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Current developments in cancer care: including the patients' perspective 3rd European Roundtable Meeting (ERTM) June 17, 2016, Berlin, Germany
Venue: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
Year: 2016

PurposeNational Cancer Control Plans (NCCP) are necessary to improve cancer care and reduce mortality. We have reported previously on European institutional health structures and transformation of theoretical health care standards into a practical approach. For the latter consideration of the patients' perspective was considered as highly important and chosen as subject for this meeting.ResultsSeveral European organizations have realized deficits in this area. They promote equal and timely access to cancer care since current inequities lead to disparities in cancer survival across Europe. Patients' support working groups are focussing on employment issues, financial services, psychosocial screening and support, palliative care and rehabilitation. They also identified cancer research including patients' views as highly important. Workshops during the 3rd European Roundtable Meeting (ERTM) covered the issues transparency in patient care, implementation of new knowledge and decision making in partnership with the patient.ConclusionsIt was concluded that patient views and perspectives have to be considered during the whole continuum of cancer care. Access to treatment, transparency and including patients into the development process are relevant aspects.
Designing Blockchain Technology to Transform Rural Communities
Year: 2018

Paste the appropriate copyright statement here. ACM now supports three different copyright statements: ACM copyright: ACM holds the copyright on the work. This is the historical approach.  The additional fee must be paid to ACM. This text field is large enough to hold the appropriate release statement assuming it is single spaced in a sans serif 7 point font. Every submission will be assigned their own unique DOI string to be included here.  Mexican immigrants contribute large sums of money to their hometowns. But, these donors' mistrust in their native government has driven them to work independently, and consequently have more limited impact and scope. Prior work has explored open government platforms to build trust and facilitate collaborations between citizens and governments. Open governments use audit institutions to revise transactions and provide transparency. However, these approaches assume that strong audit institutions are in place, which is rare. In the case of Mexico, although the government has made great efforts to have trustworthy audit institutions, immigrants are still wary of them. Instead, we explore the potential of blockchain as a way to enable financial reviews without requiring human intervention. We discuss how our approach powers collaborations between immigrants and governments that transform rural communities in Mexico. We conclude with an overview of the design implications of our work.
A bibliometric and content analysis of sustainable development in small and medium sized enterprises
Year: 2020

Research on sustainability or sustainable development has emerged significantly over the past two decades, evidenced by an increasing interest and publication momentum by academic scholars. Given the importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that constitute ~99% of all firms, this paper adopts a three stage systematic review protocol to present a state of art literature review on sustainable development in SMEs. Four different analysis synthesis approaches (bibliometric analysis, methodological analysis, qualitative content analysis, and logical reasoning of authors) were used on the literature data of 117 relevant papers (from 37 journals) identified from mainstream academic databases. This review provides insights not previously fully captured or evaluated by other reviews on this topic. The findings provide several implications on the current state of literature on sustainable development in SMEs, leading to research gaps and directions for future research. The findings provide a robust roadmap for further investigation in this field.
IMMEDIATE DENTAL IMPLANT PLACEMENT WITH AUTOGENOUS CONNECTIVE TISSUE GRAFT
Year: 2017

Imedijatna implantacija je tehnika kojom se neposredno nakon vadenja zuba u ekstrakcijsku alveolu ugraduje implantat kako bi se skratilo vrijeme lijecenja, broj zahvata, ocuvale kostane stijenke, omogucilo bolje cijeljenje mekoga tkiva te u konacnici dobio zadovoljavajuci estetski rezultat. Glavna nacela imedijatne implantacije podrazumijevaju postojanje adekvatne kvantitete i kvalitete bukalne kosti te biotipa tkiva, trodimenzionalno pozicioniranje uz postizanje primarne stabilnosti implantata, izbor implantata, te adekvatna prezervacija kostanoga prostora izmedu implantata i okolne kosti. Uspjesnost same terapije je jednako predvidljiva kao i odgodena implantacija, te iznosi od 93 do 100% Cilj ovoga postera je prikazati implantoprotetsku rehabilitaciju pacijenta uz primjenu autolognoga vezivnoga transplantata kod imedijatne implantacije koji omogucuju dugorocni estetski i funkcijski uspjeh. Prikazujemo slucaj 33 godisnjeg zdravog pacijenta koji se javio u ambulantu zbog prijeloma palatinalnoga dijela krune zuba 25. Klinickim pregledom i analizom CBCT a uocio se prijelom krune i korijena endodonski lijecenoga zuba 25 s nedostatkom tvrdoga zubnoga tkiva do 5 mm ispod razine marginalne gingive i gubitkom palatinalnoga krotikalisa od 2 mm. Zub nije bilo moguce protetski restaurirati, te je predlozena imedijatna implantatcija uz primjenu autolognoga vezivnoga transplantata. Zub amo atraumatski izvadili bez odizanja reznja kako bi se minimalizirala resorpcija kosti uz maksimalno ocuvanje okolnoga mekoga tkiva. Leziste implantata smo ispreparirali palatinalno, te ugradili implantat (Astra tech(r) Syrona Dentsplay, Njemacka) dimenzija 4.0x11mm uz postizanje primarne stabilnosti. Prostor izmedu implantata i bukalne kosti, te palatinalni kostani defekt ispunili smo ksenograftom (Bio Oss(r) Geistlich, Svicarska) Nakon uzimanja vezivnoga transplantata s nepca isti smo fiksirali uz pomoc gingiva formera, te postavili preko implatata i ksenografta u cilju zastite kostanoga nadomjestka i augmentacije mekoga tkiva. Nakon 3 mjeseca urednoga cijeljenja pacijent je opskrbljen individualiziranom CAD CAM hibridnom abutment cirkon oksidnom kreamickom krunicom na vijak. Jednogodisnje klinicko i radiolosko pracenje pokazalo je stabilnu i zadovoljavajucu estetsku i funkcijsku rehabilitaciju.
Impact of Land Use Types and Seasonal Variations on Soil Physico chemical Properties and Microbial Biomass Dynamics in a Tropical Climate, Ghana
Year: 2020

