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Can it really be only five years since the height of any corporate executive's ambition was to be the boss of a big stockmarket-listed company—ideally after first taking it public with all the razzmatazz of a hot IPO (initial public offering)? How times change. After the bursting of the stockmarket bubble in 2000 and the scandals that afflicted many of the market's erstwhile darlings, public companies have lost much of their allure. Instead, as will be abundantly clear in 2005, for executives and investors alike, private companies are increasingly the place to be.
Even in the late 1990s, when the appetite of investors everywhere for shares knew no bounds, private firms still accounted for the lion's share of corporate activity. But the trend for more firms to go public seemed unstoppable. In America several hundred firms a year had IPOs during the 1990s—around 500 in 1999 alone. But 2002 brought the smallest number of IPOs in any year for a decade; 2003 was little better. Nor was 2004, for all the hullabaloo about Google's listing—itself a rather half-hearted affair, with most of the internet-search firm's shares remaining in private hands.
Although the number of firms delisting their shares from stockmarkets has increased in recent years, it has hardly dwarfed even the reduced number of new listings. But these data do not tell the whole story. Delisting is a laborious, controversial process. Selling a chunk of the firm to a private buyer tends not to be—and in recent years there has been a surge in such selling.
Big companies are increasingly focused on their core businesses and looking to shed non-core subsidiaries. In the bubble years they might have been able to float a subsidiary as a separate public company, or sell it to another big public firm to which it was more suited. But few public firms are active buyers nowadays. Lacklustre stockmarkets mean that their shares are not the powerful alternative currency to cash that they once were.
At the same time there has been a dramatic growth in the purchasing power of private buyers. As well as the world's growing army of multi-billionaires, there are increasingly well-funded private-equity firms competing furiously to buy unwanted bits of public companies. Private-equity firms first achieved prominence in the 1980s. Most famously, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) borrowed most of the money to pull off the $25 billion takeover of one of America's most venerable public companies, RJR Nabisco—which they took private. They were branded barbarians at the gate.
Now firms such as KKR and Blackstone are respectable financial institutions, flush with billions of dollars that wealthy individuals and big institutions have invested in their funds and that banks have lent them. They are spending this money globally—private-equity firms are increasingly busy in Europe and Asia (especially Japan). And the amount of money they have to spend is growing fast as investors seek higher returns than they seem likely to get from interest rates or in the public-equity market. Although private-equity returns are already coming down from the over 40% per annum delivered by some firms in the past, they seem likely to remain high enough to continue for years to attract more money away from public equity.
The top private-equity firms are already huge. Together, the firms in which Blackstone has a stake have over 300,000 employees and revenues of $55 billion—enough to rank in the top 20 of the Fortune 500. This portfolio seems likely to grow, even though the individual firms will all be sold off over time in order to return money to investors. As doing an IPO or selling to a public company are popular exit strategies for private-equity firms, there may eventually be limits to the extent to which the growth of private equity will be at the expense of the public-equity markets—although as they get larger, private-equity firms may often exit by selling their portfolio companies privately to each other.
Managers increasingly regard private companies as more attractive places to work. The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, introduced in the aftermath of the Enron scandal, has imposed on public companies much onerous corporate-governance compliance—a source of constant complaint from bosses in America and beyond. Private firms need not comply in full with Sarbanes-Oxley. Nor do they have to disclose what they pay their managers, who are thus spared the growing public outrage over allegedly excessive executive remuneration. Private-equity firms tend to focus on businesses at important transition points, which pose interesting management challenges; this may make them particularly appealing to the best executive talent.
It remains to be seen if any public firm equivalent to RJR Nabisco in the 1980s will be taken private. Unlike then, there are now huge barriers to hostile takeovers, especially in America. Banks are not willing to lend quite as generously. Yet some of the biggest private-equity firms are now prepared to combine their funds with each other to pursue ever bigger deals. It would be unwise, then, to rule out the possibility of any but the very biggest public firms (and perhaps not even them) going private. In Britain, 2004's most interesting corporate story was the failed attempt by Philip Green, a wealthy businessman, to buy the country's iconic retailer, Marks & Spencer. Judging by the continuing difficulties of the firm's new management, it will be no surprise if Mr Green returns to take it private in 2005.


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Crowds gathered on a city estate to view the dramatic spectacle of a luxury Italian sports car badly damaged in a crash.16 comments
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Foxl2 functions in sex determination and histogenesis throughout mouse ovary development
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1 Laboratory of Genetics, NIA/NIH-IRP, Baltimore, USA
2 División de Genética, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Occidente, CMNO-IMSS, Guadalajara, México
3 Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cittadella Universitaria di Monserrato, Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
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BMC Developmental Biology 2009, 9:36 doi:10.1186/1471-213X-9-36Published: 18 June 2009
Partial loss of function of the transcription factor FOXL2 leads to premature ovarian failure in women. In animal models, Foxl2 is required for maintenance, and possibly induction, of female sex determination independently of other critical genes, e.g., Rspo1. Here we report expression profiling of mouse ovaries that lack Foxl2 alone or in combination with Wnt4 or Kit/c-Kit.
