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Newly hired senior fellow receives national recognition
By Leigh Thomas | October 28, 2020
T. Bond Calloway Jr., a senior fellow at the University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computing, is the recipient of the 2020 F.J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award. The award is presented by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and recognizes a chemical engineer for outstanding contributions and service to the Institute. The award will be presented during the 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting November 16-20.
Calloway is being recognized for his role in the development of a manufacturing institute for the chemical industry. He said, "I realized in 2013 while at Savannah River National Lab that chemical manufacturing for the nuclear industry was over 30 years behind the U.S. chemical industry. We needed a new way of manufacturing, and at the same time the Department of Energy was looking at ways to improve technology in the chemical industry."
Calloway worked with the National Science Foundation and contacts within AIChE's community of volunteers to launch a workshop on process intensification in 2014. The idea was then developed within the U.S. Department of Energy, which hosted an additional workshop in 2015.
When the DOE issued a funding opportunity announcement in the spring of 2016, Calloway, alongside teams from Georgia Tech and AIChE, developed a proposal to use an existing professional society (AIChE) as the lead for a manufacturing institute. AIChE was ultimately awarded the institute, which is now known as RAPID – Rapid Advancement of Process Intensification Deployment – and has over 100 partners and will leverage $70 million of federal funding and at least $70 million of private investment.
Calloway's efforts to develop the strategy, policy and co-lead the proposal for RAPID increased AIChE's operating revenue by 56 percent and sparked additional topical conferences, education programs and innovation programs.
He said, "These manufacturing institutes have a big impact. The federal government has started 14 of them, and for South Carolina and the Savannah River National Lab to be involved in leading one is a big deal, and also part of what led me to UofSC."
AIChE is the world's leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with more than 60,000 members from more than 110 countries. The F.J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award is sponsored by the Dow company, which combines science and technology knowledge to develop premier materials science solutions that are essential to human progress.
Calloway was previously an associate laboratory director at the Savannah River National Laboratory, where he led a team of scientists and engineers conducting energy materials research. He has more than 36 years of industrial experience in research and development, design, construction and operation of nuclear/chemical plants. He served as AIChE president in 2017.
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Rachel Foertsch at October 9, 2019 10:00 pm .
Nancy Drew is not your average detective in what is arguably the best adaption of the series yet.
While it was easy to expect a light, juevenile mystery when the show was first announced, Nancy Drew Season 1 Episode 1 proved to be the complete opposite.
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Unlike other series which are targeted towards teenagers and weighed down by nonsensical high school drama, Nancy Drew is a mature and enticing addition to The CW network.
Going off of the book series, the big bad always turned out to be a common thief, and it was expected that the television series would follow the same track.
But the powers-that-be decided to shake things up, and adding a paranormal spin has changed the playing field entirely.
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Instead of a Riverdale or a Scooby-Doo mystery in which everything can eventually be explained by teenagers, cops, and common sense, Nancy Drew is a chilling supernatural thriller with an endless amount of possibilities.
It's true that some scenes could have been a bit more suspenseful and there was a cringe-worthy moment or two, but no series starts perfectly.
Every show needs room to grow and time to find their rhythm.
Nancy Drew did an excellent job reeling viewers in, making their spines tingle, and setting up multiple plot lines to be further explored throughout the season.
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As the main character, Nancy has a lot of potential. She's likable, but too closed off for viewers to become fully attached to her.
That is, without question, due to her mother's death and her refusal to acknowledge the emotional damage left in its wake.
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It's far easier to become invested in a character who bears their heart and soul to the audience, than one who attempts to keep their emotions in check.
It's because of her disconnection from her feelings that Nancy keeps everyone in her life at arm's length.
One of the main relationships suffering from Nancy's disconnect is her relationship with her father.
Carson: I've just been buried at work.
Nancy: Poor word choice, given recent events.
Permalink: Poor word choice, given recent events.
The "mom-passes-away-and-daughter-lashes-out-at-dad-for-moving-on," trope is recycled fairly often, but may have been necessary in this scenario.
Everyone deals with grief in their own way, and Nancy appears to be a person who wants to be isolated. She'll take any excuse she can to push the people in her life away.
She even had trouble pursuing the one relationship she wanted, because she was afraid of all the emotional baggage that would come with it.
Nancy: Nick and I are seeing each other. He seems to have an issue with me not acknowledging this publicly and has decided now is the time to rectify this.
Nick: Consider it rectified. I feel much better.
Permalink: Consider it rectified. I feel much better.
The intriguing thing about Nancy is that she runs straight into the face of danger without a second thought. Breaking and entering? No problem.
There might be a ghost in your attic? She'll investigate in the middle of the night with the lights out.
Yet when the time comes to be emotionally vulnerable, Nancy runs away the first chance she gets.
After feeling betrayed by her father, it was satisfying to hear Nancy open up to Nick and give viewers more of an insight to who she is as a character.
I've wanted to believe that this isn't my life. That I'm not here. That my mom isn't dead. That Colombia's not just a pipe dream. But all of those things are true. This is my life. And the only thing making it any better is you.
Permalink: The only thing making it any better is you.
But Nancy's emotional journey is nowhere near done, and she still needs to allow herself to accept help from others.
Nancy clearly prides herself on her independence, but even the president has a second in command.
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Nancy's relationship with Nick has potential, but her budding friendships with George and Bess may be what drives her character forwards.
Out of everything that happened, the boisterous trio of women is what made Nancy Drew Season 1 Episode 1 stand out.
Physically seeing the characters form friendships is far more satisfying than developing them offscreen, so Nancy Drew has just stumbled upon a golden opportunity.
Nancy and George aren't each other's number one fans and it doesn't seem as if they want to be. Watching that relationship evolve from begrudging co-workers to possible friends is something to look forward to.
Guys? I tend to do these sorts of things by myself.
Permalink: I tend to do these sorts of things by myself.
Speaking of the girls, is anyone else shipping George and Bess? I don't know if the chemistry was supposed to be there or not, but it was and it can't be explained.
However, the likelihood of that happening seems slim, especially with George pursuing Ryan. The last-minute twist was something viewers didn't see coming, so here's to hoping more of that story will be revealed.
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If a character needs to say, "I'm not in high school anymore," to a grown adult, usually the dynamic is not shaping up to be a healthy one.
Not to mention that Ryan just got out of a long term relationship. And by "got out of a long term relationship" we mean his wife just got murdered a day ago. What is going on in this town?
It's highly unlikely that George, Bess, or Nick had anything to do with Tiffany's death. Given that the show is trying to frame them all as possible culprits, the chances that they actually are are slim.
Out of everyone, Ace is the most reasonable suspect given that he's spying on George and sending pictures to the officer on Tiffany's case. Is he trying to cover something up?
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But considering that a ghostly figure was spotted in Nancy's video of Tiffany and there was a creepy-looking spirit standing behind Nancy in the attic, our bets are on the sea queen.
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No human or ghost can be ruled out completely, and in this new world of Nancy Drew, anything is possible.
While we're unsure what's coming next, Nancy Drew Season 1 Episode 1 was a strong start to haunting new series and I can't wait to see what the creative forces behind the show have in store.
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The reason Nancy stopped solving mysterious is even more intriguing than her origin story.
Why would she ever want to solve anything again when she couldn't get to the bottom of most important mystery: How to save her mother's life?
Nancy's narration of her story adds a fun element to the show that amps up the mystery even more. Not all of her commentary makes sense now, but it makes viewers long for the day when it all falls into place.
Nancy and Nick have great chemistry, and Nick cares about Nancy a good deal.
But the best relationships on television are always developed over time, and their romance would be more satisfying if we had witnessed the foundation it was built upon.
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It's your turn TV Fanatics!
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Let us know in the comment section down below!
Nancy Drew airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on The CW.
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NEW MUSIC: Naomi Scott releases 'Motions' on 3rd November – Listen Here!
Singer songwriter Naomi Scott, releases Motions on 3rd November, taken from her debut EP Invisible Division. Released in August, the EP features Naomi's distinctive voice blended against a backdrop of alluring soft, rhythmic ballads and alternative pop tracks.
Motions is an infectious, upbeat, fun yet credible pop track written by the songstress and produced by the dynamic team, known as The Confectionary. With the 80s pop era being an influence, it has an instantly recognisable sound. The video has been shot by director and animator Peter Szewczyk, who has worked on films such as Harry Potter and Shrek.
Since 2011, Peter and Naomi discussed working together on one of her forthcoming music videos. Simple and natural were key standout themes, with Peter finding inspiration from hand cut sculptures and the airy translucency of paper that evoked a sense of wonder, texture and colour. The result is an energetic and animated video that embodies the spirit of the song.
Peter Szewczyk says, "Naomi is one of the most naturally talented people I have ever met. She's one of these marvels, that is just good at everything. I've been trying to work with Naomi since 2011 and I'm excited about the video for Motions and pleased with the results."
Naomi Scott says "I'm so excited to release my first ever music video! I worked so hard on my 'Invisible Division' EP and can't wait for people to finally see a visual aspect from it. The boys (The Confectionery) and I had so much fun making it.
For the video Peter and I wanted a juxtaposition of a Shoreditch urban warehouse space and quirky nature elements. This would then build a world around me making the song come to life. Having Peter on board was an absolute dream."
It's been a busy summer, for the rising star, who has been supporting pop princess Delilah, on her UK #NoFilter tour at Union Chapel in August, as well as performing at #buskinthebox in Shoreditch.
Naomi took her vocal range to the rooftops and performed at Reverb Live at the Kensington Roof Gardens, alongside Kyra, Lexie and Wretch 32 who headlined. Up next is supporting Fifi Rong at Barfly on 29th October.
Next year, Naomi will be returning to the silver screen alongside Antonio Banderas in The 33, based on the true story of the Chilean Miners. Starring Juliette Binoche and directed by Patricia Riggen. Naomi will also be starring in Indy flick Hello Again with Jack Brent Anderson and directed by Tom Ruddock.
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Colotyphus — український блек-метал колектив із Заходу України заснований 2015 року.