Land use conversion significantly impact on sensitive soil quality parameters such as microbial biomass and soil microbial quotient. Therefore, soil microbial biomass and physicochemical properties were compared under three different land use systems namely agricultural land, degraded mine land and an adjacent natural forest in the Newmont Gold Ghana Limited Original Research Article Agbeshie et al. AIR, 21(1) 34 49, 2020; Article no.AIR.54727 35 concessional areas, Kenyasi, Ghana. In our field experimentation, an area of 300 m was demarcated in each land use type for soil sampling. In each of the land use type, we collected soil 5 samples at a depth of 0 15 cm in both the dry and wet seasons respectively. Parameters we measured included soil bulk density, pH, particle size distribution, organic carbon, total nitrogen, available phosphorus, microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen, and moisture content. Our results revealed that land use type significantly impacted on soil microbial biomass and physicochemical properties. Microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen was higher in the forested land compared to the agricultural land and degraded mine land, which was due to relatively higher amounts of litter inputs. Microbial biomass carbon decreased between 20.23 88.36% when land use changed from forested land to other land uses. Significant positive correlation was observed between soil microbial biomass and water content, soil organic carbon, phosphorus, clay, nitrogen. Generally, seasonal variation in our study area did not influence soil physical and chemical properties, however, it significantly affected microbial biomass indices. Findings of our study further revealed the importance of forested area in the maintenance of soil quality parameters.
The determinants of franchise brand loyalty in B2B markets: An emerging market perspective
Year: 2017

Brand loyalty remains a salient measure of brand success in business to business (B2B) markets, yet the drivers of B2B brand loyalty vary from one context to another. While global franchising is accepted as a major entry mode into emerging markets, limited research has focused on the drivers of franchise brand loyalty in emerging markets. This study advances a nomological network model of the determinants of franchise brand loyalty in an emerging market. The hypotheses were tested from the franchisees' perspective using survey data from Indian franchises. The respondents were selected using stratified random sampling based on geographic location and industry type. The findings indicated that perceived franchisor competence and the level of information sharing play key roles in influencing franchisees' emotional brand attachment and perceived relationship value, which in turn enhance brand loyalty. Theoretical and practical implications as well as future research directions are discussed.
Slum Tourism Poverty, Power and Ethics
Year: 2012

Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of 'otherness' 'moral decay' 'deviant liberty' or 'authenticity' 'Slumming' has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its development dynamics and its rapidly spreading popularity across the globe. Township tourism and favela tourism have currently reached mass tourism characteristics in South Africa and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In other countries of the Global South, slum tourism now also occurs and providers see huge growth potential. While the morally controversial practice of slum tourism has raised much attention and opinionated debates in the media for several years, academic research has only recently started addressing it as a global phenomenon. This edition provides the first systematic overview of the field and the diverse issues connected to slum tourism. This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth. Its chapters indicate that 'global slumming' is not merely a controversial and challenging topic in itself, but also offers an apt lens through which to discuss core concepts in critical tourism studies in a global perspective, in particular: 'poverty' 'power' and 'ethics' Building on research by prolific researchers from ten different countries, the book provides a comprehensive and unique insight in the current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the subject. It takes a thorough and critical review of issues associated with slum tourism, asking why slums are visited, whether they should be visited, how they are represented, who is benefiting from it and in what way. It offers new insights to tourism's role in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, power relations in contact zones and tourism's cultural and political implications. Drawing on research from four continents and seven different countries, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, this ground breaking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of tourism.
The inattentive on screen reading: Reading medium affects attention and reading comprehension under time pressure
Venue: Learning and Instruction
Year: 2021

