Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The Management Standards Indicator Tool and evaluation of burnout.

BACKGROUND Psychosocial hazards in the workplace can impact upon employee health. The UK Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Management Standards Indicator Tool (MSIT) appears to have utility in relation to health impacts but we were unable to find studies relating it to burnout. AIMS To explore the utility of the MSIT in evaluating risk of burnout assessed by the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS). METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of 128 borough council employees. MSIT data were analysed according to MSIT and MBI-GS threshold scores and by using multivariate linear regression with MBI-GS factors as dependent variables. RESULTS MSIT factor scores were gradated according to categories of risk of burnout according to published MBI-GS thresholds, and identified priority workplace concerns as demands, relationships, role and change. These factors also featured as significant independent variables, with control, in outcomes of the regression analysis. Exhaustion was associated with demands and control (adjusted R (2) = 0.331); cynicism was associated with change, role and demands (adjusted R (2) =0.429); and professional efficacy was associated with managerial support, role, control and demands (adjusted R (2) = 0.413). CONCLUSIONS MSIT analysis generally has congruence with MBI-GS assessment of burnout. The identification of control within regression models but not as a priority concern in the MSIT analysis could suggest an issue of the setting of the MSIT thresholds for this factor, but verification requires a much larger study. Incorporation of relationship, role and change into the MSIT, missing from other conventional tools, appeared to add to its validity.
Reading fluency instruction: Moving beyond accuracy, automaticity, and prosody

Three key elements of reading fluency are accuracy in word decoding, automaticity in recognizing words, and appropriate use of prosody or meaningful oral expression while reading. These three components are a gateway to comprehension. Readers must be able to decode words correctly and effortlessly (automaticity) and then put them together into meaningful phrases with the appropriate expression to make sense of what they read.
Antibiotic Prescription in Febrile Children: A Cohort Study during Out-of-Hours Primary Care

Background: Fever is common in children and often self-limiting, nevertheless antibiotics are frequently prescribed. We determined how often antibiotics were prescribed in children presenting with fever at a family physicians' out-of-hours service and established the children's signs and symptoms related to antibiotic prescriptions. Patients: Children aged 3 months to 6 years with fever as the main reason for contact. Results: Of the 443 included children, 322 children had a face-to-face contact at the out-of-hours service. Of these, 117 (36.3%) were prescribed antibiotics, that is, 26.5% of the total study population. Concerned parents (OR, 2.02; 95% CI, 1.06–3.58), ill appearance (3.26; 1.30–8.20), earache resulting in altered behavioral or sleeping patterns (2.59; 1.06–6.30), signs of throat infection (2.37; 1.35–4.15), and decreased urine production (2.00; 1.17–3.41) were positively associated with antibiotic prescription. A negative association was found for age 3 to 6 months (0.17; 0.03–0.74) and temperature (0.52; 0.37–0.71). Conclusions: Antibiotics were prescribed in 1 out of 4 febrile children whose parents contacted the out-of-hours service. Items associated with antibiotic prescription provide insight into the family physicians' decision-making process when assessing children with fever. These can be used as targets for strategies to diminish antibiotic prescription.
The state of mind of contemporary male gym-goers: goals, inspirations and motivations

Investment of effort and financial resources into enhancing and maintaining the physical state of the body is often attributed to cosmetics and beauty enhancement products in the women’s market but is reported to differ for the men’s market. Instead, such efforts were reported to take place in gyms as it engages men with facilities that enable the enhancement of body image and projection of body impression to others. While the increasing concerns to be physically attractive is obvious among contemporary men, the question of what are the underlying motivations that has transpire such vain sporting behaviours remains in the dark. The current research is quantitative in nature (using survey research and regression analysis) and attempts to fill in this gap by providing insights on the goals, inspirations and motivations that subsides in the mind of contemporary male gym-goers. Implications and recommendations from the research findings are also provided.
INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS THAT MODERATE THE UTILITY OF ROAD SAFETY MEASURES: APPLYING THEORIES OF SELF REGULATION TO CHARACTERIZE FOUR RISK PROFILES