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Colotyphus як  був заснований у місті Рівне в січні 2015 року гітаристом та вокалістом дез-метал бенду «Rise Of The Cadaver» — Геннадієм Ковріжних («Monolith»).

22 березня 2015-го на лейблі Sendust Records відбувся реліз першого альбому, інструментального LP «Forgotten In The Past», основною тематикою композицій якого були війна, смерть, відчуження, спустошення та ностальгія за забутим віками минулим.

Початком концертної діяльності вважається 13 червня 2015 року — відколи в проекті з'явилося ще три учасники, а саме Роман Сапожніков («Morvudd») — бас, та декілька лайв музикантів, після цього відбувся невеликий концерт-презентація дебютного альбому у Рівному. Згодом у складі постійно відбувалися зміни та врешті-решт вокалістом став засновник проекту, Monolith.

З оновленим складом та більш великою програмою вже за місяць Colotyphus відіграв на фестивалі Apophis Open Air. До кінця 2015 року колектив виступив на різних концертах та фестивалях у Тернополі, Києві, Рівному, Одесі, Чорноморську тощо, та вирушив у студію для запису наступного альбому.

У січні 2016 року команда додає у своє звучання клавішні в особі концертного менеджера групи — Катерини Катарсис («Todestrieb») та бере участь у кількох виступах, зокрема в «Oskorei Midvinter». Навесні того ж року в Tyrania Studio Colotyphus — Monolith, Morvudd та Todestrieb — записує наступний альбом.

22 березня 2017 року на польському лейблі Werewolf Promotion гурт випустив 2-й повноформатний альбом, названий «Остання подорож зневіреної душі» ().

