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text:
import sys
import os
import subprocess
import argparse
import re
# add the current to sys.path
SCRIPTS_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
sys.path.append(SCRIPTS_DIR)

from string import Template
from LoggerManager import getTempLogFile, logger, initConsoleLogging
from PatchInfoParser import PatchInfo, installNameToDirName
from GitUtils import addChangeSet, commitChange, getGitRepoRevisionHash

"""
  constants
"""
DEFAULT_OUTPUT_LOG_FILE_NAME = "MCompReposCommitter.log"
PATCH_SRC_WEB_LINK = "http://code.osehra.org/VistA.git/${type}/${hb}/${patch_dir}"

"""
  class to commit all the changes under the Packages directory
  in VistA-FOIA repository after patch(s) are applied and extracted.
"""
class MCompReposCommitter(object):
  def __init__(self, vistAMRepo):
    assert os.path.exists(vistAMRepo)
    self._vistAMRepoDir = os.path.abspath(vistAMRepo)
    self._packagesDir = os.path.join(self._vistAMRepoDir, 'Packages')

  def commit(self, commitMsgFile):
    self.__addChangeSet__()
    self.__commit__(commitMsgFile)

  def __addChangeSet__(self):
    logger.info("Add change set")
    #validChangeFileList = ["\*.zwr", "\*.m"]
    addChangeSet(self._packagesDir)

  def __commit__(self, commitMsgFile):
    logger.info("Commit the change")
    commitChange(commitMsgFile, self._packagesDir)

def generateCommitMsgFileByPatchInfo(patchInfo, commitMsgFile,
                                     branch="HEAD", reposDir=None):
  reposHash = getGitRepoRevisionHash(branch, reposDir)[:8]
  with open(commitMsgFile, 'w') as output:
    topicLine = "Install: %s" % patchInfo.installName
    if patchInfo.multiBuildsList:
      topicLine = "Install: %s" % (", ".join(patchInfo.multiBuildsList))
    output.write("%s\n" % topicLine)
    output.write('\n')
    output.write('Use default answers for KIDS load/install questions.\n')
    output.write('\n')
    if patchInfo.isMultiBuilds: # special logic for multibuilds
      buildLink, otherLinks = getWebLinkForPatchSourceMultiBuilds(patchInfo,
                                                                  reposHash)
      output.write('Multi-Build: %s\n' % buildLink)
      for link in otherLinks:
        if link:
          output.write('Patch-Files: %s\n' % link)
    else:
      packageLink = getWebLinkForPatchSourceByFile(patchInfo.kidsFilePath,
                                                   reposHash)
      output.write('Patch-Files: %s\n' % packageLink)

def getWebLinkForPatchSourceMultiBuilds(patchInfo, reposHash):
  # find the package path from the patchInfo
  buildLink = getWebLinkForPatchSourceByFile(patchInfo.kidsFilePath,
                                             reposHash, fileType=True)
  otherLink = []
  for item in patchInfo.otherKidsInfoList:
    if item[0]:
      otherLink.append(getWebLinkForPatchSourceByFile(item[0], reposHash))
    else:
      otherLink.append(None)
  return buildLink, otherLink

def getWebLinkForPatchSourceByFile(filePath, reposHash, fileType=False):
  packageDir = os.path.dirname(filePath)
  typeName = "tree"
  if fileType:
    typeName = "blob"
    packageDir = filePath
  packageDir = packageDir[packageDir.find('Packages'):]
  packageDir = packageDir.replace('\\','/').replace(' ','+')
  webLink = Template(PATCH_SRC_WEB_LINK)
  packageLink = webLink.substitute(type=typeName,
                                   patch_dir=packageDir,
                                   hb=reposHash)
  return packageLink

def testSinglePatchCommitMsg():
  patchInfo = PatchInfo()
  patchInfo.installName = "LR*5.2*334"
  patchInfo.kidsFilePath = "C:/users/jason.li/git/VistA/Packages/"\
                           "Lab Service/Patches/LR_5.2_334/LR_52_334.KIDs.json"
  commitMsgFile = getDefaultCommitMsgFileByPatchInfo(patchInfo)
  print commitMsgFile
  generateCommitMsgFileByPatchInfo(patchInfo, commitMsgFile,
                                   "origin/master", SCRIPTS_DIR)

def testMultiBuildPatchCommitMsg():
  patchInfo = PatchInfo()
  patchInfo.installName = "HDI*1.0*7"
  patchInfo.kidsFilePath = "C:/users/jason.li/git/VistA/Packages/"\
                           "MultiBuilds/LAB_LEDI_IV.KIDs.json"
  patchInfo.kidsInfoPath = \
    "C:/users/jason.li/git/VistA/Packages/Health Data and Informatics/"\
     "Patches/HDI_1.0_7/HDI-1_SEQ-8_PAT-7.TXT"
  patchInfo.kidsInfoSha1 = None
  patchInfo.isMultiBuilds = True
  patchInfo.multiBuildsList = ["HDI*1.0*7", "LR*5.2*350", "LA*5.2*74"]
  patchInfo.otherKidsInfoList = [
    ["C:/users/jason.li/git/VistA/Packages/Lab Service/"\
     "Patches/LR_5.2_350/LR-5P2_SEQ-332_PAT-350.TXT" , None],
    ["C:/users/jason.li/git/VistA/Packages/Automated Lab Instruments/"\
     "Patches/LA_5.2_74/LA-5P2_SEQ-57_PAT-74.TXT", None],
  ]
  commitMsgFile = getDefaultCommitMsgFileByPatchInfo(patchInfo)
  generateCommitMsgFileByPatchInfo(patchInfo, commitMsgFile,
                                   "origin/master", SCRIPTS_DIR)

