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karanseraph · 1 month ago
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The "french kissing" of Cybertron
OK, this is some headcanon-level stuff, but loosely based on some canon stuff. Also it involves alien robot kissing and analogues.
In this previous post I had discussed the location of the hot spots/sparkfields and in doing so indicated that "Port Residua" was possibly located between Iacon and Nyon for reasons and I offhand-commented that Nyon was "Space Paris", while theorizing about why Port Residua might be called such.
(Nyon being Space Paris is not to be taken too literally, because Nyon is also simultaneously Space Athens and Space some-city-that-gets-destroyed. It's figuratively a place that had some revered and influential culture and political discourse, but also had its dark places and troubled times. But the idea is that French Hot Rod is not just a joke for the live-action movies and that bots from Nyon do have a regional culture and accent, just as bots from other city-states on Cybertron have their own recognizable accents and customs to other bots.)
OK, so remember "Port Residua" and that it's located in a culturally distinct region of Cybertron.
Now, do you know what "binomial data transfer" is? It's a kind of data transfer that bots can do which looks like kissing.
The mechanics of how Binomial Data Transfer works are not canon, but my headcanon concept for fics was that it works via some vestigial port that most bots have and which is located beneath the tongue/sensor nodule/glossa part in the mouth/intake part.
But here's the thing. It is a specific type of data port.
And it's there in bots even though Binomial Data Transfer isn't such a common thing in certain periods of Cybertronian history. Like, some bots don't even know why mouths would mash together, while others seem to.
It must be vestigial. Yes?
It's kinda functional but like some grandfather tech. Like, being legally mandated to receive AM band transmissions or something. A bot has this port in case another bot needs to mash their mouth into theirs to transmit end-of-life plans in a goodbye kiss as they go off to fight in the war.
It remains there. And it's a port.
Port Residua is possibly (your continuity may differ) along the coast of the Argon Sea.
But, what if Binomial Data Transfer was a more common practice there, near Nyon?
The 'remaining port' used to transfer plans regarding your wishes, requests and 'remains' to a bot you trust is associated with a region that itself is a port, a transfer area between gaseous sea, metal landforms, and liquid canals along which various storage yards and warehouses are located. (Headcanon: Eriel/Erial/Ariel is from Nyon and her spark came from Port Residua.)
Euphemistically to mash mouths and initiate Binomial Data Transfer is to "do it like bots in Nyon do".
Further headcanon: Hotlink is aromantic but fascinated with Binomial Data Transfer on a hardware basis. He's not romantically kissing a bot; he's experimenting with tech and taking samples, because tech is hot.
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karanseraph · 1 year ago
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Bitstream giggled. "What are you reading?"
"It's not important." But maybe she knew. "What does it mean; 'binomial data transfer'?"
Bitstream laughed. "Not you, too? Hotlink went through a phase where he was obsessed with it."
"Hotlink did?" He had helped Thundercracker write the story.
"Yeah. It was my fault for mentioning it while I was researching. The idea that bots still have this...vestigial sensor in the mouth or intake when other types of port are considered standard, that there's this one example of backward compatibility for some reason, he kept questioning it."
"Why do we have it?"
Bitstream shook her head. "We don't exactly know."
"In math, binomial is an expression of two terms."
"Same in coding or in general."
"So, if someone says it's not a time for the transfer, it's not a time for kisses or relationships or combining?"
"I think that's an idiom. I've heard older bots say it; veterans. 'No time for binomial data transfer' means, 'I don't plan on dying tonight', or something like that."
"Yeah. I'm not sure I follow."
"The function of the transfer is that through contact at the base of the sensor nodule, a pair of bots can send short rapid bursts of data that can't be intercepted as optical or radio transmission can. What it's used for in recent history is sharing end-of-life plans."
"Oh."
Bitstream nodded. "Yeah."
"It's a goodbye kiss."
I know others have said it before, but I love how this fandom essentially took what began as robots beating the snot out of each other and decided that they deserved a deep and enriching culture. Yeah the IDW writers made a TON of stuff to mess with, but the fandom has taken even the most OBSCURE details and rolled with it.
I love that for this fandom. It feels alive in here despite the fact that TF content has been around longer than I have.
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cerebrosurgeon · 6 years ago
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“I miss Nebulos,” he stated, watching Fort Max pull out half a cabinet of cubes. Sat on his shoulder and comfortably curled against the side of his helm, their schedules aligned enough for Cerebros to rise early with him, accompanying him as he prepared half the moon’s morning fuel. “I miss Nebulans.”
Humming in acknowledgement, Max set the containers down and recounted them. He wasn’t surprised by his bond’s yearning. They shared it, of course, but Cerebros always waxed nostalgic when socialising with other Cybertronians alone enough. Meeting alternates of familiar mechs must not be making him feel any less out of place - Even among their own universe, Cerebros would argue he was only a proper Cybertronian by proxy. 
“You still talk to Stylor frequently,” Max pointed out, flicking cubes to the side as he searched for one of Incisor’s. She had them specially designed to accommodate her frame, but she never placed them back in any consistent pattern after washing. Cerebros huffed, earning a gentle nudge from his finial. “We’ll visit.”
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askvectorprime · 3 years ago
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Do transformers kiss?
Dear Buss Besotted,
Yes. Both to share affection, and information via binomial data transfer.
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toppersexam · 5 years ago
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Control Parameters in Differential Evolution (DE): A Short Review- Juniper Publishers
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Differential Evolution (DE) is a population based stochastic search algorithm for optimization. DE has three main control parameters, Crossover (cr), Mutation factor (F) and Population size (NP). These control parameters play a vital and crucial rule in improving the performance of search process in DE. This paper introduces a brief review for control parameters in Differential evolution (DE).
Keywords: Differential evolution; Population size; Global optimization; Control parameters
Abbrevations: DE: Differential Evolution; Cr: Crossover; NP: Population Size; F: Mutation Factor
Introduction
Differential Evolution (DE) is a population-based heuristic algorithm proposed by Storn & Price [1] to solve global optimization problems with different characteristics over continuous space. Despite its simplicity, it proved a great performance in solving non-differentiable, non-continuous and multi-modal optimization problems [2]. DE has three main control parameters which are the crossover (CR), mutation factor (F) and population size (NP). The values of the control parameters affect significantly on the performance of DE. Therefore, the tuning of those control parameters is considered a challenging task. DE has a great performance in exploring the solution space and this is considered as the main advantage, on the other side, an obvious weak point is its poor performance in exploitation phase which may cause a stagnation and/or premature convergence.
The next section introduces differential evolution. Section 3 introduces a short review for control parameters in DE. And finally, the paper is concluded in section 4.
Differential Evolution
In simple DE, DE/rand/1/bin [1,2], an initial population of NP individuals jX, j=1,2,..,NP, is generated at random according to a uniform distribution within lower and upper boundaries (,)LUjjxx. Individuals are evolved by the means of crossover and mutation to generate a trial vector. The trial vector competes with his parent in order to select the fittest to the next generation. The steps  of DE are:
Initialization of a population
Initial population in DE, as the starting point for the process of optimization, is created by assigning a random chosen value for each decision variable in every vector, as indicated in equation (1).
Where Lj,Uj: the lower and upper boundaries for xj, rj and: a random number uniform [0, 1].
Mutation
A mutant vector viG+1 is generated for each target vector xiG at generation G according to equation (2)
Where r1,r2, r3 are randomly chosen from the population. The mutation factor F∈[0,2]. A new value for the component of mutant vector is generated using (1) if it violates the boundary constraints.
Recombination (crossover)
Crossover is the process of swapping information between the target and the mutated individuals using (3), to yield the trial vector uiG+1 Two types of crossover can be used, binomial crossover or exponential crossover.
where j =1, 2,.., D , rand( j)∈[0,1] is the jth evaluation of a uniform random number. Crossover rate (CR) is between 0 and 1, r and (i) is a random index between 1 and D to ensures that uiG+1; gets at least one element from viG+1; otherwise, the population remains without change.
In the exponential crossover, a starting index l and a number of components w are chosen randomly
from the ranges {l,D}and {l,D −1}respectively. The values of variables in locations l to l + w from viG+1 and the remaining locations from the xiG are used to produce the trial vector uiG+1
Selection
Greedy scheme for fast convergence of DE. The child uiG+1 is compared with its parent xiG to select the better for the next generation according to the selection scheme in equation (4).
A detailed description of standard DE algorithm is given in Figure 1.
Short Review
During the last two decades, the problem of finding the balance between the exploration and exploitation has attracted many researchers in order to improve the performance of DE by developing new mutation strategies or hybridizing promising mutation strategies.
