Subject Index Research Articles

The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Breast Volume on Mammography Examination

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer suffered by women worldwide. The development and incidence of breast cancer is influenced by various risk factors, one of which is breast volume. The amount of breast volume is influenced by several factors such as genetics, demographics, reproduction, lifestyle, and Body Mass Index (BMI). This study aims to determine the relationship between Body Mass Index and breast volume of research subjects at RSUD Dr. Saiful Anwar Malang, East Java. This type of research is observational analytic with a cross-sectional study approach and analysis using Kruskal Wallis test, the Mann Whitney test, and Spearman correlation test. Based on the Kruskal Wallis test BMI-left breast volume, the sig value obtained was 0.020 (sig < 0.05) while in the analysis of BMI-right breast volume the sig value obtained was 0.083 (sig > 0.05). Follow-up analysis using the Mann-Whitney BMI test-left breast volume showed significant results in the normal-overweight (p=0.050) and normal-obese (p=0.007) BMI groups. While the BMI-volume analysis of the right breast showed significant results only in the normal-obese BMI group (p = 0.044). Spearman correlation test of BMI-left breast volume obtained sig = 0.000 and r = 0.603. While the Spearman test of BMI-right breast volume obtained sig = 0.004 and r = 0.511. This study concludes that there is a significant relationship between BMI and breast volume which is positive with a fairly strong correlation strength.

Auditory-Perceptual and Pupillometric Evaluation of Vocal Roughness and Listening Effort in Tracheoesophageal Speech

This study evaluated auditory-perceptual judgments of perceived vocal roughness (VR) and listening effort (LE) along with pupillometric responses in response to speech samples produced by tracheoesophageal (TE) talkers. Twenty normal-hearing, naive young adults (eight menand twelve women) served as listeners. Listeners were divided into two groups: (1) a with-anchor (WA) group (four menand six women) and (2) a no-anchor (NA) group (four menand six women). All were presented with speech samples produced by twenty TE talkers; listeners evaluated two auditory-perceptual dimensions-VR and LE-using visual analog scales. Anchors were provided to the WA group as an external referent for their ratings. In addition, during the auditory-perceptual task, each listener's pupil reactions also were recorded with peak pupil dilation (PPD) measures extracted as a physiologic indicator associated with the listening task. High interrater reliability was obtained for both the WA and NA groups. High correlations also were observed between auditory-perceptual ratings of roughness and LE, and between PPD values and ratings of both dimensions for the WA group. The inclusion of an anchor during the auditory-perceptual task improved interrater reliability ratings, but it also imposed an increased demand on listeners. Data obtained offer insights into the relationship between subjective indices of voice quality (ie, auditory-perceptual evaluation) and physiologic responses (PPD) to the abnormal voice quality that characterizes TE talkers. Furthermore, these data provide information on the inclusion/exclusion of audio anchors and potential increases in listener demand in response to abnormal voice quality.

Methods for Assessing the Psychological Tension of Social Network Users during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Uses for Predictive Analysis

This article address approaches to the development of methods for assessing the psychological state of social network members during the coronavirus pandemic through sentiment analysis of messages. The purpose of the work is to determine the psychological tension index by using a previously developed thematically ranked dictionary. Researchers have investigated methods to evaluate psychological tension among social network users and to forecast the psychological distress. The approach is novel in the sense that it ranks emojis by mood, considering both the emotional tone of tweets and the emoji’s dictionary meanings. A novel method is proposed to assess the dynamics of the psychological state of social network users as an indicator of their subjective well-being, and develop targeted interventions for help. Based on the ranking of the Emotional Vocabulary Index (EVI) and Subjective Well-being Index (SWI), a scheme is developed to predict the development of psychological tension. The significance lies in the efficient assessment of the fluctuations in the mental wellness of network users as an indication of their emotions and a prerequisite for further predictive analysis. The findings gave a computed value of EVI of 306.15 for April 2022. The prediction accuracy of 88.75% was achieved.

