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The long-term (24-month) effect on health and well-being of the Lifestyle Matters community-based intervention in people aged 65 years and over: a qualitative study

Objectives To assess the long-term effect on health and well-being of the Lifestyle Matters programme. Design Qualitative study of a subset of intervention arm participants who participated in the Lifestyle Matters randomised controlled trial (RCT). Setting The intervention took place at community venues within two sites in the UK. Participants A purposeful sample of 13 participants aged between 66 and 88 years from the intervention arm of the RCT were interviewed at 24 months post randomisation. Interviews aimed to understand how participants had used their time in the preceding 2 years and whether the intervention had any impact on their lifestyle choices, participation in meaningful activities and well-being. Intervention Lifestyle Matters is a 4-month occupational therapy intervention, consisting of group and individual sessions, designed to enable community living older people to make positive lifestyle choices and participate in new or neglected activities through increasing self-efficacy. Results Interviews revealed that the majority of interviewed participants were reportedly active at 24 months, with daily routines and lifestyles not changing significantly over time. All participants raised some form of benefit from attending Lifestyle Matters, including an improved perspective on life, trying new hobbies and meeting new friends. A number of intervention participants spoke of adapting to their changing circumstances, but there were significant and lasting benefits for 2 of 13 intervention participants interviewed. Conclusion The majority of those who experienced the Lifestyle Matters intervention reported minor benefits and increases in self-efficacy, but they did not perceive that it significantly improved their health and well-being. The two participants who had experienced major benefits also reported having had life-changing events, suggesting that this intervention is most effective at the time when lifestyle has to be reconsidered if mental well-being is to be sustained. Trial registration ISRCTN, ISRCTN67209155, post results.
Comparing Treatments for Dual Diagnosis: Twelve-Step and Self-Management and Recovery Training

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of 12-step and cognitive-behavioral (Self-Management and Recovery Training [SMART]) approaches for persons with a dual diagnosis of serious mental illness and substance use disorder in an intensive outpatient/partial hospitalization setting. Participants (n=112) were alternately assigned to the two treatment conditions, with 50 participants completing the 6-month treatment program. Assessments occurred at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months during treatment, and at 3- and 12-month follow-ups. Analyses were conducted on participants who had completed 3 months of treatment (n=70). The 12-step intervention was more effective in decreasing alcohol use and increasing social interactions. However, a worsening of medical problems, health status, employment status, and psychiatric hospitalization were associated with the 12-step intervention. SMART was more effective in improving health and employment status, but marijuana use was greater for SMART participants. Improvements in alcohol use and life satisfaction occurred in both approaches. Covariates associated with treatment outcome were identified, with greater attendance being positively related to outcome. Involvement with the criminal justice system was positively related to treatment completion but negatively associated with medical problems. Less alcohol use, fewer medical problems, and better financial well-being at baseline were associated with better attendance.
Distinct Neural Specializations for Learning to Read Words and Name Objects

Understanding the neural systems that underpin reading acquisition is key if neuroscientific findings are to inform educational practice. We provide a unique window into these systems by teaching 19 adults to read 24 novel words written in unfamiliar letters and to name 24 novel objects while in an MRI scanner. Behavioral performance on trained items was equivalent for the two stimulus types. However, componential letter-sound associations were extracted when learning to read, as shown by correct reading of untrained words, whereas object–name associations were holistic and arbitrary. Activity in bilateral anterior fusiform gyri was greater during object name learning than learning to read, and ROI analyses indicated that left mid-fusiform activity was predictive of success in object name learning but not in learning to read. In contrast, activity in bilateral parietal cortices was predictive of success for both stimulus types but was greater during learning and recall of written word pronunciations relative to object names. We argue that mid-to-anterior fusiform gyri preferentially process whole items and contribute to learning their spoken form associations, processes that are required for skilled reading. In contrast, parietal cortices preferentially process componential visual–verbal mappings, a process that is crucial for early reading development.
Microtubular spindle dynamics and chromosome complements from somatic cell nuclei haploidization in mature mouse oocytes and developmental potential of the derived embryos.