Following Foxl2 loss, early testis genes (including Inhbb, Dhh, and Sox9) and several novel ovarian genes were consistently dysregulated during embryonic development. In the absence of Foxl2, expression changes affecting a large fraction of pathways were opposite those observed in Wnt4-null ovaries, reinforcing the notion that these genes have complementary actions in ovary development. Loss of one copy of Foxl2 revealed strong gene dosage sensitivity, with molecular anomalies that were milder but resembled ovaries lacking both Foxl2 alleles. Furthermore, a Foxl2 transgene disrupted embryonic testis differentiation and increased the levels of key female markers.
The results, including a comprehensive principal component analysis, 1) support the proposal of dose-dependent Foxl2 function and anti-testis action throughout ovary differentiation; and 2) identify candidate genes for roles in sex determination independent of FOXL2 (e.g., the transcription factors IRX3 and ZBTB7C) and in the generation of the ovarian reserve downstream of FOXL2 (e.g., the cadherin-domain protein CLSTN2 and the sphingomyelin synthase SGMS2). The gene inventory is a first step toward the identification of the full range of pathways with partly autonomous roles in ovary development, and thus provides a framework to analyze the genetic bases of female fertility.


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The Madurai-based Dhan Foundation has begun a campaign for testing one lakh students for anaemia before the end of the current academic year.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, its Executive Director M.P. Vasimalai said that more people would be reached with funds raised through the upcoming fourth edition of the Madurai Marathon scheduled for Saturday.
The purpose of the event was to raise funds to combat anaemia. Of the foundation's target of one lakh, around 10,000 students have already been screened, he said.
Adolescents, particularly rural girls, in India have high rates of anaemia. Instance of anaemia were also found under among pregnant women, thereby endangering their unborn child. The Foundation has been conducting BCC (behaviour change communication) to address the issue and the results have been positive.
The campaign also advocated changes in diet, hygiene, sanitary habits and the need to wear footwear. The Foundation was working with the State government to combat anaemia and a campaign was underway at five blocks in five districts, he said.
Speaking later, M. Santhanam, event coordinator, said anaemia affected the student's studies and resulted in other health complications. Through this marathon, the Foundation aimed to create more awareness among the public and generate resources for action programmes.
Several events have been planned for the marathon, one of which is the half marathon that would be held separately for boys and girls. This event alone would entail a registration fee and all participants would be tested for medical fitness on Friday evening at Tamukkam ground.
B. Raghini, also an event coordinator, elaborated about the previous three editions of the Madurai Marathon.
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A perfect respite from the tourist throngs along West Lake. Inside the low tiled wall is a garden with lotus-covered ponds and a courtyard where locals gather for tea and gossip.
Tea fanatics might head here to pay homage to the 18 bushes set aside for the Ch'ing dynasty emperor Qianlong.
Head straight to our favorite tea shop: the hospitable store will pour you a cup of their green elixir before you buy.
A short stroll from the train station, pedestrianized Hefang Road is a collection of Ch'ing dynasty houses (and replicas nearby).
Close by, on the edge of the verdant, waterway-filled Xixi National Wetland Park, the National Wetland Museum will open an Arata Isozaki-designed viewing platform later this year.
West Lake is the major draw here, with its elegant causeways, pavilions, gardens, and arched bridges.
Where: Hangzhou Bay on the East China Sea, traversing the Qiantang River at the Yangtze River Delta.