This paper presents a framework that applies models of self regulation, including personality system interaction theory and the concept of optimal self esteem, to augment the theory of planned behavior. This framework is used to characterize four clusters of individuals, each demonstrating a unique profile of risky behaviors and dispositional characteristics. First, some individuals primarily engage in behaviors that align with the norms of their peers. In contrast, other individuals ensure their behavior concords with their personal attitudes; their behavior is less contingent upon legal policies and enforcement. Third, some motorists deliberately engage in hazardous activities, primarily to foster positive affect. Finally, some individuals do not feel they can override habitual behaviors, such as exceeding speed limits. The dispositional characteristics that coincide with each cluster are also delineated. Furthermore, the leadership structures, marketing campaigns, and mentoring programs that should be directed towards each cluster are discussed.
Öğretmenlik Uygulaması Dersinde Ders İmecesi Modelinin Değerlendirilmesi: Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri

Ders imecesi, ogretmen ve ogretmen adaylarinin mesleki gelisimlerinde kullanilan Uzakdogu merkezli bir ogretmen egitimi modelidir. Son yillarda gittikce artan bir sekilde dunyanin farkli ulkelerinde ve kulturlerinde uygulanmakta olan ve etkililigiyle ilgili olumlu raporlar yayinlanan bu modelin ogretmen egitimi sistemimiz icerisinde uygulanabilirliginin belirlenmesi onem arz etmektedir. Bu calismada Ilkogretim Matematik Ogretmenligi Programindaki Ogretmenlik Uygulamasi dersinde ders imecesi modeli uygulamaya konulmus ve surecte ortaya cikan sorunlar incelenmistir. Arastirma, dersi alan 26 ogretmen adayinin katilimiyla gerceklestirilmistir. Calismanin verileri, adaylara yoneltilen acik uclu sorulardan olusan 4 maddelik gorus formundan ve arastirmacinin alan notlarindan elde edilmistir. Veri analizi sonucunda genel olarak, ogrencilerin dusunme bicimlerinin tahmin edilmesi ve bunlara yonelik cozum onerilerinin uretilmesinde, uygulama ogretmenlerinin surece katilimlarinda ve arastirma derslerinin etkililiginin degerlendirilmesinde sorunlar yasandigi belirlenmistir. Yine arastirmanin bulgulari, ders imecesi calisma dongusundeki planlama, arastirma dersi ve degerlendirme basamaklarina ozgu cesitli zorluklarin ortaya ciktigini gostermistir. Calismanin sonucunda, yasanan bu zorluklarla ilgili arastirmacinin alan notlari ve adaylarin bu zorluklarin cozumune yonelik gorusleri temel alinarak ileride bu yonde yapilacak calismalar icin cozum onerileri ortaya konulmustur.
Relationships between climate and growth of Gymnocypris selincuoensis in the Tibetan Plateau

The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly evident in the Tibetan Plateau, represented by glaciers retreating and lakes expanding, but the biological response to climate change by plateau–lake ecosystems is poorly known. In this study, we applied dendrochronology methods to develop a growth index chronology with otolith increment widths of Selincuo naked carp (Gymnocypris selincuoensis), which is an endemic species in Lake Selincuo (4530 m), and investigated the relationships between fish growth and climate variables (regional and global) in the last three decades. A correlation analysis and principle component regression analysis between regional climate factors and the growth index chronology indicated that the growth of G. selincuoensis was significantly and positively correlated with length of the growing season and temperature-related variables, particularly during the growing season. Most of global climate variables, which are relevant to the Asian monsoon and the midlatitude westerlies, such as El Nino Southern Oscillation Index, the Arctic Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, and North America Pattern, showed negative but not significant correlations with the annual growth of Selincuo naked carp. This may have resulted from the high elevation of the Tibetan Plateau and the high mountains surrounding this area. In comparison, the Pacific Decade Oscillation (PDO) negatively affected the growth of G. selincuoensis. The reason maybe that enhancement of the PDO can lead to cold conditions in this area. Taken together, the results indicate that the Tibetan Plateau fish has been affected by global climate change, particularly during the growing season, and global climate change likely has important effects on productivity of aquatic ecosystems in this area.
InterVA-4 as a public health tool for measuring HIV/AIDS mortality: a validation study from five African countries