Das et al. [3] proposed an improved variant of DE/targetto- best/1/bin based on the concept of population members’ neighborhood. Zhang & Sanderson [4] proposed a new mutation strategy ���DE/current-to-pbest” with an optional external archive that utilizes the historical data in order to progress towards the promising direction and called it JADE. Qin, Huang & Suganthan [5] proposed SaDE, in which a self-adaptive mechanism for trial vector generation is presented, that is based on the idea of learning from the past experience in generating promising solutions. Mohamed et al. [6-8] proposed a novel mutation strategy which is based on the weighted difference between the best and the worst individual during a specific generation, the new mutation strategy is combined with the basic mutation DE/rand/1/bin with equal probability for selecting each of them. Li & Yin [9] used two mutation strategies based on the best and random vectors. Mohamed [10] proposed IDE, in which new triangular mutation rule that selects three random vectors and adding the difference vector between the best and worst to the better vector. The new mutation rule is combined with the basic mutation rule through a non-linear decreasing probability rule. And a restart mechanism to avoid the premature convergence is presented. Recently, triangular mutation has been also used to solve IEEE CEC 2013 unconstrained problems [11], constrained non-linear integer and mixed-integer global optimization problems [12], IEEE CEC2006 constrained optimization problems [13], CEC 2010 large-scale optimization problems [14], and stochastic programming problems [15].
Extensive research was presented for controlling the parameters, as control parameters play a vital role in the evolution process. Brest et al. [16] presented a new self-adaptive technique for controlling the parameters. Noman & Iba [17] proposed an adaptive crossover based on local search and the length of the search was adjusted using hill-climbing. Peng et al. [18] proposed rJADE, in which a weighting strategy is added to JADE, with a “restart with knowledge transfer” method in order to benefit from the knowledge obtained from the previous failure. Montgomery & Chen [19] presented a complete analysis of how much the evolution process affected by the value of CR. Mallipeddi et al. [20] proposed a pool of values for each control parameter to select the appropriate value during the evolution process. Wang, Cai & Zhang [21] proposed a new method that randomly chooses from a pool that contains three strategies in order to generate the trial vector and three control parameter settings, they called it CoDE. Yong et al. [22] presented CoBiDE, in which a covariance matrix learning for the crossover operator and a bimodal distribution parameter to control the parameters are introduced. Draa, Bouzoubia & Boukhalfa [23] introduced a new sinusoidal formula in order to adjust the values of crossover and the scaling factor, they called it SinDE. A complete review could be found in [24,25].
DE mechanism depends on selecting three random individuals from the population to perform the mutation process. Therefore, the population size must be greater than the selected vectors. Large population size increases the diversity but consumes more resources (function calls), while small population size may cause stagnation or tripping in local optima. Thus, the choosing of the population size is considered a very critical aspect. From the literature, it has been found that researchers choose the population size in four different ways.
i. Choosing the population size for each problem separately based on the experience or previous knowledge and keep it constant during all runs [26,27].
ii. Relate the population size to the problem dimensionality [6,28,29].
iii. Setting the population size fixed during all runs and independent of the dimension of the problems [22,30].
iv. Allowing the population size to vary during the runs using adaptation rule [31-33]. A complete review of population size could be found in [34,35].
Conclusion
Control parameters plays a vital rule in the evolution process of the DE. Over the last decades, many EAs have been proposed to solve optimization problems. However, all these algorithms including DE have the same shortcomings in solving optimization problems. One of them is the choice of the control parameters which are difficult to adjust for different problems with different characteristics. This paper introduced a brief review for a considerable number of research studies that have been proposed to enhance the performance of DE.
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sciforce · 6 years ago
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Top AI algorithms for Healthcare
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The benefits of AI for healthcare have been extensively discussed in the recent years up to the point of the possibility to replace human physicians with AI in the future.
Both such discussions and the current AI-driven projects reveal that Artificial Intelligence can be used in healthcare in several ways:
AI can learn features from a large volume of healthcare data, and then use the obtained insights to assist clinical practice in treatment design or risk assessment;
AI system can extract useful information from a large patient population to assist making real-time inferences for health risk alert and health outcome prediction;
AI can do repetitive jobs, such as analyzing tests, X-Rays, CT scans or data entry;
AI systems can help to reduce diagnostic and therapeutic errors that are inevitable in the human clinical practice;
AI can assist physicians by providing up-to-date medical information from journals, textbooks and clinical practices to inform proper patient care;
AI can manage medical records and analyze both performance of an individual institution and the whole healthcare system;
AI can help develop precision medicine and new drugs based on the faster processing of mutations and links to disease;
AI can provide digital consultations and health monitoring services — to the extent of being “digital nurses” or “health bots”.
Despite the variety of applications of AI in the clinical studies and healthcare services, they fall into two major categories: analysis of structured data, including images, genes and biomarkers, and analysis of unstructured data, such as notes, medical journals or patients’ surveys to complement the structured data. The former approach is fueled by Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms, while the latter rest on the specialized Natural Language Processing practices.
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Figure 1. Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in healthcare.
Machine Learning Algorithms
ML algorithms chiefly extract features from data, such as patients’ “traits” and medical outcomes of interest.
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Figure 2. The most popular Machine Learning algorithms used in the medical literature. The data are generated through searching the Machine Learning algorithms within healthcare on PubMed
For a long time, AI in healthcare was dominated by the logistic regression, the most simple and common algorithm when it is necessary to classify things. It was easy to use, quick to finish and easy to interpret. However, in the past years the situation has changed and SVM and neural networks have taken the lead.
Support Vector Machine
Support Vector Machines (SVM) can be employed for classification and regression, but this algorithm is chiefly used in classification problems that require division of a dataset into two classes by a hyperplane. The goal is to choose a hyperplane with the greatest possible margin , or distance between the hyperplane and any point within the training set, so that new data can be classified correctly. Support vectors are data points that are closest to the hyperplane and that, if removed, would alter its position. In SVM, the determination of the model parameters is a convex optimization problem so the solution is always global optimum.
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Figure 3. Support Vector Machine
SVMs are used extensively in clinical research, for example, to identify imaging biomarkers, to diagnose cancer or neurological diseases and in general for classification of data from imbalanced datasets or datasets with missing values.
Neural networks
In neural networks, the associations between the outcome and the input variables are depicted through hidden layer combinations of prespecified functionals. The goal is to estimate the weights through input and outcome data in such a way that the average error between the outcome and their predictions is minimized.
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Figure 4. Neural Network
Neural networks are successfully applied to various areas of medicine, such as diagnostic systems, biochemical analysis, image analysis, and drug development, with the textbook example of breast cancer prediction from mammographic images.
Logistic Regression
Logistic Regression is one of the basic and still popular multivariable algorithms for modeling dichotomous outcomes. Logistic regression is used to obtain odds ratio when more than one explanatory variable is present. The procedure is similar to multiple linear regression, with the exception that the response variable is binomial. It shows the impact of each variable on the odds ratio of the observed event of interest. In contrast to linear regression, it avoids confounding effects by analyzing the association of all variables together.
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Figure 5. Logistic Regression
In healthcare, logistic regression is widely used to solve classification problems and to predict the probability of a certain event, which makes it a valuable tool for a disease risk assessment and improving medical decisions.
Natural Language Processing
In healthcare, a large proportion of clinical information is in the form of narrative text, such as physical examination, clinical laboratory reports, operative notes and discharge summaries, which are unstructured and incomprehensible for the computer program without special methods of text processing. Natural Language Processing addresses these issues as it identifies a series of disease-relevant keywords in the clinical notes based on the historical databases that after validation enter and enrich the structured data to support clinical decision making.
TF-IDF
Basic algorithm for extracting keywords, TF-IDF stands for term frequency-inverse document frequency. The TF-IDF weight is a statistical measure of a word importance to a document in a collection or corpus. The importance increases proportionally to the number of times a word appears in the document but is offset by the frequency of the word in the corpus.
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Figure 6. TF-IDF
In healthcare, TF-IDF is used in finding patients’ similarity in observational studies, as well as in discovering disease correlations from medical reports and finding sequential patterns in databases.
Naïve Bayes
Naïve Bayes classifier is a baseline method for text categorization, the problem of judging documents as belonging to one category or the other. Naive Bayes classifier assumes that the presence of a particular feature in a class is unrelated to the presence of any other feature. Even if these features are interdependent, all of these properties independently contribute to the probability of belonging to a certain category.
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Figure 7. Naïve Bayes classifier
It remains one of the most effective and efficient classification algorithms and has been successfully applied to many medical problems, such as classification of medical reports and journal articles.
