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Tai Chi is effective in treating knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial.
Venue: Arthritis and rheumatism
Year: 2009

To evaluate the effectiveness of Tai Chi in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms.  We conducted a prospective, single blind, randomized controlled trial of 40 individuals with symptomatic tibiofemoral OA. Patients were randomly assigned to 60 minutes of Tai Chi (10 modified forms from classic Yang style) or attention control (wellness education and stretching) twice weekly for 12 weeks. The primary outcome was the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) pain score at 12 weeks. Secondary outcomes included WOMAC function, patient and physician global assessments, timed chair stand, depression index, self efficacy scale, and quality of life. We repeated these assessments at 24 and 48 weeks. Analyses were compared by intent to treat principles.  The 40 patients had a mean age of 65 years and a mean body mass index of 30.0 kg/m(2) Compared with the controls, patients assigned to Tai Chi exhibited significantly greater improvement in WOMAC pain (mean difference at 12 weeks 118.80 mm [95% confidence interval (95% CI) 183.66, 53.94; P 0.0005] WOMAC physical function 324.60 mm [95% CI 513.98, 135.22; P 0.001] patient global visual analog scale (VAS; 2.15 cm [95% CI 3.82, 0.49; P 0.01] physician global VAS 1.71 cm [95% CI 2.75, 0.66; P 0.002] chair stand time 10.88 seconds [95% CI 15.91, 5.84; P 0.00005] Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale 6.70 [95% CI 11.63, 1.77; P 0.009] self efficacy score (0.71 [95% CI 0.03, 1.39; P 0.04] and Short Form 36 physical component summary (7.43 [95% CI 2.50, 12.36; P 0.004] No severe adverse events were observed.  Tai Chi reduces pain and improves physical function, self efficacy, depression, and health related quality of life for knee OA.
Ethnocentrism, Cultural Traits and Identity Negotiations of Japanese EFL learners
Year: 2018

In contrast with learning English as a second language (ESL) in English speaking countries, learner identities in an EFL setting may be impacted by various contextual factors such as the learning environment's unique sociocultural characteristics, ideologies and social values. Drawing on poststructuralism, the present research attempts to understand how Japanese learners of English build their own subjectivities in connection to their cultural traits, ethnic identity and other socio psychological factors affecting their learning and speaking practices. This is a partial report on a research about Identity, Self and EFL learning which was conducted among 70 undergraduate university students in Japan. The research suggested that ethnic identity can interfere with the development of L2 identity through identity resistance. The cultural and sociolinguistic differences between the native and target languages can impact the language learning practices and identity construction in EFL learners.
Pulmonary sarcoidosis Predictors of relapse: Are we there yet?
Year: 2019

Humankind has walked on the moon, is set to land on Mars in the near future, but sadly, has not solved the enigma of sarcoidosis. This disease, sarcoidosis, has baffled clinicians, researchers, and scientists alike. Heterogeneous clinical presentations, unclear pathophysiology, and inability to pinpoint etiologic agent have halted progress in its therapeutics and research. So much so that there is a paucity of clear cut classification or diagnostic criteria for sarcoidosis.  It suggests that "when clinico radiological findings are supported by histologic evidence of noncaseating epithelioid cell granulomas," the diagnosis of sarcoidosis can be entertained. However, the clinicoradiological findings are not clearly described. Subsequently, Heinle and Chang[2] have proposed a diagnostic criterion based on a combination of clinical, radiographic, and histological features alongside the elimination of disorders with similar clinical features. Bickett et ] have tried to quantitate the clinical features consistent with biopsy proven sarcoidosis to enhance diagnostic certainty.
ESTUDO DE IMPLANTACAO DO TPM EM MAQUINA DE CORTE A LASER TRUMPF
Year: 2016