This study explored the influence of reading media and reading time frame on readers' on task attention, metacognitive calibration, and reading comprehension. One hundred and forty undergraduates were allocated to one of four experimental conditions varying on the reading medium (in print vs. on screen) and on the reading time frame (free vs. pressured time) Readers' mindwandering while reading, prediction of performance on a comprehension test, and their text comprehension were measured. In print readers, but not on screen readers, mindwandered less on the pressured than in the free time condition, indicating higher task adaptation in print. Accordingly, on screen readers in the pressured condition comprehended less than the other three groups. Mindwandering and text comprehension were similar under free reading time regardless of medium. Lastly, there were no differences in readers' metacognitive calibration. The results support the hypothesis of shallow information processing when reading on screen under time constraints.
Learning Hierarchy Aware Embedding From Raw Audio for Acoustic Scene Classification
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
Year: 2020

Recent advancements in modeling speech and audio signals using deep neural networks have shown that systems learning both features and the classifier can be built directly from raw signal. However, the performance of such end to end systems for acoustic scene classification (ASC) task is still not at par with conventional systems built using spectral features. In this work, we propose a raw waveform based end to end ASC system using convolutional neural network. In contrast to the existing studies using a non hierarchical model, our framework leverages the hierarchical relations between acoustic categories to improve the classification performance. To this aim, our multi task model is trained with coarse and fine labels that correspond to different levels of abstraction. In order to ensure consistency in the encoded information via label hierarchy, the proposed framework uses a prototypical model. Such a model ensures that the learned representations at least match to one of the global categorical learned prototypes. We also employed a statistical pooling layer to aggregate hidden representations over multiple frames of the input audio signal. The statistics (mean and standard deviation) are concatenated together to form a fixed length audio embedding. This aggregation is done via an attention module so as to guide the model's attention even in presence of relatively short or transient acoustic events. Further, the proposed framework incorporate two parallel feature processing pipelines to achieve different resolutions for extracting important acoustic cues. Various experiments on publicly available datasets are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework for ASC task. Additional transfer learning experiments showed the proposed model's adaptation capability to unseen data. Network analysis and visualizations demonstrate the importance of individual modules and their impact on overall representation learning for ASC task.
Organized Persuasive Communication: A new conceptual framework for research on public relations, propaganda and promotional culture
Year: 2019

Organized persuasive communication is essential to the exercise of power at national and global levels. It has been studied extensively by scholars of public relations, promotional culture and propaganda. There exists, however, considerable confusion and conceptual limitations across these fields: scholars of PR largely focus on what they perceive to be non manipulative forms of organized persuasive communication; scholars of propaganda focus on manipulative forms but tend either to examine historical cases or non democratic states; scholars of promotional culture focus on 'salesmanship' in public life. All approaches show minimal conceptual development concerning manipulative organized persuasive communication involving deception, incentivization and coercion. As a consequence, manipulative, propagandistic organized persuasive communication within liberal democracies is a blind spot; it is rarely recognized let alone researched with the result that our understanding and grasp of these activities is stunted. To overcome these limitations, we propose a new conceptual framework that theorizes precisely manipulative forms of persuasion, as well as demarcating what might count as non manipulative or consensual forms of persuasion. This framework advances PR and propaganda scholarship by clarifying our understanding of manipulative and propagandistic forms of organized persuasive communication and by providing a starting point for more fully evaluating the role of deception, incentivization and coercion, within contemporary liberal democracies.
New complex waves in nonlinear optics based on the complex Ginzburg Landau equation with Kerr law nonlinearity
Year: 2019

A variety of new complex waves representing solutions of the complex Ginzburg Landau equation with Kerr law nonlinearity is investigated. Two different approaches are used, namely the generalized exponential function and the unified methods. Complex periodic, solitary, soliton, and elliptic wave solutions of phenomena that occur in nonlinear optics or in plasma physics are obtained. The physical meaning of the geometrical structures for some solutions is discussed for different choices of the free parameters. It is shown that the proposed methods lead to powerful mathematical tools for obtaining the exact traveling wave solutions of complex nonlinear evolution equations.
Modular pick and place simulator using ROS framework
Venue: TEEM '15
Year: 2015

