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Matsubara S. Letters generated by ChatGPT: Author who? J Obstet Gynaecol Res 2024. [PMID: 38589337 DOI: 10.1111/jog.15948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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AIM ChatGPT's role in medical writing is a topic of discussion. I experimented whether ChatGPT almost automatically generates Correspondence or Letter addressed to a "translated" article, and thereby wish to arouse discussion regarding ChatGPT use in medical writing. METHODS I input an English article of mine into ChatGPT, tasking it with generating an English Disagreement Letter (Letter 1). Next, I tasked ChatGPT with translating the manuscript addressed to from English-French-Spanish-German. Then, I once again tasked ChatGPT with generating an English Disagreement Letter addressed to a German manuscript (triplicate translated manuscript) (Letter 2). RESULTS Letters 1 and 2 are readable and reasonable, shooting the point that the author (myself) felt as the weakness of the article. Letters addressed to French (single translation) and to Spanish (double translation) and longer Letters (corresponding to Letters 1 and 2) are also readable, and thus stand. CONCLUSIONS Solely based on this experiment, one may be able to write a letter even without understanding the meaning of the paper being addressed, let alone the language of the paper. Although this humble experiment does not conclude anything, I plea for a comprehensive discussion on the implications of these findings.
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- Shigeki Matsubara
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Koga Red Cross Hospital, Koga, Japan
- Medical Examination Center, Ibaraki Western Medical Center, Chikusei, Japan
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Tran BW, Nelson M, Pal N. Association of preoperative anaesthesia consultation before elective noncardiac surgery with patient and health system outcomes. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2023; 131: 937-46. Br J Anaesth 2024; 132:433-434. [PMID: 38042724 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.10.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/04/2023] Open
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- Bryant W Tran
- Department of Anesthesiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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Charris-Molina A, Burdisso P, Hoijemberg PA. Multiplet-Assisted Peak Alignment for 1H NMR-Based Metabolomics. J Proteome Res 2024; 23:430-448. [PMID: 38127799 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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NMR-based metabolomics aims at recovering biological information by comparing spectral data from samples of biological interest and appropriate controls. Any statistical analysis performed on the data matrix relies on the proper peak alignment to produce meaningful results. Through the last decades, several peak alignment algorithms have been proposed, as well as alternatives like spectral binning or strategies for annotation and quantification, the latter depending on reference databases. Most of the alignment algorithms, mainly based on segmentation of the spectra, present limitations for regions with peak overlap or cases of frequency order exchange. Here, we present our multiplet-assisted peak alignment algorithm, a new methodology that consists of aligning peaks by matching multiplet profiles of f1 traces from J-resolved spectra. A correspondence matrix with the linked f1 traces is built, and multivariate data analysis can be performed on it to obtain useful information from the data, overcoming the issues of peak overlap and frequency crossovers. Statistical total correlation spectroscopy can be applied on the matrix as well, toward a better identification of molecules of interest. The results can be queried on one-dimensional (1D) 1H databases or can be directly coupled to our previously published Chemical Shift Multiplet Database.
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- Andrés Charris-Molina
- Departamento de Química Inorgánica Analítica y Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina
- Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), NMR Group, Godoy Cruz 2390, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires C1425FQD, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquimicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario and Plataforma Argentina de Biología Estructural y Metabolómica (PLABEM), Rosario, Santa Fe S2002LRK, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias (CIBION), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), NMR Group, Godoy Cruz 2390, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires C1425FQD, Argentina
- ECyT-UNSAM, San Martín, Buenos Aires B1650HMP, Argentina
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Bingham MA, Cummins ML, Tong A, Purcell P, Sangari A, Sood A, Schlesinger JJ. Effects of altering harmonic structure on the recognition of simulated auditory arterial pressure alarms. Br J Anaesth 2023; 131:e178-e180. [PMID: 37758624 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.08.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2023] [Revised: 08/20/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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- Molly A Bingham
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Springborg AH, Nielsen NI, Foss NB. Quality of recovery after pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for primary total hip arthroplasty under spinal anaesthesia. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2023; 130: 773-9. Br J Anaesth 2023; 131:e156-e157. [PMID: 37689539 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 08/01/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/11/2023] Open
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- Anders H Springborg
- Department of Anaesthesiology, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Zealand University Hospital Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Crichton-Fock A, Spence C, Mora M, Pettersson N. Enhancing the design of wine labels. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1176794. [PMID: 37818424 PMCID: PMC10560737 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1176794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/12/2023] Open
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Introduction The knowledge accrued through research in the domain of crossmodal correspondences has had a significant influence on a diverse array of disciplines, including behavioral studies, neuroscience, computational modeling, and notably, marketing, with the objective of aligning sensory experiences to help shape patterns of consumer behavior. A study is reported that explores the extension of these principles to the communication of products having a notably complex sensory profile, specifically within the context of wine. The central aim of the project is to explore the feasibility of using crossmodal communication as a strategic tool to augment the congruence between the consumers' multisensory expectations and their sensory experiences. For consumers venturing into the realm of wine selection without the advantage of prior tasting experience, it is of paramount importance to possess a robust understanding of the mandated information. This encompasses critical elements such as the wine's origin, grape varietal(s) used, geographical indications, producer qualifications, and the potential implications of these factors on the final wine product. This level of comprehension stands as a necessary prerequisite, enabling these consumers to make informed choices that align with their preferences, even in the absence of previous sensory encounters. Nonetheless, semiotic investigations underscore the significance attributed to symbolic components such as signs, logos, colors, gestures, and linguistic cues. Research from the field performing multisensory studies, presents a counterpoint to prevailing communication paradigms, advocating for a heightened incorporation of metaphors, analogies, symbols, metonymies, and allegories. This alternative approach aims to enhance the efficacy of communication strategies, offering a more profound and evocative means of conveying intricate messages on a more holistic level. Methods A questionnaire was sent to a specific group of engaged wine consumers (n = 329). Besides questions regarding demographics, purchase behavior, and consumption behavior, the questionnaire included examples of multisensory communication through a selection of symbols, as well as alternative wine information. Results The results showed significant correlations between demographics, consumption behavior, and attitudes toward the tested multisensory symbols and alternative information, thus helping to gain a better understanding of the sensory properties that should be communicated on wine labels. Discussion The findings reported here highlight the effectiveness of visual crossmodal communication as a promising pathway capable of skillfully capturing consumer attributes, conveying multisensory experiences, and portraying the comprehensive timeline of taste evolution. As a result, it assumes a pivotal role as a communicative tool for intricate consumables, like wine, functioning at the crossroads of visual and sensory dimensions.
