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Biomechanical Pole Vault Patterns Were Associated With a Higher Proportion of Injuries
Venue: Front. Sports Act. Living
Year: 2019

Pole vault is a highly demanding sport where many physical and technical requirements are engaged in performance process. Considering level of energy transferred from athlete's horizontal speed to the pole during pole bending, we can imagine that associated musculoskeletal tensions, in addition to trials accumulation, can increase the risk of (specific) injuries. Given the multiple morphological, physical and technical characteristics of vaulters and ways of pole vaulting, we can hypothesis that some patterns of pole vaults can lead to higher injury risk than others.  To analyze the potential association between the biomechanical patterns of pole vault and the history of injuries.  We conducted a study over national level pole vaulters including the prospective collection of pole vault biomechanical data during competition at the national elite indoor championship and youth national indoor championship (U17 and U20) associated with the retrospective collection of their injuries during the 12 preceding months through an online questionnaire.  Among the 88 pole vaulters participating in these championships, 62 (70.5% accepted to participated in this study, and their pole vault biomechanical and injury data were collected. 77.4% reported having presented at least one injury during the 12 preceding months. One biomechanical parameter related to the take off phase (lower H2, i.e. height of the grip (superior) hand from the ground when the athlete subsequently took off from the ground) and some biomechanical parameters related to the terminal phase of the run up phase (higher Spd [i.e. speed between 10 and 5 meters to the box) SLadj (last stride adjustment) SLvar (stride length variation) tc (contact time) were significantly associated with higher proportions of all injuries.  Biomechanical pole vault patterns during the competition day were associated with a higher proportion of history of all injuries. Although the injury data collection was retrospective leading to recall bias risk, and do not allow determining cause consequence relationships regarding biomechanical patterns and injury occurrence, this present study is the first to analyze potential association between the biomechanical pole vault patterns and injury occurrence, which is of great help to provide hypotheses/ideas to design future studies and to move forward into prevention measures.
Adaptive Scaling Up/Down for Elastic Clouds
Venue: IDC
Year: 2016

An approach for adapting distributed applications in response to changes in user requirements and resource availability is presented. The notion of elasticity enables capabilities and resources to be dynamically provisioned and released. However, existing applications do not inherently support elastic capabilities and resources. To solve this problem, we propose two novel functions: dynamic deployment of components and dividing and merging components. The former enables components to relocate themselves at new servers when provisioning the servers and at remaining servers when deprovisioning servers, while the latter enables the states of components to be divided, passed to other components, and merged with other components in accordance with user defined functions. We constructed a middleware system for Java based general purpose software components with the two functions because they are useful to adapt applications to elasticity in cloud computing. The proposed system is useful because it enables applications be operated with elastic capabilities and resources in cloud computing.
Exploring Potentials for Culinary Tourism through a Food Festival: The Case of Thessaloniki Food Festival
Year: 2016

This paper seeks to conceptualize the way Thessaloniki is promoting culinary tourism, whilst supporting and building upon local networks; engaging and co creating an urban experience with its citizens and visitors. The aim of the paper is to suggest a potential framework that can be used as a strategic planning tool for the promotion of culinary tourism in Thessaloniki. In this direction, a food festival is being investigated. The last, is conceived by the organizers as the foundation of the idea of culinary tourism in the city. However, the findings indicate that there is a lack of active participation by the locals and not enough communication among various assets that are associated with the culinary identity of the city. In general, Thessaloniki seems to embody the ongoing struggle of a new destination, which is dealing with the complex process of branding and marketing without having the proper tools and the vital required collaboration between its structural networks. Accordingly, the research provides a lens through which the culinary culture of Thessaloniki can be used as a strategic pillar for stimulating a sustainable way of "consuming" and promoting the city's identity; enhancing Thessaloniki's appeal as a culinary destination.
Effective user interaction in online interactive semantic segmentation of glioblastoma magnetic resonance imaging
Venue: Journal of medical imaging
Year: 2017

