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Remote ischaemic conditioning before hospital admission, as a complement to angioplasty, and effect on myocardial salvage in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a randomised trial
Venue: The Lancet
Year: 2010

Remote ischaemic preconditioning attenuates cardiac injury at elective surgery and angioplasty. We tested the hypothesis that remote ischaemic conditioning during evolving ST elevation myocardial infarction, and done before primary percutaneous coronary intervention, increases myocardial salvage.  333 consecutive adult patients with a suspected first acute myocardial infarction were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio by computerised block randomisation to receive primary percutaneous coronary intervention with (n=166 patients) versus without (n=167) remote conditioning (intermittent arm ischaemia through four cycles of 5 min inflation and 5 min deflation of a blood pressure cuff) Allocation was concealed with opaque sealed envelopes. Patients received remote conditioning during transport to hospital, and primary percutaneous coronary intervention in hospital. The primary endpoint was myocardial salvage index at 30 days after primary percutaneous coronary intervention, measured by myocardial perfusion imaging as the proportion of the area at risk salvaged by treatment; analysis was per protocol. This study is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT00435266.  82 patients were excluded on arrival at hospital because they did not meet inclusion criteria, 32 were lost to follow up, and 77 did not complete the follow up with data for salvage index. Median salvage index was 0.75 (IQR 0.50 0.93, n=73) in the remote conditioning group versus 0.55 (0.35 0.88, n=69) in the control group, with median difference of 0.10 (95% CI 0.01 0.22; p=0.0333) mean salvage index was 0.69 (SD 0.27) versus 0.57 (0.26) with mean difference of 0.12 (95% CI 0.01 0.21; p=0.0333) Major adverse coronary events were death (n=3 per group) reinfarction (n=1 per group) and heart failure (n=3 per group) INTERPRETATION Remote ischaemic conditioning before hospital admission increases myocardial salvage, and has a favourable safety profile. Our findings merit a larger trial to establish the effect of remote conditioning on clinical outcomes.
Graph based Detection of Multiuser Impulse Radio Systems
Venue: ArXiv
Year: 2021

Impulse Radio (IR) is a wideband modulation technique that can support multiple users by employing random Time Hopping (TH) combined with repeated transmissions. The latter is aimed at alleviating the impact of collisions. This work employs a graphical model for describing the multiuser system which, in turn, facilitates the inclusion of general coding schemes. Based on factor graph representation of the system, several iterative multiuser detectors are presented. These detectors are applicable for any binary linear coding scheme. The performance of the proposed multiuser detectors is evaluated via simulations revealing large gains with low complexity.
Hybrid Polyline Simplification for GIS Vector Map Data Compression
Year: 2013

This paper presents a GIS vector map data compression scheme based on hybrid polyline simplification method and SEC(spatial energy compaction) The proposed method extracts all layers which contain polylines in the GIS vector map and compress all polylines in extracted layers by the hybrid polyline simplification and SEC based on MAE(minimum area error) for each segment in the line. The proposed simplification and SEC increase the compression ratio while preserving the shape quality. We analyze the visual aspects and compression efficiency between the original GIS vector map and the compressed map. From experimental results, we verify that our method has the higher compression efficiency and visual quality than conventional methods.
Health promotion interventions in social economy companies in Flanders (Belgium)
Venue: BMC Public Health
Year: 2015

BackgroundDisadvantaged groups are often not reached by mainstream health promotion interventions. Implementing health promotion (HP) interventions in social economy companies, can be an opportunity to reach those people. The implementation of these interventions in social economy companies was studied. Factors that could be related to the implementation of HP and being supportive towards implementation in the future, were investigated.MethodsAn online, quantitative survey was sent to all 148 sheltered and social workshops in Flanders. In the questionnaire, the status of HP interventions and characteristics of the workshop were explored. Personal factors (such as attitudes towards HP, behavioural control, social norms and moral responsibility) were asked to the person responsible for implementation of HP interventions. Univariate and multivariate logistic regressions were performed.ResultsRespondents of 88 workshops completed the questionnaire. Almost 60 of the workshops implemented environmental or policy interventions. Having a positive attitude towards HP, being more morally responsible, and having the subjective norm that employees are positive towards health promotion at work, were related to being more supportive towards the implementation of HP in the univariate analyses. Only attitude stayed significantly related to being more supportive towards the implementation of HP in the multivariate analyses.ConclusionsSheltered and social workshops are open to HP interventions, but more can be done to optimize the implementation. To persuade persons responsible for the implementation of HP to invest more in HP, changing attitudes concerning the benefits of health promotion for the employee and the company, is an important strategy.
Supervised Within Document Event Coreference using Information Propagation
Venue: LREC
Year: 2014