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- Anders Crichton-Fock
- School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts & Meal Science, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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- Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- BCC Innovation, Technology Center in Gastronomy, Basque Culinary Center, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Basque Culinary Center, Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences, Mondragon Unibersitatea, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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Davidson R, Palethorpe MK. Sevoflurane dose and postoperative delirium. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2023; 130: e289-97. Br J Anaesth 2023; 130:e481-e482. [PMID: 36931961 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2023.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2022] [Revised: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023] Open
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- Robert Davidson
- North West Research & Audit Group, Manchester, UK; North West School of Anaesthesia, Manchester, UK.
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- North West Research & Audit Group, Manchester, UK; North West School of Anaesthesia, Manchester, UK
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Park BS, Lee S, Park JT, Kim JK, Kim W, Seo YH. Dynamic Reconstruction and Mesh Compression of 4D Volumetric Model Using Correspondence-Based Deformation for Streaming Service. Sensors (Basel) 2022; 22:8815. [PMID: 36433412 PMCID: PMC9693839 DOI: 10.3390/s22228815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A sequence of 3D models generated using volumetric capture has the advantage of retaining the characteristics of dynamic objects and scenes. However, in volumetric data, since 3D mesh and texture are synthesized for every frame, the mesh of every frame has a different shape, and the brightness and color quality of the texture is various. This paper proposes an algorithm to consistently create a mesh of 4D volumetric data using dynamic reconstruction. The proposed algorithm comprises remeshing, correspondence searching, and target frame reconstruction by key frame deformation. We make non-rigid deformation possible by applying the surface deformation method of the key frame. Finally, we propose a method of compressing the target frame using the target frame reconstructed using the key frame with error rates of up to 98.88% and at least 20.39% compared to previous studies. The experimental results show the proposed method's effectiveness by measuring the geometric error between the deformed key frame and the target frame. Further, by calculating the residual between two frames, the ratio of data transmitted is measured to show a compression performance of 18.48%.
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Spence C, Di Stefano N. Coloured hearing, colour music, colour organs, and the search for perceptually meaningful correspondences between colour and sound. Iperception 2022; 13:20416695221092802. [PMID: 35572076 PMCID: PMC9099070 DOI: 10.1177/20416695221092802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Revised: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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There has long been interest in the nature of the relationship(s) between hue and pitch or, in other words, between colour and musical/pure tones, stretching back at least as far as Newton, Goethe, Helmholtz, and beyond. In this narrative historical review, we take a closer look at the motivations that have lain behind the various assertions that have been made in the literature concerning the analogies, and possible perceptual similarities, between colour and sound. During the last century, a number of experimental psychologists have also investigated the nature of the correspondence between these two primary dimensions of perceptual experience. The multitude of different crossmodal mappings that have been put forward over the centuries are summarized, and a distinction drawn between physical/structural and psychological correspondences. The latter being further sub-divided into perceptual and affective categories. Interest in physical correspondences has typically been motivated by the structural similarities (analogous mappings) between the organization of perceptible dimensions of auditory and visual experience. Emphasis has been placed both on the similarity in terms of the number of basic categories into which pitch and colour can be arranged and also on the fact that both can be conceptualized as circular dimensions. A distinction is drawn between those commentators who have argued for a dimensional alignment of pitch and hue (based on a structural mapping), and those who appear to have been motivated by the existence of specific correspondences between particular pairs of auditory and visual stimuli instead (often, as we will see, based on the idiosyncratic correspondences that have been reported by synaesthetes). Ultimately, though, the emotional-mediation account would currently appear to provide the most parsimonious account for whatever affinity the majority of people experience between musical sounds and colour.