def getDefaultCommitMsgFileByPatchInfo(patchInfo, dir=None):
  outputFile = installNameToDirName(patchInfo.installName) + ".msg"
  if dir is None:
    return getTempLogFile(outputFile)
  else:
    return os.path.join(dir, outputFile)

def testMain():
  testSinglePatchCommitMsg()
  testMultiBuildPatchCommitMsg()

def main():
  pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement numbers 223071 (COURAGE in Europe) and 282586 (ROAMER), from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III-FIS research grant number PS09/00295, and from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation ACI-Promociona (ACI2009-1010 and ACI-2011-1080). The study was supported by the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
Background and Objectives: The assessment of wellbeing is a top priority in health sciences. The aim of this paper is to review the history of the concept of wellbeing and "Quality of Life" (QoL), and to understand the theories and assumptions that guided this field in order to provide a conceptual framework that may eventually facilitate the development of a formal synset (grouping of synonyms and semantically similar terms) of health-related wellbeing.
Methods: The history of the concept of wellbeing and QoL was reviewed in order to provide a conceptual framework.
Results: Huge differences exist on the definition of "Wellbeing" and its relationship with QoL, "Happiness" and "Functioning" in the health context. From a dimensional perspective, health related wellbeing could be regarded as an overarching construct characterised by asymmetrical polarity, where "wellbeing" embeds the concept of "ill-being" as "health" incorporates de concept of "disease".
Conclusions: A common conceptual framework of these terms may eventually facilitate the development of a formal synset of health-related wellbeing. This terminological clarification should be part of a new taxonomy of health-related wellbeing based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework that may facilitate knowledge transfer across different sectors and semantic interoperability for care management and planning.
Keywords: Happiness; Quality of Life; Wellbeing; Functioning; Health terminology; Nomenclature.
The assessment of "Wellbeing" is a top priority for governments, international organisations, health companies and research institutions alike. There is an increasing interest and hard competition to produce wellbeing indexes aimed at replacing current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and burden measures, to measure wellbeing in population surveys and new models of care, and to design wellbeing policies and related health care interventions1. Wellbeing has also turned into an indispensable concept in epistemology to appropriately frame the complex models of disease, healthcare and human function. Regardless of its current success, huge differences persist on the definition of wellbeing and its relationship with happiness, satisfaction, mental health, Quality of Life (QoL), social capital, mental capital and human functioning. To a large extent these differences relate to the diverse backgrounds where this concept developed during the last 100 years. Although the link between wellbeing and health is inescapable, two major areas of development could be traced outside the health sector: one is related to wellbeing and happiness assessment in demographics, psychology and education and another is related to the measurement of wellbeing in economics.
The aim of this paper is to review the history of the concept of wellbeing and QoL, and to understand the theories and assumptions that guided this field in order to provide a conceptual framework that may eventually facilitate the development of a formal synset (grouping of synonyms and semantically similar terms) of health-related wellbeing.
The evolution of the non-health related concept of wellbeing throughout the last century has been described by Erik Agner2. He traces it back its origin to the development of "eupathics" in the first quarter of the 20th Century. This discipline was concerned with the study of the "well being of the normal"2, and it evolved into the social studies of happiness and marital success, apart from other areas of education, psychology, and perso-nality studies in the 1920s and 1930s. A decade later Hornell Hart3 produced the "Chart for happiness" and a thermometric scale called "Euphorimeter". He also coined two complementary definitions of happiness, one related to subjective status and satisfaction (people are happy insofar as they are prone to saying sincerely that they are happy); and other one related to personal choice (people are happy insofar as they are in whatever state of consciousness that they seek to attain or maintain). Later on, Diener et al.4 defined subjective wellbeing as "a broad category of phenomena that includes people's emotional responses, domain satisfactions, and global judgments of life satisfaction".
The economic approach to wellbeing dates back to the 1930's when Simon Kuznets5 argued that a nation's welfare can scarcely be inferred just from its national income an advocated for an assessment of wellbeing. In the 1970's economists constructed metrics to measure societal wellbeing in terms of utility as expressed in "revealed preferences" that were later used in the assessment of QoL in health economics6. Tversky and Kahneman7 contributed to the understanding of irrational choice, and later on to its relation to happiness and wellbeing8. The work of Daniel Kahneman separated wellbeing into two complementary conceptualisations: "experienced wellbeing", which is typically captured by measures of positive affect, pleasure, and happiness, and their opposites negative affect, misery, or distress; and "evaluative wellbeing", which captures judgments of overall life satisfaction or fulfilment in selected domains such as autonomy, personal growth, and purpose in life.
In 1995 Cliff Cobb developed the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), a measure of sustainable economic wellbeing designed to indicate progress in people's QoL and economic, social, and environmental wellbeing. The GPI attempted to address the limitations of GDP by measuring the social and environmental costs and benefits that the GDP ignores or counts as progress9. Anielski9 defined Genuine Wealth as: "the conditions of well-being that are true to our core values of life".
The European Commission10 published a communication which acknowledged the limitations of GDP and proposed to complement GDP with environmental and social indicators such as a comprehensive environmental index and measures of QoL and wellbeing. In the same line, the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress proposed several recommendations on how to better measure economic performance, societal wellbeing and sustainability, and recommended that the measurement system should shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people's wellbeing11. A few months later, the British government asked the Office of National Statistics to devise a new way of measuring wellbeing in Britain in order to start measuring the progress as a country, not just by how the economy is growing, but by how the people's lives are improving12.
These initiatives are not limited to Europe. In Bhutan, the happiness of the population is considered as a public good, and it is the responsibility of the government to create an enabling environment for the pursuit of happiness, as reflected in the constitution13. The Centre for Bhutan Studies has developed a Gross National Happiness (GNH) index under nine domains: psychological wellbeing, health, education, time use, culture, governance, community vitality, environmental diversity, and living standards14.
In contrast to western societies, where happiness is conceptualised as a transitory mood state15 or as the "predominance of the frequency of occurrence of positive emotional experiences over negative ones"16, within the GNH model, the concept of happiness has a broader meaning that refers to a state of being rather than an emotion or feeling. In western applications, the term "wellbeing" is more reflective of "happiness" within GNH. In this model, health is only a determinant of happiness15.
In 2011 the OECD Better Life Initiative launched an interactive index called Your Better Life Index [oecdbetterlifeindex.org] to measure wellbeing and progress. The index allows citizens to measure their lives in a way that goes beyond traditional GDP numbers and to compare lives across 34 countries based on 11 dimensions, giving their own weight to each of the dimensions.
The Gallup World Poll has been collecting information about wellbeing since 2006. The poll covers at least 130 countries in any given year. In each country a representative sample of the adult population is evaluated. In addition, in 2008 Gallup started a daily survey in the United States. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index provides real-time measurement of health and wellbeing by interviewing at least 500 U.S. adults every day17.