Event coreference is an important task for full text analysis. However, previous work uses a variety of approaches, sources and evaluation, making the literature confusing and the results incommensurate. We provide a description of the differences to facilitate future research. Second, we present a supervised method for event coreference resolution that uses a rich feature set and propagates information alternatively between events and their arguments, adapting appropriately for each type of argument.
"Rights talk" and the feminist movement in India
Year: 2010

Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women's activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women's movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Korea, India and Pakistan. For each of these countries the manner in which feminism changes according to cultural, political, economic and religious factors is explored. The contributors investigate how national feminisms are influenced by transnational factors, such as the women's movements in other countries, colonialism and international agencies. Each chapter also considers what Asian feminists have contributed to global theoretical debates on the woman question, the key successes and failures of the movements and what needs to be addressed in the future. This breadth of coverage, together with suggestions for further reading and watching, and an integrated cross national timeline makes Women's Movements in Asia ideal for use on courses looking at women and feminism in Asia. It will appeal both to students and specialists in the fields of gender, women's and Asian studies.
Quantile causality between banking stock and real estate securities returns in the US
Year: 2020

Unlike most prior studies examining the causal relationship between the overall stock market and real estate securities, this study investigates the causal relationship between banking and real estate sectors in the US within a quantile causality framework by using daily data from August 31, 2006, to September 9, 2016. The non linearity tests we use indicate the suitability of the quantile causality approach, as it uncovers causal effects at tail quantiles that are much different from those at middle quantiles and at the mean. In fact, the findings reveal bi directional causality that derives from only lower and upper levels of quantiles, suggesting that the returns in each of the markets under study can be used to predict the returns of the other market in bullish and bearish conditions, and not under normal conditions. Accordingly, investors should be cautious in hedging the risk across these markets when they are extremely unstable.
Fair fares? How flat and variable fares affect transit equity in Los Angeles
Year: 2018

Transit agencies typically structure fares in one of five ways: 1) flat, 2) adjusted by distance traveled, 3) varied by time of day, 4) varied by mode, and/or 5) discounted based on rider characteristics. Despite the fact that each fare structure imposes different cost burdens on low income versus higher income riders, the relative equity of different fare structures has not been systematically evaluated. Using detailed travel diary data from California, this paper investigates how varied transit use by low and higher income transit riders translates into divergent equity outcomes under six evaluated fare structures. Analysis reveals that low income transit riders travel shorter distances, rely disproportionately on local rather than longer distance modes, and make a higher share of transit trips during off peak periods compared to higher income riders. As a result, low income riders pay far higher per mile transit fares compared to more affluent riders in all but two of the tested fare scenarios. While flat fares are the least equitable, varying fares by distance, time of day, mode, or rider does not guarantee fare equity. Judged by riders' ability to pay, the benefits riders receive from a transit trip, and the cost of providing transit service, non capped distance based fares combined with time of day pricing result in the most equitable fare structure. Given robust technology to implement variable fares, transit agencies should reevaluate current fare structures and reform fare policies to ensure that all riders pay their fair share for transit.
MicroRNA regulation of Alzheimer's Amyloid precursor protein expression
Venue: Neurobiology of Disease
Year: 2009

Gene dosage effects of Amyloid precursor protein (APP) can cause familial AD. Recent evidence suggest that microRNA (miRNA) pathways, implicated in gene transcriptional control, could be involved in the development of sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD) We therefore investigated whether miRNAs could participate in the regulation of APP gene expression. We show that miRNAs belonging to the miR 20a family (that is, miR 20a, miR 17 5p and miR 106b) could regulate APP expression in vitro and at the endogenous level in neuronal cell lines. A tight correlation between these miRNAs and APP was found during brain development and in differentiating neurons. We thus identify miRNAs as novel endogenous regulators of APP expression, suggesting that variations in miRNA expression could contribute to changes in APP expression in the brain during development and disease. This possibility is further corroborated by the observation that a statistically significant decrease in miR 106b expression was found in sporadic AD patients.
With a little help from my friends: psychological, endocrine and health corollaries of social support in parental caregivers of children with autism or ADHD.
Venue: Research in developmental disabilities
Year: 2012