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Yun Hsin C, Ching KC, Jun FJ, Lee YH, Wei JCC. Morbidity and Mortality Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness Hospitalized With COVID-19. J Infect Dis 2021; 225:2235. [PMID: 34951649 PMCID: PMC8755296 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Chang Yun Hsin
- School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of senior services industry management, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Department of Recreation and Sport Management, Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Department of Orthopedics, Cishan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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García-Falgueras A, Swaab DF. The Spanish Composer Manuel de Falla and His Eyes: The Musical Brain. Neurosci Insights 2021; 16:26331055211049778. [PMID: 34723184 PMCID: PMC8552372 DOI: 10.1177/26331055211049778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Manuel de Falla was a Spanish musician of the XIXth and XXth centuries who had international recognition likely due to his musical fusion talent. His knowledge about Spanish musical traditions gave to his early compositions a new and fresh intellectual interpretation for the typical Spanish folk music. However, in the middle of his musical career, he suffered a strange disease of his eyes named recurrent acute iridocyclitis. This eye flushing is caused by an inflammation of 2 structures of the anterior pole of the ocular globe, the iris, and the ciliary body. It is usually a symptom of another disease and it causes many psychological impairments and disabilities (severe eye pain in bright light, blurry vision, headache, stress for organization (orderliness), and depression in some cases). This soreness of his eyes had an effect over Falla’s compositions and marked an inflection point in his line of musical creations. Eyes in music have been so relevant in another composers and musicians throughout history.
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- Alicia García-Falgueras
- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,Researcher of the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE), Madrid, Spain
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- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Yang CY, Lee YY, Wei JCC. Interpreting prevention of COVID-19 and vaccines. J Infect Dis 2021; 225:741. [PMID: 34406398 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiab416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Chi Ya Yang
- School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.,Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University; Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University
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Dai L, Liu X, Wang J, Yang C, Chen R. Learning Two-View Correspondences and Geometry via Local Neighborhood Correlation. Entropy (Basel) 2021; 23:1024. [PMID: 34441164 DOI: 10.3390/e23081024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Seeking quality feature correspondences (also known as matches) is a foundational step in computer vision. In our work, a novel and effective network with a stable local constraint, named the Local Neighborhood Correlation Network (LNCNet), is proposed to capture abundant contextual information of each correspondence in the local region, followed by calculating the essential matrix and camera pose estimation. Firstly, the k-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) algorithm is used to divide the local neighborhood roughly. Then, we calculate the local neighborhood correlation matrix (LNC) between the selected correspondence and other correspondences in the local region, which is used to filter outliers to obtain more accurate local neighborhood information. We cluster the filtered information into feature vectors containing richer neighborhood contextual information so that they can be used to more accurately determine the probability of correspondences as inliers. Extensive experiments have demonstrated that our proposed LNCNet performs better than some state-of-the-art networks to accomplish outlier rejection and camera pose estimation tasks in complex outdoor and indoor scenes.
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Ricci AD, Rizzo A, Brandi G. The DNA damage repair (DDR) pathway in biliary tract cancer (BTC): a new Pandora's box? ESMO Open 2021; 5:e001042. [PMID: 32994319 PMCID: PMC7526276 DOI: 10.1136/esmoopen-2020-001042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2020] [Accepted: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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- Angela Dalia Ricci
- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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Feng XW, Feng DZ. A Robust Nonrigid Point Set Registration Method Based on Collaborative Correspondences. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:s20113248. [PMID: 32517316 PMCID: PMC7308981 DOI: 10.3390/s20113248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
The nonrigid point set registration is one of the bottlenecks and has the wide applications in computer vision, pattern recognition, image fusion, video processing, and so on. In a nonrigid point set registration problem, finding the point-to-point correspondences is challengeable because of the various image degradations. In this paper, a robust method is proposed to accurately determine the correspondences by fusing the two complementary structural features, including the spatial location of a point and the local structure around it. The former is used to define the absolute distance (AD), and the latter is exploited to define the relative distance (RD). The AD-correspondences and the RD-correspondences can be established based on AD and RD, respectively. The neighboring corresponding consistency is employed to assign the confidence for each RD-correspondence. The proposed heuristic method combines the AD-correspondences and the RD-correspondences to determine the corresponding relationship between two point sets, which can significantly improve the corresponding accuracy. Subsequently, the thin plate spline (TPS) is employed as the transformation function. At each step, the closed-form solutions of the affine and nonaffine parts of TPS can be independently and robustly solved. It facilitates to analyze and control the registration process. Experimental results demonstrate that our method can achieve better performance than several existing state-of-the-art methods.
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Turner MR, Smith PEM. Clinic letters revisited. Pract Neurol 2020; 19:457. [PMID: 31575755 DOI: 10.1136/practneurol-2019-002287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Martin R Turner
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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Short KM, Morena MA. Signatures of Quantum Mechanics in Chaotic Systems. Entropy (Basel) 2019; 21:e21060618. [PMID: 33267332 PMCID: PMC7515111 DOI: 10.3390/e21060618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
Abstract
We examine the quantum-classical correspondence from a classical perspective by discussing the potential for chaotic systems to support behaviors normally associated with quantum mechanical systems. Our main analytical tool is a chaotic system’s set of cupolets, which are highly-accurate stabilizations of its unstable periodic orbits. Our discussion is motivated by the bound or entangled states that we have recently detected between interacting chaotic systems, wherein pairs of cupolets are induced into a state of mutually-sustaining stabilization that can be maintained without external controls. This state is known as chaotic entanglement as it has been shown to exhibit several properties consistent with quantum entanglement. For instance, should the interaction be disturbed, the chaotic entanglement would then be broken. In this paper, we further describe chaotic entanglement and go on to address the capacity for chaotic systems to exhibit other characteristics that are conventionally associated with quantum mechanics, namely analogs to wave function collapse, various entropy definitions, the superposition of states, and the measurement problem. In doing so, we argue that these characteristics need not be regarded exclusively as quantum mechanical. We also discuss several characteristics of quantum systems that are not fully compatible with chaotic entanglement and that make quantum entanglement unique.