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate haploidization of somatic cell nuclei in non-enucleated mature oocytes regarding spindle formation, chromosomes and developmental potential. METHODS Mouse cumulus cells were injected into metaphase II oocytes. Some injected oocytes were examined for morphological changes of chromosomes and the spindle immediately, and at 30 min, 1 h or 2 h after the injections. The remaining oocytes were activated by Sr(2+) after various incubation periods and observed for formation of a second polar body and pseudo-polar body. Cytogenetic analysis was performed for some of the resulting zygotes. The progress to blastocysts in vitro and the possibility of conception in vivo were assessed. RESULTS Immediately after injection, the cumulus cell nucleus was still in interphase without spindle formation. The occurrence of premature chromosome condensation (PCC) and spindle formation increased as the incubation time increased. The percentages of activated oocytes increased with the incubation time after nuclear transfer, but the difference was not significant between 1 (58%) and 2 h (62%). The incidence of chromosomal aberrations was high for the derived embryos. Development in vitro was poor, and no procreation of pups occurred after transfer of the 324 embryos. CONCLUSIONS The PCC and spindle formation induced by cumulus cell nuclei in mature oocytes was time dependent, as was the chance for successful activation. The chromosomal abnormalities from segregation errors presented one obvious cause, apart from the potential epigenetic defects, of developmental failure of the semi-cloned embryos.
Professional identity and the restructuring of higher education

ABSTRACT Higher education has undergone immense changes over the last 30 years. These changes, involving the fragmentation of the academic workplace together with increased differentials between individuals in respect of status and autonomy, have had a profound effect on the role of university teachers and on their sense of professional identity. Nevertheless, university teachers have important insights to bring to the debate on higher education. This paper sets out to present some of those insights. The analysis is based on evidence drawn from interviews conducted with higher education lecturers in two different institutions: an ‘old’ and a ‘new’ university. The interviewees' understanding of what makes for good practice—and what institutional conditions are necessary for such practice to flourish—are examined and the implications of that understanding discussed. Any effective restructuring of higher education must, it is argued, take on board this professional perspective and, in so doing, rethink the r.
So Far, So Good: Levels of Academic Achievement in Catholic Schools.

Summary Recent evidence from Diocesan and Office for Standards in Education inspections under the Education Act 1992 seems to suggest that while pupils in Catholic schools in England and Wales obtain high levels of academic success at Key Stage Two and Key Stage Four compared with those attending other schools in the maintained sector, their achievements in Advanced level examinations are lower than one would expect. The article points to evidence of a similar long‐standing pattern of performance of pupils in Catholic schools and speculates on some possible causes of the phenomenon.
Breaking with Tradition: Providing Effective Professional Development for Instructional Personnel Supporting Students with Severe Disabilities

The national landscape of education and professional development is changing. Instructional personnel of students with severe disabilities are frequently untrained, professionally isolated, and in need of current knowledge and best practice in programming for these students. This article describes the need for a shift from a reliance on the workshop model of professional development to a more sophisticated and comprehensive plan that offers instructional personnel alternative forms of professional development based on the desired outcomes of learning and the complexity of the needed instructional innovation.
The Internet and new modes of political participation: online versus offline participation

Political participation refers to all forms of involvement in which citizens express their political opinion and/or convey that opinion to political decision-makers. Some of the most innovative forms of political participation developed during the past decade are based on the use of online communication tools. There is still no consensus in the scientific literature, however, about the impact of online communication on citizens’ civic and political engagement. The main goal of this article is therefore to understand whether specific online and/or offline political participation patterns exist especially among young people who are known to be the most fervent Internet users. The analysis utilizes survey data on various forms of offline and online political engagement among undergraduate students from 2011.
Laminar Forced Convection Heat Transfer Characteristics from a Heated Cylinder in Water Based Nanofluids

Forced convection heat transfer from a heated circular cylinder to incompressible water-based nanofluids in the steady cross-flow regime has been investigated numerically. The momentum and thermal energy differential equations have been solved by the standard finite volume method on the non-uniform Cartesian grid. The main objective of this study is to investigate the influence of the nanoparticles’ volume fraction (0 % ≤ φ ≤ 10 %) on the heat transfer characteristics of water-based nanofluids over a wide range of base-fluid Reynolds number (1 ≤ Rebf ≤ 20). Accurate numerical results are presented in the form of the local and mean Nusselt number and the heat transfer enhancement. The results indicate clearly that the heat transfer characteristics are affected by the base-fluid Reynolds number, volume fraction and the thermo-physical properties of nanoparticles. Although those nanofluids reduce the mean Nusselt number values, they enhance the heat transfer rate. (Received in November 2013, accepted in March 2014. This paper was with the authors 1 month for 1 revision.)
Working Wives: 1940 - 1960.

