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Movie Review: Midnight in Paris
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Woody Allen stands alone among writer-directors whose careers started in the 1960s, swiftly and regularly hand-crafting at least one movie every year. At 75, he sticks to his workbench like a cobbler making shoes that are no longer in fashion but delight a certain class of patron.
"Midnight in Paris," a hymn to that beautiful city, is among his least consequential efforts. It's attractive and easy to slip into, but he didn't put enough thought into the design, and it soon falls apart.
Owen Wilson has taken on the mantle Allen used to impose on everyone who played romantic leads for him. He's Gil Pender, a successful hack writer of screenplays who fears he lacks lasting literary talent, a genial man with a romantic streak who stammers and waves his hands while explaining his eternally youthful philosophy of life.
That philosophy doesn't sit well with Inez, his stuffy fiancée (Rachel McAdams), her pedantic chum of a pal (Michael Sheen) and her right-wing, materialistic parents. But Gil, who used to live in Paris and is back for a visit, wishes he could move there. In fact, he wishes he could move there in the 1920s, when F. Scott Fitzgerald drank and Cole Porter played his new songs at parties and Ernest Hemingway challenged his friends to boxing matches.
Miraculously, Gil lives out his fantasy: As he mopes about the streets at midnight, an antique Peugeot whisks him off to a soiree where everyone dresses like a flapper or drinks bathtub gin. There he falls for Adriana (Marion Cotillard), who has been the mistress of Modigliani and Braque and has now settled in with a Spanish painter named Pablo Picasso.
As Gil spends days in the present with querulous Inez and evenings in the Jazz Age with mysterious Adriana, he wonders where he should settle forever. Allen doesn't have anywhere to go with this idea, so he turns the past into a parade of famous faces who shallowly embody the usual conceptions of them. (Corey Stoll's stodgy Hemingway seems to converse entirely in quotations from his books.)
Gil never meets any ordinary people: He just keeps bumping into Salvador Dali (Adrien Brody), babbling in a pub about rhinoceroses, or surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel, who's puzzled at Gil's suggestion that he make a movie about people unable to walk out of a dinner party.
Allen expects us to know that Buñuel will shoot this idea decades later as "The Exterminating Angel," just as he expects us to know that Djuna Barnes (not otherwise identified) was a pioneering lesbian author, or that Josephine Baker (seen but not identified at all) was an obscure black American dancer who became a sensation in Paris.
But after mildly funny allusions, he's out of ideas. The movie makes pointless stabs at further time travel, and all the characters (the juvenile Gil included) remain types.
Allen might argue that a fairy tale requires only atmosphere, not complexity. Thus he makes every young woman in Paris alluring and lovely. He remains entirely among rich white people, where he always feels most comfortable. (I don't believe a person of color speaks in the film.)
Audiences who always like to follow Allen into his insular world may be happy to share his whimsy. The rest of us will wonder - as usual - what the fuss is supposed to be about.
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Punta Tombo is by far the largest single colony of penguins on the continent, with a population of more than half a million birds; it is also one of the most commercialized. The noise from these black-and-white Magellanic penguins is immense; it's quite an experience to wander around this scrubland avian metropolis amid a cacophony of braying, surrounded on all sides by waddling, tottering birds. The penguins nest behind the stony beach in scrapes underneath the bushes, with a close eye on approaching strangers. Get too close and they'll indicate their displeasure by hissing or bobbing their heads from side to side like a dashboard dog – respect these warning signals, and remember that a penguin can inflict a good deal of pain with its sharp bill.
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Assessment of Abbyy software for OCRing Romanized Tibetan with Diacritics
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Assessment of Abbyy software (http://www.abbyy.com/) for OCRing romanized Tibetan text with diacritics:
It is hard to say without knowing how Abbyy OCR works. For example, if text recognition uses a probabilistic language model to make decisions about novel strings of letters, then it is unlikely that it will do well with Romanized Tibetan (since none of the weird Romanized Tibetan words will be part of the model). In that case, presenting Abbyy OCR with some special purpose list of Romanized Tibetan words may be useful, assuming that is possible. If instead, the OCR recognizes words letter by letter -- and doesn't attempt any probabilistic context correction, it should do OK. The problem then is making sure the diacritic letters are in the training model....
I have no idea how Abbyy OCR works unfortunately. It appears to be very advanced and customizable, so it seems like it could accommodate Romanized Tibetan with a little help.