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- Kevin M. Short
- Integrated Applied Mathematics Program, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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Tavasoli SM, Kane E, Kupets R. Impact of Patient-Directed Cytology Results Correspondence Program on Follow-Up of High-Grade Pap Tests. J Obstet Gynaecol Can 2019; 41:1461-1469. [PMID: 31053566 DOI: 10.1016/j.jogc.2019.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Revised: 02/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Proper follow-up of high-grade (HG) Pap tests is critical to the prevention of cervical cancer. This study evaluated the impact of a patient-directed cytology results correspondence program on follow-up of HG Pap tests among at-risk women aged 21 to 69 in Ontario. METHODS A cohort study with a historical control was used to investigate the impact of a result letter on adherence to follow-up after an HG Pap test. Analyses were conducted on an intention-to-treat basis. The intervention group was defined as women with an HG Pap test in 2014-2016, and the control group included women with an HG Pap test in 2010-2012. Follow-up was defined as a colposcopy or related treatments within 6 months of an HG Pap test. Factors that could influence adherence to follow-up were included as covariates in a multivariable logistic regression model (Canadian Task Force Classification II-2). RESULTS The study population comprised 7088 women in the intervention group and 6887 women in the non-intervention group. The follow-up rate in the intervention group was 86.2% compared with 81.0% in the non-intervention group. Controlling for covariates, women in the intervention group were more likely to have a follow-up (adjusted odds ratio 1.5; 95% confidence interval 1.3-1.6). Other significant factors included being registered to a family physician and the physician's gender. CONCLUSIONS A patient-directed correspondence program that provides Pap test results directly to the woman may reduce loss to follow-up for an HG abnormality, with an increased likelihood that these women will seek and complete a colposcopy and related treatment.
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- Simon M Tavasoli
- Department of Prevention and Cancer Control, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON
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- Department of Prevention and Cancer Control, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON
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- Department of Prevention and Cancer Control, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON; Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON.
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Cayron C. The transformation matrices (distortion, orientation, correspondence), their continuous forms and their variants. Acta Crystallogr A Found Adv 2019; 75:411-437. [PMID: 31041899 DOI: 10.1107/s205327331900038x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The crystallography of displacive/martensitic phase transformations can be described with three types of matrix: the lattice distortion matrix, the orientation relationship matrix and the correspondence matrix. Given here are some formulae to express them in crystallographic, orthonormal and reciprocal bases, and an explanation is offered of how to deduce the matrices of inverse transformation. In the case of the hard-sphere assumption, a continuous form of distortion matrix can be determined, and its derivative is identified to the velocity gradient used in continuum mechanics. The distortion, orientation and correspondence variants are determined by coset decomposition with intersection groups that depend on the point groups of the phases and on the type of transformation matrix. The stretch variants required in the phenomenological theory of martensitic transformation should be distinguished from the correspondence variants. The orientation and correspondence variants are also different; they are defined from the geometric symmetries and algebraic symmetries, respectively. The concept of orientation (ir)reversibility during thermal cycling is briefly and partially treated by generalizing the orientation variants with n-cosets and graphs. Some simple examples are given to show that there is no general relation between the numbers of distortion, orientation and correspondence variants, and to illustrate the concept of orientation variants formed by thermal cycling.
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- Cyril Cayron
- Laboratory of ThermoMechanical Metallurgy (LMTM), PX Group Chair, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de la Maladière, 71b, Neuchâtel 2000, Switzerland
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Saunders R, Tan XG, Bagchi A. On the Development of Interspecies Traumatic Brain Injury Correspondence Rules. Mil Med 2019; 184:181-194. [PMID: 30901476 DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usy360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Traumatic brain injury analysis in human is exceedingly difficult due to the methods in which data can be collected, thus many researchers commonly implement animal surrogates. However, use of these surrogates is costly and restricted by ethical concerns and test logistics. Computational models and simulations do not have these constraints and can produce significant amounts of data in relatively short periods. This paper shows the development of a human head and neck model and a full body porcine model. Both models are developed from high-resolution CT and MRI scans and the latest low-to-high strain rate mechanical data available in the literature to represent tissue component material behaviors. Both models are validated against experiments from the literature and used to complete an initial interspecies correspondence rule development study for blast overpressure effects. The results indicate the similarities in the way injury develops in the pig brain and human brain but these similarities occur at very different insult levels. These results are extended by a study, which shows that blast peak pressure is the driving factor in injury prediction and, depending on the injury metric used, significantly different injuries could be predicted.
