Evidence-based guidelines recommend regular colorectal cancer (CRC) screening for adults 50 years and older, yet screening rates remain very low. In this paper we describe the challenges associated with recruitment and retention of provider organizations (POs) for a group randomized, controlled effectiveness trial to increase CRC screening, among patients in a managed care health insurance plan...

The literature documents that personality characteristics are associated with healthy lifestyles, including smoking. Among positive traits, Positivity (POS), defined as a general disposition conducive to facing experience under a positive outlook has shown robust associations with psychological health. Thus, the present study investigated the extent to which POS is able to predict (i) relapse a...

interpretation: computing on properties readInt(x) if x>0 : x:= pred(x) x:= succ(x) writeInt(x) Q: Is output pos? A: abstractly interpret domain Int by Sign = {neg, zero, pos, any}: readSign(x) if isPos(x): x:= pred(x) x:= succ(x) writeSign(x) where succ(pos) = pos succ(zero) = pos succ(neg) = any succ(any) = any and pred(neg) = neg pred(zero) = neg pred(pos) = any pred(any) = any To answer the...

In this paper, part-of-speech (POS) information is used to improve the performance of a Japanese language model (LM). The POS bigram is used to tackle the sparseness problem of the training data. Additionally, due to the characteristics of the Japanese language, part of the Japanese syntax information can be integrated into the POS bigram, through POS combination rules. Based on the Japanese sy...

This paper investigates the utility of an unsupervised partof-speech (PoS) system in a task oriented way. We use PoS labels as features for different supervised NLP tasks: Word Sense Disambiguation, Named Entity Recognition and Chunking. Further we explore, how much supervised tagging can gain from unsupervised tagging. A comparative evaluation between variants of systems using standard PoS, un...

BACKGROUND Cardiac involvement is a relevant clinical finding in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and is associated with poor prognosis. Left atrial (LA) remodeling and/or dysfunction can be an early sign of diastolic dysfunction. Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is a novel and promising tool for detecting very early changes in LA myocardial performance. AIM To assess whether S...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational support and the trait emotional intelligence with the entrepreneurial behavior of employees in jihad-e keshavarzi organization of fars province. the research method used was a survey and descriptive- correlation techniques. statistical population of this study consisted of 110 experts in jihad-e- agri...

Background. There are a few papers that compared the lateral transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block with the posterior TAP block. Our study aimed to compare retrospectively the quality of analgesia after laparoscopic gynecologic surgery using the lateral TAP block with general anesthesia versus the posterior TAP block with general anesthesia. Method. Sixty-seven adult female patients were incl...

Point-of-sale (POS) advertising at retail stores is one of the key marketing avenues used by the tobacco industry. The United States Surgeon General urges actions to eliminate POS tobacco advertisements because of their influence on youth smoking. Many youth empowerment programs are implemented to address tobacco industry marketing influences, including POS tobacco advertisements. While youth a...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of GSK-3 β inhibitors compared with PRE and POS in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Isolated hearts were submitted to the following protocols: IC: 45 min global ischemia (GI) and 1-hour reperfusion (R); PRE: a cycle of 5 min GI and 10 minutes of R prior to 45 min GI; POS: three cycles of 30 sec GI/30 sec R at the start of R. Other hearts re...