Word Vectors
Considered to be a breakthrough in NLP, word vectors, or word2vec, is a group of related models that are used to produce word embeddings. In their essence, word2vec models are shallow, two-layer neural networks that reconstruct linguistic contexts of words. Word2vec produces a multidimensional vector space out of a text, with each unique word having a corresponding vector. Word vectors are positioned in the vector space in a way that words that share contexts are located in close proximity to one another.
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Figure 8. Word vectors
Word vectors are used for biomedical language processing, including similarity finding, medical terms standardization and discovering new aspects of diseases.
Deep Learning
Deep Learning is an extension of the classical neural network technique, being, to put it simply, as a neural network with many layers. Having more capacities compared to classical ML algorithms, Deep Learning can explore more complex non-linear patterns in the data. Being a pipeline of modules each of them are trainable, Deep Learning represents a scalable approach that, among others, can perform automatic feature extraction from raw data.
In the medical applications, Deep Learning algorithms successfully address both Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing tasks. The commonly used Deep Learning algorithms include convolution neural network (CNN), recurrent neural network, deep belief network and multilayer perception, with CNNs leading the race from 2016 on.
Convolutional Neural Network
The CNN was developed to handle high-dimensional data, or data with a large number of traits, such as images. Initially, as proposed by LeCun, the inputs for CNN were normalized pixel values on the images. Convolutional networks were inspired by biological processes in that the connectivity pattern between neurons resembles the organization of the animal visual cortex, with individual cortical neurons responding to stimuli only in a restricted region of the receptive field. However, the receptive fields of different neurons partially overlap such that they cover the entire visual field. The CNN then transfers the pixel values in the image by weighting in the convolution layers and sampling in the subsampling layers alternatively. The final output is a recursive function of the weighted input values.
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Figure 9. A convolutional neural network
Recently, the CNN has been successfully implemented in the medical area to assist disease diagnosis, such as skin cancer or cataracts.
Recurrent Neural Network
The second in popularity in healthcare, RNNs represent neural networks that make use of sequential information. RNNs are called recurrent because they perform the same task for every element of a sequence, and the output depends on the previous computations. RNNs have a “memory” which captures information about what has been calculated several steps back (more on this later).
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Figure 10. A recurrent neural network
Extremely popular in NLP, RNNs are also a powerful method of predicting clinical events.
Until recently, the AI applications in healthcare chiefly addressed a few disease types: cancer, nervous system disease and cardiovascular disease being the biggest ones. At present, advances in AI and NLP, and especially the development of Deep Learning algorithms have turned the healthcare industry to using AI methods in multiple spheres, from dataflow management to drug discovery.
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evoldir · 8 years ago
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--_000_150084433338370825unilch_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SWISS INSTITUTE IN STATISTICAL GENETICS MODULE 1 - BAYESIAN STATISTICS FOR GENETICS WHERE? University of Lausanne WHEN? 4-6 September 2017 ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US) INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Jonathan Wakefield (University of Washington - US) & Prof. Ken Rice (University of Washington - US) INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2vQyRDW DESCRIPTION: The use of Bayesian methods in genetics has a long history. In this introductory module we will begin by discussing introductory probability. We will then describe Bayesian approaches to binomial proportions, multinomial proportions, two-sample comparisons (binomial, Poisson, normal), the linear model, and Monte Carlo methods of summarization. Advanced topics will be touched on, including hierarchical models, generalized linear models, and missing data. Illustrative applications will include: Hardy-Weinberg testing and estimation, detection of allele-specific expression, QTL mapping, testing in genome-wide association studies, mixture models, multiple testing in high throughput genomics. MODULE 2 - POPULATION GENETIC DATA ANALYSIS WHERE? University of Lausanne WHEN? 6-8 September 2017 ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US) INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US) INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2uYfa0I DESCRIPTION: A unified treatment for the analysis of discrete genetic data, starting with estimates and sample variances of allele frequencies to illustrate genetic vs statistical sampling and Bayesian approaches. A detailed look at Hardy-Weinberg and linkage disequilibrium, including the use of exact tests with mid-p-values and a new look at X-chromosome Hardy- Weinberg testing. A new characterization of population structure with F-statistics, based on allelic matching within and between populations with individual relationship estimation as a special case. Analyses illustrated with applications to forensic science and association mapping, with particular reference to rare variants. MODULE 3 - QUANTITATIVE GENETICS WHERE? University of Lausanne WHEN? 11-13 September 2017 ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US) INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona - US) & Prof. Guilherme J. M. Rosa (University of Wisconsin - US) INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2vQCDgO DESCRIPTION: Quantitative Genetics is the analysis of complex characters where both genetic and environment factors contribute to trait variation. Since this includes most traits of interest, such as disease susceptibility, crop yield, growth and reproduction in animals, human and animal behavior, and all gene expression data (transcriptome and proteome), a working knowledge of quantitative genetics is critical in diverse fields from plant and animal breeding, human genetics, genomics, behavior, to ecology and evolutionary biology. The course will cover the basics of quantitative genetics including: genetic basis for complex traits, population genetic assumptions including detection of admixture, Fisher's variance decomposition, covariance between relatives, calculation of the numerator relationship matrix based on IBD alleles and an arbitrary pedigree, the genomic relationship matrix based on AIS alleles, heritability in the broad and narrow sense, inbreeding and crossbreedi ng, and response to selection. Also an introduction to advanced topics such as: Mixed Models, Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP), Genomic selection (GBLUP), Genome Wide Association Analysis (GWAS), QTL mapping, detection of selection from genomic data, correlated characters; and the multivariate response to selection. MODULE 4 - MIXED MODELS IN QUANTITATIVE GENETICS WHERE? University of Lausanne WHEN? 13-15 September 2017 ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US) INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona - US) & Prof. Guilherme J. M. Rosa (University of Wisconsin - US) INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2uY59Rk DESCRIPTION: "Mixed models" refers to the analysis of linear models with arbitrary (co)variance structures among and within random effects and may be due to such factors as relationships or shared environments, cytoplasm, maternal effects and history. Mixed models are utilized in complex data analysis where the usual assumption(s) of independence and/or homogenous variances fail. Mixed models allow effects of nature to be separated from those of nurture and are emerging as the default method of analysis for human data. These issues are pervasive in human studies due to the lack of ability to randomize subjects to households, choice, and prior history. In plant breeding, growth and yield data are correlated due to shared locations, but diminish by distance resulting in spatial correlations. In animal breeding, performance data is correlated because individuals maybe related and may share common material environment as well as common pens or cages. Further, when individuals sha re a common space, they may experience indirect genetics effects (IGEs), which is an inherited effect in one individual experienced as an environmental effect in an associated individual. The evolution of cooperation and competition is based on IGEs, the estimation of which require mixed model analysis. Detection of cytoplasmic and epigenetic effects rely heavily on mixed model methods because of shared material or parental histories. Topics to be discussed include a basic matrix algebra review, the general linear model, derivation of the mixed model, BLUP and REML estimation, estimation and design issues, Bayesian formulations. Applications to be discussed include estimation of breeding values and genetic variances in general pedigrees, association mapping, genomic selection, spatial correlations and corrections, maternal genetic effects, detecting selection from genomic data, admixture detection and correction, direct and indirect genetic effects, models of general group a nd kin selection, genotype by environment interaction models QUERIES: [email protected] --_000_150084433338370825unilch_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} p {margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0}-->
SWISS INSTITUTE IN STATISTICAL GENETICS 
    MODULE 1 - BAYESIAN STATISTICS FOR GENETICS
  WHERE? University of Lausanne
WHEN? 4-6 September 2017
  ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US)
  INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Jonathan Wakefield (University of Washington - US) & Prof. Ken Rice (University of Washington - US)
  INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2vQyRDW
  DESCRIPTION: The use of Bayesian methods in genetics has a long history. In this introductory module we will begin by discussing introductory probability. We will then describe Bayesian approaches to binomial proportions, multinomial proportions, two-sample comparisons (binomial, Poisson, normal), the linear model, and Monte Carlo methods of summarization. Advanced topics will be touched on, including hierarchical models, generalized linear models, and missing data. Illustrative applications will include: Hardy-Weinberg testing and estimation, detection of allele-specific expression, QTL mapping, testing in genome-wide association studies, mixture models, multiple testing in high throughput genomics.