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 Геннадій «Monolith» Ковріжних — вокал, гітара.
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Eerie Cold - гітара
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Альбоми
 «Forgotten in the Past» (2015)
 «Остання подорож зневіреної душі» (2017)

EP, Сингли
 «At the Eternal Horizon» (2015)
 «Last gust of wind» (Promo 2016)
«Through Eternity» (Single 2018)

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 Colotyphus Facebook

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Despite the recent advance in deep learning (DL) models on brain tumor segmentation tasks, automatic segmentation of pediatric tumors remains challenging. Pediatric cancer is rare compared to adult cancer and data is complicated by anatomical changes associated with natural development (e.g., changing contrast between grey matter and white matter). The tumor appearance in children is also very different from that in adults. For example, in pediatric high-grade gliomas, both enhancement and edema are much less common than in adult high-grade gliomas~\cite{gutierrez2020radiological}. The majority of existing pretrained deep models were trained on adults' data and perform poorly when applied to pediatric data. The limited data (both labeled and unlabeled) availability of pediatric tumors also hinders opportunities for transfer learning. Further more, for heterogeneous tumors like atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (ATRT), segmenting subregions such as cysts, necrosis, and hemorrhage, in addition to edema and enhancing tumor, is also desired as lesion composition may drive treatment decisions or be related to outcomes. However, most existing models do not provide sub-regioning to this extent. For example, edema and enhancing tumor are the only subregions considered in the BraTS challenges.

Here we describe an automatic brain tumor and subregion segmentation approach that is carefully designed for pediatric tumors including ATRT, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and low-grade glioma (LGG). This work has three major characteristics: (1) It is based on extensive use of prior knowledge rather than learning from labeled data, therefore does not require any data for training.
(2) Its performance is better than existing pretrainined DL models and is comparable to a DL model transfer learned on pediatric data, on the whole tumor (WT) segmentation task.
(3) Our approach also provides cyst, necrosis, hemorrhage, and trapped cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) segmentation in addition to edema and enhancing tumor.

\section{Methods}
\subsection{Overview}
The proposed segmentation approach consists of four major steps: 1) image preprocessing (coregistration, brain extraction, and bias field correction), 2) brain tissue segmentation, 3) WT segmentation, and 4) subregion segmentation.
The MRI inputs required for segmentation are dependent on the tumor type. For DIPG, and LGG, the algorithm requires T1-weighted (T1), T1 post gadolinium contrast-agent (T1-post), T2-weighted (T2), and T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images. High cellularity is hallmark of ATRT and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map is crucial in diagnosis. Therefore, the ADC is included with the 4 above mentioned MRI contrasts as inputs for the segmentation of ATRT. Additionally, we add DWI as input for brain extraction using BET, because a better brain mask can be obtained using DWI than other MRI sequences with the presence of tumor. All input MRIs are coregistered and brain extracted before segmentation. Coregistration is performed using rigid transformation. Bias correction is optional.
\subsection{Brain tissue segmentation}
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Traditional and widely used brain tissue segmentation tools such as SPM unified segmentation~\cite{ashburner2005unified} were designed for the healthy population and do not account for tumor and abnormal appearance. Additionally, the performance of DL-based segmentation models heavily depend on the similarity between the training and the test data. Hence, we present a brain tissue segmentation approach which is a modified implementation of the brain tumor segmentation algorithm based on outlier detection~\cite{prastawa2004brain}. Our implementation incorporates significant prior knowledge and is carefully designed and optimized on the pediatric data, including LGG, DIPG and ATRT, with the possibility of adding more tumor types in future. We model brain tissues as four classes: white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), CSF and other, i.e., $\mathbb{Y}=\{\mathrm{WM},\mathrm{GM},\mathrm{CSF},\mathrm{other}\}$. The ``other'' class is a mixture of tumor, blood vessel, abnormal appearance (not labeled as tumor) and non-brain regions (due to imperfect brain extraction).

\subsubsection{Initialization}
The WM and GM probabilities are initialized as ICBM atlas priors (affine transformed into the native space) using Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs~\cite{ants}). Due to abnormal distributions of CSF (e.g., hydrocephalus) common in brain tumor patients, CSF probability is not initialized as the ICBM atlas prior. Our model assumes CSF to be darkest component/peak among all tissue types under consideration in FLAIR. Figure~\ref{fig:prior_estimation}A shows an example histogram from a representative patient with ATRT. The left most peak is CSF and the right most peak is a mixture of WM and GM. The red dotted line is used as the threshold ($th$) for CSF prior estimation, which is determined by the local minima on the right side of the CSF peak. Voxels of intensity value lower than $th$ are initialized as $\Pr(\mathrm{CSF})=0.9$.
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\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/prior_estimation.png}
\caption{An example of prior probability estimation on an ATRT case. A) Estimated probability density function of FLAIR using KDE. B) FLAIR image. C) Estimated prior probabilities of WM (red), GM (green) and CSF (blue).} \label{fig:prior_estimation}
\end{figure}
Probability of the ``other'' class is initialized as uniform distribution ($
\Pr(\mathrm{other})=0.5$) for non-CSF region.

\subsubsection{Bayesian inference}
For each input scan $I$, the probability density function of each class $Y$, denoted as $p_I(x|Y)$, is estimated via kernel density estimation using voxels sampled according to prior probability. Because the WM and GM samples can have contaminants (due to inaccurate priors), an outlier detection approach is used to detect and remove the contaminants (key idea proposed in ~\cite{prastawa2004brain}). Outlier detection is performed by using the Minimum Covariance Determinant estimator, setting the support fraction to 0.5. The posterior probabilities are then calculated for each input according to Bayes' theorem:
$$
{\Pr}_{I}(Y|x)=\frac{p_I(x|Y)\Pr(Y)}{p_I(x)},
$$
where $\Pr(Y)$ is the prior probability, and $p_I(x)=\sum_{Y\in \mathbb{Y}}p_I(x|Y)\Pr(Y).$
The averaged posteriors from all inputs, are used as priors in the next iteration, and the probabilities are updated through a total of 3 iterations in our implementation. The final WM and GM masks are generated by thresholding the smoothed posteriors at 0.5.