The history of the terms Wellbeing and QoL in health sciences follows an intricate path that is not easy to disentangle. In the 1930s several voices started to recognise that health was beyond the absence of illness: "Health must come first: the mere state of not being ill must be recognised as an unacceptable substitute, too often tolerated or even regarded as normal. We must, moreover, face the fact that while immense study has been lavished on disease no one has intensively studied and analysed health, and our ignorance of the subject is now so deep that we can hardly claim scientifically to know what health is"18. And it was also at that time that the term "Happiness" was first used in the health sector in the UK19. The term "Wellbeing" was incorporated to the definition of health at the WHO constitution following a proposal by Andrija Stampar, one of the pioneers of public health. It said health was "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"20. This pivotal change over the pre-war conceptualisation of health and disease promoted the incorporation of "wellbeing" to the medical terminology, although it took other three decades before it was officially adopted at the Alma Alta declaration of 1978. Pubmed records the first appearance of this concept in a French paper on mental health published in 195521.
This was followed by the incorporation of the "positive aspects of health" to public health surveys such as the US National Health Surveys since 195722, and the addition of brief subjective measures of "positive" and "negative" wellbeing at the Bradburn's23 scale a decade later. During the following thirty years, "Wellbeing" was a concept closely intertwined to QoL in Medicine. Thus, QoL was defined as the subjective aspects of wellbeing, while wellbeing was assessed as a ge-neric component of QoL. Surprisingly enough, efforts to reach an international consensus on the definition of wellbeing and its taxonomy have been minimal in comparison with QoL.
Prutkein and Feinstein24 have revised the origins of the concept of QoL and its evolution in Medicine until 1986. Although the first mention to QoL is identified in the field of Nephrology in the late 1960's, the standard assessment of QoL was preceded by the evaluation of daily living in time diaries since the 1890's later incorporated to the social sciences study of human behaviour25. Right after World War II, the Karnofsky index was introduced in healthcare to evaluate the performance status of cancer patients and persons with disabilities26, and this was followed by series of subsequent clinical indexes of "Activities of Daily Living"27.
Self-reported ratings were incorporated to the assessment of QOL in national surveys during 1970s. Four main domains or indexes were included: Overall Scale of Life Satisfaction, Index of Well-being, Index of Gene-ral Affect, and Index of Perceived Stress28. Later on, global questions such as "How do you feel about your life as a whole?" were added to the questionnaires, and the basic QoL domains were also expanded29.
The "Vitagram" may be regarded as the first QoL scale30. It was developed in Sweden to assess the extent to which lung cancer patients enjoyed a meaningful life after treatment and it was inspired in the call made by Feinstein et al.31 to develop QoL measures for cancer patients. Full QoL scales were developed during the late 1970s32, and the topic boomed after the second half of the 1980s leading to the development of a whole array of generic and disease-specific scales, as well as specialised journals, international networks and scientific societies in this field33.
The QoL construct was adopted by WHO which in 1991 started a project to develop an instrument (the World Health Organization Quality of Life -WHOQOL-) for measuring QoL internationally. QoL was defined as "a person's perception of his/her position in life within the context of the culture and value systems in which he/she lives and in relation to his/her goals, expectations, standards, and concerns34. The definition highlighted the view that QoL referred to a subjective evaluation, including both positive and negative dimensions, and which was embedded in a cultural, social, and environmental context35-37. The first WHOQOL field trial form (WHOQOL-100) contained 100 questions covering six domains and 24 facets38,39. Domains represent a high level of organisation and facets are an intermediate level of organisation between domains and items. Each facet is represented by a set of four specific items. Next, the short version WHOQOL-BREF was developed for use in situations where time is limited and where respondent burden must be minimized40.
During the 2000's the WHOQOL Group developed several supplementary modules to be used in conjunction either with the WHOQOL-100 or WHOQOL-BREF: a module on Spirituality, Religiousness and Personal Beliefs40, the WHOQOL-OLD module for older adults41, and the WHOQOL disability module (WHOQOL-DIS) for persons with physical and intellectual disabilities42.
To avoid including non-medical components in the QoL construct, some researchers decided to focus on what was called Health related Quality of Life (HRQoL): medical factors, expressed as a combination of functional status and symptoms related to specific diseases24. As the interest on HRQoL and patient reported outcomes continues to grow and new domains of the human experience are incorporated into an increasingly complex QoL construct; the very same concept of HRQoL is being contested.
While QoL was confirmed as a leading field in Medicine, key experts in the development of the HRQoL suggested that the evaluation should also include other non self-reported ratings such as physician-generated assessments of patients' performance status and ratings made by family members of the psychological and social health status of patients unwilling or unable to provide such information43. This statement challenged the very same concept of QoL adopted by the WHO. There was also an increasing awareness of the conceptual problems derived from the absence of theoretical models to guide the development of QoL measures43.
Prutkein and Feinstein24 attributed these problems and imperfections in QoL indexes to "an origin in two different streams of thought, neither of which has led to a fully satisfactory approach" as they were not originally designed for appraising the particular personal distinctions of the way people feel about their own QoL. They identified a medical (clinical) stream based on single measures of health status (not a suitable way to denote a patient's belief about QoL); and a psychosocial stream (actually public health) based on multi-item instruments (not suitable to allow patients to express changes in status). They conclude: "Since quality of life is determined uniquely by each patient, and reflects a personal reaction rather than an objective "status", a possible solution to the problems is to return to an old clinical approach, which directly asks patients to indicate what they feel".
On the other hand, the incorporation of non self-reported information to the QoL construct and the inclusion of domains of life related to contextual wellbeing in the WHOQOL system, indicates that the boundaries between QoL and Wellbeing are increasingly blurred, and that an idly defined QoL/Wellbeing construct is used both in clinical practice and in public health assessment.
The underlying conceptual problems of QoL/Wellbeing measurement are actually far more complex, as other separate sources and models can be identified when the QoL/Wellbeing construct is considered. Apart from the clinical and public health perspectives previously mentioned, it is necessary to take into account the economical, socio-cultural, psychobiological, psychological and functional approaches to QoL/Wellbeing.
Health economists' perspective on QoL differs significantly from that developed in the medical sector6,44. While in Medicine HRQoL is a status function, in health economics it is a utility function and it is related to personal choice. In the first case, a subjec-tive rating scale provides information about the patient's present status in one or in several dimensions related to the QoL construct; while in health economics, the assessment is based on the individual's preference between two health states.
This is related to the "expected utility theo-ry", formalised by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the late 1940s, where every result of a choice between two alternatives (preference) produces a certain degree of wellbeing or utility. Subjective utility (the satisfaction derived from the alternative chosen), differs from the objective expected monetary gains on several points, such as risk assumption, choice certainty, degree of probability, or previous experience and cognition. For example, choices concerning gains are associated with risk aversion, while those concerning losses are associated with risk assumption, even when the expected monetary chan-ges are equal for both choices44.
Weinstein and Stason45 developed the cost-utility analysis and a related index called the QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Years) to assess the net effectiveness of an alternative in question (e.g. a new drug) expressed by the trade-offs between additional survival and QoL. QALYs can be calculated by different procedures and there are further questions regarding whether it is feasible to estimate monetary values of a QALY46. An unscalable consequence has been that the same name (HRQoL) and the same rating scales (e.g. SF-36, EQ-5D) have been used for completely different purposes by clinicians (measure of health status) and health economists (measure of health preference and related QALYs)6.
The trend to broaden the QoL construct and to increase its complexity could be seen in other areas of psychology and social sciences where an emphasis was given to the positive aspects of this construct. In contrast with the health sector, the assessment of wellbeing and QoL in social sciences followed formal models of wellbeing to design related 'Wellbeing' or 'QoL' rating scales. The best known approach to the psychology of wellbeing is the positive psychology movement47; however other psychosocial and cultural models developed a decade earlier deserve attention.
