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This study examines the implementation of Criterion, an automated writing evaluation system developed by ETS, as a source of diagnostic feedback on learners' linguistic performance in a Vietnamese EFL writing classroom. Thirty-eight second-year English majors had access to Criterion for a five-month period. Data include Criterion error tags on students' essays from multiple practice sessions, recorded think-aloud protocols as students engaged with the feedback for revisions, and first and revised drafts students submitted to Criterion. The main findings indicate Criterion's satisfactory precision and capacity to trigger various engagement strategies among learners, but reservations remain due to students' modest response accuracy and lack of substantive revisions to their texts. Important implications for formative feedback practices in EFL writing classrooms and the adaptation of Criterion's technical capacities are accordingly presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are global university rankings of higher educational institutions. Public and private universities around the world endeavour to improve their rankings and to be at the top of the ranking lists. These rankings help students in finding out prominent universities for getting admitted, and after graduation in a better job placement. There are significant key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine these rankings. These KPIs are based on data, knowledge and information of a university (higher education institution [HEI]). Effective decision making through these KPIs improve the ranking and performance of the university. Business intelligence (BI) software for educational institutions is dedicated towards the provision of solutions for decision making. Therefore, the BI software might improve academic performance. However, literature reveals that the failure rate of BI projects is between 70% to 80%. In addition, they are costly solutions and require a huge amount of time for implementation. Hence, there is a need to find alternate solutions for better decision making that is economical and time efficient. An improvement in performance means improvement in the ranking of the university that is centred on better decision making, focusing on the significant KPIs, such as KPIs used by the Times Higher Education for world's university rankings and QS university rankings. This paper offers a framework of decision making through a visual digital dashboard for the vice chancellors (heads or presidents) of higher education institutions, based on a formal working structure of a university. Moreover, this framework focuses on policies and procedures linked to specific KPIs of the university and the impacts of these policies or procedures on these KPIs. Visual digital dashboard provides the statistics through comparison reports, flowcharts, graphs and trends. Effective decisions could be taken to improve the performance of an underperforming KPI; if there is a need of improvement for the KPI, a revision(s) is recommended in the policy or linked procedure(s) of that KPI, and the impact of revision(s) is measured again through the visual digital dashboard of decision making. These revisions of policies or procedures linked to any KPI is a continuous process until an expected outcome is achieved. According to the framework, some departments of the university play a vital role in the implementation and revisions of these policies or procedures. This framework is termed as VCDBDM (Vice Chancellor's Dashboard of Decision Making) framework that offers a visual digital dashboard as a decision support system to the vice chancellors (VCs)/heads/presidents of the universities. Altogether, the offered framework of VCDBDM provides an opening to the universities of Oman, GCC countries, MENA region, and worldwide universities concerning its application for successful decision making and improvements in the performances and rankings of the universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the development of open science and technological innovation, using sharing data and molecular biology techniques in the study of taxonomy and systematics have become a crucial component of plants, which undoubtedly helps us discover more hidden outliers or deal with difficult taxa. In this paper, we take Dennstaedtia smithii as an example, based on sharing molecular database, virtual herbarium and plant photo bank, to clarify the outliers that have been hidden in Dennstaedtia and find the key morphological traits with consistent of molecular systematics. In molecular phylogenetic analyses, we used rbcL, rps4, psbA-trnH and trnL-F sequences from 5 new and 49 shared data; the results showed that Dennstaedtia smithii is nested within Microlepia rather than Dennstaedtia. We further studied the morphological characters based on the phylogeny result and found that D. smithii is distinguished from other species of Dennstaedtia by spore ornamentation and the unconnected of grooves between rachis and pinna rachis. According to morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies, our results supported that D. smithii should be a new member of Microlepia and renamed Microlepia smithii (Hook.) Y.H. Yan. Finding hidden outliers can promote the consistency of morphological and molecular phylogenetic results, and make the systematic classification more natural.

This study examines the effect of 1096 analyst recommendation revisions on prices of Shariah-compliant and Shariah non-compliant listed securities in Bursa Malaysia over the period 2005-2016. The study finds that while stocks added-to-buy had positive abnormal returns, the stocks added-to-sell and remove-from-buy had negative abnormal returns in short- and long-term horizons. This finding shows that analysts’ recommendation revisions carry valuable information. Secondly, the study examined the effect of analysts’ recommendation revisions issued contemporaneously with earnings announcements and without earnings announcements on price reactions over various time horizons. The results show that earnings announcements can trigger analysts’ recommendation revisions because the investors react strongly to analysts’ recommendation revisions issued contemporaneously with earnings announcements. We find that performance differences of Shariah-compliant and Shariah non-compliant stocks in response to analysts’ recommendation revisions are often negligible. Overall, this study provides empirical evidence that analysts’ recommendation revisions for Shariah-compliant companies often do not own any additional investment value than those for Shariah non-compliant stocks.