Interactive segmentation is a promising approach to solving the pervasive shortage of reference annotations for automated medical image processing. We focus on the challenging task of glioblastoma segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging using a random forest pixel classifier trained iteratively on scribble annotations. Our experiments use data from the MICCAI Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2013 and simulate expert interactions using different approaches: corrective annotations, class balanced corrections, annotations where classifier uncertainty is high, and corrections where classifier uncertainty is high/low. We find that it is better to correct the classifier than to provide annotations where the classifier is uncertain, resulting in significantly better Dice scores in the edema (0.662 to 0.686) and necrosis (0.550 to 0.676) regions after 20 interactions. It is also advantageous to balance inputs among classes, with significantly better Dice in the necrotic (0.501 to 0.676) and nonenhancing (0.151 to 0.235) regions compared to fully random corrections. Corrective annotations in regions of high classifier uncertainty provide no additional benefit, low uncertainty corrections perform worst. Preliminary experiments with real users indicate that those with intermediate proficiency make a considerable number of annotation errors. The performance of corrective approaches suffers most strongly from this, leading to a less profound difference to uncertainty based annotations.
Comparing Chomsky, Skinner and Harris: Thoughts on Politics and Human Nature
Year: 2020

From the readings I made of the three authors in this chapter, we can see that they offer interesting thoughts on political issues such as freedom, control and responsibility. Their discussions are informed by different views of human nature and corresponding political models, which is crucial to our understanding of 'creativity' and how it relates to other important aspects of human nature. Skinner does not believe in so called human nature, instead he looks into how the environment is responsible for shaping human behavior. He emphasizes that if we can build a good environment based on behavioral science, no responsibility for the achievements needs to be attributed to individuals. Chomsky believes that language is a field of research of which possible insights are gained because our human nature allows it to be so. He explains the failure of behaviorism with the same logic, that is, it fails because 'the true theory of behavior is beyond our cognitive reach' (Chomsky, Language and responsibility: based on conversations with Mitsou Ronat. Pantheon Books, New York, 1979, p. 69) Moreover, his concern with creativity, freedom of speech, etc. is directly informed by his belief in fundamental human rights issued from a universal human nature. For Harris, though he never explicitly comments on human nature, he does emphasize the crucial role of creative integration for human survival (Harris, Introduction to integrational linguistics. Pergamon, London, 1998, p. 29) According to him, human beings do not choose to be creative; instead, they have to be creative to go through this integration of activities and the creative integration 'is a necessary condition of life as we know it' (ibid.
Passed the Age of Puberty: Organizational Networks as a Way to Get Things Done in the Health Field Comment on "Evaluating Global Health Partnerships: A Case Study of a Gavi HPV Vaccine Application Process in Uganda"
Venue: International journal of health policy and management
Year: 2017

In this commentary I will demonstrate that the case study of Uganda's Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine application partnership provides an excellent example of widening our lens by evaluating the successful HPV vaccine coverage from a network centric perspective. That implies that the organizational network is seen as the locus of production and that network theories become indispensable to analyze the situation at hand. The case study is, as said, an excellent example of how this can be done and my comments have to be read as an endorsement and a broadening of the discussion of what Carol Kamya and colleagues have presented. It is demonstrated that an organizational network approach can be considered a serious and mature way in understanding public health issues.
Secukinumab induced subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus
Venue: Dermatologic therapy
Year: 2020

Dear Editor, Drug induced lupus erythematosus (DILE) is a well known entity first described as an adverse effect of hydrochlorothiazide, terbinafine, and TNF alfa inhibitors. Among the possible drugs associated with DILE, recently an association with IL 17 inhibitors has been reported, highlighting new and little known side effects of biological therapies. We present a case of a 62 year old man with a history of plaque psoriasis, previously treated with methotrexate, acitretin and antiTNF alfa, switched on treatment with secukinumab 300 mg due to a loss of efficacy of other drugs. After the fourth dose at week 4, he developed a generalized itchy rash with multiple scaly erythematous plaques localized on his trunk, neck, and back; in addition, a widespread desquamation associated with severe blepharitis and mild ectropium, not present at the beginning of therapy, was observed on the face (Figure 1A,B) Lesions were first interpreted as an early onset of erythrodermic psoriasis; photosensitive dermatitis and drug reaction were also considered in the differential diagnosis. The dermoscopic examination (DermLite3G, 20x) showed telangiectatic vessels, with erythematous background, some yellowish areas and minimal desquamation, contrary to classical dermoscopic psoriatic criteria (Figure 1C) Therefore, either a severe seborrheic dermatitis or a subacute lupus was considered in differential diagnosis. Two punch biopsies of 4 mm on two patches of the back, skin swab, and microbiological research of fungi were performed, with blood tests analysis and complete study of autoimmunity. Results showed positivity of antinuclear
Multiple Structure multiple stimulation responsive hydrogel layer assembled film production method
Year: 2016

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geNov: A new metric for measuring novelty and relevancy in biomedical information retrieval
Venue: J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Year: 2017

