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2. INSIDE THE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE PARKS
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Czarnecki, Sean
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Advertising campaigns ,National parks and reserves -- Facility closures -- Advertising -- Alliances and partnerships ,Advertising, marketing and public relations ,Business ,National Park Foundation -- Facility closures -- Advertising -- Alliances and partnerships - Abstract
After the federal government shut down in January, the National Park Foundation was thrust into the spotlight, guided by chief of external affairs Robert Mathias A baptism by fire awaited [...]
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- 2019
3. What's the Difference Between Hall-Effect Current Sensing and Position Sensing? Using the Hall-effect for current measurement is inherently robust, but it can be an even more versatile tool when it comes to position sensing
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Czarnecki, Nick
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Magnetic fields -- Measurement ,Measuring instruments -- Measurement ,Business ,Computers and office automation industries ,Electronics and electrical industries - Abstract
Sensing, in all its forms, is fundamental to so many applications. It invariably involves a material transducer, to convert one property to another. In electronics, the sensing element will have [...]
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- 2019
4. Impact of Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair on Preprocedural and Postprocedural Hospitalization Rates
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Andrew Czarnecki, Mark Osten, Shamir R. Mehta, Eric A. Cohen, Pallav Garg, Wael Abuzeid, Dennis T. Ko, Neil Fam, Warren J. Cantor, Vincent W. S. Chan, Lu Han, Benjamin Hibbert, Gideon Cohen, and Geraldine Ong
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Heart Failure ,Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation ,Ontario ,Cardiac Catheterization ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Mitral regurgitation ,genetic structures ,business.industry ,Mitral Valve Insufficiency ,Hospitalization ,Treatment Outcome ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Cardiology ,Humans ,Mitral Valve ,Transcatheter mitral valve repair ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) on hospitalization rates by assessing pre- and postprocedural hospitalization patterns.TMVr has emerged as the treatment of choice for selected patients with mitral regurgitation, but the impact of these procedures on hospital utilization remains unclear.All patients who underwent TMVr in Ontario, Canada, between 2011 and 2017 were included in this observational study using population-based data. Hospitalization person-year rates were assessed in the years before and after TMVr and 4 predefined intervals: 1 to 30, 31 to 90, 91 to 182, and 183 to 365 days. Main outcomes of interest were all-cause and heart failure (HF) hospitalizations. Poisson regression models were used to compare incidence rates across all time periods.The study cohort included 523 patients. In the year preceding TMVr, 66.2% of patients were hospitalized compared with 47.4% in the year following. There were stepwise increases in both all-cause and HF hospitalization rates in the periods preceding the index procedure, and all postprocedural periods had significantly lower hospitalization rates. The adjusted rate ratios for all-cause and HF-related hospitalization in the year after TMVr were 0.65 (95% CI: 0.56-0.76) and 0.38 (95% CI: 0.29-0.51), respectively. All time periods had significant reductions in all-cause and HF hospitalization in the adjusted analysis.In this population-based study, significant reductions were observed in both all-cause and HF-related hospitalizations in all time periods after TMVr compared with the year prior. This suggests that TMVr has a sustained effect on hospitalization rates despite a high-risk population.
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- 2021
5. The influence of shoulder arthrodesis on the function of the upper limb in adult patients after a brachial plexus injury: a systematic literature review with elements of meta-analysis
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Michał Górecki and Piotr Czarnecki
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Shoulder Arthrodesis ,Adult patients ,business.industry ,Shoulder & Elbow ,Mean age ,Shoulder arthrodesis ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Systematic review ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Brachial plexus injury ,Meta-analysis ,medicine ,Upper limb ,Brachial Plexus Palsy ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Systematic Review ,business - Abstract
Based on the literature, 294 shoulder arthrodeses after brachial plexus injury in adults were assessed, mostly male; the mean age of the patients was 33 years, and the mean follow-up time was 5.5 years. The most common cause of injury was a traffic accident, especially on a motorcycle. Arthrodesis position ranged from 15 to 40 degrees of flexion, 15 to 60 degrees of abduction, and 0 to 50 degrees of internal rotation with the predominance of position by the 30-30-30 rule. Plates, screws, and external fixation were used for stabilization. The complication rate was at the level of 28%, the most common complication being delayed union or nonunion. Active movements of flexion and abduction averaged 61 and 56 degrees, respectively, while reaching the hand to the mouth, front pocket, and buttock was feasible for 69%, 71%, and 38%, respectively, after surgery. Shoulder pain was present in 77% of patients, and 28% experienced no relevant pain reduction after surgery. The subjective satisfaction rate was 82% based on significant improvement and satisfaction reported by patients after arthrodesis. Arthrodesis of the shoulder, in adult patients after brachial plexus palsy, can reduce shoulder pain, increase stability, and result in a range of motion that increases the possibility of carrying out everyday activities. This affects the high level of subjective patient satisfaction after surgery.Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2021;6:797-807. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.6.200114
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- 2021
6. Transfer Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving
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Ashish Gaurav, Sean Sedwards, Jae Young Lee, Krzysztof Czarnecki, and Aravind Balakrishnan
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0209 industrial biotechnology ,business.industry ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,02 engineering and technology ,Computer Science Applications ,Domain (software engineering) ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Software ,Modeling and Simulation ,Transfer (computing) ,Perception ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Reinforcement learning ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,business ,Transfer problem ,Simulation ,media_common - Abstract
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an attractive way to implement high-level decision-making policies for autonomous driving, but learning directly from a real vehicle or a high-fidelity simulator is variously infeasible. We therefore consider the problem of transfer reinforcement learning and study how a policy learned in a simple environment using WiseMove can be transferred to our high-fidelity simulator, W ise M ove . WiseMove is a framework to study safety and other aspects of RL for autonomous driving. W ise M ove accurately reproduces the dynamics and software stack of our real vehicle. We find that the accurately modelled perception errors in W ise M ove contribute the most to the transfer problem. These errors, when even naively modelled in WiseMove , provide an RL policy that performs better in W ise M ove than a hand-crafted rule-based policy. Applying domain randomization to the environment in WiseMove yields an even better policy. The final RL policy reduces the failures due to perception errors from 10% to 2.75%. We also observe that the RL policy has significantly less reliance on velocity compared to the rule-based policy, having learned that its measurement is unreliable.
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- 2021
7. From concept to execution: inside Terry Eaton's world of curated fine art for interiors
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Czarnecki, John
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Consulting services ,Company business management ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
In the design of commercial interiors, especially hospitality spaces, the curation and placement of fine art is a critical aspect. Eaton Fine Art (EFA) has been a well-regarded art consulting [...]
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- 2017
8. Eurostar lounge: within Gare du Nord in Paris, Softroom crafts a sublime, refined lounge for Eurostar premium business travelers
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Czarnecki, John
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Travel industry ,Travelers ,Business travel ,Railroads -- Stations ,Company business management ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
Travel has becoming increasingly hectic, mundane, and less of a leisurely joy. The train operator Eurostar had this in mind when it commissioned Softroom to design a new lounge for [...]
