Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed., The Writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic. Translated from the Latin and Francoprovencal With an Introduction. Notes. and Interpretative Essay. Newburyport, Mass: Focus Information Group, 1990

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
E. Ann Matter
Keyword(s):  
Information Group ◽  
Focus Information

Secure Cloud Quantum Computing with Verification Based on Quantum Interactive Proof

Impact ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (10) ◽  
pp. 30-32
Author(s):  
Tomoyuki Morimae
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
View Point ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Interactive Proof ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Proof Systems ◽  
Information Group

In cloud quantum computing, a classical client delegate quantum computing to a remote quantum server. An important property of cloud quantum computing is the verifiability: the client can check the integrity of the server. Whether such a classical verification of quantum computing is possible or not is one of the most important open problems in quantum computing. We tackle this problem from the view point of quantum interactive proof systems. Dr Tomoyuki Morimae is part of the Quantum Information Group at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, Japan. He leads a team which is concerned with two main research subjects: quantum supremacy and the verification of quantum computing.

scholarly journals SAT0371 ARE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE A USEFUL SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR SPONDYLOARTHRITIS?

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 1133.1-1133
Author(s):  
S. Elangovan ◽  
Y. H. Kwan ◽  
W. Fong
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
Information Group ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Patient Opinion ◽  
Group 1

Background:Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a family of chronic inflammatory disorders. Social media, such as YouTube, is a popular online platform where patients often visit for information. However, the validity of the content uploaded onto YouTube is not known.Objectives:This study aimed to evaluate the content, reliability and quality of the most viewed English-language YouTube videos on SpA.Methods:Keywords “spondyloarthritis”, “spondyloarthropathy” and “ankylosing spondylitis” were searched on YouTube on October 7th, 2019. The top 270 videos were screened. Videos were excluded if they were irrelevant, in non-English language or if they had no audio. Total number of views, duration on YouTube (days), video length, upload date, number of likes, dislikes, subscribers and comments were recorded for videos. A modified 5-point DISCERN tool1and the 5-point Global Quality Scale (GQS) score2were used to assess the reliability and quality of the videos, with higher scores indicating greater reliability and quality respectively.Results:Two hundred of 270 videos were included in the final analysis [61.5% from healthcare professionals, 37.0% from patients, 1.5% from news channels]. Of the 200 videos, 15 were uploaded within the last year and 112 in the last five years. 120 (60%) were categorized as useful information (Group 1), 6 (3%) as misleading information (Group 2), 52 (26%) as useful patient opinion (Group 3) and 22 (11%) as misleading patient opinion (Group 4). Useful videos were mainly from healthcare professionals or patients (86%). Useful videos (Group 1 and 3) had higher median (IQR) number of subscribers [2700 (14700) vs 211 (457), p < 0.01], reliability scores [3 (1) vs 2 (1), p < 0.01] and GQS scores [3 (1) vs. 2 (1), p < 0.001] compared to misleading videos (Group 2 and 4), respectively.Videos uploaded by healthcare professionals tended to have more useful information [94% (116 of 123) vs. 66% (49 of 74), p < 0.001] and had higher median (IQR) reliability scores [3 (1) vs 2 (1), p < 0.001] and GQS scores [3 (2) vs 2 (1), p < 0.001] compared to patient uploaded videos respectively. Of the 5 (out of 123) videos from healthcare professionals that had misleading information, it was because of outdated information on diagnosis (3 videos) and treatment (5 videos) of SpA. Of the 22 videos that had misleading patient opinion, 9 (41%) wrongly described the clinical features for SpA and 14 (64%) portrayed the current evidence based treatment options as ineffective and described alternative treatment plans (i.e. diet restrictions, complementary and alternative medicine).Conclusion:The majority of English language YouTube videos have useful information on the topic of SpA, however, 31% of patient opinions have inaccurate information on the clinical features and treatment options, and viewers need to be cognisant of these “fake news”.References:[1]Charnock D, Shepperd S, Needham G, Gann R (1999) DISCERN: an instrument for judging the quality of written consumer health information on treatment choices. J Epidemiol Community Health 53(2): 105-111[2]Bernard A, Langille M, Hughes S, Rose C, Leddin D, Veldhuyzen van Zanten S (2007) A systematic review of patient inflammatory bowel disease information resources on the World Wide Web. Am J Gastroenterol 102(9):2070-2077Disclosure of Interests:Sakktivel Elangovan: None declared, Yu Heng Kwan: None declared, Warren Fong Consultant of: Abbvie, Janssen, Novartis, Speakers bureau: Abbvie, Janssen, Novartis

BIALL Code of Good Practice for Law Publishers

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
James Mullan
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Information Group ◽  
History Of