I would suggest that Jeremy try to present Abbyy with a specialized Romanized Tibetan vocabulary if he can (replete with diacritics). (THL doesn't have anything like this, right?) Beyond this, Jeremy may want to look to see if Abbyy has different language settings. Maybe it is possible he can recognize using settings another language that uses diacritics…


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Whether it's because they are a proud naturalist or just a blatant attention seeker, there's no denying streaking is a phenomenon of the modern sporting world.PT2M0S http://www.watoday.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2q5xi 620 349 July 18, 2013
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The streaker who stole the stage - and potentially influenced the outcome of the match - in the closing stages of the State of Origin decider on Wednesday night will take his place on an infamous roll-call of dubious characters who have shed their dignity, clothes and the right to attend future sporting events.
The 33-year-old, identified in media reports as Wati Holmwood of Tempe in Sydney, ran almost the length of the field on Wednesday night, tripping just short of the try line two minutes from full time.
He was immediately pounced on by bouncers who flung a tarp over his naked body but not before pictures of his bald, bulky, bare form were captured by thousands of camera phones and official photographers at the match.
Andrew Symonds lets streaker Robert Ogilvie have it, unleashing a shoulder charge on the nude Brisbane mine worker during his 2008 pitch invasion at the Gabba. Fined $1500, Ogilvie said he did not regret his actions because 'you only live once.' Photo: Getty
Australian sporting history is littered with such spectacles.
Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds escaped assault charges when will he pole-axed streaker Robert Ogilvie during a one-day final against India in March 2008.
Symonds - who once considered playing rugby league for the Brisbane Broncos - flattened the man with a shoulder charge when he invaded the Gabba pitch in the 10th over, with a policeman in pursuit.
Adelaide stripper Helen D'Amico tries to give Carlton player Bruce Doull a nude cuddle during her infamous streak at the 1982 Grand Final.
The episode echoed the exploits of Bruce McCauley, known as the "beaten streaker". In 1977 Australian test cricketer Greg Chappell spanked the nude McCauley as he ran towards the wicket with his cricket bat, who then fell to the ground and was arrested by police.
In 1974, an Australian man, Michael O'Brien, who was 25 at the time, was the first streaker to receive major publicity after he ran out naked onto the ground of an England versus France Rugby Union match at Twickenham. He was captured by a policeman who covered his genitals with his police helmet.
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A streaker, identified in media reports as 33-year-old Wati Holmwood of Sydney, gets his gear off and runs almost the length of the field during the State of Origin decider. He is believed to have smeared himself in a vaseline-type substance to make his capture more difficult. Photo: Anthony Johnson
Streaking is not just a game for the boys.
The award for the most infamous Australian sporting streak perhaps belongs to Helen D'Amico - then a stripper from Adelaide -who invaded the ground during the 1982 VFL Grand Final between Carlton and Richmond wearing only a Carlton scarf.
In 2002, a Vodafone network executive faced legal action after loosely encouraging a streaker who ran onto the field during the Bledisloe Cup decider painted with a Vodafone logo.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Mark Roberts, a repeat offender for more than two decades, interrupted the men's bronze medal curling match between the US team and the UK team, wearing nothing but a strategically placed rubber chicken.
The earliest recorded streak occurred on July 5, 1799, when a man was arrested after he accepted a wager of 10 guineas to run naked from Cornhill to Cheapside in London.
And then there are the sporting pests - they may keep their clothes on but the disruption to play can be equally frustrating.
In 1993, during a match at the Sydney Cricket Ground between St Kilda and Sydney, a Swans fan released a live a piglet onto the ground, with "Plugga" Tony Lockett's #4 spray-painted on it, as a reference to the footballer's size.
Newcastle resident, Peter Hore, is Australia's most notorious pitch invader with more than 20 pesky public stunts to his name.
Most notably, in 1993, he ran on field and pulled down the goal net, suspending play during the Socceroos vs Iran World Cup qualifier.
At that time Australia was leading the game 2-0, and it is widely thought the resulting break allowed Iran to regroup and level the game with two goals, ensuring them a trip to the 1998 FIFA World Cup on away goal rules.
Hore required a police escort when leaving the ground for protection from irate Australian fans.
Hore also crashed the funerals of former INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and racehorse trainer T J Smith.