    MODULE 2 - POPULATION GENETIC DATA ANALYSIS
  WHERE? University of Lausanne
WHEN? 6-8 September 2017
  ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US)
  INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US)
  INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2uYfa0I
  DESCRIPTION: A unified treatment for the analysis of discrete genetic data, starting with estimates and sample variances of allele frequencies to illustrate genetic vs statistical sampling and Bayesian approaches. A detailed look at Hardy-Weinberg and linkage disequilibrium, including the use of exact tests with mid-p-values and a new look at X-chromosome Hardy- Weinberg testing. A new characterization of population structure with F-statistics, based on allelic matching within and between populations with individual relationship estimation as a special case. Analyses illustrated with applications to forensic science and association mapping, with particular reference to rare variants.
    MODULE 3 - QUANTITATIVE GENETICS
  WHERE? University of Lausanne
WHEN? 11-13 September 2017
  ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US)
  INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona - US) & Prof. Guilherme J. M. Rosa (University of Wisconsin - US)
  INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2vQCDgO
  DESCRIPTION: Quantitative Genetics is the analysis of complex characters where both genetic and environment factors contribute to trait variation. Since this includes most traits of interest, such as disease susceptibility, crop yield, growth and reproduction in animals, human and animal behavior, and all gene expression data (transcriptome and proteome), a working knowledge of quantitative genetics is critical in diverse fields from plant and animal breeding, human genetics, genomics, behavior, to ecology and evolutionary biology. The course will cover the basics of quantitative genetics including: genetic basis for complex traits, population genetic assumptions including detection of admixture, Fisher's variance decomposition, covariance between relatives, calculation of the numerator relationship matrix based on IBD alleles and an arbitrary pedigree, the genomic relationship matrix based on AIS alleles, heritability in the broad and narrow sense, inbreeding and crossbreeding, and response to selection. Also an introduction to advanced topics such as: Mixed Models, Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP), Genomic selection (GBLUP), Genome Wide Association Analysis (GWAS), QTL mapping, detection of selection from genomic data, correlated characters; and the multivariate response to selection.
    MODULE 4 - MIXED MODELS IN QUANTITATIVE GENETICS
  WHERE? University of Lausanne
WHEN? 13-15 September 2017
  ORGANIZERS: Prof. Jrme Goudet (University of Lausanne - CH) & Prof. Bruce Weir (University of Washington - US)
  INSTRUCTORS: Prof. Bruce Walsh (University of Arizona - US) & Prof. Guilherme J. M. Rosa (University of Wisconsin - US)
  INFO & REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/2uY59Rk
  DESCRIPTION: "Mixed models" refers to the analysis of linear models with arbitrary (co)variance structures among and within random effects and may be due to such factors as relationships or shared environments, cytoplasm, maternal effects and history. Mixed models are utilized in complex data analysis where the usual assumption(s) of independence and/or homogenous variances fail. Mixed models allow effects of nature to be separated from those of nurture and are emerging as the default method of analysis for human data. These issues are pervasive in human studies due to the lack of ability to randomize subjects to households, choice, and prior history. In plant breeding, growth and yield data are correlated due to shared locations, but diminish by distance resulting in spatial correlations. In animal breeding, performance data is correlated because individuals maybe related and may share common material environment as well as common pens or cages. Further, when individuals share a common space, they may experience indirect genetics effects (IGEs), which is an inherited effect in one individual experienced as an environmental effect in an associated individual. The evolution of cooperation and competition is based on IGEs, the estimation of which require mixed model analysis. Detection of cytoplasmic and epigenetic effects rely heavily on mixed model methods because of shared material or parental histories. Topics to be discussed include a basic matrix algebra review, the general linear model, derivation of the mixed model, BLUP and REML estimation, estimation and design issues, Bayesian formulations. Applications to be discussed include estimation of breeding values and genetic variances in general pedigrees, association mapping, genomic selection, spatial correlations and corrections, maternal genetic effects, detecting selection from genomic data, admixture detection and correction, direct and indirect genetic effects, models of general group and kin selection, genotype by environment interaction models
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A Retrospective Study Evaluating the Efficacy of Identification and Management of Sepsis at a Western Cape Province District Level Hospital Internal Medicine Department, in Comparison to the Guidelines Stipulated in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2012-Juniper Publishers
Abstract
Background: Currently there is little data on identification, management and outcomes of patients with sepsis in developing countries. Simple cost effective measures such as accurate identification of patients with sepsis and early antibiotic administration are achievable targets that are within reach without having to make use of unsustainable protocols constructed by developed countries.
Aim: The aim of our study is to assess the efficacy of clinicians at a district level hospital in the Western Cape at identifying and managing sepsis. Furthermore we will assess the outcome of patients in terms of in-hospital mortality and length of hospital stay given the above management.
Methods: A retrospective study design was applied when analyzing data from the routine burden of disease audit done on a 3 monthly basis at Karl Bremer Hospital.
Results: The total sample size obtained was 70 patients. A total of 18/70 (26%) patients had an initial triage blood pressure indicative of sepsis induced hypotension however only 1/18 (5.5%) of these patients received an initial crystalloid fluid bolus of 30ml/kg. The median time for antibiotic administration in septic shock was 4.65 hours. Further a positive delay in antibiotic administration (p value= 0.0039) was demonstrated. The data showed 8/12 (66%) of patients with septic shock received inappropriate amounts of fluids. The in-hospital mortality for sepsis was found to be 4/24 (17%), for severe sepsis 11/34 (32%) and a staggering 9/12(75%) for septic shock.
Conclusion: The outcomes of the study concluded that the initial classification process and management of sepsis by our clinicians is flawed. This inevitably leads to an increase in in-hospital mortality.
Background
Sepsis, as defined by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2012(SCC) [1] is the presence of a probable or documented infection together with systemic manifestations of an infection. In 2004 the World Health Organization (WHO) [2] listed three infective causes namely lower respiratory tract infection, diarrheal disease and tuberculosis on their top 10 list for causes of death, which is similar to mortality reports documented in the 2013 Western Cape mortality profile [3]. Thus highlighting sepsis and its squeal; which ultimately is caused by an infection as major contributors to the local and global burden of disease?
To date there is virtually no accurate data on incidence, prevalence or mortality rates for sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock in the developing countries. Mortality rates have been reported to be as high as 30% for sepsis, 40% for severe sepsis and 80% for septic shock [4–6] in developed countries. Worldwide septic shock is still the leading cause for death in intensive care units [5]. Data from developed countries show a continuous increase in the incidence of sepsis thus further emphasizing the need to review management protocols in order to reduce morbidity and mortality. In developed countries the implementation of protocols for the identification of sepsis and management thereof, have contributed to a decline in mortality rates [7].
In low income countries major concerns regarding accessibility to healthcare, limitations due to costs, lack of resources and delayed presentations of patients with sepsis make implementing such protocols, based on developed countries patients profile difficult. Thus in Sub-Saharan Africa there has been a widespread shift towards protocol development that is cost effective and specific for the epidemiologic and ecologic data [8,9]. In 2006 a Ugandan based prospective study assessed the management and outcomes of hospitalized patients with severe sepsis syndromes. Approximately 85% of their sample was HIV positive.
Factors contributing to mortality included inadequate fluid administration, lack if uniformity in source appropriate antibiotic administration and delay in antibiotic administration [8]. A follow-up prospective study was then done in 2008 using the previous study as the observation cohort. Interventions included early appropriate antibiotic and intravenous fluid administration. Mortality at 30 days was significantly lower in the intervention cohort compared to the observation cohort concluding that simple and inexpensive management could improve outcome [8,9]. The surviving sepsis campaign [1] is an initiative that initially was published in 2004 reviewing data on the management of severe sepsis and septic shock. The recommendations are intended to be best practice and by no means standard of care. Currently no data is available in South Africa regarding sepsis management in our unique setting thus we hope to pilot the way for further research in this field.
Demographics
Karl Bremer Hospital (KBH) is a large district level hospital situated in Bellville, Cape Town, with a total of 310 beds. The hospital services on average 11000 patients per month. The estimated total cost per day, per patient, is R2105.90 for a ward admission. Almost 72% of the patients are classified as either earning no income or have an average earning of less than R3000 per month, and hence are not obligated to pay for full medical fees. Furthermore there is a 4 bed high care unit which is shared by the all departments. The high care unit is able to manage ventilated patients however if a prolonged high care admission is anticipated, these patients would need to be transferred to a fully equipped ICU at a tertiary facility such as Tygerberg Hospital that is managed by a dedicated ICU team. Additionally the emergency department (ED) has 3 resuscitation beds for all emergencies that may present to the casualty.