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- 2017
9. The Washington Post
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Czarnecki, John
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Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
Client The Washington Post Location Washington, D.C. The Washington Post is a venerated 140-year-old news organization in our nation's capital, with a history that coincides with the big news stories [...]
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- 2017
10. Non-destructive neural identification of the bond between concrete layers in existing elements
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Sadowski, Lukasz, Hola, Jerzy, and Czarnecki, Slawomir
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Concrete -- Analysis -- Mechanical properties ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
ABSTRACT The paper presents the results regarding the identification of the value of the pull-off adhesion between a concrete added layer with a constant thickness and a substrate concrete layer [...]
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- 2016
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11. MARKETING IN CUSTOMS ACTIVITIES
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Pawel Czarnecki, Viktoriia Datsenko, and Viktoriia Khurdei
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General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Business ,Marketing ,General Environmental Science - Published
- 2021
12. Assessment of training and selected factors on speed and quality of performing different tasks on the endoscopic simulator
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Marta Twardowska, Nel Kaczmarek, Maciej Kasprzyk, Michał Łuczak, Piotr Czarnecki, and Jakub Psiuk
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Original Paper ,business.industry ,Urology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,endoscope ,Gastroenterology ,Training (meteorology) ,Obstetrics and Gynecology ,Session (web analytics) ,Test (assessment) ,Task (project management) ,training simulator ,learning curve ,Learning curve ,Medicine ,Surgery ,Quality (business) ,surgical resident training ,business ,Training programme ,Simulation ,media_common - Abstract
Introduction One of the most significant challenges nowadays is to educate and predict the predispositions of young surgeons taking into consideration that every ability has its own learning curve. Aim To determine the influence of selected factors and examine the shape and the length of the learning curve in performing simple tasks on an endoscopic simulator. Material and methods Twenty students took part in 4 training sessions with a one-week break between sessions. They were training 12 min and performed three tasks at every session on the endoscopic simulator. To identify whether selected factors influence the time of completing tasks, the participants were asked to fill in questionnaires. All participants also completed the Minnesota Manual Dexterity Test (MMDT) to assess hand-eye coordination. Results Our research reveals that regardless of activities performed in free time, the shape of the learning curve was logarithmic. Improvement after the fourth session ranged from 50% to 75%. Performing specific activities in the free time did not influence the results achieved on the simulator. No statistically significant correlation between MMDT results and the time to accomplish each task was found. Conclusions This study has shown that the length of the learning curve of performing simple tasks is quite short and the shape is logarithmic. It suggests that more complex exercises should be included in the training programme.
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- 2021
13. Evaluation of Training with the Use of Modern Technologies in a Patient After Recovery from COVID-19. Case Report
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M. Holik, M. Czarnecki, S. Jaworska, A. Latka, and A. Kasprzak
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030203 arthritis & rheumatology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Neuropsychology ,General Medicine ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Acute infectious disease ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,Training program ,business - Abstract
COVID-19 (from Coronavirus Disease 2019) is an acute infectious disease of the respiratory system caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was first recognized and described in December 2019. Research shows that after COVID-19, patients experience fatigue, shortness of breath, neuropsychological symptoms and neurological symptoms. In the presented article, the study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the orginal training program in improving the patient’s endurance, strength and balance after recovering from COVID-19.
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- 2021
14. The rationale for Multilevel Educational and Motivational Intervention in Patients after Myocardial Infarction (MEDMOTION) project is to support multicentre randomized clinical trial Evaluating Safety and Efficacy of Two Ticagrelor-based De-escalation Antiplatelet Strategies in Acute Coronary Syndrome (ELECTRA – SIRIO 2)
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Tomasz Derewiecki, Piotr Michalski, Katarzyna Ulaszewska, Elżbieta Grzechowiak, Beata Sulikowska, Grzegorz Kozera, Ewa Szeremeta, Piotr Adamski, Marcin Ziółkowski, Aldona Kubica, Julia M. Umińska, Andrzej Kleinrok, Małgorzata Jasiewicz, Anna Bączkowska, Jacek Kubica, Rafał Donderski, and Damian Czarnecki
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Acute coronary syndrome ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,Psychological intervention ,Disease ,medicine.disease ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,Intervention (counseling) ,Emergency medicine ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Myocardial infarction ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Ticagrelor ,De-escalation ,medicine.drug - Abstract
The Multilevel Educational and Motivational Intervention in Patients after Myocardial Infarction (MEDMOTION) project will be adopted to support adherence to the study treatment in the Evaluation Safety and Efficacy of Two Ticagrelor-based De-escalation Antiplatelet Strategies in Acute Coronary Syndrome (ELECTRA-SIRIO 2) a randomized clinical trial. A prespecified sub-analysis of the ELECTRA-SIRIO 2 trial will be performed to evaluate the impact of the results of MEDMOTION diagnostic questionnaires on the clinical outcomes. The study population will comprise of 4,500 patients consecutively admitted to the study centres due to acute coronary syndrome. The MEDMOTION project involves the following interventions: patients’ education, motivation, reminding to take medications and to attend consecutive medical appointments. Dedicated questionnaires will be applied to diagnose study participants with regard to their readiness for discharge from the hospital at the end of initial hospitalization, the risk of non-adherence to the medication at the end of 3rd and 12th month of follow up, and the functioning in disease at the end of 3rd and 12th month of follow up. The primary safety composite endpoint of this study is type 2, 3 or 5 bleeding according to the BARC criteria, occurring during the first 12 months after ACS. The primary efficacy endpoint is the composite of death from any cause, the first nonfatal MI, or the first nonfatal stroke. The key secondary endpoint, net clinical effect, was defined as the composite of death from any cause, a nonfatal MI or a nonfatal stroke, and the first occurrence of BARC type 2, 3, or 5 bleeding. Concluding, it is expected that the comprehensive approach designed in the MEDMOTION project, including use of diagnostic questionnaires, will significantly contribute to obtaining a high level of adherence to medication and improving clinical outcomes in the ELECTRA-SIRIO 2 trial.
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- 2020
15. Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions dataset
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Danson Evan Garcia, Jason Rebello, Carlos Wang, Steven L. Waslander, Matthew Pitropov, Michael Smart, and Krzysztof Czarnecki
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,0209 industrial biotechnology ,Meteorology ,business.industry ,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) ,Applied Mathematics ,Mechanical Engineering ,Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,02 engineering and technology ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Lidar ,Artificial Intelligence ,Inertial measurement unit ,Modeling and Simulation ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Global Positioning System ,Environmental science ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business ,Software ,Winter weather - Abstract
The Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions (CADC) dataset was collected with the Autonomoose autonomous vehicle platform, based on a modified Lincoln MKZ. The dataset, collected during winter within the Region of Waterloo, Canada, is the first autonomous driving dataset that focuses on adverse driving conditions specifically. It contains 7,000 frames of annotated data from 8 cameras (Ximea MQ013CG-E2), lidar (VLP-32C), and a GNSS+INS system (Novatel OEM638), collected through a variety of winter weather conditions. The sensors are time synchronized and calibrated with the intrinsic and extrinsic calibrations included in the dataset. Lidar frame annotations that represent ground truth for 3D object detection and tracking have been provided by Scale AI.