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Objective: People with Alzheimer's disease are often placed in a nursing home, sometimes after using adult day care services. How affected persons function during this potentially difficult transition is not well understood. The aim of this study was to examine the associations of day care use and nursing home placement with the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. Method: The participants were 432 older persons with Alzheimer's disease who were recruited from health care settings in the Chicago area. At baseline, they lived in the community and were using day care services a mean 1.7 days per week. At 6-month intervals for up to 4 years, they completed nine cognitive tests from which a composite measure of global cognition was derived. Results: On average, cognition declined at a gradually increasing rate during the study period. Nursing home placement was associated with a decrease in the level of cognition and an acceleration in the rate of cognitive decline. Day care use at baseline was not related to cognitive decline in initial analyses, but it interacted with nursing home placement such that higher level of day care use substantially reduced association of placement with accelerated cognitive decline. Education interacted with placement such that more schooling was associated with a greater increase in cognitive decline upon nursing home placement, but prior day care use also attenuated this association. Conclusions: Nursing home placement is associated with accelerated short-term cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. Prior experience in adult day care may lessen this association.
Progressive decline in cognitive function is the principal clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease. As the dementia progresses, affected persons require increasing levels of care. A variety of adult day care programs have been developed to reduce caregiver burden and to provide therapeutic and social activities for the affected person (1, 2). Nonetheless, most persons with dementia are eventually placed in a nursing home (3). Although, the transition from the community to institutional residence is a life event of enormous significance to affected persons, little is known about the relation of such placement to the course of cognitive decline in the disease or whether day care use in any way modifies this correlation.
In the current study, we examined the associations of day care use and nursing home placement with trajectories of global cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. The participants were a group of about 400 community dwelling persons with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease who had cognitive function testing at 6-month intervals for up to 4 years. We used mixed-effects regression models to characterize individual paths of change in cognitive function and their relation to level of day care use at baseline and subsequent institutionalization.
The study subjects were recruited from the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center and from adult day care centers in the Chicago metropolitan area. Eligibility was established at baseline and required a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, age of 65 years or older, and residence in the community. After complete description of the study to the subjects, informed consent was obtained from patients and family members. The study was approved by the institutional review board of Rush University Medical Center.
Of 1,431 persons screened, 712 were eligible for the study, and 516 (72.5%) agreed to participate. We eliminated 30 individuals who did not have a valid global cognitive score at baseline, leaving 486 persons. There were 35 deaths before initial follow-up, and of the remaining 451 people, 432 (95.8%) had at least one valid composite cognitive score upon follow-up. Analyses are based on this group. The subjects completed a mean 4.7 evaluations per person (range=2–8), 94.2% of possible evaluations in survivors. They had a mean age at baseline of 80.3 years (SD=6.4), a mean of 11.7 years of education (SD=3.6), and a mean baseline score of 14.7 (SD=7.4) on the Mini-Mental State Examination; 68.3% were women; and 69.2% were white and non-Hispanic, 27.1% were African American, and 3.7% belonged to other racial or ethnic minorities.
At baseline, the participants had a structured, uniform evaluation that included informant reports of medical history, a neurological examination, and cognitive testing, as described elsewhere (4–6). Based on this evaluation, individuals were classified with respect to Alzheimer's disease and other conditions known to affect cognitive function. The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease was made by a board-certified neurologist following the criteria of the joint working group of the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS/ADRDA), which require a history of cognitive decline and evidence of impairment in memory and cognition (7). We included 416 people who met these criteria plus another 16 persons who met criteria for NINCDS/ADRDA possible Alzheimer's disease to help ensure a wide spectrum of cognition at baseline. Cognitive function testing in the participant's residence or day care site and informant reports of current health history were repeated every 6 months for up to 4 years with examiners blinded to previously collected data.
Nine cognitive tests were administered as part of each evaluation. As shown in Table 1, the tests assessed multiple domains of cognition. One test, the Mini-Mental State Examination (8), assessed global cognition. There were two measures of episodic memory: immediate and delayed recall of 25 ideas in story A from the Wechsler Memory Scale—Revised (9). Semantic memory was assessed with a 15-item version (10) of the Boston Naming Test (11), which requires naming pictured objects; verbal fluency, which involves generating exemplars from two semantic categories (animals, fruits and vegetables) in separate 1-minute trials (10, 12); and body part identification in which the participant points to body parts named by the examiner (13). Working memory was assessed with the digit span backward test from the Wechsler Memory Scale—Revised (9) in which participants are read sequences of digits and asked to say them in reverse order. Visuospatial ability was assessed with a 12-item form of the Standard Progressive Matrices (14), which involves selecting the missing element from an abstract visual design among a set of alternatives, and the eight-item Figural Recognition Test (15), in which perception of abstract line drawings is assessed in a match-to-sample format.
