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The impact of a register on the management of neonatal cooling in Switzerland.
No full textBACKGROUND
Therapeutic hypothermia following hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy in term infants was introduced into Switzerland in 2005. Initial documentation of perinatal and resuscitation details was poor and neuromonitoring insufficient. In 2011, a National Asphyxia and Cooling Register was introduced.
AIMS
To compare management of cooled infants before and after introduction of the register concerning documentation, neuromonitoring, cooling methods and evaluation of temperature variability between cooling methods.
STUDY DESIGN
Data of cooled infants before the register was in place (first time period: 2005-2010) and afterwards (second time period: 2011-2012) was collected with a case report form.
RESULTS
150 infants were cooled during the first time period and 97 during the second time period. Most infants were cooled passively or passively with gel packs during both time periods (82% in 2005-2010 vs 70% in 2011-2012), however more infants were cooled actively during the second time period (18% versus 30%). Overall there was a significant reduction in temperature variability (p < 0.001) comparing the two time periods. A significantly higher proportion of temperature measurements within target temperature range (72% versus 77%, p < 0.001), fewer temperature measurements above (24% versus 7%, p < 0.001) and more temperatures below target range (4% versus 16%, p < 0.001) were recorded during the second time period. Neuromonitoring improved after introduction of the cooling register.
CONCLUSION
Management of infants with HIE improved since introducing the register. Temperature variability was reduced, more temperature measurements in the target range and fewer temperature measurements above target range were observed. Neuromonitoring has improved, however imaging should be performed more often
A call to action: What school leaders can do in response to the truth and reconciliation report
No full textThe Italian Multiple Sclerosis Register
No full textThe past decade has seen extraordinary increase in worldwide availability of and access to several large multiple sclerosis (MS) databases and registries. MS registries represent powerful tools to provide meaningful information on the burden, natural history, and long-term safety and effectiveness of treatments. Moreover, patients, physicians, industry, and policy makers have an active interest in real-world observational studies based on register data, as they have the potential to answer the questions that are most relevant to daily treatment decision-making. In 2014, the Italian MS Foundation, in collaboration with the Italian MS clinical centers, promoted and funded the creation of the Italian MS Register, a project in continuity with the existing Italian MS Database Network set up from 2001. Main objective of the Italian MS Register is to create an organized multicenter structure to collect data of all MS patients for better defining the disease epidemiology, improving quality of care, and promoting research projects in high-priority areas. The aim of this article is to present the current framework and network of the Italian MS register, including the methodology used to improve the quality of data collection and to facilitate the exchange of data and the collaboration among national and international groups
Register in Mah Meri
No full textThis paper presents the results of a first phonetic investigation of register in Mah Meri, a Southern Aslian language spoken in Peninsular Malaysia, and part of the larger Austroasiatic family spread throughout South and Southeast Asia. Voice register, a complex of laryngeal and supralaryngeal properties, is a common areal feature amongst members of the Austroasiatic family (particularly the Mon-Khmer group) but has never previously been reported to occur in an Aslian language. We consider general spectral appearance, duration and f0 in order to see how well they correlate with perceived differences in register
History−Register Automata
No full textPrograms with dynamic allocation are able to create and use an unbounded number of fresh resources, such as references, objects, files, etc. We propose History-Register
Automata (HRA), a new automata-theoretic formalism for modelling such programs. HRAs extend the expressiveness of previous approaches and bring us to the limits of decidability
for reachability checks. The distinctive feature of our machines is their use of unbounded memory sets (histories) where input symbols can be selectively stored and compared with
symbols to follow. In addition, stored symbols can be consumed or deleted by reset. We show that the combination of consumption and reset capabilities renders the automata
powerful enough to imitate counter machines, and yields closure under all regular operations apart from complementation. We moreover examine weaker notions of HRAs which strike
different balances between expressiveness and effectiveness
Trick of Political Identity: Analysing Appraisal System on 212 Movement Reunion in Online Media
No full textThis study aims to evaluate the appraisal system of the 212 movement reunion in online media. Data were from the news of “trick of political identity” in Tirto online media. Data analysis was conducted using Spradley's theory modified by Santosa. The results indicate that appraisal system pattern of 212 reunion movement utilize attitude (43%), graduation (15%) and engagement system (42%). The attitude system uses a 42% affective subsystem pattern and 58% subsystem judgment. Graduation system uses a 70% force and 30% focus pattern. The engagement system is dominated by the use of heterogloss patterns of 82% rather than 18% monoglos. This percentage shows that the author discusses political identity in the 212 movement reunion. In his writing, the author is objective, neutral, independent and adheres to the principle of professionalism. This is proven by the high percentage of subsystem judgment 58% on the attitude system and 82% heterogloss usage on engagement system. The high percentage of use of focus force patterns shows that the author tries to use language that is easily understood by the wider community Keywords: Media online; Political Identity; 212 Movement Reunion; Appraisal System
Validity of a hospital-based obstetric register using medical records as reference
No full textCarina Sjöberg Brixval,1 Lau Caspar Thygesen,1 Nanna Roed Johansen,2 Christina Rørbye,3 Tom Weber,3 Pernille Due,1 Vibeke Koushede1 1National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark Background: Data from hospital-based registers and medical records offer valuable sources of information for clinical and epidemiological research purposes. However, conducting high-quality epidemiological research requires valid and complete data sources. Objective: To assess completeness and validity of a hospital-based clinical register – the Obstetric Database – using a national register and medical records as references. Methods: We assessed completeness of a hospital-based clinical register – the Obstetric Database – by linking data from all women registered in the Obstetric Database as having given birth in 2013 to the National Patient Register with coverage of all births in 2013. Validity of eleven selected indicators from the Obstetric Database was assessed using medical records as a golden standard. Using a random sample of 250 medical records, we calculated proportion of agreement, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values for each indicator. Two assessors independently reviewed medical records and inter-rater reliability was calculated as proportion of agreement and Cohen's κ coefficient. Results: We found 100% completeness of the Obstetric Database when compared to the Danish National Patient Register. Except for one delivery all 6,717 deliveries were present in both registers. Proportion of agreement between the Obstetric Database and medical records ranged from 91.1% to 99.6% for the eleven indicators. The validity measures ranged from 0.70 to 1.00 indicating high validity of the Obstetric Database. κ coefficients from the inter-rater reliability ranged from 0.71 to 1.00. Conclusion: Completeness and validity of the Obstetric Database were found acceptable when using the National Patient Register and medical records as golden standards. The Obstetric Database therefore offers a valuable source for examining clinical, administrative, and research questions. Keywords: obstetric register, register-based, hospital register, validity, completenes
Teacher Report Forms (TRF) and Conners' Teacher Rating Scale ( short version - Revised ) in twins and siblings registered with the Netherlands Twin Registry (NTR)
No full textThe data were collected between 1999 and 2013 as part of the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR)'s annual teacher survey. The data collection for the teacher surveys is ongoing and each year, the parents of children that are approximately 7, 9 (before 2009 10 years old) and 12 years old are contacted to ask for their permission to approach the teacher(s) of their children.