Automated writing evaluation (AWE) is increasingly used to provide formative feedback on second language (L2) students’ writing. A key factor influencing the effectiveness of AWE feedback on L2 writing performance is the learners’ revision behaviors as they process the feedback. Adopting a quasi-experiment, this study aims to evaluate the impacts of Criterion automated corrective feedback (ACF) on English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ writing performance based on two measures of accuracy: overall writing accuracy and accuracy of English article usage. Learners’ textual operations in response to Criterion ACF were examined for possible explanations for recorded gains (if any) in their writing accuracy. The main findings indicate a lack of intervention and retention effects on learners’ accuracy over the semester during which Criterion ACF was incorporated to supplement the writing instructor's feedback on organization and content. In addition, across four writing entries conducted on Criterion, learners’ revisions to their essays following Criterion ACF were primarily at the local level, dominated by addition, deletion, or substitution of individual words or short phrases rather than substantive revisions to their scripts. About one third of all Criterion feedback points did not result in textual changes to the first drafts, indicating a moderate uptake rate of the feedback. Implications related to formative feedback practices in the EFL writing classroom and the adaptation of Criterion's technical capacities are accordingly presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Approximately 30% of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt systems for hydrocephalus fail within the first year and 98% of all patients will have shunt failure in their lifetime. Obstruction remains the most common reason for shunt failure. Previous evidence suggests elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines in CSF are associated with worsening clinical outcomes in neuroinflammatory diseases. The aim of this study was to determine whether cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) contribute towards shunt failure in hydrocephalus. Methods Using multiplex ELISA, this study examined shunt failure through the CSF protein concentration profiles of select pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, as well as select MMPs. Interdependencies such as the past number of previous revisions, length of time implanted, patient age, and obstruction or non-obstruction revision were examined. The pro-inflammatory cytokines were IL-1β, IL-2, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-12, IL-17, TNF-α, GM-CSF, IFN-γ. The anti-inflammatory cytokines were IL-4 and IL-10, and the MMPs were MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-7, MMP-9. Protein concentration is reported as pg/mL for each analyte. Results Patient CSF was obtained at the time of shunt revision operation; all pediatric (

This study aimed to investigate the impact of using an automated tracking system on the writing performance of English as Foreign Language (EFL) students in a 13-week academic writing course. Sixty-eight first year university students participated in the study. They received the same instruction on academic writing and were allocated to one of two conditions: experimental (N = 36) or control (N = 32). Participants in the experimental condition could use the automated tracking system to generate analysis of teacher feedback on their draft essays and of their subsequent revisions in response to the feedback received, while those in the control condition could not. The results of this study show that the system could not only support students to reflect on the quality of their revisions but also likely result in improvements in their revised texts. The findings of this study would contribute to the body of literature on effects of using technology to facilitate student reflection on multiple-draft writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on writing that focuses on what writers do when they compose shows that processes such as planning, transfer to writing and editing are recursive and affect the writing process of first and second language writers differently. To our knowledge, what has yet to be explored in research is the writing process of young bilingual students. The present study focused on the revisions and spelling errors made by 9-year-old bilingual students during a writing activity in their L2. Details about the writing process (e.g., revisions) were taken from statistics registered in the keystroke logging program ScriptLog and were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Results from the quantitative analysis show that the mean proportion of the students' revisions is relatively low compared to results in previous research. The qualitative analysis showed both surface and meaning changes; the latter were found at both the micro- and macrostructural levels. Bilingual students exhibit a creative writing process in which several meaning changes occur in a language (in this case Swedish) that they are particularly competent in. The spelling error analysis indicated that the bilingual students make the same type of spelling errors as monolingual students in their initial stages of learning to write. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Study Design: Prospective, follow-up study.Objective: We aim to compare the rate of revisions for ASD after LSF surgery between patients with IS and DLSD.Summary Of Background Data: ASD is a major reason for late reoperations after LSF surgery. Several risk factors are linked to the progression of ASD, but the understanding of the underlying mechanisms is imperfect. If IS infrequently becomes complicated with ASD, it would emphasize the role of the ongoing degenerative process in spine in the development of ASD.Methods: 365 consecutive patients that underwent elective LSF surgery were followed up for an average of 9.7 years. Surgical indications were classified into 1) IS (n = 64), 2) DLSD (spinal stenosis with or without spondylolisthesis) (n = 222), and 3) other reasons (deformities, postoperative conditions after decompression surgery, posttraumatic conditions) (n = 79). All spinal reoperations were collected from hospital records. Rates of revisions for ASD were determined using Kaplan-Meier methods.Results: Altogether, 65 (17.8%) patients were reoperated for ASD. The incidences of revisions for ASD in subgroups were 1) 4.8% (95% CI: 1.6%-22.1%); 2) 20.5% (95% CI: 15.6%-26.7%); 3) 20.6% (95% CI: 12.9%-31.9%). After adjusting the groups by age, sex, fusion length, and the level of the caudal end of fusion, when comparing with IS group, the other groups had significantly higher hazard ratios (HR) for the revision for ASD [2) HR (95% CI) 3.92 (1.10-13.96), P = 0.035], [3) HR (95% CI) of 4.27 (1.11-15.54), P = 0.036].Conclusion: Among patients with IS, the incidence of revisions for ASD was less than a 4th of that with DLSD. Efforts to prevent the acceleration of the degenerative process at the adjacent level of fusion are most important with DLSD.Level of Evidence: 3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the practice of textual improvement in medieval manuscripts, particularly focusing on the Bursarii super Ovidios commentary written by Master William, highlighting how changes were rarely accepted due to the emphasis on memorization in education until the invention of printing allowed for actual revisions of ancient texts. It also explores the emergence of silent reading as a technique during the Renaissance of the Twelth Century.