To minimize floor and ceiling effects and other sources of measurement error, a composite measure of global cognition based on all nine tests was used in analyses. The composite measure was formed by converting the raw scores on each test to z scores, using the baseline mean and SD in the full cohort, and then averaging the z scores, as previously described (4–6).
At the baseline evaluation, the family member with the most contact with the participant was asked about use of adult day care services in the past 3 months and the average number of days per week of attendance. To ascertain nursing home placement, the informant was interviewed in person or by telephone at 3-month intervals for the duration of the study. The interviewer ascertained the date of nursing home admission for permanent care; a temporary stay for rehabilitation was not treated as nursing home placement, as previously described (16).
We used the Rosow-Breslau Scale (17) to assess physical disability at each evaluation. The scale addresses three tasks requiring mobility and strength: walking up and down a flight of stairs, walking a half mile, and doing heavy housework such as washing windows, walls, or floors. A knowledgeable informant was asked if the participant could perform each task without help. The score was the number of tasks for which assistance was required, as previously described (18).
Hallucinations were assessed at each evaluation with four structured questions posed to the informant about visual or auditory hallucinations inferred from something the participant said or did, as previously reported (5, 19). Hallucinations were treated as present or absent (at the time of nursing home entry) in analyses.
Informant responses to structured questions, adapted from items on the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (20), were used to assess mood at each evaluation. Depressed mood required sadness persisting for at least 2 weeks accompanied by feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, or excessive guilt. We focused exclusively on mood because other more physical components of depression (e.g., weight loss, fatigue, psychomotor agitation or retardation) can also be manifestations of Alzheimer's disease.
We used linear mixed-effects regression models (21) to characterize individual paths of change in cognitive function and to test the relation of covariates to level of cognition and rate of change. All models included terms for time in years since baseline and time squared to account for the accelerating nature of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and terms to control for the potentially confounding effects of age, sex, race, and education on initial level of function and rate of change. The initial model included a term for frequency of day care use at baseline and its interaction with time.
To model the effects of nursing home placement, we repeated the initial analyses but with a change point added for the time of entry into a nursing home. In this analysis, the effect of nursing home placement on cognitive decline is measured by two components. One component describes the acute effect on level of cognitive function at the change point: time of nursing home placement. It is modeled by an indicator variable that equals one for all follow-up observations after a participant was placed into nursing home and zero otherwise. The other component describes the effect of nursing home placement on change in cognitive function. It is modeled by terms for time since placement and time since placement squared for each follow-up observation after a participant was placed into a nursing home and zero otherwise. We subsequently added terms for the interactions of day care use with placement time and placement time squared.
We repeated this analysis controlling for level of disability and the presence of hallucinations and depressed mood at the time of nursing home placement. In separate subsequent analyses, we tested whether education, age, sex, or race modified the association of nursing home placement with cognitive decline. We also tested for three-way interactions of day care use by education by nursing home times. Programming was done in SAS (22). Models were graphically and analytically validated.
At the time of the baseline evaluation, 196 participants (45.4%) were using day care services from 2 to 6 days a week for an overall mean of 1.7 days per week (SD=2.1) in the group as a whole. Use of day care was associated with older age (t=4.0, df=430, p<0.001), less education (t=4.8, df=377, p<0.001), and belonging to a racial or ethnic minority group (χ2=6.0, df=2, p=0.05) but not with sex (χ2=0.4, df=1, p=0.51).
During up to 4 years of follow-up (mean=2.2, SD=0.9), 155 persons (35.9%) were placed in a nursing home for a mean period of 0.54 years (SD=0.81, range=0.00–3.25). Nursing home placement was not associated with age (t=1.7, df=430, p=0.08), education (t=0.5, df=430, p=0.59), or sex (χ2=0.0, df=1, p=0.86). White non-Hispanic persons were slightly more likely to be institutionalized than African Americans and other racial or ethnic minorities (40.5% versus 28.2% and 6.3%; χ2=11.8, df=2, p=0.003).