For diversity and novelty evaluation in information retrieval, we expect that the novel documents are always ranked higher than the redundant ones and the relevant ones higher than the irrelevant ones. We also expect that the level of novelty and relevancy should be acknowledged. Accordingly, we expect that the evaluation algorithm would reward rankings that respect these expectations. Nevertheless, there are few research articles in the literature that study how to meet such expectations, even fewer in the field of biomedical information retrieval. In this article, we propose a new metric for novelty and relevancy evaluation in biomedical information retrieval based on an aspect level performance measure introduced by TREC Genomics Track with formal results to show that those expectations above can be respected under ideal conditions. The empirical evaluation indicates that the proposed metric, geNov, is greatly sensitive to the desired characteristics above, and the three parameters are highly tuneable for different evaluation preferences. By experimentally comparing with state of the art metrics for novelty and diversity, the proposed metric shows its advantages in recognizing the ranking quality in terms of novelty, redundancy, relevancy, and irrelevancy and in its discriminative power. Experiments reveal the proposed metric is faster to compute than state of the art metrics.
Vanadium pentoxide cathode materials for high performance lithium ion batteries enabled by a hierarchical nanoflower structure via an electrochemical process
Year: 2013

Hierarchical vanadium oxide nanoflowers (V10O24*nH2O) were synthesized via a simple, high throughput method employing a fast electrochemical reaction of vanadium foil in NaCl aqueous solution, followed by an aging treatment at room temperature. During the electrochemical process, the anodic vanadium foil is dissolved in the form of multi valence vanadium ions into the solution, driven by the applied electrical field. After being oxidized, the VO2+ and VO2+ ions instantly react with the OH in the electrolyte to form uniformly distributed vanadium oxide nanoparticles at a high solution temperature due to the exothermic nature of the reaction. Finally, nucleation and growth of one dimensional nanoribbons takes place on the surface of the nanoparticles during the aging process to form unique hierarchical V10O24*nH2O nanoflowers. Upon heat treatment, the hierarchical architecture of the vanadium pentoxide nanoflower morphology is maintained. Such a material provides porous channels, which facilitate fast ion diffusion and effective strain relaxation upon Li ion charge discharge cycling. The electrochemical tests reveal that the V2O5 nanoflowers cathode could deliver high reversible specific capacities with 100% coulombic efficiency, especially at high C rates (e.g. 140 mAh g 1 at 10 C)
Semantic Guided Attention Refinement Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images
Venue: Remote. Sens.
Year: 2021

Although remarkable progress has been made in salient object detection (SOD) in natural scene images (NSI) the SOD of optical remote sensing images (RSI) still faces significant challenges due to various spatial resolutions, cluttered backgrounds, and complex imaging conditions, mainly for two reasons: (1) accurate location of salient objects; and (2) subtle boundaries of salient objects. This paper explores the inherent properties of multi level features to develop a novel semantic guided attention refinement network (SARNet) for SOD of NSI. Specifically, the proposed semantic guided decoder (SGD) roughly but accurately locates the multi scale object by aggregating multiple highlevel features, and then this global semantic information guides the integration of subsequent features in a step by step feedback manner to make full use of deep multi level features. Simultaneously, the proposed parallel attention fusion (PAF) module combines cross level features and semantic guided information to refine the object's boundary and highlight the entire object area gradually. Finally, the proposed network architecture is trained through an end to end fully supervised model. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations on two public RSI datasets and additional NSI datasets across five metrics show that our SARNet is superior to 14 state of the art (SOTA) methods without any post processing.
The prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: A meta analytic review.
Venue: Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Year: 2006

Research on the prevention of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents was reviewed and synthesized with meta analysis. When all 30 studies were included, selective prevention programs were found to be more effective than universal programs immediately following intervention. Both selective and indicated prevention programs were more effective than universal programs at follow up, even when the 2 studies with college students were excluded. Effect sizes for selective and indicated prevention programs tended to be small to moderate, both immediately postintervention and at an average follow up of 6 months. Most effective interventions are more accurately described as treatment rather than prevention. Suggestions for future research include testing potential moderators (e.g. age, gender, anxiety, parental depression) and mechanisms, designing programs that are developmentally appropriate and gender and culturally sensitive, including longer follow ups, and using multiple measures and methods to assess both symptoms and diagnoses.
Letter to the Editor concerning "Analysis of skeletal muscle mass in women over 40 with degenerative lumbar scoliosis" by Eguchi Y, et al. (Eur Spine J; 2018: https:/doi.org/10.1007/s00586 018 5845 0)
Venue: European Spine Journal
Year: 2019