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- 2020
16. Factors affecting the final outcomes after reconstruction of the median and ulnar nerve at the level of the forearm: Analysis of 41 patients
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Leszek Romanowski, Piotr Czarnecki, and Michał Górecki
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Younger age ,Adolescent ,Motor function ,Neurosurgical Procedures ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Forearm ,Dash ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Ulnar nerve ,Ulnar Nerve ,Aged ,General Environmental Science ,030222 orthopedics ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Little finger ,Middle Aged ,Hand ,Muscle atrophy ,Median nerve ,Median Nerve ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Background Upper extremity injuries have a significant impact on social and professional life. They represent about 10% of visits to emergency departments. Nerve lacerations are one of the biggest problem because loss of innervation results in muscle atrophy, decreased sensibility, and therefore permanent dysfunction. Appropriate treatment is very important for patients to regain function. Materials and Methods The study included 41 patients, 30 men and 11 women who underwent nerve repair surgery in the middle and distal forearm level in the years 2001–2017. The patients’ age ranged from 9 to 73 years with an average of 37 years. They were divided into 3 groups with repaired median, ulnar and both nerves. We determined time from injury to nerve repair, assessed sensitivity in index and little finger with a two-point discriminator, and muscle strength by measuring adduction of the little finger and palmar abduction of the thumb.Results were rated based on Medical Research Council Scale (MRC). In addition, general hand disability was assessed according to the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire (DASH). Results There was a statistically significant (p = 0.0197), positive correlation (r > 0) between the period from injury to surgery and the DASH score, and statistically significant difference (p = 0.0001) in return of muscular function between groups with median, ulnar and both nerves injury. Also correlation between patients age and score of DASH was statistically significant (p = 0.0140) with positive correlation (r > 0). There was no statistically significant difference in the return of sensitivity (p = 0.4337) and the DASH score (p = 0.3831) between these three groups. Conclusions Patients with shorter time from injury to repair and at a younger age had better DASH results. The median nerve had the best motor function between the groups. There was no difference in sensitivity or DASH scores between groups.
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- 2020
17. Plasma ghrelin in alcohol-dependent patients treated in addiction inpatient centres – preliminary research
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Damian Czarnecki, Barbara Góralczyk, Jacek Budzyński, Marcin Ziółkowski, and Ewa Żekanowska
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H1-99 ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Medicine (General) ,Clinical variables ,business.industry ,alcohol ,Addiction ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Alcohol ,dependence ,clinical variables ,anthropometric variables ,Social sciences (General) ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Endocrinology ,R5-920 ,chemistry ,Internal medicine ,ghrelin ,medicine ,Ghrelin ,business ,media_common - Published
- 2020
18. CONSUMER ATTITUDES TOWARDS INNOVATIVE FOOD PRODUCTS INCLUDING FUNCTIONAL PRODUCTS — IMPLICATIONS FOR MARKETING IN TERMS OF NUTRITION AND HEALTH CLAIMS
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Krystyna Gutkowska and Jacek Czarnecki
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0301 basic medicine ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,Marketing communication ,nutrition and health claims ,lcsh:Social Sciences ,lcsh:H ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,consumer innovativeness ,functional food ,innovative food ,Health claims on food labels ,Functional food ,Food products ,Health food ,Business ,marketing communication ,Marketing ,Business management ,Consumer behaviour - Abstract
In order to identify the attitudes of consumers towards innovative food products, including functional foods, qualitative research was carried out in 2019 to find out what are the components of these attitudes in relation to innovative food, on the example of functional food, in the conditions of the growing global tendency to care for health and convenience. As a result of the research carried out using the focus group interview (FGI) methodology, it was found that innovative food is associated with a new taste or packaging, increased nutritional value, as well as health related attributes. Often, in studies, consumers also referred to the reduction or complete elimination of allergenic ingredients and other chemical ingredients, e.g. preservatives, flavor enhancers. Consumers accept these innovations in different ways, generally showing skepticism about “improving” food by enriching it with various ingredients, while positively referring to changes related to the reduction in the content of nutrients considered harmful to health, e.g. fat, sugar or salt. It was also noted that innovativeness treated as a personality trait is accompanied by such features as: openness, tolerance, optimism, life satisfaction, while people lacking tendency to accept innovation are usually pessimistic about the world, attached to tradition or thrifty. It was also noted that consumers similarly perceive innovative and functional food, indicating that functional products are food with a specific health purpose, with a modified composition. The interviewees also indicated that it is possible to increase the interest of consumers in purchasing new food products or functional food through, inter alia, well targeted marketing messages, and it is necessary to take into account the legal regulations regarding their wording when formulating them. This applies in particular to the possibility of using nutrition and health claims in the case of products enriched with ingredients with a declared health-related effect.
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- 2020
19. Explaining the Formation Rates of Post-Communist Interest Organizations: Density Dependence and Political Opportunity Structure
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Szczepan Czarnecki, Rafael Pablo Labanino, Ana Železnik, and Michael Dobbins
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Structure (mathematical logic) ,Political opportunity ,Central and Eastern Europe ,Organized Interests ,Population Ecology ,Political Opportunity Structure ,Energy Policy ,Higher Education ,Post-Communism ,Sociology and Political Science ,Higher education ,Post communist ,business.industry ,Context (language use) ,Energy policy ,Test (assessment) ,Density dependence ,Political economy ,Political science ,ddc:320 ,business - Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the formation of organized interest groups in the post-communist context and organizational populations over time. We test two theories that shed doubt on whether vital rates of interest groups are explained by individual incentives, namely, the political opportunity structure and population ecology theory. Based on an analysis of the energy policy and higher education policy organizations active at the national level in Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia, we find that while the period of democratic and economic transition indeed opened up the opportunity structure for organizational formations, it by no means presented a clean slate. Communist-era successor and splinter organizations survived the collapse of communism, and all three countries entered transition with relatively high density rates in both organizational populations. We also find partial support for the density dependence hypothesis. Surprisingly, the EU integration process, the intensity of legislative activity, and media attention do not seem to have meaningfully influenced founding rates in the two populations.