Changes since 1940 in the rates and patterns of labor force participation of married women are examined using retrospective work histories of wives taken from the 1960 Growth of American Families Study. The effects of certain predictor variables, such as income of the husband, wage potential of the wife and number of children under six, on the probability of a woman working are determined for life cycle stages. Changes since 1940 in the effects of these predictors are examined using a single-equation, additive linear model and analysis of covariance techniques. The major hypothesis tested in this research is that significant changes have occurred since 1940 in the effects of the factors influencing working by wives. The research supports this hypothesis for the early stages of marriage and childbearing only. No changes in either probability of work activity between births or the effects of all predictors when these are considered together on this activity are found for wives with three or more children. When each causal variable is considered separately, a significant decrease is noted in the effects of those factors which tend to inhibit wives' working. Among these are the presence of children under six, the age of the wife and her educational level. The factors which tend to facilitate working, past labor force activity and wife's earning power, have tended to increase in effect or have remained strongly positive influences.
Elementary Teachers’ Views about Teaching Design, Engineering, and Technology

While there is a growing interest in infusing engineering into elementary classrooms, very little is known about how well positionedelementary teachers are to teach engineering. This study examined elementary teachers’ perceptions of and familiarity with design,engineering, and technology (DET). We collected data from 192 elementary teachers using the DET teacher survey. While theseelementary teachers thought teaching DET was important (Mean 5 3.46; SD 5 0.43), they were relatively unfamiliar with DET (Mean 52.01; SD 5 0.65). Years of teaching experience did not affect teachers’ familiarity with teaching DET and their perceptions of how important DET was. Moderately experienced teachers showed stereotypical views of engineering. Furthermore, teachers’ motivations toteach DET differed based on their ethnic backgrounds. The results suggest a need to improve elementary teachers’ familiarity with design,engineering, and technology. Professional development activities should be guided by research on teacher knowledge, and establish analignment between motivations of teachers and expectations of their schools to ensure administrative support. Document Type Article This article is available in Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER): https://docs.lib. purdue.edu/jpeer/vol1/iss2/5 Available online at http://docs.lib. purdue.edu/jpeer Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research 1:2 (2011) 31–39 DOI: 10.5703/1288284314639 Elementary Teachers’ Views about Teaching Design, Engineering, and Technology Ming-Chien Hsu, Senay Purzer, and Monica E. Cardella Purdue University, Main Campus
On the information leakage of differentially-private mechanisms

Differential privacy aims at protecting the privacy of participants in statistical databases. Roughly, a mechanism satisfies differential privacy if the presence or value of a single individual in the database does not significantly change the likelihood of obtaining a certain answer to any statistical query posed by a data analyst. Differentially-private mechanisms are often oblivious: first the query is processed on the database to produce a true answer, and then this answer is adequately randomized before being reported to the data analyst. Ideally, a mechanism should minimize leakage, i.e., obfuscate as much as possible the link between reported answers and individuals' data, while maximizing utility, i.e., report answers as similar as possible to the true ones. These two goals, however, are in conflict with each other, thus imposing a trade-off between privacy and utility. In this paper we use quantitative information flow principles to analyze leakage and utility in oblivious differentially-private mechanisms. We introduce a technique that exploits graph symmetries of the adjacency relation on databases to derive bounds on the min-entropy leakage of the mechanism. We consider a notion of utility based on identity gain functions, which is closely related to min-entropy leakage, and we derive bounds for it. Finally, given some graph symmetries, we provide a mechanism that maximizes utility while preserving the required level of differential privacy.
Reports of Paranormal Experiences: Can Transliminality Tell us Anything about Them?

The psychology of belief in the paranormal has often been used to stigmatize believers but it has also been used with a more open-minded approach. This paper describes some research of this kind in which believers were found to report more mystical experience, have more creative personalities, report more manic and depressive experience, and more magical ideation, unwittingly suggesting a link with bipolar disorder and schizotypal personality. In addition, however, these six variables were all found to correlate positively and significantly with each other. The positive manifold suggested a single underlying factor, which indeed emerged from principal components analysis. It was speculated that the underlying factor was “transliminality”—a gating mechanism modulating the flow of information and affect from subliminal levels into supraliminal. Later studies have not as clearly confirmed the existence of the positive manifold but nevertheless the concept of transliminality may be a useful one for understanding paranormal experience and hence paranormal belief.
An Empirical Test of Cognitive Style and Strategic Decision Outcomes

We examine how cognitive style, as measured by the MBTI, affects strategic decision outcomes. Executives participated in a simulated strategic decision making environment that allowed controlled collection of decision outcomes, including manager decisiveness, decision quality, and perceived effectiveness. We found that iNtuiting/Thinking managers used their intuition to make cognitive leaps based on objective information to craft more decisions of higher quality than other managers. In contrast, Sensing/Feeling types used time to seek socially acceptable decisions, which led to the lowest number of decisions and the lowest perceived effectiveness of all. We found no effect on decisiveness or perceived effectiveness based on a manager's preference for Perceiving or Judging. However, we found that others perceived Extraverted managers as being more effective than Introverted managers when, in fact, the Extraverts were no more decisive than Introverts. Thus, cognitive style influences actual decision outcomes as well as how others perceive one's decision performance. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2005.
The Effects of Parenting Beliefs and Supportive Interaction on Mothers' Parenting Stress of Young Children: Variations by Income Level and Employment Status

