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Inlay graft of acellular dermal matrix to prevent incisional dehiscence after radiotherapy in prosthetic breast reconstruction
Venue: Archives of plastic surgery
Year: 2019

As the indications for postmastectomy radiotherapy expand, innovative solutions are required to reduce operative complications and reconstructive failure after prosthetic breast reconstruction. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of acellular dermal matrix (ADM) inlay grafts in preventing postoperative wound dehiscence of irradiated breasts in the context of prosthetic breast reconstruction.  A retrospective analysis was conducted of 45 patients who received two stage prosthetic reconstruction and radiotherapy following mastectomy. An ADM graft was placed beneath the incisional site during the second stage operation in 19 patients using marionette sutures, whereas the control group did not receive the ADM reinforcement. Patient demographics and complications such as wound dehiscence, capsular contracture, peri prosthetic infection, cellulitis, and seroma were compared between the two groups.  During an average follow up period of 37.1 months, wound dehiscence occurred significantly less often in the ADM reinforced closure group (0% than in the non ADM group (23.1% (P=0.032) There was no significant difference between the two groups in relation to other complications, such as capsular contracture, postoperative infection, or seroma.  The ADM inlay graft is a simple and easily reproducible technique for preventing incisional dehiscence in the setting of radiotherapy after prosthetic breast reconstruction. The ADM graft serves as a buttress to offload tension during healing and provides a mechanical barrier against pathogens. Application of this technique may serve to reduce complications in prosthetic breast reconstruction after radiotherapy.
Data driven curation process for describing the blood glucose management in the intensive care unit
Venue: Scientific data
Year: 2021

Analysis of real world glucose and insulin clinical data recorded in electronic medical records can provide insights into tailored approaches to clinical care, yet presents many analytic challenges. This work makes publicly available a dataset that contains the curated entries of blood glucose readings and administered insulin on a per patient basis during ICU admissions in the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC III) database version 1.4. Also, the present study details the data curation process used to extract and match glucose values to insulin therapy. The curation process includes the creation of glucose insulin pairing rules according to clinical expert defined physiologic and pharmacologic parameters. Through this approach, it was possible to align nearly 76% of insulin events to a preceding blood glucose reading for nearly 9,600 critically ill patients. This work has the potential to reveal trends in real world practice for the management of blood glucose. This data extraction and processing serve as a framework for future studies of glucose and insulin in the intensive care unit.
Work Life Conflict, Professional Commitment, and Job Satisfaction Among Academics
Year: 2019

Based on the job demands resources model and role conflict theories, we developed and tested hypotheses to elucidate the consequences that work to life and life to work conflicts have on job satisfaction and how affective, normative, and continuance professional commitment moderate these relationships. Using data collected from German academics, our results confirmed theoretical assumptions that work to life conflict and continuance commitment act as stressors that reduce job satisfaction, while affective commitment serves as a resource, as it lowers job satisfaction directly and buffers the negative impact of a work to life conflict on job satisfaction. Neither life to work conflict nor normative commitment had a direct impact on job satisfaction, but their interaction had a positive effect on job satisfaction. A groupwise analysis of academics with temporary positions and academics with permanent positions revealed that affective commitment was a moderator only in association with work to life conflict among temporarily employed academics and that normative and continuance commitment were moderators in association with the life to work conflict among permanently employed academics. We discuss the implications of these results for theory and policy.
Discovery and identification of fatigue related biomarkers in human saliva.
Venue: European review for medical and pharmacological sciences
Year: 2018

To identify stable and specific biomarkers/biomarker combinations for fatigue assessment and establish a discriminant model.  Saliva was collected and electroencephalogram analysis was performed for 47 emergency physicians while awake and after continuoutas duty for 18 24 h. Physicians were divided into the fatigue and non fatigue groups. Protein spectra of completely quantified saliva specimens were identified before and after long working hours using mass spectrometry. Data were analyzed through Proteome Discoverer software combined with SEQUEST to search protein databases. Proteins were characterized by collision induced dissociation spectra. A global internal standard (GIS) was added to each group of samples and labeled by tandem mass tags m/z 131.1. All data were compared with GIS, and data between groups were further compared. Qualitative and quantitative data on proteins were exported for fatigue related proteomic analysis, and a fatigue assessment model was established.  We identified 767 salivary proteins in the fatigue group. The correct rates of the discriminant function of the non fatigue and fatigue groups were 97.1% and 91.7% respectively (the total correct rate was 95.7%  We identified 30 fatigue related protein markers from saliva. We also established a fatigue assessment model for emergency physicians using salivary biomarkers.
Effect of combined neurofeedback and game based cognitive training on the treatment of ADHD: A randomized controlled study
Venue: Applied neuropsychology. Child
Year: 2019