AHI estimation of OSAHS patients based on snoring classification and fusion model

Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is a chronic and common sleep-breathing disease that could negatively influence lives of patients and cause serious concomitant diseases. Polysomnography(PSG) is the gold standard for diagnosing OSAHS, but it is expensive and requires overnight hospitalization. Snoring is a typical symptom of OSAHS. This study proposes an effective OSAHS screening method based on snoring sound analysis. Snores were labeled as OSAHS related snoring sounds and simple snoring sounds according to real-time PSG records. Three models were used, including acoustic features combined with XGBoost, Mel-spectrum combined with convolution neural network (CNN), and Mel-spectrum combined with residual neural network (ResNet). Further, the three models were fused by soft voting to detect these two types of snoring sounds. The subject's apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was estimated according to these recognized snoring sounds. The accuracy and recall of the proposed fusion model achieved 83.44% and 85.27% respectively, and the predicted AHI has a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.913 (R2 = 0.834, p < 0.001) with PSG. The results demonstrate the validity of predicting AHI based on analysis of snoring sound and show great potential for monitoring OSAHS at home.

Functionality and Merits of a Faceted Thesaurus: The Case of the Nuovo soggettario

The Nuovo soggettario, the official Italian subject indexing system edited by the National Central Library of Florence, is made up of interactive components, the core of which is a general thesaurus and some rules of a conventional syntax for subject string construction. The Nuovo soggettario Thesaurus is in compliance with ISO 25964: 2011-2013, IFLA LRM, and FAIR principle (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability). Its open data are available in the Zthes, MARC21, and in SKOS formats and allow for interoperability with l library, archive, and museum databases. The Thesaurus’s macrostructure is organized into four fundamental macro-categories, thirteen categories, and facets. The facets allow for the orderly development of hierarchies, thereby limiting polyhierarchies and promoting the grouping of homogenous concepts. This paper addresses the main features and peculiarities which have characterized the consistent development of this categorical structure and its effects on the syntactic sphere in a predominantly pre-coordinated usage context.

How, when, and to what degree do people with alcohol dependence recover their psychological wellbeing and quality of life? The Madrid Recovery Project.

The consensus on recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) has shifted toward encompassing psychological wellbeing and quality of life dimensions. However, few studies have explored the long-term recovery process and its dimensions, timing, styles, and modes. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent, timing, and process of psychological wellbeing and quality of life recovery in alcohol use disorder (AUD) patients, as well as the relationship with classic dimensions of AUD recovery. A cross-sectional study has been carried out with 348 participants with AUD, in different abstinence periods (1 month-28 years), and 171 control subjects. Participants underwent a psychological evaluation, which included self-informed measures of psychological wellbeing, quality of life, negative emotionality, and coping strategies related to alcohol consumption avoidance. Statistical analysis included linear and non-linear regression models between psychological dimensions and maintenance of abstinence, as well as matching the scores of the sample with AUD to those of controls. Scatter plots were used to explore inflection points. In addition, mean comparison tests were performed between participants with AUD and controls and by gender. In general, according to the regression models, there were pronounced increases in indices of wellbeing and coping strategies (and pronounced decreases in negative emotionality) during the first 5 years of abstinence, followed by less pronounced improvements. The matching of AUD subjects in wellbeing and negative emotionality indices with controls occurs at different times: (a) 1 year or less: physical health; (b) 1-4 years: psychological health; (c) 4-10 years: social relationships, wellbeing, and negative emotionality; and (d) more than 10 years: autonomy and self-acceptance. There are statistically significant differences by gender for the negative emotionality and physical health variables. Recovery from AUD is a long process that involves improvements in wellbeing and quality of life. Four stages can be described in this process, with the most pronounced changes occurring during the first 5 years of abstinence. However, AUD patients take more time to obtain similar scores to controls in several psychological dimensions.

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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child DevelopmentVolume 88, Issue 1 p. 183-192 SUBJECT INDEX Subject Index First published: 13 June 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12470Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume88, Issue1Understanding Heterogeneity in the Impact of Public Preschool Programs; Issue Authors ‐ Tyler W. Watts, Jade M. Jenkins, Kenneth A. Dodge et al.June 2023Pages 183-192 RelatedInformation

Infrared image enhancement algorithm based on improved wavelet threshold function and weighted guided filtering

Aiming at the problems such as the poor visual effect of infrared thermal imaging under low illumination conditions, an enhanced infrared image recognition method based on wavelet decomposition is proposed for this paper. First, according to wavelet decomposition, the infrared image is divided into a low-frequency sub-band (LFS) and high-frequency sub-band (HFS) in each orientation, and HFS in each orientation is denoised using a modified wavelet threshold function to strengthen the denoising effect of the infrared image; Second, the multi-scale Retinex (MSR) algorithm based on weighted guided filtering (WGIF) is used to evaluate the component of illumination in the basic layer of the LFS, and the WGIF-segmented detail layer images are fused with the MSR processed ones to effectively highlight the texture details of the LFS; Finally, the LFS and the HFS are wavelets reconstructed (WR) to obtain the infrared enhanced images. This paper applies the algorithm to a low-resolution (resolution 32x32 pixels) infrared thermal imaging module, and the results of combining subjective and objective evaluation indexes show that the overall property index of the algorithm in this paper is superior to other contrasting algorithms and can effectively improve the infrared image quality.