At baseline the composite measure of global cognition ranged from –1.662 to 2.361 (mean=0.063, SD=0.726), with higher scores indicating better function. We examined the relation of day care and nursing home use with individual patterns of change in cognitive function in a series of mixed-effects models adjusted for age, sex, race, and education.
The initial analysis (Table 2, model A) included terms for study time (in years since baseline) and study time squared to account for linear and nonlinear change in cognitive function and for day care use (in days per week at baseline) and its interaction with study time to test the association of day care use with initial level of cognition and rate of change. The effects for study time and study time squared indicate a gradually accelerating rate of global cognitive decline in the group as a whole. Higher level of day care use at baseline was associated with a lower level of cognitive function, as shown by the term for day care use but not with the rate of cognitive decline, as shown by the interaction term.
To examine the effects of nursing home placement, we repeated the analysis with a term to indicate whether or not the participant was in a nursing home at the time of testing and with terms for time since placement and time since placement squared (Table 2, model B). Placement in a nursing home was associated with a lower level of cognition and an accelerated rate of cognitive decline. Figure 1 shows the predicted 3-year paths of change for two typical participants: with nursing home placement, both level of cognitive impairment and rate of cognitive decline increased.
With nursing home placement accounted for in the model, higher level of day care use was associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline (Table 2, model B). To determine whether day care use modified the association of nursing home placement with cognition, we repeated the analysis with terms for the interaction of day care use with nursing home placement. Day care use interacted with both nursing home time (estimate=0.158, SE=0.037, p<0.001) and nursing home time squared (estimate= –0.046, SE=0.016, p=0.005). To illustrate these results, we plotted the 3-year paths of decline predicted by the model for two typical participants who each entered a nursing home after 2 years in the study: one with no day care use at study onset and the other with high use (3.5 days per week); prior day care use markedly attenuated the association of nursing home placement with accelerated cognitive decline (Figure 2).
To determine whether the associations among day care use, nursing home placement, and cognitive decline depended on noncognitive features of Alzheimer's disease, we repeated the analysis, controlling for three variables at the time of nursing home placement: depressed mood (present in 5.8%) and two characteristics previously associated with nursing home placement, cognitive decline, and death in this cohort (5, 16): hallucinations (present in 39.1%) and physical disability (45.4% with substantial mobility limitation). In this analysis, nursing home entry continued to be related to more rapid cognitive decline, and the interactions of day care with placement time (estimate=0.156, SE=0.037, p<0.001) and placement time squared (estimate=–0.046, SE=0.016, p=0.006) were unchanged.
We next assessed whether the association of nursing home placement with cognitive decline varied along demographic lines. Education had a robust interaction with both nursing home time (estimate=–0.088, SE=0.021, p<0.001) and nursing home time squared (estimate=0.032, SE=0.008, p<0.001). The association of nursing home placement with accelerated cognitive decline was stronger at higher levels of education compared to lower levels. In another analysis, there were three-way interactions of education and day care with nursing home time (estimate=0.046, SE=0.011, p<0.001) and nursing home time squared (estimate=–0.010, SE=0.005, p=0.04). As shown in Figure 3, among those with no day care at baseline, education strongly modified the association of nursing home placement with cognitive decline (upper panel), whereas among those with high day care use (3.5 days per week), education had little modifying effect (lower panel). In subsequent analyses, the association of nursing home placement did not strongly vary by gender or race, but there was an interaction of age with nursing home time (estimate=0.026, SE=0.007, p<0.001), indicating less of a nursing-home-related acceleration in decline for older compared to younger patients.
We examined a group of about 400 persons with Alzheimer's disease at 6-month intervals for up to 4 years. Placement in a nursing home during the study was associated with both a decrease in level of cognitive function and a more rapid rate of cognitive decline. Higher level of day care use at study onset attenuated the association of nursing home placement with accelerated cognitive decline in a dose-dependent fashion. The findings suggest that experience in adult day care may help persons with Alzheimer's disease make the transition from the community to institutional residence.
Progressive cognitive decline is the principal clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease, but rates of decline differ substantially among affected persons for reasons that are not well understood. As dementia progresses, many families turn to adult day care services and eventually to nursing home placement. Little is known about how either of these important life experiences is related to cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease. One study documented cognitive decline in nursing home residents during a 6-month period, consistent with the present results, but there was no cognitive testing prior to nursing home entry, no control group, and no clinical diagnoses of the participants (23). Another study found less cognitive decline during a 9-month period in day care patients compared to untreated control subjects, partially in line with the current findings, but the sample included people without dementia and the association was seen for only one of four tests (24). Each of these studies had fewer than 100 participants.