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- 2020
20. Emergency Department Cesarean Section for Placental Abruption; Anticipation from Prehospital History with Preparation for Immediate Delivery
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Thompson M, Mark Walsh, Wiarda G, Nuha Zackariya, Sundararajan R, Thomas S, Fulkerson D, Czarnecki D, Al-Fadhl H, Faisal Shariff, Marsee M, Speybroeck J, Clark A, Shariff Fs, and Wadsworth S
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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Placental abruption ,business.industry ,Anticipation (artificial intelligence) ,Section (typography) ,medicine ,Medical emergency ,Emergency department ,medicine.disease ,business ,reproductive and urinary physiology - Abstract
Emergency department cesarean section for placental abruption is an uncommon surgical procedure that requires anticipation in the prehospital environment as well as preemptive recognition of impending fetal demise by the emergency physician. The presence of an obstetrician ready to perform immediate cesarean section on an unstable patient with placental abruption may be lifesaving for both the mother and the fetus. However, there are no specific guidelines for prehospital recognition of patients with placental abruption that require emergency cesarean section. While the emergency department is not the optimum surgical theatre for an emergency cesarean section, placental abruption often deteriorates so quickly that even a few minutes of delay can have catastrophic consequences for both mother and fetus. We describe a case of placental abruption following moderate motor vehicular trauma in an eight month pregnant woman whose only complaint was moderate abdominal pain. The emergency physician’s suspicion based on the mechanism of injury caused her to mobilize the obstetrician, who was ready to perform an emergency department cesarean section with successful delivery of the fetus. Subsequent managing of the mother’s surgical incision and coagulopathy was performed in the operating room. This case highlights the importance of vigilance that prehospital providers, emergency department physicians, and obstetricians should have for a pregnant patient involved in a motor vehicle crash.
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- 2020
21. Second‐home owners as consumers of local food
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Adam Czarnecki, Mariusz Dacko, and Maarit Sireni
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Marketing ,Economics and Econometrics ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Advertising ,Business ,Applied Psychology ,Consumer behaviour - Published
- 2020
22. Multi-Factor Performance Comparison of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cluster and Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine
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Emily Czarnecki, Sean Willison, and Sanjay P. Ahuja
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Amazon web services ,Computer engineering ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Computer cluster ,Performance comparison ,Scalability ,Bandwidth (computing) ,Cloud computing ,business - Abstract
Cloud computing has rapidly become a viable competitor to on-premise infrastructure from both management and cost perspectives. This research provides insight into cluster computing performance and variability in cloud-provisioned infrastructure from two popular public cloud providers. A comparative examination of the two cloud platforms using synthetic benchmarks is provided. In this article, we compared the performance of Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cluster (EC2) to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Compute Engine using three benchmarks: STREAM, IOR, and NPB-EP. Experiments were conducted on clusters with increasing nodes from one to eight. We also performed experiments over the course of two weeks where benchmarks were run at similar times. The benchmarks provided performance metrics for bandwidth (STREAM), read and write performance (IOR), and operations per second (NPB-EP). We found that EC2 outperformed GCP for bandwidth. Both provided good scalability and reliability for bandwidth with GCP showing a slight deviation during the two-week trial. GCP outperformed EC2 in both the read and write tests (IOR) as well as the operations per second test. However, GCP was extremely variable during the read and write tests over the two-week trial. Overall, each platform excelled in different benchmarks and we found EC2 to be more reliable in general.
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- 2020
23. ANTERIOR APPROACH TO EN-BLOCK RESECTION OF THE OSTEOID-OSTEOMA TO POSTERIOR SIDE OF PROXIMAL TIBIA. CASE REPORT
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Andrey Beletskiy, Piotr Czarnecki, Stanislau Tratsiak, and Andrey Bespalchuk
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Proximal tibia ,Osteoid osteoma ,business.industry ,Block (telecommunications) ,Medicine ,Anterior approach ,Anatomy ,business ,medicine.disease ,Resection - Published
- 2020
24. Muzycznoliteracki agon tożsamości: 'Konrad Wallenrod'
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Jan Wawrzyniec Czarnecki
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Literature ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Poetry ,business.industry ,Metaphor ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Musical ,Art ,Hymn ,Ballad ,Source text ,Singing ,business ,Storytelling ,media_common - Abstract
The central scene of Adam Mickiewicz’s historic tale Konrad Wallenrod [Konrad Wallenrod] (canto IV) is, diegetically speaking, a singing contest. Its poetic presentation is deeply anchored in Homeric, Pauline, and Troubadour traditions of agon intended both as musicopoetic rivalry and as spiritual struggle. What is at stake here are identities: Konrad-Alf’s national/moral identity on the one hand, and the poem’s medial identity (literary/musical) on the other. Walterscottian stylisation used here by Mickiewicz is typically taken to neutralise the text’s overt and covert musical genetic self-identifications, which make up for the text’s self-presentation as a song to be “sung in the tender reader’s soul” (VI, in fine). The division of the work into musical numbers, with a variety of genres represented (hymn, different types of song, tale, ballad), is notoriously ignored. Critics take such musical paratextes as mere signs of historical convention, taking Mickiewiczian “singing” to be a dead metaphor for “storytelling in verse”, sometimes going so far as to misread or misquote the last lines of the source text. The present paper challenges this common anti-musical interpretation, thus shedding new light on Wallenrod’s contest ballad “Alpuhara” [“Alpuhara”] and its disturbing musical shape.
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- 2020
25. Student support and tuition fee systems in comparative perspective
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Kenneth Nelson, Tomas Korpi, and Krzysztof Czarnecki
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Public economics ,Higher education ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,Social rights ,Education ,Political science ,0502 economics and business ,Cost sharing ,Comparative perspective ,business ,0503 education ,050203 business & management ,Social policy - Abstract
The purpose of this study is to outline a new approach to the comparative analysis of student finance systems based on social rights, an approach widely applied in other areas of social policy. It ...
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- 2020
26. Forms of physical activity of the elderly
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Justyna Podgórska-Bednarz, Piotr Czarnecki, and Lidia Perenc
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Gerontology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Physical activity ,business ,humanities - Abstract
Introduction. Physical activity is known to be an important factor influencing health throughout human life. This issue has become crucial for public health due to the aging of the population in both developed and developing countries. Aim. is to present a literature review on the forms of physical activity undertaken by the elderly, as well as on issues related to physical activity and the population aging. Material and methods. The study was prepared on the basis of a review of Polish and foreign literature. The following databases and data sources were used: EBSCO, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar. An additional source of data were the websites of the Central Statistical Office. Strictly defined key phrases were used during the collection of literature. The work has been divided into thematic subsections on the aging of the society, the impact of physical activity on health and the main topic, i.e. forms of physical activity selected by the elderly. Analysis of the literature. The number of elderly people in Polish society has increased by almost 3.7 million over three decades. Therefore, an important topic is prophylaxis aimed at increasing the number of days in good health, largely covering the broadly understood activation of the elderly. The available data indicate that only 12% of elderly people undertake physical activity once a week. The most common form of spending free time actively is walking (as many as 73% of people in this population declare this form of physical activity in one of the presented studies). Conclusion. Organized forms of physical activity are undertaken much less frequently by the analyzed age group mainly due to financial limitations and limited availability of sports infrastructure.
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- 2020
27. Coalition Formation for Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Correlation Clustering
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Ayan Dutta, Vladimir Ufimtsev, Asai Asaithambi, and Emily Czarnecki
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0209 industrial biotechnology ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Correlation clustering ,02 engineering and technology ,Task (project management) ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Artificial Intelligence ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Robot ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Cluster analysis ,Software ,Information Systems - Abstract
The complexity of a vast number of real world tasks provides a great challenge for the currently available robots due to their limited capabilities. Thus, multiple robots would need to form...
