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Long – Term Interest Rate and Fiscal Policy
The financial crisis of 2008, the subsequent fiscal stimulus, and damage to the fiscal
Tunable entanglement distillation of spatially correlated down-converted photons
We report on a new technique for entanglement distillation of the bipartite
continuous variable state of spatially correlated photons generated in the
spontaneous parametric down-conversion process (SPDC), where tunable
non-Gaussian operations are implemented and the post-processed entanglement is
certified in real-time using a single-photon sensitive electron multiplying CCD
(EMCCD) camera. The local operations are performed using non-Gaussian filters
modulated into a programmable spatial light modulator and, by using the EMCCD
camera for actively recording the probability distributions of the
twin-photons, one has fine control of the Schmidt number of the distilled
state. We show that even simple non-Gaussian filters can be finely tuned to a
~67% net gain of the initial entanglement generated in the SPDC process.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
The Revised Mental Health Inventory-5 (MHI-5) as an ultra-brief screening measure of bidimensional mental health in children and adolescents
The Mental Health Inventory-5 (MHI-5) is a brief, valid, and reliable international instrument for assessing mental health in adults. The aim of the present study is to examine the psychometric properties of the MHI-5 in children and adolescents. A sample of 595 students (10-15 years old) completed the MHI-5 Spanish version adapted for this study, as well as another measure of anxiety and depression symptoms, and a clinical interview as a gold standard. The overall coefficient obtained indicate good internal consistency. A unique factor solution explaining a 53.70% and a two-factor structure explaining 69.20% of the total variance were obtained. The correlations with total and subscale scores of anxiety and depression were significant. A ROC analysis showed good properties as a screening test to predict anxiety and depressive diagnoses in children and adolescents. The Revised MHI-5 presents two essential changes: a simplified 4-point response format and a new factor solution including distress and well-being. These outcomes show that the Revised MHI-5 is a brief, valid, and reliable measure to bidimensionally assess mental health and screening emotional disorders in children and adolescents. Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KEYWORDS: Anxiety; Assessment; Depression; Detection; Distress; Factorial structure; MHI-5; Psychometrics; Spanish; Validation; Well-bein
Validez de la prueba de histerectomĂa vaginal en pacientes con indicaciĂłn de vĂa abdominal mandatoria
IndexaciĂłn: ScieloObjetivo: Evaluar la histerectomĂa vaginal en la resoluciĂłn de patologĂa uterina benigna, en casos que habitualmente se resuelven por histerectomĂa abdominal. MĂ©todo: Estudio prospectivo en 68 pacientes sometidas a histerectomĂa vaginal en el Servicio de GinecologĂa del Hospital Claudio Vicuña, de San Antonio, entre junio de 2003 a junio de 2009. Son pacientes sin partos vaginales, algunas nuligestas, la mayorĂa con cicatrices de cesárea o historia de cirugĂa pĂ©lvica previa. Se separan en dos grupos, uno de dificultad moderada (DM) (Ăştero mĂłvil, vagina >2 dedos de diámetro, fondos de saco bien conformados) y otro de dificultad severa (DS) (Ăştero fjo, vagina 2 fingers diameter, well conserved cul de sac, and severe difficulty (SD): composed by patients with none uterine motility, vagina <2 fingers diameter or fat cul de sac. Results: We did not observed statistically significant differences in age, number of prior cesarean sections or pelvic surgeries, estimated uterine size, bladder injury, nor abdominal conversion, but there was significant differences in operative time and need of morcelation, being greater in SD patients. It is important to notice the absent of major and minor complications in 93% of the patients. Conclusion: Our results are meant to demystify the objections for vaginal route, including the patients with extreme difficulty.http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-75262010000500008&nrm=is
A customisable pipeline for continuously harvesting socially-minded Twitter users
On social media platforms and Twitter in particular, specific classes of
users such as influencers have been given satisfactory operational definitions
in terms of network and content metrics.
Others, for instance online activists, are not less important but their
characterisation still requires experimenting.
We make the hypothesis that such interesting users can be found within
temporally and spatially localised contexts, i.e., small but topical fragments
of the network containing interactions about social events or campaigns with a
significant footprint on Twitter.
To explore this hypothesis, we have designed a continuous user profile
discovery pipeline that produces an ever-growing dataset of user profiles by
harvesting and analysing contexts from the Twitter stream.
The profiles dataset includes key network and content-based users metrics,
enabling experimentation with user-defined score functions that characterise
specific classes of online users.
The paper describes the design and implementation of the pipeline and its
empirical evaluation on a case study consisting of healthcare-related campaigns
in the UK, showing how it supports the operational definitions of online
activism, by comparing three experimental ranking functions. The code is
publicly available.Comment: Procs. ICWE 2019, June 2019, Kore
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