Carol Ryff48 published the Scales of "Psychological Well-being" (PWB). PWB is grounded in the theoretical framework of the personal self and identity previously developed in social psychology48,49. It defines "psychological wellbeing" as a micro-level construct that conveys information about how individuals evaluate themselves and the quality of their lives. This theory-driven, multidimensional formulation of psychological wellbeing goes beyond the absence-of-illness criteria and "derives from life-span developmental theories which formulate the unfolding tasks and challenges of human growth; clinical accounts of what it means to be self-actualized, mature, fully functioning, or individuated; and formulations of positive criteria of mental health"50. This positive assessment of Wellbeing applied initially in the field of ageing has been broadly tested in relation to several biomarkers of mortality50 and allostatic load. The six personal factors can be divided in two main domains: hedonic (related to feeling of pleasure) and eudemonic psychological wellbeing. Eudemonic wellbeing evolves from pursuing contexts and relationships that fulfil intrinsic human needs while continually extending the self, resulting in personal growth51. This and other models of happiness and wellbeing have driven to the new field of positive psychology52. This psycho-social model of wellbeing has been expanded to incorporate a biological component to explain the link between these facets and longevity (stimulation of enrichment of dendritic networks in the hippocampus and spine retraction in the basolateral amygdala; and the possibility that the release of intracerebral oxytocin is a mediating factor between persistently supportive social environments and reduced disease in later life, as exemplified by low levels of allostatic load)53.
Robert Schalock and colleagues54 develo-ped a "Quality of Life Index" for intellectual disabilities within the context of the positive approach to this entity. The American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), former American Association of Mental Retardation (AAMR) formalised the AAMR/AAIDD multidimensional model of human functioning. Shalock's underlying social concept of QoL was completely different from HRQoL. It defined QoL as "a multidimensional construct that has both subjective and objective components and is influenced by personal and environmental factors"55. Shalock's scale was further deve-loped and progressively became a comprehensive multidimensional model of "QoL" for persons with disabilities.
The Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI) is an example of the assessment of QoL from a transcultural perspective. This culturally sensitive rating scale incorporates basic domains from WHODAS-brief and support (social-emotional and community and services support). To a limited extent the cultural dialogical approach56 has incorporated the experience of feelings to the self-reported QoL/Wellbeing. Examples are feelings/experiences of "unsureness"57, "feeling understood/being listened"58, and suffering59.
Jeffrey Gray60 developed a theory of anxiety based on a biological model of personality related to the introversion-extroversion domain and its relation to the activation and inhibition systems of the brain. This and other related models provided ground for a more refined biological theory of personality that included four basic temperamental traits, three character domains of self-concept as well as a related assessment instrument, the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). The relation of these traits to self-awareness of the person as an autonomous individual, an integral part of humanity and of the universe as a whole, was formulated since the publication of this model61. Nevertheless, its formal relationship to wellbeing and negative/positive affect was established quite recently62,63. The links of this model with culture have also been established. While Self-directedness and Cooperativeness are positively associated with wellbeing regardless of culture, Self-transcendence increases positive affect but, based on culture, it can also increase negative affect64.
On the one hand, these findings on wellbeing based on bio-psychological personality traits (TCI) seem to converge with the approach to QoL based on individual status (WHOQOL-SRPB)40, as they identify highly complex personal domains (self-awareness, spirituality) as key components of the QoL/ Wellbeing construct. These personal facets seem to play a more relevant role than the traditional components of QoL in wellbeing. On the other there is a tendency to expand these models to incorporate aspects from other fields in order to develop integrative or holistic approaches which may incorporate biological, psychological, social, and cultural aspects as well as preferences, experiences and rights.
Understanding the complexity of the QoL/Wellbeing construct leads to accepting the complexity of its evaluation, the need to decompose its facets, the little usability of the traditional QoL construct, and the need to reformulate the concept of Health related Wellbeing (HrWB) from an integrative perspective. To date, two approaches have attempted to provide a holistic approach to HrWB: the ICF model of health functioning and the person integrated diagnosis model of person-centered medicine65.
During the last two decades the WHO has set up a framework for the conceptualisation and analysis of HrWB and has clarified the existing relations between health and disease, provided a life-span approach and a positive health perspective66-70. These reports emphasise positive mental health and social capital as well as a cultural sensitive approach that takes into account the resources available across countries. In any case the main WHO document to frame Wellbeing and related concepts is the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)71, which can be regarded as a first attempt to develop a unified and standard language for health and related problems.
Since its release the ICF has progressively acquired a central role at the WHO Family of International Classifications, as the logical connexion between the ICD subgroup (International Classification of Diseases) and the classifications of contextual factors such as the International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)72 or health services at the System of Health Accounts73.
ICF is indeed a proto-taxonomy of the different components (determinants, factors and consequences) of health conditions74. A relevant unforeseen aspect of ICF is that it is both a classification of "Health-related Functioning" (HrF) and the conceptual framework of the WHO HrF construct and related entities such as Health related Wellbeing. These two roles of ICF do not always coincide; and a major problem was the lack of a formal ontology approach when it was developed. As a consequence, the classification is incomplete and not fully congruent75.
The on-going ICF review process has included ontology as an essential component incorporating a specific working group on the ontology of ICF at the Functioning and Disability Reference Group (FDRG) committee. There is also a link between ICF and the International Health Terminology Standards and Development Organisation (IHTSDO) and the related Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) system. Among other ontology groups, the OntoICF group developed the ontology of this system76 within the MURINET network (Multidisciplinary Research Network on Health and Disability in Europe).
Although we still lack enough information to build a formal ontology of ICF, it is possible to define HrWB and its related meta-concepts within the WHO framework. Figure 1 shows a preliminary conceptual map of Health related Wellbeing, Health related Conditions and Health-related Functioning and disability using different perspectives from WHO.
This schema indicates that concepts usually regarded as the two poles of a unidimensional bipolar construct (i.e. Health conditions and Disease, Health related Functioning and Disability) are in fact asymmetric. Functioning and Disability are two related domains of the construct "Health-related Functioning". In this construct there is a clear asymmetry between the poles, as positive functioning involves many more alternatives than negative functioning-disability. On the other hand, the analysis of the hierarchical structure and the conceptual relationship between the terms "functioning" and "disability" at the WHO family of classifications and related documents may indicate that "disability" is actually a subcategory of "functioning", as "disease" is a subcategory of "health condition" [Fig. 1]. The current definition of "functioning" at ICF should incorporate the wording "positive functioning" and "health-related" functioning as the global term, as HRQoL is regarded as a subcategory of wellbeing.
The broad "WHO-ICF" perspective on HrWB provided at Figure 1 has a significant implication also for HRQoL. The development of ICF and its conceptual approach has challenged to a certain extent the WHOQOL traditional construct. ICF was first considered a complementary to QoL as it contributed to the assessment of the objective aspects of wellbeing while HRQoL comprised all subjective aspects of HrWB, including subjective functioning and disability.