Neurofeedback (NF) is referred to as a "possibly efficacious" treatment in the current evidence based reviews; therefore, more research is needed to determine its effects especially in combination with other treatments. The present study examines the effect of NF and game based cognitive training on children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Thirty two male students with ADHD were assigned to NF (N 16; Mage=10.20; SD 1.03) and waiting list control (N 16; Mage 10.05; SD 0.83) in a randomized double blind trial. The children in the NF group based on quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) attended 30 three times weekly sessions. The children were examined in pretest and post test with EEG, Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance (IVA) and Conners Parent, and Teacher Rating Scales Revised. The treatment was found significant all the symptom variables except for attention deficit (AD) and auditory response control (ARC) Normalization of the atypical EEG features with reduced wave and increased sensory motor (SMR) activity in central zero (Cz) was recorded in the NF condition participants. However, except for SMR activity there were no significant changes in the waves of frontocentral zero (FCz) It is concluded that technology developments provide an interesting vehicle for interposing interventions and that combined NF and game based cognitive training can produce positive therapeutic effects on brainwaves and ADHD symptomatology.
RANCANG BANGUN DONGKRAK GUNTING ELEKTRIKPADA MOBIL( Pengujian
Year: 2014

Electric screw jack in the car According the ways of work, jack divided into two types. there are hydraulic jack and mechanic jack. Hydraulic jack that nowadays available in market generallytube shaped which applied fluid to make pressure. Hydraulic jack works with pumping the fluida manually. The produced power used to lifting the load slowly.meanwhile mechanic jack like screwed jack use the screw to lift up the load.From these type of jack, almost driver still use mechanic jack to repair their vehicle.But this type less practical and it still manually operated. So,the idea is make the jack that user friendly and easy to operate. We modificated manual screw jack became more advance use electic motor as its mover.
Pay Gap and Performance in China
Year: 2016

The growing gap between the pay of executives and employees has been the subject of much media publicity and political attention in recent times. We analyze the pay gap between executives and employees, focusing on three components: executive pay premium relative to industry peers; employee pay premium; and average pay gap at the industry level. We examine how the executive and employee pay premium components of the pay gap drive firm performance. On one hand, economic theories of matching and managerial talent suggest talented executives who generate relatively better firm performance receive wage premiums, implying a positive relation between pay gap and performance. On the other hand, sociological theories suggest that the inequity implied by a larger pay gap lowers firm performance by adversely affecting employee morale and productivity. To test these alternative theories, we utilize pay gap data from China that provides a setting with strong national preferences towards social equity but also with a scarcity of experienced managers and abundance of low cost labour. Our results strongly support the economic theories firm performance is largely driven by pay premium for executive talent. Additional tests using a smaller sample of US firms with pay gap data are consistent with our primary findings. Our study is likely to be of interest to politicians, regulators, and company executives responsible for understanding and evaluating pay gap and executive pay.
Designing efficient high performance server centric data center network architecture
Venue: Comput. Networks
Year: 2015

Data center network (DCN) architecture is regarded as one of the most important determinants of network performance. As the most typical representatives of DCN architecture designs, the server centric scheme stands out due to its good performance in various aspects. In this paper, we firstly present the design, implementation and evaluation of SprintNet, a novel server centric network architecture for data centers. SprintNet achieves high performance in network capacity, fault tolerance, and network latency. SprintNet is also a scalable, yet low diameter network architecture where the maximum shortest distance between any pair of servers can be limited by no more than four and is independent of the number of layers. The specially designed routing schemes for SprintNet strengthen its merits. However, all of these kind of server centric architectures still suffer from some critical shortcomings owing to the server's responsibility of forwarding packets. With regard to these issues, in this paper, we then propose a hardware based approach, named "Forwarding Unit" to provide an effective solution to these drawbacks and improve the efficiency of server centric architectures. Both theoretical analysis and simulations are conducted to evaluate the overall performance of SprintNet and the Forwarding Unit approach with respect to cost effectiveness, fault tolerance, system latency, packet loss ratio, aggregate bottleneck throughput, and average path length. The evaluation results convince the feasibility and good performance of both SprintNet and Forwarding Unit.
(Re) constructing a life giving spirituality narrative therapy with university students
Year: 2009