Background: Proximal humerus nonunion is a challenging complication of fractures that can be treated surgically with either open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) or reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA). The few studies published on this subject have shown high rates of complications and revision surgery when RTSA has been performed for proximal humerus nonunion. The purpose of this study was to determine the rates of complications and revision of this procedure at our institution, as well as to identify any variables that may impact risks of complications and reoperations., Methods: A single-institution retrospective review of all patients who underwent RTSA for proximal humerus nonunion between 2005 and 2021 was performed. Nonunion was defined as imaging evidence of lack of union, at least 90 days after the index fracture. Patients with less than 1 year of clinical follow-up were excluded. Fifty patients were included, with the majority being female (78%). The mean age at time of RTSA was 71 (range: 54-86) years and most patients were initially treated nonoperatively (74%). Mean total follow-up was 49 (range: 11-130) months. Demographic and surgical variables were recorded. Primary outcomes were complications and reoperations. Complications were divided into surgical (those directly related to RTSA), or other (those unrelated to RTSA). Secondary outcomes included visual analog scale pain scores and range of motion., Results: A total of 17 shoulders (34%) sustained complications after revision shoulder arthroplasty, with 10 (20%) requiring reoperation. Six patients (12%) sustained dislocations and 5 (10%) had radiographic evidence of humeral loosening. No variables examined, including nonoperative vs. surgical management of the index fracture, prosthesis type, or management of tuberosities, influenced the risk of dislocation. Survivorship free from reoperation at 2 years was 73%. Younger age at time of RTSA and the presence of diabetes mellitus both increased the risk of reoperation significantly (P = .013 and P = .037, respectively). There was a trend towards increased risk of reoperation in patients who were treated with initial ORIF (hazard ratio = 2.95); however, this did not reach statistical significance (P = .088). Three patients (6%) sustained a periprosthetic fracture after a fall., Conclusion: RTSA provides improved pain and function for properly selected patients with proximal humerus nonunion. Dislocation, humeral loosening, and reoperation rates remain high when RTSA is performed for nonunion compared to other diagnoses. In this study, younger age and diabetes mellitus increased the odds of reoperation. Every effort must be made to optimize implant stability and humeral component fixation when RTSA is performed for proximal humerus nonunion., (Copyright © 2024 Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Board of Trustees. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Background: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) can profoundly affect many aspects of everyday life. Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a potential therapeutic option. This retrospective, single-site evaluation explored health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in individuals with CRPS treated with SCS in our Pain Service., Materials and Methods: All patients aged ≥18 years with fully implanted SCS for CRPS between June 2013 and January 2023 were identified from hospital records. The following data were collected: sex, age, chronic pain diagnosis, CRPS type (I or II), location of CRPS (upper or lower limb), years of CRPS before first SCS implant, SCS system, preimplant and follow-up scores for HRQoL (euroqol 5 dimensions 3 levels [EQ-5D-3L] index score), average pain, worst pain and the influence of pain on aspects of everyday life (all numerical rating scale [NRS]), patient and clinician global impression of change at follow-up, and the occurrence and reasons for revisions and explants. An intention-to-treat approach was used and data statistically analyzed., Results: The final cohort comprised 83 patients (46 women), with a median (minimum, maximum) follow-up duration of 29 months (seven, 72). There were statistically and clinically significant improvements in HRQoL, despite relatively low pain response rates. The pain response rate was 34% (reduction of ≥30% in average pain NRS); the pain remission rate was 13% (average pain score ≤3 NRS), and all patients had preimplant EQ-5D-3L index values below the population norm of 0.82. However, 60% of patients reported EQ-5D-3L index scores greater than the published minimally important difference of 0.074, and scores were better at follow-up than at preimplant (p < 0.001); 44% of patients and 41% of clinicians reported improved symptoms at the most recent follow-up. Explants occurred in eight of 83 patients (10%)., Conclusions: Patients had meaningful improvements in HRQoL, which is a key outcome in ascertaining the overall outcome of SCS in CRPS. Randomized controlled clinical trials should build on the findings to improve understanding of the benefits and risks of treating CRPS with SCS., Competing Interests: Conflict of Interest Beatrice Bretherton has provided consultancy to Abbott and Platform 14. Ganesan Baranidharan has a consulting agreement with Saluda, Nevro Corp, Abbott, Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Stryker, and Mainstay Medical. Ganesan Baranidharan had educational and research grants from Nevro Corp, Abbott, and Boston Scientific. Ganesan Baranidharan is on the advisory board for Abbott and Nalu Medical. The remaining authors reported no conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Inc.)