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Acknowledgements Community Car This booklet is based heavily on an earlier version created by Isobel Tack of Care Scheme in Network Cambridgeshire which has partnership with proved so useful that we are now updating it (electronically). We therefore Care Network and Network, Steve Gaze, Hazel Swindells and Cambridgeshire thank her, along with Jane Hurst of Care Glenda Jones for their invaluable contributions in the current updating. We County Council also thank Cambridgeshire County Council for their financial contribution to the With thanks to the Caldecote and Hardwick scheme for permission to use their Handbook as a model printing costs. The updating has otherwise been done voluntarily. Sheila Stephenson Care Network Disclaimer Registered Charity No. 1120693 Every care has been taken when compiling this booklet but the Authors and Care Network Cambridgeshire cannot be held responsible for any omissions or errors of fact in the information included. Good Neighbours – Good Drivers Each car scheme is different, but there is one link and that is you, the volunteer driver. It is DRAFT for Cambourne the availability of drivers within each scheme that governs the ability of the scheme to respond to need. Without you the schemes would not exist. Car Scheme By driving for a car scheme you provide not only transport, but also reassurance to Handbook for vulnerable people, their relatives and friends. You are part of a network of good Volunteer Drivers neighbours helping to promote: independent living regular social contact Re-Produced for Cambridgeshire County Council supports the Cambourne 55 volunteer car schemes throughout the county by providing assistance to scheme co- ordinators, additional insurance for their drivers and subsidies for mileage and other Care Network Cambridgeshire can arrange expenses. These schemes offer organised training on Moving & Handling, First Aid, lifts, for essential journeys, to those who are Basic Health & Safety and other issues unable to use public transport through affecting volunteers. mobility difficulties, or where no suitable transport services exist. Journeys made without notification to the scheme co-ordinator are not covered by Blue Badges Cambridgeshire County Council's insurance Blue (formerly Orange) Badges provide car or subsidy, so arrangements for bookings parking concessions for people with severe must always be made through a co- walking difficulties who travel as either ordinator. driver or passenger. The badge belongs to the person, not the car. If you want to apply Please keep this in the car for a badge for yourself or on behalf on Useful numbers can be found in this booklet someone else - telephone 0345 045 5204. Contacts Useful Phone Numbers 1st Contact Sheila Stephenson Hospitals 01954 210638 Addenbrooke's Main Switchboard Caldecote 01223 245151 nd Hinchingbrooke Hospital 2 Contact Glenda Jones 01954 211700 01480 416416 Hardwick Papworth Hospital rd 01480 830541 3 Contact Hazel Swindells 01954 212998 Arthur Rank Hardwick 01223 723000 Local Surgeries Comberton Surgery Care Network Cambridgeshire 01223 262500 5 Broadway House 58, Green End, Comberton 149-151, St. Neots Road, Hardwick, Little Eversden Surgery Cambridge, 01223 262579 CB23 7QJ 33, Harlton Road, Little Eversden (30p per mile) Telephone: 01954 211919 Bourn Surgery Email: email@example.com 01954 719313 www.care-network.org.uk 25, Alms Hill, Bourn Care Network Cambridgeshire's mission is to Monkfield Medical Practice enable volunteers to meet the needs of the 01954 282153 elderly, isolated or vulnerable in their Sackville Way, Cambourne communities. They network between social car schemes and other good neighbour projects, offering informal guidance and sharing good practice. Your local Community Car Scheme form, for the scheme, to the Community Transport Officer at Cambridgeshire County Introduction Council (CCC) and receives all monies owed, Cambourne Community Car Scheme covers which are then distributed accordingly. residents of Cambourne and provides transport for those unable to make other Passenger Contributions 2011 arrangements for attending necessary 30p per mile (Use Google Maps for Mileage hospital, chiropody, dental and doctors' details and route) but remember the charge appointments, hair appointments etc. is based on actual mileage and may involve diversions or extra mileage to park etc. Drivers are solely responsible for the choice http://maps.google.co.uk/ of route, and will try and carry out the (from the driver's door to back to the driver's journey within the agreed time scale. Drivers home) are not accountable for any travel problems, Addenbrookes hospital £7.20 minimum e.g. traffic jams and parking difficulties. Hinchinbrook hospital approx £5.70 Burwell day care approx £17 (28 miles may Easily portable wheelchairs can only be involve 2 trips) carried by prior arrangement, and will only be transported by drivers who feel confident Receipts that lifting the wheelchair is within their Receipts can be given if requested. Some physical capability. passengers may be eligible for a refund of their journey costs from the hospital, for Confidentiality example. If so, you must provide written All volunteers agree to abide by a set of basic details of the journey, the name of the guidelines that covers integrity, safety, scheme, total mileage, the charge, your respect for passengers and confidentiality. As signature and the date. It is best to keep a a driver any personal information you gain receipt book in the car in case one is asked during the course of your duties should not for. Suitable books will be provided by the be divulged to anyone other than your co- co-ordinator. ordinator. Parking at Hospitals Always display your parking Fees authorisation Drivers should not be out of pocket as a Use the parking bays 6+ which are result of offering their service. The co- allocated for disabled people, only if ordinators of each scheme have agreed the you or your passenger is permitted to do amount you will receive for the journeys you so and either you or the passenger make on behalf of the scheme. This is usually has a valid blue badge. calculated with respect to the mileage of If appropriate, display a short note each trip. You will need to collect the agreed giving details of the clinic and appointment passenger contribution, including any time. parking charges, at the end of the journey. Cambridgeshire County Council subsidises Addenbrooke's Cambridge volunteer drivers' expenses on a mileage basis. Your co-ordinator submits a claim You will be issued by your co-ordinator with This behaviour may arise as a result of a card which will entitle you to free car confusion, frustration or difficulties in parking at an area within the hospital. communication. Try to be aware of what You have free access with