\subsection{Whole tumor segmentation}
\label{sec:WT}
One challenge of tumor segmentation based on abnormal detection is that not everything that has abnormal MRI appearance is tumor. Representative false positives are: vessels (enhanced in T1-post), non-brain regions due to imperfect brain extraction, artifacts (e.g. bias field), and hyperintensities near ventricles due to hydrocephalus. Hence, it is helpful to incorporate prior knowledge with respect to the tumor identification. Our approach aims to segment both homogeneous (e.g., LGG) and heterogeneous (e.g., DIPG, ATRT) tumors. For a heterogeneous tumor, there is no appropriate assumption that can be made on its intensity distribution. However, there is prior knowledge on the MRI appearance of the tumor core for the three tumor types under consideration. ATRTs are hypercellular tumors, therefore are hypointense on ADC. LGG and DIPG both show hyperintense signal on FLAIR. Based on these established characteristics, we detect the WT using a one or two-step method. First, we identify the tumor core for all tumor types.For heterogenous tumors (DIPG and ATRT), we perform an additional step to include surrounding abnormal regions (i.e., edema, necrosis, hemorrhage, and cysts).
\subsection{Subregion segmentation}
Once the WT mask is generated, precise subregions can be obtained by the rules shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:DT_subregion} for heterogeneous tumors (DIPG and ATRT). Subregions include enhancing and non-enhancing tumor (within tumor core), trapped CSF, and the subregions mentioned in Section~\ref{sec:WT}. In Fig.2, the root (green filled) is the WT mask, each leaf node (blue filled) is a subregion, and the splitting criteria are shown in the decision nodes (no fill). Most criteria are based on comparison of intensity to a reference (either WM or GM). Hemorrhage is the dark region in T2. Early and late necrosis are detected as separately because they have different appearance (early necrosis is bright in T1 and late necrosis is bright in T2), even though they are evaluated as a whole to compare with the manual labels. Because edema has similar appearance to late necrosis (both T2 hyperintense), we classify region as edema if it's peritumoral, and late necrosis otherwise. The enhancing tumor is detected from T1-sub, which is the subtraction of T1 from T1-post. CSF and cyst are both detected as dark region in FLAIR, with CSF having a lower threshold than cysts.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/DT_subregion.png}
\caption{Decision rules for subregion segmentations.} \label{fig:DT_subregion}
\end{figure}
\section{Experimental Results}
\subsection{Dataset}
We tested our segmentation tool on three tumor types: ATRT (6 cases), DIPG (4 cases), and LGG (7 cases). WT masks were manually labeled by clinically trained professionals with radiologist oversight. Subregion masks were only manually labeled for ATRT.
\subsection{Methods under comparison}
We compared our proposed segmentation tool with multiple popular pretrained DL models for brain tumor segmentation listed below. All models are publicly available.
\subsubsection{Segment GBM module from DeepNeuro}
DeepNeuro is a DL-based open-source toolbox for neuroimaging~\cite{beers2021deepneuro}. It provides a module developed for glioblastoma (GBM) edema and enhancing tumor segmentation. This module takes T1, T1-post, and FLAIR as inputs, and produces a WT mask and enhancing tumor mask. The GBM model has a sequential 3D U-Nets structure, which predicts WT mask first and then uses the predicted WT mask as the fourth input to predict enhancing mask~\cite{beers2017sequential}. This model has been trained on both public and private datasets of post-operative GBMs. Because this GBM model has a sequential structure, we were able to modify the implementation to use only the second U-Net to predict enhancing tumor from a given WT mask, for evaluation of enhancing prediction.
\subsubsection{Cascaded Anisotropic Convolutional Neural Networks}
Wang et. al.~\cite{wang2017automatic} developed an  an open-source model that won the 2nd place of MICCAI 2017 BraTS Challenge. The BraTS datasets contain pre-operative multimodal MRI scans of GMB and LGG. The segmentation task is to predict WT, edema, and enhancing tumor given T1, T1-post, T2 and FLAIR. The model consists of three convolutional nerual networks (CNNs) in sequential order. The first CNN (WNet) predicts WT mask, the second CNN (TNet) predicts tumor core (both enhancing and non enhancing tumor) mask within the bounding box defined by the predicted WT mask from the first CNN, then the third CNN (ENet) predicts the enhancing tumor within the bounding box defined by the predicted tumor core mask. Specifically, these CNNs are anisotropic, i.e., each net was trained in axial, sagittal and coronal views respectively using 2D receptive field (a large receptive field in 2D and a relatively small receptive field in the out-plane direction). The authors provided two pretrained models: model15 and model17, trained on BraTS15 and BraTS17, respectively. In addition to these two models, we trained the WNet on our DIPG data (130 cases with manual WT labels) initialized with model17. We label this model as cascaded-CNN-DIPG and add include this method in our comparison for WT segmentation task only. The 4 DIPG cases used for evaluation were not included in the training set for this model. Additionally, we modified the implementation to accept manually labeled WT mask as input and generate subregion masks using TNet and ENet, to evaluate performance of subregion prediction only.
\subsubsection{NVIDIA Clara}
NVIDIA Clara is an application framework optimized for healthcare and life sciences developers. Clara provides a brain tumor segmentation model based on
autoencoder regularization (clara\_mri\_seg\_brain\_tumors\_br16\_full\_amp)~\cite{myronenko20183d}, which won the 1st place in the BraTS 2018 challenge. The Clara model takes T1, T1-post, T2, and FLAIR as inputs, and outputs WT mask, tumor core mask, and enhancing mask. Unlike other methods under comparison, this model generates WT mask and subregion masks simultaneously and requires GPU to make predictions.
\subsection{Experimental setup}
We evaluated our proposed approach and DL-based models on two separate segmentation tasks: WT segmentation and subregion segmentation. In the WT segmentation task, each method was given the brain extracted images in its desired MR modalities. In the subregion segmentation task, each method was given the manually labeled WT mask as input in addition to the inputs for WT task. Therefore the performance of subregion prediction does not have to be dependent on the WT prediction. However, the NVIDIA Clara model is unable to accept the WT mask as input. As a consequence, its performance does depend on WT prediction. We evaluated subregion segmentation on ATRT, which is typically a heterogeneous tumor. The subregions evaluated are: enhancing tumor, edema, hemorrhage, necrosis (early or late), cyst and CSF. For models that predict WT, tumor core and enhancing tumor, the edema mask was generated using set subtraction of tumor core from WT. A summary of the experimental setup is shown in Table~\ref{table:methods}. The performances of both segmentation tasks were measured by dice score.
\begin{table}
\caption{Experimental setup for methods under comparison.} \label{table:methods}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/methods.png}
\end{table}
\subsection{Results}
\subsubsection{WT segmentation}
The WT segmentation results (dice scores) are shown Table~\ref{table:WT}. Our proposed approach outperformed all other DL-based methods on the LGG and ATRT dataset, because the test data is very different from the training data of these DL-based models. For ATRT in particular, our approach had a mean dice score of 0.753, where other methods were below 0.3. All methods consistently performed better on the DIPG tumors compared to the other two data sets. Regarding the DIPG dataset, the best performer was the Cascaded CNN (DIPG) with a mean dice score of 0.924. This was expected because this model has been trained on a sufficient amount of existing DIPG data (130 cases). Our approach performed nearly identical to the 2nd place model, Cascaded CNN (BraTS17), with dice scores of 0.869 and 0.870 respectively, and is substantially  better than the remaining models (0.56, 0.801, and 0.594).