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- 2019
28. A Direct Comparison of the Clinical Practice Patterns of Advanced Practice Providers and Doctors
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David W. Johnson, Enrico de Belen, Brent Box, Timothy Edward Kubal, Larry Weems, Douglas D. Letson, Catherine Czarnecki, John W. Peabody, Othman Ouenes, and David Paculdo
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Formative Feedback ,Specialty ,Quality care ,Primary care ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Nurse Practitioners ,Medical history ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Practice Patterns, Physicians' ,Quality of care ,Referral and Consultation ,Quality of Health Care ,Diagnostic Tests, Routine ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,United States ,Hospital medicine ,Clinical Practice ,Physician Assistants ,Family medicine ,Female ,business - Abstract
Rising health care costs, physician shortages, and an aging patient population have increased the demand and utilization of advanced practice providers (APPs). Despite their expanding role in care delivery, little research has evaluated the care delivered by APPs compared with physicians.We used clinical patient simulations to measure and compare the clinical care offered by APPs and physicians, collecting data from 4 distinct health care systems/hospitals in the United States between 2013 and 2017. Specialties ranged from primary care to hospital medicine and oncology. Primary study outcomes were to 1) measure any differences in practice patterns between APPs and physicians, and 2) determine whether the use of serial measurement and feedback could mitigate any such differences.At baseline, we found no major differences in overall performance of APPs compared with physicians (P = .337). APPs performed 3.2% better in history taking (P = .013) and made 10.5% fewer unnecessary referrals (P = .025), whereas physicians ordered 17.6% fewer low-value tests per case (P = .042). Regardless of specialty or site, after 4 rounds of serial measurement and provider-specific feedback, APPs and physicians had similar increases in average overall scores-7.4% and 7.6%, respectively (P.001 for both). Not only did both groups improve, but practice differences between the groups disappeared, leading to a 9.1% decrease in overall practice variation.We found only modest differences in quality of care provided by APPs and physicians. Importantly, both groups improved their performance with serial measurement and feedback so that after 4 rounds, the original differences were mitigated entirely and overall variation significantly reduced. Our data suggest that APPs can provide high quality care in multiple clinical settings.
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29. Dior: within Georgian architecture in London, Peter Marino crafts luxurious, artful, museum-like interiors that thrill
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Czarnecki, John
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Louis Vuitton S.A. ,Chanel S.A. ,Christian Dior S.A. ,Clothing industry ,Museums -- Design and construction ,Fashion ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
Building upon the legacy of sublime beauty at the House of Dior, architect Peter Marino has delivered with a new London home for the French fashion label. Located in tony [...]
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30. The Washington Post: a sophisticated workplace by Gensler reflects the transformation of a newspaper into a multiplatform news provider
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Czarnecki, John
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Newspapers ,Information services industry ,Information services ,Information services industry ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
The commission to design a new headquarters for The Washington Post is a heady task, given the paper's storied history, its more than 60 Pulitzer Prizes, and its position as [...]
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31. Seamarq: complete with interiors, Richard Meier designs his first building in South Korea, a hotel with views of the East Sea
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Czarnecki, John
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Hotel construction -- Contracts -- Forecasts and trends ,Architects -- Practice ,Commercial buildings -- Design and construction -- Decoration and finishing ,Hotels and motels -- Buildings and facilities -- Planning -- Contracts -- South Korea ,Company business planning ,Contract agreement ,Market trend/market analysis ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
The portfolio of 81-year-old architect Richard Meier is well-known worldwide. Building upon a Modernist vocabulary developed by Le Corbusier, Meier has made It his own In a prolific career from [...]
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32. Little Red Elisabeth Irwin School: for a private high school, Andrew Bartle weaves a modern campus within the confines of downtown Manhattan
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Czarnecki, John
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High schools ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
The Little Red Elisabeth Irwin (LREI) School has built a reputation as an exemplary, progressive private school serving students from pre-kindergarten through high school in downtown Manhattan. But a decade [...]
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33. 37 designers of the year
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Czarnecki, John
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Interior design -- Achievements and awards ,Interior designers -- Appreciation ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
Todd Heiser, a design principal and consumer products practice area leader at Gensler, is the 37th Designer of the Year. He is the first ever Designer of the Year from [...]
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34. Deep learning redesign of PETase for practical PET degrading applications
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Natalie Czarnecki, B. Alexander, D. J. Acosta, Daniel J. Diaz, Yan Zhang, Raghav Shroff, Wantae Kim, Andrew D. Ellington, H. Cole, Hal S. Alper, Canjun Zhu, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Hongyuan Lu
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Cutinase ,Materials science ,Plastic recycling ,business.industry ,Depolymerization ,Hazardous waste ,Industrial scale ,Plastic waste ,Process engineering ,business ,Polyhydroxyalkanoates ,Thermostability - Abstract
Plastic waste poses an ecological challenge1. While current plastic waste management largely relies on unsustainable, energy-intensive, or even hazardous physicochemical and mechanical processes, enzymatic degradation offers a green and sustainable route for plastic waste recycling2. Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) has been extensively used in packaging and for the manufacture of fabrics and single-used containers, accounting for 12% of global solid waste3. The practical application of PET hydrolases has been hampered by their lack of robustness and the requirement for high processing temperatures. Here, we use a structure-based, deep learning algorithm to engineer an extremely robust and highly active PET hydrolase. Our best resulting mutant (FAST-PETase: Functional, Active, Stable, and Tolerant PETase) exhibits superior PET-hydrolytic activity relative to both wild-type and engineered alternatives, (including a leaf-branch compost cutinase and its mutant4) and possesses enhanced thermostability and pH tolerance. We demonstrate that whole, untreated, post-consumer PET from 51 different plastic products can all be completely degraded by FAST-PETase within one week, and in as little as 24 hours at 50 °C. Finally, we demonstrate two paths for closed-loop PET recycling and valorization. First, we re-synthesize virgin PET from the monomers recovered after enzymatic depolymerization. Second, we enable in situ microbially-enabled valorization using a Pseudomonas strain together with FAST-PETase to degrade PET and utilize the evolved monomers as a carbon source for growth and polyhydroxyalkanoate production. Collectively, our results demonstrate the substantial improvements enabled by deep learning and a viable route for enzymatic plastic recycling at the industrial scale.