O objetivo desta pesquisa e o estudo da tecnica de gestao de manutencao e a implementacao de um plano de manutencao baseado no TPM (manutencao produtiva total) para maquinas de corte a laser do fabricante TRUMPF a fim de melhorar sua produtividade e diminuir os custos com manutencao corretiva. Foi verificado o historico de falhas das maquinas e os manuais das maquinas e foi utilizado a ferramenta FMEA afim de definir os pontos a serem inspecionados na manutencao autonoma. Apos efetivamente implantado a manutencao autonoma nas maquinas de corte a laser foi feito um comparativo dos indicadores de performance das maquinas e visto que foi satisfatorio a implantacao do TPM aumentando significativamente a disponibilidade de maquina e diminuindo drasticamente os custos com manutencao corretiva nas maquinas de corte a laser do fabricante TRUMPF.
The purchase intention towards controversial product in the Philippines: The Heuristic Systematic Perspective
Year: 2014

This study applies the Heuristic Systematic Model (HSM) of Information Processing to examine the effects of moral reasoning, utilitarian benefits, and perceived risk on people's purchase intention towards controversial products such as artificial contraceptives in the context of Philippines where religion and social norm play key roles in affecting people's daily life. Following the Social Impact Theory, the moderating effects of religion and religiosity and social norm are explored as well. Research results based on a sample collected from 250 respondents in Philippines show that utilitarian benefits and perceived social risk produce positive effects while moral reasoning exhibits a negative effect on Filipinos' purchase intention toward controversial products. Moreover, religion and religiosity show a negatively direct while social norm reveals a positively direct effect on purchase intention toward controversial products. Finally, religion and religiosity negatively moderate the relationship between perceived social risk and purchase intention. The study highlights the significance of social contextual factors in predicting peoples' purchase intention toward controversial products in an eastern Catholic country. Implications and future directions are discussed as well.
Belowground biota responses to maize biochar addition to the soil of a Mediterranean vineyard.
Venue: The Science of the total environment
Year: 2019

Biochar is a high carbon material resulting from biomass pyrolysis that, when applied to croplands, can increase soil carbon and soil water retention. Both effects are of critical importance in semi arid regions, where carbon decline and desertification are the main drivers of soil degradation. Since most environmental services provided by soil are mediated by belowground biota, effects of biochar on soil microbial and invertebrate communities must be evaluated under field conditions before its agricultural application can be recommended. We tested maize biochar for its mid term effect on soil microbes and micro arthropods of a Mediterranean vineyard. We applied biochar to three field plots with neutral sandy loam soils at a dose of 5 Mg ha 1. During two years, we monitored the abundance of functional groups of soil micro arthropods and estimated the biomass of soil microbial groups. We also analyzed the d13C value of microbial PLFA biomarkers to determine biochar C utilization by each microbial group taking advantage of the d13C natural abundance differences between the applied biochar and the soil. Biochar addition significantly reduced soil microbial biomass but did not alter the functional microbial diversity nor the abundance or biodiversity of soil micro arthropods. The contribution of biochar C to the diet of most microbial groups was very low through the monitoring period. However, two gram negative bacterial groups increased their biochar derived carbon uptake under extreme soil dryness, which suggests that biochar C might help soil microbes to overcome the food shortage caused by drought. The decrease in microbial biomass observed in our experiment and the concomitant decrease of SOM mineralization could contribute to the carbon sequestration potential of Mediterranean soils after biochar addition.
Ecological Aesthetics: new spaces, directions, and potentials
Year: 2019

In this final section of the Handbook, we turn to ecological aesthetics in response to radical changes in both the nature of childhood and the nature of nature in the contemporary world. Artistic and aesthetic approaches have become increasingly relevant as children encounter a world typified by the acceleration of social, technological, and environmental change, and the mutually reinforcing conditions of planetary instability, inequality, and precarity. Anthropogenic climate change, the mass extinction of plant and animal life, and the chemical contamination of air, food, soil, and water resources are transforming not only what we might think of as "the environment" but also the aesthetic qualities and environmental sensibilities that constitute the experience of being alive. For many scholars these changing conditions of Earthly life have taken on the name of 'Anthropocene' an epoch defined by the total imbrication of human life with more than human planetary systems and technologies. The authors in this section take up ecological aesthetics as a relational, experimental, and theoretically adventurous field which aims to grasp the experiential qualities of life under these changing conditions, and to imagine alternatives. With chapters focusing on the role of movement, nature study, poetry, pattern, sense awareness, and the creation of experimental works of art, this section highlights interdisciplinary research and pedagogy which attends to richly textured compositions of childhoodnature experience through a diverse range of material, social and conceptual practices. In drawing together a range of Indigenous, speculative, sensory, cultural, empirical, and artistic approaches, the range of chapters collected in this section attests to the diversity and emergent shaping of ecological aesthetics as a field that is still very much in the making.
Girls should be Girls: The Impact of Child Marriage on Human Development
Year: 2020