your card to car may trigger difficulties and set clear ground park H (Hills Road end) which is at the front rules. of the hospital site and which is designated You may encounter for voluntary services, ambulance drivers and violent or aggressive behaviour staff only. abusive or threatening language If a passenger has a blue disabled parking refusal to wear a seatbelt badge he/she should be asked to bring it continual distraction with them, otherwise you must not park in If this occurs, calmly state that the client's disabled parking spaces. behaviour is unacceptable and that further Do not park on double yellow lines or where behaviour like this will result in a refusal of emergency vehicles park. If you do not have transport in the future. a valid permit then it is safer to pay to park than to risk a fine or worse. If you have to Report any problems to your co-ordinator pay for parking anywhere then the passenger Driver Requirements should bear the cost. As a volunteer driver you need to comply A map of the car parking area is available on with all the legal requirements for everyday the Addenbrooke's website motoring. As such you must ensure that your vehicle is taxed, is roadworthy and has a Please note: parking arrangements are valid MOT certificate, and that you are subject to change. If you are in any doubt properly licensed and insured. If you change ring the hospital or ask at reception. your insurance company, remember to inform them that you are a volunteer driver. (The co-ordinator will give you a standard What to do... letter to send to your insurance company, which you must use. Please ask for another If your vehicle is involved in an accident one if you change companies.) The insurance stop in a safe place, apply the hand- company should not charge extra for this. If brake and secure your car there is any problem please inform the remove the keys from the ignition relevant co-ordinator. if anyone is injured, call 999 exchange names, addresses and Cambridgeshire County Council provides the insurance details as normal following additional insurance for volunteer get the names and addresses of any drivers: witnesses Public Liability, Loss of No Claims report the accident to Bonus and Excess Protection insurance (for the police, only if someone has been all drivers) injured Personal Accident insurance, (for your motor insurance company drivers under 80). your co-ordinator, who will try to arrange alternative transport if required To ensure that the policy conditions are met, you need to keep your documents up If your passenger behaves inappropriately to date. If you need to make a claim, notify your own known special requirements. Inform your co- insurers without delay. Also inform your co- ordinator if you have any concerns, or wish ordinator, who will send you a form relating for training on Moving & Handling. to Cambridgeshire County Council's additional insurance. For a passenger with walking difficulties Volunteer drivers should not offer any assistance to passengers with mobility Volunteering problems, without having received Volunteers may not make a profit from their appropriate training to do so. driving. The Inland Revenue allows a Do not offer your arm for support, nor maximum reimbursement of 45p per mile. allow passengers to hold onto you; if they The fare paid for the journey should not fall you may both be injured exceed the running costs of the vehicle. This Allow them to use their own walking includes an amount for depreciation and aid and to move at their own pace general wear. Where possible, stand on the side Please do not feel guilty if you are unable to away from any walking aid help when asked: just make sure the co- Take extra care in difficult conditions. ordinator knows when you are likely to be available and what you are prepared to do. It When the client is unfit to travel would be helpful if you could let your co- Inform the co-ordinator ordinator know of any holiday arrangements. Ask if the client would like the doctor This most important thing is that you enjoy to be called helping with this vital service. The Ask if they would like neighbours or passengers are so grateful – without the relatives informed scheme they would be lost. Inform their destination, if appropriate Resignation If the client becomes unconscious call the ambulance service by dialling 999 If you have to resign do tell the co-ordinator. Don't forget to return your ID and Notify your co-ordinator of the actions taken Addenbrooke's parking card to your co- ordinator and to notify your motor insurer. Each Trip Collecting Equal Opportunities Turn up on time and allow enough time for the parent While you are free to refuse any specific to fit a car seat or loading a wheel request, schemes do not exclude passengers chair if appropriate on the grounds of their age, gender, Identify yourself sexuality, race or beliefs. Make sure that the passenger's property is secure, and they have their keys Helping Your Passengers Check they have all that they require Always ask what the client needs. Be aware for the trip, e.g. appointment letter that the client may have health problems and/or card, medication, Blue Badge and that are not obvious. Your co-ordinator personal belongings should give the guidelines for clients with Ensure that they are correctly seated You must not attempt to lift or carry in your vehicle, with seat-belt fastened passengers or their possessions that could Confirm the fare prior to the journey cause you or passengers to experience injury as far as is possible or be put at other risk. If your passenger is unable to get in or out of a car independently You are only insured through the car scheme they should be prepared to provide an escort for the return journey door to door. If the to help them at both the start and end of client asks 'could you just?' it is each part of the journey. Only offer help recommended that you decline politely. yourself if you are trained to do so and feel confident of your actions. 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Integrating Healthcare Knowledge Artifacts for
Clinical Decision Support: Towards Semantic
Web Based Healthcare Knowledge Morphing
Sajjad Hussain and Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
NICHE Research Group, Faculty of Computer Science, Dahousie University, Canada
Abstract. Healthcare decision making demands the systematic inte-
gration of knowledge from multiple sources, such as clinical guidelines,
clinical pathways, knowledge of practitioners and so on. We present a
semantic web based approach for synthesizing health knowledge through
the semantic modeling of healthcare knowledge as ontologies and reason-
ing over the ontologies to derive a morphed knowledge object. We demon-
strate the application of our approach by generating morphed knowledge
about prostate cancer clinical pathways.