This qualitative participatory action research project examined how the spiritual dimension in pastoral therapy served as a life giving resource to facilitate healing and growth in the lives of three Christian female university students. A postmodern epistomology, social construction theory and a contextual feminist theology informed the praxis of pastoral narrative therapy. The themes of subjectivity, meaning, religious development and religious experience were the focus of this study. Narrative practices were engaged in to utilise spiritual talk in the co construction of an alternative relational identity with the research participants. The theory of religious development is discussed from a social constructionist perspective with an accent on a personal relationship with God as central to the developmental process. The religious experiences of the participants contributed to a spiritual awareness of being connected, in a dynamic way, to God, that transformed the clients' perceptions of problems and ways of addressing problems in their lives.  spirituality, narrative therapy, social constructionism, pastoral therapy, participatory action research, theory of religious development, God talk, transformation, feminist contextual approach, relational identity.
Wind speed forecasting using nonlinear learning ensemble of deep learning time series prediction and extremal optimization
Year: 2018

As an essential issue in wind energy industry, wind speed forecasting plays a vital role in optimal scheduling and control of wind energy generation and conversion. In this paper, a novel method called EnsemLSTM is proposed by using nonlinear learning ensemble of deep learning time series prediction based on LSTMs (Long Short Term Memory neural networks) SVRM (support vector regression machine) and EO (extremal optimization algorithm) First, in order to avert the drawback of weak generalization capability and robustness of a single deep learning approach when facing diversiform data, a cluster of LSTMs with diverse hidden layers and neurons are employed to explore and exploit the implicit information of wind speed time series. Then predictions of LSTMs are aggregated into a nonlinear learning regression top layer composed of SVRM and the EO is introduced to optimize the parameters of the top layer. Lastly, the final ensemble prediction for wind speed is given by the fine turning top layer. The proposed EnsemLSTM is applied on two case studies data collected from a wind farm in Inner Mongolia, China, to perform ten minute ahead utmost short term wind speed forecasting and one hour ahead short term wind speed forecasting. Statistical tests of experimental results compared with other popular prediction models demonstrated the proposed EnsemLSTM can achieve a better forecasting performance.
Gamification for Diabetes Type 1 Management: A Review of the Features of Free Apps in Google Play and App Stores
Venue: Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Year: 2020

The objective of this study was to review most of the existing free m Health applications (Apps) that use the gamification approach to manage diabetes type 1 in both App and Google Play stores.  Free mobile health applications "apps" that were related to diabetes mellitus have been identified in both App and Google Play stores. In order to cover all the mentioned applications, the following keywords, "game for type 1 diabetes" and "gamification for type 1 diabetes" were used in English and Arabic languages. All applications that were collected in the inclusion process were carefully analyzed, and the game name, game description, game features, game mechanics, game themes, and operating systems were recorded.  A total of eight gamified applications related to type 1 diabetes were identified. Seven of these applications were in English language and only one application was in Arabic language. The applications were categorized into three main categories based on the theme of the application. The categories were taking care of a character, quizzes, and the storytelling theme. Moreover, there was no application that included the social networking feature.  This study highlighted the most important features of the free mobile health applications "apps" for diabetes type 1 available in Google Play and App stores that can contribute to enhance the self management of the diabetes condition by patients in Saudi Arabia. The identified applications have important characteristics that can be used in the future for the care and self control of type 1 diabetic patients in Saudi Arabia.
Psicologia e Cinema
Venue: Revista UFG
Year: 2019