However the construct (environmental) functioning-disability has moved from being a mere component of QoL to be considered a full domain of HrWB, together with its subjective aspects. Therefore, self-reported scales of functioning (e.g. WHODAS-II) are clearly part of the HrF construct and not part of the HRQoL one. On the other hand the "personal context" comprises traditional domains of QoL apart from other aspects. In the ICF model individual preferences and self-perceived status can be adequately differentiated while current QoL tends to confound these two personal factors. Therefore HRQoL has moved from Box "A" (all subjective wellbeing) to Box "C" (specific personal factors related to subjective experiences of wellbeing). On the other hand and due to the lack of development of the "personal context" domain at the 2001 version of ICF, it is now possible to develop this domain by incorporating the non-functional non-environmental aspects of HRQoL in the conceptual map of personal factors of ICF. In the future the "personal context" should be developed as an independent classification system that may encompass sociodemographics, personality, health related habits, health experiences, personal health determinants, life events and other personal factors that now are just mentioned at the ICF and it should be based -at least in part- on the existing evidence on QoL.
Within this future classification "health experiences" may play a central role. The boun-daries and overlaps of the ICF-HrF model of health experience and the WHOQOL have been analysed by Cieza & Stucki77. Their content analysis indicates that the ICF approach is broader, more comprehensive and embeds the QoL construct. In any case consensus within WHO is urgently needed regarding the relation between HrWB and HRQoL. By now differences seem to broaden instead of being reduced. For instance, the development process of the WHOQOL disability module42 has not been carried out through cooperation between these WHO groups and related networks (e.g. FDRG, Technical Advisory Group, WHOQOL-DIS Group)78.
The European MHADIE project (Measuring Health and Disability in Europe: supporting policy development) was very relevant in order to understand the role of HrF and QoL as components of HrWB in disabilities. HrF has been explored using a series of instruments closely related to ICF. The group defined "disability" as "a difficulty in functioning at the body, person or societal level, in one or more domains, as experienced by an individual with a health condition in interaction with contextual factors"79. The analysis of patients in specific groups indicates that the ICF-HrF model provides not only a better description of the disability associated to every health condition, but also a more comprehensive analysis of the individual wellbeing. The relationship between F&D and QoL has been analysed in migraine patients80, stroke survivors81 or in patients with multiple sclerosis82. Inconsistencies in the definition of disability were identified in previous studies comparing QoL and HrF in the latter group82.
Other relevant European projects related to wellbeing are the Collaborative Research on Ageing in Europe (COURAGE in Europe) and A Roadmap for Mental Health Research in Europe (ROAMER) projects. COURAGE in Europe project aimed to answer to the pressing need of the European Commission to have valid and reliable measures to describe population ageing, which was identified among the most pressing policy issues in the 21st century. To understand the effect of health on wellbeing and the impact of wellbeing on current and future health, it is essential that the notion of wellbeing is conceptualized and measured differently from the notion of health. The study incorporated an assessment of experiential and evaluative components of wellbeing. Experienced wellbeing was assessed with an abbreviated version of the Day Reconstruction Method83,84. The study also includes questions on evaluative wellbeing in order to examine which of these measures is more closely related to health and health related outcomes associated with ageing in different populations.
ROAMER project aims to develop an effective and widely accepted roadmap on the promotion and integration of mental health and wellbeing research in Europe85. ROAMER reflects a multi-disciplinary perspective, based on a consensus between the key stakeholders, using a methodologically sound, prag-matic, and comprehensive approach. One of the main objectives of ROAMER is to develop an accurate picture of the state-of-art in research on mental health and wellbeing in Europe. It also aims at establishing research priorities in wellbeing research, for the short, middle and long-term and applicable across the life span. The investigators of the project feel that the notion of wellbeing needs to be carefully conceptually defined because it is used in a perplexingly variety of inconsistent ways.
The person centered approach to the "Health Experience"
Person-centered medicine (PCM) places the person as a whole at the center of health care. The Person-centered Integrative Diagnosis (PID) is a PCM model aimed at facilitating person-centered care. According to this model, diagnosis is both a process and a formulation, and it should be oriented by the articulation of science and humanism, the use of a bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual fra-mework. It should ensure engagement, empathy and partnership in the clinical care process, and sustain the patients' autonomy, responsibility and dignity while advancing the recovery and promotion of wellbeing. The key structural features of PID include the coverage of both positive and ill aspects of health, the person's experience and values, and the determinants of health. PID uses descriptive categories, dimensions, and narratives, to cultivate patient-family-clinician partnerships for achieving shared diagnostic understanding and shared commitment to care86.
The mental capital model has significant implications for the development of person-centered care strategies87. Mental capital "encompasses a person's cognitive and emotional resources. It includes their cognitive ability, how flexible and efficient they are at learning, and their "emotional intelligence", such as their social skills and resilience in the face of stress. It therefore conditions how well an individual is able to contribute effectively to society, and also to experience a high personal quality of life"88. The Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing promotes mental capital initiatives in the population and in the healthcare system. The project tracks the implications of future challenges to our mental development along the life span and is intended to inform policy-makers both in the United Kingdom and around the world89.
During the last 30 years QoL has been a booming area in medicine and played a central role in understanding the contextual factors of disease and illness. Paradoxically, new perspectives on QoL have led to a shift of interest from the 1990s simple indexes of QoL and from the generic and disease-specific QoL instruments, to an integrated perspective of individual wellbeing and its different components, including happiness, and functioning and disability. To some extent, the broader interest on health as a complex phenomenon has challenged the classical concept of HRQoL and facilitated the development of the broader field of HrWB, where different groups of models coexist and overlap (clinical, public health, economical, psychosocial and cultural, biopsychological, integrative). From a health terminology point of view it would be better to name this construct "Health related Being", but the term wellbeing is extended and it will be difficult to change.
From a dimensional perspective, health related wellbeing is an overarching construct characterised by asymmetrical polarity, where wellbeing embeds the concept of "ill-being" as health incorporates de concept of disease. The mental health group at International College for Person-centered Medicine has developed a bipolar dimensional model of the domains of health within the framework of person centered medicine ranging from ill health / illbeing to good health / wellbeing86 that incorporates all major aspects of wellbeing in its preliminary conceptual map: positive and negative polarity, condition status and functioning, experiences of health and contributors to ill and to good health.
A comprehensive conceptual map of a series of health related "meta-categories" (wellbeing, health condition, human functioning, disease, disability, etc.) is needed. Ideally, this mapping should include operational consensus-base definitions, the conceptual hierarchy of these entities and the granularity of their different domains, dimensions and facets. Although health ontology may shortly allow convergence of diverse approaches in this area, different meanings for the same concepts, and different names for related concepts will inevitably persist. Under these circumstances it becomes essential to understand the origin, evolution and current use of the different terms by different disciplines and professionals, and to build a "synset" (formal grouping of synonyms and semantically similar terms) that may facilitate both transfer across different sectors and semantic interoperability for care management and planning. Recently a similar "polynomic-polysemic" approach has been suggested for the use of the terms 'intellectual disability' and 'intellectual developmental disorders' in the health and social sectors90.


