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This evaluation report is based on feedback from people living with dementia and carers who received an Individual Award from the Life Changes Trust. The Individual Awards Pilot Scheme was run in Argyll & Bute and Edinburgh in 2014-15 and aimed to provide a small amount of additional financial empowerment to a number of individuals whose lives have been affected by dementia, to help improve their well-being and quality of life. A secondary aim of the pilot scheme was to find out what people would spend the Award on when given relatively broad choice, and what benefit that might bring in the short and medium terms.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams wants to start serving non-dairy alternatives to city kids as part of a pilot program, he wrote in a January letter to schools Chancellor Richard Carranza.

With a goal to empower youth to tell stories about the world in new ways, NOVA Science Studio was able to give students exposure to a wide range of careers in STEM, journalism, and media production.

Balpa calls on government to bring in a moratorium on job cuts

For years, automakers have been offering driver-assist technologies on many new cars.

Tesla's Autopilot and other driver-assist systems might enhance safety, but manufacturers can keep the data under wraps.

National Transportation Safety Board chairman blasts Tesla and 'government regulators' for jeopardizing traffic safety over Tesla's Autopilot feature.

Emiliano Sala was tragically killed in January 2019 in a plane crash over the British channel.

Turkish prosecutors have charged four pilots, an airline company official and two flight attendants for their alleged roles in former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn's escape from Japan to Turkey and from there to Beirut, Turkey's state-run news agency reported Thursday.

Joe d'Eon, Airline Pilot and host of "Fly With Me"

Purpose: To explore the value of ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-PET/CT for detection of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) - loss prostate cancer (PCa). Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 75 patients who underwent multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) and ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET/CT before radical prostatectomy. Lesions were outlined on pathological images and regions of interest were drawn on matched mpMRI and PET/CT images. Imaging parameters including average apparent diffusion coefficient (ADCmean) and maximum standardized uptake value (SUV_max) were derived. Immunohistochemical staining was carried out to evaluate the PTEN status. The diagnostic performance of imaging parameters was analyzed by receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis. A univariate logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate the association between clinical and imaging variables and PTEN status. Results: Totally, 103 lesions from 54 patients were analyzed. Of these lesions, 34 of 103 (33.0%) showed PTEN-loss status. Our study showed a strong association between SUV_max and PTEN-loss tumors both in the per-patient analysis (P < 0.01) and per-lesion analysis (P < 0.01), yielding the sensitivity and specificity of 0.80 and 0.77 in the per-patient analysis and 0.83 and 0.74 in the per-lesion analysis. Meanwhile, higher pathological PSMA expression was found in the PTEN-deficiency tumors. However, there was no significant difference between PTEN-loss tumors and PTEN-intact tumors using parameters including ADCmean (P > 0.05) and PI-RADS score (P > 0.05). Surprisingly, SUV_max was a significant predictor for detection of PTEN-loss tumors (odds ratio: 7.56, 95% confidence interval: 2.18-26.24, per-patient analysis; odds ratio: 13.66, 95% confidence interval: 4.32-43.24, per-lesion analysis). Conclusion: ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-PET/CT could effectively detect aggressive PTEN-loss tumors.

Recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) pose a significant burden on the health care system. Underlying mechanisms predisposing children to UTIs and associated changes in the urinary proteome are not well understood. We aimed to investigate the urinary proteome of a subset of children who have vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and recurrent UTIs because of their risk of developing infection-related renal damage. Improving diagnostic modalities to identify UTI risk factors would significantly alter the clinical management of children with VUR. We profiled the urinary proteomes of 22 VUR patients with low grade VUR (1–3 out of 5), a history of recurrent UTIs, and renal scarring, comparing them to those obtained from 22 age-matched controls. Urinary proteins were analyzed by mass spectrometry followed by protein quantitation based on spectral counting. Of the 2,551 proteins identified across both cohorts, 964 were robustly quantified, as defined by meeting criteria with spectral count (SC) ≥2 in at least 7 patients in either VUR or control cohort. Eighty proteins had differential expression between the two cohorts, with 44 proteins significantly up-regulated and 36 downregulated (q <0.075, FC ≥1.2). Urinary proteins involved in inflammation, acute phase response (APR), modulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), and carbohydrate metabolism were altered among the study cohort.

Robert R. Henry
Mar 1, 2015; 38:412-419
Evolving Tactics With Inhibition of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporters

Khalid A. Jadoon
Oct 1, 2016; 39:1777-1786
Emerging Technologies and Therapeutics

As European countries launch ambitious new legal migration partnerships with several origin and transit countries in Africa, this report takes stock of the long and mixed history of such projects. To make the most of their potential to encourage skills development and fill pressing labor gaps, policymakers will need to think carefully about the partners and sectors they choose, among other key considerations.