본 연구는 영아기 자녀를 둔 어머니의 양육신념과 지지적 상호작용이 양육스트레스에 미치는 영향에 대하여 가구소득과 어머니의 취업여부에 따라서 차이가 나타나는지 살펴보는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 연구대상은 2010년 한국아동패널3차에 참가한 23-31개월 자녀를 둔 어머니들 중 가구소득과 취업여 부로 분류한 4개 집단(낮은소득-비취업, 낮은소득-취업, 높은소득-비취업, 높은소득-취업)에 해당하 는 770명이었다. 연구결과 어머니의 양육신념과 지지적 상호작용은 양육스트레스에 영향을 미치는 것으로 밝혀졌으며, 집단에 따라서 영향을 미치는 변인과 정도는 차이가 있었다. 4개의 모든 집단에 서 공통적으로 어머니의 지지적 상호작용은 양육스트레스에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 변인이었으며, 높은소득-비취업 집단에서는 유일한 변인이었다. 낮은소득-비취업 집단에서는 정서적, 도구적 가치 와 성취기대, 인성에 대한 강조가, 낮은소득-취업 집단에서는 도구적 가치가, 높은소득-취업 집단에 서는 정서적 가치와 성취기대가 양육스트레스에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 연구결 과는 취업여부와 가구소득과 관련된 어머니의 양육스트레스를 이해하기 위해서는 두 변인을 함께 고 려할 필요가 있음을 시사해주고 있다.
Pathways approaches to homelessness research

Research on homelessness has focused on either structural forces or individual actions or, where both are considered, has failed to find an effective way of analysing the two sets of factors together. This article looks at one way of doing this through the adoption of a ‘pathways’ framework. The article reviews existing pathways research on homelessness and argues that existing studies do not analyse the interaction of structural and action elements. A stronger theoretical framework is outlined and emphasis placed on the discourses which shape the nature of services for homeless people and the actions of both staff and homeless people themselves. Understanding of the interaction between these two groups is vital if the nature of homelessness is to be comprehended. A research method is needed which focuses on homelessness discourses and their restructuring and shaping through interaction in order that the aim of a holistic analysis can be achieved. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Time Trends in Ischemic Stroke among Type 2 Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients: Analysis of the Spanish National Hospital Discharge Data (2003-2012)

Background Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM) is the most rapidly increasing risk factor for ischemic stroke. We aimed to compare trends in outcomes for ischemic stroke in people with or without diabetes in Spain between 2003 and 2012. Methods We selected all patients hospitalized for ischemic stroke using national hospital discharge data. We evaluated annual incident rates stratified by T2DM status. We analyzed trends in the use of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, patient comorbidities, and in-hospital outcomes. We calculated in-hospital mortality (IHM), length of hospital stay (LOHS) and readmission rate in one month after discharge. Time trend on the incidence of hospitalization was estimated fitting Poisson regression models by sex and diabetes variables. In-hospital mortality was analyzed using logistic regression models separate for men and women. LOHS were compared with ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis when necessary. Results We identified a total of 423,475 discharges of patients (221,418 men and 202,057 women) admitted with ischemic stroke as primary diagnosis. Patients with T2DM accounted for 30.9% of total. The estimated incidence rates of discharges increased significantly in all groups. The incidence of hospitalization due to stroke (with ICD9 codes for stroke as main diagnosis at discharge) was higher among those with than those without diabetes in all the years studied. T2DM was positively associated with ischemic stroke with an adjusted incidence rate ratio (IRR) of 2.27 (95% CI 2.24–2.29) for men and 2.15 (95%CI 2.13–2.17) for women. Over the 10 year period LOHS decreased significantly in men and women with and without diabetes. Readmission rate remained stable in diabetic and non diabetic men (around 5%) while slightly increased in women with and without diabetes. We observed a significant increase in the use of fibrinolysis from 2002–2013. IHM was positively associated with older age in all groups, with Charlson Comorbidity Index > 3 and atrial fibrillation as risk factors. The IHM did not change significantly over time among T2DM men and women ranging from 9.25% to 10.56% and from 13.21% to 14.86%, respectively; neither did among non-diabetic women. However, in men without T2DM IHM decreased significantly over time. Diabetes was associated to higher IHM only in women (OR 1.07; 95% CI, 1.05–1.11). Conclusions Our national data show that incidence rate of ischemic stroke hospitalization increased significantly during the period of study (2003–2012). People with T2DM have more than double the risk of ischemic stroke after adjusting for other risk factors. Women with T2DM had poorer outcomes- IHM and readmission rates- than diabetic men. Diabetes was an independent factor for IHM only in women.