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'The loss is bitter,' says Beto O'Rourke in email to supporters
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U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke and his wife, Amy Sanders, hug during his concession speech Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in El Paso, Texas.
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Robert Francis O'Rourke is born in El Paso to a fourth-generation Irish-American family.
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O'Rourke, at right in this childhood photo, wears a sweater with the name Beto stitched on it. O'Rourke says his family has always used the Spanish nickname to differentiate him from his namesake grandfather.
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O'Rourke enrolls in Woodberry Forest School, an all-male boarding school in Virginia, after spending a year at El Paso High School.
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O'Rourke graduates from Columbia University in Manhattan with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature.
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He is arrested after jumping a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso, but campus police don't pursue charges.
A more serious incident occurs when O'Rourke is arrested and charged with DWI after a crash in Anthony, Texas. The charges were dismissed in 1999 after he completed a DWI program. He has openly talked about the incident and has apologized.
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O'Rourke creates an internet company a year after returning from New York with the hope of slowing the "brain drain" out of El Paso.
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O'Rourke runs and wins a seat on the El Paso City Council, where he and his loosely organized slate of candidates are called "The Progressives."
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O'Rourke takes on eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes, championing LGBT rights and drug liberalization.
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O'Rourke and supporters celebrate their primary victory over Rep. Silvestre Reyes with 50.5 percent of the vote. He later won the general election with 65 percent.
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U.S. Reps. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, and O'Rourke drive from San Antonio to Washington, D.C., to escape flight delays and cancellations in the north. The two chronicled their trip on Facebook Live and won the 2018 Prize for Civility in Public Life from the National Press Club.
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O'Rourke announces his run for U.S. Senate.
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O'Rourke defeats his main primary opponent Sema Hernandez, setting the stage for his general election run against incumbent Ted Cruz.
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O'Rourke, who has not accepted campaign contributions from political action committees, has received a lot of campaign money from Hollywood celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Jimmy Kimmel and Chris Rock.
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Willie Nelson and O'Rourke perform at the legendary singer's annual Fourth of July Picnic in Austin. In September, Nelson helped draw 55,000 people to an Austin rally where he debuted a song, "Vote 'Em Out," in support of O'Rourke.
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O'Rourke, himself a musician and former member of a punk band, was the beneficiary of a "Bands with Beto" rally at the Warehouse in Houston.
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Defeated U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke didn't offer any concrete steps about what his next move will be, but told supporters in an email late Sunday that he intends to be "be part of the best way forward for this country."
O'Rourke made clear he is certain, though, about one immediate goal: "For the time being, I am going to focus on being a better dad to our kids who have not had much of one for the last 22 months," O'Rourke said.
O'Rourke used much of his nearly 1,000-word email to thank supporters for their efforts.
"I am grateful that you gave me a chance to be part of this," O'Rourke said. "I feel responsible to you, to our country, to my kids and to my conscience to make sure that we continue to find a way to respond to the urgency that we still feel. It didn't go away Tuesday night."
Still there is clearly a sting in the loss.
"The loss is bitter, and I don't know that I've been able to fully understand it," O'Rourke wrote. "I try not to ask what I could have done differently because I don't know that there is an end to those questions or thoughts. There are a million different decisions I could have made, paths I could have taken, things I could have said or not said, said better or differently. I did my best, everyone did. For our democracy to work, for us to be able to continue to work together, it's important to be at peace with the outcome."
O'Rourke turned a U.S. Senate race few thought would be very competitive a year ago into one of the most closely fought contests in the nation. Using a social-media-driven campaign, O'Rourke refused political action committee money, but still set fundraising records. He made it a priority to visit all 254 counties in Texas, a time-consuming exercise that political analysts doubted would pay off.
While O'Rourke lost, he succeeded in giving the Democrats their best showing in a U.S. Senate race in Texas since the 1980s.
According to the most up-to-date unofficial results, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz beat O'Rourke by just 219,427 votes for a margin of 2.6 percentage points.
"Grateful to you for being a part of this, for giving me a chance to be a part of this," O'Rourke said at the close of his email. "See you down the road."