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- Robert Saunders
- Multifunctional Materials Branch, Materials Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW., Washington, DC
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- Multifunctional Materials Branch, Materials Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW., Washington, DC
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- Multifunctional Materials Branch, Materials Science and Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW., Washington, DC
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Stegmann ME, Meijer JM, Nuver J, Havenga K, Hiltermann TJN, Maduro JH, Schuling J, Berendsen AJ. Correspondence between primary and secondary care about patients with cancer: A qualitative mixed-methods analysis. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 2018; 28:e12903. [PMID: 30138956 PMCID: PMC6588262 DOI: 10.1111/ecc.12903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Revised: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cancer care is complex and involves many different healthcare providers, especially during diagnosis and initial treatment, and it has been reported that both general practitioners and oncology specialists experience difficulties with interdisciplinary communication. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore information sharing between primary and secondary care for patients with lung, breast or colorectal cancer. A qualitative content analysis of 50 medical files (419 documents) was performed, which identified 70 correspondence‐related items. Six main topics were identified in most referral letters from primary to secondary care, but it was particularly notable that highly relevant information regarding the past medical history was often mixed with less relevant information. To lesser extents, the same held true for the medication list and presenting history. In the letters from specialists, nine topics were identified in most letters. Although information about actual treatment was always present, only limited detail, if any, was given about the intent of the treatment (curative or palliative) or the treatment alternatives. Interviews with nine healthcare providers confirmed these issues. These findings indicate that neither the initial referral nor the specialist correspondence is tailored to the needs of the recipient.
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- Mariken E Stegmann
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of General Practice, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of General Practice, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Oncology, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Abdominal Surgery, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Radiation Oncology, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of General Practice, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of General Practice, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Tu L, Styner M, Vicory J, Elhabian S, Wang R, Hong J, Paniagua B, Prieto JC, Yang D, Whitaker R, Pizer SM. Skeletal Shape Correspondence Through Entropy. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2018; 37:1-11. [PMID: 28945591 PMCID: PMC5943061 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2017.2755550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We present a novel approach for improving the shape statistics of medical image objects by generating correspondence of skeletal points. Each object's interior is modeled by an s-rep, i.e., by a sampled, folded, two-sided skeletal sheet with spoke vectors proceeding from the skeletal sheet to the boundary. The skeleton is divided into three parts: the up side, the down side, and the fold curve. The spokes on each part are treated separately and, using spoke interpolation, are shifted along that skeleton in each training sample so as to tighten the probability distribution on those spokes' geometric properties while sampling the object interior regularly. As with the surface/boundary-based correspondence method of Cates et al., entropy is used to measure both the probability distribution tightness and the sampling regularity, here of the spokes' geometric properties. Evaluation on synthetic and real world lateral ventricle and hippocampus data sets demonstrate improvement in the performance of statistics using the resulting probability distributions. This improvement is greater than that achieved by an entropy-based correspondence method on the boundary points.
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Chiang HH, Liaw JJ. [ Correspondence in Humanistic Care]. Hu Li Za Zhi 2017; 64:50-58. [PMID: 28948591 DOI: 10.6224/jn.000068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Intersubjectivity is a significant element of humanistic care. However, there is a lack of evidence related to the perceptions of nurses in clinical practice settings. PURPOSE To explore the evidence of correspondence in clinical intersubjective caring activities. METHODS The van Manen's thematic analysis approach was used to analyze the data, which was obtained from dialogues in small group learning settings. Six scenarios were identified to define the nature of correspondence in nursing care. RESULTS In terms of reason, ethical relation, and activity, the following three items of correspondence in humanistic care were identified: coexistence through reconciling relationships with the other, cooperation through bringing out (unfolding) and not through putting in (imposition), co-transcendence from actions and reflections. CONCLUSIONS / IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE By adopting openness in correspondence, nurses may promote coexistence through being open-minded to their opposite, promote cooperation with their opposite, and promote co-transcendence through pursuing authentic existence. The findings show that correspondence that is grounded in coexistence, cooperation, and co-transcendence promotes creativity and diversity in caring actions.
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- Hsien-Hsien Chiang
- MSN, RN, Professor, Institute of Clinical Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, and Professor (Joint Appointment), School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, ROC.
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- PhD, RN, Professor, School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan, ROC
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Findlen P, Marcus H. The breakdown of Galileo's Roman network: Crisis and community, ca. 1633. Soc Stud Sci 2017; 47:326-352. [PMID: 28032525 DOI: 10.1177/0306312716676657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Rome has long been central to the story of Galileo's life and scientific work. Through an analysis of the metadata of Galileo's surviving letters, combined with a close reading of the letters themselves, we discuss how Galileo used correspondence to build a Roman network. Galileo initially assembled this network around the members of the Lincean Academy, a few carefully nurtured relationships with important ecclesiastics, and the expertise of well positioned Tuscan diplomats in the Eternal City. However, an analysis of Galileo's correspondence in the aftermath of the trial of 1633 provides us with a unique opportunity to interrogate how his altered circumstances transformed his social relations. Forced to confront the limitations on his activities imposed by Catholic censure and house arrest, Galileo experienced the effects of these restrictions in his relationships with others and especially in his plans for publication. In the years following 1633, Galileo turned his epistolary attention north to the Veneto and to Paris in order to publish his Two New Sciences. While Galileo's Lincean network and papal contacts in Rome were defunct after 1633, we see how Rome remained important to him as the site of a number of Roman disciples who would continue his intellectual project long after his own death.