Background Reliable population-based data on HIV infection and AIDS mortality in sub-Saharan Africa are scanty, even though that is the region where most of the world’s AIDS deaths occur. There is therefore a great need for reliable and valid public health tools for assessing AIDS mortality. Objective The aim of this article is to validate the InterVA-4 verbal autopsy (VA) interpretative model within African populations where HIV sero-status is recorded on a prospective basis, and examine the distribution of cause-specific mortality among HIV-positive and HIV-negative people. Design Data from six sites of the Alpha Network, including HIV sero-status and VA interviews, were pooled. VA data according to the 2012 WHO format were extracted, and processed using the InterVA-4 model into likely causes of death. The model was blinded to the sero-status data. Cases with known pre-mortem HIV infection status were used to determine the specificity with which InterVA-4 could attribute HIV/AIDS as a cause of death. Cause-specific mortality fractions by HIV infection status were calculated, and a person-time model was built to analyse adjusted cause-specific mortality rate ratios. Results The InterVA-4 model identified HIV/AIDS-related deaths with a specificity of 90.1% (95% CI 88.7–91.4%). Overall sensitivity could not be calculated, because HIV-positive people die from a range of causes. In a person-time model including 1,739 deaths in 1,161,688 HIV-negative person-years observed and 2,890 deaths in 75,110 HIV-positive person-years observed, the mortality ratio HIV-positive:negative was 29.0 (95% CI 27.1–31.0), after adjustment for age, sex, and study site. Cause-specific HIV-positive:negative mortality ratios for acute respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS-related deaths, meningitis, tuberculosis, and malnutrition were higher than the all-cause ratio; all causes had HIV-positive:negative mortality ratios significantly higher than unity. Conclusions These results were generally consistent with relatively small post-mortem and hospital-based diagnosis studies in the literature. The high specificity in cause of death attribution achieved in relation to HIV status, and large differences between specific causes by HIV status, show that InterVA-4 is an effective and valid tool for assessing HIV-related mortality.
Performance evaluation of an inventive CO2 gas separation inorganic ceramic membrane.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions are considered as the greatest environmental challenge the world is facing today. The tasks to control the emissions include the recovery of CO2 from flue gas. This concern has been improved due to recent advances in materials process engineering resulting in the development of inorganic gas separation membranes with excellent thermal and mechanical stability required for most gas separations. This paper, therefore, evaluates the performance of a highly selective inorganic membrane for CO2 recovery applications. Analysis of results obtained is in agreement with experimental literature data. Further results show the prediction performance of the membranes for gas separation and the future direction of research. The materials selection and the membrane preparation techniques are discussed. Method of improving the interface defects in the membrane and its effect on the separation performance has also been reviewed and in addition advances to totally exploit the potential usage of this innovative membrane.
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents in Vivo Development of Antimicrobial Resistance in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Strains Isolated from the Lower Respiratory Tract of Intensive Care Unit Patients with Nosocomial Pneumonia and Receiving Antipseudomonal Therapy Author's Personal Copy