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Scientists who sparked 'a revolution in evolution' have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry
Frances Arnold, a biochemical engineer at Caltech, was awarded one half of the $1.01-million prize for conducting the first directed evolution experiments in 1993. Her work has led to the creation of more environmentally friendly ways of making drugs, agricultural chemicals and fuels, among other pr
Hothouse Earth: Runaway global warming threatens 'habitability of the planet for humans'
Runaway global warming on our planet remains a distinct possibility in the decades and centuries ahead, scientists reported Monday in a new study, warning that a "hothouse Earth" threatens the very "habitability of the planet for human beings."
Bermuda Triangle mystery 'solved,' scientists claim
British scientists believe 100ft 'rogue' waves could be the reason why so many boats have been sunk in the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
Ex-NASA scientist says aliens exist but encounters are covered up by governments
Kevin Knuth, who is now a professor of physics at the University of Albany, claims there is 'plenty of evidence' to support the existence of UFOs in our universe.
Antarctic ice melting faster than ever, studies show
Ice in the Antarctic is melting at a record-breaking rate and the subsequent sea rises could have catastrophic consequences for cities around the world, according to two new studies.
7000 years ago men were a sub-species ruled by WOMEN & outnumbered 20 to 1, scientists say
WOMEN dominated the world thousands of years ago after the male population came under severe threat, resulting in a wipe out of the Y chromosome that is still felt today.
How scientists are using Hawaii's Kilauea volcano to study Mars
The Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has been setting off small earthquakes, creating gas-emitting fissures and releasing flows of lava this month that have destroyed dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of at least 2,000 people.
Scientists suspect banned chemical that destroys ozone layer being secretly manufactured
Emissions of a banned, ozone-depleting chemical are on the rise, a group of scientists reported Wednesday, suggesting someone may be secretly manufacturing the pollutant in violation of an international accord.