We have read the article entitled "Analysis of skeletal muscle mass in women over 40 with degenerative lumbar scoliosis" by Eguchi and colleagues  They investigated sarcopenia in both degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS) and healthy subjects among middle aged and elderly female patients over 40 years old. The present study is particularly important as there are few studies that have explored the involvement of sarcopenia in the development of DLS. However, we would like to take an attention on some methodological points. The first point is that body composition analysis was determined by bioelectrical impedance model InBody 720 Biospace device (Biospace Co, Korea) in this study. The bioimpedance analysis (BIA) systems depend on the measurement of electrical energy conduction capacity of hydrated tissues of body [2] Total body water can be easily affected by medications (like diuretics) exercise, time of day, food or beverage or alcohol intake. Moreover, performing the test during the time of menses is essential for ladies. So, pretest protocol should be done via standard manner to avoid potential effects of total body water changes. But there is no clear evidence about such pretest protocol in the article. Pre measurement protocol of this study needs to be detailed. The second point is that Eguchi and colleagues classified their enrollees into two as sarcopenic and non sarcopenic based on the measurement of appendicular skeletal muscle mass. In accordance with the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) and The Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) consensus, sarcopenia was defined as low muscle mass, plus low muscle strength and/or low physical performance [3, 4] Eguchi and collogues do not report results for the muscle function of patients. In view of appendicular muscle mass, this may be more relevant to classify the subjects as pre sarcopenic rather than sarcopenic. So, the assignment of sarcopenia seems to be suboptimal in this study. We believe that identifying the impact of such a potential misclassification on the results might help to generate current results in daily practice.
Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work Life Balance in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2014.
Venue: Mayo Clinic proceedings
Year: 2015

To evaluate the prevalence of burnout and satisfaction with work life balance in physicians and US workers in 2014 relative to 2011.  From August 28, 2014, to October 6, 2014, we surveyed both US physicians and a probability based sample of the general US population using the methods and measures used in our 2011 study. Burnout was measured using validated metrics, and satisfaction with work life balance was assessed using standard tools.  Of the 35,922 physicians who received an invitation to participate, 6880 (19.2% completed surveys. When assessed using the Maslach Burnout Inventory, 54.4% (n=3680) of the physicians reported at least 1 symptom of burnout in 2014 compared with 45.5% (n=3310) in 2011 (P<.001) Satisfaction with work life balance also declined in physicians between 2011 and 2014 (48.5% vs 40.9% P<.001) Substantial differences in rates of burnout and satisfaction with work life balance were observed by specialty. In contrast to the trends in physicians, minimal changes in burnout or satisfaction with work life balance were observed between 2011 and 2014 in probability based samples of working US adults, resulting in an increasing disparity in burnout and satisfaction with work life balance in physicians relative to the general US working population. After pooled multivariate analysis adjusting for age, sex, relationship status, and hours worked per week, physicians remained at an increased risk of burnout (odds ratio, 1.97; 95% CI, 1.80 2.16; P<.001) and were less likely to be satisfied with work life balance (odds ratio, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.62 0.75; P<.001) CONCLUSION Burnout and satisfaction with work life balance in US physicians worsened from 2011 to 2014. More than half of US physicians are now experiencing professional burnout.
Investigating the determinants of contractor's construction and demolition waste management behavior in Mainland China.
Venue: Waste management
Year: 2017

The abundant generation of construction and demolition (C&D) waste presents a significant challenge to the sustainable development of the construction industry in Mainland China. As the implementer of construction activities, the contractor's C&D waste management performance plays an important role in C&D waste minimization. This paper aims to investigate the determinants of the contractor's C&D waste management behavior in Mainland China.  was selected as the basis of the theoretical model. In addition, three contextual constructs (i.e. economic viability, governmental supervision, and project constraints) were introduced, formulating the initial model. Based on the initial model, eight constructs were identified and seven hypotheses were proposed. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data and a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis was employed to test the proposed hypotheses. Results showed that the C&D waste management intention is not a significant determinant of contractor's C&D waste management behavior. The most important determinant is economic viability, followed by governmental supervision as the second most important determinant. Nevertheless, the construct of project constraints is an insignificant determinant for contractor's adoption of C&D waste management behavior. The research findings imply that, in Mainland China, the government, at this stage, plays an important role in guiding and promoting the contractor to exhibit better C&D waste management behavior.