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Choi H, Kim E. New Compact 3-Dimensional Shape Descriptor for a Depth Camera in Indoor Environments. Sensors (Basel) 2017; 17:s17040876. [PMID: 28420155 PMCID: PMC5424753 DOI: 10.3390/s17040876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2016] [Revised: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study questions why existing local shape descriptors have high dimensionalities (up to hundreds) despite simplicity of local shapes. We derived an answer from a historical context and provided an alternative solution by proposing a new compact descriptor. Although existing descriptors can express complicated shapes and depth sensors have been improved, complex shapes are rarely observed in an ordinary environment and a depth sensor only captures a single side of a surface with noise. Therefore, we designed a new descriptor based on principal curvatures, which is compact but practically useful. For verification, the CoRBS dataset, the RGB-D Scenes dataset and the RGB-D Object dataset were used to compare the proposed descriptor with existing descriptors in terms of shape, instance, and category recognition rate. The proposed descriptor showed a comparable performance with existing descriptors despite its low dimensionality of 4.
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- Hyukdoo Choi
- School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea.
- LG Electronics, Seoul 08592, Korea.
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- School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea.
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Rey AL. [Agonism and antagonism]. Rev Synth 2016; 137:227-246. [PMID: 28205086 DOI: 10.1007/s11873-016-0301-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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This essay considers dissensus as the starting point for the construction of a common epistemic space rather than as the acknowledgement of an irreducible disagreement. In the argumentative confrontation and disagreements, we do not want to identify a process which might lead to agreement through rational debate. The aim of this essay is rather to understand how dissensus leads to the constitution of plural communities. It discusses a certain number of texts of political philosophy (Habermas, Mouffe, etc.), where the notion of agreement is crucial to an analysis of argumentative confrontations. This essay uses the hypothesis to analyse the circulation of Leibniz's dynamics in his correspondence with De Volder. This perspective shows eventually that dissensus is not an obstacle but the basis on which multiple circulations of theories are possible.
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- Anne-Lise Rey
- Université de Lille I, UMR Savoirs, Textes, Langage. UFR Physique, (bât. P5). Cité scientifique, 59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
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Homology is a relation of correspondence between parts of parts of larger wholes. It is used when tracking objects of interest through space and time and in the context of explanatory historical narratives. Homologues can be traced through a genealogical nexus back to a common ancestral precursor. Homology being a transitive relation, homologues remain homologous however much they may come to differ. Analogy is a relationship of correspondence between parts of members of classes having no relationship of common ancestry. Although homology is often treated as an alternative to convergence, the latter is not a kind of correspondence: rather, it is one of a class of processes that also includes divergence and parallelism. These often give rise to misleading appearances (homoplasies). Parallelism can be particularly hard to detect, especially when not accompanied by divergences in some parts of the body.
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- Michael T Ghiselin
- California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
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Tu L, Styner M, Vicory J, Paniagua B, Prieto JC, Yang D, Pizer SM. Skeletal shape correspondence via entropy minimization. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2015; 9413. [PMID: 26028804 DOI: 10.1117/12.2081245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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PURPOSE Improving the shape statistics of medical image objects by generating correspondence of interior skeletal points. DATA Synthetic objects and real world lateral ventricles segmented from MR images. METHODS Each object's interior is modeled by a skeletal representation called the s-rep, which is a quadrilaterally sampled, folded 2-sided skeletal sheet with spoke vectors proceeding from the sheet to the boundary. The skeleton is divided into three parts: up-side, down-side and fold-curve. The spokes on each part are treated separately and, using spoke interpolation, are shifted along their skeletal parts in each training sample so as to tighten the probability distribution on those spokes' geometric properties while sampling the object interior regularly. As with the surface-based correspondence method of Cates et al., entropy is used to measure both the probability distribution tightness and sampling regularity. The spokes' geometric properties are skeletal position, spoke length and spoke direction. The properties used to measure the regularity are the volumetric subregions bounded by the spokes, their quadrilateral sub-area and edge lengths on the skeletal surface and on the boundary. RESULTS Evaluation on synthetic and real world lateral ventricles demonstrated improvement in the performance of statistics using the resulting probability distributions, as compared to methods based on boundary models. The evaluation measures used were generalization, specificity, and compactness. CONCLUSIONS S-rep models with the proposed improved correspondence provide significantly enhanced statistics as compared to standard boundary models.
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- Liyun Tu
- Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing, China ; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC, USA
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- Brigham and Women's hospital, Center of Neurological Imaging, Boston MA, USA
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- Chongqing University, Shapingba, Chongqing, China
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC, USA
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Kenneth Hammond introduced a distinction between coherence and correspondence criteria of rationality as a tool in the study of judgment and decision-making. This distinction has been widely used in the field. Yet, as this paper seeks to show, the relevant notions of coherence and correspondence have been progressively considered to be too narrow and have undergone non-trivial conceptual changes since their original introduction. I try to show, first, that the proliferation of conceptualizations of coherence and correspondence has created confusion in the literature and that appealing to such notions has not helped to elucidate discussions over the nature of rational judgment and decision-making. Nevertheless, I also argue for a reframing of the debate. In fact, what seems to underlie several contemporary appeals to the notions of coherence and correspondence is best explained in terms of a contrast between what I call rule-based and goal-based rationality. Whilst these categories do need further refinement, they do seem to be useful for organizing and understanding research on rational judgment and decision-making.
