its operation. During the past 55 years this laboratory contributed to many important innovations in NAA and gamma spectroscopy, including the k0 standardization, irradiation site characterization, detector efficiency calibration and gamma spectroscopy. From 2012, the laboratory is being revitalized and instrumentally modernized. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the present technical capabilities, the ongoing upgrade program and the prospects for future utilization. The analysis protocols are discussed in details to give guidance to our user community.
Automation system for neutron activation analysis at the reactor IBR 2, Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Venue: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

The present status of development of software packages and equipment designed for automation of NAA at the reactor IBR 2 of FLNP, JINR, Dubna, RF, is described. The NAA database, construction of sample changers and software for automation of spectra measurement and calculation of concentrations are presented. Automation of QC procedures is integrated in the software developed. Details of the design are shown.
Describing urban soils through a faceted system ensures more informed decision making

Urban areas are increasing worldwide at a dramatic rate and their soils definitely deserve more attention than they have received in the past. In urban environments, soils potentially provide the same ecosystem services as in rural and wild environments, although in some cases they are depleted of their basic functions, such as when they lose their productive and filtering capacities because of sealing, and become mere supports for infrastructures. In other cases, soils of urban areas acquire new functions that are unique to these environments. Current soil classifications fail to effectively account for the complexity of urban soils and the information that is required for their management. Additionally, the survey of urban soils is difficult, due to fragmentation and rapid land use change and the fact that due to human pressure their properties seldom vary linearly and predictably according to landforms, which hinders the effectiveness of geostatistics. The conventional practice of grouping similar soils and transferring their information in a concise manner is not viable for urban soils. We advocate the introduction of a faceted system i.e. a scheme using semantic categories, either general or subject specific, that are combined to create the full classification entry to organize the information on urban soils to support decision making. The facets that such a system should be based on are not only the intrinsic physical and chemical properties that are usually used to describe any soil, but also other tangible or even immaterial properties that are particularly meaningful in an urban context, such as landscape metrics, or aesthetic, social and historical values. As well as providing more adequately the information of the type requested by urban planners and policymakers, a faceted system of classification of urban soil resources would have the flexibility to accommodate all available or future scattered, rapidly changing, or incomplete data.
Parameter Identification of Chaotic and Hyper Chaotic Systems Using Synchronization Based Parameter Observer
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

A technique is introduced for identifying uncertain and/or unknown parameters of chaotic and hyper chaotic systems via using a synchronization based parameter observer. The proposed technique is based on designing a state feedback controller and then solving for the unknown parameters using some simple parameter adaptive laws that require access to some or all of the states depending on the dynamical model of the systems. Two detailed cases utilizing chaotic and hyper chaotic systems are used to exemplify the proposed observer when partial identification of the unknown parameters is considered, where the results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method via comparing it with other methods reported in the literature, Furthermore, the feasibility of the designed observer on unknown structure model and complex variable model are verified through the theoretical analyses and simulation results, and the advantages and limitations of the synchronization based parameter observer approach are discussed in detail.
Cognitive Radio Spectrum Sharing for Device to Device (D2D) Communication in Cellular Network

This paper addresses the Spectrum sharing technique for Device to Device (D2D) communication which provides efficient communication by allowing the under utilized spectrum to be shared by other devices and interference management among D2D users. Spectrum sharing is a technique which involves simultaneous usage of a specific radio frequency band by a number of independent users for different applications or using different technologies. This paper first outlines the different challenges in implementing Spectrum sharing for D2D communication. Next there is a qualitative overview of the existing spectrum sharing and interference management techniques for cellular networks. The demonstration for device synchronization and data transfer takes between the devices is depicted. Also cognition along with limited information exchange between D2D users will be used to reduce interference and increase spectral efficiency of D2D users. Simulation results are provided to verify the analytical results. This proposed technique is implemented using LABVIEW 2013.