Child marriage is a violation of Human Rights and an impediment to social and economic development, it is strongly rooted in gender inequality. In Brazil, this practice has a predominantly informal and consensual quality, they often involve adult men married to girls in early puberty. The objective of this study is to synthesize the literature on the impact of child marriage on the most diverse indicators of human development such as education, labor market, health, fertility, violence and female empowerment. In summary, the literature reveals that child marriage has a negative impact on these indicators, and this corroborates the urge to eliminate this phenomenon, which will ensure women's right to a full economic and social life.
Multi Scale Context Aggregation for Strawberry Fruit Recognition and Disease Phenotyping
Venue: IEEE Access
Year: 2021

Timely harvesting and disease identification of strawberry fruits is a major concern for commercial level cultivators. Failing to harvest the grown strawberries can result in the fruit rotting which makes their damaged tissues more prone to grey mold pathogens. Immediate removal of the overgrown or diseased strawberries is inevitable to curb the mass spreading of the pathogen. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based framework to identify three different strawberry fruit classes (unripe, partially ripe and ripe) as well as a class of overgrown or diseased strawberries. We equip the proposed convolutional encoder decoder network with three different modules. One for adaptively controlling receptive filed size of the network to detect objects of multiple sizes. Second for controlling the flow of salient features (information) to the deeper layers of the network and the other for controlling the architecture's computational complexity. These modules combined, outperform the previous state of the art semantic segmentation networks on the task of strawberry fruit phenotyping. We also introduce a dataset collected from different farms to evaluate the performance of the network. Quantitative and qualitative results show that notwithstanding heterogeneity in the data and the effect of the real field variations, our approach produced remarkable results with a 3% increase in mean intersection over union as compared to the other state of the art networks and was able to recognize diseased fruits with a precision of 92.45%
Les risques urbains concept en continuelle diversification
Year: 2007

Riscurile urbane concept in continua diversificare Orasul si riscurile constituie astazi, mai mult ca oricand, un cuplu de nedespartit. Concept complex, evolutiv, riscul urban se diversifica in mod continuu, avand cauze, dar si consecinte, multiple. Cunoasterea fenomenelor de risc care asalteaza in numar din ce in ce mai mare orasul, ramane, deseori, aproximativa. Marile catastrofe urbane nu constituie decat varful unei piramide cu baza extrem de larga data de multimea accidentelor si dezordinilor cotidiene. Alaturi de hazardele naturale ,clasice" cutremure de pamant, furtuni, inundatii s.a. vin sa se adauge cele de origine antropica poluarea, incendiile, accidentele din retelele si sistemele bazate pe noile tehnologii si o intreaga gama, in continua extindere, de amenintari si atingeri la adresa sanatatii, sigurantei, ordinii publice.
Covid 19: AstraZeneca vaccine is not linked to increased risk of blood clots, finds European Medicine Agency
Venue: BMJ
Year: 2021

The Oxford AstraZeneca covid 19 vaccine is not linked to an increased risk of blood clots and is both safe and effective, an investigation by the European Medicine Agency (EMA) has concluded.1 The in depth analysis of evidence including laboratory results, clinical reports, autopsies, and clinical trial data was carried out after a small number of blood clot cases (37) were reported in people who had received the vaccine. This led to 16 EU countries halting their vaccine rollout.2 "The committee has come to a clear scientific conclusion. This is a safe and effective vaccine," said Emer Cooke, EMA executive director, at a press conference on 18 March. "Its benefits in protecting people from covid 19 with the associated risks of death and hospitalisation outweigh the possible risks. The committee also concluded that the vaccine is not associated with an increase in the overall risk of thromboembolic events or blood clots." Sabine Straus, chair of the Pharmacovigilance Risk
Impact of the initial response to COVID 19 on long term care for people with intellectual disability: an interrupted time series analysis of incident reports
Venue: Journal of intellectual disability research JIDR
Year: 2020