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a b s t r a c t Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes severe nosocomial pneumonia in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, with an increased prevalence of multiresistant strains. We examined the impact of the use of antipseudomonal antibiotic(s) on the susceptibility of P. aeruginosa isolated from ICU patients with clinically suspected hospital-acquired pneumonia collected in five teaching hospitals (110 non-duplicate initial isolates; 62 clonal pairs of initial and last isolates during treatment). Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were determined for amikacin, ciprofloxacin, meropenem, piperacillin/tazobactam (TZP), cefepime and cef-tazidime (used in therapy) as well as five reporter antibiotics (aztreonam, colistin, gentamicin, piperacillin and ticarcillin) using Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) methodology. Susceptibility was assessed according to European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) and CLSI breakpoints. Resistance rates prior to treatment exceeded 25% for cefepime, ceftazidime, piperacillin, ticarcillin and aztreonam (EUCAST and CLSI) and for gentamicin, TZP and colistin (EUCAST only). The highest rates of cross-resistance were noted for ceftazidime and cefepime and the lowest rate for amikacin. Mean MIC values were systematically higher in isolates from patients previously exposed (1 month) to the corresponding antibiotic. For clonal pairs, a systematic increase in MIC between initial and last isolates (significant for amikacin, cefepime, meropenem and TZP) was noted. There was a significant correlation between the use of antibiotics (adjusted for respective proportional use of each drug) and loss of susceptibility at the population level when using EUCAST breakpoints. The high level of resistance of P. aeruginosa in ICU patients with nosocomial pneumonia as well as its further increase during treatment severely narrows the already limited therapeutic options. Further observational studies and the development of early diagnosis for resistant isolates are warranted.
Revisiting the Computational Complexity of Mixed-Critical Scheduling

In this paper we revisit, refute, and give missing proofs for some previous results on mixed critical scheduling. We find a counter-example to the proof that this optimisation problem belongs to the class NP, which reopens the question on its computational complexity upper bound. Further, we consider a restricted problem formulation, the ‘fixed priority per mode’ (FPM) scheduling, to show that it is in NP. To do this, one has to demonstrate that FPM is sustainable. We prove (in the extended version, [1]) that is true in the single-processor case. We also show that FPM is not sustainable in the multiprocessor case.
Top-Gate GaN Thin-Film Transistors Based on AlN/GaN Heterostructures

Top-gate n-type GaN thin-film transistors (TFTs) based on AlN/GaN heterostructures were fabricated. GaN and AlN thin films were sequentially deposited by the reactive dc magnetron sputtering technique at room temperature on quartz. The proposed GaN TFTs exhibit good electrical performance, such as field mobility of 2.5 cm2/V · s, threshold voltage of 2.4 V, on/off-current ratio of 1.2 × 105,and subthreshold swing of 0.5 V/dec. The proposed GaN TFT has great potential in the application of next-generation flat-panel displays.
Recognition of Point-Light Biological Motion Displays by Young Children

We tested the ability of children 3–5 years of age to recognise biological motion displays. Children and adults were presented with moving point-light configurations depicting a walking person, four-legged animals (dogs), and a bird. Participants were able to reliably recognise displays with biological motion, but failed in the identification of a static (four consecutive frames taken from each sequence) version. The results indicate that, irrespective of the highly reduced and unusual structural information available in point-light displays, biological motion is sufficient for reliable recognition of human and non-human forms at an age as early as 3 years. Moreover, 5-year-olds exhibit the ceiling level of recognition. The findings are discussed in the context of the neuropsychological and brain mechanisms involved in biological motion perception.
Corrigendum to: Concise Review: MSC‐Derived Exosomes for Cell‐Free Therapy

Figure 1. MSCs play multiple roles. They can differentiate to multiple lineages and can participate in organized cell replacement therapy, but engraftment after delivery in vivo remains low. However, MSCs produce many cytokines and growth factors that influence other cells producing decreased inflammation, enhanced progenitor cell proliferation, improved tissue repair and decreased infection. MSCs have also been shown to donate mitochondria via tunneling nanotubes to damaged cells. More recently, the MSC production and release of membrane bound packets—microvesicles (>200 nm) and exosomes ( 50–200 nm)— encapsulate cytokines/growth factors/RNAs/miRNAs in diverse combinations. These vesicles are being tested in experimental systems previously tested with the cells themselves. Remarkably, the vesicle preparations have shown results very similar to MSC transplantation in many cases, while avoiding many risks associated with cell transplantation. However, many important tasks remain before MSC-derived vesicle therapy can be used clinically, including standardized production, vesicle characterization, improving isolation and yield optimization, reproducibility, an assay for potency, determining dosage for particular clinical indication and standardized production—all similar to parameters needed for MSC cell therapy. Abbreviation: MSCs, Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells.
European integration, party politics and voting in the 2001 election