Higher level of education was associated with accelerated cognitive decline upon nursing home placement. Because education appears to diminish the deleterious effect of Alzheimer's disease pathology on cognition (25), a high level of education or related factors in a person with dementia suggests substantial accumulation of pathology and more rapid decline late in the disease course, which has been observed in this (4) and other (26) cohorts. Of interest, day care use markedly reduced the association of education with accelerated cognitive decline in the nursing home, further evidence of the robustness of the association between day care experience and cognition during the transition to institutional residence.
The bases of these findings are uncertain. One possibility is that nursing home placement is simply a sign of increased severity of Alzheimer's disease. Yet, the nursing-home-related increase in cognitive decline was observed even after simultaneous control for cognitive and noncognitive (i.e., depressed mood, hallucinations, physical disability) indicators of dementia severity at the time of nursing home entry. Alternatively, the increased cognitive decline upon placement may reflect difficulty adapting to an unfamiliar environment, consistent with clinical reports of increased confusion and behavior problems in those with dementia during acute hospitalizations or trips away from home. Regardless of its basis, the association of nursing home placement with cognitive decline decreased as prior use of adult day care services increased. Adult day care programs are thought to help care providers become accustomed to the idea of nursing home placement (1, 2). The present results suggest that this experience in an institutional setting may affect the patient's ability to adapt to full-time institutional living. Alternatively, Alzheimer's disease patients who use day care services regularly may differ from those using the services sporadically or not at all in terms of tractability or some related characteristic that makes them better able to conform to the demands of institutionalized living. Further research will be needed to evaluate these and other possibilities.
This study has several strengths. The clinical classification of Alzheimer's disease was based on a uniform clinical evaluation and well established criteria applied by a board-certified neurologist. Cognition was assessed with a previously established composite measure that could accommodate a wide range of performance. The psychometric properties of this measure and a mean of about five evenly spaced testings per participant enhanced our ability to characterize nonlinear patterns of change in cognitive function and their associations with critical life experiences.
These results have important limitations. Because this is an observational study, we cannot conclude that nursing home placement or day care use actually caused the observed changes in the rate of cognitive decline; research on these questions is needed. In addition, participants were selected from health care settings, so results may not generalize beyond such settings, and findings are based on a mean of less than 3 years of observation.
In summary, in this observational study of persons with Alzheimer's disease, nursing home placement was associated with a decrease in level of cognitive function and an increased rate of cognitive decline. As level of day care use at study onset increased, the association of nursing home placement with accelerated cognitive decline decreased. The findings suggest that the transition from the community to a nursing home is particularly difficult for people with Alzheimer's disease and that those planning for their care should consider the possibility that experience in adult day care programs may help prepare affected persons for institutional living.
aThe dashed segment at 2 years represents the 6-month time interval for data collection.
aThe dashed segments at 2 years represent the 6-month time interval for data collection.
aThe upper panel shows paths for people with eight (red line) or 16 (blue line) years of education with no baseline day care, and the lower panel shows the predicted paths for eight (red line) or 16 (blue line) years of education and 3.5 days of care per week at baseline. The dashed segments at 2 years represent the 6-month time interval for data collection.
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Dallas, a Tennessee native, was Landmark's coach for 11 seasons and compiled an 88-39 record but resigned after the run to the state finals to take a non-coaching position at Grace Christian Academy in Franklin, Tenn. Assistant coach Wayne Brantley was promoted to take Dallas' place at Landmark.
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I don't know why everyone is so freaked about "the guild".
sure, their videos are nice and stuff but that aren't all that über and I can't understand why they are getting so much attention. they brought out 10 episodes over a very long time (each of which isn't really all that long) and season 2 has been announced for how long now?
btw, I like Shepiwot more ^^
I guess its nice your meeting pseudo celebrities mike but posting the "pre-interview" chit chat between the cast that was NOT directed toward you for your use in the interview is a pretty hack move and fails journalism 101 in my opinion.
seriously, whats said before and after an interview is pretty commonly known to be off the record. you crossed the line a bit there.