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What Does it Mean to Work Politically in Development?
There is understandable caution and reserve about the idea of 'working politically', or for donors trying to address 'the political dimensions of development' – and for good reason. The phrase itself is easily misinterpreted as insensitive interference, as an invasion of sovereignty and a disregard for principles of ownership and endogenously driven developmental processes. It may sound like 'regime change'. Given those many cases of bullying or intervention by conditionality of the international community in developing countries, there is good reason for such caution, as the very idea of working politically might seem to suggest a flagrant violation of the principles of Accra and Paris.
To make clear that this is not the meaning or intention, a preliminary definition may be useful. Working politically in development means supporting, brokering, facilitating and aiding the emergence and practices of developmental or reform leaderships, organizations, networks and coalitions, in the public and private fields, at all levels, and across all sectors, in response to, and in concert with, initiatives and requests from local individuals and groups. It means investing in processes designed to support the formation and effectiveness of developmental coalitions, sometimes over long periods, committed to institutional reform and innovation by enhancing not just technical skills (the conventional domain of capacity building) but also the political capacity of organizations in areas such as negotiation, advocacy, communication and the generation of constructive policy options. It may involve supporting processes which lead to 'political settlements' whether these be at the macro-levels or in specific policy sectors (for example education or agriculture).
Working politically can be about very prosaic but important matters: helping groups campaign for waste management systems or feeder roads; or it may involve 'strengthening broad-based and democratically run national education coalitions, with active membership across the country, to enable local voices and experiences to influence national-level policy and practice' as in the case of the Commonwealth Education Fund (CEF), funded by DFID but managed by Oxfam, Save the Children and Action Aid. It may involve rethinking and re-working scholarship and higher educational support programmes so that they supplement a technical and skills focus with strategies that help to build networks, encourage the understanding of collective action problems and the importance of the provision of public goods.
Working politically will take different forms in different countries, contexts, issue areas or sectors. It will require deep and detailed knowledge of the country, the sector, the issue area and the 'players'; it will require respectful and sensitive understanding of the local political dynamics and cultural norms; it will require long-term exposure to the country or issue concerned; it will require more social scientists and a well-trained, politically savvy workforce, both local and international, with the capacity to 'read' the politics, and knowing when and how to seize opportunities.
Working politically, in other words, directs attention, support and facilitation to the agents of reform and development – the leaders and the organizations – so as to invest in the local processes that will help resolve collective action and other problems through the work of alliances and coalitions and hence drive the formation and consolidation of the locally appropriate, feasible and legitimate institutions that are most likely to advance development outcomes.
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Fullerton est une municipalité américaine située dans le nord du comté d'Orange en Californie. Elle abrite l'un des campus de l'université d'État de Californie, ainsi que l'usine de la société G&L.

Histoire
La localité est fondée en 1887 par George et Edward Amerige.

Démographie

Jumelages

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Brian Asawa, chanteur lyrique, y est né le .
 C. S. Forester, romancier britannique, y est décédé le .
 Gwen Stefani, chanteuse et styliste américaine, y est née le .
 Jenna Haze, actrice porno américaine, y est née le .
 Leo Fender y possédait ses ateliers où il conçut les instruments de marque Fender, Music Man et G&L.
 Nadya Suleman est née à Fullerton.
 Philip K. Dick y vivait au moment de sa révélation mystique. Il a fait don de ses manuscrits à la bibliothèque de l'université de Californie à Fullerton.
 Stephen Woodworth, auteur de science-fiction américain, y est né.
 Steven Seagal, acteur américain, y vivait avec ses parents, il fréquenta aussi l'université de Buena Park.
 Suzanne Crough, actrice américaine, y est née le .
 Kiara Fontanilla, footballeuse internationale philippine, y est née le .

Groupes et ensembles musicaux
 Cal State Fullerton's University Singers, chœur de l'université d'État de Californie à Fullerton, dirigé par Robert Istad ;
 Cold War Kids, groupe de rock indépendant, en sont originaires.

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