\subsubsection{Subregion segmentation}
Among all subregions under consideration, we were only able to compare our proposed model with others on enhancing tumor and edema segmentations. None of the existing methods used in comparison are capable of making a prediction regarding necrosis, hemorrhage, CSF and cyst, hence we only compared our results with the manual labels. There results of subregion segmentation are shown in Table~\ref{table:subregion}. Our proposed approach had the highest mean dice score on both enhancing and edema segmentation. The results of other subregions (necrosis, hemorrhage, CSF, and cyst) were reasonable and performance varied across specific subregion. Representative examples of subregion segmentations by our approach are shown in Fig. ~\ref{fig:subregion_examples}

\begin{table}
\caption{Performance evaluation (dice score) of all methods under comparison on whole tumor segmentation for different tumor types.} \label{table:WT}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/WT_results.png}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
\caption{Performance evaluation (dice score) of all methods under comparison on subregion segmentation of ATRT.} \label{table:subregion}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/subregion_results.png}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/subregion_examples.png}
\caption{Example subregion segmentations of ATRT using the proposed approach. The red ROIs are auto segmentations and the green ROIs are manual segmentations.} \label{fig:subregion_examples}
\end{figure}

\section{Discussions}
Automatic segmentation of pediatric tumors is challenging. Our technique offers an approach to automatically segmenting rare pediatric brain tumors that performs consistently and superior to publicly available brain tumors models. Additionally, our knowledge-based brain tumor segmentation approach has shown many advantages over DL-based methods:
\begin{itemize}
	\item More efficient. Knowledge of tumor can be transferred into the model using our approach than using labeled data to train. This is intuitive, for example we can easily detected enhancing tumor from T1-sub by thresholding. However, it may take more than 100 training examples for the model to learn this simple knowledge. A big drawback of DL models is that it is very hard to incorporate prior knowledge, and hence requires large training data to compensate for that. Pediatric cancer is rare compared to adult disease and lack publicly available data sets.
	\item More generalizable. Our approach can be designed for different tumor types accounting for their similarities and variabilities. For example, we added ADC as an additional inputs for ATRT segmentation, while for LGG and DIPG we only used T1, T1-post, T2, and FLAIR. We added surrounding tumor-related regions for ATRT and DIPG, but not for LGG. However, for DL models to handle different tumor types, separate models for each tumor type or complex architectures are required.
	\item More interpretable. Our approach generates consistent and informative intermediate results for quality checking. Even with the push for explainable AI, DL models can still be difficult to understand, particularly in the case of misclassifications. Our technique is straightforward. For example, our approach estimates WM, GM, and CSF probabilities before generating a WT mask. Determining the reason behind a misclassification is uncomplicated. Additionally, the decision rules for subregion detection are very interpretable and can be easily modified for different tumor types if necessary.
\end{itemize}
In general, DL applications will outperform traditional analytical techniques like the one we propose here. However, performance is determined by the training data. As stated previously, pediatric cancer is rare and access to data (labeled and unlabeled) is limited. The presence of labeled data is increasing, however, through consortia and federated learning. Until public databases are curated and available to facilitate DL models, our approach provides a starting point for assisted annotation. A priori knowledge is a powerful tool and is especially useful for autosegmenting rare tumors like ATRT.

\section{Conclusions}
In this paper, we present a knowledge-based algorithm to segment whole brain tumor and associated subregions. Our approach was customized for different pediatric brain tumors where available labeled data is very limited and far from sufficient to train a learning-based model. Our proposed approach showed superior performance to existing pretrained DL-based models on our ATRT and LGG dataset. On the DIPG dataset, it showed comparable performance to a DL model that have been transfer learned on our DIPG data.