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- 2021
35. Urban Environment during Post-War Reconstruction: Architectural Dominants and Nodal Points as Measures of Changes in an Urban Landscape
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Michal Pawel Chodorowski and Bartosz Czarnecki
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Structure (mathematical logic) ,Global and Planetary Change ,reconstruction ,Ecology ,business.industry ,urban nodes ,Rank (computer programming) ,Distribution (economics) ,urban landscape ,Agriculture ,Grid ,city image ,Urban structure ,Geography ,anthropology_ethnography ,city grid ,Polygon ,landmarks ,Identity (object-oriented programming) ,Regional science ,blitz ,Cityscape ,business ,Nature and Landscape Conservation - Abstract
Modernist planners were given the opportunity to apply the idea of the Modern Movement in the implementation of cities transforming after the World War II blitz, which was not possible before in long-term evolving structures. However, they could not alter everything: some urban and even architectural elements were necessary to be preserved. As a result, the elements of the ancient landscapes of these cities—historical objects and spaces—necessary for the continuity of evidence of history and identity were preserved, often being completely reconstructed. Finally, in some of these cities, both old and new elements contribute to the contemporary urban landscape. The aim of the research is to examine two key categories of urban structure in this perspective: (1) architectural dominants (landmarks) and (2) urban network nodes. For this purpose, (1) the changes in the number and rank of the spaces through which the landmarks expositions were carried out are compared, and (2) the changes in the rank of nodes in the urban structure, both these in the pre-war and in the present structures, as well as changes in their distribution and concentration areas are analyzed. The number of individual elements is compared and the changes in the structure of their arrangement are analyzed with the use of a polygon grid. A medium-scale European city (Bialystok) is used as the case study. Results of our analysis indicate that the post-war reconstruction led to a decrease in the number of elements of the urban grid (streets, nodal points), especially those of low rank. The rank of many others also decreased: 57% of all nodal points within the historical grid of the selected area does not exist in the post-war structure. The number of main rank directions of exposition decreased by 18% and in the subordinate group by 38%. The research is an attempt to construct a new criteria of evaluating changes in the quality of the cityscape, which is described in the article.
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- 2021
36. Real-Time Automated Classification of Sky Conditions Using Deep Learning and Edge Computing
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Joby M. Prince Czarnecki, Cary McCraine, L. Wasson, Meilun Zhou, and Sathishkumar Samiappan
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Artificial neural network ,business.industry ,Image quality ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Deep learning ,Science ,Cloud computing ,Pattern recognition ,Convolutional neural network ,ResNet ,low-altitude remote sensing ,autonomous systems ,Sky ,cloud detection ,UAS image quality ,Classifier (linguistics) ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Edge computing ,media_common - Abstract
The radiometric quality of remotely sensed imagery is crucial for precision agriculture applications because estimations of plant health rely on the underlying quality. Sky conditions, and specifically shadowing from clouds, are critical determinants in the quality of images that can be obtained from low-altitude sensing platforms. In this work, we first compare common deep learning approaches to classify sky conditions with regard to cloud shadows in agricultural fields using a visible spectrum camera. We then develop an artificial-intelligence-based edge computing system to fully automate the classification process. Training data consisting of 100 oblique angle images of the sky were provided to a convolutional neural network and two deep residual neural networks (ResNet18 and ResNet34) to facilitate learning two classes, namely (1) good image quality expected, and (2) degraded image quality expected. The expectation of quality stemmed from the sky condition (i.e., density, coverage, and thickness of clouds) present at the time of the image capture. These networks were tested using a set of 13,000 images. Our results demonstrated that ResNet18 and ResNet34 classifiers produced better classification accuracy when compared to a convolutional neural network classifier. The best overall accuracy was obtained by ResNet34, which was 92% accurate, with a Kappa statistic of 0.77. These results demonstrate a low-cost solution to quality control for future autonomous farming systems that will operate without human intervention and supervision.
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37. 'A LIVING MOSAIC OF HUMAN BEINGS': THE LIFE WRITING OF VIRGINIA WOOLF AND ZITKALA-ŠA
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Kristin Czarnecki
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Intersectionality ,Literature ,feminism ,Zitkala-Ša ,History ,Literature and Literary Theory ,business.industry ,Woolf ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Language and Literature ,life writing ,Mosaic (geodemography) ,English literature ,Sketch ,Feminism ,Life writing ,Memoir ,Reading (process) ,Virginia Woolf ,Affect (linguistics) ,business ,PR1-9680 ,intersectionality ,media_common - Abstract
This essay examines life writing by English author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Yankton Dakota writer Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938), specifically Woolf’s memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” written in 1939-40 and first published in Moments of Being in 1976, and Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical essays, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1900. This comparative study explores how both women establish selfhood amid competing pressures vying for their minds and bodies; how mothers and maternal loss shape their autobiographies; how physical and psychological place and displacement influence their life writing; and how matters of audience affect their literary self-portraits. Reading Woolf and Zitkala-Ša together yields fresh insights into the intersections of race, class, gender, and feminism in women’s writing. Este ensaio examina as escritas de si da autora inglesa Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) e da escritora Yankton Dakota Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938), especificamente o memoir de Woolf, "A Sketch of the Past", escrito em 1939-40 e publicado pela primeira vez em Moments of Being, em 1976, e os ensaios autobiográficos de Zitkala-Ša, publicados no Atlantic Monthly em 1900. Este estudo comparativo explora como ambas as mulheres estabelecem suas individualidades em meio a pressões concorrentes que competem por suas mentes e corpos; como a figura de suas mães e a perda materna moldam suas autobiografias; como lugares físicos e psicológicos e o deslocamento influenciam suas escritas de si; e como questões relativas ao público leitor afetam seus autorretratos literários. Ler Woolf e Zitkala-Ša juntas produz novos insights sobre as interseções de raça, classe, gênero e feminismo na escrita das mulheres.
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38. Randomized Phase II Trial of MIBG Versus MIBG, Vincristine, and Irinotecan Versus MIBG and Vorinostat for Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Neuroblastoma: A Report From NANT Consortium
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Yael P. Mosse, Brian Weiss, Fariba Goodarzian, Navin Pinto, Judith G. Villablanca, Gregory A. Yanik, Scarlett Czarnecki, Suzanne Shusterman, Araz Marachelian, Anasheh Shamirian, Hiroyuki Shimada, Rachel Berkovich, John M. Maris, Daphne A. Haas-Kogan, Julie R. Park, M. Meaghan Granger, Clare J. Twist, Steven G. DuBois, Lingyun Ji, Kieuhoa T. Vo, Susan L. Cohn, Katherine K. Matthay, Denice D. Tsao-Wei, Kelly C. Goldsmith, Susan Groshen, and Meredith S. Irwin
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0301 basic medicine ,Oncology ,Adult ,Male ,Cancer Research ,Vincristine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Irinotecan ,03 medical and health sciences ,Neuroblastoma ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Refractory ,Internal medicine ,Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols ,medicine ,Humans ,Prospective Studies ,Child ,Vorinostat ,Salvage Therapy ,business.industry ,Infant ,ORIGINAL REPORTS ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Survival Rate ,3-Iodobenzylguanidine ,030104 developmental biology ,Drug Resistance, Neoplasm ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,Neoplasm Recurrence, Local ,business ,medicine.drug ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
PURPOSE 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) is an active radiotherapeutic for neuroblastoma. The primary aim of this trial was to identify which of three MIBG regimens was likely associated with the highest true response rate. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients 1-30 years were eligible if they had relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma, at least one MIBG-avid site, and adequate autologous stem cells. Patients received MIBG 18 mCi/kg on day 1 and autologous stem cell on day 15. Patients randomly assigned to arm A received only MIBG; patients randomly assigned to arm B received intravenous vincristine on day 0 and irinotecan daily on days 0-4; patients randomly assigned to arm C received vorinostat (180 mg/m2/dose) orally once daily on days 1 to 12. The primary end point was response after one course by New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy criteria. The trial was designed with 105 patients to ensure an 80% chance that the arm with highest response rate was selected. RESULTS One hundred fourteen patients were enrolled, with three ineligible and six unevaluable, leaving 105 eligible and evaluable patients (36 in arm A, 35 in arm B, and 34 in arm C; 55 boys; and median age 6.5 years). After one course, the response rates (partial response or better) on arms A, B, and C were 14% (95% CI, 5 to 30), 14% (5 to 31), and 32% (18 to 51). An additional five, five, and four patients met New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy Minor Response criteria on arms A, B, and C, respectively. On arms A, B, and C, rates of any grade 3+ nonhematologic toxicity after first course were 19%, 49%, and 35%. CONCLUSION Vorinostat and MIBG is likely the arm with the highest true response rate, with manageable toxicity. Vincristine and irinotecan do not appear to improve the response rate to MIBG and are associated with increased toxicity.