Healthcare decision making during the diagnostic-treatment cycle is a com-
plex activity. Health professionals make clinical decisions by applying healthcare
knowledge that includes their experiential knowledge and explicit knowledge 'ar-
tifacts', such as clinical practice guidelines, best evidence, clinical pathways and
so on [1]. One may note that each healthcare knowledge artifact captures specific
conceptual, contextual and operational aspects of a disease and corresponding
diagnostic/therapeutic procedures. Health professionals, guided by the patient's
context, are able to select the relevant 'knowledge objects' from these different
artifacts and then inter-relate these specific knowledge objects whilst satisfying
clinical relevance and pragmatics constraints. For instance, a health professional
generating a treatment plan for a patient with hypertension and diabetes will
refer to the relevant sections of (a) clinical guidelines for recommendations; (b)
clinical pathways for procedural protocols to exercise these recommendations;
and (c) medical literature to determine the best evidence and outcomes of treat-
ment options. In our work, we attempt to pursue a context-sensitive selection and
integration of medical knowledge from multiple knowledge artifacts to generate
a comprehensive knowledge object for clinical decision support.
We are developing the concept of healthcare knowledge morphing that entails
"the intelligent and autonomous fusion/integration of contextually, conceptually
and functionally related knowledge objects that may exist in different represen-
tation modalities and formalisms, in order to establish a comprehensive, multi-
faceted and networked view of all knowledge pertaining to a domain-specific
problem"–Abidi 2005 [2]. In this paper, we present our healthcare knowledge
C. Combi, Y. Shahar, and A. Abu-Hanna (Eds.): AIME 2009, LNAI 5651, pp. 171–175, 2009.
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Fig.1. Healthcare Knowledge Morphing
morphing framework K-MORPH that is based on the semantic web approach
that entails: (a) Developing Knowledge Artifact Ontologies (KAOs) to represent
knowledge within CPG, CP and CM [1]; (b) Specifying the clinical context of
the knowledge morphing activity through a rich morphing construct; (c) Gen-
erating the morphed knowledge by (i) selecting a contextualized sub-ontology,
corresponding to the clinical context, from the KAO; and (ii) merging the se-
lected contextualized sub-ontologies, using reasoning algorithms applied to a set
of domain-specific context-specific axioms, to generate a new sub-ontology that
represents the 'morphed' knowledge artifact. We demonstrate the working of
our knowledge morphing framework K-MORPH by morphing three different
location-specific clinical pathways to generate a comprehensive knowledge about
treatments and follow-ups for a clinical context therapeutic decision support (see
Figure 1) [1].
2Related Work
The literature suggests other approaches for knowledge integration problem from
different perspectives. For instance, the ECOIN framework performs semantic
reconciliation of independent data sources, under a defined context, by defining
conversion functions between contexts as a network. ECOIN takes the single
ontology, multiple views approach [3], and introduces the notion of modifiers
to explicitly describe the multiple specializations/views of the concepts used in
different data sources. It exploits the modifiers and conversion functions, to en-
able context mediation between data sources, and reconcile and integrate source
schemas with respect to their conceptual specializations. Another recent initia-
tive towards knowledge integration is the OpenKnowledge project [4] that sup-
ports the knowledge sharing among different knowledge artifacts, not by sharing
their asserted statements, instead by sharing their interaction models. An inter-
action model provides a context in which knowledge can be transmitted between
two (or more) knowledge sources (peers).
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K-MORPH Architecture
The K-MORPH approach is shown in Figure 1, and its main elements are
described in the following subsections. For further details see [5].
3.1 Knowledge Representation and Annotation via Ontologies
In K-MORPH, knowledge artifacts are represented using two different (but
inter-related) ontologies, namely: (i) Domain Ontology; and (ii) Knowledge Ar-
tifact Ontology (KAO). A domain ontology serves two purposes: (i) standard-
ization of the domain-specific concepts and relations defined in the knowledge
artifact ontologies; and (ii) specification of abstract knowledge links between con-
textually and functionally congruent knowledge components in different KAOs.