Comparative Evaluation of the Relationship between the Root-Tips of Maxillary Posterior Teeth and Floor of Maxillary Sinus using Digital Orthopantomogram in Chhattisgarh Individuals with Different Cephalic Indices

Background and Aims: Cephalic index has significant importance in the field of forensic science and variation in the cephalic index affects the facial dimensions and growth of the maxillary sinus in an individual. Knowledge of the anatomical relationship between maxillary posterior teeth and the floor of the maxillary sinus is very important for preoperative treatment planning in dentistry. The aim of the study is a comparative evaluation of the relationship and the distances between maxillary posterior teeth root tips and the floor of the maxillary sinus in different cephalic index subjects using a digital orthopantomogram. Materials and Methods: 210 subjects were categorized as Brachycephalic, Mesocephalic and Dolichocephalic according to their cephalic index. Orthopantomograms of these subjects were taken for assessment of vertical relationships between the maxillary posterior teeth and the floor of the maxillary sinus followed by distance measurement. Recorded data were statistically analyzed. Results: Significant difference in vertical distance was observed in all three cephalic groups in the case of 1st premolars, distobuccal roots of 1st molars and mesiobuccal roots of 2nd molars. Conclusion: The study concluded variation in the cephalic index affects the relationship and vertical distance between the maxillary sinus floor and the roots of maxillary posterior teeth.

Music therapy, neural processing, and craving reduction: an RCT protocol for a mixed methods feasibility study in a Community Substance Misuse Treatment Service

BackgroundMusic therapy has been shown to be effective for multiple clinical endpoints associated with substance use disorder such as craving reduction, emotion regulation, depression, and anxiety, but there are a lack of studies investigating those effects in UK Community Substance Misuse Treatment Services (CSMTSs). Furthermore, there is a demand for identifying music therapy mechanisms of change and related brain processes for substance use disorder treatment. The present study aims to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of music therapy and a pre-test, post-test, and in-session measurement battery in a CSMTS.MethodsFifteen participants, from a community service based in London, will take part in a mixed-methods non-blind randomized-controlled trial. Ten participants will receive six-weekly sessions of music therapy in addition to the standard treatment offered by the CSMTS—five of them will receive individual music therapy and five of them will receive group music therapy—while a further five participants will act as a control group receiving standard treatment only.Satisfaction and acceptability will be evaluated in focus groups with service users and staff members following the final treatment session. Moreover, attendance and completion rates will be monitored throughout the intervention. Subjective and behavioral indexes will be assessed before and after the interventions to explore the effects of music therapy on craving, substance use, symptoms of depression and anxiety, inhibitory control, and will be correlated with associated neurophysiological signatures. In-session analysis of two individual music therapy sessions will serve to explore how music and emotion are processed in the brain within the therapy. The data collected at each step will be included in an intention-to-treat analysis basis.DiscussionThis study will provide a first report on the feasibility of music therapy as an intervention for participants with substance use disorder engaged within a community service. It will also provide valuable information regarding the implementation of a multifaceted methodology that includes neurophysiological, questionnaire-based, and behavioral assessments in this cohort. Notwithstanding the limitation of a small sample size, the present study will provide novel preliminary data regarding neurophysiological outcomes in participants with substance use disorder that received music therapy.Trial Registration: ClinicalTrails.gov, NCT0518061, Registered 6 January 2022, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05180617

The Influence of Experience on Neuromuscular Control of the Body When Cutting at Different Angles

Cutting is an offensive technique commonly used in football and basketball to pass the opponent’s defence by changing direction quickly in running. This paper aims to investigate the effect of experience and angle on the neuromuscular control strategies of the trunk and lower limbs during cutting. Non-negative matrix factorisation and K-means were used to extract muscle synergies (muscles that are activated in parallel) of 12 subjects with cut experience and 9 subjects without experience based on the sEMG signal collected from cutting at three cut angles (45°, 90°, and 135°), which was also mapped into the spinal motor output. Uncontrolled manifold analysis was used to establish the relationship between muscle synergies and COP. This study found that experienced subjects tended to use the lower limb muscles rather than the postural muscles as stabiliser muscles compared to novices. Experienced subjects can recruit an additional set of muscle synergy to cope with large-angle cuts. In addition, experienced subjects can activate the second muscle synergy, involving the hip and ankle stabilisation muscles, in advance to improve postural stability when cutting in large-angle. Synergy index of experienced subjects dropped rapidly before the quick stop and was relatively high during the change of direction. These results suggest that experience can modify the postural stabilisation mechanisms during cutting, and prompt the lower limb muscle synergy to produce anticipatory adjustment to improve postural stability in the anterior-posterior and internal-external directions.

