The Architecture Player

Review of The Architecture Player, Reviewed April 2017 by Jesse Vestermark, Architecture & Environmental Design Librarian Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University [email protected]

Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art

Book Review of Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art, by Matthew McLendon. ISBN 9781857596977. Reviewed by Jesse Vestermark

Towards A Question Answering System over Temporal Knowledge Graph Embedding

Question Answering (QA) over knowledge graphs is a vital topic within information retrieval. Questions with temporal intent are a special case of questions for QA systems that have received only limited attention so far. In this paper, we study using temporal knowledge graph embeddings (TKGEs) for temporal QA. Firstly, we propose a microservice-based architecture for building temporal QA systems on pre-trained TKGE models. Secondly, we present a Bayesian model average (BMA) ensemble method, where results of several link prediction tasks on separated TKGE models are combined to find better answers. Within the system built using the microservice-based architecture, the experiments on two benchmark datasets show that BMA provides better results than the individual models.</p

Håb for demokratiet

Boganmeldelse af 'Den nye internationale' (2019) af&nbsp;Malte Frøslee Ibsen samt 'Sæt strøm til demokratiet' (2019) af&nbsp;Silas Harrebye

Debatten om konkurrencestaten igen, igen

Boganmeldelse af "Konkurrencestaten og dens kritikere" af Søren Kaj Andersen&nbsp

The impact of full-thickness rotator cuff tear on shoulder function and quality of life in patients who sustain a proximal humerus fracture—a prospective cohort study

Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s)Background: Only few studies have investigated the impact of rotator cuff integrity on patients with proximal humerus fracture (PHF). We aimed to determine if the presence of a rotator cuff tear impairs shoulder function and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after nonsurgically treated PHF. Methods: Sixty-seven patients with PHF were recruited prospectively in a cohort. Presence of a full-thickness rotator cuff tear was determined by ultrasound examination. After 6 and 12 months, Constant-Murley Score; Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand; the Visual Analog Scale; EuroQol-5 Domain; and the 15D scores were compared between the patients with a rotator cuff tear and patients with an intact rotator cuff. Results: The prevalence of a full-thickness rotator cuff tear was 34%. After 12 months, the mean Constant-Murley Score was 65.7 (standard deviation 16.3) in the intact rotator cuff group vs. 53.9 (16.0) in the rotator cuff tear group (mean diff. 11.8, 95% confidence interval 2.5; 21.2) and was found to be a clinically relevant difference. A significantly lower HRQoL was found on the EuroQol-5 Domain score after 12 months in the rotator cuff tear group with a median score of 1 (interquartile range 0.23) in the intact rotator cuff group vs. 0.75 (interquartile range 0.34) in the rotator cuff tear group (P = .03). In the remaining outcome measures, no statistically significant between-group differences were detected. Conclusion: Rotator cuff tear in older adults with nonsurgically treated PHF may be considered a prognostic factor for poorer shoulder function and HRQoL. This knowledge can support the planning of treatment.Peer reviewe

Intravenous versus oral etoposide : efficacy and correlation to clinical outcome in patients with high-grade metastatic gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (WHO G3)

High-grade gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP-NENs, G3) are aggressive cancers of the digestive system with poor prognosis and survival. Platinum-based chemotherapy (cisplatin/carboplatin + etoposide) is considered the first-line palliative treatment. Etoposide is frequently administered intravenously; however, oral etoposide may be used as an alternative. Concerns for oral etoposide include decreased bioavailability, inter-and intra-patient variability and patient compliance. We aimed to evaluate possible differences in progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients treated with oral etoposide compared to etoposide given as infusion. Patients (n = 236) from the Nordic NEC study were divided into three groups receiving etoposide as a long infusion (24 h, n = 170), short infusion (= 5 h, n = 33) or oral etoposide (n = 33) according to hospital tradition. PFS and OS were analyzed with Kaplan-Meier (log-rank), cox proportional hazard ratios and confidence intervals. No statistical differences were observed in PFS or OS when comparing patients receiving long infusion (median PFS 3.8 months, median OS 14.5 months), short infusion (PFS 5.6 months, OS 11.0 months) or oral etoposide (PFS 5.4 months, OS 11.3 months). We observed equal efficacy for the three administration routes suggesting oral etoposide may be safe and efficient in treating high-grade GEP-NEN, G3 patients scheduled for cisplatin/carboplatin + etoposide therapy.Peer reviewe