Elevated psychological distress and concomitant dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis has been implicated as one pathway that links the stress of caregiving with adverse health outcomes. This study assessed whether perceived social support might mitigate the psychological, endocrine and health consequences of caregiver stress in parents of children with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Parental caregivers completed measures of psychological distress, perceived availability of social support and physical health complaints. To capture important parameters of the basal diurnal cortisol pattern, caregivers collected salivary cortisol at waking, 30 min post waking, 1200 h and 2200 h on two consecutive weekdays. Psychological distress and self reported physical health complaints were inversely related to scores on all support subscales: tangible, belonging, self esteem and appraisal. Results further revealed a significant, positive association between magnitude of the cortisol awakening response (CAR) and caregivers' self esteem. As a buffer between the stress of caregiving and adverse physical health outcomes, social support acts to reduce stress appraisals and mitigate disturbances of the HPA axis. Moving forward, intervention programmes might seek to increase caregivers' perceived availability of social resources.
School based depression and anxiety prevention programs for young people: A systematic review and meta analysis.
Venue: Clinical psychology review
Year: 2017

Depression and anxiety often emerge for the first time during youth. The school environment provides an ideal context to deliver prevention programs, with potential to offset the trajectory towards disorder. The aim of this review was to provide a comprehensive evaluation of randomised controlled trials of psychological programs, designed to prevent depression and/or anxiety in children and adolescents delivered in school settings. Medline, PsycINFO and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched for articles published until February 2015. Eighty one unique studies comprising 31,794 school students met inclusion criteria. Small effect sizes for both depression (g=0.23) and anxiety (g=0.20) prevention programs immediately post intervention were detected. Small effects were evident after 12 month follow up for both depression (g=0.11) and anxiety (g=0.13) Overall, the quality of the included studies was poor, and heterogeneity was moderate. Subgroup analyses suggested that universal depression prevention programs had smaller effect sizes at post test relative to targeted programs. For anxiety, effect sizes were comparable for universal and targeted programs. There was some evidence that externally delivered interventions were superior to those delivered by school staff for depression, but not anxiety. Meta regression confirmed that targeted programs predicted larger effect sizes for the prevention of depression. These results suggest that the refinement of school based prevention programs have the potential to reduce mental health burden and advance public health outcomes.
The Relation Between Child Versus Parent Report of Chronic Fatigue and Language/Literacy Skills in School Age Children with Cochlear Implants
Venue: Ear and hearing
Year: 2016

Preliminary evidence suggests that children with hearing loss experience elevated levels of chronic fatigue compared with children with normal hearing. Chronic fatigue is associated with decreased academic performance in many clinical populations. Children with cochlear implants as a group exhibit deficits in language and literacy skills; however, the relation between chronic fatigue and language and literacy skills for children with cochlear implants is unclear. The purpose of this study was to explore subjective ratings of chronic fatigue by children with cochlear implants and their parents, as well as the relation between chronic fatigue and language and literacy skills in this population.  Nineteen children with cochlear implants in grades 3 to 6 and one of their parents separately completed a subjective chronic fatigue scale, on which they rated how much the child experienced physical, sleep/rest, and cognitive fatigue over the past month. In addition, children completed an assessment battery that included measures of speech perception, oral language, word reading, and spelling.  Children and parents reported different levels of chronic child physical and sleep/rest fatigue. In both cases, parents reported significantly less fatigue than did children. Children and parents did not report different levels of chronic child cognitive fatigue. Child report of physical fatigue was related to speech perception, language, reading, and spelling. Child report of sleep/rest and cognitive fatigue was related to speech perception and language but not to reading or spelling. Parent report of child fatigue was not related to children's language and literacy skills.  Taken as a whole, results suggested that parents under estimate the fatigue experienced by children with cochlear implants. Child report of physical fatigue was robustly related to language and literacy skills. Children with cochlear implants are likely more accurate at reporting physical fatigue than cognitive fatigue. Clinical practice should take fatigue into account when developing treatment plans for children with cochlear implants, and research should continue to develop a comprehensive model of fatigue in children with cochlear implants.
The role of lead management systems in inside sales performance
Venue: Journal of Business Research
Year: 2019