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Public information that becomes available after a manager's initial voluntary disclosure decision creates incentives for her to reconsider and possibly change that decision. We show that if she has private information that is value-relevant or that impacts the firm's ability to compete in its product market, the option to revise an initial disclosure decision in the face of a public release of information alters both the initial decision and the overall frequency of disclosure. These effects are amplified if she believes that public information arrival is more likely or if the firm's value is more sensitive to it. We also show that an increase in the initial disclosure cost reduces the probability of an initial disclosure and increases the probability of a subsequent disclosure. These effects are reversed if the cost of a subsequent disclosure increases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Shunt-dependent hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is a common sequelae leading to poorer neurological outcomes and predisposing to various complications. Methods: A total of 2191 consecutive patients with aSAH were acutely admitted to the Neurointensive Care at the Kuopio University Hospital between 1990 and 2018 from a defined population. A total of 349 (16%) aSAH patients received a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, 101 with an adjustable valve (2012–2018), 232 with a fixed pressure valve (1990–2011), and 16 a valveless shunt (2010–2013). Clinical timelines were reconstructed from the hospital records and nationwide registries until death (n = 120) or June 2019. Results: Comparing the adjustable valves vs. the fixed pressure valves vs. the valveless shunts, intraventricular hemorrhage was present in 61%, 44% and 100%, respectively. The median times to the shunt were 7 days vs. 38 days vs. 10 days. The rates of the first revision were 25% vs. 32% vs. 69%. The causes included infection in 11% vs. 7% vs. 25% and overdrainage in 1% vs. 4% vs. 31%. The valveless shunt was the only independent risk factor (HR 2.9) for revision. After the first revision, more revisions were required in 48% vs. 52% vs. 45%. Conclusions: The protocol to shunt evolved over time to favor earlier shunt. In post-aSAH hydrocephalus, adjustable valve shunts, without anti-siphon device, can be installed at an early phase after aSAH, in spite of intraventricular blood, with a modest risk (25%) of revision. Valveless shunts are not recommendable due to high risk of revisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this study is to explore if, and if so, how Rabih Alameddine, Kim Addonizio, and Kellie Wells have managed to sustain, replicate, disregard, or redefine the patriarchal ideology customarily associated to gender issues within the fairy-tale tradition. What is really striking is that, several decades after the revisionist project undertaken by the "Angela Carter generation", these new voices experimenting with the field of fairy tales still feel the need to revisit the same mythemes and fight against the same ideology and values that pervaded twentieth century retellings of fairy tales. The subversive potential of the fairy tale retellings seems to have been surpassed by the powerful agenda of a patriarchal social system, which, despite the social, psychological and political changes, still retains its status quo.

Research has shown that engaging students in peer feedback can help students revise documents and improve their writing skills. But the mechanistic pathways by which skills develop have remained untested: Does receiving and providing feedback lead to learning because it produces more extensive revision behavior or is such immediate implementation of feedback unnecessary? These pathways were tested through analyses of the relationships between feedback provided and received, feedback implemented and overall revisions, and improved writing quality in a new article. Overall, the number of revisions predicted growth in writing ability, and both amount of received and provided feedback were associated with being more likely to make revisions. However, providing feedback was also directly related to growth in writing ability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Three-dimensional (3D) nipple–areolar tattoo is a novel approach to nipple–areolar complex reconstruction for which little data exist. Our aim was to evaluate 3D nipple–areolar tattoo outcomes and investigate if patient factors, payer status, surgeries, or therapies affect tattoo utilization. Methods: Patients pursuing skin-sparing (SSM) or attempted nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) with breast reconstruction from 2008 to 2019 were reviewed. Outcomes included frequency of 3D tattoo, post-procedure complications (infections, or other local adverse sequelae), and rates, indications, and timing of revisions. Patient factors, payer status, surgeries, and adjuvant therapies underwent univariate analysis comparing rates of 3D tattoo and revisions. Results: A total of 191 patients were identified; median follow-up was 4 years. The majority of patients were white (165, 86%), married (146, 76%), and post-menopausal (97, 51%), with private insurance (156, 81%). Surgeries included SSM (172, 90%) or attempted NSM (19, 10%) with implant (154, 81%) or autologous reconstruction (37, 19%). Sixty-two patients (32%) underwent 3D nipple–areolar tattooing. No post-procedure complications occurred. After tattooing, 20 patients (32%) pursued revisions, the majority due to color fading (12, 60%). Average time from tattoo to completion of revisions was 5.6 months. Patients undergoing autologous reconstruction had a higher rate of 3D tattooing (p < 0.001). Adjuvant radiation led to a higher rate of revisions (p = 0.02). Patient factors, payer status, index mastectomy, and chemotherapy did not significantly affect rates of 3D tattooing or revisions. Conclusions: 3D nipple–areolar tattoo utilization is likely unaffected by age, marriage, menopause, or payer status. Radiotherapy and color fading can lead to more revisions. Level of Evidence IV: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) is a condition affecting larger joints such as the hip and knee. Little is known regarding the impact of PVNS on total hip arthroplasty (THA). Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine if patients with PVNS of the hip undergoing primary THA experience greater (1) in-hospital lengths of stay (LOS); (2) complications; (3) readmission rates; and (4) costs.Methods: Patients undergoing primary THA for PVNS of the hip from the years 2005 to 2014 were identified using a nationwide claims registry. PVNS patients were matched to a control cohort in a 1:5 ratio by age, gender, and various comorbidities. The query yielded 7440 patients with (n = 1240) and without (n = 6200) PVNS of the hip undergoing primary THA. Endpoints analyzed included LOS, complications, readmission rates, and costs. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine odds ratios (OR) of developing complications. Welch's t-tests were used to test for significance in LOS and cost between the cohorts. A P-value less than .001 was considered statistically significant.Results: PVNS patients had approximately 8% longer in-hospital LOS (3.8 vs 3.5 days, P = .0006). PVNS patients had greater odds of (OR 1.60, P < .0001) medical and (OR 1.81, P < .0001) implant-related complications. Furthermore, PVNS patients were found to have higher odds (OR 1.84, P < .0001) of 90-day readmissions. PVNS patients also incurred higher day of surgery ($13,119 vs $11,983, P < .0001) and 90-day costs ($17,169 vs $15,097, P < .0001).Conclusion: Without controlling for global trends in LOS, complications, readmissions, or costs between 2005 and 2014, the findings of the study suggest that PVNS of the hip is associated with worse outcomes and higher costs following primary THA. The study is useful as orthopedic surgeons can use the study to educate patients of the complications which may occur following their hip surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Revisions in writing aim at text improvement. Literature has shown that revision activity differs between novice and experienced writers. Our ultimate goal is to understand how children and adolescents develop the capacity to shift perspectives from language producer to language recipient — a prerequisite ability to successful revision. In this study we analyse draft and final versions of expository and narrative texts produced by French children (36 participants for each group: fifth, seventh and ninth grades). Half of the children produced the written texts after having produced the text first in the spoken modality, and the other half produced the written versions before producing the text in the spoken modality. We will examine the kinds of revisions made by children and adolescents and how they vary with development and across text types. We also want to evaluate the measure to which our writers' revisions contribute to text quality and to show how revisions can reveal what elements our participants judge as playing a part in text quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Approximately 30% of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt systems for hydrocephalus fail within the first year and 98% of all patients will have shunt failure in their lifetime. Obstruction remains the most common reason for shunt failure. Previous evidence suggests elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines in CSF are associated with worsening clinical outcomes in neuroinflammatory diseases. The aim of this study was to determine whether cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) contribute towards shunt failure in hydrocephalus. Methods: Using multiplex ELISA, this study examined shunt failure through the CSF protein concentration profiles of select pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, as well as select MMPs. Interdependencies such as the past number of previous revisions, length of time implanted, patient age, and obstruction or non-obstruction revision were examined. The pro-inflammatory cytokines were IL-1β, IL-2, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-12, IL-17, TNF-α, GM-CSF, IFN-γ. The anti-inflammatory cytokines were IL-4 and IL-10, and the MMPs were MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-7, MMP-9. Protein concentration is reported as pg/mL for each analyte. Results: Patient CSF was obtained at the time of shunt revision operation; all pediatric (< 18), totaling n = 38. IL-10, IL-6, IL-8 and MMP-7 demonstrated significantly increased concentrations in patient CSF for the non-obstructed subgroup. Etiological examination revealed IL-6 was increased in both obstructed and non-obstructed cases for PHH and congenital hydrocephalic patients, while IL-8 was higher only in PHH patients. In terms of number of past revisions, IL-10, IL-6, IL-8, MMP-7 and MMP-9 progressively increased from zero to two past revisions and then remained low for subsequent revisions. This presentation was notably absent in the obstruction subgroup. Shunts implanted for three months or less showed significantly increased concentrations of IL-6, IL-8, and MMP-7 in the obstruction subgroup. Lastly, only patients aged six months or less presented with significantly increased concentration of IL-8 and MMP-7. Conclusion: Non-obstructive cases are reported here to accompany significantly higher CSF cytokine and MMP protein levels compared to obstructive cases for IL-10, IL-6, IL-8, MMP-7 and MMP-9. A closer examination of the definition of obstruction and the role neuroinflammation plays in creating shunt obstruction in hydrocephalic patients is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) capture the postoperative period and reflect the patient's perspective of one's own recovery. However, it is unknown if PROs can reflect and predict the need for secondary surgeries after a primary hip arthroscopy. Purpose: To examine if PROs at 3 months and 1 year after primary hip arthroscopy were correlated with future reoperations and determine the critical thresholds for significant PROs utilizing a multivariate logistic regression analysis and receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis. Study