High sleep reactivity: clinical, psychological and polysomnographic features

Background. The model of sleep reactivity to stress considers sleep reactivity to stress as a link in the pathogenesis of insomnia disorder – the degree to which stress disturbs sleep, which manifests as difficulty in initiating and maintaining sleep.The aim. To study clinical and psychological features as well as subjective and objective sleep indexes of subjects with high level of sleep reactivity to stress.Materials and methods. The psychological status, subjective indexes of sleep and sleep reactivity to stress according to Ford Insomnia Response to Stress Test were studied among 18–75 year-old subjects without significant sleep disturbances and patients with chronic insomnia. Polysomnography was performed for objective evaluation of sleep parameters.Results. It was found that individuals with high levels of sleep reactivity to stress were characterized by high levels of anxiety, restlessness, and neuroticism. According to results of Pittsburg questionnaire, a lower quality of sleep was revealed. These findings were correlated with objective indexes of sleep according to polysomnographic studies: less deep sleep and its lower efficiency due to sleep disturbances.Conclusions. Individuals with high sleep reactivity to stress are characterized by greater anxiety combined with subjective and objective sleep disturbance like insomnia type.

UEFSD: Unsupervised medical images fusion based on exclusive features and saliency detection for SPECT-MRI images of glioma

Background and ObjectiveTo address the key feature extraction problem in glioma image fusion due to blurred edge and texture features, with certain exclusive features entangled with noise, we propose an unsupervised fusion network based on exclusive feature unentanglement and saliency detection (UEFSD). Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are taken as examples. MethodsFirst, the SPECT image in RGB space is converted to YCbCr space. Then, Y-channel SPECT and MRI images are fed into the UEFSD-based network and the attribute and object encoders are respectively used to separate the attribute vector of exclusive information for each modality and object feature mapping based on this attribute vector. Subsequently, the attribute vector and object feature maps are fused through the fusion decoder to obtain the fused image. In the training phase, first, the image is reconstructed using the attribute vector and object feature maps of the other modalities. The feature displaying the largest difference between the source and reconstructed images is identified as the exclusive feature that cannot be obtained via reconstruction. We trained the encoders and decoders in an unsupervised manner using exclusive feature loss as a high-level constraint and introducing a saliency mask as a low-level constraint. The trained attribute encoders and object encoders feed information to the fusion decoder to generate fused images. ResultUEFSD-based network was trained on Harvard Medical School's public dataset and tested by fusing MRI-T2 glioma images with their SPECT-T1 and SPECT-Tc counterparts. The experimental results demonstrate that UEFSD performs optimally in both subjective and objective indices when compared with nine other existing networks. ConclusionThe proposed UEFSD-based network can obtain clear edge and texture glioma features, which can effectively improve the rich and natural colour information of medical images and has the potential for computer-aided diagnosis system application.

0226 Effect of Wake Extension and Short Recovery Sleep on Objective Vigilance and Subjective Sleepiness in Young Adolescents