This article uses new data from the 1997-2001 British Election Panel Study, the final wave of which was carried out immediately after the 2001 election, to examine the extent to which beliefs about the desirability of EMU and European integration more generally have become more important as a source of voters' party preferences, both in absolute terms and relative to the importance of other more typically central concerns facing voters. In doing so, the article tells us something about the extent to which Labour's occupation of the middle ground on many economic and redistributive issues in 1997 and beyond has introduced a new era of British political competition, in which the economy and tax, for example, are no longer so divisive and in which questions relating to attitudes towards emotive, national identity issues hold centre stage. It considers, in other words, whether or not we have seen a potentially lasting realignment of the sort postulated in Evans and Norris’s (1999) thesis that the 1997 election may have represented a 'critical' change in British politics.
Stemness Signature of Equine Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Background Application of competent cells such as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for treatment of musculoskeletal disorders in equine athletes is increasingly needed. Moreover, similarities of horse and human in size, load and types of joint injuries, make horse as a good model for MSCs therapy studies. This study was designed to isolate and characterize stemness signature of equine bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs). Methods BM of three mares was aspirated and the mononuclear cells (MNCs) were isolated using density gradient. The primary MNCs were cultured and analyzed after tree passages (P3) for growth characteristics, differentiation potentials, and the expression of genes including CD29, CD34, CD44, CD90, CD105, MHC-I, MHC-II and pluripotency related genes (Nanog, Oct-4, Sox-2, SSEA-1, -3, -4) using RT-PCR or immunocytochemistry techniques. Results The isolated cells in P3 were adherent and fibroblast-like in shape with doubling times of 78.15 h. Their clonogenic capacity was 8.67±4% and they were able to differentiate to osteogenic, adipogenic and chondrogenic lineages. Cells showed expression of CD29, CD44, CD90, MHC-I and Sox-2 while no expression for CD34, MHC-II, CD105, and pluripotency stemness markers was detected. Conclusions In conclusion, data showed that isolated cells have the basic and minimal criteria for MSCs, however, expressing only one pluripotency gene (sox-2).
Are "not just right experiences" (NJREs) specific to obsessive-compulsive symptoms?: evidence that NJREs span across symptoms of emotional disorders.

OBJECTIVE "Not just right experiences" (NJREs) represent a mismatch between a perceived current versus desired state of experiences. NJREs are currently considered specific to obsessive-compulsive symptoms, but results from prior studies might have been affected by the assessment of NJREs that were particularly relevant to only obsessive-compulsive symptoms. METHOD A large community sample of adults recruited through the Internet (N = 480, Mean age = 32.9 years, 54.7% female) completed self-report measures of symptom types and a modified self-report measure of NJREs. RESULTS Consistent with predictions, NJREs tended to share statistically equivalent zero-order correlations with all of the assessed symptom types. NJREs were significantly related to only generalized anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms after accounting for important covariates, including general distress, perfection/certainty, and the overlap among the symptom types. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that NJREs are relevant to a broader range of symptom types than previously thought.
A Link Back to MemoryLane: The Role of Context in Bookmarking and Refinding

Refinding information is a frequent yet difficult task on the Web. Various Web tools have demonstrated that context plays an important role in memorizing cues for retrieval. However, it is not yet sufficiently explored, which type of context is useful for which situations. We carried out a three-stage study to observe how users approach context in bookmarking and retrieval. First, an on-line survey revealed that most users identified some types of context helpful for refinding. Further, an analysis of bookmarks created with a prototypical tool showed that users' choice of types of context depended on the personal relevance of the content. Finally, the success of retrieval depended on the accuracy and specificity of users' recall. Contextual cues seem to improve success rates when there is a gap in semantic memory. These results tentatively imply that contextual indicators should become part of both the bookmarking and retrieval process.