Methodology
The primary aim of our study was to determine the efficacy of sepsis identification and management by clinicians at Karl Bremer Hospital. Furthermore we aimed to determine the demographics of patients presenting with sepsis, and also the burden of sepsis and its management, on the mortality rates and length of hospital stay amongst patients admitted. Key determinants of efficacy were assessed using guidelines outlined in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2012 as a means of comparison. A retrospective descriptive study design was performed in order to achieve the above. Ethics approval was obtained from the Health Research Ethics Committee at the University of Stellenbosch. The internal medicine department performs a routine burden of disease audit on a three monthly basis. Data for the audit is obtained by means of triplicate discharge letters, hospital transfer notes and death certification summaries containing all relevant information of the patients hospital stay from admission to discharge or death.
Data from the burden of disease audit completed in October 2015 and January 2016 was reviewed for patient selection. In order to select patients for the study the data from the burden of disease audit sheets had to state any one of the following key words namely sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock as the diagnosis at discharge or death. The suspected or confirmed infection had to be present at emergency department presentation in order to qualify for the study. Data was assessed using a data collection sheet compiled by the authors that focused specifically on clinical and blood gas measures that could be used in the emergency department to classify patients as sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock. Time to first dose antibiotics (grade 1B evidence based on SCC), source appropriate antibiotics (grade 1B), amount of intravenous fluids (grade 1c) and arterial blood gas (ABG)/lactate measurement was also assessed.
Once the data was obtained we retrospectively classified patients into either sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock based on information that was available to the casualty doctor at the time of presentation. All data collected was captured onto a Microsoft Excel© database. Data analysis was done in Microsoft Excel© and statistical analysis in Statistica©. Statistical significance was considered if the p value< 0.05. To compare descriptive variables the sign test was used. To assess for data association logistic regression testing and negative binomial regression testing was performed. Here the data was interpreted as odds ratios (OR) with a 95% confidence interval (Table 1).
Statistical Results
From the 1000 patients reviewed in the burden of disease audit, 70 patients (7%) were included in the study. Of the 70 patients 34 were male (48.5%) and 36 were female (51.4%). The overall mean age of patients presenting with a sepsis syndrome was 48 (SD ± 9.5, min=17, max=85). A total of 25 patients (36%) were HIV positive. The most common infective cause for sepsis across all spectrums identified by emergency personnel was a lower respiratory tract infection. Not surprisingly diarrheal disease/acute gastroenteritis was the second most common diagnosis made (Figure 1, 2 &3)
Based on the data collection and subsequent sepsis sub grouping, evaluated using the initial information available to the casualty doctor, 24/70 patients (34%) were classified as having sepsis, 34/70 (48%) had severe sepsis and 12/70 (17%) had septic shock. However 18/24 (75%) of patients with sepsis, 8/34 (25%) of patients with severe sepsis and 3/12(25%) of patients with septic shock had no arterial blood gas or lactate measured at initial presentation. No patients who had an initial lactate measured then had a repeat lactate measured in order to assess for lactate clearance or fluid responsiveness. Thus as a result many of the patients who likely should have been classified as septic shock were then classified as severe sepsis based on adherence to definitions. A total of 18/70 (26%) patients had an initial triage blood pressure indicative of sepsis induced hypotension however only 1/18 (5.5%) of these patients received an initial crystalloid fluid bolus of 30ml/ kg and subsequent immediate blood pressure recheck for the fluid responsive status. Furthermore 6/18 (33%) patients had no initial arterial blood gas or lactate measured, thus authors had no way of knowing whether the initial classification of the patient was severe sepsis or septic shock, forcing us to assign patients to the severe sepsis group.
The most frequently prescribed antibiotic across all categories for sepsis was ceftriaxone (Figure 4). Bearing in mind the above literature review regarding source appropriate antibiotics 55/70 patients (78.5%) were deemed to have received the correct antibiotics prescribed for the respective source. However no HIV positive patient included in the study received cover for mycobacterium tuberculosis or pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in the first 24 hours of presentation, despite the clinician having a documented suspicion thereof.
Interestingly, what is also important to note is that 7/70(10%) of the patients received no antibiotics in the first 24hours of presentation to hospital despite being identified by the casualty doctor as having a possible infective cause for clinical symptomatology. Here the likely source was equally distributed between acute gastroenteritis and an unknown source for sepsis. Of these patients 3/7 of the patients could be classified as having septic shock based on initial lactate measurement. The median time for antibiotic administration in the first 24 hours of presentation across all subgroups included 3.63 hours for sepsis (range 1.67–10.30, max= 24 hours), 1.58 hours for severe sepsis (range 1.00–2.83, max 24hours) and 4.25 hours for septic shock (range 1.00–23.98, max 24 hours). What is very important to note here is that this is the time taken from the attending doctors consult to actual antibiotic administration. Hence the time from initial presentation to the emergency department to actual antibiotic given may differ depending on waiting times. This unfortunately could not be assessed due to lack of documentation of initial presenting time.
In order to assess whether antibiotics were given within the 3 hour time frame for sepsis and severe sepsis the sign test was used to extrapolate the data. The results showed that for both sepsis and severe sepsis there was no delay in antibiotic administration ( p value = 0.2706 for sepsis and 0.9997 for severe sepsis), bearing in mind that the 3 hour mark was used as the cut off for optimal time to initial antibiotic administration. For septic shock however a cut off of 1 hour was used for optimal time to antibiotic administration, here the sign test showed a positive delay in antibiotic administration (p value= 0.0039).
Regarding the early appropriate intravenous fluid administration discussed above, the data showed that 5/24 (20%) of patients with sepsis, 8/34 (23%) of patients with severe sepsis and 8/12 (66%) of patients with septic shock received inappropriate amounts of fluids. As mentioned before only 1 patient received an initial fluid bolus of >30ml/kg for a sepsis induced hypotension. Using the Pearson chi-square test a positive association between the patients with septic shock and inappropriate intravenous fluid administration was noted (P value= 0.009). Furthermore the proportion of septic shock patients that received appropriate intravenous fluids was less than half that of the sepsis and severe sepsis group. As mentioned no patients in our study had repeat ABG’S done in order to assess for lactate clearance, a marker of response to therapy. Also no invasive measures such as central venous pressures or arterial line blood pressure readings were used to optimally assess fluid responsiveness in the first 24 hours of management.
Overall the outcome of patients in the study was determined by either discharge or in-hospital mortality. The in- hospital for mortality for sepsis being 4/24 (17%), for severe sepsis 11/34 (32%) and a staggering 9/12(75%) for septic shock (Figure 5). The mean age of deceased patients across all sepsis syndromes is 53 (SD ± 9.5). Furthermore logistic regression testing was done in order to investigate for a possible association between in- hospital mortality rates and various sepsis management principles. A positive association between in-hospital mortality and the following was found:
The mean length of stay for all sepsis syndromes was 6.3 days (SD ± 2.3 days).
Discussion
The statistics above depict clear faults in the identification of sepsis and its resultant suboptimal management. Evidence to support the poor recognition of sepsis syndromes is noted by the lack of adequate fluid boluses for patients that met the definition for hypotension at admission. This indicates that clinicians lack the understanding of hypotension as a clinical indicator of organ dysfunction in sepsis. Clinicians at Karl Bremer Hospital do not have access to laboratory results for a minimum of 12 hours post consult and are thus forced to make use of clinical judgment regarding severity of disease. This can be aided by blood pressure monitoring, urine output and blood gas measurement for lactate and PF ratios to determine fluid responsiveness and organ dysfunction. Further data supporting inadequacies in sepsis identification is evidenced by the 3/7 patients, that could be classified as septic shock based on the initial blood gas lactate measurement, who did not receive antibiotics for the first 24 hours after presentation. This indicates a poor understanding of the effect of delayed antibiotics on mortality rates related to sepsis. The overall median time to initial antibiotic administration was 4.25 hours in septic shock versus 1.58 hours in severe sepsis. Because these 3 patients were patients with septic shock it significantly increased the median time to initial antibiotic administration in this subgroup.
Kumar, et al. [10] showed a decrease in survival by 7.6% for every 1 hour delay in antibiotic therapy over the ensuing 6 hours.Comparatively our study showed a 7% increase in mortality for every hour delay in antibiotic administration. As mentioned median time to first dose antibiotics was assessed from time of doctor/patient consult to initial antibiotic administration. The minimum waiting time in the ED from arrival at the hospital to doctor consult is 45–60min. Thus regardless of the difference neither group is meeting the target 3 hour and 1 hour administration time frame. This can be attributed to both poor identification as discussed above and resource limitations. The nursing staffs in the ED who are responsible for drug and fluid administration often oversee the management of 10–20 patients at any given moment. This makes it difficult for them to perform important tasks in a timorously manner. Bed constraints and lack of resuscitation room availability mean that severely ill patients will often lie in the general ED area where there is no appropriate monitoring.