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39. Factors affecting satisfaction of pediatric posterior spinal fusion patients
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Michelle L. Czarnecki, J R Michlig, Keri R. Hainsworth, Steven J. Weisman, Pippa Simpson, and Liyun Zhang
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Spinal fusion ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Medicine ,business ,Surgery - Published
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40. 7 Liability for loss or damages caused by RPA
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Philipp Croon and Christian Czarnecki
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Liability ,Forensic engineering ,Damages ,Business - Published
- 2021
41. Hemorrhagic and Thromboembolic Complications in Critically Ill Patients with COVID 19 and Acute Kidney Injury: A Single Center Experience
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P. G. Czarnecki, Farbod N. Rahaghi, I. Ahmad, and S. Lakshman
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ARDS ,education.field_of_study ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Population ,Acute kidney injury ,urologic and male genital diseases ,medicine.disease ,Single Center ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,End stage renal disease ,Interquartile range ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Renal replacement therapy ,education ,business - Abstract
Rationale: Patients with COVID-19 critical illness are at high risk for multiorgan dysfunction, most commonly acute kidney injury (AKI). We sought to characterize the rates of thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications in patients with COVID-19 ARDS as a function of coexisting AKI. Methods: We performed a single-center retrospective analysis of all patients with severe COVID-19 infection, admitted to ICU level of care between 3/1/2020 and 6/1/2020, and we obtained patient data through the Research Patient Data Registry. We excluded patients who did not develop AKI, those who were admitted with a primary medical problem unrelated to coexisting COVID-19 infection, and those with end stage renal disease. We stratified patients into two cohorts: Those with AKI not requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) and AKI requiring RRT. All data collection was approved by the IRB at Mass General Brigham (IRB #2020P001674). All data was analyzed using Excel and R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06) when comparing groups-medians and interquartile ranges are reported. Pearson's Chi-squared test was used during statistical analysis. Results: 272 patients were identified, of which 136 patients were excluded from further study due to reasons as above. Of the remaining 136 patients analyzed, all developed AKI as per AKIN criteria, and we identified those who did not require RRT (100), and those who were initiated on RRT (36). Median age was 66 ± 9.75, and 57 ± 7.12, respectively. 38% (38/100) and 27.7% (10/36) were female, respectively. Complications investigated included non-cerebrovascular hemorrhage (17% vs. 38.88%, p 0.014), cerebrovascular hemorrhage (4% vs. 16.66%, p 0.033), thromboembolic phenomena (24% vs 38.8%, p 0.136) and overall ICU Mortality (48% vs 38.8%, p 0.45). Conclusions: Patients with COVID-19 ARDS and associated AKI had a high number of hemorrhagic and thromboembolic complications. There is a higher incidence of hemorrhagic and thromboembolic complications in the AKI-RRT group, with CVA-and non-CVAhemorrhagic complications being statistically significant. Overall ICU mortality was apparently lower in the AKIRRT group, without reaching statistical significance. Our data highlight a clinically most relevant topic, defining COVID-19 patients with AKI as a high-risk population for thromboembolic and hemorrhagic complications, and underlining the importance of careful decisions regarding prophylactic anticoagulant strategies.
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42. Comparing Acute Kidney Injury in Severe Viral Pneumonia/ARDS: 2009 H1N1 Pandemic vs 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
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Farbod N. Rahaghi, P. G. Czarnecki, I. Ahmad, and S. Lakshman
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medicine.medical_specialty ,ARDS ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Population ,Acute kidney injury ,urologic and male genital diseases ,medicine.disease ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,Interquartile range ,Viral pneumonia ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Renal replacement therapy ,Complication ,education ,business - Abstract
Introduction:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in critically ill patients and has been extremely common during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in patients admitted to the adult intensive care unit with severe viral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. We investigated the incidence and outcomes of AKI in this population comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to the H1N1 pandemic of 2009. Methods: We performed a single-center retrospective analysis of all patients with severe COVID-19 infection, admitted to ICU level of care between 3/1/2020 and 6/1/2020 and we obtained patient data via the research patient data registry. We excluded patients who were admitted with a complaint unrelated to their COVID-19 infection and patients with end-stage renal disease. We stratified patients based on presence of AKI and further stratified the AKI group for the need for Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT). All data collection was approved by the IRB at Mass General Brigham (IRB #2020P001674). All data was analyzed using Excel and R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06). When comparing groups, medians and interquartile ranges are reported. Wilcoxon Rank Sum test was used for statistical analysis. Results: 272 patients were identified of which 31 patients were excluded from further study due to reasons as above. The remaining 241 patients were analyzed, and the median age was 64 (52-72) with, 40.6% females. 79.6% (192) of patients were Intubated with a median lowest PaO2/FiO2 ratio of 124 (91.4-177.5).105/241 (43.5%) did not develop AKI and 136/241 (56.4%) developed AKI, of which 36 had AKI requiring RRT. Patients with AKI had a higher length of hospitalization (20 ± 10.75 vs 15 ± 8.5, p 0.055), Increased pressor days (11 ± 9 vs 4 ± 6.5, P
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43. Whitney Museum of American art: in a synthesis of modern museum design and a dynamic site, Renzo Piano, in collaboration with Cooper Robertson, boldly asserts the role of a 21st century cultural institution
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Czarnecki, John
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Art museums -- Design and construction ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
How is a 21st century museum building supposed to look? That question has been debated among architects, designers, critics, New Yorkers, and tourists as the new Whitney Museum of American [...]
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44. After the flood: cafeterias in two lower Manhattan office buildings are redesigned and rebuilt following Hurricane Sandy
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Czarnecki, John
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Halsey, McCormack and Helmer Inc. ,Hurricane Sandy, 2012 ,Post-disaster reconstruction ,Office buildings -- United States -- New York ,Pension funds ,Hurricanes -- United States -- New York ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries - Abstract
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in late October 2012, the most visible damage in the New York area was the destruction of homes and other structures along the New [...]