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Russia should not expect its anti-doping agency to be automatically reinstated when its two-year ban expires next month, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Witold Banka has said.
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Dig a little deeper, and they've got a whole page dedicated to talking up their support of the NRA, that says at the top:
"No company in America is more dedicated to and more supportive of the goals of the National Rifle Association than MidwayUSA.
Inside the MidwayUSA facility, most employees have NRA member and life member stickers beside their name plate. Most departments host a sign that says "100% NRA Department". The Potterfield family is also a regular contributor to NRA Foundation endowments."
So, yes, I'm not exaggerating when I say it is not your typical big corporation that wants to impress progressives. This alone puts it in pretty hot water with them.
But at the same time, it's a company that gets the outdoors in a way that most of the city-dwelling people that hate them for this don't. Midway will gladly sell you parts for an AR-15 or a concealed carry pistol (both things that are becoming popular in urban areas and the suburbs), but they're also big on hunting and other outdoors activities. No matter one's political leanings, if you're regularly getting out there and seeing nature and the wilderness, you figure out pretty quick what a precious resource it is.
And, you want to protect it.
But, MidwayUSA doesn't just put up a few pictures of its head honcho looking like Elmer Fudd with a break-0pen shotgun (something younger "tacticool" gun people may mock you for). It is putting its money where its mouth is on caring for the outdoors and nature with a record solar installation at its headquarters.
MidwayUSA's new 300,000 square foot headquarters was outfitted with a 1.612 megawatt rooftop solar array — one of the largest in Missouri. In addition to contributing to its sustainability mission, it will also save the company up to $4,500,000 on energy costs over the next 20 years.
MidwayUSA chose EnergyLink to be the leading design-build contractor for its project. With certified NAESCO Energy Service Company status and over a decade of experience in solar energy, they were more than qualified to manage the utility scale solar project — from the auditing phase all the way through engineering, procurement, and construction.
"The MidwayUSA project is the new benchmark for corporations looking to be more sustainable," remarked Jeremy Nolen, EnergyLink's lead on the project.
"This is proof that, with the right ESCO, it's possible to be more sustainable in an economically viable way."
"We chose the most cost-effective solar panels, inverters, and racking products for the project to save our client money in both the short- and long-term. In fact, they'll save over $150,000 in Year 1 alone as compared to not having installed any solar panels. And cumulatively, they're projected to save $4.5 million dollars over 20 years!"
Once completed, the sustainable impact of the project is estimated to be significant. MidwayUSA would offset 2,176,200 kilowatts of electricity annually. This is equivalent to 3,399,528 pounds of CO2 emissions or 1,704,607 pounds worth of coal. Another way this could be put: it takes 187 million fewer smartphone charges per year than without the project.
There's No Reason Even The Most Conservative Businesses, Organizations, & People Shouldn't Go Solar
On the one hand, it's easy to shrug this off and say that right-leaning people and companies are only going solar and embracing other clean energy because it makes financial sense now. While that's true in many cases, there are even more reasons that conservatives should consider clean energy and EVs.
Ask any conservative, and they'll tell you that things like national security, keeping America strong on the world stage, energy independence, and disaster preparedness are high priorities, politically speaking. As many readers now know, clean technologies do a lot to help with all of these things.
When it comes to national security, the supply of things like lithium, cobalt, and rare earth minerals are a big deal. Not only are they used in clean energy products, but they're also used in critical things like medical imaging. With all of the things we do with these products, letting countries like China control them all leaves America in a bad position, and that's not great for any America First philosophy.
Energy independence means using more energy made right here in the USA. While that often comes in the form of "Drill, baby, drill!" in the conservative mind, energy is energy. If you're using solar energy instead of oil, that leaves more American oil for both domestic use and exporting instead of importing oil. I don't think I have to explain the advantages there.
When it comes to disaster preparedness, both red and blue states have had problems with the grid. Obviously, that's an issue that no side has a monopoly on. Decentralizing power production takes the strain off the grid and helps more Americans keep the lights on and keep businesses like Midway going even in bad weather, terror attacks, or anything else that can mess up power production.
So, this isn't just a matter of the price being right. It's something that's great for outdoorsmen and awesome for the country. It's a real win-win.
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A bald eagle flies over the Des Moines River near Pella, Iowa, Jan. 11, 2009 | File photo by Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press, St. George News
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is stepping down after a 14-month tenure in which the agency proposed broad changes to rules governing protections for thousands of species and pushed for more hunting and fishing on federal lands, officials said Thursday.
This undated photo shows Greg Sheehan, the head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, who is stepping down after a 14-month tenure in which he proposed broad changes to rules governing protections for thousands of plant and animal species, officials announced Thursday | Photo by Kayt Jonsson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via The Associated Press, St. George News
Greg Sheehan will leave the agency next week to return to his family and home in Utah, spokesman Gavin Shire said. He led the wildlife service since last June as the senior political official appointed under President Donald Trump in a newly-created deputy director position.
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Under his tenure, the wildlife service moved recently to end a longstanding practice that automatically gave the same protections to threatened species as it gives more critically endangered species. The proposal also limits habitat safeguards meant to shield recovering species from harm and would require consideration of the economic impacts of protecting a species.
That's alarmed wildlife advocates who fear a weakening of the Endangered Species Act, which has been used to save species as diverse as the bald eagle and the American alligator. The proposed changes were cheered by Republican lawmakers and others who say the endangered law has been abused to block economic development and needs reform.
A request by The Associated Press to interview Sheehan was declined.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had sought to make Sheehan acting director of the 9,000-employee wildlife service, which would have given him certain legal authorities. However, Sheehan was barred from that role because he did not have the science degree required for the position under federal law, Shire said.
His departure comes amid a spate of vacancies at the Interior Department more than a year-and-a-half after Trump took office. Those include the heads of the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks.
A prairie dog nibbles on a bit of zucchini at its new colony after being trucked some 25 miles away from Cedar City, Utah, Aug. 6, 2015. The Trump administration loosened contentious endangered-species protections for Utah prairie dogs in April 2018 | File photo by Rick Bowmer/Associated Press, St. George News
Before coming to the federal government, Sheehan worked for 25 years in Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources, including five years as its director.
National Wildlife Federation President Collin O'Mara – who considers Sheehan a friend – said during his watch the service had done good work collaborating with state officials and conservation groups. But O'Mara said there needed to be less emphasis on removing regulations and more on making sure wildlife issues are considered, such as during decisions on energy development.