Regarding source appropriate antibiotics a positive association with mortality was shown in our study. Leibovici L, et al. [11] showed improved survival when empiric antibiotic treatment matched the in vitro susceptibility of the likely pathogen. The concern with this is that we have limited evidence regarding source appropriate antibiotics in a HIV prevalent society. Infective etiologies in sub -Saharan Africa differ from those reported in the surviving sepsis guidelines; in fact certain studies reviewed by the committee excluded HIV positive patients. Begging the question which is the early source appropriate antibiotics that should be administered given the unique sub-Saharan Africa ecology and what is the effect on outcome in HIV positive patients.
Appropriate intravenous fluid administration is a further area for debate in the HIV prevalent South African setting. Both studies done in Uganda and Zambia [12] reported concerns regarding large fluid boluses with a resultant worsening respiratory failure in this setting. Despite this our findings show a 67% reduction in in-hospital mortality with appropriate intravenous fluid administration. Again concerns regarding appropriate monitoring in the emergency department make appropriate fluid administration difficult, patients receiving large fluid boluses run the risk of becoming fluid overloaded unless adequately monitored.
Recommendations
It is evident from the above that education for all health care providers involved in sepsis identification and management is necessary. A suggestion for process formation perhaps in the form of a sepsis check sheet may lead to improved management. Re-evaluation of outcomes in the form of length of hospital stay and in-hospital mortality will need to done in order to evaluate the impact of process formation. Further areas that need attention is improved availability of early laboratory results which aids decision making. Also increasing physician availability to decrease ED waiting times.
Conclusion
The primary aim of our study was to evaluate the identification and management of the sepsis syndromes at a district level hospital in the Western Cape Province. The outcomes of the study concluded that the initial classification of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock by our clinicians is flawed. This is largely due to a lack of understanding by medical personnel regarding the clinical evidence needed to support the classification process. This clinical evidence is not dependent on delayed laboratory results, but can be found on basic clinical assessment and investigations available in the emergency department.
Priorities in the management of the sepsis syndromes that have been shown in our study to negatively effect in-hospital mortality include early source appropriate antibiotics and early appropriate intravenous fluid administration. These should be the cornerstones of management and can be instituted regardless of resource availability. In conclusion it is evident that additional research is needed in the field of sepsis identification and management in a resource limited setting, however basic management principles can still be implemented with the potential for an inordinate impact on patient survival.
Acknowledgement
A special thank you to Dr Zirkia Joubert and all the internal medicine medical officers at Karl Bremer Hospital, for granting us the time we needed to work on this study as well as for all their assistance with patient identification and data collection. We would like to thank Mr. MT Chirehwa for the data analytics and his subsequent interpretation of the statistical outcomes. Finally, we would like to thank Iesrafeel Jakoet and Brendon Versfeld for all their help with the write-up and editing of our study.
Conflict of interest
The authors have no conflict of interest to report. The project was funded solely by the named authors below.
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Report slandering China’s organ donation data is laden with logical and academic fallacies: specialists
Huang Jiefu, head of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, speaks at the Symposium on Development of Organ Donation and Transplantation held in Kunming, capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Saturday. Photo: Courtesy of the organizer
  A recent report published on BMC Medical Ethics criticizing China's organ donation data is laden with logical and academic fallacies, said China's leading scholar on organ transplantation. He said that China will lodge formal rebuttal to the journal on why such paper was published.
  During the Symposium on Development of Organ Donation and Transplantation in China held in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan Province on Saturday, Wang Haibo, head of China Organ Transplant Response System (COTRS), the country's official organ distribution system, referred to a recent academic report published on BMC Medical Ethics as a "serious accusation, and China felt the need of answering [such accusation]."
  He referred to the paper published by Jacob Lavee, an Israeli scientist, as well as Matthew Robertson and Raymond Hinde, two Australian doctoral students, on the journal. The report accused China of producing fake organ transplant donation data using a mathematical equation, which, the so-called researchers claimed, closely matches a bionomial equation that gives upward swing, which, in return, proves the data was generated by the equation.
  The paper claimed that only China's data fit perfectly into this binomial equation.
  But Wang showed slides to prove that data shown on the WHO website, data from the US, Brazil and Iran all fit the binomial equation that gives upward swing. Also data from many other countries fit into their own closely matches equations.
  "Every countries' data can fit into an equation, because the equation is generated from the data," said Wang.
  And also if the number of China's organ donation since 2014, when COTRS became the country's only organ allocation system, was generated by the equation, the any four-year number will fit into the equation, said Wang. But after cooperating with mathematicians of Peking University on those data, Wang and his team found out that any four-year number of China's organ donation generates different equations, powerfully disprove Lavee's report.
  Wang also demonstrated to more than 100 specialists from over 30 countries, including Germany, Vatican, the US and Australia, how the system works, in order to show its transparency and equity in organ donation and allocation. Once a donor's name is typed into the system, his/her personal information, ID number, consent of organ donation and other information would pump up. And the allocation process of the system were real-time and supervised by multiple institutes, such as transplant hospital and the Red Cross.
  He warned that all specialists and scientists should be aware of the trend that political intention is gradually permeating into academic circles.
  Huang Jiefu, head of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee and chairman of the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, said that he felt sorry for Lavee, because he could have spent more time on organ transplantation to save people in his country.
  "I was invited by the Israeli ambassador in China several times to introduce China's experience on organ donation and transplantation reform, which I believe is the best rebuttal for Lavee," said Huang.
  Foreign specialists at the Symposium on Development of Organ Donation and Transplantation held in Kunming, capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Saturday. Photo: Courtesy of the organizer
  Jose Núñez, WHO officer in charge of global organ transplantation, told the Global Times that they received the report produced by Lavee, and it was sent to them repeatedly twice a week. "But we didn't respond," said Núñez, noting that China has already provided efficient data with Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation.
  Núñez said there's nothing to cast doubt on China's data, those data are efficient. "So anything that comes from the magazine or the scientific journal is just his or her opinion," he said.
  Bjorn Nashan, former president of German Transplantation Society and now working at First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China in East China's Anhui Province, referred to Lavee's paper as "scientific misconduct," saying that if the authors have questions about Chinese data, they should first of all ask China to provide such data, but they did not.
  But working here in China since 2016, Nashan said his Chinese patients have various ways of getting advise on organ transplantation. But he was never aware there are secret Chinese hospitals performing illegal forced organ retriaval; and such rumors were being circulated only outside China by those who never visited China.
  Except from fabricating rumors about China's organ donation and transplantation achievements, anti-China forces also tried to harass foreign experts; for instance, they tries to stop them from visiting China, and prevented them from voicing support for China in this field.
  Campbell Fraser, a professor with Griffith University, told the Global Times that anti-China forces "tried three times to stop me from coming to China, they made representations to my university to stop me. But all they did just made me want to come to China more."
  Fraser said that China's organ donation and transplantation work aims at saving lives, a deity duty that people of the anti-China forces don't really care about. He also urged transplantation specialists worldwide to pluck up and resist anti-China forces, so international cooperation on organ donation and transplantation could be enhanced.
  "Chinese model" praised worldwide
  Huang said that those malicious attacks also proved that China's organ donation and transplantation work is achieving great success worldwide; otherwise, no one would bother to attack it.
  According to the latest data, from 2015 to 2018, the number of organ donations completed in China each year was 2766、4080、5146、6302 each year, with a rapid growth, and the number of organ donations in 2018 ranked second in the world.
  Since the establishment of the green channel for organ transportation three years ago, the transfer time of organs has been shortened by an average of 1 to 1.5 hours, the overall organ sharing rate in China has increased by 7.3%. The utilization rate of organs has increased by 6.7%. The sharing distance of donated organs has been greatly expanded, and thousands of patients with end-stage organ failure have been cured.
  The Chinese express was praised by participants during the conference. Núñez, WHO Representative, told the meeting: "China's organ transplant reform has achieved remarkable results in a short period of time, and China's experience can serve as a model for the entire Asian region and the world."
  "The biggest feature of the Chinese experience in organ transplantation is the strong support from the Chinese government, which is an example that many countries should follow." These words were from Francis Delmonico, Chairman of organ transplantation task force of WHO.
  Huang vowed that in 2021, China will became one of the biggest countries on organ donation and transplantation. To achieve that goal, there's yet something to be done, said Huang.