The lockdown measures in response to COVID 19 taken by long term care organisations might have impacted problem behaviour and behavioural functioning of people with intellectual disability. This study tested changes in reported incidents, in particular regarding aggression, unexplained absence and, for contrast, medication errors.  Metadata on weekly incident and near incident reports from 2016 to June 2020 involving over 14 000 clients with mild to serious intellectual disability of 's Heeren Loo, a long term care organisation for people with intellectual disability, were subjected to interrupted time series analysis, comparing the COVID 19 with the pre COVID 19 period.  The imposition of lockdown measures coincided with a significant drop in incidents (total, P .001; aggression, P .008; unexplained absences, P .008; and medication errors, P .001) Incidents in total (P .001) and with aggression (P .001) then climbed from this initial low level, while medication errors remained stably low (P .94)  The rise in incidents involving aggression, against the background of generally lowered reporting, underlines the need for pandemic control measures that are suitable for people with intellectual disability in long term care.
Experimental investigation on startup performances of a separator assisted two phase loop thermosyphon
Year: 2020

In this study, visual experiment facilities of the two phase loop thermosyphon with reservoir (RTLTP) and the separator assisted two phase loop thermosyphon (STLTP) were established, and the startup performances of two systems, including the overshoot temperature, startup time and stabilized time were measured and compared. The results showed that compared with RTLTP, the stabilized time of STLTP was shorter about 420 s with less oscillation during startup process due to its lower pressure drop of fluid in the two phase tube. The oscillation mechanism of fluid mass flow rate in RTLTP were analyzed. The reason for oscillation of fluid mass flow rate was because vapor generated in evaporator reversely flows back into the liquid tube and separator and the insufficient driven force. Furthermore, the effects of the charge, cooling water inlet temperature and heat load on the startup performances of two systems were studied as well.
Psychological distress, iron deficiency, active disease and female gender are independent risk factors for fatigue in patients with ulcerative colitis
Venue: United European gastroenterology journal
Year: 2018

Patients with ulcerative colitis often report fatigue.  To investigate prevalence of and risk factors for fatigue in patients with ulcerative colitis with active disease and during deep remission.  In this cross sectional study, disease activity was evaluated with endoscopy and calprotectin, and patients were classified as having active disease (n 133) or being in deep remission (n 155) Blood samples were analysed to assess anaemia, iron deficiency and systemic immune activity. Patients completed questionnaires to assess fatigue, psychological distress, gastrointestinal symptoms and quality of life.  The prevalence of high fatigue (general fatigue 13, Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory) was 40% in the full study population. Among patients with high fatigue, female gender and iron deficiency were more prevalent, and these patients had more severe disease activity and reported higher levels of anxiety, depression and decreased quality of life compared with patients with no/mild fatigue. A logistic regression analysis identified probable psychiatric disorder (odds ratio (OR) (confidence interval) 6.1 (3.1 12.2) iron deficiency (OR 2.5 (1.2 5.1) active disease (OR 2.2 (1.2 3.9) and female gender (OR 2.1 (1.1 3.7) as independent risk factors for high fatigue. Similar results were found concerning psychological distress, gender and quality of life, but immune markers did not differ in patients in deep remission with high vs. no/mild fatigue.  Probable psychiatric disorder, iron deficiency, active disease and female gender are independent risk factors for high fatigue in patients with ulcerative colitis. Low grade immune activity does not seem to be the cause of fatigue among patients in deep remission.
From Discovery to Practice and Survivorship: Building a National Real World Data Learning Healthcare Framework for Military and Veteran Cancer Patients
Venue: Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Year: 2019