A knowledge artifact ontology (KAO) serves as a lower-level ontology that cap-
tures both the structure and content of a particular knowledge artifact–such as
CPG, CP [1], clinical cases etc. As a test-case, we used three location-specific
(Halifax, Calgary and Winnipeg) Prostate Cancer (PC) pathways as medical
knowledge artifacts, and represented them in different KAOs [1].
3.2 Contextualizing Ontologies
Contextualizing an ontology deals with an adaptation of its ontology model
to support a local view [6]. In K-MORPH, each KAO models the procedural
knowledge of a knowledge artifact. But, by contextualizing a KAO we are able to
provide a specialized view that models (i) a specific interpretation of its ontology
concepts, and (ii) an implementation of its procedural knowledge applied in a
particular context. A contextualized sub-ontology is extracted from a KAO based
on the context-specific concepts, and comprises (i) instances (ii) sub-concepts,
(iii) equivalent-concepts, (iv) properties, (v) property domain and range, and
(vi) assertions for the context-specific concepts.
3.3Morphing Constructs
In order to represent the context under which two or more knowledge artifacts
can be morphed to solve a specific problem, we defined a Morphing Construct.
The morphing construct supervises the knowledge morphing process, and pro-
vides a context for determining when, where and how two or more knowledge
artifacts need to be reconciled. A Morphing construct is a tuple that declares a
context-specific knowledge component and its role under a defined context.
3.4Morphing Engine
The K-MORPH morphing engine inputs the problem-context, ontology-
encoded knowledge artifacts (OKAs), domain ontology, and morphing constructs.
It first employs the problem-context to determine the context-specific knowledge
components (i.e. contextualized sub-ontologies) from different KAOs. Based on
the declarative knowledge of morphing constructs, it identifies correspondences
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between the ontology-entities (concepts, properties, and individuals) of differ-
ent contextualized sub-ontologies. Based on the identified correspondences, the
morphing engine employs the ontology reconciliation process that (i) aligns and
then merges contextualized sub-ontologies; (ii) identifies and resolves logical in-
consistencies, if present; and (iii) generates a morphed ontology, and unresolved
inconsistencies in it.
K-MORPH in Action: Morphing Clinical Pathways
We tested the above mentioned processes in K-MORPH using our PC Test-
case. The test-case involves (i) three medical knowledge artifacts, describing
Prostate Cancer (PC) clinical pathways for three different locations (Halifax,
Calgary, and Winnipeg); (ii) a problem-context; and (iii) the morphing con-
structs. The morphing process for the PC Test-case follows the following steps:
Step # 1: KnowledgeRepresentationandAnnotationofPCArtifacts:Theknowl-
edge of three PC pathway artifacts are encoded into three different KAOs. Each
pathway deals with four major types of tasks, namely (a) Consultation Task; (b)
Non-consulation Task; (c) Referal Task; and (d) Followup Task, represented as
concepts/classes in each KAO. Such tasks are supported (via properties) by other
concepts such as Clinician, Decision Criteria, Frequency, Interval Duration, In-
vestigation, Patient Condition Severity, Test Result, Followup, and Treatment.
Step # 2: Defining a Problem-context: We defined a problem-context thera-
peutic decision support whereby the user is needs to morph all three PC path-
ways in terms of: (i) the treatments, (ii) their durations, (iii) their follow-ups,
(iv) their care-settings and (v) the practitioners involved for them. The given
problem-context represents context-specific interpretations, such as (a) Calgary
and Halifax both share PC Clinicians; and (b) Treatments in the PC Calgary
pathway can be treated as Followups in the PC Winnipeg pathway.
Step # 3: Identifying Contextualized Sub-ontologies: Given the therapeutic de-
cision support context, morphing constructs and three PC pathway ontologies,
three contextualized sub-ontologies were generated. Each contextualized sub-
ontologywas semanticallyvalidated for conceptual consistencyand completeness.
Step # 4: Context-driven Ontology Reconciliation of Sub-ontologies: The K-
MORPH morphing engine initiated an ontology reconciliation process on the
contextualized sub-ontologies, and as a result alignments were found between
the classes Treatment, Followup, Frequency, Interval Duration, and Clinician.
The morphing engine processes these alignments using context-axioms and PC
domain-axioms to generate potential 'knowledge-links' between aligned PC
Results: Figure 2 shows the morphed knowledge for the treatment PC-Halifax:
ActiveSurveillance. The morphed knowledge has determined that PC-Halifax:
ActiveSurveillance can now be treated by a Primary Urologist. Based on the
reconciliation of the concepts Clinician, Treatment, Followup and Interval a
knowledge-base was generated in terms of a contextualized sub-ontology.