"Given the magnitude of the wildlife crisis, there's always more that can be done," O'Mara said.
Another conservation group, the Center for Biological Diversity, had a more critical response, saying Sheehan's departure was "welcome news for America's wildlife."
"In just one year in office, he inflicted incredible harm on imperiled animals by consistently putting special interests ahead of science and the environment," said Brett Hartl, the group's government affairs director.
The Interior Department issued a statement saying Sheehan was "an incredible asset to the Interior team and was tremendous in helping Secretary Zinke expand access for hunting and fishing on over a quarter million acres of public lands across the country."
Deputy Operations Director Jim Kurth will lead the agency pending another appointment, Shire said.
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Taobao Live Enriches its Ecosystem to Fuel Further Success for Partners
Business Wire IndiaTaobao Live announced today that it would supercharge its ecosystem to yield further success for merchants, brands and KOLs on the platform. It targets to support 2,000 livestream channels and 200 partners in reaching an annual sales of RMB100 million (US$15.4 million)1 each. Taobao Live will continue to invest in technology upgrades, online and offline resources and physical livestream centers to create value for partners and stay competitive.
Taobao live streamer Wang Chunxiang who lived in Heibei Province used Taobao Live to sell apparel and engaged with consumers. (Photo: Business Wire)
Taobao Live achieved strong growth in user acquisition and stickiness over the past year. For calendar year 2020, it saw 100% year-on-year growth of its daily active users (DAU). As of 31 December 2020, the number of loyal users who watched livestream sessions six times per day and placed an average of more than 10 orders per month increased by 150% compared with the start of 2020. The average monthly spend of these loyal users is in excess of RMB1,500 (US$230) monthly.
"Taobao Live delivered another solid year together with partners across the network. We kept the momentum going through a dedication towards driving unique value propositions for long-term engagement and business opportunities for the ecosystem," said Yu Feng, Alibaba Group Vice President, who oversees Taobao's content e-commerce. "Looking ahead, we are committed to further investing in and developing innovative technologies and services to better support our partners."
Due to the depth and breadth of its features, Taobao Live has become an integral part of merchants' day-to-day operations and marketing strategies, with more than 60% of Taobao Live sessions currently being broadcast from the official stores of brands and sellers. For the 12 months ended March 31, 2021, more than 1,000 Taobao Live channels generated more than RMB100 million (US$15.4 million) in transactions. Among these, 55% were operated by merchants on the platform. Taobao Live is a popular medium among new brands to build new customer followings. Over 90% of new brands2 have leveraged the tool to build up their presence.
Taobao Live maintained a strong momentum and generated over RMB400 billion (US$ 61.6 billion) in GMV for the 12 months ended December 31, 2020.
New Online and Offline Services for Brands and Merchants
In the coming year, Taobao Live aims to upgrade its platform tools and leverage cutting-edge technologies to enhance its partners' productivity and efficiency.
At its annual summit today, Taobao Live announced two new tools for customer engagement and content marketing. A CRM tool will better support sellers and KOLs to manage livestream content, sales, products and fan engagement via store-level private domains while a new open and centralized portal serves to efficiently connect and match products, merchants and livestreamers for business opportunities.
Taobao Live has also adopted DAMO Academy's AI algorithms to provide accurate recommendations to customers and has tapped the academy's AI-powered virtual livestream hosting technology to enhance user engagement.
It is working with DAMO to develop an intelligent livestreaming camera that will enable real-time feedback to anchors during broadcasts to improve the livestream experience. The device leverages DAMO's multimodal algorithms, including speech, natural language processing, and visual and hand gestures, so that livestream hosts can interact with viewers more vividly. It also presents real-time updates of livestream statistics, such as click rates, sales numbers during promotions as well as the number of "thumbs up" feedback from viewers.
To bring even more interesting content to consumers, Taobao Live plans to invest in the resources needed to develop 300 physical livestream centers this year. These centers will be equipped with the workspace, livestream studios and equipment to facilitate small and medium sized brands, merchants and KOLs to collaborate and incubate ideas, as well as looking for a quick and easy access to use livestream technology to promote their goods and services.
Inclusive Platform for the Livestream Commerce Ecosystem
Taobao Live is an inclusive tool that can be easily used by anyone.Livestream hosts only need a mobile phone and internet access to start using this platform.
The platform has so far helped generate more than 1.7 million jobs, and the number of livestreamers on Taobao Live continues to grow every year, increasing by 661% from 2019 to 2020.
Taobao Live has also launched 102 training centers for farmers in 23 provinces across China and has cultivated more than 10,000 new agricultural livestreamers. For the 12 months ended March 31, 2021, over 100,000 farmers carried out 2.52 million Taobao Live sessions.
About Taobao Marketplace
Launched in 2003, Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) provides consumers from both large cities and less developed areas with an engaging, personalized shopping experience, optimized by big-data analytics and technology. Through highly relevant and engaging content and real-time updates from merchants, consumers can learn about products and new trends. They can also interact with each other and their favorite merchants and key opinion leaders. Merchants on Taobao Marketplace are primarily individuals and small businesses. According to Analysys, Taobao Marketplace was China's leading mobile commerce destination with a large and growing social community, in terms of GMV for the 12 months ended March 31, 2020. Taobao Marketplace is a business of Alibaba Group.
1All translations of RMB into US$ were made at RMB6.48 to US$1.00, the exchange rate on April 27, 2021
2"New brands" refers to brands that have been on Tmall for less than three years
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Staff Reporter Windhoek-Nueva Pescanova plans to build three ships for Namibia and four for Mozambique, constituting a total investment of EUR42.5 million. With this investment, which is in line with its strategic plan, it intends to provide NovaNam, a subsidiary of Nueva Pescanova in Namibia, with the vessels needed to reach the planned catch volume. The Namibian vessels will be 50 metres in length and will be used for hake fishing, mainly to supply the NovaNam factory in Lüderitz while Mozambique vessels will be smaller, less than 30 metres, and will be used for shrimp fishing. In the framework of International Frozen Seafood Fair Conxemar, the CEO of Nueva Pescanova Group, Ignacio González, along with other executives of the firm, presented the prototype of the three trawlers to be built for NovaNam's fleet to the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Namibia, Bernhard Esau. NovaNam employs 2 100 workers in the country, 1 800 of them in Lüderitz, where Pescanova has the largest hake processing centre in Africa and 300 in Walvis Bay factory. The company has appointed Marcos Osuna as director of fisheries for Latin America, where he will also be appointed in the position of general manager of the subsidiary Argenova, Argentina. The management of Latam Pesca (integrated in the General Fisheries Directorate of Nueva Pescanova Group) covers the business of the Galician multinational firm in Peru (Novaperu), Uruguay (Belnova) and Argentina (Argenova), countries in which the group has a fleet of 20 boats. In this area, the company has a factory in Peru that employs 100 people, and another one in Argentina, with more than 700 workers.