Massachusetts is the fifth state to join the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority created through the Every Student Succeeds Act, which allows states to experiment with new forms of testing.

The state's two virtual charter schools have earned poor marks from the state's accountability system in the few years they've been operating.

The Every Student Succeeds Act allows up to seven states to try out new kinds of tests in a handful of districts before taking them statewide.

Georgia wants to allow districts to use a series of "formative assessments" instead of one big test at the end of the year.

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Shadunjen van Kampen, a 21-year-old member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in Yukon, recently completed her written exams and flight test. She plans to be a commercial bush pilot. 

The space near City Hall will allow weddings celebrations with up to 10 people.

Survival takes precedence for adolescent patients with cancer and their families. Patients may not discuss their treatments’ potential to damage their reproductive capacity, which has significant psychological late effects in survivorship.

Strong reproductive concerns of adolescents with cancer may not be captured on current health-related quality of life instruments and may be neglected by parents’ unawareness. Parent-proxy reports of adolescent reproductive concerns are not suitable for capturing specific emotions and feelings. (Read the full article)

The Colorado Supreme Court decided Douglas County's Choice Scholarship Program is unconstitutional.

Louisiana and New Hampshire are among the handful of states that have stepped up to experiment with crafting new student assessments under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Delaware state social workers have begun providing assistance at libraries in all three counties under a pilot program launched by the Delaware Division of Libraries and the Department of Health and Social Services. Two social workers from the Division of Social Services’ Community Partner Support Unit are now available once per week for three hours […]

Using AI and machine learning capabilities, the system can be further trained to respond like a professional.

Dover, Del. – The Delaware Department of Agriculture announced today that they have launched the Delaware Hemp Research Pilot Program in partnership with Delaware State University’s College of Agriculture and Related Sciences. “The research component announced today gives producers an opportunity to see if hemp is a worthwhile product for their farming operation,” said Secretary […]

NEW CASTLE (Nov. 15, 2018) – As part of the State Innovation Model (SIM) initiative, the Delaware Health Care Commission has awarded the first value-based payment reform mini-grant to Christiana Care Health System to test a new reimbursement model that will also improve the coordination of patient care. Christiana Care Health System’s CareLink Behavioral Health […]

"The management has completely given up saying there is no money and has no plans on when and how they can pay our wages without Government support," the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) said on Thursday in a joint communication to Puri.

COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION FUND, NORTH II, 2020 PILOT

COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION FUND, NORTH I, 2020 PILOT

Three communities are participating in Canada’s Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot.Sault Ste. Marie from the province of Ontario, Altona/Rhineland from the province of Manitoba will accept applications for recommendation of the community from candidates…

British Columbia invited 70 candidates in the initial BC PNP Tech Pilot draw for the present year on January 14th.  It issued invitations through four streams of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program as mentioned below:SI – Skilled Workers…

BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot Chemistry SDK 2019

BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot Chemistry SDK 2020

Easy2Pilot version 7 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.

Easy2Pilot version 8 suffers from remote SQL injection, backdoor account, and cross site request forgery vulnerabilities.

Dominion executives said in an interview this week that battery storage has the potential to improve the resiliency of the electrical grid

The four proposed central Virginia lithium-ion projects will cost about $33 million to build and offer 5-years’ worth of test data, according to Dominion.

2020 Honda Pilot vs. 2020 Ford Explorer: Compare Crossover SUVs Two of the bestselling three-row SUVs, the 2020 Honda Pilot and 2020 Ford Explorer, go about their family business a bit differently. Pickup trucks outsell cars for the first time, and it may not be temporary The Ford F-150, Ram 1500, and Chevy Silverado have been the best-selling...

Three-row crossover SUVs are having their day in the sun. These family haulers provide the spaciousness and safety of a minivan with the style and performance of something less...egg-shaped. Two of the bestselling three-row SUVs, the 2020 Honda Pilot and 2020 Ford Explorer, go about their family business a bit differently. What the Pilot lacks in...

Integrated energy company E.ON and BNP Paribas Personal Finance are piloting a new energy efficiency financing scheme for UK consumers.

Toronto-based Hydrostor Inc., a leader in advanced compressed-air energy storage (A-CAES), has announced a A$30 million technology demonstration project at the former Angas Zinc mine in Strathalbyn, Adelaide.