Este artigo relata uma acao extensionista desenvolvida pelo projeto Cinema: subjetividade, cultura e poder, da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, atraves de conversacoes com elementos da metodologia de grupo focal, abordando o tema do racismo atraves de texto/filme/comentario de convidado. Trabalhamos com a ideia de mito negro, trazida por Neusa Sousa, e interiorizacao da inferioridade de Frantz Fanon. As questoes levantadas pelo publico incluiam aspectos subjetivos e sociais vivenciados pelos participantes e perguntas sobre formas de tratar o sofrimento psiquico decorrente do racismo. Conclui se que os resultados da atividade produziram impactos significativos para os presentes, por constituir se como espaco de fala, debate e elaboracoes acerca do racismo na universidade, racismo estrutural e representatividade, permitindo posterior multiplicacao desse debate.
The Farm Management Extension Audience of 2030
Year: 2019

During the halftime of his son's football game, Farmer Brown asks his smartphone for a real time costeffectiveness analysis of three alternative treatments to suppress weeds in two acres over the Missouri River, where remote imagery technology identified weed pressure trending up and nearing 90% of the acreand corn stage specific weed threshold. The device calculates real time partial budget analyses using acre specific weather forecasts, soil conditions, labor and machinery costs, corn growth stage and projected yields, weed species, and cutting edge technology to respond with information about the cost effectiveness of reducing weed pressure to 75% 80% and 85% of the threshold as well as leaving it at 90% or letting increase to the threshold before treatment. Mr. Brown activates his remote office via voice recognition and submits a request for the automated system to implement the most cost effective option. After receiving immediate confirmation that his selection will be implemented within 24 hours, he is ready to continue rooting for his son's team.
Effects of medium variation and fermentation time on the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of Kombucha
Venue: Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences
Year: 2019

Kombucha is a traditional fermented drink and has recently gained popularity due to its numerous claims on therapeutic effects. It is prepared by sweetening black tea and fermented using a symbiotic culture of acetic acid bacteria and yeasts known as SCOBY. The drink can also be brewed using different type of tea and carbon sources. An investigation was conducted to characterize the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of kombucha by variation of carbon sources: white sugar (S) jaggery (J) and Kelulut honey (H) in black tea (BT) and green tea (GT) media over a period of 7, 14, 28 and 60 days. The antioxidant and antimicrobial efficacy were tested post fermentation. All samples shown the highest value of DPPH inhibition for antioxidant activity at 7 days of fermentation but subsequently decreased with longer fermentation time except for the combination of green tea with jaggery (GT+J) Fermentation of green tea with white sugar (GT+S) showed the highest value with 84% On the other hand, black tea with jaggery (BT+J) showed least DPPH activity, 9% Fermentation with green tea demonstrated a higher antioxidant activity compared to black tea, whereas fermentation of any tea with jaggery showed the least antioxidant activity in comparison to white sugar and honey. Thus, it can be said that extended periods of fermentation reduce the DPPH inhibition of kombucha and jaggery itself as carbon source shows an interesting property. Antimicrobial activity was tested using disk diffusion method against E. coli, S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, B. subtilis and S. marcescens. The efficacy increases with time of fermentation for all combinations. Combination of black tea with all carbon sources was found to have most antimicrobial activity.
Ohmic heating polyphenolic extracts from vine pruning residue with enhanced biological activity.
Venue: Food chemistry
Year: 2020

Vine Pruning residue was submitted to conventional heating and ohmic heating (OH) for the extraction of bioactive compounds and analyzed for total phenolic content (TPC) polyphenolic profile, antioxidant activity, antimicrobial activity and anticancer activity. The OH extracts were obtained using Low electric field (496.0 V/cm) or Intermediate electric field IEF (840.0 V/cm) The tests were performed using 45% (v/v) ethanol water extraction solution at 80 degC at different extraction times (20 90 min) The extract that stood out among the others concerning anticancer potential was the one obtained by OH when used, IEF, where the TPC was significantly higher than in the other extracts which correlated with higher antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti proliferative activity on different tumor cell lines (HepG2, MDA MB 231, MCF 7 and Caco2) Vine pruning OH extracts obtained using green solvents by an eco friendly procedure were revealed as a source of compounds with relevant antioxidant and anticancer activity.
Steven R. Smith (2011) Equality and Diversity: Value Incommensurability and the Politics of Recognition Bristol: Policy Press. PS65, pp. 192, hbk.
Venue: Journal of Social Policy
Year: 2012

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