The Applied Proteogenomics  Learning and Outcomes (APOLLO) network is implementing a prospective curation and translation of real world data into real world evidence within the learning healthcare environment of the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs. To support basic, translational, clinical, and epidemiological sciences, APOLLO will release data to public repositories for secondary analysis to assist others in assessing whether similar molecular driven clinical practice guidelines will improve health outcomes for their relevant cancer populations. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Shaking table test of a novel buckling restrained multi stiffened low yield point steel plate shear wall
Year: 2018

We proposed a novel buckling restrained multi stiffened low yield point steel plate shear wall (BR LYP SPSW) To study the seismic behavior of BR LYP SPSW, a 1:3 scale model shaking table test was conducted. The increase in the peak ground acceleration decreased the natural frequency and acceleration dynamic magnification factor and increased the damping ratio. The advantage of the sandwiched LYP infill plate is the higher order buckling formed at the LYP infill plate, which played an important role in "the first line of defense." The maximum inter storey drifts during frequent and rare earthquakes were 1/694 and 1/88, respectively, which met the demands of the seismic design code of buildings.
Two Centuries of Multi Asset Momentum (Equities, Bonds, Currencies, Commodities, Sectors and Stocks)
Year: 2017

Extending price return momentum tests to the longest available histories of global financial asset returns, including country specific sectors and stocks, fixed income, currencies, and commodities, as well as U.S. stocks, we create a 215 year history of multi asset momentum, and we confirm the significance of the momentum premium inside and across asset classes. Consistent with stock level results, we document a large variation of momentum portfolio betas, conditional on the direction and duration of the return of the asset class in which the momentum portfolio is built. A significant recent rise in pair wise momentum portfolio correlations suggests features of the data important for empiricists, theoreticians and practitioners alike.
Relationship of VEGF/VEGFR with immune and cancer cells: staggering or forward?
Venue: Cancer biology medicine
Year: 2016

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is primarily known as a proangiogenic factor and is one of the most important growth and survival factors affecting the vascular endothelium. However, recent studies have shown that VEGF also plays a vital role in the immune environment. In addition to the traditional growth factor role of VEGF and VEGF receptors (VEGFRs) they have a complicated relationship with various immune cells. VEGF also reportedly inhibits the differentiation and function of immune cells during hematopoiesis. Dendritic cells (DCs) macrophages, and lymphocytes further express certain types of VEGF receptors. VEGF can be secreted as well by tumor cells through the autocrine pathway and can stimulate the function of cancer stemness. This review will provide a paradigm shift in our understanding of the role of VEGF/VEGFR signaling in the immune and cancer environment.
Motivasi Dan Penguatan Kelembagaan Dalam Pemanfaatan Tongkol Jagung Sebagai Bahan Baku Pupuk Organik
Year: 2016

Pelaksanaan (IbM) ini bertujuan untuk mentransfer pengetahuan dan teknologi pupuk organik yang terbuat darit ongkol jagung. IbM dilakukan di Desa Salodua, Kecamatan Maiwa, Kabupaten Enrekang pada tahun 2014 dan di desa Baringeng, Kecamatan Lilirilau, Kabupaten Soppeng pada tahun 2015. Kelompok tani "SetiaKawan" dan "CahayaMulya" di Enrekang, "Mekar" dan "Mappalakkae" adalah mitra dalam kegiatan ini. IBM dilaksanakan dalam bentuk pelatihan dan praktek lapangan. Pelatihan tentang bagaimana membuat pupuk praktek produksi pupuk organic dan pelatihan pemasaran. Pelatihan dan praktek serta aktivitas seluruh peristiwa yang diikuti oleh 80 petani di dua desa, termasuk perempuan dan petani muda. Setelah pelaksanaan praktek pembuatan pupuk organik, kemudian dilakukan peningkatan kelompok tani, yaitu peningkatan kemampuan dalam hal membuat kemasan dan pemasaran pupuk organik. Dari implementasi ini, petani termotivasi untuk menggunakan tongkol jagung sebagai bahan baku pupuk organik, produksi telah mencapai sekitar 1 ton pupuk organik yang terbuat dari tongkol jagung sebagai bahan baku dan kelompok wanita tani sebagai kelompok pemasaran untuk produ kini.