Ignoring improper data in decision support system for medical applications

A Decision Support System for Medical Applications was designed by applying the rough set theory to generate rules from the collected data. The data are kept in a table representing information system. There are some improper data in information systems and their removal can improve the quality of the retrieved information. By improper data we can understand such objects that disturb rules generation. They can be erroneous or corrupted or just exceptions. It is possible to find an algorithm of improper data removal to optimize the quality of information derived from decision tables. The improper data can be verified by checking whether some indicators of classification quality were improved after removal of the data. Some suggestions of identifying improper data are presented in the paper. In medical applications the improper data cannot be neglected

Elementary School Social Workers\u27 Perspectives on the Development of Resilience in Early Childhood

Researchers have stressed the importance of addressing the social/emotional needs of early childhood (EC) children, including the development of resilience; however, some U.S. school personnel focus more on academics than on these needs. When young children possess these skills, they can handle social/emotional challenges later in life. The purpose of this qualitative bounded case study was to explore school social workers\u27 (SWs) perspectives about resilience in EC settings. Research questions focused on knowledge of existing programs, participants\u27 perceptions of the successes and challenges of working with EC students, and their recommendations to improve EC students\u27 education. Bronfenbrenner\u27s ecological systems theory and O\u27Neill\u27s and Gopnik\u27s work on needs of young children informed this study. Five elementary school SWs with at least 6 years\u27 experience from 5 districts in the U.S. Midwest participated in 2 semistructured individual interviews. Interpretive phenomenological analysis, involving first-cycle, transition, and second cycle coding, was used to identify themes. SWs\u27 experiences indicated a need for a clear definition of resilience, and needs of young children, including EC programs that develop psychological resilience of children\u27s thoughts and an increase in adults to promote resilience. Additional research may expand and enhance educators\u27 and families\u27 understanding of resilience and help develop research-based preventive programs and strategies to foster psychological resilience in young children. These endeavors may enhance positive social change by adding components of psychological resilience to EC programs for school personnel and students and in parent/family workshops, which may result in sound mental health practices that enable them to become productive members of society

Behind the Credits: Reader Participation and the Fan Community in Bill Woggon’s "Katy Keene"

Humanities: 1st Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum)The "Katy Keene" comic book series is deeply indebted to and intertwined with the play of its readers. Central to the success of the series were the ways in which the lives and adventures of Katy and her candy-crazed little sister, Sis, were visually and narratively shaped by drawings and ideas sent in by readers across the world. Readers' integral role in the series is widely discussed and celebrated, particularly among members of the Katy Keene fan community. However, even as individual readers and contributors are celebrated, the series obscured unique social and cultural details in order to present a unified version of the fictional world. The stories of Katy's trials and adventures with Sis, therefore, allowed for little variation beyond the established narrative and aesthetics of Archie Comic Publications, which promised readers "clean, typical teenage American humor" that reflected the publisher's "highest moral and ethical standards." Readers' real social and cultural circumstances shaped how they played with and within the Katy Keene world, and celebrating the ubiquity of reader participation uncritically further obscures the lives of the readers behind contributions and fails to consider how contributions were treated by the series. This paper examines how readers were addressed and presented within the series pages and provides preliminary insights regarding the diversity of readers that can be glimpsed in the reader-credited contributions printed within the series.No embarg

Polityka Wschodnia Unii Europejskiej: Proba podsumowania i perspektywy rozwoju

Ze wstępu:"Celem niniejszego' artykułu jest analiza polityki wschodniej Unii Europejskiej, tj. uwarunkowań jej kreowania i wprowadzania w życie: Można postawić tezę,1 że brak spoistości w ;działaniach unijnych w odniesieniu do sąsiadów wschodnich stanowi rezultat różnicy :w intensywności stosunków poszczególnych państw członkowskich z Rosją co automatycznie wpływa na pomijanie lub faworyzowanie relacji z innymi państwami obszaru postradzieckiego. Innymi słowy - bliskość z Rosją prowadzi do dystansu z Ukrainą/Gruzją oraz innymi państwami i vice versa. Artykuł ma charakter policy paper, wobec tego oprócz próby zarysowania analizowanego problemu przedstawia rekomendacje dla Unii Europejskiej, wskazuje, jakie powinny być założenia unijnej polityki wschodniej."(...

Wpływ kryzysu w strefie euro na możliwość rozwoju zróżnicowanej integracji w Unii Europejskiej

The euro zone crisis will seriously politically influence the development of integration in the whole European Union. In case of lack of proper response to the euro zone crisis there will take place diversified integration in the whole European Union which, assuming the most likely scenario, will initiate Europe of the so called “two speeds”, that is the very center comprising the states of euro zone on one hand, and its peripheral states connected with the center by means of their inner market on the other hand. The results of the diversified integration would take politically – institutional shape and might display federalization of euro zone and leaving the current institutional structure for the whole European Union. The crisis of the euro zone reveals weakness of the Lisbon Treaty solutions against their fervent supporters’ opinions concerning this amendment. In other words, The Lisbon Treaty did not save Europe against the crisis due to the fact that a reform of an institution without demonstrating political will of its state members does not mean much. The crisis of the euro zone proves the weakness of foundations on which The European Union is based. Also, it is an example of both a leadership crisis of its member states and the crisis of the whole European Union as well, which leads to the problem of legitimization. Summing up, the following issues have been analyzed in the article: the notion of crises in the EU (including their reasons), political consequences of most important crises of the fifties in the twentieth century, concepts and possibilities of the diversified integration as part of the European Union, possible scenarios and political consequences of the crisis for European integration in the euro zone

Pentasialogangliosides of human brain

AbstractA pentasialoganglioside fraction of the ganglio series of glycosphingolipids has been isolated from human cerebellar cortex with a yield of 8.8 nmol NeuAc per g fresh tissue. The structural analysis showed that the material was a mixture of GP1b and GP1c gangliosides

Inter-Governmental Conference as a Method to Reform the European Union

Konferencja międzyrządowa jako metoda reformowania Unii EuropejskiejInter-Governmental Conference as a Method to Reform the European Unio