The BIALL Code of Good Practice for Law Publishers was launched at the 2005 BIALL Conference. Support for the Code of Good Practice is growing and demonstrates a commitment by legal publishers to respond to the rapidly changing publishing environment. James Mullan Chair of the BIALL Legal Information Group (LIG) provides a history of the Code to date.

scholarly journals The Same but Different: Making Meaning from Modified Texts with Cross-cultural Themes

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Cynthia B. Leung ◽  
Susan V. Bennett ◽  
AnnMarie Alberton Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Reader Response Theory ◽  
Basal Reader ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
Information Group ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Cultural Responses ◽  
Constant Comparative Analysis

Reader response theory provides the framework for the present study that explored literary elements and cultural responses of fifth-grade students to two modified versions of a cross-cultural text, Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz. One group of students read the first chapter of the book and another group read a modified basal reader version that had deleted cultural information. Group discussions of the texts were videotaped and transcribed. Through constant comparative analysis of field notes and transcripts, two themes emerged: (a) personal interest and connections to stories and (b) cultural implications and misinterpretations.

scholarly journals A Multi-Focus Image Fusion Algorithm Based on Contrast Pyramids

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingzhu Lai ◽  
Jianguo Sun ◽  
Liguo Zhang ◽  
Yiran Shen ◽  
Qing Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Fusion ◽  
Region Growing ◽  
Fusion Algorithm ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Focus Image ◽  
Focus Information ◽  
Robust To Noise

This paper proposes a new approach for multi-focus images fusion based on Region Mosaicing on Contrast Pyramids (REMCP). A density-based region growing method is developed to construct a focused region mask for multi-focus images. The segmented focused region mask is decomposed into a mask pyramid, which is then used for supervised region mosaicking on a contrast pyramid. In this way, the focus measurement and the continuity of focused regions are incorporated and the pixel level pyramid fusion is improved at the region level. Objective and subjective experiments show that the proposed REMCP is more robust to noise than compared algorithms and can fully preserves the focus information of the multi-focus images meanwhile reducing distortions of the fused images.

All Models are Wrong an Overview of 3D Deconvolution Methods

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (S2) ◽  
pp. 375-376
Author(s):  
José-Angel Conchello ◽  
Joanne Markham ◽  
James G. McNally
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
3D Image ◽  
Fluorescence Excitation ◽  
Two Photon ◽  
The Past ◽  
3D Microscopy ◽  
Focus Information ◽  
Photon Fluorescence ◽  
2D Images

Three dimensional (3D)microscopy is a powerful toll for the visualization of biological specimens and processes. In 3D microscopy, a 3D image is collected by recording a series of two-dimensional (2D) images focusing the microscope at different planes through the specimen. Each 2D optical slice in this through focus series contains the in-focus information plus contributions from out-of-focus structures that obscure the image and reduce its contrast. There are two complementary approaches to reduce or ameliorate the effects of the out-of-focus contributions, optical and computational. In the optical approach a microscope is used that avoids collecting out-of-focus light, such as a confocal microscope (see and references therein), a two-photon or three-photon fluorescence excitation microscope, or atwo-sided microscope. In the computational approach, the through-focus series is processed in a computer using any of a number of debluring algorithms to reduce or ameliorate the out-of-focus contributions. In the past two decades, several methods for debluring microscopic images have been developed whose common aim is to undo the degradations introduced by the process of image formation and recording

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF CONSUMING FRUIT ON CONSUMER PREFERENCES IN TEMUCO, REGION OF THE ARAUCANÍA

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERTA SCHNETTLER ◽  
GERMÁN LOBOS ◽  
HORACIO MIRANDA ◽  
LIGIA ORELLANA ◽  
KLAUS G. GRUNERT
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Fruit Consumption ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Information Group ◽  
Group 3 ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Distinguished Group

ABSTRACT With the aim of identifying strategies to increase fruit consumption in Temuco, consumer segments were classified according to the importance and preference of theattributes type of fruit, package/ brand, benefit associated with fruit consumption and price. A survey was applied to 400 people in Temuco,Chile, distributed using a simple allocation: 200 working adults and 200university students. The questionnaire included the SWFL (Satisfaction with Food-related Life) scale, respondents’ fruit consumption habits and their characteristics. Using conjoint and cluster analyses, three segments were distinguished: Group 1 (22.0%) gave greatest importance to the package/brand and preferred themessage “prevents diseases” and “without information”; Group 2 (47.5%) gave greatest importance to the package/brand and preferred the message “prevents diseases”; Group 3 (30.5%) assigned greatest importance to the price and preferred the message “contains antioxidants”. The segments differed in their level of satisfaction with food-related life, self-declared lifestyle, age and presence of university students. The results provide input to promote fruit consumption in working adults and university students.

TEXTILE INFORMATION GROUP

1951 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-270
Author(s):  
E.B. UVAROV
Keyword(s):  
Information Group
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