The fast development in the field of Robotics has become more and more notorious throughout the past years. Nowadays technology in general and robotics in particular search for modular and flexible applications in order to answer the demands of a wide range of problems in an efficient manner. However there are several robotic solutions already implemented and some still available to be implemented that do not use modular tools. The Robotic Operative System (ROS) appears to be the unifying tool to connect all software developers allowing any developer in both education and professional areas to be able to develop complex software using small iterations of simple software. Still, despite of the several robotic solutions available, there are several robots that do not use the Robotic Operative System (ROS) and have limitations in terms of autonomously correct errors during their tasks. Moreover when developing new robots and software to the robotic area there is an important aspect to be consider: the selection of the methodology to be used. In this paper, it will be presented a challenge propose to college students using the ROS framework in a common robotic problem, the pick and place operations. The main aim for this challenge is to show how to produce software in a modular and flexible way using ROS can prompt the rapid development in all robotic applications. Moreover the challenge had one particular real end, the European Robotics Challenges (EUROC) a challenge aiming to develop a robot for shop floor logistics and manipulation. Furthermore this challenge was based in the three tiers paradigm: 1 recognition/sensing tier, 2 effector tier and 3 the control tier and was built using the ROS framework. Another advantage of our proposed pick and place approach is the ability to have a robot safely and efficiently inserted in an unknown environment. This is possible due to the insertion of an adaptive control tier in our methodology. The proposed approach can be valuable in the field of robotics and can be potentially applied in multiple tasks and it has already allowed us to advance to the next stage of EUROC. Based on this information, the challenge propose to the students will primarily reinforce the need for modular and flexible software while showing how the ROS framework can be a simple tool for present and future developments.
Combined 3D printing technologies and material for fabrication of tactile sensors
Year: 2015

Recently, 3D printing technology has taken the spotlight internationally with the recognition of the importance of the manufacturing industry. Currently, there are many mature 3D printing processes and materials. However, an absence of fabrication capability of smart structures such as sensors and actuators remains. In this research, we present a hybrid manufacturing process including directprint/cure (DPC) and projection based stereolithography, along with printable materials for stretchable tactile sensors. The suggested DPC system consists of a robotically controlled micro dispensing head, and a light curing module combined with projection stereolithography (PSL) retrofitted from a commercial projector. The materials developed in this research are based on a photocurable and stretchable liquid resin filled with multi walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) this polymer/nanocomposite exhibits the piezoresistive property used in tactile sensing. We also used another hybrid process to develop a tactile sensor using a commercial machine to build the sensor body while a dispensing system was used to create the sensing elements. We have characterized the fabricated sensors with several experiments to detect the locations where forces are applied to the surfaces of the sensors. It is concluded that the suggested processes and materials are promising in developing accurate and reliable stretchable tactile sensors.
Hepatic transcriptome signatures in patients with varying degrees of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease compared with healthy normal weight individuals.
Venue: American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology
Year: 2019

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) represents a spectrum of conditions ranging from simple steatosis (NAFL) over nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) with or without fibrosis, to cirrhosis with end stage disease. The hepatic molecular events underlying the development of NAFLD and transition to NASH are poorly understood. The present study aimed to determine hepatic transcriptome dynamics in patients with NAFL or NASH compared with healthy normal weight and obese individuals. RNA sequencing and quantitative histomorphometry of liver fat, inflammation and fibrosis were performed on liver biopsies obtained from healthy normal weight n 14) and obese n 12) individuals, NAFL n 15) and NASH n 16) patients. Normal weight and obese subjects showed normal liver histology and comparable gene expression profiles. Liver transcriptome signatures were largely overlapping in NAFL and NASH patients, however, clearly separated from healthy normal weight and obese controls. Most marked pathway perturbations identified in both NAFL and NASH were associated with markers of lipid metabolism, immunomodulation, extracellular matrix remodeling, and cell cycle control. Interestingly, NASH patients with positive Sonic hedgehog hepatocyte staining showed distinct transcriptome and histomorphometric changes compared with NAFL. In conclusion, application of immunohistochemical markers of hepatocyte injury may serve as a more objective tool for distinguishing NASH from NAFL, facilitating improved resolution of hepatic molecular changes associated with progression of NAFLD. NEW NOTEWORTHY Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease in Western countries. NAFLD is associated with the metabolic syndrome and can progress to the more serious form, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and ultimately lead to irreversible liver damage. Using gold standard molecular and histological techniques, this study demonstrates that the currently used diagnostic tools are problematic for differentiating mild NAFLD from NASH and emphasizes the marked need for developing improved histological markers of NAFLD progression.