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45. ZGF architects
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Czarnecki, John
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Architects ,Architectural firms ,Architectural practice ,Architecture and design industries ,Business ,Construction and materials industries ,University of California - Abstract
Client University of California, San Diego Location La Jolla, California With considerable growth in biomedical research activities, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) had been spread among [...]
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46. Currents' Physical Components (CPC) - based Power Theory A Review Part I: Power Properties of Electrical Circuits and Systems
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Leszek S. Czarnecki
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business.industry ,Computer science ,law ,Electrical network ,Electrical engineering ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business ,Power theory ,law.invention ,Power (physics) - Published
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47. Hearing Rehabilitation Implementing a Transcutaneous Bone Conduction Device: Single-Center Experience
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Beth Czarnecki, Aaron Baker, Huseyin Isildak, and Tom Shokri
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Adult ,Male ,Percutaneous ,Adolescent ,Hearing loss ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Hearing Loss, Conductive ,Dentistry ,Single Center ,Prosthesis Implantation ,Young Adult ,Hearing Aids ,Bone conduction ,medicine ,Humans ,Correction of Hearing Impairment ,Retrospective Studies ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,Soft tissue ,Bone-anchored hearing aid ,Middle Aged ,Treatment Outcome ,Otorhinolaryngology ,Patient Satisfaction ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Bone Conduction ,Abutment (dentistry) - Abstract
Bone conduction implants based on percutaneous abutment acoustic transmission have been implemented in patients with satisfactory outcomes. However, adverse soft tissue outcomes present a limitation. Transcutaneous bone conduction devices (t-BCDs) are an alternative that may mitigate these complications. A retrospective review was performed of patients who underwent implantation of a t-BCD from 2013 to 2017. Surgical outcomes were reviewed including wound complications, frequency of device use, patient concerns regarding the device, and reported patient satisfaction. A total of 37 patients were implanted with the bone-anchored hearing aids, BAHA Attract (Cochlear™ Baha® Implant System). Average follow-up time was 271.8 days. Postoperatively, 7 (18.9%) patients complained of soft tissue changes or issues with wound healing. Twelve (32.4%) patients requested adjustment of their devices. The t-BCD is an excellent option for hearing rehabilitation. Overall, the complication rate is low, patient satisfaction is high, and successful conversion from a percutaneous device is possible with minimal risk.
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48. Barriers to Pediatric Pain Management: A Brief Report of Results from a Multisite Study
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Andrea D. Guastello, Keri R. Hainsworth, Sharon Wrona, Michelle L. Czarnecki, and Helen N. Turner
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Medical staff ,Cross-sectional study ,MEDLINE ,Pain ,Pediatrics ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Humans ,Pain Management ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Child ,Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,Pain management ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Multicenter study ,Child, Preschool ,Pediatric pain ,Family medicine ,Female ,0305 other medical science ,business - Abstract
Background Pain management is essential for the care of hospitalized children. Although multiple barriers have been identified that interfere with nurses' ability to provide optimal pain management, it is not known how pervasive are these barriers across the United States. Aims This study is the third in a series of studies examining barriers to pediatric pain management. The aim of this study was to examine barriers in different organizations using the same tool during the same period of time. Settings/Participants A sample of 808 nurses from three pediatric teaching hospitals responded to a survey addressing barriers to optimal pain management for children. Results Barriers unanimously identified as being most significant included inadequate or insufficient physician medication orders, insufficient time allowed to premedicate before procedures, insufficient premedication orders before procedures, and low priority given to pain management by medical staff. Conclusions Barriers identified as the most and least significant were similar regardless of hospital location. Revealing similar barriers across multiple pediatric hospitals provides direction for nurses trying to provide solutions to these pain management barriers.
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49. Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning with PopArt
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Wojciech Marian Czarnecki, Matteo Hessel, Lasse Espeholt, Hubert Soyer, Hado van Hasselt, and Simon Schmitt
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computer Science - Machine Learning ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,Machine Learning (stat.ML) ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,02 engineering and technology ,General Medicine ,Machine Learning (cs.LG) ,Task (project management) ,Domain (software engineering) ,Statistics - Machine Learning ,Salient ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Reinforcement learning ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Artificial intelligence ,State (computer science) ,Set (psychology) ,business - Abstract
The reinforcement learning (RL) community has made great strides in designing algorithms capable of exceeding human performance on specific tasks. These algorithms are mostly trained one task at the time, each new task requiring to train a brand new agent instance. This means the learning algorithm is general, but each solution is not; each agent can only solve the one task it was trained on. In this work, we study the problem of learning to master not one but multiple sequentialdecision tasks at once. A general issue in multi-task learning is that a balance must be found between the needs of multiple tasks competing for the limited resources of a single learning system. Many learning algorithms can get distracted by certain tasks in the set of tasks to solve. Such tasks appear more salient to the learning process, for instance because of the density or magnitude of the in-task rewards. This causes the algorithm to focus on those salient tasks at the expense of generality. We propose to automatically adapt the contribution of each task to the agent’s updates, so that all tasks have a similar impact on the learning dynamics. This resulted in state of the art performance on learning to play all games in a set of 57 diverse Atari games. Excitingly, our method learned a single trained policy - with a single set of weights - that exceeds median human performance. To our knowledge, this was the first time a single agent surpassed human-level performance on this multi-task domain. The same approach also demonstrated state of the art performance on a set of 30 tasks in the 3D reinforcement learning platform DeepMind Lab.
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50. Conscience reconsidered
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Mercedez Dunn, Raymond De Vries, Katrina Hauschildt, Danielle Czarnecki, Lisa H. Harris, Renee R. Anspach, Health promotion, and RS: CAPHRI - R6 - Promoting Health & Personalised Care
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Adult ,Health (social science) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,WILLINGNESS ,Context (language use) ,Abortion ,DECISION-MAKING ,Unit (housing) ,Interviews as Topic ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,PHYSICIANS ,History and Philosophy of Science ,Sociology ,Pregnancy ,Qualitative research ,Health care ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital ,Conscience ,USA ,media_common ,OBJECTION ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,Abortion, Induced ,Bioethics ,Public relations ,Social Participation ,humanities ,Work (electrical) ,PHARMACISTS ,Moral work ,Female ,NURSES ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Care moments ,ETHICS - Abstract
How do caregivers make decisions about participating in morally contested care, such as abortion? Debates about conscience in the delivery of health care generally assume that participation decisions stem from religious beliefs and moral values. Few studies have examined this question in the context of everyday practice. Drawing on 50 interviews with the staff of a labor and delivery unit offering abortion care including nurses, maternal fetal medicine specialists, obstetrics and gynecology residents, and anesthesiologists we show that respondents have varied definitions of "participation" in abortion care and that participation decisions are driven by an array of factors beyond personal beliefs. We present a conceptual model of "moral work" that shows conscience to be an emerging, iterative process influenced not only by beliefs religious and non-religious but also by personal and work experiences and social and institutional contexts. Our study brings new insights into understanding conscience and participation in contested care.
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