Abstract Introduction Adolescents routinely experience insufficient sleep. Compared to adults, less is known regarding how wake extension and recovery sleep impact objective and subjective indexes of vigilance in youth. Here we explore these questions using acute wake extension. Methods Twenty-two 10–13-year-old children (12.03±1.14 years, 12F) completed a week of actigraphy-monitored at-home sleep stabilization (9.5h TIB). Participants then slept in the laboratory with polysomnography for a baseline (BSL) opportunity of 9.5h (21:00-06:30) and returned the subsequent evening for wake extension (WE) to 02:30 and a 4h recovery sleep opportunity (02:30-06:30). Participants completed performance testing batteries including a 5-minute tablet-based visual adaptation of the psychomotor vigilance task (PVT; BrainBaseline) and introspective ratings at 20:00 and 07:30, as well as at three additional times during WE: 22:00, 00:00, and 01:30. The current analyses focused on PVT reciprocal reaction time (RRT: 1/RT) and the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) ratings. Results One-way ANOVA across WE (20:00, 22:00, 00:00, 01:30) showed a main effect of time for slower reaction times as participants remained awake (m±sd [1/s] 20:00: 2.01±0.32; 22:00: 1.84±0.33; 00:00: 1.79±0.29; 01:30: 1.71±0.34; F(3,63)=13.78, p&amp;lt;.05, ηp2= .40). After recovery sleep, RRTs at 07:30 (1.69±0.31) were slower than those at 07:30 after baseline sleep (1.95±0.36) (t(21)=5.46, p&amp;lt;.001) and did not differ from 01:30 during WE (t(21)=0.64, p=0.53), indicating persistent impairment after recovery sleep. A main effect of time during WE was also seen for the SSS (20:00: 1.77±0.69; 22:00: 3.36±1.71; 00:00: 4.14±1.21; 01:30: 5.68±1.25; F(3,63)=56.80, p&amp;lt;.001, ηp2= .73). Morning SSS scores were higher (sleepier) on WE (2.24±1.30) than BSL (1.71±0.90) (t(20)=2.45, p=.024). However, unlike RRTs, morning SSS scores were also significantly lower (less sleepy) at 07:30 following recovery sleep compared to 01:30 during WE (t(21)=9.80, p&amp;lt;.001). Conclusion Vigilance performance and sleepiness after 13.5 until 19 h awake worsened and PVT performance did not improve after 4h recovery sleep; however, perceived sleepiness after 4h recovery sleep decreased. This incongruent performance and perception confirms the vulnerability of youth to even partial sleep loss. Our next analyses will consider inattention phenotypes and recovery sleep physiology as potential moderators of these effects. Support (if any) K01MH109854, P20GM139743

대학 전공능력 진단도구의 통합적 타당화 연구

This study is to verify the unified approach validity of the major competency diagnosis tool for the Department of Chemical Engineering at A University in the metropolitan area. For this purpose, the Rasch measurement model is applied and analyzed. As a result of the validity verification based on the test contents, both the internal and external fit and the correlation coefficient of the point lag measurement are good. As a result of validation based on reality, 83.23% of the subjects show an item response form suitable for the Rasch model. As a result of validation based on the internal structure, it is found to support a dimension of the item. As a result of validation based on the reaction process, it is found to be good. As a result of validation based on generalization, no gender-specific discrimination function items are found in the tool. As a result of estimating item and subject reliability, the R reliability, separation index, and stratification index for subjects and items all show high internal consistency.

Principal component analysis of adipose tissue gene expression of lipogenic and adipogenic factors in obesity

ObjectiveA better understanding of mechanisms regulating lipogenesis and adipogenesis is needed to overcome the obesity pandemic. We aimed to study the relationship of the transcript levels of peroxisome proliferator activator receptor γ (PPARγ), CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (C/EBP-α), liver X receptor (LXR), sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1c (SREBP-1c), fatty acid synthase (FAS), and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) in subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) from obese and normal-weight women with a variety of anthropometric indices, metabolic and biochemical parameters, and insulin resistance.MethodsReal‐time PCR was done to evaluate the transcript levels of the above‐mentioned genes in VAT and SAT from all participants.ResultsUsing principal component analysis (PCA) results, two significant principal components were identified for adipogenic and lipogenic genes in SAT (SPC1 and SPC2) and VAT (VPC1 and VPC2). SPC1 was characterized by relatively high transcript levels of SREBP1c, PPARγ, FAS, and ACC. However, the second pattern (SPC2) was associated with C/EBPα and LXR α mRNA expression. VPC1 was characterized by transcript levels of SREBP1c, FAS, and ACC. However, the VPC2 was characterized by transcript levels of C/EBPα, LXR α, and PPARγ. Pearson’s correlation analysis showed that unlike SPC2, which disclosed an inverse correlation with body mass index, waist and hip circumference, waist to height ratio, visceral adiposity index, HOMA-IR, conicity index, lipid accumulation product, and weight-adjusted waist index, the VPC1 was positively correlated with above-mentioned obesity indices.ConclusionThis study provided valuable data on multiple patterns for adipogenic and lipogenic genes in adipose tissues in association with a variety of anthropometric indices in obese subjects predicting adipose tissue dysfunction and lipid accumulation.

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YWES Index of Authors and Subjects

Journal Article YWES Index of Authors and Subjects Get access The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 101, Issue 1, 2022, Pages 1565–1623, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maad002 Published: 24 April 2023