Design: Case-control study; Level of evidence, 3. Methods: Data on consecutive patients who underwent primary hip arthroscopy between February 2008 and August 2018 was retrospectively reviewed. Patients were included for analysis if they had the following PROs preoperatively and at 3 months and 1 year postoperatively: modified Harris Hip Score (mHHS), Nonarthritic Hip Score (NAHS), and visual analog scale (VAS) for pain. Patients were split into 2 groups: those who underwent secondary surgery and those who did not. Patient variables, intraoperative labral treatment, preoperative PROs, and postoperative PROs were compared between the 2 groups. A multivariate logistic regression analysis and ROC analysis were deployed to evaluate the correlation between PROs and the need for future surgery. Results: A total of 911 primary arthroscopy cases were included in this study. While age, body mass index, labral treatment, and 3-month and 1-year follow-up mHHS, NAHS, and VAS were significant in the bivariate analysis, the multivariate logistic regression analysis only found 1-year mHHS to be significant in the final model (P <.05). The ROC curve for 1-year mHHS demonstrated acceptable discrimination between patients requiring secondary surgery and patients not requiring secondary surgery with an area under the curve of 0.73. Using the Youden index, a threshold of 80.5 was determined for the 1-year mHHS. Conclusion: The risk for secondary procedures may be evaluated with mHHS at 1 year after primary hip arthroscopy. Surpassing a score of 80.5 may be associated with a 74.4% reduction in risk for either a revision hip arthroscopy or a conversion to hip replacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main aim of this study is to explore if and, if so, how Rabih Alameddine, Kim Addonizio, and Kellie Wells have managed to sustain, replicate, disregard, or redefine the patriarchal ideology customarily associated to gender issues within the fairy-tale tradition. What is really striking is that, several decades after the revisionist project undertaken by the "Angela Carter generation", these new voices experimenting with the field of fairy tales still feel the need to revisit the same mythemes and fight against the same ideology and values that pervaded twentiethcentury retellings of fairy tales. The subversive potential of the fairy tale retellings seems to have been surpassed by the powerful agenda of a patriarchal social system, which, despite the social, psychological, and political changes, still retains its status quo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: Pyrocarbon promises to be an optimal material choice for radial head arthroplasty (RHA) due to an elastic modulus comparable to the radial diaphysis and thus providing higher biocompatibility. Primary objective was to determine the complications and revision rates related to the usage of these prostheses. The secondary objective was to assess the clinical and radiological outcomes of Pyrocarbon RHAs., Hypothesis: Pyrocarbon RHAs have good clinical and radiological outcomes with low complications and revisions., Methods: Ovid MEDLINE and Embase databases were used to search for studies on outcomes and complications of the RHAs using Pyrocarbon radial head prostheses. The systematic review was designed in accordance with the PRISMA guidelines and included studies were appraised using the MINORS tool. Complications and RHA revision rates were assessed. Functional outcomes were reviewed using PROMs (like MEPI, DASH and BMS), post-op range of motion (using goniometer) and grip strength (using the dynamometer). Postoperative radiological outcomes like peri-prosthetic lucency, radial neck osteolysis, radio-capitellar congruence, capitellar erosion, overstuffing/understuffing and osteoarthritis were reported using radiographs., Results: A total of 12 studies cumulatively reporting 353 patients who underwent Pyrocarbon RHAs were included in the review. The mean age of patients across the studies ranged from 47 to 54 years of which 50.5% were males. The majority of radial head replacements were done for acute trauma (87.5%) with the remainder done for arthritis (1.7%) and trauma sequelae (10.8%). Mean follow-up period in the selected studies ranged from 18 to 110 months with minimum follow-up across all studies being 12 months. Modular Pyrocarbon (MoPyC, Tornier™) was the implant of choice in ten studies while two studies used the Ascension Pyrocarbon radial head (Ascension Orthopaedics™). Ten studies demonstrated mean MEPI ranging from 75.5 to 96. Mean extension deficit ranged from 6 to 19 degrees, mean flexion from 120 to 140 degrees, mean pronation from 71 to 87 degrees and mean supination from 63 to 85 degrees. Relative grip strength ranged from 69 to 96% of the contralateral limb. Revisions due to implant-related reasons (intra-prosthetic dissociation, prosthetic fracture, peri-prosthetic loosening, radio-capitellar subluxation and understuffed/overstuffed elbow) was 6.8% (24/353). Radial stress shielding and peri-prosthetic lucency was reported in 10 to 100% of patients across different studies but symptomatic implant loosening leading to revision remained rare (2%, 7/353). Radio-capitellar congruence was reported in 81% to 100% cases while capitellar erosion ranged from 0% to 89%. Pyrocarbon implants specific complications included head-neck intra-prosthetic decoupling (1.1%) and pyrocarbon head fractures (0.9%). In total, 5.7% cases underwent re-surgery due to non-RHA related reasons., Discussion: The pyrocarbon RHA shows good functional outcome, range of motion and low revision rates. This aligns with the working hypothesis of this review. However, pyrocarbon radial head implants have implant-specific complications like pyrocarbon radial head fractures and intra-prosthetic decoupling between stem and head. Despite promising in vitro biomechanical properties, capitellar wear is still a common finding with pyrocarbon RHAs. Despite these factors, pyrocarbon radial head implants are a viable option for radial head arthroplasty., Level of Evidence: II; Systematic review., (Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.)