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Fig.2. PC Test-case: Morphed knowledge for PC-Halifax:ActiveSurveillance
5 Concluding Remarks
Clinical decision support needs a knowledge-base that can be designed from
scratch or created by synthesizing existing healthcare knowledge existing in dif-
ferent modalities. In this paper, we presented our knowledge morphing approach
that allows the systematic synthesis of multiple knowledge artifacts to develop
a comprehensive knowledge-base that can be used by decision support systems.
Our knowledge morphing approach ensures the semantic correctness of the mor-
phed knowledge to the extent that it is comparable to a knowledge-base created
through a knowledge engineering exercise. We showed how our approach is used
to develop a unified prostate cancer clinical pathway by synthesizing three dif-
ferent clinical pathways.
This research is funded by a grant from Agfa Healthcare (Canada).
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The rapper from Georgia added some extra flavour to the second weekend of Indio's arts and music festival, firstly with an unlikely collaboration with Illinois pop-punkers Fall Out Boy. They performed a remix of FOB's track My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up), with Mr Chainz jumping on the mic, playing a bit of guitar and telling the crowd, "Not only did I come to save hip hop, I came to save rock 'n' roll."
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New to the list this year is San Francisco-based Bauer's Transportation, which came in at No. 16; Salt Lake City's Lewis Stages; Wichita, Kan.-based Village Tours; and Cardinal Buses Inc. in Middlebury, Ind.
Operators who returned to the Top 50 list this year after an absence last year include Brea, Calif.'s Gold Coast Tours; Germantown, Wis.-based Go Riteway Transportation Group; and Sebring, Fla.'s Annett Bus Lines.
Another development reflected in the survey results is Mesa, Ariz.-based All Aboard America!, and New Orleans' Hotard Coaches merging their businesses to form All Aboard America Holdings (which tied for spot No. 11) last year, strengthening their operations. Both All Aboard and Hotard celebrated their 75th anniversaries this year. The operations are keeping their original names. Ranking breakdownOnce again, reported fleet sizes were larger this year. Predictably, the top four spots were taken by FirstGroup America, Coach USA, Horizon Coach Lines and Academy Bus Companies.
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Hi I just bought wharfedale DVDR24HD160 but when connected from virgin box to AV1 on DVD recorder, from AV2 dvd recorder to AV1 TV the screen is grey and no sound. I cant even get menu up on the screen. I even tried the same setting but the last input was to AV2 Tv but the same results- grey screen. Please help
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I have not been able to locate a manual for the kit and can only suggest a possible explanation. I believe that it has in-built Freeview but you have not said that you have connected an aerial to it. This being the case, it is highly probable that the AV1 input will route signal to be recorded and that AV2 only will output from a played recording. In other words, there is no direct loop from AV1 to AV2, as would seem to be necessary for your set-up to work. Try a recorded DVD in the machine and see if it is displayed on the TV. I believe that your Virgin box needs to be connected to the TV for normal viewing and also connected to the Wharfedale for recording. I assume the Virgin box has two video outputs.
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V.B. Gradin, A. Pérez, J.a. MacFarlone et al. (2015) Abnormal brain responses to social fairness in depression: an fMRI study using the Ultimatum Game, 1-11. In Psychological Medicine.
Alain Cohn, Jan Engelmann, Ernst Fehr (2015) Evidence for Countercyclical Risk Aversion : An Experiment with Financial Professionals, 860-885. In American Economic Review 105 (2).
J R Chumbley, I Krajbich, J B Engelmann et al. (2014) Loss Aversion in Young Men, 2102-5. In Psychological Science 25(11) (September).
Engelmann JB, Pogosyan M. (2013) Emotion perception across cultures: the role of cognitive mechanisms. , 118. In Front Psychol. 12 (4).
Engelmann JB, Hein G (2013) Contextual and social influences on valuation and choice. , 215-237. In Prog Brain Res. .
Engelmann JB, Maciuba B, Vaughan C et al. (2013) Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Increases Sensitivity to Long Term Losses among Patients with Major Depressive Disorder., e78292. In Plos one 8 (10).
Engelmann JB, Moore S, C. Monica Capra et al. (2012) Differential neurobiological effects of expert advice on risky choice in adolescents and adults., 557-67. In Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 7 (5).
Marianna Pogosyan, Jan B Engelmann (2011) Cultural differences in affect intensity perception in the context of advertising. In Front. Psychology.