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Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, announced on Monday, November 26, 2018 that GM will downsize sedan production, close five North American factories and lay off 14,700 employees during the following year, in order to maintain profitability while adjusting to a shrinking and changing US automotive marketplace.
GM will be closing five automotive production plants in North America that produce smaller sedans and related transmission drive trains:
1. Lordstown, Ohio factory that produces the Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan
2. Detroit-Hamtramck facility in Michigan that produces the Chevrolet Volt, Buick Lacrosse, and Cadillac CT6
3. Oshawa, Ontario plant in Canada that produces the Chevrolet Impala
4. Factories in Baltimore, Maryland and Warren, Michigan that produce powertrains for smaller vehicles
About 8,000 factory workers will be laid off during the reorganization, as well as 6,700 salaried employees or about 15% of the salaried GM workforce during 2019.
As more Americans of different generations choose to buy fewer small-size cars, the US automotive industry is shifting to production of more trucks, sport utility vehicles and crossover SUVs.
The US market has changed in recent years, as consumers are purchasing larger vehicles rather than small-size, economy sedans. Younger urban buyers have also opted for ride share and multi-mode transportation options, rather than personally own or lease a new car, as in generations past.
This year, GM also reached a market cap of 200,000 plug-in electric vehicles sold within the US since 2010, that are eligible for a federal tax credit of $7,500 per electric car.
During 2018, Findlay Chevrolet displayed the newest model of the Chevy Volt, now with over 50 miles of electric-only range and a total range of 420 miles extended.
As a result of these trends, GM is halting production of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid electric vehicle as part of the Detroit-Hamtramck plant closure.
Since 2010, the Chevrolet Volt has served as a friendly gateway to first-time owners of plug-in electric cars in Nevada.
The Volt electric-motor drive train provided all the speed, torque and acceleration of any electric car for local urban driving with a range from 36 to 53 miles before recharging at home each night.
However, the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle still retained the ability to be fueled quickly by gasoline, so that the vehicle's onboard generator could continue to provide electricity to the electric motor for an additional 240 miles of range.
That feature has been valuable for owners who also drive within rural areas of the state, where there may not yet be any electric car charging station infrastructure.
However, the additional components for both the electric motor drive train, batteries, and gasoline generator systems added additional costs to vehicle factory production within smaller production runs, resulting in losses during the initial model years.
Barra maintains that GM is still committed to the production of new plug-in electric cars and autonomous vehicles for ride-share applications during the coming decade. These plans include the Chevrolet Bolt EV, that relies on a battery-powered EV drive train to travel more than 230 miles between recharging sites, with no gasoline generator onboard.
During 2018, Ford Motor Company also indicated that it will downsize production of smaller vehicles, that include the C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid electric car and Ford Focus EV battery-powered electric car.
Tiffani Repucci from Gaudin Ford showcased a CMax Energi plug-in hybrid during a 2014 event.
However, Ford and GM will also be integrating plug-in electric drive trains into more of the model car vehicles that the companies plan to introduce during the next ten years.
During the North American International Auto Show in Detroit during January 2019, GM CEO Mary Barra and Ford CEO Jim Hackett both announced their commitments to develop electric cars.
GM unveiled an electric Cadillac SUV during the North American International Auto Show in January 2019.
Barra announced that the GM Cadillac line will compete against Tesla for the luxury electric car market. The company unveiled a concept electric SUV based on its BEV3 chassis platform, that will be used to usher in the next generation of GM plug-in electric vehicles.
The 5-passenger SUV will feature all wheel drive and the Super Cruise package of advanced driver assistance systems that will approach new levels of autonomous driving.
Hackett announced that Ford will be investing $11 billion to design and develop 16 new plug-in electric car models, including a "surprise" announcement during 2019. Ford had also announced a partnership with Volkswagen to develop charging station infrastructure in Europe and US.
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of yoga therapy on obesity in females. Objectives are, to bring about reduction of body weight, reduction of waist line, and improvement in their quality of life by decreasing stress levels. Twenty five obese females, aged 20 to 50 years, who were willing to participate in the program, were recruited. Those suffering from medical and psychiatric disorders were excluded. Their Body Mass Index, Waist-Hip ratios, blood pressure, pulse rate were measured. Dietary habits, exercise details recorded. As part of the program they were taught yoga practices for 45 minutes. They were instructed to practice twice a day followed by Shavasana for five minutes with balanced dietary intake and other life change modifications. Baseline assessment in the various parameters was taken. Reassessment was done after three months. Yoga training for 3 months resulted in a significant reductions in all body weight measures such as decrease in Body Mass Index (0.001) , Waist hip ratio (0.001), and in physiological measures such as Systolic Blood Pressure (0.01), Diastolic Blood Pressure (0.038), Pulse Rate (0.001)( P values < 0.05) all of which were statistically significant. Thus from the significant changes observed using different parameters in this study found that yoga therapy has several beneficial effects, in the form of improvement in quality of life and reduction in body weight in women.
Obesity; yoga therapy; pranayama; waist hip ratio; quality of life.