Research on writing that focuses on what writers do when they compose shows that processes such as planning, transfer to writing and editing are recursive and affect the writing process of first and second language writers differently. To our knowledge, what has yet to be explored in research is the writing process of young bilingual students. The present study focused on the revisions and spelling errors made by 9-year-old bilingual students during a writing activity in their L2. Details about the writing process (e.g., revisions) were taken from statistics registered in the keystroke logging program ScriptLog and were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Results from the quantitative analysis show that the mean proportion of the students’ revisions is relatively low compared to results in previous research. The qualitative analysis showed both surface and meaning changes; the latter were found at both the micro- and macrostructural levels. Bilingual students exhibit a creative writing process in which several meaning changes occur in a language (in this case Swedish) that they are particularly competent in. The spelling error analysis indicated that the bilingual students make the same type of spelling errors as monolingual students in their initial stages of learning to write.

The author reflects on revised guidelines for academic institutions interested in their Master of Science degree (MSc) students being entered for the Market Research Society's (MRS's) Accredited Masters Award. Topics include the creation of the "International Journal of Market Research (IJMR)" Collaboration Award, an overview of the Accredited Masters Award, and four key issues that create a gap between the needs and expectations of marketers and academic communities.

The article distinguishes between revisionist and orthodox readings of Capital and identifies two waves of innovations in Marxist political economy. The first produced the classical theories of imperialism; the second produced a diversity of Neo-Marxisms and new orthodoxies sowing the seeds for the 1000 Marxisms developing in the age of neoliberal globalisation. Reading all of these approaches to Marxist Political Economy in context, the article suggests and offers a key to the understanding of capitalist development and socialist movements in the 20th century. Using them as background for a new reading of Capital also allows an understanding of contemporary capitalism and considerations of socialist futures.

This essay offers a close reading of recent work by Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis to argue that her practice engages iconoclasm in ways importantly modified by her feminist commitments. Often Davis’s source material has significant historical, political or art historical import, as in her works dealing with the Suffragist attack on Velásquez’s Rokeby Venus in 1914. What is at stake in her ‘re-visioning’ of such moments, which often involves labour-intensive drawing as a key method, is a formal commitment to a kind of delicate or caring vandalism, often pursued through labour-intensive drawing (iconoclasm as a means of making images) and a specifically feminist contention with existing hierarchies of value and systems of representation (iconoclasm as contestation). To reckon with these stakes, Jean-Luc Nancy’s account of ‘the pleasure in drawing’ and the feminist concept of the ‘work of love’ are brought into relation with Davis’s work.

Purpose: To compare the short-term outcomes of surgical management of failed ankle arthroplasty with revision ankle arthroplasty and conversion to arthrodesis. Methods: Single-centre retrospective review of revision procedures for failed ankle arthroplasty between January 2012 and June 2019. Implant survival, union rates, and PROMS data—Pain Visual Analogue Score (VAS), Ankle Osteoarthritis Score (AOS) and Manchester-Oxford Foot Questionnaire (MOxFQ)—were compared between the two groups. Results: Twenty-nine patients (31 ankles) underwent surgical management for failed ankle arthroplasty, with either revision arthroplasty (n = 21) or arthrodesis (n = 10). Revision arthroplasty had 87% survival at four years. Arthrodesis had an overall union rate of 80%. Two-year PROMS showed greater results for the revision arthroplasty group compared with that for arthrodesis group (Pain VAS 10 vs 50, p = 0.03; total AOS 12 vs 87, p = 0.04; average MOxFQ 17 vs 73.5, p 0.02). Conclusion: Revision arthroplasty demonstrates good short-term survival data with improvements in PROMS compared with arthrodesis. Further long-term follow-up is required to monitor if these benefits continue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Melittio-Quercion frainetto and Melittio-Quercion confertae are two alliances, which were proposed about simultaneously 40 years ago through two different papers regarding southern Italy and southern Greece, respectively. The aims of this paper are to establish valid name, nomenclatural type and distribution range of these two alliances and to verify whether they display a sufficient degree of syntaxonomic autonomy when compared to the ecologically and geographically neighbouring alliances. A data matrix composed of 43 frequency columns summing 1242 phytosociological relevés x 625 taxa was prepared and statistically analysed. The results suggested that the thermophilous Quercus cerris and Q. frainetto oak woods of the southern Apennines and the southern Balkans deserve to be classified in two separated alliances. The application of the principle IV of the ICPN established that the correct name of the alliance is Melittio albidae-Quercion frainetto Barbéro, Bonin, Gamisans et Quézel in Bonin et Gamisans 1976 and that it was typified in southern Italy. Accordingly, the new name Geranio asphodeloidis-Quercion frainetto is here proposed for southern Greece in substitution of Melittio-Quercion confertae (nom. illeg.). The syntaxonomic proposal advanced in this paper brings significant modifications in the current version of the checklist of the European syntaxa (Eurovegchecklist). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of mass-elite policy congruence has been limited by the lack of comprehensive data on the preferences and priorities of individual legislators. The University of Tokyo-Asahi Survey fills this lacuna through elite surveys whose response rates exceed ninety per cent. This article applies this data to comparing mass-elite policy preferences on constitutional revision, a core ideological dimension in post-war Japan. It shows that legislators generally follow the party line on policy position but veer closer to swing voters on policy prioritisation. This trend is stronger for electorally insecure legislators, who depend on independent voters to secure victory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Late Hemphillian of Guanajuato, México, fossil material assigned to Machairodus sp. cf. M. coloradensis (= Amphimachairodus coloradensis) was described in the 90´s. A detailed morphological reexamination of this material and its comparison to other felid genera raises doubts about its original taxonomic assignment. The presence of hypertrophied upper canine and almost all teeth with strong serration, confirms its identification as a Scimitar-tooth felid, but it is smaller than A. coloradensis. Because of the unique combination of synapomorphies present in this specimen, where a more developed flange stands out than another known Amphimachairodus, we propose that it represents a new taxon of felid and name a new species: A. alvarezi sp. nov. This new taxon adds information to the understanding of the diversity of machairodonts during the Miocene-Pleistocene times in North America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Based on univariate dimension-reduction model, this study aims to propose an adaptive anisotropic response surface method (ARSM) and its high-order revision (HARSM) to balance the accuracy and efficiency for response surface method (RSM). Design/methodology/approach: First, judgment criteria for the constitution of a univariate function are derived mathematically, together with the practical implementation. Second, by combining separate polynomial approximation of each component function of univariate dimension-reduction model with its constitution analysis, the anisotropic ARSM is proposed. Third, the high-order revision for component functions is introduced to improve the accuracy of ARSM, namely, HARSM, in which the revision is also anisotropic. Finally, several examples are investigated to verify the accuracy, efficiency and convergence of the proposed methods, and the influence of parameters on the proposed methods is also performed. Findings: The criteria for constitution analysis are appropriate and practical. Obtaining the undetermined coefficients for every component functions is easier than the existing RSMs. The existence of special component functions is useful to improve the efficiency of the ARSM. HARSM is helpful for improving accuracy significantly and it is more robust than ARSM and the existing quadratic polynomial RSMs and linear RSM. ARSM and HARSM can achieve appropriate balance between precision and efficiency. Originality/value: The constitution of univariate function can be determined adaptively and the nonlinearity of different variables in the response surface can be treated in an anisotropic way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Providing high-quality courses is of utmost importance to drive successful learning. This compels course authors to continuously review their contents to meet learners' needs. However, it is challenging for them to detect the reading barriers that learners face with content, and to identify how their courses can be improved accordingly. In this paper, we propose a learning analytics approach for assisting course authors performing these tasks. Using logs of learners' activity, a set of indicators related to course reading activity are computed and used to detect issues and to suggest content revisions. The results are presented to authors through CoReaDa, a learning dashboard empowered with assistive features. We instantiate our proposals using the logs of a major European e-learning platform, and validate them through a study. Study results show the effectiveness of our approach providing authors with more awareness and guidance in improving their courses, to better suit learners' requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The genus Oxybelis currently is composed of four taxa despite numerous studies suggesting and describing multiple taxa within the O. aeneus complex. Here, we utilize a multilocus molecular dataset (i.e., cyt b, ND4, 12S, 16S, cmos, PRLR, 3663 bp) to conduct phylogenetic analyses to assess the evolutionary history of Oxybelis. Our molecular analyses find three major lineages of Oxybelis (i.e., O. aeneus complex, O. brevirostris, O. fulgidus complex) with a sister relationship between O. brevirostris and the O. aeneus complex to the exclusion of the O. fulgidus complex. More specifically, O. aeneus appears to harbor at least five taxa currently unrecognized while O. fulgidus was found to be paraphyletic with respect to O. wilsoni, suggesting cryptic diversity and novel taxa in that clade as well. Additionally, we use morphological data in concert with our molecular analyses and the literature to support removing Oxybelis microphthalmus Barbour and Amaral, 1926; Oxybelis potosiensis Taylor, 1941; and Dryophis vittatus Girard, 1854 from the synonymy of O. aeneus. Finally, we describe two new species from Central America and northern South America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper provides some examples that illustrate how cooperation is achieved among rational and selfish agents when (i) they prepare their actions in advance and (ii) they have some opportunities to revise their actions. Specifically, we use the framework of revision games introduced by Kamada and Kandori [(2020). "Revision Games." Econometrica 88: 1599–1630]. To judge the sustainability of cooperation in the examples, we show and utilise a simple and useful lemma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]