Understanding how the use of IT influences the performance of inside sales is imperative, yet there is a lack of research in this area. This study empirically validates a conceptual model based on the Technology Task Fit theory, capturing the impact of lead management systems (LMS) on inside sales performance through the following mediators: task characteristics (call quantity and lead follow up intensity) selling behavior (adaptive selling) and salesperson characteristics (technical and salesmanship skills) Using PLS SEM on 108 responses collected from sales professionals, our analysis shows that the use of LMS in inside sales affects performance via improving salespeople's adaptive selling and lead follow up intensity, technical and salesmanship skills; together these variables explain over a half (55% of the variance of sales performance. Our findings aim to inform academics and practitioners on the key enablers of inside sales performance and IT usage approaches that can optimize marketing output in the inside sales industry.
Conservateurs pour compositions cosmetiques, de toilette et pharmaceutiques
Year: 2008

La presente invention a trait a une composition et a des procedes permettant la conservation d'une composition cosmetique, de toilette ou pharmaceutique a application topique, en la protegeant contre une contamination microbienne ou un developpement microbien. Les compositions utilisees ici comprennent au moins un acide hydroxamique, un sel ou un complexe de celui ci et les procedes comprennent l'addition d'une quantite efficace de tels composes a une composition cosmetique, de toilette ou pharmaceutique. L'invention concerne egalement des compositions comprenant, en outre, des alcanediols et/ou des agents de dissolution melanges avec l'acide hydroxamique.
Impact of Agricultural Innovation on Improved Livelihood and Productivity Outcomes Among Smallholder Farmers in Rural Nigeria
Year: 2015

Agricultural research programs that are driven by Agricultural Innovation System concepts usually target to change the way in which low income rural agrarian households in a nation like Nigeria communicate with the market and the decision making strategies pertaining to development of their agri business and the scarce resources which are at their disposal. As a result there has been a shift in the research paradigm in many African countries like Nigeria; from top down research systems to nonlinear dynamic systems that aim to enhance end users capacity to obtain and utilize knowledge and research outputs. The aim of this paper was therefore to assess the extent to which the use of these innovative agricultural research interventions impact upon the livelihood and productivity outcomes of rural smallholder farmers in Nigeria using a case study from the South west region of Nigeria. Using propensity score matching as a means of establishing a valid counterfactual and single differencing to measure impact, the study establishes that rural incomes and output are significantly impacted upon by agricultural research interventions that are driven by agricultural innovation systems concepts. The study however further finds that although participating households had better livelihood and productivity outcomes and more diversified income portfolios during the implementation of the innovative research intervention as a result of greater linkages to markets and capacity building opportunities; phasing out of the research program reduced the diversity of income portfolios and lead to the erosion of livelihoods. The study therefore concluded that agricultural research interventions that are driven by agricultural innovation system concepts have the potential to positively impact upon the livelihood outcomes of rural smallholder farmers in Nigeria however there is need for greater capacity building of local extension agents and increased budgetary support to ensure understanding and application of agricultural innovation system concepts by local level public agricultural extension agents to sustain positive livelihood and productivity outcomes. In addition agricultural innovation system concepts should be mainstreamed in all public agricultural extension and research programs to ensure sustained rural innovation and robust livelihood and improved productivity outcomes.
Tight junctions in the development of asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis, atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, and inflammatory bowel diseases
Venue: Journal of leukocyte biology
Year: 2020

This review focuses on recent developments related to asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis, atopic dermatitis (AD) eosinophilic esophagitis, and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) with a particular focus on tight junctions (TJs) and their role in the pathogenetic mechanisms of these diseases. Lung, skin, and intestinal surfaces are lined by epithelial cells that interact with environmental factors and immune cells. Therefore, together with the cellular immune system, the epithelium performs a pivotal role as the first line physical barrier against external antigens. Paracellular space is almost exclusively sealed by TJs and is maintained by complex protein protein interactions. Thus, TJ dysfunction increases paracellular permeability, resulting in enhanced flux across TJs. Epithelial TJ dysfunction also causes immune cell activation and contributes to the pathogenesis of chronic lung, skin, and intestinal inflammation. Characterization of TJ protein alteration is one of the key factors for enhancing our understanding of allergic diseases as well as IBDs. Furthermore, TJ based epithelial disturbance can promote immune cell behaviors, such as those in dendritic cells, Th2 cells, Th17 cells, and innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) thereby offering new insights into TJ based targets. The purpose of this review is to illustrate how TJ dysfunction can lead to the disruption of the immune homeostasis in barrier tissues and subsequent inflammation. This review also highlights the various TJ barrier dysfunctions across different organ sites, which would help to develop future drugs to target allergic diseases and IBD.