  He noted that it is important to raise people's awareness on organ donation and transplantation. Because China's reform in this field still remain unknown for many people.
  Huang also said that China is completing its legal system on organ donation and transplantation; and hopefully a revised law will come out next year.
  He also said that at the key point of our organ donation and transplantation development, government departments should form better coordination to enhance law-enforcement, consolidate our efforts and dismiss outside rumors.
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annieboltonworld · 4 years ago
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Price Policy of Drinking Water in Tunisia: Panel Application
Authored by Terzi Chokri
Abstract
This paper focus on policy of drinking water demand with application on Tunisian panel data. We estimate a model which explains consummate volume by the five slices of tariff corresponding to the progressive pricing. Long term results show that prices UP1, UP3 and UP5 has no effects on the preservation of the resource. Contrary to these three prices, UP2 and UP4 can be represented as a regulating mechanism. Concerning the global short run results, we notice that the coefficients of the prices UP1, UP3 and UP5 are negative what explains that these prices have an incentive effect. For the interregional short term results, price UP1 coefficient is negative and significant which mean that the proportion of the households which consume less than 20m3 is important within every governorate. The price UP2 which affect positively and significantly the consummate volume of drinking water represent a regulating mechanism.
Introduction
The management of drinking water demand can take numerous forms of the direct measures of regularization of the water use, until indirect measures aiming at the voluntary behavior. The non-tariff policy consists in calls launched to the public by awareness campaigns with educational programs and of similar initiatives which ended in deep modifications in the human behavior towards the preservation and towards the use of the water. The management of the demand constitutes the new policy of the World Bank regarding the resource management in water. In this approach, the instrument price can guide us in a rational use of the resource in water. Indeed, the price appeared as an incentive mechanism which urges the users to use the water in a more effective way. Besides, the price encourages the distribution companies of water to improve their qualities of the services, to satisfy the preferences of the consumers by the technical and financial means. So, a good management of the resource in water requires the adoption of a mode of pricing which allows supplying in a regular way the water to the various users with quantity and with quality satisfactory. This mode of pricing also allows avoiding any kind of overexploitation and the degradation of resource. A policy of sensible pricing has to answer at least four types of consideration: a use as effective as possible of the existing production capacity, an expansion of the capacity according to an evolution ofthe demand which is in touch with the real cost of the committed resources. The realization of the financial equilibrium and finally the considerations of social equity in the management of the resource in water. So the objective of the present paper will then be to analyze the policy of the drinking water in Tunisia.
Pricing of the Monopoly
In the case or the technological and economic specificities are based on services of water and purification of a natural monopoly, the organization of the market drives to a valuable fixation above the marginal cost (to avoid that the company makes losses because of the presence of the important fixed costs). However, the fixation of a high price for produced quantities cannot be the situation which corresponds to the social optimum. To save itself of such inefficient situations, the government has to take care of the property of the monopoly. So, the public authority can choose to produce itself the service what allows to reach the optimum Paretien (pricing in the marginal cost). But it should be noted that it is possible for the public authorities to attribute the management of the service to a private enterprise while regulating (use contracts-objectives). However, since it is difficult to oblige the company to produce at a competitive price (in the marginal cost), the government is in the obligation to subsidize the company by fixed transfers allowing them to cover its losses. One of the main objectives of the government aims at the fact that the services of the water assure the access for all to a drinking water of satisfactory quality for the consumers. At this stage, social approaches of pricing are possible and often practised (as the supply of free collective water, the payment of a part of the invoice either a pricing by stages croissants, with the supply of a quantity limited by low-priced drinking water).
Pricing and Demand in Water
Generally, the demand in drinking water is relatively inelastic with regard to the price. This is justified by the fact that the water is an essential good where there is no substitute for the most part of the users and is considered as the complementary good for a lot of consumer goods. In the practical case, it is difficult to estimate a function of demand of drinking water, because of the systems of current pricing and the impossibility to arrest quantitatively the water consumption of the households (the individual data are rare, there is a multitude of modes of management). The used scales of pricing are generally not linear, they are presented or under a shape binomial (a fixed part and a variable part according to the consummate volume) either multinome (progressive or decreasing pricing). The economic theory considers a function of demand which integrates the demands of the goods substitutes and complementary and also the constraint of income. Generally, the price of the water is not exogenous in the consummate, but especially endogenous volume because of the influence of the volumes distributed on the costs of potabilisation some water. The theory suggests that the whole price list is included in the function of the demand of the drinking water, but this is excluded for practical reasons. In this context, the literature which is interested in the development of the model of the function of demand of the drinking water, aim at testing empirically the hypothesis according to which: with which price (average or marginal) the consumers react when the water is sold by a scale multi-block [1-4]. Proposes a simple procedure which consists in incorporating at the same time the average price and the marginal price into the equation of the demand. The marginal price represents the price of the slice of consumption which exceeds the last block in which took place the consumption. On the other hand, the average price is obtained by calculating the average of the average prices of every slice of consumption. This average price includes all the fixed and variable costs [5]. Suggests taking into account the intra valuable structure - marginal; by including a said variable of difference in the estimation. This variable corresponds to the difference between what pays actually the consumer, and what he would have paid if his total consumption had been priced at the marginal price. The value of this difference will be positive under a progressive scale, and negative under a decreasing scale. The variable difference measures in theory the returned effects engendered by the fare structure. For a progressive or decreasing price list by slice, the difference having respectively the effect of a tax (economy realized for the consumers) or of a subsidy. The approaches proposed by specification of the demand presented up to here show some gaps. Indeed, they do not integrate into the problem of maximization of profit of the consumers the choice of the block in the structure of pricing. This choice appears as endogenous in the diversion of the demand in water. For that reason, the search for a function of demand of drinking water stays always an objective to achieve by several studies.
According to [6], the analysis of the demand of drinking water is especially focused on needs. The quantity of consummate water and the prices depend particularly on the evolution of the population, as well as on their lifestyle. The researches for the estimation of a function of demand of drinking water are rare and have especially an exploratory character, because the consummate quantities of water are often disconnected from the real costs committed by distribution companies. Among the works which were interested in the estimation of the function of demand of drinking water, we can quote the works which are given by [7]. And which put in relation the consumption and the price through an in section transverse analysis. Besides, and from a study concerning the demand of drinking water, Point (1993) puts the point on the problem of sharing of the resources between the various users. To do it, he takes into account three categories of use, the commercial, industrial and domestic use. The results show that the elasticity price becomes established around -0,167 with regard to the average price, for the department of the Gironde in France [8]. Insist on new aspects of the consumption. In this context the estimation of the request of the drinkable water supply, on all the territory in Tunisia, and for the domestic use in 2004, led to a function the elasticity of which was around - 0,42 with regard to the average price.
Price of Drinking Water in the Domestic Use
Generally, the origin of the problem of the price of the water for the households is essentially due to the part of the level of the price of the water with regard to income. In this case, the principle of solidarity in the field of the drinking water has to be made by the creation of the dimensions of integration of the considerations: social, environmental and economic. Let us note that this solidarity between small and big consumers aims at reducing the average price of the water for the small consumer with regard to the average price for a big consumer. The progressive pricing which takes into account the diameter of the meter, the size of the connecting to the subscriber and the volume of consummate water, ignores the socioeconomic characteristics of the subscriber. These characteristics present a fundamental factor to realize a social solidarity in the consumption of the drinking water. But this does not prevent that this pricing engenders some advantages. Indeed, the theory shows that a progressive pricing, can create an important financial transfer when the group of big consumers is brought to support 75% of the total costs for 50% of the total consumption, while the group of small consumers could pay only 25% of the total costs. In this case, the earnings by the small consumers become half of the normal price which they would have paid in principle, and the transfer between these two categories of consumers concerns 25% of the total costs of the water. The fact that the first low-priced slice concerns only few households and not all represent a criticism of the progressive pricing. However, for the poor and numerous families, the passage of a slice of consumption in another one becomes perfectly possible. In this case the role of the social slice in the social considerations of the households disappears. Because of this criticism of a progressive pricing, several countries look for solutions suited to reach certain social goals. In Tunisia, an envisaged solution consists in the use of a system in five slippery slices which stipulates that only the households the consumption of which does not exceed the ceiling of the fifth slice could benefit from a first low-priced slice. This procedure allows creating a phenomenon of incentive for the consumption of the resource. In other words, the pricing for the superior slice can involve a significant additional cost for certain users capable of covering the cost for the lower slices. The price of the superior slice is 5,8 times worth that of the lower slice. Besides, in some developing countries, the ceiling of the first slice varies with the number of people in the household. In this case, we get closer to the social pricing.