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Nelson TD, Lundahl A, Molfese DL, Waford RN, Roman A, Gozal D, Molfese VJ, Ferguson MC. Estimating child sleep from parent report of time in bed: development and evaluation of adjustment approaches. J Pediatr Psychol 2014; 39:624-32. [PMID: 24781412 DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsu020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate adjustment factors to convert parent-reported time in bed to an estimate of child sleep time consistent with objective measurement. METHODS A community sample of 217 children aged 4-9 years (mean age = 6.6 years) wore actigraph wristwatches to objectively measure sleep for 7 days while parents completed reports of child sleep each night. After examining the moderators of the discrepancy between parent reports and actigraphy, 3 adjustment factors were evaluated. RESULTS Parent report of child sleep overestimated nightly sleep duration by ∼24 min per night relative to actigraphy. Child age, gender, and sleep quality all had small or nonsignificant associations with correspondence between parent report and actigraph. Empirically derived adjustment factors significantly reduced the discrepancy between parent report and objective measurement. CONCLUSIONS Simple adjustment factors can enhance the correspondence and utility of parent reports of child sleep duration for clinical and research purposes.
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- Timothy D Nelson
- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of LouisvilleDepartment of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville
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Breure ASH. Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Zookeys 2013:1-101. [PMID: 23794831 PMCID: PMC3677393 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.279.4701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2013] [Accepted: 02/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The type status is described of 96 taxa classified within the superfamily Orthalicoidea and present in the Mollusca collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Lectotypes are designated for the following taxa: Orthalicus elegans Rolle, 1895; Bulimus maranhonensis Albers, 1854; Orthalicus nobilis Rolle, 1895; Orthalichus tricinctus Martens, 1893. Orthalicus sphinx tresmariae is introduced as new name for Zebra sphinx turrita Strebel, 1909, not Zebra quagga turrita Strebel, 1909. The following synonyms are established: Zebra crosseifischeri Strebel, 1909 = Orthalicus princeps fischeri Martens, 1893; Orthalicus isabellinus Martens, 1873 = Orthalicus bensoni (Reeve, 1849); Zebra zoniferus naesiotes Strebel, 1909 = Orthalicus undatus (Bruguière, 1789); Porphyrobaphe (Myiorthalicus) dennisoni pallida Strebel, 1909 = Hemibulimus dennisoni (Reeve, 1848); Zebra delphinus pumilio Strebel, 1909 = Orthalicus delphinus (Strebel, 1909); Orthalicus (Laeorthalicus) reginaeformis Strebel, 1909 = Corona perversa (Swainson, 1821); Bulimus (Eurytus) corticosus Sowerby III, 1895 = Plekocheilus (Eurytus) stuebeli Martens, 1885. The taxon Bulimus (Eudioptus) psidii Martens, 1877 is now placed within the family Sagdidae, tentatively in the genus Platysuccinea. Appendices are included with an index to all the types of Orthalicoidea extant (including those listed by Köhler 2007) and a partial list of letters present in the correspondence archives.
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- Abraham S H Breure
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
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Dr. Ougrin's evaluation of cognitive therapy versus exposure in anxiety disorders reported a standardised mean difference [SMD] (95% confidence interval [CI]) of 0.52 (0.37, 0.74) for short-term outcomes and 0.46 (0.29, 0.73) for long-term outcomes in social phobia, and 0.88 (0.69, 1.11) for short-term outcomes and 1.05 (0.80, 1.37) for long-term outcomes in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). These were incorrectly meta-analysed. Upon re-analysis, we found that the correct SMD (95% CI) was -0.66 (-1.19, -0.14) for short-term outcomes and mean difference (95% CI) of -29.66 (-46.13, -13.19) on the Social Phobia subscale from the Social Phobia Anxiety Inventory for long-term outcomes in Social Phobia. For PTSD, the SMD (95% CI) for short-term outcomes was -0.13 (-0.36, 0.11) and 0.05 (-0.22, 0.32) for long-term outcomes. However, correcting the errors did not change the interpretation of the findings considerably.
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- Shanil Ebrahim
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Gardel A, Montejo P, García J, Bravo I, Lázaro JL. Parametric dense stereovision implementation on a system-on chip (SoC). Sensors (Basel) 2012; 12:1863-84. [PMID: 22438742 PMCID: PMC3304144 DOI: 10.3390/s120201863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2012] [Revised: 02/01/2012] [Accepted: 02/07/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This paper proposes a novel hardware implementation of a dense recovery of stereovision 3D measurements. Traditionally 3D stereo systems have imposed the maximum number of stereo correspondences, introducing a large restriction on artificial vision algorithms. The proposed system-on-chip (SoC) provides great performance and efficiency, with a scalable architecture available for many different situations, addressing real time processing of stereo image flow. Using double buffering techniques properly combined with pipelined processing, the use of reconfigurable hardware achieves a parametrisable SoC which gives the designer the opportunity to decide its right dimension and features. The proposed architecture does not need any external memory because the processing is done as image flow arrives. Our SoC provides 3D data directly without the storage of whole stereo images. Our goal is to obtain high processing speed while maintaining the accuracy of 3D data using minimum resources. Configurable parameters may be controlled by later/parallel stages of the vision algorithm executed on an embedded processor. Considering hardware FPGA clock of 100 MHz, image flows up to 50 frames per second (fps) of dense stereo maps of more than 30,000 depth points could be obtained considering 2 Mpix images, with a minimum initial latency. The implementation of computer vision algorithms on reconfigurable hardware, explicitly low level processing, opens up the prospect of its use in autonomous systems, and they can act as a coprocessor to reconstruct 3D images with high density information in real time.
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- Alfredo Gardel
- Electronics Department, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid 28871, Spain; E-Mails: (J.G.); (I.B.); (J.L.L.)