The survey for the primary school teachers includes limited information on the teacher, class and school, items on adaptive functioning of the child at school, the Teacher report Form (TRF) (Achenbach, 2009; Verhulst & van der Ende, 2004) and the short version of the Conners’ Teacher Ratings Scale - Revised (CTRS-R) (Conners et al., 1998; Conners, 2001).
The survey data are stored in harmonized databases organized by age at the time of data collection. Since the CTRS-R data was collected separately from the rest of the teacher survey until 2006, it is stored in a separate database.
In EASY, the databases from for the different age versions of TRF and CTRS-R can be linked through anonymous identification numbers. Please consult the data manual (DocumentationDataCollectionTRF_NTR.pdf) for more information about the data collection and the relationships between the datasets from the NTR teacher surve
Study design and rationale of the pAtients pResenTing with cOngenital heaRt dIseAse Register (ARTORIA-R)
No full textAim: Due to improved therapy in childhood, many patients with congenital heart disease reach adulthood and are termed adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD). ACHD often develop heart failure (HF) as a consequence of initial palliative surgery or complex anatomy and subsequently require advanced HF therapy. ACHD are usually excluded from trials evaluating heart failure therapies, and in this context, more data about heart failure trajectories in ACHD are needed to guide the management of ACHD suffering from HF. Methods and results: The pAtients pResenTing with cOngenital heaRt dIseAse Register (ARTORIA-R) will collect data from ACHD evaluated or listed for heart or heart-combined organ transplantation from 16 countries in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region. We plan retrospective collection of data from 1989–2020 and will include patients prospectively. Additional organizations and hospitals in charge of transplantation of ACHD will be asked in the future to contribute data to the r..
Effects of mode, consonance, and register in a picture-, and word-evaluation affective priming task
No full textBackground
Sollberger, Reber, and Eckstein (2003), using an affective priming paradigm, have demonstrated
that the affective tone of musical chords influences the evaluation of target words. Affective tone was manipulated using consonant and dissonant chords, and target words were pleasant or unpleasant.
The results showed that negative targets were evaluated significantly faster if preceded
by a dissonant rather than a consonant chord.
Aims
The paradigm of affective priming was applied to verify if: (a) major and minor chords presented
in high and low register can significantly influence reaction times and response accuracy in a wordevaluation
task with happy and sad words as targets; (b) major and minor chords presented in high
and low register can significantly influence reaction times and accuracy in a picture-evaluation
task with happy and sad pictures as targets; (c) consonant and dissonant chords presented in high
and low register can significantly influence reaction times and accuracy in a picture-evaluation
task with pleasant and unpleasant pictures as targets.
Method
The three hypotheses were tested in three different studies. The first one involved 70 participants,
the second one 27, and the third one 29. Participants were university students without professional
music training. Major and minor chords were major and minor C triads. Dissonant chords were
composed by D-G#-D’. Register was manipulated presenting chords at two octave distance. Prime
chords were presented for 800 ms, followed by 200 ms by the target stimulus, whose offset was
determined by the subject’s response. Pictures were selected from the International Affective
Picture System (IAPS).
Results
In the word-evaluation task, a happy word was classified significantly faster and more accurately
if it was preceded by a major chord, or a high register chord, whereas reaction times were significantly
slower if it was preceded by a low register chord. Happy words and pictures were classified
faster than sad words and pictures. In the picture-evaluation task happy and pleasant pictures were
evaluated faster if the prime was a high register chord; sad and unpleasant pictures were evaluated
faster if the prime was a low register chord (congruent pairs). In incongruent pairs reaction times
were significantly slower. In the picture-evaluation task mode and consonance of prime chords did
not influence reaction times, whereas register did.
Conclusion The affective content of musical chords, as results from their mode, consonance,
and register significantly influence cognitive non-musical tasks such a picture- or word-evaluation
task. This means that affective properties of musical stimuli are shared with ongoing mental
processes. These results can contribute to explain the Mozart’s effect, i.e. the influence of musical
stimuli to concomitant cognitive tasks. Mode, consonance, and register are not equally effective in
influencing the evaluation task. As regard to mode major chords were more effective than minor
chords (also Mozart’s effect is found for major excerpts and not for minor ones). Register was
more effective than mode. Since the picture-evaluation task implies more bottom-up processes
than the word-evaluation task, it was less influenced by the affective content of priming chords.
Key words: Affective priming, Emotion, Mode, register, consonanc
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