Empirical Validation
Model
The policy of the price of the drinking water in Tunisia was essentially based on a progressive pricing by slice of consumption. The objective of this strategy is to rationalize the consumption of the water which is very useful for the humanity. The application of a progressive pricing in the management of the water on all the Tunisian territory leads to a principle of regulation to manage well and preserve at best this rare resource. In this theme, we estimate an econometric model with the aim of distinguishing price slices affected by every governorate.
Where CV is the consummate volume, UPJ are the unit prices of the five slices, i = 1.....,21 represent the Tunisian governorates t = 1997,....... , 2012 and is the time.
Results and Discussion
The estimation of the model concerns the effects of long and short-term of every slice of price on the consummate volume. The application of unit root test in panel data (IPS, ADF and LLC) shows that all our variables are not stationary in level and become stationary after one differences which mean that are I(1). The result of this test led to us to test the cointegration of our model. Pedroni cointegration test confirm the presence of cointegration in our model then the long-term relationship exists between the variables. In this case, our model is a VEC one and it can be estimated using FMOLS, and ARDL specification method Table 1.
The estimation of the basic model showed that the five prices are significant in short term. The coefficients of the prices UP1, UP3 and UP5 are negative what explains that these prices have an incentive effect on the structure of consumption of the drinking water. On the other hand, the prices UP2 and UP4 represent no effect on the consummate volume. However and for a long-term tendency, prices UP1, UP3 and UP5 has no effects on the preservation of the resource Table 1. Contrary to these three prices, UP2 and UP4 can be represented as a regulating mechanism of the consumption in long term of the drinking water. Now, we focus in the interregional analysis to study the effects of different prices on 21 governorates of Tunisian territory Table 2.
*Significant at 10% **Significant at 5% *** Significant at 1% According to (Table 2) above, it appears the error correction term is negative and significant for all governorates which confirm the long term relationship. The price UP1 coefficient is also negative and significant for all governorates, this mean that the proportion of the households which consume less than 20 m3 is important within every governorate. The price UP2 affect positively and significantly the consummate volume of drinking water in the majority of the governorate. This price seems representing a regulating mechanism in short term as for the long term. All other prices are globally not significant for the majority off governorates.
Conclusion
The regulation of the management of the drinking water, the pass by the creation of fare structures which present a number of important elements to be taken into account. The search for the equity (between the various categories of consumers and between the consumers of the same category), and the necessity of getting itself the sufficient global recipes to face financial commitments in term of protection of the resource, stay objectives to achieve. It of other term, fare systems have to end in the acceptance and in the consumer confidence and it by the distribution of a quality improved to avoid any notable danger of health. The choice of organization and regulation of the public services of drinking water and its impact on their quantity, the quality, and their price, are a priority concern of public decision-makers. The objective of the regulation being to reach an effective management of the services. Indeed there are three main criteria to estimate their performance. The first criterion is the static efficiency which defined by the absence of wasting in the resource management, and by the minimization of the costs of service. The second criterion is the efficiency allocative which requires that a rare resource is assigned to the users so that the economic value of this resource is maximized. The third criterion is the productive or technical efficiency which is a dynamic process which depends on efforts of adaptation of the developer (training of the workforce, the investment the research and development of which ... etc.), to reach has a lower production cost.
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blastdnasquencing-blog · 8 years ago
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DNA Sequencing is a BLAST!
Introduction/Initial Hypothesis
           This lab introduces the value of DNA sequence analytics to group organisms based on phylogenetics rather than morphological features or arbitrary taxonomy. Since DNA serves as a physical heritable factor that can be traced and sequenced, biologists use it as the most effective tool to classify organisms. As father of modern binomial nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) set the foundation of classifying organisms based on common similarities and thus established a hierarchy to place any living creature depending on their outward appearance. However, only after Charles Darwin (1809-1882) introduced his theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species did biologists seek to classify species based on their lineage of inheritance, spurring the field of phylogeny. Phenotypic traits originally seemed to be shared between evolutionarily linked species were sometimes instead seen to possess analogous structures, which arose from twin adaptations to combat similar environments. The emergence of DNA analysis, especially nucleotide sequencing also gave biologists a concrete method to determine similar descent. Suddenly the age of Linnaean classification crumbled as previously thought monophyletic taxons (groups with all descendants sharing common ancestry) instead became paraphyletic (missing a descendant) or polyphyletic (containing species with no evolutionary descent). In addition, the discovery of parallel gene transfer in some bacteria has led some to question vertical evolutionary charts in favor of circular ones.
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           In this particular laboratory activity, I was given a picture of a fossil specimen collected near Lioning Province in China. Based on its morphological features shown in the amber, I was able to make some initial references that would contribute to my hypothesis. For instance, I could spot some very thin sprouting along the backbone of the animal (easily classifying it as a vertebrate, or part of the Chordata phylum) and assumed it was a group of feathers, thus placing this animal perhaps in the Aves category (birds). In addition, I could not discern any temple openings in its skull, thus classifying it as an Anapsid and part of the Reptilia class. Finally, I could make out that this organism did not have any opposable thumbs, disqualifying it as part of the Primate order in Mammalia and noticed that it was a tetrapod. Thus, I tentatively placed it in the Aves class. By comparing four different gene sequencing found in this sample with the BLAST site database, this experimentation would either corroborate or question my hypothesis. My proposed class the organisms would sit within is circled in red on the following cladogram:
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Methods/Materials
           I utilized my computer and the four ASN files given by the lab handout (the gene sequencing) as well as the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST website) in order to obtain DNA sequencing evidence. I entered all four ASN files into the “Saved Strategies” page and both observed the alignment distributions of the top 100 subject sequences and the “Distance tree of results” page, which gave a prediction of where the targeted organism would fall within. Using all eight pages, I formulated a qualitative analysis of the data.
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Data
           In order to group the data systematically, I first listed the two most similar species based on their DNA sequencing score, which combined the Identification percentage (the proportion of nucleotides that were identical between the two species, the target and the compared species) and the Query cover (the percentage of the identical nucleotides aligned correctly). As independent identifiers, a low Query cover but a high Identification score could indicate a good nucleotide match but with one containing more introns or having insertions and deletions rather than substitutions between the identical groups of nucleotides.
           I listed the most similar species with their most identical protein scores with the convention of the numbers in the parentheses being (Query cover, Identification percent).
Gene 1: Gallus gallus (100%/99%) and Coturnix japonica (100%/97%)
Gene 2: Drosophilia melanogaster (92%/99%) and Drosophilia yakuba (95%/97%)
Gene 3: Taeniopygia guttate (95%/100%) and Corvus brachyrhynchos (95%/99%)
Gene 4: Alligator sinesis (100%/99%) and Alligator mississippiensis (91%/83%)
           In addition, the following are the predicted phylogenetic tree containing the most immediate evolutionary ancestors of the target organism. Using these trees, I was able to quickly discern which class or family or organisms the compared species were originated.
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Analysis/Conclusions
           Overall, I believe that my hypothesis that the target organism fell underneath the Aves class was adequately supported. Thus, my conclusive cladogram would be the same as my hypothesis:
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           There are several reasons for my reasoning. First of all, looking at the data, the closest relative species based on both nucleotide similarity and alignment happened to be included in groups chickens (aves), fruit flies (arthopoda), finches (aves), and alligators/crocodiles (reptilia), it seems fair to group the target organism in aves as two of the four closely related species belonged to that group. Why not arthropoda? Looking at the morphological data, the organism possessed a backbone (thus it is part of the Chordata phylum) and as a basal group, the arthropods are farther than aves than reptilia. It is interesting to note that the Query cover for the arthropod species are the lowest (92% and 95%) of all the other species even though the Identification score is high, alluding that perhaps while the nucleotide bases might have been preserved through evolution, many insertions and deletions between them could have caused wildly different protein to be synthesized.
           In addition, the Aves class is less inclusive than the Reptilia group, and especially to be noted is that birds may be thought as a subset of reptiles because they are reptiles’ evolutionary descendants. Although the Reptilia class could be an alternate supported hypothesis, I would put a higher precedent on the Gallus gallus because it has a higher Query cover with a near perfect Identification percent, meaning that of the 99% nucleotides that are identical, they are all aligned the same as well.
           Finally through interesting research outside this laboratory, I found a species of dinosaur named Sinosauropteryx that bears close resemblance to this laboratory’s fossil specimen, and even may be the same species. It was the first dinosaur recorded that possessed feathers, and may have been the bridge species between reptiles and birds.
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