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Plan of Multi-label Classification Implementation
Dataset Support
Method 1: add a special prefix to each labels
Add a special prefix to each class label and set the optional flag to be 'meta'. For example, there are a four-label data set, "Sports", "Religion", "Science", "Politics", respectively. Then we can name their attribute names as "_c_Sports", "_c_Religion", " _c_Science", " _c_Politics". With this flag, we can deal the labels.
What needs to be changed?
Problems to be solved:
- Whenever it visits the class attributes, the code should search all the attributes to locate the attributes that have prefix "_c_". This problems can be solved by adding some flag to indicate which attributes are class type.
Method 2: using special Attribute value
Since Orange can also support arbitrary attributes types such as a list, derived from PythonVariable. In addition, they can be converted to ordinary types. See more in PythonVariable link. In this way, we can store the labels as a list, and use special converter like getValueFrom to deal with it.
Method 3: adding a special value into their 'attributes' dictionary
The Variable descriptors can store additional variables, see Storing additional variables. So we can add a special value, like "lable" into the 'attributes' dictionary with vaule 1. In addition, we can set the additions to meta type, so that such labels would not be processed by the old one-label methods.
In this way, a tab file will look like below:
Feature Sports Religion SCience Politics d d d d d m label=1 m label=1 m label=1 m label=1 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 0
where 'Sports','Religion','SCience','Politics' are multi labels.The first example has feature "Feature=1" and belongs to label 'Sports' and label 'Politics'; The first example belongs to label 'SCience' and label 'Politics'; The third example belongs to only label 'Sports'; The fourth example belongs to label 'Religion' and label 'SCience';
What needs to be changed?
- Getclass method
What doesn't need to be changed?
- Input file parser, like Tab file
- one-label methods
Method 4: allow to multi 'class' optional flags
Now the tab file can have only at most one 'class' flag. We can allow several attributes to be 'class'.
What needs to be changed?
- ExampleTable: add a vector to store all the class's names
- date input and output related to ExampleTable
Problem-Transformation Methods
- BR (mulan/classifier/transformation/BinaryRelevance.java)
- CLR (mulan/classifier/transformation/CalibratedLabelRanking.java)
- LP (mulan/classifier/transformation/LabelPowerset.java)
- PPT (mulan/classifier/transformation/PPT.java)
Algorithm Adaptation Methods
- ML-kNN (mulan/classifier/lazy/MLkNN.java)
- BR-KNN (mulan/classifier/lazy/BRkNN.java)
- MultiLabel-KNN (mulan/classifier/lazy/MultiLabelKNN.java)
- MMP (mulan/classifier/neural/model/MMPLearner.java)
- NaiveBayes (weka.classifiers.bayes/NaiveBayes.class)
Evaluation Measures
- Hamming loss (mulan/evaluation/loss/HammingLoss.java)
- Example-based Accuracy, Precision, Recall (mulan/evaluation/measure/ExampleBased*.java)
- Label-based (mulan/evaluation/measure/LabelBased*.java)
- Ranking (mulan/evaluation/measure/RankingLoss.java)
- Average precision (mulan/evaluation/measure/AveragePrecision.java)
- Hierarchical (mulan/evaluation/measure/HierarchicalLoss.java
Feature Selection
- LP based (mulan/dimensionalityReduction/LabelPowersetAttributeEvaluator.java)
- Transformation based(../MultiClassAttributeEvaluator.java)
- Ranking (../Ranker.java)
GUI Support
See Widget development manual
ToDo List
Before May 23 (official coding time)
- Designing the dataset support
- choosing which transformation and adaptive methods to implement
- Familiar with structure of Orange source code
- How the Python code and C++ code combined?
May 23 – June 18 (Official coding period starts)
- design the framework to support multi-label classification, including the multi-label data structure –instance, instances, attribute, evaluator, etc.
- Coding on designing basic multi-label dataset
- two of problem-transformation methods-Binary relevance (BR), Calibrated label ranking (CLR)
- one GUI widget
- two evaluation measures: Example-based Hamming-Loss, Classfication Accuracy, Precision, Recall; Label-based.
- convert mulan multilabel data file format to Tab file
June 18 – July 5
- Finish the work on improving problem-transformation methods
- test the whole work to ensure it can work properly.
- Start to code on algorithm adaptation method: ML-KNN, Multi-class multi-label perceptron (MMP).
July 6 – July 15 (Mid-term)
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- Start to implement feature selection methods: LP based and Transformation based.
- Submit mid-term evaluation.
July 16– July 31
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