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +34-91-885-6585; Fax: +34-91-885-6540
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- Higher Polytechnic Institute José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), La Habana, 19390, Cuba; E-Mail:
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- Electronics Department, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid 28871, Spain; E-Mails: (J.G.); (I.B.); (J.L.L.)
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- Electronics Department, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid 28871, Spain; E-Mails: (J.G.); (I.B.); (J.L.L.)
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- Electronics Department, University of Alcala, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid 28871, Spain; E-Mails: (J.G.); (I.B.); (J.L.L.)
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De Los Reyes A, Youngstrom EA, Pabón SC, Youngstrom JK, Feeny NC, Findling RL. Internal consistency and associated characteristics of informant discrepancies in clinic referred youths age 11 to 17 years. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 2011; 40:36-53. [PMID: 21229442 PMCID: PMC3078639 DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2011.533402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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In this study, we examined the internal consistency of informant discrepancies in reports of youth behavior and emotional problems and their unique relations with youth, caregiver, and family characteristics. In a heterogeneous multisite clinic sample of 420 youths (ages 11-17 years), high internal consistency estimates were observed across measures of informant discrepancies. Further, latent profile analyses identified systematic patterns of discrepancies, characterized by their magnitude and direction (i.e., which informant reported greater youth problems). In addition, informant discrepancies systematically and uniquely related to informants' own perspectives of youth mood problems, and these relations remained significant after taking into account multiple informants' reports of informant characteristics widely known to relate to informant discrepancies. These findings call into question the prevailing view of informant discrepancies as indicative of unreliability and/or bias on the part of informants' reports of youths' behavior.
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- Andres De Los Reyes
- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Prior work has not tested the basic theoretical notion that informant discrepancies in reports of children's behavior exist, in part, because different informants observe children's behavior in different settings. We examined patterns of observed preschool disruptive behavior across varying social contexts in the laboratory and whether they related to parent-teacher rating discrepancies of disruptive behavior in a sample of 327 preschoolers. Observed disruptive behavior was assessed with a lab-based developmentally sensitive diagnostic observation paradigm that assesses disruptive behavior across three interactions with the child with parent and examiner. Latent class analysis identified four patterns of disruptive behavior: (a) low across parent and examiner contexts, (b) high with parent only, (c) high with examiner only, and (d) high with parent and examiner. Observed disruptive behavior specific to the parent and examiner contexts were uniquely related to parent-identified and teacher-identified disruptive behavior, respectively. Further, observed disruptive behavior across both parent and examiner contexts was associated with disruptive behavior as identified by both informants. Links between observed behavior and informant discrepancies were not explained by child impairment or observed problematic parenting. Findings provide the first laboratory-based support for the Attribution Bias Context Model (De Los Reyes and Kazdin Psychological Bulletin 131:483-509, 2005), which posits that informant discrepancies are indicative of cross-contextual variability in children's behavior and informants' perspectives on this behavior. These findings have important implications for clinical assessment, treatment outcomes, and developmental psychopathology research.
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- Andres De Los Reyes
- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland at College Park, 1147 Biology/Psychology Building, Room 3123H, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
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Mather DP. What do you think? Br J Sports Med 2006; 40:372. [PMID: 16556797 PMCID: PMC2577548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Morrow G, Robson A, Harrington B, Haining S. A qualitative study to investigate why patients accept or decline a copy of their referral letter from their GP. Br J Gen Pract 2005; 55:626-9. [PMID: 16105372 PMCID: PMC1463244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Our practice in Northumberland has offered patients copies of their clinical referral letters for almost 3 years. However, many patients declined this offer and this qualitative study was conducted to determine why almost 80% of patients offered a copy of their referral letter opted not to receive one. AIM To discover why some patients accepted and others declined a copy of the letter written from GP to specialist. DESIGN OF STUDY A qualitative focus-group study. SETTING General practice in Northumberland. METHOD Three focus groups of referred patients were created, and discussions were taped, transcribed and analysed for major themes. RESULTS The patients chose to accept or decline a copy of their referral letter for diverse reasons. However, most felt that the ability to choose for themselves whether to have a copy or not was essential. CONCLUSIONS The concept of trust in their GP was a major theme that patients related was often behind their decision to decline a copy of their letter. These results, if transferable, may have implications for the application of this policy.
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OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of providing recordings or summaries of consultations to people with cancer and their families. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, CINAHL, Cancerlit, EMBASE and other electronic bibliographic databases. Bibliographies of relevant papers. SELECTION CRITERIA Randomized and non-randomized controlled trials of the provision of taped recordings or written summaries of consultations to people with cancer and/or their families. MAIN RESULTS Eight randomized controlled trials were found, all involving adult participants. No non-randomized controlled trials were found. The quality of the studies was generally poor. Between 83% and 96% of people who received recordings or summaries found them useful to remind them of what was said and/or to inform family members and friends about their illness and treatment. Of seven studies that assessed recall of information given during the consultation, four reported better recall among the groups that received recordings or summaries than among control groups. Receiving a recording or summary had no significant effect on anxiety or depression between the groups. None of the included studies assessed survival or health outcomes other than psychological outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Wider use of consultation tapes and summary letters could benefit many adults with cancer, without causing additional anxiety or depression, but consideration should be given to individuals' circumstances and preferences.
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- Department of Health Studies, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
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