Luiz Pessoa, Jan B Engelmann (2010) Embedding reward signals into perception and cognition.. In Frontiers in neuroscience.Download PDF (1.48 MB)
Andrew M Brooks, V S Chandrasekhar Pammi, Charles Noussair et al. (2010) From bad to worse: striatal coding of the relative value of painful decisions., 176. In Frontiers in neuroscience.Download PDF (504.48 KB)
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Oct 2014John Dickhaut Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant View website
Jun 2014Radboud Excellence Fellowship View website
Jul 2013The neurobiology of emotion in decision-making. NCCR Affective Sciences
May 2007APA Dissertation Research Award
May 2006APS Student Research Grant
Biographical Information
Jan B. Engelmann received an M.A. in Psychology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Brown University. His doctoral dissertation focused on the cognitive neuroscience of motivation-attention interactions. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Computation and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Emory University, he pursued his interest in neuroeconomics by conducting experiments on the neurobiological basis of financial risk attitudes. As a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research at the University of Zurich he investigated the neurobiological the role of emotion in social and economic choice. Currently, he is Radboud Excellence Fellow at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, where he is investigating the neural circuitry involved in emotion regulation.
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2014 - Present
Associate Member at Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour
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Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität Zürich - University of Zurich
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Medication errors - 80% of US adults use some form of over the counter medication, prescription medications, or dietary supplements in any given week. It is estimated that medication errors injure a million and a half people a year. The causes range from improper prescriptions, to sloppy handwriting, to confusion over similar drug names. It is therefore recommended that a patient keep a complete list of all medications, vitamins and over the counter medications that they take along with the dosages.
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Poor communication between doctor and patient is another cause of medical errors. Ask questions, have all tests and diagnostics explained to you. Question your doctor as to any issues which you don't understand or disagree over. Ask what else can be done, what other tests can be ordered and inquire about alternative forms of treatment or therapy. A good practice is to keep a complete medical file on you and all of your family members. Hospital errors including bed sores, falls, infections and failure to respond to patients in distress are common forms of hospital negligence. It is important that each patient have a family member or a friend act as a health advocate to monitor and follow up on the patient's care.
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Three Morris Bart personal injury attorneys have been named to New Orleans Magazine's "Top Lawyers of New Orleans" for 2012. Morris Bart, Vincent Bowers, and Terry B. Loup will be included in the November issue of New Orleans Magazine.
Morris Bart was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Orleans and a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School in New Orleans in 1978. While at Loyola he was president of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, a member of the Blue Key National Honor Society, and received the American Jurist award for academic excellence. Mr. Bart was inducted into the Louisiana Bar in 1978 and is currently a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association, Florida Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Trial Lawyers Association. Morris Bart is the founder of the law firm of Morris Bart, L.L.C., which initially focused on personal injury in New Orleans. In 1980, he became the first attorney in Louisiana to advertise personal injury on television and since that time has been a leader of marketing legal services in Louisiana.
Mr. Vincent Bowers has made New Orleans his family home for over 20 years. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from Loyola University and is admitted to practice law in all courts of Louisiana. During his career, Mr. Bowers has recovered millions of dollars in compensation as a New Orleans personal injury attorney for hundreds of clients injured by automobile collisions, offshore accidents and medical malpractice claims. He maintains an active litigation practice. Mr. Bowers is active in civic organizations, having served on the boards associated with city government, school and radio broadcasting.
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Nestled in the sunny fields of Tennessee lies the McDaniel family's Second Chance Ranch Animal Rescue. Two new arrivals are on their way, but only one is the four-legged kind.
Staff Sergeant Mike Kowalski wants only one thing after he gets home from Iraq: to sleep in a king-sized bed with clean sheets. But first, he has to hand off his fallen commander's dog, Trooper, to his family without handing off his heart to Sierra…
Sierra McDaniel needs a break. Her family life is crazy, and when she's not mucking out kennels, she's slogging through grad school. Sierra certainly doesn't want another dog, especially one that reminds her of her father. And she definitely doesn't want to see Mike with that charming smile of his…
But Trooper has a mission of his own. Before too long Mike is moving to the ranch to lend a hand—and hoping for his own second chance with Sierra.
RITA Award winner Catherine Mann is the USA Today bestselling author of numerous romances including the Dark Ops novels. She lives in Florida with her military flyboy husband and their four children.
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"Col. Allen McDaniel was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, and his family is devastated. Sgt. Mike Kowalski brings Allen's dog, Trooper, back to the McDaniels and the precocious pooch sets about making things right, one person at a time. Sierra McDaniel helps her mother keep the ranch running and the family functioning while carrying a full course load at school. The last thing she wants is her dead father's dog; neither does she want to remember the passionate moments from her brief affair with Mike. But the connection between the two is still strong, and they to resume their affair. Trooper's asides expressing his thoughts, memories, and opinions about the family are some of the funniest moments in this romance. The story isn't just about the love between Sierra and Mike—it also covers the love between mother and daughter, grandfather and granddaughter, dog and human, neighbor and neighbor, and even the army and its troops. There is indeed plenty of love to go around, and animal fans in particular will be swept away by it." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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